At the moment when the "Air Marshal Plunyakov" joined the battle for the Brest railway station, the storming of the station by a German infantry battalion was immediately broken down - no infantry battalion could stop the stormy attack of a heavy armored train!

On one side of the armored train's own firepower alone, there are 4 powerful Type 30 107 mm long-barreled cannons, 8 76.2 mm tank guns, 11 Maxim heavy machine guns, more than a dozen DT machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns! Two four-barreled 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns can crush an infantry battalion on the plains, and it is not a lie, and even the most tenacious infantry units will not be able to continue their charge in front of the furious firing of large-caliber four-barreled anti-aircraft machine guns, let alone so much heavy fire spitting tongues of fire!

The shells exploded violently among the Germans, the human stumps flew into the air like broken sacks, and the Maxim machine gun harvested life like a wheat harvest -- the 14.5mm machine gun bullets were even worse hit, and the body was full of big holes, even hiding behind the brick walls and rocks, and the powerful machine gun bullets easily penetrated the concealment, and the rubble also became a "shrapnel" that killed people!

After a heavy shot from the armored train, the Germans took the initiative to retreat, and it was still those people in the rear who could retreat, and the soldiers who rushed to the front did not even have a chance to retreat, and the entire front of the battlefield was full of corpses of German soldiers and fragments of human bodies shattered by shells!

The assault engineer company that hitchhiked removed equipment from the flatbed and crew cars and joined the defenders of the station, and the gunners threw empty shells from the armored windows so as not to hinder the movement, and the whole train was filled with smoke from heavy fire. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Bekryev got out of the command car box from the south side and shouted to one of the lieutenants who came to the station to make contact: "I will send people to build a few forward observation points with your people, my artillery needs target designation!" ”

"No problem, Comrade Major! You have come at the right time! The captain had a triangular scarf wrapped around his head, "Do you stay at the station or?" ”

"I'll be here until I get a new order, and I'll send someone to me and I want details of the nearby railway!"

Bekryev is familiar with the railway network near Brest, but it is not clear how this will be, and there are comrades in Brest who will not be trapped at least! The 12 cannons on the train would be too big and useless if they were only fired directly, and they could only be used to the fullest extent by having forward observation posts - the Germans had to be bombarded before they could see the station!

"Comrade Major, we need hygienists and medicines, mortar shells were fired at the station infirmary!"

The comrades of the railway saw that the armored train was like having a backbone, and this was all a feeling left over from the civil war - "There is no target that cannot be destroyed by a heavy train!" "After sending off the captain and his liaison, the comrade in railway overalls came to him and asked, looking at the sign on the uniform, he should still be a cadre.

"Yes, we have enough medicine! To carry the wounded to the crew compartment, we have improvised operating rooms and military doctors! ”

Soon, more than 30 seriously wounded were carried by railway porters, and Krachenko, a military doctor, and a few medics became the busiest people—those who were hopefully lifted onto the train and sent to the operating table, and those who could not be saved had to be placed on the side of the railway.

It's so cruel, and the station defenders don't have a trace of opinion, and now saving those comrades who can be rescued is the first priority. The wounded had at least some hope of surviving when they got on the train - the station received orders from the fortress headquarters to fight to the last man, and the armored train had at least a chance to retreat.

The train did not stop on the frontal railway, and after handing over the surplus weapons to the station staff and loading the wounded, it drove to the side of the warehouse - sure enough, just a moment after the train changed positions, the roaring mortar shells smashed near the original railway, and the explosions were all over 100 millimeters!

"Commander, we've made contact with the observation post, we have the coordinates of the Germans."

"Inform the turrets and give me a hard shot!"

In the middle two armoured car boxes armed with 107-mm cannons, the gunners of the four Type 30 cannons raised the rate of fire to the highest level with shirtless fire, firing 10 rounds per minute! The clashing of metal, the shouts of the gunners, and the roar of the shells came and went, and as soon as the yellow shell was withdrawn from the chamber, the loader immediately fed a new round into the chamber!

Regardless of the uncomfortable smoke in the carriage and the rapidly rising temperature in the running tower, the low-angle warp fire can reach the maximum rate of fire of the cannon, and it is necessary to fire as many shells as possible in one breath in three minutes to achieve the best killing effect. Soon the temperature of the barrel will rise rapidly after rapid fire, and it will need to be cooled down.

The artillery bombardment of the cannons rained down on the German positions three kilometers away, and the shelling of 12 cannons was fatal for the German infantry with only mortars, and an infantry battalion that had just arrived in support was unable to raise its head in the bushes!

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"Marshal Plunyakov" was busy shelling, and just 20 km northeast of the station, a huge mechanized group of the Red Army was moving east in an attack formation! This force has the potential to influence the offensive and defensive forms of this region in a short period of time!

As soon as Lieutenant General Malinovsky received a full-scale attack of the German army, he gave an order to his subordinate troops to counter-assault! The 11th Army is the biggest trump card in Zhukov's hands, and it has always been deployed on the front line of the "offensive", while the 3rd Mechanized Army, which has the strongest combat effectiveness of the 11th Army, began to advance eastward half an hour after receiving the order from the headquarters of the group army, and the middle position of the forefront is the heavy tank regiment equipped with 72 KV-1 heavy tanks, and the two T34 tank regiments are advancing along the two flanks, in fact, they are already higher than the heavy tank regiments.

The 3rd Mechanized Army under the 11th Army has 350 vehicles in the latest T34 alone, and a heavy tank regiment with 72 KV-1 heavy tanks. After two years of training, anyone who has watched the offensive exercises of the Third Mechanized Corps understands that this unit has an invincible momentum and assault capability!

Just before the 3rd Mechanized Army set out, on a dozen or so pontoon bridges temporarily erected by the Germans on the Bug River, the German tank units also crossed the boundary river and soon assembled a huge tank cluster on the east bank.

Two to large armoured units advanced along the plains on the southern side of the Bialowieza Forest, and the terrain made it impossible for both sides to fully deploy, and the formation was much denser than the standard tank attack formation - neither side knew what was going on with their opponents, nor did they know that the battle that would ensue would be the worst tank encounter in human history!

The task of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, commanded by SS Lieutenant General Paul Hausser, was to quickly break through the weak strip of Soviet defenses, attack from the area between the Brestster fortress and the Bialowieza forest, quickly insert in the direction of Minsk, and cut off the retreat of the Russian troops. Paul Hausser was confident in the orders from above, and even more so in the army in his hands: it has a glorious history and a resounding name - the "Imperial" division!

As the first SS unit of the Third Reich to become a divisional unit, it was only because the SS "Adolf-Hitler Guards" regiment was expanded to the division that the "Reich" division had to be relegated to the second position. From the White Plan - the invasion of Poland to the Yellow Plan - the invasion of France and the Low Countries, the SS "Reich" Panzer Division was the most outstanding ace unit of the Waffen-SS of the Third Reich, and now it is confident that it will continue to write glory on the Russian soil!

This time, Paul Hauser was restrained by Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group, and Guderian wanted the "Imperial" division to rush to the front of all the armored units - in Guderian's plan, probably only this unit of tank No. 4, which was basically equipped with a new type of 75 mm long-barreled cannon, could confront the new Soviet tanks head-on - he remembered the shell he had received the year before! Tank warfare experts know in their hearts that the No. 3 and No. 2 tanks in their hands are by no means the opponents of the new Soviet tanks equipped with 76-mm tank guns!

Originally, the German plan was for the air force to take the lead, using air strikes to delay and deplete the Soviet armored forces for counter-assault, but this trick showed that it did not work very well after the start of the war - the proud and trustworthy vultures entangled the Russian air force! In the sky, you can see the group of planes flying to the east, but when they come back, they are in small detachments, and the east group is in the west, which can only happen after a fierce air battle.

Paul Hausser was already able to guess that the Air Force could not deliver a fatal blow to the Russians, and in the end it would have to rely on armored forces!

Pruzane, an inconspicuous city, where two heavily armored armoured armoured units will meet unexpectedly, and a battle of steel and blood, will and faith will break out around this small city!

"German tanks!" In front of the commander of the Red Army was a dense network of black German tanks, and the German army on the opposite side also saw Soviet tanks all over the ground, and the big war broke out at this moment!

"For the sake of the Soviets, forward!" The Red Army tankmen drove their steel chariots at high speed without hesitation and rushed towards the German tank clusters, and the artillery battle unfolded at the same time, and the entire plain was full of explosions and black smoke! (To be continued.) )