Although the train gun is almost obsolete, it will still be very useful in some situations, such as when suppressing the opponent's field artillery and attacking fortifications. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Field artillery generally does not have the same range as train guns, and once it is targeted by train guns, it is powerless to fight back. And when attacking the fortification, the large-caliber train cannon fired a large falling angle projectile from a very long distance, and it did not even hit the strong fortifications underground, and the earth-shattering movement could cause great psychological fear to the people inside!

Russia had its own train guns in the 19th century, while the USSR began to develop new railway guns in the mid-20s: in 1927, engineer Dutelsky began to transplant the 356-mm cannon prepared by the Izmail-class battle cruisers to armored trains, converting them into М-1-14 train guns.

At Dutelsky's suggestion, a design bureau specializing in the development of railway artillery was created in 1930. The railway guns built in the Soviet Union at that time were all ready-made naval guns, with calibers of 130 mm (maximum range of 23.5 km), 152 mm (maximum range of 30.8 km), 180 mm (maximum range of 37.8 km) and 356 mm (maximum range of 31.2 mm).

The earliest Soviet railroad artillery was mainly for coastal defense, and the purpose of the construction of the railroad artillery program was to cooperate with the existing or future construction of pillboxes and coastal artillery to guard the long national borders of the Soviet Union. Since the railway artillery had to work in tandem with naval ships, the Baltic Fleet was first armed with new railway guns, and then the Far Eastern Fleet.

However, by the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Union's railway artillery was still far from the expected goal: by the eve of World War II, the Soviet Union had 11 railway artillery batteries with a total of 37 railway artillery columns.

After the outbreak of the war, within half a year, 70 railway guns were urgently produced and 29 artillery batteries were formed. Moreover, the 100-mm, 130-mm and 152-mm guns stored in the arsenal of the Baltic Fleet, as well as the guns intended for installation on the newly built ships, were basically installed on trains to participate in battles with other guns.

But that's it, on a long front, the Red Army's need for railway artillery was still greater than its supply. Many wagon factories have loaded all the old large-caliber guns they can get into their wagons to make up for the huge gap between supply and demand. In Ukraine, "home-made" train guns also took part in the defense of Odessa; In eastern Lithuania and Latvia, there are also "home-made" train guns.

Now these two K5 train guns are like pie in the sky, and the railway artillery comrades need not worry about the different gauge - apparently these two train guns were specially prepared for the Eastern Front, using Soviet broad-gauge axles: until this point, the main railway artery from Brest to Minsk was still broad-gauge, and the Germans were as inefficient as in history!

On both sides of the road approaching the city of Dzerzhinsk, destroyed German equipment could be seen everywhere. Lin Jun had no intention of continuing west, and the convoy returned to Minsk.

In the southwest of the city, a huge "tank graveyard" was seen, which was the place where Guderian's troops rested. Red Army soldiers and technicians were inspecting German armored vehicles, separating those that were completely destroyed from those that could still be repaired.

The consumption of troops is very large, and the captured German armored vehicles must also be used, dismantling parts and looking for ammunition in the west, adding Soviet fuel, and sitting in Soviet tankers can fight. Of course, these German tanks must be marked with the Red Army logo, otherwise they will be shelled by their own people.

Each division and army had its own "capture accumulation field", and all the German equipment that could be used would not be wasted. If time permits, even those scrap copper and rotten iron need to be transported to the rear steel mill for refurnace: you can't make tank artillery, you can still use it as a grenade shell! (For example, the armor plates of German tanks were of good quality, but for the Soviets, simply pouring the turret of their own tank after remelting would not work, because the manufacturing process was different.) The manufacturing process and process of armor steel are very complex, such as the German case hardening carburized steel after the furnace, the characteristics of the steel will change greatly. ）

The 4th Division of the Militia under the 49th Army seized the material accumulation site, and a team of "Comintern" trailers from the 13th Tank Army was towing several German tanks.

The weather was quite cold, but the engine roared and shouted loudly, and the enthusiasm of the comrades was not disturbed by the cold weather in the slightest. The sharp-eyed Lin Jun saw that most of the German tanks in the distance were new No. 4 tanks, and a few of them looked very special, so it stands to reason that they shouldn't appear here.

Budyonny needed to return to his headquarters, and Lin Jun decided to stop at the accumulation yard again, so they parted ways, and Lin Jun would go back in his "armored car".

Those few special ones are not tanks: Lin Jun actually saw the No. 3 assault gun here, and it was still long-bodied!

Lin Junke is very familiar with Germany's No. 3 assault gun, and it is also famous - both the Red Army and the British and American armies suffered from the No. 3 assault gun in World War II!

The No. 3 assault gun was one of the main equipment of the German army in World War II and played a very important role for the German army. Since it did not have a turret, it could save a lot of manufacturing time, so the quantities produced by the German military factories were relatively high.

The III is best known for its anti-tank capabilities and achievements, but at first it was not designed as a "tank destroyer", but as a mobile infantry support artillery: even its members were not called armourers, but artillery.

In June 1936, the Germans demanded the development of an infantry support vehicle equipped with a main gun of 75 mm or more. In the period from 36 to 37, the Eckert Alkett company built an experimental 0 series: it built a total of 5 vehicles, using a chassis of the Pzkpfw III B type and a low-strength steel superstructure, armed with a 75mm StuK L/24 gun of 24 times the caliber.

Lin Jun knew that the short-barreled No. 3 assault gun would appear on the Eastern Front here, and in January 1940, it was put into production. As early as the French battlefield, the excellent performance of the early No. 3 assault gun was affirmed by the German army.

As an infantry support weapon, the main targets of the Nahui III assault gun were pillboxes, machine gun emplacements, anti-tank gun emplacements, and other obstacles. In the beginning, the No. 3 assault gun was organized into assault gun battalions, and later into assault gun brigades, which were generally assigned to the army group level as independent units, while only elite Wehrmacht units and Waffen-SS units had assault gun brigades at the division level.

However, it is clear that the barrels on those assault guns exceeded 24 times the caliber, and it stands to reason that from January 1940 to March 1942, the Germans only built five types of Type 3 assault guns (A/B/C/D/E). They were armed with 24-mm short-barreled guns of 75 times caliber (75mm StuK L/24) and remained in service at the front until mid-1943.

It was not until March 1942 that production began on the F type, armed with a more powerful Type 40 43 75 mm gun (75mm StuK 40 L/43). By September 1942, the production of the F-type was replaced by a new F/8, which was armed with a 40-mm gun of 48 times the caliber of the better Type 75 (75mm StuK 40 L/48).

Apparently, the Germans have accelerated the development of equipment for their assault guns.

Watching the Opel car and Budyonny's guard activate, Lin Juncai turned around and walked towards the accumulation yard on the side of the road. The snow crushed by the tracks is very slippery, and it smells like a bit of a jump when you walk.

The movement of this special convoy on the highway attracted the attention of the people in the accumulation field, and the soldiers who saw it from a distance had stopped what they were doing: although they saw that the car with the flag of the Marshal of the Soviet Union had already left, it was not wrong to leave behind a convoy and a senior commander wearing a high fur hat and accompanied by a group of guards.

The people who were close were already enthusiastic, because they had already seen that the person who came was actually the deputy commander, and both the infantry and the armored soldiers saluted the commander in their hearts!

In the face of those fanatical eyes, Lin Jun returned the salute with a solemn face, raised his hand and walked a few steps before putting it down - this time even people stopped.

Lin Jun saw an acquaintance, an "old captain" in his forties: the other party looked at him with a smile and a look of surprise.

"Deputy Commander!" The man saluted Lin Jun again, and Lin Jun had already looked at him for two seconds, because he couldn't remember his name at once, but remembered where he had seen him.

Lin Jun didn't embarrass himself for long: "Yancrov! ”

In his own laughter, Lin Jun gave the other party a sturdy bear hug!

"I didn't expect that! I didn't expect to run into you here! Lin Jun let go of the other party and said, "How many years?" 37 years, it's been 5 years! It's fast, it's fast! ”

Lin Jun was a little excited when he spoke, not to mention Yancrov, he was already very excited! I didn't expect to meet the deputy commander here, let alone that the deputy commander still remembered himself, and obviously regarded himself as an old friend.

"Yes, 5 years, deputy commander-in-chief."

Lin Jun smiled and shook his head, "Or call me Andre." "Seeing the embarrassed expression of the other party, "It was an order." ”

This will be the attention of everyone on the side, they did not expect that the deputy commander has acquaintances here, and they are also old friends; Yancrov's subordinates were even more surprised, they didn't expect that their company commander would be an old friend of the deputy commander, and they had never heard the company commander mention knowing the deputy commander.

At the beginning of 37, when Lin Jun was still a colonel, he went to the Urals as an inspector of the Ministry of Equipment to inspect the construction of heavy industry, and Yankrov was then the head of the automobile squad of the Sverdlovsk Oblast State Committee. When Lin Jun traveled from Sverdlovsk to Nizhny Tagil, the two stayed together for many days.

Lin Jun still remembers that the trip was full of twists and turns, on the way, he first killed a wild boar with a pistol, then was blocked by a big tree, and finally had to spend the night in the halfway Taoist class.

"How did you get to the front?"

Yancrov was just about to answer, but Lin Jun looked at the reaction of the person next to him and said, "Let's go, find a place to talk." ”

Lin Jun had already seen that there were two rows of houses on the side, which should be an office, so he could sit down and say.

"I was called back to the army when I was mobilized last year, and I was at the company level when I left the army, so I became a recruit company commander." Yancrov led the way, "I originally helped with the basic training of the recruits, and I was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Militia last fall, probably thinking that I was not outdated, so I was allowed to enter the field army. ”

"Hehe, can you still run?"

If Lin Jun remembers correctly, Yancrov said that he himself missed the 19-year battle against the Kolchak White Bandits in Kuibyshev at the age of 17, in which all three of his brothers died. He is 40 years old this year, which is a bit old to be a company commander, but this is not surprising that such a situation is common in the Red Army.

"You can go into the Ural Mountains to hunt wild boars, and you can jump a few times."

Yancrov is a bold person, and he doesn't have so many little Jiujiu, otherwise with an old friend like Lin Jun, if he had some ideas, he would have had to contact the deputy commander a long time ago.

"This is my temporary office, and the troops take care of it, so I am temporarily in charge of sorting out the captured materials."

"I forgot, you seem to owe me something, but it looks like you won't be able to cash in until the war is over."

"Then I'll get my shotgun ready and go up to the Urals, hehe."

Yancrov didn't forget, he once said that he would invite Lin Jun to hunt, but Lin Jun didn't have time to go at all, and it was 5 years in a flash. This should be regarded as Lin Jun's broken promise, not Yancrov's debt.

Just a simple office, a few stools and chairs, a broken table from nowhere, and a stove even if it was an office and a meeting room: there was a "bed" knocked out of wood on the side, and a blanket on it, presumably Yancrov's dormitory.

"This is my old friend Yancrov, an old friend I've known for 37 years." Lin Jun just remembered to introduce his old friends to his staff officers. The two became acquainted, and even a captain of the 13th Tank Army was invited into the office.

"I remember that the comrade who drove that time was called Pilega, right, where would he be, is he still in Sverdlovsk?"

"Still on the state commission, he was the captain of the convoy when I got to the troops. He had an accident the winter before last, and he went into the mountains on a snowy day on a business trip, and the road was too slippery and hurt his foot. ”

"Oh."

That young man is a good person, Lin Jun feels a little pity.

Old friends always have a lot to say when they meet, and Lin Jun simply listened to the situation after Yancrov arrived in the army. The 4th Militia Division, as the reserve of the 49th Army, took part in the final part of the encirclement phase, and it was in this area that the German tank units that had no fuel were swept away.

This time, the 4th Division captured more than 40 German armored vehicles, of which about a dozen were able to be repaired: there were even 5 intact No. 4 tanks equipped with long-barreled guns, ready for combat as soon as ammunition and fuel were available. (To be continued.) )