As he rushed out of the street and into the intersection, Otto craned his neck as usual, exposing only a little bit of his head outside the hatch.

The smoke blocked the range of fire from the Russian anti-aircraft guns, but the Russians still opened fire, and the shells crossed the crossroads and hit the houses on the other side.

The Russian army actually fired a grenade, directly destroying half of the brick and wood house that hit.

"Good boy, this is a 107 caliber guy!" Koscher's muttering came through the communication in the car.

"Kosher, turret right-hand," Otto ordered, "fire!" ”

Although it is all separated by smoke, the house does not move, and it is larger and easier to hit. The smoke was lit by the flash from the first shot, and the second car, which followed behind, also fired in the same direction.

At the same time that the two vehicles began to reload, the Russian army returned fire, but this time the shells still did not hit the two vehicles.

"I see the approximate location of the flash," Corsher exclaimed, "and the next shot is a blur of their faces." ”

The fire through the smoke continued for two more rounds, and the Russian artillery fell silent. Otto then ordered the chariot to turn its gun at the tailor's shop, which was firing.

The windows on the second floor of the first shot were reimbursed along with the entire wall, and the corner of the tailor's shop was blown down by the second shot, and the machine gunners on the roof rolled down and fell to the ground and became a mess of flesh.

The Tiger roared and began to advance, and Kosher fired the windows of the building with the coaxial machine guns of his main guns, providing cover for the infantry to enter the field.

Otto saw the flamethrower, under the cover of two German soldiers, approach the tailor's shop, and shoot brightly colored flames into the shattered windows.

It was then that Otto remembered that he should have white phosphorus bombs in his car.

Looking at the Russian soldiers who rushed out of the room covered in flames, Otto pursed his lips, thinking that it seemed that it would not be much worse to use white phosphorus bombs.

"The junction is safe," Otto radioed to the vehicles behind, "watch out for the minefield, and let the infantry fence it with something obvious after we get through guò and wait for the sappers to come up and clear the mine." ”

"No need sir," said the voice of an infantry officer over the radio, "we'll detonate those mines with grenades, the Russians have terrible detonators, and they can be easily detonated." ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you, but remember to keep enough people to keep us moving forward, our mission is to get to the train dispatch station before noon, I can't do that without infantry."

Shepetovka is not a big city, but it is a very important railway junction, where a large train dispatch and maintenance plant is located, and according to German intelligence, at least a hundred locomotives are being repaired here. In the war, the locomotive is no less important than the chariot and other weapons and equipment, so in order to ensure that the German army's combat operations in Ukraine can be carried out smoothly, Shepetovka and the railway facilities here, as well as the locomotives, must be captured as completely as possible.

"I know the way to the station," Otto said, turning to see the young man who had just shown them the way, standing behind his car and eating his exhaust, "My uncle is a train driver, and I worked there as a wrenchman." ”

"That's right." Otto nodded, "You climb up to the hood and show me the way." ”

"Okay, big ...... Mr. Nikolai deftly climbed into the rear of the vehicle and stood on the engine's heat dissipation grille.

"Do you know how to use a machine gun?" Otto patted the machine gun at the rear of the turret, a weapon that, based on previous combat experience, was intended for infantry standing on the grid behind the turret.

Nikolai swallowed and said, "No." I would use a rifle and a pistol, a machine gun was never used. ”

"It's very simple, just pull the trigger, there are tracer bullets in the chain, it allows you to see the trajectory of the bullet, you can sweep the bullet in the direction of the enemy, you don't even need to aim."

"Okay."

"Alright, move forward." Otto ordered Link, "Follow the road." ”

"My construction is to drive to the railway first, and then go along the railway." "Because of the dispatch yard, the part of the railway that crosses the city is divided into many strips, forming a wide strip from which you can drive directly to the dispatch yard and the factory that repairs the locomotives. Your vehicles aren't suited to fighting in tight cities, right? ”

"Okay, but don't the Russians have artillery to defend the open area?"

"There should be, but there are not many shells left in the heavy artillery in the city, and they have almost fought when they break through, and the largest caliber of the battle defense artillery is only 107, which is very small."

Otto thought for a moment, and finally said to Nikolai: "Take us to the railway, and we will advance along the railway." ”

If you are walking around the city, if you are not careful, a Molotov cocktail will hit the heat dissipation grid of the chariot, and the chariot will have to lie on its stomach - there are various ways for infantry to take out the chariot in urban street battles, so the chariot must be accompanied by infantry in urban warfare. In contrast, it was easier to fight against the Russians.

Under Nikolai's guidance, Otto's platoon drove to the side of the railway in just over ten minutes. As Nikolai said, the railway entering Shepetovka was divided into many parallel railways for the dispatch of trains, and these parallel railways came together to look like a river of black-brown steel.

"Walking along the railway, you can drive at the speed of just ten minutes to see the dispatch yard and the branch railway leading to the locomotive maintenance factory."

"Okay." Otto nodded, "You hear Link, walk along the railroad and stop when you see the branch line branching off to the side." ”

With that, Otto picked up the binoculars and began to look at the buildings on the other side of the railway line.

There were ordinary people in the building who were looking through the window at the German warplanes on this side of the railway.

"It doesn't look like everyone is welcoming us into town." Otto muttered to himself.

Nikolai, who was standing behind the turret, heard it and thought he was talking to him, so he said in his German with a typical Russian accent: "It is true that not everyone is welcome, but there are not many of these people, and the rich and nobles may continue to support Russia, but the actions of the prime minister before have captured many big businessmen and killed many big nobles, so they are also frightened, afraid that when it will be their turn, they will not support Russia." However, they also don't seem to like pan-humanism, which teaches us to 'take back the fruits of our labor', and they are terrible about this before they make a move against the big businessmen and aristocrats, and help the government strangle us. ”

Nikolai said with a look of resentment on his face, but then the expression became a little sentimental.

Otto watched with little interest as Nikolai's expression changed, wondering what it was that changed from resentment to sentimentality - it didn't look like someone had sacrificed the reason for such a straightforward explanation.

Suddenly, a barrage of machine guns shot out from the pedestrian bridge across the road in front of him, sweeping towards Otto's convoy, immediately sweeping down several hapless infantrymen, Otto was startled, and immediately retracted most of his head from the car, and at the same time shouted an order to Kosher: "Koscher, blow up that thing on the bridge!" ”

"Okay!" Kosher replied loudly, and the turret of the vehicle began to turn, and as the turret turned, the pitching machine of the gun also moved.

The artillery was aimed at the machine gun that was still firing on the bridge, and the Russian army operating the machine gun directly threw down the machine gun and ran quickly to the other side of the bridge, they didn't run a few steps Kosher to fire, the shell accurately hit the bridge deck under the pedestrian bridge, and blew a hole in the bridge deck from below, and the machine gun thrown by the Russians flew into the sky with broken bricks.

At this time, Nikolai manipulated the machine gun at the rear end of the turret to strafe the Russian troops running on the bridge deck. The Russian, who was running last, was the first to be struck, and the line of fire formed by tracer bullets caught up with him and overtook him, and he fell headlong to the ground and did not move. Then the second man fell, and Otto saw that he was still struggling and crawling.

The third man lay down before the line of fire could be swept over, and Nikolai could not do anything with him at this angle - but by this time car No. 2 had opened fire, and the shells were still under the bridge deck, and the bottom up blew through the bridge deck, and Otto saw that the sand and gravel of the caving railway were mixed with human objects.

"Keep shooting at the buildings on the other side of the bridge," Otto ordered, "and if there are other Russians in ambush along the way, we should let them know the consequences of doing so now." ”

Four Tigers lined up on the railroad opened fire one after another, sending grenades into the buildings closest to the stairs of the flyover until they collapsed.

"What about the casualties?" Otto leaned out of the turret again and questioned the infantry officer.

"We died three, wounded two, damn it, the Russians earned it."

Otto smacked his lips.

"Keep going."

The convoy cautiously moved along the railway, and this time the infantry learned to either hide in the shadow of the chariot or follow the wall of the buildings on the side of the railway, from one shelter to another, advancing little by little—the chariot was not fast anyway, and the humans could catch up with it.

It didn't take long for Otto to see a red flag fluttering over what looked like a factory building next to the railway.

"That's the train repair shop," Nikolai said, pointing to the building, "and it looks like the Red Guards have taken the building." ”

As he spoke, a small group of men with Mosin Nagant rifles and armbands made of red cloth wrapped around their arms emerged from the factory and walked towards the railroad tracks.

"Hey!" Nikolai raised his hands and waved them vigorously as he opened his throat and shouted, "I've led the Germans here!" ”

When the men heard Nikolai's shout, they immediately ran in this direction.

Otto, noticing that the infantry was a little nervous, shouted: "Don't shoot, it shouldn't be the enemy!" ”

Soon, this group of big-shouldered and round-waisted Ukrainian workers came to the Germans, they put their guns on their backs, shook hands and hugged the Germans, and said something excitedly in Russian.

"They said they had been waiting for you for a long time." Nikolai whispered to Otto, "You are welcome to come and liberate Ukraine." ”