According to Magrus's idea, although his troops were reduced in combat, it was still a relatively easy thing to deal with guerrillas that had no combat effectiveness.
Unexpectedly, the train drove for more than ten minutes, and first there was a series of earth-shaking explosions in front of him, and then the train he was riding suddenly came. The huge inertia caused all the things on the shelves to fall down, smashing Magrus sitting below to be very terrible.
After being helped up from the ground by the guards, Magrus asked sternly: "What's wrong?"
"Master, Master!" Magrus's private room was hung at the end of the train. After something happened, the adjutant climbed out of the ground. Regardless of the pain all over his body, he asked the officer at the front of the train what had happened. As soon as he figured out the situation, he immediately reported to Magrus: "The guerrillas destroyed the railway ahead. The armored train derailed. After rushing out of the track, it overturned and caused the ammunition in the car to explode. The train we were on was 150 meters away from the armored train. The train driver handled it in time after the accident, so the train did not derail..."
After learning that the armored train that was opening in front was derailed and exploded, Magrus's face turned pale. He covered his head and asked, "Can you still keep moving forward?"
"Due to the explosion of the armored train, the railway tracks at least two hundred meters ahead have been completely damaged. We cannot pass until the railway tracks are rebuilt." The adjutant shook his head and replied, "If you want to continue rushing, you must get off the train and walk."
Get off the bus and walk?! Hearing the adjutant say this, Magrus couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He silently calculated in his heart that he would wait for someone to repair the railway and then continue to move forward. Which one could reach the 564th kilometer station faster? He looked at the adjutant and asked expressionlessly: "How far is our distance from the station?"
"Calculate based on the speed of the train," the adjutant said in an uncertain tone: "I think this place should be only about ten kilometers away from the 564th kilometer station."
If you have to marching in the hiking process, you can reach the destination in a maximum of two hours. After repeated consideration, Magrus decided to use hiking procession to rush to the 564th Mile Station. Thinking of this, he immediately said to the adjutant: "Appoint the 544th Regiment, which is at the forefront of the train, get off immediately and use hiking procession to drive towards the 564th Mile Station."
In fact, after the German army stopped urgently, many people got off the train and went to the place where the armored train was overturned in front to try to save people. But in the burning armored train, there was still a sound of various ammunition explosions, and the rescuers could not get close at all, so they could only listen to the screams of the survivors coming from the train.
After receiving the order from Magrus, the commander of the 544th Regiment immediately gathered his troops and used the four-way column to march quickly westward along the roadbed on both sides of the railway tracks, preparing to rush to the 564-kilometer station as soon as possible.
As a result, they had just passed the burning iron-armored train. Several soldiers walking in front of them stepped on landmines, shrapnel and collapsed gravel buried by the guerrillas, and knocked down the German soldiers near the bombing site in pieces.
Seeing the soldiers in front step on the landmine, the soldiers following behind quickly scattered and some people shouted loudly: "Engineer, where are the engineers? Come here to clear the mines quickly."
In the back car, Magrus naturally could not understand what was happening ahead in time. He was dictating a telegram to the military headquarters to a communications officer: "While our division was driving towards the 564-kilometer station, the open-circuit armored train was derailed due to lightning and derailment, and the railway line was destroyed. The train carrying the entire division could no longer continue to drive. I have ordered the 544th Regiment to get off the train and marching on foot, and rushed to the 564th km at the fastest speed..."
Magrus, who was dictating the telegram, did not know that the armored train derailed not because it was crushed by landmines, but because the guerrillas destroyed the rails at the turn. They removed the large bolts connecting the rails and sleepers according to Sokov's instructions, so that the rails looked normal on the surface, but as soon as the train turned here, they would directly run out of the track and the body tilted over.
Leading the team to block the enemy's beard, he thought that even if the armored train was turned over, it would at best cause certain casualties to the soldiers in the train. But when he held up his telescope and saw the armored train tipping over, it immediately exploded and burned, and was stunned. After a while, he murmured: "My God, I really didn't expect that we just removed a few bolts and actually reimbursed a German armored train."
Beard put down his telescope and turned his head to ask a middle-aged man beside him: "Have you buried all your mines?"
"Don't worry, comrade captain." Hearing the bearded problem, the middle-aged man said impatiently: "When did I make any mistakes in the mines? One hundred and thirty mines will surely make the Germans dizzy."
"Sharpshooter, is the Sharpshooter in place?" After the middle-aged man said, he shouted to the back: "When the railway is unpassable, the Germans will definitely continue to move forward in a hiking manner. The Sharpshooter will aim at the German officers to fight later. Do you understand?"
Seeing the beard chattering constantly, a female health worker next to her with a medical box said impatiently: "Comrade Captain, this is the first time I have seen you so long-winded. You have asked about the mines and the deployment of sharpshooters. Now you have asked about it here again. Are you still going to finish it?"
After hearing the female health officer's reproach, Beard grinned and said, "Yina, isn't this the first time I'm commanding such a large-scale battle? I can't help but feel a little nervous, and I'm naturally a little bit long-winded. I really didn't expect that the commander from the regular army, who taught us the method so effective, actually killed an enemy's armored train in an instant."
The female health worker, known as Ina, pursed her mouth and scolded her beard with disdain: "If others don't have some real skills, can they be a captain of the Guards? But I heard from others that the methods he told you were mentioned in the telegram sent by the division headquarters a few years ago."
"The telegram sent by the division headquarters?" Beard was stunned at first, then he realized what Ina meant, and asked quickly: "Are you talking about the division headquarters in Mamayevgang?"
Ina looked at her captain with contempt and said impatiently: "Apart from that division headquarters, there is no other division headquarters. I have already inquired about it. Captain Guchakov, who assigned the tasks to us, is from Mamayevgang. Think about it, if a captain is so powerful, then his superiors will definitely be even more amazing."
"Although we have destroyed the railway in the past, the results of the battle have not been great." Beard said thoughtfully: "Because we cannot remotely control the detonation, when we destroy the railway, we can only bury bombs under the railway tracks, watch the enemy's train come, and send people to light the fuse.
If the detonation is early, the German train drivers can see the railway being destroyed from a distance, and they will immediately and decisively brake; if the detonation is late, most of the trains have passed the explosion point. Even if one or two cars behind them are blown up, the enemy can continue to move forward after throwing down the blown cars."
When Beard commanded the raid in the past, he might have never summarized the gains and losses in the battle. Today, he was in the forest five or six hundred meters away from the railway, and he actually had leisure and thought about the gap between the previous battle and this operation.
After receiving the blocking mission here, the first thought of Beard was that who wanted to die. Just rely on the 1000 people under his command, not to mention blocking a German division, even if it blocks a company, it may be difficult. But since he made arrangements according to Guchakov's instructions, he found that he seemed to have thought too much and no one wanted to plot against him. As long as he made good use of the terrain, he would have to delay the enemy for several hours based on his command.
The 544th Regiment of the hiking army stepped on landmines, but in fact it did not cause much casualties, and no more than forty people were killed or injured. However, the German soldiers who had just witnessed the tragic blowout of the armored train made them feel inexplicably fearful. Before the arrival of the engineers, no matter how their commanders scolded or even punched and kicked, they could not get all the soldiers up from the ground. The soldiers were worried that landmines were buried around them, and if they moved, they might step on landmines that could kill them.
The engineers rushed over from the rear carriage and started to detect mines with mine detectors. However, it is easy to detect mines elsewhere, but it is difficult to detect mines on railway lines. The railway tracks will interfere with the accuracy of the mine detectors, so that nearly a hundred false alarms appeared in less than five minutes, which made the German soldiers lying on the ground even more frightened.
Shortly after Magrus's telegram was sent, he received a reply from Kurtzbach: "In order to prevent the Russians occupying the station from burning supplies, your division must arrive at the 564th kilometer station within an hour."
When he saw this telegram, the muscles on Magrus's face twitched violently for a few times. He thought to himself that the troops are now marching on foot, and it is already very good to be able to arrive within two hours. It is simply a fantasy to regain the 564th kilometer station within one hour.
But since Kurtzbach had issued such an order, it was still necessary for him to speed up the marching speed. Magrus had just made such a determination and had not had time to order the adjutant to call the commander of the 544th Regiment in front, the other party called first. As soon as he heard Magrus's voice, he hurriedly said: "Grand Commander, it's not good. During the march, our regiment stepped on the mines buried by the Russians. Now the soldiers are all frightened. I think they may not be able to move forward until the engineers eliminate all the mines."
"No, Mr. Colonel." After listening to the report of his subordinates, Magrus immediately replied in a stern tone: "The latest order given to us by the military is to regain the 564th kilometer station within one hour. I now order you to immediately speed up the marching speed of the troops, and be sure to arrive at the 564th kilometer station in the shortest time to eliminate the Russian guerrillas occupying the station."
The German commander, who was urging by Magrus, understood that the war was urgent and it was impossible to wait for the engineers to send out the mines buried by the guerrillas little by little. After sighing, he ordered the soldiers to leave the roadbed and go to the forest a hundred meters away. He did not believe that the guerrillas would also step on mines in the forest.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers left the roadbed and walked less than twenty meters towards the forest. Another soldier stepped on the landmine. The German soldiers, who had been frightened, fled back to the roadbed. What they could not imagine was that in this area, the guerrillas buried less than ten landmines in total, and three of them just exploded. The remaining few, as long as they were not lucky, would have little chance of stepping on them.
When the guerrillas buried mines here, they never thought that they could blow up the enemy. After all, the chance of getting off the train is not high. Even if they get off the train, they will advance along the railway's roadbed. The only thing they can blow up is the mine buried on the roadbed. If it weren't for the bearded and emphasized that this was the command of the captain of the Guards, they wouldn't have buried mines here at all.
Now that they are unintentionally planting willows, a few landmines blow up the enemy who is trying to leave the roadbed again. The guerrillas hiding in the nearby forest were all excited when they saw this scene. Especially the sharpshooters who were deployed here were still thinking about whether they would fire or not? If the Germans really flocked into the forest, would they shoot or not? Their rifles are no match for the Germans at all. I am afraid that if they don’t fire two shots, they will be shot into sieves.
Now that they saw the enemy being blasted by several landmines, they frightened to escape back to the roadbed, lying on the roadbed like a turtle, waiting for the engineers who used the mine detector to clear the mines, the sharpshooters were even more at ease. The task they received was to eliminate the engineers who cleared the mines. The things now seemed to be developing as the Captain of the Guards said. The hidden sharpshooters raised their guns and locked their respective shooting targets. They immediately opened fire when the other party approached a little longer.
Because the mine-removal effect of the German engineers was not high, after twenty minutes, the pathfinding team composed of five engineers appeared at the best shooting distance. Seeing that the target had entered the shooting position, the captain of the sharpshooter team quickly began to issue orders: "Please pay attention, the enemy engineers are less than 100 meters away. Everyone locked their own targets and prepared to shoot. I ordered the shooting and everyone fired again..."
Before he could finish his words, a crisp gunshot came from his side. It turned out that he was an unsustainable sharpshooter. He was too nervous and accidentally pulled the trigger. The sharpshooter in the guerrillas naturally could not be compared with the sharpshooter or sniper in the regular army. Their mental quality was much worse. When they heard someone shooting, they immediately instinctively pulled the trigger.
Chapter completed!