The German defense line quickly collapsed under the impact of T34, but Shulka knew that the battle was not over.
"Railway, blow up the rails!" Shulka ordered loudly.
The following infantry immediately conveyed the order to the tank through the tank phone. Tank No. 239 found a position and turned at an angle. With a "boom", it fired a shell forward.
A railway track was immediately twisted and broken by the explosion.
But just as Shulka and others guessed, the Germans built many railway tracks layer by layer here... In fact, the German army's railway tracks were not three, but five, and there were even links between the railway tracks.
The fork in the road can be switched.
This can obviously increase the fault tolerance rate of the railway track. For example, if a section of railway track is blown off, then the turnout switching device can be used to avoid this or even several sections of railway track that were blown off.
Then, the heavy track sound of the armored train was heard from the other direction, and several illumination bombs rose into the sky to illuminate the bridgehead battlefield. The sound of machine guns and artillery soon started... It was the rain of bullets coming from the armored train.
The situation is not good.
This does not mean that the German army can turn defeat into victory and drive the Soviet army back to the other side of the river.
In fact, when the Soviet latent troops rushed across the bridge, the German army had no hope of holding Tver.
The weakness of the armored train is that it must rely on the rails, so it has many blind spots and many inaccessible places. Soviet tanks only need to stay away from the rails to avoid the firepower of the armored train.
What's more, the Soviet army only needed to blow up the track and the armored train would become a turtle in the urn.
The problem is... At this time, Soviet soldiers and tanks gathered intensively at the bridge's defense line: the latent troops moved forward to attack the German soldiers who had just defeated the bridge's defense line, and the subsequent main forces continued to pour across the bridge, including more than a dozen T34s.
Thousands of Soviet soldiers crowded around here.
The weapons on armored trains are not just anti-aircraft guns.
It also has 12 7.62mm machine guns, 2 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and four 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns... The small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and four anti-aircraft machine guns are both used for air defense. Of course, they can also carry out horizontal fire on infantry. They are even
Equipment captured from the Soviet Army.
It is conceivable that if an armored train is allowed to break into a densely populated bridgehead defense line, the equipment on the armored train will carry out a crazy massacre against the Soviet troops and then drive away.
Major Michael, who commanded the armored train, thought so too.
He loudly ordered through the microphone to each carriage: "Everyone, prepare for battle. We must give these Ivans a severe lesson before they leave here..."
So all types of artillery and machine guns on the armored train were ready for battle. The engineers who usually held engineer shovels also picked up their rifles and placed them on the perforations, waiting for the side of the armored train to face the enemy before firing bullets.
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In the bright light of the flare, Shulka discovered that the blown-up railway track was not the track on which the armored train was running.
But now it's obviously too late to blow up the track, which means tragedy is about to happen.
At this critical moment, Shulka loudly ordered the tank followers: "Drive the tank onto the track, the left one!"
The tank couldn't help but be startled after following, but still passed on the order: "Drive the tank onto the track, left, 20 meters away, move fast!"
Shulka thought Fedosiev would refuse to carry out the order.
First of all, it is very dangerous to do so... Although the armored train cannot ram through the armor of the tank, the armored train running at high speed and having a large mass has great kinetic energy. If it hits the tank, no one inside will be able to survive.
Secondly, Fedosiev had many reasons for refusing to execute the order, such as the noise was too loud and he could not hear clearly, or the reaction was not fast enough.
Even if Fedosiev only needs to order the armored train later, it is possible that the armored train will roar past it.
But this is not the case.
Tank No. 239 immediately began to accelerate, then turned and rushed onto the left railway with a "rumbling" sound.
The observer on the armored train was shocked when he saw this, and immediately reported to the power car through the microphone: "Stop, stop immediately! There is a jam ahead..."
The power car of the armored train is in the middle of the train, so the driver cannot see the road conditions ahead. He must cooperate with the observer in front of the car or in the watchtower of the second car to move forward... There are many situations where armored trains run over landmines.
, so the first carriage is often an additional carriage used to roll over landmines or knock over obstacles.
At this time, the German army was fighting on the front line and did not add this carriage in order to facilitate movement.
But of course, even with this extra carriage, it can't hit a tank without damaging itself.
The total weight of the T34 tank is 26 tons (1941 model). After the train hits, it is more likely to derail and roll over instead of passing through.
As a result, the armored train slowed down amid a harsh brake sound, and at this time, Major Michael didn't even know what was happening.
"What's going on? Why are you slowing down?"
"Major!" the observer had time to report: "They blocked the tracks with tanks!"
Major Michael was stunned for a while and then cursed: "These lunatics!"
The train gradually came to a stop, right in front of Tank No. 239. The observer's watchtower in the first car even directly faced the black barrel of the tank. The observer was so frightened that he quickly retracted his head and fled backwards on his hands and knees, although he knew that this was the case.
There is no way to escape.
"Major!" The adjutant nervously suggested to Major Michael: "We can drive back..."
"It's too late!" Major Michael sighed and said, "Surrender!"
Major Michael is a smart man. Although the armored train can indeed drive back, it is too late at this time...of course the rear tracks will also be blocked or blocked by the enemy.
This is the weakness of the armored train. The enemy only needs to blow up the rails with an explosive pack. Such a huge and heavily armored arsenal can only wait for death.
Sure enough, just as Michael said this, several explosions were heard from the other side, and then someone reported: "The railroad track in the rear has been blown up, and we have no way to escape!"
"Don't shoot!" Major Michael ordered through the microphone: "All personnel are not allowed to shoot... We are just engineers. We have completed our mission by fighting until this moment. Now, we can't change anything, so put down your weapons and surrender!"
The German soldiers were still hesitant, but after several tanks "rumbled" up and aimed their gun barrels at the armored train's perforations and turrets at close range, they finally accepted Major Michael's "suggestion" to move one side
A white flag stretched out from the turret.
Cheers soon erupted outside, and the Soviet soldiers hugged each other excitedly to celebrate the victory of the battle.