He almost fell on his butt and squatted down, but luckily someone with quick eyesight and quick hands caught him. Before he could stand completely, the major general started yelling again asking about the situation.
The person responsible for reporting the news to him acted quickly, but the bad news that came again was indeed quite bad.
"General! The Russians blew up our building! The dispatching building to the east of the station was completely destroyed by the Russians. Now that building is completely invisible, we have completely lost contact with the defenders!"
"What did you say!?"
The major general who almost thought his ears were stuffed with donkey hair was simply unbelievable!
Are you kidding me? It was a solid building that had been specially repaired and reinforced by secondary engineering by the Corps of Engineers before the war broke out in East Prussia. Its defense level was completely on par with the general military standard permanent defense fortifications.
Not only the load-bearing structure of the building has been reinforced twice, but even the windows and balconies, which can be used as shooting holes, have also been strengthened and upgraded for key defense. It was originally imagined that if there were Russians attacking the train station,
If this is a strategic location, the surrounding defense position group with the dispatch building as the core is the anchor of the defense line. It is the defensive support point of the entire eastern core area of the station. Its defense is so solid that it can hardly be destroyed from the outside by land direct fire.
, At least this is the analysis and evaluation of the German Army Corps of Engineers after completion.
If the Russians want to take over this building, they will either use long-range artillery groups to violently demolish and bombard it, or they will call for air strikes to directly solve the problem with high-yield aerial bombs. Apart from these two ground attacks, they can only send infantry to rush in.
Kill all the German troops in the building to complete the actual occupation.
But how can it be so easy to capture a solidly defended place that has been transformed with a complex internal structure and sufficient supplies of weapons and ammunition? The Germans even built a basement specifically for the building to store supplies, and built a link to connect the surrounding defensive positions and buildings.
The tunnel is used for possible troop replenishment and supply transportation, and it truly turns this dilapidated building into an impregnable iron barrel.
The firepower range of this specially renovated station dispatching building completely covers the entire road leading to the platform and waiting hall. If you want to truly go to the core area of the station, you must pass through the firepower range of this building and stand on the building.
From the top, you can even clearly see every train entering the station. With everything in sight, there is simply no better vantage point than this.
It can be said that as long as this building is not lost, the width of the battlefield in the station is limited, and no matter how many troops there are, it is useless. The Russians who cannot expand at all will not be able to attack the core area of the station.
But now, someone reported that "the building is gone, and the Russians demolished it directly for us." How can this huge reversal of things that were still in good condition not long ago not make people feel stunned and unbelievable?
The German major general who couldn't believe that what he heard with his ears was true. He firmly believed that "hearing is deceiving and seeing is believing", without saying a word, he immediately picked up the telescope on the table, regardless of the attempts of the people behind him to stop him.
I rushed out of the office and ran out of the waiting room with a "swish" sound as if I were stepping on a Hot Wheels.
As soon as he arrived outside the waiting hall, he immediately raised the telescope in his hand without hesitation and looked in the direction of where the station dispatching building was originally located. Of course, the scene that appeared next within the magnified field of view of the telescope was inverted.
It's just like what I just said.
"It's gone...just, it's gone? Damn it! What the hell is going on? Why did such a big building suddenly disappear!? Who can tell me what happened just now?!"
The people who rushed out of the waiting hall right behind the major general looked at you and me and I looked at you. One or two of them were at a loss and were at a loss. They belonged to the category of "You don't know what happened, and neither do I."
"The expressions were all wide-eyed and small-eyed, until another figure finally rushed out of the waiting hall after a while.
"Call to confirm, there are eyewitness reports! Some people say that the Russians dispatched a kind of heavy tank that looks like Stalin's heavy tank, but is completely different in nature, like a heavy assault weapon that uses rockets as attack weapons. Just one round of firing
The entire dispatch building was completely razed, and the witness report did not mention that anyone came out of the building alive. Everything happened so suddenly."
"..."
The major general's fingers unknowingly clenched into fists, feeling both hate and fear.
He hated those Russians who unleashed such powerful destructive power in just a moment, destroying the lives of so many of his soldiers and officers.
What I'm afraid of is that once the station dispatching building is lost, the entire eastern gate leading to the core area of the station will be completely open. All the way to the waiting hall and the road in front of the platform, there will no longer be any solid defensive positions that can stop the Russians from moving forward.
Advance.
What’s even more frightening is that even defense-level fortifications like the station dispatching building can be destroyed instantly. What kind of destructive weapons have these Russians invested that they have no idea about and have never heard of? This kind of jaw-dropping destructive power
Wouldn't it destroy everything it encounters along the way? What else in the entire station can resist the attack of this unknown thing?
The more you think about something, the more terrifying it becomes. There is no way to think about it any more. It will only make people more fearful, panicked and shaken, and has no practical significance.
After thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't just let it go, let alone give up. The major general gathered his eyes again, firmed his eyes again, and blurted out the next order.
"We have not yet failed, German soldiers! We still have hope of victory!"
"Our armored forces have basically completed unloading and regrouping. With the time bought by the peripheral defense forces, we now have enough time to launch a counterattack! The Russians would not have expected that we would counterattack at this time. The unexpected and fierce attack will bring us back.
Come to victory, just like the eagles in the sky swooping down to hunt like arrows, we will crush the enemy with lightning speed!"
Yes, this major general who thinks that his strength is not exhausted still has a trump card in his hand: the tanks that entered the station with the train and were just unloaded from the flatbed truck in an emergency.
This is inside the station. Even if the Russians have more siege troops, they can't exert their full strength and cannot exert their full strength in such a narrow and restricted terrain. This has actually become an advantage for the German army with inferior military strength.
As long as enough troops can be assembled to repel the Russian attack, there is still hope for this battle, as well as the hope of holding on to the perimeter defenders and friendly forces from other directions to return reinforcements. At that time, it may even be possible to return from the perimeter
Pull out a large encirclement, surround the Russian siege troops in the city, and catch the turtles in the urn, then the brave and tenacious station defenders will be the centerpiece.
There's still time to fight this battle! It's far from time to give up!
The more he thought about it, the more he realized that there was a possibility. The hopeful Major General's expression became more and more exciting. He couldn't help but wave his arms and raised them above his head while shouting. Even the Iron Cross medal hanging on the uniform of the Air Force Major General was gone.
It trembled instantly like a bell.
"Victory belongs to Hermann Goering's Panzer Army! Fight to the end for Germany, hey! Hair-washer!"
Now that things are like this, what else can the people below do?
You have no choice, no matter what thoughts you have in your mind, you have to hold it back, and you can only raise your arms and shout along with this amateur land warrior who is like a chicken-blooded man. You have to deal with some things superficially and pretend, this world has always been