According to Magruth's idea, although his troops were reduced in number during the battle, it was still a relatively easy task to deal with the guerrillas who had little combat effectiveness.
Unexpectedly, after the train had been running for more than ten minutes, a series of earth-shattering explosions were heard from the front, and then the train he was riding on came to a sudden stop. The huge inertia caused everything on the shelves to fall down with a clatter, causing all the things he was sitting on to fall.
Magrus below was smashed to pieces.
After Magrus was helped up from the ground by the guards, he asked sharply: "What happened?"
"Your Excellency, Commander!" Magruth's box was hung at the end of the train. After something happened, the adjutant climbed up from the ground. Regardless of the pain all over his body, he rang the phone and asked the officer at the front of the train what happened.
After understanding the situation, he immediately reported to Magruth: "The guerrillas destroyed the railway ahead, and the armored train that opened the way derailed, rolled over after running off the track, and caused the explosion of ammunition in the train.
As for the train we were traveling on, because it was 150 meters away from the armored train, the train driver dealt with it in a timely manner after the accident, so the train did not derail..."
After learning that the armored train leading the way derailed and exploded, Magruth's face turned livid. He covered his head and asked, "Can we continue to move forward?"
"Due to the explosion of the armored train, at least two hundred meters of the rails ahead have been completely destroyed. We will not be able to pass until the rails are repaired." The adjutant shook his head and replied: "If we want to continue on our way, we have to get off the road.
Car and walk.”
Get off the car and walk?! Hearing what the adjutant said, Magruth couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He was silently calculating in his mind whether he could reach the 564th kilometer station faster by waiting for someone to repair the railway and then continuing by car or by walking.
He looked at the adjutant and asked expressionlessly: "How far is it from our place to the station?"
"Based on the speed of the train," the adjutant said in an uncertain tone, "I think this place is only about ten kilometers away from the 564th kilometer station."
It is more than ten kilometers. If you march on foot, you can reach the destination in two hours at most. After repeated considerations, Magruth decided to use the method of marching on foot to rush to the 564th kilometer station. Thinking of this, he
Immediately said to the adjutant: "Order the 544th Regiment at the front of the train to get off the train immediately and march on foot towards the 564th kilometer station."
In fact, many people from the German army got off the train after the emergency stop and went to the place where the armored train overturned in front to try to save people. However, the sound of explosions of various ammunition could not be heard in the burning armored train.
, the rescuers couldn't get close at all, and could only listen to the screams of the survivors coming from the car.
After receiving Magruth's order, the commander of the 544th Regiment immediately gathered his troops and marched westward quickly in four columns along the roadbed on both sides of the railway track, preparing to rush to the 564th kilometer station as soon as possible.
As a result, they had just passed the still burning armored train. Several soldiers walking in front stepped on the mines, shrapnel and falling gravel laid by the guerrillas, knocking down the German soldiers near the explosion point in pieces.
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Seeing that the soldiers in front had stepped on the mines, the soldiers following behind quickly scattered to hide. Some people shouted loudly: "Engineers, where are the engineers? Come quickly and clear the mines."
Magruth, who was in the back car, naturally could not understand what was happening ahead in time. He was dictating a telegram to the military headquarters to a communications staff officer: "As our division moved towards the 564th kilometer station, the road was opened by
The armored train hit a mine and derailed, causing the railway line to be damaged. The train carrying the entire division could no longer proceed. I have ordered the 544th Regiment to get off the train and march on foot, rushing to the 564th kilometer as quickly as possible..."
Magruth, who was dictating the telegram, did not know that the armored train derailed not because it ran over a mine, but because the guerrillas destroyed the rails at the turn. Following Sokov's instructions, they dismantled the large connecting rails and sleepers.
Bolts, everything looks normal on the surface of the track, but as soon as the train turns here, it will rush out of the track and the car body will overturn.
Beard, who led the team to block the enemy, thought that even if the armored train that opened the way overturned, it would only cause some casualties to the soldiers in the car. But when he saw the armored train overturning with his binoculars, an explosion and explosion occurred immediately.
Burning was immediately stunned. After a while, he murmured: "Oh my God, I really didn't expect that we just removed a few bolts and actually destroyed a German armored train."
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The bearded man put down his telescope, turned around and asked a middle-aged man next to him: "Have you laid all the mines?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Captain." Hearing the bearded man's question, the middle-aged man said impatiently: "When have I ever made a mistake in laying landmines? One hundred and thirty landmines will definitely blow up the Germans.
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"Sharpshooter, are the sharpshooters in place?" After the middle-aged man with a beard finished speaking, he shouted to the back: "When the Germans see that the railway is impassable, they will definitely continue to advance on foot. The sharpshooter will be there later.
Just target the German officers, do you understand?"
Seeing the bearded man chattering incessantly, a female health worker carrying a medical kit next to her said impatiently: "Comrade Captain, this is the first time I have seen you so verbose. Laying landmines and deploying sharpshooters to ambush are both
You asked it yourself, and now you keep asking it here, are you still done?"
After listening to the female health worker's scolding, the bearded man grinned and said: "Yina, isn't this the first time I have directed such a large-scale battle? I was inevitably a little nervous, so my words naturally became a little wordy. I really didn't expect that.
A commander from the regular army taught us a method so effective that we actually killed an enemy armored train in one go."
The female health worker known as Yina pursed her lips and scolded her beard with disdain: "If someone doesn't have any real ability, can he be a captain of the Guards? But I heard from others that the methods he told you,
They were all mentioned in the telegrams sent by the division headquarters in the past few years."
"A message from the division headquarters?" Beard was stunned for a moment, then wanted to understand what Yina meant, and quickly asked: "Are you talking about the division headquarters at Mamayev Ridge?"
Ina looked at her captain with contempt and said impatiently: "Besides that division headquarters, where are other division headquarters? I have already inquired about it. The captain Guchakov who assigned us the task is
From Mamayev Kurgan. If you think about it, if a captain is so awesome, then his superior must be even more awesome."
"Although we have destroyed railways in the past, the results have not been great." Bearded Man said thoughtfully: "Since we cannot remotely detonate explosions, when we destroy railways, we can only plant bombs under the tracks and watch the enemy trains.
Come over and send someone to light the fuse.
If the detonation is early, the German train drivers will be able to see the railway being damaged from a long distance, and they will brake immediately and decisively; if the detonation is late, most of the trains have already passed the explosion point, even if one or two trains behind them are blown up.
carriages, the enemy can continue to move forward after throwing down these blown carriages."
When Luo Xiu commanded the attack battle before, he may have never summarized the gains and losses in the battle. Today, staying in the forest five or six hundred meters away from the railway, he actually felt relaxed and thought about the difference between previous battles and this operation.
The gap has come.
After receiving the blocking mission here, Lu Xiu's first thought was, who wants him to die? With the number of 100 people under his command, it would be difficult to block even a company, let alone a German division.
. But after following Guchakov's instructions, he found that he seemed to be overthinking. No one wanted to plot against him. As long as he made good use of the terrain, he could delay the enemy with just the few people he had.
Hours later, there wasn't much of a problem.
The 544th Regiment, which was marching on foot, stepped on a landmine. In fact, it did not cause many casualties. No more than 40 people were killed or injured. But for the German soldiers who had just witnessed the tragic scene of the armored train being blown up, they were filled with inexplicable feelings.
Before the engineers arrived, no matter how their commanders scolded or even kicked or kicked them, they could not get all the soldiers to get up from the ground. The soldiers were worried that there were mines buried all around, and they might step on them if they moved at the slightest moment.
Mines that could kill them.
Engineers rushed over from the car behind and started detecting mines with mine detectors. However, it is easy to detect mines in other places, but it is very difficult to detect mines on railway lines. The rails will interfere with the accuracy of the mine detectors, so that five
In less than a minute, nearly a hundred false alarms occurred, making the German soldiers lying on the ground even more frightened.
Shortly after the Magrus telegram was sent, he received a reply from Kurtzbach: "In order to prevent the Russians who occupied 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 Magruth's face twitched violently several times. He thought to himself, now the troops are marching on foot, and they can reach the destination within two hours after covering a distance of more than ten kilometers.
It's pretty good. To recapture the 564th kilometer station within an hour is simply a fantasy.
But since Kurtzbach had already issued such an order, he still had to speed up the march of the troops. Magruth had just made this determination, but before he had time to order the adjutant to call the commander of the 544th Regiment in front
, but the other party called first. As soon as he heard Magruth's voice, he hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, division commander, it's not good. During the march, our regiment stepped on a mine laid by the Russians. Now. Now
The soldiers were frightened, and I thought they might not be able to move forward until the engineers cleared all the mines."
"No, Mr. Colonel." After hearing the report from his subordinates, Magruth immediately replied in a stern tone: "The latest order given to us by the military is to recapture the 564th kilometer station within an hour. I now order
You, immediately ask the troops to speed up their march, and be sure to get to the 564th kilometer station in the shortest possible time and eliminate the Russian guerrillas occupying the station."
The German commander, urged by Magruth, understood that the war was urgent and could not wait for the engineers to dispatch the mines planted by the guerrillas bit by bit. After heaving a sigh, he ordered the soldiers to leave the roadbed and go to the forest a hundred meters away.
Go, he didn't believe that the guerrillas would step on landmines in the forest.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers left the roadbed and walked less than twenty meters toward the forest. Another soldier stepped on a landmine. The German soldiers, who were already frightened, fled back to the roadbed. What they did not expect was that
Yes, in fact, in this area, the guerrillas have buried less than ten landmines in total, and the ones that just exploded were three of them. The remaining mines, unless you are extremely unlucky, have a slim chance of stepping on them.
When the guerrillas laid landmines here, they never thought about hitting the enemy. After all, the enemy had a low chance of getting off the train. Even if they got off the train, they would move along the railway embankment. The only way to hit them was by laying mines.
The mines on the roadbed. If Beard hadn't emphasized that this was the order of the Guards Captain, they would not have laid mines here at all.
Now, unintentionally, a few landmines blew back the enemy who tried to leave the roadbed. The guerrillas hiding in the nearby forest were all excited when they saw this scene. Especially the few who were deployed here.
Sharpshooters, they were originally considering whether they would shoot or not shoot if the Germans really poured into the forest. With the few rifles they had, they were no match for the Germans. I was afraid they would be beaten if they didn't fire even two shots.
Randomly shot and beaten into a sieve.
Now when they saw the enemy being hit by several exploding mines, they were so frightened that they fled back to the roadbed, lying on the roadbed like a shrunken turtle, waiting for the engineers using mine detectors to clear the mines. The sharpshooters were even more reassured.
The task they received was to eliminate the engineers who were clearing mines. Now things seem to be developing as the Guards captain said. The hidden sharpshooters raised their guns one after another and locked their respective shooting targets.
As soon as the opponent came closer, they opened fire.
Due to the low demining effect of the German engineers, it took a full twenty minutes for the pathfinding team composed of five engineers to appear at the best shooting distance. Seeing the target enter the shooting position, the team of sharpshooters
The captain quickly began to give orders: "Everyone, please pay attention. The enemy's engineers are less than a hundred meters away from us. Everyone locks their own targets and prepares to shoot. I give the order to shoot, and everyone shoots again..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a crisp gunshot next to him. It turned out to be a sharpshooter who couldn't hold his breath. He was too nervous and accidentally pulled the trigger. Naturally, a sharpshooter in the guerrillas couldn't fight with him.
Compared with the sharpshooters or snipers in the regular army, their psychological quality is much worse. When they hear someone shooting, they immediately pull the trigger instinctively.
After a series of gunshots, the five engineers who were using mine detectors to detect mines on the railway embankment all threw away the mine detectors in their hands, covered their wounds, and fell down on the embankment.