Imperial Overlord

Mann looked at the straight rail in front of him, and German engineer Wilhelm Hermann wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Destroying a section of railway is very simple, as long as you use enough explosives, it can be done easily.

But building a railway is not an easy task. As a German railway engineer, Wilhelm Hermann has worked continuously for 10 hours.

He has been up and working since the dawn of genius. As a grass-roots officer of the engineering corps, what he is responsible for is to use a truck with a hanging wall to place the rails one by one near the construction railway section.

The sleepers were then carried by prisoners of war and laid on stone foundations, which were then fastened by German engineers.

The next thing is that the prisoners of war transport the rails to the sleepers, and then they are connected by German engineers.

This construction takes place countless times a day, so William Herman stood in his car and watched the tracks in the back of the car dwindle.

He has nothing to complain about, because he is already quite happy as a railway engineer compared to the infantry fighting on the front line.

First of all, he is close to the front end that the railway can reach, which means that he is the closest to the supply transfer station.

This often means that the railway engineers can get the freshest and most supplies of supplies, and the treatment level is relatively higher.

Furthermore, the railway soldiers themselves belong to a special branch of the army. Because of their higher technical content, the treatment is slightly better than that of ordinary soldiers.

After all, these people need industrial knowledge and related training, and they also have to undertake part of the maintenance tasks of weapons and equipment, relatively speaking, the work is more professional.

In the end, they didn't have to go to the front lines to face enemy fire, and security was one of their most gratifying advantages.

There is no need to go to the front line to die. Relatively speaking, the death rate is very low, and it is still considered military service. This temptation is not ordinary.

"We have repaired about 40 kilometers of damaged railways..." After wiping the sweat from his forehead, William looked at his colleague and said.

Compared with the soldiers fighting on the front line, the relationship between the railway engineer corps was somewhat similar to that of the construction engineering team stationed abroad.

They are more like colleagues than comrades-in-arms. After all, they work together every day, not risk fighting together.

"When the Russians retreated, they were always destroying. When they retreated for dozens of kilometers, they would blow up a section of the railway to prevent our army from using the railway line to pursue." The colleague hung a steel cable on a rail and replied.

Their truck is a special construction truck with a lot of wheels and a very long body.

Trucks are heavy enough to transport many, many rails at once to repair damaged railroads.

Germany is very skilled in developing such special vehicles, and they themselves developed a variety of vehicles with eccentric functions during World War II.

Even when Germany was defeated, the engineering vehicles that retreated to destroy the railways were mechanized and all the painstaking things were done. It is not surprising to study some vehicles for laying railways.

With these construction vehicles, the speed of laying railways has also been increased accordingly. Coupled with the cooperation of the troops with prisoners of war, the speed of repairing the railway is very fast.

If it was before Li Le crossed, when the Soviet-German war was launched, the Germans only knew that the Soviet railway was a broad-gauge railway.

After the vanguard invaded the Soviet Union, it was discovered that the Soviet railways were still at the level of World War I: except for the railway between Kharkov and Moscow, most of the railways were built on soft sandy soil embankments.

And the sleepers themselves have problems, being a softer pine rather than a stronger, more rail-friendly wood.

The quality standard of European, or German standard railway rails is close to 50 kilograms per meter, but the Soviet Union's is 38 kilograms per meter...

The density of sleepers per kilometer of Deutsche Bahn is exactly 1,600. As a result, when the Soviet Union laid the rails, the number was reduced to 1,440.

This does not include that the Germans used screws and washers to fix the rails, and the Soviets directly used long nails that were driven at one time.

Look at the current anti-Japanese dramas. The calibers of the shells are different. You can use the shells with a file twice. Do you think it is very simple?

The reality is that the rail system that looks exactly the same, in fact, from construction to use, almost no link is universal...

The same Soviet railway bridges were basically worthless and had to be re-fortified to be able to transport tanks and other heavy equipment.

This is why the battle for the No. 4 Highway Bridge can be said at the battle level.

That bridge is really important, because without this bridge, the rest of the bridge, even the passage of vehicles, would be a problem.

Of course, not to mention the railway dispatching equipment, because basically most of the equipment on the Soviet railway lines are antiques during the First World War, and electric turnouts are very rare.

In this case, the propulsion speed of the German armored forces depends entirely on the speed of operation of the railway department of the logistics department.

In order to ensure the advance of the front-line armored forces, the German railway engineering corps is desperately repairing the Soviet Union's damaged or undersized railway lines.

Only by transforming these railway lines into railways that Germany can use and incorporating them into the German railway network can it be possible to support German troops to fight thousands of miles away.

"It's time to rest!" Looking at the flag waving in the distance, William Herman put on a smile.

The only reason the flag was waving ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was to encounter a blasting site. The railway was blown up and there was a big hole in the ground that needed to be filled.

In this case, it is necessary for the prisoner of war camp to fill the crater. Other work can only be suspended, so everyone can take a rare break.

At this time, what railway soldier William Herman liked most was to sit in his truck and watch the various engineering vehicles busy in the distance.

He clearly knew that a railway had been built to the east of Minsk, and the German material transfer station had advanced hundreds of kilometers.

Relying on railway transportation, the amount of various supplies received by the German troops on the front line is also increasing, which is the most reliable guarantee for the war.

"Yeah! It's time to take a break." His companion also said excitedly when he saw the waving flag.

They work every day until evening, and sometimes they have to maintain equipment overnight, which makes them very tired.

Being able to take a short break is also something to celebrate for them. At this time, they can drink some coffee or tea and enjoy their leisure time.