The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"Can't the Air Force play a role?" Colonel Slain roared angrily: "Let them send a few more bombers and blow up all the railway tracks!"

But this statement soon received a negative reply from the Air Force: "Sorry, Colonel, the pilot can only vaguely see the armored train in the smoke. This is done by relying on the smoke emitted from the chimney of the armored train. We simply can't Determine the location of the rails.”

The pilots also had their helplessness, especially since the Soviets burned a large number of used tires around the station, sending plumes of black smoke straight into the night sky. Coupled with artillery fire, dust, smoke bombs and the like, it was difficult to see the target clearly even on the ground. Not to mention the fast-flying bombers in the sky... This is one of the reasons why German pilots accidentally bombed the 21st Armored Division before.

"Perhaps we can use artillery fire to force it back!" Olbridge said helplessly.

"No!" Qin Chuan looked around and said, "Maybe instead of forcing it back, we should move it out. To be precise, move it to a certain position!"

"What do you mean?" Colonel Slain asked.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "The armored train will adjust its position according to the direction of our attack, right?"

"Of course!" Colonel Slain said, "That's what makes it difficult to deal with!"

"Have you seen that building?" Qin Chuan pointed to a dozen-story building in front of him that looked like a staff dormitory, and said, "I'm wondering if we let it collapse to the north, will it collapse? On to the railway!”

"Do you want to block the railway?" Colonel Olbridge shook his head and said, "Even this won't have much effect. Armored trains can still move and play a role in other sections. And it won't take long for their engineers to Those obstacles will be cleared!"

"No!" Qin Chuan said, "That's not what I mean..."

As he spoke, Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said: "I just observed the stopping points of the armored train. When we launched an attack, it was always used to stopping here, here, and here and then shooting. And I dare to say, It will still do this next time, because parking in these positions can use as much firepower as possible to cause as much damage to us as possible!”

"But so what?" asked Albridge.

Qin Chuan pointed to one of them and said, "If it stops here...it's only twenty meters away from that building!"

"You want to bury it?" Colonel Slain couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"You can say that!" Qin Chuan nodded.

Colonel Olbridge and Colonel Slain exchanged glances, then nodded in agreement.

The plan was quickly implemented.

The first thing is to occupy the abandoned building.

This is not an easy task, because there are also Soviet troops stationed above it, especially at the top... The Soviet troops deployed machine guns and mortars upstairs, shooting down from a high position, and they also deployed iron wires and windshields downstairs. Mines etc.

But what the Germans wanted was not to capture the entire building. In fact, they only wanted to capture the first floor.

So, when the bombers once again forced the armored train back into the bunker, the Germans launched a surprise attack on the building under the cover of tanks.

A mortar shell blew the barbed wire into pieces as it passed by. Several "Type III" tanks slowly drove towards the building under the cover of dense rain of bullets such as machine guns and rocket launchers...

With a "boom", the tank fired a shell into the building, blasting the Soviet troops stationed inside with sandbags to create a scream.

Then the parallel machine gun fired fiercely into the building, causing cement debris to fly around in the building. Then a group of German soldiers jumped into the building quickly in a zigzag pattern, followed by a burst of MP43 Gunfire rang out and soldiers quickly occupied the first floor.

However, the Soviet army was not worried about this. They believed that this was just the loss of the first floor. The Soviet army had set up checkpoints and traps everywhere in this seventeen-story building. The German army could only attack one floor at a time... ...And this is exactly what the Soviet army wanted. The reason why they are still here is because they were ordered to delay the German army.

This was Yeremenko's order.

It should be said that this is completely correct, because if the German army is allowed to penetrate all the way from the left wing, the Soviet army's Don River defense line in the Stalingrad section will soon collapse, and then Stalingrad will be occupied by the German army from the west, north, and Surrounded on three sides in the south (the east side is close to the Volga River and cannot be surrounded), which is not what the Soviet army wants to see.

Therefore, Yereomenko needs time. To be precise, the Stalingrad Front in the north needs time to assemble troops and supplies to prevent this situation from happening.

Originally, Yeremenko should have withdrawn all the Soviet troops stationed at Karachi Port to defend Stalingrad, because it was obvious that Karachi could not be defended.

However, in order to buy time for the follow-up troops, Yeremenko could only grit his teeth and order the 184th Division and 192th Division stationed there to hold on until the last moment... Yeremenko hoped that they could at least make use of Karachi's supplies, cities and terrain. Delaying the German army for about five days, Yeremenko even did not hesitate to transfer the "Fighting German Invaders" armored train originally used to defend Stalingrad to Karachi.

Facts have proved that this approach is correct, because armored trains did play a role in Karachi.

But this effect obviously won't last long.

Several groups of German soldiers crouched and ran into the building. Different from the previous soldiers, these groups were engineers. They held explosives, detonating wires, etc. in their hands.

After entering the building, under the command of the engineer captain, they placed explosives on the north-facing load-bearing wall... This was to make the building collapse to the north.

Engineers and soldiers will be able to solve these problems very well. As an industrial country, Germany usually has similar blasting operations, and of course there will be similar talents in the army.

This engineer captain was once responsible for engineering blasting at a Hamburg construction company. After Colonel Slain told him the purpose of this blasting, he agreed: "This is a very simple blasting job, Colonel, I can definitely do it." Get it done!”

"Very good!" Colonel Slain nodded, but said a little worriedly: "Do you know what it means if we fail? We only have one chance!"

"I know, Colonel!" the captain replied: "I won't let you down, otherwise... I will be the first to deal with that big guy with a bag of explosives!"

Slaine patted the captain on the shoulder and said, "No matter what, do your job well, it's very important to us!"

"Yes, Colonel!"

Not long after, everything was ready, and Slain nodded to the German soldiers waiting on the other side... It was time to lead the armored train here.