Chapter 823 Trapped Enemies (Part 1)

  According to Magrus' thinking, although his troops were downsizing during the battle, it was relatively easy for them to deal with guerrillas who had little combat effectiveness.

Unexpectedly, the train had been running for more than ten minutes. First, a series of earth-shattering explosions came from the front, and then the train I was on slammed on the brakes. The huge inertia caused all the things on the shelves to fall down. The 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!" Magrus's box was hung at the end of the train. After something happened, the adjutant climbed up from the ground, regardless of the pain in his body, shook the phone and asked the officer at the front of the train what happened. As soon as he figured out the situation, he immediately reported to Magrus: "The guerrillas destroyed the railway ahead, and the armored train that opened the way derailed. .The train we took was 150 meters away from the armored train, and the train driver handled it in a timely manner after the accident, so the train did not derail..."

  After learning that the armored train that opened the way derailed and exploded, Magrus' face turned livid. He covered his head and asked, "Can we continue to move forward?"

"Because of the explosion of the armored train, at least 200 meters of rails in front have been completely destroyed. Until the rails are repaired, we are temporarily unable to pass." car on foot."

   Get off and walk? ! Hearing what the adjutant said, Magrus couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He silently calculated in his mind which one would reach the 564th kilometer station faster, by car or by walking. He looked at the adjutant and asked blankly, "How far is it from the station?"

   "Calculated 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."

   Ten kilometers away, if you march on foot, you can reach your destination in at most two hours. After repeated consideration, Magrus decided to march on foot 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 immediately, and march towards the 564th kilometer station by marching on foot."

  In fact, as early as the German army stopped the train in an emergency, many people got off the train and went to the place where the armored train overturned in front of them to try to save people. But still in the burning armored train, it wasn't the sound of various ammunition explosions, the rescuers couldn't get close at all, and could only listen to the screams of the survivors coming from the car.

  After receiving the order from Magrus, the head of the 544th regiment immediately assembled his troops and marched westward quickly along the roadbeds on both sides of the railroad tracks in a four-way column, preparing to rush to the 564th kilometer station as soon as possible.

As a result, they had just passed the still-burning armored train, and the few soldiers walking in front stepped on the landmines, shrapnel and broken rocks planted by the guerrillas, knocking down the German soldiers near the bombing point in pieces. .

  Seeing that the soldiers in front stepped on landmines, the soldiers behind hurriedly dispersed to hide, and some people shouted loudly: "Engineers, where are the engineers, hurry up and clear the mines."

Magrus, who was in the back compartment, naturally couldn't keep abreast of what was happening ahead. He was dictating a telegram to the military headquarters to a communications staff officer: "As our division moved towards the 564th kilometer station, the open road The armored train derailed due to a mine strike, causing the railway line to be destroyed, and the train carrying the entire division could no longer move forward. I have ordered the 544th regiment to get off the train and march on foot, and rush to the 564th kilometer at the fastest speed..."

Magrus, who was dictating a telegram, did not know that the derailment of the armored train was not caused by a landmine, but because the guerrillas destroyed the rails at the turn. They followed Sokov's instructions and removed the large bridge connecting the rails and the sleepers. Bolts, so that the surface of the track looks normal, but as soon as the train turns here, it will rush out of the track and the body will overturn.

  The bearded man who led the team to stop the enemy thought that even if the armored train that opened the way was overturned, at best it could only cause certain casualties to the soldiers in the car. But when he held up the binoculars and saw that the armored train overturned, there was an explosion and burning immediately, he was stunned. After a while, he murmured: "My God, I really didn't expect it, we Just a few bolts were removed, and an armored train owned by the Germans was directly reimbursed."

  The bearded man put down his binoculars, turned around and asked a middle-aged man beside him: "Have you buried all your mines?"

"Don't worry, Comrade Captain." Hearing the bearded question, the middle-aged man said impatiently, "When did I make a mistake when I planted mines. One hundred and thirty mines are sure to blow up the Germans. .”

"Sharpshooter, is the sharpshooter in place?" After the middle-aged man finished speaking, the bearded man shouted to the back: "The Germans will definitely march on foot when they see that the railway is impassable. The sharpshooter will wait a while Just aim at the German officers, understand?"

Seeing the beard chattering so non-stop, a female health worker next to her with a medicine box said impatiently: "Comrade Captain, this is the first time I've seen you talk so much. Planting landmines and deploying sharpshooters to ambush are both You asked the question yourself, and now you keep asking it here again, are you still finished?"

After listening to the reproach from the female health worker, the bearded man grinned and said, "Yina, isn't it the first time I've commanded such a large-scale battle? I'm inevitably a little nervous, and naturally my words are a bit long-winded. I really didn't expect that, then A commander from the regular army, the method he taught us was so effective that he killed an armored train of the enemy in one fell swoop."

The female hygienist named Yi Na pursed her mouth and scolded her beard with disdain: "If others don't have any real skills, can they be the 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 a few years ago."

   "A telegram from the division?" The bearded man was taken aback for a moment, and then he wanted to understand what Yina meant, and quickly asked, "You mean the division at Mamayev Post?"

Yi Na looked at her captain with contempt, and said impatiently: "Apart from that division, where is there any other division. I have already asked about it. The captain Guchakov who assigned us the task is From Mamayev Gang. If you think about it, if a captain is so powerful, then his superior must be even more remarkable."

"Although we have destroyed railways in the past, the results have not been great." The bearded beard said thoughtfully: "Because we cannot detonate by remote control, when we destroy the railway, we can only plant bombs under the railway tracks and watch the enemy's train. Come here, send someone to light the fuse.

If the detonation was early, the German train drivers could see the destruction of the railway from a long distance, and they would brake immediately and decisively; Carriages, the enemy can move on after dropping these blown up carriages. "

When the bearded man commanded the sabotage battle in the past, he might never have summed up the gains and losses in the battle. Today, staying in the forest five or six hundred meters away from the railway, he actually has leisure time, thinking about the difference between the previous battle and this operation. The gap came.

  After receiving the blocking mission here, the bearded man's first thought was who wants to send himself to death. Just relying on the number of one hundred and ten people under my command, I am afraid that it will be difficult to block a company of the German army, let alone a division of the German army. But since he made the arrangements according to Guchakov's instructions, he found that he seemed to be thinking too much, and no one wanted to plot against him. As long as he made good use of the terrain, he would be able to delay the enemy for several hours with just this few people under him. , there is still no big problem.

  The 544th Regiment, which was marching on foot, stepped on a landmine, but in fact it did not cause much casualties, with no more than forty people killed or injured. But for the German soldiers who had just witnessed the tragic destruction of the armored train, they were full of inexplicable fear. Before the arrival of the engineers, no matter how much their officers scolded them, even punched and kicked them, they could not get all the soldiers up from the ground. The soldiers were worried that there would be landmines all around them. Life mines.

   Engineers rushed over from the rear compartment and started mine detection with mine detectors. However, it is easy to detect mines in other places, but it is very difficult to detect mines on the railway line. The rails will interfere with the accuracy of the mine detectors, so that within five minutes, there are nearly a hundred false alarms, causing The German soldiers lying on the ground were even more frightened.

  Not long after the Maglus telegram was sent, he received a call back from Kurzbach: "In order to prevent the Russians occupying 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 Magrus' face twitched violently a few times. He thought to himself, now that the troops are marching on foot, and they can arrive within two hours for a distance of more than ten kilometers. Not bad. To recapture the 564th kilometer station within an hour is simply a fantasy.

   But since Kurzbach has issued such an order, it is still necessary for him to let the troops march faster. Just as Magrus made such a determination, before he could order his adjutant to call the head of the 544th Regiment ahead, the other party called first, and as soon as he heard Magrus' voice, he hurriedly said: : "Master Commander, it's not good. During the march, our regiment stepped on a mine buried by the Russians. Now the soldiers are terrified. I think they may not be able to move forward until the engineers remove all the mines. "

"No, Mr. Colonel." After listening to the report of his subordinates, Magrus immediately replied in a stern tone: "The latest order given to us by the military department is to recapture the 564th kilometer station within an hour. I now order You, immediately let the troops speed up the march, and must rush to the 564th kilometer station in the shortest possible time to eliminate the Russian guerrillas occupying the station."

   The commander of the German army, who was urged by Magrus, understood that the battle was urgent, and it was impossible to wait for the engineers to dispatch the mines planted by the guerrillas little by little. After he let out a long sigh, he ordered the soldiers to leave the embankment and go to the forest a hundred meters away. He did not believe that the guerrillas would step on landmines in the forest.

  Unexpectedly, the soldiers left the embankment and walked less than 20 meters towards the forest when another soldier stepped on a landmine. The German soldiers, who had already been frightened, fled back to the roadbed with a clatter. What they didn't expect was that in fact, the guerrillas had planted less than ten landmines in this area, and the ones that exploded just now were three of them. The remaining few, as long as you are not particularly lucky, the chance of stepping on it is really small.

  When the guerrillas planted landmines here, they never thought of blowing up the enemy. After all, the chance of the enemy getting off the train is not high. Even if they got off the train, they would still advance along the railway embankment, and the only thing that could blow them up was the landmines buried on the embankment. If it weren't for the bearded beard who emphasized that this was the order of the captain of the Guards, they would not have planted mines here at all.

   Now it was unintentional, and a few landmines blew back the enemies who tried to leave the roadbed. The guerrillas hiding in the nearby forest were all excited when they saw this scene. Especially the few sharpshooters deployed here, they were still thinking, if the Germans really poured into the forest, would they shoot or not? With so few rifles, I am no match for the Germans at all. I am afraid that if I don't fire two shots, I will be smashed into a sieve by random guns.

   Now seeing the enemy being hit by a few exploding mines, they fled back to the roadbed in fright, lying on the roadbed like a turtle, waiting for engineers with mine detectors to clear the mines. The sharpshooters were even more assured. The task they received was to eliminate the engineers who cleared the mines. The development of the matter now seems to be developing according to what the captain of the Guards said. The concealed sharpshooters raised their guns one after another, locked on their respective shooting targets, and opened fire immediately when the opponent got closer.

  Because the demining effect of the German engineers was not high, it took a full 20 minutes for the pathfinding team composed of five engineers to appear at the best shooting distance. Seeing that the target entered the shooting position, the team leader of the Sharpshooter quickly began to issue orders: "Attention everyone, the enemy's engineers are less than 100 meters away from us. Everyone locked on their targets and prepared to shoot. I ordered Shoot, shoot again, everyone..."

  Before he finished speaking, there was a clear gunshot beside him. It turned out to be an impatient sharpshooter, who was too nervous and accidentally pulled the trigger. The sharpshooters in the guerrillas are naturally not comparable to the sharpshooters or snipers in the regular army. Their mental 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 carrying 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 in unison.

  (end of this chapter)