Zhelyakov, who was in the armored train, was startled when he heard the explosion next to the car and the clanging of shrapnel on the carriage. As soon as I stood up, I wanted to go and inspect to see if there were any spots that had been torn by shrapnel. But the captain next to him comforted him and said: "Comrade Political Deputy Division Commander, you don't have to worry, all the armor of the hull is made of eight-millimeter high-quality armor plates, not to mention the fragments of artillery shells, even if the enemy's large-caliber machine gun shoots at close range, it will not be penetrable." The armor tower of each carriage was made of fifteen millimeters of armor, and the armor of all the carriages where ammunition was stored was twenty-five millimeters thick. As long as we stay in the car, the enemy will have nothing to do with us. ”

Zhelyakov's originally hanging heart, after listening to the captain's explanation, finally put it back into his belly. Listening to the clanging sound of shrapnel and bullets, he said cautiously: "Comrade Captain, I think we should speed up our drive, quickly rush to the enemy's defensive positions, and entangle with their men, so that they will not dare to open fire casually. ”

The lieutenant and his deputy glanced at each other, and both of them had a knowing smile on their faces. So the lieutenant picked up the phone on the table, dialed the driver of the train, and ordered: "Comrade driver, speed up and rush towards the enemy's defensive positions, so that we can destroy the enemy on both sides of the railway with great firepower." ”

Rokossovsky was in the distant observation post, and when he saw the heavy artillery shells exploding near the front of the train, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and at the same time secretly rejoiced that his tank division needed to rest and did not enter the battle. Otherwise, the explosion just now would have been enough to incapacitate several old tanks.

Although the commanders and fighters of the 124th Division, which was attacking, were frightened enough, they saw that after the smoke of the explosion cleared, the armored train covering their attack was still intact, and the bullets fired by the German machine guns could only scratch a spark on the steel plate, they regained the courage to attack, shouted louder slogans, and continued to attack forward without flinching.

Seeing that the armored train suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the defense area, the Germans immediately accelerated the speed of the artillery bombardment, concentrating all the artillery fire on dealing with the armored train, and the direction of the train was the focus of their shelling.

Under the concentrated fire of dozens of artillery guns aimed at the same time, even if the impact point is scattered, within a radius of a few hundred meters below the shell coverage, it is difficult to dodge no matter how fast you run. Moreover, the artillery of the German army, which had conquered most of Europe, was quite good at artillery, and at the same time, the front of the car that was directly hit by several shells was slammed, and the seemingly thick steel plate was not much more difficult than tearing a piece of paper in front of a large-caliber shell, and it burst open like a walnut suddenly smashed by a hammer. Immediately afterwards, there were waves of shells smashed down one after another, and they were more accurate, and the dragged carriage was like being lifted up by a big hand, and in just a moment, it was blown up and scattered in the continuous explosion, and then it was blown up and torn to pieces. In the smoke and dust that obscured the sky, the steel plates mixed with the scorching shrapnel made a sharp whistle and swept across the sides of the railway.

The armored front of the armored vehicle, which had been burned into a fireball, was billowing black smoke, it was not overturned by the flying carriage, and was still sliding on the rails by inertia, and suddenly, the violently detonated shells in the turret exploded bright orange fireballs and rushed out of the smoke and dust, and formed a huge tumbling black mushroom in the air, and the armored front of dozens of tons was like a toy that was thrown out, and it was torn apart in the tumbling explosion, and the violent impact caused bigger and more casualties. In the explosion like a landslide and a crack, the super violent storm formed by the shock wave shook and blew away the stunned Soviet and German officers and soldiers in the distance, squeezing them into a mass of shapeless flesh and blood.

The ground was shaking, and the explosions continued. At the same time, Rokossovsky, who was watching the battle in the observation post, was stunned. They watched as the steel plates that were crumbling in the distance, mixed with all kinds of fragments and debris, swept out, and shredded everything within a radius of nearly two hundred meters, and in the dense and huge explosion, all the living creatures around them were torn into pieces, stirred into powder, and even evaporated directly in an instant.

When the large-caliber artillery shells streaked across the sky in pieces, I saw the fireball that had just exploded at the invincible armored train, and the railroad tracks were torn off like a volcano, and the stumps and broken arms that were shattered in the loud bang collapsed far away, and even smashed into the charging team, even with the bravery of the Soviet commanders and fighters, they also closed their mouths for shouting slogans.

Immediately afterwards, the sky once again resounded with the screams of artillery shells, and the commanders and fighters who rushed to the front were subjected to the key bombardment of the artillery fire. The cannonballs that smashed into the ranks exploded violently, and each loud bang could take the lives of many commanders and fighters. In the deafening explosion, gunpowder smoke and fire rose into the air, and the flesh and blood that were torn apart and blown up collapsed into the sky like grass mustard, and then were cut into pieces by shrapnel and gravel interwoven into a net, and the rain of blood that fell was still in the air was already vaporized by the high temperature produced by the explosion, and the dirt raised was mixed with fragments of rotten flesh and limbs like a tree branch that was thrown away, and it was broken down again before it fell.

The dense shells smashed down endlessly, and the explosion points that had long been indistinguishable were explosions everywhere, fires everywhere, shrapnel flying everywhere, and shrapnel falling like a rain of minced flesh. The earth shook violently, corpses and broken flesh were layered on top of each other, the sparse internal organs and the blood that flowed out had soaked the ground, and then they were blown up and blown away by the cannonballs, torn into smaller pieces, and the mud blocks formed by the blood and water condensed immediately re-decomposed into dust and scattered everywhere under the ultra-high temperature produced by the explosion, and the thick smoke and dust choked people out of breath, and the throat was irritated by the hot pain. The commanders and fighters of the 124th Division were shocked with blood in their ears in the huge explosion, their bodies curled up on the ground bounced slightly, and even their internal organs were damaged and displaced, and blood spurted out of their mouths and noses and dried in the scorching air......

The cannons roared, the small cannons were fired, and the heavy machine guns swept away the figures with dark red whips. The rain of bullets and the bursting shrapnel were intertwined into an impermeable web of fire. Although the artillery fire was intensive, the intensity of the shelling was still within the range of what these officers who had fought in the Battle of Normenheim, or most of the Soviet soldiers who had fought with the Finnish army.

Under the command of the surviving commanders, the brave soldiers continued to advance under the dense artillery fire and bullet rain, using everything they could use, including the craters, the dead bodies, and other things they could use as cover, distinguishing the sound of the shells passing through the continuous explosions, judging the distance of the explosion point, and seeing the rapid shooting of the shells in the gap after the explosion, or rolling and crawling from one crater to another.

Looking at the bombed-out armored train in the distance, still burning violently and emitting raging black smoke, Rokossovsky and the others knew that everyone on the armored train, including the political deputy commander of the 124th Division, was undoubtedly shattered.

The soldiers, who had lost their political deputy division commanders, braved the rain of bullets and rolled around under the orders of commanders and political workers at all levels, and people died every second, and they simply passed through the shelled area amid the enemy's wanton bombardment. In the dense rain of bullets, the impacting formation burst into a bloody mist in the sky. Chirping bullets and flying shrapnel pierced their bodies, tore their flesh and blood, and threw their entrails everywhere, but the living still howled and charged, paving the way of attack with corpses.

The German forward positions were broken through one after another, and the gaps that were torn open by the commanders and fighters of the 124th Division became bigger and bigger, and as more and more fighters poured into the breakthroughs, the German defense line began to become precarious. Seeing that the defensive line was crumbling, the red-eyed German commander could no longer care that his troops were entangled with Soviet officers and soldiers, and forced the artillery units to fire indiscriminately at the breach.

Moments later, the place was shrouded in fire and smoke. The German artillery fire, like a steel plough forged from fire, ploughed through the bunkers it had trodden on, and destroyed everything it had traded on. Everywhere the artillery fire passed, there were craters everywhere, under the scorching heat, the thick blood and scorching stench were suffocating, the floating soil of the shock was full of mutilated and blurred torsos, charred corpses, stumps and broken arms mixed with tattered guns, torn pieces of rotten flesh and muddy internal organs paved the way of the charge, and the team that had just been storming frantically disappeared without a trace in an instant.