Steel Soviet Union

Chapter 4 of the Battle of Space and Time: War Machine

"What is this Russian saying! What is left for it? What does it mean?"

Whenever the Russians' fluent German voices rang out from this strange machine, the German army would always be in trouble.

At first, it was a massive bombing, and then there was an unprecedented violent ground offensive. What was this time?

So much so that now, whenever the voice that claims to be Malashenko sounded, a group of German soldiers in the headquarters would instantly shudder with fear.

Manstein, who saw and remembered this scene, was very dissatisfied, but it was not easy to get angry.

He couldn't guess what the Russians were hinting at, and was thinking about how to give orders to prepare for the response.

As if to respond to the Russians' true words, a roar that was neither a scare nor a joke suddenly came, sounding familiar and like thunder breaking through the air.

Woo——

"Oh hell! What is this!?"

"Bombardment! Get down! Bombardment!"

Before the screams were finished, the whistling sound that pierced the sky above had already passed by, and did not fall to the ground and explode, but went straight to the airspace farther away.

"Missed? Did the Russians, miss?"

The answer was obviously not so. Before the German staff officer's words, which he found unbelievable even when he said them, could be dispersed, a ground-shaking explosion had already struck from farther away.

Boom——

The power of the explosion was so great that Manstein, who was in the headquarters and didn't know how far away he was, felt a strong vibration coming from his feet, which was no less powerful than an earthquake. He almost fell to the ground because he couldn't stand steadily.

But this time, before Manstein, who was shocked again, took the initiative to ask questions, the death call had already been directly called into the headquarters.

"What did you say? Gustav was destroyed!? This is impossible! The Russians don't have heavy artillery that can hit so far! And there are no aircraft bombings, how could it be destroyed!?"

The railway artillery position, which is 30 kilometers away from the Russian front-line positions, is far enough away. It is absolutely impossible for Russian artillery to reach this distance.

Although it can be foreseen that the railway artillery position was suddenly destroyed, it must be related to the strange and dull whistle just now.

But no matter how hard the German chief of staff who answered the phone racked his brains, he couldn't figure out how all this happened, and what weapons the Russians used to do it.

".Okay, I understand. I will convey it truthfully. Please do a good job of rescuing the wounded and subsequent treatment. That's it."

After hearing the unexpected answer from the phone, the chief of staff turned around and returned to Manstein's side and immediately reported.

"General, ours."

"The Gustav railway gun was destroyed, right?"

The Gustav railway gun position, originally deployed in the suburbs and specially used to bombard the Sevastopol Fortress, was now taken away in an instant by the unknown violent attack of the Russians.

The entire railway gun position, including the gun and the rails, was completely bombarded into a pile of twisted and deformed steel garbage, and the thousands of German soldiers responsible for operating and serving this super weapon were killed and wounded everywhere.

The chief of staff, who was interrupted by Manstein before he finished speaking, had to admit it. He nodded in response and blurted out the details.

"Yes, the E Group of the 672nd Heavy Artillery reported that they were attacked by unprecedented Russian weapons."

"It looked like some kind of heavy artillery, but the soldiers who witnessed the attack said it was not a shell. The flying projectile dragged a long tail of fire and was seen from a long distance in the sky. It soon landed on the position and hit the explosion. The power was amazing. It destroyed the entire position and the Gustav railway gun with just one shot."

Manstein, who heard this, actually had a very bad premonition from the beginning. Now he almost confirmed his guess after hearing the report of the chief of staff.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Manstein, who really couldn't think of more possibilities at this point, had to speak slowly.

"Don't you think that the whistling sound that just passed over our heads is very familiar?"

"Very familiar?"

The chief of staff, who had not had time to care about this just now, was reminded and immediately began to recall.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He immediately responded with a horrified expression and said to Manstein in front of him.

"It's like, it's like the sound of our Gustav railway gun when it's firing. No heavy artillery has ever made such a terrifying whistling sound. Never."

The Gustav railway gun has a caliber of 800 mm and a high-explosive grenade weighs 4.8 tons. Whether it's firing or the whistling sound of the projectile, it's really special and has very recognizable characteristics.

I don't know what the situation is at sea, but anyway, there is no other gun on land that can make such a noise, at least in the perception of the German army.

Manstein, who could guess something bad, but actually guessed in the wrong direction, slowly spoke.

"It seems that the Russians seem to have some kind of similar weapon, similar caliber, similar power, similar range, probably some kind of fortress gun, the only thing that can be confirmed is that it is definitely not inferior to our Gustav."

Manstein was right about one thing, the Russians did have an extremely powerful weapon, but it was not similar to the Gustav but exactly the same.

In the rear of the Soviet position, 80 kilometers away from the destroyed German train gun position, after a series of upgrades, the "Red Stalingrad" with its gun barrel raised high was pointing diagonally at the sky. With the support of a large automatic loader that is far more efficient than the original German version, the reloading work has been completed and the 800 mm rocket extended range shell is pushed into the chamber.

boom--

The 32.48-meter-long gun barrel roared loudly again, and the huge muzzle fire caused a huge shock wave, which instantly swept hundreds of square meters of the ground around the gun body and filled the air with dust.

The 5.3-ton 800mm extended-range rocket shell rushed out of the barrel, broke free from the shackles of the fire, and roared away towards the calibrated bombardment coordinates.

Countless German positions were crossed along the way, causing the Lutheran troops below to be shocked by the thunderous roar in the sky. When they looked up, they saw that the UFO trailing orange-red flames like a pop of sky had plummeted down.

Boom——

A huge explosion sounded again, and a German artillery battalion position that had survived the air raid was directly hit.

None of the 12 remaining artillery pieces in the battalion that had no time to move were blown away by a TNT bombardment with an explosive yield of up to 1 ton.

The wreckage of several German artillery pieces was even lifted up to a height of 100 meters. The sky was full of endless metal and flesh and blood debris. The mushroom cloud that rose from the ground instantly climbed to an altitude of 50 meters and continued to rise.

When the shock under my feet came again, it was accompanied by the familiar voice that sounded again from the mysterious machine on the table.

Manstein, who was holding on to the edge of the table to stand still, no longer dared to think about how terrifying things were about to come.

"Unparalleled, ruthless, and invincible, the Ulyanovsk is the Red Army's ultimate answer to the Nazi threat."