USSR 1941

Shulka's plan was quickly implemented.

The guerrillas carrying out this plan were commanded by a staff sergeant named Aliza.

Different from other guerrillas, Aliza is a female guerrilla, and she was originally a communication soldier.

The reason why Eliza was chosen to infiltrate near Tula was because during the guerrilla warfare during this period, it was found that women were easier to hide behind enemy lines and were more beneficial to operations.

This is normal.

The young and strong young people basically joined the army, so the German army immediately became vigilant when they saw young men in the rear, and searched several times for nothing.

And women, everywhere in the rear, are also easier to strike up a conversation with German soldiers to obtain information.

Therefore, the main task of Aliza's unit is actually to obtain intelligence behind enemy lines.

However, it is precisely because their main task is to obtain intelligence and have a lot of useful information in their hands, so the plan is going surprisingly smoothly...

Aliza first contacted a train driver and persuaded him to join the guerrillas.

Of course, they promised the train driver to withdraw before the last link... Before that, the train driver had to teach at least one guerrilla how to drive the train.

Secondly, through the line of the train driver, a waste car was prepared in advance, and then all the prepared explosives were loaded into this waste car.

In the end, a locomotive was stolen under the leadership of the train driver, and then the old carriage full of explosives was picked up halfway to the railway bridge.

All of this went smoothly, and Major Shulka and Major Zahakavic stayed in front of the radio almost the whole time, listening to the news from the headquarters.

Originally this was unnecessary, but Zhukov thought that if something went wrong, Shulka might be of help, so he assigned a staff officer to pass the news to the 4th Tank Brigade headquarters in due course.

Shulka and Major Zakhakovic couldn't help cheering when the train station picked up the explosive carriage and drove to the railway bridge.

Things seem to be half the battle here.

At this time, although the Germans knew that the guerrillas had stolen a locomotive, they didn't know what to do with the locomotive!

"What's the point of stealing a locomotive?" Captain Louis of the German special operations team in charge of the security of Wuyi Town asked strangely: "Can it be driven elsewhere? Where can they hide it? Tomorrow we just need to go along The railroad will get it back!"

The adjutant replied: "Perhaps these guerrillas just want to sabotage,

Drive it away and blow it up! "

"No, you idiot!" Captain Louis replied: "They won't do it for this, if they just want to blow it up, they can do it at the train station, there is no need to drive it away at all!"

This is true, it is superfluous to drive away the train and then blow it up.

But this reminded Captain Louis, he hurried to the map, and then asked: "You just said... which direction did they drive away from after stealing the train?"

"north!"

"Tula direction?"

"Yes!"

"God!" Captain Louis couldn't help exclaiming: "The railway bridge, they want to blow up the railway bridge!"

Without hesitation, Captain Louis immediately ordered the communications soldier: "Contact the Railway Bridge Command immediately!"

The special operations team was responsible for logistics and transportation, so Captain Louis quickly contacted Second Lieutenant Rumolin who was in charge of the safety of the railway bridge.

"The guerrillas stole the locomotive from us!" Captain Louis yelled on the phone almost hysterically: "Stop it, it may be heading in your direction, I think their purpose is to blow up the railway bridge!"

Second Lieutenant Rumolin was a little confused at first, not knowing what Captain Louis meant, but before he put down the phone, he saw a locomotive blowing black smoke towards this place with a "rumbling" sound. Direction coming.

At that moment, Second Lieutenant Rumolin understood the meaning of the phone call, so he immediately ordered his subordinates: "Stop the train! The enemy is controlling it..."

But what made Second Lieutenant Rumolin a little annoyed was that the first reaction of his subordinates was to stand in the middle of the railway and raise their guns to shoot at the train... This obviously couldn't stop it.

"Blow up the rails!" Ensign Rumolin ordered loudly.

The German soldiers immediately took out grenades when they heard the news, but the grenades were not enough to blow up the railway tracks, and they didn't bring the explosives with them. For a while, all the German soldiers were in a mess.

This is one of the reasons why Shulka chose to use the train to blow up the railway bridge. It has a high level of concealment, and it is not so easy to stop it... If Captain Louis is not smart enough, I am afraid that it will not be until the train hits the railway bridge The German army reacted only after it was blown up.

But things didn't go so smoothly.

At this moment, a "No. 3" tank rushed up to the railway and blocked it with a "boom".

This is a tank belonging to the 1st Armored Division. It broke down and was left on the south bank of the Wupa River. It's easy to freeze at night and difficult to start.

Then there was a loud, ear-piercing crisp sound of "clang", and the locomotive collided with the "No. 3" tank fiercely.

The "No. 3" tank was knocked to one side. The body of the tank was originally horizontal but was knocked vertically. The entire side of the collision was deformed and dented, and the track was also broken.

The train continued to move forward by inertia, but the moment it collided with the tank, it fell off the track and fell to the side, unable to move.

"Surround them!" Second Lieutenant Rumolin waved his hand and surrounded the locomotive with his subordinates.

But Lieutenant Rumolin soon realized that this was a big mistake.

Just hearing a loud "boom", Second Lieutenant Rumolin, his subordinates, and the "No. 3" tank were blown into the sky in flames.

Shulka and others are still waiting in front of the phone, waiting...

Time passed by, and it seemed that the time for success had passed.

This made Shulka feel a little bad.

Sure enough, Zhukov's frustrated voice came from the other end of the phone: "The plan failed! A Panzer III tank knocked the train off the track, and we failed to blow up the railway bridge!"

Shulka and Major Zakhakovich were stunned.

This was arguably Shulka's first failure, the first of his unsuccessful plans.

Although this failure seems to be justifiable, because "it is up to people to make things happen", there is no problem with the plan itself, the problem lies in the lack of a little luck.

But failure is failure, and there is no reason to speak of it.

The consequence of failure is that it is almost impossible to blow up the railway bridge, because the German army will strengthen the defense of the railway bridge, including the locomotive.

As a result, the problem of the fourth tank brigade remained unresolved.