Chapter 74 Steel Defense Line
At the relatively straight and wide cement bridgehead, several soldiers wearing large-eared steel helmets and fairly neatly looked at the checkout with barbed wire frames and simple wooden posts. Judging from their cautious but not nervous expressions, Lynn felt that they had not been thrown to the frontier for a while to temper.
In contrast, Private Carl, after a night of rest, drove away his tired face, but in the dust, he had a calmness that had experienced bloody storms, and could not find any slackness in the calmness of his face.
"Carang, Firgot, Gam or Holgen?"
When Lin En and his group walked up to him, the tall sentry carrying a submachine gun asked in his cold tone and raised one hand to signal them to stop for examination.
At this time, Lynn noticed that there were two "chain dogs" sitting on the tricycle next to the checkpoint with a large nameplate on the front, that is, the military police in the German army. Not only were they not as exaggerated as the soldiers on duty on the Oliver Line and the Konesburg Line, but they even gave people a sense of laziness of doing nothing.
"Horgen!"
Private Carl, who was taking the blame, answered while handing over the soldier's certificate and briefly explained his task to the other party - but the other party seemed not interested. He roughly flipped through the ID and took a quick look when comparing the photos.
"Are you guys behind?"
"It should be gone!" Carl replied, "We are responsible for cooking, and we waited until everyone left last night before washing the pot!"
Then he checked the documents of Lin Neng, the white goatee and the young woman, and the sentry waved his hand to signal his companions to let them go.
"Hey man, what's left to eat?" he asked Carl behind his back, "such as sausage, canned meat or something."
"It's gone, nothing!" Carl turned around and patted his stomach helplessly, "Even here is empty!"
"Hey!" the sentry sneered, "Then you better pray that you can get on board alive, because there is almost no food in downtown Konesburg now!"
The "link dog" sitting on the motorcycle interrupted without any hesitation: "Even if you board the boat, you have to catch a mouse before you can start a meal!"
As soon as he heard the "rat", Kacili hurriedly drilled into Lynn's arms.
Lynn looked at the "link dog" in anger and intimidated the child. He looked at Alice with an unkind look. Fortunately, the young woman was still wearing her headscarf. Even if she looked from the front, she could not easily see her beautiful face and graceful figure.
After Lynn and the others passed the cordon, the sentry carrying submachine guns said again: "The last group of people who came from Holgen before passed here half an hour ago!"
Lynn turned his head sideways, and his last sentence made him feel that the sentry was a bit human, and also highlighted the unlovable "Link Dog" - this is more or less related to early movies.
Walking on the wide bridge deck, Carl whispered: "It seems that we didn't waste any time we stayed for a night! We should be able to catch up with them soon."
"Yeah!" Lin Neng responded, but was still thinking about the food problem mentioned by the sentry. He had never thought that as the capital of East Prussia and the strategic support point, Koenigsburg would still lack food reserves. He calmly pondered, and at least 400,000 military and civilians had withdrawn from this bridgehead. The fugitives, especially the elderly, weak, women and children, could not carry a large amount of food. Even if the food ration is distributed at the minimum requirement to maintain survival during the waiting time, it would be a huge expense.
Breakfast was just treated with a little bread left yesterday. Lynn's stomach was gingering now, but little Kacili was still waving his fist because of what Carl just said, "Come on, Dad, come on, mom, come on, grandpa!"
Hearing this slogan, the young woman kept looking back, but her eyes were more time on Lynn's face.
Walking through the empty concrete bridge on the bridge deck, Lin En and his party walked around the village along the road. From a close distance, there were German troops stationed at no less than 100 people. Many houses set up round air defense positions on the north side, with anti-aircraft guns of different calibers and models built-in. It turned out that this village was a ground air defense fire point at Gongwei Airport. Lin En counted carefully and found that there were 9 single-barrel air defense guns, 4 double-equipped and 2 four-unit air defense machine guns, and they looked everywhere.
The accumulated air ammunition boxes and shell shells must have fought many times before. Although these anti-aircraft guns are fierce, Lynn knows that the efficiency of traditional air defense weapons has been relatively low because of the lack of near-exploitation fuze technology and mature radar fire control equipment. However, by the end of the war, the German technical department was said to have developed air defense missiles and air-to-air missiles, but like other doomsday weapons, they were unable to make up for the situation due to the collapsed industrial and war situation.
On the northernmost side of the village, there is a steeple-topped house made of big rocks. It is a bit old, but it should look relatively solid. I saw a flagpole about three meters inserted on its small terrace on the second floor, and a red bottom, white circle, and black German Third Reich flag with a red bottom, white circle, and black 10,000 words hung on it. It is so bright and dazzling in the sun, but in Lynn's view, after experiencing its rise, its peak and then rapidly weakening, it and this unprecedented military empire are approaching the end of the world.
The sun rises and the sun rises, and the warm winter sun finally climbs directly above the head.
After walking for more than three hours, the white goatee who didn't need to carry her luggage still showed tiredness on her face. The young woman put down her scarf and liberated her naturally curly hair. There was not much expression on her white face, and her eyes drooped slightly from the horizontal. Even Kacili was yawning, as if she would fall asleep in Lynn's arms at any time...
"Look, Konisburg's defense line!"
Carl's soft call broke the dull atmosphere. Standing at the turn of the road, you can see a military defense line that is more spectacular than the ancient city walls appeared in the wilderness ahead. It makes full use of the ups and downs of the hilly terrain and places the main fortifications in protrusions with high advantages. On the front, you can see the wire and trenches connected by wires, crisscrossing trenches and fortress-like permanent fortifications. At first glance, they are like giant soldiers standing in front of them, standing at every key position of the entire line of defense with their burly and thick bodies. Their solid, powerful and energetic
The majestic body reminded Linn of Berlin's anti-aircraft turret. This almost perverted comprehensive fortification is a strange creature in the history of human war. It is equipped with powerful air defense weapons and can also form fierce suppression firepower in ground defense warfare. The most amazing thing is its ultimate defense. Also using steel bars, concrete and steel plates as raw materials, the Germans used their engineering skills to the extreme. After the war, people could still see them in Berlin because ordinary explosives and engineering machinery could not do anything to them!
Lynn had never been to Berlin. He just based on his impression of historical pictures and travel programs, he felt that the concrete fortress on the defense line in front of him was shorter and more solid than the real anti-aircraft turret, and his ability to resist artillery bombardment should also be increased. It is said that during the Battle of Berlin, the Soviet army used their most powerful artillery on land, but failed to directly destroy the anti-aircraft turrets in Berlin City.
As we approached the defense line along the highway, Linn felt its "different" more and more, and every detail was deployed. For example, the trench fortifications, the outermost terrain was relatively low, and the higher the terrain was, the more we went, so that once the Soviet army broke through the front trenches and was located on the second and third trenches, the defenders of the trenches could rely on their height advantages to organize intercepting fire. Correspondingly, in order to avoid the killing of enemy artillery fire, the traffic trenches between these trenches were dug very deeply, looking like a black hole ditch. In addition, the trenches were densely scattered with camouflage nets of different sizes and shapes. Below them, there may be cement-reinforced bunkers, built-in anti-tank artillery, or steel artillery basements and anti-tank tanks.
Several roads from different directions gathered in front of the defense line, so many fleeing people could be seen in the sight. The civilians seemed tired and weak, and the few soldiers were mainly wounded. It can be seen that there were no mines buried on the spacious road passing through the defense line, and the soldiers on duty only placed several barbed wire frames on the road surface, which seemed to be completely unable to stop the impact of Soviet tanks, but looking up at the surrounding positions, Lin Neng believed that the anti-tank firepower hidden under the bunker fortifications and camouflage nets was enough to tear apart a whole team of t-34 in an instant.
Chapter completed!