Steel Soviet Union

The majestic steel body like a behemoth stands proudly on the double-track railway outside Leningrad. The barrel of the giant gun rising diagonally upwards into the sky is like a heavy sword that reaches into the sky. .

"Slim Bertha" was the nickname given to her by the German artillerymen, and the "Anzio Express" was a lingering shadow in the minds of later Allied soldiers.

Being dwarfed by the 800mm Gustav cannon does not mean that she is incompetent. When the muzzle of the 283mm cannon roars, all surface creatures within the range of its firepower will be shocked. Trembling deeply.

This is the K5(E) leopold 283mm railway gun with the highest production volume and the most balanced and reliable performance in the history of human warfare.

In order to seize Leningrad, the red holy city that was the cradle of the Bolsheviks, before the Battle of Moscow, Marshal Loeb, commander of the German Army Group Northern, spared no effort in deploying equipment. A special German train equipped with two K5 train guns The artillery regiment obeyed the order and went to participate in the battle outside Leningrad.

Compared with the 800mm Gustav train gun, which is powerful but requires 500 people to serve, the K5 train gun, which is relatively petite and is called "Slim Bertha" by German artillerymen, only needs Ordinary double-track railways can maneuver freely and go to the battlefield. It is more than enough for a German artillery regiment-sized German artillery to serve these two K5 train guns.

Although the 283mm caliber of the K5 train gun pales in comparison to the unprecedented Gustav 800mm cannon, the devastating firepower of the K5 train gun still has an unrivaled and overwhelming advantage on land.

The 76-caliber ultra-long 283mm gun barrel with a length of 6 meters gives the K5 train gun an outrageous firepower performance.

The GR35 high-explosive grenade weighing 255 kilograms can reach an astonishing muzzle velocity of 1,120 meters per second after being accelerated by this 6-meter-long ultra-long barrel, and can be projected to the head of a target up to 60 kilometers away. above.

Although the total combat weight of the K5 train gun placed on an elongated special rail car reaches 218 tons, its loading process is not as clumsy as its weight sounds.

The small loading car equipped on this K5-exclusive special extended rail car is a semi-automatic loading system, which consists of a guide rail laid on the rail car itself and the small loading car itself. It can easily lift the 255kg K5 train gun 283mm giant projectile and the matching propellant cartridge. Only two loaders can manually push this small loading vehicle to move freely and effortlessly on the slide rail. Effortless.

The 283 mm shells transported to the breech of the K5 train gun through the semi-automatic loading system only require the use of a simple human ejector rod in the last step of pushing into the chamber. Compared with its huge 283 mm caliber, It can be said that it is very easy.

The easy and convenient semi-automatic loading system gives the K5 train gun unprecedented combat effectiveness.

Once the deployed K5 train gun raises its majestic barrel and starts roaring, it can still fire 15 rounds per hour while calculating the trajectory of the projectile and receiving the impact point of the projectile from the frontline sighting to correct the calibrated trajectory. High combat fire rate.

If we ignore the calibrated calculation of the artillery sighting point and corrected ballistic trajectory, and simply cover a fixed target with firepower, the actual firing efficiency of the K5 train gun can be improved to a higher level on this basis to achieve faster and safer firing. During the Battle of Austria, the Allied forces, who were tortured by the German "Anzio Express" for four full months, had tasted the terrifying power of the K5's super high rate of fire.

The Soviet heavy tank units that appeared on the front line of the Leningrad theater caught the Germans by surprise, who originally thought that their opponent, the Soviet Union, no longer had a large-scale organized tank unit in the besieged city.

The Germans who were deeply surprised would not have thought that the independent first heavy tank breakthrough battalion led by Malashenko secretly entered the Leningrad theater surrounded on three sides through the Lake Ladoga waterway known as the "Road of Life". .

After thinking about it, I can only conclude the problem on the old site of the Kirov tank factory in Leningrad, which has been almost evacuated.

Naturally, the German army believed that the Kirov tank factory, which had been swept away by the Luftwaffe, was still producing heavy tanks for the Soviet Red Army on the front line.

The main force of the aviation wing under the Northern Army Group was unable to get out of the battle in the direction of supporting the small town of Uritsk.

The German special train artillery regiment, which had just arrived at the Leningrad front line, rushed to the fighting position, intending to completely destroy the Soviet Union, which was still producing tanks, through the 60-kilometer combat radius of the two K5 train guns and the devastating 283 heavy artillery. Tank factory.

Malashenko, who came to receive the new equipment, was very unfortunate to catch up with this "German Express". The roaring 283mm heavy artillery projectiles fell one after another with overwhelming power that destroyed the world and was like the end of the world. , the former site of the Kirov Tank Factory, which had been riddled with holes by the Luftwaffe before, was instantly bathed in a horrific purgatory.

Hiding in a seemingly relatively safe tank maintenance trench, he felt the strong trembling beneath his feet, which was like an eight-magnitude earthquake. Lavrinenko, who had never experienced such a terrifying shelling, was the first to shout.

"What on earth are these fascists using to bombard us? Did they send their battleships to the Baltic Sea!?"

As a native of this era, Lavrinenko did not know the terrible "apocalyptic weapons" that the Germans invested in World War II, but Malashenko, as a later time traveler, knew all about it.

Malashenko, who was bathed in the strong shock of the shelling, could not remember for a moment what kind of super cannon the German army deployed on the Leningrad front in 1941.

But neither Gustav nor Karl's reputation for evil can be resisted by the fragile flesh and blood. If they leave the bunker at this time, they will undoubtedly die and there is no other possibility.

"Don't ask so many questions, Lavry! Now we can only stay here and wait for the shelling to pass. Without the bunker, we won't even be able to get rid of the dust kicked up by the shell shock wave!"

The devastating bombardment lasted for nearly half an hour. The two K5 train guns, which raised their muzzles and fired wildly at the former site of the Kirov tank factory, poured out more than twenty rounds of shells before they stopped. Shrouded in a cloud of flames and smoke, the former site of the Kirov Tank Factory is as messy as a ruined city standing next to a moon crater.