USSR 1941

Soon, all the rollers in the village were collected together.

Major Gavrilov looked at their clumsy appearance and couldn't help yelling: "You idiots, who told you to carry it into the car!"

It turned out that the soldiers in charge of this work disassembled the rollers and put them one by one into the back compartment of the car and then transported them over. A total of five cars were loaded, each car loaded with two to three, and there were 13 in total.

"Comrade Major!" The staff officer said with a puzzled look on his face, "If it's not loaded on the truck...how can it be transported?"

Major Gavrilov could not help shaking his head.

Then it was moved down, and then the engineer was ordered to fix the roller and the tie rod to the front of the tank.

Seeing that the staff officer seemed to understand something, he could have tied the roller to the back of the car and dragged it over.

If it was before, it would be fine for the staff to lift the roller up and down like this, but this time is the tense moment of victory, and the staff's actions will undoubtedly delay the progress of the entire army.

"If you can stand up to half a Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said, "then the Germans will have nothing to worry about!"

Speaking of which, Major Gavrilov ignored the embarrassing staff officer and directed the engineers to refit.

Modification is actually very easy.

First of all, the roller itself has a pull rod, and the roller is used for rolling and milling rice. It has been used frequently, so the rolling performance is quite good.

The second is that mechanized troops generally have engineers with basic maintenance tools. Their task is to carry out necessary repairs once the tank fails on the road.

The modification was naturally done by these engineers. Welded a few iron rods on the front of the tank, and then tied the pull rod of the roller to the iron rod and it was completed.

The first batch refitted six vehicles, they were divided into two batches of three vehicles each, the first batch went ahead and the second batch followed behind, leaving a gap between the tanks and filling the entire road.

Followed by two modified ready to replace.

After everything was ready, Major Gavrilov set off with an order.

The modified tank soon became a beautiful scenery. Along the way, the soldiers looked at this strange guy with puzzled eyes, guessing what it was used for.

Soon Shulka and the others ignored them, and followed the modified tank slowly, and arrived at the front reconnaissance unit in a short while.

The reconnaissance troops are resting, their eyes are full of fatigue, dissatisfaction, and fear.

Shulka can understand their feelings. If this battle is sorted by the degree of danger and hardship, it is undoubtedly a reconnaissance force...they who walk in the front may be ambushed by the enemy at any time, and they have great responsibilities. Without reconnaissance If you see the enemy's ambush, you will be held accountable.

That's all, the worst thing is that when they encounter the enemy's mines, the burden on their shoulders is already heavy enough, and they immediately have another mountain.

So much so that until now, these reconnaissance troops felt a little numb. Squads sat on the side of the road and looked weakly at the tanks and cars passing in front of them. They didn't even notice that the rollers were installed in front of those tanks.

But they can't be blamed for this, because it is indeed not so conspicuous when the roller is rolled by the muddy water on the road.

"Comrade Major!" A second lieutenant hurried to Major Gavrilov and reported: "There is a minefield ahead, we haven't..."

"I know!" Major Gavrilov interrupted the second lieutenant: "Leave it to us!"

The second lieutenant looked puzzled, and then his eyes widened when he looked forward and found the roller in front of the tank.

Then the fun came:

With a bang, a mine was detonated.

It was an "S" type jump mine. After it was activated, the mine body jumped out and exploded, shooting steel balls around as usual... But these steel balls were obviously useless,

Because it hit all the armor of the tank, making a "clang clang" sound.

Soon, the tank crews fell in love with this kind of mine, because the sound made by the steel ball was very pleasant, and some even described it as "beautiful music".

Of course, not all tank crew members think this way. Some people associate it with the feeling of bullets and shells hitting the armor, and they become nervous instantly.

"Boom" another landmine was detonated.

This one should be a mine with a wooden shell. The sound when it exploded was relatively dull. After all, it was a wooden shell, and Soviet soldiers were very familiar with its sound.

It should have had a pile of splinters flying up, but this time it didn't because the chips were all crushed under the rollers.

These wood chips obviously can't cause any damage to the stone roller, maybe... when the explosive explodes, it will leave a small hole in the roller.

"Boom" was another explosion.

This time it should be a landmine dropped by the German army, and the explosion was relatively crisp and loud.

Of course, the roller still didn't move... The charge of the mine is very small, and its purpose is to injure the person who steps on it and not die.

The reason is simple, a wounded man is more trouble than a dead man on the battlefield.

At this time, the scouts who had been listless stood up one after another, and all of them stretched their necks to look this way.

Then, when they understood what was going on ahead, some were happy, some were surprised, and some were angry.

It's not difficult to understand the joy and surprise, but the anger is because... a problem that can be solved so easily, why did the reconnaissance team pay such a high price? !

Shulka can only say sorry to these people, and he just thought of this method just now.

Or... let's just pretend that we didn't think of anything and didn't know, and you continue to clear the mines?

Major Gavrilov danced happily, and shouted at Shulka, "Did you see, Shulka, it is very useful, we don't need to worry about those landmines anymore!"

"Major!" said Shulka, "we haven't hit any anti-tank mines yet!"

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud "boom", and a roller walking in the back row was blown up to a height of more than one meter, and then fell back heavily.

Anti-tank mines have a different charge than anti-personnel mines, and are designed to blow up tanks or cars.

Shuerka and others gathered around and saw that the roller had been blown out with a big gap in the mouth of the bowl, and cracks appeared one after another, and it was afraid that it would be broken into several pieces if it was rolled a few more times.

"This also shows that it is useful!" Major Gavrilov said: "Otherwise, it would be the tank that was blown over at this moment!"

As he spoke, Major Gavrilov waved back, and soon another modified tank followed.

"The Germans don't have such anti-tank mines!" Major Gavrilov said. "And, when we pass through the villages, we can replenish the rollers!"