USSR 1941

  Chapter 131 Minesweeper (third update)

   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 trunk 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 thirteen in total.

   "Comrade Major!" The staff officer said with a puzzled look on his face, "If you don't load it on the truck... how can it be transported?"

   Major Gavrilov shook his head involuntarily.

   Then they asked someone to move it down, and then ordered the engineers to fix the roller together with the tie rod to the front of the tank.

   Seeing 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 undoubtedly slowed down the progress of the entire army.

   "If you can stand up to half a Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said: "Then the Germans are nothing to worry about!"

   While speaking, Major Gavrilov ignored the embarrassing staff officer and directed the engineers to carry out the modification.

  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.

  Secondly, mechanized troops generally have engineers with basic maintenance tools. Their task is to make necessary repairs once the tank breaks down on the road.

  Modification is naturally done by these engineers, welding a few iron rods on the front of the tank, and then tying the pull rod of the roller to the iron rod is completed.

  The first batch of six vehicles was refitted. They were divided into two batches of three vehicles each. The first batch walked ahead and the second batch followed behind. A gap of rollers was left between the tanks and the entire road was filled.

   Followed by two modified vehicles ready for replacement.

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

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

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

   The reconnaissance troops are resting, and 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 a heavy responsibility, so they did not detect Enemy ambushes 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 far, these reconnaissance troops feel a little numb. Squads sit on the side of the road and look weakly at the tanks and cars passing in front of them. They don't even notice that the rollers are installed in front of those tanks.

  But they can’t be blamed for this, because the roller is really not so conspicuous when it 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 yet..."

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

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

   Then the good show came on stage:

   With a bang, a mine was detonated.

It was an "S" type jump mine, it was activated and the mine body jumped out and exploded, shooting steel **** in all directions as usual... but these steel **** 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 jumping, because the sound made by the steel **** 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 mine was detonated.

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

  It should have a pile of wood chips flying up, but it doesn't, because the wood chips are all crushed under the roller.

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

   "Boom" is another explosion.

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

   Of course, there is still no movement from the roller... The charge of the landmine is very small, and its purpose is to injure and not kill the person who steps on it.

  The reason is simple, a wounded man on the battlefield will be more troublesome than a dead man.

  At this time, the listless scouts 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 is not difficult to understand the joy and surprise, but the anger is because...the problem can be solved so easily, why should the reconnaissance troops pay such a high price? !

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

  How about... Let’s pretend that we didn’t think about anything and didn’t know, and you continue to clear mines?

  Major Gavrilov danced happily. He looked forward and shouted at Shulka: "See, Shulka, it is very useful, we don't need to worry about those landmines anymore!"

   "Major!" said Shulka, "We haven't touched an anti-tank mine yet!"

  Before he finished speaking, he heard 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 might break 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 so many anti-tank mines!" Major Gavrilov said: "And, when we pass the villages all the way, we can replenish the rollers!"