Chapter 417 "This is not a war at all, it's a massacre!"

Twenty cabbages and potatoes made the soldiers in the Northeast War Zone really relieve their gluttonousness. The smell of meat for several months almost drove everyone crazy, so the cabbage and potatoes on the large plate were just served, and they were robbed.

When the soldiers wiped their mouths and hiccups, dozens of technicians brought by Tang Xiaohe began to be busy. The first thing to solve was the problem that the vehicle engine could not start in the cold.

At present, aluminum engines are all water-cooled. After the temperature drops rapidly in the severe winter, not only will the inside of the engine freeze, but also the condensing pipe will be frozen, and it cannot be preheated directly from the outside by fire, because the condensing pipe is very thin, unlike the newly designed tank, which is covered with a layer of steel plate in the engine and roasted by fire. No problem, so many soldiers burst after preheating with fire, resulting in unusable problems.

The equipment department was also a little at a loss about this situation. Later, it consulted the engine experts of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The experts did not have many ways. Finally, they only thought of the way to use hot water circulation, add a cover to the condensing tube, pour hot water into it to preheat the engine first, and wait until it starts to drain the water inside.

For this reason, Tang Xiao specially brought hundreds of sets this time. After unloading the goods, he organized the machine repairers to modify them under the leadership of several equipment technicians.

Just as everyone was busy modifying the car and trying to make these guys play a role in the decisive battle in the near future, Du Dazhuang and his Royal Guard Corps were also ready. With a whistle, they saluted Zhao Long and others who came to see them off, and quickly got into the front of the car.

In the sound of the crankshaft driving, the iron wheel slowly rolled up. On the several kilometers of long rails cleared in advance, there was no snow obstacle. After the two locomotives started at the same time, the train speed was very fast. Du Dazhuang drilled into the machine gun tower on the roof of the car and suddenly pulled the bolt.

On the thick gun rack, in a thick water-cooled sleeve, it is a 12.7mm heavy machine gun that has just been developed and tested on a small scale. It is different from the year number used. This machine gun has a name as soon as it comes out, Big Viper.

The Viper heavy machine gun was originally developed according to the requirements of the navy, because the navy used the 7.62mm machine gun as the last barrier against torpedoes and found that although the 7.62mm Maxim machine gun was fast, its power and range were insufficient.

In addition, the emperor proposed to develop a 12.7mm heavy machine gun five years ago, so the equipment department immediately merged the naval machine gun with the project proposed by the emperor, which led to this big poisonous snake.

The name of the big venomous snake comes from one of the designers, which is different from the possibility of survival when hit by 7.92mm bullets. If it is hit by these 12.7mm bullets that are thicker than fingers, there is almost no possibility of survival. When a bullet passes through the waist of the wooden dummy during the test, the dummy is torn directly. After becoming two pieces, the Austro-Hungarian designer immediately shouted, "A big poisonous snake, bullet is a poisonous tooth, and no one can be spared!"

No one can carry more than 50 kilograms of venomous snakes, including water-cooled sleeves, so it must rely on mobile platforms, but it is said that the design department has been considering canceling water-cooled sleeves to reduce weight.

Although there are still such small problems, after the trial, at least Du Dazhuang has fallen in love with this big guy, with a maximum range of 6,000 meters and an effective range of 1,800 meters. With a canvas belt to supply, it can shoot 400 bullets per minute. With the power of the bullet, it has far exceeded Mark Qin. Machine guns, and several Austro-Hungarian designers also installed a hydraulic buffer similar to a cannon in the box for the first time, which greatly reduces the recoil, otherwise a few shooters will be scrapped.

In order to ensure that it forcibly broke through from 200,000 troops, the equipment department not only spared its blood this time. It not only made an armed train, but also took out 30 large poisonous snakes ready to be delivered to the navy for testing. In addition, there were eight 37mm double-loaded rapid-fire cannons on each train, to And a large number of light machine guns of the Royal Guard Corps itself, which are armed to the teeth, are all light.

If there is not enough time to load the cannon into the train, it is estimated that the madmen in the equipment department will definitely turn the train into a mobile bunker!

As the train plunged into the snowdrift through several kilometers of pre-cleaned rails, a large number of hazy figures have appeared in the Angarsk fortress in the distance. Looking at the closer and closer fortress, Du Dazhuang licked his lips.

At the same time, the Angarsk fortress was already in chaos. Kuropatkin was originally worried about food. Now there are more than 250,000 people gathered in the fortress, which is more than five times the rated personnel. Food and cold protection materials have become the biggest problem.

More than 200,000 people gathered together. Wood and coal burning alone were like running water every day, so in the end, he had to order that the use of coal was not allowed during the day, and sent soldiers to cut down all the trees that could be cut down as firewood. But even so, there were still more than 10,000 people who did not survive the harsh winter in four months.

In addition to the coal and firewood that are urgently needed for wintering, the biggest headache for him is food!

Now he understands how serious it is to fully support Chita and Irkutsk without listening to Colonel Istomin's words, because a large amount of food and ammunition stored in both places has now become the enemy's prey.

What made him most resentful was that except for supporting 50,000 soldiers who didn't bring enough guns, the west didn't even bring a piece of food, and the damn middle [***] team also dared to come here a large number of ordinary people scattered around. In the end, he had to limit the amount of rations supplied every day, but this was not enough!

In the end, he had to go to the Cossack cavalry for help, because he was in favor of the tens of thousands of horses, but the horses were of the Cossack cavalry. How could he easily agree?!

Finally, under the pressure of reality, the proud Cossack cavalry had to bow their heads. After Kuropatkin promised to compensate them as long as they survived the winter, they reluctantly agreed to take out 10,000 horses and must give priority to the needs of the cavalry.

But by yesterday, 10,000 horses had been eaten up, and the army was facing food shortage again.

Kuropat King Kong, who was worried about a lot, was ready to take a walk. Suddenly, a train whistle made him suddenly happy, but the idea of "support is coming" was only halfway through, and he saw thick smoke rising in the east, and then the rumbling of gunfire.

"Boom."

A shell landed next to the railway, and the snowballs brought by the explosion swept across the protective steel plate. Du Dazhuang was so angry that he held the handle with both hands and twisted the muzzle of the gun, and aimed at the fire just now.

Dd D D D D D...

Dense bullets tore Angarsk's silence with a scream. As he opened fire, countless bullets spewed out of the train, especially the two 37mm rapid-fire guns installed in the front, which were simply spewing fire. As long as there was smoke and firelight in the distance, they would be swept over in the shortest time. .

The fierce sound of fire outside made the conductor wrapped in the thick armor plate more energetic. He kept stuffing coal into the boiler, and the surging steam kept pushing the locomotive to rush. Under the joint force of the two fronts, the snow shovel pushed away the snow, broke through the barbed wire, and was full of flames. He rushed into Angarsk.

"Ksars!"

As soon as the train entered Angarsk, the observer beside him suddenly shouted. He only saw thousands of Cossack cavalry chasing him. This scene made Du Dazhuang's eyes red, and when he aimed at it, it was a sweep.

The power of the big poisonous snake just now could not be seen, but this twist showed the indescribable destructive power of this new machine gun. After the dense bullets swept through the cavalry array like a rainstorm, it was not only the cavalry, but also a war horse that was swept to pieces.

The staggered heavy machine guns are like big poisonous snakes with poisonous teeth. As long as they are hit, their legs are either broken or cracked. Large areas of snow are dyed red in the blink of an eye.

When the train quickly crossed Angarsk Station, a scene that made everyone stunned appeared. On both sides of the railway line, it was almost full of tents, large and small, and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and ordinary people were coming out of it.

It turned out that when the bunkers and fortress were too crowded, because there was a low ridge in the north of here to block the wind, Kuropatkin finally arranged nearly 100,000 infantry and those people here, and it already belonged to the rear, so no one thought that the enemy would kill here.

"Fire, all fire!"

With Du Dazhuang's shouting, rifles and light machine guns all poked out of the reserved shooting holes, and even several bold soldiers opened the door and poked out the mortar barrel.

"Dah, Dah..."

"Boom..."

In the face of the central residential area of tens of thousands of people, the soldiers of the Forbidden Guard all turned red. These Russian soldiers who were exposed to the white snow and had obvious targets but almost no obstructions became the best targets, and could even hit them without aiming.

"Bullet!"

Du Dazhuang shouted, and the bullet was reloaded before the bullet belt in front of him was swallowed up, so that the big snake did not have to stop at all. The speed of at least 400 rounds per minute made it a real poisonous snake.

A bullet rushed out of the muzzle with a red flame. After roaring from a Russian soldier's stomach, it drilled through the neck of a soldier behind him with a bloody fog, and finally stopped on the chest of the third soldier.

This is the power of the Viper heavy machine gun. Perhaps in such a chaotic environment, no one can kill several people with one shot, but under the cross-sweep of nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns, not to mention people, even the steel will be swept to pieces.

Unprepared soldiers fell piece by piece under more intense fire than the rainstorm. When several Russian soldiers in the distance who were flexible and ready to drag out machine guns and cannons to deal with the train poked their heads out, they were swept to death by the tyrannical poisonous snake and 37mm double machine gun, and they couldn't even fight for the body!

"Our rifle can't penetrate the steel plate at all, and we can't even get close at all. It's like a fire-breathing dragon, rampaging over us!"

"This is not a war at all, it's a massacre!"

This is a sentence that Colonel Istomin recalled when he saw the armored train for the first time after the war. At that moment, he knew that Russia could never win.

Explosion, bullets roared over Angarsk, and the short whistle seemed to be a charge. According to the statistics after the incident, in just 30 minutes of the three trains, more than 10,000 Russian soldiers were killed by these fire-breathing steel monsters, and more than 10,000 people were injured. In the cold winter of lack of doctors and medicine, they were doomed to be I survived, and most of them were in the central residential area when crossing the railway station.

The interception turned into a collapse, and countless exposed infantry began to run backwards. When the last three trains broke through all the obstacles like a bull, the whole Angarsk seemed to have been washed by blood.

When the Russian soldiers foolishly watched the train getting farther and farther away, and looked at the corpses on the ground at a loss, countless fires were blown up again in the gap hit by these steel monsters, and the rumbling shelling once again plunged Angarsk into panic.

Zhao Long, who had long expected that three trains might catch the Russian army off guard, took this opportunity to decisively launch a fierce attack by two infantry divisions. Although it was eventually blocked by the Russian army, it still killed and injured at least nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers. It was not until the night that the snowstorm roared again. Bundled the attack

(to be continued)