The armored train was running on the railway, and the direct-fire cannons and heavy machine guns on it were shooting at the puppet troops.
The advantages of armored trains are beyond the reach of the puppet army.
In order to get this armored train out, the Northeast Army defending the city removed a combat unit, which was a carriage, last night. Now there are only two direct-fire cannons and two heavy machine guns on it.
But even so, the firepower of the armored train was not something the puppet army could withstand.
Most of the heavy machine guns used in the Northeast region are Maxim heavy machine guns.
When the Maxim heavy machine gun first appeared, it was a human flesh harvester, and it is still the same now.
But this is only one reason. Secondly, the armor on the armored train is much heavier than the Japanese Type 94 tank.
The sudden appearance of the armored train caught the puppet army off guard. Even if they wanted to blow up the armored train, cluster grenades could not blow it up.
Third, armored trains move fast.
The Liaoxi Corridor is only this wide, and the puppet troops going up it would come from a place where they could see the railway line.
Now it is impossible for them to retreat along the railway line because the armored trains can attack within a thousand meters on both sides of the railway line.
The railway line runs from southwest to northeast. In order to avoid the powerful firepower of the armored train, the puppet army could only retreat to the northwest.
But at this moment, the sound of horse hooves like muffled thunder arose, and a cavalry regiment of the Northeast Army appeared.
The cavalry regiment quickly penetrated, stirring up endless smoke and dust but cutting off the puppet army's escape route to the west.
In terms of marching speed, neither the armored train nor the cavalry regiment could match the puppet army. For a while, thousands of puppet troops were blocked in a vast area by the Northeast Army!
This was a big battle, and Shang Zhen, as a new recruit, happened to catch up with it.
Shang Zhen, the pursuer, followed his companions into the woods where they had originally blocked the puppet army, and then the rifle in his hand began to fire "bang", "bang", and "bang".
Part of the puppet troops had been intercepted by the Northeast Army's cavalry and armored trains. They were just two or three hundred meters in front of Shang Zhen. The Northeast Army had completely established its advantage, and its officers and soldiers naturally kept shooting at those puppet troops.
Without having to look for the puppet army as his target, Shang Zhen kept pulling the bolt to eject the shells, reloaded the bullets, aimed again, and fired calmly.
During this process, he himself didn't remember how many shots he fired.
It is said that shooters are made with bullets, but I wonder if there will be soldiers like Shang Zhen who shoot live ammunition at the enemy targets not long after joining the army.
Shang Zhen didn't have to think about whether he had enough bullets. He brought hundreds of bullets with him. At the same time, his companions who had been killed in the woods by the heavy machine guns on the Japanese armored vehicles all had bullets.
Shang Zhen kept shooting like this. His right shoulder, which was resting on the butt of the gun, had become swollen. Every time he pulled the trigger, his shoulder would feel pain.
But when he looked at the bodies around him that were torn to pieces by the Japanese heavy machine guns, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
When the company commander Hu Biao shouted "Charge", Shang Zhen struggled to get up from the ground, and he staggered forward with his companions.
What if I encounter a wounded enemy? Should I shoot or not? Shang Zhen thought as he rushed forward.
Perhaps this kind of thing is not a big deal for veterans, but for a new recruit like him, it still makes him feel troubled.
But just as he was charging with the crowd, an accident happened again. They heard the roar of an airplane coming from the distance again.
The Northeast Army originally had airplanes, but the extremely cowardly September 18th Incident caused the Northeast Army to completely lose its airplanes.
As soon as he saw the two black spots flying in the distance, Company Commander Hu Biao immediately ordered to stop the pursuit.
No one was not afraid of the Japanese planes. They could blow up the Japanese thin-skinned tanks, but they had no way to deal with the Japanese planes.
Now it depends on Hu Biao to make the decision.
The people from the two companies had already rushed forward, but Hu Biao looked at the soldiers in front and behind him. He only had more than 40 people left, and the rest were either dead or injured.
Everyone looked at Hu Biao, whose face was changing from gloomy to sad. Finally, Hu Biao waved his hand and led them all to run towards the woods they had just rushed out of.
Shang Zhen thought that perhaps the company commander wanted to leave some seeds for their second company.
When their entire company retreated to the woods, the Japanese planes were already approaching.
But unexpectedly, the Japanese planes were not waiting for them.
At this moment, Wang Laomao suddenly shouted, "Oh no! The Japanese planes are here to bomb our armored vehicles!"
Isn’t it? This is when all of them saw that in the distance, the armored train of their Northeast Army was running back with a "cry and eat" sound.
Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and shrimps eat mud.
All things are interdependent and mutually exclusive. The armored trains that made great contributions in this war were also afraid of Japanese planes.
Of course there were heavy machine guns on the armored train, but they were only heavy machine guns, not anti-aircraft machine guns, and with their rotation angles, they could only face the ground, and it was impossible for them to shoot at the sky.
"Oh, the plane is coming down!" a soldier shouted.
They saw the two Japanese planes dive towards the armored train one after another.
No matter how fast the armored train ran, it could not be faster than the plane. Then, amid the roar of the plane, they heard the sound of Japanese machine guns firing.
Those were the machine guns on the Japanese planes. At the same time, they saw sparks flashing on the armored train from a distance.
At this point, the armored train could only take the beating and had no power to fight back, because the heavy machine gun it was equipped with had no angle to shoot into the air.
In an instant, the two diving Japanese planes rose up after reaching the lowest point, while the armored train below was still running on the railway track.
"Haha, it's okay!" All of Hu Biao and the others who were watching the game burst into laughter at that moment.
They also didn't know how thick the armor of the armored train, that is, the iron plate, was, but there was no doubt that it was definitely thicker than the iron plate of the Japanese tanks.
Nowadays, there are no machine guns installed on airplanes. Some of them are only equipped with heavy machine guns, and the use of heavy machine guns is actually no different from that on the ground. A shooter is also required to control the handle at the back to shoot.
The bullets from the heavy machine guns really could not penetrate the armor of the Northeast Army's armored train.
Seeing that the Japanese planes were unable to do anything to the armored train, everyone was naturally happy.
But then they started to worry again.
Because they saw the two Japanese planes circle in the sky and fly back, then dive towards the armored train.
But this time the plane did not fire with heavy machine guns, but just kept diving.
"The Japanese are not going to use planes to hit tanks, right?" Zhu Kaishan, who never thought of things in a tactful way, said.
But before he could finish his words, he saw a small black dot falling from the belly of the Japanese plane. It was the aerial bomb carried by the Japanese plane.
Everyone's heart was in tatters again, but their worries were really in vain.
Just imagine, if an airplane in the sky bombs a fixed target on the ground, there will still be errors, let alone bombing an armored train that is also moving at high speed.
There was a loud explosion, and the bomb dropped by the Japanese plane finally landed on the roadbed behind the armored vehicle.
Then there was another cloud of smoke and dust, and during the explosion, no one knew how many pieces of rubble on the roadbed were collapsed.
Only at this point did Hu Biao and the others who were watching the battle understand what it meant to escape danger.
The Japanese planes only had heavy machine guns, which could not penetrate the armored trains, and their bombs could not hit them. They probably just blew up the roadbed and made a hole in it.
In the end, the two Japanese planes had to turn around and fly away after dropping several aerial bombs. It seemed that they were heading towards the cavalry of the Northeast Army.
Regardless of the cavalry, at least the armored train was fine. All the members of the Second Company, including Hu Biao, cheered. But before the cheers died down, Wang Laomao said, "I think the railway was damaged. I'm afraid the armored train can't get back!"