The War of Resistance: Chapter 18 Ironclad train under the stars

Shang Zhen had a dream, and in the dream he saw his mother.

The mother looked at him in the dream and said: "Live well, you will be a child without a mother in the future, and you want to call yourself a daughter-in-law!"

Shang Zhen thought of his mother's warm embrace when he was a child.

Subconsciously, he thought, is this mother saying goodbye to him and leaving?

So he cried, and when he cried he woke up.

It was already early October, and the night had cooled down. Subconsciously, he felt that his hand was empty, so he reached out to touch it. At this time, he touched his rifle, so he felt a sense of security.

Not knowing what the enemy and I were doing in the dark, whether he would go to the battlefield tomorrow, Shang Zhen thought wildly, and couldn't fall asleep for a while.

At this time, Jinzhou City was already pitch black.

Jinzhou is a name, but in fact its administrative specification is only a county, and it is also called Jin County.

Of course Jinzhou City has a city wall. At this time, the city wall is so high that it looks like a giant beast under the starry sky.

The puppet army Zhang Xuecheng's department was launching an attack on Jinzhou City. Since it was already night, there was no light in Jinzhou City.

But at this moment, there was the sound of horseshoes that was not in a hurry but dull and chaotic on the edge of Jinzhou City.

After a while, one horse after another appeared on both sides of the railway. The horses walked very slowly, and there was the sound of iron scraping and dragging behind them.

What was dragged behind by the horses was a behemoth that was 20 to 30 meters long and could be four to five meters high.

It was an armored train!

Jinzhou is the throat connecting North China and Northeast China, and is an important node of the Beining Railway. Of course, there is a railway.

And as the Northeast Army, which was once able to compete with the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, is rich and powerful, it also has armored trains.

The so-called armored train can be understood as an armored car that can run on the railway, which is used to patrol the railway to protect the safety of the railway.

There are not only heavy machine guns on the armored train, but also cannons on it.

No matter how small the caliber of the gun is, it is still a gun, and its power is not comparable to that of a heavy machine gun.

No one made light in the darkness, but there were whispers, and there were quite a few of them.

The horses strenuously moved forward, panting heavily, and pulled such a huge monster as the armored train. I don't know how many horses the Northeast Army used.

"It's such a pity for these war horses." Someone sighed in the darkness, it was an officer of the Cavalry Brigade of the Northeast Army.

The cavalry regards the horse as their partner, and they want to charge with them.

What war horses need is speed rather than load. Using war horses to drag armored trains is undoubtedly a kind of injury to war horses.

However, due to the situation, in order to keep it secret, the Northeast Army in the city did not use civilian mules and horses.

"It's good if there are old cows." Hearing the officer's sigh, the adjutant next to him sighed.

But it is useless to say these things, they have already thought out a strategy to kill the enemy, and they cannot requisition the mules and horses of the people, let alone requisition cattle.

In the darkness, under the starry sky, the war horse that could have galloped on the battlefield dragged the huge monster forward and finally left Jinzhou City.

But after going forward for a mile, although the horse was struggling to move forward, the armored train behind it was motionless.

It turned out that this was a gentle slope, no one knew how heavy the armored train was, and the horses would definitely not be able to drag it.

There was an order whispered in the darkness: "Use people to pull and people to push! Make sure to push the armored vehicle to the woods!"

So in the midst of the busy sound, the muffled sound of many people exerting their strength came from the darkness.

It's just that after many people stretched out their hands, the armored car stopped after traveling a certain distance, and they still couldn't drag it.

The officers discussed it, and after a while, someone came out of the crowd and ran to the north of Jinzhou City, ahead of which was the defense area of ​​Zhang Lianjie's battalion.

Half an hour later, Zhang Lianjie issued an order in a forest: "Greeting to each other, don't make too much noise, everyone get up and take action!"

The soldiers woke up with a start, and some of them just asked in a low voice what to do before being reprimanded by the officer.

"Little two," Li Fushun called out in a low voice.

Li Fushun fulfilled his duty as an elder brother duty-bound.

The last time Shang Zhen broke through the siege at Peking University, he was thrown at the back. If Shang Zhen hadn't stabbed two Japanese soldiers with a bayonet, he might really not be able to run back.

Although Li Fushun knew that he could not protect Shang Zhen forever, he would never forget what his mother told him when he came home last time.

"I'm here, third brother." To Li Fushun's surprise, Shang Zhen's voice whispered in his ear.

Only then did Li Fushun feel relieved, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com After a while, Zhang Lianjie's battalion set off under the starlight overhead, and they were heading in the direction of the railway line outside Jinzhou City.

Amidst the mingled sounds of running, Ma Erhuzi muttered in a low voice: "You don't know how to haha ​​when you get up in the middle of the night?"

"I didn't fall asleep. I heard that I was going to pull some armored cart." Shang Zhen, who was running with Ma Erhuzi, said in a low voice.

It's just that although the two of them spoke softly, there was another reprimand from the front: "Shut up!" It was Old Mao Wang's voice.

In the end, when Zhang Lianjie arrived at the armored train that could not move forward, everyone joined the dragging ranks.

This time the armored train moved.

An hour later, the armored train finally stopped on a section of road with trees on both sides.

By this time, there was already a panting sound in the darkness, and the panting sound included horses and people.

People are not allowed to speak, because they are very close to Zhang Xuecheng's puppet army in front.

Horses can't neigh either, just because all the horses' mouths are strangled by cloth ropes or something before they leave the city.

But although they were very tired, the soldiers of the Northeast Army in the darkness were excited.

The armored train is propelled by coal-fired steam power. It can move by itself but has to be pulled by horse-drawn people. Why? Anyone can guess as long as they are not stupid or naughty.

At this time, the officers were already discussing the next course of action in low voices.

Someone in the darkness said: "Battlemaster Zhang, since your team is the closest to one guest and won't bother the second master, then the task of attracting Zhang Xuecheng to attack is entrusted to you!"

Although what he said was very polite, it was actually an order, so Zhang Lianjie said "yes" respectfully.