Garsk.

Blazing artillery fire swept through the town, walls collapsed, and several wooden houses were burning.

The airborne troops huddled in a narrow skirmish hole that had been dug out of the situation, and the small debris that fell on the helmet rattled and screamed if it hit the helmet with a large brick.

Two kilometers away, the 16 three-inch field guns of the two companies of the Russian army were lined up, firing one after another, the sound of artillery rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the shells behind the gun emplacements were piled up layer after layer.

Behind the artillery positions were trains laden with ammunition, and the infantry who acted as porters shuttled back and forth, boxes of shells with covers on the gun emplacements, and in the blink of an eye only empty boxes remained.

While the shelling was underway, the Russian infantry, under the cover of woods and small mounds, pressed through from three directions.

The main direction of attack was east of Angarsk, and the first base forces were six infantry companies of the Koleno detachment, reinforced with the "Baikal" armored train, which was equipped with three-inch field guns mounted on 4 turrets and more than a dozen machine guns.

In addition, three companies of the 1st Reserve Battalion of the Irkutsk garrison attacked south of Angarsk as a diversionary aid.

If the direction of the main attack goes well, two companies of the Ursolye garrison, reinforced by the "Angar" armored train, will attack the iron bridge directly from the west of the Kitoy River, and coordinate with friendly forces to encircle and annihilate the Chinese troops in the town - this is the simple plan of the Russian commander, Colonel Koreno.

Several red flares were raised, and the sound of artillery stopped abruptly.

In the direction of the main attack, four Russian infantry companies lined up, followed by the armored "Baikal" armored train, and one company was deployed on the left and right of the train to cover the flanks.

I saw that the armored locomotive in the middle of the "Baikal" was spewing steam vigorously, dragging the four armored cars in the front and rear. Walk slowly along the railroad tracks.

The beginning and end of the train are equipped with a firepower enhancement car, each car is longitudinally staggered with two large flat turrets, each turret is equipped with a three-inch (76.2 m) field gun and special observation equipment, the front and rear of the locomotive are armored command cars and communication cars, and the four are armored troop carriers equipped with machine guns.

Finally, two flatbed wagons were temporarily hung at the rear of the armored train to carry rails, sleepers and some simple railway repair tools, so that the armored train would not have to worry about the damage to the rails and could not move an inch.

By this time, the two turrets in the front fire car of the train had turned towards the town drowning in smoke, and from time to time they fired several cannons in a deterrent manner. Cheer up the infantry around you.

The 3rd Squadron of the 9th Wing of the Chinese Army's Special Service Corps to the east of the town bore the brunt of the attack, and more than 60 fighters who were still fighting were not afraid in the face of the approaching thousands of enemy soldiers and a huge and ugly ironclad train. There is no need for squadron leader Xiao Ning to tell him, everyone naturally knows what they should do, and when to do it.

Five hundred meters, no one shot.

Four hundred meters. No one shouted.

Three hundred meters, no one moved.

200 meters...... The enemy's ground army was shouting loudly.

"Ulla!"

There is a slightly dense line of skirmishers that are not professional enough. More than 700 Russian soldiers from the first four companies rushed up, instantly covering the field of vision of the squadron leader Xiao Ning, he did not give an order, he was also waiting.

One hundred meters.

Fifty meters!

A gunshot rang out, and the non-commissioned officer carrying the military flag in the enemy formation fell first, and with another sound, the young officer who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and a bloody hole appeared in front of his forehead.

"Hit!"

Fifty or so submachine guns and four machine guns opened fire almost simultaneously, and the dense barrage instantly covered the swarming enemy troops, and the first few rows of enemies fell like wheat. The enemy in the back quickly fell to the ground, only to be blasted by the grenades that came from the hail and screamed.

Seeing this, the "Baikal" immediately accelerated toward the town, but stopped at a distance of seven or eight hundred meters from the position of the Third Squadron, where the subway road had already been damaged by the Chinese airborne troops, a short section about 10 meters long. The armored train could not pass for a while, but it did not affect the power of the artillery on the train, according to the signal instructions of the Russian infantry in front. The two forward turrets of the "Baikal" opened fire one after another, knocking the Chinese positions in front of them into a splash of bricks and dirt and filling the air with dust and smoke.

Submachine guns hit armored trains? Joke.

Machine gun? Sniper rifles? Unreliable, even if they wanted to shoot the sappers who got off the train to repair the railway, the accurate direct-aim artillery fire on the armored train had already driven the machine gun team and the sniper team into the foxhole - it was obvious that the firepower at hand of Shoning alone could not fight the "Baikal".

Seeing that the Russian infantry who had just been suppressed were already returning fire with the Mosinagan rifles in their hands, several Russian wheeled heavy machine guns were also erected behind them, and the dense rain of bullets made the airborne troops unable to raise their heads.

If this continues, sooner or later the enemy will rush up and engage in their specialty, and the Airborne Forces, which are generally armed with submachine guns, are at a theoretical disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat.

Xiao Ning did not despair, he knew that if he was not sure, the wing captain would not put his third squadron here casually.

The Special Service Wing is an elite unit among elite troops, and it is definitely not used to fight consumption and play "jade shattering"!

Even if you understand this, if the big guy in front of you doesn't get rid of it quickly, it will be a matter of time before the third squadron is completely wiped out.

Suddenly, Xiao Ning heard the familiar sonorous sound of tracks in his ears, and in a moment, two "Flying Wolf" light chariots more than one person high appeared on the left, and two "Jiehu" machine gun chariots less than one person high came out of the right, with choking exhaust fumes spraying from the tail, instantly running over the enemy infantry array, turning the turret and strafing in all directions while flying head-on towards the armored train in the distance.

The Baikal hurriedly shifted its fire against the Chinese tank, but its bulky turret did not seem to be suitable for striking the fast and low-profile Chinese tank, and its large and dragging body was well suited to the target.

The No. A "Flying Wolf" car of the tank squadron leader Wei Yuankun actually rushed to the "Baikal" 20 or 30 meters in one go, swept from the front to the rear of the car with a 37 rapid-fire gun, and then reversed gear, and swept back to the front of the car from the rear of the car.

Another "flying wolf" rushed head-on towards the bow of the "Baikal", but unfortunately the track was damaged by a near-miss bomb, and the crew still risked staying in the car, and continued to bombard the "Baikal" until it was covered by a dense barrage of Russian artillery fire from a farther distance......

The two "Jiehu" small chariots first suppressed the Russian infantry around the train with ordinary machine-gun shells, and then replaced them with tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets after driving the infantry away, and rushed to the "Baikal" to strafe back and forth until the entire bullet chain (250) was gone......

At about the same time, more than a dozen medium-caliber shells fired from the other side of the river fell into the Russian infantry array that had been overwhelmed by the tank, causing even greater chaos