Chapter 30: Boarding the train
"Can it hit? Oh, I'm sorry, Gerthard, I shouldn't have questioned your marksmanship! Bock stood up from the cliff and looked nervously at the speeding train below, "Damn, I never thought I'd skydive into a tightrope one day!" ”
The left end of this railway bridge connects to sparse mountain forests. The forest area faces the steep cliffs in the direction of the canyon, and under the railway bridge is the fast-flowing geyser river, which is tens of meters high to the railway bridge.
The right end of the railway bridge is also a cliff, but it is different from the woods on the left, and the cliff on this side is higher than on the left. Thus, the right side of the railway bridge is in fact connected to a railway passage through the belly of the mountain. Of course, the distance through the mountainside is not very long, only about 100 meters.
The cliff on the right is close to the cave, and it has been reinforced with cyan stones, and the entrance to the cave looks like a neatly cut snowflake. The cliff where Bock and Joey are hiding is at the right end of the railway bridge, more than a dozen meters higher than the hole reinforced by cyan strips, and is a small platform with a somewhat concave mountain wall.
Although the difference from here to the train carriage is less than 20 meters, it is already six or seven stories high. At this height, the roof of the carriage, which is less than three meters wide, is not as exaggerated as the steel wire in Bock's mouth, but it is about the balance beam in women's gymnastics.
Unlike ordinary trains, armored trains are slower than ordinary passenger cars due to their heavy external armor and gun carriages, but the defense of armored trains is outstanding.
In the case of the armored train raided by the "League of Gentlemen", it had only seven carriages in the middle, with two steam locomotives in front and rear, which could be driven in the opposite direction if necessary. Among the seven carriages is a twin 380 mm train gun, and one is equipped with two 24 mm twin high-level guns that can rotate 360 degrees.
The two cannons were semi-enclosed, two-man operated, with armored shutters front and rear, capable of withstanding scattered fighters and guerrilla raids.
There's a reason Skorzny put Bock and Gerthard in the lead, one is a special paratrooper and the other is the best marksman in the "League of Gentlemen".
Gerthard is responsible for dismantling the combat power of one of the cannons in the first place, and Monica, the "Sandstorm Queen", is responsible for the remaining one.
Captain Bock, on the other hand, had an even more onerous task, as a special paratrooper had to jump off a six-story cliff and land accurately in the first or second carriage of the military column. Then, taking advantage of the time when the military train entered the cave, he controlled the front of the train in the darkness and slowed down the speed of the train a little, so that the Skorzny and Hydra troops who were ambushed at the other end of the cave could climb onto the train.
"Hehe, what's the difficulty, you're a special paratrooper, and besides, don't you have the help of Lady Monica?" Joey tilted his head, put his right eye on the scope of the sniper rifle, and while teasing his companion, he muttered without much confidence, "Actually, you should be more worried about my marksmanship!" ”
Joey said to Grant that day that he would be able to do what Qin Lun would, but this was actually a lie. He was indeed able to change his temperament to play Qin Lun, because they were too familiar with each other. However, he couldn't use Qin Lun's unique ability, which was the battle model.
Joey is not just an "dissecter", he is also Qin Lun's "cleaner". All of Qin Lun's unaffordable feelings will be handed over to Joey to deal with. In the world of orphans' resentment, Qin Lun once felt "anger", "sadness", and "love...... But in the end, he gave it all to Joey!
Qin Lun spontaneously "cuts" himself, and whenever he feels unmanageable feelings, he asks Joey to hide and suppress them. Use Joey's brutality and gore to slowly digest and squeeze out these feelings, and finally achieve the goal of "cleansing".
Joey didn't appear spontaneously every time Qin Lun encountered danger, at least in the death hunting world, he didn't appear once. The reason is that Joey has not completely digested and eliminated the clutter that appears in "The Orphan's Resentment".
Because of this, Joey will never be able to be as indifferent and numb as Qin Lun, like the walking dead. In other words, it is absolute calmness, and the combat model is the product of self-hypnosis under this absolute calm, so Qin Lun can use the combat model, but Joey Foster, who is more capable of fighting, can't.
Without a combat model, Joey's marksmanship certainly can't be compared to that of Gerthard, a special sniper. Fortunately, Qin Lun's original Kar98k converted sniper rifle had been destroyed in the battle with Katrin, and the sniper rifle he was using now was a special gun for the Hydra Force.
As soon as he saw the sniper rifle used by the Hydra troops, Joey couldn't help but pout, because this thing was not a sniper rifle at all, but a powerful anti-materiel gun, commonly known as the PZB39 anti-tank gun.
The Hydra Force, formerly known as the Brandenburg Force, was more of a spies and spies, and there were not many special snipers. Since the shooting accuracy is not high, he has no choice but to pursue power, so that the assassination target cannot eat and walk around.
The caliber of the PZB39 anti-tank gun is only 7.92mm like the kar98k sniper rifle, but the tungsten core armor-piercing bullet used is extremely large, and the length of the guide zhì reaches 95mm, almost like a ballpoint pen, and the armor-piercing thickness reaches 20mm within 100 meters.
The gun was also specially modified by the German scientific research department, the rear of the gun was equipped with a quadruple optical sight, and the muzzle was equipped with a rifled silencer, which improved the accuracy of shooting and reduced noise.
Joey couldn't use Qin Lun's battle model, but his weapon mastery skills in this law body were still there. Although he could not shoot the gunner inside the base of the machine gun through the narrow firing port of the train gun, the armor baffle with a gun position of less than 10 mm was no different from a piece of tissue paper in front of this anti-tank gun.
"Bang!" The sound of the whistle before the military column entered the cave masked the noise of the anti-tank guns for a large extent. The first cannon on the roof of the third machine gun car of the train had a small bullet hole in the armor shutter at the front.
The bullet hole fragments were dented inward, and a slight trace of white smoke came out. Some of the breaches were dark red, and the tungsten bullets nearly ignited the steel shards of the breaches as they pierced the armor baffle.
The two Allied machine gunners inside the cannon lay motionless in place, their heads dangling from their machine guns in an abnormal position. The archer facing the cave had a poignant blood flower rippling across his chest, while his comrade behind him had a blood stain oozing from his back.
Joey's shot was like a gourd, one shot and two birds, killing the two shooters together. The tungsten bullet is extremely penetrating, and although the bullet hole caused in the human body is not large, the bullet with extremely high muzzle velocity instantly roasts the internal organs of the shooter, making them die almost at the same time as they experience the pain.
"Good marksmanship!" Lady Monica's sweet praise was faintly heard in the wind, and the Sandstorm Queen's closed heart seemed to open again after being rescued by Joey, and she had an unusual intimacy with this super sniper watch with a cold face and light gray pupils.
Compared with the Knight's Iron Cross, Gerthard's luck this time was to receive a lot of jealous eyes, if it weren't for the fact that Hercules' plan was at a critical juncture, and Baron Weidenbele, who admired Lady Monica the most, was unconscious, he would have received an invitation to a duel.
"Hey, I think I heard gunshots!" In another cannon not far away, an allied shooter said suspiciously.
"Maybe it's the rumors, or you can ask them!" His comrade-in-arms asked, somewhat uncertain.
"Okay!" The gunner hesitated to take the pager from his companion's hand, but the two of them didn't notice that the air in the cannon room seemed to be much more turbid, as if it had been mixed with a lot of wind and sand.
"Hey...... Oh! As soon as the gunner greeted the pager, he felt his neck tighten, as if a pair of large hands were tightly grasping his throat.
The gunner let go of the pager and scratched at his neck in vain with both hands, and his final struggles were fruitless except for some scattered mud and sand. The comrades on the other side were not much more relaxed, and the last sight in the gunner's eyes, apart from the purple swollen face of his companion and the bloodshot eyeballs that protruded from his eye sockets, was a piece of dust wrapped around his companion's neck like a whip.
"Well, it's my turn, God forbid!" Bock made a cross on his chest with a bitter face, and secretly cursed, "When I return to the army, I must add the 'balance beam' parachute jump to the training manual of those bunnies!" ”
Under the playful gaze of the sniper beside him, Captain Bock jumped off the cliff in resignation, spread his arms as steadily as he could, and pounced like a big bird on the speeding locomotive.
Unfortunately, without the extreme accuracy of the combat model, Captain Bock almost calculated the landing point, but the strong winds in the canyon still blew him slightly off the locomotive's foothold.
"The Iron Cross is gone!" Bock looked at the carriage just a meter away, and a frustrated thought flashed through his heart.
His defeat had not yet led to the end of the operation, after all, the most critical cannon post of the military column had been solved, but the speed of the train had not slowed down, and it would be much more difficult for Skorzny and them to get on the train. Of course, this manifestation of his actions naturally could not win him the Iron Cross.
Just as Captain Bock was feeling sorry for himself, there was a sudden push behind him. The Sandstorm Queen is worthy of being the most powerful superpower in the "League of Gentlemen", and while solving a machine gun position, she still has the spare energy to observe the entire battlefield, and at the most critical moment, she helped Bock.
Captain Bock's eyes lit up, and the thrust that Lady Monica gave him was not enough to push him straight into the carriage. But for him, it was enough. The paratrooper captain stretched out his ape arm, grabbed the steel bar guardrail on the top of the carriage with his five fingers like steel tongs, and turned on the roof of the car with a twist of his waist and abdomen.
He was now at the front of the second carriage, looking at the locomotive that was close in front of him, the paratrooper captain ran two steps at the top of the carriage, and at the moment when the military train entered the cave, he jumped to the locomotive, grabbed the window on the right side with both hands, turned around and threw himself into the front of the car.
"Good morning, gentlemen!" Looking at the two stunned conductors, Bock smiled, revealing a mouthful of snow-white steel teeth.
"Something's wrong!" At the same time, in the fourth carriage, a tall man with a cowboy hat on his face, slumped on the sofa and sleeping soundly, exuding the smell of alcohol all over his body, stood up, looked ahead with a solemn face, and his blazing eyes seemed to reach the front of the car through the door of the carriage.