Twenty wagons of cabbage and potatoes really made the generals of the Northeast Theater solve their slander, and the smell of meat for several months made everyone crazy, so when the cabbage and potatoes on the large plate were served, they were snatched up. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

When the soldiers wiped their mouths and burped, the dozens of technicians brought by Tang Xiaohe began to get busy, and the first thing to solve was the problem that the vehicle engine could not be started at Yan's house.

At present, the aluminum engine is water-cooled, and after the temperature drops rapidly in the severe winter, not only the inside of the engine will freeze, but also the condensate pipe will be frozen, and it cannot be preheated directly from the outside with fire, because the condensate pipe is very thin, unlike the tank just designed, the engine is covered with a layer of steel plate, and it is no problem to take the fire to roast, so there are many soldiers who take the fire to preheat but burst and cause the problem of being unusable.

The equipment department was also a little at a loss for this situation, and later consulted the engine experts of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the experts did not have much to do, and then they only thought of the method of circulating hot water, adding a sleeve to the condenser pipe, pouring hot water into it to preheat the engine first, and then draining the water inside after starting.

For this reason, Tang Xiao specially brought hundreds of sets this time, and after unloading the goods, he organized the mechanics to be modified under the leadership of several technicians from the equipment department.

Just when 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 guards were also ready, and with a whistle, they saluted Zhao Long and the others who came to see them off, and quickly got into the front of the car.

Click, click crankshaft drive, the iron wheel slowly rolled up, on the pre-cleared kilometers of railroad tracks, there was no snow obstacle, the train speed was very high after the two locomotives started at the same time, Du Dazhuang got into the machine gun tower on the roof of the car and pulled the bolt suddenly.

On the thick gun carriage, inside an arm-thick water-cooled sleeve, is a meter-heavy machine gun that has just been developed for small-scale equipment testing, and it is different from the year number, this machine gun has a name big viper just after it comes out.

The big Viper heavy machine gun was originally developed according to the requirements of the navy, because the navy was using the millimeter machine gun as a barrier against torpedoes, and it was found that although the millimeter Maxim machine gun was fast, its power and range were insufficient.

In addition, the emperor proposed to develop a meter-heavy machine gun five years ago, so the armament department immediately merged the naval machine gun with the project proposed by the emperor, and there was this big poisonous snake.

The name of the big viper, from one of the designers and was hit by a 792 mm bullet and may survive the difference, if by these rice bullets thicker than a finger, there is almost no chance of survival, when the test of a bullet through the waist of the wooden dummy, the dummy directly tore into two, the Austro-Hungarian designer immediately shouted the sentence "A big viper, the bullet is fangs, no one is immune!" ”

The 50-kilogram viper, including the water-cooled sleeve, is something that no one can carry, so it has to rely on a mobile platform, but it is said that the design department is already considering eliminating the water-cooled sleeve to reduce its weight. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Although there are such and such small problems, but after the trial, at least Du Dazhuang has liked this big guy, the large range of 6000 meters, the effective range of 1800 meters, the use of canvas cartridge belt feed, can shoot 400 rounds per minute plus the power of the bullet, has far exceeded the Maxim machine gun, and several Austro-Hungarian designers also installed a hydraulic buffer similar to a cannon in the magazine for the first time, which greatly reduces the recoil, otherwise the shooter will be scrapped.

In order to ensure that the army of 200,000 people could force its way through, the armament department spared no expense this time, not only making armed trains, but also taking out 30 large poisonous snakes that were ready to be delivered to the navy for testing, plus there were eight 37-mm twin-mounted rapid-fire machine guns on each train and the Royal Janissary's own Dajiang light machine guns.

If it weren't for the lack of time to load the cannon into the train, it is estimated that the crazy man in the equipment department would definitely turn the train into a mobile bunker!

As the train plunged into the snowdrift through several kilometers of pre-cleared tracks, a large number of hazy figures had appeared in the Angarsk fortress in the distance, looking at the fortress that was getting closer and closer, Du Dazhuang licked his lips.

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

More than 200,000 people gathered together, and the wood and coal alone were like flowing water every day, so he had to order that coal should not be used during the day, and also sent soldiers to cut down all the trees that could be cut down around it 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 he urgently needed for wintering, it was food that gave him a headache!

Now he understood the consequences of not listening to Colonel Istomin's words and fully supporting Chita and Irkutsk, since the vast amount of food and ammunition stored in the two places was now prey for the enemy.

What made him resentful was that in addition to supporting 50,000 soldiers who didn't even bring enough guns, the west didn't even bring a single piece of food, and the damn squadron dared to come here with a large number of ordinary people scattered around, and then he had to limit the number of daily rations, but this was not enough!

After that, he had to go to the Cossack cavalry for help, because he took a fancy to those tens of thousands of war horses, but war horses were the lifeblood of the Cossack cavalry, how could he easily agree?!

Later, under the pressure of reality, the proud Cossack cavalry also had to bow their heads, and after Kuropatkin promised to compensate them as long as they survived the winter, he reluctantly agreed to take out 10,000 horses, and the cavalry needs must be supplied with good supplies.

But yesterday, 10,000 horses had also been eaten, and the troops were once again facing a lack of food.

Kuropat, who was worried about a lot, was about to take a walk, when suddenly the sound of a train whistle made him suddenly happy, but halfway through the thought of "help is coming", he saw billowing smoke rising in the east, and then the rumbling of cannons.

"Boom."

A shell landed next to the railway, and the snow ball brought up by the explosion swept across the protective steel plate and popped, Du Da was so angry that he grabbed the handle with both hands and twisted the muzzle of the gun, aiming it at the fire point just now.

Da da da .......

Dense bullets with a scream tore through the silence of Angarsk, and as he opened fire, countless bullets from the train all ~ text ωo. The internal spray, especially the two rapid-fire guns installed in front, is simply breathing fire, as long as there is smoke and fire in the distance, it will cover and sweep through the past in a short time.

The fierce firing outside "made the conductor wrapped in thick armor plates angry, constantly stuffing coal into the boiler, the surging steam constantly propelled the locomotive to rush, and the snow shovel, under the combined force of the two locomotives, pushed away the snow, broke through the barbed wire, and rushed into Angarsk with a full body of flames."

"Cavalry!"

As soon as the train entered Angarsk, the observer next to him suddenly shouted, "I saw thousands of Cossack cavalry chasing after me, this scene made Du Dazhuang's eyes red, and it was a sweep."

The power of the big poisonous snake may not be seen in the first hit, but this twist shows the indescribable destructive power of this type of machine gun, and after the dense bullets swept through the cavalry formation like a torrential rain, it was not only the cavalry who were unlucky, but even the horses were swept to pieces. The staggered distribution of heavy machine guns is like a big poisonous snake with fangs on its back, "as long as it is hit, it will either break its leg or crack its body, and a large area of snow will stain the snow red in the blink of an eye."

As the train sped past the Angarsk station, everyone was amazed by the sight of tents of all sizes stretched along both sides of the railway line, and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and ordinary people were emerging from them.

It turned out that when the inside of the pillboxes and fortresses was too crowded, "because there was a low ridge to the north of this place to block the wind, nearly 100,000 infantry and those civilians were arranged here after Kuropatkin, and this place was already in the rear, so no one thought that the enemy would kill here."

"Sharp, all fire!"

With Du Dazhuang's shouting, rifles and light machine guns all poked out of the reserved shooting holes, and "there were even a few brave soldiers who opened the door of the car and opened a big seal" and poked out the mortar barrel.

"Da da da......."

"Boom......."

Faced with the central residential area of tens of thousands of people, the eyes of the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Regiment were all red: "These Russian soldiers who were exposed to the white snow, with obvious targets but almost no obstacles, became good targets, and they could be hit without even aiming."

"Bounce!"

Du Daqiang shouted, and the bullet maker reloaded the bullet before the cartridge belt in front of it was swallowed, which made the big poisonous snake not have to stop at all, and the speed of at least four hundred rounds per minute made it a real poisonous snake.

A bullet burst out of the muzzle with a red flame, screaming through the belly of a Russian soldier, and then penetrating the neck of one of the soldiers behind it with a mist of blood, and then stopping in the chest of a third.

This is the power of the big Viper heavy machine gun, maybe in such a chaotic environment, no one can see clearly how many can be killed with one shot, but under the cross-fire of nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns, let alone people, even steel will be swept to pieces.

The unprepared soldiers fell in pieces under the fire that was denser than the torrential rain, and when a few Russian soldiers in the distance, who were nimble enough to drag out machine guns and cannons to deal with the train, just poked their heads out, they were swept to death by tyrannical vipers and 37mm twin machine guns, and they couldn't even put together their corpses!

"Our rifle can't penetrate the steel plates, we can't even get close, it's like a fire-breathing earth dragon, running over us on a rampage!"

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

These were the words of Colonel Istomin after the war, when he recalled the first sight of an armored train, and at that moment he knew that there was no possibility of victory for Russia.

Explosions, bombs whistling over Angarsk, short whistles as if they were the Charge, according to later statistics, in just 30 minutes of the passage of the three trains, more than 10,000 Russian soldiers were killed by these fire-breathing steel monsters, and more than 10,000 were injured, in the cold winter of lack of medical care, they were destined to not survive, and most of them were in the central residential area through which they passed over the railway station.

The interception turned into a rout, and countless exposed infantry began to run backwards, and when the last three trains broke through all the obstacles like brute bulls, the whole of Angarsk seemed to be washed with blood.

When the Russian soldiers stupidly watched the train getting farther and farther away, looking at the corpses all over the ground and not knowing what to do, countless fire balls exploded again in the gap that was knocked open by these steel monsters, and the rumbling shelling once again made Angarsk fall into a panic.

Zhao Long, who had already expected that the three trains might catch the Russian army off guard, took advantage of this opportunity and decisively invested two infantry divisions to launch a fierce attack, although it was finally blocked back by the Russian army frantically, but it still caused at least nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers to be killed and wounded, until the blizzard roared again at night and ended the attack.