Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 517 Light Armored Train

Chairman Liu handed the wire to the battalion commander with sweat all over his forehead.

"Boss, I've finished this job, do you want to give me a red dot?"

"Of course, but you can't leave now. Stay here. When the battle is over, we will give you a big red flower and send you back!"

When President Liu heard this, he stamped his feet in anxiety. This is not a big red flower at all, it is a death warrant!

If the Japanese saw his big red flower, wouldn't they skin him alive?

"Boss, don't joke with me. I want to run errands for you for a few more years!"

"Haha, I'm just kidding. Wait in the back!"

After the battalion commander finished speaking, he had Chairman Liu taken away, and then he picked up the walkie-talkie beside him:

"Report to the regiment commander, the bombs have been deployed and are waiting for orders. They can be detonated at any time!"

"very good!"

Wang Meng and Peng Liang continued to guard the railway and found that the puppet troops were actually moving away from the tracks.

"These puppet soldiers are quite sensible. They are afraid of being blown up by our bombs!"

However, the bombs used to blow up the railway were not very powerful. After all, they were not simply trying to destroy the Japanese railway, but were also targeting the supplies on the Japanese military trains.

If the bomb is too powerful and directly destroys or burns all the fun stuff on the military train, it would be a loss-making deal.

An hour later, two trains passed by one after another, and suddenly the Japanese soldiers beside the railway blew a shrill whistle.

The puppet soldiers changed their disorganized attitude and stood in neat rows beside the railway, but they were still far away from the area where the bombs were placed.

"Chief of Staff, it looks like the Japanese military train is about to come out!"

"Tell the comrades to stay alert. Once the military train is confirmed, blow up the railway, load up the supplies and run!"

"Yes!"

Ten minutes later, the sound of a train was heard.

Under the faint moonlight, the locomotive in the distance looked like a giant caterpillar, slowly approaching with thick black smoke.

Wang Meng and Peng Liang picked up their binoculars at the same time and stared at the locomotive.

"Chief of Staff, it shouldn't be this military train, right? Since the Japanese are making such a big show and have even arranged soldiers to stand guard on the roadside, they must not be afraid of being exposed. Why don't they arrange armored vehicles?"

"Yes, it's strange! The Japanese have 20 railway regiments in China, especially in Zaozhuang, where they have stationed one directly. Logically speaking, there must be no problem of insufficient troops and difficulty in mobilizing them!

Let's see, maybe this is just a simple train that happened to pass by our ambush position at this time! Tell the battalion commander not to act rashly!"

After Wang Meng finished speaking, he carefully observed the oncoming train.

This is a train with more than 20 carriages. The first three are passenger cars, and the last 17 or 18 are sealed cars. It is hard to tell what they are.

The train is not going very fast, about 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.

Wang Meng observed the car from the front to the rear, from the car compartment to the bottom, and suddenly saw something interesting and burst out laughing!

"Chief of Staff, what are you laughing at?"

Wang Meng waved his hand, signaling Peng Liang not to worry about it.

"It's okay, it's okay. I just suddenly thought of something interesting. Keep observing the enemy!"

Peng Liang looked at Wang Meng with a puzzled look on his face, and continued to lie on the ground looking north.

In less than ten minutes, the sound of a train was heard again from the north, but this time it was not a Japanese train, but an armored vehicle!

"Chief of Staff, look, the highlight is coming!"

Wang Meng was delighted when he saw it. Sure enough, the Japanese armored vehicles had arrived.

"Let the soldiers prepare and act according to orders! Commander Peng, you have experience in attacking the enemy's trains. You will be in charge of the next operation. I will just be a spectator!"

"Yes!"

In the eyes of the Chinese, the armored vehicles running on the rails are actually called armored trains, which are the most important equipment of the Japanese Railway Corps.

The railway corps' troops in Shandong Province mainly deployed light armored trains and heavy armored trains.

The light armored train was born in 1938. The reason for developing the light armored train was that the Japanese army stationed in North China returned the armored trains that they had borrowed from the Kwantung Army, and then developed it on its own in order to maintain the safety of the railways in the occupied areas.

It was originally called a temporary armored train and later renamed a light armored train.

The standard light armored train developed by the Japanese had 9 carriages, from front to back: the guard vehicle (A), infantry vehicle (A), command vehicle, artillery vehicle, locomotive, coal and water vehicle, dining car, infantry vehicle (B) and guard vehicle (B).

The main function of the patrol car is to illuminate the railway and the surrounding situation. It is equipped with a 60 cm large searchlight! It is also equipped with two Type 7.7 mm heavy machine guns.

The infantry vehicle is equipped with two Type 13 6.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns and four Type mm heavy machine guns.

The command vehicle was equipped with two Type 6.5 mm heavy machine guns.

The gun carriage was equipped with two Type 75 6.5mm cannons and four Type mm heavy machine guns.

The locomotive is relatively simple, equipped with a power unit, a steam engine.

The locomotive can ensure that the light armored train can reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, without the need to add water or coal within a range of 150 kilometers.

All carriages are connected by telephone, and all weapons can fire independently or collectively through the command of the command vehicle. The overall structure is similar to that of a warship.

In addition, the light armored train is also equipped with radio equipment with a communication range of 500 kilometers, as well as multiple portable radio equipment to ensure smooth communication.

This thing is actually a bit similar to the T-35 tank of Country E. It looks big, but its armor protection is not strong. The armor thickness of the vehicle is 10 mm, and the other less important positions are 6 mm.

Although the armor is not thick, such a big guy makes a terrifying sound when moving, and with its all-directional firepower, it has always been the little bully on the Jinpu Road.

Peng Liang thought for a moment and prepared to wait for the Japanese light armored train to pass and then blow up the Japanese military train to prevent it from going back.

"Chief of Staff, the Japanese have two armored vehicles sandwiching the military train. It looks like there are really good things there. There's no way they can escape!"

"Well, with such a big fuss, there must be something wrong! Will there be any problem if one battalion can take it down?"

"It's okay. In the past, when we didn't have the right equipment, we could only stay away from these armored vehicles. But now we are different from the past. Isn't it easy to defeat their two armored vehicles?"

"Okay, you figure it out!"

The two men stopped talking, and Peng Liang held the walkie-talkie in one hand and the telescope in the other, watching the front of the Japanese army's train gradually approaching the place where the bomb was buried.

"Ready! Explode!"

With a loud bang, a medium-sized explosion appeared on the railway. The front of the Japanese army train tilted to the side and slid off the track, taking the first two carriages with it, while the other carriages were still parked on the track safely.