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Chapter 299 Slingshot Throwing
On the Meiling section of the Nanxun Railway, the fighting beside the train has stopped.

The gunshots came from the front and rear of the train, and a row of soldiers on each side with guns and the devil's armored train fired at each other across a section of broken railway.

The bullets fired by the devils were blocked by the train body and boulders, and the bullets fired by the national army officers and soldiers could only make a "jingling" sound on the armor of the armored train, and the distance between each other was less than 50 meters.

Although the gunshots were a bit lively, neither the soldiers of the national army behind the boulder on the train, nor the devils in the armored train opposite and hiding behind firing guns, did not say that they would charge for a while.

For the officers and soldiers of the first battalion, although if there is a group of people, such as a row of more than 30 people, who jointly charge towards a devil armored train more than 50 meters away from the locomotive, after paying the sacrifice of nearly all members, there is a high probability that there will be several people They were able to successfully approach the Devils armored train, and then use explosives to blow up the wheels, but the platoon and company commanders of the first battalion did not intend to sacrifice so fearlessly.

For the [-]rd Regiment led by Li Chong, when carrying out containment tasks in the hinterland of the devils, the lives of dozens of officers and soldiers and the two armored trains of the devils running on the rails were never a multiple-choice question, of course the lives of the soldiers important.

If it is in a life-and-death battle, there is nothing to say, no matter how many soldiers' lives are spared, these armored trains will be blown up.But now it's not that if the two armored trains are not bombed, the officers and soldiers of the [-] regiment will not be able to survive.

Whether it is "people-oriented" or "result-oriented" in the course of the battle, Li Chong proposed to the subordinate battalion and company commanders whether it is worthwhile or not.

If you pay the price of dozens of people, such as two platoons or even a company, in exchange for blowing up two armored trains of devils that can change a certain local battlefield, it is completely worth it.

But at the moment, the existence of the armored train can no longer change the victory of the soldiers of the national army in this battle. Its existence can only be used as a bluff by firing cannons, so there is no need to pay more to blow it up. The lives of many soldiers.

As the [-]rd Regiment ordered to contain the devils in Meiling, the temporary victory is just a condiment during the entire containment mission, and it can become a thorn in the heart of the devils in the counties around Meiling for a long time, so that this place will not become a devil It is the main responsibility of the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment to create a comfortable paradise.

Moreover, during the group meeting of the regiment headquarters, Li Chong always emphasized to the commanding cadres of the battalions, companies and platoons under his command: If the military targets of the devils are attacked, if the existing weapons of the regiment headquarters can do it, then the soldiers should not be killed. Therefore, the officers and soldiers did not charge at this moment.

This is also one of the reasons why the officers and soldiers of the [-]rd Regiment respect Li Chong, the young regiment commander. A regiment commander who knows how to cherish the lives of his soldiers is rare in this world where life is as humble as a dog.

However, although our own mortars stopped firing shells against the armored train due to the large number of shells, the six explosive package throwing points on the hillside began to operate.Originally, the throwing points of these six explosive packages were prepared in advance to bomb the devils during the charge, but the charge went smoothly beyond expectations. Most of the devils on the train were killed or injured when the train overturned, and there was no organized counterattack at all. The prepared explosive pack is useless.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers of the blasting team wanted to use these prepared explosive packages to try to deal with the devil's armored train.

As far as the effect is concerned, it is certain that no one can drill the meat bomb under the armored train to reveal that it is effective, but try throwing it in the air. These things, especially the powerful tendon slingshot, took time and effort to prepare. The members of the blasting team wanted to use them well. For this thing, I have specially trained for more than 40 hours, and my arms are stretched like lead, so I can't just try nothing.

Just do it, right under Li Chong's eyes, the blasting team first ran to the hillside some distance in front of the locomotive, lifted off the covered straw woven covering, and a powerful tendon slingshot pre-set here was revealed. come out.

This is based on a medium-sized tree. All the branches are cut off, leaving only the "Y" shape formed by the middle trunk. A wrist-thick hole is drilled on the fork. Iron sheets are inlaid around the hole, and an adult thumb is wrapped around it. Thick and thin beef tendon elastic rope, the middle end of the elastic rope is made of cowhide, and the surrounding bamboo basket is used as a drag.

The place where the left and right edges of the cowhide bottom meet the tendons is tied with a thumb-thick double-strand hemp rope, which is where soldiers can pull the elastic rope.

At this moment, it was at a 45-degree posture on the hillside, and more than half of the tree trunk at the lower end of the slingshot was stuck in the mountain.

Li Chong stopped and raised his gun to shoot, watching with great interest the soldiers in the blasting team playing with traditional and even childlike things. It's like seeing three giant round boulders dug out by hand.

It's just that the expressions are not obvious, even if there are a hundred shocks in the heart, the face is calm and calm, the seriousness and composure of the leader still needs to be maintained.

"Hey! Hey!"

Amid the rhythmic chants, the two soldiers of the blasting team worked together to pull the elastic rope on the powerful beef tendon slingshot into a bow shape. The buttocks of the two soldiers who were pulling the hemp rope had already touched the stone on the hillside. Everyone was pulling down the elastic rope with their whole body weight. At the same time, Lao Lei, the leader of the blasting team, personally put an explosive package into the bamboo basket, with a long-tailed fuze on the outside.

Lao Lei took the torch and shouted, "Three, two, one, let it go!"

When the word "one" was shouted, the fuze was ignited, and as soon as the word "put" was uttered, the two soldiers who were pulling the elastic rope on their buttocks simultaneously let go of the hemp rope in their hands.

"stretch!"

The strong tendon elastic rope rebounded quickly, and the explosive package in the middle bamboo basket was thrown out under the inertia of motion, and flew straight to the armored train more than 30 meters in front of the locomotive.

If the exit speed of the mortar shell is too fast to be caught by the naked eye, the trajectory of the explosives thrown out by this traditional method can be clearly seen.

The officers and soldiers who used the train boulder as a cover saw it, and quickly retracted their heads behind the cover, and the surviving devils hiding behind the armored vehicle also saw it, shouting "Wow", they really wanted to get into the armored train to hide for a while , but the armored train can only enter the interior through the top, and it can only be opened and closed through the interior.

This is for the sake of safety design. Setting up entrance and exit doors around the armored train will give the enemy a chance to approach the armored train and destroy the door locks. Moreover, this design with only entrances and exits on the top can make the surrounding bodywork an integrated steel plate assembly, strengthening the armored train. The stability of the armor side.

However, this safety design made the devils who survived the train complain endlessly. They approached the armored train but couldn't get in. The bullets that kept shooting made their bodies protrude a little and they would be hit.

You can dodge the incoming bullets, but how do you dodge now that the explosives are coming?
(End of this chapter)