Chapter 157 (1/2)
”Can you hit it? Oh, I'm sorry, Gerhardt, I shouldn't have questioned your shooting! ” Bock got up from the cliff and looked nervously at the train coming down at full speed. ”Damn it, I never thought that one day I would jump to a wire line!”
The left end of the railway bridge is connected with sparse mountain forest. The direction of the forest area facing the canyon is steep cliff. Under the railway bridge is the intermittent river with rapid flow. The height of the river and the railway bridge is tens of meters.
The right end of the railway bridge is also a cliff, but it is different from the forest on the left. The cliff here is higher than the left. Therefore, the right side of the railway bridge is actually connected with a railway passage through the mountain. Of course, the distance through the mountain is not long, only about 100 meters.
The cliff on the right side is close to the cave. After the reinforcement of blue stones, the whole cave entrance looks like a snowflake cake with neat cut. The cliff stone wall where Burke and Joey are hiding is at the right end of the railway bridge, which is more than ten meters higher than the hole reinforced by blue slates. It is a small platform with some concave mountain walls.
Although the drop from here to the train carriage is less than 20 meters, it is already the height of six or seven floors. At this height, the roof of the car less than three meters wide overlooking the bottom, even if it is not as exaggerated as the steel wire in bock's mouth, is similar to the balance beam in women's gymnastics.
Armored train is different from ordinary train. Although the speed of armored train is slower than ordinary train due to heavy external armor and gun carriage, the defense of armored train is outstanding.
In the case of the armored line attacked by the alliance of gentlemen, there were only seven carriages in the middle, with two steam heads in front and back, and it could run in reverse if necessary. Among the seven cars, there is a 380 mm dual mounted train gun, and another is equipped with two 24 mm dual mounted anti-aircraft and flat type machine guns that can rotate 360 degrees.
These two aircraft guns are semi enclosed, operated by two people, with armor baffles at the front and back, which can resist the raids of scattered fighters and guerrillas.
There's a reason for skrozny to lead with bock and Gerhardt, two of whom are special paratroopers and one of the best snipers in the gentlemen's League.
Gerhardt was in charge of ”Gee, I think I heard the gunshot!” In another machine gun not far away, an allied Archer said doubtfully.
”It may be the wind, or you can ask them!” Asked his comrades in arms, somewhat unsure.
”All right!” The gunner hesitated to take over the pager in his companion's hand. They didn't realize that the air in the gunner's cabin seemed to be a lot turbid, as if there were a lot of wind and sand.