Chapter 404: Ironclad Train

Shortly after Yuan Wenbi's death, Leerbe was also killed in the rebellion, and one of his feet was wounded, but when the Cossack cavalry rushed over, he swung his hoe and slashed at a rushing horse. Leerbey was so powerful that he struck the horse's head with a hoe, and the horse fell to the snow with a long cry of sorrow, and the Cossack cavalry on horseback was also thrown off the horse, and then Leerbey killed the Cossack cavalryman with a hoe. Another Cossack cavalryman rushed over, and with a stubborn survival instinct, Leerbe picked up the Saber of the Cossack cavalryman from the snow, and with a wave of his hand, the saber flew out like a sharp arrow and pierced into the heart of the cavalryman. But another horse rushed at him, struck Lelbey, and knocked him out.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen Cossack cavalrymen rushed forward, and the horses' hooves trampled over Lelbey's body, trampling him to pieces.

The much smaller number of Ming dragoons fought and retreated, retreating into the castle, relying on the castle's defenses to resist the frantic attacks of the Rakshasas. The Eight Banners slaves also fled into the wall, where they were protected.

But the Indian slaves who failed to retreat to the castle were miserable, and the Cossack cavalry and Rakshasas launched a hunt-style slaughter of Indian slaves who did not have time to escape.

The Cossack cavalry drove the Indian slaves in a circle, and then the Rakshasa musketeers stepped forward and fired bullets at the dense crowd, instantly knocking down a large group of Indian slaves. Then the cavalry rushed forward and trampled and slashed, and the Rakshasa musketeers also drew their big axes and rushed into the crowd, slaughtering as much as they wanted.

Just as the Rakshasas were slaughtering Indian slaves, a long whistle rang out on the distant railway line, and a steam locomotive rumbled from afar with a train wrapped in thick iron sheets.

Spotting the speeding train, the Rakshasa musketeers raised their guns one after another and fired a dense barrage of bullets at the speeding train.

Bullets struck the train, spewing sparks out of it, and the armored train was unscathed.

"Damn, it's a tin car!" A Rakshasa officer exclaimed.

Above the first car behind the "boom" locomotive, a rotating turret spat out a ball of fire, and a cannonball fell on the snow, raising a huge flame and raising a burst of snowflakes flying in the sky, and at least five Rakshasa soldiers flew into the sky with a violent explosion.

Orange tongues of fire spat out from the shooting hole of the "Da Da Da" ironclad car, sweeping through the crowd of Rakshasas like a fire scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper, and overturning pieces of Rakshasa soldiers on the snow.

"Let's go! It's the ironclad train of the Ming people! The Rakshasa officer shouted.

The slaves of the Eight Banners who fled into the city looked at this powerful armored train in amazement, and then they understood why the faster the railway line was built, the more their lives could be guaranteed, because after the railway line was repaired, the powerful armored train could come in time to protect them.

Zheng was not satisfied with protecting the railway line with armored trains, and under his orders, the railway line stretched all the way to a nearby Russian citadel.

More than 100,000 slaves worked hard in the ice and snow, and the prisoners of the Eight Banners, who were more resistant to cold, were more valuable laborers, while the cheap Indian prisoners were used to work under the noses of the Russian army, and they had to brave the harassment of the Russian army, shelling and musket fire, and build roadbeds and lay railroad tracks little by little.

Anyway, how many Indian slaves died, Zheng Xun didn't feel distressed, those cheap Indian slaves, most of them were a group of untouchables and Shudras in India, their lives were very worthless in India, and when they came here, the ruthless Zheng Xun would not treat them as human beings.

The Rakshasas discovered the intentions of the Ming army and knew that they wanted to build a railway line near the castle and then attack the castle with ironclad trains, so the Rakshasas sent troops to harass the Indian slaves who built the railway.

Every day, hundreds of Indian slaves fell under the guns of the Rakshasas or were hacked to death by the Cossack cavalry, but when one Indian slave fell, more Indian slaves were replenished.

Because the Ming needed a large number of slaves, the British found that there was a lot of money to be made from selling Indian slaves, so the East India Company sold Indian slaves to the Nanyang Company, and these Indians were transported to Tianjin by boat, loaded onto trains, and sent to the Baikal area to participate in the construction of the railway.

For those untouchables, they were sold to build railways around Lake Baikal, in fact, it improved the quality of life, they couldn't even eat enough in India, at least they didn't starve to death when they came here, the only bad thing was that the weather was too cold, and most of the Indian slaves froze to death because of the cold.

Thanks to the hard work of Indian slaves, the railway line stretched all the way to the Irkutsk Citadel of the Rakshasas, and the railway line reached 500 meters outside the castle before the construction was suspended.

When the Rakshasas found that the railway line was approaching the castle, a large number of Rakshasas and Cossack cavalry rushed out in an attempt to sabotage the railway. But the Ming army pulled up barbed wire on both sides of the railway line and dug trenches. When the Rakshasa soldiers came over, the Ming army opened fire behind the barbed wire, repelling the attacks of the Rakshasas.

"Woo-" A long whistle sounded, and a steam locomotive appeared on the railway line in the distance, pulling the armored train towards the end of the railway line.

The train began to slow down before approaching the end, and the armored train stopped just before reaching the end.

This armored train was towed by a steam locomotive at the head and tail, and there were five armored cars in the middle, the first and fifth cars were machine gun cars, with shooting holes on the carriages, and six hand-cranked six-barreled machine guns in the cars; The second and fourth carriages were small gun carriages containing two hand-cranked six-barreled machine guns and two one-pounder rapid-fire guns; The third, and in the middle, was the main gun carriage with a 203-mm large-caliber breech-loading rifled cannon.

After the train stopped, after some preparation, the large-caliber cannon on the middle carriage slowly raised its muzzle and aimed it at the Irkutsk Citadel in the distance, and about five minutes later, only a dull roar was heard, and the muzzle of the cannon spat out an orange tongue of fire more than ten meters long, and a shell smashed towards the castle with a piercing whistling sound.

High-powered, high-explosive shells exploded outside the castle, sending up a huge fireball that shook the castle as if it had erupted into an earthquake.

The gunners adjusted the muzzle elevation angle, changed the number of kits, and fired a second shot.

The second shell hit a fortress on the castle accurately, and the shell penetrated into the hollow fortress of the brick and wood structure, and a violent explosion occurred inside, and the hollow fortress was like a skylight, and a hole appeared in it, and a raging fire erupted from the fortress, like an erupting volcano.

After the ironclad train bombarded ten shells, the Rakshasas in the castle raised a white flag and surrendered.

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