The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 120 Airship Descends from the Sky, Output Relies on Engine
With a loud crash, the train doors were roughly pulled open by the soldiers inside, and then a large number of soldiers ran haphazardly down the train.

At first they were a little flustered, but after Andrei reminded them, they immediately ran outside on instinct.

Only after they ran out did they understand what Andrei meant.

A group of people were crammed into the metal carriage like sardines in a can, making them easy targets for the enemy airships!

The enemy only needs to use a machine gun to sweep the entire carriage from one end to the other, and they can kill everyone inside. No one will be spared!
After running away, everyone scattered, and at least one round of machine gun fire wouldn't have killed so many people.

But as soon as Andrei and the others jumped off the vehicle, he saw a burning airship crashing into the distant fields like a fiery meteor.

The airship wasn't shot down by the anti-aircraft gun located at the front of the train. That hand-operated anti-aircraft gun had some kind of brain-dead design, and it could only fire three shots at a time before it had to be reloaded!

Goodness, he had heard of the three-round burst before and thought this thing was a burst-fire weapon, but he didn't expect it to be equivalent to a single shot!
Please, that anti-aircraft gun is only about 20mm in caliber. With such a small caliber, why bother with single-shot?
So, when the Cambrian Empire's design bureau designed this anti-aircraft gun, did they really think the operator was a sniper?

Fortunately, the anti-aircraft guns weren't very effective, but the players were still very helpful.

It's unclear whether some players reacted exceptionally quickly and got into the mechs first, or whether some players simply didn't get out of the mechs at all.

Almost immediately, as soon as the enemy aircraft appeared, a player fired a shot into the sky using the cannon of the Dauntless mech.

With just one shot, one of the enemy's small airships was shot down from the sky, leaving the remaining enemy airships in awe.

"Well done! Hurry up, fire a few more shots and wipe them all out!"

Seeing the Fearless mech step off the vehicle and fire its cannon into the sky, Andrei waved excitedly.

Meanwhile, some players set up AT guns on the spot and began bombarding the sky.

There were only four small airships that came here to carry out the attack mission. These Black Hawk Empire pilots probably did not expect that there would be such exaggerated anti-aircraft firepower on this train!

In just a moment, the small airships, which had only had time to fire a few rounds of machine gun fire and launch a few rockets, burst into fireballs one after another in the sky and then fell to the ground.

"Heh, you think you can bomb me with airstrikes? Not so easy!"

Andrei waved his hand excitedly, unable to help but admire the player's anti-air capabilities in his heart.

Under normal circumstances, it would be virtually impossible to shoot down an airship or aircraft in the sky using either the Dreadnought mech, which is equivalent to an anti-tank gun, or the Vickers rapid-fire cannon from World War I.

However, for players who have a crosshair in their eyes and whose bullet trajectories are particularly flat, there is nothing that is impossible!
With enough experience, these weapons are more than enough to shoot down airplanes, let alone airships that fly even slower than airplanes!
Black Hawk Empire's machine gun fire knocked down a few soldiers, but fortunately, the damage was minor, and Andrei's Independent Regiment did not suffer too many losses.

The main reason was that the enemy had just appeared and had not yet had time to get close, and the angle of the machine gun was not yet clear, so they were unable to fire at the military train in front first.

Otherwise, if they were to sweep through the entire area like that, the casualties would be devastating. As for those few rockets?
Andrei wasn't quite sure how the Black Hawk Empire's rockets were made, but he felt that their accuracy was really mediocre!

A total of five rockets were launched, and their trajectories were incredibly unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, all five rockets had disappeared.

Finally, in terms of the distance of impact, the closest rocket probably hit at least 30 meters away from the military train!

Just as Andrei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking everything was fine, he saw something in shock:

A small airship, already a giant fireball and engulfed in flames, hurtled towards the locomotive with a blinding flash of light and a trail of black smoke!

I have no idea how those Black Hawk Empire pilots managed to do that.

Previously, whether it was machine gun fire or rockets, the accuracy was so poor, but this time the kamikaze ramming was incredibly accurate!

To Andrei's astonishment, the airship crashed directly into the locomotive in front of it, and then the two of them burst into a violent explosion.

Seeing the steam boiler that had been blown into the sky, Andrei covered his eyes.

"Wuhu, we're doomed! Our train is completely totaled!"

After glancing at the locomotive, which was wrecked and engulfed in flames, Andrei knew that the military train was completely ruined.

He had the telegraph operator in the Independent Regiment send a telegram to headquarters. After receiving a reply, he ordered his soldiers to abandon the train and march on foot along the railway towards Luga.

Being able to re-establish contact with command post was truly good news; he had been worried that the command post would be wiped out by that massive bomb!
But Andrei didn't know that although the command post wasn't completely wiped out by the enemy, it had still suffered heavy damage in this wave.

Even though they had already retreated through the underground tunnels, the enemy's Grand Slam bomb still caused astonishing damage, killing high-ranking officers and injuring a large number of others.

Even Lieutenant General Matvey, who had previously sent Andrei to report to headquarters, was injured in the head by the explosion and is now unconscious. Only a few senior officers are barely keeping the command center running.

From this perspective, the command system of the army group to which Andrei and his men belonged was practically paralyzed, though he was unaware of it.

After receiving the order to continue advancing, and after Yelena finished treating the wounded, Andrei quickly gathered the remaining soldiers and, standing on higher ground, addressed them:

"Soldiers, I have some bad news for you: our military train has been destroyed!"

"However, our mission to deploy defenses in Luga must continue, so let's hurry and keep moving along the railway!"

"We'll be walking about 30 kilometers more to reach Luga. If we walk fast, we might even catch a hot meal when we get there!"

(End of this chapter)