The Death List Novel - Chapter 157

Chapter 157 Board A Car
“Can you hit it? Oh, I’m sorry, Gerhardt, I shouldn’t have questioned your marksmanship!” Borg stood up from the cliff and looked nervously at the train coming at him. “Damn it, I never thought of parachuting into a wire one day!”

The left end of the railway bridge is connected with sparse mountain woods. The forest facing the canyon was a precipitous cliff. Below the railway bridge was a fast flowing intermittent river. The surface of the river was several tens of meters high from the railway bridge.

The right end of the railway bridge was also a cliff, but unlike the forest on the left, the cliff on this side was higher than the cliff on the left. Therefore, the right side of the railway bridge is actually connected to a railway passage through the belly of the mountain. Of course, the passage through the mountain was not long, only about a hundred meters away.

The cliff on the right was near the cave, reinforced by green strips of stone. The entrance of the cave looked like a neatly cut ice cream. The cliff wall where Borg and Joey were hiding was at the right end of the railway bridge. It was more than ten meters taller than the cave entrance reinforced with green strips of stone. It was a small platform with some concave walls.

Although the distance between here and the train carriage was less than 20 meters, it was already six or seven stories tall. Looking down at the roof of the carriage that was less than three meters wide from this height, even if it wasn’t as exaggerated as the steel wire that Borg had described, it was still similar to the balance beam in the women’s gymnastics event.

Armored trains were different from ordinary trains. Although they were slower than ordinary buses due to their heavy exterior armor and the gun carriages they carried, the defense of the armored trains was outstanding.

The Gentlemen’s Alliance ambushed the armored army. There were only seven carriages in the middle, and there were two steam engines in the front and rear. If necessary, they could drive in the opposite direction. One of the seven carriages contained a 380mm double-hitched cannon and another was equipped with two 24mm double-hitched high-level guns that could rotate at 360 degrees.

The two guns were semi-enclosed, operated by two people, and had armored shields at the front and back, capable of resisting the surprise attacks of scattered fighter jets and guerrillas.

There was a reason Skorzny had Berk and Gerthardt take the lead. One was a special paratrooper, and the other was the best sniper in the Gentlemen’s League.

Gerhardt was in charge of dismantling one of the cannons, while Monica was in charge of the remaining one.

As for Captain Burke, his task was even more arduous. As a special paratrooper, he needed to jump off a six-story cliff and accurately land in the first or second carriage of the army. He then took advantage of the opportunity of the army entering the cave to control the front of the train in the darkness and lower the speed of the train slightly so that Skorzny and Hydra, who were lying in ambush at the other end of the cave, could climb onto the train.

“Hehe, what is this difficulty? You are a special paratrooper. Besides, aren’t you assisted by Mrs. Monica?” Joey tilted his head, put his right eye on the scope of the sniper rifle, and teased his companion. At the same time, he muttered with no confidence, “Actually, you should be more worried about my marksmanship!”

Joey told Grant the other day that he would do whatever Qin Lun wanted, which was actually a lie. He could really change his temperament and play Qin Lun because he was too familiar with each other. However, he was unable to use Qin Lun’s unique ability, which was the combat model.

Joey is not only a “dissecter”, he is also Qin Lun’s “cleaner”. All the emotions that Qin Lun couldn’t afford would be left to Joey to deal with. In the world of orphan resentment, Qin Lun had once felt “anger”, “sorrow”, “love” … but in the end, he gave all of this to Joey!

Qin Lun cut himself spontaneously. Whenever he felt emotions that he couldn’t handle, he would ask Joey to hide and suppress them. Using Joey’s brutality and bloodlust to slowly digest and exclude these emotions, ultimately achieving the goal of “cleanliness”.

Joey didn’t appear spontaneously every time Qin Lun encountered danger. At least, he hadn’t appeared once in the Death Hunt World. The reason is that Joey hasn’t completely digested the chaos in Orphan’s Resentment.

Because of this, Joey would never be as indifferent and numb as Qin Lun. In other words, it was absolute calm, and the combat model was the product of self-hypnosis under absolute calm. Therefore, Qin Lun could use the combat model, but Joey Foster, who had stronger combat abilities, could not.

Without a combat model, Joey’s marksmanship would not be comparable to that of a super sniper, Gerthard. Fortunately, Kieran’s original Kar98K sniper rifle had been damaged in the battle with Katrin. The sniper rifle he was using was a special purpose gun from the Hydra Army.

Joey couldn’t help but curl his lips when he saw the hydra sniper rifle. It wasn’t even a sniper rifle, but a powerful anti-equipment rifle, commonly known as the PZB39 anti-tank rifle.

The Hydra Corps was formerly the Brandenburg Corps. These people were mostly spies and spies, and there weren’t many special-grade snipers. Since the accuracy of the shooting was not high, he could only pursue power, so that the assassination target would not be able to bear it.

The calibre of the PZB39 is only 7.92 mm like that of the Kar98k sniper rifle, but the tungsten core armor piercing charge is so large that the length reaches 95 mm, almost like a ball-point pen, and the armor piercing thickness reaches 20 mm within 100 metres.

The gun has also been specially modified by German research institutes with a quadruple optical scope at the back and a rifling muffler at the muzzle, which improves shooting accuracy and reduces noise.

Joey couldn’t use Qin Lun’s combat model, but his Laws Body’s gun mastery skills were still there. Although he could not shoot through the narrow muzzle of the train cannon to kill the machine gunner in the base of the cannon, the armored baffle with a cannon less than 10 mm was no different from a thin piece of paper in front of the anti-tank gun.

“Bang!” The whistle before the army entered the cave largely concealed the noise of the anti-tank guns. A small bullet hole appeared in the front armoured shield of the first cannon on the top of the third machine gun carriage of the train.

The bullet hole lobe sunk inward, emitting a trace of white smoke. Some of the tears were dark red. The tungsten core bullet pierced through the armor baffle and almost ignited the steel fragments from the tears.

The two Allied machine gunners inside the cannons lay motionlessly on the ground, their heads hanging on the machine guns in an abnormal posture. A mournful flower of blood rippled in front of the archer’s chest facing the cave, while his comrade-in-arms behind him seeped out a blood stain on his back.

Joey’s shot was like a gourd, shooting two birds with one shot, killing two archers together. The tungsten core bullet was extremely powerful. Although the bullet holes in the human body weren’t large, the bullet with extremely high initial speed instantly roasted the shooter’s internal organs, causing them to die almost at the same time as they experienced pain.

“Good marksmanship!” Lady Monica’s sweet praise came from the wind. After being rescued by Joey, the Sandstorm Queen’s tightly shut heart seemed to open again, showing an unusual intimacy towards this super sniper who always had a cold expression and light grey pupils.

Compared to the Knight’s Iron Cross Medal, Gerthard’s luck this time had received many jealous eyes. If Heracles’ plan was at a critical juncture and Baron Weidenbaylor, who admired Madame Monica the most, was unconscious, he would have received an invitation to fight.

“Eh, I think I heard gunshots!” An Allied archer in another cannon not far away asked doubtfully.

“Maybe it’s the wind. Why don’t you ask them?” His comrade-in-arms asked with some uncertainty.

“Alright!” The gunner hesitated as he took the pager from his companion’s hand. The two of them did not notice that the air in the cannon cabin seemed to be much more turbid, as if a lot of wind and sand had mixed in.

“Hey … Oh!” Just as the gunner greeted the beeper, he felt his neck tighten, as if a pair of large hands were tightly grabbing his throat.

The gunner loosened his beeper and scratched his neck with both hands in vain. Apart from some scattered mud and sand, his final struggle had no effect. The comrade-in-arms on the other side did not relax much either. The final scene in the eyes of the gunner was a dust that was wrapped around his companion’s neck like a whip, apart from his companion’s purple face and his bloody eyes that protruded out of his sockets.

“Alright, it’s my turn. God bless me!” Bork crossed his chest with a bitter face and cursed, “When I return to the army, I must add the balance beam to the training manual of those bastards!”

Under the ridiculing gaze of the sniper beside him, Captain Bork jumped down the cliff as if he was resigned to his fate. He spread out his arms and tried to stabilize his body as much as possible, pouncing towards the incoming locomotive like a big bird.

Unfortunately, without the precise calculation of the combat model, even though Captain Bork had almost calculated the landing point, the strong winds in the canyon had still blown him slightly away from the locomotive’s landing point.

“The Iron Cross Medal is gone!” Looking at the carriage only a meter away, a depressed thought flashed through his heart.

His failure hadn’t actually led to the end of the operation. After all, the most crucial aircraft gun post in the army had already been dealt with. However, the speed of the train hadn’t decreased, so it would be much more difficult for Skorzny and the others to board the train. Of course, his performance in action naturally wouldn’t win him the Iron Cross Medal.

Just as Captain Burke was feeling sorry for himself, a sudden push came from behind him. The Sandstorm Queen was worthy of being the strongest superpower of the Gentlemen’s Alliance. While dealing with a single cannon, she still had the strength to observe the entire battlefield and helped Bork at the most critical juncture.

Lieutenant Burke’s eyes lit up. The thrust Mrs. Monica gave him was not enough to push him directly into the carriage. But for him, that was enough. The paratrooper captain stretched out his arm and grabbed the steel railing at the top of the carriage with his five fingers like steel pincers. He exerted strength on his waist and abdomen, and with a single twist, he flipped onto the roof of the carriage.

His current position was at the front of the second carriage. He looked at the locomotive in front of him. The captain of the paratroopers ran two steps at the top of the carriage. The moment the army entered the cave, he jumped towards the locomotive. He grabbed the window on the right side with both hands and threw himself into the locomotive.

“Good morning, gentlemen!” Looking at the two train attendants who were stunned, Bok smiled and revealed a mouthful of snow-white steel teeth.

“Something happened!” At the same time, in the fourth carriage, a tall man with a cowboy hat on his face, sleeping soundly on the sofa, his entire body emitting the smell of alcohol suddenly stood up. His expression was solemn as he looked ahead, and his bright gaze seemed to reach the front of the carriage through the door.