Armored trains in Belarus.

At the beginning of 1926, four armored vehicles in Taishan, Shandong, Yunnan-Guizhou and Henan were redesigned by Belarusian engineers. The locomotives, buses and wagons were added with 7-cent thick steel plates with a load of 40 tons. In view of the experience of previous failures, each train consists of eight carriages: the first section is a material car, which is unarmed with a flat car, and special rails, sleepers and all road repair equipment are ready to be repaired immediately when the railway is damaged; The second section is battery car, armored by truck. * * * It is divided into three layers. The lower level is equipped with heavy guns, the middle level with mountain guns, and the upper level with mortars and heavy machine guns. The third section is machine gun vehicle, which is also truck armor. There are several shooting holes dug on both sides of the car. The fourth is the locomotive; The fifth section is that the director takes the dining car and the armored first-class bus; Section 6783 is the same as the previous section 122. After the Eighth Festival, another iron car was hung up, and two platoons of China infantry were stationed as cover troops. After the flat iron plate was laid on the bottom of the battery car in Taishan, a city-foot-thick reinforced concrete was built, and reinforced concrete sandwich walls were built on both sides of the car. Therefore, the car body is overweight and the axle is equipped with a spring device, so the car will travel slowly when crossing the bridge or turning. Each train has no doors and windows, and the second to seventh sections pass directly, and the body is painted with protective paint. Each train has more than 100 Belarusian officers and men. Male, the former head of Belarusian artillery, is the commander of major general, and Nie Li is the chief of staff of the colonel. Because Malays were dissatisfied with Milo's bossiness, Milo's political senior colonel Chekhov succeeded as commander. Each train is equipped with seven Type 38 field guns.

Doors, 2 pursuit guns, 24 heavy machine guns, 1 captain, 1 artillery, machine guns, engineers and the captain of the cover team were all occupied by Belarus. Che Foucault, the former chief of staff of the White Guards, had no combat experience and was highly valued for his obedience to Mirov. /kloc-in the summer of 0/927, he led four armored vehicles to fight with Feng Yuxiang's troops near Guide in Longhai Road and fled. Mount Tai and Henan were intercepted. Chekhov only fled back to Shandong with Shandong and Yungui. Soon after, it was refitted by Lipu Road Factory, and two columns were added, still named Taishan and Henan. Mirov only remembers Chekhov once.

1in the summer of 926, Liu Shi' an, who had served as the captain of mixed echelon and commander of armored vehicles, suggested to Chu Yupu, governor of Zhili, that an armored convoy should be established according to the Shandong method. Chu instructed Xindian Factory to refer to the modified style of Shandong armored vehicles, and took Liu Shi 'an as the conductor to manufacture Zhili and Hubei armored vehicles. Liu sent his former Belarusian army Li Bichan Sike (Chinese name Li) as the battalion commander, and recruited about 50 Belarusian officers and men to live in two armored vehicles. Due to the insufficient distribution of Belarus and serenade, Li Bichan can be sent to Harbin to travel with Bordet, the captain of Belarus, and * * * recruited 100 passengers from Belarus to Tianjin. This was reported to Mirov by Chinigov, the director of the draft of the Naturalization Army living in Harbin, by express telegram. Mirov- It is reported that Zuo Biesi, director of Tianjin office, rushed to tianjin railway station and caught Belarusian soldiers who were not allowed to recruit others in Harbin. After the car arrived, both sides used force and failed to detain it. Later, Liu Shi 'an was dismissed by Chu Yupu because of bandits' habits, and Sun Sheng, a team staff member, was promoted to a captain and commander of Zhili. Shou Maguo, a former artillery lieutenant colonel of the White Guards, was appointed as the captain of the lieutenant colonel. Li Bichan can resign together with Liu Shi 'an.

1June, 928, 4 armored vehicles in Shandong Province and 2 armored vehicles in Zhili Province all retreated from Tianjin to Guye Station east of Tangshan. Zhang Hechu retreated to Tangshan, and Mirov hid in Tianjin British Concession. Sun and Chekhov, two armored vehicle commanders, saw that the tide was running out and left their jobs to stay in Tianjin. Zhang Zongchang sent his horse to the newly appointed commander, and joined six armored vehicles to take command. I was afraid that China people were unreliable as captains, so I became captains in Zhili again, and transferred Yang Lianqing, the battalion chief in Hubei, to deputy commander in Hubei, and Ma Kefu, the deputy commander in Zhili, to deputy commander in Hubei.

At the end of June of that year, Malay ordered six armored vehicles to retreat to Qinhuangdao, with Hubei in the back, and Yang Lianqing, the battalion chief, stayed in the car and took up his new position as deputy division commander. Yang made an appointment with Liu Tingxiang and more than 20 Russian officers and men to go to Gaoliangdi near Guye Station. It was agreed that Hubei people would not follow the Malays to look east and turn west, so as not to be discriminated against by China again. It is agreed that at 0/2 o'clock that night, the locomotive will enter the water, whistle, lock the train in and out, and send someone with a gun to guard the elevator on the top of the battery to prevent Belarusian soldiers from entering and leaving. At that time, Yang Lianqing first killed Kyle Polo, a longevity brigade of Belarus, on the palace coach, and Liu suddenly attacked Belarusian officers and soldiers in the car. Captain Belarus's machine gun shooter Barani defected with him. Except for more than 10 Belarusian officers and men killed in battle, they all obeyed, that is, they drove the armored vehicle Hubei to Tanggu Station as quickly as possible. After the car arrived, it was surrounded by the troops of 8 jin j Leader Li division. When Yang Lianqing got off the bus and saw Leader Li, he explained the reasons for his surrender and defection, and the bodies of Belarusian officers and soldiers testified. Li called to tell him that Fu told him to drive to Tianjin at the original speed. When the bus arrived at the North Station, Fu sent Dai Xishan, head of Tianjin garrison headquarters Communication Department, to meet it. Yang Lianqing reported to Dai that the guns, ammunition and all instruments on the car were in good condition, so please send someone to receive them immediately. When Dai returned to the headquarters, Yang Lianqing and Liu Tingxiang went to the Shoushan home in the French Concession Church to rest. That evening, Fu asked Yang to go to garrison headquarters for an interview, and changed into an armored vehicle of the first detachment of the third army in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. Yang Lianqing was appointed commander-in-chief and battalion chief, and said: "The military supplies of Zhang Zongchang troops should be received by the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army who was ordered to destroy the remnants of Zhang Chu. Since I'm here, let's say I volunteered to join the Shanxi army to avoid misunderstanding. " Yang Zunling took over as commander, all Chinese and Russian officers and men remained in office, and Baio Barani was promoted to captain of the big machine gun team. Three days later, under the command of the eighth division commander Xu Jingyuan, he was ordered to leave for Datong, Shanxi. Xu teacher went to collect it, Zhao Chengshou's cavalry took over Datong defense, and the first armored vehicle was under Zhao's command. At the beginning of 1930, all Chinese and Russian officers and men on the train were dissolved and replaced by Jin Jun. Five armored vehicles bound for Qinhuangdao were all disarmed before Zhang Zongchang fought with the Northeast Army Luandong, and Belarusian officers and men such as Malaijian fled to Tianjin and Harbin successively.

◆ Zhongshan armored train of Northern Expeditionary Army

The Guangdong government once received two armored trains from the Soviet Union, and established the famous Grand Marshal's armored motorcade, which was the predecessor of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment. The whereabouts of these armored vehicles are unknown.

In the Shanghai-Nanjing battlefield of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the workers of Zhabei Railway Locomotive Factory heard that the Northern Expeditionary Army was blocked by armored vehicles of the Belarusian Corps in Jiaxing, and six armored vehicles were modified in three days to support the front line of the Northern Expedition, enabling the Northern Expeditionary Army to break the enemy and occupy Songjiang and other places. One of them is also called Zhongshan. The historical materials at that time are as follows:

"March 16, the revolutionary army began to attack. Sun Jun took Songjiang as the southwest barrier of Shanghai, tried to resist, and concentrated its armored vehicles and all its artillery fire on the Revolutionary Army Railway. The revolutionary army was damaged and could not move forward. In order to suppress and destroy Sun Jun's firepower, Bai Chongxi used railway wagons to build artillery base trains to reinforce the attack in Zhongshan, and the 26th Army attacked from the right, while the General Reserve attacked from the left and was surrounded on three sides. After several brave charges, Sun Jun was exhausted and retreated to Shanghai. The revolutionary army occupied Songjiang City on February1morning. On the same day, 2 1 division advanced from Wujiang and occupied Suzhou at noon. Then he pursued victory in different ways and entered the suburbs of Shanghai. At this time, foreign troops fired guns and demonstrated in the concession and built fortifications across the border to resist and delay the advance of the revolutionary army. After the tough protest of the revolutionary army, foreign troops began to retreat to their concession, and the revolutionary army continued to attack. The soldiers surrounded and disarmed the branch of Zhabei area and Bi Shucheng, the eighth army of Lu Army. The Song and Shanghai areas were all scheduled for 2 1. "

The Northeast Army also has an armored train called Zhongshan. Unknown source. The information is as follows: At 10 on the morning of 23rd, more than 60 Kwantung troops and a train of armored vehicles attacked Tianzhuangtai and were repelled by the armored vehicle Zhongshan from China. On 24th, the Kwantung Army launched a fierce attack on China's armored vehicles from both land and air directions.

Feng Yuxiang once produced several cars with the help and drawings of the Soviet Union, but the specific application situation is unknown.

Wu also has a number of armored trains, and the combat situation is unknown. I only know that his headquarters was on the armored train when he fled Wuhan.