Even in the Republic of China period under the productivity, speaking of armored weapons, it is actually not unfamiliar to The Chinese soldiers, as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty once purchased Western steam ironclad trains at a high price, equipped with new armies to defend the safety along the railway line, this armored train is reinforced by steel plates, there are shooting holes on both sides, and the So-called "Widow Maker" Maqin water-cooled heavy machine gun is installed, which is definitely a proper road protection artifact in terms of the equipment level of the mainland at that time.
After the victory of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union, a large number of remnants of the Russian army poured into the Sino-Russian border, and many Maozi even personnel and equipment were put under the banner of Zhang Zongchang, including the armored train designed and built by the Russian engineer Kropov in Tsarist Russia in World War I. This armored train was mainly composed of armored locomotives, armored coal cars and main battle artillery vehicles, that is, these Tsarist Russian train soldiers and their armored trains, which became the first armored unit in The Feng family and even the whole country.
Both gun cars of this type of train had turrets with a firing range of 220 degrees, which could rotate 360 degrees, and a Russian 3-inch mountain gun of the Type 1904, with a base of 100 rounds of ammunition carried by the Menshan gun. A total of six Schwarzlozer machine guns with 25,000 rounds were mounted on each side of the gun car on the left and right sides. In addition to combat equipment, the gun car of this ironclad train also has a cooling water system for cooling the barrel of the gun barrel, a signal light system for conveying the commander's orders, a motor used to rotate the turret, and a heating for the crew to keep warm.
After the outbreak of the "Battle of Zhifeng", Zhang Zongchang's armored unit played an extremely important role in the battle, and the Luanzhou Railway Station changed hands under the raid of the armored train. After that, Zhang Zongchang ordered the technicians of Belarus to transform the captured trains, install armor and weapons, and build two armored trains, the "Yangtze River" and the "Great Wall". Each column consisted of 6 sections, the locomotive was placed in the middle, and the flatbed trucks located in the front and rear were equipped with 75mm guns, which could fire in the left, right and front directions, but there was no armor, just a simple stack of sandbags as cover, in addition to the car was equipped with four water-cooled machine guns and fifty White Russian soldiers. Although the modified armored train is relatively rudimentary, it is still extremely deterrent compared to other forces.
In the subsequent battles, still with the efforts of the White Russian engineers, the fengzhi unit used passenger cars and wagons to rebrand four ironclad trains: Taishan, Shandong, Yungui, and Henan. Each train consists of 8 carriages, the first flat material car, carrying rails, sleepers and other related road construction materials; the second section of the turret car, plus 7 points thick steel plate, divided into three layers, the lower heavy artillery, the middle layer of field artillery, the uppermost layer is equipped with mortars and heavy machine guns, the third section is a full machine gun car, steel plate skin, the carriage on both sides of the reserved firing holes; the fourth section is the power locomotive; the fifth section is a special carriage used by the commanders to rest and eat, each train has about 100 armed White Russian officers and soldiers and technicians.