Chapter 1124: Breaking the Barrier
An airship slowly landed at the temporary airship take-off and landing ground near the headquarters of the Siberian Corps, and Wang Yaowu, Chief of Staff Shang Ming, as well as many staff officers of the Corps Headquarters and the General Staff Department, boarded the airship one after another.
"Ulla...... Ula ......"
In the distance, there was a sudden burst of passionate shouts from Moscow City, Wang Yaowu and Shang Ming glanced at each other, and then said with a smile: "It seems that Maozi's morale is quite high, hehe......"
The airship slowly rose into the air, and the pod of the airship also became the temporary headquarters of the Siberian Corps, directing the battle to conquer Moscow in the air.
The airship pod was covered with all kinds of radio stations and maps, and more than a dozen staff officers and communications personnel were constantly establishing contact with various units of the corps, and now they were waiting for Wang Yaowu to issue an order.
"Commander, all the units of the corps have been connected...... Shang Ming picked up the microphone and handed it to Wang Yaowu.
Wang Yaowu picked up the microphone and shouted to the various assault units of the corps that had already prepared: "All units should start according to the plan specified before the war......
"Yes...... It's ......"
With Wang Yaowu's order, the heads of all units of the Corps responded loudly almost at the same time.
According to the operational plan, first of all, the fire readiness of the artillery units and the airboat units. In the artillery positions outside Moscow, hundreds of artillery pieces of various types have been uncovered.
The airship units, which had been cruising around, also flew over Moscow. The first shot at the capture of Moscow was also carried out by the heavy barrier-breaking bombing detachment of the airboat forces.
When hundreds of airships appeared in the sky over Moscow, the citizens of Moscow, who had just been in a state of excitement, suddenly felt a rush to be thrown by God.
Huge flying boats hovered over Moscow, giving them a great sense of oppression.
In this era, the appearance of such a formation of airships in the skies over Moscow caused an absolutely shocking effect. It's like the invasion of the modern Earth by the Appearance Fleet. will make people rush to extreme despair.
Tsar Mikhail. Fedorovich and many other high-ranking Russian officials stood on the walls of the Kremlin, staring blankly at the airship in the air.
Such a shocking scene has subverted their worldview.
At this time, more than a dozen airships of heavy barrier-breaking bombing detachments launched attacks on the city fortifications in front of each assault force. One after another, a heavy barrier-breaking bomb was dropped.
More than a dozen airships served as heavy barrier-breaking bombers, each carrying two barrier-breaking bombs weighing up to 1,000 kilograms. This kind of bomb is equipped with a physical ground-penetrating warhead, which uses the speed of falling from a high altitude and its own weight to let the warhead of the barrier-breaking bomb penetrate into the ground and explode inside a solid target.
The airship carrying out the bombing mission must reach a certain altitude, which affects the bombing accuracy. Moreover, the airship is a floating flying object, which is greatly affected by the wind, and even if it can hover over the target, it will slightly shake and sway. This requires the cooperation of the airship pilot and the bomber operator on the bombing mission. And you have to have a lot of experience.
"Boom...... Rumble......"
More than a dozen barrier-breaking bombs weighing 1,000 kilograms were dropped by the airship one after another, and they fell heavily on the ground and exploded. There were more than a dozen violent explosions, as if the sky was falling apart, and the entire city of Moscow trembled.
Tsar Mikhail standing on the walls of the Kremlin. Fedorovich and others were dizzy by this series of earth-shattering explosions.
They looked at the clusters of smoke rising in the distance with horror on their faces, and a bad premonition rose in their hearts. I'm afraid Moscow can't hold it anymore.
While the pilots and bombers of the airships who carried out the bombing mission, after several months of training in bomb throwing. However, the hit rate of the first round of bombing was only 70% accurate, but the second bombing was carried out immediately, and the targets were also hit one after another.
Heavy barrier-breaking bombs roared down from the sky, fiercely cutting through the hard city walls, burrowing into the walls and exploding with a bang.
Moscow has walls more than ten meters high and five or six meters thick. Unable to withstand such a powerful bombardment, sections of the city wall were blown up and collapsed, and the Moscow soldiers and civilians on the city wall were also wiped out at the moment of the explosion, and blood, flesh, stumps, and broken arms were thrown around.
The nearby Russian officers shouted hoarsely: "Go and plug the gap." Don't let the Tatars storm the city......"
Crowds of Moscow soldiers and civilians converged on the collapsed walls from all over the place, crawling to the ruins like crazy to try to repair the collapsed walls.
At this time, hundreds of artillery pieces in the artillery positions outside the city also began to roar. Countless shells whizzed out of the muzzles and bombarded the city of Moscow. Detachments of airboats also formed bombing formations in the air and dropped various bombs on ground targets.
In particular, the heavy barrier-breaking bombing detachment, which blew up more than a dozen breakthroughs, was taken care of by the artillery and air force of the Far Eastern Army, and the soldiers and civilians who were repairing the city wall here were instantly covered and swallowed up by dense artillery fire, leaving corpses and stumps and broken arms everywhere.
Tsar Mikhail. Fedorovich stared blankly at the fierce artillery fire of the Far Eastern Army, and his heart was almost broken.
"Father, this ...... Don't...... Did the Tatars make a deal with the devil? "Seeing that the fortified city defenses were easily destroyed by the Far Eastern Army, Crown Prince Alexei. Mikhailovich said with a look of despair.
Tsar Mikhail. Fedorovich shook his head with a bitter face and said, "I originally planned to let you inherit the throne after this battle, but now it seems that I am afraid that there is no chance." I don't know who came from outside the city, but they weren't Tatars. Child, I will arrange for someone to protect you in a while, and try to escape while the chaos is in place, if you can survive, find a place to settle down, and marry a girl to live a good life, don't think about returning to the country. ”
"Didi...... Tick ......"
A rapid whistle sounded, and the various units serving as assault teams began to organize their equipment and prepare to charge.
Hikten looked at the city wall in the distance, which had been blown into ruins, and then turned to the officers and soldiers in the platoon and shouted: "After the assault to the city, the shield bearer is in the front, and the rest of the people follow me closely......"
"Didi...... Tick ......"
When the whistle sounded again, the assault units of the Far Eastern Army finally launched a charge.
At the forefront of all the assault forces were the combat engineer units, which drove two-wheeled field wagons and towed two-wheeled carts, loaded with various bridging equipment, and quickly rushed towards the Moskva River and the ravines outside the city.
The combat engineers of the Far Eastern Army, with the assistance of various assault units, assembled various modular pontoon bridges for river crossings, and then erected pontoon bridges on the Moskva River outside Moscow and on newly dug trenches.
After the pontoon bridge was built, the combat sappers were the first to rush across the pontoon bridge again, using barrier-breaking equipment to blast and clear a large number of obstacles such as rejecting horses under the city of Moscow.
As one after another barrier-breaking rockets rose into the air, the dragged explosive belts exploded the moment they landed, and it only took a small effort to clear more than a dozen offensive channels for the assault troops. (To be continued.) )
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