"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "A door of Soviet artillery is desperately firing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAlthough the temperature is very low now, the gunners are sweating hot. Some of the shell carriers even took off their upper clothes and carried the shells shirtless.

On an artillery position, 12 large cannons were firing. Although the rate of fire of these cannons is very slow, they are very powerful. Every shell that hits the defense line of the Chinese Army will cause considerable damage to the defense line of the Chinese Army. These cannons are the B-4 M1931 203-mm howitzers of the Soviet Russian Red Army.

This kind of large-caliber howitzer also has a resounding name on the Soviet-German battlefield in another time and space, that is, 'Stalin's hammer'. It was hailed by the German army at that time as the most powerful artillery of the Soviet Russian Red Army, and they were terrified of existence.

On May 17, 4624 A.D., the People's Commissariat of Defense of Soviet Russia and the General Artillery Directorate held an enlarged meeting to approve the Red Army's active artillery transformation plan, and the meeting also decided to develop a 203 mm caliber attack artillery for the Red Army. Engineer F. F. Lengel from the Perm Arsenal was responsible for the entire project, and was responsible for the development of the gun barrel and aiming equipment, while the gun carriage was provided by the Bolshevik factory, and the whole project was to be completed by May 4625 A.D.

After the start of the project, the Perm Arsenal and the Bolshevik Factory came up with four artillery schemes, and finally the proposal for the "Project 15172", submitted by N. I. Magdasev and A. G. Gavriliv, was approved, using the running gear of a light tank.

Eventually, the artillery design drawings were completed by the end of January 4626, but the subsequent manufacturing work progressed slowly, as the Bolshevik factories found many design flaws in the original scheme during the manufacturing process, and the performance on paper could not be realized, and the corresponding production facilities could not keep up. The head of the General Directorate of Artillery, Kulik, was also not optimistic about this artillery, and several times ordered to stop the production of 203-mm guns in order to concentrate on the production of 20-mm howitzers of the ML-152 type.

Despite all the difficulties, the 203-mm cannon was assembled in November 4628 and quickly put into the test. The test work was carried out for 1 year, during which the design bureau made up to 146 modifications to the gun, but there were still a number of flaws. Without completely eliminating the hidden dangers, the gun was finalized as a Soviet B-4 M1931 203-mm howitzer, and began to be equipped with the Soviet Russian Red Army in June 4629 of the Yellow Emperor Era, and began to be put into production at the Bolshevik factory. The reason why the Soviet Russian Red Army was in such a hurry was that Stalin was very fond of large-caliber artillery and battleships, and he paid very close attention to their development and production schedule.

The gun was only equipped with artillery reserves and artillery battalions under the control of the Supreme Red Army High Command, and until the Yellow Emperor era 4637, the B-4 howitzer did not perform well in various exercises, but it was the darling of various military parades. The B-4 howitzers are generally assigned to the artillery battalions of the reserve directly under the group army, with 12 guns per battalion, and their main task is to carry out anti-aircraft firing and damage enemy targets far from the front line of the combat area, and can also be used to directly aim at the enemy's civil fortifications.

The B-4 howitzer has good ballistic properties and high firing accuracy with a total weight of 15.8 tons. Due to the weight of the gun, the designers equipped it with a tracked artillery mount, which weighed 11 tons and used the chassis of the "Bolshevik International" heavy tracked tractor, which could provide limited maneuverability for the gun. The B-4 howitzer can be called a monster mounted on a tractor. The B-4 howitzer mount is equipped with training wheels at the tail for towing at a speed of about 15 km/h. The B-4 was the first Soviet gun to be equipped with a special dual stationary and retreat system, and it was very stable when firing. The B-4 has a barrel length of 5087 mm, a rifled section with a barrel length of 3981 mm, a bore rifling count of 64, and a barrel weight of 5.2 tons. The B-4 shells are divided ammunition, a small crane is equipped on the left side of the gun carriage for loading ammunition, the shell fire rate is 1 round in the first 2 minutes, and 1 round in the next 1 minute, the firing range is 17.5 kilometers, the muzzle velocity is 607 m / s, and the crew is 15 people.

Of course, I have to admit that the B-4 howitzer of the Soviet Russian Red Army is undoubtedly a very powerful howitzer. Now, the Lower Ural Front of the Russian Red Army under Timoshenko has mobilized ten battalions, that is, 120 B-4 howitzers, to violently shell the positions of the Chinese Army. Despite the fact that these cannons are very heavy, the rate of fire is very slow. However, on the battlefield, they performed very amazingly. The artillery was deployed ten kilometers from the Urals and was firing heavily at the positions of the Imperial Army.

Like the Russian Red Army, the Imperial Army attached great importance to artillery. For the preference for heavy artillery, the emperor Wu Haoxuan would not be less than Stalin. Therefore, the various armies of the Imperial Army were also armed with a brigade of heavy self-propelled howitzers. The heavy howitzers of the Imperial Army used a self-propelled artillery chassis modified from a tank chassis, which passed through a tractor chassis that was much more capable than the B-4 howitzer of the Russian Red Army. Because the metallurgical industry of the empire was much stronger than that of Soviet Russia. So the Imperial Army was armed with 210-mm self-propelled howitzers with a total weight of only 13 tons. With a maximum road speed of 45 highways per hour and a maximum off-road speed of 18 kilometers per hour, it was fully capable of accompanying the armored forces of the Imperial Army in their attacks. The Imperial Army's 210-mm self-propelled howitzers had a maximum firing range of 21 km, and the maximum rate of fire reached two rounds per minute due to the presence of auxiliary reloading equipment. This speed is much faster than the B-4 howitzer of the Russian Red Army.

It's just that now the B-4 howitzers of the Soviet Russian Red Army are gaining momentum, while the 210-mm self-propelled howitzers of the Imperial Army are still waiting for the order to open their artillery, and they did not attack the artillery of the Soviet Russian Red Army at the first time to suppress them.

"Boom!" A 203-mm shell hit the positions of the Reichs, leaving a large crater on the positions. A bomb hole was affected, and cracks appeared on the top. The soldiers of the Imperial Army, who were hiding inside, hurriedly rushed out of the anti-artillery hole. Just after most of the rush out, the anti-artillery hole collapsed, and there were still more than twenty soldiers, buried inside.

Less than five kilometers from the front line, Timoshenko was in a hidden position, observing the results of the shelling of the Russian Red Army with an artillery mirror. Seeing that the positions of the Imperial Army were completely reduced to a sea of fire, Timoshenko was very satisfied.

"It seems that we are right to vigorously develop artillery. Even without air supremacy, we can use powerful artillery to directly destroy the enemy's forward positions and create favorable conditions for the infantry to attack. Timoshenko said with a smile.

"Comrade commander, presumably the Chinese's position is already full of corpses. The heroic Red Army soldiers only needed one attack to tear through the Chinese defenses. A staff officer said with a smile.

Timoshenko couldn't help but laugh. He knew that the Chinese army would not be so easy to deal with, otherwise, it would not be called the world's strongest army. However, he still likes to hear it. It's as if listening to such words can become a reality.

Just when the smile on Temoshenko's face had not yet faded, suddenly his face changed drastically. Because, there is already a "buzzing" sound in the sky that seems to be a wild bee flying. This is the fighter plane of the Imperial Air Force that has flown to the battlefield.

"Damn, the Chinese's air force sorted. Ordered all artillery positions to immediately stop firing and stand by in concealment. Anti-aircraft artillery units, ready for battle. Timoshengo yelled angrily.

Originally, he thought that from the time the Russian Red Army launched an artillery bombardment to the Chinese Air Force dispatching fighters to suppress them, it would take more than half an hour. In this case, it will be enough for them to complete the preparation of artillery fire. However, the reaction speed of the Chinese Air Force is obviously much faster than theirs! The artillery preparations of the Soviet Russian Red Army have not yet been completed, and they will face bombing by the Chinese Air Force.

After receiving the order, the Russian artillerymen who were firing began to stop firing in a hurry, and then wanted to transfer these precious cannons. On the anti-aircraft positions around the artillery positions, the muzzles of anti-aircraft guns were also pointed at the sky, and the air defense soldiers were hurriedly manipulating these weapons to prepare for the attack of the Chinese Air Force.

"Discover Lao Maozi's position, launch an attack, and pay attention to suppressing the anti-aircraft positions of the Soviets." The officer who led the team gave the order.

Some fighters remained on standby at high altitudes, while others attacked. Because this time it was a ground strike mission, even a fighter had two 25-kilogram bomblets under its wings.

The fighters swooped down, and when they swept past the Russian artillery positions, they dropped bombs under the wings.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The bomb exploded on the artillery positions of the Russian Red Army, the artillery was blown away, and the artillery was also blown up.

"Knock knock!" The Soviet anti-aircraft artillery on the ground began to fire fiercely, and the shells flew into the sky densely and exploded in the air.

"Pay attention to anti-aircraft fire on the ground! Squad 2 suppressed Lao Maozi's anti-aircraft fire. "The squadron leader in the sky gave the order.

Four other fighters flew directly into the anti-aircraft fire of the Russian Red Army. 12.7 mm aviation machine guns on the wings, strafing began.

The bullet hit the anti-aircraft gun, bursting out in a series of sparks. There were also some air defense soldiers who were hit and killed on the spot.

"Boom!" An F9 fighter was hit by anti-aircraft gun fire, and the 85-mm anti-aircraft gun was so powerful that it directly disintegrated the fighter into the air.

However, in the next second, an F9 fighter opened fire with a 30mm cannon in the nose, blowing the anti-aircraft gun into parts, and several Soviet and Russian air defense soldiers were also torn to pieces on the spot. (To be continued.) )