Early morning of September 10th. 3 red flares rose into the sky. The long-dormant Southern Front Group Army of the Chinese Army finally began to deliver the blow he had been accumulating for a long time! In just ten minutes, 38 artillery positions deployed at the front began shelling the southern front of the Russian army. A huge cannon stripped of its armor and raised its long barrels. The gunners, under the command of the officer, took aim according to the pre-set coordinates, and one heavy shell after another was placed into the chamber, followed by the firing cartridge. With the order to open fire, these gods of war, who had been silent for a long time and had been preparing for this day for 6 years, finally let out a roar!

Almost at the same time, countless columns of smoke and fireballs rose from the positions of the Chinese Army, and the roar of artillery was superimposed on each other and spread in the air at an extremely high speed. Orange fireballs fell on the positions of the Russian army like a rain of meteorites in the apocalypse. This is a real barrage, in the pre-selected breakthrough section, one bombing point after another is advancing almost next to each other, and a wall of flames rolls and gallops on the Russian position. Crush everything they can foresee...... Whether it's bunkers or obstacles, or artillery and soldiers. In the frenzy of steel and fire, they will be broken into pieces or even reduced to ashes..........

"I never imagined that in the far east, a country far from the core of the world's industry, it could have so many heavy artillery and such a dense rain of bullets, and from the artillery mirror, I could clearly see that the opposite position was surrounded by flames. Behind me, there was an 8-inch artillery emplacement and 2 6-inch gun emplacements. They turned out to be reinforced to a regiment, and a full 18 large-caliber guns provided fire suppression for this regiment. I even doubt it. Under such artillery fire, will anyone on the other side survive? ”

"The first fire attack was not long, but only a quarter of an hour. But in just a quarter of an hour, the artillery of the Chinese Army had already opened a gap of up to 800 meters wide for the attacking troops. All bunkers, minefields, and obstacles along this distance were destroyed by a dense rain of bullets. A layer of grayish-black remnants of the explosion remained on the surface. Shrapnel was everywhere, and after the first round of attacks was accepted, a battalion of the Chinese Army rushed to the opposing positions under the cover of direct-fire artillery and heavy mortars, and they attacked from the pre-dug starting positions, and the two sides were only 500 meters away from the nearest point! A German officer who watched the battle wrote in the report, and this is only the beginning of ..........

In a very short period of time, the entire line of defense of the Russian army was punched out of several gaps. Then the assault team of elite infantry began to attack, carrying their own weapons and rushing towards the Russian positions in loose formation under the command of the officers. In the case of the fact that the Russian army at the breach has been almost wiped out. It's just a matter of ten minutes. And they took possession of the breach. And the signal was given that the offensive had been achieved. Then the rest of the assault regiment began to enter the battlefield in order, and at this moment. The Russian army suddenly launched a counterattack from both flanks!

Through a long period of reconnaissance and research, the Chinese Army can find some suitable places for the deployment of troops. The Russians are very familiar with their own defense line, and it is actually difficult to hide from the Russians from large-scale artillery and troop movements, even if they don't know how many troops are coming from the other side, but they can still estimate an approximate one. And with the establishment of huge artillery positions, the Russians were also able to judge some of the main directions of attack.

"We have to mix the forces of both sides to avoid shelling from the other side. With a large number of artillery pieces destroyed and withdrawn, the remaining artillery no longer had the strength to carry out counter-suppression. The surrounding infantry units even begged the artillery not to open fire on the counterattack, because every shell fired from their own position would be returned by the opponent several times over. In the face of the opposing breakthrough force, we could not block. We can contain the enemy's shelling only after mixing with the opponent after they have entered the position. Afterwards, a Russian ** officer explained their combat thinking in this way. …………。

The use of melee combat against the side with the superior firepower is indeed one of the best options for the weaker side, and without the support of heavy artillery, the defending side can have more troops and light artillery to create a local advantage. But everything has to be different. And this time. The elite infantry of the Chinese Army told their opponents how wrong they were! Although they have the advantage in the amount of firepower projection, in terms of coordination accuracy and tactics, the gap between them and the elite infantry of China is too great!

"This is a truly elite force, one of the most elite assault forces even in the whole of Europe. They have a full range of tailor-made weapons. In addition to automatic firearms such as machine guns and submachine guns, they were equipped with new rifled mortars and a certain amount of short-barreled large-caliber infantry guns. The former is the main suppressive firepower of this unit, and rifled guns have higher accuracy and can accurately attack point targets. And what to say about the latter, it is a lighter gun, but it has a caliber of 75mm and an angle of fire from -15 degrees to 75 degrees, which can fire both horizontally and curvedly. And the weight is only a few hundred kilograms. A German observer said of the Chinese assault force.

When the chaotic formation of the Russians appeared in the field of vision of the Chinese Army...... They were greeted first by machine-gun fire from 300 meters away. The dense rain of bullets easily cut the entire Russian army into several pieces, and after the Russian army chose to lie down and shoot at each other, the machine gun team exposed in the first round of shooting immediately put away the bracket and left! After several minutes of preparation, the Russians finally fired a few grenades, and then these mortars and light mortars that had not had time to move were locked onto the 82mm and 60mm rifled mortars of the Chinese commandos, and after a few short shots, all the Russians' few curved firepower were destroyed ..........

And after the remaining Russian troops lost their support firepower, the Russian offensive immediately became chaotic. At the same time, the Chinese assault forces actually abandoned the defense and launched an attack directly. Under the cover of light infantry guns and rifled mortars. The assault team attacked in squads alternately under cover. All the troops are organized around machine guns and grenadiers, knocking out the opposing firing points one by one, while breaking up the opposing formations and finally destroying them one by one. As the assault team expanded to the sides, the breach became larger and wider. More and more troops poured into the gap, and they began to develop in depth.

And at this time, the Russian army finally lost its breath, and after finding that the previous forward troops could not effectively stop the opponent and that the defense line had a tendency to completely collapse, the main forces of the Russian army finally rushed out of the trenches and bunkers. Began to rush towards the breach. If someone could stand on a high place and overlook the entire battlefield, he would find that gray torrents were rushing towards the breakthrough from all directions, like a flood trying to break the defense line of the Chinese assault force.

The defense line of the Huaxia breakthrough troops was so thin in the eyes of the Russian army, and this kind of defense line without depth could not block the endless sea of people even if there were enough machine guns and curved artillery. But they were wrong. In front of them were not only the Chinese assault troops, but also the heavy artillery groups in the distant artillery positions! …。

This shelling was much longer than the first shelling that launched the breakthrough. All artillery is divided into two groups, of which field artillery and mortars, which are mainly composed of small and medium-caliber artillery, are mainly responsible for cleaning the Russian troops at the front of the position, while long-range heavy artillery and cannons are responsible for attacking the Russian troops who are supporting the follow-up and the support points that have just been discovered. If the first shelling was nothing more than a sharp sword cutting a gap in the Russian position, then this shelling completely crushed the backbone of the Russian defense line like a heavy hammer.

And at this most critical time. The remnants of the Russian army's heavy artillery units finally could not sit still. The remaining 6-inch and heavy guns finally popped out of the hidden gun emplacements. Bright yellow flames flew out of the muzzles. Fly to the Chinese forward artillery, which is carrying out the suppression design at the front. However, scattered shelling and poor ranging did not allow the remnants of the artillery to do much of a difference. Its firing position was quickly discovered by the forward artillery observation post, which was then passed on to the 8-inch cannon that was specifically responsible for suppression through a telephone line. …。

These 8-inch 35L guns were almost the largest class of artillery that could be deployed off the railroad to transport these bulky cannons. The Chinese Army even introduced special trailers. These guns were intended to serve as trump cards in a big battle to suppress the opponent's firepower and support points. And now? In the face of the long-range artillery of the Russian army, which can almost only be described as remnants, these artillery pieces are really a bit overkill! …。

With the roar of the 8-inch heavy gun, a 100kg high-explosive grenade flew towards the long-range artillery positions of the Russian army that continued to fire. The powerful 8-inch high-explosive shells directly penetrated the artillery bunkers built by the Russian army...... The thick rammed earth breastwall with a thickness of more than 1 meter was chiseled through like paper paste, and then these grenades filled with more than 20 kilograms of high explosives exploded in the artillery pools, countless flames and shrapnel swept across the entire gun position, and the 6-inch cannon weighing more than 7 tons was pushed aside like a toy, and the gunners operating these guns were directly torn apart by the violent shock wave and shrapnel. In the end, in a short period of time, the counterattack fire of the Russian army tended to stop.

And when the frontal offensive reached its peak, Peng Yi's corps, which was located in the rear of the Russian army's southern front, also launched an attack. In the face of hastily established lines and positions, as well as the participating units of the Russian army cowering inside. Peng Yi's armored cluster can be said to be quite comfortable and comfortable!

"Compared with the previous two battles, our final battle can be described as the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, in the battle to defeat the Russian army on the northern front, the Russians can organize a considerable amount of artillery to suppress our army, can organize a powerful counterattack. Although we have an advantage, we are not easy to fight in the face of the Russian army, which occupies a numerical advantage, and the damage rate of the first batch of armored troops and combat vehicles is as high as more than 3%. The second time he fought with Linevich's armored forces. If it weren't for the fact that Cai Yi's troops disrupted the opponent's deployment, there might have been some resistance to our attack. However, even so, the loss of the Cai Yi Group, which was used as a bait, was very large. ”。 …。

"But in the final battle on the southern front, the Russians don't seem to be able to fight, they lack organized resistance, and they will panic under dense artillery fire, even if these fires can't cause much damage to the Russian troops hiding in the bunkers, our attack speed is no longer descriptive to destroy the ancient era, and it is not too much to sweep away the leaves with the breeze." After the war, Peng Yi commented on the battle on the Southern Front.

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