Chapter 546 Bombardment and Indiscriminate Bombardment
Zhukov's intention was extremely simple, that is, to eat the positions here with the heaviest artillery fire, to blow them up, to quickly advance with tanks and cavalry, to occupy one place, and to tear the opening. And the other points are also real attacks, not feints.
The shelling, the roar continued, the flames in front of the positions were quickly blown out in the face of the violent shock wave, and the tanks braved the farms, but there were no open flames.
Meng Zhaocheng was bombarded again, he didn't rush to open fire, he needed to wait, wait for the opponent's troops to board the position, and then strangle. He didn't believe it, did Soviet Russia have so many tanks?
In the fierce battle in Hutou for just a few hours, there were seven or eight hundred tanks, and the wreckage kept a division guarding there busy for most of the day.
And just now, according to the observation of the frontier, there were not five hundred, but more than three hundred, a large area. In the face of effective fire, under the bombardment of artillery of more than 105 calibers, not many of the opposing tanks were able to escape.
He didn't know that the industry of Soviet Russia was developing rapidly, tanks, continuous research and development, mass production of equipment, and now these are not all of them, and countless cannons and tanks are constantly entering Siberia along the railway, striving to accumulate enough firepower in Siberia before the heavy snow closes the road.
The shelling lasted for nearly half an hour, and the first position on the front line was already dilapidated, and it was impossible to see the appearance of the position at all. If there were still people on the battlefield, if they were not buried alive, they would have died today.
Most of the tunnels collapsed, and the dirt on the bunkers was all blown away. The wood built in the tunnel was also blown to pieces, and large holes everywhere were repaired. There is no need to count on it for a short time.
Zhukov shelled for so long, not just to blow up the position, but to take advantage of the smoke billowing from the bombardment, to send the artillery to a position twenty kilometers away from the front line, ready to sneak attack the artillery group behind the enemy's position.
This time, he laid out more than 600 cannons. Strive to destroy the opponent's artillery in one fell swoop, so that the opponent's advantage is lost, and you can easily take the position.
Meng Zhaocheng was waiting for the Soviet Russian troops to take up the position, when suddenly, the monitoring group responsible for monitoring the sky called, and a swarm flew in the sky.
"Air defense ready!!"
Meng Zhaocheng ordered unhurriedly.
The artillery positions are guarded by anti-aircraft guns, and he is not afraid of aircraft bombardment, and the long-range artillery at the rear point not only has anti-aircraft artillery, but also camouflage. Aircraft in the sky could not see the position at all, and naturally they could not carry out effective bombing.
To his surprise, the Soviet Russian bombers, escorted by fighters, did not bomb the artillery positions, and the targets were actually the second and third positions.
"Fire!!"
The moment the bombs fell in the sky, he understood the intentions of the Russian army and ordered the artillery to be fired.
The Russian planes were still two or three kilometers away from the artillery base behind the position. But the height is only a kilometer. This height and distance did not delay the bombardment of the anti-aircraft artillery, and when they laid their eggs comfortably, a dense cloud of smoke flashed over the second line.
The clouds burst out in patches of steel balls, which crackled on the plane, and the weak points of the propellers and wings were the most easily destroyed by the steel balls. In the midst of the steel balls flying in the sky, the Russian pilots only heard the crackling sound of the plane, and then the wings broke and the engine caught fire. One after another, planes smoked in the air, exploded in volleys, or dragged smoke and fell to the ground.
"Block all the blosites at position three!"
"Plugging the air holes in Area 5, shooting holes ......"
As one plane after another was hit, the shouts also rang out, and then the planes made a screeching sound, crashing to the ground with a bang, and then a skyrocketing fire ignited.
The fierce explosion of ammunition shook the soldiers in the bunker, but fortunately there was nothing on the surface of the position, otherwise all would have been destroyed by the violent explosion.
"Get out of here!!"
All the bombers opened the bomb magazines, poured all the bombs down, desperately pulled up, and fled to the bright sky.
In front of the dense anti-aircraft artillery, not many people were able to escape, and in just five or six minutes, those who were early were lifted up, left the explosion area, and were lucky enough to escape to heaven. But most of the planes remained here, and although the bombed positions were in disarray, and there were large craters everywhere, they did not cause actual damage to the fighters.
After Zhukov tested the enemy's anti-aircraft fire with 30 bombers, he gave up the plan to use the planes and continued to use the previous plan.
With the roar of the cannons, hundreds of artillery pieces had already arrived at their positions, and in the heavily defended woods, they were set up and ready to fire. Ahead, patches of trees were felled down to open the way for shells to fly, and again under heavy shelling, they were ready.
At the moment when most of the planes were shot down, Meng Zhaocheng ordered: "The anti-aircraft artillery withdraws from its position, enters the rear long-range artillery position, and the shells enter the anti-artillery trenches, and prepare to resist the bombardment." ”
With his order, the vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns drove away from the position one by one and withdrew to the rear. The cannonballs all entered the tunnel, and the soldiers also jumped into the tunnel, waiting for the cannon to stand there alone.
The other side bombarded for half an hour, and the tank rushed up again, accompanied by the I cavalry, and the grandmother pressed the corpse of her companion, lying on the corpse that was no longer steaming, and rushed to the position, and then occupied the position without any suspense.
The scouts, who had moved forward after the bombardment, heard the rumbling of motors in the smoke and ran back as they shouted: "The enemy tanks have taken position!" ”
"Artillery ready!!"
After receiving the report from the rear, shouts rang out from the positions.
The fighters who were dodging behind the cannon left the pit one after another, rushed to the cannon, reloaded as fast as they could, and the cannon roared.
The shells tore through the smoke and fell densely on the front line, and in the loud roar, the cavalrymen who had just entered the position turned on their backs, the shouts of fear and pain, and the neighing of the war horses, it was noisy.
Tanks, too, did not escape, and as the tanks struggled forward, the shells either destroyed the tanks or shook the drivers inside, causing the tanks to stop moving forward in the smoke, or gas fires, or silent.
The observers, who were in charge of the headwind team, judged from experience that the enemy's artillery position was no more than four kilometers from the front line, so although there were no coordinates, the approximate distance was available.
"All artillery, fire!!"
In the second echelon, the artillery close to the front line roared in the order, and then hundreds of shells flew towards the artillery positions in the rear of the advance army in the blaze of the forward positions.
"Enter the anti-artillery bunker!!"
Hearing the rumbling sound and shouting one by one, the soldiers quickly jumped into the trench behind the cannon, and loved you to send the shells into the trench to avoid the shelling.
No sooner had they packed up than the shells whistled and fell.
The loud bang knocked over the artillery and dirt of a gate, and I love you to bury the shells in the trenches, and even the soldiers are buried together.
The violent explosion made the soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches uncomfortable, even if they brought their newly arrived ear bags, they still couldn't resist the violent roar, and their chests and abdomen churned, and they were dizzy.
During the shelling, Zhukov did not hear the sound of martyrdom, he was very strange, it is said that such a dense shelling, even if the position of the opponent's position is not accurate, but the coverage is so large, how can it be able to bombard the position, why is there no martyrdom? And the other side no longer covered the front line, which means that the position was shelled, but there was no martyrdom, which made him puzzled.
Just as he was pondering, Meng Zhaocheng yelled: "Blow up these bunnies for me!" ”
With his roar, the observer, who had already calculated the position of the opponent's artillery, quickly burst out the coordinates, and with it, the cannon was corrected one by one, and then the shells whistled and flew into the distance.
The Russian fighters who were entering the first line of positions heard that the running was different when they heard the running overhead, and they were flying towards their rear, and they all turned their heads to look behind them, wanting to know the location and result of the enemy's shelling.
"Clear the battlefield and enter the position!! Build a line of defense!! ”
When the commander of the Soviet Russian front saw that the enemy's shelling had stopped, he immediately shouted.
The infantry who followed the cavalry and the tanks into the position came back to their senses at this moment, picked up the sapper shovels, rushed to the front, found the pit that did not collapse in the big pit on the ground, entered it, and began to repair the fortifications, ready to let go of the position that was taken.
At this moment, several loud bangs sounded in the distance, and the earth trembled, and in the distance, more than a dozen artillery positions flew with the effectiveness of this side, and in the loud bang, it caused a martyrdom.
The furious shockwave destroyed the surrounding trees, mountains, and forests, and instantly reduced the piece to nothing in the flames. The cannon, like a toy, was flipped to the ground and tumbled, and everything but the barrel was badly deformed. What's more, the barrels of the guns are also cracked and twisted, becoming scrap metal.
The violent concussion made Zhukov feel a pain in his flesh. Instead of destroying the opponent's artillery position, the opponent let the opponent destroy the position that he had just moved forward. And what the losses of the opponent's positions were, he still does not know.
However, he was not discouraged, because the front line had been reported, the position was firmly in their hands, the defense line had been built, and the tanks, with the advance and the cavalry, also rushed to the front with the tanks at the end of the enemy's artillery bombardment, striving to seize another position.
The intensity of the battle in Mongolia far exceeded Dong Ku's estimate, even if the artillery is still powerful for the time being, but, the enemy's family is thick, a small loss can not control the situation of the battle, continuous attrition, will make the dog there unbearable, the four positions, even if a period of artillery bombardment, eliminate the enemy on the position, also lose the meaning of recapture, can not be repaired. (To be continued......)