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, aimed at the coordinates set in advance, and a heavy shell was placed into the chamber, followed by a 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 area, one bombing point after another is advancing almost next to each other, and a wall of flames is tumbling and galloping on the Russian position. Crush everything they can see, whether it's bunkers or obstacles or artillery and soldiers. In the frenzy of steel and flames, they will be shattered 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 only this quarter of an hour. The artillery of the Chinese Army has opened a gap up to 800 meters wide for the attacking troops. All the bunkers, minefields and obstacles in this distance were destroyed by a dense rain of bullets, a layer of gray-black remnants of the explosion was left on the surface, and shrapnel could be seen everywhere, and after the first round of attacks was accepted, a battalion of the Chinese Army rushed to the opponent's position under the cover of direct-fire artillery and heavy mortars, and they attacked from the starting position dug in advance, and the distance between the two sides was only 500 meters! A German officer who was watching the battle wrote in his report. And that's just the beginning.

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, armed with their own weapons, went on the attack. Under the command of the officer, they rushed towards the positions of the Russians in a loose formation. In the case that the Russian troops at the breach had almost been wiped out, in just ten minutes, they occupied the gap and signaled 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 a rough idea. 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 had no 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. Facing the opposing side's breakthrough forces. We can't do it. 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 operational thinking.

The use of melee combat against the side with the advantage of firepower is indeed one of the best options for the weaker side, without the support of heavy artillery. The defending side has more troops and light artillery to create a local advantage. But everything has to be different. And this time, the elite infantry of the Huaxia 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. WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THE LATTER, IT IS A RELATIVELY LIGHT GUN, BUT IT HAS A CALIBER OF 75MM AND AN ANGLE OF FIRE FROM -15 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 view of the Chinese army, they were first greeted 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 HUAXIA COMMANDOS, AND AFTER A FEW SHORT SHOTS, ALL THE RUSSIAN WARP FIRE WAS COMPLETELY 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 teams launched attacks in squads alternately. All the troops spread around machine guns and grenadiers, knocking out the opposing firing points one by one, while breaking up the opponent's formation and then 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, after discovering that the previous forward troops were not effective in stopping the opponent and that the defense line was in a tendency to completely collapse. The main forces of the Russian army finally rushed out of the trenches and bunkers and began to pour towards the breakthrough. 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, and it was not just the Chinese assault forces that stood in their way. At the same time there are heavy artillery groups in 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 positions of the Russian army. Then this shelling was like a hammer that completely crushed the backbone of the Russian defense line.

AT THIS MOST CRITICAL MOMENT, THE REMAINING HEAVY ARTILLERY UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY FINALLY COULDN'T SIT STILL, AND THE REMAINING 6-INCH AND 107MM HEAVY GUNS FINALLY POPPED OUT OF THE HIDDEN GUN EMPLACEMENTS. Clusters of bright yellow flames flew out of the muzzles of the guns and flew towards the Chinese frontier artillery that was 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. And its own firing position was quickly discovered by the forward artillery observation posts. It was then passed through a telephone line to an 8-inch cannon dedicated to suppression.

These 8-inch 35L heavy guns are almost the largest guns that can be deployed out of the railroad. In order to transport these bulky cannons, the Chinese Army even specially 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 Russian long-range artillery, 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 POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY, WHICH CONTINUED TO FIRE. The powerful 8-inch high-explosive shells directly penetrated the artillery bunkers built by the Russian army, and 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-explosive exploded in the artillery pools, countless flames and shrunnel 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 who operated these guns were directly torn apart by the furious 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 offense is at its peak. Peng Yi's corps, which is located in the rear of the southern front of the Russian army, also launched an attack, and in the face of the hastily established defense line and positions and the participating troops 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 last 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 strong 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%. In the second confrontation with Linevich's armored forces, if it were not for the fact that Cai Yi's troops disrupted the opponent's deployment, our offensive might have some resistance. However, even so, the loss of the Cai Yi Group, which was used as a bait, was very large. ”

"But in the battle of 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 firepower can't cause much damage to the Russian troops hiding in the bunker, our attack speed is no longer destructive, and it is not too much to sweep the leaves with a clear wind." After the war, Peng Yi commented on the battle on the Southern Front.

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