Although it is not clear the power of this 203-mm howitzer equipped by the Soviet army, according to the power of the 152-mm howitzer of the Soviet army during the Battle of Nomenhan, the power of this howitzer with a larger caliber will certainly not be small. If the Soviet army dispatched dozens of such large-caliber heavy guns in one go during the battle, then the result?

The power of the Soviet army's 152-mm howitzer has fully made the Japanese fully understand the gap between their artillery performance and firing range in actual combat. The firing range of the Soviet army's 152-mm howitzer was six kilometers farther than that of the Japanese army's latest Type 96 150-mm howitzer.

You have the Type 92 and Type 96 150mm cannons with a long range, but they also have the A9 Type 122mm cannons and the Type 30 107mm cannons with similar range. The gap in artillery performance has caused you to want to hit people out of reach, and people want to slap you, so they will directly fan you from afar.

For the Kwantung Army, the power of the Soviet army's 152-mm howitzers and 122 howitzers was already amazing. If this kind of super howitzer, which can only be more powerful, is 203 mm caliber, what can it resist if it smashes on its own position? Although the Japanese also had similar howitzers, and this four-five-type two-hundred-and-forty-mm howitzer had a larger caliber.

But it takes a lot of time for your own heavy howitzer to be transported to placed. And as long as you enter the position, it will be difficult to move. But the Soviets are mobile, and their own long-legged ones can be dragged around by high-power tractors. The Soviets could throw them into any battlefield they wanted, as long as they wanted to.

Although the Japanese army in the First World War of Normenham did not think of the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army's air force, it can even be said that it could even be said to have turned its nose up. He was also somewhat unconvinced by the combat effectiveness and tactics of his armored forces. Most of the Japanese officers and men believed that they had lost in quantity, but definitely not in quality.

The Type 95 tanks equipped by the Japanese army and the Type 97 tanks that participated in the battle for the first time were not inferior in performance to the BT fast tanks and T26 tanks of the Soviet Army. Moreover, the technical and tactical level of the Japanese tank crew was far higher than that of the Soviet army. The ability of infantry to cooperate with each other is not comparable to that of the Soviet army. The difference between the Kwantung Army and the Soviets was the overwhelming difference in the number of tanks with the Soviets.

But in this battle, what really impressed the Japanese army the most was the all-time and overwhelming artillery fire of the Soviet army. The Kwantung Army was really frightened by the Soviet artillery in this battle. In that battle, the overwhelming artillery fire of the Soviet army became an unforgettable nightmare for almost all Japanese officers and soldiers who participated in the battle.

The Japanese have always thought that they have a good eye for doing things, and in order to avoid a future war, the almost terrifying artillery fire of the Soviet army will destroy their artillery positions. Under the circumstance that the national strength was limited and it was impossible to increase the artillery establishment by too much a large margin, the Kwantung Army, after repeated consideration, decided to change all the artillery positions in the fortified area of the Tongliao area to underground and semi-underground.

At the beginning of this year, in the face of the aggressive posture of the Anti-United Nations, they were worried about being attacked by the Soviet Army from the west and the Kwantung Army from the north. In addition, two directly subordinate engineering wings were mobilized, and 20,000 laborers were recruited from South Manchuria, and the original fortification groups in the Tongliao area were further improved and reinforced.

In order to speed up the progress, the Kwantung Army adopted the method of exchanging human lives for speed. In a short period of time, Tongguò squeezed Chinese laborers and made a great improvement to the original fortifications. In particular, further adjustments and modifications were made to the flank fortifications facing north. At the time of the launch of this campaign, although it had not yet been fully completed, the main fortifications had been basically completed.

It's just that these Japanese troops worked hard to manage the so-called border fortification zone that was originally used to deal with the Soviet army's large cluster armored assault, and it was not used by the Soviet army, but it was the first to let the Anti-Japanese Union catch up. Whether it is Wang Guangyu in the Linxi battlefield or Chen Hanzhang in the Tongliao battlefield, they have not suffered less in this regard.

In desperation on the battlefield in Linxi, the Soviet-made 152-mm howitzers and 122-mm cannons obtained in Outer Mongolia were used to fire directly at the level. These large-caliber artillery guns fired flat, almost with the momentum of devastation, and sent these permanent and semi-permanent fortification groups built by the Japanese army directly to the Western Heavenly King Guangyu. Chen Hanzhang, who does not have this condition, suffers even more.

Compared with the Tongliao battlefield, the fortified areas of the Linxi battlefield hardly played a big role. Wang Guangyu poked out a huge basket, but his actions in Outer Mongolia gave him considerable conditions for quickly solving the Linxi battlefield. It can be said that without these powerful Soviet-made artillery, he is estimated to be inferior to Chen Hanzhang in the Linxi battlefield, where the terrain is more unfavorable.

These Soviet-made howitzers and cannons not only suppressed the artillery of the 23rd Division, but were even more powerful in dealing with its permanent fortifications. In particular, the A-19 Type 122 mm cannon, which fires flat at a distance of 500 meters, can be described as quite amazing in terms of lethality and destruction ability. Hardly any of the Japanese permanent fortifications could withstand a flat fire at a distance of 500 meters.

Even the Japanese permanent fortification complexes built along the mountains could not withstand the fire of 152-mm howitzers. It can be said that without these Soviet-made artillery, there would be no current Linxi battlefield. When interspersed, Wang Guangyu, who is equipped with similar equipment to Chen Hanzhang, is probably still gnawing bones on the periphery.

Throughout World War II, and even the course of the Sino-Japanese War, in fact, the strategic vision of the Japanese is really not good, but there are often some exceptions. This time, the Kwantung Army began to assault and strengthen the fortification group at the beginning of the year, but now it is really a blind cat that has encountered a dead mouse, which has brought great trouble to the Anti-Japanese Union.

Although these permanent fortifications were somewhat hasty in the reconstruction and reinforcement, the construction time was also a little short. But for the Japanese, who have always been meticulous, the quality is not bad. All the fortifications are constructed with high-grade cement, and the thickness of the reinforced concrete of all the core fortifications is generally about 70 or 80 centimeters, and even some of the fortifications are even thicker, with a thickness of one meter.

Although it could not be compared with Hutou, Dongning and other places that could compete with the flat fire of more than 150 mm artillery, the fortress group built by the Japanese army in the eastern region. However, the thickness of its fortifications is also far from being comparable to the original simple field fortification group. At least the artillery that Chen Hanzhang currently has is basically helpless against its core fortifications, and these fortification groups, especially the core permanent fortifications, not to mention the shells of the 57 recoilless guns and the rockets fired by the bazookas, can not even leave a pit in a direct hit at close range. Even a 75-mm field gun could not destroy these core permanent fortifications, and a direct hit would only be a shallow hole in the appearance, which could not be destroyed at all.

In particular, although the number of artillery pieces equipped by the Anti-United Nations is large, due to its own military production capacity, there are only ordinary anti-personnel explosive grenades and incendiary bombs, and some special shells such as concrete destruction bombs are lacking. Coupled with the lack of large-caliber artillery, Chen Hanzhang's artillery was even more helpless against these thick-skinned permanent fortification groups.

After the Kwantung Army occupied the Northeast, in order to attack the northward attack on the Soviet Union, which was an imaginary enemy of itself, how many fortifications it built in the Northeast, not to mention the current Anti-Japanese Alliance, no one knows even decades later. These so-called fortresses and border fortifications are not only widely distributed, but also very tightly equipped with firepower, and their fortification is also quite strong.

In the battle of attacking fortified positions lacking heavy artillery, Chen Hanzhang's most effective method in attacking was to use 14-mm and 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns to block their firing holes at long-range flat fire. and the use of tank guns to accurately fire at their firing holes on the perimeter of minefields, covering infantry to gradually clear the surrounding bunkers first.

At the same time, the mortars and mountain artillery of the concentration regiments and battalions were used to clear the anti-infantry mines and anti-tank minefields around the fortifications with intensive artillery fire. Then cover the tank and infantry groups to attack, or have the sappers blow up the core with large charge explosives.

However, although this tactic has made relatively large progress, it has not been smooth under the interference of artillery fire from the rear of the Japanese army. The flat-firing 14-mm machine gun, although it could easily penetrate most of the Japanese cover bunkers except for the core fortifications.

But these bunkers are a combination of light and dark, and some even the infantry has rushed around the core fortifications, and the bunkers are exposed and fired. Moreover, most of the bunkers and fortification groups around the core fortifications of the Japanese army were deployed in a plum blossom shape, forming the overall structure of the sub-mother fort.

It not only has a bunker group facing straight ahead, which is configured with the main fort and cross-covered. There are also a large number of flank bunker groups deployed on the flanks to cover the core fortification group. And these bunkers and bunkers built on the flanks are difficult to find and destroy.

These are very low, no more than fifty centimeters above the ground, and set up extremely tricky bunkers, even if they are discovered. But the angle of down-fire was simply not up to such a low flat-firing anti-aircraft machine gun, and there was almost nothing that could be done about it, and it was simply impossible to block its point of fire.

At the same time, in the entire fortified area of this triangle, there are not only a large number of permanent fortifications. After the Battle of Normenhan, the Japanese army also based on the experience of this battle, starting from the confluence of the West Liao River and the East Liao River in the east to the east bank of the Xinkai River in the Kailu region in the west. From the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin in the south to the south bank of the Xinkai River in the middle banner of the left wing of Horqin in the north, a large number of anti-tank trenches and a complete trench system have been constructed.

These anti-tank trenches formed a wide anti-tank line between the Xinkai River and the Xiliao River. What made Chen Hanzhang and his tank men most depressed was that although the quality of the Japanese anti-tank artillery was as poor as ever, and the quantity was as small as ever, the threat posed to his tank troops could be said to be almost negligible.

But this time, Chen Hanzhang discovered that the Japanese army had laid a large number of anti-tank mines on the battlefield, which had never been seen before. In order to clear these mines, which were similar to the threat to tanks than those of meat bullets, they had to be cleared by artillery fire as much as possible in the face of the dense infantry fire of the Japanese army. However, the consumption of artillery shells for mine clearance further exacerbates the unnecessary loss of artillery shells.

However, because of the needs of the operation, the interspersed troops did not carry large-caliber artillery, especially the lack of large-caliber direct-aim artillery. Because of the high speed requirements, the artillery equipment equipped with, except for the rocket artillery with better mobility, all the artillery of more than 100 mm was left in the rear.

In particular, the bulky large-caliber guns, all remained in the rear. Chen Hanzhang's two divisions, a tank brigade and a cavalry brigade, all the artillery together, except for a 100-mm howitzer battalion, is still dominated by 75-mm mountain artillery. As for the 2nd Tank Brigade, which was the main force of the assault, there were only 16 self-propelled guns in the brigade converted from 75-mm Type 38 field guns.