After getting the drawings, the officers of Germany and the United States also immediately began to study, some discussed the troop deployment of the two sides, some deduced the progress of the battle, and some just analyzed the successes and failures of the two sides, but most people are optimistic about the People's Army in this battle, after all, the Russian army is indeed inferior to the People's Army in all aspects, and it only depends on whether the People's Army can win this battle beautifully.

Of course, KPA did not show the Mission everything, such as self-propelled guns and towed guns, because these two weapons are based on modern vehicles, and since they are self-propelled guns, which are based on heavy trucks, they are so amazing that it is better not to show them to the Mission in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. As for the warrior vehicles, amphibious tanks and so on, they cannot be seen by the observation group.

In fact, the members of the observation mission also knew that the KPA must still have good things to hide from them, but they could also understand that, after all, the relations between Germany and the United States and the East China government were not so good, and it would be good to be able to tell everything and let the mission see armored trains and fixed-wing aircraft. So I didn't talk to myself about this boring.

In fact, the Russian army has established a relatively solid and complete defensive setup in the Hulunbuir area. Because after the departure from Harbin, the Russian army began to operate the defense of the first line from Hulunbuir to Manchuria to prevent the offensive of the People's Army. Although the manpower of the Russian army is insufficient, after all, it took more than 5 months, so it has been able to complete a large civil engineering project by now. The Russian army has built two lines of defense in the Hulunbuir area, each line of defense is up to 200 meters deep, about 3,000 meters apart, and between the two lines of defense, 4 communication trenches have been dug to connect, the traffic trenches are covered with wooden planks and paved with grass and soil, only from the outside, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it, and each traffic trench has also dug out 2-4 temporary military stations, each military station can store 500-600 soldiers.

This is because in the early battle, the Russian army already knew that the artillery of the People's Army was sharp, and it was equipped with large-caliber artillery loaded by armored trains, which not only had a long range, but also because there were aircraft in the air reconnaissance, which could provide the artillery with fingers and ballistic parameters for precise strikes, so the Russian army also thought of a lot of countermeasures, and the communication trenches connecting the two lines of defense were to deal with the powerful artillery firepower of the People's Army.

The Russian army fought with the Japanese army in the early stage to mainly defend, and later fought with the People's Army many times, learning war in the war, to the point that the People's Army's tunnel tactics were learned to 6 or 7 percent, the entire defense line is irregular wave shape, and every 10-15 meters there will be a right-angle bend, and in the trenches evenly set up machine gun points, but also in the rear of the defense line set up rest areas, field hospitals, barracks, etc. In front of the trenches, the Russian army set up two more barbed wire fences and wooden horses to block the offensive of the People's Army.

In addition, the Russian army also knows that its artillery is small in number and has a short firing range, and the artillery of the People's Army is good at accurate strikes because of the guidance of aircraft, and the artillery firepower of the People's Army is to find death, so the artillery is scattered and arranged, and use the woods near the position, or dig holes in the rear of the position, hide the artillery, and drag it out when it needs to be used.

It should be said that the Russian army's arrangement cannot be regarded as imperfect, but there are two weaknesses that are always difficult to overcome, one is that the number of artillery is too small, the Russian army has only more than 120 artillery pieces, and only 16 artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and the firepower is obviously weak, and the second is that the number of troops deployed by the Russian army in Hulunbuir is less than 50,000, which is far less than that of the People's Army. And these gaps are not something that a well-developed fortification can compensate.

At this time, the People's Army also completed the layout of the offensive, the main position is about 1,500 meters away from the Russian position, of course, in the most marginal place, less than 1,000 meters, concentrated more than 240 artillery pieces, including about 60 guns above 100 mm caliber, and 30 155 mm caliber artillery, including 12 155 mm field artillery regiments, 18 155 mm car traction field artillery regiments, a total of 9 artillery positions were set up, and this still did not include the 155 mm guns on the armored train。 Moreover, after the start of the war, there will be two planes hovering over the battlefield without interruption, one responsible for observing the entire battle situation and providing battlefield information to the KPA, and the other responsible for providing guidance on firing parameters for the artillery. There are also 2 small drones as a supplement.

Originally, these two tasks could be completed with helicopters and large UAVs, but now all helicopters and large UAVs cannot be used, and small UAVs cannot take care of such a large battlefield, so only 2 aircraft and 2 small UAVs are used instead, and the entire battle situation can basically be monitored. Although this does not provide detailed and accurate shooting parameters for artillery bombardment, it can be slowly calibrated to achieve accurate shooting targets.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, *** officially gave the order to start the attack, and the first to fire 4 armored trains carrying 240 mm caliber heavy guns.

The four huge cannons were divided into two rounds and fired at a rate of about one minute, and the huge impact force generated by the artillery firing made even the members of the observation group who were watching the battle on the dirt hill about 2,000 meters away could feel the tremor of the earth, and the shells fell into the Russian array, causing a huge explosion and gunsmoke, which could be seen clearly even without binoculars.

The 240 mm heavy artillery carried out 4 or 5 rounds of bombardment steadily, mainly to gradually calibrate the firing parameters, and the members of the observation group could see through binoculars that there were 7 or 8 huge gaps and craters in the Russian position, and the power of Bi Jing's 240 mm shells was not a joke, not to mention that all the bombs used now were blasting shells, not ***, and the larger the amount of filling, the greater the power of the explosion.

Ludendorff put down his binoculars, looked back at the position of the armored train gun, and made up his mind that after returning home, he must persuade the staff to develop German armored trains and at the same time develop large-caliber heavy artillery. The expressions of the others were also different, but they were all quite solemn. Although the armies of various countries also have large-caliber heavy artillery with more than 200 mm, they are all short-barreled mortar guns, with a diameter-to-size ratio of about 10 and a firing range of about 10 kilometers, while the armored train gun is a standard naval gun, with a diameter-to-weight ratio of 35, and the power is not the same.

At this time, the 240-mm heavy guns had already calibrated their respective firing parameters, so the 18 155-mm vehicle-towed field guns of the People's Army and the 8 155-mm guns equipped with armored trains also opened fire, and these 26 155-mm guns were also used by the naval standard, with a diameter-to-ratio ratio of 40 times and a range of more than 15 kilometers, all of which were outside the range of the Russian artillery, so they could also be fired without care. Of course, the position of the 155-mm vehicle-towed field guns was arranged behind the side of another hill, which blocked the view of the observation group, so that they could only hear the roar of artillery, gunsmoke, and sparks, but not the artillery.

After 26 155mm guns joined the bombardment, the firepower of the People's Army suddenly soared, and the huge sound of "boom boom boom" was endless, and in the positions of the Russian army, the explosions produced were also continuous, and the sparks produced by the explosion splashing kept appearing.

Of course, there are still 2 200 mm caliber vehicle-mounted self-propelled guns in the People's Army that have not fired, and they are waiting for the Russian artillery to return fire, and then directly attack the Russian artillery positions.

About 15 minutes later, the Russian army did not return artillery fire, but blindly endured the KPA shelling. And *** saw it, so he ordered all other artillery positions to also open fire together to bombard the Russian positions.

More than 200 artillery pieces all opened fire, and the momentum was naturally amazing, and the positions of the Russian troops were almost completely covered by explosions and gunsmoke. The observer group watching the battle was also discussing the situation of the battle.

Schuster said: "Why didn't the Russian army fight back?"

Ludendorff said: "Because their artillery range is too close, and the KPA has aircraft as an observation point for artillery, a counterattack will be caught by the KPA and attack the artillery position." ”

Schuster said: "But the Russian army will not fight back after being beaten like this? That result is still the same failure, it is better to fight back, maybe there is still a chance." ”

Ludendorff shook his head and said, "I don't agree with your opinion, now the Russian army will fight back, and there will be no chance." Although I don't know how the Russian army plans to deal with the firepower superiority of the KPA, I think the Russian army must have another arrangement, please carefully observe the positions of the Russian army, you will find that there are not many dead soldiers, this phenomenon is obviously very abnormal. ”

Schuster listened, hurriedly picked up the binoculars, looked very carefully, and sure enough, he saw that although the Russian position was blown up by artillery fire, there were indeed not many corpses of soldiers, at least in Schuster, there were only 3 or 4 of them. Although the Russian soldiers were hiding in the trenches, the shock wave from the strong explosion was enough to blow the corpses out, although there were not too many soldiers who were blown out, but it was by no means the only one that Schuster saw so little. Therefore, Schuster was also very surprised, and said: "Could it be that the Russian army has abandoned this line of defense and has not sent troops to guard it at all?"

Ludendorff said: "It shouldn't be like this, because the People's Army will definitely see this situation before us, but they have planes in the air to reconnoitre, but they still continue to shell, which shows that things are not so simple." ”

Schuster looked up at the two planes hovering in the air and said, "General, I have always had a question, how do planes transmit information to the ground during aerial reconnaissance?"

Ludendorff sighed bitterly and said: "This is also our question, it is very likely that the East China government has made a major breakthrough in wireless communication technology, which can miniaturize wireless equipment to be installed on the aircraft, and the other may be to transmit information to the ground through flight attitude and trajectory, similar to the flag, but in this way the aircraft flight attitude and trajectory must follow a certain rule, but I think the first possibility is greater, because according to my observation, their aircraft flight attitude and trajectory are not regular. ”

When Schuster heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "If that's the case with the miniaturization of wireless devices, we must get it." ”

Ludendorff sighed and said, "If the East China government really has the technology of miniaturization of wireless devices, it must be their core technology, and it is probably not so easy to obtain this technology." ”