At 3:20 a.m. on 20 May, in the southwestern corner of the Crimean peninsula, according to the original plan, the assault on the fortress of Sevastopol began simultaneously.

Unlike the field fortifications of the Crimean Front in the eastern part of the peninsula, the Sevastopol fortress had a strong fortress defense system.

Reinforced concrete fortifications with armoured turrets, two ancient fortresses, "Maxim Gorky 1" and "Maxim Gorky 2", defend this ancient fortress harbor in the north and south.

On the periphery of the Sevastopol fortress, the Russian army has built three lines of defense, with a total length of 350 kilometers of trenches.

On the cobweb-shaped trenches, the Russian army built hundreds of small reinforced concrete gun emplacements and pillboxes, and of course the positions were indispensable for supporting systems such as barbed wire, anti-tank trenches and mines.

In addition to the artificial barriers, the east-west direction of the fortress in the north of the fortress, the Severnaya Bay, the Belbek Valley, the Rose Mountain, the Olive Mountain and other natural hazards also became the most insurmountable barriers to protect the Sevastopol fortress.

The whole fortress is like a hard walnut, and in order to eat delicious walnut kernels, you must smash open the hard shell outside.

And to break open a hard walnut shell, a harder hammer is needed.

In the face of the "hard walnut" of Sevastopol, the commanders of the 12th Army, General Heinrich and Chen Dao, quickly reached a consensus, and the two decisively joined forces to build a heavy hammer.

The hammer consisted of up to 1500 cannons of various calibers of various models from the sky to the sea.

The GR34 81-mm mortar and the FLAK36 88-mm anti-aircraft gun can only be the smallest caliber, and the 105-mm howitzer and 150-mm howitzer are only small brother guns in the artillery group.

The real backbone is the aerial bomb from the air, as well as the "Gamma Equipment Thor Karl" and "Super Gustav" as the top configuration.

The caliber of the "Gamma device" is touching, reaching 420 mm, the weight of the shell reaches 923 kg, and the firing range is 15 km.

Even more touching in caliber is the "Super Gustav" cannon, with a caliber of 800 mm, to which Super Gustav contributed at the beginning of the war to the capture of the Brest Fortress.

The cannon requires four rails to operate, and up to 4,000 people are required to assemble, maintain, and use it alone.

The huge caliber also brings amazing destructive power, and Super Gustav is able to shoot an armor-piercing projectile weighing up to 7 tons, or a high-explosive projectile weighing 4,800 kilograms, at a distance ranging from 28 to 60 kilometers, living up to its weight of 400 tons.

Shortly after his arrival in Crimea, Chen Dao visited the positions of the 25th Panzergrenadier Regiment under Hitler's Youth Division, and as a result, Colonel Federer, who accompanied him to observe the enemy's positions, was sniped in front of him.

In anger, Chen Dao's first thought was to use the "Super Gustav" to retaliate, but at that time, the super cannon had not been assembled, so he had no choice but to replace it with V-1 and V-2 rockets, which allowed a certain "spare tire" captain and his sweetheart to survive.

"Thor Karl" is a self-propelled mortar with a caliber of 600 mm, although the caliber is not as good as that of Super Gustav, but there are as many as six guns, and the comprehensive destructive power exceeds that of Super Gustav.

After assembling a powerful artillery force, Admiral Heinrich even came up with the old World War I style of play.

In World War I, in order to break the stalemate brought about by trench warfare, the initiator of the attack often had to carry out artillery bombardment of the enemy's positions for three or four days or even a week before launching an infantry attack to weaken the enemy's fortifications.

Faced with the fortress of Sevastopol, Admiral Heinrich finally decided to set the time of the shelling at six days, and then launch an infantry attack after the shelling was over.

On the first day of the shelling, the Luftwaffe's Eighth Air Corps made as many as 1,500 sorties.

The carpet bombing bombed the Soviet airfield in the southwest corner of Sevastopol to the surface of the moon, and more than 70 Soviet fighters that had taken off to meet them were quickly drowned in the strangulation of German escort fighters.

On the first day of the battle, the Luftwaffe gained absolute air supremacy on the battlefield.

In the days that followed, without the harassment of the enemy's air force, the German artillery units acted boldly and fanatically.

HE-111 and JU-88 medium bombers flew smoothly in the air under fighter escort, dropping 50-kilogram and 250-kilogram bombs meter by meter to cover the enemy's exposed positions.

Fighter-bombers swooped down, dropping 500 or even 1,000 kg of bombs under the desperate gaze of the Soviets, and then swept over the ground and fired at aviation machine guns and cannons.

On the ground, the antiaircraft gunners pushed their 88-mm anti-aircraft guns to the front of their positions and shelled the enemy's various exposed observation holes and shooting holes by means of direct-aim fire.

"There are 88 guns in there, the Russians don't want to probe outside."

On the night of the 20th, the German artillery bombardment ceased briefly, and the special guests on the battlefield, V-1 and V-2 rockets, made their debut.

V-1 in the first half of the night, V-2 in the second half of the night, one every twenty minutes, so that the Russians could not sleep well.

Keeping in mind Chen Dao's teachings, the rocket units belonging to the Waffen-SS system did the dirty work of firing black artillery at night.

Due to the large number of errors, after the V-1 and V-2 rockets were launched, even if the missiles were fired from the same launcher, even the shooters could not guarantee where they would fall, in short, they could only guarantee that they would fall into the city of the fortress.

There is no regular landing point, but it allows the rocket to play a peculiar effect of pointing east to west and guiding to hit north.

On the morning of the 21st, another powerful artillery unit belatedly joined the siege of the Sevastopol fortress.

This force was none other than the combined fleet led by Chen Dao with an artillery firepower.

Led by the 406-mm naval guns of the battleship Hindenburg, and the main guns of various types such as 380 mm and 203 mm, they dealt a devastating blow to the "Maxim Gorky-2" battery at the southernmost point of the Sevastopol fortress.

For a whole day, German artillery poured tens of thousands of shells on Russian positions.

During the night, the V-1 and V-2 rockets, dragging a bright trail, again brought nightmares to the defenders inside the fortress with great malice.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, after a long day of marching, the heavily armored brigade of the "Polish Doge's Guard" arrived in the northern part of the port of Balaklava in the southwestern corner of the Crimean peninsula.

Seeing the vast arable land and the green crop fields, Major Piper couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes.

Finally out of the valley, the mountainous terrain is one of the most annoying operational terrains for a heavily armored army.

As he was admiring the scenery along the way, a sudden loud bang rushed into Major Piper's ears.

"Buzz ······" The sound of tinnitus kept echoing in his head, and Major Piper frowned and looked at the woods on the right side of the road.

Black-gray smoke hung over the green foliage of the trees, and a fork in the road branched off to the right, and it was obvious that there was a big guy hiding in the woods at the end of the fork.

Major Piper stared at the woods in confusion, which big guy was hiding inside? 8)

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