The bombardment sounded the clarion call for war, and a massive aerial bombardment was ensued, and this air raid was different from the routine bombing of more than 30 warplanes in previous days. Ｘ ２３ Ｕ Ｓ

In order to launch a general attack on the Gaizhou defense line, the Tiance Army Air Force dispatched a total of 120 Wuzhi 18 transport helicopters, striving to achieve suddenness and destruction.

The establishment of the Tiance Army's air force is still very small, and it is not yet possible to complete large-scale operations on its own in terms of scale; according to actual needs, the various types of fighters under the Tiance Army have been re-planned and expanded, and the General Headquarters has divided the air force into two parts, namely, the naval aviation and the army aviation.

These 120 Wuzhi 18 planes belonged to the army aviation of the Tiance Army, and were mainly used to coordinate the attack of the three divisions of the Tiance Army from the Liaodong Peninsula to the direction of Shengjing.

More than 100 huge transport helicopters were in the air, which could be described as covering the sky and the sun, and the humming roar made the sound of artillery bombardment on the battlefield much lower.

After reaching the target, the helicopter began to drop bombs from a high altitude, and dense 100-millimeter mortar shells fell from 800 meters in the air towards the Qing army's position, and the helicopter formation slowly advanced, and the carpet bombing began.

The intensity of such artillery bombardment and air raids is absolutely unprecedented, unprecedented, and even in World War II, in terms of firepower per unit area, it is difficult for many major countries to bear.

Compared with those countries that launched World War II, the weakness of the Tiance Army should be in the number of air forces, after all, the Tiance Army has no air enemies, so it has not deliberately developed anti-air combat weapons.

The Qing army was tragic, the intensity of the firepower of the Tiance army's general attack was not only three times that of the third division, the addition of rocket artillery doubled the intensity of artillery shelling, and the intensity of air attack almost quadrupled.

The vast Gaizhou defense line, the line from Shiban Mountain, Chimney Mountain to Wutai Mountain, which the Third Division had attacked, was once again shrouded in artillery fire, and the sound of explosions became the main theme here.

But this time was different from the first Gaizhou Battle, the artillery fire of the Tiance Army was too dense and too fast, and there was simply no safe place, except for death, it was still death.

The cat's ear hole in the thick log dome and the thick earthen fort could not stop the mortar shells weighing eight kilograms that fell from an altitude of 800 meters, nor could they stop the heavy grenades of 155 and 5 millimeters, and all the shells exploded into the sky after they landed.

The Qing army, trembling and crouching in the trenches, had no choice but to die first and then in such a dense bombardment.

In the deafening explosion, shrapnel was flying, rocks were flying, and gunpowder smoke was accompanied by dust, and large swaths of the Qing army were killed or shocked to death.

Every shell that fell into the trench caused a large number of deaths and screams, and most of those who were lucky enough not to die had blood oozing from their ears, noses, mouths and eyes, and their eyes were glazed and their heads were shivering, in fact, they had been severely injured.

Lying on Chimney Mountain, his jaw dropped when he was shocked by the huge artillery bombardment and bombardment of the Tiance Army.

This time, he learned well, and instead of blatantly waiting for the bombing on the enemy platform on the top of the mountain, he hid in the bushes and watched the battle.

The facts also confirmed his prediction, and the enemy platform on the top of the mountain, which was simply built to confuse the Tiance army, was destroyed in the first round of artillery bombardment.

The purpose of the Tiance Army's operation this time was to defeat the Qing army with lightning speed, so of course it was not a problem to kill the enemy headquarters at the first time.

However, the focus of the Tiance army's attack was not here, in order to confuse the Tiance army, the Qing army did not have many troops around the enemy platform on Chimney Mountain, so it was not covered with rocket artillery, which allowed Dolgon to escape, otherwise the bushes would also become a sea of fire.

Although he escaped the artillery fire with his cleverness, Dolgon lacked the excitement of the rest of his life, and the entire frontal position of the Qing army was almost all-round under the frenzied fire of the Tiance army, and there were bombing points everywhere, so it can be expected how heavy the casualties of the Qing army were!

Dolgon's face was pale, his lips trembled, and his hands trembling as he held the binoculars.

"Prince Rui, I'm afraid Gaizhou won't be able to hold it." Zilharang beside him said helplessly.

"I have the heart to kill the enemy, but I can't go back to heaven!" Dolgon let out a long sigh and said with tears in his eyes, "Is it true that I am going to die?" ”

Dorgon felt powerless, he was not reconciled! The warriors of the Qing Dynasty fought for courage and cavalry archery, but no matter how high the martial arts and how great the strength was, in the face of such a perverted army as the Tiance Army, even the overlord of Chu, who was trying to pull out the mountains and conquer the world, was helpless, and could only kill himself in Wujiang.

The last time the Celestial Army relied on a minefield, this time Dolgon no longer had that support. Not only could the productivity of the Qing Dynasty not keep up, and there was no more gunpowder to support this plan, but the constant air harassment of the Tiance Army made Dolgon's idea of creating a small minefield almost in vain.

The reason why it was almost in vain is because some gunpowder was still buried, but compared with the first battle of Gaizhou, there was not even a single percent, how could this little mine block the larger-scale attack of the Tiance army? He couldn't even think about it.

Since Lu Xiangsheng came to Liaodong, he saw that the Tiance Army had become better than in the past, but after the real battle began, he realized that he was still too shallow.

No country or force can withstand such a massive artillery bombardment, this is the force to destroy the country, in the face of such a force, any resistance is futile, and it is foreseeable that the fall of the Manchu Qing is at hand.

The new army, which took several years to build, was trained according to the standards of the Tiance Army, and now it seems that the new army is no different from the gap between children and giants compared to the Tiance Army.

The wanton bombardment continued, and the preparation time for artillery fire by the Tiance Army this time was longer than in previous wars, and the time was as long as two hours.

The Qing army's position was full of sand and rocks, gunpowder smoke and a sea of fire, and such a protracted saturation bombing could make anyone break down, even the Qing army that had participated in the first Gaizhou Battle could not withstand such blows and destruction.

After two hours of artillery preparation, most of the Qing troops in front of them had been killed and wounded, and despair spread among the Qing army, after all, the level of soil work of the Qing army could not be compared with the first war, but it had to be covered by artillery fire that surpassed that of World War II.

"This, is this going to blow us up alive?" A Qing soldier huddled under the inner wall of the trench with his head in his arms, trembling and shivering.

His spirit was already on the verge of collapse, and the artillery fire of the Tiance Army seemed to be unable to stop at all, who knew when a shell would fall here, and he would be blown up into the sky at any time.

"Don't fight, don't fight, Lao Tzu has descended!" Another Qing soldier shouted in despair that the fear that there might be no bones left at any time was too much for him to bear.

But the rumbling sound of artillery and dense explosions completely drowned out his voice. u