"My Führer! The shelling is about to begin! Your location is ready. While Li Le, the fake Führer, was smiling and waving to enjoy the cheers of the soldiers, an officer walked up to the Führer, stood up and saluted and reported.

The Führer was here to watch the soldiers of Army Group D fight, not to give a speech to them. So the main play is offensive operations, and it's ready.

In order to make the Führer feel the attacking power of Army Group D, Marshal Bock mobilized the artillery of two corps and reinforced the infantry division in the frontal position responsible for the attack.

You know, that's two artillery regiments directly under the military headquarters, two artillery regiments equipped with 150 mm caliber heavy guns!

Because it was not a fast-moving unit, most of Army Group D's artillery was towed, and these guns could not keep up with the advance of Army Group B, so they were generally lost to Army Group C and D, which were moving slowly.

Even so, these old 150-mm guns, which were slightly behind in performance, were not inferior in power to the new self-propelled guns of the German army.

After they have preset their positions, their power is quite amazing - the most important thing is that the Germans now have more artillery than the Soviets.

Tens of thousands of artillery pieces were abandoned in German-occupied areas during the defeat of the Soviet army, and some destroyed Soviet small and medium-caliber artillery pieces can still be found in many places.

Those 130 mm cannons, paralyzed on the side of the road, were left like garbage, and no one cared about them.

A large number of Soviet artillery pieces were captured by the Germans and equipped with the armies of client states such as Romania and Lithuania. Thanks to the powerful sea transport, these guns were also sent to North Africa and sent to the Middle East for sale.

The local Saudi aristocracy in the Middle East demanded a large amount of arms, and they used the right to extract oil to buy weapons and ammunition, and competed for the ethereal throne that they did not recognize each other.

The Third Reich welcomed this and chose the Shah of Saudi Arabia as its spokesman. The Middle East Army of the Axis powers has also become the biggest force supporting Saudi Arabia.

"I will be in the position and watch you attack the enemy! Fight bravely! Soldiers! Li Le ended his speech and finally said to the soldiers in front of him.

"Victory! Monarch! All the soldiers responded to the Führer's expectations, and everyone shouted with all their might, as if to vent the excitement in their hearts.

On the positions of the Soviet troops opposite, these frantic shouts were even heard. A Soviet soldier poked his head out, looked at it and shrank back.

"Comrade Company Commander, are the people over there crazy? What are they shouting? The young Soviet soldier retracted his head and asked the officer next to him.

The Soviet company commander, apparently hearing the frantic shouts as well, frowned and muttered, "It looks like some big man is inspecting their positions." ”

"Big shots? Then let's contact the artillery and bomb that place? The young Soviet soldier felt that he had made a contribution and excitedly suggested.

"I don't think the Germans on the other side are crazy, it's you who are crazy." Hearing the advice of his young soldiers, the old company commander of the Soviet Union sneered and sarcastically.

He slapped the steel helmet on the top of the young man's head with his hand, and continued with disdain: "Just those artillerymen behind us? They fired one shot, and the Germans were able to shoot back 10 or even 100 shots! ”

In the past few days, the Soviet artillery has fired a pitiful number of times, and compared to the fire support of the Germans on the opposite side, their return fire is not at all on the same level.

The Germans had shells that covered the sky and even had the terrible tactic of washing the ground with rockets. However, the artillery on the Soviet side, because of the limited ammunition, had to cautiously return fire.

Compared to the roar of the German artillerymen operating the artillery, the Soviet artillerymen could have used a groan to describe their state when they fired.

Over time, Soviet front-line soldiers did not bother to call for artillery support from their own side, because such support often did not work.

Sometimes, not only did it fail to play the role of suppression, but it had to attract a larger-scale artillery attack from the German army, which simply outweighed the losses.

So the Soviet infantry in the Crimea made a joke that made people laugh and cry: they once called the artillerymen behind them and begged them to stop firing, so as not to provoke retaliation from the German artillerymen.

Soon, this Soviet infantry position was overwhelmed by shells fired by German artillery. Soviet soldiers had never seen such a concentration of large-caliber artillery suppressive fire from the beginning of their retreat.

Dense shells fell, creating an area of burning explosions near Soviet positions. The Soviet troops inside could only huddle in the trenches in despair, waiting for this round of artillery fire to pass.

The explosion of the shells tossed the dirt into the sky, leaving huge craters on the ground, and from time to time Soviet positions were destroyed by shells, and the defenders inside followed suit.

Führer Li Le stood in the trench almost two meters deep, his eyes on the eyepiece of the artillery mirror, watching the battle in the distance.

In his eyepieces, the Soviet positions were crumbling, and countless shells were distorting everything there and destroying everything there.

"How long does this kind of shelling usually last?" Removing his eyes from the eyepiece, the Führer turned his head sideways and asked the officer who was accompanying him.

"My Führer! Under normal circumstances, an artillery shell of this scale lasts more than ten minutes and consumes about 10 ammunition bases. The artillery staff officer, who was asked by the Führer, was flattered and hurriedly replied.

"10 bases...... It's spectacular! After Li Le heard this answer, he sighed with emotion.

This is really the scene when later generations filmed movies, when thousands of guns were fired. The impact of this kind of destruction can really make every man go crazy.

"In a few minutes, the shelling will stop! Dive bombers continue to hover in the sky, destroying the enemy's remaining hidden points of fire for the infantry. The Air Force liaison officer went on to explain the procedures that followed.

This set of standard procedures in front of us is actually an effective offensive method that the German army has summed up countless times, and the degree of loss is the lowest when launching an attack in this way.

The artillery opened the way, then the planes bombarded, followed by the armored corps covering the infantry advance. This set of infantry-tank cooperative combat mode was also proposed by Li Le at the meeting and improved by the German generals.

"Good!" Li Le nodded, and then put his eyes on the eyepiece, and from the lens, he could see the black smoke on the Soviet position, which had covered the sky and the sun.