No matter how the commanders in the rear argued, negotiated, and decided, the soldiers who fought on the front line were always unilateral executors, and it was their duty to obey the orders of their superiors, either to advance or to retreat, or to attack resolutely, or to defend desperately, and to violate the order was a dereliction of duty, and the dereliction of duty would be sent to a military court, and then they would either be kicked out of the army or put in prison, although the vast majority of people at least had no worries about their lives, but from now on they should not want to be in the military or political circles again, Maybe even the next door neighbor's child will look at him with contempt and then go to the end of his life in a long depression.

In the Far East, Vladivostok, the passage of time did not carry away the fog that permeated the eyes, and people even began to suspect that this would continue until the arrival of night. With the issuance of the new order, the German soldiers who were on standby in the starting position of the attack could only continue to wait patiently, and the troops that were moving to the target area were also adjusted accordingly at the first time.

What does this mean?

In the eyes of the soldiers on the front line, their enemy will continue to hide behind the fog, perhaps desperately digging trenches, perhaps readjusting the deployment of troops, or doing nothing, recuperating and waiting for work.

On the sea, a rare calm also came, the three capital battleships had been in combat for 20 hours before, but every half an hour a short shelling gap, every four hours a gun breech cleaning, their naval guns actually fired for far less than 20 hours, despite this, the consumption of ammunition for the main guns of the three battleships was still huge - "Caesar Fitley III" is one of the most technologically advanced and the most intensive artillery fire, there are a total of 4 battleships of this class, all of which are currently active in the waters of the western Pacific, Their three triple 343 mm guns and advanced artillery command system have performed well in many previous naval battles and landing support operations, but the price of high rate of fire and high precision is high consumption, and in just one month, the four ships have returned to the port to replenish ammunition, they are the youngest among the battleships of the German Navy, but the main gun barrels are also approaching the limit of service life at this time.

"August" and "Bavaria" belonged to the Graf and Bavarian classes, respectively, and each had eight 406-mm guns and eight 380-mm guns. One of the troubles caused by the increase in caliber and the weight of the projectile was that the number of ammunition in reserve for each gun had to be reduced while taking into account firepower, defense, and speed, so the two ships had to replenish their ammunition by sea supply.

On this battlefield where hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, not everyone is waiting. Within half an hour of the order, more than 400 Dorniere-3 ultra-long-range bombers took off from nine military airfields in northeastern China and northern parts of the Korean Peninsula. Dense metal birds formed 9 groups of planes and pounced on Vladivostok, which was still shrouded in fog at the moment. The "Big Metal Birds", which set the current record for the size, weight, and range of aircraft heavier than air, have proven their strength in important wars such as Germany, the United States, and Germany, and Russia, and have especially impressed the world in the large-scale and continuous bombing of major industrial areas in the United States. After the German-Japanese war, they were obliged to take on the heavy task of bombing the Japanese archipelago and overseas strategic targets with other types of bombers of the Imperial Air Force, so much so that there is such an interesting proverb in the current German ** team: Where the old vulture flies, the road must be very smooth!

The "Vulture" was accepted by pilots, Army and Navy officers and sailors, and later, the Dornier 101 short-range tactical bomber was nicknamed the "Fat Vulture" by officers and soldiers because of its clumsy appearance, and the larger and longer range Dornier 2 was nicknamed the "Big Vulture" as soon as it entered service, and when the larger Dornier 3 appeared in the Luftwaffe bomber sequence. The ground crews scratched their heads. "Then call it the old vulture!"

As a result, "Old Condor" became the most widely used nickname in the German army, and with the footsteps of the German Expeditionary Force, it traveled all over the world's three oceans and five continents.

Fifty minutes later.

The first "old vultures" arrived over Vladivostok, and the fog had not yet cleared. Following the orders given by the command, the vultures began to circle over and over again, and when more than 400 four-engine heavy propeller bombers have been hovering at an altitude of three or four thousand meters above your head, I believe you will feel like you are near a pile of flies or a honeycomb, and in the long run, you may feel dizzy, tinnitus, nausea, limb weakness and even vomiting......

At 11 a.m., an hour after the German Dornier 3 bomber group arrived over Vladivostok, the color of the ground was still not visible from an altitude of three thousand meters, but the fog was gradually dissipating at the same time. A large number of "big vultures" and some "fat vultures" began to take off at the airfields in the rear, and they were unstoppable in batches and flocks, just like the formation of rain clouds in nature.

On the sea, the rumbling of artillery was heard again, this time not only the battleships, since the previous shelling had greatly weakened the Japanese fire in the fortress, now even the cruisers and some destroyers joined the shelling, and at the same time, the first wave of landing craft began to leave the fleet and sail to the coast under their own power. Although there were not many of them, and there were only a few pilots on board, it was believed that when they came out of the fog one by one, the Japanese soldiers on the shore would be surprised. Next, even if it can't disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army, at least it can lead the Japanese army to expose the remaining firepower.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the fog that had come suddenly before dawn finally dissipated, and when the sun shone again on the land, half of the people were in a happy mood, and the other half were in a state of fear, sorrow, or some other bad mood, but God did not change anything because of the prayers of the people's hearts, and with a terrible, high-pitched whistling sound that made the eardrums and the heart feel uncomfortable, and a terrible number of aerial bombs fell from the sky in rows and piles. Each one smashed on the ground will produce an instantaneous effect like a magnitude 7 earthquake in a huge area, flames soar into the sky, shrenching elders fly, large swaths of earth and rocks are sent to a height of tens or even hundreds of meters and then fall under a parabola, and the fortress city, which has long been reduced to ruins, continues to degrade to its original state, until every building above the ground is leveled, until all the potholes dug by hand are filled......

At 12:10, the ground offensive, which had been postponed for five hours, finally resumed, and tens of thousands of German soldiers, who had already completed the encirclement on three sides on land, took planes and artillery as cover, and tanks and armored vehicles as the vanguard, and devoured the Japanese army's self-proclaimed invincible solid defense system through the tactics of heavy troops and key breakthroughs.

However, at the beginning of this confrontation between spears and shields, wisdom and will, technology and faith, machine guns and bayonets, tanks and bodies, the development of the situation was not completely turned to one side as people imagined, and the Japanese troops were considerable in number and all of them were extremely stubborn, as long as there was still a breath, no matter whether there was a bullet, a bottle of gasoline or a wooden stick left in their hands, they would fight to the last moment with several times or dozens of times their own German army! Although their fortresses are not impregnable, their trenches are not deep trenches, and even their weapons and attackers are not at the same level at all, they still make their opponents pay a huge price at every step of the way.

At 12:25, thousands of warhawks flew into the battlefield, and since this was the last strategic target in the campaign of northeastern China and northern Korea, the German Far East Cluster Command transferred nearly half of the air force and army deployed in the Far East to conduct the Vladivostok campaign, including 3 fighter wings, 4 dive bomber wings, 3 tactical bomber (Dornier 101) bomber wings, and 5 long-range bomber wings, excluding those long-range bombers that had taken off in advance and had already dropped bombs. There were also about 1,200 bomb-laden fighters and dive bombers responsible for clearing the way for ground troops, while the Dornier 101, which had a relatively large bomb load, broke into the city of Vladivostok at low altitude and carried out targeted bombing of Japanese roads, vehicles, warehouses, barricades, etc.

After a bombardment, the pace of advance of the German ground forces really increased a lot, and the occupation of Vladivostok a year ago also allowed the German army to grasp the detailed topographical information here, as the core of the Vladivostok area - the port area and fortress, in fact, located at the end of a peninsula extending south into the Sea of Japan, the island is about 50 kilometers long from north to south, 10 to 20 kilometers wide from east to west, except for the port area at the southern end, there are rolling hills, which brings certain inconvenience to the movement of the armored forces, and fortunately, The defense system facing the land side was built by the Russians and the Germans to rebuild and expand the original scale has begun to take shape, but a year ago the Japanese army attacked most of them and destroyed most of them, although the Japanese army has since recruited Korean and Chinese laborers to build fortifications, but both design and technology are much inferior, the German army also saved the trouble of mobilizing large-caliber fortress artillery, the general fortress only needs tank guns, rocket launchers can be solved, even the stronger ones can not withstand the heavy bombs of the German bombers.

At 12:50, the Germans broke through the outermost defensive line of the Japanese army, and a small part of the Japanese troops who tried to break through to the north were also routed by the German armored troops waiting there; Two hours later, the fastest armored regiment advanced to 25 kilometers from the port area, and the smoke rising from the port area could be seen with the naked eye!