The coalition forces only had a total of 2,000 shells, and the average of 50 guns was only 40 rounds each, and if the fastest rate of fire of 77mm guns was 5-6 rounds per minute, it would be done in about 10 minutes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A 77mm shell landed on the top of a turret and exploded, blowing up the sandbags piled on top of it, revealing the thick and shaved tree trunk inside, and the log turret shook for a while, but still withstood the impact of the shell explosion.

"Hey! One more shot! "The artillery officer in the distance observed the effect of the shelling with a telescope.

Shells landed near the fort, and most of the sandbags piled up around the logs were blown away, revealing the rudimentary wooden shelves inside.

But it was this wooden and sandbag battery that wasted almost ten shells, and it was not destroyed.

Just now the shell fell on the top of its battery, and there was no problem with the firing parameters, the artillery officer thought anxiously, but the impact point of the artillery was originally within a range, and to repeatedly land on the same point, it required not only skill, but also a little luck.

In the expectant eyes of the German artillery crew, a shell flew out of the chamber and flew towards the target in a curve, and twenty seconds later, the shell finally landed on the top of the bare log of the fort, and penetrated through the gap between the two logs.

The Soviet artillerymen listened to the sound of enemy shells falling on the nearby sandbag wall and exploding, and their hearts suddenly felt very sure.

At this moment, the 77mm shell exploded inside the battery, and without the sandbag block, in this small enclosed space, the fragments and shock waves from the shell exploded and wiped out the gun crew at once. The entire fort also collapsed crookedly.

"Good! We destroyed a battery! Guys! Well played! The artillery officer looked at the destruction of the target and immediately encouraged the soldier.

At this moment, the shells of the Soviet army also fell near their artillery group.

"Let's go, put the artillery on the wagon, and get moving!" The artillery officer immediately urged.

They had no fort protection, and they didn't want to shoot at the Soviet troops on the opposite side.

Ivan stood in a house more than 100 meters behind the city wall, silently watching the artillery fire of the Lithuanian and German coalition covering the city wall.

As the last battery slowly collapsed, the symphony of allied artillery outside the city came to an abrupt end.

"The second battalion will go up half first, and the other half will be a reserve, quickly carry down the wounded above, and give priority to treating artillery." Ivan said calmly.

"Hey, we worked hard for three days to repair the fort, and it was destroyed so quickly by the Lithuanian army on the opposite side!" The mustachioed commissar said a little unwillingly.

"It's already well worth it, these batteries consume at least a thousand shells of the enemy, and if they fall on the heads of the infantry, we will kill and wound hundreds, if not thousands. Now there should not be many shells for the enemy, and the gap between us and them in artillery will be offset together. Ivan said confidently.

Throughout World War I, Tsarist Russia's army was pressed and beaten by the opposing German army, because Germany produced 64,000 artillery pieces in World War I, while Russia produced only 11,700 artillery pieces. In World War I, 70% of the casualties were caused by artillery.

Only 40 of the Russian artillery were heavy guns, while 996 of the German guns were heavy guns. On the one hand, the generals of Tsarist Russia believed in the theory of mobile warfare (Tukhachevsky laughed), that is, the mass production of light artillery that could carry out battlefield maneuvers to accompany infantry charges, while heavy artillery was an outdated and cumbersome weapon, suitable only for "defensive warfare"; On the other hand, the Russian military industry was not able to produce heavy artillery continuously, as evidenced by the fact that only 3% of the 11,000 guns produced in the entire war were heavy guns.

Of course, in terms of the breadth of time, the military theory of Tsarist Russia is not wrong, but it is very wrong at this point in World War I, there are many permanent fortifications and a large number of strong fortresses in the positional warfare in World War I, these "hard bones" small-caliber artillery is basically difficult to play a good effect, and can only be destroyed by relying on heavy artillery bombardment, an extreme example is the battle of Przemech Fortress, The Russian army did not get the effective support of heavy artillery when attacking this strong fortress, but it took 133 days to take it, ironically on May 30, 1915, the German army launched an attack on the fortress held by Tsarist Russia, and the German army used a large number of heavy artillery in this battle, and by June 3, Tsarist Russia lost control of this fortress.

Between 1914 and 1917, 58 million shells were produced in Russian factories and 10 million were purchased abroad (50 million rounds were ordered, but all European countries were short of shells, and 10 million rounds were tightly delivered). And the Russian army's annual demand for artillery shells is 50 million rounds.

In World War I, the artillery shells produced by Tsarist Russia and foreign aid (purchased by the Entente with loans from Tsarist Russia) could only be used by Tsarist Russia for more than a year according to the needs of the battlefield, which led to the fact that the division commander of the Russian army had to control the average number of artillery shells fired at 5-10 rounds per day, and the diaries of the Tsarist soldiers complained that "Germany fired 20 shells, and we could only fire back one".

The Germans used more than 100,000 rounds a day in artillery battles with the Tsarist Russian troops, and some general offensive phases even recorded 700,000 rounds a day, while the Tsarist Russians could only wait for their death in the trenches.

The number of shells did not go away, which also caused insufficient artillery training and low combat ability, so Ivan came up with such a way to let his artillery and the German artillery consume each other, which was equivalent to exchanging his own lower donkey for the opponent's upper donkey. He would not be naïve enough to think that if he grabbed this batch of artillery, he would be able to immediately compete with the German artillery on the other side.

The Soviets marched up to the city walls and seized the time to repair the fortifications that had just been destroyed by artillery fire, and one of the advantages of the fortifications was that the soldiers could carry the well-damaged bags of earth to repair them, and almost two or three broken fortifications could quickly form a new fortification.

Some soldiers carried the corpses down from the walls. Some of the soldiers were bleeding almost from both ears and were injured in the eardrums by the shock wave of the shells.

"General, we have destroyed the enemy's batteries and other fortifications." The artillery commander came to report.

"Very well done! Wait a minute, and you'll need to cover the infantry. General Goltz said with a sigh of relief. It turned out that the forts set up on the walls were a real headache for him, like a small fortress.

"But general, we have consumed fifteen hundred shells, and the enemy's batteries are so strong that a single 77mm shell cannot even destroy them." The artillery commander immediately added.

"And how many shells do we have left?" General Goltz asked, frowning.

"One hundred rounds of 105mm shells, four hundred rounds of 77mm shells."

General Goltz tapped on the map, looked up and said, "Wait for the first wave of artillery fire to be canceled!" ”

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