Chapter 353: Aggressive
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The army knew that the Chinese offensive would begin in the spring.
This is the Chinese Army's consistent way of fighting a year, and it has never conducted large-scale corps operations in extremely cold climates.
As a traverser, Xia Jun knows the horror of the extremely cold climate. During World War II, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and was killed by the extreme cold.
The United States fought the Korean War, but it was also greatly defeated by the extremely cold weather.
During World War I, the Turkish attack on the Caucasus was also blown to death by the extremely cold weather.
North Korea's extremely cold climate is not too terrifying, but it is not bad.
With the arrival of spring, the offensive of the Chinese Defense Forces will not be too far away.
The troops on the front line have been reinforcing the defensive line throughout the winter, hoping to hold the line of the Iron Mountain Fortress.
At this time, the heavy artillery of the Yue army had all been eliminated.
The Chinese navy has blocked North Korean maritime communications, and all ships that approach North Korean waters have been sunk by submarines and warships.
After a winter of preparations, the Chinese Defense Forces have amassed 1.3 million troops on the front line, while the Russian Defense Forces have assembled 15 divisions in Korea, bringing the total strength to 1.6 million.
And North Korea's army is only about 1.2 million.
Having already overwhelmed the city in terms of troops, at the same time in the occupied Uiju region, China established a Korean Provisional Political Axe.
This temporary political axe of the DPRK organized nearly 100,000 Korean men to join the army, and basically all those who could fight were brought to the troops, and the Korean People's Army was formed, which is a death squad, and the existence of this death squad is of great significance.
ā¦ā¦ On March 29, the snow melted, the yang energy fell, and the earth energy rose, and a beautiful neon appeared in the sky.
Lin Chenggui watched this neon in Yiju and thought it was a good omen from the sky, so he issued an attack order at noon that day.
In this season of rejuvenation, there was a sudden burst of artillery fire on the confrontation line between Korea and China, and 10 of the 15 artillery divisions of the Chinese National Defense Forces participated in the shelling.
The artillery fire was overwhelmingly bombarded the Iron Mountain Fortress of the Yue army, and although the Yue army was fully prepared, the shelling was too fierce.
So much so that many soldiers of the Yue Army were stupefied, they had never seen such a massive artillery bombardment.
Shells rained down from the sky, craters everywhere, and shrapnel flew everywhere within three kilometers south of the Iron Mountain Fortress.
Not long after, a roar suddenly sounded in the sky, and some soldiers knew that it was a Chinese bomber.
Immediately a mournful anti-aircraft siren sounded on the positions.
When the sirens sounded, the soldiers all took refuge in bunkers.
Standing on a high ground and looking into the distance, one of the soldiers saw a dense group of locust-like bombers approaching rapidly.
Why doesn't the empire have such a strong air force?
The soldier was not angry in his heart, but he was more depressed, and when he saw the bomber group approaching, he hurriedly ordered his teammates on the high ground to hide.
However, as the bomber flew over from the high ground, a sharp whistling suddenly sounded.
More than a dozen dreadnought bombers swooped down, dropped bombs on the high ground, and then quickly pulled up and flew away in the blink of an eye.
In just a few breaths, the high ground was in a sea of fire.
The army occupies the Iron Mountain Fortress, which is a mountain range, so it is very convenient for the army to look, if there is no ground-penetrating bomb, I am afraid that the army has passed the guidance of these highlands and continued to bomb the Chinese defense forces.
However, it is a pity that Xia Jun built a ground-penetrating bomb firing position 15 kilometers away, and as soon as the heavy firepower of the Tieshan Fortress of the Yue Army was opened, it was immediately hit by a ground-penetrating bomb.
Throughout the winter, the Chinese National Defense Forces were testing the distribution of the army's firepower, and once heavy firepower was discovered, it was immediately destroyed.
After a winter 'operation', the army lost most of its heavy firepower.
When nearly ten artillery divisions of the Chinese National Defense Force shelled the Tieshan Fortress of the Yue Army, none of the heavy fire of the Yue Army reacted, because the Yue Army knew that even if the artillery was fired, it would be quickly knocked out.
After a winter of aerial reconnaissance, the air force has marked on the map many important combat units of the Japanese army, such as high grounds, hospitals, roads, and possible locations of the army's artillery positions.
At the end of last year, the Chinese Air Force had already gained air supremacy from the DPRK without any suspense, and at this time there was not a single plane in the sky.
The airfields of the Japanese army were bombed by the Chinese Air Force.
Flying over the Iron Mountain Fortress, the Air Force carried out a focused bombardment of the Japanese troops behind the corridor in the western part of the Iron Mountain Fortress.
The only drawback of the Iron Mountain Fortress is that the branch of the Changbai Mountain Range does not run through the east and west of Korea, and there is a corridor in the west, just like the Shanhaiguan Corridor, but it is wider than the Shanhaiguan Corridor.
In order to be able to hold the Iron Mountain Fortress, the army built a large number of underground fortifications here, excavated a very complete trench, and also built many pillboxes.
These bunkers were now directly within the range of the Chinese Wehrmacht artillery, and the Chinese Wehrmacht artillery took special care of the trenches and pillboxes in the western corridor area.
It was useless for artillery to bombard the Iron Mountain Fortress, after all, the Iron Mountain Fortress was too strong to be penetrated only by drilling bullets.
The artillery is responsible for the indiscriminate bombardment of the front part, and the air force is responsible for the rear part, as well as the important combat units of the Chinese army.
At this moment, the artillery of the Iron Mountain Fortress also opened fire.
In the face of the sudden artillery bombardment launched by the Chinese National Defense Forces, the inaction of the defenders of the Tieshan Fortress was obviously not possible, and inaction was equivalent to zero effect.
However, as soon as the Iron Mountain Fortress opened fire, five ground-penetrating bombs flew towards the exposed fire point of the Iron Mountain Fortress with orange tail flames in tow from the firing position fifteen kilometers away.
Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... A series of explosions came from the inside of the Iron Mountain Fortress, and the sound was very muffled, but the nearby soldiers could feel a violent shock, as if a firecracker had exploded in an upside-down water tank, and the sound made people very sore.
The firing point of the Iron Mountain Fortress is directly muted for this purpose.
At this time, the Chinese Navy also joined the sequence of indiscriminate bombardment, the Chinese Navy dispatched all the main warships, seven East China-class battleships and seven heavy battlecruisers lined up, submarines and frigates were on guard around the perimeter, and 380mm giant guns opened fire.
Huge cannonballs shot into the sky, and a sharp whistling sound seemed to pierce the sky.
A deafening explosion rang out on the defense line of the Western Front corridor, and a shell fell down, and after the explosion was a huge crater.
Ten little Davy artillery guns followed, and the shells that were bigger than the battleships smashed into the Japanese defense line.
The soil of the army's position was constantly blowing up, and the frenzied bombardment was like ploughing the ground, plowing the army's position over and over again.
All the soldiers took refuge in the underground fortifications.
Originally, they thought that such underground fortifications were strong enough, but soon they realized a serious miscalculation, and under the bombardment of huge cannons and battleship guns with a crazy caliber of 914mm, the reinforced concrete layers of some basements directly collapsed, burying the soldiers below alive on the spot.
Some of the soldiers were so shaken by the violent concussion that they even bled to death.
When a bomber returned to the airfield after dropping its bomb, the pilot looked down from a high altitude and said to his deputy: "I dare say that when the attack comes, there will be no living creatures down there." ā
"No, it won't!" The deputy said with some suspicion.
"Didn't you see that the positions of the Japanese army below were flattened by shells by two or three meters, and there are still people alive?"
There are many people who think so, and the army has been completely suppressed at this time, and the artillery in the early field arranged by the army has either been hidden or destroyed.
Under the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the army, navy, and air force of the Chinese National Defense Force, the Yue army seemed to be so powerless to fight back.
However, the aggressive offensive has only just begun.
After the Iron Mountain Fortress was silenced, the shelling lasted for nearly half an hour, and then the artillery fire began to gradually extend to the rear of the army.
Yang Lie commanded the First Army to attack.
The First Army is an armored corps formed by the original East China First Division, which is the elite of the elite and is currently commanded by Yang Lie.
The Second Army commanded by Wu Feng followed closely behind, and the Second Army was formed from the original East China Second Division, which was also the elite of the elite.
As Xia Jun's first proud disciples, the two of them both served in the East China Military Region, and the commander of the East China Military Region was personally served by Xia Jun.
This time China called the Korean War, and the East China Military Region also dispatched all the elites to participate in this war.
The lion fights the rabbit and does his best, although the army will undoubtedly be defeated, but it cannot be taken lightly.
The two armored corps let out a violent roar as they marched, crushing the position of the army, and the noise of the diesel engines was indeed very loud.
The soldiers of the armored division could see that the positions of the Japanese army had been blown to pieces.
Will anyone still be alive in this way?
However, there were people who were alive, and when the Chinese Wehrmacht artillery fire began to advance, the front-line troops who were not within the shelling range came out of the basement and stubbornly returned to their positions.
But there are also many soldiers who can't climb out of the ground, because the exit was blown up, and the whole person was trapped inside and came out, and some were directly crushed to death.
Seeing the Chinese armored division running over the position, the army detonated the explosives buried in the ground.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
A series of explosions rang out, and I saw that a large tunnel with a width of nearly five meters and a depth of three meters was blown out of the ground.
The army still has some research on anti-tank warfare, and the easiest way is to blast out an anti-tank trench.
The sudden appearance of this trench caught the troops of the armored division marching forward by surprise.
"The bridge erector stepped forward." Yang Lie immediately ordered in the rear.
Suddenly, dozens of bridge-erecting vehicles roared forward, and when the bridge-erecting vehicles drove in front of the anti-tank trench, put down the iron lock, and the iron bridge suddenly crossed the trench.
The Yue Jun on the opposite side was suddenly dumbfounded.
(To be continued)