Chapter 319: The Painful Vladivostok (Part II)

The Empire on which the sun never sets has accumulated a prestige for hundreds of years, which has made everyone's hearts depressed.

In the hundreds of years, all the great powers on this planet have challenged the overlord of this planet, Great Britain!

However, they all failed without exception. How many heroes and heroes who are famous in the world and have the highest reputation in their own country and nation have not been able to do things, can they do it?

General Chen Jiliang hesitated. Most of the warships in their own fleet were eliminated by the British, and they were sold out without use! Can your own fleet win?

He is not afraid of death, he is afraid that once the navy is defeated, then this thriving country will be hit extremely hard!

Gao Yang has never been afraid of the British, because he knows the direction of history. But General Chen Jiliang was worried about Britain because he lived in this era! This is a gap in the concept of the times.

Gao Yang, who has come from the 21st century, has almost completely shrunk to the native Britain and has no feeling at all. However, General Chen Jiliang, who lived in this era, was very jealous of the strength of the British!

They are not as familiar with history as Gao Yang, and they don't know that the British are already strong in the outside world at this time. I don't know that the powerful naval aviation will dominate all the blue seas and sweep all the old and backward forces into the garbage heap of history.

He was genuinely worried. Admiral Chen Jiliang was absolutely reluctant to engage the prestigious British Royal Navy if it could. However, the current international situation has pushed them to the stage to challenge the British! There is no way back for them.

"What's the use of thinking about all of this now?" General Shen Honglie, who was holding a cigarette in his hand, suddenly looked tense and shouted.

General Chen Jiliang raised his head sharply and looked at his chief of staff with a surprised expression.

Taking a deep puff of his cigarette, General Shen Honglie looked at him with a serious face, and said with a serious expression, "We are soldiers, and now we have received orders." Then just carry out the order! What's the point of considering how powerful the enemy is? Just do your best to do your job, no matter whether you win or lose, we will be worthy of our hearts! ”

"Huh~~~" General Chen Jiliang grinned and looked at his chief of staff. He chuckled and said, "You're right, I'm thinking too much." Who to fight with is a matter for Commander-in-Chief Gao to worry about. We just need to execute the order. ”

"Hmm." General Shen Honglie nodded, threw away his cigarette butt, and looked at Vladivostok in the distance. He whispered, "Let's do a good job of shelling before retreating tomorrow." ”

General Chen Jiliang nodded and said in a deep voice, "That's right. Commander-in-Chief Gao ordered us to shoot all the shells, then we will carry out the order! Let the supply ship speed up the replenishment, and don't send the ammunition depot, just pile it up on the deck! None of the enemy forces was able to threaten the firepower of the fleet! Don't worry about the barrel life anymore, get closer, and all the guns will be killed by me! Anyway, when I go back, I have to replace all the barrels with new ones. ”

"Hmm." General Shen Honglie nodded in response. Turning away from the bridge, he went to supervise the resupply. He was the chief of staff of the fleet, and this was his job.

General Chen Jiliang put his hands behind his back and looked at the Vladivostok fortress in the distance surrounded by billowing black smoke that rushed into the sky. Whispered to himself, "No matter who the opponent is, just go all out!" ”

From noon, the fortress of Vladivostok was subjected to the largest combined naval and air bombardment since the beginning of the war! A dense rain of bullets was thrown down like stones that don't need money.

The fortress no longer has a single intact building. The good fortune of the Cathedral of Nicholas, which had survived the brutal shelling of the previous days, also ran to an end.

Gao Yang can't take care of the spiritual pillar of the White Russian soldiers, and any target will be ruthlessly destroyed.

A 410-mm heavy high-explosive bomb fired from the Nagato hit the building accurately. While destroying the building, thousands of wounded were buried under the burning ruins.

Hiding in a well-camouflaged semi-buried underground bunker, Bulgakov put down his binoculars and quietly looked at the narrow observation port. His lips pursed and he didn't say a word.

The staff officers behind him were equally heavy-hearted. They are all professional elites, and the enemy suddenly launched an unprecedented frenzied artillery attack and bombardment, and the only reason is that the enemy's general offensive is about to begin!

There is no support. Lack of supplies, low morale, heavy casualties, and the divisions were cut off from contact by fierce artillery fire. Almost all the fortifications were lost. No one would have thought that there could be any miracles in such a situation!

After Moscow sternly rejected their request for surrender, their only end was to be wiped out in the ruined fortress!

Maybe he was blown up, or he was buried in an underground bunker and suffocated. Maybe starved to death, burned, thirsty, etc., etc., etc. Anyway, it's dead, how it is, who knows what the road is.

The only thing they can do now is to survive as long as they can, and to live an hour more. The atmosphere was pessimistic, and everyone knew that nearly 70,000 soldiers in the entire Vladivostok fortress were about to be wiped out by the formation.

There was a dull whistling in the sky outside the bunker, like the terrifying sound of a heavy train speeding through a cave. That's the sound of heavy shells piercing the sky!

"What should we do now?" After a loud roar, there was silence in the covert headquarters. After a while, the chief of staff of the 19th Infantry Corps, Valenkov, came to Bulgakov's side, bowed his head slightly, and asked softly.

Commander Bulgakov turned to look at his chief of staff, a look of despair flashing in his eyes.

Gently squirming the corners of his mouth, he said in a trembling voice, "There is no way now, we have fallen into a desperate situation." Judging by the enemy's firepower today, they will launch the most rear-end attack tomorrow morning at the latest. We won't get any reinforcements. ”

Looking at the pale faces of his subordinates around him, Bulgakov smiled miserably and said, "Let's do our best duty." ”

Valentokov looked anxious, frowned tightly, and looked at his commander. There is a special meaning in the eyes.

Commander Bulgakov read what he meant. After a fierce inner struggle, he shook his head with pain on his face.

He can't do that! His family is in Moscow! He would rather die in battle than his lovely children, whose elderly parents and beautiful wife are hurt unimaginably by ordinary people!

The main fleet of the Navy, which was cruising off the coast of Vladivostok, had almost a hundred main guns on eight capital ships. Plus a large number of secondary guns, as well as artillery on cruisers and destroyers. The total number of heavy guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm in the entire fleet is as high as hundreds!

In addition, there are artillery units of the army. Two separate artillery divisions directly under the assault group, artillery units directly under each unit. All of them together also have hundreds of large-caliber guns. And then there's the dive bombers in the sky with bombshells on board.

In this day and age, no fortress could resist an all-out attack of this magnitude! The whole land groaned in a huge roar that was endless!

Many of the underground bunkers in Vladivostok were destroyed because they could not resist the overly brutal shelling. Buried many soldiers who were hidden in the underground fortifications.

Many soldiers of the Special Army Group in the Far East were also killed and wounded by the loud explosions and shock waves. The seven orifices bleed, and the internal organs were ruptured. In the current war situation. Once wounded, it means certain death!

No medicine, no doctors, not even a dying mass! No one dared to leave the fortifications under the cover of dense artillery fire in search of supplies!

The wounded soldiers simply could not survive the long cold night.

Under the darkness of the night, dense and continuous light curtains flashed one after another, reflecting the entire sky covered in thick dark clouds in red. This is the color of death.

The long, terrifying night is finally over. When the rising sun slowly rises in the distance where the sea and the sky meet. The roaring sound of the main guns of the naval battleships, which had been haunting the defenders of Vladivostok for days, suddenly disappeared.

This stunned many of the defenders of Vladivostok, and many thought that their ears were wrong.

They heard it right, the shelling of the main fleet of the Navy is indeed over. General Chen Jiliang began to return with the main force of the Grand Fleet, and returned to the military port to do pre-war maintenance. Make the most meticulous preparations for the upcoming decisive battle with the British Royal Navy.

The Navy left a local garrison fleet of light ships to continue the shelling operation. After Vladivostok is occupied, it will be directly converted into a garrison fleet in the Whale Sea.

After the retreat of the Navy. The offensive on the ground began.

Just after seven o'clock in the morning, the Vladivostok assault group, having breakfast, launched an attack on the fortress, which had been blown into ruins.

Tens of thousands of officers and men of three mechanized infantry divisions and two light infantry divisions, supported by the artillery of two artillery divisions, launched a general assault on the Vladivostok fortress under the cover of more than 100 tanks of the reserve armored regiment of the 6th Panzer Division.

In their rear there were three more mechanized infantry divisions and two light infantry divisions as campaign reserves.

Officers and men dressed in heavy winter clothing and carried their weapons as they struggled through the thick snow. Once you enter the fortress area, there is no way to move wheeled vehicles forward. Before the sappers built the road, the officers and men had to get out of the car and follow the tracked vehicle, treading on the muddy road that was pressed out by the tracks.

The remnants of the bunkers on the outskirts of Vladivostok began to spew tongues of fire, the desperate soldiers making the last resistance.

In general. Fortifications encountered will be carried by tanks, artillery, infantry carrying a variety of assault weapons. Flamethrowers, explosive packs, infantry guns at close range, etc.

If encountered, the fire is very ferocious. Or extremely strong fortifications. Then call directly to the warhawks circling in the sky.

Dive bombers carry bombshells that will turn any fortification into ruins!

The resistance encountered on the outlying positions was not strong. On the one hand, most of the fortifications on this side have been destroyed.

On the other hand, many soldiers on the outlying positions have lost contact with their headquarters.

Lacking supplies and reinforcements, morale was low and mentally numb from the blow that lasted for days. After the tired and freezing soldiers rushed up with Gaoyang's army, many of them chose to lay down their arms and surrender! (To be continued.) If you like this work. You are welcome to come to the starting point (biquge.info) to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation ......)