The 1536th Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment is not a specialized anti-tank self-propelled artillery regiment, and after being reequipped, it mainly performs the task of attacking fortified positions, so it does not have tanks. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoHowever, it is absolutely unpleasant for any enemy tank unit to run headlong into the regiment, because its main armament is the new SU-122 and SU-152 self-propelled guns!

Although the two self-propelled guns were originally developed primarily for short-range fire support for infantry, they could also be used as anti-tank destroyers. The 1536 regiment was called a "heavy regiment", and the two battalions had a total of 12 SU-152s, and the other battalion was equipped with 8 SU-122s, which were supposed to be equipped with "medium self-propelled artillery regiments".

There was also a battalion equipped with six B-4s, which would have made the first two columns of the 1536th Regiment arriving in Shwinjonis spectacular - the entire assault force was on dozens of flatbed wagons, and the third column was loaded with ammunition.

The SU-152 self-propelled gun, weighing 45 and a half tons, obviously could not use a crane, so that a dedicated flat unloading platform (like the "end" of the rails, a flatbed truck can be pushed onto the concrete platform at one end and can be driven directly to the ground. There is also a kind of turntable that is like a big turntable, turning a single flatbed car 180 degrees, and then the vehicle on top drives directly onto the platform. Vacate it, and when the second column arrives, it won't be crowded together.

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In the early morning of February 18, an hour before dawn, the command of the 1st Guards Division of the NKVD.

Lin Jun sat calmly on a cushioned chair, General Vatujing in front of him was looking at the time, and more than a dozen staff officers on the side were holding telephone receivers in their hands, all watching the actions of Comrade General.

Xiang Lin Jun nodded slightly: "I am General Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin, I order: the general offensive begins!" ”

At the same time, more than a dozen staff officers almost unanimously gave the order "the general offensive begins"!

The ground trembled slightly, and after more than ten seconds, a dull sound came, and the different conduction characteristics of solid and air made the salvo of thousands of large and medium-caliber barreled artillery, mortars and rocket artillery from several kilometers away so different, and the loud sound and the trembling of the earth indicated what kind of fierce shelling the Germans on the opposite side would face!

More than half of the battle artillery was gathered in eight Red Army body-controlled artillery positions about ten kilometers away from Nemenchne, and as soon as they received the order to attack the artillery for a general attack, they poured tons of steel on the target - not the city, nor the closer German front-line positions, but the ice of the Nereis River farther away!

The night was illuminated by a dazzling red light, and in the distance, out of sight, the broken thick ice was blown up dozens of meters high along with the river water!

Just for the first salvo, the surface of the river along the way was already in tatters, and the shelling according to the originally expected parameters, after three salvos, the angle of fire would be changed and another section of the river would be "gnawed".

On the closer positions on the left flank, the Red Army soldiers saw a scene that was destined to be remembered for the rest of their lives - the sky in the distance behind them seemed to turn red in an instant, and in a huge, almost suffocating whistling sound, rockets with long flames whizzed up behind them!

Tanks and Red Army commanders and fighters hiding in the trenches were waiting for the suffocating "whirlwind" - the battalion commanders had already told the infantry and tank soldiers: behind them, there would be more than a whole regiment of "Katyushas" clearing the obstacles in front of them!

Guards soldiers in white camouflage uniforms jumped out of the trenches amid the earth-shattering sound of "Ula", and the tanks in the rear also rushed out of the concealment and assaulted at high speed - as soon as the rocket launchers sounded, the comrades should charge!

In just a moment, before all the infantry broke out of the trenches, the German positions a few hundred meters away were already on fire! The light of the fire was not violent, not even as bright as the light when it was launched, but the dense and huge explosion of scope and depth showed the tremendous power of the "Katyusha" that swept through everything!

All people and objects without super-strong defenses were ruthlessly torn apart, and even semi-concealed German tanks would be completely destroyed if they were hit directly by a 132-mm rocket of the М-13 type! The Germans roared in the terrified "Stalin's organ", in the earth, rubble and shattered human bodies, shrapnel and shock wave destroyed everything!

For the first time, Golodov saw the spectacle of the first salvo of the whole regiment, but he could not yet immerse himself in this spectacle - after a salvo, all the rocket launchers immediately moved their positions in a company according to the route determined by the day's reconnaissance!

Just as the БМ-13 rocket launchers were preparing to evacuate, the artillery positions on their flanks were loading the third shell!

The huge rear hoe was deeply immersed in the hard, cold earth, and it took the artillerymen nearly three hours overnight to build the current relatively solid artillery position. Six huge B-4s were constructed into two rows of staggered positions, each nearly 100 meters apart, to ensure that a single large-caliber artillery shell would not be served by a pot.

The excavated earth was packed in sacks and placed in a ring on both sides of the gun emplacement, leaving the front firing angle and the rear vacancy, so that at first glance the middle gun position seemed to be slightly lower than the outside - as long as there were no direct hits from the shells, they could continuously shoot huge projectiles weighing nearly 100 kilograms at the target at a rate of one shot a minute!

The gunners shouted a trumpet that only they could understand, and carried the neat projectiles in the rear row to the left side of the gun carriage with clips, and then sent to the loading chute by a small crane to be pushed into the chamber. Immediately after that, the prefabricated silk packaging pill bag was stuffed into the gun chamber, and the huge bolt at the end of the gun was closed!

In the midst of a huge, deafening bang and the trembling of the earth, another high-explosive shell was sent out of the muzzle at an initial velocity of more than 600 meters per second, and the glare from the muzzle could even blind people for a short time! The gunners gave their ears some cotton, and the 6 No. 1 shooters and the artillery commanders could only rely on their own hands and the gloves of their comrades (if you stuff cotton, you can't hear orders, so what should I do?). Of course, the only way to stimulate that person's ears is to cover him, just like the funny scenes in cartoons. But it's not ridiculous, if you don't protect yourself, you'll be deaf after a few fights! The high-decibel sound of shelling can sometimes make the person who removes the cotton plug realize that the cotton has long been soaked with blood, and this blood is from the middle ear after it has been damaged! However, there are still many artillerymen who have serious hearing loss after the war, because many times they can't take care of their ears, as long as they can shoot shells on the enemy's head! Which category of artillerymen has the most disabled soldiers, presumably hearing loss. This loud noise makes all shouting farther away ineffective, and you can't hear it above your ears!

Twenty seconds later, there will be another huge explosion point in the inner city of Neimenchi! Whether it's a building or a German bunker, it's so vulnerable in front of it!

In the red flames, the air wave erupted like a wall, and the shrapnel and shattered masonry mixed in it could blow down an entire multi-story building at once! The artillerymen couldn't see it, and a tank No. 3 in the small town in the distance was completely overturned - a 203-mm shell hit it, and the whole thing was overturned, and the track was facing the sky!

The B-4's gunners don't need to adjust the angle of fire for 20 minutes, they just need to exert their maximum rate of fire on these behemoths and project steel and death onto the enemy's head!

In the overwhelming artillery preparation and extended artillery shelling, the two tank battalions and the same mechanized infantry regiment that were on the task of frontal assault broke through the first and second lines of German defense with a width of 1.5 kilometers and a depth of almost one kilometer in 20 minutes, and met almost no resistance! All forces that dared to resist were ruthlessly wiped out, the trenches and fortifications were already incomplete, and almost two regiments of rocket artillery and more than 300 mortars of more than 82 mm were concentrated to plow it all once!

Vatutin had more than one rocket artillery regiment in his hands, and not only М-13: he also had more than 20 БМ-8-16 and 60 terrifying 300-mm rocket launchers of the М-30 type!

The latest to equip the troops М-30 is a super-caliber rocket with a single-shot launch, each launcher is mounted on the ground, like a long, hollowed-out cylindrical crate! They were placed behind the front-line trenches of the infantry, and the sappers and rocket artillerymen made "excavators" in the middle of the night, because it was fired from the ground and needed to be fixed.

Many people saw the М-30 for the first time, and the appearance of the customary "Katyusha" could not be compared, and even seemed a little unreliable! However, its power is not reflected in the simple appearance of the launcher: its warhead has a diameter of 300 mm, which is huge! Although the diameter of the rocket engine at the rear of the rocket is only 152 mm, which is equivalent to reducing the amount of rocket propellant, resulting in the range of the М-30 being only 2800 meters, the М-30 rocket warhead charge is 28.9 kg, which is more powerful than the 203 mm grenade!

The М-30, dragging the flames into the air, will soon disappear, but soon a huge and suffocating fireball will appear more than two kilometers away!

Nearly thirty kilograms of explosives were compressed in a thick steel shell, and the energy that burst out in an instant was not something that any civil fortification could withstand! A half-exposed person within a radius of a few tens of meters is not hit by shrenchnel, and the huge sound, vibration and shock wave can make his internal organs bleed!

The tanks rushed to the front to open the passage for the infantry - reaching the outskirts of the city at dawn was a victory, and the infantry in the rear were not only armed with small arms in their hands, but also 76mm cannons were dragged up, and after dawn they would carry out the toughest siege of the city!

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The light of dawn finally appeared in the eastern sky, and the command received a report that two groups of planes would arrive over Nemenchny in 15 minutes, which were a mixed force of fighters and bombers coming to support from the direction of Belarus.

"Everything was planned, and every minute counted." (To be continued.) )