Historically, the German army used twelve artillery detachments, nine rocket artillery detachments, and a variety of large-caliber mortars to conquer the Brest Fortress, and the Air Force also used 1,800 kg of super-heavy bombs! The German infantry suffered heavy losses, but they were mostly losses from light weapons, and its other units did not lose much, but were dragged in the fortified area. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Why is this happening? Because by the time the Soviet-German war broke out, the rebuilding of the fortifications of the Brest Fortress had not yet been completed, and many of the places where heavy fire weapons should have been placed remained empty. Many of the troops guarding the fortress did not have heavy weapons: the air defense units did not have anti-aircraft guns, the artillery units did not have artillery, and the soldiers had to fight the enemy with small arms.

Officially, because of the above problems, Lin Jun did not want to hand over the rebuilding project of the fortress to Alexander, the great steward of the Soviets, but directly to the construction of the Belarusian Military District. Thirty years ago, Tsarist Russia rebuilt the old city of Brest into a first-class fortress in Russia, and in order to build the fortress, the original city of Brest was relocated to three kilometers east of the fortress. Although some of the bronze cannons in the fortress are still piled up in the warehouse, I have to admit that this fortress with a brick structure as the main body is a difficult bone to speak, and the main project in the reconstruction does not need to make major improvements, only do not add some modern elements.

Lin Jun had already prepared to bring engineers and designers who had rebuilt the Sevastopol Fortress to the Brest Fortress, and with the addition of this group of experts, the construction of various fortified areas on the Western Front would be like a tiger with wings.

The military archives of Leningrad contain a complete set of drawings and photographs of the reconstruction of the Brest fortress during the Tsarist period, and the engineers and designers carried out a preliminary renovation plan according to it, and now after the field survey, only minor improvements are needed, and the project can be officially started when the freight train from the east reaches Brest.

After eighteen years of hard work, the Poles basically made the railways of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine into standard gauges with a width of 1435 mm, and now the Soviet railway army is working overtime to restructure these railways back to 1524 mm width, so that the liberated areas can be closely linked with the whole Soviet Union with the main artery of the railway.

According to Lin Jun's suggestion, in the future, there will be a railway branch line from Brest City in the east of the Brest Fortress to ensure the fast and convenient transportation of materials and personnel. The commander of the Belarusian Military District, Mikhail Prokofievich Kovalev, yesterday gave him good news by telephone, that the front army had seized some good things along the Polish positions along the original border line, and asked Lin Jun, the first deputy political commissar of the equipment department, to decide on the question of their ownership.

"How about putting it in the Brest Fortress?" At that time, Lin Jun asked the commander's opinion.

"There's a new bridgehead, and it's best for these old guys there, and Minsk doesn't need it, and it's too cumbersome for the rest of the troops. The comrades of the railway artillery said that these tricks were not suitable for their tactical use, and if they were not given to Brest, they could only be given to Sevas. ”

"What about the people who operate it?"

"The Poles will teach us how to use it, and I will draw a group of people from the heavy artillery unit to form a special heavy artillery battalion, and it will not be a problem to use it. The captives said that there is still a production line for shells at the arsenal in Lviv, but it has been discontinued for a year or two, and this requires you to communicate with the Kyiv side and try to restore it as much as possible. Now we only have about 400 shells, and at least another 2,000 rounds can be produced to scrap the barrels of 5 guys. ”

"No problem, I'll negotiate with Fediko right away, and you will try to set up a special heavy artillery battalion as soon as possible, and then transport it to Brest by rail after training, and the firepower of the entire fortress will be equipped with these big guys as the core, it's not easy to get it without them, and you can't easily test the cannon when it comes to Brest."

What kind of heavy equipment should be reported directly to Lin Jun, the commander-in-chief and the behind-the-scenes boss of the equipment department? Because they were 5 380mm Morser M16/L17 mortars, the masterpieces of the First World War at the Skoda factory in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, with a total weight of 817 tons, shells weighing 740 pounds, and a range of 15 kilometers!

It is said to be a mortar, but it has the range of a howitzer, and the artillery expert told Lin Jun that it is still the mortar with the largest ballistic fluctuations during World War I, and there is nothing in the range that it can't hit. The Poles inherited the Austro-Hungarian legacy, using them against the Soviets, and now they happen to be the iron fist that Lin Jun used to flesh out the defenses of the Brest Fortress.

Although these 380-mm big guys can only fire one shot in 5 minutes, as long as the Brest Fortress has them, those "Karl" and "Fat Bertha" of the Germans will have to pass them first if they want to bombard the Brest Fortress.

Last night Fediko had already asked people to protect the artillery factory in Lviv, searching everywhere for workers and technicians of the arsenal. Fortunately, a small number of them are Ukrainians, and resuming production is not a problem, it will only take time. The production of 380-mm shells is still a bit troublesome, and there are more than 1,000 rounds of shells and warhead assemblies, that is, the factory that produces matching samples is in the German theater of operations, and it will take time to redevelop the factory in the Urals.

Lin Jun thought that the cost of re-opening the mold was too high, and only suggested that the production line should be closed after the assembly of the shells in Lviv's stockpile, and the 2,000 rounds of shells should have been able to feed the five big guys. The Soviet Union had super-large caliber heavy guns with better performance, but each one required a lot of manpower and material resources, and it was certainly best to be able to make use of the antique waste left over from the First World War.

The amount of heavy equipment to be replenished to the Brest Fortress will be very staggering, in addition to the five behemoths and a number of artillery units equipped with cannons of caliber below 152 mm, Lin Jun also used his authority to add a heavy artillery reinforcement battalion with 18 BR-17 210 mm cannons to the fortress establishment. With a shell weighing 133 kg and a range of 29,400 meters, the BR-17 was able to pose a lethal threat to most of the German ground technical weapons units.

The highest point in the Brest region is St. Nicholas's Cathedral, which provides a sufficient depth of view and is the best artillery observation post, which the Germans on the opposite side do not have. What's more, the church's bell tower is built to be sturdy, which was thought of about decades ago.

The BR-17 was originally prepared to deal with the Karelian Isthmus fortifications of the Finns, and Lin Jun did not set many production targets at the beginning last year, but Stalin was in a happy mood after watching the firing performance of this large-caliber cannon and ordered to speed up production, otherwise Lin Jun would not have had so many BR-17s on hand.

The Soviets have put the state system into a semi-war state, and now Lin Jun wants what he wants. The environment around the Brest Fortress was not suitable for the defenders to use large-scale armored forces, otherwise Lin Jun might have equipped this fantastic fortress with a heavy tank regiment. Large-scale is not good, but a small number is still interesting, or to get a tank battalion of 24 KV-1 formations for the fortress, with the flank defense of the fortress - what if it can't be used? Lao Tzu is used as a mobile battery! With the infantry to cooperate, it is not easy to gnaw this hard bone!

When the fortress is rebuilt, most of the heavy equipment and subordinate units will be stationed nearby for training, and the fortress can be gradually stationed according to the progress of the reconstruction. The original scale of the fortress was built according to the necessary food and ammunition materials that could store 12,000 garrison troops, and this expansion Lin Jun wanted to expand the fortress into a huge fortress system that could garrison a garrison infantry division and cooperate with the troops, and the medium and large caliber artillery would be equipped with more than 200 pieces, as well as a large number of machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, not counting the guys of the two fortress anti-aircraft artillery battalions.

The special terrain of the fortress allowed the defending troops to condescend to give the attackers heavy casualties without fear of the threat of the opponent's general weapons, and the German small-caliber anti-tank guns and machine guns basically did not pose a threat to the brick walls of the fortress up to 2 meters thick, and the large-caliber artillery could only play its role when it approached the fortified defensive circle.

Not to mention that the fortress's artillery was not dry, once the enemy artillery pushed into a close position, they would face an overwhelming amount of defensive fire from the fortress fortress and the bunkers on the defensive wall - Lin Jun "ordered" a staggering number of twin 14.5-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 23-mm machine guns, and 37-mm anti-aircraft guns in the Urals. In the future, the anti-aircraft fire in the bunkers of the fortifications of these dense fortresses could be pulled up to the defensive walls in peacetime to deal with targets in the air, and if necessary, to shoot flat against the ground attacks of the Germans.

The most tenacious troops can withstand direct fire from light and heavy machine guns, but once they are subjected to direct fire from large-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft guns like a storm, they can hold off the ghost! This has been illustrated many times in historical wars, that is, for the volunteers whom Lin Jun admired very much, the quadruple 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns of the Americans were an incomparable headache.

12.7 mm small meaning, Lin Jun prepared for the Germans is a larger caliber, more fierce firepower, and strong fortifications to rely on, in the design drawings of those overhead rapid-fire fire points not only have bricks and reinforced concrete structures for defense, but also add a layer of 20 mm thick steel plates, anyway, the defensive wall has enough load-bearing capacity, Lin Jun can add bricks and tiles to the fortress. They will be indestructible unless it is a direct hit by German artillery of caliber of more than 75 mm.

For those large-caliber heavy artillery, Lin Jun asked the designers to improvise an orbital movement system, which could quickly move between the forts, and in case the main positions were discovered or destroyed by the Germans, they could be quickly transferred.

I have to thank the Tsar's fortress design engineers, they provided a good foundation for Lin Jun's huge renovation plan, and the personnel and materials needed for the reconstruction are still within an acceptable range. When it is completed, with more than 15,000 defensive troops, strong and reasonable firepower, excellent and reliable command system, and self-sufficient logistics supply, if it is the German side that attacks first, if they only use those historical forces and equipment, do not want to occupy the Bresthal fortress within three months, the fortress is not a delusional thing to say for half a year.

Being able to hold out for 3 months is enough to deal with the Soviets and Lin Jun. (To be continued.) )