As the Fort of Terijoki was flown and the tanks in front rushed up the cliff from the flanks, the infantry following them engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the remaining Finnish defenders, the powerful and ferocious firepower of the AK-47s completely dominated, and the Red Army who rushed into the position cleared the trench by tunnel and trench by trench with grenades and flamethrowers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Pull both howitzers and cannons behind the fortress and build positions in half an hour!"

Seeing that tanks and infantry had already occupied the area of the fortress, Sergei Sergeyevich Valenzov gave a loud order: the goal before sunset today is to take the "foreground" area of the "Mannalin Line" defense zone, and it is necessary to advance 10 to 20 kilometers along the entire front, and the western front is to break through the two strong lines of defense of the Finns.

After the occupation of the positions of the Tyrivokifen army, it was planned that Valenzov's headquarters would set up a heavy artillery support position here - within a straight line of 30 kilometers from here there were 18 Finn fortresses that had already mastered their positions, and just near Revola, 7 kilometers to the north-west, two super-heavy fortresses, more than a dozen large reinforced concrete bunkers, anti-tank trenches, and cascade trenches blocked the route of the Red Army's attack.

The Finns did not aim their limited artillery fire at the already lost terrijoki, knowing that once the artillery position was exposed, the only result would be an artillery bombardment ten times that of their own, leaving the limited firepower for the moment when the Soviets launched the assault to be most effective.

With three 1939 280-mm howitzers and four BR-17s at his disposal, Valensov will be able to strike wherever and wherever he can within a 30-kilometer straight line with accurate artillery guidance, and the Finnish fortresses will have a taste of Soviet heavy artillery.

Take out the map and accurately mark the position of the cannons, the first thing those 280mm big guys want to greet is the Finnish fortress in Revola, and their horizontal firing range is only 8 degrees, and it will be a waste of valuable time to change the firing angle.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, call from the air guide." The communications soldier on the side handed the microphone of the knapsack radio to Valenzov.

A "pleasant" voice came from the headphones: "We are about to arrive over you, and we will do accurate artillery positioning for you." ”

"Lesbians?" Valentsov chuckled in his heart, "Okay, I'm the artillery battalion commander Valentsov, and we're going to have the first shelling in three minutes." ”

At this time, a light Po-2 biplane training aircraft approached its position from a height of 3,000 meters, looking like a light swallow from the ground.

"Howitzer No. 1, one degree to the left, elevation angle 54!"

"Fixed!"

"Put!"

With Valenzov's order, the soldiers from a hundred meters away felt the powerful shock wave generated by the launch of the 280-mm howitzer, and the snow under the muzzle of the gun was blown away, revealing a brown layer of soil, and a loud sound could be heard several kilometers away.

After Valentsov calculated in detail the distance, angle and shelling parameters of the two places according to previous aerial maps, the whistling concrete destructive projectile flew high into the air, and after reaching the highest point, it began to fall according to inertia, increasing at a speed far beyond the speed of sound.

In the air, both Khorkina and Petrova heard the loud sound of howitzers firing below, and Khorkina adjusted the course to 20 degrees to the west, and controlled the speed to 100 kilometers, leaving the best observation angle for Petrova in the back seat.

More than 20 seconds later, Petrova saw a huge explosion point through the telescope: "20 to the left, 50 ahead!" ”

"Roger!"

The angle of fire and the position of the fire were quickly adjusted (the position was adjusted in direction), and the other two howitzers fired two shells weighing 246 kg each at 15-second intervals, shelling at the target at a high angle.

A section of the auxiliary trench was destroyed in the test firing just now, and the Finnish soldiers in the fort were stunned and terrified.

Overhead is a 2.5-meter-thick reinforced concrete and 3-meter mud super-thick fortification roof, which withstood the overwhelming overlay shelling at dawn, whether it is a 107-mm cannon or a 152-mm howitzer, the shells cannot penetrate the super-thick defense, which makes the defenders of a battalion full of confidence, waiting to teach a good lesson to the Soviets who dare to attack. But now a single shell makes the Finns in the fortress lose their self-confidence - is the one on the head reliable?

Petrova saw a large impact point again, and from her vantage point she saw the Finnish fortress, and fifteen seconds later, she saw a huge red-black fireball.

"Hit the ammunition depot of the Finnish army, Fort No. 1 has been destroyed!"

Valentsov heard what he wanted to hear the most, "Destroy the target!" ”

The artillery boys did not have time to celebrate, because the new order had been given: "Three degrees to the left, fifty-two degrees three to the high and low angles." ”

The loaders reloaded the warheads into the chambers with manual cranes, and two strong soldiers carried brass cartridges to the cartridges, pushed the chambers and closed the bolts, and the gunners adjusted the angle of fire to the angle and position required by Valensov as quickly as possible.

"Ready!" "Ready!" "Ready!"

"Ten second intervals, put!"

The 280mm howitzer roared again, this time targeting Fort Raivola No. 2, which was located to the right of Fort No. 1 (facing the Finnish troops), a huge support point larger than Fort No. 1. Since there was Fort No. 1 as a reference, Valentsov ordered a salvo of three guns in the first round of shelling, omitting the part of test firing.

Without the good luck of hitting the ammunition depot just now, although the target was hit in the first salvo, according to the air indications, the fortified fortifications of the fortress seemed to block the falling shells.

The artillerymen reloaded desperately and fired a second round of shells as quickly as possible. After four volleys, Valentsov finally got confirmation from Petrova - Fortress No. 2 was largely destroyed and was smoking.

Light is basically not enough, the tank soldiers and infantry comrades who are building positions nearby and arriving later are looking at this side, they need these guys with huge calibers to clear the obstacles! The artillerymen fired two more volleys, and the No. 2 fortress was finally blown to pieces.

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Thirteen kilometers west of Valentsov's position there was also a huge fortress, one of the two strongest fortifications of the Finns on the coast of the Gulf of Finland - the fortress of Ino. But the Ino Fortress did not need to be "taken care of" by Valenzov's artillery battalion, because its location was "very good", and together with the Fortress of Soltavala, which was 21 kilometers away, it firmly controlled the 25-kilometer channel of the narrowest section of the Gulf of Finland, and the Soviet Red Banner Baltic Fleet was under their surveillance in and out of the Gulf of Finland.

Because of this, the fortresses of Ino and Soltavala have always been thorns in the side of the Red Army - you can control the Baltic Sea, and the Soviets 22 kilometers away can also build positions for shelling both fortresses, not to mention that the island of Kotlin in the middle has been an important Russian fortress and military port for two centuries.

At the same time as Debenko gave the order for a general attack, the Red Banner Baltic Fleet in the Gulf of Finland launched artillery shelling of the fortifications along the Finnish coast, but compared to the 130 mm naval artillery shells on the destroyers, the greatest threat to the fortresses of Ino and Soltavala came from the fort guns of the two batteries of Red Hill and Gray Horse across the Gulf of Finland, 23 kilometers away, and from the long-range coastal artillery shelling from Kotlin Island.

The Red Army Artillery Command temporarily reinforced the three 356-mm М-1-14 railway guns from the railway artillery to the Red Hill and Gray Horse batteries, forming a special artillery battery to stay on the railway line behind the two batteries. These huge guns that were originally to be installed on the "Izmail" class battle cruisers during World War I were 50.41 times the diameter, and although they have been fired with reduced charges after becoming train guns, the firing range far exceeds the 30 kilometers of the maximum 25-degree elevation angle when the ship was originally installed, and the muzzle velocity of 731 meters can accurately hit 747.6 kg of armor-piercing shells to 38 kilometers away!

In order to cooperate with the army's offensive, Debenko also added four artillery battalions with a total of 36 BR-17 210mm cannons to the two batteries through Lin Jun, temporarily arranged into the Gray Horse and Hongshan batteries, and launched artillery bombardment across the Baltic Sea, completely destroying all the fortified targets in the two resistance hubs of the Finnish army's frontal positions within a firing range of 30 kilometers across the sea.

Since the sea area in this area will be frozen in mid-December at the latest, and ships are difficult to move in the early days of the freeze, and the ice will not pass through the infantry units until January, Lin Jun and the Kremlin, who are striving to end the war quickly, demanded that the Finnish fortress in the Gulf of Finland salient be solved at the beginning, so as to clear the way for ships to pass and remove the threat of the left flank to attack the "Men Nalin Line".

The Finnish fortified units guarding the fortresses of Ino and Soltavala had only a few 254-mm cannons, and it was no problem to block the central shipping lanes of the Gulf of Finland, but the old antiques developed before the First World War not only broke down frequently, but also could not hit the Soviet fortress artillery groups on the other side of the bay at all, and were completely passive before the Red Navy ships approached the Finnish coast. (To be continued.) )