At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Jun was reviewing documents in his own office of the City Defense Command, when he suddenly felt that his desk was trembling slightly, and his hand on it also felt a vibration. Ten seconds later, www.biquge.info a dull explosion sounded, like a heavy bomb exploding in the distance.

Gusev, who was staying in the office together, also showed a look of surprise - there were no air raid sirens, no enemy planes flew over the city of Minsk, and the air defense forces did not move, what was going on?

Could it be that something happened? Ammunition hoarding point exploding?

Lin Jun stood up, "Go and see." ”

The people in the war room were also baffled by the sudden explosion, which was basically sealed, so that the explosion could be heard, indicating that the explosion power would definitely not be small, and it was not the effect that ordinary shell explosions could achieve.

Out of the bunker, climb to the roof of the factory building next to it, where there are anti-aircraft artillery positions and observation posts, and you can see most of the city of Minsk.

"Marshal, it's the middle of the city, and there's no forewarning explosion, on our side." The officer on duty reported to Lin Jun, "It's not bombing. ”

Through the large binoculars on the roof of the building, Lin Jun could carefully distinguish the smoke and dust rising from a few kilometers away, which was in the southwest corner of Lenin Square!

While he was watching, the telephone on the side rang, and the officer on duty picked up the microphone: "What?" Yes, understood. ”

"Marshal, the front-line troops reported that they heard a scream similar to the falling of artillery shells before the explosion, a very loud noise. The explosion directly destroyed one of our six-story buildings, completely destroyed. ”

Lin Jun looked at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, and frowned, "Let the troops near the explosion point in front continue to pay attention to observe, and if it is an artillery bombardment, measure the approximate direction." ”

Compared with the troops in the factory area, the people in the Pavlov building just now had a deeper understanding of the power of the explosion -- half of the building a few hundred meters away was blown away, and the other half collapsed in an instant, which was a building with a length of more than 70 meters!

Minsk had seen the power of the Germans' cannons, from 170 mm to 600 mm caliber shells, but had never seen such a violent explosion, and it was difficult to determine for a time what kind of weapon could cause such damage.

If Lin Jun was near the explosion point, he would have exclaimed a noun out loud, but he would have been in the factory area and had that kind of immersive experience.

Lin Jun didn't go downstairs because he was a little confused and wanted to make sure what he was thinking. The factory area was under his own control for several kilometers in a straight line, and he did not hang out on the uncovered rooftop with a team of followers in a straight line, so he did not have to worry that the Germans a few kilometers away would concentrate a group of howitzers as "sniper artillery".

The angle of view from the roof of the building is very good, because the position where Lin Jun is standing now is equivalent to the roof of a residential building that is almost 10 stories high, and the city in front of him is simply a ruin, and there is no complete building at all. Minsk at this time would have been a beautiful winter city shrouded in silver and white, but now it is black and white, messy.

Suddenly, there was smoke and dust from another explosion, and the officer on duty on the side said without using a telescope to observe: "Marshal, there is no scale just now, this should be a railway artillery shelling of about 280 mm caliber." ”

Explosions continued, and the Germans began a massive artillery bombardment, with targets concentrated in the middle of the city. The people on the side wanted Lin Jun to return to the command below, but Lin Jun disagreed, and instead looked at the sky.

The call from the observation post remembered again, this time to inform Lin Jun that his artillery had completed the positioning of the German artillery position, and would immediately carry out an artillery battle to counterattack. This would also be the first line of troops in place, and according to experience, a German artillery bombardment of this scale would be followed by a large-scale attack.

It was already lively, and the whole city was trembling slightly. Suddenly, a huge ball of smoke rises from the distance, "Is that it?!" "Ask the officer on duty.

"Yes, Marshal."

The sound of the explosion could be heard by the whole Minsk, and when he looked down at his watch, Lin Jun already knew what kind of weapon the German army used, and he had already made up his mind in his heart: "Connect to the No. 6 airfield, inform Air Colonel Ivan Semenovich Polbin, and ask him to immediately prepare for sortie with all the dive bombers deployed nearby, one-third of the planes are equipped with cluster bombs, and the others are all equipped with high-explosive bombs, ready to bomb the German railway running positions at fixed points." ”

Gusev recorded Lin Jun's carelessness and picked up the phone.

"The bearing has been roughly measured, it is due west, but the distance cannot be estimated." The officer on duty reports.

"Don't count. Gusev, inform the airfield, just from my base point, 50 kilometers to the west, with a radius of 5 kilometers, there must be a super giant cannon the size of a destroyer, destroy it! Lin Jun paused: "The Germans will have strong anti-aircraft firepower, and there will be fighters waiting for them, let Kobets send a brigade of fighters to escort them." ”

Comrade Marshal methodically, confidently, and calmly gave one order after another -- he did not bother with the battles of the ground forces, but in the whole Soviet Union he was definitely the "godfather" of the Air Force, and his verbal orders were even higher than the official documents of the Front Command.

"How did the marshal get those calculations? That's a distance that even ballistics experts can't calculate. This kind of question appeared in the minds of the comrades on the rooftop, but it did not need to be asked, it was carried out - Marshal Plunyakov's order only needed to be carried out without any doubt! Besides, the deputy commander did not miss it, and it will not be wrong!

Lin Jun knew what it was - a huge explosion, not an aerial bomb, it could only be the ultimate cannon of the Third Reich: Dora!

It is not the kind of explosion that the concrete-destroying bomb drills into the ground, but the ground, and it is not an 800-mm concrete-destroying bomb weighing 7.1 tons, but a high-explosive bomb: the Germans want to deceive their aerial reconnaissance and avoid the long-range artillery of the Minsk defenders, and the "Dora" will not get too close. Combined with the distance from the explosion point, about 50 kilometers, Polbin should be able to find the hill of steel behemoths.

It stands to reason that the ultimate cannon will not be produced until next spring, and it seems that the Krupp Arsenal is very efficient, and the behemoth that has lost its life and money has been completed ahead of schedule.

Minsk does not have a super-solid target that is worthy of "Dora" to solve with concrete-sabotage shells, a grenade weighing 4.759 tons can tear everything apart - the shelling interval is 20 minutes, it is definitely "Dora"!

Lin Jun is very decided!

In order to break through the Maginot Line, which was constructed by the French, Hitler ordered the study of super-heavy artillery in 35. The Army Ordnance Administration proposed that the range of such heavy artillery should be more than 32 kilometers, and the power of the shells should be able to penetrate 1 meter thick steel plate or 2.5 meters thick reinforced concrete walls. After accepting the task, the Krupp Arsenal studied all the field artillery, railway artillery, and fortress artillery of that time, and concluded that the existing weapons could not meet the requirements, and at least 700 mm caliber giant artillery could destroy the Maginot Line. In March 1936, Hitler personally inspected the arsenal and finally decided to prototype an 800 mm gun.

The designers of the cannon were Mura and Paulzyu, and the caliber of the cannon was 800 mm, and a large soldier could crouch in the chamber. In honor of the plant's founder, Gustav Krupp, Hitler called it "Heavy Gustav". Designer Mura named the cannon "Dora" (the name of Mura's wife) in honor of his wife, and the German artillerymen liked to call it "Dora".

It is definitely the "ultimate cannon" - 42.97 meters long, 7 meters wide, 11.6 meters high, and weighs 1,350 tons, with a single concrete blasting bomb weighing 7.1 tons. The logistical work of such a behemoth was extremely difficult, and in terms of transportation alone, the parts had to be unloaded and loaded separately, and the gun trucks were about the size of a two-story building.

The entire cannon and the required ammunition required 60 wagons, and because the gun body was too wide, the standard width of the railway could not be transported, and special tracks had to be laid. After arriving at the launch position, it was necessary to mount the parts on the gun carriage with the help of a huge crane, and it took about 1,500 people to work for three weeks to install this huge cannon! The number of artillery squads operating the "Dora" was 1,420 people, plus two anti-aircraft gun companies, security personnel and maintenance personnel, this artillery required a total of 4,120 soldiers to serve, and the air force was also responsible for air cover.

However, "Dora" was born at an inopportune time, and by the time it was made, the Germans had already bypassed the Maginot Line and captured France. It seems that Hitler saw that Minsk could not be attacked for a long time, so he sent all the ultimate weapons at hand - that hapless Klug had long wanted to use "Dora", but when fighting some time ago, the huge artillery that had already arrived in the west of Minsk had not yet been installed, because the amount of preparation was too great.

On the first line of inspection, the field marshal planned to use the "Dora" to completely sweep the large number of reinforced concrete buildings on which the Red Army relied on the banks of the Svisloch River, and the Red Army bunkers that could not be gnawed by 150-mm howitzers were absolutely vulnerable under the bombardment of "Dora".

The use of "Dora" requires the orders of the German high command - in fact, for Minsk, Klug wants not the actual lethality of "Dora", but the psychological effect! Unfortunately, he can't see it, and he won't know it, his opponent knows what such a sudden attack is coming from, and he knows where to find it!

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