The Soviet Union's consistent "artillery doctrine" showed its terrifying power in advance on November 30, 39, when the planes and the observation post on Kotlin Island, which were the guidance of the shelling, clearly watched the shelling cut through the Finns' positions like huge plowshares, and those seemingly incomparably strong coastal fortresses were torn apart by the bombardment of the cannons, and some fortifications were blown out hundreds of meters away, and even the outer walls of the reinforced concrete fortresses several meters thick were also crumbled by the bombardment of the 356-mm cannons!

The power of the armor-piercing projectile weighing more than 700 kilograms falling at a near-vertical angle at a high altitude was terrifying, and the huge kinetic energy and the sturdy shell penetrated the soil layer more than 5 meters thick, and then penetrated the reinforced concrete roof more than 3 meters thick, and it exploded violently until it fell into the inside of the fortress! The energy from the burst of more than 30 kilograms of charge forcibly cracked the thick steel shell, blasting everything around it to pieces!

Because of the precious life of the barrels of the railway guns, the three М-1-14s stopped shelling after firing only 24 shells in total, began to withdraw from the battery area, and temporarily withdrew to the hidden positions in the rear along the newly built railway, leaving those BR-17s to carry out extended shelling as if they were not paying money. The four heavy artillery battalions www.biquge.info Pen, Fun, and Pavilion fully controlled all areas within the 29,400-meter range.

The 133-kilogram concrete-destroying projectiles fired from the 210-mm cannon were not as terrifying as the railway guns, but they were shocking enough for the observers in the sky: they had never seen a shell explode with a caliber of more than 152 mm before, and if you had to describe the feeling of the pilot, in addition to the shock, this level of shelling is hell's greeting to the Finns.

The terrifying shelling made the observation planes in the air fly farther unconsciously, "If a big guy with no eyes hits me on the head, then there will be no bones?!" ”

Were there any planes shot down by ground shelling? There may be such unlucky eggs, but the fears of the pilots now are completely unwarranted, the fighter unit has seized air supremacy over the strait, driving the Finnish Air Force north of Vyborg. The overwhelming bomber force is bombing the airfields of the Finns, the threat from the sky is largely eliminated, and their location is safe, and the guided airspace given by ballistics experts is outside the ballistic trajectory of the fortress artillery, which is only the psychological effect of the pilots.

Each salvo covered the shelling distance by 50 meters, and the huge explosion filtered the Finns' positions like a sieve of destruction, leaving behind rows of huge craters that incidentally took the lives of all creatures higher than arthropods within the range of the shelling.

Twenty minutes later, the main structure of the Ino Fortress and the nearby fortifications had been subjected to 700 rounds of shells of more than 210 mm caliber, and the fortress that was still on the side of the strait became a hell on earth, full of devastation left by the shelling, the concrete structure was crooked, and some of the No. 18 steel bars exposed to the concrete were strangely twisted like twisted flowers.

The coastal artillery inside the fortress and the howitzer positions on the side have been completely destroyed, and due to the collapse of the roof, the two 254-mm fortress guns that were not directly hit have also been smashed by dozens of tons of concrete blocks, and the members of the artillery crew have become bloody corpses.

The Germans have always considered their artillery to be the best in the world, and it is undeniable that some of their cannons are powerful, but the Germans have not yet tasted the power of the "red giant hammer", and the heavy artillery designed and manufactured by the communists has completely surpassed the cannons generally equipped by the German army, but the Germans do not know it yet.

According to the plan, the world powers, including the Germans, will soon have to re-examine the Red artillery, because the Finns became the first touchstone after the modernization of the Red Army artillery, and only the Red Army artillery could mobilize the heavy artillery to shell the Finnish fortresses across the sea in batches, because the performance of the BR-17 had reached the tip of the pyramid of the ballistics of the same kind and contemporaneous artillery.

The pilots in the east, who were guiding the shelling of Valentsov, also saw a series of shelling in the distance, and although they were only responsible for the shelling guidance for this section, they estimated from the position of the shelling that the shells were flying across the strait. In the opinion of the girls, what else can not be destroyed under such a spectacular shelling ?!

The fighting was raging over there, and Lieutenant Colonel Valentsov was no more deserted than the Red Hill and the Gray Horse Battery, and the artillery battalion, under the guidance of Petrova, was taking a roll call of the fortresses and fortifications within the firing range one by one - the artillery of the Revola fortress, which had been bombed into the sky, would not know whether to be sad or regretful if they knew what Valentsov was doing now: they were the only Finnish artillery that could threaten the area of the Terrijoki fortress, but the tactics made them choose a temporary silence, and as a result, it became a permanent silence, And Valenzov's four BR-17s are being named one by one, and not only can they not get Valentsov's coordinates, but the howitzers in the fortress cannot reach the area of the Terrijoki fortress.

Although the "Mannalien Line" is strong, and the design of each resistance hub is also difficult to overcome, but once it loses air supremacy and encounters the long-range artillery that has a huge advantage in the Red Army's powerful range, it becomes a passive target, which is probably not considered by the Belgian General Badu, the designer.

What if Batu took it into account? The Finns simply couldn't come up with high-performance artillery, everything was in vain, not to mention the Red Army bomber groups that were bombarding the rear of the support zone, and the Pi-2 formation continued to appear over the forts in the rear of the defensive line, diving down from high altitude and accurately smashing 250 kg and 100 kg explosive shells on the heads of the Finns.

The Finnish troops who were rushing to the front to support were even more pitiful - an elite standing infantry battalion was spotted by three SB-2s on the way from Kuolemajärvi to Kutelseke, and the bomber leader, Rekunin, ordered the bombing of the Finnish troops below, which were carrying out anti-aircraft concealment on both sides of the road.

"All attention, target front infantry, 800 horizontal bombardment, drop our gifts!"

Both the co-pilot and the pilot bomber had seen the power of the "gift" test during training, and now they looked at the Finns in the distance like a herd of poor sheep, and soon the Finnish infantry would be the same fate as the sheep on the test ground, and it would be "happy" to lose their lives completely, and those who did not die would be more uncomfortable than dead.

The three SB-2 fast bombers that took off from the airfield near Leningrad were on a mission to destroy the living forces of the Finnish army, carrying the maximum payload, and the original target was the barracks of Ku'auremajärvi. But the leader apparently saw the infantry battalion as more valuable, and three bombers dropped all 18 100-kilogram high-explosive bombs and six new 500-kilogram cluster bombs on the Finns.

With the "bomb drop" from the bombardier of the pilot plane, Rekunin felt that the plane was light, and the plane, which had lost more than a ton of load, jumped up sharply, and the black bomb left the plane and threw itself on the ground. The SB-2 in the rear followed suit, and then reversed course and returned: they had to launch another air strike before dark.

The Finns on the ground were targeted by bombers and could only consider themselves unlucky: they had chosen a completely unerring method of concealment, they were well trained, and scattering the woods and low-lying ground on either side would reduce the threat of bombs, but this old experience was only suitable for old tactics.

A bunch of bombs fell from the sky, and a few brave Finnish soldiers lying in the snow dared to look up at where the bombs had landed - perhaps they wanted to change places before they saw the bombs fall on their heads.

Suddenly, the Finns saw several bombs explode at a height of several hundred meters, and it seemed that hundreds of small objects were scattered and rained down on the ground.

A metal storm, each cluster bomb shell was loaded with 125 3-kilogram anti-personnel bombs, a full 750 mortar bomblets fell among the Finns, more than 700 successfully exploded, and in an instant the ground became the hellish scene described in the book of Revelation, the human body was torn to pieces, and some lucky people became bloody people, screaming in the snow.

In less than five seconds, this 500-strong Finnish infantry battalion was history, and less than 20 survived the cluster bombs! When the Finns recovered from the shock of the "metal storm", they were completely stunned by the horror around them: human minced flesh, shattered internal organs, and screaming wounded people everywhere. I don't know how to treat the wounded, the snow has turned into a red and white palette, the minced meat is still jumping and jumping, and everything strongly stimulates the nerves of soldiers who have not really experienced war!

Why did later generations often want to ban the use of cluster bombs, and why did Americans cherish this weapon, which has the nickname "devil's egg"? Probably the best answer can be obtained from the surviving Finns. A small episode, the future Lin Jun because of the two new bombs conceived by himself will be called "sons of Satan" by those "pacifists", of course, this is a later story.

It was in the Baltic Sea that a flotilla of two battleships and five destroyers was cleaving the waves and sailing towards Koivisto, and the commander of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov, was watching into the distance from the bridge of the battleship "October Revolution", which would be the first time in many years that a Red Navy battleship would be on a combat mission. (To be continued.) )