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At this time, all the airfields near Moscow had fallen into the hands of the Ming army, and only a small part of the ******** that could take off on the short runway was hidden in the hands of the Russian army. These ******** are the retreats reserved for themselves by the top generals of the Russian army. After all, the Russians still have a large territory and a large army, and they have not yet reached the moment of final despair. It's better to survive than to be a captive.

The Russian army, which had completely lost its air power, was no longer able to resist the bombing of the Ming army's army and aviation. The only remaining part of the anti-aircraft weapons in their hands will be muted for a long time due to the lack of shells, and after that, it will be a wonderful performance of the Ming army's army aviation.

In order to speed up the progress of the Moscow campaign, Zhang Cheng mobilized more than 20 fighters of the Army Aviation Wing to be stationed in the area around Moscow to be responsible for air operations and ground support. Needless to say, the planes on the outside line of the Allied forces will basically not come to send them to death, and the Daming Army Aviation firmly controls air supremacy.

Ground attacks, on the other hand, use everything they can use. From ordinary high-explosive shells to submunitions, from incendiary bombs to cluster bombs. Basically all kinds of bombs, except atomic bombs and poison gas bombs, were able to be found on the Moscow battlefield. In addition to variety, it is more about quantity. The Ming army and army aviation returned countless bombs as if they didn't want money.

Because the time is getting closer and closer to winter, Zhang Cheng, who is apprehensive about the Russian army's powerful ability to use winter to bring back to life, is resolutely unwilling to fight the Russian army in winter. He gave the strictest order to Lu Hang, and did everything possible to throw the bombs out!

More than 1,000 bombers of various types have been working day and night to keep all kinds of bombs in Moscow, and they will not be able to distinguish whether it is a civilian area or a military area. In the eyes of military personnel, any place on the battlefield is a war zone. Except for the inability to dispatch due to bad weather, Moscow has been bombed by the legendary thousand planes on other days.

The entire sprawling city was blown into ruins piece by piece, littered with collapsed buildings and burning debris. Countless supplies and personnel were buried in the rubble. When the Ming army's army bombardment was at its most intense, the airship units transporting ammunition to the front line had to make a round trip from Kazan to Moscow in two days. Thousands of tons of ammunition are consumed every day by the Army Aviation alone.

In addition to the bombardment, the powerful artillery of the Ming army also showed its power in this battle. At this time, the Russian army guarding Moscow basically no longer has any decent artillery power, and air cover is not even a thought. In this case, the artillery units of the Ming army were rarely able to exert their powerful forces without any interference.

In the armor leather led by Zhang Cheng. Before the advent of life, the artillery of the Ming army was the most powerful force in the world. Although the artillerymen gave up their place after the rise of armored forces, their position was still very important.

The heavy artillery divisions of the Ming army were reorganized to a certain extent during the wartime. A large number of field artillery support and suppression tasks were taken over by the artillery units of various army groups, corps, divisions and even regiments. The positioning of the heavy artillery unit of the Ming army, which is powerful but has poor mobility, is a little awkward. They are not needed in ordinary battles, and it is very rare to use them in battles.

As long as the caliber of the body artillery of the Ming Army exceeds 100 mm, it can be called heavy artillery. However, this kind of artillery is very common in the Ming army, and it can even be said that in addition to the 75 mm caliber anti-tank gun and the 88 mm high-level dual-purpose gun, the other artillery of the Ming army basically uses artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm. The regimental artillery of the wealthy Ming army and even ordinary infantry regiments was 105-mm howitzers. This is enough to make the army of any country envious.

The five heavy artillery divisions of the Ming Army, which had been formed for many years, were reorganized because they were rarely used in the war. The new situation of mechanized warfare led to a very fast process of warfare, with basically armored troops breaking through the outflanking and infantry following the encirclement and annihilation. In this case, the heavy artillery division with poor mobility can only separate the lighter artillery in its own establishment from the field troops, leaving only the super artillery for use when attacking the fortress.

There were really not many times when the Ming army needed to attack fortifications. Under normal circumstances, the enemy army is quickly annihilated or surrendered after being surrounded. As for the offensive and defensive battles of the fortified fortress positions, that is, at the time of the storming of the Kazan fortress at the beginning of the war, there was a large-scale artillery preparation. After that, the heavy artillery division of the Ming army rarely had the opportunity to play. The original five heavy artillery divisions have been reduced to four, two on the outskirts of Moscow, one in Tsaritsyn, and one in the strategic reserve.

However, the Moscow defenders refused to surrender, and Zhang Cheng was determined to storm and end the battle, which provided a rare opportunity for the Ming army's heavy artillery units to appear. The time they had been waiting for for so long had finally come.

The 1st and 2nd Heavy Artillery Divisions of the Ming Army were each equipped with two 380 mm caliber railway artillery squads after reorganization. It is said to be an artillery squad, but in fact it has hundreds of soldiers, and the squad leader is a colonel.

It's not a joke that so many people are serving a cannon. These officers and soldiers included guards in charge of guards, transporters in charge of transport, artillerymen in charge of operating artillery, and engineers in charge of piling equipment and erecting temporary railroad tracks.

The 380 mm caliber railway gun equipped by the heavy artillery division of the Ming Army was actually dismantled from the main guns on the retired warships of the Navy and rebuilt into the army. In the previous years of naval battles, many battleships of the Ming army were wounded or sunk, and many useful things were dismantled on these battleships that the wealthy Ming Navy chose to retire, the most critical of which was artillery.

Originally, according to the convention, these guns should have been deployed in important shore-based defense batteries in various places, which is also the tradition of the navies of various countries. However, with the rapid progress of science and technology, when aircraft gradually began to dominate naval battles and blue skies, this kind of expensive and immovable coastal batteries became very weak. More importantly, the Ming Navy continued to achieve victories and pushed the battle line all the way to the enemy's doorstep, and at this time the Ming Navy was not interested in spending military funds on building forts.

Subsequently, after Zhang Cheng's coordination, the navy transferred part of the artillery to the Ming Army. It's not that the Army doesn't actually have the money to produce these things, it's just that there are so few of them that they don't build them. But now no one will refuse such a thing for nothing, and this giant artillery is not cheap at all.

The army received eight semi-new 380 mm guns from the battleship Yulong Snow Mountain, which was forced to retire due to a landbreak, and invested a huge amount of military expenditure to return to the factory for large-scale renovation so that it could be used on land. After nearly a year of refinement of these artillery pieces into the Army, the Army quickly reorganized its heavy artillery divisions and distributed them evenly among the four heavy artillery divisions.

The gun, which was originally used on battleships, was redesigned to reduce its range, but its power and accuracy did not deteriorate in the slightest, but rather increased.

The officers and men of the heavy artillery division chose to bombard the positions, and the work of the sappers to erect temporary rails and brackets was soon over, and after several super artillery pieces calculated various coordinates, they let out an earth-shattering roar and fired high-explosive and armor-piercing shells weighing nearly one ton at the Russian positions more than 20 kilometers away.

The guns on the battleship have always been less accurate than the guns on the road because the firing platform fluctuates with the waves, but once they are on the shore, the shooting accuracy is different. The gunners of the Ming army, who possessed advanced sighting equipment, were absolutely the world's first-class in terms of shooting skills honed by a large number of shells and barrel wear and tear after a long period of training.

For many years before the start of the war, the Russians had been building war fortifications. In addition to the strong defensive lines of the Kazan front, large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg were also fortified on the periphery of large cities.

Although the Russians have always refused to admit it, they are also very clear in their hearts that the gap between themselves and the Ming is very huge. As a result, even Moscow, far from the front line, had numerous fortifications. Of course, the fortifications here certainly cannot be compared with those of the Kazan front.

As the Ming army approached Moscow quickly, the Russians began to mobilize a large number of citizens to build various fortifications on the edge of Moscow's urban areas. They dug out long anti-tank trenches, as well as numerous communication trenches, fire points, and so on. At the heart of the battle line were the large reinforced concrete permanent fortifications that had been built before the war.

These fortifications were all made of reinforced concrete, and the fortifications were covered with layers of concrete and steel plates. In some places the thickness is even more than five meters. These fortress-like fortifications were the core of the defense line on the outskirts of Moscow, and behind them was the city of Moscow. If the Ming army wanted to enter the city of Moscow, it had to pull out these nails.

The Russians relied on the ring road outside the city, and there was such a large fortification about every kilometer. The fortifications were connected by communication trenches and small firing points, each of which had a number of artillery and machine-gun firing points. They condescendingly hid in the midst of the strong fortifications, and repelled the attacking troops of the Ming army again and again with a dense rain of bullets. Relying solely on infantry and armored units to fill the tank would inevitably be an unbearable price, and this is when the time has come for bombers and heavy artillery units to show their might.

The Ming army dispatched a large number of bomber units to launch a ferocious attack on these large fortifications. But the Russian fortifications were simply too thick, and most of the last Russian anti-aircraft weapons were deployed near them. The anti-aircraft fire flying in the sky forced the Ming army to carry out low-altitude approaching air strikes. Most of the Ming bombs did not hit their targets, and the few bombs that hit their targets were not powerful enough to destroy these fortifications. (To be continued.) )