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The black and red fireball rose rapidly upwards from 11 kilometers away, gradually turning into a mushroom-like cloud hundreds of meters high that could not be blown away by strong winds. Whether it was the White Guard soldiers who were guarding the arch along the railway line, or the poor Red Army soldiers who tried to intercept and destroy, they were all stunned by this strange and terrifying scene! So much so that before the second heavy shell fell, the whole battlefield was silent.

The low-velocity high-explosive grenade, weighing 1 ton and having more charge than an ordinary artillery shell, showed extremely terrifying lethality, and the 65 kg standard TNT expanded instantly, forming a terrible shock wave that pushed thousands of fragments and ceramic triangular nails to rush in all directions, and the entire surface seemed to be scraped off! Horses wailed, soldiers cried, and gravel and dirt rained down on all sides! Even the officers such as Petrolenko, who were hundreds of meters away, were shocked and crooked, and their faces were covered with blood, and a torn war horse's head rolled to everyone's feet with a long neck bone.

When Petrolenko and Blokhin get up from the ground covered in blood, they will face a hell! I only saw thick smoke billowing hundreds of meters away, no human figure was seen at all within a radius of 50 meters from the center of the explosion point, and the cavalry within 100 meters were all blurred with flesh and blood, and the flames continued to spread in all directions among them.

For those poor party officers and soldiers who had no defenses, had not experienced artillery battles on the Western Front, and rarely even saw cannons of more than 150mm caliber, the 420mm Grand Belta, which had been hailed as the most tyrannical anti-personnel machine on the Western Front, was really terrible and terrifying.

On the contrary, the initiator of all this was so excited that his whole body trembled, completely unaware of what a wasteful and shameful act it was to use a super-heavy grenade priced at 3,000 yuan to deal with a group of guerrillas who did not even have many grenades. The second shell was filled into the chamber in this abnormal mood, and 10 minutes later the earthquake-like dull sound sounded again, and the heavy grenade was thrown 120 meters into the air, and then whistled at a much lower speed than the normal shell for a full 50 seconds, and then smashed again 500 meters to the left of the first mushroom cloud.

Before the third shell could be ready, four 1919-style 210mm/L30 heavy train howitzers that arrived at the same time a kilometer away also fired! It's not the same as the Big Berta. They are long-range suppressed howitzers in the modern sense, with a huge triangular support gun carriage fixed in the compartment, and the protective armor partition of the compartment at the tail of the cannon has been opened, and the cannone is deeply rooted in the ground. The artillerymen used the train's own crane to stuff 110-kilogram grenades into the chambers. Because of problems such as recoil and rail bearing. It is not possible to fire 4 guns at the same time, and when used, it is necessary to open a certain distance between the compartments and the detached compartment as in the same way as the Grand Berta. In order to ensure the continuation of the fire, the four guns will continue to fire at 20-second intervals, and from a distance, the muzzles of the cannons will flicker and flicker in the darkness like a fireworks.

Although far less powerful and lethal than the terrible 420mm heavy guns, the speed and sustained shelling made the poor Red Army, which lacked heavy weapons, even more terrifying. Many soldiers involuntarily lay on the ground, never daring to take half a step forward. Boom Boom Boom

This is probably the most asymmetrical and wasteful army artillery operation since the European War, dozens of 210mm and 42mm heavy artillery shells were smashed on the heads of the guerrillas who were even worse equipped than the National Guard, and the enemy who was only supported by blood and faith was completely knocked back to the prototype by the roaring shells, and when the fifth 420mm shell landed in a woods with hundreds of soldiers hidden and exploded violently, all the soldiers spread their feet and ran backwards, even the officers could not stop them from fleeing with their rifles held high.

This is the power of heavy artillery!

The soldiers were not defeated by explosions and mushroom clouds at all. I was completely frightened by the power of the explosion, and I no longer had the courage to fight! Because for the Wehrmacht artillery, which has experienced the tempering of complex and huge artillery battles on the Western Front, it has long been different. In order to achieve the standard of covering destruction of the enemy troops in the ground and unable to move, it is necessary to use at least 12 210mm heavy guns and hundreds of artillery pieces of other calibers to do so. You can't blame anyone for this, because you can't imagine what it is like to have a mushroom cloud around you every few tens of seconds! It is even more unimaginable that when a large crater with a diameter of more than ten meters and a depth of several meters appears in the center of the explosion point, and all the people and horses inside are blown away.

Run, run, run! The remaining partisan soldiers had only this idea, the farther away the better!

It's a pity they don't have a radio. Even the telegraph line along the railway line was cut by themselves, so it was impossible to know that in the distance in the darkness there were two armored trains that had passed through the station and rushed towards Chelyabinsk at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. And behind them, dozens of troop convoys filled with soldiers of the 49 Brigade of the Wehrmacht and the White Guards were closed carriages with the lights turned out. After the convoy passed, another White Guard cavalry of more than 3,000 people chased after them.

If you look down on the railway line to the east, you will find more than 100 trains with all lights extinguished rolling westward in a string.

Chelyabinsk. Fierce battles are still raging.

The Red Army, which stormed overnight, with the help of the Chelyabinsk rebels, finally crossed the bridge and began to attack the city.

In the gloomy basement, Orenrov looked nervous. He was a mechanical and electrical engineer at the Tula Arsenal, where he not only worked on the internal electrical design of the Gangut-class battleships, but also designed and built large generator sets for the Tsar's hydroelectric power plants. Although the war ruined everything, he and his partners had to give up their beloved mechanical and electrical research to help the country build much-needed rifles, cannons, and armored vehicles.

When the February Revolution broke out, he always thought that great Russia would be reborn, but he did not expect that the situation would take a turn for the worse. Revolution, revolution again. The Brest Treaty, which made Russia feel painful, was signed, and a third of the population, most of the industry and resources were ceded! Scholars were found and killed for denouncing the act, merchants and factory owners were overthrown, bourgeoisie were dragged out of their homes and shot by rioting workers, their children were sent to no one else, women were raped and humiliated, and all property was confiscated and then sold on a massive scale. Even the countryside did not escape this catastrophe, the rich peasants were shot for their unwillingness to provide free food, and the poor peasants were ordered to take up arms and fight.

Faced with this situation. He and many of his disappointed colleagues took to the streets to protest, but were ruthlessly repressed, and although they escaped in the end, they were completely dead, so they crossed the Ural Mountains with his wife and millions of people like him to Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. He hoped that General Kolchak would lead everyone to save the country, but the increasingly fierce gunfire outside told him that hope was quickly dashing.

"Odin." The wife trembled and hugged Olrenrov's arm, and nervousness was written in her charming light blue eyes: "Will they kill us?" Is it true that they tied many people to the cross, burned them, or buried them alive? "Olrenrov could not answer his wife. There are many rumors, although some are ridiculous, but the killing and blood are indisputable facts. He smiled. Took out a revolver from his bosom: "I will protect you, dear." ”

The wife was even more worried, and her arms were getting tighter and tighter.

Rumble!

A shell fell not far away, and dust and debris covered the basement, and Olerov and the hundreds of ordinary people hiding here were terrified. Having received military training, he knew very well what it meant for a shell to fall in the middle of the city! It shows that the outer defense line of the city has been lost, and the battle has entered the most tragic street battle!

What happens next? Will they be slaughtered, or what will happen to their beautiful wives in the cold and gloomy mines of the North?

Nobody knows.

Orenrov exhaled a few deep breaths. With trembling feet, he stood up and climbed up in front of the air window to look out. The sky outside has gradually brightened, but the clear view brings a terrifying scene! I saw several enemy cavalry chasing General Kolchak's soldiers all the way, and when the soldiers finally couldn't run, they put down their weapons and raised their hands. What awaits them is a terrible and snow-bright saber. The head was cut off, and blood gushed out like a spring! Olerov shuddered uncontrollably, and when his gaze turned to the other side of the street, it was an even more terrifying sight. Several of his colleagues who had escaped with him were caught, and they raised their hands and shouted something, perhaps trying to tell the enemy soldiers who they were, but the dense bullets hit them at close range! Olerov was frightened, but he didn't dare to scream for fear of frightening his wife, hoping to escape with the help of this relatively secret basement.

But just as he was about to close the air window, a thunderous explosion suddenly rolled in from a distance. The explosion that had never been heard before made everyone in the basement scream. Orenrov suddenly shouted that such a cry would definitely not be able to hide from the enemy soldiers outside, and hurriedly pulled out his pistol to keep everyone quiet, and quietly opened the air window again to see if anyone approached. But this time, his eyes were completely straight!

The enemy soldiers, who had been raging just a moment ago, suddenly retreated to the south as if they were mad, and their front feet had just disappeared around the corner. Hundreds of guards poured up from the other end. What happened? Curiosity made Orenirov uncontrollably open the cellar door and rushed up the stairs, only to find that the banks of the Mias River were already covered with fireballs, tens of thousands of enemy troops attacking here were surrounded by cannonballs, and the mushroom clouds characteristic of heavy cannonballs were everywhere.

"Fire!"

Eight 210mm heavy howitzers arrived overnight took over the battlefield at the most critical moment, and under the guidance of high-flying balloons, shells fell among the enemy troops as if they had eyes. The large army of the poor party who was crossing the river suffered a terrible blow, and only one shell of the still thin ice was enough to tear through hundreds of meters of cracks, the pontoon bridge was blown off, and the icy river water mercilessly swallowed up groups of poor party soldiers. When the four heavy cannons that came from behind and the dozens of cannons organized by the White Guards opened fire together, Frunze couldn't help but tremble.

Heavy artillery, it's heavy artillery!

Russia has heavy artillery, it used to be Russia's three major arsenals, the Ural Izhevsk factory is Russia's largest artillery factory, and the European war has produced thousands of cannons of all kinds for the country, including many 203 or even 305mm heavy guns. But the problem is that this factory, with tens of thousands of machines and equipment imported from Europe, America and Switzerland, has been moved by the Chinese, and even the Ural arms warehouse has been moved so that not even a single bullet remains! Therefore, there is only one explanation for the emergence of such a powerful heavy artillery, and China has made a move!

Frunze's face suddenly turned very dark. There were only two roads, either to storm and forcibly take Chelyabinsk while the Chinese soldiers had not yet gained a foothold, and use the city to rely on the number of people to continue maneuvering, or simply retreat.

"Comrade Frunze, you can't retreat!" Zinoviev said anxiously: "In such a hurry, the main forces of the Chinese must not have arrived, they only sent part of the artillery, and they should continue to attack and take the city." ”

"Cannons are not terrible, what is terrible is not to lose confidence!" Kamenev also agreed to keep playing: "We don't have a second choice. Comrade Frunze, you should know that Moscow is negotiating with Poland. If we fail here, it will boost the morale of the enemy and make them even more greedy! The words of the two Politburo members could not be taken lightly, not to mention that Frunze also knew that this battle could not be lost, so he gritted his teeth and ordered to continue the attack.

The dense Red Army soldiers of the poor party followed the dense formation of the European war, braved the artillery fire, sang songs and rushed towards the bridge of the Mias River, and many soldiers even jumped into the piercing river water to erect a pontoon bridge with flesh and blood, this fighting spirit made Chen Yan and Xu Shuzheng, who led the troops to support, both saw that their eyes were hot and very admired, and they finally understood why Yang Qiu would rather temporarily abandon the post-war national construction arrangements, and spend countless times to fight this battle!

A strong Russia is too much of a threat to the East, so it must be weakened as much as possible while it is sick and prolong its recovery period.

Let yourself teach them a profound lesson.

Chen Yan looked back at Xu Shuzheng, who was eager to try, and waved his hand.

36 French Renault FT17 tanks spewed black smoke and slowly drove towards the river bank at an interval of 50 meters, and when they crossed the obstacle and exposed everyone's sight, the German-made 7.92mm Maxim heavy machine gun suddenly opened the curtain of slaughter! The Red Army, which still maintained the dense charge formation of the First World War, was suddenly beaten to the ground, and the soldiers on the pontoon bridge had no place to hide, and were swept into a sieve. The assault arrows of six Renaults rushed over the Chelyabinsk bridge to the south bank under the cover of the infantry.

The sudden appearance of the tank made Frunze's face even more gloomy, and before he could figure out how to deal with the combination of tank and heavy artillery, a shocking news suddenly knocked him and the people on the left and right unconscious.

"Comrade Frunze! Oh no for Orenburg's telegram, they were attacked by about fifteen thousand Chinese cavalry and twenty thousand Dutov bandit infantry! ”…… (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )