"Adjust the angle of fire, correct the shooting element, replace the class B shell!!"

With the loud order of the commander of the artillery group, the A and B artillery groups reacted immediately after receiving the order.

The 105mm and 150mm large-caliber field howitzers of the A and B artillery groups, which had finished firing 10 base shells, began to slowly raise their barrels under the efforts of the artillerymen.

Compared with the previous angle of fire, the current angle of fire is about 20 degrees larger, about 70 degrees, this angle of fire is less used in conventional artillery operations, in order to pursue the largest possible range, the artillery generally uses a more moderate angle of fire.

However, at this moment, the position is relatively forward, and thousands of guns of the two major artillery groups of A/B, which originally had a large firing range, began to replace the shells and increase the firing angle after firing 10 base shells at the fastest speed.

“…… Be! Please rest assured that we are carrying out the task of artillery cluster fire coverage as planned, and the results of the artillery attack are very good so far, according to the observation report sent back by the reconnaissance plane, the first four lines of the Soviet Komsomolsk defense line have fallen into a sea of fire, and the killing effect of ground personnel is relatively good. ”

In the general headquarters of the Ningguta artillery group, General Sun Wensheng reported to the commander-in-chief of the battle, General Huo Weiguo, on the wireless intercom, and the corresponding report on the effect of the artillery attack had also been placed in front of his desk in Boli.

Judging from the observation of the reconnaissance planes in the air, according to the light of the fire, the four lines of defense were basically caught in a sea of fire from a sudden artillery attack. Nearly 6,000 cannons, more than a dozen base shells, in World War II to the present, China can easily organize so well, other countries, even the United States is much worse.

Up to now, the development of the US military is still too dependent on the air force and navy, and if Truman does not issue a new mobilization order when he takes office, it will be difficult for the combat strength and scale of the army to take advantage of much in the next two major camps. Roosevelt saw this in mind, and while he was recuperating from vomiting blood, he was preparing a report to Congress on further war mobilization for victory in World War II.

"Hmmm! The Soviets and the Soviets themselves fought on the Komsomolsk defense line for several years without distinguishing the winner or loser, not because there were not enough artillery on both sides, and when they were at their strongest, the Yue army was able to organize a group of thousands of guns. However, the artillery group of the Yue army is small, the caliber of the cannon is mostly small and medium, the power of the shells is also limited, and the most important thing is that the ground lethality is not enough, let alone the underground lethality, which is also an important reason why the Komsomolsk defense line is impregnable.

The other two aspects of the artillery group are performing well, but the Ningguta artillery group is responsible for tearing apart the frontal defense line of Komsomolsk, and it is also the front that is most conducive to the breakthrough of the armored cluster, so you must fight well in the next artillery bombardment! ”

It wasn't until Huo Weiguo hung up the phone that Sun Wensheng was still thinking about the effect of the shelling.

Why did the Komsomolsk Line become an impregnable Far Eastern barrier?

It turned out that the Soviet army, which was very good at modern military operations, in order to resist the frenzied attack of the Chinese army, gave great consideration to the problem of positional defense artillery when building fortifications, and even later the Japanese army learned the same method.

The Soviets dug a lot of anti-artillery holes and underground anti-aircraft bunkers in the trenches that were just enough to defend against large-caliber field howitzers.

In addition to going to the battlefield to supervise the battle when there is a war, the political commissars do every day to brand their pistols and urge the soldiers to dig underground bunkers.

Over the years, over the years, the Komsomolsk Line was able to be managed by Zhukov into a world-class semi-permanent position, although it was not as terrifying as the name of the Maginot Line, but the actual combat effect was better.

At first, the army suffered many losses, and the artillery group concentrated its firepower to cover the first line of defense, only to find that one by one, the Soviet troops who had just run out of the anti-artillery shells and underground bunkers were frantically returning fire with the weapons in their hands.

The attack did not go well, the army withdrew, the artillery group opened fire again, and the Soviet troops ran into the underground fortifications as fast as possible, and the result was another failure, and most of the people killed were the observers who remained in some positions.

Every time the Japanese army charged, the damn observers who were lucky enough to die would blow the battle horn and call hordes of Soviet troops out of their underground bunkers.

Rao said that he was mad, and in the face of such a battle, he was forced to carry out fire coverage before his troops withdrew from the Soviet position, and wiped out his own people and the Soviet army on the position.

But a new problem arose, and when the second wave of the Chinese army rushed forward, the Soviet troops who supported it also arrived, and it was often said that the army fell short.

Later, during the period of positional warfare, the Yue army fully learned the Soviet army's set, dug holes in anti-aircraft and anti-artillery, and engaged in a tug-of-war with the Soviet army.

"The large-scale application of Class B shells will be a death knell revolution in the trenches."

Sun Wensheng clearly remembers the power of the B bullet when acting.

The so-called No. B shell is actually a new type of artillery shell with a certain ability to penetrate the ground and equipped with a delayed detonation fuse.

In the design of the ground-penetrating capability, the first is to consider sacrificing the firing range in exchange for a large firing angle, so that the shell can fall at a larger angle and bring a certain impulse, and the particularly sharpened warhead can drill into a certain depth with the help of the power of high-altitude falling flight, and then delay a small amount of time to explode.

From the point of view of actual combat effect, the power of a single shot of this bomb is not as obvious as that of an armor-piercing projectile, and the geological structure is much more complex than that of a simple layer of armor of a tank, and complex geological conditions such as rock layers must be considered.

However, what makes Sun Wensheng also feel extremely fortunate is that the area around Komsomolsk is not a place with particularly complex geological conditions, and even the rock layers are not the kind of Qinggranite that is difficult to deal with.

The Soviets did not have the conditions and patience to dig bulletproof anti-aircraft bunkers under solid rock formations, and basically supported them with wood, and in some places reinforced with stones and a small amount of cement.

However, as the war progressed, the supplies in the Far East dried up, and only two of the five lines of defense used more cement, and the first line of defense, the longest of the five, had even fewer cement-reinforced bunkers.

"Judging by the situation of the exercise, the anti-artillery holes and underground bunkers of the Soviet army cannot withstand the use of No. B shells for a long time to cover the artillery group."

As an artillery expert, Sun Wensheng knows very well that according to intelligence, in order to allow soldiers to quickly enter and exit underground bunkers and anti-artillery holes, individual anti-artillery pits, etc., the shallowest from the ground are anti-artillery holes and individual anti-artillery pits, while the slightly deeper ones are underground tunnel bunkers.

But these bunkers are only two or three meters above the ground, and most of them are not specially reinforced, if they are hit by a B shell, it may not be a big problem, but if they are hit by a shell with a certain ability to penetrate the ground, it will be a disaster.

Several characteristics of Chinese-made artillery, such as fast and convenient logistics and transportation of artillery units, high rate of fire of artillery, high accuracy, long range and ability to hit shells to the fullest, once fused together, it is the enemy's biggest nightmare.

…… In the underground bunker of the first line of defense of the Komsomolsk defense line of the Soviet Union, the Soviet soldiers who originally thought that the shelling would pass soon began to become anxious, the shelling has been going on for nearly 20 minutes, why is it still continuing?

The Chinese artillery seemed to have shells that could never be fired, and earth-shattering explosions continued to come from the top of the fortifications, and judging by the intensity of such shelling, no one could survive the surface of the position unless it was a god.

"Send another team of soldiers up to check on the situation right away!"

Just five minutes ago, Lieutenant General Kilomiv had just sent a team of soldiers to observe the situation on the ground, and the intensity of the artillery attack could be heard from the sound of artillery alone, but it was impossible to intuitively grasp the situation on the ground, and apparently, those observers on the ground had already died, and even if there was no sacrifice, who could notify the underground bunker without a wireless intercom? Who can warn with a battle horn?

Such an artillery bombardment, let alone a warning sound, or even thunder, may not be able to suppress the sound of explosions, and the only thing that can be counted on is to send someone up to check it.

As a result, that group of soldiers was quickly wiped out, and even the exit of bunker 99 was blown up.

Kilomiv was most afraid of the Chinese's infantry and artillery coordination, or artillery coordination, he carefully studied the opposite squadron [***] and found that they were ahead of the countries in some new tactics, and when the Soviet troops dropped Leninsk, they were hidden behind the shelling by the Chinese tanks and rushed up with the barrage. As a result, the city and the defensive line were lost, and the Chinese had another occupied city called Ningguta.

"Damn the shelling should be over sooner."

Kilomiv, who was serious in appearance and had an iron style, couldn't help but pray secretly in his heart, the underground bunker where he was located was Area 99, which was connected to several nearby bunkers, but the underground bunkers farther away could not all be connected, and several entrances were accidentally blown up by violent explosions.

Not far away, several Red Army commissars with pistols quickly selected a group of death squads, opened bunker No. 98, and prepared to go out to check the situation.

"Poof......

As soon as the wooden cover of the bunker was opened, a gust of dust blew in, making the underground bunker full of flying sand and the smell of gunsmoke, which showed how violent the explosion on the ground was.

"Go up!!"

Several commissars, wielding submachine guns or pistols, drove the soldiers upwards.

Liao Jialev was the first to climb up, he was born in what was once Khabarovsk, the city now occupied by the Chinese and renamed Boli.

Liao Jialev is not particularly disgusted with the actions of the political commissars, on the contrary, he even agrees with the propaganda of the political commissars: the Chinese have taken away our homeland and destroyed your lives, and you should take revenge on them with your own battles.

Although Liao Jialev's grandfather was once a soldier of the invading army, so he stayed in the Far East and settled down. But this does not prevent him from hating the Chinese.

Since the Far East has been robbed, it is the Far East of the Soviet Union, and it is no longer China. This is one point that he agrees with the commissars.

He originally had a good family, and he even had a reputation as an ice hunter before he was drafted into the army.

After enlisting in the army, the troops quickly withdrew to Komsomolsk, and he himself came, and Liao Jialev became a brave sniper.

He did not have a particularly brilliant record, and the more than 20 soldiers he killed were not as good as the ace snipers who killed one or two hundred or more people on the Soviet-German battlefield, but Liao Jialev killed the sharpshooters of the Japanese army, not ordinary devil soldiers.

He is one of the best snipers in the company who specializes in eliminating the sharpshooters of the Japanese army.

Just now, the political commissar originally did not point to him, on the battlefield, who is the most important and who is dispensable, these grassroots political commissars are no longer as ignorant and crazy as they were a few years ago, they will also think about the war, just like the political commissar of the Soviet Red Army in the Far Eastern theater, General Cherevchenko, who knows how to bow to Marshal Zhukov.

However, Liao Jialev still took the initiative to stand up, and the political commissar was stunned for a moment and agreed to his initiative.

Climbing the stairs, pushing open the door panels, choking on dust and smoke, the hardest shelling he had felt since joining the army, not one.

Explosions were heard in all directions, and the notion that two shells could not fall from a single artillery crater was subverted here, at least at the moment when he showed his head, he saw with his own eyes the dense explosions like a barrage of explosions exploding on the battlefield.

As far as the eye could see, there was a battlefield with smoke billowing from gunpowder, and the humming explosion only affected Liao Jialev's hearing in a flash, and he couldn't hear anything being shouted loudly by the political commissar below.

He picked up the scoped Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand, and he was so used to it that he stooped and crawled out.

The soldiers behind also began to climb out and observe the situation on the battlefield, Liao Jialev took a telescope, but he couldn't see anything clearly, and his field of vision was full of billowing gunsmoke, explosive fire, and smoke and dust rushing into the sky.

"Go back, let's go back!!"

Several soldiers just looked at the situation above, and shouted, although the underground bunker was very close, it could not be compared to the sound of battlefield artillery standing on the ground with such a high decibel, there was danger at any time, and if they were not killed, they would be shocked and permanently deaf.

Liao Jialev raised the gun in his hand, aimed it in the direction of Ningguta, and muttered: "After the shelling is over, I will return to the ground and wait for you, damn Chinese, I will do my best to snipe you......"

With that, he turned around and walked to Bunker 98, ready to go down.

At this time, there was an even more screaming sound of shells flying in the sky, and as an excellent sniper's perennial battlefield awareness, Liao Jialev had a bad feeling, and he couldn't help but glance back.

It was as if many shells had fallen from the sky, falling from a great height, and then plunging headlong into the upper layer of the position, which had only been reinforced by ordinary surnames.

"Boom!"

The first explosion occurred on the position more than 300 meters away, and the rocks and dirt that rushed to the sky were blown up, which was completely different from an ordinary bomb explosion.

Liao Jialev was startled and was about to turn around and burrow into the hole.

"Whew~"

A shell fell from the sky, not far away, not close, landed more than 20 meters away from Exit 98, and the violent explosion tore apart the excellent sniper Liao Jialev like a hurricane, and the shock wave that erupted from the soil layer, along with stones and mud, the flesh and blood of Liao Jialev and several other soldiers, everything exploded.

At the same time, in the underground bunker, Kilomiv was about to take a jug of water from the guard's hand, and his voice felt like smoke had come out of his throat just now after a long shout.

In the distance, the soldiers were whispering, and the sound of the cannon was slow and powerful, so that these soldiers, who had been tormented by the war, had forgotten what Bu-Ersz-Vik was, picked up something called fear and confusion again.

They don't know when the artillery will stop, they don't know when the Chinese will rush to the position, and they don't know if they will live until dawn.

Some people held a photograph in their hands, others tried to write something on a narrow piece of paper with a very small pencil tip, and more often they were lying in various places in the bunker, on the wall, on the ground, at the foot of the bed of the wounded, fortunately it was not raining now, when it rained a few days ago, the underground bunker was like water, but the soldiers would still fall asleep in the water tiredly.

Now, they can't sleep even if they want to, for fear that they will be killed by the Chinese who rushed to the position in their sleep.

"Boom!!"

A shock far greater than the previous explosion came overhead, and most of the people were staggered, and Kilomiv, who was about to take the kettle to drink, was smashed to the ground in shock, and the kettle hit him right in the face, and the guard also fell.

"No, this is no ordinary shelling."

Kilomiv looked up at the dust that was constantly falling from the roof of the cave, and the wood supporting the roof of the cave had been shaken off several times, and the ones that didn't fall were even cracked.

The shelling was a direct hit on the position and seemed to have touched the roof of the bunker.

"Damn, how long will the shelling of the Chinese last."

Unable to contact the command, not even the other allies, or even the line of defense behind him, Kilomiv was trapped in this underground bunker 98 and was going insane.

Rumble!!

Immediately afterward, another shell hit the ground of bunker 98, and a large cloud of dirt and stones was once again swept away.

This time it became clear to everyone that there were special shells that seemed to be lifting the surface part above the bunker.

Suddenly, the soldiers lying on the ground or snuggled in the corner began to make an uproar again, and some of them were even stunned by the explosion that was close at hand, and shouted loudly.

From time to time, the roof of the cave fell faster and faster stones or wooden blocks, clods of earth, which raised the panic of the soldiers again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ……”

Kilomiv took out his pistol and fired several shots in succession to finally temporarily control the situation, only to hear his hoarse voice shouting: "Obey the arrangements of the political commissar and commander, do not allow chaos, and shoot whoever is chaotic." It is important to remember that we are great B-R Sh Vik soldiers, we have the most powerful ideological weapons, we will definitely defeat the Chinese, temporary difficulties are nothing at all, the mighty USSR will, together with other armies of the Central Powers, defeat the fascist Nazis and defeat Chinese imperialism.

We will definitely ......."

"Boom !!"

Kilomiv's words were not spoken, and the loud slogan was broken by a strange penetrating sound, and no one reacted, but the soldiers of the 97th underground bunker, which was the farthest away, heard a loud bang from the 98th bunker area next door, and immediately, billowing smoke and gunpowder poured over, spreading to several other bunker areas, and the piles of wood and stones also drowned out the 98th block and the Soviet front lieutenant general commander who waved his arms and shouted exciting slogans.

A shell finally landed on the top of the already thin bunker and finally blew it through, and immediately, hundreds of Soviet soldiers and many high-ranking officers and political commissars in the entire bunker area became the slag from the explosion of the secret room.

(To be continued)