Chapter 209: Knife Test (Ask for a Monthly Pass!) )
The earth shakes and the mountains shake!
Although the violent explosion that shook the mountain completely swallowed the mountain, and hundreds of soldiers were instantly vaporized in the flames of the explosion, the battle horn did not stop because of this, although the heavy mines thrown down the hillside by the pulley were extremely powerful, and each mine explosion would sweep away the lives within a radius of 100 meters, but it could not defeat the will of the soldiers, and in the will of all generations, the seemingly powerful but relatively limited number of mines could not prevent the fall of the No. 6 fortLess than six hours after the fall of the No. 6 fort, the No. 5 fort also fell, and as for the defensive line with the "tree fort" as the core between the two forts, it was even more difficult to fall when the No. 6 fort had not yet fallen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
When the curtain was torn by the morning sun again, on the No. 5 fort that had become a scorched earth, there were ruins everywhere, and the once very strong fortress was blown into a pile of rubble, and the heavy artillery weighing dozens of tons was also blown away dozens of meters away, and thousands of corpses were scattered on this scorched earth. By this time, the battle was over, and in the ruined walls, the already exhausted soldiers were lying there or sitting, while hundreds of dusty Russian soldiers on the other side looked at the enemy with nervous expressions.
Surrender is not shameful, at least for these group of soldiers, they have done their best, they have done everything to stop the Chinese attack, but in the end their resistance was broken, but they are proud enough, in front of their position, nearly 1,500 Chinese and soldiers.
"Sir, we won......"
In the smoke of gunpowder on the scorched earth. A group of fighters let out bursts of sobbing. in front of them. An officer whose intestines had been blown out was lying in a pool of blood, and the blood flowed out of a bloody path of tens of meters behind him. Even when it was time to die, the officer's eyes were still fixed on the top of the hill of Fort. Now, his unwilling soul may be satisfied, and on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, a red flag is planted there, next to the flagpole. The exhausted standard-bearer smoked silently, his eyes cast towards the Russian fortress in the rear.
Directly opposite them, there were stronger fortresses, and those fortresses were different from the lone fortifications, which were larger, stronger fortresses, which were the real lines of defense of Vladivostok fortresses, and as for now, the artillery fortresses that had just been captured were even just a "small test" that was not worth mentioning.
The occupation of Forts No. 5 and 6 gave the Northeast Army a good springboard for attacking the fortress of Vladivostok. While being able to set up observation posts on the two hills, it also tore through the first line of defense in Vladivostok. If the second line of defense can be successfully broken, then the entire Vladivostok will be equivalent to opening the door to them, and as for the independent artillery fortresses in the middle, they are not worth mentioning at all.
Barbed wire!
Between the No. 5 fort and Fort Cobra, a stretch of barbed wire scattered on the ice field has become the most powerful weapon to block the offensive of the Northeast Army, for the attacking troops, these seemingly rudimentary wires pose an even greater threat than machine guns, for the Russian army, machine guns are rare, but barbed wire is extremely easy to lay, and it is an extremely cheap obstacle.
Compared to other artificial obstacles, even if the barbed wire is exploded, it will hardly affect him much, and often after an artillery bombardment, there is always a large amount of barbed wire left on the battlefield, and even the remaining barbed wire will still block the soldiers' footsteps, making them a target for the enemy.
As the first army to study the application of barbed wire obstacles, the Northeast Army can be said to have studied the barbed wire obstacles very deeply, after all, this kind of cheap obstacles are the most efficient obstacles to strengthen the defense of the fortress in the eyes of the Northeast Army, especially for the Northeast Army with a large number of machine guns, those enemy troops who are slowly struggling in the barbed wire are simply the best targets.
It is precisely because of the deep study of the barbed wire barrier that they know very well what kind of impact the barbed wire will bring to the attacking troops, so there are no exceptions that the vise has become a standard equipment, which can be used to repair the barbed wire of the already square, and can also be used to cut the enemy's barbed wire.
Even so, the vise is only an emergency equipment, as the user of barbed wire how to destroy the barbed wire, is also an urgent problem in front of the Northeast Army, and finally the military industry department gave a seemingly extremely simple weapon - blasting canister, that is, a light blasting equipment that can be carried by individual soldiers. In fact, it is an iron pipe about the thickness of a glass wine bottle, filled with a mixture of picric acid and ammonium nitrate. The blasting barrel is destroyed by detonation, which has a wonderful effect on minefields and obstacles such as barbed wire and triangular piles, and the simplified end of the blasting barrel is equipped with an external thread for connecting another section of the blasting barrel, and this end is protected by a thin metal cap when stored. The other end of the simplified body is provided with an internal thread for screwing the fuse, and it is also possible to connect another blasting canister. In this way, it is even possible to connect a blasting canister more than ten meters long, which can be stuffed into barbed wire during the battle, which can not only destroy the barbed wire, but also detonate nearby mines, thus forming a passage more than ten meters long.
Although the use of blasting canisters can be said to be extremely skilled, but in the face of those complex barbed wire, blasting canisters can not solve all problems, especially its use also requires sappers to be sent deep into the front line, which has brought many inconveniences to its use.
In the trenches, the barrel of a front-loading gun turned out of nowhere, perhaps from a museum, or from some old armory, pointed straight ahead, and at the end of the gun, the gunner was looking ahead, and at the muzzle, a steel hook of a foot in size, looked very eye-catching, and at the end of the steel hook, below the muzzle, there was a large wooden barrel, under which was a coiled rope ladder.
Anyone who has ever worked on a whaling ship will be able to recognize that this is almost a simple whaling cannon, of course. It's just a primitive and outdated version of the whaling cannon. But why use this kind of "whale cannon" on the battlefield. Suddenly, with the sound of a cannon, the steel hook flew towards the target two hundred meters away, and its tail dragged a heavy rope through the air in an unruly parabola.
"I said it will work, it will work......"
The dark-faced warrior spoke loudly, and he even shouted as if he was not convinced.
"If it's a whaling cannon, it can definitely hit farther......"
At the shouts of the soldiers, the steel hook that dragged the rope shook and flew in the direction of the barbed wire. Ended up on the battlefield. Just when the Russians in the trenches were puzzled, the steel hook was dragged, and the fast-dragging hook was violently hung on the barbed wire.
What is this for?
In the astonishment of the people, the small cannon continued to bombard, and at the same time, at the dead end of the firing behind the gun emplacement, the warrior fastened the rope to the horse-drawn gun carriage, and on the battlefield, there were more than a dozen gun carriages waiting for the rope to be hooked, almost half an hour later. Finally, all the steel hooks were hung in the barbed wire of the Russian army.
An officer who had been watching with a telescope in the trenches. He took out a flare gun from his waist and pulled the trigger at the sky. With the sound of a gunshot, a smoke dragon flew into the sky with a white cigarette tail.
Behind the trenches hundreds of meters away from the front line of the Russian army, the baggage officers next to the horse-drawn artillery carriage immediately yelled at the baggage soldiers on the carriage after seeing several signal flares rising into the air.
"Driving ......"
The baggage soldiers immediately rushed to pull the horses, and the gun carriages pulled by the eight horses dragged the rope forward, and the barbed wire hooked by the steel hook immediately twisted with the towing of the horse, at first, everything was very easy, under the drag of the heavy horse, the steel hook dragged the barbed wire, as if it was destroyed and easily solved several barbed wire, even those stakes were easily dragged out, but slowly as the dragged more and more barbed wire, the action of the heavy horse became slow and laborious.
A kilometer-wide barbed wire fence was distorted under the towing of the horses, and the Russians watched in almost amazement as the barbed wire twisted into a pile, and just when they were in a panic not knowing what was happening, suddenly there were a few cannon shots in the rear of the trench, then a strange sound in the air sounded like a sharp whistle, accompanied by a pig-like "whoosh, whoosh" sound, and then there was a violent explosion around the twisted pile of wire piled up on the ground.
In the continuous explosion, the whole world seemed to shake with the sound of the explosion, and after the violent explosion, the pile of barbed wire that was difficult to drag was blown into several pieces, and the baggage soldiers who drove the horses drank their horses again, and drove the artillery carriages to drag the barbed wire with their bodies forward.
The officer who observed the front line of the Russian army with a telescope, and after watching the pile of barbed wire on the front line of the enemy army almost disappear, a thick smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"The effect of towing the barbed wire fence seems to be enough! However, it can't be used for large-scale fortifications, and if there are a few more barbed wires, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pull ......."
The towing of ropes by heavy horse-drawn gun wagons to haul and destroy the enemy's barbed wire was a newly developed method that was cheaper and seemed more effective than the use of blasters to remove barbed wire, which could be cleared of the barbed wire on the battlefield. However, the mass of barbed wire dragged out of the tow will become heavier and heavier, so that at last the wagon cannot drag hundreds of tons of barbed wire, and then the barbed wire must be destroyed with high-explosive grenades, and finally the broken barbed wire will be dragged away, although there will be some remains, but at least it will be larger than the area cleared by the blasting canister.
To a certain extent, now the whole coastal area is like a testing ground, while testing the achievements of the Northeast Army in the past ten years, the Northeast Army is also experimenting with various tactics here, and the war will always lead to changes, such as changes in military tactics, especially after the use of light machine guns and other weapons, those tactics that have just undergone change in the era of rear-loading guns have changed again.
Under the cover of night, a small group of soldiers wearing white camouflage cloaks silently approached an isolated artillery barrier on the battlefield, their movements were so small that even the Russian sentries could hardly notice these people in the snow even if they looked closely. The soldiers of the two platoons said that they quietly detoured from both sides of the fort to the vicinity of the fort, and the holes were not defended in front of the soldiers.
However, the fighters did not continue to move, they did not press towards the door, but took refuge at the shooting hole, listening to the sound of the Russians from time to time in the artillery barracks, and with the order, all the fighters put on gas masks.
The soldier wearing a gas mask carefully took out the glass ball from the hard iron box on his waist, which was a special grenade, which is the so-called poison gas grenade, which is a weapon in the test, although it is limited by the environment, poison gas can not be used on a large scale, but it does not prevent the use of poison gas on some special occasions. Waiting for the order.
The officers leading the team counted down with their fingers, and the soldiers hidden on both sides of the firing port immediately threw the poison gas grenades in their hands into the fort from the firing port.
"Click, click......"
In the silence of the night, the sound of glass breaking was so harsh that the Russian officers and soldiers in the fort did not even react, and the bunker they were in was shrouded in a white smoke, smelling the strange smell in the air, and they did not even know what was happening.
"What is this ......?"
Even though they didn't know what the smoke was, the fear of the unknown in their hearts made them scream, but it didn't last long.
In past experiments, they have more than once put a special grenade containing hydrocyanic acid into a similar artillery barricade, after the shell of the special grenade is broken, the hydrocyanic acid inside it will immediately turn into a high concentration of toxic gas, and the personnel will lose consciousness and die in the center of their killing range for only 2 seconds, and it will only take a dozen seconds at most for a semi-enclosed space like this, and all the people inside will be killed.
It was only after there was no more sound in the fort that the soldiers by the door opened the heavy iron door and entered the enclosed fort, and there was a picture of horror in front of them—everyone in the fort was dead, and the corpse had a terrified look on its face until it died, and when the soldiers were stunned by this shocking scene, the soldier who led the group spoke softly.
"Inform superiors that we have successfully captured the fort and that the special attack has worked well......" (To be continued. )