Qin Cheng dares to let go of this kind of rhetoric, then naturally he has enough confidence, and now that the battlefields in the north and south of Kurgan have stopped, just wait for his side to open the transportation channel, just like the Russians guessed, of course Wang Shizhen will not order the three group armies to continue to risk attacking before taking Kurgan, in case this side can't be defeated, a snowstorm will block the road, not to mention the supply of ammunition, and if the food supply alone is not enough, something big will happen, and it is right to fight steadily.

Including the seventh, ninth, and eleventh armies all stopped, the Ninth Army captured Tyumen and the target was Kamensk, and the Seventh Army attacked Shadrinsk after crossing the Bozhal River downstream, and now it has also stopped, their goal is also Kamensk, and the Ninth Army will attack Yekaterinburg north after meeting with the division, but only if Kurgan is taken, and then from here the supplies transported by rail will be transferred to the Bozhal River to Tyumen, and then from Tyumen will be transported by rail.

And the Eleventh Army of the Southern Front was unable to continue to advance after conquering Kostanay, and their transportation was even more difficult, and now not only cars but also transport planes were on the battlefield to barely maintain the low load consumption of this group army, and it was certainly impossible to attack forward, in fact, even if they captured Kurgan, they could only attack Chelyabinsk in the north with the First Army.

The vast expanse of the Russians was their best barrier, as later generations described them, retreating, retreating, retreating, retreating until winter, retreating until the attackers were dragged into a strong crossbow by a long distance, and then, counterattacking. Historically, they have dragged Napoleon to death and then the mustache, but this time their opponents were significantly stronger, and they themselves were dying after four years of war.

The rest of the armies stopped, which was an excellent thing for Qin Cheng, because all the combat resources could be given to him, bombers. On the four military airfields along the railway line behind, a full 600 Thunder and Eagle aircraft were assembled, and further afield, in Pavlodar, there were also the latest 40 Liberators transferred to him, and now the domestic aircraft factories are desperately producing this kind of aircraft, although Emperor Yang could not reach the level of producing tens of millions of aircraft a year during World War II, but a hundred aircraft a month is still possible.

In addition to bombers and water tank guns, twenty 540 giant guns were aimed at a series of Russian fortresses on the other side of the Bozhal River, not to mention the 280 howitzers, one heavy artillery after another, even he shuddered when he looked at it. Other rocket artillery. Heavy rockets, large Spitfire chariots, DU air bombs, white phosphorus, coagulated qiyou shells, all kinds of murderous weapons at his disposal, and there was also the 1st Armored Division to accompany the operation, so after his attack began, the Russian troops in Kurgan were even stunned. They had never imagined such frenzied firepower.

Countless bombers overhead took turns to fight, high-altitude horizontal bombing plus low-altitude dive bombing, heavy bombs plus coagulated qiyou bombs, and occasionally mixed with white phosphorus bombs and shaman forest bombs. As they smashed above their heads, the ground spewed long muzzle flames from terrifying cannons, hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of shells fell one by one with a unique whistling, and the earth-shattering explosions turned fortresses into ruins. The glow of the burning fire reflected the sky red.

"This is called domineering, just like the emperor said, as long as the hammer is heavy enough. There is no turtle shell that cannot be broken, as long as the strength is strong enough, every enemy can only be wiped out. Looking at Kurgan, who was ignited by himself, Qin Cheng said to the generals beside him with satisfaction, as a close confidant of His Majesty the Emperor, he naturally had a deep understanding of His Majesty's combat thoughts.

This desperate artillery preparation of the Russians lasted for three hours, until the more than 200,000 Chinese soldiers on the east bank of the Bozhal River became impatient, and he gave the order to attack.

The remnants of the Russian soldiers on the Bozhal River defense line, who had not yet recovered from the ravages of bombers and heavy artillery, were desperately blocking with all the weapons they could find in the wreckage of the fortresses, in the cold and muddy trenches, until they were blown into a blood mist by shells, smashed into pieces by large-caliber machine gun bullets overhead, or simply burned into curled carbon blocks by coagulated qiyou shells, and smoked into dead bodies by the poison of shaman.

As for their enemies, the losses were minimal, as soon as the Russian machine guns roared, the artillery spewed flames, and then the ground and sky attacks would come in the shortest possible time, and even the infantry that had only a little more of them together could attract brutal artillery fire, which was nothing to mention as if they were strafing from the planes overhead.

Such a battle made those Russians extremely sad and angry, they were confident that they were better than the enemy, this is not their bragging, it was the most elite army group sent by Nicholas to guard Kurgan, that are all veterans from the European battlefield, many officers have even been sharpened on the cruel battlefield for four years, in their opinion, the Chinese on the opposite side are not accurate with their guns, their movements are not as agile as them, their reaction in the face of attacks is not as fast as them, and even the tactical coordination is not as good as them, Kenyma, Who can stand the rhythm of a machine gun and a heavy bomb at the same pace as a grenade?

Of course, they can only be sad and indignant, they have no planes, no super-large caliber heavy artillery, the largest artillery is still the 280 gun bought from China, but this kind of artillery is not available in Kurgan, it is all in Europe and the Ottoman front, for Nikolai The battlefield here is still too far away, and it is too early to really threaten him, so it is naturally impossible to put the most valuable weapons here.

And they didn't have tanks either, and even if they did, they didn't dare to use them, and in the face of the recoilless shells and rockets fired from the opposite side, the survival rate of those Bobcat tanks was so low that it was tearful.

These infantry carried the shells fired by the Russian soldiers, and of course, the flamethrower, the combination of these three things is simply a nightmare for the infantry, the former attacks from afar, the latter sneaks up, opens the mouth and the flamethrower sweeps, in front of this combination, there are almost no fortresses that can survive, of course they don't know that there are more ruthless things waiting for them behind.

Under the double blow of the sky and the ground, the Russian army's defense line on the west bank of the Bozhal River soon collapsed one by one like a tofu scum project in an earthquake, and its speed was so fast that General Karekin, the commander of the Kurgan defenders, was caught off guard, but fortunately he didn't expect this river to really block the enemy, his main defensive front was only the part of the Kurgan city area, and the outward extension part was only auxiliary, a group army, and he couldn't play any real defense along the river.

The core of his real defense is the city of Kurgan, countless bright and dark, above and below reinforced concrete fortresses, interconnected tunnels, those buildings in the city, and even the cellars of the residents are all relied on for his defense, the city has been completely and completely fortified, and it took a month and a half to complete this arduous project with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers recruited from the surrounding areas.

"Fortress? Hmph, what a strong fortress? Can a one-ton shell explode? If you can't, can you change it to a ton and a half? The charge alone is more than half a ton, and what can't be exploded? Qin Cheng said with a sneer.

He really has a ton and a half of bombs, and the Russians are building a lot of construction in Kurgan, which of course can't hide those Chinese reconnaissance planes that are circling around their heads every day, and besides, there are not no Chinese spies in the city, although the Russians have a very tight grip on this kind of thing, let alone Chinese, as long as the yellow race basically has to go to the concentration camp in Russia, the problem is that Emperor Yang doesn't need to use Chinese as a spy at all, even if the Russians have many willing to serve him.

Originally, the General Staff really had a headache, after all, the time on the front line was limited, and it was difficult for the water tank cannon to really cover the Kurgan because of the range, but Emperor Yang made the hammer a little bigger, which made Li Yuncong, who was nimble, think of how to deal with this kind of ground rat tactic. It's very simple, make the bomb a little bigger, the maximum bomb load of the Liberator bomber is close to six tons, and there are two one-and-a-half-ton pylons, so he asked the arsenal to urgently develop a one-and-a-half-ton bomb, and specially consulted the emperor's majesty, under the guidance of Emperor Yang, more than 600 kilograms of passivated black gold and aluminum powder were stuffed into it, and the first batch of 100 bombs were all airlifted to Pavlodar.

Then the Russians were about to get a taste of the biggest bomb ever made, and Emperor Yang was said to be preparing to develop a larger one, one that could be carried by a Liberator bomber.

Poor General Karekin didn't know this, as the two flanks of Kurgan were broken through one after another, the attacking Chinese soldiers gradually began to encircle the city, the real battle between the two sides began, and the defense system he had painstakingly managed finally began to really work. The Chinese soldiers attacking towards the city of Kurgan encountered extremely stubborn resistance, and the Russian soldiers hidden under the bunkers and even the ruins met the invaders with intensive firepower, and the casualties of the Chinese soldiers who attacked with the chariots began to rise sharply, although they had a huge advantage in equipment, but when the battle turned into a close fight, the effect of these advantages was immediately reduced, after all, neither bombers nor heavy artillery dared to use it at this time.

But there is one thing that has a noticeable effect, and that is those heavy rockets on board. (To be continued......)