There was a reason why Sukhoi was so eager to fight, and as the Luftwaffe's new fighter jets rushed into battle, his small air force quickly lost its offensive ability and, in his words, could only act as a very boring fly repellent.

Sukhoi had little interest in air combat, and beneath his elegant aristocratic exterior was a heart full of violence. The air force in his mind will be a branch of the military that can destroy the enemy in the air and solve problems alone.

And now, his troops have become fly swatters, and it is clear that this is not the result he wants. He desperately wanted to attack, attack, and attack. With constant attacks, let the world see what the plane can do.

It is undoubtedly the best opportunity to destroy the heavy artillery behind the enemy's defensive line. Previously, the 1st Artillery Brigade also tried to solve the problem with artillery, but the caliber of their guns was too small, the projectile of the 76-mm grenade was not enough to tickle the fortifications, and the range of the 122 grenade could not reach the artillery positions of others. The only 105-mm cannon that can hit the enemy's heavy artillery positions is only shrapnel for the time being, and shrapnel can't gnaw at fortifications, so it's no fun.

Tukhachevsky even asked for a counteroffensive, simply tearing apart the enemy's positions from the front, going straight to the enemy's heavy artillery positions, and solving them with army bayonets. Of course, this plan is a bit whimsical, if the trench war is so easy to fight, it is easy to be torn apart, and so many people will not die in the first battle.

And the most important thing is that the troops used for defense are now tight, how can there be surplus troops to fill that hole. Therefore, Tukhachevsky's plan was immediately rejected by Yegorov, and Lao Ye was not as impulsive as Xiaotu.

Since the army is unable to solve this problem, it seems that the only way to do it is to let the air force intervene. Tukhachevsky and Egorov were looking forward to Sukhoi. The last surprise attack on the bridge has already fully demonstrated the capabilities of the Air Force. This time there is no need to travel long distances. The target is ten kilometers away, and with the capabilities of the Air Force, it should be able to do it!

"Surely we will be able to deal with the enemy's heavy artillery!" Sukhoi patted his chest and made a military order, "My lad will destroy all the enemy's artillery at once!" Let them be dumb forever! ”

Sukhoi's plan was to use the Ten Crosses Elijah. Muromets bombers, in one go, dropped all eight tons of bombs on the heavy artillery positions of the White Army, which, in his mind, would blow up the enemy.

Tukhachevsky and Yegorov were also attracted by that number, eight tons of ammunition is not a small number, the thought of being able to drop these multiple bombs on enemy positions in one go. They felt that there should be a play.

Of all the people, probably the only one who is not optimistic about Sukhoi is a certain immortal, it is true that Sukhoi's plan is feasible, and it is really good to use bombers to get the artillery positions in the rear of the enemy. However, there is a premise for that, that is, airplanes and aerial bombs are powerful.

The Volunteer Air Force is equipped with simple and old-fashioned aerial bombs, ranging in weight from 10 kg to 50 kg, and their power is very limited, and they are basically ineffective against strong fortifications. And the pre-reconnaissance of the Air Force has proven a point. The enemy built a fairly strong artillery position, and the four heavy guns were usually hidden in the tunnels. Drag it out only when you use it. In addition, anti-aircraft machine gun positions have been specially set up around the position, which shows that the bombing of the air defense forces is already being raised.

Of course, all this is not particularly important, and most importantly, Ilya . Muromets was not a dive bomber, and it was impossible to "precisely" pull out a stationary target. If you carry out horizontal bombing, the hit rate is simply miserable, and the bomb density of only ten planes, unless it is a blind cat and a dead mouse, otherwise, there is no play!

Although Li Xiaofeng was not optimistic about Sukhoi's actions, he did not oppose it, because there was no better way to do it for the time being. If the enemy's heavy artillery was allowed to go unchecked, the defensive positions east of Vyborg could collapse.

On a clear and cloudless morning, when the enemy's heavy artillery began a new day's work again, the boys of Sukhoi gave Ilya . Muromets, loaded with bombs and, under the cover of fighters, slowly and clumsily climbed into the sky.

They fly first to the south and then turn to the east. As the battle broke out on the outskirts of Vyborg, flying straight north, it was soon discovered by enemy observation posts, and in order to increase the suddenness of the attack and prevent harassment by unsightly enemy aircraft, it was necessary to make a circle.

The flight went smoothly at first, and the White Army never dreamed that Sukhoi and his lads would actually bypass their positions and stab them in the back.

"Enter the attack route!"

When the bombardier finished aiming, as the belly door slowly opened, more than a dozen 50-kilogram aerial bombs began to make a free fall movement, and the No. 2 and No. 3 planes following it also smoothly entered the attack route in turn, dropping all the bombs on the heads of the white army.

Eight or nine kilometers away, Yegorov and Tukhachevsky saw this shocking scene in the telescope, and at that moment the sky seemed to fall, and after the explosions one after another, mushroom clouds slowly rose into the sky, obscuring the clouds and the sun, and it seemed extraordinary!

"Great!" Egorov happily punched the wall of the trench, which shows how excited he was.

Tukhachevsky was no better, licking his lips and staring intently at the returning bomber, his eyes full of something called fanaticism.

The only one who remained calm was probably a certain immortal, he was much more sober than these two, and although the effect of the bombing was very shocking, we had to wait and see what the results were.

However, Yegorov and Tukhachevsky couldn't help it anymore and said excitedly: "You must give credit to the Air Force and tell the logistics department to give a bottle of vodka to every pilot participating in this operation, the boys are doing a great job!" ”

The Air Force pilots went to a happy dinner, and the only one who might have some complaints was Sukhoi, who was not strong enough to drink, and he wanted Darjeeling black tea more.

"If it were me, I wouldn't even give you wine!" A certain immortal said coldly to Sukhoi, who came to "complain".

"For what?" This one doesn't understand yet.

A certain immortal said indifferently: "No merit will not be punished!" ”

Suddenly, the mustache got angry and said angrily: "How can it be useless?" We destroyed the enemy's heavy artillery ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Li Xiaofeng: "You didn't destroy anything!" ”

Yes, the lads in Sukhoi did not blow up anything. In the midst of this bombing. Almost all of the bombs deviated from the target by almost a kilometer. Not even the edge of the heavy artillery positions of the White Army was touched. The nearest bomb was a hundred meters away from the heavy artillery, and it destroyed the field toilets of the German artillerymen and made the German positions stinky and its greatest success.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the German heavy artillery resumed firing, and its slow, heavy rhythm was once again beating Yegorov's heart. The commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army was just right, and his good mood became worse in less than two hours.

"I can attack again!" Sukhoi also relented, "We can lower the bomb altitude as much as possible, use all the bombers, and it will definitely work!" ”

Try again?

For Sukhoi's request. Yegorov and Tukhachevsky cautiously agreed, while a certain immortal clearly objected. The first bombardment caught the enemy by surprise, and the second time I went I was afraid that the enemy was already waiting for the streets, and the risk was too great. And, to Ilya. How much lower can Muromec's performance, with the flight altitude lowered? The horizontal bombing hit rate in World War II was terrible, let alone now?

But for Yegorov and Tukhachevsky, who were in a hurry, and Sukhoi, who was bent on proving the Air Force, the danger was nothing, as long as it could be successful. At all costs.

The next morning, at the same time. The same route, but almost twice as many planes. The feeling of being covered in the clouds and the sun at the time of take-off is truly spectacular. But spectacular doesn't mean useful. This time they were entangled in German fighters halfway through, and after a fierce battle, five escort fighters were shot down, and most of the bombers were forced to turn back, leaving only four Ilya. Muromets flew with difficulty to the heavy artillery position.

To say that Sukhoi is really a man, he squeezed out Ilya. Muromets's extreme low-altitude performance, under the rain of anti-aircraft machine guns below, he forcibly dropped the bomb. And the two Ilya who followed him. Muromets was not so lucky, because of improper operation at low altitude, he fell headlong, and the plane was destroyed and killed. The other was caught by heavy anti-aircraft fire, and in an instant it was beaten into a sieve, limped crookedly in the air for a while, and then fell to pieces.

As for the last Ilya. Muromets did not even get into the attack route, and under the anti-aircraft fire, he had to hurriedly drop his bomb and flee back in disarray.

This large-scale sortie was nothing short of a disaster. The Volunteer Army's already small air force suffered a heavy loss, and the results achieved were still zero. Even a master like Sukhoi can't accurately destroy point targets in horizontal bombardment.

According to Sukhoi's unyielding character, he must have made a third attack, but he was forcefully stopped by a certain immortal. And it can't be stopped or not, after two consecutive large-scale sorties, the volunteers almost ran out of bombs. You can't just learn from the Japanese!

A certain immortal summed it up later: "Facts have proved that medium- and high-altitude horizontal bombing cannot solve such targets, and it is simply a crime to continue to devote precious air power to such a bombing campaign that is destined to be impossible to achieve!" We must take other ways to destroy the enemy's heavy artillery! ”

Li Xiaofeng's so-called other method is to use artillery to concoct, although the artillery of the First Artillery Brigade of the Volunteer Army cannot help the other side, this does not mean that Russia does not have the heavy artillery that can deal with the other side.

Of course, it is unrealistic to transfer heavy artillery from the country to help the war, the time is too tight, and when the domestic heavy artillery comes and the position is built, I am afraid that Vyborg will also fall. A certain immortal thought of a solution that was a navy, and compared to the lame Finns, the Russian army was relatively sound-legged. And it was in the Gulf of Finland that the powerful Baltic Fleet was stationed. To paraphrase Eberhardt and Boris, you're too tender to fight with the navy!

In fact, Li Xiaofeng had long wanted to send the Baltic Fleet to the vicinity of Vyborg Bay to help in the war, and with the cover of naval fire, he could almost crush the Finnish White Army into powder. It's a pity that the two idiots of Korentai and Debinko in the previous paragraph mixed things up. It was not until Trotsky stepped out and temporarily stabilized the mood of the Baltic Fleet sailors that things took a turn for the better.

Upon receiving Li Xiaofeng's call for help, Trotsky immediately sent one battleship, two cruisers and six destroyers to Vyborg Bay. To be honest, the second tutor is really very good in this regard. He almost sent the ships that the Baltic Fleet could dispatch to a certain immortal.

Under the escort of six destroyers. The battleship Gangut took the lead. Followed by the Varyag and the cruiser Russia, they entered the Vyborg Bay.

In command of this formation was an old friend of Eberhardt, Vice Admiral Basilev, an old man with a lot of experience, and such a trivial thing as artillery support was simply not a problem for him.

"Gangut, Russia and Varyag will shell the positions of the White artillery with all their main guns, and under the guidance of the army's observation balloons, it is expected that the destruction of the enemy's heavy artillery will not be a big problem."

Basilev was not wrong at all, compared to the four pitiful old 210-mm cannons of the Germans, the 12 305-mm guns on the Gangut alone were enough for them to drink a pot. Not to mention the fact that there are also Russia and Varyag for support.

Don't underestimate the Russian and Varyag, although these are two old ships commissioned in 1897 and 1900, their firepower is not weak. The Russian has four 203 mm main guns and 16 152 mm secondary guns, although the gun silhouette is installed, so that her side fire is discounted, but it is also quite impressive, although the Varyag does not have a 203 mm class of "heavy guns", but 12 152 mm guns are not vegetarian.

Let's put it this way, the broadside firepower of the Russia and Varyag alone is equivalent to the firepower of a heavy artillery regiment in those years. With Gangut's 305-mm "giant cannon" pressing the formation, it can really crush the White Army.

Mannerheim didn't know all this. He was in a good mood for the past two days, after crushing the harassment of the enemy's air force. He can finally encroach on the Russians' positions little by little, and if nothing else, it will take him two days at most before he can break through the opponent's defenses. On this morning, he had just woken up and took a deep breath of fresh air, and just as he was about to give the order for a general attack with a wave of his hand, disaster struck.

Without any warning, the artillery position was covered by heavy artillery fire, which was simply an overwhelming force, the shells fell almost at an angle of 30 degrees, and the 470.9-kilogram Type 1911 high-explosive shells, even if they were not loaded with explosives, fell into a crater!

The violent explosion tore apart the artillery positions in Mannerheim, and the rocks and earth that were lifted up flew nearly 100 meters high and then fell, even more than hail. Mannerheim saw with his own eyes that the four poor worms hiding in the fortifications were hit by a cannonball, and they were all crushed in an instant, and their scattered limbs fell in front of him.

Mannerheim was careless, and so were the German artillery, driving away the Russian planes, and the Russians couldn't reach them, which gave them blind optimism. And did not transfer positions according to the artillery tutorials.

Of course, in fact, they have no positions to transfer, and the existing positions have been repaired in a hurry, and there is no time to repair the reserve positions at all. And this omitted a lot of effort on the part of the Russian artillerymen, who only had to rain bullets frantically on this already exposed position.

Just as the first round of shelling had ended, Mannerheim heard a dull and favorable sound of shelling from the direction of the sea. His heart skipped a beat, and he finally realized what he had overlooked—the Baltic Fleet!

Regardless of whether Mannerheim had made a mistake or was negligent, he was given the order to pour fire on him and completely destroy the enemy's position.

Gangut, Russia and Varyag are in full swing. Thirty shells per round crushed the artillery positions of the White Army like a plow. The four heavy artillery pieces that had flaunted their might a few days ago were powerless at all, and they could only watch as the naval fleet ten kilometers away blasted them into a pile of broken copper and iron.

With just six volleys, the White artillery positions were turned into a graveyard of craters and smoke. The Navy, having a good time, did not intend to stop there, they quickly diverted their fire and began to clear the offensive positions of the White Army.

This time it was finally the turn of the White Army to taste the power of heavy artillery, and Vasily, who was with a certain immortal, recalled: "The artillery of the Navy was terrible, especially the Gangut, who almost single-handedly crushed the forward positions of the White Army, and under her fire, the positions of the White Army were wiped off the face of the earth little by little, and when the shelling was over, almost no one could recognize the land as it was." ”

It was not only the forward positions of the White Army that were taken care of by the artillery fire, in fact they were named one by one by the Navy from the arsenal to the headquarters and the artillery positions. The heavy shelling continued all day, so much so that the Gangut had to return to the Baltic shipyard ahead of schedule to replace the spare barrels.

Under the blow of this unprecedented heavy shelling, the White Army collapsed, and they abandoned their weapons and fled from their positions with their tails between them, and retreated in the direction of Raipo, and some of the poor creatures even ran away from their shoes.

Of course, the most important loss of the White Army was not the collapse of morale, nor the loss of strongholds and positions that could not be captured, but more importantly, the loss of an extremely important big man - Mannerheim!

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of Gangut, the three-story building that he regarded as his headquarters was shattered by the blast wave, and the poor old man, although he was dragged by the adjutant to run wildly, luckily avoided being buried alive. But the old man, who was exposed, was knocked to the ground like a baseball by the flying shrapnel and the impact of ultra-high pressure.

Although the old man was rescued by the military doctor, he was unable to command the Finnish White Army that he pulled up single-handedly for the time being...... (To be continued......)

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