Battery No. 6 is located in the northeast of the area of the Vladivostok fortress, this section protrudes outward for nearly a kilometer, and like the No. 2 battery, it constitutes the front protrusion of Vladivostok, which can not only suppress the artillery fire of the attacking troops, but also use this as a salient to launch a counteroffensive against the attacking troops. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 On the other hand, although it cooperates with the No. 7 and No. 5 batteries, it is limited by the terrain and has many dead spots in the terrain, which is convenient for quickly approaching the Russian army's position, and it is easy to attack in depth after breaking through, while the Russian army's control of the No. 5 and 6 batteries is convenient for observing the positions of the Northeast Army, which has a great threat to the Northeast Army's troop movement and combat intentions.

It is precisely because of this reason that both the Northeast Army and the Russian Army are obviously aware of the importance of the No. 5 or 6 Battery, which is the place where the Northeast Army must attack, and it is also the place where the Russian Army is defending.

Because of this, almost after the Northeast Army approached the area of the Vladivostok fortress, the battle entered a white-hot stage, and the previous positional battles were almost not worth mentioning in comparison.

Under the bloody sunset, the commander of the 7th Siberian Division, Kondrav, left the steel-concrete shelter deep into the mountains and stood behind the protective sandbags in front of the shelter, his expression solemnly looked down at the No. 5 battery where the 13th Brigade was stationed, and from the northwest he could see the preparations for the Chinese army's attack, directly threatening their main flank.

In order to strengthen the defense of Battery 6, the command reinforced at least Battery 6 with twelve naval rapid-fire guns, and the "Star Fort" between Batteries 5 and 6 was supplemented with six Habekis rapid-fire guns. The best engineer specialists were also sent to direct the reinforcement of the fortifications. Destroy the dead ends of the Star Fort and the Fort. But looking at the defensive positions in front of them, which were almost leveled by the heavy artillery of the Chinese. He couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

"I hope I can stop them!"

While Kondruff, who was in the "Cobra Fort", prayed that his troops would be able to stop the Chinese attack, in a mountain col on the north side of the railway, thousands of officers and soldiers were busy, and on the hard frozen soil, the soldiers dug up as many as twenty-four huge artillery forts, each of which was cushioned with large sleepers with a buffer layer nearly one meter thick, and then 305 mm siege howitzers weighing tens of tons were transported to the gun positions in the Marats.

Forming siege artillery positions is never an easy task. The heavy guns with transport wheels were fine, but the transfer of the twelve 280-mm mortars borrowed from the Navy was undoubtedly more cumbersome, so much so that they had to be transported in pieces in a more primitive way of transporting logs, and after six days of such busy work, the siege artillery units had finally completed their work.

The heavy artillery positions in the curtain are extraordinarily magnificent, on the twenty-four huge heavy artillery positions, the barrels of the siege artillery are pointed straight to the sky, especially the twelve 305 mm siege howitzers are extremely spectacular, their short and thick barrels and huge control barrels make them appear extraordinarily fat, and they open their cave-like muzzles to the sky one by one.

When the Northeast Army began to prepare for war against Russia. The impregnable fortress of Vladivostok became a difficult problem in front of them, and it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to attack a heavily defended fort with infantry. It is precisely for this reason that in the military exercises of the Northeast Army over the years, how to conquer the fortress has always been one of the key points of its exercises.

Years of testing have made it clear to the Northeast Army that heavy artillery is indispensable for attacking fortifications, and this heavy artillery should be a short-barreled mortar that can fire shells at a high angle to the top of the fortress, while at the same time hitting specific targets with considerable accuracy.

The first put into use was the 280 mm coastal defense mortar, this kind of coastal defense gun weighing 26 tons is the remnants of the Lushun fortress, when the Beiyang Yamen to strengthen the defense of Lushun and Dalian Bay, purchased as many as 12 guns, it is this kind of performance of the artillery, in the exercise destroyed the fortress, so that the Northeast Army saw hope.

Although the Northeast Army had as many as 16 coastal defense mortar guns at that time, and the naval fortress troops were willing to lend to the army, his 217-kilogram iron bullets could not be trusted by the Northeast Army leadership. After all, all the intelligence shows that the Vladivostok fortress definitely lives up to the name of "the first fortress in the Far East", and the Northeast Army needs a siege artillery that can tear the fortress apart like a piece of paper.

As part of the preparation plan, the Northeast Army then made a decision to develop heavy mortar artillery, of course, all in the name of coastal defense. According to the plan proposed by the Northeast Army, the Shenyang Arsenal borrowed the concept of 280 mm mortar guns on the basis of the Navy's 12-inch naval guns. It only took one year to come up with a plan for a heavy mortar ground. The caliber of the gun was 305 mm, the weight of the gun was 26 tons, and the weight of the shells reached a staggering 1000 pounds. The maximum firing range is 13 kilometers. High and low shooting range -1~75. What's even more striking is that it is designed to be maneuverable on the road, and it only takes 12 people and 40 minutes to complete the preparation for firing, of course, provided that a sufficiently strong artillery position is set up, such as a skid-layer up to 1.5 meters thick.

Now, for the Northeast Army, these twenty-four siege artillery pieces will decide one thing.

"Brothers, the commander said in the telegram that we will go to Vladivostok for the New Year this year, in a word, brothers, as long as the general attack begins, we can raze Fort 6 to the ground!"

The artillery major shouted at the fighters.

"New Year's Eve in Vladivostok!"

The soldiers immediately howled excitedly, this was the order given by the commander on the day of the battle, and for them it was also a desire to reclaim the largest coastal city in the Far East, to regain this former land, and, of course, more importantly, to be able to regain the warm room that only Vladivostok had to have, but the damned Russians had blocked their way.

Amid the roars of the fighters, shells weighing a thousand pounds, were hoisted to the chambers. At the moment when the chamber was locked, the commanders of the guns immediately shouted loudly.

"Ready!"

With this roar, the countdown to the battle has arrived.

The battle began. It was signaled that the 24 siege howitzers and coastal defense mortars of the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade fired first. And at the same time. The armoured train guns of the "Furious Dragon", which had been used as a long-range suppressive fire for the attacking force, and as many as four artillery brigades were also joined in the shelling, and the artillery of the brigades was also joined by the artillery of the brigades, and eventually, at 5:12 p.m., as many as 1,245 guns, including mortars, joined the shelling of Forts 6 and 5.

This is perhaps the largest concentrated bombardment of siege artillery in human history, and the moment of the bombardment is presented in front of people's eyes is a magnificent and shocking picture, which no painter can describe with a brush.

At the same time of the shelling, Du Yang, as a reporter with the army, used the small, only a small dictionary-sized camera in his hand to shoot a very shocking scene, in this shock, the most spectacular scene is the moment when the siege mortar is fired, the gunners wearing protective earplugs crouched behind the gun position, and pulled the gun rope hard at the moment of receiving the order.

At this moment, the loud sound of 24 siege guns shook the entire Far East.

The 12 454-kilogram and 12 217-kilogram heavy concrete barrier-breaking bombs fired by 24 siege guns drew a curved parabola in the air, and they whistled like a train horn as it entered the station. Flying towards Battery Six, they hit their targets at near-vertical angles after 15-30 seconds.

At the moment of hitting the purpose. They didn't explode, but they were delayed for a few seconds, and just when everyone thought they had missed their target, the dust, debris, and smoke that exploded formed a huge column of smoke in the air, and the pillar of smoke rose together with stones the size of a fist to the size of a millstone, like a giant tree suddenly rising into the sky, and then suddenly collapsed again, like a clock.

As the "giant trees" that had never been seen before rose from the earth, a violent explosion sounded like a devil's roar from the mountain, and at the same time, the seemingly impregnable fortifications were immediately destroyed like never before—the fortifications were torn to pieces like tofu blocks.

As the commander of the No. 6 battery, Kleyemlev showed his military prowess during the bombardment, and almost at the same time as the roar of a train whistle was heard in the air, he immediately fell to his stomach while inspecting the newly built fortifications around the mountain.

"Large-caliber mortar!"

Immediately after that roar, he crawled towards a boulder beside him, and then used the gap between the boulder, which was several meters in size, and the ground as a temporary cover, and at the same time made an unusually calm judgment - from the whistling of the warhead as it flew could be concluded that the shell was coming straight at the fort.

At the moment when he made this judgment, he only felt that the mountain was shaking, and at that moment, as if there was an earthquake, the mountain was shaking violently, and the boulder was flying in the air, and the smoke produced by the explosion engulfed the entire artillery fort, and the smell of sulfur was so pungent that people couldn't open their eyes at all.

The sound of shrapnel and stones breaking the air with a "whoosh" sound is like a secret like raindrops, and it is impossible to tell whether it is shrapnel or gravel, at this time even the iron man is difficult to pass safely from the horizontal flight of shrapnel, in that burst of ground shaking and shaking, Kryemlev slowly calmed down, at this moment, he knew that no matter how much everything was powerless, all he needed was to calm down and wait for the attack of the Chinese.

"Smoke a cigarette, maybe it's the last one!"

Thinking so in his heart, Kryemlev lit a cigarette and then took a big gulp and lay motionless under the boulder. Quietly waiting for God's judgment.

Shrapnel mixed with rubble flew in the sky like a sharp blade without a throwing knife, and from time to time hit the boulder he was dodging, but as if God forbid, countless shrapnel and rubble did not hurt him a single hair. Through the choking smoke, he could even see boulders blown up like a wagon, almost touching the top of his head, but causing him no harm.

"God forbid!"

Finally, after surviving the long hours of terror, almost at the moment when the sound of the explosion cleared, Kryemlev, covered in dust, burst out from under the boulder like a rabbit, and rushed to the snake's belly fortress deep into the mountain.

At this time, for the Russian officers and soldiers on the fort, the only fortress was their paradise, and the world outside the fortress was Satan's hell.

In this purgatory, the Russian officers and soldiers of the 12th Brigade are undergoing an unprecedented "test", even Nebzhlevsky, the commander of the 23rd Autumn Regiment, also felt the threat of death at the first time, when the shelling began, he had just stepped out of the bunker, and he also immediately fell to the ground when he heard the whistling of artillery shells in the air. But before he could recover from the shocking whistle of the train, a shell blew a gap the size of a room on the mountainside where he was located, and he could not escape the attack of shrapnel and gravel as he lay on the ground, and almost at that moment, he was seriously wounded and lost the ability to command the battle - his thigh femur was broken by a stone the size of a cannonball, and his lower leg was blown off by a cannonball, and a fragment the size of a book passed by his arm, not only cutting the artery of his arm, but even "leaving" He snatched a large piece of flesh from his left chest.

In the blink of an eye, Kryemlev's whole person became a bloody man. Because he didn't hurt his head, he was always conscious, and he knew that he would die when the blood flowed, because the nerve was paralyzed, so he didn't feel the pain, so he immediately took action, put a sleeve on his arm, and then pressed down the ground, and at the same time covered the wound on his left chest with his tattered military uniform, and pressed the wound on his right thigh with his right hand to stop the bleeding, although this self-help seemed to have almost no effect, but like a miracle, the bleeding actually stopped.

Perhaps it was because the weather was too cold, so the wound froze and then stopped the bleeding, but Kryemlev, who was lying in a pool of blood, was glad that this was a gift from God, and he even prayed for God's blessing over and over again in his heart, and he had never been so devout in his life.

While Kryemlev was praying to God, the explosion around him became more and more violent, and Kryemlev, knowing that no one would come to his rescue at this time, could only keep observing the surroundings, struggling to support and wait for the rescue of his subordinates. While waiting for help, Kryemlev kept repeating the prayer to God for help.

"O God, please deliver your people, bless us from harm, bless us ......"

At this time, not only for Kryemlev, the only thing that could be pinned on God was also for the Russian officers and soldiers in the fortified fortress - the once fortified fortress was torn to pieces like tofu blocks, and the once bunker was now reduced to their graves...... (To be continued.) )