The news that the three fortresses had been disconnected with each other by just one explosion had scared Major General Kolov stupid, but he still didn't know what weapon had such terrifying power, and the bombers above them were still dropping smoke bombs, and the thick smoke made all the Russians blind like rats in boxes, and they waited for the next round of explosions to sound.

At this time, Duan Qirui, who was on the water tank artillery position, also didn't know what the result of his shelling was, because the smoke also blocked his vision, but it was not a big deal, the trucks transporting shells behind him were coming in a steady stream, and he asked the logistics department for five hundred such giant shells for the Shuangchengzi fortress.

"Continue to shoot, according to the coordinates of those Russian fortresses on the map, the standard of five shells for each fortress, keep fighting, even at night, don't stop until all the targets are completed, and then organize an attack to see how it works, if there is less left, hit it directly, and apply for another batch of shells if there are more." He said to Zhang Zhenfang next to him with a relaxed face.

"Commander, from the humble point of view, it seems that we don't need to be so troublesome, we can use another method to deal with this snow." Zhang Zhenfang said cautiously.

"Oh, let's hear it." Duan Qirui said with some surprise.

"We can burn, burn with coagulated qiyou shells, the water tank cannon is too expensive regardless of the price of the shells or the cost of itself, and it can't shoot many shells, so that if you don't use the map coordinates to shoot without proofreading, although it can be successful, but the cost will definitely be much greater, but the gasoline burned by the coagulated qiyou bomb is much cheaper, in Europe, the Germans can use the coagulated qiyou bomb to burn Verdun into glass balls, think let's burn the snow is not easy? And this snow melts and is going to turn into water, so let's control the amount of ammunition and let it melt without evaporating dry, and then the fire stops..."

Zhang Zhenfang will not say anything about the following. Because at this time, Duan Qirui had already shown a satisfied smile.

"Order to stop the shelling, notify the bombers to return, let the logistics department send a batch of solidified shells over, and the heavy artillery temporarily withdraw from the firing position and retreat to a safe area to standby." Immediately after that, Duan Qirui ordered.

The ten water tank guns that were about to be fired for the second round of shelling immediately put away their hoe aids, the steel tracks slowly rotated under the drive of the powerful engine, and the heavy body of nearly 200 tons gradually moved out of the concrete-poured gun emplacement, and then moved slowly on the hard frozen ground at a speed of ten kilometers per hour, retreating to a well-defended military camp ten kilometers away before the smoke that enveloped the fortresses of the Twin Cities dispersed, waiting for the next strike.

"This little section is still too rigid, and the brain is not as open as others!" In the imperial palace in Beijing, Emperor Yang looked at the recent battle report. Said with some emotion, he put this dragon tiger dog out to test it, the three people's expressions are different, Wang Shizhen needless to say, atmospheric, won the heart of Emperor Yang, Feng Guozhang is cautious, a group army to fight a division is so complicated, even the trick of mobilizing overseas Chinese to cooperate with foreign countries is used. Although it was successful, it caused more than 100 overseas Chinese to be killed and injured, and Duan Qirui was obviously a little rigid and not fashionable enough. Can't keep up with the trends.

"What does 陛xià mean to replace him?" Yuan Shikai asked tentatively.

"No, no, don't do this kind of thing, just give him a promotion and transfer back to Beijing after the battle of Vladivostok. It is quite suitable for him to be a minister of the General Logistics Department. Yang Feng said.

Duan Qirui didn't know that he would be a fat mess in the near future, and the next day he began to start a new attack according to Zhang Zhenfang's design, and the bomber group that took off from Ningguta was replaced with coagulated qiyou shells this time. After getting the cannon group to identify the target area, he immediately threw a hundred tons of hell fire into the Shuangchengzi fortress group, and the flames exploded in the snow on the ground, and the high temperature accompanied by poisonous smoke quickly spread to the surroundings, and the Russian troops hiding in the bunker immediately became sweet potatoes in the oven.

However, because this kind of thing was considered at the beginning of construction, and because this is a small fortress complex rather than a giant fortress like Verdun, and the bunkers and turrets are scattered on high ground that are not closely separated from each other, the damage caused by these coagulated qiyou shells to the Russian army is not too terrifying, and only more than 1,000 people were killed and injured due to high temperature and suffocation.

But the high temperature of the burning of the 100-ton coagulated qiyou bomb made the snow covering the Shuangchengzi fortress group and the mountains on both sides melt all and then exposed the fortresses below, the snow water flowed down the mountain, and the fortresses on both sides were okay, and the linear defense system composed of underground communication trenches and ground bunkers and other facilities on the flat ground of the middle mountain pass was soaked in muddy water without exception. It was difficult for them to feel the consequences of the muddy water, but when the ambient temperature gradually dropped after the first round of coagulation shells, the Russians were completely stupid.

At this time, the temperature in Shuangchengzi was almost minus ten degrees, and it didn't take half an hour for such a temperature, not to mention the muddy water poured into the bunker, and even the clothes on the Russian soldiers were frozen into ice lumps, and one by one they were like rusty machines moving around in the ice ballast of the trenches of the Bunker, trembling and cursing their enemies with their blue lips.

And at this time, the water tank guns, which had long returned to the firing position, were once again aimed at those main fortresses of the Russian army.

But this time Duan Qirui doesn't need to do any smoke screen cover, after the snow melts, those Russian fortresses are in front of the reconnaissance planes in the sky, and the water tank guns that get school firing can destroy the target in a very short time and then quickly withdraw from the position, and those Russian heavy artillery forts that have the ability to threaten them immediately became the first targets. After completing the aiming, with the commander's order, these terrifying cannons instantly spewed flames, and one after another more than a ton of shells flew out, because this kind of shells were relatively slow, and some of the better eyesight could even see the black spots in the sky, including Major General Kolov.

His Excellency the Commander looked at the black shadows whistling in the sky like a dumbfounder, he had never imagined that the cannonball could be so big that he could distinguish it with his naked eye, even if he never dreamed of it, a warhead more than two meters long and half a meter thick was slammed into a heavy turret under his dumbfounded gaze, this wrought iron turret removed from the old ironclad ship, like a fragile teapot, instantly shattered, the shell did not explode, The turret was smashed into the ammunition supply system below, destroying the bunker before it exploded.

Kolov watched the scene with a dream-like look, and then he saw the location of the bunker that had been breached, and suddenly the flames that exploded like a volcanic eruption were accompanied by countless fragments of steel and concrete, and at the same time flooded the surrounding qiē like a tsunami rag that bulldozed it, including the two small machine-gun forts that protected the bunker, and then even his command fort shook violently, and the concrete debris above his head fell on him, and the smoke and dust poured in from the observation port.

After these were all dispersed, looking at the location of the dark fort, there was only a huge crater with a diameter of tens of meters.

Under relatively accurate aiming, the first round of shelling of the ten water tank guns destroyed the two heavy turrets and the bunkers below, and then the reconnaissance planes in the sky and the artillery observers hidden near the Shuangchengzi fortress group began to report the coordinates of the fallback point, and those artillerymen in the distant positions also began to quickly reload the shells, and at the same time, other caliber heavy artillery groups belonging to the Third Army also began to bombard the Shuangchengzi fortress group non-stop to provide cover for the loading of these huge guns.

Ten minutes later, the re-aimed water tank cannon roared again, this time with a skyrocketing hit rate, destroying four major forts at once.

The Russian troops in the Shuangchengzi fortress are about to cry, there is no such bullying, you must know that almost every one of their fortresses can be said to be the brainchild of their hearts, hundreds of people took months or even a year or two to complete the construction, which is regarded by them as a reliance on confidence, but now it is good, a shell, and sometimes even more than one, the entire fortress group is nothing more than a dozen large fortresses and dozens of small ones, according to this way of fighting, it will be all gone in less than a day, and now they haven't even seen where the enemy is, The light saw the cannonballs fall one after another in the sky.

The water tank cannon belongs to mortars, and the characteristics of high-throw ballistics give them good concealment, the concrete-poured artillery position is hiding behind a small hillside, although the Russians' Chinese-made 280 howitzers can also hit them, but the range of the two is almost the same, and the Russians have no aircraft reconnaissance, and second, there are no artillery scouts to touch it, even if they know the general direction, they can't aim, and they only have four 280 howitzers, and two have been destroyed, as for those large-caliber naval guns and heavy cannons, they can't hit them at all.

After discovering this, the gunners of those water tank guns were even less worried, one by one they methodically loaded and aimed and fired, and the huge shells weighing one ton and two hundred and fifty kilograms of charge flew towards the heads of the Russian troops one by one at a speed of one round every ten minutes, and then easily smashed through the heavy reinforced concrete layer like smashing ceramics, turning one fortress after another into ruins.

"That's fine, it is estimated that at this rate in another day, we will be able to send a good report to His Majesty." Duan Qirui looked at the huge craters in the Russian fortress group in the distance with great satisfaction.

However, the Twin Cities Fortress is only the beginning, and there is also the Vladivostok Fortress Group behind, the first fortress in the Far East is not in vain, Vladivostok, Russky Island, as well as two Russian battleships in Peter the Great Bay, six cruisers, these are huge obstacles. (To be continued......)