Chapter 472: Breakthrough
William's solidification did not make Emperor Yang wait too long, the strong industrial production capacity and the high efficiency of the German workers allowed Hindenburg to start the operation less than a month later, during which his opponent did not do any effective precautions, not that Kondratenko did not want to, he had sent telegrams several times to the Russian General Staff to come up with effective air defense means, but unfortunately all the telegrams disappeared silently in the song and dance of St. Petersburg.
In fact, not only the top of the Russian army, but also their allies Britain and France, also lack sufficient vigilance against this new weapon, although they also know that the Germans are using a new type of incendiary dans on the front line, but they only know about it, and they do not pay any special attention to it.
In this case, the large-scale bombardment of the Germans began, and the air fleet that took off from Lodz, which was close at hand, was like a diligent porter, pouring a steady stream of coagulated shells from the train onto the Russian positions on the east bank of the Vistula, and the raging fire turned the entire defense line of dozens of kilometers into hell, and countless gray cattle fled from this sea of fire like frightened sheep, and then were torn to pieces by the shells that overwhelmingly smashed on the west bank.
Admiral Kondratenko looked desperately at the line of defense engulfed by the flames of hell, and the Russian soldiers were screaming and rushing towards the Vistula River, and then fell on the banks of the river one by one and struggled to turn to charcoal.
Countless dinghys were flooding the river, reddened by the fire, and his month-long fears finally came true. Nearly 100,000 German troops from both armies on the front of the Warsaw Line attacked simultaneously. However, he was no longer able to hold back the enemy's attacks as before, and at this point he could not even organize his own soldiers to form an effective defense.
The grey animals were terrified by the horrific weapon, and they were able to stand their ground against the explosion of the 420 cannon. They could hold back the enemy in the poisonous mist of mustard gas, but they could not face the flames that seemed to come from hell, the miserable situation of the soldiers who had been burned to the charred in the last bombardment, the howls of their comrades in the hospital who were tormented by the poison of fire all night, had already brought their spirits to the brink of collapse, and when the burning dans of the Germans fell, all that was left in everyone's minds was to flee.
The airships in the sky are still coming one after another. Then dozens of hundreds of tons of coagulated shells were dropped on the head of the Russian army, and these aerial monsters could be clearly seen in the raging fire, and the high-temperature air flow rising from the ground. In order to avoid accidents, these airships no longer dare to drop bombs below a thousand meters, for fear of being detonated by the sea of fire they have created.
Warsaw, which blocked the Germans for half a year. And so they were in the space of one night. With a full 1,000 tons of coagulated qiyou shells to boil, plus Ivan Godro, who had already broken through, the entire Vistula River defense line collapsed, broke through Warsaw's Hindenburg, and then turned north, the Russian army, which was blocking the German Eighth Army on the German-Russian border, was also defeated without hesitation, and Hindenburg made a 180-degree turn almost without stopping, and went south to the rear of the five Russian armies that were in a stalemate with the Austro-Hungarian army in the Carpathian Mountains.
At the same time, five Austro-Hungarian armies, encouraged by the German victory. A full-front counteroffensive was also launched, and reserves were transferred to the Russian army on the Romanian battlefield. At this time, they were no longer able to fill the gap in the battlefield, and under the simultaneous attack of the German and Austrian armies, they fled from Galicia, which had already been occupied by them.
The sudden collapse of the war situation on the Eastern Front made the entire Entente bloc stupid, they never thought that the bad news would come so suddenly, originally Britain and France were still thinking about waiting for the Russian army to enter Austria-Hungary, and then force Germany and Austria to admit defeat, now it's okay, seeing that the German and Austrian armies have entered Belarus and Ukraine, in less than a month, Lublin, Lviv, and even Brest have fallen into the hands of Germany and Austria, and the Hindenburg striker has even approached Pinsk.
In this case, Nikolai, who was already a little panicked, didn't care about what Romania was doing, anyway, Kuropatkin's two army groups had nothing to do there, and the Romanians had further upgraded their crude oil tactics, and they built a blocking strip with driftwood in the lower reaches of the Danube, and then continued to pour oil on the Danube day and night, as a result, the crude oil has completely covered the entire Danube River by now, as long as the Russian army attacks there, it will ignite, Kuropatkin and Brusilov watched their opponents encircle themselves with a river of oil, but they had no choice but to do anything about it on the eastern bank.
Since there is no point in fighting any longer, Nikolai simply withdrew them, and did not go to Sevastopol, and withdrew directly to Odessa to reinforce the Ukrainian battlefield, and if this continues, the German-Austrian forces should hit Kyiv.
In order to vent their anger and prevent the Dro coalition army from crossing the river to attack them, the retreating Russian army simply set the Danube on fire by itself, and then boarded the ship with infinite loss in the raging fire and the billowing smoke of burning crude oil to join their new battlefield. After their retreat, Baron Gorz immediately led the 10th Army and reinforced his 11th Army to launch a counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the Transnistrian line.
Of course, the bad luck of the Russians is a good thing for China, Nikolai is now crazy and is looking for arms, everything, rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars, grenades... Even the old-fashioned rifles used in the training of the Chinese reserve are required, regardless of whether they are the standard of the Russian army or not, anyway, they can shoot bullets, and any Mauser, Manchary, including the Springfields captured from the Americans in California back then, do not dislike it, in short, as long as they can find bullets for them, they will buy them according to the price of new guns, which can make those Chinese capitalists crazy.
As for the chariots that had been ordered long ago or bulldozers in the contract, they were urged eight times a day, and the Russian Empress Xià even personally sent a telegram to Emperor Yang, in order to meet the needs of the old Qing people, of course, but also to prevent the German army from really entering Kiev, Yang Feng had to load the first batch of fifty cars on the train and send them over, but when the chariots were sent away, the anti-aircraft guns for the Germans were also loaded and sent to Kuwait.
He didn't want the Germans to occupy Kyiv, that would shake Nikolai's courage to fight, after all, Nikolai was not a fool, the two sides naturally didn't care about the tug-of-war in Poland, the Poles were not honest these years, and he didn't feel distressed about turning this land into nothing, but if he really wanted to let the war burn Ukraine and Belarus into white ground, then he really had to think about whether it was worth it, after all, even if the British won this war, it was not really a good thing for them.
If the Germans really hurt him, this guy may not necessarily make any choice, if the Germans take Kiev and lead the war to the Russian hinterland, then Nikolai is not without the possibility of withdrawing from the war, anyway, William, who is now fighting on two fronts, wishes that he would give in quickly, and at that time he will casually make some concessions and get out.
Therefore, in Yang Feng's view, the battlefield of the Eastern Front should not go beyond the scope of World War I in the original history, and the last front of the two sides in the original history is basically the current situation, that is, the Germans still lack Lithuania in the north.
Then it was time to pull the Russians and strengthen Nikolai's courage to fight.
"Is the 280 heavy artillery for the Russians finished?" Yang Feng asked the chief attendant.
"Six doors have just been built, and there are no test firings yet." Yuan Shikai said.
"Then hurry up and try it, call the Russian minister, and just shoot a few shots, with our quality level, what else is there to worry about." Emperor Yang said very dissatisfied, in fact, he really has nothing to worry about, the 280 cannon is the standard artillery of the Chinese Navy, and high-bore pressure cannons can be built, and now it is just a low-bore pressure short-barreled howitzer with greatly reduced performance, which is not a piece of cake.
After getting Emperor Yang's will, Yuan Shikai hurriedly invited the Russian minister Bai Lansun to a military base in Yanqing, for this batch of heavy artillery Russians have been looking forward to it for a long time, and now they can finally see the finished product, looking at the row of six giant cannons in front of him, Bai Lansun is also excited.
He was even more excited by the officer's introduction.
"The firing range can reach up to eleven kilometers, although the caliber is huge, but in fact the weight of this heavy gun is not high, especially on the hard frozen soil of Russia, using this specially developed tracked gun mount, it is even possible to directly carry out towing movement, using split ammunition, the warhead weight can reach two hundred and fifty kilograms." The officer in charge of the introduction said somewhat excitedly.
It should be said that this artillery is extremely advanced at present, in fact, it is the drawing of the Soviet Union's 1939 type 280 mm howitzer, although the range is not too far, but the mobility is now produced by any country more than 200 mm howitzer can not be compared, especially this kind of artillery was originally designed to operate in the frozen soil of Russia, so it is even more satisfactory to Blansun.
Needless to say, the next test launch, China's arms are now a symbol of quality, although this is the first test launch, but there are still no problems, the huge muzzle sprays out a long muzzle flame, two hundred and fifty kilograms of PAO bombs roar like meteors and smash into the target area in the distance, the terrifying explosion power, instantly tore a specially built reinforced concrete fortress into pieces, looking at the monster-like fire ball drilled out of the ground and the blasted reinforced concrete fragments, Without hesitation, Blanson immediately demanded that the six heavy guns be loaded and sent to the front line. (To be continued......)