According to Yang Zhen's order, all the units participating in the frontal offensive were all ready by 7 p.m. on 21 October. All kinds of artillery used for the fire attack have already entered the combat area, and they have taken off their gun jackets, and the muzzles of the guns are all aimed at the Japanese positions.

All the troops scheduled for the interspersed mission also arrived in the designated offensive area. All tanks have been refueled and restocked. Although all the troops were silent, the final preparations for the launch of the entire campaign could be said to have been completed.

On the Central Front and Western Fronts, a large number of permanent fortifications were built in response to the Japanese army's confrontation between the two armies. Part of the mobilized heavy artillery is also in place. The firing scales of these large-caliber super heavy guns have also been calibrated. All the Japanese permanent fortification groups within twenty kilometers of the front line of the two armies were within the targets of these heavy artillery.

The Kwantung Army, which has experienced the construction of a large number of fortresses in North Manchuria, cannot but say that the level of construction of this fortification is indeed quite good. These Kwantung armies made great efforts to build a large number of semi-underground permanent fortifications on the front line of the confrontation between the South and Manchurian armies, which played a considerable role in curbing the armored superiority of the Anti-Japanese Union in the northeast battlefield in the previous battle.

More than half of the tanks lost by the Anti-United Nations in the Northeast Battlefield were lost in these permanent fortifications equipped with artillery and a large number of machine guns. In order to open the breakthrough as soon as possible, this time Yang Zhen specially mobilized a group from the rear, and tried every means to raise a batch of super large-caliber howitzers and cannons to deal with these permanent fortification groups.

While the ground artillery was in place one after another, four attack aircraft groups, two medium bomber groups, and two light bomber groups, which participated in fire support, had already completed preparations for sorties. A group of B17 bombers transferred from North Manchuria also arrived at Xinjing Airport. Prepare for carpet bombardment of Japanese positions if needed.

When the date on the wall calendar in the Kwantung Army Headquarters was turned to October 22. All the troops participating in the battle on the front line of the Anti-Japanese Union have completed the final preparations for the attack. All the troops were loaded with guns and were waiting for the general attack order from their superiors. The various engineering detachments have also secretly begun to clear mines.

Just before Guojiadian Anti-Japanese Federation, the watch hands on Yang Zhen's wrist pointed to 6:25 in the morning of the 22nd. On a front of several hundred kilometers from Yangshan and Liujiazi in the west to Fushun in the east, the entire South Manchurian region sounded at a dense artillery fire almost at the same time. Hordes of shells and rockets, in the order in which they fired, covered the position in a cloud of smoke and explosions.

The howitzers, cannons, mortars, and 107 rocket artillery groups belonging to each division and regiment carried out covering fire on the front-line positions of the Japanese army. The 150 howitzer group, the 100 mm cannon group directly under it, plus some of the 122 rocket artillery group, carried out fire strikes on the ammunition depots, communication lines, and starting points of the Japanese army's first line of assembly.

In addition to artillery of various calibers, as well as rocket artillery, were involved in the shelling. Two Meiji 45-year 240-mm heavy howitzers and three Japanese-made 96-type 150-mm heavy cannons were also transferred from the rear, which were originally placed by the Japanese army in the Tiger Head Fortress, to deal with the Japanese army's permanent fortification groups in various combat directions.

In order to make these two heavy guns more powerful, the armament department specially made a thousand rounds of shells for these two heavy guns. This time, the two super large-caliber howitzers were delivered to the front line as concealed as possible, and the artillery unit also spent a lot of effort. The two super-heavy guns, disassembled into parts and camouflaged.

In addition to the fact that these Japanese made their own heavy artillery, which is now being used against them in turn. Yang Zhen also put into operation two Soviet-made B4 203-mm howitzer battalions and one German-made MRS 210-mm howitzer battalion on the frontal flanks and on the Western Front.

Among the three super heavy artillery battalions, the middle line battlefield was equipped with two equipment, the B4 type 203 howitzer that the Germans called Stalin's hammer, a total of 18 heavy artillery battalions and a batch of concrete destruction shells.

These super heavy artillery constantly smashed large-caliber shells on the heads of the Japanese army's first-line permanent fortification groups. And these two Japanese-made 240-mm howitzers can directly restore the permanent fortification groups built by the Japanese army that can withstand the bombardment of 150-mm shells into a big crater with one shot.

Although the heavy artillery groups participating in the battle were too heavy to move hard, and the rate of fire was generally slow, the power was indeed quite large. The participation of these heavy artillery groups caused devastating damage to both flanks of the Zhongchang Railway, as well as to the Japanese permanent fortifications on the Western Front. None of the large and small fortifications built by the Japanese army could withstand a single shell.

In particular, the two Japanese-made 240-millimeter howitzers and shells weighing more than 200 kilograms directly turned into a big pit when they went down to the Japanese army's permanent fortifications. The Japanese army and the weapons equipped inside have all been reduced to a pile of parts. The Soviet-made 203 howitzer, which used a large number of concrete-destroying shells, also blew up the Japanese army in fear.

The super-large core fortifications of the Japanese army on the front line of Jinjiatun were fired into the sky by this heavy artillery group known as Stalin's hammer and the 240-millimeter super-heavy howitzers of the Japanese army's own standard. The entire underground bunker was opened with a large skylight.

There was an infantry brigade of the Japanese army inside, and there were not a few people running out together. A wing of the Japanese defenders on the front line of Jinjiatun can be said to have not been defeated, but was brutally blown up by these heavy artillery. There are no fortifications that can withstand the bombardment of these heavy artillery.

The only German-made MRS 210 mm howitzer deployed on the Western Front, which was only delivered in June this year, was slightly less powerful than the Soviet Stalin's hammer. But in other respects, especially in range, it was superior to Stalin's hammer.

These heavy artillery, which had been tempered on the battlefield of the Eastern Front for a long time, with the cooperation of the super howitzers and cannons made by the Japanese army itself, smashed a passage in just one hour in front of the two corps on the east and west of the central line, in the permanent fortifications painstakingly built by the Japanese army.

Whenever these super-heavy artillery groups opened fire and the dull sound of artillery rang out, the Japanese positions were in shambles. Under the cover of these super heavy artillery groups, which were covered by half-ton shells at every turn, the permanent fortification groups of various positions on the Japanese front basically did not play the role they imagined.

This situation not only occurred on the Jinjiatun line, but also in Manjing on the south bank and north of Erdaohezi east of Changtu, the Japanese army's permanent fortification group at Guangdingzishan west of the Zhongchang Railway, Weiyuan Fort and Shangyang Fort in Kaiyuan, and the entire defense system of the Japanese army were all wiped out under the bombardment of these heavy artillery. Together with these collapsed Japanese fortifications, there were also the Japanese defenders inside.

When the Japanese army's permanent fortifications were like a group of hard walnuts, they were smashed open one by one. The anti-coalition air forces that participated in the war also took off from their respective airfields. Aerial fire strikes were carried out on the Japanese army's second-line positions, ammunition depots, and the entire South Manchurian railway line.

Under the cover of fighter planes, groups of attack planes and light bombers constantly circled over the depths of the Japanese positions, raining high-explosive bombs, napalm, and rockets on all Japanese targets. In a number of key areas, white phosphorus bombs were also used, as well as a number of special bombs.

Under the cover of open and ground fire, the various units participating in the offensive took the lead of tanks and launched a full-line attack on their intended targets. Wang Guangyu was on the Western Front, and the central line under the personal command of Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun launched a full-line assault on various positions of the Japanese army. Compared with the offensive central line and the western front, the eastern front in charge of Wang Xiaoming is a bit dull.

In the Central Theater, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun personally commanded five infantry divisions, a column from Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, under the cover of an armored brigade, seven independent tank regiments, a cavalry brigade, and heavy artillery groups, from Changtu Jinjiatun to Kaiyuan Weiyuan Fort and Xiangyang Fort, and launched a two-way attack on the Japanese heavy army cluster north of Shenyang.

The focus is on the two directions from Jinjiatun to Mazhonghe and from Weiyuan Fort to Shangyang Fort, which are the key fortifications of the Japanese army. After 12 hours of fierce fighting, after the attached heavy artillery group smashed the Japanese army's first-line permanent core fortification group, the attacking troops took the lead in opening Jinjiatun and Shangyang Fort, two important support points of the Japanese army on the battlefield along the Zhongchang Railway.

And using the British-made Matilda II tank, under the cover of thick armor, formed the front of the salient of the Kwantung Army north of Shenyang, and made a breakthrough on the whole line. Yang Zhen's frontal offensive was aimed at mobilizing the second-line forces of the Japanese army along the Zhongchang Railway, creating a good condition for the rapid penetration of the eastern and western corps in large depth and seizing the industrial center of Shenyang.

After seizing the Jinjiatun line, Yang Zhen immediately threw in a cavalry brigade, an armored brigade, and a rapid assault group composed of a motorized infantry division, and took advantage of the gap opened by the infantry on the Jinjiatun line to carry out a rapid penetration in the direction of Tieling, posing as a posture of dividing the Japanese army north of Shenyang into two.

In order to contain the mechanized cavalry clusters of the Anti-Union, they forcibly interspersed within their own defense system. Keep the front line of Manjing, Mazhonghe, and Weiyuanbao that are still fighting, and recapture the two strategic support points of Shangyang Fort and Jinjiatun. Senior General Harem Jun, who was in charge of operations in the direction of the Nakō Railway, ordered Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo and Lieutenant General Shimizu Noriro on the front line to immediately mobilize the second-line troops to carry out a counterattack operation.

Although for this order of General Harem Jun, Major General Otsubo Kazuma of the Third Front Army firmly opposed it. Otsubo Kazuma believed that the number of enemy troops that had appeared on the battlefield at the moment was seriously inconsistent with the total strength of the enemy forces in which the Kwantung Army had information. At present, the most important thing for the front army to do is to rely on the fortifications that have already been built to resist step by step.

The enemy's super-heavy artillery is indeed powerful, but these super-heavy cannons are too cumbersome to follow the rapid assault of their front-line troops. In the entire battlefield north of Shenyang, the Kwantung Army has formed a relatively complete defense system. Even if the first line is broken through by the whole line, it can still rely on the stubborn resistance of the deep area.

After the enemy's strength is weakened to a certain extent, the area around Shenyang will be used as the final decisive battle area. In one go, we will completely solve the enemy in front of you. Although it is only a little more ugly to resist passively, it is still helpful for the front army to deal with the sudden changes.

Once the divisions and regiments on the front line were separated from the various fortification clusters, it would be difficult for the Japanese army, which was purely infantry, to compete with the enemy. Especially in the case of absolute superiority in the number of tanks of the enemy army. Infantry that broke away from the fortified group was easily eaten up by the enemy's infantry tactics and superior air-ground firepower.

No matter how fierce the Japanese soldiers are, human flesh cannot compete with steel in any case. The number of armored units that the enemy has now dispatched is already staggering. And several of its main armored divisions, so far have not appeared. That is, at least for now, they still have a certain backhand.