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Petrobanovsk, an important Russian industrial city on the Siberian Plain, is also an important hub on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Grand Duke Nicholas deployed 4 corps here, with a total strength of 200,000 men! Lieutenant General Semyon of the Russian Army served as commander. At 7 o'clock in the morning of April 30, the artillery of the 5th Army of the Chinese Army and ten other infantry divisions launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the outer defense line of Petrobanovsk, and thousands of heavy artillery pieces launched a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Russian defense line, causing great damage to the frontline defense troops of the Russian army!

At the moment when the artillery sounded, Lieutenant General Semyon had already ordered the 4 subordinate armies, the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th armies of the Russian army, to enter combat readiness! At this time, defending the outer line of defense in Petrobanovsk were two infantry divisions of the 12th Army of the Russian Army! The other two infantry divisions of the 12th Army were responsible for defending the second line of defense! After these two lines of defense, there is the city of Petrobanovsk!

"Those yellow-skinned monkeys are really rich! There are so many heavy artillery! "Lieutenant General Semyon came to the outskirts of Petrobanovsk to observe the attack of the squadron through a telescope, and when he saw that the positions of the Russian army were completely covered in gunsmoke, he sincerely exclaimed! Although Russia is known as the steam steamroller of Europe, almost every victory is won by human life! The equipment of the Russian army is notoriously poor in Europe, and it is far inferior to other European powers. However, the Russians were tough, and the serfs were uneducated. But the battle was very brave. Fearless to death. It's a qualified soldier!

It's just that even if the current Siberian army is the sharpest unit of the Russian army, it is only one rifle per person! As for the artillery, it is pitiful, and the total number of artillery pieces of various calibers in each infantry division is fifty, and most of them are 75 mm or even smaller caliber artillery, and even if all the large-caliber artillery under Lieutenant General Semyon is combined, it is less than a hundred. Therefore. In the face of the fierce shelling of the Chinese Army, Lieutenant General Semyon had no intention of ordering the artillery to return fire! He knew that if he shelled the Chinese artillery, he would be looking for death! Every cannon of the Russian army is a treasure, and it has to be used in the most critical places!

The shelling of the heavy artillery units of the Chinese army lasted for a full forty minutes, and the gunners had already taken off their shirts and carried the shells bare-chested, and everyone was sweating profusely, as if they had been fished out of the water. They had no other idea than to desperately want to get the shells out. They didn't send a single shell. Maybe you can kill one more Russian, and you can reduce your own casualties!

When the shelling is over. The front-line positions of the Russian army are already in shambles, the positions are as if they have been plowed with plowshares, and the Russian troops guarding the positions have suffered heavy casualties! The two infantry divisions of the Russian army, a total of more than 24,000 people, were killed in the shelling, at least more than 3,000 people were killed, and countless others were wounded! The rudimentary fortifications of the Russian army are the main culprit for the large number of casualties paid by the Russian army. In particular, those collapsed anti-artillery holes, almost every collapsed anti-artillery hole, can cause dozens or even hundreds of Russian officers and soldiers to be buried deep in them.

"Quick! Get up for me! Pick up the rifle and the Chinese will start attacking! Anti-tank artillery battery, enter the position, the armored forces of the Chinese are coming! "The officers on the front-line positions of the Russian army got out of their bunkers as soon as the shelling stopped, kicked them with their feet, whipped them with whips, and drove those Russian soldiers to the positions like driving cattle, resisting the upcoming attack of the squadron!

The armored forces of the Chinese Army have made great achievements in the North American battlefield, which has deeply shocked countries around the world! Germany, as an ally of China, imported a batch of tanks and armored vehicles from China, and obtained a full set of production technologies, and has already formed its own armored forces. On the Western Front, the Germans used the terrifying assault force of the armored forces to tear apart the Anglo-French defense line lightly! Russia's industrial backwardness makes it impossible to build tanks and armored vehicles at all, and the only weapon they can rely on is probably anti-tank guns! However, the number of anti-tank guns was also very scarce, with only 12 guns per infantry division, and an anti-tank company was formed. On the front line, there were only two companies with a total of 24 anti-tank guns. There is almost no possibility of resisting the attack of the armored units of the Chinese Army with 24 anti-tank guns!

In less than two minutes after the shelling of the Chinese Army stopped, the Russian troops who survived the shelling were already on their positions! The Russian anti-tank guns have entered the gun position, heavy machine guns and light machine guns have also been erected, and those artillery on the artillery positions behind have also pushed out the artillery, ready to resist the attack of the Chinese!

It's just that the attack of the Chinese army has not begun, and the positions of the Chinese army on the opposite side are still quiet, which makes the front-line commanders of the Russian army a little confused! However, after a minute, he understood it completely!

"Fire!" After forty minutes of shelling, with a gap of three minutes, the commander of the artillery brigade of the 5th Army once again gave the order to open fire! Thousands of cannons once again let out an earth-shattering roar!

"Whew! Shout! Shout! "The sound of the cannonball cutting through the air under the action of huge kinetic energy is very harsh, which makes people feel numb in the scalp!

"Damn! Hide! Those yellow-skinned monkeys are so despicable! "The officers of the Russian army shouted loudly, the Chinese actually used this way to trick them out of the anti-artillery hole, under such a fierce shelling, the Russian army will definitely pay great casualties! A large number of Russian soldiers hurriedly retreated to the bottom of the trenches, holding their heads and preparing to withstand the heavy shelling, and some unresponsive Russian soldiers did not know what was happening.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One shell after another fell on the positions of the Russian army, and in the dense explosion, many Russian officers and soldiers were blown to pieces. A small number of Russian soldiers were tired of the gas generated by the explosion of the shell, and were thrown into the air, and when they landed, they had already fallen into a pile of minced meat! The most important thing is that when the entire position was covered by artillery fire, the anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns erected by the Russian army on the trenches were also destroyed in the shelling! A large number of machine guns were blown into parts, anti-tank guns were also blown to pieces, and the Russian defense line was weakened again!

"Damn! Cunning yellow-skinned monkey! Lieutenant General Semyon roared through gritted teeth in the command headquarters in the rear! In his opinion, it is too shameless for the Chinese to adopt such tactics on the battlefield! It's just that China is never ashamed of it, but thinks it's a tactic. As long as you can destroy the enemy, even if you are mean, what does it matter?

This shelling did not last long, and it lasted only twenty minutes before it ended. But the losses caused by this shelling to the Russian army are more eye-catching than the last shelling! Those Russian officers and soldiers huddled in the trenches were subjected to deadly shelling, and the entire position was littered with stumps and broken arms!

After the end of the shelling, the 5th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army began to attack! 72 T5 'Cheetah' tanks at the head, flanked by two battalions of T4 'Wolf' light tanks, and behind by two battalions of mechanized infantry Z4 wheeled armored vehicles! In addition, the 5th Infantry Division of the 5th Army is also behind the armored forces, ready to wait until the armored forces tear through the Russian defense line to further expand the results and clear the Russian troops on the positions!

"Boom!" The sound of the motors of tanks and armored vehicles as they drove was like thunder. The tracks of the tank are crushed to the ground, and it makes a tooth-sore sound! This shocked many Russian officers and soldiers who saw the armored forces for the first time, and their eyes shone with deep horror.

"Ready! The Chinese are coming! Anti-tank guns in place! The Russian commanders on the front line shouted loudly in somewhat hoarse voices! It's just that the Russian army's anti-tank guns suffered some losses in the shelling just now, and only 16 of the 24 anti-tank guns on the defensive line have been left so far, and the other 8 have been destroyed in the shelling!

Because the permafrost of the Siberian plain is hard, the Russian army did not dig anti-tank trenches. It is not easy to dig a line of trenches in the frozen ground!

A distance of three kilometers for the armored forces of the Chinese Army can be completed in less than twenty minutes! The steel torrent composed of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, like a black river on the plain, rushed towards the positions of the Russian army with an indomitable momentum. Many Russian officers and soldiers were already stupid under the impact of the torrent of steel!

At a distance of about three hundred meters from the line of defense of the Russian army, all the T4 'Wolf' light tanks and Z4 wheeled armored vehicles stopped! The experience gained by the Chinese Army in the North American battlefield tells them that when it is uncertain whether the Russian army's anti-tank weapons can threaten them, it is undoubtedly the safest to maintain a safe distance of 300 meters! Only the T5 Cheetah medium tank, relying on its thick armor, continues to advance! The officers and men of the mechanized infantry battalion also got off the armored vehicles, accompanied by the T5 'Cheetah' medium tanks that were moving forward, escorting them!

"Fire!" The commander of the Russian army, who probably had no experience in actual combat with armored forces, immediately gave the order to open fire after seeing a large number of tanks and armored vehicles of the Chinese army standing still! A dozen tank guns on the positions began to shè fire!. )