After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Yuan Zhen immediately said excitedly: "Great, our Siberian Front has been looking forward to this day for a long time, please rest assured that Lin Shuai will guarantee the total annihilation of the Fifth Heavy Division of the German Army." ”

Lin Yuan said: "You can inform me of the battlefield situation at any time, Sun Tzu's Art of War once said, 'The one who can do it but the king does not win', I won't interfere with you much." ”

Yuan Zhen agreed, put down the phone, at this time there were two divisions on the Narva border, namely the First Division of the Siberian Front and the Third Division of the Siberian Front, these two divisions were organized into the First Army by Lin Yuan and were all under the command of Yuan Zhen.

At 9 a.m. on April 2, Yuan Zhen informed the 1st and 3rd Divisions of the attack at 2 a.m. on April 3, and the two divisions immediately began preparations.

Since it was early in the morning to attack, there should be no training during the day, and the soldiers should be fully rested, Lin Yuan ordered the attack on April 3 with this in mind, because April 2 is Sunday, the rest day of the barracks, and no training will be arranged during the day on this day, so the first and third divisions can justifiably rest, if the training is canceled for rest, the German intelligence officers will definitely find out, and the German army will be prepared in advance at that time.

During the day on 2 April, the two divisions rested for a day, and the officers secretly told the soldiers of the combat units to sleep during the day and not to engage in sports activities such as playing basketball and football.

The combat units were rested, and the logistics support units remained the same as before, with no changes, and the German intelligence officers could only observe outside the barracks when collecting intelligence, or contact the logistics support units that needed to frequently go out of the barracks and deal with the localities, and they did not know anything about the situation inside the combat units, so they did not find any abnormalities in the two divisions at all.

At 1 a.m. on April 3, the wake-up whistle sounded, and the high-ranking officers informed their subordinates that they would assemble at 2 a.m. and launch an attack on the German army in Narva!

At 2 o'clock in the morning, on the St. Petersburg field airfield, two J-25s roared into the air and flew towards Narva, the role of these two fighters was to search for the German air defense radar and annihilate it.

The J-25 searched for ten minutes, and the signals of the two radars appeared on the screen, and the J-25 immediately launched anti-radiation missiles to destroy the two radars.

Two radar stations were attacked, and the commander of the German 5th Heavy Division, Adenauer, soon received the news, he was excited and nervous, and while ordering the whole army to be on alert, he ordered the heavy artillery units to come out of the woods and wait for the order to launch an artillery bombardment of the 1st and 3rd divisions.

Moltke Jr. was still inspecting Latvia at this time, and the chief of the guard woke him up from his sleep and whispered to him: "Your Excellency, the Chinese have attacked!" ”

Little Moltke's heart trembled when he heard the news, he was unwilling to start a war with the Chinese at this time, because the logistics supply line had not yet been prepared.

The early spring in Latvia was very cold, and little Moltke was so surprised and agitated that he got up in his pajamas and paced around the room with a frown, completely ignoring the cold to the bone, and the attendant held Moltke's coat in his hand, and did not dare to speak, because he knew very well that little Moltke could not be disturbed while he was thinking.

Moltke Jr. thought for a moment and said: "Order Adenauer to block the attack of the Chinese, and then order the Fourth Heavy Division stationed in Latvia to cross the border between Latvia and Russia and attack St. Petersburg!" ”

The attendant heard Moltke speak, knew that he had finished thinking, hurried to his side, put the coat in his hand on him, and asked: "General, is it too risky to attack St. Petersburg?" Should the 4th Heavy Division be sent north into Estonia to assist Commander Adenauer? ”

Moltke's attendants are not general, they are quite accomplished in strategy and tactics, so they are qualified to give little Moltke a yì, and Moltke Jr. said: "I have been reading the Chinese's military book recently, this trick is called 'encircling Wei to save Zhao', the fourth heavy division attacked Moscow, China's first and third divisions of Siberia are bound to return to help, and the pressure on the fifth heavy division has suddenly been reduced a lot." ”

"If we directly let the 4th Heavy Division enter Estonia to support the 5th Heavy Division, it will undoubtedly bring about the problem of scattered command and unfavorable coordination between the two troops, so it is better to let the two units fight separately."

Moltke's attendants praised him and immediately went to give the order, and informed Adenauer of the plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao in the form of a top-secret telegram, and Adenauer was more confident when he learned that the 4th Heavy Division had begun to attack St. Petersburg, and ordered his troops not to let the Chinese army cross the border line even a single step.

At 2:25 a.m. on 3 April, 36 bombards of the 3rd Air Division took off from St. Petersburg and flew to Narva to bomb the road, gas station, and material transfer station between Narva and Tallinn.

The German self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery units were immediately dispatched, and although the Chinese did not allow the Germans to gather information about the imminent attack, the Germans were well-trained and quickly dispatched.

The German self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery is unique among the world's anti-aircraft artillery, and they learned the lesson of the failure of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery against the Chinese air force, and replaced the large-caliber high-explosive artillery shells equipped with radio proximity fuses with small-caliber armor-piercing shells, which are made of tungsten alloy and have extremely strong armor-piercing ability.

The German anti-aircraft artillery also used the rotating barrel firing principle of the American Gatling gun, which had an extremely fast rate of fire and could make a net of death bullets in the air. The German army also knew that the Chinese army's electronic warfare strength was extremely strong and could interfere with sounding radars, so it was equipped with a large number of searchlights along with radars for night air defense.

At the beginning, the 4th Air Division was flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters, but it was suddenly attacked by the Germans, and under the dense rain of bullets from the Germans, one bomb crashed, three bombers were injured, and they were forced to turn back.

The commander of the H-1 group saw that the night sky was full of armor-piercing shells, and knew that the density of the German anti-aircraft shells was far beyond the reach of the Japanese army, so he hurriedly ordered the group to raise the altitude, and the other H-1 planes then raised the altitude to 6,000 meters, and it was difficult for the German armor-piercing shells to hit this height.

As the bombing group increased its altitude, the bombing accuracy could not be guaranteed, so it could only hurriedly drop the bombs and return to the airfield, and these dropped bombs basically did not hit the target, either in the farmland or in the woods.

The confrontation between the bombardment and the German self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery lasted for half an hour, and ended with one bombard crashing and six bombardment being damaged.

The Germans' preferred targets were the barracks of the 1st and 3rd Siberian Divisions, but the barracks of these two divisions were behind the heights and could not be hit by shells.

What Adenauer did not expect was that his artillery order had an immeasurable impact on the battle situation.