Chapter 167: Siberian Meat Grinder

On the Siberian battlefield, the war is about to break out, and the Russian Army, which has been preparing for more than a year, has finally sounded the horn of the offensive.

On the unobstructed artillery position, thousands of artillery pieces roared, and the horror of the old land power power was fully revealed.

The Red Police Corps' defense line was immediately covered by ferocious artillery fire, but the Red Police soldiers who were hiding in the trenches were all cats in the trenches two and a half meters deep, building and reinforcing the cat's ear holes in the trenches, and the Red Police Corps held their weapons and listened to the deafening sound of artillery outside.

More than two meters deep, the power of the shells is not a threat to the soldiers below at all, not to mention the protection of the anti-artillery holes, unless it is a huge cannon that can open the entire section of the trench, otherwise the general artillery, there is no threat at all.

The main thing is that the trenches are reinforced with wooden planks on both sides, and in order to prevent water seepage at the bottom of the trenches, they are also paved with cement, as well as special drainage ditches and pumping equipment.

Outside the trench, there are tall sandbags and cement bunkers, which do not need to be heightened, and the Red Police soldiers, who are on average 1.75 meters tall, can stand inside the trench and shoot through the shooting holes outside the trench.

Heavy machine-gun positions, defensive units, mortar trenches, foxholes, formed a long line of defense.

The shelling, which lasted for nearly two hours, was already eager to try it out on the other side of the defensive line.

Under the dense artillery fire, the distant defensive line had already been completely covered in gunsmoke, and the dense shells lifted the wet soil, melted ice and snow flowed into the craters, and the blown up wooden stakes and iron wires flew everywhere.

When the artillery fire began to extend, the attacking Russian troops, shouting for Ulla, quickly rushed towards the area completely covered by artillery fire.

Concentrating most of its superior artillery, the Russian Army launched an indiscriminate offensive on a 30-kilometer-wide line of defense south of Lake Baikal.

Four or five hundred thousand attacking troops were thrown into it in one go, and boundless Russian soldiers could be seen everywhere.

Such a huge battlefield is no less than any major battle of the First World War in history.

Because the Russians can afford to play, especially with the dual support of Britain and the United States, the Russians want to break through the enemy's defenses in one go.

The defensive strength of the Red Guard Corps, the Russians have known for a long time, although the number of artillery is large, but the total defensive strength is only hundreds of thousands, and it is still scattered on a huge defensive front.

By the time the Russian soldiers could already see the sandbags on the defensive line, the artillery fire had stretched forward for thousands of kilometers.

The shooting holes covered in sand and snow were pushed open, and a twin-mounted machine gun turret rose from the defensive line, and the two barrels of the guns nearly two meters long made many Russian soldiers instantly tingle.

The heavy armor wrapped the heavy machine gun like a turret, like the shrunken turret of a naval gun, lying in the trench, the barrel of the gun turned to aim at the Russian soldiers rushing below.

The next moment, a terrible roar resounded throughout the entire defense line, and the defensive weapon unit Sentinel Cannon spewed out a terrible tongue of fire, and the 12.7 mm twin heavy machine gun of the primary Sentinel Cannon swept the entire battlefield in a dense barrage.

The bullet is incredibly powerful, even after penetrating the body, it can continue to fly for thousands of meters, and continue to cause terrible damage.

If there is no block, a bullet that flies out for two or three thousand meters can still easily kill the enemy.

With a terrifying rate of fire of tens of thousands of bullets per minute, tracer bullets form a series of laser lines, which are faintly visible to the naked eye even in daytime.

In the attacking Russian troops, patches of blood mist exploded in the crowd, and the bullets sprayed in a straight line easily penetrated the attacking team.

The body as fragile as an ant could not stop the terrible rain of bullets, and the first round of attacks from 600 sentinel guns on the 30-kilometer-long defense line frantically tore apart the bodies of Russian soldiers.

There was a sentry cannon about fifty meters apart, densely arranged, and the rotating turrets swept like a scythe of death, and in just a few tens of seconds, the dense offensive line of the Russians, with blood and stumps and broken arms, stained the entire battlefield red.

The Russian soldiers who survived were all lying on their stomachs in the mud mixed with snow and mud, shivering, and many Russian soldiers were wet with their crotches.

The hundreds of thousands of Russian troops who attacked, more than half of them were killed or wounded, and the Russian army, which wanted to tear through the defense at one time, failed in the first round of attacks, and it also frightened every soldier on the battlefield.

The terrifying power of heavy machine guns makes killing and killing as easy as breathing.

Even from the time of the offensive to the end, not a single Russian soldier saw the figure of the enemy soldier.

However, this was only the beginning of the counterattack, and in the rear of the Red Guard Corps' defensive line, a cannon hidden in a half-buried artillery position also let out a roar.

On the high observation balloons, there are not many camouflaged Russian artillery positions in the distance clearly visible in the telescope, and the heavy artillery placed by the Red Guard Corps here are all large-caliber howitzers, and the technical indicators are comparable to the advanced artillery of various countries during World War II.

Compared with the Russian artillery with a range of less than ten kilometers, the artillerymen of the Red Guard Corps have no pressure at all.

Intensive artillery counterattack, directly attacking the artillery positions placed by the Russians close to the front line, rapid-fire shells fell densely on the opposite side.

Although the artillery shells of the Red Guard Regiment are not as powerful as the artillery of the 21st century, the power is no less amazing, the 155-mm howitzer shells have a killing radius of nearly 100 meters, and the terrible waves can even blow down the artillery from the edge of the center of the explosion.

The Red Guard Corps did not try to equip artillery with a caliber of less than 100 meters, but replaced it with mortars, which were used as direct support artillery on large battlefields, with a caliber of more than 100 millimeters.

On the Baikal defensive line, in order to make up for the disadvantage in the number of artillery, the caliber of artillery was 155 mm or higher, and in the semi-buried artillery position, there were 175 mm heavy guns.

There are even heavy train guns with a caliber of more than 280 mm, and a railway track running through the north and south of the defense line has been specially built for this purpose, so that these large-caliber train guns can move back and forth freely behind the defense line.

Fan Yize built a large number of barracks, war factories and chariot factories on the Siberian defense line, as well as magnetic energy reactors, a large number of shells and artillery, and pulled out of the factory and directly arranged on the position, without any need for logistics transportation or logistics personnel to replenish shells.

Shells, for the Red Guard Corps, really seem to be without money, let alone when there is no need for supplies at all.

The artillery of the Red Guard Corps made the Russians realize what shelling is.