Outside Vladivostok, on the camp and forward positions of the Third Army, a two-kilometer wide frontage, was instantly covered by merciless naval artillery fire.

This is not a fire cover with a hasty arrival, but an artillery shelling with a planned fire cover of the entire target area.

In order to ensure that the Japanese Third Army could be severely damaged in one round, and to pursue the killing and wounding of the Japanese army in as wide a range as possible, the shells were very scattered.

In the first round of shelling, the main targets of the attack were the camps of the Third Army, as well as the Japanese artillery positions.

With a total shelling range of 4,000 meters, although the firepower of the First Fleet could not cover every corner, it was completely sufficient to strike at key targets.

In the Japanese artillery positions, some Japanese artillerymen were maintaining artillery, some were practicing in formation, and some were wiping shells.

Fierce artillery fire descended, and the artillery positions of the main attack targets were instantly plunged into artillery fire.

The neat shells placed in the recess below the siege guns, arranged in rows, and one ship gun fell in the pair of shells by chance.

The violent explosion detonated the large-caliber shells stacked with wooden planks, and the violent explosion detonated these shells, and countless sparks flew in the explosion like fireworks, streamers flew out, and the depression where the shells were stored was instantly blown into a basin, and a large number of Japanese artillery around them were swallowed up by the huge explosion without even having time to react.

And above the depression, the two large-caliber siege guns, in a huge explosion, more than 20 tons of cannon bodies, were overturned, and one section of the trajectory transporting the shells even flew 100 meters away, smashing the waist of the two Japanese soldiers.

The artillery positions of the Japanese Third Army, with more than 300 guns, were in disarray in an instant.

Originally, there were not many shells in the artillery positions, but in order to prepare for the retaliatory shelling of Vladivostok and to recapture the 356 heights, a large number of shells were carried to the artillery positions, and the busy Japanese artillery was preparing for the shelling.

Wipe the dusty shells and repair and maintain the artillery, but before they received the order to bombard, they didn't know where the shells flew, turning the entire artillery position into a sea of fire.

Dense shells fell one after another, and the entire Japanese artillery position was in chaos, especially the two detonated ammunition craters in the front and back, which killed many people.

There is also the terrible lethality of 355 mm naval guns, and as soon as the cannon comes down, several guns are destroyed, and the killing and wounding of personnel is also very terrible.

Artillery, often the most afraid of the enemy's artillery, stay by the side of the artillery all day long, and are well aware of the terrible lethality of artillery.

The first round of shelling, down, on the artillery positions of the Japanese Third Army, which was in disarray, no one noticed that when they were dodging the shelling and preparing to counterattack, there was already a unit lurking around.

Artillery positions were located in the rear of the Third Army, five kilometers from Vladivostok and four kilometers from the Amur Bay.

Located in the middle of three rolling hills, after a year of ravage. Ravage, as well as the destruction of the previous counterattack shells inside the Vladivostok fortress, these hills have long since been left with bare dirt.

However, underneath the artillery positions were large pine forests, and in these pine forests, the Japanese defenders protecting the artillery positions were also attacked at the same time in the pine forests when the shelling began.

The Japanese troops built in the woods and in the surrounding defensive line did not find the enemy wearing camouflage and quietly approaching.

When the guns rang out, the 1st Division, equipped with a large number of snipers, showed an incomparably terrifying war killing ability.

The defending Japanese soldiers, where have they ever encountered such a battle, and their comrades-in-arms who were shot one after another made the surviving Japanese soldiers dare not take their heads.

You must know that in the war with Russia, it is often they who suppress Russian soldiers from daring to come forward.

However, the snipers hidden in the trees are not what these Japanese soldiers who have not undergone professional anti-sniper training can dodge, and in this era, there are no professional snipers, and there are no professional anti-sniper tactics.

In the eyes of these Japanese soldiers, they were a group of terrible enemies with accurate guns, but when they hid in trenches and even sandbag bunkers, they were still shot and killed, and they became nowhere to hide.

At the end of the canopy of a pine tree 600 meters away from the Japanese artillery position, a sniper in a gilly suit kept pulling the trigger of a sniper rifle.

And this sniper, in addition to having a sniper rifle in his hand, on his back, carried another sniper rifle on his back.

Through the slender pine branches, the muzzle of his gun quickly locked onto the Japanese soldiers who were dodging.

Each time he pulled the trigger, his fingernails would draw a horizontal line on the trunk of the tree, a horizontal line representing the life of an enemy, and a horizontal line when harvesting a life.

At this moment, on the trunk of the tree, eight horizontal lines had been drawn, two magazines and eight bullets had been used, and by the time he replaced the third magazine, his comrades on the ground had already broken through the last line of defense of the Japanese artillery positions.

Here, with hundreds of snipers supporting the operation, the Japanese defense line, under these elite gunners, is as vulnerable as papier-mâché.

Seeing that there was no target below, the sniper set his sights on the Japanese artillery position 600 meters away, and at this moment, the artillery who had recovered from the position, braving the fire of the fleet, was preparing to carry out an artillery bombardment.

According to the direction of the shells, the approximate attack distance was determined, and there were already Japanese artillery guns that began to counterattack, but they were all small-caliber guns that were easy to operate and almost did not pose a threat to the fleet.

The snipers, who knew about the situation, switched to a sniper rifle with a magazine and aimed at a 240mm siege gun 100 meters away.

At this moment, the siege gun had been successfully loaded with shells, the chamber was locked, and the various gunners operating the gun were all ready to move away from the artillery, and one of the artillerymen pulling the firing device of the gun was also retreating.

When the Japanese artilleryman, who was pulling the firing device, withdrew the gun five meters away and crouched down, the sniper locked onto it and pulled the trigger.

At this distance, the bullet naturally formed an arc, and the bullet directly pierced the artilleryman's head, and the red and white object mixed with brain pulp and blood sprayed all over the ground.

Another Japanese artilleryman on the side, with quick hands and eyes, was about to run over and pull the firing device, but before he could get close to the rope, the piercing whistling sound in the sky arrived instantly, and a 254-mm shell happened to fall in the 240-mm siege gun, and the huge explosion instantly destroyed the artillery, and also blew these artillery pieces into pieces.

At the same time, the Red Guard infantry tore through the defenses of the artillery positions of the Third Army and launched an attack on these Japanese artillerymen.