After an hour of artillery preparation, more than 600 75-mm field guns and 105-mm field howitzers fired a total of 20,000 shells!

Although such a firepower density is incomparable with the amount of ammunition dropped in 100,000 and 200,000 rounds an hour during World War I and World War II in history, it still gives a group of woolly bears who have never seen a big scene of shelling a feeling of falling apart!

When the shelling stopped abruptly, the starting position of the Rakshasa Army's attack was already full of jubilation.

Then the fierce shelling must have killed all the living creatures on the Turkish position, right?

Nicholas I, who was at the front to supervise the battle, thought the same thing, so he wiped away his tears and said to Grand Duke Mikhail, who was by his side as the royal herald: "Mikhail. Pavrovich, go and give Marshal Wittgenstein an order to attack immediately and make a breakthrough before the reinforcements of the Turks' reserves come in! ”

"Nikolai. Pavrovich," reminded Grand Duke Mikhail, "should we wait for the telegram from the airship in the sky to carry out reconnaissance before we determine whether to launch an infantry attack?" ”

It turned out that at this time, there was a Wyvern-3 airship with a radio station installed in the sky, condescendingly observing the effect of the shelling.

"No need," said Nicholas I, "the shelling is good enough, now is the best time to break through!" ”

Nicholas I said this, of course, it is not that he does not know the anti-artillery effect of the "Bagua Machine Gun Array", Zhuge married his own sister for Taoism, and he also expects the Rakshasa Kingdom to disrupt Europe after becoming a great Eastern Roman!

Therefore, Zhuge Weidao had already told Nikolai about this. But. Zhuge Weidao did not tell Nikolai how to break the "gossip machine gun array". Of course, it's useless to say it, whether it's "water tank tactics" or "storm commando tactics", they can't be done overnight. As for destroying the enemy's positions with overwhelming firepower, that is more difficult than engaging in a "water tank".

Because that would require the production of tens of thousands of artillery pieces and hundreds of millions of shells - whether it was World War I or World War II, the shells produced by the main players were calculated in the billions!

Not to mention today's woolly bears, even the world's first industrial country, the Ming Dynasty, has not yet formed such an amazing production capacity of artillery shells - in peacetime, no one will start a production line with an annual output of 100 million shells! And to really produce so many shells, it is not enough to have a shell production line, but also a production line for various charges, fuses, primers and shells. Of course, there must be enough artillery, as well as vehicles or horses to tow the cannons and transport ammunition.

In short, even if Nikolai knew that the artillery preparation for the first hour was not effective, there was nothing he could do. He brought hundreds of thousands of shells with him, which was the amount that hit the city of Constantinople, and it was impossible for them all to be used on the first line of defense of the Turks, right?

And now the entire Rakshasa army has only a few million shells in reserve - based on the experience of the last Napoleonic fight, this number is sufficient, and it can't all be used in Constantinople, right?

So, Nikolai would rather die a little more and save some shells . After all, Rakshasa still has to defend against Prussia, Austria, France, the British Empire and the Ming Empire!

Mikhail, having received instructions from Nikolai, had no choice but to pick up the telephone in the shelter and give Caesar's order to Field Marshal Wittgenstein.

Caesar's orders, of course, must be carried out, and Peter, who was able to rise to the rank of marshal. Wirtgenstein knew this.

So less than 5 minutes after Mihayel's phone call, red signal flares rose just before the Rakshasa Army's offensive position!

The flare is the command to attack.

Behind the brass walls in the various offensive positions, among the trenches, they were already crowded with heavily armed Rakshasa infantry! They also saw the shelling just now, and not only did they see it, but they also let out bursts of cheers. "Ulla! Ulla! At one point, the voice shouted louder than the roar of cannons.

After all, these hairy bears don't know how fierce the artillery fire of the war in the new era is? Even those veterans who participated in the Napoleonic Wars felt that victory was in sight when they saw the scene of tens of thousands of high-explosive shells in front of them.

How could the backward Turks withstand such an artillery bombardment? Even if the French emperor was resurrected, there would be nothing he could do in the face of this level of firepower, right?

The veterans who had fought against Napoleon's army were now either officers or non-commissioned officers, and their past experience had made them self-confident to the point of blindness.

In several major breakthrough directions, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Rakshasas, seeing the flare rising, did not hesitate to roll out of the trenches and behind the breastwork, drew their sabers and pointed forward, while raising their arms and shouting: "Ula! Ulla forward! ”

Immediately after that, the furry bear soldiers flipped out, all holding Suvorov rifles with bayonets on them, shouting "Ula!" Ulla! And he covered his hair and charged.

Most of these furry bear infantry smelled of alcohol, and they had a glass of bold vodka at the start of the attack, and now they began to rush with the strength of the wine.

The Woolly Bear's infantry was also armed with water-cooled machine guns, but the number of equipment was not very large, that is, one for each company.

These machine guns also moved forward with the infantry, but they did not rush directly into the Turkish trenches, but were re-erected 1000-1500 meters in front of the Turkish trenches, and then the muzzles of the guns were raised, and the cartridges shook wildly, and a series of powerful heavy bullets poured out like rivers of fire, passing over the heads of the charging infantry, and finally landing on the Turkish positions.

Some mortars also moved to the front like machine guns, and after they were erected, they began to rain shells on Turkish positions. In an instant, on the forward positions of the Turks, another burst of bullets rained down!

At this moment, Turkish artillery suddenly fired. The shells landed in the midst of the charging crowd, sending up balls of fire, blasting out countless tiny shrapnel that swept through the crowd in the shock wave. Immediately brought up pieces of flesh and blood, harvesting the lives of the brave and fearless Rakshasa soldiers.

However, the intensity of shelling by the Turks was even lower than that of the Rakshasas, about 1/10 of the latter. Such firepower, of course, was not enough to block the onslaught of bayonets that poured up like a tidal wave.

In order to rush through the dangerous area that was being blocked by artillery fire a little faster, the Rakshasa officers and soldiers who had drunk too much vodka even quickened the pace of the charge!

If you look down from above, you can see waves of gray skirmishers, like the waves of the rising tide, rushing towards the Turkish positions of trenches and barbed wire.

Wu Fax, who was watching the battle on an airship, already knew that something was wrong. In his position, of course, it can be found that the Rakshasa cannonade is not effective. The Turks have little to lose!

Moreover, he could also see the reserve of the Turks wearing Little Red Riding Hood, moving quickly through the communication trenches!

Suddenly, deadly tongues of fire appeared in front of the Turks' position, rolling past the Rakshasas who were charging after them.

These tongues of fire are extremely dense and cleverly arranged, allowing for a constant crossfire!

The vanguard of the Rakshasas, who had been charging just now, plunged headlong into the fire net built by the Turks with machine guns, and were cut down in rows like ripe wheat.

But the Rakshasas' charge was not immediately repulsed, and they continued to move upwards and forwards, one after the other, and soon rushed through the trenches and in front of the barbed wire fence wrapped around the stakes.

Because of the precedent of the Battle of Peshawar, the infantry of the Rakshasas were equipped with vices, and it was impossible to stop their progress by one or two barbed wires.

But at the same time as the charging Rakshasa infantry cut the barbed wire, the Turkish Forces nouvelles infantry, who had moved to the forward position, had already set up their rifles.

Deadly rifle and machine gun bullets were fired at the Rakshasa officers and soldiers who were temporarily blocked by barbed wire......