The collapse of the Russian army on the southern front was so fast that almost everyone could not imagine it. In just three days, the entire southern front army of nearly 80,000 paper troops was completely wiped out.

If we count it as a battle, then the last day is basically about picking up the prisoners.

captured. Under the attack of Ma Yukun and Peng Yi's troops, the remaining Russian remnants had almost no ability to struggle. The entire position was quickly disintegrated like an avalanche. Although there are certainly individual Russian troops that have not been eliminated.

, but this has already harmed the overall situation.

The last position is only the core fortress area of ​​Nerchinsk City. Although in order to save other battlefields, many small and medium-caliber artillery in the Nerchinsk Fortress area were partially removed. However, the large-caliber artillery is still there, and the strength is relatively small.

It is said that it is more powerful, including some elite troops of the Russian army, with a total of 60,000 Russian troops and their affiliated units stationed there.

Standing in this fortification area with a front width of 10km, a height of 3 to 7km, and a total area of ​​no less than 50km, this is the last and largest fortress group of the Russians. If the entire Russian army position was like a crab before, in the Chinese Army

After breaking its limbs and pincers, only the last but hardest shell is left!

Facts have proved that the Russians are very talented in repairing fortifications and various defense facilities. Didn't you see that in World War II, the Germans used their absolutely superior air force and artillery forces to destroy Sevastopol for a long time? Jun

Didn’t you see that the Kursk salient defense line in World War II caused the German army’s most technologically superior armored assault to fail? Now, although Xu Jie’s crossing has caused many changes, the Russians can build fortifications.

The basics remain the same!

When building the entire fortification area, the Russians spared no expense, in order to make the fortress attackable and defensive. A large number of heavy artillery were specially transported from Europe, the most eye-catching of which were those converted from naval guns.

The completed fortress gun, because the Siberian Railway was finally completed, was limited by transportation capacity, and the complete 10-inch 40l heavy gun could not be transported to the front line by railway. For this reason, these old goods unearthed from the naval artillery warehouse were cut into pieces.

10-inch 20l heavy gun.

After these heavy artillery arrived in the Far East, they were placed in closed reinforced concrete gun nests. In order to ensure a "firing" range, these gun nests have a large opening at the top. The artillery generally has an elevation angle of 0 to 35 degrees and left and right sides.

60 degree horizontal angle. The entire gun

It is fixed on the circular guide rail. It is equipped with a special hoist and transport channel. The gun used is also a standard 227kg naval gun. However, due to the decrease in the amount of powder, the range of this gun has been greatly reduced.

, only a little over 10 kilometers.

However, the powerful cannon is too damaging to the infantry and armored units charging in the group. Today's tanks can't be directly hit. As long as the cannon hits within 30 meters, the fragile tank can be destroyed. And the Russians even went so crazy as to create

Special shrapnel for 10-inch guns! Each gun contains hundreds of half-fist-sized pieces! Not to mention hitting people with these things, it won't be a big problem to kill the steel plates of Liu Jie within tens of meters!

In addition to these 10-inch guns that were converted into howitzers, the Russians also have some 8-inch cannons. If the 10-inch short guns are meant to disrupt the Chinese Army's offensive, then these 8-inch 40l barrel heavy cannons are

It is to better suppress the long-range artillery of the Chinese Army. The maximum effective range of these naval guns has reached about 15km (of course, against slow targets that do not move).

.The ultimate firing range is longer. In order to further improve the design accuracy and firing angle, these artillery are basically arranged in a semi-open-air gun pool. During the battle, they are moved from hiding places to

In addition, in order to improve the shooting accuracy of these 8-inch cannons, the Russian army specially placed rangefinders and sensors on the commanding heights of Nerchinsk in order to uniformly command each artillery group.

In addition to these big weapons, the Russian army has deployed no less than 60 6-inch cannons and howitzers, and the 120mm artillery is placed in a fully enclosed turret. These artillery pieces with armor protection and can be rotated can both be aimed directly

It can also "shoot" directly. It is the enemy of China's front-line artillery. As for the 75mm, 57mm, and 47mm rapid-fire cannons, they are dotted at various support points. In addition to artillery, the Russian army also built a large number of machine gun bunkers.

The body and diagonal positions connect each support point into one. At the same time, coupled with the peripheral barbed wire and minefields, a super fortress is finally formed! The Russians are very satisfied with this fortress group, and they claim that even the entire Far East has been captured.

The Russian army can rely on these fortresses to support them for more than a year! If the Russian "government" wants to continue the fight even though the defeat has been determined, it means striving for a more decent ending through a relatively successful fortress defense battle.

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And now the Chinese Army has eliminated the Russian field regiments in the Far East, and Nie Shicheng also plans to see how long the things the Russians have worked so hard to create can last! The Chinese Army's siege cone is ready to go! To deal with such a layout, operate it rationally

Fortress for many years, I want to stay in

It is impossible to do it overnight in a short time. In order to capture the Sevastopol Fortress, Manstein fought for a long time with absolute firepower advantage. If it were not for the magic of the Dora Cannon, he would have directly defeated the Sevastopol Fortress.

The speed "medicine" library is out, maybe the attack time will be longer.

The Chinese Army now has a lot of time to spend with the Russian army. Anyway, the field troops still need time to enclose the territory. Although the Russian army's fortress is well built, there are still some loopholes. For example, the Russian 8-inch cannon turret is located a little too close.

Outside, in order to extend the firing range as much as possible, most of the 8-inch gun positions are located on the second line of defense and

Between the third line of defense. And almost all fire control rooms are located on artificial highlands. These abrupt highlands are simply the best artillery landmarks in the eyes of the Chinese Army! And compared with the Russians, the biggest advantage of the Chinese Army is

There are airships to assist in the battle. These airships equipped with wires and simple observation equipment can transmit the shelling situation to the command headquarters in a timely manner.[

Because indirect shooting can be achieved, the Chinese Army's train gun unit does not need to be exposed to the Russian muzzle at all. The 12-inch 40l train gun is a pure naval gun. It has a farther range

Range and more powerful firepower. These

The artillery was hidden on high ground and behind various shelters. The Russians could not achieve accurate observation at all, let alone long-range artillery bombardment. The Chinese Army could use airships to correct the artillery bombardment. So the first thing Nie Shicheng had to clear was the outer ones.

8-inch gun position.

As for those powerful 10-inch howitzer shells, because they are relatively strong and relatively close to the inside, they can only explode slowly, and at the same time reduce the killing effect of these 10-inch cannons by releasing smoke. As for the larger number of 6-inch cannons

and howitzers were handed over to the 8-inch cannons of the Chinese Army to deal with. The protection of these artillery is much worse. It should be no problem to penetrate armor with reinforced concrete weighing 150 kilograms.

As for the smaller-caliber 120mm guns and 75mm rapid-fire gun turrets, the Chinese Army handed them over to 6-inch cannons. These big killers, which also came from naval guns, were mounted on cross-shaped gun mounts.

itself very

It is stable and has a very long range. Maybe 45kg of armor-piercing armor cannot destroy the opponent's turret with one shot from a long distance. But it doesn't matter. The Chinese Army has plenty of time. If one shot fails, it will use ten shots. Continuous shooting will eventually

Useful.

In the Chinese Army's combat plan, the first thing to deal with is naturally those 8-inch cannons with ultra-long range. For this reason, the Chinese Army will use 3 days to focus on 12-inch and 10-inch train guns for bombardment, even if they cannot be completely destroyed.

let these fire

All the guns are disabled. Then, the Chinese Army's 8-inch and cannons will attack the forward Russian support points and core fortifications. Then the 6-inch cannon will fire at close range. And the forward artillery positions will be deployed to attack one of them.

Click to expand the focused attack.

While the forward artillery slowly breaks through the opponent's defense line, the Chinese Army's train artillery unit cannot be idle. They will suppress the Russian 10-inch heavy howitzer and attack the trenches and corridors in the direction of the breakthrough to block it.

The support of the Russian army. After the main fortress has been swept away, a large number of self-propelled infantry artillery and heavy mortars will cover the troops to launch an attack. It does not require how fast the speed is, but it requires that there is no grass in the path! There must be full

Be patient and clean every corner.

Some people may say that this style of play is simply too slow, too old-fashioned, and too unoriginal. There is nothing that can be done about it. The conditions were like this at the time. Facing a fortress with sufficient supplies, what can we do without slowly grinding out heavy artillery?

?You want to talk about Manstein in World War 2? Well, in addition to heavy artillery, they also had hundreds of aircraft, but the final result was still

Grind slowly. Faced with this huge consumption of fortress offensive and defensive battles, there is nothing God can do. Then we can only fight slowly. When attacking the fortress, you must either use life to fill it up (you may not be able to fill it up), or use artillery to fill it up, but it cannot be filled up.

It's because you don't have enough firepower. If it doesn't work, just don't fight at all! A sophisticated calculation won't be of much use against an iron wall.

However, before departure, Feng Ru, the captain of the Chinese Air Force in charge of the airship, suddenly put forward his opinion. Should the wind be suppressed by throwing incineration and smoke screens for targets that could not be taken care of temporarily during the attack? The Russians basically have no anti-aircraft firepower, and

Because of supplies, there are still a large number of people in Nerchinsk City

Many of the wooden houses and bunkers are also a mixture of brick and wood structures. If gasoline mixed with sulfur and rubber is thrown and exploded, these things will cause great damage to the wooden buildings of the Russian army, and even destroy those well-defended artillery pieces.

Nest, at least the smoke it creates can affect the opponent's sight, right?

"This method doesn't look very reliable." Nie Shicheng said to himself while looking at Feng Ru's report. After all, the current airship is not the Zeppelin airship from World War I. The largest one is more than 200 meters long, and it does not have that much load.

, more important

What's more, if this thing is thrown thousands of meters down, God knows where the explosion will land! A deflection of a few hundred meters is considered light. Moreover, the Chinese Army does not have many airships in total, excluding those used to provide more "shooting" artillery.

, probably only a dozen ships at most.

But then I thought about it, since the airship is idle, why not look for it if it can cause some trouble for the Russian army? And now I have a lot of fuel left here because of the fuel for making flamethrowers. In addition, China

Army uses flames for individual soldiers

There were still some doubts about the flamethrower, so after much deliberation, Nie Shicheng thought it would be a good idea to explode the fuel that was originally intended to be installed in the flamethrower. What Nie Shicheng did not expect was that

What he did was release a demon!

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Chapter completed!