Beiyang reactionaries

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"Marshal, the Chinese Air Force bombed the Chita Airfield."

"Marshal, the Ulan-Ude oil depot has been bombed."

"Marshal, the radar station in Ulan-Ude has been bombed."

"marshal……"

The effect of using so many bombers is very shocking.All important targets of the Soviet army were bombed by the Chinese Air Force.In particular, the main Soviet airfields were heavily bombed by the Air Force.

Again, this time Zhang Zizhong chose to focus on breakthroughs and bombing.For the Air Force aircraft there is no decentralized use, but centralized use.Each formation is composed of almost 300 aircraft.So the bombing works really well.

One bad news came.

Blucher's face darkened.The situation is the same almost everywhere, there is simply no time to prepare.Not to mention that those planes were too late to take off, even the anti-aircraft guns on the ground were too late to prepare.

"Marshal, the Chinese artillery unit has started shelling."

Zhang Zizhong chose a complete set of offensive plans, and all attacks are continuous.Air force, artillery, tank units, infantry units, this is a complete set of coordinated attacks.First, the aircraft attacked important targets. The main task was to paralyze the Soviet airfield and destroy as many Soviet aircraft as possible.Then it focused on bombing the artillery positions on the offensive line of the Eastern Army.

The current tanks are really afraid of anti-tank guns.

Especially light tanks, facing those anti-tank guns are almost one-on-one.Tank troops attacking those defensive positions will suffer heavy losses against those with perfect anti-tank guns.Therefore, the Air Force needs to open the way for the Eastern Army and destroy the artillery positions of the Soviet Army.This is the so-called open-ground fit.At the same time, the artillery units of the Northern Military Region began to fire.

It has been prepared for many years for the Chinese army today.

A large number of heavy artillery were stockpiled on the front line.In the Northern Military Region, the troops had more than 800 heavy artillery pieces, and with some infantry artillery, they bombarded the Soviet positions indiscriminately.This is all to create opportunities for the Eastern Group Army.

"Counterattack, counterattack."

"Marshal, if our artillery counterattacks, some hidden artillery positions will be exposed."

"The Chinese army has used so many planes to launch air strikes, and there will be no follow-up air strikes in a short period of time. We can't control that much anymore, so fight back."

"Yes."

"Commander-in-Chief, the Soviet artillery unit fired back."

"How about it?"

"There are more than we thought, and the firepower is very strong. Their heavy artillery is no less than ours."

Bai Chongxi reports.

Zhang Zizhong nodded, not surprised.

Zhang Zizhong knew this a long time ago.The Soviet Union was a cannonist country, and the entire army attached great importance to cannons.During the First World War, the Russian army fought against the German army and was almost beaten by the German army.

The outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia also has a lot to do with the continuous defeat on the front line.The Russian army at that time was not an opponent of Germany at all.At the end of each battle, the casualties of the Russian army can reach tens of 10.Of course Germany is not feeling well either.The main reason is that Russia has a large area and a large population, so there are a lot of troops.At that time, Russia's hundreds of thousands of troops were easy, and millions of troops were added to the front line at every turn.If hundreds of thousands are lost in a battle, hundreds of thousands will be replenished immediately in Russia.Anyway, Russia has no shortage of troops on the front line.

At that time, what the Russian troops were most afraid of was the German weapon, which was artillery.

In fact, although Russia's industrial strength at that time was not high or strong, it was not an agricultural country, and its industry had a certain scale.Not to mention anything else, Russia's steel output at that time was 500 million tons and 600 million tons.This kind of steel output can enter the top ten in the world even now.It is conceivable that although Russia was backward in industry 20 years ago, it was not a country without a foundation.

With such steel output, Russia's military industry will not be too bad.The Russian army also has a lot of artillery.

It's a pity that on the battlefield, the courage to be beaten by German heavy artillery has been lost.German heavy artillery easily takes out Russian artillery.When Russian artillery encountered German artillery, it was not an opponent at all, because German heavy artillery far outnumbered Russia.Every time the Russian troops encountered heavy German artillery during a battle, they would suffer heavy losses.

After learning from the painful experience, the Soviet Union's army construction is cannonism, which attaches great importance to cannons.

The current Soviet Union is the country with the highest production of cannons in the world. At present, the entire country of the Soviet Union has more than 4 cannons, and the number of cannons is also the largest in the world.Among them, there are also a lot of heavy artillery, which is no worse than that of China.

Therefore, after the two sides started the artillery battle, China did not have an advantage over the Soviet Union.

What is an artillery battle.

The fight is whose industrial strength is stronger.Because of this kind of war, China and the Soviet Union both concentrated thousands of cannons. China concentrated more than 1600 cannons, and the Soviet Union also had so many cannons.The two sides can fire [-] to [-] rounds of shells in an hour, which consumes [-] tons of steel in an hour.For artillery battles of this scale, if there is not enough industrial strength, it is impossible to provide enough shells.

"Call Commander Shen (Shen Dexie), the enemy's artillery position has been exposed."

"Yes."

Zhang Zizhong waited for the Soviet artillery positions to reveal themselves.

The Northern Military Region and the Northeast Military Region mobilized 3000 aircraft this time, and the first wave of attacks were the targets of earlier investigations.Zhang Zizhong has served as the commander of the Northern Military Region for several years, and has been investigating the deployment of the Soviet army on the opposite side.Such as airports, radar stations, and logistics bases, some of them were disguised by the Soviet Union, but most of them cannot be disguised.Over the past few years, there is already enough information for some of their important goals.Therefore, the first wave of 2000 planes went up to attack these long-known targets.

But there are also some that are not known.

Both China and the Soviet Union are spying on each other, so both sides will do a lot of camouflage to hide some of their important bases and not let their opponents know.Many of the artillery positions in China and the Soviet Union cannot be hidden, but there are also many that cannot be detected.Both China and the Soviet Union will deploy a large number of troops, turning some places into military important places, and will not let outsiders approach at all.If you just rely on reconnaissance planes, it is difficult to understand the artillery positions clearly.

But not now.

Now that both sides are firing, the artillery positions of both sides are completely exposed.There are still thousands of planes waiting for the second wave of attacks in the Northern Military Region and Northeast Military Region.Now that the artillery positions of the Soviet army have appeared, of course they need to use aircraft.

"Where is Commander Wang (Wang Tianpei)?"

"Already attacked."

"Send a telegram to the Northeast Military Region, requesting them to send air force to mainly bomb the positions of the Chita defense line. Give Commander Wang and the others help. The artillery positions in front of Chakhtu will be handled by Commander Shen."

"Yes."

The Sino-Soviet war was very intense from the very beginning.

On September 1939, 9, the war that started at four o'clock in the morning was already at its most intense state.China has used 9 planes to take the airfield of the Soviet Army's defensive position in the south of Irkutsk, two airfields in Ulan-Ude, an airfield in Chita, and the radar station in the southern position of Irkutsk. , Ulan-Ude's radar station, Ulan-Ude's anti-aircraft artillery positions, and Chita's artillery positions were all blown up to pieces.In the first round of bombing, the Chinese Air Force dropped 2000 tons of bombs on Soviet cities and positions.

The main reason is that most of the current Chinese bombers are twin-engine bombers with relatively small bomb loads.Many bombers are bombers from a few years ago, that is, they can carry seven to eight hundred kilograms of bombs, and some can only carry five or six hundred kilograms of bombs.The twin-engine bombers produced in the past two years can carry about 1.4 tons of bombs. The 1800-ton bomb was thrown down, and the power produced was astonishing.

Immediately afterwards, China and the Soviet Union began an amazing artillery battle.

The two sides used more than 3000 cannons, half of which were heavy cannons with a caliber of more than 150mm, and both sides even had a large number of large-caliber heavy cannons with a caliber of 300mm.The two sides fired tens of thousands of shells in a short period of time, leaving the entire position in a haze of gunpowder.

But it didn't last long.

After the Soviet artillery positions began to fight back, the second wave of planes roared in soon.Blueher judged that China's first wave of bombing had already used most of its power.So no more bombing is possible.

It's a pity that his intelligence collection was inaccurate.

China's air force deployed in this area is very strong, and more importantly, the Northeast Military Region has also deployed amazing troops in Hulun Buir, with ten air divisions.The location of Hulunbeier is very good. If you go west, you can directly support the Northern Military Region, and if you go north, you can support the Heilongjiang Military Region.

This time Hulunbuir and Changchun dispatched a thousand planes to support the Northern Military Region.

So a second wave of bombing followed.The bombers that took off from Hulunbeier mainly bombed Chita.Because Chita is an important city in the Baikal Lake area after Irkutsk, and it is also an important traffic center for the Siberian Railway.Therefore, not only a lot of military supplies have been hoarded here, but also a large number of aircraft, tanks, and artillery have been deployed.The air force of the Northern Military Region bombed the artillery positions on the opposite side.

"Show off all the heavy artillery of the special brigade, and cooperate with the air force to destroy the artillery positions of the Soviet army."

Zhang Zizhong's headquarters was not very far from the front line, but it was not close either.