The fifth heavy armored division of the German army is equipped with 45 152mm caliber howitzers. Germany has not solved the stability problem of the large-caliber self-propelled artillery. When the howitzers are placed on the car body, firing will affect the stability of the car body. The 45mm howitzers are all towed artillery. In order to send these 152 howitzers into the battlefield, the German army took a lot of effort.

45 artillery pieces gathered and fired in the direction of the Chinese army. Their targets were the roads and railways between the Chinese military camp and St. Petersburg. The German scouts had already observed the position, so they could shoot accurately even in the dark.

Although the German artillery has a large caliber, it failed to cause a devastating blow to the roads and railways, because its rate of fire is not fast. It is not because the German army is not well trained, but because Germany cannot smelt the high-temperature-resistant steel for Chinese artillery. If the speed is too fast, the barrel will be deformed due to high temperature. This deformation is usually a few millimeters, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. However, for a type of long-range artillery with a range of more than 3 kilometers, the barrel deformation It was enough to make the shells lose their accuracy, so the German artillery shells fired only once every [-] minutes.

However, the quality of the German army is still very high. Their shells are quite accurate. One of them hit the train station in the town of "Dunknitz". The explosion directly razed the command and dispatch room of the small station. China's logistics support system is a System, in this system, any damage to any node will affect the operation of the entire system. This is the inherent defect of systematic warfare, and no matter how high the level of technology is, it cannot overcome it.

The small town of Dunknitz is the last transit station from St. Petersburg to the front line. The shells blowing up the command and dispatch room of the small station is equivalent to cutting off the main artery from the front line to the rear!

The General Logistics Department of the First Army immediately told the news to Yuan Zhen, the commander of the First Army. Yuan Zhen was annoyed when he heard the news, because it had been more than half an hour since the war started. There were no results outside, and a H-one was lost!

After Yuan Zhen got angry, he was surprised. He didn't expect the German army to put the artillery behind the front line. You must know that such a deployment is very dangerous for the artillery, because the artillery has a range of only tens of kilometers. For the TK-96 tank , This is a distance of ten minutes, and the artillery troops may not even have time to retreat.

Yuan Zhen slapped the table heavily, and said to the correspondent beside him, "Get me the artillery regiment!"

The communication line was quickly connected, and Yuan Zhengao ordered the artillery regiment commander: "Use the artillery detection radar to find the German artillery position, and blast it down for me!"

The commander of the artillery regiment did not simply agree, but said: "Report to the commander, our artillery detection radar has been turned on, and the position of the German artillery positions has also been detected, but the German artillery is very scattered, and it is difficult to use howitzers." Hit."

Yuan Zhen is well versed in the use of artillery, and knows that long-distance artillery is more used for "surface suppression" rather than "point strike". It is indeed unrealistic for self-propelled howitzers to strike point by point.

Yuan Zhen thought for a while, and said to the artillery regiment commander: "Send the positions of the German artillery you have detected to St. Petersburg Air Force Airport, and let the air force deal with them."

The head of the artillery regiment immediately ordered his subordinates to transmit location information. Yuan Zhen picked up the phone directly connected to the St. Petersburg Air Force Base and said to the Third Air Division: "Immediately dispatch the bomber fleet to bomb the German artillery. Remember, carry cluster bombs!"

The Third Air Division was suffocated for the setback of the attack, and now they had a chance to vent. This time they dispatched 72 bombers, which were almost all the strength of the Third Air Division at the St. Petersburg Field Airport.

72 bombers carried cluster bombs and flew towards the German artillery positions. The German anti-aircraft artillery units were all near the transportation line. There were very few anti-aircraft artillery units near the artillery positions, so the bombers flew unimpeded all the way to the German artillery positions. Cluster bombs.

The cluster bombs fell over the German artillery positions. At a height of about 1000 meters from the ground, the mother bombs opened and fired bullets. The bullets scattered and exploded on contact with the ground. forest.

The German artillery was positioned in a large open space between the forests. As soon as the forest was ignited, thick smoke and heat waves rushed towards the artillery, and the artillery instantly became fire fighters. How could they fire?

Some cluster bomb bullets directly hit the German artillery. Although the explosive power of the bullet is not enough to directly blow up the artillery, blowing up some parts is enough to make the artillery incapable of combat. The fire and the direct hit caused the German artillery units to gradually misfire. .

It was 4 o'clock in the morning on April 3, and it had been an hour since the start of the battle. The ground forces of both sides had not yet met. This is also a characteristic of high-tech warfare-the decisive battle of the ground forces is often left at the end of the battle.

In the command room, Yuan Zhen was very happy when he heard the artillery regiment report that "there are no enemy shells coming." He was about to let his artillery bombard the German front-line fortifications. At this moment, the chief of staff came over and said, "Report to the army Sir, there is an urgent message from the front line."

After the chief of staff finished speaking, he sent the telegram to Yuan Zhen. As the commander-in-chief of the two divisions, Yuan Zhen received a lot of information, notifications, and instructions from his superiors. The war is over, not the battle!The chief of staff can send a piece of information at this time, obviously this piece of information is extremely important!

Yuan Zhen asked while receiving the telegram, "Where did the information come from?"

The chief of staff said: "It was sent by our agents behind enemy lines."

Yuan Zhen knew that this kind of information was the most valuable, so he immediately put the telegram in front of his eyes, and saw that it said that the anti-aircraft artillery units located in No. 13, No. 24, and No. [-] areas were being transferred to No. [-] areas.

The No. 24 area is where the artillery positions are located. The antiaircraft artillery units are transferred here, obviously to protect the ground artillery units. If the antiaircraft artillery units in No. 13, No. [-], and No.[-] areas are transferred, then the material transfer stations in these areas Wouldn't the railway dispatching station and the railway dispatching station be exposed?

Yuan Zhen walked to the edge of the map in a few steps, carefully looked at these areas on the map, and was pleasantly surprised to find that if a bomber group was dispatched to attack this area, the German army would lose 40.00% of its logistical supply capacity!

However, Yuan Zhen did not give an order immediately, because he did not dare to guarantee the accuracy of this information. Intelligence work is very difficult. After all, the agents behind the enemy are not the commander-in-chief of the enemy army, and cannot accurately understand the enemy's dynamics. If the information is inaccurate, the Third Air Division may suffer heavy losses.

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