Chapter 1548: Crossing the Dnieper River I

Chapter 1548 Crossing the Dnieper River 1

"His Royal Highness, our seven river-crossing clusters have been launched on a front line of more than 300 kilometers long. All the troops are in place and all the equipment is ready. The engineering and obstacle-breaking troops are ready to take action at any time and are responsible for suppressing The Artillery and Aviation Departments on the other side of the river are also ready to go." An officer reported to Prince Leopold.

"Very well, everything is going according to the scheduled plan. The No. 3 Assault Group in the middle will launch an attack on the defenders on the opposite bank at six o'clock in the morning, and the rest of the troops will launch the attack according to the schedule!" Prince Leopold said. Although the Russian army has not recovered after experiencing the Polish Pocket Battle, although there have been signs that the Russians have withdrawn a considerable part of the northern line to strengthen the male line. But Prince Leopold still did not relax his vigilance.

The No. 3 Assault Group on the center line is to attack a ferry guarded by the Russian army. This is the place with the best landing conditions, and it is also the meeting point of the traffic lines on the east bank. The Germans know it, and the Russians naturally know it, so, although The troops on the northern front have been weakened, but the Russians still have a strong presence here. There is a whole division on the opposite side, with a relatively complete line of defense and semi-permanent fortifications. Plus additional attached artillery.

Another important reason why the prince will do it here is that he intends to shake the mountain and see how the Russians will mobilize after Germany launches a large-scale attack, and how many troops can be used in this area. In the air at this time, more than a hundred various reconnaissance planes and airships were already circling above the heads of the Russians, and every move of the Russians would be detected.

After the Russians moved, the German army could hunt and kill more conveniently. In fact, crossing the river is not difficult. After crossing the river, the key is to wipe out the Russian troops near the river in a short time and build more bridgeheads!

"The Russians are too naive to try to block us through those reinforced concrete tortoise shells." Looking at the bunkers and gun nests on the other side of the river. Colonel Carl, who was in charge of this "targeted killing" mission, couldn't help showing a hint of contempt.

It has to be said that the Russian bunkers are still very well built. The front of the core bunker is a protective layer of about 1.5 meters of concrete and rammed earth, and the top is a roof of about 0.8 meters. The bunkers cover each other, equipped with 3-inch rapid-fire guns, and even a small number of 107MM cannons, connected with machine gun bunkers, barbed wire, trenches, minefields, etc. In order to avoid the opponent's artillery attack, the Russians also built a reverse slope position based on the terrain. How should I put it, at first glance, the Russians learned something similar.

"It seems to be repaired well, but it's just a paper tiger." Colonel Carl finally observed the situation on the opposite side, then put down the binoculars and said.

"They repaired it very carefully and made it very strong." A colleague next to him said.

"But it will be broken by us in the end,

Because there is no line of defense that cannot be breached in this world. Didn't Constantinople, which stood on the north side of the Dardanelles for hundreds of years, finally fall under the attack of land and sea from the Turkish Sultan? "

"And the enemy in front of us will collapse within 2 hours!" The colonel said, pointing to the distant front.

When the minute hand on the watch finally moved towards zero at the beginning of the battle, the 210MM heavy howitzers and 175MM heavy cannons hidden on the opposite bank of the Russian army’s position first roared. These leveled artillery aimed at the outermost support points and bunkers of the Russian army’s defense line , with the order to fire, clusters of orange flames rose from the west bank of the Dnieper River. When the artillery fired, the huge muzzle storm directly blew away the soil near the gun position, forming a gust of wind.

The shells of the 175MM cannon flew over the not-so-wide Dnieper River in just a few seconds, and then smashed fiercely on the rock mass on the river bank with a breath of destruction! The defense made of more than 1 meter thick soil layer and reinforced concrete has very limited resistance to this kind of artillery that can penetrate the armor of a cruiser. A shell is like a spear, easily hitting the ground at a speed of more than 500 meters per second. Breaking through the outer bunker of a 107MM artillery, the huge shell smashed a corner of the soil layer, and then easily penetrated the 0.8-meter-thick reinforced concrete layer, and a huge radial bullet hole appeared outside the bunker. In less than 1 second, the shell had passed into the bunker and blasted an artillery squad and the 107MM cannon inside into pieces!

As many as more than 30 175MM cannons quickly cleared all the marked fortifications. The artillery correction plane in the air is already in place. With the help of the plane, they only need to send one round after another to the Russian bunker according to the coordinates selected in advance. until the aircraft in the air informed the artillery that the target had been destroyed.

At this time, the 210MM heavy howitzer is quickly clearing the machine gun position or other positions that are not high in defense, but well hidden. Compared with the 175MM cannon, the trajectory of the 210MM heavy howitzer is more curved, and it can hit the latter out of reach. In some places, the grenade has a larger charge and is more suitable for dealing with some scattered bunkers and infantry units.

"The seemingly solid defense line of the Russians has no room to survive under our shelling. Our heavy artillery group is like a bulldozer pushing down the entire skirmish line, support points and artillery positions. Looking from the air, you can clearly see We can see a tumbling wall of flames slowly moving forward on the Russian position, a large amount of soil and construction materials were thrown into the air by the huge explosion, and we can even see that the floating soil produced after the explosion even filled a whole section of the trench Peaceful things." A Bavarian Air Force pilot recalled the scene at that time.

"Hurry up! The Germans are coming up!" When the German bombardment came to an end, the Russian troops who came out from the depths of the position tried to move to the front line. At this time, the barrage that had already gone away came from the front again The position was sorted out to the rear. When a considerable part of the Russian army was directly smashed into fly ash by the devastating artillery fire, the German crossing troops had already started to move.

A specially modified landing ship headed for the scheduled landing site under the cover of the river gunboat. In order to better cross this natural moat, Bavaria's technical department produced the world's first tank landing ship. The huge flat-bottomed boat sailed to the other side of the river at a speed of about 8 knots. The bow hatch was opened, and a cricket tank and a wasp assault gun sailed into the river. At this time, the inland river gunboat began to suppress the remaining firepower of the Russians, while the bomber units already in place continued to attack the Russian side. play position.

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