Chapter 1040： The first artillery on the Eastern Front

Chapter 1040 The first time artillery on the eastern front lined each other 1

In a turret of the Lviv Fortress, an M1908 type siege howitzer was deployed. There was a track directly behind the artillery. A small car was pushed by several soldiers to the position directly behind the artillery. Then several soldiers The 382 kg grenade was placed on the rear loading area with a boom, and then the running bolt was opened. Several soldiers used a push rod to put it into the gleaming muzzle. After the artillery was locked, the stubby barrel began to rise slowly. And finally stayed at the position of 25 degrees.

At the same time, the same scene also appeared on 22 turrets in 5 important defense zones in the Lviv Fortress, with 8 M1908 12-inch siege howitzers, 10 240MM long-range cannons, and 32 210MM heavy howitzers. The pre-selected target was cleared, and the medium-caliber howitzers and cannons with a smaller caliber but lost more are also ready!

"From now on, shelling for 2 hours!" Caliput's command was very simple, but it was too cruel for the Russians who knew nothing at this time!

boom! Along with the ejection of the cannonball, a huge fireball was re-ejected from the muzzle, and the residual energy generated by the burning of the gunpowder blew a strong wind within a range of several tens of meters. Groups of gunpowder smoke continued to gush out from the muzzle, and then the dust and water vapor formed a foggy air mass and spread to other places. The 382 kg cannonball drew an elegant arc in the air and then fell into the Russian army assembly position 7 kilometers away!

I saw a black thing flying along with the harsh whistling sound, it fell like a sword of Damocles that heralded destruction in the Russians' stunned mouth! In an instant, the earth seemed to tremble, and the impact force of more than 300 kilograms of projectiles and the huge explosive force generated by more than 70 kilograms of explosives directly blasted nearby artillery, soldiers and several tons of soil into the air! A visible wave of air engulfed the fragments and the corpses quickly spread to the surroundings, tearing up everything that could be touched like a storm!

Flames, poisonous gas, and the invisible but enough air pressure difference to burst human lungs swept the cannonball's impact point nearly 100 meters! The hastily constructed fortifications never thought of resisting such an attack! This shell went down and directly tore the two 75MM artillery pieces and the surrounding infantry of half a company into pieces! When the gun smoke dissipated, a radioactive crater with a depth of several meters and a diameter of more than ten meters appeared in front of people.

And this is just a prelude. After the 305MM heavy howitzer and 240MM cannon fired in the fortress area, the Austro-Hungarian artillery group that had been hidden for a long time began to be fully activated! The roar of hundreds of barrel artillery broke the tranquility of the morning! As the doomsday meteor shower, the shells intensively landed on the 10 kilometers wide position. At the peak, 3000 shells were fired at the distant target every minute! A storm composed of flames and steel pushed across the Russian position, leaving behind a large and small crater and debris and bones everywhere! Before the Russians launched the offensive, the Allied artillery first disrupted the deployment of the Russian army!

After sweeping the shallow positions, the artillery with sufficient range began to expand in depth, and a wall of flames piled up with shells began to advance. From the forefront of the Russian army's position, it expanded to the limit of the artillery range. The several breakthrough points discovered by the Russian army were more than half damaged in this sudden blow.

What's more tragic is that some of the troops that were prepared to expand the breakthrough entered the position prematurely, and were choked by the flying shells! The bombardment that lasted for more than two hours almost completely wiped out Russia's assault plan today. The forward forces suffered heavy losses. If the Russians wanted to relaunch the offensive, they would need at least one day and one night to rearrange infantry and close support firepower.

"Damn our plan has been leaked!" Alekseyev said angrily, looking at some of the Russian positions that had melted into a sea of ​​flames in the distance. "However, it doesn't matter. We have a lot of money this time! Even if we lose a little bit, it won't hurt the overall situation! What are the heavy artillery waiting for? Are you waiting for the infantry on the front line to be killed?! Let them open fire! Fire now!" Allier Keseyev roared.

There is a reason for the optimism of the Russian southeast front commander. He can fire hundreds of kilograms of shells, and the number of artillery that can hit far away will never be many. This is true on the western line, and even more so on the eastern line. To be honest, without the support of the two empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the Bavarian Army would not even have a few 12-inch train guns.

For example, the M1908 heavy howitzer, which launched the first artillery in the battle, has a range of only 9600 meters. Considering the deployment position is relatively rearward, these artillery can at best deal with Russian front-line and shallow-depth units. No matter how far it is, the K09 cannon with a longer range is less powerful. It is still very difficult to destroy an important node that the Russian army has operated for several months in a short time.

And the naval gun that the Russian army snatched from the navy became the most powerful killer on both sides in the first round of artillery battle! At this time, a 12-inch L52 naval gun nicknamed Katyusha by the Russian army raised its ten-meter-long barrel. The gun was placed on two 5-axle trailers when it was transported, and entered After the position, the second half of the artillery was fixed, and the first half was placed on an arc-shaped railway which can rotate within 120 degrees of the front. A grenade weighing 446KG was loaded into the barrel. When the nearby personnel were almost evacuated, the most powerful artillery of the Russian Army finally issued its first roar after the war, and at the same time, more than 20 Various types of 12-inch and 10-inch train guns fired in a few minutes! The reconnaissance plane in the air can clearly see the spots of light rising about 19 kilometers behind the Russian front line! The Russian artillery group finally took off!

The 446KG shell flew out of the muzzle at a speed of nearly 800 meters per second, and accompanied by the harsh screaming sound, it flew into the Lviv Fortress 24 kilometers away in an elegant arc in the air. The preferred target of "Katyusha" and its comrade "Sergeisha" is a huge reinforced concrete gun nest. Two 210MM heavy howitzers were deployed in this gun nest, which directly blocked a certain Russian army's preset breakthrough. point.

The first shell fell directly behind the turret, directly pierced the outer soil layer more than 1 meter thick, and then pierced half a meter of reinforced concrete and exploded directly in the passage! , Accompanied by a flame, a plume of smoke as high as tens of meters rose into the sky. The violent explosion exploded the supporting structure of the passage and destroyed a passage that was hundreds of meters long!

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