Chapter 1548： Across the Dnieper

Chapter 1548 Crossing the Dnieper River 1

"His Royal Highness, our 7 river-crossing clusters have been deployed on a battle line of more than 300 kilometers. All the troops have been in place and all the equipment has been prepared. The engineering and obstacle-breaking troops can take action at any time to be responsible for suppression. 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 went according to the scheduled plan. The assault group No. 3 in the middle launched an attack on the defenders on the opposite shore at six o'clock in the morning, and the rest of the troops delayed their attacks according to the schedule!" Prince Leopold said. Although the Russian army has not recovered after the Polish pocket battle, although there are already signs that the Russians have drawn away 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 was a ferry that was attacked by the Russian army. This is the place with the best landing conditions. The colleagues are also the meeting points 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 were weakened, but the Russians still deployed a strong force here. There is a whole division on the opposite side, with a relatively complete line of defense and semi-permanent fortifications. Plus additional artillery.

The other important reason why the prince would act here is that he intends to knock the mountain and shake the tiger, to see how the Russians will mobilize after Germany launches a large-scale offensive, and how many troops can be used in this area. Don’t forget. In the air at this time, more than one hundred reconnaissance planes and airships of various kinds have been spinning above the Russians, and every move of the Russians will be detected.

After the Russians move, the German army can hunt more conveniently. In fact, it is not difficult to cross the river. After crossing the river, the Russian army near the river is swept away in a short time. The key is to build more bridgeheads!

"The Russians are naive to want to block us through which reinforced concrete tortoise shells." Looking at the rounded bunkers and gun nests on the other side of the river. Colonel Carl, who was in charge of this "fixed-point removal" task, couldn't help showing a trace of contempt.

I have to say that the Russian bunker is still very well repaired. The front of the core bunker is about 1.5 meters of concrete and rammed earth as a protective layer, and the top is about 0.8 meters of roof. The bunkers cover each other, equipped with 3-inch rapid-fire guns, and even a small number of 107MM cannons, which are connected with machine gun bunker, barbed wire, trenches, minefields, etc. In order to avoid the opponent's artillery attack, the Russians also built an anti-slant position based on the terrain. How can I say that, at first glance, the Russians still learned the same thing.

"It looks like it's been repaired well, but they are all paper tigers." Colonel Carl finally observed the situation on the opposite side with this, then put down the telescope and said.

"They repaired it very carefully and made it very strong," said a colleague next to it.

"But it will eventually be broken by us, because there is no unbreakable line of defense in this world. Constantinople, which stood on the northern side of the Dardanelles for hundreds of years, was not in the Turkish Sudan in the end. Occupied under the attack of land and sea?"

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

When the minute hand on the watch finally moved towards the zero point at the beginning of the battle, the 210MM heavy howitzer and 175MM heavy cannon hidden on the opposite bank of the Russian army first roared. These flattened artillery aimed at the outermost support points and bunkers of the Russian defense line. After the firing order was issued, groups of orange flames rose on the west bank of the Dnieper River. When the artillery fired, the huge muzzle storm directly blew the soil near the gun position, forming a violent wind.

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

As many as more than 30 175MM cannons quickly cleared all the marked fortifications, and the artillery-correcting aircraft in the air was in place. With the help of the aircraft, they only had to send one round of shells to the Russian bunker according to the pre-selected coordinates , Until the aircraft in the air informed the artillery target has been destroyed.

At this time, the 210MM heavy howitzer quickly cleared the machine gun position or other defenses are not high, but the hidden position is very good. Compared with the 175MM cannon, the 210MM heavy howitzer has a more curved trajectory and can be hit until the latter can’t reach it. In places where the colleague’s grenade has a larger charge and is more suitable for dealing with some scattered bunkers and infantry units.

"The Russian seemingly solid line of defense has no room for survival under our shelling. Our heavy artillery group is like a bulldozer pushing the entire stretch of the skirmish line, support points and artillery positions awayaircraft Looking at it, you can clearly see a tumbling wall of flames slowly moving forward on the Russian position. A large amount of mud and building materials were thrown into the air by the huge explosion. We can even see the floating soil after the explosion. It was a matter of filling up a whole trench." A Bavarian Air Force pilot recalled the scene like this.

"Hurry up! The Germans are coming up!" When the German shelling came to an end, the Russian army coming out from the depths of the position tried to move to the front line, and at this time the barrage that had gone away moved from the front again. The position was sorted to the rear, and when a considerable part of the Russian army was directly turned into fly ash by the devastating artillery fire, the German river crossing troops had already begun operations.

A specially modified landing ship headed towards the scheduled landing site under the cover of inland gunboats. In order to get through this moat better, the Bavarian technical department produced the world’s first tank landing ship. The huge flat-bottomed ship sailed across the river at a speed of about 8 knots. When approaching the river, the huge The bow hatch was opened, and a cricket tank and wasp assault gun sailed into the river. At this time, the inland river gunboats began to suppress the remaining Russian firepower, and the bomber units that had been in place continued to attack the Russian side. Play ground.

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