At this time, the People's Army's shelling lasted for more than 30 minutes, pouring more than 5,000 shells into the Russian army's positions. During this period, the Russian army did not fight back.

However, from the reports of fixed-wing aircraft and images taken by drones, the People's Army's artillery bombardment had achieved its effect, so the army ordered the army to launch a ground attack on the Russian positions.

So the People's Army soldiers responsible for the commando jumped out of their trenches and rushed towards the Russian positions. The People's Army's large-caliber artillery also stopped the shelling, but there were still about 150 small-caliber artillery still being fired, which provided the final fire cover for the offensive troops.

At this moment, the Russian artillery finally began to show its power, and the shells fell into the attacking People's Army group and exploded, causing casualties to the People's Army. However, the People's Army's offensive teams were very scattered, and the Russian artillery fire was not dense, which had limited lethality to the People's Army, but it also had a certain impact on the People's Army's offensive.

In addition, the Russian army also tried to strike the People's Army's artillery positions. However, the Russian army did not have air reconnaissance and could only calculate the position of the People's Army's artillery positions from the landing point and trajectory of the shells. However, the error of this calculation is quite large, so the artillery attacks are far away from the predetermined target.

However, as soon as the Russian artillery fired, the People's Army's aircraft immediately reconnaissed the Russian artillery positions. Although the People's Army's aircraft now do not have the ability to scan and directly locate the ground, before the war began, the People's Army divided the battlefield in a fine square format. Therefore, as long as the Russian artillery positions were determined to be in that square, the People's Army's artillery could strike them.

Of course, although this method can replace modern high-precision reconnaissance equipment, its disadvantage is that its accuracy is low and its reaction speed will be much slower. However, in this era, this has been quite advanced technology. However, this has left a little vitality for the Russian army. Due to the lessons of previous battles, the Russian army not only divided the artillery positions very scattered, but also had a very short time for artillery attacks. The time was strictly controlled within 1-2 minutes. Try to shoot out as many shells as possible. After the shooting, they retreated immediately and hid in the woods or bunkers, leaving no time for the People's Army to strike accurately.

Sure enough, although the People's Army continuously carried out precise strikes on the Russian artillery positions, the Russian army's actions were too fast, so they only captured one Russian artillery position. However, although the Russian army's operations prevented their artillery from the People's Army's attack, it also caused insufficient counterattack firepower of the artillery and limited the damage to the People's Army's offensive forces. As the People's Army's offensive forces approached the Russian defense line, both sides reduced the shooting of artillery to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers.

The observation team watching the battle on Xiaoshan clearly saw this round of offense and defense of both sides. Ludendolf gave a very high evaluation of the People's Army's artillery tactics and the coordinated cooperation of infantry and artillery, believing that this level of cooperation and cooperation has reached the level of the first-class European army. It seems that the victory of the People's Army in the early battles was not accidental.

In fact, the current tactical quality and cooperation level of the People's Army are still a certain gap compared with the first-class European army. The reason why it can be organized is that on the one hand, there are aircraft monitoring in the air, so that the People's Army's command can control the overall combat process in a very long time; in addition, the People's Army's command and various combat troops can directly contact, which is also conducive to the command to understand the situation of each combat unit and convey the command to the combat unit. Communication in this era is basically completed by manpower, and the transmission of information from the command center to the battlefield takes a certain amount of time, and the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, so perhaps when the information is transmitted from one end to the other, the battlefield has changed.

At this moment, dense gunfire sounded from the Russian positions, and the People's Army soldiers who were about to charge to the Russian positions fell down. While the remaining People's Army continued to attack, they searched for bunkers and launched a fire with the Russian army in the trenches. The gunfire was like heavy rain.

Shuster was stunned and said, "Does so many defenders survive such a fierce shelling?"

Ludendolf frowned and said, "I don't think so. The Russian army should have placed most of its troops behind the position. After the People's Army attacked, it entered the position to deploy defense and blockade."

Shuster said: "So the Russians have learned to be smart. So wasn't the People's Army's shelling just now wasted?"

Rudendolf said: "The Russians are not stupid, and a stupid country cannot defeat Napoleon. The People's Army may not be wasted. I think the People's Army has never placed hope on the early shelling. The purpose of their shelling should be to destroy the iron nets arranged by the Russian army and to cause certain damage to the Russian positions and provide convenience for the infantry attacks behind." He paused and said: "But this is good, let's see how the People's Army's offensive capabilities are."

After hearing this, Shuster nodded repeatedly and said, "So who do you think will win this offensive and defensive battle?"

Ludendorf said: "If nothing unexpected happens, it must be the People's Army."

In fact, Rudendolf's judgment was correct. Although the Russians were rude on the surface, they were by no means reckless. On the contrary, they were still very cunning and shrewd. They formulated clever tactics against the powerful artillery of the People's Army. They only arranged a small amount of troops on the first line of defense to avoid the People's Army's artillery attack. They arranged the reserve troops in the traffic trenches. After the People's Army's artillery stopped, the Russian army immediately entered the position to block the People's Army's attack.

The purpose of the People's Army's artillery attack is indeed not to defeat the Russian defense line in one breath. After all, the Russian defense line has been arranged at 6 or 7 points, and it is difficult to defeat it by artillery fire alone. Therefore, as long as it can clear the obstacles for ground attack, it is enough. In the final analysis, the Army still needs to go into battle to resolve the battle. However, the People's Army is full of confidence in the army's ability to attack. Of course, in this way, the People's Army will inevitably pay a considerable price of casualties, but as long as it is a war, casualties are inevitable, and this is a loss that must be borne.

At this time, some of the People's Army soldiers braved the Russian firepower to continue attacking the Russian positions, while some of them set up fire support weapons such as machine guns, mortars, grenade launchers and other firepower support weapons in front of the Russian positions, attacking the Russian positions and suppressing the Russian firepower.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was compressed to within 200 meters and they launched a firefight against each other. Although the Russian tactics successfully preserved most of the troops, it was difficult to fully deploy the positions in a short period of time. Moreover, after the position was violently bombarded by the People's Army, it was confirmed that it had been damaged many places and its defense was greatly reduced. In addition, there were attacking People's Army soldiers to restrain the attention of the Russian army. Therefore, although the People's Army's firepower support forces were few, they were equal to the Russian army. At this time, the People's Army's mortars were set up and launched shelling on the Russian army's positions.

Although the power of the mortar is not great, it is a cannon after all, and the cannon channel is a large curve and can be directly hit into the trenches, which has caused great threats and injuries to the Russian army. Several of the Russian machine gun fire points were knocked out by the mortars, and the firepower was suddenly reduced, which also cleared many obstacles for the People's Army's attack.

Taking advantage of the Russian army being suppressed by the support firepower of the People's Army, a People's Army unit serving assault also took advantage of the opportunity to enter the Russian trenches and launched hand-to-hand combat with the Russian army. Then several People's Army commandos entered the position, some of which broke through the gaps that their companions broke through in front, some of which tore open the Russian defense line and opened a new gap. Both sides launched fierce hand-to-hand combat in the trenches and positions. Some of the fire support units extended the ballistics to the middle and rear of the Russian positions, and some moved forward with the troops.

At this time, the rear saw that several gaps had been opened in the Russian position, so he immediately ordered a full-scale attack on the Russian position, and the artillery troops also opened fire again. However, the target was not the Russian position, but the rear of the Russian position, in order to cut off the Russian reinforcements. Because at this time, the People's Army had discovered the traffic trenches dug by the Russian army and used the traffic trenches to continuously transport troops into the position, so he immediately notified the command center.

After learning about it, the command center couldn't help but praise the Russians for being a little clever, so they immediately ordered armored train guns and self-propelled artillery to extend the ballistics to the rear of the Russian position and launch bombardment. The power of the large-caliber artillery was indeed unusual. The Russian transportation trench was just covered with wooden boards and covered with a layer of floating soil and turf, which could not withstand the bombardment of shells. After more than 10 rounds of bombardment, all four traffic trenches were blown open. The Russian soldiers in the traffic trench quickly climbed out of the trench and fled in all directions. However, at this time, the other 100 mm artillery of the People's Army adjusted their firing parameters and fired and bombarded one after another. The Russian army was immediately bombed to death and wounded, and corpses were everywhere. It was difficult for reinforcements to go up again.
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