On May 1st, 1943, the world-renowned Battle of Kursk officially began!
Under the cover of the thick fog in the morning, Mao Xiong concentrated 17,000 cannons and launched a fierce attack on the 120-kilometer defense line of the Hans army.
For a moment, the earth shook and the mountains shook. Cannon fire shook the sky!
The Hans 'camp was instantly engulfed by the bear's artillery fire. The entire camp was filled with sparks and smoke!
Unexpectedly, the artillery fire of the Hans army was scattered and did not cause an equal counterattack. This made the bearman very happy!
"Haha, the people of the Third Reich were unprepared. Their cannons were almost destroyed by us!”
Helu, who was holding a pair of binoculars and observing the effects of the artillery fire in the distance through the thick fog, was extremely pleased when he saw how weak Hans 'artillery fire was.
Attacking on a foggy day, Hans must be unprepared!
After all, this kind of weather was not a good time for any party to launch an attack!
However, Mao Xiong did not want to take the normal path and beat you up when you were unprepared!
" This time, the cannon fire seems to be very effective. Hans 'artillery position has been scouted clearly. The artillery has already marked the distance. The data is complete. Fire rapidly according to the base number of three shells. In ten minutes, we can fire 800,000 shells. Hehe, 800,000 shells is enough for Hans to suffer!”
Although Marshal Rokossovsky wasn't as optimistic as Hruff, he also believed that this bombardment would definitely cause great damage to the army of the Third Reich!
Before the ground battle broke out, the air forces of both sides had already started a series of battles around the battlefield!
While Mao Xiong's fighter planes were carrying out the bombing and aerial combat, they also carried out another mission, which was to investigate the artillery positions of the Third Reich's army and prepare for the sudden attack this morning!
A large amount of preparations had been made for this attack. Moreover, after receiving a large number of artillery shells and firearms from Yingchan, they had also stored enough artillery shells to launch an unprecedented and unprecedented scale of bombardment!
A year ago, when the Battle of Furybearsko started, the Hans army had gathered 15,000 cannons under Furybearsko City and bombarded Furybearsko's defense with them. It almost left a psychological shadow in Furybearsko!
And before every bombardment, Hans would use the loudspeaker to remind the bear,"" Ivan, it's time to eat the cannonball!"
"Ivan, are you ready for your Christmas present?”
"Ivan, go home and find your mother to drink milk. Hiding in the trenches and getting blown up will kill you!”
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Such provocative and humiliating words made Furious Bear very angry.
However, they could only be angry. Mao Xiong's cannons were not as many as Hans ', and their production capacity was very low. After the frontline army was defeated, they lost a large amount of firearms and equipment. As a result, Mao Xiong was very short of weapons and ammunition during the Battle of Mao Xiong Si Ke!
They could only hide in the trenches to defend against the enemy's artillery. However, facing Hans '150mm howitzers, infantry cannons, and even 240mm howitzers, even hiding in the trenches was not necessarily safe!
During the battle with Furybear, most of the casualties were caused by Hans's bombardment!
The tables had turned. This time, it was finally Mao Xiong's turn to bombard Hans with more artillery than Hans!
Unfortunately, the fog was so thick that he could only see the sparks of the explosion. He could not see the results of the bombardment. This made Marshal Rokossovsky feel a little regretful!
However, Marshal Rokossovsky was looking forward to it. He was looking forward to capturing a few high-ranking Hans generals after the battle and personally asking them what it felt like to be bombarded by Furious Bear's artillery fire!
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It had to be said that the timing of Mao Xiong's cannon attack was indeed very ingenious!
At six o'clock in the morning, under the cover of the thick fog, before the Hans soldiers 'first wake-up call, they launched a fierce bombardment!
The furry bear's intention was obvious. It wanted to take advantage of Hans's unprepared state to knock Hans out of his senses and make him lose his ability to resist!
After an hour of bombardment, when the sky began to brighten and the visibility on the battlefield was slightly higher, Mao Xiong's armored army would begin to charge. At that time, Hans's army, which had been bombarded by the artillery, would probably not be prepared to face the enemy at all!
In this battle, they could easily obtain a huge advantage in the early stages!
However, Hans was not completely unprepared!
In fact, three days ago, Hans had already intercepted the Soviet telegrams.
Even though Mao Xiong had changed the encryption code to prevent the enemy from intercepting the telegram, Hans was well prepared for it. Before the war, they had specially transferred three working groups from the mainland, a huge cracking team of 150 people, to work around Mao Xiong's new encryption code. According to the pattern of Mao Xiong changing the code in the past, they spent two days and two nights and finally completed the cracking last night!
Therefore, last night, Manstein had already ordered all Hans at the front line to immediately retreat, leaving only the guard forces behind!
However, in order to confuse the enemy, he ordered the soldiers who had built the bunkers and fortresses to stay.
He did not expect these people to block the enemy's assault, but to use these bunkers and the artillery fire of the fortress to confuse the enemy!
Manstein's plan was obviously effective. When Mao Xiong fired hundreds of thousands of shells of different calibers at Hans's position, there was almost no one there!
After Hans suffered heavy losses from the bombardment, the sporadic bombardment was actually a counterattack from the cannons in the bunkers and fortresses that had not been abandoned!
The firepower of these fortresses and bunkers could not be compared to the main force, so in Furious Bear's eyes, Hans 'counterattack was weak, and it looked like it was indeed the remnants of a destructive blow!
Therefore, Mao Xiong was completely misled and thought that his battle plan had worked!
One hour later, at 7:00 sharp, Mao Xiong Central Front Army, the 2nd Tank Army, and the 70th Tank Army began to attack and advance towards the German position. After the artillery bombardment ended, the Soviets 'ground offensive officially started!
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