At around 8 a.m. on October 7, as soon as the commander of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Kawahoka, received the "declaration of war", he immediately ordered the Japanese army to enter the defense system.

Over the past few years, with the rapid increase in strength of the Northeast Army, the Japanese army began to increase the defense at the border of Kanto Prefecture. When Lieutenant General Kawahoo took office, he continued to strengthen the defense system of Kanto Prefecture. At this time, the border of Kanto Prefecture was built with several extremely strong reinforced concrete fortresses as the core, and a land defense system of Kanto Prefecture was built.

The First Group Army was responsible for attacking Kanto Prefecture. At 8:55, all the personnel of the headquarters were looking at a fortress in their sight from a distance. Everyone did not speak, but just looked at the quiet battlefield quietly. When the commander Zheng Silang looked at his watch for the third time, the pointer showed that it had reached 9:00.

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All the troops were in good order, and the difference was less than one minute. On the positions of the 13th Army responsible for attacking Guandong Prefecture, 120-caliber mortars from each regiment opened fire on the Japanese army.

From the violent flames and huge sounds when the shell landed, Zheng Silang knew that the troops used grenades. Unlike armor-piercing shells that broke through the enemy's strong defense, after the grenade hits the target, the explosives loaded inside the shell exploded, resulting in fragments, metal jets, shock waves, smoke, etc. that damage the target.

Without even taking a closer look at the majestic scenes that occurred after the grenade exploded, Zheng Silang said 'Go back' and took the headquarters personnel out of the front line.

Some comrades wanted to watch for a while, but Zheng Silang did not urge them. After all, such a grand situation was the first time for the Northeast Army. But Zheng Silang did not want to watch the war like a spectator. What the commander had to do was to command the troops to fight the enemy.

The communications soldiers had already set up the field telephone line. When Zheng Silang returned to the headquarters, the news that he should have been sent to the headquarters has not arrived yet. The troops fighting on the front line are based on regiments, from regiment level to group army, and there are two units in the middle. Over-level command is a taboo in the army, and Zheng Silang would never do this.

The sound of artillery outside the headquarters rumbling, like the thunder in the sky before the summer rainstorm. Zheng Silang sat on a chair and closed his eyes to rest. In fact, he sorted out the information known to both sides of the enemy and us again in his heart, predicting the progress of the battle.

Like Zheng Silang, the commander of the group army in the rear who is ready to make arrangements and adjustments according to the situation at any time, the commanders of the regiment commanding operations on the front line are also doing their best to perform their duties.

The artillery soldiers of the regiments who were involved in the first wave of attacks were firing fiercely at the Japanese fire points in front of them. After the first test shot, each artillery position quickly adjusted the firing elements and began the second round of shooting. The Japanese fire points were already hit by the Northeast Army's artillery shells, and the artillery observers used up their eyesight and tried to distinguish with the maximum accuracy whether the shells accurately hit the Japanese fire points marked on the map.

After the third round of artillery attacks, more Japanese firepower points were hit. No one cheered. After those Japanese front firepower points, the huge Japanese fortress remained unmoved. The huge fortress like a monster cannot be dealt with by 120 mortars. Now, these fortresses have not yet responded. It will take no time for the Japanese cannons in the fortress to start counterattacking. The powerful fortress cannons will pose a huge threat to the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army on the front.

The officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army felt a huge threat, and the Japanese army opposite the Northeast Army was stunned.

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The Japanese troops equipped with the defense system received a call from the headquarters at around 8:40 am, asking the troops to enter the defense system immediately. Although the Kwantung Army units took action immediately, they did not really realize what was going on.

As soon as the Kwantung Army's defense forces entered the defensive position, the shells flew over like raindrops. They personally felt the terrifying impact of the explosion of the shells, and saw that the comrades in the same unit in the distance were covered in blood and blood by the shells, or simply turned into pieces of corpses. Only then did the Kwantung Army really understand that the war broke out.

But it was too late to understand at this time, and the Northeast Army's firepower was fierce and efficient. As long as the field civil fortifications were hit directly by a 120-caliber grenade, they would be bombed into the sky. Those who could withstand the Japanese army's reinforced concrete bunkers.

Even so, the Japanese army in these reinforced concrete bunkers were also shocked. The internal organs of those bad luck were injured, and the mouth, nose and even ears began to bleed.

The last time the Japanese army participated in a high-intensity war was the Russo-Japanese War 18 years ago. Now the middle and senior Japanese commanders basically have experience in the Russo-Japanese War. The middle and low-level officers joined the army late, but only listened to their predecessors bragging about the tragic war at the dinner table, or searching for war scene records from military history materials. The Japanese soldiers who joined the army in the peace era did not know what the high-intensity war was.

On the earth-shaking battlefield, the Japanese army, who had been struggling to support, finally heard the artillery on their side start to fight back. Several artillery inside the Japanese fortress opened fire at the Northeast Army's positions, and the firepower of the Northeast Army's artillery weakened almost at the same time.

The young Japanese officers who could understand this were overjoyed and quickly took this opportunity to rectify the troops and prepare for the next battle.

Seeing that the Japanese fortress had begun to operate, Colonel Qiu Wenchang, the commander of the 13th Army's artillery regiment, who was responsible for the attack, covered his cheeks with his hands and rubbed them like a cat washing his face. When Colonel Qiu Wenchang felt that he had completely entered the state, he put down his hand and ordered the troops around him: "Prepare to open fire!"

Behind Qiu Wenchang were four very huge artillery pieces, and two Germans stood with the Northeast Army artillery.

The artillery battle has been going on until now, as if it is precise mechanical operation. In this way, our army has started to operate as predicted by our army. Next, Qiu Wenchang hopes that the war process can continue to operate in this way.

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Hearing Qiu Wenchang's order, the artillery soldiers of the 13th Army immediately began to control four giant cannons.

The two Germans were veterans of World War I. The reason why the Northeast Army was invited to come was that they were both members of the German siege gun "Big Belta".

At the beginning of World War I, the Belgian Liege Fortress blocked the German attack. The concrete defense wall of the Liege Fortress was three meters thick and was reinforced with steel plates. The German army used 40,000 people and more than 200 cannons to attack the Liege Fortress. It could not be destroyed at all.

The German army immediately allocated a giant mortar nicknamed "Big Bert Tower Cannon". The giant mortar "Big Bert Tower" cannon was 7 meters long, weighed 42 tons, and had a caliber of 420 mm. Each shell alone weighed 1 ton, which could penetrate hard reinforced concrete buildings and was extremely powerful. In order to transport it to the front line, it had to be transported to the end of the railway line by train, then a special road was paved, and then dragged to the German positions near Liege with 36 strong horses.

At that time, there were only 9 such artillery Germans, and Moltke 9 immediately distributed 4 of them to Rudendolf.

At the same time, cannons from Austria have also been in place. The name "Slim Emma" was made for Skoda. Its caliber is not weak, with a diameter of 305 mm. The two competed for the first time in Liege, which claims to have the most solid fortress in the world. What made the German team extremely pleased and shocked the Belgian army was that the 12 Emma and the Great Berta tore the so-called solid reinforced concrete defense line to pieces in just four days.

Japan's industrial strength is far inferior to Europe. Although the intelligence is not detailed enough, it can basically be determined that the concrete used for the defensive fortress in Kanto is not 3 meters thick. Therefore, the artillery produced by the Northeast Arsenal is not even considered a "little Berta", but a "slim Emma" whose caliber is smaller than the siege cannon "slim Emma" produced in Austria.

The siege cannon "Slim Emma" has a caliber of 305, while the Northeast Army's siege mortar cannon has a caliber of only 255. According to the Northeast Army's habit, if you can use integers, you don't like to use both wholes and zeros. However, the 250-caliber cannon doesn't sound right no matter how you hear it. Then the 255-caliber siege cannon appeared.

Regardless of these details, the 250-caliber siege mortar also uses delayed fuse armor-piercing shells. The armor-piercing shells will not explode immediately after hitting the fortress. Instead, the shells will explode only after the shells are shot into the fortress and the kinetic energy is exhausted.

No one dares to operate artillery near the 250 artillery, and the huge impact force will cause the soldiers around you to be killed immediately.

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The 250 artillery was placed on the base of reinforced concrete, and it took more than an hour to complete the shooting adjustment. The artillery quickly retreated nearly a hundred meters away and stimulated the shells by electric start.

At that moment, the earth shook violently, and the nearby artillery soldiers felt that their hearts were caught by something. Each artillery soldier had earplugs and put on a headband. Even so, there was no sound coming in. But at the moment of the artillery fire, the world seemed to suddenly quiet, all the noise disappeared, and the sounds around entered an extremely uniform state.

The terrifying roar of artillery overwhelmed all the sounds in an instant. The powerful sound wave impact made the artillery's senses unable to accept other signals at that moment.

At this time, there were several tiny objects flying in the sky that were almost invisible. They were reconnaissance aircraft of the Northeast People's Liberation Army.

The plane is a single-wing single propeller and two-seat. In the air of nearly a thousand meters, everything on the ground is so tiny. The fire and smoke of the 120 cannons are not as strong as a small firecracker that explodes during the Spring Festival. The fierce artillery battle is as insignificant as a game where children throw stones on the lake.

The Japanese Fortress is the only object with some sense of existence in this game. Compared with the fortress, the artillery positions are like mantis launching a brave attack on a large cart.

Suddenly, the observer in the back seat saw a huge flower blooming about 200 meters away from the Japanese fortress. In the center of the flower was a bright orange-red fire ball, which was one-small of the size of the fortress.

The fortress, which looked lonely and indifferent, finally met a companion who could match it.

Then, the plane began to shake left and right, and the pilot seemed to be cursing something, while controlling the plane and flew toward a higher place. The impact of the shells could even affect nearly a thousand meters of altitude. This was something that neither the front-row pilot nor the rear-row observer expected.

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