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Text Chapter 813 The Great Battle of Central Asia (5)

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    The orderly shouted to God and kept crossing himself.  The second lieutenant, who had sworn not to believe in religion, couldn't find the words to describe what he saw.  Even Lu Jin suddenly opened his mouth wide. As more and more people raised their heads, everyone saw an unforgettable scene. Under the setting sun, hundreds of fighter planes lined up like geese, like migrating birds on Lake Balkhash.  Covering all sight.

    "Anti-aircraft artillery! Anti-aircraft artillery ready!"

    "Go tell Commander Nitselev to let the plane take off immediately! Damn it, why are you still in a daze? If you don't want to be shot, use the fastest speed to convey the order!" The approaching group of planes made Lu Jin suddenly  He woke up and gave the orderly a hard push.

    The poor orderly then remembered that calling out to God was a serious mistake. During the Great Purge, countless people were arrested for their religious beliefs. He was so frightened that his face turned pale. He even forgot that there was a phone in the world, so he jumped into the car that was still on and lowered his head.  Lie down on the steering wheel and rush towards the field airport.  In fact, Lu Jin didn't need to remind him that the field airport was already in a state of chaos.  The air defense position consisting of six 76mm and four 37mm anti-aircraft guns had just opened fire, and four ghost vehicles had already been drawn down at high speed.

    The British who invented the bomber believed that bombing was useless because the aircraft would become a target when it was unable to maneuver.  But they forget that in actual combat, when a scream breaks through the sky and comes directly, everyone's first reaction is to run!  run!  The further you run, the better!  The current Soviet air defense position looks like this. After the bombers filed down and pointed at them with long-pitched blasts, the artillerymen didn't even care about the officers' scoldings. They immediately dropped everything and ran around!  There is no way, whether it is the J7 or China's FG3 (attack aircraft) ghost car, they are so famous that the targets they are rumored to be targeting have never escaped.

    In the violent explosion, eight 250-kilogram high-explosive bombs hit the air defense position one after another. The explosion detonated the bullets behind them, and the Soviet gunners who had no time to dodge were immediately killed and injured.

    "Use a machine gun!"

    "Take off. Let them take off quickly!"

    Nitslev paid no attention to the air defense positions and stood hurriedly in the center of the tarmac, directing the plane to take off despite the rain of bullets.  Hundreds of Soviet pilots rushed into the fighter planes, but before they could start, the draft team who recovered from the situation used machine guns to sweep across the tarmac.  Two 7.62mm self-defense machine guns sprayed bullets wildly, leaving more than a dozen Soviet fighter jets on the ground forever.

    The draft team has just passed.  8 Huaren B fighter attack aircraft circled over from the south.  This time they did not use bombs, but 90mm ground attack rockets. This rocket has four rotating tail fins at the tail, which can rotate the rocket at high speed driven by gas to improve hit accuracy.  Each Shen She B can hang 8 rockets, plus 4 25mm chain cannons.  Give this old machine a new lease of life.  The 64 rockets were like 64 meteors falling from the sky, sweeping across the field airport.

    Since the Soviet army did not build a hangar at all, and the planes were parked directly on the grass, the exposed fighter planes became the best targets for Snake B. By the time Snake B flew away, there was no longer a flying aircraft in sight in the entire airport.  airplane.

    Behind the snake is another ghost car, and behind the ghost car are countless bombs falling from the sky.  The entire Aksuayure was shrouded in a huge roar that was so heartbreaking that it was difficult to distinguish the direction. The earth shook in the explosion, houses were collapsing, and groups of mushroom-shaped clouds expanded and expanded, with the highest ones rising hundreds of meters for a long time.  The lingering dust cloud enveloped the entire city.

    Waves of bombing and strafing pinned the 150,000 soldiers of the Soviet 16th Army to the ground, unable to move.  Any moving target is likely to be ruthlessly shot at and pursued. These Soviet soldiers from Europe hunched their bodies, gritted their teeth and trembled on their feet. They did not dare to stand up until night fell when they could no longer see the plane, and looked up at the sky as if they were in danger.  Only now do I understand what kind of war we are about to face.

    "Comrade Commander? Comrade Commander!" The orderly who narrowly escaped death from the airport only found out when he returned to the headquarters.  The place had been blown up, and General Lu Jin was lying on the ground with his face covered in blood.

    "I'm fine, I just cut my forehead." Lu Jin waved his hand, indicating that it was nothing serious and took the gauze from the medical soldier.  He covered his eyebrows and stood up.  The city in front of him was beyond recognition, filled with flames and soldiers busy putting out the fire.  In fact, he summarized all the Chinese Air Force's fighting methods from Afghanistan to Ahvaz. The main tactics used by the Chinese Air Force were to break through and destroy the air defense facilities in small formations and then conduct large-scale bombing.  But Zhigui knows that neither he nor any current military force in the world can stop this tactic. The only way to break this bullying tactic is to form a comparable air force.

    This is easier said than done. Karpov and Mikoyan have repeatedly suggested replacing plywood with aluminum with a lighter specific gravity, which can greatly improve the performance of current aircraft. However, the Soviet aluminum output of less than 50,000 tons per year can only barely maintain the production of T34 tanks.  There is no ability to build a large air force at all.  In this world, only Yang Qiu, a strategist who deeply understands the Air Force, would fight in the Red Sea when the country's power supply is still tight.?? and Guangxi are building large-scale power stations specializing in the production of aluminum.

    But this is all in the future. What we need to do now is to stabilize the troops as soon as possible to prevent another air attack: "Put out the flames as soon as possible, and be careful that the enemy uses firelight to guide night bombings. Order the soldiers not to run around, and it is forbidden to light fires for cooking and heating at night.  ! Gather all the air defense weapons. Is Commander Nitsekov okay? That¡¯s good, he has rich flying experience, let him command all the air defense forces.¡±

    The quick and accurate orders made the soldiers gradually come out of panic. When the radio station resumed communication, an even bigger bad news came.  On the evening of October 17, 1939, all 231 field airports on the Soviet Eastern Front from Pavlodar to Turkestan were bombed. The entire bombing process lasted until nine o'clock that night. According to Soviet records, a total of three  A total of 3218 attacks were carried out in this wave.

    "Hey, hey, what! The airport in Zhambul was also bombed? How much was the loss? It's all gone!"

    "Have you contacted Uyuk Airport? Keep in touch. They are in the desert and may survive."

    "Report, Karaguere's Sixth Aviation Division has been contacted. They were also bombed. Only five I-153s survived."

    "Report! The Kurghar Forest has not been bombed, and the 56 bf109s there can fight."

    "Tell them to come here immediately tomorrow morning."

    The command headquarters in Karaganda is in chaos.  Faced with the sudden large-scale air raid, everyone was at a loss.  Until ten o'clock at night, many pilots were still unable to contact the airport.  Kulik had to dispatch cavalry near the airport to investigate the situation.  As a large amount of news came back, the top brass of the entire Kazakh front army looked gloomy.  In just five hours of air strikes, less than 200 of the 2,172 aircraft deployed by the Kazakh Front on the front line were left. About 10,000 pilots, ground crews and soldiers were killed, and countless fuel and ammunition were lost in the warehouses.  On the East Kazakh front.  Four tank divisions were attacked and more than 160 tanks and armored vehicles were lost.

    "We can't wait any longer!" Faced with serious losses, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Smolodinov suddenly said: "The enemy's aviation power is far superior to ours. If we continue to be passively beaten like this, we may not be able to wait for Moscow's attack order.  , the troops were all blown up!"

    His words immediately resonated with the officers of the front army.  Having experienced heavy bombings, they would rather die in the attack than be passively beaten and slowly consumed by planes on the ground.  Kulik was already furious, so he immediately sent a telegram to Moscow for instructions, and then sent a sealed telegram to the Northwest Theater Command of China.

    The content of the message is very simple: hand over the culprit of the bombing, otherwise our army will attack immediately!

    A minute later, the reply came in a flash: Hand over Stalin and get out of Asia!

    This is the lightning recovery speed of one minute.  It was already premeditated to let Moscow bite China to death. Otherwise, how could it reply so quickly? It was not until later that everyone figured out that the original reply was not from Xu Shuzheng or any officer, but from the Soviet telegraph operator who was so angry that he  The reply was sent immediately.  But no matter what, this telegram must have stirred up a hornet's nest. Since both sides had clear codes, the Soviet Internal Guard troops stationed in Barnaul also received the telegram.  All information was forwarded directly to the Kremlin.

    "This idiot! Why is he still standing there? Are the cannons I gave him rusty?!" Stalin, who had just read Kulik's telegram and was furious at the bombing losses, was sent to Barnaul before he could vent his anger.  The incoming telegram was so irritating that I completely lost my mind.  Kulik was immediately ordered to attack and seize East Kazakhstan and Almaty as planned. It was not until two hours later that he remembered that he should ask Motolov to draft a declaration of war and send it to the Chinese Embassy in Paris to avoid being left with false pretenses.

    Why was it sent to Paris? Because the Chinese Embassy in Berlin had been recalled due to the incident of selling aircraft to the United Kingdom, and the Soviet foreign affairs agency in China had long been expelled.  Therefore, the nearest diplomatic mission is the Consulate General in Paris.  But there is another problem here. Motolov and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs seldom deal with China. Even if they have something to do, they go through the Berlin embassy and have no idea how to contact the Chinese embassy in Paris.  In the end, Motolov had to send the telegram to the Soviet Embassy in Paris, and then asked the ambassador to drive to declare war.  After all this trouble, it was not until eight o'clock in the morning that the Soviet Ambassador to Paris arrived at the Chinese Embassy.

    What Motolov didn¡¯t expect was that the French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, who has always been famous for his laziness, actually appeared at the Chinese Embassy that morning and was discussing the purchase of a batch of transport aircraft with the Ambassador to France Zeng Qi.

    George Bonet became a witness and reported the big news that "Moscow declared war on China first" as quickly as possible.  But what he didn't know was that China and the Soviet Union had already engaged in actual fighting in the northwest yesterday evening. The 550,000 Soviet troops who had been well prepared crossed the border into East Kazakhstan from the northwest at the same time at three o'clock in the morning.  Almost at the same time, the 300,000 Soviet troops in South Kazakhstan also crossed the border and launched an attack on the Aitau Mountain defense line from Aksuyek to Suiye at the southern end of Lake Balkhash.He didn't even know that when he learned that Kulik had concentrated most of his troops on the north and south ends of Lake Balkhash, leaving only four infantry divisions on the other side of the lake, and that the 16th Army in reserve was still more than a hundred kilometers away,  With only three divisions left in the entire Karaganda, what came out of the Presidential Palace in Beijing was not tension or atmosphere, but excited tears of joy!

    "You took the bait! Kulik finally took the bait!"
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