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    In the early morning of November 11, the Kima Airborne Field was extremely busy.  As far as the eye can see, the airborne troops sit in groups and rest. The first batch of soldiers to land are eating steaming tortillas and luncheon meat, while bragging to their comrades who have not caught up with the hand-to-hand combat. These heartless soldiers  The guy completely forgot how difficult last night was. In the blink of an eye, he boasted that he was fighting a tank alone, destroying a battalion with one squad, and other miracles, which made the new recruits jealous and jealous, as if they saw their comrades wearing combat medals.  I can only continue to hang my butt curtain.

    Logistics soldiers began to clear the battlefield, and gliders were dragged and gathered by vehicles. If they could no longer be used, they would be destroyed with explosives to prevent them from being left behind.  The parachute bags that were too late to be searched last night were also found and gathered, and were redistributed to various units by specialized ordnance officers. As for the captured Soviet weapons, those that were usable were kept, and those that were not usable were taken back to Balkhash in trucks.  The landing craft was transported back to the Northwest War Maintenance Center in Almaty for modification.

    The smell of luncheon meat and corn tortillas wafting in the wind made Kurokin and his companions sniff hard, and even their digging movements slowed down a lot.  But before he could swallow his saliva, the sharp bayonet was already raised.  The cold bayonets of the sentry made Kurokin and the captured Soviet soldiers forget about hunger and work hard to level the ground.

    He is a prisoner now.

    Last night, after learning that the enemy was airborne from behind, an infantry division and tank battalion of theirs were ordered to encircle and suppress them. As they were about to reach Kima, they learned that Balkhash had been stormed and that the enemy had arrived by ship.  tank.  What's even more unfortunate is that the Georgian dwarf division commander who climbed up through nepotism actually gave up on the enemy at hand, canceled the operation in a panic and turned around to return reinforcements.  It was this idiot dwarf's order that made him and his comrades bumpy for another hour. As a result, before they even saw Balkhash, they were ambushed by a Chinese tank battalion and two infantry battalions.

    There was no suspense in the battle. When we saw that the BT tank, which everyone thought was very powerful, could not even scratch the skin of the enemy tank, the battle was over.  Just 15 minutes.  The fact that 17 tanks and dozens of trucks were destroyed made the little Georgian man raise the white flag without dignity, so fast that Kurokin couldn't even find a hiding place.  It was later learned that although Commander Khafurov led the remaining infantry regiment to resist with all their strength, they still could not stop the tide of enemies coming ashore, and had to surrender after most of the important places were captured.  The one and a half divisions stationed in Ortadeleshin to prevent the enemy from landing from the peninsula were cut off by mountain infantry and dozens of tanks before they could be reinforced. It is said that hundreds of people were crushed by the tanks in despair.  He jumped into the freezing cold lake water and froze to death.  Only a small number of troops broke out into the mountains, but as the weather became colder and colder.  They were short of food and could not resist for long.

    After being captured, the commander and senior officers were taken away overnight, and they were escorted here to help repair the field airfield.  To be honest, he admires the work efficiency and methods of these Chinese colleagues.  They installed a shovel on the head of an armored vehicle and after leveling the ground, they did not crush it firmly. Instead, they directly transported a honeycomb aluminum alloy plate with a thickness of 1.5 centimeters, and then put it together like a jigsaw puzzle in just four hours.  An H-shaped dual-runway field airport was built on this flat grassland.

    Transport planes came from nowhere and landed at a speed of ten minutes. These transport planes were larger than those seen last night.  They did not shut down, but quickly unloaded soldiers or equipment before taking off from another runway of the H-shaped airport.  One takes off and the other lands, fast and orderly.  This kind of efficiency is extremely enviable.  He roughly calculated that in the more than two hours since the ground was laid, 144 transport planes have landed, delivering 4,000 soldiers and a large amount of equipment.

    "Assemble!" Kurokin was watching the fifth batch of Yun-Ten landing.  A Russian voice came from the front.  Everyone quickly threw away their shovels and gathered under the bayonets.  "Petovich, Yakov, Andrei." Dozens of Chinese military police drove up in trucks.  One of the officers, wearing an armband he had never seen before, held a list in his hand and called the names one by one.  Hearing these names, Kuluo Jin felt chills all over. You must know that these are all D members and GQ members in the army.

    But these expressionless military policemen did not even blink an eyelid. They found the captured political commissars, D members and GQ members one by one, and then stuffed them into trucks.  Thinking about it, Kurojin also knew that these people were finished. Maybe they, ordinary soldiers, could survive in the prisoner of war camps until the end of the war, but these people would disappear forever.

    When Zhuo Fan got off the plane, he saw several trucks of prisoners of war being taken away. He handed a cigarette to Ye Zishan who came to pick him up: "What are they doing?"

    Ye Zishan and Zhuo Fan are college classmates. After learning about his thrilling experience from the battle report last night, Zhuo Fan contacted him by telegram and arranged to meet today.  "They are all military policemen from the Political Department, do you think they can do it?" Ye Zishan lit a cigarette, puffed out white mist and drove him to the headquarters in a jeep.

    The troops are fully deployed and it¡¯s about half an hour¡¯s journey from the airport to the front finger, so Zhuo Fan took the opportunity to ask about what happened last night.  Thinking of the thrilling and chaotic scene a few hours ago, Ye Zishan still felt a little palpitated: "It was terrible. At that time, we were blown to the north by the wind, about 7 kilometers away from the planned landing point. I just found a dozen people when I met the Cossack cavalry.  "

    The chaos in the early stages of the airborne troops last night made everyone in the headquarters sweat. At that time, Commander Xu and Commander Chu scolded the staff officers and the Air Force Coordinator one by one.  But now after listening to Ye Zishan's description, Zhuo Fan knew that this was not the case at all.  Due to strong winds, the first batch of 15,000 paratroopers who landed were scattered over about 150 square kilometers of grassland. However, he and more than 2,000 people were unlucky and deviated 7 to 8 kilometers directly to the north. It happened that the Cossack cavalry was  The airborne has been spotted and is rushing over as fast as possible.  After it took him more than ten minutes to land and find a small group of separated comrades, the cavalry arrived in front of them, and they were unable to reach them, resulting in serious losses.

    However, he and the grassroots officers reacted quickly, forming a temporary team to separate and surround the cavalry and force them to evacuate. Even the Soviet armored units were delayed for thirty minutes, gaining buffer time for the main force.  As for being scattered, there was nothing they could do. At that time, they didn't even find a few parachute bags, and they didn't have many heavy weapons in their hands.  Fortunately, the air force glider brigade forced the landing and formed firepower points. So the paratroopers scattered over 150 square kilometers finally found the assembly target and quickly launched a counterattack. Instead, they outflanked and annihilated the Soviet army.

    "So. Your losses are serious?"

    "Yes." Ye Zishan twitched the corner of his mouth and sighed bitterly: "There were more than two thousand people in total, with one thousand and three casualties, accounting for 70% of the losses last night."

    As a grassroots officer, Ye Zishan was very distressed, but Zhuo Fan was different. The original plan had budgeted for the loss of at least 3 to 4 thousand airborne troops, but now it has not even reached 2,000. It should be said that it has not exceeded the expected loss line.  The main reason is that the cavalry assault was too miserable, and all the airborne troops were overtaken by the cavalry.  Almost no one survived.  He was also responsible for this, because he seriously ignored the impact of the Cossack cavalry.

    In fact, the real danger at that time was the division coming out of Balkhash.  When the airborne troops counterattacked, they were less than ten kilometers away from the airborne field. If they crashed in, they would suffer at least twice as much damage. But God knows what happened to the Soviet division commander. He actually turned around and returned to Balkhash before the battle. As a result, he arrived after a bumpy hour.  Discover.  The 1st Armored Division has basically controlled the port.

    Overall, except for the Air Force¡¯s combat capabilities in large wilderness areas and low visibility conditions at night, which are still unsatisfactory, the rest are basically relatively successful.  Considering that this is the first large-scale airborne, crossing and air-ground integrated operation in the history of the National Defense Forces.  There is no precedent in any country before, so accidents are acceptable. After all, no amount of exercises can replace actual combat experience.

    But if you want to turn the current results into a big victory, there is another key.  Ye Zishan winked deliberately.  He smiled happily and said, "By the way, I heard that your First Army has met its opponent."

    ¡°The Soviet 16th Army?¡±

    "Yes." Ye Zishan nodded mysteriously and deliberately slowed down the car: "When I went to the front point just now, I saw Commander Chu and the others having a meeting. I heard that this Lu Jin is very difficult to deal with. He went south quickly before, but you know  We were lying across the middle. After the tank landed ashore again, it stopped at Akchatau. Judging from the news from the reconnaissance plane, he must have judged that we would be entangled in the south, so he simply stopped there to strengthen his defense. I guess he  I want to cut off your westward route to Karaganda and buy time for the Soviet army to fully retreat."

    "Really? This is interesting. Isn't he afraid of losing his hat?" Zhuo Fan raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect Lu Jin to be so cunning. He knew that the airborne division was just to deal with him, but he actually watched several divisions being surrounded and suppressed.  If you don't get down, you are completely different from most Soviet generals who rush up in a hurry when encountering the enemy.  If you are entangled with him for two to three days, it is really possible to escape most of the Soviet troops.

    Ye Zishan thought of Nitskov who was shot dead last night and said with a smile: "Who knows, maybe his political commissar is finished."

    Zhuo Fan also nodded. Political commissars in the Soviet army are very important leaders. Although they do not assume command responsibilities, they have great power. From what we know so far, most of the political commissars control the supervising teams and can directly communicate with the front army headquarters.  Reports, many commanders' orders even had to be approved by them, so the political commissar died here, and Lu Jin had no restraint, so he naturally fought wherever it was advantageous.

    But neither of them knew that Nitskov, the temporary political commissar, had long been dismissed by Kulik.

    Seeing his old classmate frowning, Ye Zishan laughed as if he had returned victoriously: "Okay, my old classmate, don't worry about it. Lu Jin is cunning, but his boss is terrible. Listen to the staff  People said that after Kulik learned about our airborne landing, he didn¡¯t even consider retreating and was still ordering his troops to defend and attack on the spot.¡±

    ?"Still not leaving?" Zhuo Fan was speechless. Isn't this looking for death?  Do you really think that a group army of less than 70,000 people with less than 70,000 personnel, more than a hundred BT fast tanks and a few infantry divisions can stop the impact of the First Army in the wild?  Could it be that Kulik mistook Ak?atau, which has only a few hundred households, for a big city in Europe?

    "Whatever, go order some vodka, and then go to my place for a drink. A lot of authentic vodka was seized last night." Ye Zishan parked the car in front of the command department, opened the door and let Zhuo Fan get out of the car: "Hurry up.  I guess you can only stay for a while. I saw your 1st Armored Division and 3rd Infantry Division starting to assemble before I came. Don¡¯t blame me if you¡¯re late and can¡¯t taste the good wine.¡±

    "Just wait for me to get you drunk." Zhuo Fan stretched his body, which was tired after not sleeping all night, and opened the door and got out of the car with a smile.  Ye Zishan was stunned when he saw this: "What, you don't want to go to Karaganda?"

    "Forget it, the superiors asked me to be a paper framer again! By the way, get ready, the commendation and promotion orders will be here soon. You are lucky. Someone was dismissed for negligence last night, so the superiors are going to transfer you to the Second Regiment.  Battalion Commander, help me by the way."

    Ye Zishan has not yet decided whether to be the battalion commander or not.  But he understood what he meant. He blinked and said, "Is there a new mission?"

    "Yes, let's go to Kyzylorda."

    "Kyzylorda? My old classmate from the lieutenant colonel, you want to take on this mission? It's six hundred kilometers away! I have to jump down again. Do you think I like to be a turkey and have people chase my butt and shoot?  !¡±

    Amidst the wailing of Ye Zishan, the commendation order really came.  The Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Qin Zhangshu, personally brought the decision of the General Staff. All the officers and soldiers who participated in the encounter last night were awarded the Eagle Combat Medal, which represents the highest honor in the army. All officers, including Ye Zishan, received awards, and the soldiers who sacrificed their lives were also awarded.  Won the title of national first-class martyr.  This means that.  Not only do their families receive a generous pension every year, but the state also supports their brothers and sisters in going to school until they graduate from college, which is a comfort to these partners who fought bloody battles to buy time for their comrades.

    When the commendation order arrived, it also announced the end of the short break.  The 1st Armored Division, the 8th Infantry Division and the 126th Infantry Division, which were the first to cross, marched toward Akchatau under the protection of the air force. The two airborne divisions also quickly assembled and cooperated with the 29th Group Army, which began to land in Balkhash.  Detour south and encircle the main force of the Soviet army's southern front in Aitao Mountain.  In order to ensure the rapid detour of troops, the command not only accelerated the transportation of urgently needed trucks across the border, but also used prisoners of war to build a second field airport in Balkhash.  600 transport planes and gliders were invested to transport a large number of wheeled Hound armored vehicles and jeeps.

    By noon, the number of trucks and jeeps assembled at the Balkhash and Kima airfields had exceeded 2,000, which greatly alleviated the problem of the troops marching slowly on their own feet.

    Ye Zishan did not leave.  He and two infantry battalions of the Airborne Division, four wheeled armored battalions, and a Type 26 tank reconnaissance battalion of the First Armored Division were left at the airborne field. Zhuo Fan also quickly found the hunter who was called for questioning by the Political Department.  Zong Lei, deputy captain of the Eagle Brigade.  To say that he is also unlucky.  It was dark at that time, and the hills blocked the view and the Soviet army did not turn on the lights, so he always thought that Nitskov was leading only a supply convoy.  After informing the headquarters, I wanted to lure the opponent away to avoid crashing into the airborne field, but did not want to open fire. Several regiments of Soviet troops rushed out from behind, including a Cossack cavalry regiment. Although they lured away more than a dozen  There were two tanks and more than two hundred infantry, but they were still rushed into the airborne field by the cavalry.  What's even more unfortunate is that Ye Zishan accidentally drifted seven or eight kilometers northward to face the Soviet troops heading south, so there was no time for warning.

    Although even if there was no attack at that time, as long as Balkhash opened fire, Nitsekov's troops would hear the noise of the fleet and accelerate into the airborne field. The result would not change much, but his actions still induced acceleration, so he was questioned by the Political Department for a long time.  , and was scolded and kicked several times by the commander.  The final result was that the merits of luring away some Soviet troops and of alerting the enemy in advance outweighed the merits.  After being chased by hundreds of Soviet troops and more than a dozen tanks all night, no hair was caught, so everyone in the Falcon Commandos was holding back a sense of resentment.  After learning about the horse pole plan, he vowed to complete a beautiful raid to regain his face.

    Since it takes time to modify the aircraft, Zhuo Fan and everyone rested temporarily in Kima.

    By lunchtime, two big pieces of news came.  After Japan, which had been suppressed for a long time, learned that the war situation in Central Asia had entered a stalemate, it finally couldn't bear it anymore and started the Philippine War at 9 a.m. on November 11.  Inoue Narumi's Third Fleet protected 20,000 Japanese troops who landed in the Philippines from various places. Although the Philippine military was well prepared and the United States also provided a large amount of weapons and ammunition, no one was optimistic about them.

    At the same time, after Zhukov learned that the Wehrmacht had unexpectedly used a landing craft to cross Balkhash, he immediately realized that a huge encirclement was forming, so he urgently ordered the infantry troops stationed in Omsk to board theDrive to Pavlodar.  In order to block this Soviet army, Long Yun organized two divisions to storm the Second Army belonging to the Siberian Front, and assumed a posture of attacking Barnaul, holding back Zhukov's main force so that he did not dare to move.  At the same time, the Air Force also dispatched 700 bombers from the Kazakh battlefield to conduct indiscriminate bombings on Barnaul, Novosibirsk, and the railway line from Omsk to Pavlodar. It also mobilized 200 Y-6 aircraft to support the second assault.  cluster.

    At the moment of counterattack across the board, Akchatau and Pavlodar have become the key, and the largest outdoor battle in the two encirclements is about to begin (To be continued)
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