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Text Chapter 834 The bloody battle in Kyzylorda

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    At one o'clock in the afternoon on December 4, the gunfire in Kyzylorda gradually subsided.

    Whether it was the historical Operation Barbarossa or Yang Qiu's Talos Plan, the Soviet army followed the European War period and piled a large number of troops on the front line, so that the tactical layout that lacked deep protection was completely beaten.  With the formation of a huge protrusion in East Kazakhstan, places such as South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan fell into passivity.  What's worse is that Central Asia is not like Europe with developed railway transportation. Before the war, the Soviet Union only had two railways entering the area east of the Aral Sea. Each railway supported four to five group armies. If it were to die, it could only support two hundred  A force of about 10,000.  Now that Pavlodar is cut off, the Caspian Southern Railway alone cannot sustain the needs of such a vast battlefield.  Therefore, even a light armored brigade cannot be resisted by two rear second-line infantry regiments.  In particular, the Falcon Commandos dropped from the sky to attack the airport, which made the Soviet army lose the confidence to continue to resist. When they learned that the Kazakh Cavalry Division had changed its tactics and crossed the Syr Darya River, the two infantry regiments even ignored the internal affairs troops in the city and abandoned them.  They tried to break out towards the Aral Sea.

    Beria was very capable. He reunited the Cheka less than three years after Qin Jian and Kuibyshev defected. However, the internal affairs troops were purged too much, so their combat effectiveness was far from comparable to that of the "Ivan Mir" era.  But the crazy energy has not diminished at all.

    Five T27 tanks belonging to the Soviet Internal Affairs Army lay crookedly in front of the Cheka Building on the Syr Darya River. This relatively rare light tank had brought painful harm to the people of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, but now it has been destroyed by 25  The tank was destroyed by a 40mm armor-piercing projectile, leaving only its skeleton covered with scorch marks.  As one of the most important targets, the Kazakh Cavalry Division immediately launched a fierce attack on the Cheka Kazakh Office after crossing the Syr Darya River. Due to the lack of attack firepower, the fight was very anxious. In the end, Zhuo Fan heard the news and mobilized four vehicles.  Type 25 tank and two half-track assault vehicles.  After continuous heavy bombardment with 105 mm cannons, the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs soldiers inside were wiped out by the Kazakh cavalry.

    ¡°Kill them, kill them!¡±

    When the Falcon Commandos arrived later and loaded a large amount of top-secret information onto trucks to be transported away, the Kazakh cavalry had already uncovered the surviving Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs and Cheka soldiers, and arrested a large number of officials and immigrants from the Soviet Union.  As the gunfire gradually subsided, the Kazakhs hiding in their homes came out of their houses. When they saw these soldiers and officials who stole cattle and sheep, forced them to collectivize, and appropriated large amounts of fields, thousands of Kazakhs would bury their hearts in their hearts for a hundred years.  He vented all his anger and rushed into the captives, punching and kicking them.  Resulting in hundreds of casualties.

    "Zhuo Fan." Seeing a large number of ordinary Soviet immigrants being picked out and beaten to death, Ye Zishan wanted to go up and give some advice.  But Zhuo Fan grabbed him and stopped him: "Let them vent, their grudge against the Soviet Union is too deep. Besides, you can't stop them all if you stop this kind of thing once. If we want to enter Central Asia, the Soviet Union must  Withdrawal is not just military and political, but also cultural and immigration! Sovietization and Slavification must be completely cleaned up through this method. It is better for them to do it than for us to do it ourselves."

    He is right. The Talos Plan included plans to confine or deport immigrants who did not belong to Central Asia after the war.  Therefore, as long as the results of this battle are officially announced, Central Asian nations, including Kazakhs, are bound to set off an independence movement.  If they want to be independent, they must cut ties with the Soviet Union, so this kind of thing will only increase.  The scale will also become larger and larger.  Perhaps it won't be long before the 3 million Soviets of Slavic and other nationalities throughout Central Asia will be imprisoned in prisoner-of-war camps or deported under various names.

    "Let's go, we don't have time." Zhuo Fan took Ye Zishan away. They really don't have much time now.  Military intelligence agents had sent news back from Turkestan.  After learning of the attack on Kyzylorda, Lieutenant General Katsalov, commander of the 29th Soviet Reserve Army in Turkestan, decided to set off immediately, and the leading troops could arrive here at midnight at the latest.  So after returning to the temporary headquarters at the airport.  Zhuo Fan immediately handed over the task of chasing the remaining Soviet enemies to Alexik, the commander of the Kazakh Cavalry Division.  This is an officer who secretly went to study at a domestic military academy ten years ago and is now one of the executive committee members of the Kazakh National Socialist Party.  He also asked Aleshik and the Kazakh Independent 1st Cavalry Division to send the captured Soviets and immigrants to the salt marshes. Without fresh water and horses, ordinary people could not get out of there on their own feet.

    Facing 60,000 Soviet troops, the city was the only effective blocking position on the undefeable Great Plains.  Therefore, Zhuo Fan also ordered the immediate evacuation of the city's 150,000 residents, organized a Kazakh volunteer army, and collected all weapons for use.

    After dealing with this, the first batch of reinforcements finally arrived.

    With the exception of two infantry companies, the first batch of support was mainly aircraft.  The arrival of 4 double-headed Jiao night combat aircraft, 16 Thunderbolts, 20 Snake Bs and 12 Ghost Vehicle dive bombers quickly provided an aerial protective umbrella for Kyzylorda.  Since aviation gasoline in the Soviet Union was very poor, in order to maintain ammunition and fuel consumption,The headquarters also sent 2 special oil transport aircraft modified from H-7 and 8 H-10 aircraft.  A full 20 tons of high-grade aviation gasoline and 32 tons of ammunition solved the problems of low-grade fuel seized and mismatched ammunition standards.

    By the time he finished eating, the number of infantry battalions in Zhuo Fan's hands had increased to four.  What made him really happy was the enthusiasm of the Kazakhs. In just one afternoon, four thousand Kazakh young people joined the volunteer army, and many more people were taking their horses from the Aral Sea and surrounding settlements after learning the news.  Come.  In the end, he simply asked the headquarters to reorganize it into the Kazakh Independent Second Division.  Since Lukin took away many highly maneuverable Cossack cavalry when he escaped, he was worried that he would come over to support him at this time, so the four wheeled armored battalions, which were of little use in the blocking battle, were led by the Kazakh Independent Second Division to protect him.  In the rear, he is also responsible for collecting young people who are willing to join the Kazakh Independent Second Division, and using guerrilla tactics to detour and contain the Soviet attack.

    Zhuo Fan is not an arrogant person, and he does not want to destroy the anti-Soviet enthusiasm that was finally gathered by the enthusiastic Kazakhs by prematurely engaging in a difficult blocking battle.  Therefore, it is impossible to defend it with just four infantry battalions, one half-track armored battalion and one tank company.  Just when he was worried, the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Armored Division, which had been rushing after receiving the news, finally arrived at 8 o'clock in the evening.  But what dumbfounded everyone was that Captain Zhao Dengyu, who was carrying a big knife, only brought 11 Type 36s and 32 Type 31s, and 6 of them were lying down as soon as they arrived.  "Captain Zhao, is this your regiment?" Ye Zishan was puzzled. A standard armored regiment of the National Defense Force has 118 tanks.  Moreover, the 7th Armored Division was formerly the Fifth Independent Armored Brigade formed after the new military reform in 1920. It was not a new unit, so even if there were losses in the previous battles, they were not that tragic, right?

    The heavy blade was placed on the table, making everyone feel chills.  What era is it?  Who would bring a machete to drill into the best tank in the world?  The bayonet on the muzzle is meant for close combat, not for killing people with a knife!  Zhao Dengyu didn't care about other people's opinions. He practiced martial arts since he was a child and never left his side with a knife since he was eight years old. Even when he became the commander of an armored regiment, he was reluctant to give up this habit. Even Li Zongren said this to him many times.  But it just can¡¯t be changed.  Fortunately, he also knew that times had changed, and there was no requirement that soldiers learn to carry a sword like him, otherwise the National Defense Forces would have an armored regiment with broadswords.

    After picking up the teapot and gulping it down, Zhao Dengyu began to explain.  It turned out that when he received the news, the troops had traveled continuously for more than 70 kilometers.  You know, even the best Type 36 tank has a driving and maintenance interval of only about two hundred kilometers.  Before the First Army attacked Karaganda, it took a long way to avoid detection.  Running two hundred and forty kilometers in one night is already the limit!  This time he ran 400 kilometers continuously, which directly caused more than half of the tanks to lie down on the road. In order to rush for time, he had to leave the lying tanks behind.  I took the one in better condition and repaired it all the way, and finally didn't waste any time.  But after this continuous torment, not only did the armored soldiers vomit and have diarrhea.  The 43 tanks that arrived must also be overhauled immediately, otherwise they will not be able to fight at all.

    "I can't help it. Lieutenant Colonel, how many mechanics do you have here? Give them all to me. If you don't repair them quickly, I'm afraid it will delay the big event." It is impossible to complete the overhaul of dozens of tanks in a few hours, but  We are not going to engage in a tank battle now. As a support point, small-scale maneuvers can still be completed reluctantly, so Zhuo Fan asked people to arrange for the tank soldiers to rest, and handed over all the mechanical repair power he could collect to the 2nd Regiment.

    When Zhao Dengyu wiped the corners of his mouth and took away the two machine repair companies, there was an explosion from the Communist International Youth Village 20 kilometers away.

    After collectivization, many youth villages and international villages appeared in Kazakhstan. These villages are actually collective farms.  After the assault brigade arrived, they established a defense line in the woods to the west. With the cooperation of the Kazakh Cavalry Division, they evacuated the entire village and dug out the railway.  Although handled properly, the fighting was still fierce.

    Although Kachalov¡¯s 29th Reserve Army is a reserve army, the Soviet army deployed several armored trains in Turkestan. These armored trains were used as forwards for this retreat.

    ??The eight 76mm guns on the two armored trains continued to blast the forest. Katsalov also invested 20 BT tanks and more than a thousand infantry in an attempt to pull out this nail.  The railway soldiers on the train also carried out the rails stored on the train under the cover of machine guns and artillery, hoping to repair the railway and continue moving forward.  Although Zhuo Fan's two Type 25 tank platoons deployed here fought hard to block it, they still couldn't completely stop the rails from being laid one by one.  At this critical moment, the two Y-3 gunships played a huge role. They continuously dropped flares to guide the direction, and violently strafed the ground with machine guns and 40mm grenades.

    Under the guidance of flares, the dive bombers that came to support quickly blew up the two armored trains.  Without the support of the artillery and anti-aircraft guns on the train, the Soviet army was unable to stop the attack of the Yun-3 gunboat, and had to retreat temporarily at three o'clock in the morning, leaving behind a large number of corpses.  But soon, with Katsarov'sAfter the troops arrived, especially after the T34 tank regiment that arrived not long ago entered the battle, the 40mm grenades on the gunships were unable to destroy these fast targets, and the troops had to abandon Youth Village and retreat back.

    Kachalov also knew that he could not be dragged here. Facing an open area after crossing the forest, he directly launched more than a hundred tanks. When the sky gradually became brighter, he also launched more than 80 aircraft at one go.  The Soviet pilots now know very well that their current equipment cannot stop their opponents no matter what, so the pilots' goal is very clear, which is to stalk the opponents and use their numbers to delay the opponents and buy time for the ground forces.  Therefore, when many aircraft arrive on the battlefield, their first thought is not to shoot them down, but to directly hit them at full power.  This crazy tactic really worked wonders, as three Hushe Bs and a Thunderbolt that were covering the ground were crashed out of reach.  However, after the Kyzyl Odar Combat Squadron changed its tactics and took the initiative to distance itself to avoid a dogfight, the Soviet pilots were blinded and 31 were shot down in just one morning.

    Compared with the air, the battle on the ground is more intense.  Since there was no danger to defend, and not all the tanks of the 2nd Regiment had been repaired, the 10 half-track assault guns, which were the main support for the defense line, took on the responsibility of blocking the first round.

    In order to make up for the disadvantage of insufficient armor and unfavorable terrain, the assault squad first dug a large hole in the ground, and then drove the half-track vehicle into it with only the gun barrel exposed. After reducing the probability of being hit, it fired violently at the charging Soviet tanks.

    The power of the 105mm cannon is amazing. It can destroy all BT tanks and T26 tanks except T34 from 1 kilometer away, so tanks are constantly being hit and exploded by them. Even the T34 cannot withstand the 105mm after rushing into 600 meters.  The power of armor-piercing bullets.  In this round of blood-soaked resistance, a gunner named Wu Wenhu and his squad set a record for single-cycle assault gun resistance, destroying 15 Soviet tanks in less than 30 minutes.  By the time the blocking battle was over, he and the artillery squad had even completed the feat of 27 vehicles!

    Of course, the losses of the assault artillery squad were also very serious. Since there were too many Soviet tanks and there was no danger of defending the plains, when the planes refueled and came back to support, seven of them had been destroyed. Zhuo Fan had no choice but to  Instead of ordering the air force to block it, let all the remaining half-track assault guns withdraw to the city.

    When the troops retreated to the city, nearly half of the two battalions, 20 tanks and half-track assault guns invested had been lost.  At this time, a piece of good news came. Xu Shuzheng decisively seized the opportunity for Katsalov to dispatch his entire army and parachuted two airborne regiments directly to the outskirts of Kentau in the east of Turkestan.  Because most of the troops were taken away, the airborne landing went very smoothly, and a field airfield was quickly established.

    Since the main force began to move westward, it was no longer realistic to retreat to Turkestan. Therefore, facing being surrounded, Katsalov simply ordered to abandon Kentau and Turkestan, blow up the supplies, and then attack Kyzylorda with all his strength to break through.  In order not to be held back, he, like all officers of this era, made a serious mistake, which was to devote all the remaining armor forces in his hands to urban offensive battles.

    ¡°For Stalin, for the Soviet Union, attack!¡±

    More than two hundred tanks covering more than 10,000 infantrymen poured into Kyzylorda under the slogan of the supervisory team (To be continued)
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