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    From the beginning of the battle, the Strategic Bombing Group of the National Defense Forces Air Force, which had attracted world attention, seemed to have become invisible and spent most of its time performing tactical missions.  The reason for this situation is that, firstly, Central Asia lacks industry and solid cities like Europe, and secondly, the Soviet Union¡¯s industrial bases are all in Chelyabinsk and the west of the Caucasus, and there are no frontiers like Tehran and Karaganda.  Fighter escort bases often cause serious losses to strategic bombers.  In the end, Yang Qiu also wanted to try his best to protect Central Asia from being blown up, to leave a breath of fresh air to Central Asia, and to try to make the Central Asian people feel that the National Defense Forces were here to save rather than destroy.

    Although strategic bombing is rare, it does not mean that Central Asian cities are easy to fight.

    Because urban combat is the most troublesome for any army.  The Battle of Taraz proved that when faced with the dilapidated Tsarist Russian-era fortress city, the 29th Army and the 31st Army, without adequate firepower preparations, rashly attacked the city because of the success in the early stage. This has become the most common incident in the entire battle.  A bad scene.  More than 3,000 soldiers died, and more than 8,000 were injured, which greatly tarnished the victory.  Although they finally won this strategic city, they were severely criticized by the General Staff.  Therefore, even though Kyzylorda does not have a large number of solid concrete and steel buildings like European cities, the low and messy shanties and narrow streets are enough to give anyone a headache.

    It¡¯s not that Katsalov didn¡¯t know that the city was difficult to attack, but he believed that he had the advantage in strength and firepower, so he tried to invest heavily in overwhelming the assault brigade in one fell swoop.  This is due to the lack of concept of urban offensive warfare, thinking that the opponent can be overwhelmed by military strength alone.  But this cannot be blamed on him. Not to mention the Soviet army, even many generals in the current National Defense Forces lack enough attention to urban warfare.

    But Zhuo Fan is different. The National Defense Forces had their first taste of urban warfare in Reniwell during the last European War. For this reason, the National Defense University has specially opened an urban warfare subject. Moreover, there are lessons learned from Taraz, so he has already planned it.  Use the city to hold off Katsalov.  After the battle yesterday.  He mobilized manpower to drag the wreckage of destroyed tanks and aircraft to the main road, and buried useless Soviet ammunition on the roadside and in houses, and spread it with camouflage and fire starters.  In the end, they borrowed the jingy¨¤n from the Spanish Civil War, found empty wine bottles, and brought a large amount of crude oil from the power plant. They used gasoline, crude oil, cotton, syrup and a little explosive to make improvised incendiary bombs and distributed them to the soldiers and the Kazakh volunteers who volunteered to stay.  A small, well-organized city that could accommodate 200,000 residents was completely transformed into a chaotic area similar to Mogadishu in later generations.

    "Quick, it's right here." Han Shiwei rushed to the roof carrying a large 12.7mm anti-material sniper rifle.  This heavy sniper rifle uses 12.7*99 bullets and looks similar to the later v94. It is specially distributed to a small number of elite troops.  As the top sniper of the Falcon Group.  Urban warfare is simply a paradise for him.

    A heavy sniper, an H35 semi-automatic high-precision rifle, an H37 fully automatic rifle and a Kazakh guide with a Mosin Nagant are all the firepower of a four-person sniper team.  After he selected the weapons and installed the 8x scope that could only be used by special snipers, two T34s and two BT5s led an infantry company out of the distant street.  Han Shiwei would not waste bullets to hit tanks. Even if the armor-piercing bullet could penetrate the engine compartment cover of BT5, he still did not waste ammunition.  In fact, many people have misunderstandings that tanks must be fought first in street fighting.  However, after research and extensive exercises, the National Defense Force discovered that protecting the infantry of the tank is more troublesome. Only by maximizing the damage to the infantry can the tank be captured.  So he immediately chose a Soviet officer who followed behind and ordered the infantry to advance.

    When the four tanks turned across the intersection, he immediately pulled the trigger.  The powerful recoil made his shoulders ache. At the same time, the bullet had accurately severed the head and neck of the officer 600 meters away. The body still stood upright and bled for two seconds before falling.  The terrifyingly powerful heavy sniper kicked off the street fighting.  Before the Soviet troops could continue to penetrate deeper, juli¨¨ explosions spurted out from the room behind the tank.  After more than a dozen 76mm artillery shells and ten barrels of gasoline exploded at the same time, they not only threw up tons of rocks and bricks.  A large amount of gasoline is also thrown out, and the flaming bricks are like meteors and fire showers from hell!  It fell with a crackle among the tanks and infantry.  An entire infantry company was shrouded in overwhelming sparks, and the unsuspecting infantrymen were turned into charcoal in the flames. Even the soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were beaten by bullets fired from all directions before they could escape from the block.  In an instant, there are enemies hiding behind every window and building.

    The T34 at the front immediately wanted to withdraw when they saw this, but when they poured out of the sea of ????fire, Mohetar, who was promoted to the company commander of the Volunteer Army by Zhuo Fan, excitedly led a dozen Kazakh young people to aim the igniting incendiary bottle at the T34 engine w¨¨izhi.  A slam.  By the time the tank machine gun turned around, these guys had already disappeared into the complicated streets.  Because it is mixed with thick crude oil and syrup, the flame quickly adheres to the surface of the tank after the bottle is broken. Even though T34 uses diesel that is not easy to burn, the flame still spreads quickly.Come on.

    As soon as a tank crew pushed open the hatch cover and prepared to escape, Han Shiwei's 12.7mm bullets arrived.  boom!  In the crisp sound of gunfire, the half-climbed tank hand was torn off from the waist. His upper body rolled into the sea of ??fire, but his lower body was still hanging in the tank!  The remaining tank soldiers were suddenly too frightened to move. At this time, Mohetar emerged from nowhere and threw a Molotov cocktail through the hatch cover with all his strength.  boom!  There was a loud noise, the tank ammunition was detonated, and the T34, which had only been offline for less than two months, was scattered into scraps.

    The neighborhood Han Shiwei is responsible for is just a small microcosm of the battlefield in the entire city.  Looking down from the reconnaissance plane in the sky, in just a few dozen minutes, dozens of houses were destroyed by carefully arranged artillery shells and explosives. Block after block was plunged into a sea of ??flames. The Soviet soldiers who lacked protection howled and screamed. After machine gun fire,  Broken meat and blood were sprinkled on the road, and at least 30 tanks were destroyed by a rain of grenades and incendiary bombs!  What should be admired is that even as a reserve army, Katsalov's troops fought very tenaciously, but the lack of automatic weapons that can throw a large amount of ammunition in a short time made them fall into a trap consisting of H32 semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, shotguns,  In the fire net intertwined with grenade guns and HJ32 general-purpose machine guns, not to mention the H37 fully automatic rifle equipped by the Falcon Commandos, which is comparable to a light machine gun.

    Under the guidance of the guide, Han Shiwei changed positions.  After killing two Soviet officers hiding behind the T26, a half-track assault gun appeared behind the brick wall.  In order to guide the direction of the assault gun, he replaced it with a semi-armor-piercing incendiary bomb and aimed it at the leading T26 engine compartment cover.  The bullet penetrated the thin armor and ignited the gasoline engine.  The leader of the T26 suddenly burst into smoke, and the two T26s that followed immediately fired a shot at him, almost destroying the small building.  Just as Han Shiwei escaped from the small building, the half-track vehicle slammed into the wall and opened fire at the remaining two vehicles at close range.  Boom, boom!  Wu Wenhu and his artillery squad used their fastest speed to kill two T26s, and then pointed the self-defense general-purpose machine guns on the vehicles at the Soviet infantry.  "Hiss." Amidst the rapid firing, the Soviet infantry was beaten to the point of being turned upside down, and they had to leave the corpses on the ground and evacuate the street in a hurry.

    When Han Shiwei and Wu Wenhu started looking for the next target, Major General Sherichenko, who was in charge of the attack, was already dizzy.  I am afraid that the officers of the 29th Army, including Katsalov, did not expect it.  Urban warfare is actually such a scene!  "Retreat! Retreat." Faced with the chaotic battlefield, no one would be stupid enough to follow the opponent's footsteps and fight, so Major General Sherichenko immediately ordered a retreat.  But at this time, his troops had been scattered in more than thirty blocks, and there was insufficient radio coordination. It was impossible to withdraw if he wanted to.

    The troops were scattered and fell into fighting on their own. They wanted to withdraw but were unable to do so, and they lacked the necessary means to attack.  This situation made Katcharov anxious like an ant on a hot pot, jumping back and forth. In order to open up the situation, he finally accepted the advice of his staff.  Order the artillery to enter the city and use artillery shells at close range to destroy the buildings blocking the road.  This move was very effective. At least 30 122 and 152 mm heavy artillery were used in urban combat. The artillery did not care whether there were soldiers of their own in the building. They directly opened fire and flattened the buildings that blocked the tanks and infantry.

    ??Seeing smoke rising from both sides of the southeast.  Thousands of buildings were turned into rubble under the direct fire of artillery at close range. Zhuo Fan immediately realized that something was wrong!

    "what happened?"

    "Sir! Think of a way! Maozi invested heavy artillery, the firepower was too fierce! They bombarded the house at close range, and many people were crushed to death before they had time to retreat!" Ye Zishan's eyes were red.  He rushed into the command center covered in gunpowder smoke and smashed his helmet on the table angrily.  The sacrifice of a large number of comrades made him want to kill Katsalov with one shot after he had just made a great contribution.

    "Don't worry!" Zhuo Fan tried his best to stay calm.  He knew that at this time, he needed to be more calm.  If the officers are all messed up, the soldiers below will be even less able to fight.  So after walking around in a circle, he gritted his teeth and took out the last resort. He drew an arc-shaped red line on the southeast side of the city map, pointed at it and shouted: "Let Captain Zhao lead the 2 regiments to attack from the north! Zishan, do you see it?  ? This is your mission! Give you twenty minutes to let our people evacuate behind the red line. Call the Air Force. I don¡¯t care if it¡¯s a bomber or a transport plane. As long as it can fly, fly it for me. Put the prepared oil drums  Throw them all to the southeast and southeast of the red line! Order everyone to wear gas masks! If you don¡¯t have a mask, find water on the spot and cover your mouth and nose with a towel!"

    "Don't stop the offensive! Keep up the pressure and blow up all the houses you can see!"

    Zhuo Fan made a desperate move, while Katsalov saw that the bayonet tactics on the cannon were effective, and ordered to expand the results after sweeping away the decline.  But at this moment, he didn't know that Ye Zishan had once again led the airborne battalion into the battlefield, and also turned on the loudspeaker installed on the 25 tank to notify the troops to retreat in Chinese.  Even the Kazakh volunteers who rushed in took advantage of their familiarity with the environment to find wounded soldiers and hidden troops, and then withdrew behind the red line.

    "Blast him away!" Major General SherichenkoAlready red-eyed, he personally directed three 122mm howitzers to fire at the solid post and telecommunications office building.  One after another, the shells hit the four-story granite building hard. Just when it was about to collapse, a harsh buzzing sound suddenly appeared in the sky.  16 transport planes and 8 supporting bombers flew over his head in a dense formation, and then dropped 505 barrels of crude oil from a height of 600 meters!  "Be careful of bombs!" Sherichenko and the soldiers initially thought they were bombs and were hiding around, but later they discovered they were oil barrels, but by then it was too late.  Each oil barrel quickly deformed and cracked after hitting the ground, splashing out large viscous black oil spots.

    "What is the taste?"

    "It looks like sulfur."

    "Look, it's not a bomb, it's an oil barrel!"

    Seeing the cracked oil barrels on the ground and the crude oil spreading like mud, Sherichenko's expression suddenly changed!  "Retreat, retreat! Ignore the cannons, retreat quickly!" The screams became louder and louder, making the atmosphere suddenly tense.  No matter how stupid a soldier is, he can understand what his opponent is trying to do when he sees the oil barrels all over the ground.  But it was too late. The dive bombers and ground attack aircraft, which had been attacking the Soviet troops outside the city for fear of their own casualties, quickly turned around and accurately threw high-explosive bombs and rockets into the areas where the gasoline barrels were densest, including some scattered areas.  The oil drums were also set alight by lightning and armor-piercing incendiary bombs.  Amidst the intensive explosions and strafing, the crude oil dropped was quickly ignited!  The flames spread extremely quickly, turning into a prairie fire in the blink of an eye!  Hundreds of Soviet troops who had no time to retreat were devoured alive by explosions and flames.

    The Soviet Union is a big oil country, but a small oil refining country.  When Germany, Japan and Italy were concerned about oil supply, only the Soviet Union had the luxury of transporting millions of tons of crude oil to Siberia and Central Asia every year and burning it directly for heating and heating because of insufficient crude oil processing capacity and the cost of coal mining was higher than crude oil.  Generate electricity.  Because of this, Zhuo Fan, who quickly captured Kyzylorda for free, not only used the power plants to make incendiary bombs, but also figured out how to airdrop them directly to the most densely populated areas of the Soviet army and ignite them.  .  Because the viscous crude oil will release a large amount of toxic smoke after burning, many Soviet soldiers were choked to death by the poisonous smoke that eventually spread, even if they were not burned to death.

    In order to enhance the effect, Zhuo Fan stockpiled a full 1,700 barrels of crude oil at the airport, and ordered all planes not to stop. He used a thousand Kazakh volunteers as porters. As soon as the plane landed, they immediately moved it into the cabin, and then went around and set the oil barrels on fire.  Throw into the sea.  In this way, in just one hour, using the airport less than 35 kilometers away, 1,700 barrels of crude oil were put into the southeast side of the red line.  As more and more buildings were ignited, half of the city was shrouded in flames. Even Zhuo Fan had to order his troops to blow up nearby buildings, and also blew up the ice of the Syr Darya River and sprayed it with water pumps to prevent himself from being burned too much.  .

    The raging flames, the thick smoke that covered the sky, and the countless detonated shells were like a heavy hammer, which made Katcharov and the Soviet army dizzy!  But before they could figure out how many soldiers were drowned in the sea of ????fire, the tank regiment led by Zhao Dengyu had already detoured back to the north and pounced down (To be continued)
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