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    Whether the United States intervenes early or not, it will not change the situation in Central Asia. There are only two competitors in this inner continent, which is larger than Europe.

    East of Uletau Mountain, Algabas.

    On the slope of the hillside, a large group of Soviet soldiers buried their heads and used engineering shovels to build positions and fortifications.  The troops whose morale was high before departure were already lifeless. Apart from the sound of flying sand and dust, there was almost no sound.  This cannot be blamed on the soldiers. In three days and three nights, five tank divisions, eight infantry divisions, more than 3,000 artillery pieces of various types and half of the baggage were lost, and more than 30,000 soldiers were injured. This price was too great.  So when the news came back to Moscow, Stalin sent a telegram directly to the troops. He was so angry that he once wanted to relieve Zhukov of his command.  In the end, it was Golikov who begged for mercy and allowed him to continue to command Dai Zui and meritorious service for the sake of victory in the Soviet-Finnish war.

    Zhukov temporarily kept his seat, but the situation was already very bad.  From his point of view, he actually wanted to retreat, because the annihilation of the Fifth Tank Corps meant that this force could easily move south along Uletau Mountain to attack him.  However, Stalin stubbornly refused any reason to withdraw. In the telegram, he not only requested to continue the offensive, but also said that twenty divisions would be mobilized to support it.

    "Twenty divisions? We don't have that many troops." Golikov looked disbelieving.  For the Eastern Front, all the troops in Ufa and the Don River have been exhausted. Currently, there are only 160 regular divisions in the entire Caspian Sea and east of the Urals.  Among them, 40 divisions of the Siberian Front are in Siberia and the Ural region. Because Zhukov took away 15 divisions, half of them are still on their way from Europe.  The Karakalpakstan Front has 25 divisions to secure the high barrier east of the Caspian Sea, the Kazakhstan Front has 55 divisions, and the remaining 17 divisions on its own side, plus scattered in Alkarek, Cellino  There were no troops that could be mobilized from the garrison troops in Golla (today's Asnata), Kokchetav (today's Kokshetau) and other places.

    As for Tashkent, he didn¡¯t think about it at all, after Persia, the Caucasus and Europe mobilized.  There are already more than 250 divisions, but most of them are not full of recruits and lack weapons. Only Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics that are defending Germany still have 82 divisions of old troops, but even if they are shipped, there is not enough time.

    "Comrade Golikov, there are no reinforcements. Comrade Stalin hopes to use this method to let us persist." Zhukov shook his head.  He knows best whether there are reinforcements. After the failure of the Fifth Tank Army, the garrisons in the three neighboring states of Aktobesk, Kostanai and Turgai are all facing threats, so it is no longer possible to mobilize Lukin's main force.  Being held back again.  So what Stalin called reinforcements were actually the armed Red Guards and guerrillas after the war.

    His guess was correct. In the afternoon, the first supporting soldiers finally arrived to join them.  The so-called reinforcements of a division actually numbered only 2,200 people, most of whom were farmers and workers, wearing all kinds of clothes, and the means of transportation were also patchwork.  What's even more exaggerated is that they have one gun for every four people on average, and the entire division only has 2,500 rounds of ammunition.

    Although I am extremely disappointed, I finally have something to add.  Golikov immediately handed over the guns and ammunition of the injured soldiers to them, and scattered them into various units.  By night, more than 2,000 remnant soldiers who had escaped from Kurgason and a supply convoy from the Ishim River had arrived. However, only half of the total of 200 trucks, 500 pack horses and more than 2,000 transport troops had arrived when they set off.  .  The rest were all blown up by the Chinese Air Force on the way.

    "Compared with insufficient troops and insufficient supplies, Zhukov's biggest headache is where will the sudden appearance of Kurgason's enemies move?  In order to understand the scale and movements, he immediately found the soldiers who had escaped.  But the whole interrogation process was a mess.  The soldiers only knew that there were many Manchurian Tiger tanks, but no one could tell how many.  Some said there were a thousand vehicles, some said there were 500, and some even more outrageously said there were 5,000.

    The judgments of the officers and staff were also extremely confusing.  Some said that the opponent would attack south along the Ultau Mountains, some said that they would continue north to Alkalyk, some said that they would attack Aktobesk Oblast directly to the west, and some said that they would turn around and head southwest.  Between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, to flank the Karakalpakstan Front.  Due to the lack of sufficient intelligence and the loss of air superiority, even Zhukov and Golikov were unable to make an accurate judgment and had to decide to defend on the spot and wait for intelligence.

    "Compared with Zhukov, who is struggling, Zhuo Fan is much happier.  After a day's rest, the supply convoy coming from Agader replenished ammunition and fuel, and also brought a large amount of food and medicine.  Immediately after taking a train from Shymkent to Kyzylorda, and then transferring to trucks, 3,877 infantrymen from the Lodz Infantry Brigade of the Polish Army (Lodz is the name of a Polish place) also came to join them smoothly, which not only supplemented the previous  The lost infantry, and the multifunctional engineering tank battalion that came with them, also solved the problem of the army's lack of engineering tanks.

    Finally, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Force Yue Peng, Theater Commander Xu Shuzheng, Army Commander-in-Chief Qin Zhangshu, and Supreme Commander of the Polish Army Lieutenant Commander Kukol??, the Commander and Prime Minister of the Kazakh Independence Army, Prince Aylin, also jointly sent a letter of commendation, and officially reorganized his patchwork unit into the 23rd and 37th Armored Divisions of the National Defense Forces, and jointly awarded the honor of the Tiger Division.  Major General Odzinski's 10th Armored Brigade and Lodz Infantry Brigade were also officially reorganized into the 1st Armored Division of the Chinese Polish Army, awarded the honor of the Polish Eagle Division, and the honor of the Kazakh Independent 3rd Cavalry Division Tengri Division  .

    There are many examples of temporary units being transformed into reorganized divisions during the war, but the honor of the Tiger Howling Division cannot be won by just any unit.  There are many units in the Army that can fight, but there are only 10 divisions that can have the Tiger logo on their armbands, namely the 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, 3rd Motorized Infantry Division, 11th Motorized Infantry Division, and 22nd Motorized Infantry Division.  Chemical Infantry Division, 27th Infantry Division, 101st, 102nd, 103rd and 104th Central Guard Divisions.  I won¡¯t mention the familiar ones, but let¡¯s talk about the 11th, 22nd and 27th divisions. These three units all participated in the Qingdao Meat Grinder Battle. After going to France, they forcibly broke through Qi Qi under German artillery fire in the Battle of Renivere.  The Gefi Defense Line is an old unit that fought bloody battles with six elite German divisions on the highlands of Zabar Mountain to prevent the German encirclement.

    ¡°That¡¯s why Sun Chuanfang said that Chu Nan didn¡¯t treat Zhuo Fan badly, it was because the 3rd mechanized infantry division was the Tiger Roar division.  Now that the 23rd and 37th Armored Divisions have been included in the ranks of the Tiger Roaring Divisions, it not only proves the capabilities of the troops, but also shows that the Kurgarson Tank Battle was a turning battle.

    The Polish 1st Armored Division was awarded the Eagle Division, and the Kazakh Independent 3rd Cavalry Division was awarded the Tengri Division for the same reason.

    Although the armbands could not be issued immediately, the excited soldiers immediately painted tiger patterns on their tanks. Even the 3rd Infantry Division, which was already the honorary Tiger Division, also painted a large tiger head on the side of the tank.

    This is an honor.

    Three armored divisions, one infantry division and one cavalry division.  Zhuo Fan was no longer willing to be as simple as an arrow, so he immediately decided to divide his troops into two groups.  He led Zhao Dengyu's 23rd Division and the Polish 1st Armored Division to attack Alkalyk, and asked Zhou Yawei, the commander of the 23rd Division, and Wu Qiwen, the new commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, to lead their troops together with the Kazakh Independent 3rd Cavalry Division to first detour to the west of Tengiz Lake.  Block Kurgalkinsk and cut off Zhukov's retreat.

    At noon on May 7, two armored divisions arrived at the outskirts of Alkarek.

    ?Alkarek is the capital of Turguei Oblast and the southern gate into and out of Kostanai Oblast.  To the north is the Turgai Plateau and to the east is Lake Tengiz.  There was no railway here before the war began. It was not until the defeat of the East Kazakhstan Campaign that the Soviet Army, like the Wehrmacht, accelerated the construction of the Central Asian Railway Access Road.  Two railway divisions were mobilized to connect a 230-kilometer temporary road from the main road of the Ishim River.

    This is Zhukov¡¯s two most important material distribution points, but when Zhuo Fan arrived, it had been visited many times by the Air Force, and the destroyed train station and warehouse could be seen through the telescope.  Since the location here is very important, once it is breached, the Turgai Plateau will be undefendable, and Kostanay, the southeastern gate of the Urals, will be directly exposed to firepower. Therefore, the Soviet army has two full infantry divisions here, with a total strength of about 1  5,000 people.

    "Two armored divisions fighting two infantry divisions, anyone else would have thought it was easy."  But Zhuo Fan, who had experienced the Kyzylorda urban battle, was very careful.  Because he knows how difficult urban warfare is.  More importantly, from here on the troops will officially enter the Slavic cultural circle.  To put it simply, the Turgai Oblast, Akmola, Kostanaidu and North Kazakh Oblasts targeted this time are no longer the vast and sparsely populated areas in the east. Among them, Kostanai and Akmola are two  The state is Kazakhstan's largest granary.  It is also a resource supplement for the Ural Industrial Zone. The total population of the four states exceeds 2 million, of which more than 40% are Slavic.  These people are different from Central Asian ethnic groups such as Kazakhs, who immigrated here since the tsarist era.  Thoughts, behavior, etc. are all inclined towards the Soviet Union.  Moreover, under hundreds of years of subtle influence, the way of thinking and language of the Kazakhs and other ethnic groups here have also been Russianized, so many of them will not regard the Wehrmacht as liberators.  On the contrary, it was full of hostility.

    According to investigations by the Military Intelligence Agency, the Soviet Union established hundreds of Red Guards and guerrillas in at least these three states.  Although the weapons and equipment of these troops are extremely poor and the personnel are complex, perhaps one armored division can annihilate them all when placed in the front, but when they go deep behind enemy lines, they have to be careful to avoid falling into chaos.

    Major General Odzinski took the initiative to take over the task of testing the attack. Like Zhuo Fan, he was also very cautious and sent his own armored reconnaissance battalion.  In order to ensure a smooth attack, Zhuo Fan ordered to provide fire protection for the reconnaissance battalion first.  24 captured 122mm howitzers (this kind of artillery is very good, so the Wehrmacht often uses it in large quantities after being captured) and 16 105mm self-propelled howitzers roared first, setting off countless fireballs, rubble and shrapnel in the city that had been destroyed by the air force.  There was a hissing scream in the explosion.

    Using barrage cover, 29 Type 31 tanks protected two infantry battalions and took the lead in charging forward.  MergenesCaptain Ji is an old officer and is very cautious in his work. After setting off, he carefully controlled the speed and paid attention. However, before entering the city, the 31 tank at the front was still like a rocket, flying high with a loud noise.  , and then tipped over to the surface.

    "Landmines!"

    When Captain Merzynski shouted to remind everyone, dense rain of bullets rushed out from all directions, and many Polish infantry hiding behind the tanks were killed due to being caught off guard.

    "Commander Zhao, send three battalions to the north to outflank the back road. Artillery to increase firepower! Mine clearing trucks, mine clearing trucks come up! Engineering tanks are following behind. Do you see it? Bulldoze everything you can see! Don't leave anything behind.  Dead spot! General Odzinski, let your people follow the engineering tanks." (To be continued)
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