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    The night was as thick as ink, everything was quiet, and the oppressive atmosphere before the battle made it difficult for the soldiers on both sides to breathe.  After seven days of effective blockade, at the expense of suspending the Tashkent siege and annihilation campaign, Xu Shuzheng and Liu Mingzhao actively cooperated and gathered 6,500 105mm and 155mm guns along the line from Algabas to Taldesai in the east of Uletau Mountain.  mm, 130mm vehicle-mounted rocket launcher and 210mm howitzer.  Behind each gun emplacement are piles of ammunition.  Every cannonball was filled with insulting words.  The soldiers vented their anger and emotions in their own way.

    At one o'clock in the morning, when the harsh current passes through the headphones, the night is instantly ignited.  The Wehrmacht artillerymen, who had been disgraced by Zhukov's artillery a week ago, pulled the firing rope at the same time.  Roaring, rumbling fireballs rose from twelve kilometers away. The lifeless Soviet position was suddenly broken by the earth-shaking sound of artillery. The entire defense line was like a volcanic eruption!  The earth trembles and the sky changes color!  Huge clouds of mushroom-like smoke that swelled and soared hundreds of meters into the air gathered into one piece. Loud noises that could shatter eardrums continued one after another. The Soviet soldiers in the exposed cover trenches were beaten dizzy and ran away with their heads in their hands.  In the blink of an eye, the positions exposed on the ground were blown into pieces, trenches were broken, and soldiers were buried alive by the collapsed trench walls. More people were bombed to pieces, with broken limbs and broken internal organs mixed with dirt and foam.  The stone was thrown high into the air, and the shock wave visible to the naked eye was like gel, washing over the entire surface repeatedly!

    The terrifying artillery fire seemed endless, and swarms of heavy ammunition trucks were running back and forth. No one would show mercy to the enemy.  The artillerymen tore off their clothes and fired heavy artillery shells one after another with sweat on their backs.  There is no need to look at the target or distinguish it. There is only one command in the whole. Within 40 minutes, hit as many as you can!

    In the attack position in front of the artillery, 212 heavy tanks were waiting quietly.  The commanders pushed open the hatch cover.  Taking long cigarettes to relieve his boredom, the gunner repeatedly checked the sight and counted the yellow and orange bullets on the ammunition chain.  Behind and around the tank were elite commandos wearing steel helmets, wearing distinctive white cuffs, and holding various weapons.  The fierce gunfire and stagnant air made everyone sweat like rain.

    "Fire the bayonet!"

    The unfamiliar words that had not been seen for a long time made the blood of the soldiers responsible for the first round of assault mission boil.  A sharp bayonet came out of its sheath, and under the reflection of the artillery fire, it glowed as cold as blood!

    Fifty-one-year-old Du Zishan has gray hair.  Pushing aside the guards and jumping into the sortie trenches like young men.  As the major general commander of the 49th Motorized Infantry Division of the Second Army, his resume is dazzling in the eyes of the soldiers.  The Meat Grinder Battle in Qingdao, the first batch of Chinese infantry to break through the Siegfried Line on the Western Front in France, and the vanguard of the Germans in the urban battle of Renivell.  "The leggings need to be tight, so that you can bear the strength! No, you can't hang the grenade too far back. You have to lower your head and run according to the three-three tactics! The visibility is poor at night. You must sacrifice yourself with the squad leader, and the deputy squad leader must step forward in time.  The machine gun should suppress the fire point. Yes, you should shout when you are running. The louder the better, echo each other! Before jumping into the trench, throw a grenade first! Don't think that cannon can clear out the enemies. I have seen artillery fire several times more powerful than this.  Prepare."

    Du Zishan moved forward in the trench.  He comforted soldiers and checked their equipment, and personally adjusted some soldiers who were not prepared properly.  The division commander's personal care made many soldiers rattle the guns in their hands.  Finally, he picked up the rifle and raised the tip of his finger high: "This will make you more courageous! You don't rely on this to kill the enemy! You are happier than I was. The rifle shoots faster than the Mao Zi, and the lower magazine is loaded with ammunition.  Quick! So use your brain more. Use more bullets, bullets are always faster than assassinations!"

    "Who will lead the first wave?"

    "Reporting to the division commander, it's me." The thirty-year-old, dark-faced assault commander stood up.

    "There are 70,000 old men on the other side! They are hiding in the trenches waiting for you! So you must not only complete the mission, but also take care of your brothers!" Du Zishan, who had experienced the bloody cement pool on the Western Front, firmly held the regiment leader's hand. He understood  The enemy who stubbornly resists is so terrifying.

    The regiment leader was so excited that his whole body burned with excitement: "Don't worry, commander, we can't take the position, I'll show you my head!"

    "good!"

    As soon as he finished speaking, three red flares suddenly appeared in the sky.  Before the charge horn sounded, Du Zishan had already drawn his pistol and handed it to the regimental commander: "This was captured from a German general back then. Take it! Remember one sentence! Infantry is the king of war! Infantry, only talent  Really resolve the battle! Go ahead, kill them all! Solve the battle!"

    "Kill, kill, kill!"

    "The National Defense Forces attack!"

    With five minutes to go before the artillery fire ended, bulldozers and tanks jumped out of the attack position. The air was filled with the deafening roar of engines and the pungent smell of incomplete combustion of diesel.

    Almost as soon as the tank moved, Golikov jumped out of the bunker after the command was interrupted.  At this time, the staff officers were already panicking. They did not expect Liu Ming's edict to be so effective.Gather such a powerful artillery firepower group.  "Don't tell me the losses! When you enter the position, you must block the enemy!" Golikov roared. He knew that if he failed to break off the rear, not only would he be finished, Zhukov would be finished, but even Lukin's flank would be finished!

    So, this is the place for the decisive battle!

    The officers also knew the heavy responsibility and rushed into the position to mobilize the soldiers regardless of artillery fire.  However, the firepower of the Wehrmacht was so fierce that it completely suppressed the Soviet army and was unable to raise its head from the ground. Many soldiers were holding their guns and were shocked to death by the explosion of shells in the bunker!  As the last artillery shell fell, before the Soviet soldiers could take a breath, groups of bulldozers and tanks appeared in front of the position.  Compared with Zhukov, who was unprepared, Liu Mingzhao fought steadily, and his lineup of fifty heavily armed engineering tanks was a model of mechanized warfare.

    "Fire! Fire!"

    Amid Golikov¡¯s shouts, the Soviet army¡¯s positions were fully opened with firepower. Countless dazzling lines of fire sprang out from the high ground and rushed towards the steel behemoths.  The tracer bullets fired by the machine guns formed a magnificent death's sickle line.  However, the Soviet artillery fire was much weaker than the previous days. The thickly armored bulldozers and tanks ignored the damage at all. Even if they were occasionally hit on the side or a grenade exploded on the engine, they would not stop.  .  After the torrent of steel tore through the defense line, tens of thousands of elite assault officers and soldiers faced the flames and jumped into the trenches along the channels opened by the tanks.  While clearing the trenches, bulldozers and fire-breathing tanks also cooperated with each other to continue to strangle the second-line Soviet troops.  Fierce submachine gun fire continuously killed the remaining enemies in the position.  The remaining Soviet troops used human sea tactics to block the gap. Explosions and gunfire were heard in the position, and corpses and blood were everywhere.

    Du Zishan's care worked. With the dense grenades opening the way, the three thousand elite veterans of the 49th Motorized Infantry Division quickly rushed to the high ground marked 203.  In just two hours, Highland 203 was completely breached.  However, the leader of the commando team, who was taught a gun by Du Zishan, died here to protect his comrades. When the body was carried down, he was still holding the pistol.

    Ignore the sadness.  After receiving the news, Liu Mingzhao immediately dispatched a 210mm heavy self-propelled howitzer battalion, climbed to a height of 300 meters and aimed at Golikov's flank.  The heavy 110-kilogram high-explosive grenade hit the enemy from a distance of five kilometers.

    Golikov was unwilling to lose his position. In order to block the gap, an entire division was sent to regain the position.  The soldiers of the 49th Motorized Infantry Division tried their best to protect the artillery positions.  At the same time, on the front, although Golikov will not arrange Golan trenches, the traditional V-shaped anti-tank trenches still delay the advancement of tanks.  In order to open the gap, not only engineering tanks rushed to the front.  Combat engineers also used blasting tubes to continuously blast open gaps.  Soldiers from both sides fought for the gap and repeatedly strangled and shot at each other.  In order to deal with the tank breakthrough, the commando team organized by Golikov ended up drilling into the belly of the tank with cluster grenades.  And the elite commandos of the National Defense Forces.  Then use a dense rain of bullets to protect the safety of the tank to the death.

    As time went by, the heroic combat engineers finally blasted more and more gaps with their flesh and blood. Along the gaps, tank groups rushed to the trenches in the explosion.  Using synchronized machine guns to fire repeatedly, many gunners aimed at targets even within a hundred meters.  When the first ray of morning light peeked out, all five highlands of Algabas had been captured.  Behind the trench filled with corpses, a dozen soldiers faced the artillery fire and joined forces to plant the national flag on the top.  This scene was later photographed by reporters accompanying the army and became a symbol of the victory of the Chinese National Defense Forces and their return to Central Asia.

    The fall of Argabas caused a complete defeat for Golikov after the break.  By three o'clock in the afternoon, 30,000 of the total 70,000-strong rear troops had been killed directly, and the rest were either captured or fled in all directions. Even commander Golikov's whereabouts were unknown (it was later confirmed that he was rescued by the cavalry at the last moment)  Caught up with Zhukov's main force).

    After defeating Golikov's troops, Liu Mingzhao did not rest at all. He immediately ordered a total of 8 divisions to follow the Soviet army with the 103rd Division and the 2nd Armored Division as arrows.  All the soldiers worked hard and even ate while holding cans in their arms.  In this crazy pursuit, Zhukov's rear was constantly surrounded and cut.  By May 11, after two consecutive days of pursuit, Zhukov took advantage of the natural chasm of the Kurano Tepes River to reluctantly set up a defense line.  But before he could gain a foothold, Liu Mingzhao first used 12 divisions to confront him across the river, and then unexpectedly used the two Kazakh independent cavalry divisions stationed in Karaganda as arrows to cross the river from Kievka, 80 kilometers northeast.  , appeared behind him in just one day and one night.

    Since the National Defense Forces had abolished the division-level cavalry establishment, Zhukov never expected that Liu Mingzhao would also use ancient cavalry tactics, and he suddenly fell into passivity.  Faced with the defense forces surrounding them from all sides, they had no choice but to abandon the defense line they had held for a day again and penetrated into the Kurgalkin Forest.  But when he emerged from the forest and prepared to join Lu Jin, Wu Qiwen and others, who had been waiting here for several days, immediately launched a sneak attack!  After two days and two nights of sleepless strangulation, Zhukov encounteredIt was a tragic defeat. From the initial 25 divisions, 2 tank corps and the 30,000 miscellaneous troops that were gradually added later, the army was suddenly beaten to less than four divisions that successfully broke through, and the rest were all surrounded and annihilated.

    After consuming Zhukov¡¯s main force, Liu Mingzhao not only did not weaken Zhuo Fan¡¯s armored cluster, but instead once again gave him command of the two armored divisions coming from Karaganda.  As a result, Zhuo Fan's armored divisions increased to 5, as well as 1 mechanized division and 1 cavalry division.  And he did not live up to Liu Mingzhao's expectations. It only took him three days after eating Alkarek to take the 23rd Armored Division and the Polish 1st Armored Division back to Art, 210 kilometers northeast of Alkarek.  Basar.  Then they cleverly used a captured T34 battalion as bait, disguised as Zhukov's defeated troops, and easily deceived the defenders into seizing the train station in the west of the city.  By the time Lu Jin learned the news and ordered the garrison to retake the train station, the two armored divisions had already rushed into the city with lightning speed, not only cutting off the railway line to Ufa, but also seizing 210 vehicles at once and preparing to send them to Ufa.  The brand-new T34/76 tanks of the Kazakhstan Front, as well as a large amount of supplies and ammunition including 500 122mm heavy guns.

    The westward railway line was cut off, Zhukov suffered a disastrous defeat, and Lukin's flanks were completely exposed to the tyrannical Wehrmacht armored division, forcing him to give up the attack.  With 55 divisions, they retreated to Chelinograd (today's Asnata) and Kokchetav (today's Kokshetau).  But the troops were only halfway there when bad news came.  Two armored regiments and three infantry divisions led by Ye Weixun and Xu Xiangqian detoured 370 kilometers and suddenly appeared in Shuchinsk, southeast of Kokchetav, and captured the 947-meter-high Sinyukha Mountain highland in the afternoon.

    The highland of Sinyukha Mountain is a natural barrier between Shuchinsk and Kokchetav. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can directly overlook the train line going south from Petropavlovsk. The strategic position is extremely important.  Therefore, in order to regain the high ground, Lukin strictly ordered the five infantry divisions stationed in Kokchetav, plus his three vanguard divisions, a total of eight divisions to launch continuous attacks on the high ground.  During the three days and nights of siege, Lukin's Kazakh front forces suffered 40,000 casualties.  Still unable to capture the high ground, he was forced to abandon the railway line and head west through the wilderness in an attempt to take a detour to Petropavlovsk.

    But he didn¡¯t expect that Zhuo Fan, who had snatched Atbasar, was already waiting for him in the wilderness.  And at this time, Zhuo Fan's strength increased sharply again, because he transported more than a thousand tank soldiers by plane, and directly organized a total of 259 T34/76, 51 T26 and other tanks captured along the way into the sixth armored division and incorporated it into the cluster  .  Facing a frontal interception by three armored divisions, Lu Jin was still entangled by Zhuo Fan and unable to break through, although he invested a tank corps and five infantry divisions.

    At this time, Liu Mingzhao had already pulled out a full 55 divisions south of Akdem Mountain.  They merge into a huge arrow that stretches 300 kilometers westward.  Just like Schlieffen's revolving gate, with Akdem Mountain as the central axis, it swept thousands of armies from south to north!  At the far end of this large arc is Zhuo Fan's armor cluster.

    I am about to be surrounded.  Lu Jin and Zhukov had no choice but to cut off their tails to survive and led their troops northward into the Land of Thousand Lakes.  Just as they passed Lake Sheret Tengiz, they encountered the main force of Long Yun crossing westward.  After knowing that this kind of terrain armored troops cannot move, they cannot eat their opponents in one go.  Long Yun decisively gave up the idea of ????complete siege and led his troops to cut off Lu Jin's front and rear connections.  In the end, Lukin and Zhukov's main force of a total of 80 divisions and 3 tank corps (each corps had 3 tank divisions) returned to Petropavlovsk with only 19 divisions.  In addition, Zhuo Fan came all the way to continuously eat and expel the troops in the encirclement.  A total of 75 divisions and 720,000 Soviet troops were surrounded in the large triangle area of ??Chelinograd, Shuchinsk and Atbasar.

    ¡°One old and one young, based on only eight divisions and three armored divisions, they completed a deep penetration spanning 600 kilometers.  Although Zhuo Fan was unstoppable, Liu Mingzhao also used deep offensive tactics like mercury pouring down the ground, forcing Zhukov and Lu Jin to make constant mistakes, and finally successfully surrounded the main force.

    On May 21, after Liu Mingzhao¡¯s main force arrived, Zhuo Fan set off again and led six armored divisions to appear southwest of Kokchetav.  Interestingly, just as he was thinking of ways to attack, Ye Weixun and Xu Xiangqian also joined Long Yun, leading an armored division and four infantry divisions to volunteer to figure out how to attack the city from the east.  Because they were not informed in advance, both armies thought the other was the enemy, and the self-propelled artillery fired at each other five kilometers away.  Fortunately, the reconnaissance plane pilot discovered it in time, and the bombardment lasted less than five minutes, causing seventeen soldiers to be injured and causing a big mistake.

    Yang Qiu did not wait for the final result of the triangle area encirclement and annihilation. After learning that Liu Mingzhao's main force had crossed the Ishim River, he knew that even the gods could not save the festering Petropavlovsk, and even Tashkent had already  unimportant.  So that night, he took Jiang Baili, who came to meet him, and set off for Riyadh.

    ¡°At the same time that he left Central Asia, Li Zhenzhong, director of the Asia Department of the Military Intelligence Bureau, also quietly came to Saigon

      ps: October is the Historical and Military Month, and the editor asked Hippo to summon a monthly ticket!  Sweat, I rarely ask for a monthly ticket, so I¡¯ll shamelessly scream a few times this month!  Taking advantage of the monthly tickets being doubled on the 17th, brothers, give some of your monthly tickets to Hippo!  !  !  !  ¡­(To be continued¡­)
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