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    Tashkent is filled with smoke.

    Fiery artillery fire ransacked the entire city. The pre-war Soviet Union's first fortress in Central Asia was in dilapidated condition, with smashed rubble and debris everywhere.  The soldiers of the 137th Division Infantry Regiment huddled behind a stone wall, and dense bullets and artillery shells continued to fall around them.  Small gravels clanked on the helmets, and some unlucky soldiers were always injured in the occasional fireballs.

    In a three-story sturdy low building one kilometer away, four Soviet 76mm cannons poked out of the window. There were seven or eight machine guns around the cannons intertwined into a dense fire net. The 76mm cannons and machine guns firing continuously blocked the  The path forward of the 137th Division Infantry Regiment.  In order to eliminate this firepower point, dozens of soldiers have been killed during the charge.  "Come here, come here!" The regiment leader Zhu Dakui's eyes were red, and he waved loudly to a Zhenlei 1937-type 210 self-propelled howitzer coming from behind to support him.  Welded with a protective steel shield, the 38-ton monster immediately accelerated after receiving the signal. Its wide tracks crushed the gravel and rushed out of a wooden house that was destroyed by fire.

    "Kill it!" Zhu Dakui stepped up, quickly climbed behind the artillery shield, pointed at the fire point ahead and shouted an order.

    At a distance of just one thousand meters, Zhenlei 1937 does not need to lift the barrel at all. After the gunner adjusts the coordinates, the loader immediately inserts a 101 kilogram high-explosive bomb.  The power of the 210mm self-propelled howitzer fired at close range was astonishing. The surrounding soldiers only heard a loud bang. A corner of the low-rise building with an outer wall several meters thick was blown away. The flying stones and smoke spread to hundreds of meters away.  .

    "Come again! Be careful"

    After the gunner readjusted the coordinates, the Soviet counterattack arrived.  The dense bullets made the shield clang, and the remaining three 76mm cannons fired desperately.  Although the 76 shells cannot damage the thick shield, the shells still delay the reloading speed.  At this moment, there was a roar in the sky.  Two ghost car dive bombers with black paint on their noses swooped down from an altitude of 1,000 meters!

    "The Air Force is coming."

    "It's Hei Wuchang!"

    War is full of danger, boredom and numbness, so young men with strong hormones will always try their best to find fun in war.  Especially those proud pilots who paint all kinds of graffiti on their planes.  Among these signs, black impermanence is the exclusive preserve of the elite.

    So when they saw Hei Wuchang volleying down from the sky, the infantry regiment immediately burst into cheers.

    Liu Cuigang narrowed his eyes, piloted the war eagle like a hunting hawk, roared down, and accurately threw a 500 kilogram high-explosive bomb into the low building.  The low building that blocked the infantry regiment for several hours quickly collapsed like an inflated balloon.  The machine guns and artillery that were so arrogant just now were all destroyed in an instant.  "Damn it, you're only here now!" Zhu Dakui didn't know how to say good things about the air force. He looked at the arrogant Hei Wuchang and cursed angrily.  After his wingman also dropped two 250-kilogram bombs, leveling the entire low-rise building, he raised his hand and ordered the attack to continue.

    Liu Cuigang doesn¡¯t care what the Army thinks.  When you see that the target is destroyed, there is no need to continue strafing, and you immediately pull up the plane and take your wingman back.

    Scenes like this can be seen everywhere in more than a thousand square kilometers centered on Tashkent.  The battle for the southeastern peninsula, the Mediterranean storm, and the intensive Cairo talks did not affect the offensive in full swing here. With the formation of the Petropavlovsk encirclement, the Tashkent battle finally came to an end after months of delay.  Facing the Soviet Union's first fortress in Central Asia, the battle was extremely stalemate.  With no way to retreat, Apanashenko led more than 300,000 remaining Soviet troops to rely on the fortress city and the eastern mountainous area and fought very tenaciously.  Streets, towns, mountains, mosques, etc. all have to be fought over again and again.  at the same time.  After Stalin was surrounded in Petropavlovsk, he issued an order through the Military Council, requiring the entire Soviet Union to take action, and everyone must participate in the battle to defend the Soviet Union.  Anyone who panics or is timid will be shot on the spot.  From the date of the order's issuance, every commander, Red Army soldier, and political worker must abide by an iron law: without an order from the Supreme Command, no one is allowed to take a step back!

    Although Stalin ordered that China be consumed in Tashkent as much as possible to buy time for the Petropavlovsk counterattack.  But under indiscriminate bombardment from aircraft and artillery, there was no support.  Apanashchenko's department, which was short of supplies, was still surrounded by a shrinking circle.

    After a beautiful landing, Liu Cuigang got out of the cockpit.  "Captain, the co-captain asked you to go to the conference room as soon as you come back."

    "Okay. By the way, give me another star." Liu Cuigang threw his helmet to the ground crew and pointed at the gold star next to the cabin that represented the number of effective bomb drops.

    "Good guy, I can't even draw anymore." The ground crew nodded, counting the densely packed Venus, wondering if it was painted on the other side?  Liu Cui didn't care where he was painting just now. For him, every mission was a challenge to himself, otherwise he wouldn't have diverted to the dive bomber.  After arriving at the conference room, it was already crowded with people from all over the war zoneOur partners, including Xiong Bofei, a so-called aerial tank who has effectively shot down 67 aircraft, are here.

    "Bo Fei, why are you here too?"

    Although the war zone is large, the Air Force has much more freedom than the Army. There are often social gatherings among pilots, so everyone is familiar with it.  "I also want to ask you, if your Seventh Brigade can't complete the task, why don't you ask our Third Brigade for help? If you want to help, you can give me three bottles of Maotai first."

    "You are so brave to take advantage of the situation. It's a pity that you don't have a chance. We have just blown up the last few bunkers. It is estimated that the army will finish the job in three days at the latest. I originally wanted to apply to Petropavlovsk in the afternoon to steal your job."  Woolen cloth."

    "Then why did you call us?"

    "Look, the Fourth Brigade is here too."

    While the pilots were laughing and chatting, several more ace pilots from the brigade came from outside.  But like Xiong Bofei, they knew nothing about the sudden summons from the headquarters.  Just then, a shout came from outside.  "Stand at attention!" Air Force Deputy Commander Yu Lei and several wing captains walked in from outside.

    "Everyone, please take a seat." Yu Lei is considered an expert in the Air Force's strategic bombing theory.  Because he was the first officer to elaborate and conceptualize the use of strategic bombing to destroy the enemy.  However, due to the long distance to the northwest and the lack of good forward airports, his theory has not yet been implemented.  However, the book "Above the Sky" written by him has been widely circulated within the Air Force. Even the European and American air forces praised it as another air force masterpiece after "Air Dominance".

    Yu Lei is a very capable officer. He glanced at the pilots who were whispering to each other and said: "No need to guess. I asked you to come here today to select 50 of you to lead the British Air Service Regiment to the UK."

    "Going to England?"

    "Deputy Commander, are you going to fight the German Air Force?"

    "Yes." Yu Lei said: "I have received news that tomorrow morning at the latest, the President will sign an alliance agreement with British Prime Minister Churchill in Cairo! According to the agreement, we will dispatch three fighter groups and one transport aircraft group, with a total of 1,500 pilots  and ground crews to form an air support group to the UK to ensure the safety of its airspace. The Leiden and Yunshi troops going to the UK are assembling to Kashgar and will depart in three days at the latest. I want to remind you! This mission is very different. What you are facing  He is the best ace pilot in Europe, so the Chief of General Staff decided that this time it was all voluntary"

    As soon as he finished speaking, there was an explosion in the conference room. Liu Cuigang bumped into Xiong Bofei with his shoulder: "Bofei, are you going?"

    ¡°I won¡¯t go, I¡¯m going to kill that bastard!¡± Xiong Bofei shook his head.

    "Why, are you still thinking about that?" Liu Cuigang knew that over the past year, Xiong Bofei had been brooding over the incident of almost exposing the Balkhash Lake crossing, so he had always wanted to personally shoot down Malasev, who was already the Soviet ace pilot.  .  "I heard that guy was transferred to the rear. I'm afraid you won't be able to wait."

    "Hmph! Then kill all the cannon fodder that was sent to see if he can get out." Xiong Bofei snorted coldly, turned around and asked, "Are you going? There are all German elites over there."

    Liu Cuigang stretched out, seemingly not hearing the warning, and smiled: "To tell you the truth, I just want to fight the Germans to see who is the best in the world!" After the Battle of Ahvaz in Persia, China  On the surface, the air force is regarded as the number one in Europe and the United States, but privately many people are not convinced. Especially after the Battle of France, there has been a dispute about which Chinese and German air forces are stronger. Europe and the United States prefer Germany, so many Chinese pilots, including Liu Cuigang, dream of  Fight against the best pilots in Germany.

    "Remember to bring back two BF109 and FW190 for me." Xiong Bofei laughed and patted Liu Cuigang hard: "If you die, I will avenge you."

    "It's just you? Let's kill Malasev first."

    "Ha ha"

    On July 3, 1940, the day the air service regiment to Britain was formed, big news came out of Cairo!

    After five days of negotiations, Yang Qiu and Churchill reached an agreement and formally signed and issued the "Cairo Declaration" in front of reporters from all over the world.

    In the declaration, the Chinese and British governments stated that they would abandon their contradictions, jointly respond to the global war crisis, and jointly defeat the Nazis.  At the same time, the Chinese and British governments also elaborated on their opinions on the future world structure, how to expand the role of the League of Nations, and maintain world stability.  Finally, the two leaders jointly issued a declaration against Japan, demanding that Japan immediately withdraw its troops from the occupied areas and hand over areas leased after the Paris Peace Conference such as Sakhalin Island, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and New Guinea.  under the jurisdiction of the Chinese and British governments.

    At the same time, according to the agreement behind the declaration, the Chinese government will dispatch an air service regiment including 420 Thunderbolts and 118 Y-10s to the United Kingdom in three days. At the same time, it will declare war on Germany and Italy within two weeks, and choose an opportunity to declare war on Japan within a year.  At the same time, Britain will also attack the Soviet Union after China declares war on Germany and Italy.War.

    With the signing of the Cairo Declaration, the Eurasian War officially transitioned into a world-class alliance war.

    The Second World War takes shape.

    On the day the Cairo Declaration was signed, leaders of a total of 20 countries and regions including France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and North Korea simultaneously declared war on Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union.  (To be continued)
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