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    In the early summer of 1941, the war entered the most critical half year.  .

    In Europe, the United States is still mobilizing rapidly, and the life-and-death line in August is testing the nerves of Roosevelt and the generals.  England could no longer find safe land. The British Empire drained the last copper from its treasury, and Churchill placed all his bets on the Iberian Peninsula.  Under his leadership, thousands of Allied pilots fought bloody battles in the British Channel, in southern France, and over Madrid.  Faced with the obvious superiority of the Allied air power, G?ring, who was fighting alone, finally remembered that he had an ally. Mussolini, who clamored to defeat Britain and the United States and wanted to use the Mediterranean as his footbath, finally had the opportunity to penetrate deep into Spain again.  While sending pilots to the front lines to join forces with the Germans in an attempt to seize air supremacy, they also organized an Italian division of 200,000 to follow the Germans into the peninsula.  Nearly four million troops from Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain were fighting each other in the Castile region centered on Madrid. Tens of thousands of tanks crawled hard between the plateau and mountains.  Whether Gibraltar can be defended, whether it can support the second increase of U.S. troops until August, and whether it can consume the effective strength of the German army on the peninsula all depend on this battle.  At the same time, in the Balkan Peninsula in the second battlefield, Greece remained unyielding, and 300,000 British, American and Greek troops retreated to Thermopylae and continued to fight bloody battles.  The Yugoslav guerrillas headed by Tito were still active and cooperated with the Allies to harass the German and Italian logistics lines from all aspects, causing millions of German troops to be trapped in the Balkans.  Angry, Hitler launched a brutal manhunt, filling various concentration camps with bones.

    In Africa, when Zhu Jiande captured Mogadishu on June 5 and defeated the 50,000-strong Italian East African Army, Rommel also brought 200,000 German-Italian troops and hundreds of tanks, and his troops again pointed at the Suez Canal in Egypt.  But this time, it was no longer a harassment. Hitler had vowed to seize this chokepoint and cooperate with Guderian to completely close the Mediterranean Sea!  His old rival, the British Royal Navy, was unwilling to surrender. The revitalized Cunningham led the Royal Navy and, with the cooperation of the U.S. Navy, launched a battle for sea power with the Italian Navy.  Hundreds of US warships and transport ships took a detour from South Africa to continuously send supplies and soldiers to Alexandria.  The British General Staff also hurriedly transferred Wavell back to Egypt to lead the nearly half a million troops of the five-nation coalition of the United States, Australia, Canada and Egypt, and were waiting strictly on the Tobruk defense line.  The Middle East on the other side of the canal is also turbulent. The Golden Phalanx group in Iraq, the pro-German forces in Turkey, and the Soviet-Iranian front forces headed by Pavlov are ready to move, and a desert storm is about to form.

    In Asia, the frantic Chinese navy continues its rapid offensive.  Only one month after the Ryukyu landing, the 12th aircraft carrier battle group launched another attack. Zhang Zhaoyang led the just-delivered battleship Shanxi (the second Shandong-class ship), sister ship Shandong, four Yanjing-class battleships and six aircraft carriers.  In conjunction with the three aircraft carriers and seven cruisers of the 22nd Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, the Battle of the Crossroads was launched.  The two fleets swept across the Volcanic Islands and Ogasawara Islands east of Japan, not only sending the 5th Marine Division and three infantry divisions to the critical Iwo Jima, but also cutting off Japan's eastward sea route in one fell swoop.  In the end, it also covered a squadron consisting of two Yanjing-class battleships, four cruisers and two escort carriers, and detoured all the way north. Finally, in the Vladivostok fleet, one escort aircraft carrier (the third batch of escort aircraft carriers modified by the Vladivostok Shipyard) and four  With the support of a cruiser, it crossed the Kuril Islands for the first time and entered the Sea of ??Okhotsk. This not only enabled the navy to support Sakhalin and northern operations nearby, but also successfully blocked all sea lanes of Japan's main island.

    However, the most serious situation is still the hinterland of Central Asia, known as the Eurasian Continental Bridge. When the decisive Ryukyu and Korean campaigns started one after another, thunder came again from the hinterland of Central Asia that had been in truce for half a year.  The news that more than three million Soviet troops had regrouped and pounced eastward from a 600-kilometer front suddenly swept across the country.  The Yanjing General Staff responded actively, and a large number of air wings were transferred to the western front. The intensity of bombing against Japan began to weaken, the Burma offensive was temporarily suspended, and the railway lines to Central Asia were once again operating at full capacity.  A group of troops returned to China for vacation and embarked on the journey again.  With a war budget of 12 billion yuan, a total mobilization of more than 20 million yuan, 7 million frontline soldiers, and 3 million Asian Allied Forces, how can we get out of the predicament and secure victory?  Testing Yang Qiu's commanding art.

    June 9, Irgiz, north of the Aral Sea.  Artillery shells fell like raindrops inside and outside the trenches of the National Defense Forces. The 16th Army and the 33rd Army stationed here were old troops that had participated in several battles in Europe and Central Asia.  But even so, the Soviet army's ferocious and continuous shelling still made the veterans feel that the sky was falling and the earth was falling.  Everyone huddled in trenches and bunkers, enduring toxic fumes and violent and constant shaking of the ground.  Under the cover of artillery fire, gray-brown Soviet tanks appeared on the horizon one after another. Their cold tracks rolled up dust and swooped towards the defense line.

    "What the fuck! Is this still over? If you have the ability, go to the Ishim River! Where is the air force? Why haven't you arrived yet!" In the hidden command post, after seeing the Soviet tank cluster through the periscope, his head was filled with confusion.  HuaDu Zishan was very angry and kept asking where the air force was.  He is a native of Heze, Shandong and the former commander of the 49th Motorized Infantry Division.  In the counterattack of Rhezikazgan, it was he who ignored the obstruction of the officers and personally went into battle to encourage the soldiers. In just one night, he broke through the Algabas defense line left behind by Zhukov and helped open the passage for the main pursuit.  In the end, not only did Liu Mingzhao eat up Zhukov's main force, but he also surrounded Lu Jin in one fell swoop.  If Zhuo Fan is the sharpest knife in Liu Mingzhao's hand, then he is the heavy hammer that smashes everything.  It was the excellence of the two of them that allowed Liu Mingzhao to realize his pre-war plans and complete the epic counterattack of Rhezikazgan and the Battle of Petropavlovsk.  During his promotion at the beginning of the year, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and transferred to deputy commander of the South Kazakh Army. Two months ago, he led two armies to replace the originally garrisoned First Army to defend this strategic town.

    It is said to be a strategic town because the location of this place is so critical. It is located at the intersection of the Turgai River and the Irgiz River.  To the north is Kostanay and the Trans-Ural Plateau, to the south is the Aral Sea, and to the east is Alkalyk.  Judging from the map, it happens to be the most prominent part of the entire Central Asian defense line.  Du Zishan, who participated in the Battle of Rinivel that year, knew very well that no matter who commanded the Soviet army on the opposite side, and no matter where the main attack point of the counterattack was, heavy troops must be sent to deal with his own salient.  What's more, the benefits of capturing this place are obvious. As long as we capture this place, we can directly threaten Alkarek in the south of Petropavlovsk and form a large semi-encirclement.  So after he took over the defense here, he immediately improved the defense deployment again according to his own experience.  Not only did tens of thousands of earth-pile containers be used, but a large number of triangular defenses were built with anti-tank guns and hunter-killer tanks as the core.  These fortifications are connected in a continuous piece, each piece is similar to a large triangle, and within the large triangle are countless small triangles, all with the natural saline-alkali valley of the Ilguz River as the axis, forming a defense line 40 kilometers wide from north to south.

    The battle situation was as he expected. In order to eliminate the Irgez salient and level the offensive line to ensure the safety of the flanks, Timoshenko mobilized the Ukrainian 1st Group Army, the Southwest 13th Group Army, and the Moscow 48th Group Army from the beginning of the counterattack.  The 5th Tank Corps, with a total of 370,000 soldiers, supported by more than 700 tanks and thousands of artillery, launched continuous fierce attacks on this protrusion.  "Air Force, the Air Force is here!" While waiting anxiously, the long-awaited Air Force finally appeared overhead.  The black aircraft group, like locust-like groups of attack planes and dive bombers, quickly passed over the town and flew towards the Soviet artillery group.  Under the guidance of ground commanders, they quickly found their targets and launched fierce bombardments at the slow-moving Soviet artillery positions.  Bombs and rockets one after another instantly disrupted the artillery group's offensive, and shells continued to be detonated, forming huge mushroom balls.  Dozens of Soviet Il-2 and Lago-1 fighter jets that rushed in tried hard to drive away the attacking group, but they were jointly strangled by the Jianba Tianquan and Thunderbolt groups that swooped down from high altitude.

    After suppressing the artillery, the second group of attack aircraft began to attack the Soviet tanks in turns.  In particular, the H-10 bomb trucks and Huashe B attack aircraft in the fleet continued to use large-caliber aerial cannons in conjunction with newly developed small-caliber tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles to attack the fragile top armor.  When the attack group finally dispersed, the charging Soviet tanks were no longer in formation and had to retreat and reorganize.

    Taking advantage of this opportunity, Du Zishan immediately asked the officers to call each combat position and inquire about the injuries of the troops.  This is work that must be done between every attack and can help him understand the situation at each defensive point.  Every defense zone and highland woke up to the call, but only the most advanced highland, 412, never responded no matter how many calls were made.

    "Who is on the high ground?" After hearing the news, Du Zishan suddenly stood up.

    "The 1633rd Regiment and the 122nd Anti-Tank Battalion." The staff officer raised his voice: "I don't think they can all be eaten by the Soviet army. The line should be broken."

    Du Zishan frowned and admitted that what the staff officer said made sense.  No matter how strong the Soviet army is, it is extremely difficult to quietly kill one of its own regiments and an anti-tank battalion.  But he was still worried and immediately shouted: "Zhao Siyuan!"

    "Here we come!" A young soldier stood up.  His name is Zhao Siyuan (book friend: Chendong Guards), Du Zishan's bodyguard, and he is highly regarded for his quick thinking.  "You personally bring a communications class up there, and remember to bring the radio. Find out the situation on Highland 412 for me as soon as possible, and there must be no mistakes!"
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