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    The Soviet counterattack gradually became more intense. With the support of artillery and tanks, millions of Soviet troops launched a series of crazy attacks on the Central Asian defense line.  .Under the command of Timoshenko, Lukin and Rokossovsky respectively led the Central Front, the Siberian Front, and the First Ural Front to simultaneously launch an attack on Petropavlovsk from Kurgan and Kostanay.  attack.  Kirponos and Malinovsky led the Second Ural Front and the West Kazakh Front to attack Lake Sarykopa and Irgiz.  In order to open up the situation as early as possible, the Khanty-Mansiysk Front Army was also formed, led by Vasilevsky. After gathering in Khanty-Mansiysk in the north, it quickly moved south along the Irtysh River to Omsk, a strategic town in Western Siberia.  Pretty close.

    Timoshenko is like a competitive stallion. He uses standard cavalry tactics from the moment he comes up, attacking on multiple lines and with multiple heads at the same time, trying to overwhelm the defense line with a quick attack.  Meisheng, who was also a cavalryman, was not to be outdone. He first asked Sun Chuanfang and Fan Shisheng to lead twelve armies to personally guard the Petropavlovsk and Ishim River defense lines, and then led the 102nd Armored Division, 4th Armored Division,  The 77th Motorized Infantry Division, the Polish 1st Army, and 4 Kazakh Cavalry Divisions formed a right-wing group, and appointed former 1st Armored Division Commander Lexwen as commander to attack Vasilevskiy head-on.  Dai Jintang and Li Yuguo were ordered to form the middle group and lead four armies to defend the Sarekopa Lake area. They also mobilized a total of two armies from Karaganda, Kyzylorda and other places to rush to Duzi Mountain in the Irgiz salient at starry night.  department.

    On June 12, Lexiwen used the 102nd Armored Division and the Polish 1st Armored Division as arrows to cross the Irtysh River from Tara. It took two days to bypass the Imgot Swamp and suddenly appeared in Nizhnyvartov.  Sk.  Although the Soviet troops stationed here resisted tenaciously, under the impact of two armored divisions and two cavalry divisions, they could only hurriedly retreat to Surgut in the northwest, leaving thousands of corpses behind.  Faced with the precarious situation on the flanks, Vasilevsky defied all opinions and also used a detour with the main force of eight divisions to capture Zaevozkino at the junction of Tyumen and Omsk Oblasts.  Lexiwen immediately responded with the 77th Motorized Infantry Division and the Polish First Army, quickly captured the strategic town of Ishim, and sent the 4th Armored Division westward towards Tyumen!  Vasilevsky did not give up, and simply took advantage of the complex terrain and dense forests in the cold area to break up the troops into pieces and try to continue to advance towards Omsk.  This tactic worked, and Leshiwen had no choice but to suspend the pincer offensive and split his troops to disperse and block the attack.  A total of more than thirty divisions from both sides launched a thrilling strangulation battle in the cold area.

    When the right wing was in a stalemate, Mei Sheng, who never liked being constrained by positions, used Xu Xiangqian as an arrow to mobilize three armored divisions, two motorized infantry divisions and three Kazakh Turkmen infantry divisions, starting from Nikolaye in the middle of the Ishim River.  The Russians broke through and captured Troevratski with lightning speed, cutting off the eastern railway connection between Kurgan and Kostanai in one fell swoop.  Timoshenko was horrified after hearing the news, but Rokossovsky, who commanded the Central Front Army, was unmoved. Instead, he asked the Ukrainian Third Army to counter-penetrate along the gap opened by Xu Xiangqian's troops, and successfully crossed Iraq in one fell swoop.  Mu River.

    After Xu Xiangqian heard the news, he immediately turned around and prepared to cut off the connection between the Third Ukrainian Army and the Kurgan and cooperate with the main force to eat up the enemy. However, at this time, Lukin's Don River Army quickly approached Leninskoye from south to north, causing him to miss  Good opportunity.  However, he did not sit still and immediately detached five divisions. Pretending to be worried about being flanked, he quickly retreated eastward.  The eager Soviet army did not realize the danger. When Kurochkin led 330 tanks of the 3rd Tank Corps in a hurry to Sergeyevka, they were immediately ambushed by the 101st Armored Division and the 17th Armored Division.  With the cooperation of more than 100 aircraft attack aircraft, more than 500 tanks from both sides fought fiercely all day and night.  In the end, Soviet Lieutenant General Kurochkin was killed on the spot, and 273 of the latest T34/85 and KV100 tanks were destroyed, while Xu Xiangqian only lost 47 Type 36 Siberian Tiger main battle tanks.

    "The Steel Battle of Sergeyevka" was another tank battle between China and the Soviet Union after the Kurgason tank battle.  This battle once again exposed the disadvantages of the new Soviet army's poor experience and obvious equipment gap.  The steel debris covering the Sergeyevka Valley completely chilled the Soviet tank force. Until the end of the war, the Soviet command never invested more than 100 tanks in armored battles.

    The destruction of the Third Tank Army forced Lu Jin to withdraw his fist.  Li Yuguo saw the opportunity and organized four divisions to capture Kushmulun, using Jiang Xianyun's 76th Motorized Infantry Division and Qiu Qingquan's 63rd Motorized Infantry Division as arrows, facing Xu Xiangqian's troops from a distance, forming two prominent arrows against Kostanay.  .

    Le Shiwen, Xu Xiangqian, Jiang Xianyun, Qiu Qingquan, as well as Vasilevsky, Lu Jin, Rokossovsky, etc., these commanders used classic interludes and counter-interpenetrations again and again, using almost  The same large-depth combat thinking demonstrates their outstanding military command capabilities.  However, the local splendor could not conceal the anxiety of the overall war. Faced with the overwhelming superiority of the Central Asian coalition's air strikes, the Soviet army quickly lost air supremacy. The endless bombs and the fighter planes flying across the sky like locusts made many Soviet officers unable to even  ?Look at the number of casualties sent every day!  Mei Sheng and Sun Chuanfang were equally uncomfortable. Even though the Air Force worked tirelessly, Lu Jin and Rokossovsky were a perfect match. Except for the accident of the Third Tank Army, their offense and defense were very balanced, so they could not find a gap for counterattack.  .

    When the war in Central Asia was raging, the Persian Gulf was also raging.  The rebellion in Iraq did not escape the attention of MI5. As early as April 3, when the British-hating Rashid Ali Al-Agrani came to power, MI5 warned Churchill that the Soviet Union was strengthening its  activities in Iraq, and Soviet soldiers disguised as guerrillas entered Mosul.  However, due to the tight situation in Spain and North Africa at the time, and because Churchill believed that the Iraqi army had no combat effectiveness, almost all Middle Eastern troops were transferred to the Mediterranean to participate in the war.  This serious misjudgment led to the rapid fall of Habaniya Air Force Base and the capture of more than 4,000 British troops.  In order to make up for his mistake, Churchill called the attention of China's Persian Army when there were no troops to deploy. However, Bai Chongxi rejected the proposal to send troops from Kuwait on the pretext of attacking Tehran.

    While Churchill was trying his best to take back Iraq, Hitler was in a state of excitement.  On the day the Iraqi army captured Habaniya, he approached Goering to discuss forming a 'Middle East Army'.  Of course Goering immediately applauded, and overnight he found Air Force Colonel Werner Juncker and authorized him to form a special air force to serve as the vanguard.  In his order to Werner, Goering stated: "The F¨¹hrer hopes that the action will set off an anti-British jihad among the Arabs."  Colonel Warner also lived up to the trust of the head of state. When the British Ambassador to Iraq, Sir Cornwallis, left Ahvaz, 24 bf110c fighter jets, 7 he111h bombers, 30 ju52 and 7 ju90 were painted with the Iraqi Air Force logo.  The transport plane arrived at Baghdad Airport via Yugoslavia and Syria controlled by Vichy France, bringing 340 elite paratroopers with it.

    On June 15, Mussolini also suddenly intervened. 16 CR-42 fighter jets and 20 JU52 transport aircraft from the 155th Squadron of the Italian Army flew to Kirkuk, and 277 of the first batch of Italian paratroopers joined the "Jihad" plan.  .

    Su Deyi intervened one after another, and Bai Chongxi had no troops to send, so Churchill had no choice but to ask the United States for help.  Roosevelt, who was immersed in the Siberian referendum, did not want Iraq to fall into Yang Qiu's hands, so he immediately asked Eisenhower to find a way.  Eisenhower, who had been defeated steadily by the German army, had no choice but to use the soldiers defeated in Algiers overnight to form three infantry regiments and send them to Alexandria by transport plane, and then let them fight with more than a thousand local soldiers.  The Marine Corps cooperated to help the British army attack Iraq.  Churchill also gritted his teeth and transferred the 10th British-Indian Division from Egypt to Jordan.

    Taking advantage of the British and American intervention in Iraq, Bai Chongxi was not idle. He assembled fifteen divisions and took five days to capture Qom in one fell swoop and opened the final passage to Tehran.  At the same time, Du Yuming led six divisions of the Turkmen Army and four divisions from Afghanistan and Iran to also attack westward along the Caspian Sea.  Within seven days, the four cities of Bekhshahr, Neckar, Sari and Babol were captured, forcing Pavlov to defend only along the Damavad Mountain and the Nizwar Mountain, completely losing the initiative in the Iranian theater.  .  After Bai Chongxi captured Qom, he did not rush to encircle Tehran. Instead, he asked Li Jin to lead three divisions, with the cooperation of the Iraqi army, to move towards Hamadan and Kurdistan Province. While deterring Baghdad from the flanks, he also hoped to cut off Tehran.  Connection with Tabriz.

    Although Tehran was in danger of being encircled, the situation where both Chinese Turkmen and the Persian Gulf Army were contained was exactly what Stalin wanted to see, so he personally called Timoshenko on the front line and asked him to seize the situation where China had few reinforcements.  Opportunity to attack with all strength and recapture Petropavlovsk.  Just when he was complacent, a piece of important information made the Kremlin experience the bone-chilling cold of winter again!

    The area east of the Yenisei River is about to hold a regional referendum to secede from the Soviet Union!

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    Norilsk, a small border town in the far north of Krasnoyarsk Oblast in the Soviet Union, is famous for its high-grade nickel, copper, platinum group and other non-ferrous metals.  Historically, this was one of the most important penal colonies for criminals during the Great Purge era, but it was different in this time and space.  Since China forcibly controlled Krasnoyarsk by force in 1920 and cut off the Soviet Union's east-bound Siberian Railway artery, the entire Soviet area east of the Yenisey River has been plunged into long-term guerrilla warfare and turmoil.  War and famine caused millions of Soviet immigrants to leave or die, causing the local population to drop from 2.7 million in 1918 to less than 330,000!  After the economic crisis broke out in 1929, in order to stimulate the economy.  Yang Qiu borrowed money aggressively to launch an infrastructure boom to revitalize China.  Driven by various engineering and metal and oil processing industries, a large number of Han families began to move to northern provinces such as Chita, Beihai (now Irkutsk) and Wulianghai, and the population quickly expanded to 3 million.  In order to continue to expand northward, Yang Qiu ignored the strong protests of the Soviet Union and used the army to build cheap narrow-gauge roads that penetrated into Yakutsk and other areas of the Soviet Union, setting off a gold rush and mining boom in the Far North.  Guided by newspapers and lured by huge wealth, northern immigrants began to move deeper into the Arctic cold.  In early 1933, two Chinese naval icebreakers evenWe successfully took the Northeast Passage, crossed the Bering Strait and arrived at the New Siberian Islands for water pattern survey.

    Up to now, excluding Chita and other northern Chinese provinces, there are a total of about 500,000 Chinese immigrants living in Soviet Eastern Siberia, accounting for 50% of the local population. Most of them are employees and family members of industrial and mining enterprises.  .  Stalin hated this so much that he once planned to build an Arctic railway, but it ended because the technology could not be realized.

    After the launch of the 3010 plan, the domestic demand for rare non-ferrous metals began to intensify, promoting the process of the "Northwest Geological Discovery".  It was also at that time that Norilsk was discovered to have a large amount of nickel-copper and platinum-group minerals, which were eventually taken over by China Northern Mining Company for development.  After several years of development, not only thermal power plants, smelters and food processing plants were built, but also a larger industrial residential area was formed.  Currently, about 7,000 residents live here, 90% of whom are workers and family members of mining companies, and the rest are nomadic Evenki people.  Because it is so remote, you can only travel here from the Yenisey River from May to October every year. The rest of the time, you have to rely on scheduled flights.  In order to prevent Soviet attacks, a guard camp is stationed here all year round and there is a large indoor hangar.

    When Karis arrived here on a Chinese Air Force transport plane, there were still light snowflakes in the sky.

    "Ah! It's so beautiful here. Look, it's going to snow again." A female reporter from China had obviously never seen the snow in June and couldn't help shouting.

    The reporters were quickly put into a truck by the soldiers. Karis sat in front, his eyes circling Gu Yuwen who accompanied them several times.  "Mr. Karis? How can I help you?" Gu Yuwen, who speaks English very well, turned around and asked.

    Caris knew that this young man, like Hopkins, was one of Yang Qiu's most trusted personal advisers and had participated in many national decisions.  So I wanted to get something out of him: "Mr. Gu, why does your country organize such a vote? This is Soviet territory."

    "This is indeed the land of the Soviet Union, but that was only in the past. Mr. Karis, have you forgotten? Our current work, where the soldiers have paid blood and sacrifices, is not to break oppression and barbarism? So the president believes that since we  After liberating this place, the people here should be given the right to make free choices." Gu Yuwen was very eloquent and spoke impeccably.

    "But this is a mining area invested by your company, and the workers are also citizens of your country. They should have the right to vote."

    "No, no, you are wrong! Since they live and work on this land, they should have the same right to choose as the locals! Every citizen here should have it. Isn't this what our two countries have been doing?  Do you advocate freedom, justice and open cooking?¡±

    Carisi moved his lips. Gu Yuwen¡¯s sharp words made him unable to find words to argue for a moment. You can¡¯t say that the United States is ignorant, right?

    Gu Yuwen smiled and pointed to the ballot box placed next to the soldier: "I heard that you and the president witnessed the birth of the Chengcheng Act more than 20 years ago. Then you should be able to feel that this country also has no shortage of  The right to freedom does not lack justice. Today, you will witness it again." After saying that, the car arrived at its destination. He opened the door first, turned around and waved to the reporters, "Come on! Let's use your cameras together.  and a camera to record the first justice and the right to choose freely on Soviet soil!" Karis smiled helplessly and had no choice but to get out of the car with everyone.

    After getting off the bus, the ballot box was already placed at the entrance of the eye-catching town hall. Thousands of workers and nomadic residents lined up in a long line, entering the covered ballot filling area one by one, and then walked out to put their ballots into the ballot box.

    ¡°Hurry up, do you see, foreigners are here. I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s the Americans or the British.¡±

    "How can you be sure it's from Britain and the United States? Maybe it's from other countries."

    "You idiot, in the eyes of our great president, besides Britain and the United States, who else can he want to see? In my opinion, I'm afraid he invited them to watch the voting. Forget it, if you don't talk about it, you kid has been careless. Don't take advantage of it later.  wrong."

    "Boss, don't look down on people. I, Yasuko, am usually confused, but at least I am someone who has been taken care of by the president and has gone to middle school!"

    "You kid, you just open your mouth. Come on, let's all add up. This is a big deal. We must not delay the President's important event." "Yes, we must add up, we must add up! Opening up new territories, haha, it takes hundreds of years.  Something big is missing."

    The arrival of reporters aroused curiosity and discussion among the residents. Everyone whispered and reminded themselves repeatedly not to make the wrong choice.

    There was no quarrel, no fuss, everything was completely different from what Karis had imagined before he came.  Not to mention those excited Chinese immigrants, even the local ethnic minorities happily enjoyed the right to choose for the first time.  Open and transparent ballot filling and voting?, so that he can't find any flaws.  Of course, except for the majority of Chinese faces.  A few hours later, the voting closed.  When he took a picture of the ballot box being sealed and loaded onto a transport plane by heavily armed soldiers, he was reminded of that scene more than 20 years ago.  That time, he witnessed with his own eyes the birth of the "Chengcheng Act" that laid the foundation for modern China and even a great power.  So far, more than 400 million people in China have benefited from this bill.  And this time, he witnessed another vote that was nothing less than a bill!  If, if the Allies can win the final victory, and if the Central Asian countries move forward, this ancient country that built the world's miracle Great Wall to resist the northern border invasion will be able to get rid of the hidden dangers that have existed for thousands of years!

    Where would China go without the threat from the North?

    Three days later, under the witness of thousands of university volunteers, ethnic minority representatives and journalists, the vote counting ended in Chita.  Of the total 910,000 votes cast, 81% supported joining China, 5% supported reading, 6% gave up, and 8% did not vote because Japan was still under the control of Nazi Japan and Soviet guerrillas.  But it didn't matter anymore because after checking the votes, Karis found that even the local minorities mostly chose to join China.

    On the evening of June 18, 11 ethnic minorities and local representatives east of the Yenisei River formally announced their separation from the Soviet Union in front of hundreds of reporters in Chita, taking with them about 5.7 million square meters of land with limited autonomy.  Kilometers of land were incorporated into the Republic of China!

    The whole world is in an uproar
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