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    In the early morning of June 19, when the first ray of sunlight penetrated the clouds and shone on the Alkarek base, two thunderbolt short-range reconnaissance aircraft in grassland camouflage colors of China's 12th Aviation Wing slowly entered the runway.  Yesterday's Siberian referendum incident has reached here. While the base cheered loudly, it also continued to be shrouded in a tense war atmosphere.  Captain Feng Xue of the 2nd Squadron was ordered to go to the west of the Irgiz salient to take a look, because he received intelligence two hours ago that the Soviet army had once again sent more troops to this salient.

    This is a very bad situation. Although the 600-kilometer front is already intertwined, and the daily battlefield casualty record has reached new highs, the pilots all know that the most tragic thing is the "bulge defense battle" of Irgiz.  This salient, which guards the eastern gate into and out of Western Kazakhstan and can deter Aktobesk and Orsk, is withstanding the violent attacks of the four Soviet armies.  Moreover, the terrain here is open and there are basically no dangerous natural chasms. In addition, Alkarek is facing a direct attack from the Soviet army from Lake Sarekopa, so General Du Zishan's troops are almost fighting alone.

    ? 2 Thunderbolt-modified tactical reconnaissance aircraft crossed the grassland at ultra-low altitude at a speed of 450 kilometers per hour.  Flying at ultra-low altitude can shorten the distance to be discovered by Soviet air defense posts.  The foggy bushes and hills quickly passed under the wings of the aircraft, and water droplets quickly condensed on the bulletproof windshield. Feng Xue needed to turn on the heating and defogging device to ensure that he could see the surface clearly.  Soon, the ground in front of the plane's nose seemed to be split open by a giant axe, creating a huge river valley a hundred meters deep and hundreds of kilometers long.  This is the Turgai River Valley.  The meandering Turgai River runs through the middle, making it impossible for any vehicle to cross.  After flying over this natural dividing line between the Ilgiz salient and the Sarekopa Lake battle zone.  Feng Xue and his wingman threw away the auxiliary fuel tanks and climbed to 1,500 meters.

    The moment the plane jumped off the ground, the Ilgiz protrusion slowly appeared in the pupils.  Years later, when recalling this investigative experience, he could not forget the scenes he saw.  "A large-scale night attack has obviously just ended. The remains of tanks destroyed by both sides can be seen everywhere along the 40-kilometer-long defense line. The anti-tank positions were overturned by large-caliber grenades, and corpses and parts were scattered radially around the crater.  Open, all the positions are on fire. The trenches are filled, the bunkers are broken and exposed. The bushes are broken, and the entire surface of the protrusion shows a kind of charred blackness caused by the fire. That is not hell  It's the Yama Hall! It's the Shura Field! My comrades are down there right now, holding on optimistically!"

    Feng Xue used two aerial cameras to clearly record these scenes. Many aircraft wreckage can also be seen on the screen, including those of the Soviet army.  There are also our own.  Finally, two reconnaissance planes passed over the most advanced Hill 412 and accelerated westward.  However, after flying less than 15 kilometers, it was violently attacked by ground artillery fire.  "Captain! The shells are too dense!" The flickering fireballs almost filled the sky, making the wingman pilot who had just been transferred from the Northeast look pale.  He has never seen so many anti-aircraft artillery. I am afraid that the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery in the entire Korean Peninsula combined.  Not so dense.

    "Don't be nervous! Follow me, hold the operating lever steady, and just cross the war zone." Feng Xue was not surprised at all, holding the operating lever calmly.  Everyone said that the Japanese army was crazy and paranoid, but that was because they had never seen the Soviet army.  When air superiority cannot be obtained.  The Soviet army began to frantically manufacture anti-aircraft weapons.  From anti-aircraft machine guns to the latest 1939-type 85mm anti-aircraft guns.  The large number of anti-aircraft trains and so on is extremely rare in military history.  The Soviet army not only strengthened its anti-aircraft artillery, but also established a specialized anti-aircraft artillery air defense division!  It is said that Stalin once requested that the air defense division be made the standard equipment of the group army.  Therefore, the Air Force's losses during this period increased by 11 percentage points compared with the peak last year. In just two weeks, nearly 600 aircraft were shot down, most of which were attack aircraft and bombers participating in low-altitude support.

    After passing through the dense air defense fire area, Feng Xue immediately climbed to 7,000 meters and arrived at the reconnaissance target, October City, 70 kilometers south of Aktobesk (now Aktobe) half an hour later.  As you can tell from the name, this is a city established after the October Revolution, and it was also the gathering place for Soviet troops in the Bulge Defense War.  Entering the sky above the city, he and his wingman were immediately attacked by eight MiG-3s and ground artillery fire. However, he still took photos of a large number of Soviet troops arriving at the assembly point by train After reporting the investigation situation to the base, he  He immediately fled at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour.

    The Alkarek base immediately sounded the first-level alarm, and hundreds of medium and long-range bombers began to prepare for attack.  At this time, Zhao Siyuan and his comrades on Highland 412 did not know that the Soviet army had increased its troops.  "Here, help me." Zhao Siyuan got out of a destroyed Su122 assault gun, holding three ppsh41 submachine guns and several drum drums in his hand.  This is another new piece of equipment for the Soviet Army. It is currently rare and is only equipped for motorized infantry and armored troops.  In fact, Zhao Siyuan doesn't like this gun because its barrel is cut off and modified from the old "Shui Lianzhu" barrel. The rifling is very worn, so the progress is extremely poor. It can basically shoot birds from 50 meters away. It has a large capacity of 71 rounds.  The drum also often jams.??, but on the other hand, it does meet the needs of the Soviet infantry for close range, large density and high intensity firepower.

    From his position, Highland 412 could hardly be seen as it was before. Tens of thousands of artillery shells had shaved off a layer of the entire highland.  The intensity of the battle is secondary. To make matters worse, in the battles of the past few days, the route of the second batch of reinforcements was exposed when they went up to the high ground. As a result, the Soviet army took advantage of the gap to cut off the retreat. Although most of the reinforcements and ammunition were  It was delivered in time, but Highland 412 was completely surrounded.  The Soviet army was aware of this mistake, so it committed several divisions to launch night attacks on the highlands for three consecutive days.  Since he didn't know when the command would be able to open up the supply line, as soon as the battle was over, the regiment commander ordered the battlefield to be cleared and all available weapons and ammunition collected just in case.

    "Brother Zhao, is there a radio station inside?" Just after handing the submachine gun and ammunition bag to his comrades, the communications squad leader who came to the highlands with him ten days ago ran over.  "It seems there is, wait a minute." There are very few Soviet radio stations. This assault tank is probably among the most advanced.  So a car radio was installed.  Zhao Siyuan carefully unloaded the radio and handed it to the squad leader: "What? Your radio is broken?"

    "No. Our radio is short of parts." The squad leader laughed, skillfully dismantled the Soviet radio station and took out a few parts.  In order to alleviate homesickness and improve morale, each army was issued a lot of radios, but the quality of the small factories was really not complimentable.

    After Zhao Siyuan and his comrades pulled a lot of weapons and ammunition back to the position, they were about to see the communications squad leader repair the radio, but were pulled back to the position by a shout.  "Enter the fighting position! Hurry up! The Soviet army is coming up again! Get ready for battle!" Everyone was startled.  The battle last night had just ended. Why did the Soviet army attack again?

    "Damn it! Is Da Maozi crazy? You messed with me in broad daylight."

    "Bullet! Bullet. Give me the bullet!"

    "Get up, stop falling asleep! Come on, give me a piece."

    The comrades cursed, rubbed their red and swollen eyes, chewed luncheon meat and compressed biscuits, and the cooking team quickly extinguished the newly raised fire and distributed the filled kettles to the comrades again.  Zhao Siyuan was also surprised.  Because except for the first few days, the Soviet army was almost passively attacked during the day, so most of the attacks were carried out at night.  He couldn't understand why the Soviet army wanted to take risks, but their hands were not idle.  First, he quickly loaded a new 20-round magazine and unscrewed the caps of five grenades.  Keeping it at hand for use, he pressed the 71-round drum into the ppsh submachine gun. Finally, he placed a Soviet DP light machine gun and engineer shovel leaning at his feet for ready access. He was armed to the teeth.

    "Boom, boom, boom" Just got ready.  The Soviet artillery shells fell.  Compared with the previous days, the Soviet artillery fire was much weaker.  "Look. Good guy, at least one division!" Before the bombardment was over, the black Soviet army made everyone gasp.  Although it received several reinforcements, Highland 412 suffered heavy losses.  At this moment, there are only two regiments and a hunting and destroying tank company.  So facing the entire Soviet military division, everyone was a little nervous.

    More than twenty T34/76 and Su85 vehicles took the lead in rushing towards the high ground under the cover of artillery fire.  Seeing the tank, the hunter-destroyer tank company that had just arrived a few days ago quietly began to turn its muzzle.  "Boom." Probably because they were extremely afraid of the anti-tank firepower, as soon as the artillery fire coverage ended, the T34 and Su85 began to shoot at the high ground.  "Turn left 6 degrees, 1000 meters, T34/76fire!" A Type 36 "Hunter Tiger" hunter-destroyer tank that buried itself in the mound opened fire first.  This time he was not using ordinary capped armor-piercing bullets used by infantry anti-tank guns.  The 85mm high-speed tungsten bullet easily penetrated the improved T34 tank.  Before the other Soviet tanks could react, four more tanks were destroyed by the "Hunter Tiger".  After discovering powerful anti-tank weapons, the remaining Soviet tanks immediately dispersed and fired suppressively at the "Hunting Tiger" position.

    The ¡®Hunter Tiger¡¯, whose frontal armor is thicker than the ¡®Siberian Tiger¡¯ main battle tank, is not afraid of this kind of suppression, but the explosion will make direct aiming difficult, so the anti-tank company began to move its position.  The Soviet tanks also took this opportunity to protect the infantry behind and sprint quickly.  After approaching 600 meters, a large number of Soviet troops poured out from behind the tanks, shouting "Ula" and launched an infantry charge.  "Charge! Ulla! Long live the Soviets! Charge! Kill all the enemies!"

    "Fire! Boom" The 80- and 60-mm mortars on the high ground began to rain bullets, and the shells continued to explode among the Soviet troops.  The Soviet army also responded quickly. Seven or eight T34s immediately launched suppressive fire at the mortar position.  As artillery shells from both sides came and went, the 'Hunter Tiger' re-entered the position and took aim again. After a series of roars, several more T34s were turned into fireballs.

    "Be careful, il2!" As the hunter-killer tanks continued to hit, four Soviet-made il2 attack aircraft jumped out from behind the west mountain peak.  This Soviet aircraft has relatively poor air combat capabilities, but has strong ground attack capabilities.  As soon as the four 40mm and six 25mm rapid-fire cannons on the high ground opened fire, two of the IL2s flew over the "Hunting Tiger" and dropped two armor-piercing shells.

    Soviet-made aircraft armor-piercing bombsIt is a copy of similar domestic products and is a new weapon that has been put into use recently.  The bullet weighs 5 kg and uses an armor-piercing warhead that can penetrate a 30 mm vertical homogeneous steel plate.  One mother bomb can carry 48 bullets, posing a considerable threat to armored forces.  After the two bombs exploded, bullets flew down from a height of 400 meters. Immediately, two Hunter Tigers were shot through the top and paralyzed.  Seeing that the attack was effective, the two IL2s behind them were about to dive in full force when several black shadows came down quickly and sprayed out several lines of fire before they could react.  "It's Thunder, the air force is coming! Fire! Fire!" 4 Thunders appeared.  The two IL2s were so frightened that after dropping their bombs, they fled westward when the Air Force took care of them.  Dozens of general-purpose machine guns on the high ground opened fire first.

    The defensive 250-round dispersible metal bullet chain was shortening rapidly, and the dense bullets caused a rain of blood in the sky.  But the Soviet army was also very tenacious, and continued to charge upward despite the blockade of machine guns.  As a guard of Du Zishan, Zhao Siyuan's shooting skills were very good. A semi-automatic rifle seemed to come alive in his hands, and Soviet soldiers kept falling under his gun.  Probably thinking that there were snipers here, several DP light machine guns were pointed at him.  Chirping bullets.  The heavy rain hit the mound in front of the position, stirring up countless dust pillars.  "Left! Position No. 7" Just as he was aiming for the air strike and killing a Soviet second lieutenant who was leading the charge, he saw a dozen elite Soviet combat engineers rushing up from the side.  Combat engineers are the elite of the Soviet army. They are all composed of veterans, miners, intellectuals and fanatical GC party members. They fight very tenaciously.  Seeing these combat engineers touching to the left, he immediately replaced it with a new 20-round magazine.  He picked up the ppsh submachine gun and slung it across his shoulder, leading a squad to charge to the left.  "Follow me to support! Bang bang" More than a dozen semi-automatic rifles fired continuously, quickly suppressing the Soviet combat engineers at the entrance of the trench.  Zhao Siyuan saw a Soviet soldier lying on the ground pull out a grenade and try to return it to the bunker. He quickly threw away the semi-automatic rifle that had no bullets, picked up the ppsh and fired wildly.  "Boom!" The grenade exploded in the soldier's hand.  Not only was he blown to pieces, but his flesh and blood also splashed onto Zhao Siyuan's face.

    "Fuck your mother!" Zhao Siyuan flew out with a kick, kicked away half of his stump, and rushed into the position that was almost lost.

    Although Zhao Siyuan and his comrades tried their best, as more and more Soviet troops climbed onto the high ground.  The whole highland is in constant danger.  At this critical moment, the Air Force attack plane finally arrived.  Six Snake B attack planes rushed over from the north of the high ground.  Quickly dropped twelve 120-kilogram bombs on the most densely populated areas of Soviet troops.  In the rumbling explosion, hundreds of Soviet soldiers were blown away, and their broken limbs covered the slope.  After dropping the bombs, the attack aircraft quickly turned back and continued to fire continuously with its onboard 25mm cannon.  Two of the shells landed less than ten meters away from Zhao Siyuan, scaring him so much that he quickly fell down.

    The arrival of attack planes brought the Soviet offensive to a halt.  A few days ago, the Soviet army would have definitely retreated, but today they took some medicine and took advantage of the attack plane's turn to get up again and continue the attack.  "Look! Mad, what's going on? Did the Soviets take crazy medicine?" While they were still wondering why the Soviet army was so desperate today, the horizon in the distance seemed to come alive. Hundreds of Soviet troops  Tanks and trucks quickly crossed from the left and right sides of Hill 412 and launched an attack on the entire salient defense line.  Looking from the high ground, no matter which direction, they are all Soviet soldiers charging desperately!

    Zhao Siyuan even saw several Soviet soldiers without weapons mixed in the team. As long as someone fell in front, they immediately picked up their rifles and continued to move forward in the sunshine.  "Crazy! Crazy!" The crazy Soviet soldiers not only did not scare him, but instead aroused a strong desire to survive. With a touch of blood from the corner of his mouth, he fired the drums in his hands at the seven or eight Soviet soldiers and then stood on the spot.  He rolled up, picked up the rifle of a dead comrade, and aimed it at a Soviet soldier who jumped into the trench.  The bullet broke the Soviet soldier's neck. As blood spurted out, an excited shout suddenly sounded from behind: "I know! I know! Haha Brothers! I just  I received news that the people east of the Yenisei River have declared autonomy and joined our country! The Soviet Union is going to disintegrate! Haha From now on, we will be the largest country in the world! Fight! Fight them back!  "

    "What!" the communications squad leader shouted, making Zhao Siyuan's head explode, and he finally understood why the Soviet army was so crazy today.  The astonishing good news inspired everyone to have the courage to fight to the end. Not knowing where the strength came from, Zhao Siyuan quickly ran back to the fighting position. He first picked up a grenade and aimed it at the Soviet troops and smashed it wildly. Then he put on a new magazine and jumped quickly.  Get out of position.

    "For victory! Wehrmacht! Attack!" A loud cry resounded through the sky, and hundreds of soldiers, led by him, launched an even crazier counterattack against the Soviet army¡ª¡ª

    "Report!"

    In the dense forest southwest of Chelinograd (now Kokshetau), a crisp report sounded.  "Commander, Chief of Staff! The Soviet army is attacking across the board! Among them, the Ilgiz salient has increased to 5 army groups"

     "Stalin is angry." Liu Mingzhao pulled out his eyes from the spread map and turned to the tanks and chariots that were undergoing maintenance next to him.  This is the force preparing to launch a counterattack. According to the plan, the counterattack requires the assembly of 3 armored divisions, 3 mechanized infantry divisions and 4 motorized infantry divisions.

    Mei Sheng and Long Yun looked at each other and smiled: "Why don't you get angry? The president's move is too vicious! This is millions of square kilometers of land, and it is the second major division after Central Asia! If there is no strong reaction, I am afraid that  He won't be able to suppress people like Ukraine, the Baltics, and the Tatars." Yang Qiu deliberately chose this time to vote in order to drive Stalin crazy. With his character, he would definitely ask for the entire army to suppress him.  The internal system of the Soviet army has determined that no one dares to object to Stalin's orders so far. Coupled with Timoshenko's impulsive character, he will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.  So Mei Sheng also said: "Timoshenko is a die-hard loyalist of Stalin. If such a big thing happens, he must be suppressed with all his strength. I am sure that the fight he is doing now must be under Stalin's instruction. At this time, let alone Roko.  The newcomers like Sovsky, even the two bulls like Zhukov and Lu Jin, may not dare to stand up and oppose."

    "The president has done everything he should do, now it's up to me." Liu Mingzhao straightened up and glanced around: "How many troops have been replaced? How long will it take for the remaining troops to arrive?"

    "Five divisions have been replaced, and there are still five divisions waiting for the remaining Northeast Army reserves. It is expected to take another week. Don't worry, as soon as they arrive, I will arrange to replace the main force overnight." The assault is the most difficult task.  , Liu Mingzhao certainly would not use the new troops transferred from the Northeast.  Therefore, as early as when planning, the Army had come up with a plan. As soon as the Northeastern Army reserves arrived, Mei Sheng would immediately arrange for them to be replaced with the main force's designations, and then secretly carry out the replacement in front of the formation, making the Soviet army mistakenly think that the main force was still on the front line.  Fight them.

    "Here, here is the list of troops and officers you want, Major General Sun Liren, commander of the 2nd Armored Division, Major General Gong Chu, commander of the 10th Armored Division, Major General Yang Yuchun, commander of the 29th Motorized Infantry Division".
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