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    "Where are the cavalry? Where are Sun Liren and the others?"

    "Three hours ago, all the cavalry had crossed the Turgai River and are currently heading south along the west side of the Turgai Valley. Sun Liren and the others have also divided their forces. This is the telegram from half an hour ago. The fastest one is Wang Wenshan's 66th Machine Rifle  The division has already traveled 100 kilometers to the west!"

    "100 kilometers? Wasn't he intercepted by the Soviet cavalry division?!" At seven o'clock in the morning, Liu Mingzhao and Mei Sheng, who had not slept all night, were studying the battle situation. Army Commander Long Yun, Song Ziqing, Qin Zhangshu, and Air Force Staff Officer came to supervise the battle.  Chief Zhao Meihang and others walked into the headquarters together.  Qin Zhangshu was shocked when he learned that the 66th Infantry Division ran 100 kilometers in more than three hours.  Chief of Staff Sun Chuanfang and Deputy Commander Fan Shisheng were both stationed in Petropavlovsk and Ishim River, so it was Kong Qinggui, director of the Theater Operations Department, who introduced the war situation.  Speaking of the speed of the 66th Infantry Division, he was also stunned: "Yeah, I didn't believe it at first, so I specially asked a reconnaissance plane to verify it. Wang Wenshan himself said that during the encounter last night, his main force did not entangle him, and only dispatched the Tajik 1st  The armored regiment and an infantry wheeled armor battalion defeated the Soviet cavalry division.

    "In an encounter, the cavalry division met the armored regiment and held on for an hour." Mei Sheng, the theater commander who was a cavalry man, had the most say, so he was worried about Li Yuguo's cavalry group.  "Sun Liren and Yang Yuchun went directly to the north. If nothing else happened, they would not encounter any resistance until Semyozhernoye, 200 kilometers away. Wang Wenshan and Gong Chu went to the west, and then headed north.  Long route. Now it seems that there is no problem passing through the central depression. But when we get to this location, Tobol, 130 kilometers south of Kostanay, we will definitely encounter resistance from Lukin. So in general, they will all be there during the day today and tomorrow morning.  There will be no problem. I am worried about whether the four Kazakh and Tajik cavalry divisions can withstand the massive retreat of Malinovsky and Zhukov."

    "It's a pity that the airborne divisions all have missions in the southeast. Otherwise, we could support them." Song Ziqing was also a little worried.  Only Liu Mingzhao remained calm: "Don't worry about the cavalry group. In my opinion, Malinovsky may not have a chance to break through them."

    "Oh? Are you so confident as Du Zishan?"

    Facing the attention of everyone, Liu Mingzhao laughed: "I don't have confidence in Du Zishan, I have confidence in Stalin. Look, everyone. The forwards of Zhukov and Malinovsky are only 80 kilometers away from Zhezikazgan.  , only 50 kilometers away from Alkarek. These two places are important supports for the southern section of our Central Asian defense line. With hundreds of thousands of casualties, it was difficult to cross the salient, and there is no detailed information to determine how many of our troops have entered the plateau. You  Tell me, is Stalin a person who easily gives up the fat he has acquired?"

    "You have thought through people's hearts." Long Yun nodded in agreement.  Looking at Zhao Meihang: "Chief of Staff Zhao, I have to work hard this time. The interference from the night owl brigade will be intensified. Even if Timoshenko reacts, he will try to delay the radio communication to Ilgiz. Turgai Plateau  Patrols must be stepped up here to intercept Soviet reconnaissance planes from the air! As for Du Zishan, all available bombers must be transferred there. Help him."

    Zhao Meihang is the former commander of the Air Force of the Persian Gulf Theater. After a major adjustment last year, he took over as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.  This battle was of great importance, so he went to the front line to take charge personally.  "Commander Long, don't worry. Within five days from now, there will be 8 fighter groups over the Turgai Plateau at any time at your disposal. As for Commander Du, haha. Are the boys below me more anxious than you?"  After he finished talking about the deployment of the air force, Kong Qinggui's fingers circled back to Ilgiz: "Now it depends on whether General Du can recover from the failure and make it difficult for the enemy to take care of the enemy."

    "He can do it."

    When Qin Zhangshu patted the table hard, Kilponos' telegram finally arrived in Orenburg.  The shocking news immediately turned the Soviet theater headquarters into chaos.  "Kilponos should be shot! He has made an unforgivable mistake!" Timoshenko stamped his feet angrily, and almost sprayed spit foam into the faces of the officers.  In just a dozen hours, the transition from heaven to hell made him extremely angry.  But it is useless to get angry again, and it is not the time to find a scapegoat. The most important thing now is to find out how many troops the other party has entered the plateau, and to provide sufficient intelligence support for interception and adjustment.

    "Deploy all planes! Dispatch cavalry! No matter how big the sacrifice is, we must block the enemy and buy time!" On the one hand, Timoshenko asked all fighter planes to take off, and at the same time began to make major adjustments to the troops.  Lukin's Siberian Front army must not be able to continue to participate in the siege of Peter Pavlov, and all need to be withdrawn to defend Kostanai first.  Without his support, it would be impossible to rely on Vasilevsky and Rokossovsky to capture the heavily guarded Petropavlovsk, and they would have to switch to defense on the spot.  As for the breakthrough section of the Ishim River, he did not want to give up and asked Rokossovsky to keep it no matter what, so that after the southern line was stabilized, he could continue to attack across the river from this gap.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???Copa Lake must also continue to defend, because the forward has been fine in the past, and at worst it will be filled with human lives, but if the follow-up supply channel is opened, Lujin will be finished.  As for Ilgiz thinking of this, all the Soviet officers looked painful.  It took 23 days and 120,000 casualties to open up the salient, but because of Kilponos's 'mistake', he was forced to go deep alone.  Therefore, some officers believed that when tens of thousands of enemies were quickly moving south from the west of the Grand Canyon, they should retreat immediately, otherwise they would be completely surrounded.

    But some people do not support retreat and believe that even if China implements counter-encirclement, it will take time to mobilize its troops.  Because the previous battles showed that the Ilgiz troops had been disabled and there were not many reserves at all, so there was a chance to complete the mission before the enemy reserves arrived.  "No retreat!" Stalin was the most determined.  Seeing that Alkarek and Zhezkazgan are close at hand, if we take any one of these two places, let alone Sarekopa, even the entire Akmola region will fall into chaos. By then, China's counterattack will be due to  Paralyzed without supplies.

    The order of the supreme commander made the officers who supported the retreat dare not talk nonsense.  Timoshenko did not dare to disobey Stalin's order and immediately sent a telegram to Malinovsky.  Ask him to go on the offensive.  But due to the continuous electromagnetic suppression by the night owl brigade, it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon.  Malinovsky took advantage of the alternating electronic jammers to receive the telegram.  "Retreat, you should retreat immediately! This is a trap! Comrade Malinovka, I have sent people to interrogate the prisoners of war. They said that during the 23 days of fighting, only a small amount of reserve troops were invested. Don't you think this is strange?  The Chinese have abundant human resources, and even if the troops are tight, they will not be unable to gather an army reserve in three weeks." Zhukov disagreed with Stalin's order.  Standing in front of Malinovsky, he loudly persuaded him to order a retreat.  "Comrade Zhukov! Do you know what you are doing?!" After listening to his words, Mehlis jumped up again, picked up the telegram and waved it vigorously: "This is an order from the Supreme Command! As an officer, your  The responsibility is to complete the mission, not to believe the captive's lies and run away like a coward again and again!"

    Zhukov was furious when his scar was revealed.  Without saying a word, he punched Mehlis until his nose started to bleed.  This made Mehlis so angry that he immediately asked the military police of the Political Department who came with him to arrest Zhukov, and even called Stalin himself to complain.  In the face of a formidable enemy, Malinovsky did not want to be divided internally, so he had no choice but to separate the two.  Then let Zhukov lead his Crimean Army to protect the important town of Zban on Lake Akol on the left, and continue the attack with his main force.

    "In Zhukov's eyes, this order with unclear goals and hesitation was actually a helpless move.  Malinowski knew it.  He's in dire straits now, but now his troops are in offensive formation.  If they retreat suddenly, not to mention how much chaos it will cause, the psychological blow to the soldiers alone will be fatal, so Zhukov had to be asked to defend the left wing.  As long as we can hold on and prevent our opponents from having a chance to cut off their retreat from the Caspian Sea and Acol Lake, there is still hope of escaping at the last moment.

    But Du Zishan was not ready to give him a chance.

    Before Zhukov reached Zban, Du Zishan had already reached the lowlands to the north.  This is one of the starting points for the counterattack. 30,000 soldiers of the 16th Army and two reserve divisions who have withdrawn from the salient highlands are ready to go.  "Commander, why are you here? It's not safe here." Zhao Wenwu, commander of the 16th Army with a thick bandage on his head, saw him and immediately stood up with a group of officers.  Du Zishan was very proud of the faces in front of him that had been baptized by the flames of war. He waved his hands loudly: "Why can't I come? I said Zhao Wenwu, after all, you were following me from the German trenches in Reniwell.  When did you talk about safety when you crawled out of the dead? Can there be a safe place in this war?" "Haha" the officers laughed.  After they finished laughing, Du Zishan said with a serious face: "Have the weapons and ammunition been replenished? Do you want me to give you some more time?"

    "Commander, don't worry, everything has been replenished. The soldiers who have withdrawn have been sleeping last night, and they will be full of energy now. Even if the fight lasts for another 23 days, they will still stay with us until the end!"

    Du Zishan nodded lightly: "Very good, I won't say any more nonsense. I know you are very tired now, and I also know that you have grievances. You blame me for not investing in the reserve team, which resulted in heavy casualties! This is my responsibility.  But if I do it again, I still won¡¯t change my mind! Why? I¡¯ll tell you now. It¡¯s because of your tenacity that the headquarters was given time to mobilize troops! In the middle of the night yesterday, ten divisions successfully broke through Sarek  Pa war zone, a feat of penetrating into the Turgai Plateau! Tomorrow at the latest, they can break through the outer defense line of Kokshetau, then build an airport and deliver follow-up troops there! The headquarters has not forgotten us, and has organized 4  The cavalry division and three armored regiments will detour southward from the west of the Grand Canyon. In as soon as twelve hours, they can cut off the connection between Aktobesk and Ilgiz! So, you are completelyA beautiful blocking battle!  The President, Prime Minister and the General Staff all sent personal letters of thanks!  Now, the counterattack has begun. General Li Yuguo defeated the Soviet army at Lake Sarekopa and retreated steadily. Petropavlovsk and Ishim River also successfully held back the enemy's main force.  "The more he spoke, the more serious he became, as if there was a layer of frost on his face: "We are about to fight another head-to-head battle, and the enemy on the opposite side has already received the news and is prepared.  But I am not afraid, because I believe that victory will definitely belong to us!  Bring it up¡­.  "

    He waved his hand, and a guard immediately brought a nylon bulletproof vest with a full magazine and a brand new submachine gun.  In front of hundreds of officers, he put on his vest, deftly pulled the trigger and inserted the magazine, then raised the submachine gun.  Like an immortal veteran who once again stepped onto the battlefield, he straightened his back and said, "Just before I came here, I sent a testamentary telegram to the headquarters. I told them that I will personally take you to take revenge! Even if the president comes to persuade you,  It¡¯s useless to me. No matter how they kill my people, I will kill them back! If he kills one of my people, I will kill three of his people!¡±

    "Set off!"

    "kill!"

    At three o'clock in the afternoon, amid loud shouts of killing, 250,000 soldiers imbued with murderous intent, under the personal leadership of General Du Zishan, marched from Zban in the north, Aralsk at the northern end of the Caspian Sea in the south, and Akshala  -The Baikonur defense line simultaneously launched a counterattack against Malinovsky's Western Kazakh Front.  More than six thousand artillery pieces roared at the same time, and the entire sector of the Soviet offensive was covered with artillery shells.  The Air Force even deployed more than 700 bombers of various types.  Continuous and violent bombing of the Soviet troops was carried out from Zhezkazgan and Alkalyk.  In particular, the H-7 long-range bomber, a four-engine bomber that is mainly responsible for medium and long distances, shows super bomb-carrying capabilities.  When performing this kind of short-range frontline interdiction mission, each aircraft can be fully loaded with a full ten tons of carrier bombs.  As long as they fly over the Soviet army, a sea of ??explosive fire of tens of square kilometers will appear on the ground, drowning all the Soviet soldiers inside.

    Although Malinovsky had a premonition of counterattack, he also ordered to switch to defense and dig bunkers and trenches.  But the late news delayed too much time.  Faced with sudden and fierce firepower, the Soviet army paid a heavy price in the death of tens of thousands of people within two hours.  Although he also gathered a large number of artillery counterattacks, including the Katyusha rocket launchers that were put into use for the first time, the dive bombers that were almost constantly hovering in the sky prevented the Soviet artillery from firing a few shots.  The loss of the most reliable artillery undoubtedly aggravated the Soviet army's confusion.  Wait for the opponent's firepower to be ready to end.  Hundreds of tanks/armored vehicles appear on the horizon again.  Ziban, who was supposed to be defended by Zhukov, was defeated by Du Zishan's two armored regiments before he reached the front line.  The two armored regiments starting from Aralsk went on a killing spree, taking advantage of the unique salt-alkali plains around them to quickly pierce the front of the Soviet 28th Group Army.  The tens of thousands of soldiers who followed behind them killed gods and Buddhas in their way.

    By eight o'clock in the evening, Malinovsky's West Kazakh Front was in complete chaos.  The Night Owl Brigade's continuous electronic suppression, a large number of night combat aircraft, ferocious ground artillery coverage, and almost unstoppable armored clusters resulted in the complete loss of contact between the armies, and even communication between divisions and brigade levels could not be guaranteed.  Faced with the chaos, Malinovsky had to order his troops to retreat westward.  The great chaos foreseen by Liu Mingzhao began to spread like a plague. The Soviet soldiers who lacked courage and lacked command were no longer the proletarian Red Army that believed they could save the world. Afterwards, statistics showed that there were more than 30,000 artillery pieces and thousands of light and heavy guns.  Machine guns were voluntarily abandoned, as were more than 400 tanks, 500 armored vehicles, and thousands of trucks thrown away because they ran out of fuel, many of which were not even considered damaged!  The ammunition and supplies that took half a year to gather were scattered all over the battlefield, and soldiers were everywhere scurrying westward like headless flies.

    Mehlis was lifeless at this time. Trembling, he led the Politburo gendarmerie and fled westward under the protection of dozens of T34 and BA-10 armored vehicles. He almost wet his pants.  Zhukov, on the other hand, fought steadily and mobilized 4 infantry divisions and 97 tanks to protect Malinovsky and the headquarters while retreating.  But as soon as he retreated to Karakol, he ran into an old rival. During the counterattack of Rezikazgan, Zhou Yawei, the former commander of the Second Armored Division, chased him with Zhuo Fan and fled like a lost dog.

    Zhou Yawei is now the commander of the 112th Motorized Infantry Division. Although it is a new motorized infantry division formed after the counterattack, they are all equipped with Type 36 Siberian Tiger main battle tanks and Tieniu half-track personnel carriers.  and the debut of the Type 40 'Yak' fully tracked infantry fighting vehicle.  Needless to say, the first two, the latter is a new equipment that Yang Qiu took six years to finalize last year using drawings of later Soviet bmp-1 tracked infantry fighting vehicles, combined with more than ten years of domestic experience in armor use.  Its appearance and data are similar to the BMP-1, except for the turret, which is replaced by a combined turret with a 70mm low-pressure gun and a 25mm machine gun on the "Civet" light tank that has become so popular in India.

    Zhou Yawei didn¡¯t know at the time that it was Zhukov andLinovsky, due to the continuous suppression of the "Night Owl", the contact with his own radio station was also intermittent, so he was separated from several other regiments at that time, and he only had two Siberian Tiger tank battalions and one "Yak" in hand.  'Chariot Battalion.  "Call the lighting machine! Attack!" But without hesitation, he immediately called the night lighting machine above his head and ordered to attack the Soviet army that was several times larger.  Soon, three night-lighting aircraft modified by Yun-10 (similar to C46) flew into the sky. The large searchlight installed on the left side of the tail of the aircraft shined straight down, leaving Zhukov unable to hide.  "For victory! For the motherland! For the brothers who died in battle! Attack!" The deeds of Zhao Siyuan and Ilgiz Highlands have spread throughout the army. The young soldiers of the 112th Mechatronic Division are also holding back the same emotions as the 19th Army's Paoze.  A strong desire to avenge his comrades.  The standard armored battalion of the Wehrmacht has 44 tanks, and the charge launched by two battalions of 88 tanks is no worse than an armored division.  Although the Soviet tank brigade fought tooth and nail to protect it, it was still destroyed one after another.

    Infantry approaching to attack has no effect, because the Type 40 Yak infantry fighting vehicle is a tracked infantry fighting vehicle that can accompany tank charges. The 70mm low-pressure gun and 25mm machine gun juxtaposed on the turret are powerful weapons against infantry.  Even if you finally get close, you will be killed by the H37 fully automatic rifles protruding from the shooting holes on both sides.

    Seeing that the troops were beaten to pieces by three battalions, Malinovsky sighed, knowing that he could not escape.  In order to save the remaining soldiers, Zhukov had to lead a small number of troops to leave first, while he stayed behind to continue searching for nearby remnants, and then relied on the Irgiz Heights to hold on until support from Moscow.

    Mehlis didn¡¯t make it either. The armored battalion protecting him was topped by four H-10 attack aircraft.  As mentioned earlier, the H-10 was designed by a domestic private small aircraft company. Originally, the Air Force had little interest in this kind of aircraft.  But unexpectedly, after being accidentally converted into an attack aircraft similar to the American A20, its powerful weapon external capabilities have made it the Army's favorite short-range support attack aircraft. Soldiers affectionately call it a bomb truck.

    The attack aircraft team first used four 250-kilogram carrier aircraft armor-piercing bombs to 'clean' the armored battalion of Mehlis. In an instant, more than a dozen vehicles were penetrated through the top and paralyzed.  Then they violently attacked the remaining tanks with 24 ground-attack rockets, and finally used a 40mm rapid-fire cannon equipped with tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets on the nose to ravage them again.  In this way, in just ten minutes, an armored battalion was completely destroyed by four H-10 attack aircraft, and the injured Mehlis was captured by the infantry who arrived.

    The night of July 3 was fierce and bloody. By sunrise, Malinovsky's troops had lost all their heavy equipment, and about 190,000 people were surrounded in the Irgiz Highlands.  Except for Zhukov who led 40,000 light infantrymen who decisively penetrated the rugged Turgai Valley and advanced toward Lake Sarekopa in an attempt to join Kilponos, the rest were either killed or captured.

    Looking at the Irgiz Highlands, which took him 23 days and cost more than 100,000 casualties to capture, Malinovsky suddenly felt that God seemed to be making a joke on him.

    ¡°But he didn¡¯t know that a bigger and more tragic ¡®joke¡¯ was dragging him and Soviet Jews like him into a terrible whirlpool

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