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Text Chapter 1035: Advancing into the Urals (Part 2)

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    In the first half of the night on July 21, Kostanay was nervous but busy.  News of Vlasov's ambush convinced Timoshenko and other officers to believe in Lukin's plan.  But Lu Jin himself still dared not be careless, because the 24th Army still cannot tell how many tanks and soldiers the enemy ambushed.  So what he could do was to personally check the preparations of the main breakout force, collect every usable livestock, and instruct the soldiers to bring more ammunition, water and food.

    In the eyes of the soldiers, he is a good officer who is considerate of his subordinates and respects the soldiers. He can also organize tactics based on the situation of each unit. Unlike some officers who only emphasize spirit and will but have no regard for the actual abilities of the soldiers.  learn.  Even now, many officers still ask soldiers to complete some hopeless tasks and treat them as expendable supplies.  But even good officers sometimes break up with their troops.  At nine o'clock in the evening, a bearded cavalry major rushed into the headquarters with a prancing horse covered in blood: "Mobilized! Mobilized! The enemy in the north has mobilized to the west!"

    "You read that correctly?" Timoshenko jumped up from his chair and ran to the major.

    "What I saw with my eyes was that hundreds of tanks and trucks passed on the pontoon bridge of Alexander Drokav. You see, when they retreated, they were discovered by enemy armored vehicles, and many soldiers died."

    "Great! Comrades, let's start taking action! Pull out all the cannons, prepare the heavy artillery regiment, and fire in ten minutes to blow up the pontoon!" Timoshenko shouted excitedly and walked up to Lukin.  : "Comrade Lu Jin, you are most familiar with the army, so you can lead the assault force yourself."

    "No! Comrade Commander. You can't find an officer who is more familiar with defense than me, so I must stay behind!" Lu Jin flatly refused the order.  At this time, he had no intention of hiding his clumsiness. In fact, among the current senior commanders of the Soviet army.  It is true that there are few officers who are better at defense than him.  And he also had selfish motives, because he knew that even if the entire army broke through, at least 100,000 soldiers would have to stay behind to break up the rear, and all heavy equipment including cannons would have to be thrown away.  If he leaves, the troops in the rear will definitely not be able to stop the opponent's armor torrent, and he will be the only one left.  Only in this way can these soldiers gain a chance of survival.

    Seeing that he insisted on staying.  Timoshenko did not hesitate too much. After shaking hands, he left the command post under the protection of guards.  After he left, the command post that was crowded just now suddenly became deserted, and he looked at the last few officers assigned to stay around him.  Lu Jin smiled bitterly in his heart, but shouted forcefully: "Cheer up and get ready! We can definitely return to the Urals!"

    When Lu Jin was encouraging everyone, the roof of the church in the city was roughly opened by the soldiers, revealing two thick and ferocious cannon barrels.  This is Timoshenko's trump card for destroying pontoon bridges, the BR-18 305mm heavy howitzer.  This howitzer has a range of more than 16 kilometers, a shell weighing 330 kilograms, and a rapid fire rate of 12 rounds per hour.  The combat weight is 35 tons, and the marching weight reaches 54 tons.  It is the largest caliber field gun in the Soviet army.  But due to the heavy weight.  So it is often used for fixed defense.

    These two BR-18 and four BR-5 280mm howitzers were the trump card prepared by Lu Jin. He originally wanted to cause casualties to the opponent's infantry at critical moments, so he deliberately hid them in churches and nearby areas that the Chinese Air Force generally would not bomb at will.  In the building.  "Fire!" the artillerymen screamed, and six heavy cannons sprayed out huge fireballs at the same time.  Almost at the same moment.  The more than 3,000 remaining barrel artillery pieces of the Siberian Front also opened fire at the same time, firing violently at the surrounding Wehrmacht positions.

    In order to destroy the pontoon bridge 15 kilometers away, Timoshenko not only assembled 6 heavy artillery, but also assembled 20 ML-20 152mm howitzers to bombard it together.  The Soviet artillerymen, who were determined to break through and no longer needed to be stingy with ammunition, mobilized and frantically threw ammunition at the target.  Faced with the sudden increase in artillery fire coverage by the Soviet army, the Wehrmacht quickly launched a counterattack, using 85mm field howitzers, 105mm self-propelled howitzers, 105mm/155mm towed cannon howitzers, 130mm self-propelled rocket launchers, 155mm self-propelled howitzers, 210mm self-propelled howitzers  Howitzersthe entire night sky was filled with red trajectories drawn by artillery shells.  Fifteen minutes later, the Soviet troops waiting to break out suddenly burst into loud cheers, and the pontoon bridge upstream of Kostanai was finally blown up by a 305mm artillery shell.

    "Long live the Soviets! Long live Stalin! Comrades, charge!"

    "Ula!"

    Like an open river dam, more than 300,000 Soviet troops rushed out of their bunkers and broke out to the north under the cover of hundreds of tanks/armored vehicles and armed trucks.  The massive breakout operation swept across the entire battlefield. Stimulated by the desire to survive, the Soviet soldiers fought extremely crazily.  Facing the interception of machine guns and artillery, he simply stepped on the corpses of his companions and rushed upward.  After learning that the main force of the Soviet army was breaking out to the north, Liu Mingzhao was heartbroken. In order to reduce losses and continue to paralyze Timoshenko, he decisively ordered the four infantry divisions remaining in the north to retreat while fighting.  In this way, Timoshenko's breakout went more smoothly. In just one hour, the forward passed?Alexander Drokav.

    Such ease made Timoshenko even more convinced that Xu Xiangqian¡¯s main force had been attracted by Vlasov and transferred to the west.  But he was wrong!  In fact, after Xu Xiangqian received Liu Mingzhao's warning and order, he immediately asked the pontoon bridge regiment to build a pontoon bridge thirty kilometers upstream, and then deliberately let the Soviet army discover it, and led the main force across the bridge to the west in a swaggering manner.  At this moment, he had led an armored division, a mechanized infantry division and two motorized infantry divisions to turn around, run parallel to Timoshenko across the river, and rush to the backup pontoon point.  Sun Liren also led the 2nd Armored Division and the 101st Armored Division, as well as 2 motorized infantry divisions and 1 Kazakh cavalry division in a long detour to the northeast. The arrow pointed directly at the road that Timoshenko must pass in the north. Dimiryadev  Card.

    After the pursuit troops set off, in order to continue to confuse Lu Jin, who was behind the scenes, Liu Mingzhao deliberately pretended to have just learned about the enemy's breakthrough, ordered 4 mechanized infantry divisions and the 10th infantry division to attack Kostanay, and then took the last remaining troops in his hands.  One mechanized infantry division and two wheeled tank regiments were sent to the west to support Wang Wenshan.  The fierce attack of 14 divisions made Lu Jin feel unprecedented pressure, but it also made the last trace of worry in his heart slowly dissipate.  "We must hold on!" In order to help Timoshenko buy time and attract Liu Mingzhao's main force, he simply went to the front line to encourage the soldiers.  Under his leadership.  After the break, the Soviet army fought very tenaciously and withstood the Wehrmacht's charges many times.  But without more than half of his main force, he could not stop the rampage of hundreds of tanks. He persisted until four in the morning. After learning that 350,000 soldiers had broken out of the encirclement with Timoshenko, he decided to head west.  , joined forces with Vlasov to break through.  Trying to force Liu Mingzhao to divide his troops and pursue them.  Relieve the pressure on the main force.

    Lu Jin wanted to sacrifice himself in exchange for a chance for the main force to survive, but he didn't know that Liu Mingzhao had already dug a trap in front of Timoshenko.

    Lack of investigative means.  After losing air supremacy, Timoshenko didn't know that he had become someone else's prey. His thoughts at the moment were all about Dimiryadevka in front.  Beyond here, there is a huge forest ahead. As long as we get into the forest, the Chinese National Defense Force will not be able to catch up quickly, and the Chinese Air Force will not be able to take advantage of it.  After crossing the forest, there is Sergeyekav. Although the Moscow Central Army Group sent by Rokossovsky was blocked here by Jiang Xianyun's 5 infantry divisions.  But he is absolutely sure to attack his opponent from both front and back quickly.  Then he led the army back to Kurgan along the railway.

    But just when the Soviet assault arrows saw the edge of the forest, Xu Xiangqian's 19th Armored Division suddenly emerged from the forest.  "Manchurian tiger!" The three words that frightened the Soviet army rang out from the wilderness again. More than two hundred Type 36 'Siberian Tiger' main battle tanks and half-track infantry fighting vehicles made Timoshenko shiver all over.  Only then did I understand.  Why can I run 70 kilometers in just six hours without encountering any decent obstacles?

    With no way to turn back, he could only grit his teeth and order an attack, trying to break through the opponent's interception and enter the forest.  But the 19th Armored Division soon told the Soviet army that they should never engage in an offensive battle with an integrated armored division in the wilderness at any time.  In just one hour, the 19th Armored Division destroyed 72 T34/76s and more than a hundred trucks, and defeated the three forward divisions led by Major General Amolev.  Facing the almost invincible Siberian Tiger main battle tank, Major General Amolev had no choice but to ask for help from the main force behind him.  Timoshenko, who was forced into a desperate situation, also turned red-eyed and forgot that this was a wild plain. He ordered his troops to launch continuous fierce attacks and sent cavalry to act as death squads.

    Faced with the situation where the only way to survive was to rush over, the Soviet soldiers were also completely red-eyed. They stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder, sang the Internationale all the way, and launched a pig-style charge that resembled the Japanese army.  The first row of soldiers fell, the second row followed, then the third row, the fourth row Countless soldiers shouted battle slogans, like wild boars, rushing everywhere in groups.  In order to escape, even the elite Cossack cavalry tied anti-tank grenades and explosive bags to their horses many times and launched suicide charges against the tanks.  The battle was extremely bloody. Although it was protected by thick armor, the 19th Armored Division still paid the price of destroying 58 tanks and 43 half-track infantry fighting vehicles. Almost all the division's armored infantry regiments were wiped out!

    At this critical moment, the 592nd Armored Regiment led by Yang Tianlei arrived in time.  "Disperse them! Climb up and use the machine gun! Use more machine guns!" From the captain and battalion commander of the 1st Armored Division to the major commander of the 592nd Regiment of the 101st Armored Division, Yang Tianlei, who rarely ran at the front of the army, was probably fed up for a long time.  Deliberately protecting, he not only ordered to give up long-range artillery bombardment, but also directly let his armored regiment crush in along the Soviet charging queue.  Although the name of the Central Guard Division has gradually faded, the 101st Armored Division is second only to the First Armored Division in China and is an elite force organized entirely in accordance with the standards of later generations. Only one regiment has 118 Type 36 'Siberian Tiger' main battle tanks.  The actual combat capability exceeds that of the two Soviet tank corps.

    The heavy rain of bullets, the cold tracks, the crushed corpses, and the bloody scene of blood and flesh splattering all over the tank shell made the Soviet attack more difficult.One setback.  Facing Yang Tianlei's reinforcements, Timoshenko, who had been completely stunned, actually asked the troops to attack, and shot several officers who persuaded him to show his determination to break out.  But as the number of corpses on the battlefield increased, the enthusiasm of the Soviet soldiers gradually subsided.  A night of running wildly to break through and several hours of fierce fighting finally exhausted their last strength. Faced with Yang Tianlei's direct crushing style of fighting at full speed, many soldiers were even frightened crazy by the bloody tanks.

    At ten o'clock in the morning, after the main forces led by Xu Xiangqian and Sun Liren emerged from the east and west sides at the same time, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops who had been singing war songs a few hours ago completely collapsed. 170,000 of the 350,000 Soviet troops were killed on the spot, and more than 40,000 people were killed.  disappeared or escaped, the rest were all captured.  Timoshenko himself also died of excessive blood loss after one of his legs was blown off by an incoming dive bomber.

    His death also helped Yang Qiu open the bloody road to the Urals
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