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    "Load the shells! Yuri, tell me the coordinates."

    "Comrade Lieutenant, the smoke is too heavy and I can't see clearly."

    More than 2,000 Soviet soldiers were densely packed inside the solid fortifications at Kartare Pass.  Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili took the gas mask from the soldier, put it on and continued to direct the anti-tank operation.  As a tank soldier, he was transferred back to the Urals early by Malinovsky because his tank was damaged during the Battle of the Bulge and served as the commander of the anti-tank battalion here.  Of course, he himself also knew that being able to avoid the last disaster was also related to his father.  Although he was transferred back early, he did not lose confidence in defeating the enemy. In fact, since last year, hundreds of thousands of craftsmen were mobilized to build numerous tight fortifications and special terrains, which gave him and everyone a lot of confidence.

    There were not many permanent fortifications in Ural originally, but after the Chinese Air Force continued bombing before winter last year, his father mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to build a large number of permanent fortifications using the rich local cement and steel resources.  For example, the ring-shaped infantry artillery fortification he is in is reinforced and poured with one-meter-thick cement and steel plates, which can effectively resist direct fire from 150mm cannons.  There are hundreds of fortifications like this in the Urals, several large or even super-large fortresses, and countless small fortresses.  What is really worrying is that the main force did not withdraw in time, resulting in insufficient defensive forces.  The rear reinforcements were delayed due to the enemy's continuous bombardment of communication lines.  Just like Kartaly where he was supposed to be stationed with 2 divisions, now there are only 2 brigades with a total strength of less than 3,000. However, he still believes that he can persist until reinforcements arrive because he has the most powerful force in the Soviet Union.  Anti-tank weapons.  "I saw it! 1100 meters" When the artillery observer seized the gap in the smoke and saw a wheeled armored vehicle releasing infantry, Yakov immediately ordered loudly: "Armor-piercing shells, fire.  !" With just a 'boom', the targeted Hound wheeled armored vehicle turned into a ball of fire.  The flying parts also caught the infantrymen who jumped out of the vehicle.

    "The seventh one!" cheered the gun emplacement. Lieutenant Yakov has become everyone's hero, because the 130mm cannon he commanded alone destroyed 7 tanks/armored vehicles, 3 of which were owned by the company's father and the general staff officer.  The 'Manchurian Tiger' tank is a headache for everyone.  "Go on, comrades! We want to give the enemy a head-on blow here! Break the myth of the Manchurian tiger!" Yakov encouraged everyone and personally participated in the work of loading the shells.

    Listening to the cheers coming from the fortification.  He Hai gritted his teeth. The destroyed tanks behind him made him want to pick up the slow "Earth Dragon" blasting tank and rush in.  But he had to keep his wrists as gentle as possible. After all, the remote-controlled tank only weighed 1.5 tons and could easily be knocked over by raised rocks and trees.  Fortunately.  With fierce artillery fire and continuous tracer guidance, he could see the target accurately, and the Soviets could not hear the hum of the gasoline engine.  Ten minutes later, the 'Earth Dragon' he controlled finally climbed over a protruding rock with difficulty and approached the observation port at the bottom of the fortification.

    ¡°Looking for the next target!¡± After Yakov loaded the shells, he started searching for the next target in high spirits.  The lookout who had been lying in front of the observation window felt something shaking in front of him as soon as he saw an approaching Siberian tiger.  "Comrade Lieutenant. There seems to be something outside."

    "What is it? Do you see it clearly? Machine gun, search, commandos are ready." After hearing the report, Yakov immediately got five Maxim M1910 water-cooled heavy machine guns ready, and he quickly walked towards the observation window  Go.  Just when he was about to lean over to check, a ball of light suddenly exploded outside the fortification.  A full 80 kilograms of powerful explosives instantly released terrifying destructive power.  Although the 1-meter-thick concrete and steel exterior wall blocked most of the shock waves, Yakov's right arm was still severed by a fragment of an exploded tank that flew in through the window.  His whole body and legs were instantly broken in many places, and his whole body was pushed back several meters by the air wave. If it hadn't happened to hit a group of soldiers, his flesh and blood would have been mutilated.

    He who was unconscious did not see that after the fortifications cracked like eggshells, a dozen Chinese elite commandos with blackened faces and automatic rifles rushed up from the foot of the mountain quickly.  He Hai also followed the veteran, quickly killed several Soviet soldiers who tried to rush out, and occupied the fortification.  The elite veteran commandos obviously had no interest in taking over the fortifications after Yakov was unconscious and covered in blood in the corner.  Immediately turn the machine gun around and fire violently at the surrounding Soviet infantry bunkers.

    Soon, several other fortifications also exploded outside. After inspection, four of them were damaged to varying degrees. Only one of them failed to complete the task because the blasting tank was blocked by bushes and the detonation point was too far away.  "Save him, please, he ishe is Stalin's son!" When He Haigang moved a box of machine gun bullets to support the heavy machine gun, a voice suddenly sounded from the corner.  An ordinary Soviet army medical soldier sat among the corpses, holding Yakov's bloody body and asking him for help.

    "Stalin's son?" Not to mention He Hai, even the old people around him?Everyone's eyes widened.

    An hour later, Yakov was rushed to the rear hospital by Yuanqi, and two weeks later he was sent to a high-level prisoner of war shelter set up on the outskirts of Beijing.

    After losing their comrades, the remaining two heavy anti-tank guns did not last long before they were blown up by veteran commandos at close range with the Soviet artillery. All the soldiers inside were burned to death by flamethrowers.  After losing their heavy artillery, the Soviet soldiers still persisted in resisting until the next morning. However, as Cai Rui ordered a strong attack early the next morning, they had no choice but to leave more than a thousand corpses and crawl into the woods.

    After a day and night of fierce fighting, He Hai and his comrades finally opened the door to the Urals.  By ten o'clock the next morning, Cai Rui, who led three wheeled armored regiments, broke through the outer defense line of Magnitogorsk where only one mountain infantry division was stationed.

    At the same time, good news also came from Kostanai. Yang Yuchun took advantage of the rapid maneuvering speed of his troops to block Fyodorovka east of Troitsk in advance, and cooperated with Lukin and Fraso who arrived later.  The husband fought fiercely for three hours.  However, since it was already evening and he lacked support, he was still captured by Lu Jin and took away nearly 60,000 veterans. However, Vlasov was not as strong as Lu Jin. Facing Yang Yuchun's violent attack, he lost confidence.  At ten o'clock that night, he led more than 50,000 people of the 24th Army to surrender to Yang Yuchun.

    On July 25, Liu Mingzhao¡¯s main 10 divisions, which had completed the annihilation battle of Kostanay, quickly passed through Kartare, which he had already controlled.  Launched a general offensive against Magnitogorsk.  At the same time, he asked Gong Chu to lead four mechanized infantry divisions straight south, cooperating with Li Yuguo to encircle Kilponos' main force.  Probably having a premonition of his own doom, Kilponos ordered Potapov to lead the main 5th Army and 70,000 cavalry to break through the encirclement just before Gongchu closed the door, leaving behind.  This Soviet general died in tragic battle with himself and tens of thousands of Soviet troops.  In exchange for a total of 120,000 troops from the 5th Army and cavalry, they successfully took a small path from Volgogradsky to the Ural Plateau and successfully broke through.

    Major General Potapov, who led his troops to break out of the encirclement, originally wanted to go to Orsk, but the troops had not yet set off. Duzishan, who had just captured Atyrau at the mouth of the Ural River, returned to Aktobinsk and led two corps coming from the rear.  Including 280,000 soldiers.  Launch a general attack on Orsk.

    After Zhukov and Kirponos briefly joined forces after escaping, Timoshenko sent him to Orsk to take charge of defense.  Facing Du Zishan's ferocious offensive, Zhukov, who had only 50,000 regular troops and 50,000 guerrillas composed of local people and guerrillas withdrawn from Western Kazakhstan, was once again defeated.  On August 1, Du Zishan made an attack in the east and west, and after letting the main force attack Orsk to contain Zhukov's main force, he personally led 70,000 troops.  With the help of local Kazakh and Tatar militiamen, they successfully attacked Novotroitsk, west of Orsk.  Then, Du Zishan used two captured 305mm heavy artillery to continuously bombard Orsk.  After losing the important western barrier and being attacked continuously by heavy artillery and bombers, Zhukov had no choice but to resort to escape for the third time. He led the remaining defeated soldiers up the river to join Potapov, and then used the forests and hills to cross the Ural River and retreat to Orenburg.

    August 3rd.  An excited young communications sergeant sent a telegram that later became world-famous after he and his troops stormed the Ural River in Orsk.

    "Motherland, my feet have crossed Europe and Asia!"

    When the telegram was sent, the communications sergeant and the troops did not actually cross the Ural River (the Ural River is the boundary river) with "foot in Europe and Asia". In fact, it was not until seven months later that the first unit officially crossed the boundary river.  And he didn't know that this telegram once caused Yang Qiu a headache.  But no matter what, the occupation of Orsk meant that the Central Asian Allies had obtained a second strategic channel into and out of the Urals.  Also means.  The 16-day Battle of Kostanai ended.  Following the Battle of the Bulge, the Soviet army not only lost more than 500,000 troops again, bringing the total number of troops lost so far to 6.13 million (of which 2.6 million died), more than 4 million Soviets in Central Asia, Siberia and the Urals were also killed.  The war spread to death, and 6 million people (3.3 million evacuated from the Ural region alone) retreated to Europe.  After Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, only a section west of the Ural River in Kazakhstan was not recovered, and all other areas were liberated.

    After learning the battle report, Yang Qiu immediately gave instructions, asking the troops not to underestimate the enemy or blindly go deep. They must first stabilize the surrounding area and repair the railway. At the same time, he also asked the logistics department and the national combat readiness mobilization department to seize the time and use all means to reserve supplies for the front line.  Heavy winterization equipment and fuel for overwintering.  When Yang Qiu began to think about the harsh winter, Mei Sheng and Sun Chuanfang had not yet stopped. With the southern and middle routes resolved, the two began to plan and prepare for the 'Tyumen-Kurgan' campaign, hoping to win the battle before winter.  Go down to Kurgan and open the third passage.

    The news that the Chinese National Defense Forces entered the Urals triggered a huge earthquake!  After the Associated Press learned of the telegram sent by the communications sergeant through special channels, it immediately reported the news that the Chinese Army had entered the Urals. Reuters and Agence France-Presse also followed up.Even the China News Service reported the good news in series.  The Wall Street Journal, which has always looked at China through tinted glasses, even published a half-length color photo on its front page, with an alarmist headline like "They are back!"  The background of the photo is a map of Eurasia, with an arrow pointing to a small photo next to the Ural River (the boundary river between Europe and Asia).  In the small photo, several Chinese recruits wearing sandy yellow combat uniforms who had just completed training were sitting on a Siberian Tiger main battle tank with guns on their backs.  The long barrel pointed towards Europe, making a victory sign and smiling confidently at the camera.

    The hearty and confident smile that has never been seen before, the heroic enthusiasm and fearless spirit are all condensed on a small film, allowing Americans and the world to re-recognize the new generation of Chinese young people.  The photography skills of AP reporters are top-notch, but even more top-notch is their argument that they are afraid that the world will not be in chaos.  Although it was not stated directly, the insinuations throughout the article reminded those who read the report of the "Whip of God" that almost destroyed European civilization.  In addition to alluding to China, the Wall Street Journal also wrote at the end of the article.  Unceremoniously pointing the finger at the European Allies, which have suffered repeated defeats.  Mobilizing (Note 1) 11 million British and Commonwealth troops, 1.1 million Free France, the United States which has mobilized 9.3 million, and other 2.5 million Indian and African Allied Forces has half of the world's manufacturing capacity, which can be called  The world's largest military force was defeated by Germany and Italy, which had not yet begun national mobilization, and suffered heavy casualties. This really made the American people very angry.  A British tabloid even used a cartoon of "Yang Qiu stepped on Stalin and whipped Churchill and Roosevelt with a riding crop" to ridicule the failure of the European Allies, and even boasted that Beijing should be given full command of the Allied forces.

    Churchill, who was completely ruined, didn't care about this. His relationship with the press was as close as a duel with a gun. But Roosevelt on the other side of the Atlantic had to endure the biggest crisis of confidence since he became the president of the United States!  He and the U.S. are already in a quagmire, and there are even suggestions from members of Congress.  The recognition of China¡¯s international trusteeship over places such as the Marianas, Wake Island, and the Marshall Islands should be exchanged for Beijing¡¯s projection of military power into Europe.  Of course, Roosevelt would not be so short-sighted. He knew very well that even if he announced his withdrawal from the entire Southwest Pacific, Yang Qiu would not send ground forces to Europe so early.

    Also in trouble and crisis was Moscow, where Timoshenko and Kirponos died in battle.  Malinovsky surrendered, Vlasov surrendered, and Mekhlis was captured The counterattack that had been prepared for more than half a year not only failed to regain the lost territory, but also lost millions of troops in vain, which opened the door to the Urals.  Even my son got in!  Stalin exploded!  Zhukov, who had 'escaped' three times, was demoted to second lieutenant and sent to Poland to serve as a sentry.  But Zhukov only worked in this 'new job' for a month before being thrown to another place.  It was there that he really showed off his offensive talents.

    "The Urals must not be lost! Behind us is Moscow! There is no rear, the entire Soviet Union is a battlefield!"

    After learning that his son had been arrested, Stalin made harsh words at the Central Political Conference and asked for mobilization again.  And this time, he didn't even need to use winter training. He directly ordered the guns to be distributed to the new recruits and then put them on the train bound for the Urals and Stalingrad.  In his words.  Even if all the Soviets were killed, the Urals must be saved.  In addition to military preparations, Stalin also sent Motolov to secretly visit Berlin again and brought an unprecedented gift.

    Give up Soviet control of Poland.  Troops were sent to cooperate with Turkey's pincer attack, and gc international mobilized 300 important factories and workers in the Balkans, France and other places to help build any military supplies.  At one time, 2 million tons of crude oil, 2 million tons of crude steel, 3 million tons of wood, 500,000 tons of coking coal, 500,000 tons of nickel and manganese and other concentrated ores, and 1 million tons of wheat were transferred.

    The conditions are to formally form an alliance, transfer captured non-Jewish workers from the Balkans and Poland, fill the growing gap in workers in the Soviet Union, and provide aviation and tank engines, fighter jets, 88 guns, radars, etc.  New weapons and production equipment, as well as the bombing of Stalingrad (the second largest oil refining base in the Soviet Union before the war, the first being Sevastopol, and the third being Bashkir), the annual output has plummeted to only 500  10,000 tons of refining equipment and aviation gasoline (Note 2).

    Stalin put all his bets on it!

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    Note 1: Mobilization includes all personnel serving the war, not just combat troops.  Because Britain started the war early, it is temporarily higher than the United States.  By the end of July 1941, China had mobilized 21 million people, including about 8 million combat troops. The Asian allied forces under China's command such as North Korea, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran had mobilized 11 million people, including 4.7 million combat troops.

    Note 2: The Soviet Union has poor refining capacity. It can actually produce nearly 30 million tons of crude oil per year, of which Baku has about 20 million, and other inland areas such as Bashkir in the north of Ufa and Arkhangelsk in the northeast have about 800.  Around 10,000.  More than 33 million tons in 41 years in history.  However, the domestic refining capacity is seriously insufficient, only about 10 million per year, and they are still low-grade products.Crude oil is either sold at a low price or taken directly to power plants to be burned for heating
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