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Chapter 1567 is on the verge of breaking out

At ten o'clock in the morning of May 6, An Yi's office in Xuanwu Building, Xiaonanhai Governance Hall. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Good, good play! Immediately, in the name of the Central Committee and me, I sent a call to Tang Wen to congratulate them on their great victory! It is hoped that they will guard against arrogance and rashness, continue to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and courageously forging ahead, quickly occupy the entire territory of Turkmenistan, and lay a solid foundation for the next step of the whole army's operations. ”

When An Yi saw the telegram handed over by Liang Zihua, he was so excited that he got up from his seat and walked back and forth around the office. The victory in the Battle of Kulandag marked a fundamental reversal in the balance of forces between the enemy and the enemy in Turkmenistan, and even if the Soviet troops were to transport a large number of troops ashore through the Caspian Sea in the coming days, they would not be able to pose a threat to the coalition forces that had the advantage of open space.

There is also an extremely important advantage, with the main force of the Soviet army on the west coast of the Caspian Sea being completely annihilated, the entire territory of Turkmenistan is empty of defense, and it is a matter of time before it is taken, and then the Soviet army in the southeast of Central Asia will be cut off from the Soviet mainland, and the logistical supply will also be cut off, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened.

According to intelligence, the base camp of the Japanese army has quietly issued a first-class combat readiness order to the navy and army, and an attack on the coastal areas of the Far East may start at any time. Once the war breaks out, the Far Eastern Army, which is currently stranded in Central Asia, will inevitably come back to help, and the entire Central Asian war situation will be borne by the Anjia Army alone. At this critical moment, the total annihilation of the Soviet Turkmenistan Corps is undoubtedly of decisive significance for the overall situation.

At present, the entire Central Asian war situation is developing in a direction favorable to the An Jiajun. On the Uzbek side, Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong had successfully joined forces in the town of Khozheli in western Nukus, blocking the Soviet troops of two armies and six divisions in and around Nukus, which was only more than 30 kilometers away. As long as this part of the Soviet army is eaten in one fell swoop, then the balance of power between the Anjia Army and the Soviet Army in Central Asia will reach a balance of power, even if the Far Eastern Army withdraws, with the superiority of the Anjia Army's tactical literacy and training level, coupled with sophisticated weapons and equipment, it should not be very difficult to solve the opponent.

According to top-secret information obtained from the top level of Japan, the reason why the Japanese army has not launched a war in the Far East for a long time is that its government is conducting diplomatic mediation with the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries to strive for greater interests and benefits.

Judging from the current situation, the European and American powers generally welcomed Japan's northward movement.

In particular, Britain and the United States have spared no effort to support it, because this means that Japan will tilt its development focus toward North Asia, and the troops deployed in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region will also be transferred northward, which will greatly ease the current tense atmosphere and will be very beneficial to maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia.

After the occupation of the Lanyin Islands, the Japanese government showed extraordinary generosity, generously promising that American capital would have the privilege of free investment and trade in the Lanyin Islands, that the American chaebols could freely open mines and build railroads in the Lanyin Islands, and that American industrial products would be dumped on the Lanyin Islands at very low tariffs.

All kinds of favorable measures have greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of US capital, and in the second quarter, the US economy has shown signs of recovery.

Japan's image has been greatly enhanced in the minds of the American people, and the major US conglomerates, which have reaped the sweetness of this, have once again issued a loan amount of $1 billion to facilitate Japan's purchase of weapons and equipment produced in the United States, and this time the mortgage targets are the land, oil wells, and mines in the Far East, as well as the right to build railroads.

It has to be said that Marx's thesis that "capital has been dripping with blood and filth from head to toe since it came into the world" is extremely correct.

France also supported Japan's northward expansion. The French were not willing to accept the loss of their colonies in Southeast Asia, and although they were unable to send troops to carry out expeditions across the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca under German pressure, they still tried to provoke the Thai government to send troops to seize land in the Mekong Delta, and tried to cause chaos for the South Chinese government. The reason given by the French is very simple, according to the news that the French got from the high-level people in Nanjing, the main force of the Anjia Army has gone north and directly intervened in the war in Central Asia, and at present, there are only two front armies in South China, with a total strength of only 200,000. The plan of the French is to fight for South China and Thailand, and then France can send an army to recover Annam without bloodshed, saying that it may not be possible to take Thailand together at that time.

However, the French government is very worried that Japan will get a kick in the game.

The current Japanese navy has a decisive advantage over the British and American navies in the western part of the Pacific, coupled with its powerful army, Annam is controlled by the Chinese or Thais, and the French still have hope of making a comeback, but if Japan takes the opportunity to intervene in the seizure, it will really be a meat bun and a dog with no return.

At the same time, France's main opponent was not the Anjia Army, but Germany, whose military strength was rapidly expanding and close at hand. As far as France is concerned, Annan will not hurt the fundamentals, but if the measures to deal with Germany are not effective, then there is really a goods for the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species.

Due to the influence of the Soviet Union's Great Purge, the Soviet intelligence agencies of Europe and the United States were completely wiped out, and they did not know anything about the situation in the Soviet Union, and they did not know at all that Germany was secretly negotiating with the Soviet Union to conclude a peace treaty, nor did they know that Japan's attack on North Asia was originally at the invitation of Moscow, but they believed that Stalin would never allow Japan to get involved in the territory of the Soviet Union, and that Japan's choice to go north would inevitably touch the core interests of Moscow, which would inevitably provoke contradictions between the Soviet Union and Japan, and then affect the relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. As a result, Germany will inevitably pay more attention to the Soviet Union, which will be beneficial for France to gain more time to complete the expansion of its army and air force and the upgrading of its weapons and equipment.

Germany and Italy welcomed Japan's northward expansion.

Not to mention Morini, the Italian government has a large number of loans in Japan, and now Italy has tasted the benefits, and there is a large amount of interest coming in every month. In Hitler's mind, there must be a war between the Soviet Union and Germany in the future, and if there is an ally who can contain the Soviet Union behind its back, or even simply attack the Soviet Union directly and share the Soviet Union's troops, there is nothing more wonderful than this.

For the Far Eastern Republics, the feelings of European and American countries are extremely complicated.

So far, only 12 countries, including Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia and South China, have established diplomatic relations with it, not including Britain, the United States and France, which are important powers in the world. In the eyes of these countries, the Government of the Far Eastern Republic, which has the same people, the same language and culture, and the same faith, cannot be trusted. When its internal contradictions are sharp, it can certainly be fought in the dark, but if it is invaded by outsiders, it is very likely that it will put aside its differences and unite with the outside world.

In that case, why not support a country of different nationalities, cultures, and beliefs to break this possibility and truly eliminate the Red regime?

Britain, France, the United States, and other countries hoped that Hitler's Nazi government would covet the Soviet Union after seeing that it was caught up in the war between Japan and South China, and use its troops in the vast land of the Soviet Union, so that it could make money by selling weapons and strategic materials to Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union, and even South China.

To this day, the countries of Europe and the United States are still plagued by economic crises, and if they can really avoid being dragged into the war, and can they still make a fortune through the war, can there be anything more wonderful than this?

Now that Britain has been completely dragged into the quagmire of the war in India, it is too busy to take care of itself, and what it expects is that Germany will be brought to the east and Germany will be harmed by the Soviet Union, so that Britain will face much less pressure. Britain is an island country, almost all of its energy is spent on the navy, only in a state of war will the army be expanded, so far, Britain has sent fifteen divisions to India, which is almost the limit of British strength, plus colonial troops from Canada and Africa, nearly half a million people fell into India, which almost dragged down the British economy.

The British government had issued a secret order to deal with the Indian rebels at all costs, and to try to solve the problem before the Germans had finished digesting the prey sought by the Czech Snovarks. The British military has already sent a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and aircraft to India, and even secretly sent poison gas bombs, and a bloody storm is about to break out.

Signing his name on the congratulatory telegram and seeing Liang Zihua leave, An Yi always felt a little unsettled, thought about it and came to the war room next door, and asked with a slap in his face as soon as he entered the door:

"Did Ye and Li call? What happened on the Eastern Front? ”

Colonel Cheng Shiming, deputy director of the Operations Department of the General Staff Department, correctly marked the coordinates of the enemy and the enemy on the sand table of the command staff officers, and when he saw An Yi coming, he hurriedly stepped forward:

"There is no telegram. According to the information we have, the Ye and Li fronts have successfully encircled the Nukus area, and the battle originally scheduled to be launched today has been postponed until tomorrow because the air force is not in place. On the eastern front, the Soviet army took advantage of the opportunity when the mechanized troops of our coalition army were blocked at the northern foot of the Chuyili Mountain, urgently mobilized two armies stationed in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and two divisions of the border guards also rushed north from the borders of Afghanistan and Iran to help. ”

An Yi nodded, strode to the sand table, carefully observed the situation of the enemy and us, and then came to the sand table marked the situation in the Far East, looked at the dense white flags representing the symbols of the Japanese divisions, and asked: "Does the General Staff have any prediction of the launch time of the Japanese army?" Will the Far Eastern Army be able to withstand the attacks of the Japanese? ”

Cheng Shiming replied cautiously: "After consulting with our operations department and the intelligence department, we believe that it should be these two days. In May, the snow melted in the Far East and Siberia, and the weather became warmer, so that the Japanese soldiers would not suffer in such weather. During this period, Japan's purchase of P35, P36, Curtis P-40 fighters and B17 bombers from the United States greatly enriched the strength of the Japanese Army Aviation, plus with the supply of the Lanyin Islands, there is no longer a shortage of rubber and steel resources, as well as scrap steel purchased from the United States, Japan is open to the production of Type 97 cavalry tanks, Type 95 light tanks, Type 97 medium tanks and Type 95 heavy tanks, its degree of mechanization is not weaker than that of the Far Eastern Army, plus its assembled nearly 100 divisions and a large number of independent mixed brigades, The mobilized troops were as high as three million, and the General Staff was not very optimistic about the Far East. ”

"Yes! Three million, just listen to that number, it's chilling! If this force is thrown into the Chinese battlefield, how can we resist it? ”

An Yi's expression was extremely solemn, and after a while, he continued to ask: "What is the opinion of the General Staff on the operation in the coastal area?" ”

"In the coastal area, Japan has the advantage of the navy, in addition to the threat of naval artillery, the Japanese army can freely choose to land on the coast, and it is impossible to prevent it, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army. We rushed in, except for adding consumption, it didn't have much effect. After consultation, the departments of the General Staff agreed that it would be better for our army to enter the war at the same time as when the Japanese army was approaching Lake Belga, when the Japanese army's battle line was stretched and supply began to become difficult, and we could use the mountains of Eastern Siberia to deal with it. ”

"So, the fall of the coastal area is already irretrievable?" An Yi muttered to himself with some disappointment.

"Yes! The coastal area is close to Korea and the northeastern part of our country, and Japan has a favorable time and place, and if our troops force their help, the casualties will be very heavy. According to our strength, it is simply impossible to resist the Japanese attack from the front, and the fall of the Primorsky area is a predictable thing. ”

Cheng Shiming's face was also a little unsightly.

When An Yi was facing the sand table and thinking hard about countermeasures, Shen Fengdao walked into the war room and walked straight to An Yi's side: "Mr. Ou returned from Europe, and an hour ago, the passenger ship he was on had docked at Haiphong Port. The eldest lady called and asked why you didn't go to greet you. ”

Ou Chuer was busy with the establishment of the Central Bank of South China and financial and fiscal reform during this time, running back and forth between various parts of South China and southern Sichuan, she was in Saigon for the past two days, and she called An Yi last night for her father's affairs.

An Yi patted his forehead and blamed himself: "Oops, I actually forgot about this." In this way, we go by plane. Ask Cheng Guang to help me receive my father-in-law well. When he returned to Europe, he helped us introduce more than 200,000 skilled shipyard workers, and also recruited thousands of scientists and senior technicians, making great contributions to the take-off of our Nanhua industry. ”

Saying this, An Yi turned his head to Cheng Shiming and said, "Record my orders." Ye and Li: At the end of the Battle of Turkmenistan this morning, the Far Eastern Army joined hands with the Tang Wen Division of our army to annihilate more than 200,000 Soviet troops in Turkmenistan. Now that the Japanese army is ready to move, and the Far Eastern Army may withdraw at any time to help, the sooner the enemy is resolved, the better, so can we start fighting this afternoon? An Yi. ”

Cheng Shiming finished recording An Yi's order, and after An Yi signed his name, he walked quickly to the telecommunications room.

An Yi said to Shen Fengdao: "Let's go, I'm just expounding my opinion, the specific command of the operation depends on Ye Cheng and them, I hope that when we come back from Haiphong Port in the evening, there will be good news." ”

Shen Fengdao smiled slightly, walked side by side with An Yi, and walked towards the door of the war room.

After receiving An Yi's telegram, Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong, who had led their troops to meet in the town of Hozheli, 18 kilometers west of Nukus, two days earlier, immediately convened an emergency meeting of generals at and above the army level to discuss combat matters.

Nukus is the capital of the Karakalbak Autonomous Republic of Uzbekistan, located at the apex of the delta of the mouth of the Amu Darya River, on the east bank of the Amu Darya River, founded six years ago, as a water and road transportation hub, connected to Tashiatash on the west bank of the Amu Darya River by rail, constituting the greater Nukus region.

"With the end of the fighting on the Western Front, at least two of the three air regiments can be allocated to us, plus one of our air regiments in Muinak and Kungrad, which will be enough to deal with the Soviet troops in Nukus." Lieutenant General Wu Xianwei, chief of staff of the Li Jinlong Front Army, said confidently.

"According to our reconnaissance, the enemy of Nukus has repeatedly attacked the estuary forest area, and each time he has lost his troops, and now there are only six divisions left in the entire Uzbek corps, which are not fully manned, plus the militia, with a total strength of less than 150,000 people, and our army has an all-round advantage, and the sooner we decide, the better."

Qi Xiuping, commander of the guard army directly under Ye Cheng's front army, said.

Luo Yi, Peng Wanjun, Li Yuewu, Liang Zhenyu, Liao Minlin, Sun Desheng, Zhou Dingcheng and other generals gossiped and expressed their confidence in the victory of Nukus.

Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong discussed it together, and finally made up their minds to attack the fortifications.

At one o'clock in the afternoon of West Asian time, the two fronts of the Anjia Army, a total of six corps, plus two directly subordinate guard corps, began to advance towards Nukus according to the plan.

First of all, Sun Desheng's Eighth Army and Peng Wanjun's 1st Tank Army cooperated with each other to launch a ferocious offensive against the Tahiatash area on the west bank of the Amu Darya River with an unstoppable momentum.

The few surviving Soviet troops had to retreat across the Amu Darya River and converge on the main city of Nukus on the east bank to continue to hold on. Before the Soviet army retreated, it blew up the railway and highway bridges, but at this time, dozens of pontoon bridges had already been built on the Amu Darya River, and it was impossible to stop the Anjia army from fighting back and forth.

An hour later, on the top of a mosque in the town of Krako, eight kilometers north of Nukus, the Flying Fox battle flag of the An Jiajun was also raised.

After the 7th Tank Brigade of the 3rd Tank Army repelled two militia regiments defended by the Soviet army, he swaggered into the town, of course, it was a little unfair to say that the defeat was a little unfair, because they only fired a few shots with tank shells and a few shuttle bullets with machine guns, and the Soviet militia dispersed in a hurry, discarded the weapons in their hands, took off their military uniforms, and then began to flee, and then this extremely important town north of Nukus fell into the control of the Anjia army.

To the southwest of Nukus, another small town called Churata was also lost by the lightning attack of the Anjia army, and in just three hours, the Soviet army was compressed into the city of Nukus and the surrounding area with a radius of less than 15 square kilometers.

An Jiajun hardly had any intention of resting, and immediately threw himself into the storming of the city.

It is no joke to concentrate a thousand cannons on the two fronts, plus more than 200 rocket launchers, such a powerful artillery strike, huge shells with the smell of death are constantly falling in the city, gray smoke clouds on the roofs and bells of many churches, and the streets are as silent as death.

Whenever the shelling was interrupted, military activity in the streets and squares was suddenly busy, and Soviet trucks loaded with ammunition and horse-drawn wagons loaded with household items rushed to the front line, while long ambulance convoys were on-demand. Artillery and machine guns entered the positions on street corners, trenches were dug and mines were laid in the main street areas.

There are all kinds of signs that the Soviet army has no intention of compromise and is ready to live and die with the city of Nukus.

In the outlying positions of the city of Nukus, the stubborn Soviet troops still gritted their teeth and began to concentrate their forces to break through.

The Soviets focused their breakthrough on Halkabad at the southern end of the estuary forest, and because the troops holding the first line of the estuary forest continued to squeeze forward towards Nukus along with the overall formation, there was inevitably a gap between the battle lines, and the Soviet commanders thought that it was a place that could be exploited. It was envisaged that a short escape into the estuarine forest and a little rest would allow you to cross the Kyzylkum desert and return to Tashkent from Lake Aydarkul to join the defenders there.

The Soviets concentrated the strength of four divisions and frantically rushed towards the position of the Anjia army, and in an instant, Halkabad became the center of the crisis of the entire encirclement, and the Soviets frantically pressed towards the position of the Anjia army like madmen.

The light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the An Jiajun began to roar, and the artillery arranged behind the position also fired shells desperately, hoping to withstand the attack of the other side, but before a group of enemies fell to the ground, many Soviets rushed up again, from the initial infantry squad to the later infantry company, infantry battalion, and even the impact of the whole regiment of large-scale cavalry.

Artillery, light tanks and armored trains, the goodies hidden by the Uzbek regiments of the Soviet army appeared one after another, and they passed over the corpses of their fallen comrades, red eyes, shouting and continuing to storm.

This kind of suicidal assault lasted for a whole afternoon, and the officers and men of Zhou Zhenfang's 19th Motorized Infantry Division of the Seventh Army, who were in charge of defense, were about to collapse.

This mechanical, large-scale brutal massacre made everyone feel extremely uncomfortable, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and corpse stench was everywhere in the position, and with the help of the overwhelming bombers and attack planes of the Air Force, the position was finally held. When night fell, the three tank brigades reached the northeast of the battlefield, and in the face of the merciless strangulation of the superior forces of the Anjia army's tank forces, the Soviet attacking forces immediately scattered.

At this point, the resistance of the Soviet army in the northeast of the Nukus encirclement collapsed.

That night, the An Jiajun launched an attack overnight, and the guns rang out all night. With the cooperation of tanks, armored vehicles and rocket launchers, the An Jiajun was invincible, and the Soviet army's original attempt to use street fighting to delay time was completely frustrated. The Anjia Army's tactics were very simple, using tanks and armored vehicles to take the lead, using bazookas to tear down walls, and then using snipers' accurate shooting to crush the Soviet resistance step by step.

On the morning of 7 May, when the gunfire gradually stopped, and the sun rose in the east, shining on the dead corpses of the city of Nukus, Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong led the generals and colonels of the front army to inspect the city that was still burning with fire and billowing smoke.

Between the various weapons and equipment, the corpses of men and horses lay on the ground, including a repair vehicle with machinery such as electric machines and drilling machines, and some strange things. Ambulances loaded with medical equipment tumbled to the floor, scalpels and hemostats littered everywhere.

Heavy anti-aircraft guns, cannons, howitzers, anti-tank guns, armoured cars, trucks, sedans and combat vehicles were everywhere, some of them sinking into deep pits blown open by large-caliber grenades, some crashing into houses in nearby streets, and some of them were overturned by the air currents of the shells, lying between the ruins and walls, in all sorts of strange poses.

The corpses of the Soviets were scattered all over the city, and many of them had been burned in the raging fire, and they looked very terrifying.

At ten o'clock in the morning, An Yi issued a commendation order to the Ye and Li front armies, and at the same time gave the next action plan: after cleaning up the battlefield, the two armies immediately took the train to the south (in 1937, the Soviet Union had built the railway from Nukus to Salmakan), captured Navoi, Bukhara and other cities with extremely empty troops, entered and occupied Salmahan, and completely closed the road for the Soviet army to retreat westward.