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Chapter 1555 is an earth-shattering explosion

The southern foothills of the Gertau Mountains in southern Balkhash Lake. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Wu, Yang Si, Tang Weimin, Jin Ge and other generals stood in the two-meter-high and five-meter-wide bunker excavated by construction machinery, leaned in front of the lookout hole, and used binoculars to carefully observe the movements of the Soviet troops on the opposite side, as well as the blasted roadway hidden deep in the ground that could not be seen on the surface at the foot of the mountain.

After half a month of arduous construction, large construction machinery and equipment such as excavators, drilling machines, and crushers were used, and tunnel blasting and civil engineering operations were frequently carried out.

The whole tunnel is five meters underground, with a total length of 328 meters, which can accommodate an engineering machine to go deep, so far, according to the suggestions of blasting experts, a total of 10 charge chambers buried with nitroamine explosives have been excavated, and by the early hours of this morning, 50,000 tons of explosives and detonating packages have been placed, and the blasting network has been laid, and the roadway has been filled, and it is waiting for the official detonation today.

Xiao Wu looked at his watch, led a cadre of generals to leave the bunker, went all the way down from the northern foot of the Gertau Mountain, and after half an hour of rapid travel, he came to the grassland under the mountain, sat in an armored car together, and drove for another hour, and the distance from the mountains was already more than 20 kilometers, Xiao Wucai picked up the car microphone and spoke loudly: "I order now, detonate!" ”

"Yes!"

The voice of Chu Bai, the commander-in-chief of the project in charge of the blasting on the opposite side, was clearly heard from the speaker: "Commander's order, start detonating now!" Five, four, three, two, one...... Begin! ”

As soon as the words fell, only the sound of "snort" was heard, and everyone knew that it was the sound of gunpowder burning, and then the speaker tended to be silent.

A quarter of an hour later.

"Boom-"

In the distance, an earth-shattering loud bang was heard, and dust rose into the sky, and a strong tremor was felt for hundreds of miles.

50,000 tons of explosives were detonated at the same time, and due to the special geological structure, the entire mountain at the northern foot of Chuyili Mountain was easily lifted, and the fortresses, artillery positions, antiaircraft gun positions, machine gun positions, and infantry positions on it were thrown out like splashes, and countless gravel and mud were overwhelming and enduring, and the smoke rising from it shrouded the mountains for dozens of kilometers and rose thousands of meters into the sky.

Although they had been notified a long time ago, the Far Eastern Army was clearly shocked by the power of the blast.

You must know that there are more than 100,000 Soviet troops stationed at the northern foot of Chuyili Mountain, although they are not all arranged in the front-line positions, but they are all around the main peak position. The entire explosion and collapse of the mountain was no different from a magnitude 10 earthquake, and the damage to animals and plants was fatal, and many lives were buried underground in an instant.

Although the whole mountain was tilted to the north due to the blasting point, only the flying rock fragments were not able to resist by manpower, and due to the sudden fracture of the rock layer, the earth's crust produced strong fluctuations, and the entire Chuyili Mountain area was erupting in a large earthquake of nearly seven or eight magnitude, and in the next two or three hours, the aftermath of the earthquake continued, making people think that the punishment of heaven had come.

It was not until the afternoon that the geological situation initially stabilized, and according to the information fed back by the reconnaissance troops, the entire northern foot of Chuyili Mountain had collapsed in an area of more than 10 square meters, and the fault was precipitous, and strange rocks were standing in a forest, and it was still emitting billowing smoke, and in some places the rocks even had karst phenomena, so it is conceivable how strong the tearing was.

In the evening, further information came, the Soviet army deployed at the northern foot of the Chuyili Mountain was almost completely annihilated, and the reconnaissance force that went forward 30 kilometers has not found any trace of the Soviet army. Of course, there was also bad news, because the mountain collapsed, the railway and road lines were buried, and the engineering troops needed to dig a new road so that the mechanized troops could continue to move south, until then, they could only use infantry to infiltrate the attack.

Xiao Wu did not have the slightest sympathy, and he immediately reported the latest situation to the theater and the General Staff through the radio waves, saying that with the annihilation of the Soviet troops on the front line of Chuyili Mountain, it is very likely that the Soviet troops in Xinjiang will go south to support, otherwise in less than ten days, Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, and Frunze, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, will be occupied by the combined forces composed of the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia Army.

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The Ye and Li fronts left three infantry divisions and three armored brigades on the front line of the estuary forest to prevent the Soviet counterattack, while the main force was divided into two routes, one was under the command of Li Jinlong, and quickly advanced westward through the town of Kornoka Zakdaria, carried out a forced crossing from the mouth of the Amu Darya River, occupied the most important seaport city in the southern part of the Aral Sea, Muynak, and then continued to advance westward, occupying Kungrad, the most important city at the southern foot of the Eastern Cenk Terrace, and blocking the road for the Uzbek Corps to advance westward; One route was led by Ye Cheng, who quickly moved south through Takuper, crossed the Sarekamash Basin on the north bank of the Amu Darya River, and attacked the ungarrisoned city of Tulkul, and then crossed the river by Tulkur, occupying the territory of the northern cities of Kurmenistan Saduar and Lybaru, cutting off the railways and roads for the Uzbek Corps to the south.

Ye Cheng's troops were in a state of great strength, resting for a long time after capturing the cities of Saduar and Lebaru, and then leaving an infantry brigade to garrison, while the rest of the troops quickly moved north and advanced to Urgench. Located in the central and western regions of Uzbekistan, south of the Amu Darya River, Urgench was once one of the greatest cities on the Silk Road, having been razed to the ground by Genghis Khan and now welcomed a new conqueror from the East.

The Soviets had two divisions here, one of which was a very rare armored division in the Soviet Army. An armored division of the Soviet Army has two tank regiments, each with four battalions, and each battalion has ten KV7 or T26 tanks, plus the tanks attached to the divisional reconnaissance battalion and the regimental reconnaissance company, the total number of tanks in one division is 120.

The Soviet commander was extremely shocked when he learned that the squadron was coming from the southwest along the railway, and they reported the news to the corps headquarters in Nukus, and at the same time drove the troops out of the city and took the initiative to meet the battle.

The Soviet generals lined up all the KV7 and T26 light tanks in five equal horizontal lines, each front was composed of more than 20 tanks, and they rushed to the unstable position of the squadron.

The commander of the 1st Tank Division of the Uzbek Corps, Maxim, climbed into his command tank with great hesitation and gave the order to attack, and after the whole division tank was activated, he joined the 5th platoon and the 8th battalion in the attack formation, which was at the rear of the entire tank formation.

Behind each tank line was an assault force of infantry, which, like the tanks, formed five long skirmishers and charged forward.

Through the unique conning tower of the tank command vehicle, Maxim looked at the attacking troops in front with great satisfaction, and the formation of this unit was perfect, as in the tank textbook, maintaining the appropriate spacing, if such a queue was placed on the exercise ground, it would be completely possible to score full marks.

Seeing the temporary blocking position set up by the ** squadron in the distance, Maxim was full of pride and quickly issued a combat order: "Forward!" Speed up and tear the Chinese to shreds! ”

Soon, the Soviet tanks that rushed to the front raised a thick cloud of smoke and dust, and the motors roared and rushed towards the opposite high ground, and the infantry accelerated and ran, shooting forward as they ran.

The anti-tank gun position on the side of the Anjia Army was set up on a hill at an angle of 30 degrees, and when they saw the Soviet troops arrogantly killing, they immediately burst into flames, and countless shells were fired into the Soviet tank columns, and even some shells fell in the infantry ranks behind the tanks. And the Soviet tanks did not show weakness, immediately opened fire, and started a melee with the anti-tank artillery of the An Jiajun.

The battle lasted about a quarter of an hour, and in the end, at the cost of losing five tanks and more than 100 infantry, the Soviets seized the anti-tank positions set up by the Anjia Army on the front line, destroyed eight 37 anti-aircraft guns, and killed and wounded more than 20 officers and men of the Anjia Army.

"These old hairy people are not useless......"

After watching the performance of the Soviet army, Ye Cheng, who set the headquarters on the top of the hill, nodded slightly, turned to Huang Hanqian, the chief of staff standing behind him, and said: "Order the troops to immediately launch a counterattack, strive to destroy more enemy tanks, and create conditions for our tanks to win a strategic victory!" ”

Ye Cheng's order had just been issued, and the Soviet army had begun a new wave of offensive.

Although it is said that the An Jiajun has the advantage of the high ground, in fact, this commanding height with an altitude of only more than 60 meters and a slope of only 30 degrees is really not an easy point to defend and difficult to attack.

The Soviets launched a fierce attack from tanks with limited artillery firepower, and at this time they had changed their formation, from the original five lines to a sharp triangular offensive formation, which was mainly due to the terrain restrictions of the mountains, but also to enhance the assault force of the troops.

Seeing that the Soviet army was pressing up violently, Ye Cheng was not nervous. Behind this hill, there was his direct guard corps, Li Yuewu's 2nd Tank Corps and Liang Zhenyu's 3rd Tank Corps, and he had every reason to believe that his army would be able to hold off the opposing attack.

After the Soviet tanks marched 20 meters, the branches and leaves shook slightly in the bushes nearly two meters high on the hill, and then soldiers with bazookas on their shoulders emerged from the dense bushes.

Faced with the rumbling approaching tanks, they did not panic and aimed their bazookas at the Soviet tanks. Before the enemy realized that he had entered the range of the rockets, with a puff of smoke, one rocket after another had already flown out, accurately hitting the surface of the enemy's tank armor, and a ball of fire quickly surrounded the Soviet tank, and almost at the same time, the turret of the Soviet tank flew away from its body in a violent explosion and was quickly drowned in endless smoke.

Almost instantly, the Soviet tank charge was halted under the blow of rockets, and in the face of such a blow that had never been seen before, the Soviet tank crew suffered a great psychological blow, and the offensive was naturally blocked with the loss of more than ten tanks.

However, the Soviet infantry did not retreat, because they knew that if they retreated at this time, the Chinese on the mountain would definitely be overwhelmed with thunderous momentum, and then they would face the embarrassment of complete collapse, so they quickly forced themselves into the bushes from the rockets, preparing to destroy the mysterious enemy hiding in the jungle.

At this time, behind the bushes, a dense mortar shell suddenly fired, and at the same time, in the bushes, a large number of general-purpose machine guns began to roar, the Soviet army was unprepared, hundreds of Soviet soldiers fell like wheat was cut, and the rest quickly fell to the ground and fired back, but the mortar shells continued to fall overhead, taking away a large number of lives, and the attack of the Soviet infantry was completely contained.