Then Mr. Peng looked at Wu Di and said very funny: "Listen to Deng Feng, you kid is a tiger general, this time you will take out the appearance of a tiger general, and first sweep the headquarters of the Central Asian Military Region of the Soviet Army in Almaty, even if you can't blow up any big people in the Soviet army, it will also have a deterrent effect on their hearts, and it will also be a blow to the psychology of the Soviets." Give them some color and give this polar bear a complete turnback. Let them be scared for generations when they think about it. ”

"Mr. Peng, you just wait here, let's see." Wu Di said with a big grin.

In the afternoon of the same day, after careful consideration, Peng Dehuai personally drafted a telegram to the supreme leader, suggesting that peace talks with the Soviet Union should not be held for the time being. The full text of the telegram is as follows: Chairman, Deng Feng decided that the troops of the Eastern and Central Fronts should devote all their campaign reserves to launch a general attack on the Soviet troops on the Eastern and Central Fronts, with the aim of occupying land to the maximum, and enter a general counterattack on the Western Front in order to restore the territory occupied by the Soviet Union in Tacheng, Layminxian, Hot Springs, Boltala, Huocheng and other areas. I think it's doable.

On the morning of 28 July, I arrived at the headquarters of the Western Front in Urumqi and listened to a report by Saifuding, Zhang Zihua, and Wu Di on the situation on the Western Front. Before that, it was not advisable to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union. Deng Feng also meant this. I recently organized a counterattack on the Western Front in Urumqi, and I hope to show whether or not I want to.

After receiving the telegram, the supreme leader immediately replied to the telegram and agreed: The Soviet Union, through our embassy in the Soviet Union and Jin Yuecheng, has expressed a strong desire for peace, and the peace talks should be decided according to the development of the situation, but it should not be delayed for too long. At this time, various factors at home and abroad are extremely favorable to us, and we can let go of our hands and feet. The entire defensive system of the Soviet troops on the eastern and central fronts has been completely destroyed, and it is appropriate to launch a general attack. The large corps of the Soviet army on the Western Front, with a wide front and high speed, has become the end of a strong crossbow, and it is also necessary to launch a counterattack on the Western Front.

You are very good and comforting in organizing a counterattack on the Western Front in Urumqi.

Subsequently, Peng Dehuai, Sai Fuding, Zhang Zihua, and Wu Di studied the battle plan in detail. In the end, he said firmly: "We must knock the Soviet army hard from the land and the air to completely destroy their will to war." Let them be honest for at least 20 years. ”

On 1 March, Peng Dehuai and Deng Feng jointly issued an order for a counterattack to all combat units on the Western Front, readjusted the deployment of the original eight divisions of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region and the Tibet Provincial Military Region, and divided 92 tanks of the only "destroyer" tank regiment in the Tibet Provincial Military Region into three main attack directions: Tacheng, Huocheng, and Hot Springs. In order to make up for the lack of attack forces on the ground, more than 90 MiG-19 fighters and 30 Soviet Tu-16 medium-range bombers temporarily installed with the identification of friend or foe system were transferred from the newly occupied Boli and Komsomolsk airfields on the Eastern Front. At the same time, in order to strengthen the command and dispatch and electromagnetic suppression in the air, Wang Kunpeng, deputy secretary of the Far East Working Committee, personally came to Urumqi with the Air Police 2000 early warning aircraft.

Tacheng was the largest town in the territory occupied by the Soviet army in China, and it was also the main target of the Chinese border guards. Tacheng is adjacent to Altay Prefecture in the northeast and Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest. Tacheng is inserted into the territory of the Soviet Autonomous Republic of Kazakhstan in the form of an equilateral triangle, bordering the Soviet Autonomous Republic of Kazakhstan on the west and north sides, and the city of Karamay on the east side. At the foot of the Great Man Mountain, 17 kilometers southwest of Tacheng, is the Baktu port of the Autonomous Republic of Kazakhstan of the Soviet Union and China, and the A356 highway of the Soviet Union is connected with the 221 provincial highway of Xinjiang Province of China.

Due to the prominent position of Tacheng, which is not conducive to defense, it was set in the "Bear Hunting Operation" plan that if the Soviet army attacked on a large scale, it was ready to hold out here for 4.5 days, but due to the rapid assault of the Soviet army from the Altay area adjacent to the Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Tacheng and the northeast, forming a situation of north-south advance, the border regiment of the Tacheng Military Subdivision and the 162nd Regiment of the Army Reclamation Yelgeti Corps, the 163rd Regiment of the Akchok Corps, and the 164th Regiment of the Ulastai Corps only held out for 2 days and were forced to withdraw from the Tacheng area. On Provincial Highway 221 and the Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps, a new line of defense was formed.

After the Soviet army occupied the border town of Tacheng, it became the main front-line support base of the Soviet army, and more than 20,000 people were stationed in the 38th Motorized Infantry Division and the 25th Tank Division of the Central Asian Military Region of the Soviet Army in Ergong Township, Kalahabak Township, Yemenle Township and Baktu Port respectively to ensure the safety of this front-line support base. Due to the tactical thinking of the Soviet army, they did not dig deep holes in the defensive line, build tunnels, trenches, and open fort tunnels. Instead, the tank was the center to establish defensive fire support points that supported each other, and the central [***] team was tightly sealed. And in front of the position, mines were laid on all paths.

In the face of such a deployment of the Soviet army, the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region made careful arrangements and arrangements.

Under the command of General Peng, a full-scale counterattack against the Soviet Union was launched on the Western Front.

At 2 a.m. on March 3, the counterattack of the Chinese troops on the Western Front against the Soviet troops invading the Xinjiang Province region began with a massive artillery bombardment. With Peng Dehuai's order, more than 2,000 artillery pieces gathered in China were overwhelmingly firing at the Soviet army, especially the 122-mm 40-barrel rocket launcher fired three salvos, like a lightning whistle flew towards the Soviet position, and 20 minutes of artillery preparation poured 2,000 tons of shells on the Soviet position, and in an instant, the entire battlefield resounded with a deafening explosion, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the flames soared, and the Soviet position became a sea of fire.

With the extension of artillery fire, the Tacheng Military Division, the Frontier Regiment, the 8th Agricultural Division, and the 9th Agricultural Division, which participated in the Tacheng counterattack, cooperated with each other, and under the cover of the armored assault group and the air force with the "Destroyer" tanks and the American Pershing M26 tank tank as the vanguard, launched a sudden and fierce attack on the 38th Motorized Infantry Division and the 25th Tank Division of the Soviet Central Asian Military Region entrenched in Tacheng, in the township of Kalahabak, in Yemenle Township, and at the Baktu port. The trumpet sounded, and the attacking troops participating in the counterattack at Tacheng followed the tanks and launched a flood of attacks on the invading Soviet positions. The sacred duty of the soldiers made these soldiers forget their fears, and they shouted and skillfully performed all kinds of combat maneuvers according to their usual training

The whistling of planes in the sky, the explosion of rockets hitting T55 tanks, the firing of light and heavy machine guns and automatic weapons, the hoarse shouts of soldiers on both sides, and the roar of tank motors were all in one, and the thunderous thunder echoed in the Tacheng Basin, and the extremely majestic and thrilling war pictures flashed in the fire-filled night.

"The 463 heights are occupied by me, and our army has rushed into the Kalahabak Township and is advancing in depth!"

"The forward position in Yemen's Le Township has been broken through by me!"

"We have entered Ergong Town and occupied the warehouse of the Tacheng Mining Company, which is now the ammunition depot of the Soviet army!"

"We occupied the Great Man Hill and controlled the roads on both sides of the Baktu crossing."

The good news was frequent, and it took only 1 hour and 30 minutes to break through the Soviet army's Tacheng defense line on the whole line.

Wang Xinguang, commander of the Tacheng Military Division, led a reinforced company to bypass the Tarbagatai hills and mountains and penetrate into the territory of the Soviet Autonomous Republic of Kazakhstan.

At this time, they discovered that there was a well-hidden supply depot of the Soviet army in a deep forested ravine more than 10 kilometers away from the Baktu port, and they immediately informed the air force of the coordinates and directions of this supply depot.

In front of a Soviet barracks 3 kilometers from the Baktu port road, they stopped, lurked here and waited for the battle to begin, and after the artillery fire was prepared, the three MiG-19s carried out supplementary bombardment and strafing on the Soviet barracks, when they saw that the Soviet supply depot hidden in the forest valley that they had just instructed was covered in flames. Afterwards they learned that this was an important fuel supply depot for the 25th Tank Division of the Central Asian Military District of the Soviet Army.

The incisive attacks of the artillery and air force comrades turned the Soviet bombers on their backs, and the ghosts cried and howled, and they became a mess. This greatly encouraged the soldiers led by Wang Xinguang who were interspersed behind enemy lines, and they suddenly felt that the army's morale was greatly boosted.

When the time came for the counterattack, Commander Wang Xinguang held a Type 51 automatic rifle in his right hand and said to several platoon commanders around him: "Rush in, take advantage of the chaos." "They quickly approached the target, and suddenly rushed into the Soviet barracks, the barracks were in chaos, full of craters and blown up military vehicles, burning tents, around the craters and tents lay the corpses of the Soviet soldiers and the wounded, in the dark, it seemed to be a Soviet commander, shouting at Wang Xinguang: "Выздоровьякоманды?Теперьидитуда, что6ыспастираненых!" (Are you a health team?) Go up to the wounded for me right away! Wang Xinguang didn't have the time to rescue any wounded, so he held a Type 51 automatic rifle and fired a point shot at the Soviet officer who was shouting at him. The officer responded. In an instant, grenades and automatic rifles rained down on the chaotic Soviet troops. In the chaos, Wang Xinguang led the charge, his automatic rifle constantly spraying tongues of fire, and stuffing grenades into the tents of the Soviet troops one by one. The soldiers were not to be left behind, bravely took the lead, they alternately covered the charge, the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the Soviet army was dizzy. In the dark of night, the Soviet army faced this chaotic and disorganized way of fighting, unable to distinguish between friend and foe, and did not know how to "play" at all. This battle was fought cleanly and wiped out the communication terminal of the 25th Tank Division and the 38th Motorized Infantry Division of the Central Asian Military District of the Soviet Army at the Baktu port in Tacheng.

These styles of play also benefited from Wang Xinguang's life as a guerrilla instructor in the Printing Work Committee for several years.

The counterattack on the Western Front continued intensely, with the Soviet troops concentrating the 40th Motorized Infantry Division of the Central Asian Military District and the 88th Tank Division of the Turkestan Military District of the Soviet Army to assemble in the territory of the Soviet Union near the Hocheng area. Despite the fact that the Chinese Air Force Command on the Western Front sent a large number of air forces to bomb it non-stop, the Soviet troops suffered from continuous air raids, and with the loss of 15% of tanks and 25% of armored vehicles, they still managed to complete this build-up with difficulty.

In the early morning of 9 March, the 63rd Regiment of Agricultural Reclamation at the Ake Fort in the north of Sandaohe Township, Huocheng County, reported that a deafening roar of tank motors was heard in the territory of the Soviet Union, and a Soviet armored unit was heading towards the Ake Battery. Immediately, the Western Front Command ordered 33 "Destroyer" tanks of the 1st Battalion of the Tank Regiment of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region and the 62nd and 63rd Regiments of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps to block the 88th Tank Division of the Soviet Turkestan Military District.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning, more than 300 Soviet T55 tanks crossed the border and entered the desert area southwest of Huocheng, and the Soviet tanks formed an armored assault group of 40 to 50 vehicles, overwhelmingly rushing towards the Chinese positions, and the T55 tanks were still carrying infantry. Seeing this scene, the anti-tank unit consisting of 33 "Destroyer" tanks of the 1st Battalion of the Tank Regiment of the Tibet Provincial Military Region, 82 recoilless guns and 40 rocket launchers of the 62nd and 63rd Agricultural Regiments of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps immediately plunged into battle. Suddenly, the sound of artillery and armor-piercing shells flew around in the tank groups on both sides, and the Soviet tanks continued to catch fire and explode, and the smoke of gunpowder covered the entire land.

As soon as the battle began, the Soviet T-55 tanks rushed straight to the anti-tank positions of the 1st Tank Battalion of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region and the 62nd and 63rd Regiments of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps. However, the 105-mm guns of the T-55 tank could not destroy the Chinese "Destroyer" tanks at long distances, so a large number of Soviet T55 tanks were destroyed by 1 battalion of 33 "Destroyer" tanks before they approached the Chinese anti-tank positions. After the first wave of Soviet attacks was repulsed, hundreds of wreckage of Soviet tanks were on the battlefield, and the 88th Tank Regiment of the 180th Tank Division of the Soviet Army was completely wiped out in the battle.

After the Soviet troops retreated, 10 Tu-16 medium-range bombers and 20 MiG-19 fighters of the Western Front Air Force of the Far East Corps painted with the August 1 military insignia on their fuselages came to help. Lack of accurate surnames for strikes against moving targets.

After the first wave of the attack was repulsed, the Soviets launched a second wave of the offensive, this time with 30 tanks as an assault group, organized 10 such assault groups, and launched an assault on China in the front of the 10-kilometer offensive. The 1st Battalion of the Tank Regiment of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region divided 33 "Destroyer" tanks into 10 groups, each group was equipped with 6 vehicles, and carried 2 82 recoilless guns and 4 groups of bazooka fighters.

The Soviet army had a numerical superiority of 10 times that of Chinese tanks, and China had an absolute qualitative superiority of the "destroyer" tanks, and the two sides engaged in a tank "hand-to-hand combat" on a battlefield of 20 square kilometers.

The Soviets with 3 tank regiments, 10 tank assault groups, and more than 300 tanks, marched in unison to charge the central [***] team at a density of 30 tanks per kilometer. However, the maximum off-road speed of the T55 tank is only 35 km/h, which is slow to move compared to the Chinese tank, using manual loading, slow rate of fire, the actual rate of fire of the main gun combat is only 2 rounds / min, the firing range is short, and the maximum firing range is 1600 meters. The fire control system of the t55 tank is even simpler, the commander of the command tower, with the ТПК-1 periscope to search for the target, when the target is captured, turn the turret to indicate the target for the commander, and then by the commander of the gun through a ТШ2-22 sight, accurate aiming, on the commander and the commander of the gun are engraved on the "∧" shaped mark, by adjusting the azimuth and elevation angle of the gun so that the aiming mark on the scope of the relevant ammunition is aligned with the target before shooting.

Despite the small number of Chinese tanks, they have a long range, a fast rate of fire, high shooting accuracy between marches, extremely strong attack power, and absolutely strong armor protection.

At the beginning of the battle, the 1st Tank Battalion of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region made full use of the advantages of the "Destroyer" tank's long range and advanced fire control system, and began to fire accurately at the Soviet T55 tank at 2,600 meters. Now the only way is to rush up quickly and engage the Chinese tanks in close combat. Before the Soviet tanks reached their own range, 1/2 were paralyzed by the Chinese tanks and were paralyzed in the charge.

When the Soviet tanks paid half the price and approached the maximum range of their own tanks at 1,600 meters, the "Destroyer" tanks, using their high speed and agility, began to destroy the Soviet tanks in a constant and rapid movement.

If you want to fight in close combat, you have to be able to catch up and fight. At this time, the speed of the Soviet tanks was not as good as that of the Chinese tanks, and the flexible surname was not good.

In this Sino-Soviet tank showdown, the Soviet Union threw down more than 360 staggered tank wreckage on a battlefield of less than 20 square kilometers. It ended in the complete defeat of the USSR.

This battle made the Soviet army lose its temper at all, and completely shattered the dream of the Soviet army to defeat the Chinese "invincible soldiers" with absolute numerical superiority. It not only completely destroyed the combat effectiveness of the Soviet armored forces, but more importantly, completely destroyed their will to fight. Completely turned the tide of the war on the Western Front.

This battle became an eternal nightmare for the Soviet army, an eternal shame!

(To be continued)