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Chapter 1526 The duel between tanks and cavalry

On the morning of 21 March, west of the city of Ust-Kamen, an important town in northeastern Kazakhstan, a duel between cavalry and tanks was staged again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Two days earlier, Xiao Wu had submitted a war letter to the Soviet commander in Ust-Kamen, agreeing to a fair duel on the west bank of the Irtysh River, and this proposal was confirmed by the Soviet army, so this was extremely conducive to the fighting mode of the tank troops, which was carried out in the steppes of the eastern foothills of Kalba Mountain in East Kazakhstan.

Before the start of the war, the Anjia Air Force once again staged the scene of Semipaladinsk, first destroying the artillery units of the Soviet army in the rear.

This time, the Soviets painstakingly sent sixty-two fighters from Ayaguz, 300 kilometers to the south. Most of the Soviet troops are equipped with Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighters, and there are also a small number of ***-2 bombers, the Soviets are sure that such a powerful air strike force is enough to destroy the ground forces of the Anjia Army, who wants their every move, are monitored by the airship radar, the group of aircraft dizzily crashed into the ambush circle set by the A26 fighter of the Anjia Army, and the first wave of the A26 fighter destroyed the small half of the Soviet fighters.

Only then did the Soviet pilots react and quickly launched a counterattack.

However, the Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighters were far inferior to the A26 fighters of the Chinese Air Force in terms of speed, agility and combativeness, and after half an hour of fierce air fighting, the Soviet flight units were completely annihilated, while only 12 A26s of the An Jiajun were wounded and flew back to the base with a stagger.

The Soviet troops on the ground gasped when they saw this scene.

At the urging of the commissars of internal affairs and political commissars, the commander of the Soviet army hurriedly gave the order to launch an attack, and the entire steppe suddenly sounded a deafening sound of "Ula".

On the side of the An Jiajun, they also began to move, and Xiao Wu's directly subordinate tank brigade rushed to the forefront of the large army.

Different from the T28 medium tank and BT7 light tank equipped by the two mechanized armies, the tank brigade directly under the command is equipped with the J2 Leopard tank produced by the Far East authorized by the Syrian government, and the power system adopts the new V2A 650 horsepower diesel engine that integrates the diesel engine technology of the Far East and the Syrian government.

In terms of firepower, the Leopard tank's main gun was replaced with a 75mm semi-automatic K cannon, and the general-purpose machine guns mounted on the turret and on the body slope made the J2 a formidable killing machine on the battlefield.

The courage of the Soviet troops confronting Xiao Wu's directly subordinate tank brigade was not in doubt, and they used a small number of armored units as the front breakthrough force, followed by a large number of cavalry, and bravely assaulted.

However, at this time, the mechanization process of the Soviet army has come to a standstill, for more than two years, no new tank has come out, among which the Soviet army in Kazakhstan is equipped with the T26 light tank, which was the largest production in the Soviet Union in the thirties. The Soviet's own light tank, which weighed 9.4 tons, had a maximum speed of 28 km/h and was armed with a 45 mm gun, after extensive research and testing of the 6-ton E light tank.

However, it is this so-called light tank whose maneuverability is stunning, and often before they have completed firing adjustment, the 75mm tank gun on the turret of the J2 tank has already fired first, turning the Soviet T26 tank into a flaming fireball.

In the first stage of the operation, the small number of tanks equipped by the Soviet troops in the Kazakh region were devoured by the best units of the mechanized units of the Anjia Army, and the two mechanized armies that followed the tank brigade directly under them were unscathed and pressed the Soviet troops with overwhelming momentum.

Due to the one-sided emphasis on the fighting spirit of the Soviet Central Committee, and the fact that Vladien Voroshilov, the People's Commissar of Defense of the People's Republic of China, and Budyonny, the commander of the Moscow Military District, were both staunch advocates of the theory of cavalry victory, the number of tanks of the Soviet army in the Kazakh region was very scarce, and a small number of tanks were also assigned to the cavalry.

In the case of the total destruction of the Soviet tank and armored forces, the political commissar and the commissar of internal affairs of the Soviet army still did not allow the troops to retreat, and the commander desperately gave the order for a cavalry assault.

In the face of the surprise attack of the Soviet cavalry troops, the commander of the tank brigade directly under the front of the detachment, Colonel Zhantai Shiming, and the ordinary tankmen below were incredible, and no one thought that those Soviet cavalry units with sabers and spears in their hands could do any damage to their tanks.

Just as the two tank corps following behind also stopped and watched in amazement, a burst of earth-shattering artillery fire came from the rear, and the shells directly bombarded the path of the Soviet cavalry troops, extending backwards in rows.

At this time, the tank gun commanders finally reacted, and in a complicated mood asked the loaders to load the shells, and then opened fire with mockery and pity.

According to most people's thinking, this is not a war at all, but a one-sided slaughter!

However, this is on the battlefield, each other is in a state of life and death, and there can be no mercy at all when dealing with the enemy!

Tank drivers consciously formed a column and lined up in several straight lines to shell the advancing Soviet cavalry units, and after each roar, the corpses of the Soviet cavalry always appeared on the ground.

The pilots of the reconnaissance planes in the sky guiding the artillery units were extremely excited, and they circled in the sky, watching the corpses of the Soviet troops on the ground be thrown in pieces under the shelling. A pilot who was born in Ji Ning and whose ancestors had experienced the Hailan Pao tragedy saw more than a dozen Soviet cavalrymen and horses and men being hit by shells, and couldn't help but whistle and yell into the interlocutor: Well done, kill these hateful hairs!

Xiao Wu, the commander-in-chief who stood on a hill in Kalba Mountain at the rear of the battlefield and observed the battle, did not leave the tragic situation of the Soviet cavalry, and he did not have any guilt and discomfort in his heart for these guys who were like Don Quixote who killed themselves, and even had a sense of revenge.

Throughout history, the Russians have swallowed our land again and again, creating one sensational tragedy after another, and their hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese. Now, it's just a matter of paying the interest!

The chief of staff, Major General Yu Zhijie, stood beside Xiao Wu, who was selected from the deputy position of lieutenant colonel of the 44th Division in three or four years to the Berlin Military Academy in Germany for exchanges, where he became obsessed with tank combat and once interned in Guderian's unit. When I saw through the telescope that the tank units in front of me were lining up in a column on their own, performing extended bombardment, I smiled happily. The German theory of armor emphasized that tanks could be used as firepower export troops, and now tank units are carried out in columns to carry out bombardment, killing and injuring Soviet cavalry in large numbers, proving that the theory he studied is correct.

Yu Zhijie put down the binoculars, turned his head to look at the artillery position of his own side that was constantly spewing tongues of fire in the rear, and asked with a smile: "Sir, you seem to like the use of artillery very much?" ”

Xiao Wuzheng said: "It's not just me, in fact, all the generals of our Anjia Army like to use artillery. Artillery, known as the god of war, carries out large-scale artillery bombardment of the enemy before the official engagement, and there is nothing more effective in destroying the enemy's living force and will to fight. ”

Yu Zhijie is also proud of the powerful air force of An Jiajun: "The power of artillery, tank troops and air force combined is too powerful!" The order to order the air force to wipe out the Soviet artillery positions first was very correct, and the armored army, supported by the air force, was absolutely invincible and terrible steel lions. ”

Xiao Wu nodded: "Our air-ground cooperative operation theory is also being continuously improved. Relatively speaking, since we are constantly at war, perhaps we have mastered the tactics of tank swarm warfare more advanced than the Germans. Of course, I heard the chairman say that Germany has tactical geniuses like Guderian, Rommel, and Manstein, and the Soviet Union also has such enlighteners of new tactical theories as Tukhachevsky and Egorov. ”

At this time, the battle in front was nearing the end, the Soviet cavalry risked death and assault, only a few dozen horsemen rushed into the tank group of the Anjia army, these Soviet cavalry in a trance, in accordance with the instructions at the pre-war mobilization meeting, slashed and stabbed our tanks with sabers and spears, the result was that the tiger's mouth of the cavalry and the saber collapsed together, or the cavalry with spears was overturned and dismounted by the anti-shock force.

How sad is it for a brave warrior to be incompetent in the face of steel without proper weapons? The knights roared and continued to chop the body of the tank with their crumbling sabers, halfway through which the warriors were already crying out in despair. This is definitely not a cry of fear, but after most of their comrades were killed in battle, they bravely approached their opponents, but they could not cause any substantial damage and felt unwilling, which is the stupidity of those corpse vegetarians in the center of Subu made the warriors shed tears.

No one can accuse these brave cavalrymen of being so contemptuous of life, so determined, that they obeyed the orders of their commanders and charged without hesitation. But what is the result? It was the broken corpses lying in a pool of blood, the helpless slashing of the tank body with a cold weapon.

These poor knights were ruthlessly wiped out, and the Soviet army's front was quickly penetrated by our mechanized corps, and the overseers, internal affairs commissars, and political commissars who were hiding behind the battle line were also very brave, holding submachine guns, rifles, and machine guns, and desperately charged the tanks, but all died on the way.

At this time, the cavalry units of the follow-up Far Eastern Army had already followed and began to persuade them to surrender.

It has to be said that the same language, the same culture, and even the same belief had a great disintegration of the fighting spirit of the Soviet soldiers, and soon, the Soviet troops chose to surrender in pieces.

The lightning-fast attack of the tank units of the Anjia Army put the Soviet army completely in a situation of passive beating, which was another experience of this lightning attack after Yegorov used this tactic in Western Siberia.

Parallel to the decisive victory in the Battle of Ust-Kamen, a dramatic scene emerged:

Ambushing northeast of Leninogorsk and on the Tohor Mountains, the two mountain divisions of the Soviet Army, patiently waiting for the appearance of the squadron, could not withstand the urging of the Soviet command in Ust-Kamen, and had to abandon the ambush, go to Leninogors to join up with an infantry division there, and turn south.

Hu Jiyang's Western Front, which had already mastered every move of the Soviet army, quickly moved forward and occupied the positions abandoned by the Soviet army, and then occupied Leninogorsk.

By the time Soviet reinforcements arrived in Ust-Kamen, the city had fallen and was surrounded by tank units and infantry groups that followed.