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Chapter 1546 The Great Wall of Steel

Guriev is located in the northwest of Kazakhstan, in the area of the lower estuary of the Ural River, and is the largest port city in Kazakhstan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In 1645, the Yaroslavl merchant Guri who traded with the Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate. Nazarov built a wooden castle under the name Nizhny Ural Fort, which was sacked by the Ural Cossacks the following year, and later rebuilt by the Guryev family from stone in 1647-1662. Tsar Alexei sent an army to garrison the castle against the Cossacks, but in 1667-1668 Stepan. The Cossack army, led by Razin, again captured the castle. Over time, the strategic importance of the castle gradually diminished, and in 1810 the castle was demolished and a city was formed spontaneously around the original castle.

After the establishment of the Soviet Union, Guriev's geographical location at the junction of Europe and Asia, the emergence of the Tengis and Kashagan oil fields, and the discovery of coal and iron along the Weir River in the north, made Guryev a center of energy and mineral supply. During the First and Second Five-Year Plans of the Soviet Union, oil refineries, power plants, textile plants, cement plants, sand and gravel plants, chemical plants, metal smelters, iron and steel plants, tractor factories and other enterprises were built in Guryev, and Guryev became an important industrial center city in Kazakhstan.

After An Yi arrived in Guryev, after inspecting the troops at the airport, he immediately visited the oil fields on the outskirts of Guryev, accompanied by Huang Yingwu, director of the Guryev Military Management Commission, He Yifei, commander of the Seventh Group Army, and Xia Yuling, commander of the Ninth Group Army. Early this morning, the Eighth Army, under the leadership of Tang Wen, had already moved south, taking over the defense of coastal cities in the upper part of the Sea from the Far Eastern Army, establishing a government, and completely blocking the connection between Central Asia and the Soviet Union.

Not long after leaving the city, An Yi, who had seen a lot of bleak scenes in the wasteland, had no sense of novelty for a long time, and was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, when Huang Yingwu had already reminded him in a low voice that he had arrived.

An Yi opened his eyes and looked through the car window, only to see that on the desolate grassland covered with ice and snow, derricks and "kowtow machines" were roaring and rotating in the sunset, standing majestically.

An Yi was dazzled, and hurriedly pushed the car door and got out of the car, only to hear the "rumbling" motor turning sound, but he didn't feel harsh at all, some were just cordial and moved.

Situ Rui, director of the Industrial Office of the Military Management Commission, looked excited: "Chairman, it is really unbelievable that the Soviets did not destroy oil facilities and oil refining equipment before they withdrew, and after we took over Guryev, we immediately organized the resumption of production, and now we have achieved a daily output of 4,000 tons of crude oil, which can basically meet our operational needs in Central Asia." ”

An Yi smiled faintly: "The Soviets are sure that the Far Eastern Army will not dare to fight a war of attrition with them on the plain, so they simply don't move anything, and when the Far Eastern Army withdraws, they will receive it back." They didn't expect that we would be sideways! Now things are getting interesting, and thanks to our involvement, in the future the Urals will face a situation of a three-way scuffle! ”

Situ Rui nodded abruptly.

Situ Rui is the nephew of Situ Meitang, 28 years old this year, graduated from the Department of Engineering and Applied Science of the California Institute of Technology, and studied geology and aeronautics. Situ Rui has been working in Panzhihua for more than a year, and now all the work of Panzhihua is basically on the right track, but there is a lack of professional geological engineering talents in Central Asia, so he was transferred to Central Asia and served as the head of the Industrial Office of the Military Management Commission.

For the first time, An Yi saw the spectacular scenery of dozens of oil wells constantly roaring together, and his blood was pumping. In addition, the Yanchang Oilfield can provide 20 tons of crude oil per day, and the Yumen Oilfield provides 30 tons of crude oil, so that the mechanized troops of the An Jiajun have a steady stream of power.

However, if Japan cuts off the sea transportation line in the future, it will obviously not be able to support such a huge mechanized army by relying only on 1,500 tons of crude oil a month in the Yanchang and Yumen oilfields, and can only rely on coal-based oil technology, and the conversion rate of coal-based oil is too low. At present, the daily output of the Guryev oil field is close to the sum of the Yanchang oil field and the Yumen oil field together in a month, and there are two large oil fields near Guryev, it is really hard to imagine how much oil production will be if all of them are put into production.

If nothing else, just this oil, it is necessary to desperately keep Guriev.

An Yi saw that there were many sappers working between the various oil wells, and after a little thought, he knew that he was digging air defense fortifications, and immediately asked: "How many anti-aircraft guns are arranged in the oil well area?" ”

Huang Yingwu replied: "120 88 guns!" Guryev had a steel plant with an annual output of one million tons of steel, and it actually had a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and after we took over it, only some key equipment was added, and then it was converted into a military factory, and the artillery and anti-aircraft guns produced were given priority to meet the needs of our troops. The tractor plant has switched to the production of tanks and armored vehicles, and due to the shortage of rubber, it is now fully producing tracked tanks and armored vehicles. ”

An Yi nodded: "If you have the conditions, you have to go up, and if you don't, you have to go up." Oil is so important to us that before that, I wondered if it was worth it to fight the Soviets for the sake of this unsafe land, but now my consciousness tells me that we must defend it, both for us and for future generations, and we should do everything we can to protect this land. Kazakhstan's underground resources are too abundant, and if we do not take advantage of this opportunity to obtain land and resources that will supply us for the next few decades or even hundreds of years, it will be impossible to have such an opportunity in the future, and Central Asia will forever leave the embrace of the Chinese nation. ”

Huang Yingwu was a little worried: "But...... I have to say that even now, our strength is too thin, compared with the Soviets who often fought with dozens of divisions, our current six divisions are still too few, and this area is an endless wasteland, there is no danger to defend, and in the end it is likely to evolve into a tragic scene like a Verdun meat grinder in World War I. ”

An Yi nodded: "So we have to build more anti-tank trenches in this thousand-mile wasteland, all over the minefield, and delay the enemy's attack." At the same time, the construction of more than ten permanent fortifications, as well as strong fortresses, completely turned the Ural defense line into a real insurmountable line of life and death, which made Moscow daunted! ”

"But our defense system has not yet been built, and the Soviet army has launched an offensive on Perm, I am worried about ......" Huang Yingwu looked worried.

"Parrot, you grandson, it's not your style to be cowardly before you fight...... Are you worried about your daughter-in-law? An Yi joked.

Huang Yingwu blushed: "Where is the matter?" I'm afraid I won't be able to hold here, and I'm sorry for the boss's trust! ”

An Yi nodded, his expression became extremely serious: "Don't worry, parrot, I won't fight a battle that I am not sure of, before I set off for Central Asia, I have already transferred Jiuxiao from the 30th Group Army, and according to my personal wishes, I have transferred a group of generals from the 30th Group Army back to Xufu and reorganized into three group armies." Now that Hu Zi and Chengzhu's eldest brother are not completely injured, they will first draw troops from them, and the troops will be formed in a month at most, and then quickly go north to help the Central Asian battlefield. Before that, I will transfer ten more flying regiments to Central Asia to form an absolute superiority over the Soviet Air Force and firmly control air supremacy! I don't believe that with such a multi-pronged approach, there will be no time to build a defensive fortress.

"At present, the Hunan-Guizhou, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Sichuan-Guizhou railways have been fully connected, the defensive fortress in Pudong has also been completed, and our engineering units are just empty, except for the five divisions of the engineering troops in Nanhua, the remaining ten divisions have all been transferred to Central Asia, and we must set up a complete defense system for me no matter what! In the future, not only fortresses will be built on the western front, but also some fortresses will have to be built on the northern front as a fulcrum for strategic attack and defense. After Ye Cheng and them stabilize the situation in Central Asia, we will assemble into a large-scale mobile combat corps, as long as we are firmly nailed to Central Asia like nails, and when the international situation changes, then when the war is over, basically everything we get will be fixed in the form of a treaty, and no one can change this! ”

Huang Yingwu's face turned red, and the rest of the generals and colonels of the Western Front Army were also full of blood and were deeply encouraged. They had already understood An Yi's eloquence, so they had no doubt about An Yi's judgment and had already begun to think about future combat issues.

An Yi waved his hand: "Let's go, go to the front line." With that, he turned and got into the car.

Soon, the convoy set out and, after an hour, came to Ax, thirty kilometers to the west.

On the whole wasteland, countless excavators roared, constantly digging out a jagged trench with a depth of two meters and a width of nearly three meters, and the soldiers took the sapper shovel and quickly built the green bricks fired in the rear from the ground, built into a ladder shape, and then began to build on the trenches, and the green bricks were quickly connected into one, and there were shooting holes like the city wall.

In some brick-laid areas, the top of the trench was quickly covered with prefabricated steel slabs, and then covered with thick sandbags so that even if the trench was hit directly by a large-caliber grenade, it would not collapse.

Such fortifications were built every fifty meters from west to east, a total of 10 roads, connected by a communication trench in between. And in order to make the front not block the rear firepower, each position is generally raised layer by layer if the house is repaired, if the enemy attacks from the west, you will find that the position of the squadron is like the seat of the cinema, from the front to the back layer by layer, forming a powerful three-dimensional cross fire.

The excavated earth and stone were not wasted, some of them were filled into sandbags and became the cover of the trenches, and the rest was quickly carried to the rear, and if the walls were generally built up layer by layer, every one or two meters, the roller would go up and roll it, and then the mixer would spray a thick layer of cement on it, and then pile up the earth again, spray it with cement, and rise layer by layer.

When the rockery is built to more than 10 meters, set up a shooting and shelling bunker with stone or blue bricks, and when the firing bunker as spacious as a house appears, cover it with two prefabricated steel bars, and then continue to pile up earth and stone and pour cement, and wait until it is a few meters above the base, and build a shooting and shelling bunker again. This was repeated many times, and a man-made concrete hill of sixty or seventy meters, with five firing holes and shelling positions, and a staircase and passage connecting to the rear, appeared.

The hill is built up from the ground to the ground, and the defense is unusually strong due to the use of reinforced concrete. Moreover, on this hill of sixty or seventy meters, there are dense firing and shelling ports, powerful overlapping firepower, which will have lethal lethality against opponents on the plains.

The whole project was carried out in a very scientific way, the engineering unit was mainly responsible for starting the construction machinery and guiding the project, and the infantry was responsible for laying bricks and applying cement, and the entire construction site looked from south to north, and there was no end in sight.