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Chapter 1708 Forward! Advance! (Ask for a commuter pass)

November 8th, the seventeenth day of the ninth lunar month, the beginning of winter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Tashkent, in the name of the supreme commander of the An Jia's army, An Yi ordered the troops assembled in Kushka, Mukre, and Termez to formally march into Afghanistan at 9 a.m. on the same day.

On the Eastern Front, Ye Cheng's corps dispatched more than 800 tanks, more than 500 armored vehicles, and more than 1,200 other transport vehicles from three tank corps, and the rolling torrent of steel rushed straight to the Amu Darya River, which is the border between the two countries.

Fearing that the artillery coverage of the Anjia Army and the lack of artillery, the Soviet army built a defensive line in the plain oasis area five kilometers away. Within 50 kilometers of the Amu Darya Darya, there are all river valleys and oases nourished by the water of the Amu Darya River, and further south are the vast Gobi Desert and desert.

In the area of the northern foothills of the Bandi Turkestan and Hindu Kush Mountains, streams flowing down from the mountains spread across the flat fields, forming large grasslands and agricultural areas. Strangely, however, these rivers dry up as they enter the desert until they disappear.

As a result, the northern part of Afghanistan has formed three distinct terrains and landscapes, which make people marvel at the miracle of the Creator.

Dozens of pontoon bridges were laid in just one hour, and tanks and armored personnel carriers quickly crossed the river and swooped down on Soviet positions to the south.

The loud roar of the tank engine, as well as the violent shaking of the ground caused by the crawler crushing the ground, finally attracted the attention of the Soviet army, and the overwhelming tanks on the horizon rolled in, rolling up smoke and dust in the sky, and many Soviet troops lost their defenses and turned and fled.

"Da Da Da-"

The machine guns of the rear overseers rang out violently, and the fleeing Soviet soldiers fell down clutching their chests, and the rest of the people were frightened and hurriedly retreated back to their positions.

In the face of a possible tank cluster attack, the Soviet army was not completely unprepared, and these days, there is more and more evidence that the Anjia army will fight across the border, and the Soviet army has a certain psychological preparation for this. Under the propaganda and command of the political commissar and the grassroots commanders, the Soviet artillery concentrated the few cannons, and at the same time deployed 37mm anti-tank guns at various points to prepare to deal with the tank charge.

Major General An Ruoyi, commander of the Second Tank Brigade of the First Tank Army, stood on the turret, took a telescope to carefully observe the positions of the Soviet troops, and found that the Soviet soldiers were lying on the trenches one by one, the rifles in their hands were loaded, and they were obviously ready for battle.

An Ruoyi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled dumbly: "It seems that the Soviets have not yet learned a lesson, and they actually want to use infantry against our tank cluster...... ordered, the armored infantry immediately dismounted, accompanied by the tank charge, and the armored car carried out machine-gun fire cover...... The rest of the formation remains the same, forward! ”

Soon, the tank group advanced to a kilometer of the Soviet position, and began to open fire.

A burst of white smoke rose up, and the fierce shelling sound shook the earth, and in an instant, there was a sense of heaven shaking and earth shaking.

More than 90 tanks of the brigade opened fire together, enveloping a large area in the strike range, and in the breathtaking shrill roar, columns of smoke rose from the Soviet positions, and the shells that continued to explode made the whole earth tremble violently, and countless Soviet soldiers who were cowering in the trenches could not be spared, their corpses and stumps flew into the sky, and the broken flesh foam was scattered in all directions.

The remaining fortifications quickly collapsed and disintegrated into pieces of ruins under the impact of the air waves generated by the aftermath of the explosion.

It was only the first round of covering strikes, and the first line of defense built by the Soviet army in front of it almost collapsed.

Under the cover of the infantry, the tanks moved forward unhurriedly while constantly firing artillery, and a large number of Soviet soldiers lost their lives in the rocking artillery fire of the place.

It was difficult for the fortifications to survive such a dense artillery bombardment, and when the smoke cleared, most of the positions had been razed to the ground.

At this time, the Soviet artillery also began to counterattack, and they fired shells at a torrent of tanks at great speed.

Old artillery pieces of various calibers, a small number of new field howitzers captured from the Afghan government army and tribal armies, and eight 37mm anti-tank guns began firing at the command of the artillery commander in accordance with the firing elements that had just been tested.

Every Soviet soldier knew that the army in front of him was the famous Anjia Army, and in battle with such a formidable opponent, it was natural to shoot as many shells as possible, regardless of whether the shelling would be effective or not, rather than leaving precious ammunition and supplies to the opponent.

Afghanistan is a country crisscrossed by mountainous plateaus, the northern Amu Darya River and the area north of the central mountains, with plains accounting for one-sixth of the total land area, to the west and south, the terrain climbs rapidly, from 1,000 to 7,000 meters of plateaus and mountains, isolating northern Afghanistan from other regions, only narrow river valleys and rugged mountain roads are connected, so when Sheng Shicai went west and south, he did not take away the artillery captured in the northern region, and now it is used to deal with the attack of the Anjia army.

After taking all the plains and the passes into the mountains and plateaus, Ye Cheng's corps will return to the camp and withdraw to the border line of Turkmenistan, beware of the surprise attack on the oil base of our Chereken after the Soviet army captures Mashhad, and seize the port of Krasnovsk, which can be returned to the Soviet Union from the Caspian Sea.

The Li Jinlong Corps on the central line and the Yang Jiuxiao Corps on the Western Front will be responsible for advancing westward and southward, among which the Yang Jiuxiao Corps, which has the highest popularity of mules and horses, is the absolute main force in this battle.

The mechanized troops of Li Jinlong's department, the infantry will go first, and the rest of the troops can only wait for the engineers to open the road and meet the water in the mountains, follow behind Yang Jiuxiao's department, kill Hetra in western Afghanistan, and then follow the line of Sheng Shicai to Kabul, all the way to recover all parts of Afghanistan.

Returning to the book, dozens of Soviet shells smashed into the tanks of the An Jiajun army in waves, and in a column of smoke that rushed into the sky, all the remaining Soviet soldiers on the position opened their mouths in shock, how to Chinese tanks...... Still sprinting forward!

"Wouldn't it!? Such a dense artillery and a salvo of anti-tank guns...... Didn't even blow up a tank? ”

The Soviet soldier wiped his eyes in disbelief, and after repeated observations, he finally accepted this fact very unwillingly, and really found nothing!

At this time, the tank that pierced through the smoke continued to speak, and there was another burst of white smoke on the barrel of Rulin's tank, and the earth-shattering roar immediately became the master of the battlefield again.

One after another, the shells that seemed to have eyes roared and smashed in the direction where the Soviet artillery group was located.

It is a beautiful tradition of the Chinese to come and go, and if you send me a cannon, you will return you a cannon, so the poor artillery of the Soviet army, which lacks armor protection, suffers!

"Boom-"

In the intense fire and smoke, the Soviet artillery rushed into the sky in the air waves, regardless of the old and new, the artillery was dumb one after another.

One of the tank grenades fell into the place where the Soviet artillery had stacked the ammunition, causing a martyrdom, billowing smoke rising into the sky, and a loud sound that shook people's eardrums, and the situation of the Soviet army suddenly became precarious.

Seeing the huge mushroom cloud from the periscope, An Ruoyi was excited and shouted, "Brothers, forward!" Keep shelling in a marching stance! ”

The sound of tank shelling began to look messy, and the commanders were on the march, looking for their own shelling points, and in the face of a group of Soviet soldiers who had no effective anti-tank weapons, the tank crews smiled one by one, and all the bunkers and earthen ramparts that looked threatening were eliminated at designated points.

As the iron flow rolled forward, as it got closer to the enemy's position, not only the vehicle-mounted gun barrels were looking for a firing object, but also the side-by-side machine guns and general-purpose machine guns joined in the one-sided slaughter.

There is no shortage of warriors in the Soviet army, holding cluster grenades, rushing out of the position and preparing to die with the tank, but unfortunately the armored infantry who have been following the tank has already *** all the opportunities to create miracles, with the fall of one figure after another, the Soviet army has completely lost its resistance.

Soon, the battlefield that was still in full swing just now quickly evolved into a one-sided slaughterhouse, and the Soviet army was beaten into a string of bloody gourds by rapidly approaching tanks and armored vehicles, and occasionally those who slipped through the net were also killed by the infantry's approaching attacks.

The tank continued to cross the trench and move forward, moving its guns and starting to aim at the second line of defense......

Breakthrough!

Keep pushing through!

This is just a microcosm of a frontline of several hundred kilometers, three tank corps and nine tank brigades, forming nine sharp knives, directly piercing the hinterland of the Soviet army, stirring up the entire northern defense line, and waiting for the nine arrows to completely break through the Soviet army's position and turn the direction, that is, when the Soviet army completely collapses.

The western route, a branch of the Central Asian Railway, runs along a tributary of the Murghab River to the border town of Kushka.

After the order to attack was issued, the 49th Division of An Weiguo, which was the arrow of Yang Jiuxiao's corps, crossed the border line along the river valley and entered Afghanistan.

Although they had been looted by the air force before, the Soviets still opened fire on the high ground on both flanks of the river valley.

An Weiguo had been prepared for this for a long time, and immediately ordered the artillery regiment, which had been equipped with 105mm mountain howitzers and 107 mountain rocket launchers, to move forward and aim at the exposed firepower of the Soviet army, which was a fierce attack.

The 105mm mountain howitzer and the 107 mountain rocket artillery were indeed sharp weapons for attacking mountain fortifications, and as soon as the dense artillery fire passed, the Soviet position was suddenly dumb, and the officers and men of the 49th Division shouted and quickly pounced on the enemy, and when they encountered the remaining fire points, they used grenades, bazookas, flamethrowers or mortars to deal with them, and in just half a day, they broke through the Soviet defense.

In the final analysis, the Soviet army has not been in Afghanistan for a few days, and it is impossible to build permanent fortifications, so it can only rely on the mountain terrain to build some temporary defensive positions and firepower points.

And the Soviet army had another problem, there was a serious shortage of troops. Although the Soviet army hijacked public opinion and coerced a large number of "liberated" Afghan tribal slaves and poor farmers and herdsmen to join the troops, modern combat skills could not be mastered simply by practicing shooting and firing.

Once a soldier shows his back to his opponent, his fate can be imagined, so the breakthrough of Yang Jiuxiao's department can be described as overwhelming.

Looking at the middle line, Li Jinlong attacked southwest from Mukre, and this area is the famous Keliff Depression, which was originally a lake, but as the lake dried up, it slowly evolved into the Gobi and desert.

In real history, in the fifties, the Soviet Union demanded land from the desert and built the Karakum Canal in the southern region of Turkmenistan, connecting the small river flowing from the northern foothills of the Kopet Mountains in Persia with the Hari River and the Murghab River in Afghanistan, so the canal water poured into the Kelif Depression and formed the later Lake Keliv.

Li Jinlong's division is highly mechanized, although it is not a regular tank corps, but the number of tanks and armored vehicles is still eye-popping, so just like the experience of the Eastern Front, the Soviet army's defense line was broken at a moment's notice, and the whole army rolled south, rushing towards the border town of Anthouy.

As of 9 o'clock in the evening, Ye Cheng's corps on the eastern front had annihilated more than 20,000 Soviet troops in the encirclement, and now it has entered the Gobi and the edge of the desert. After converging the logistics supply convoy tomorrow, the whole army will march southward to attack Mazar-i-Sharif, and after the invasion and occupation, the troops will be divided into three routes to completely pacify the northern plains.

The forward of Li Jinlong's corps in the middle has already occupied the city of Anderhui, and the next step will be to divide the troops, one way to Sibergan, and the other to the mountains, attacking the districts of Faizabad, Maimana and Rangal.

The most arduous and dangerous is the Yang Jiuxiao Corps, they will go all the way to the south, through the mountains of central Afghanistan, and this line is the focus of the Soviet army's defense, it can be said that from the beginning of entering the Afghan border, due to the complex terrain and rugged river valleys and mountain roads, Yang Jiuxiao's corps will face the fate of fighting all the time, and every minute and every second must be cheered, otherwise it will fall into the ambush circle carefully set up by the Soviet army.

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