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Chapter 15** Hellfire reappears

June 27, Shymkent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Soviet army in the Central Asian theater of operations failed to attack westward under the command of the Almaty Corps under the command of Chuikov, but attracted all the attention of the Xiao Wu Corps of the Anjia Army, and the central cluster, led by three armored divisions, concentrated five cavalry corps and eight army groups, and pounced on Shymkent with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

Ye Cheng's front army of the Anjia Army left a cavalry division composed of local Kazakh young men who volunteered to defend the fruits of the victory of land reform to harass the battle, and the rest of the troops decisively chose to retreat westward.

As the sun rose in the sky, Marshal Kulik, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Central Asian Theater, stood in front of the platform of the Shymkent railway station in high spirits and was photographed and interviewed by special reporters from Pravda, Red Star, Labor Daily, and Izvestia.

"Comrades journalists, the recapture of Shymkent by the main forces of the Red Army in Central Asia is of great political and military significance. Shymkent, the capital of the South Kazakhstan region, is located at the southern foot of the Karatau Mountains and north of Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and is one of the most famous ancient cities in Central Asia. Originally a settlement on the trade route from Central Asia to China, the city was incorporated into the territory of our country 74 years ago, and is the industrial and cultural center of Central Asia, and the second most populous region of Kazakhstan after Almaty. ”

Journalists recorded Kulik's speech "swish".

A journalist in his early twenties, with a slightly youthful demeanor, asked an inopportune question: "Comrade Kulik, you said that this is the second most populous area in Kazakhstan, but we followed the troops, and when we arrived in Shymkent, we did not find many residents. I also heard that our vanguard was harassed by local Kazakh partisans in the Badam region, west of Shymkent, what is going on? ”

Kulik's originally sunny face suddenly became extremely gloomy, he glanced at the press card on the questioner's chest, snorted coldly, pointed to the special correspondent of the "Izvestia" who was not deeply involved in the world, and said: "Comrade Anatoly, how come you, as a reporter for the organ of the Supreme Soviet, do not talk about politics at all? Is this what you can ask? Journalists should understand their historical responsibility, that is, to introduce the bright and great side of our party and the Red Army to our people, and that it is best to ignore those things that are not conducive to unity and stability.

"However, since you mentioned it today, I'm in a good mood, so I'll make an exception to answer you. In Kazakhstan, as in other Central Asian regions, where ethnic and religious contradictions are acute, and pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism are prevalent, the people here have completely forgotten the kindness of the Soviets in rescuing them from the miserable life of being oppressed by the landlords and magnates, and that it was our great Soviets who helped them build their own factories and farms, so that every child could receive a perfect education and live a stable and happy life.

"The Chinese are cunning, abolishing Soviet collective farms and pastures in Shymkent, distributing land and cattle and sheep to farmers and herders, while advocating freedom of religion and rebuilding our abandoned Islamic, Christian, Buddhist and Taoist temples. These ungrateful Kazakhs, clinging to the small favors given by the Chinese, believing that the inefficient private economy is their goal, harboring a deep hatred for the advanced public collective economy, and rejoicing at the restoration of faith, so many of them choose to throw themselves into the arms of the Chinese and become shameful traitors!

"So, as you can see, when we heard the arrival of our great Red Army, these corrupt and degenerate fellows actually fled with their families, and even took the initiative to join the army organized by the Chinese and became enemies of our Red Army. The rest of the old fellows who could not walk were also afraid that the Soviets would return the fields they had allocated to the public, so there was a scene of local people hating our Red Army. Journalists, I know that you are all smart people, and you know what to write and what not to write, and if you are not afraid that you and your families will be imprisoned in a concentration camp near the Arctic Circle, you will obediently report the news of our Red Army's victory! ”

The reporters looked at each other, then buried their heads, not daring to say more.

Whoever wants the reporter of the "Izvestia" named Anatoly not to open the pot and say to himself: "Thank you, Comrade Marshal, in fact, I just asked casually, I didn't expect that the people here are so backward in their thinking and so low in consciousness, no wonder they were slaughtered for openly resisting the payment of public rations!" ”

As soon as the words came out, Anatoly knew that he had said the wrong thing again, and his face turned pale.

It turned out that due to the occupation of the Caspian Railway by the Anjia Army, the Red Army in Central Asia had cut off contact with the Soviets, and there was a severe shortage of food in the army.

Those who dragged their families and ran away naturally did not leave a grain of grain, but those who remembered the benefits of the Soviets and hoped that the Red Army would fight back and resolutely refused to leave were unlucky, and not only were the cattle and sheep that had just been distributed to their families confiscated, but even the rations distributed by the An Jiajun were also taken away in the name of handing over public grain.

As a result of the mass looting, there was a popular uprising, and then, as in the tragedy in Almaty, nearly 10,000 people in Chemkent were slaughtered. This incident was originally going to cover the lid desperately, but it was inadvertently exposed by Anatoly, no wonder except for his own face trembling like white paper, the rest of the reporters also drummed in their hearts, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

A sinister smile appeared at the corner of Kulik's mouth: "Comrade Anatoly, why are you staring at these things specifically?" Is it that the enemy has bought you and wants to use your mouth and pen to discredit the positive image of our Red Army? Let me tell you, here, I have the final say, and I will never let the enemy elements succeed......"

Afterwards, Kulik shouted: "Come on, take this spy who has been bribed by the enemy down, interrogate him strictly, and see if there are any accomplices......"

The poor special correspondent of the "Izvestia" who was paralyzed and urinated and incontinent was taken down by the soldiers who pounced on him, and soon the Central Asian theater will have a result of cracking the spy network of enemy agents, and as for who will be bitten out by Anatoly and become an unlucky ghost, it will depend on Kulik's needs.

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The Eastern Front of Central Asia.

The fleet that took off from Ayaguz has been flying for an hour and has a range of 380 kilometers. It will not be long before you will reach the most fortified city in the north of Almaty, the city of Talda Kurgan. On this way, the weather is clear, the clouds and fog have dispersed, and the undulating hills and valleys of the Kazakh steppe can be clearly seen at an altitude of two or three thousand meters.

As the city with gunsmoke at the end of the railway and the yellow-colored highway appeared, the group of planes quickly unfolded, and the wings of the B2 bomber led by it swung left and right, and then turned the nose and pounced on the city.

The follow-up bombers quickly pulled away and formed a single column formation. In order to avoid the air currents generated by the flight of the fighters in front, the fighters opened a distance of 200 meters between them, and five B2 bomber squadrons and one escort A27 fighter squadron formed a long column of snakes in the air, and rushed to the battlefield in black pressure.

On the ground, the Chinese and Soviet teams are engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle.

On the defensive side was the Soviet army, which relied on several fortifications in the north of the city, and on the attacking side was the Southward Corps of the Western Front of the Mongolian Military Region of the Anjia Army commanded by Hu Jiyang, which had a total of three corps: the Guard Army directly under the Front Army and the 10th and 11th Group Armies.

At this moment, the siege of the city is the two infantry divisions of the Eleventh Group Army led by Major General Lei Dong, who is praised by An Yi as the brother of the fierce general.

From the sound of gunfire, standing on the thunder on a hill behind the artillery position five kilometers north of the city, I heard the huge roar of the airplane motor in the air, and a smile of relief appeared on my face. From the fact that the roar of the planes actually suppressed the sound of gunfire inside and outside the city of Talda Kurgan, Lei Dong knew that the number of planes in the air must be very staggering.

Listening to the huge roar in the air, the Chinese and Soviet officers and soldiers who were fighting fiercely inside and outside the city of Talda Kurgan couldn't help but look up at the northern sky where the sound came from.

The group soon arrived over the battlefield and circled in the air, looking for targets to attack. A pilot looked at the Soviet troops in the trenches outside the city of Talda Kurgan who were looking into the air with fearful eyes, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and as soon as he pressed the control stick, the nose of the plane suddenly dived down at 90 degrees, and when he rushed to more than 50 meters above the trench, he calmly pressed the bomb throwing button, and a black bomb fell quickly.

The Soviets, from officers to ordinary soldiers, immediately lay down in the trenches to escape the bombardment from the air.

"Boom-"

With a dull explosion, an orange-red fire dragon tens of meters long suddenly appeared, and the heat of thousands of degrees and flames with a height of more than ten meters instantly enveloped the area.

At the same time as this bomber dropped incendiary bombs, twenty B2 bombers of the 1st Bombing Squadron successively dropped napalm on valuable target areas on the battlefield.

The An Jiajun has a long history of using napalm, and as early as last year, when it was fighting against Japan, it frequently appeared. In order to deal with the enemy in Central Asia as soon as possible and free up their hands to deal with the Japanese offensive, the headquarters of the Anjia Army issued an order to use napalm. The production and manufacture of napalm bombs is extremely simple, 97 percent of gasoline, 3 percent of natural rubber, and a variety of chemical accelerants such as aluminum powder and white phosphorus can be added. Compared with ordinary bombs, napalm costs less than 10 percent of similar aerial bombs, but the power is still excessive.

After the napalm exploded, it only burned for a few seconds, and with a puff of rising black smoke, it all seemed to be over. Not really! The napalm that was splashed on the bodies of the Soviet soldiers who were lying on the ground was like a demon devouring human life, and the Soviet officers and soldiers who were burning all over the Soviet position and screaming in pain could be seen all over the Soviet position, and they slapped the burning bodies with their hands, but the more they slapped the fire, the bigger the fire burned, and in desperation, they rolled back and forth on the ground to extinguish the fire, but they made the whole body full of fire.

Some of the burning Soviet soldiers had more fire points on their bodies, and the people next to them hurriedly avoided them, because the burning man's struggle would throw the burning oil on his body onto the others, forming a secondary injury. The most terrible thing is the comrades-in-arms who burn to the point of losing their minds, sometimes they will hold you desperately, and then inexplicably die together.

Throughout the city of Talda Kurgan, panicked people can be seen running around everywhere to avoid their comrades-in-arms who have turned into burning men and Soviet officers and soldiers who are bombarded from the air.