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Chapter 1625 was easily won

Under the wind and rain, the Gilgarand Pass has completely become a world of water, and the small water currents on the mountain gradually converge together, and the more you go to the bottom of the mountain, the more powerful the momentum becomes, and when you reach the position of the mountain pass, it has become a torrent of yellow mang. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The flood poured down the steep slope of more than 40 degrees, forming an unstoppable tide that swept down the branches, grass, and huge rocks into the muddy grassland below.

The Soviet troops on the mountain were in great pain, and the heavy rain washed the positions built in the mountains to pieces, and in desperation, the Soviet commanders had to order to temporarily abandon their positions, abandon some of the seriously flooded bunkers, and withdraw all to the caves on the heights. Listening to the deafening sound of the water crashing against the rocks and the surface of the water outside, and gnawing on moldy slices of bread, many Soviet officers and soldiers were so distraught that they simply picked up the wet marching quilts, covered their heads, and fell asleep.

At the entrance of a cave halfway up the mountain, two sentries arranged by the Soviet army, listening to the noisy sound of water, as if listening to a lullaby, slowly drooped their heads.

The Soviet troops in the entire cave were sleeping with their heads covered.

Now there is a serious shortage of food, only sleep can reduce physical exertion, and in such bad weather, it is difficult to even walk, let alone march to fight, so the commander of the Soviet army did not even have the heart to check the sentry post, and he leaned weakly against the rock wall, drowsy and sleepy.

No one realized that at this moment, on the ridges on both sides of the pass, the soldiers of the An Jiajun wearing camouflage waterproof suits had slowly touched up, and under the cover of the sound of the flood, they gradually approached the cave, quickly killed the two dozing Soviet guards at the door, and then touched along the cave to the inside.

Although those Soviet officers and soldiers vaguely felt that someone was passing by them, they only thought it was their own and covered their heads tighter. It was only when An Jiajun controlled all the key points in the cave and shouted "surrender the gun, don't kill" and "give preferential treatment to prisoners" in simple Russian, the Soviet army reacted, but at this time it was too late to resist, and seeing the black muzzles of the guns around them, the Soviet troops, who were dying of hunger, obediently became prisoners.

Such caves were recovered cave by cave, and by noon on the 15th, the entire Gilgaland Pass was already under the control of the An Jiajun.

After receiving the good news from the front, Hu Jiyang was very happy, the road to the south had been opened, and after that, as long as the weather improved, the troops could move south at high speed, and soon the news was reported to Tatarsk, and Hu Jialin, commander of the theater, quietly forwarded the good news of the Eastern Front Corps to Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong.

Prior to this, Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong had already received an order from the General Staff to launch an offensive operation against Andijan and end the war in the south as soon as possible.

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In the dense rain, Major General Zhou Zhenfang, commander of the 19th Motorized Infantry Division, stood under a shed made of plastic sheeting, holding a telescope to check the Soviet positions in the distance.

Andijan is located in the eastern part of the Karakalpak steppe, on the west bank of the Kara River, in the west by the piedmont plain, at an altitude of 400 to 500 meters, and in the east by the foothills of the Ferghana Mountains and the Alai Mountains.

In order to block the road of the eastward advance of the Anjia army, the Soviet army built three trenches and dozens of large pillboxes in the eastern part of the gentle steppe.

The wind swept the dense raindrops, which made it impossible to open people's eyes, and the sound of gunfire, mortar artillery, and the explosion of grenades rang out in a loud voice.

The attack of the 77th Infantry Regiment finally began, and the arrows of attack were pointed directly at the large bunker groups with the most ferocious fire in the center.

Listening to the fierce shouts of the attacking troops, and the red flags that appeared from time to time in the wind and rain, Zhou Zhenfang felt that his blood was boiling, but he knew in his heart that this battle was not easy to fight, and now his troops were almost a light infantry division, and the artillery units were blocked in Ferghana, coupled with the bad weather, the fighters could not take off, and the attack on the enemy's heavily guarded fortified positions seemed very reluctant, everything could only depend on the Soviet army's will to resist.

Due to the heavy rain, the trenches were filled with water, and the Soviets withdrew their troops from the front-line trenches and all of them retreated to pillboxes in the rear. The infantry waded into the water and rushed to a place more than 300 meters away from the enemy's pillbox, the enemy's machine guns rang out frantically, and the attacking troops were suddenly suppressed by the fire fired by the pillbox group and could not raise their heads on the muddy grassland.

The location of the Soviet pillboxes was well chosen, the terrain was not very high, but it just stuck the line of the attacking troops' advance, and crossfire was formed between the pillboxes and the pillboxes, and from the shooting holes kept spitting fire snakes outside. Since this attack was an attack on a skirmish line, a platoon generally had to deal with several pillboxes in front of it, and the attack was somewhat inadequate.

Zhou Zhenfang frowned, but he didn't interfere with the commands below, and he was also trying to see how the middle-level and grass-roots commanders would deal with this situation.

Soon, the follow-up troops arrived, and the officers and men stood in the trenches, regardless of the chest-high water in the Soviet trenches, set up a general-purpose machine gun, and opened fire quickly.

The salvo of hundreds of general-purpose machine guns was spectacular, with every three machine guns firing at a firing hole, firing non-stop.

The 300-round chain used by the general-purpose machine gun has almost no interruption time when firing, and a salvo is fired, and the bullets like a waterfall continue to drill into the shooting holes of the pillboxes, and puffs of green smoke are rising from the bullets around the shooting holes, and the machine guns in the pillboxes stop at once.

The commander of the Soviet army in the bunker hurriedly changed the shooter, but when he went up, his head was quickly broken by a bullet, and before he could fire a few shots, his head was broken again, and he changed a few in a row, and then no one dared to go up, and the soldiers pushed and shoved others to get on. In desperation, in accordance with the good tradition of taking the lead, the political cadres in these bunkers gathered in front of the shooting holes one after another to serve as machine gunners. Who knew that they had only fired a few shots, and they were all beaten into a sieve.

Just when the Soviet officers and soldiers in the various pillboxes were looking at each other, the infantry of the Anjia Army quickly rushed up, and used rocket launchers to bombard the shooting holes of the pillboxes at close range.

One by one, the pillboxes blocking the path of the An Jiajun army rose into the sky amid the violent explosions, and the guns and human bodies inside also flew into the air with the smoke, and the attacking troops rushed forward with shouts.

The Soviet troops behind the pillbox saw that even the strong fortress had been blown up, and the An Jiajun killed them with bayonets in a menacing manner, screaming and running back.

The grassroots officers of the Anjia Army followed closely behind with their troops, and from time to time the fleeing Soviet soldiers were knocked down by bullets.

The Soviet troops who were responsible for the interception behind the palace were already hungry one by one, and their will to fight was extremely weak, and this run was even less combative, and soon the charging troops broke into the city of Andijan at once.

Zhou Zhenfang almost couldn't believe his eyes, he broke through so easily? And what about the reinforcements of the Soviet army? And what about the overwhelming cannons? Having fought with the Soviet army for so long, almost every time it was ravaged by Soviet artillery of various calibers, where was there such a light battle scene as today?

Zhou Zhenfang quickly fed back the situation to the headquarters, Li Jinlong and Ye Cheng glanced at each other, and immediately realized that it might be as the headquarters said, the main force of the Soviet army has been transferred, and what remains here now is just a small group of containment troops, and it seems that he may really be confused by the stubborn style of fighting to the death that the Soviet army has always shown.

So, Li Jinlong and Ye Cheng immediately issued an order to send two more infantry regiments to join the offensive operation, if the Soviet army really retreated, then the strength of the three regiments was enough to solve the opponent, if this was a trap deliberately laid by the Soviets, then they also had sufficient reserve troops to deal with the Soviet counterattack.

In the western city of Andijan, Lieutenant Company Commander Gao Shangbin led his company to drive the Soviet troops into several independent large courtyards, and after these Soviet officers and soldiers entered the courtyard, they quickly closed the gates, and then climbed the wall, and under the cover of the rain curtain, they kept shooting and throwing grenades outside.

Gao Shangbin saw that this group of Soviet troops was still quite strong, and had no intention of surrendering, so he hurriedly called the troops, suspended the attack, and then ordered the mortar team of the heavy fire platoon to suppress the enemy.

An infantry company of the Anjia Army has four infantry platoons and a heavy fire platoon, and the heavy fire platoon has four squads, each squad is equipped with one general-purpose machine gun and two mortar groups, each of which contains a 60 mortar, a 50 mortar, and a rocket launcher.

The soldiers of the heavy fire platoon quickly adjusted their gun positions, and the four mortars of the two mortar groups were aimed at a courtyard and fired continuously, and one shell after another made a sharp cry and smashed into one courtyard after another in a very short time.

After the shelling ended, the infantry quickly rushed into the courtyard, everywhere was in shambles, the stubborn Soviet troops basically let the shells be blown up, and the few who survived hurriedly raised their hands, lest they slow down the footsteps of their comrades.

The battle lasted for half a day, and after the close cooperation of the three infantry regiments, the soldiers compressed the Soviet troops into three zigzag pillboxes in the east of the city, and soon under the extraordinary blow of the bazooka, it took less than an hour to eliminate all the enemy.

At this point, Andijan fell into the hands of An Jiajun without any danger.

Through the interrogation of the prisoners, the main force of the Soviet army had withdrawn eastward along the Kara River three days earlier, and joined up with the Chuikov division in the Osh region, and it is estimated that it has now moved south through the Tardik Pass and into the valley of the Kzersu River, preparing to climb the Pamirs.

Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong were greatly embarrassed, and while sending troops to continue their eastward march and occupy Zaral Abad, Osh and Uzgen, they also reported the latest situation to the Theater Command and the South China Headquarters to review their mistakes.

Hu Jialin and Yang Fei successively telegraphed back, asking Ye and Li to command the troops to advance eastward as soon as possible, and if it is confirmed that the Soviet army has really moved south to the Pamirs, then Hu Jiyang's troops will no longer go south, and will be transferred to the northern front to fight in the near future.