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The eyes of the whole world have been attracted by the French battle, but they have forgotten that at the same time, a war several times larger than the French battle and an area equivalent to most of Europe has also entered the spring and summer. An army that had been fighting for more than two years, having comprehensively studied German militarization from the early days of construction, and had been incorporating more tactics and emphasizing strict execution, had once again entered the rhythm of a general offensive.

On April 23, on the dirt road from Khujand to Samarkand, an endless convoy staggered along the craters of the shells in the morning dew. At the front and end of the procession, there were 127 National Guard wheeled combat vehicles with 66 heavy machine guns and jeeps with general-purpose machine guns. As the gears of war turned faster and faster, these two types of military vehicles for a wide range of purposes began to be manufactured in a steady stream, and the improved 88 Snow Leopard armored car of the former has also been finalized into the production sequence. Niu Yousan, a young soldier from Zhejiang, clenched his machine gun tightly, with a little nervousness in his eyes. For them, the soldiers of the National Guard, stepping out of them was a strange world. There are no well-developed railways, no interprovincial highways that have been built for decades, let alone airports with heavy take-off and landing capabilities. Every day is busy on the most important transportation supply line, monotonous and boring.

The convoy slowly came to a halt in front of the Bailey Bridge, and was greeted by a convoy of prisoners of war. "Look, it's Mao Zibing." "It's a pity, why didn't we meet each other?" "If you want to meet it, apply for a transfer to the regular army, and you can see it every day." "Look, look! It's the Soviets. "During the conversation of the soldiers, more than a thousand ragged Soviet prisoners of war passed by like walking corpses under the escort of the Central Asian Independence Army. At the back of the procession, thousands of Slavic immigrants who had been searched out stared blankly. The man stood outside, and the woman held the child, looking numb as the convoy headed north. "Why are you even arresting ordinary people? Isn't there discipline? Niu Yousan was very puzzled, and he was very uncomfortable with this kind of thing in his heart.

"They are ordinary people. But they also fed the partisans and the enemy. As Niu Yousan and the others muttered, a voice sounded from the corner of the carriage. Niu Yousan hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see the young officer in the corner who was covered with a military coat, took more than a hundred vehicles in Andijan, merged into the convoy and begged to get into the armored car to sleep, stretched his waist, shook his military hat and smiled at him: "Remember, being merciful to the enemy is being irresponsible to your comrades. It's better for us to do these things than for our children to do them. "The young man stood up. When the coat that was covered on the outside slipped off, Niu Yousan and his partner realized that this young man was actually a brigadier general! "General." An official is a big man who crushes people to death, let alone a general. The brigadier general who slept all the way without saying a word after getting in the car was Zhuo Fan, who returned to China for vacation and returned to the battlefield.

Zhuo Fan returned the salute and got out of the armored car. Images that were difficult for ordinary soldiers to accept had become commonplace for him, with 2 million prisoners of war already being imprisoned in concentration camps or working as coolies at gunpoint from the beginning of the fighting, and 550,000 Slavic emigrants sent to training centers in Taraz and Turkestan. They need to do all kinds of production inside, and even make bullets in exchange for food. Others were singled out, put back on their uniforms, trained in the military, and awaited to be thrown into an unknown fate.

After crossing the steel bridge, there was a faint explosion in front of him, and a large group of fighters. Like migratory birds, they fly southward in dense clusters. "General, we're here." In Niu Yousan's voice, a base made of barbed wire appeared in front of him. Patches of camouflage nets and tents were directly exposed to the surface, and war eagles rose and fell in the field airfield in the distance. A busy and tense picture.

"Report to the general."

Walking to the door of the command post, Zhuo Fan just wanted to shout "report", and the staff officer who came out of it saluted him. Only then did he remember that his identity had changed, and he smiled back and walked inside. The command post is not large. When you walk in, it's clear at a glance, especially the dense arrows and numbers on the map in the middle. At a glance, people can understand that they are going to attack. "Zhuo Fan? Good boy, why are you here? Hey, Brigadier General! Okay, I've finally crossed this threshold. Du Yuming and other officers of the 10th Army, who were discussing the general attack, surrounded him one after another, and many officers who were higher than him back then, but were always stuck at the school level, stared enviously at the brigadier general's collar badge.

There is a world of difference between the two levels of the school, and I don't know how many people have survived until they retire and have not been able to go further.

The 10th Army is Zhuo Fan's maiden family, so even Sun Chuanfang came out of the lounge when he heard the news. Seeing that there were still two small collar badges on his military uniform, he pointed and asked, "These two are?" Zhuo Fan saluted and introduced: "Report to the commander, this is the combat collar of the East Kazakhstan and Kyzyl blocking battles. ”

"I heard that you did a good job in these two battles, and you didn't disgrace our 10th Army. Are the new appointments down? Do you want me to help you with the activity? "Sun Chuanfang has really been a little aggrieved in recent years, the ravine and cave in Afghanistan have led to serious war procrastination and serious consumption, and has been criticized by many people behind his back. Therefore, Zhuo Fan can make achievements, which can be regarded as letting those people know that the 10th Army still has capable people.

Zhuo Fan smiled, knowing that he was suffocated, and said, "It's already down, let me take the 3rd machine step master." Come and think about it immediately, I just heard that you are going to attack here, so I came over to have a look. ”

"This Chu Nan, digging the foot of the wall and digging it to me." Sun Chuanfang smiled: "Forget it, he finally didn't treat you badly." Although it was not the main armored division, the 3rd Infantry Division was also a good unit brought out by Marshal Songpa himself. ”

Zhuo Fan knew that he cared about him, and after thanking him, he asked, "By the way, I came all the way, why didn't I see the troops of the Uzbek Army Group?" ”

"I went back to Tashkent five days ago."

"What, you've found a way to deal with the tortoise shell?"

"Well, it's a bit of an eyebrow. Our side is scheduled to attack at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning, and their side is the day after tomorrow. Hearing that he had just come from China, Du Yuming gave a concise introduction to Samarkand and the recent war.

After the capture of Navoi by the 10th Panzer Division, Monlang's 103rd Division also captured Jizzak. When the Soviet army learned of this, they had to abandon the defense line of the Turkestan Mountains and retreat, allowing Sun Chuanfang to lead the main force of 11 divisions across the mountains. At the same time, two light infantry divisions of the 24th Army, which were on a mountain road from Dushanbe, also drilled out of Mount Zimtalga. After encircling on all sides, it took ten days to compress about 60,000 people in a total of 7 divisions of the Soviet army at a narrow junction between Samarkand and the Zeravshan River. In addition to the continued stalemate in Tashkent, some changes have taken place in other theaters. The 7th Army and the 2nd Airborne Division succeeded in capturing Urgench, cutting off the Tashkent Railway, and in conjunction with three divisions of the 1st Army and the 16th Army in the capture of Nukus. The Soviet Karakalpakstan Front was driven to the west bank of the Amu Darya River and a defensive line was established using the river as a screen. Although Stalin transferred three armies from the Caspian and Western Kazakh directions to support, since most of them were new recruits, equipment and supplies could not keep up, so he could only watch Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan cut off. Affected by the successive losses of Urgench and Nukus, the three Soviet infantry divisions in Ashgabat and other places, while resisting three divisions of the Turkmen Army Group and two Iranian divisions, feared that the enemy's main force would pounce down from the northern plains, and finally simply gave up resistance, blew up important facilities, and entered Iran to join the Soviet Persian Front. Pavlov regrouped them and used the Alborz Mountains to establish a new line of defense at Gorgon.

At this point, there was no trace of the Soviet army in the south of the Aral Sea, except for the 300,000 Soviet troops entrenched in the Karabao ridge post, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It is easier than the south. North of the Aral Sea, the situation is much more difficult. Since most of the forces were used in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Lukin seized the opportunity to launch several counterattacks. The two sides fought several times in Shakhtinsk, Nura and Ekibastus, and after a total of 19 divisions were invested, it turned into a stalemate. On the Siberian side, the Ninth Army continued to confront the Soviets in Krasnoyarsk, attacking the 21st Army in Barnaul with great bad luck, encountering a mudslide after snowmelt shortly after departure, losing a battalion of tanks and more than 200 trucks outside Rubtsovsk at one time. Had to temporarily retreat to Semie and wait for the weather to improve.

"The Soviets also fought well, taking the seven divisions in our encirclement as an example, they did not surrender until they died, and they dug hundreds of trenches and bunkers on the other side of the river. It's like a ground mouse. Du Yuming chattered. His words also made Zhuo Fan realize that with the gradual enrichment of the Soviet army's combat experience, the war has gradually turned into the most tragic middle. This is a great test for both sides, and whoever breaks through first will be able to grab the turning point first.

The key to the Wehrmacht is Tashkent. The only way to do this is to solve this place as soon as possible and release the 6 armies that have been pinned down here. Only then can we turn back to the northern front as soon as possible to prevent the Soviet counterattack and seize the chance of victory. Seeing that he understood, Du Yuming avoided these annoying topics and asked, "By the way, how did you get here?" Didn't say there was a transport plane arriving today. ”

"I'm not used to flying and coming with a convoy. Commander, division commander, I have brought you some good things. After Zhuo Fan finished speaking, he pulled the two of them and the other officers to walk outside. Seeing that the supply convoy had begun to unload, Du Yuming thought it was a supply, and said with a smile: "What should I be, isn't it just a supply." ”

"You'll find out later."

Zhuo Fan deliberately sold a pass, aroused everyone's curiosity, and led everyone to the last dozens of trucks in the convoy and asked the soldiers to lift the camouflage canvas. When the sail was opened, everyone found that there was no carriage on the slab behind it, and a large multiple rocket launcher was installed on the slab. Rocket artillery is familiar to everyone, and the 107-mm towed rocket artillery is found in the army, but the vehicle-mounted version is seen for the first time. "The 1939-type 130-mm multiple rocket launcher, with a total of 32 tubes in four layers, can rotate 180 degrees, has a maximum range of 12 kilometers, and is an anti-personnel fragmentation grenade." Zhuo Fan is now learning and selling: "There are 36 cars in a regiment, all of which have just left the factory. Commander Qin knew that there was a lack of heavy artillery here, so he specially asked me to bring it. ”

Compared with the other armies, the Turkmen Army, which was a combination of Afghan and Tajik units, had the weakest artillery and heavy weapons due to road constraints. So when everyone saw the latest rocket artillery, they stepped forward to check it out in detail. "And there's more." Zhuo Fan took everyone to the other side, and Sun Chuanfang found that there were eight other cars that looked very strangely like old-fashioned T2 armored vehicles.

The T2 armored vehicle (refer to the Bren machine gun car) was the equipment of the last European war, and is currently mainly used for second-line and armored training. These are very different, the front half is similar, but the back is bulldozed, and the flat plate is loaded with two rows of six thick seamless steel pipes, which are very strangely oblique to the sky. Du Yuming saw it first, and took a breath of cold air: "It's so thick, it's also rocket artillery?" ”

"It's still the division commander's eyesight." Zhuo Fan patted himself on the back while asking people to bring ammunition boxes from the truck. When opened, it was filled with a huge rocket with a huge head like a meteor hammer. "This is a 1940 obstacle-breaking rocket launcher that was just finalized at the beginning of the year, the car is modified from a T2 armored car chassis, and the front steel plate can prevent direct fire from 127 mm armor-piercing shells. The rocket launcher has a caliber of 300 mm and a weight of 75 kg, and there are two types of ammunition, barrier-breaking grenades and incendiary grenades, each of which can be as powerful as a 210 mm grenade. It is that the firing range is shorter, up to 2040 meters, and is mainly used for breaking obstacles and destroying trenches at close range. ”

"Good! I'd like to see how long those ground rats can hide. ”