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From the beginning of the battle, the strategic bombing group of the Wehrmacht Air Force, which had attracted the attention of the world, seemed to be invisible, and most of the time it was carrying out tactical tasks. The reason for this situation is that Central Asia lacks industry and fortified cities like those in Europe, and secondly, the Soviet Union's industrial bases are all west of Chelyabinsk and the Caucasus, and there is no forward fighter escort base like Tehran and Karaganda, which often causes heavy losses to strategic bombers. As for the end, Yang Qiu also wanted to keep Central Asia from being blown up as much as possible, leaving a breath of air for Central Asia, and trying to make the Central Asian nation feel that the Wehrmacht was here to save rather than destroy.

Although strategic bombing is rare, it does not mean that Central Asian cities are easy to fight.

Because urban warfare is the most headache for any army. The Battle of Taraz proved that in the face of the fortress city in the Tsarist period that had been in disrepair for a long time, the 29th and 31st armies rashly attacked the city without sufficient firepower preparation, because of the smooth and hot-headed in the early stage, which had become the worst scene in the whole battle. More than 3,000 soldiers died, and more than 8,000 wounded made the victory much more unsuccessful. Although he finally won this strategic city, he was also severely criticized by the General Staff. So, even if Kyzylorda doesn't have a lot of solid cement-reinforced buildings like European cities, its low, messy shanty towns and narrow streets are enough to give anyone a headache.

Kachalov was not unaware of the difficulty of fighting cities, but he believed that he had an advantage in strength and firepower, so he tried to throw in heavy forces to crush the assault brigade in one fell swoop. This is precisely the lack of the concept of urban fortification, which is responsible for the belief that the opponent can be crushed by military strength alone. But he can't be blamed for this, not to mention the Soviet army, even many generals in the current Wehrmacht lack enough attention to urban warfare.

However, Zhuo Fan is different, the Wehrmacht had its first taste of urban warfare in Rainyvale in the last European war, and for this reason, the National Defense University has set up a special course for urban warfare. Not to mention the experience of Taraz, so he had long planned to use the city to drag Kacharov. After yesterday's battle, he mobilized his men to haul the wreckage of the destroyed tanks and planes to the main roads, and buried the captured useless Soviet ammunition on the roadsides and in houses, and covered them with camouflage and ignition materials. In the end, drawing on the experience of the Spanish Civil War, he found empty wine bottles, pulled a large amount of crude oil from the power plant, and made improvised incendiary bombs from gasoline, crude oil, cotton, sugar syrup and a little explosives and distributed them to the soldiers and the Kazakh volunteers who volunteered to stay, so as to create a small city that could accommodate 200,000 inhabitants in a fairly orderly manner. It has been completely transformed into a chaotic area similar to that of Mogadishu in later generations.

"Quick, here it is." Han Shiwei rushed to the roof of the building with a large 127mm anti-materiel sniper rifle. This heavy sniper rifle, which uses 12799 rounds and resembles the V-94 of later generations, is specially distributed to a small number of elite troops. As the number one sniper of the Falcon Brigade, urban warfare is simply a paradise for him.

A heavy sniper. An H35 semi-automatic high-precision rifle, an H37 fully automatic rifle and a Kazakh guide with Mosin Nagant are all the firepower of a four-man sniper squad. After he had chosen his position and installed the 8x scopes that only a special sniper could use, two T-34s and two BT-5s turned out of the street with a company of infantry. Han Shiwei will not waste bullets to hit tanks, even if the armor-piercing bullet can penetrate the engine compartment of the BT5, he still does not waste ammunition. In fact, many people have the misconception that tanks must be fought first in street fighting. But after research and a lot of exercises, the Wehrmacht found that it was the infantry that protected the tank that was more troublesome, and the tank would only be captured if the infantry was killed to the maximum. So he immediately chose a Soviet officer who was following behind and commanding the infantry to advance.

As soon as the four tanks turned the corner, he immediately pulled the trigger. While the strong recoil shook the shoulder, the bullet had accurately cut off the officer's head and neck 600 meters away, and the corpse stood upright and soared for two seconds before falling. The terrifying heavy sniper raised the curtain on street fighting. Before the Soviets could go any further, a violent explosion erupted from the room behind the tank. After a dozen 76-mm shells and ten barrels of gasoline exploded at the same time. Not only did they lift tons of stones and bricks, but they also threw out a lot of gasoline, and the bricks with flames were like meteors in hell! Crackling fell between tanks and infantry. A whole company of more than one infantry company, shrouded in sparks, the unsuspecting infantry turned into char in the flames, and even the soldiers who managed to escape were beaten by bullets fired from all sides before they could escape the block, and for a moment, it seemed as if the enemy was hiding behind every window and building.

Seeing this, the T-34 at the front immediately wanted to withdraw, but when they poured out of the fire, Mohetar, who was promoted to the commander of the volunteer company by Zhuo Fan, excitedly led more than a dozen young Kazakhs to aim the ignition bottle at the position of the T-34 engine and smash it. By the time the tank machine gun turned, the boys had already disappeared into the complicated streets. Because of the mixture of viscous crude oil and syrup, the flames quickly attached to the surface of the tank after the bottle was blown up, and even though the T-34 was running on non-flammable diesel, the flames spread quickly.

As soon as a tanker pushed open the hatch and prepared to escape, Han Shiwei's 127mm bullet arrived. Bang! In the crisp sound of gunfire, the tanker, who climbed halfway, was torn off his waist, and his upper body rolled into the fire, but his lower body was still hanging in the tank! The rest of the tankmen were so frightened that they didn't dare to move, and Mokhtar came out of nowhere and threw an incendiary bottle through the hatch. Rumble! With a loud bang, the tank ammunition was detonated, and the T-34, which had been off the assembly line for less than two months, was scattered into scrap.

The neighborhood that Han Shiwei is in charge of is just a small microcosm of the entire urban battlefield. Looking down from the reconnaissance planes in the sky, in just a few tens of minutes, dozens of houses were destroyed by carefully arranged shells and explosives, one block after another was plunged into a sea of fire, the unprotected Soviet soldiers howled miserably, the minced flesh and blood from machine gun fire were sprinkled all over the road, and at least 30 tanks were destroyed by raining grenades and incendiary bombs! It should be admired that even as a reserve army, Kachalov's troops fought very tenaciously, but the lack of automatic weapons to throw large amounts of ammunition in a short period of time left them trapped in a web of fire intertwined with H32 semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, grenades and HJ32 general-purpose machine guns, not to mention the H37 fully automatic rifles that the Falcon commandos were equipped with light machine guns.

Under the guidance of the guide, Han Shiwei changed positions. After a series of killings of two Soviet officers hiding behind the T26, a half-track assault gun appeared behind the brick wall. In order to give direction to the assault gun. He replaced it with a semi-armor-piercing incendiary bomb and aimed it at the T26 engine compartment in the lead. The bullet penetrated the thin armor and ignited the gasoline engine, and the T26 led by it suddenly became full of smoke, and the two T26s immediately followed immediately fired a shot at him, almost collapsing the small building. At the same time as Han Shiwei escaped from the small building, the half-track car slammed into the wall and opened fire on the remaining two at close range. Boom, boom! Wu Hu and his artillery squad killed two T26s as quickly as possible, and then aimed the general-purpose machine gun on the vehicle at the Soviet infantry. "Hiss." In the midst of the rapid shooting. The Soviet infantry was beaten to the ground and had to leave the street with a body left behind.

When Han Shiwei and Wu Hu began to look for the next target, Major General Sherichenko, who was in charge of the attack, was already in tears. I'm afraid that the officers of the 29th Army, including Kacharov, did not expect that the urban war would be such a scene! "Retreat! Fall back. "In the face of a chaotic battlefield, no one is stupid enough to follow in the footsteps of their opponents. So Major General Sherichenko immediately ordered a retreat. But by this time, his troops had spread out in more than 30 blocks, and there was not enough radio coordination, so he could not withdraw if he wanted to.

The troops were scattered and fell into separate battles, they wanted to withdraw but could not withdraw, and they lacked the necessary means to attack. This situation made Kacharov anxious like an ant on a hot pan, and in order to open the situation, he finally accepted the advice of the staff officer. Ordered artillery to enter the city at close range and destroy the buildings blocking the way with shells. This was a very effective tactic, with at least 30 122 and 152 mm guns thrown into the city, and the artillerymen, regardless of whether the buildings had their own soldiers in the building, opened fire and leveled houses blocking tanks and infantry.

Seeing smoke clouds rising from both sides of the southeast. Pieces of buildings were reduced to rubble under the direct fire of the artillery at close range, and Zhuo Fan immediately realized that something was wrong!

"What's going on?"

"Sir! Find a way! Maozi threw in heavy artillery, and the firepower was too fierce! They shelled the house at close range, and many were crushed to death before they could retreat! Ye Zishan's eyes were red. Covered in gunsmoke, he rushed into the headquarters and angrily slammed his steel helmet on the table. The sacrifice of a large number of comrades. Let him, who has just made a great achievement, want to kill Kacharov with one shot.

"Don't worry!" Zhuo Fan tried to keep his composure, he knew that the more this time came, the more he needed to be calm. If the officers are all messed up, the soldiers below will not be able to fight. So after turning around, he gritted his teeth and took out the last resort, drew an arc-shaped red line on the southeast side of the city map, pointed and shouted: "Let Commander Zhao lead 2 regiments to attack from the north!" Zishan, do you see? It's your task! Give you twenty minutes to get our men behind the red line. Call the Air Force, whether I am a bomber or a transport plane, as long as I can fly, I will fly, and throw all the prepared oil drums to the southeast and southeast of the red line! Order everyone, bring gas masks! If you don't have a mask, find water on the spot and cover your mouth and nose with a towel! ”

"Don't stop the offensive! Keep the pressure on and blow up all the houses you can see! ”

Zhuo Fan made a desperate bet on his side, and Kacharov saw that the tactics of bayonets on the cannon had paid off, so he swept away the decline and ordered to expand the results of the battle. But at this moment, he did not know that Ye Zishan had once again led the airborne battalion into the battlefield, and also turned on the megaphone installed on the 25 tank to inform the troops of the retreat in Chinese. Even the Kazakh volunteers, who were urgently involved, took advantage of their familiarity with the environment to find out the wounded and hidden troops, and then withdrew behind the red line.

"Blasting him away!" Major General Sherichenko, who had already red-eyed, personally commanded three 122-mm howitzers and bombarded the fortified post office building. Shells hit the granite-walled four-story building hard, and when it was about to collapse, there was a sudden harsh buzzing sound in the sky. 16 transport planes and 8 bombardments flew over his head in a dense formation, and then threw 505 barrels of crude oil from a height of 600 meters! "Watch out for bombs!" At first, Shelitschko and the soldiers thought it was a bomb hiding around, only to find out later that it was an oil drum, but by then it was too late. The oil drums quickly deformed and cracked after hitting the ground, splashing large patches of viscous black oil spots.

"What does it smell like?"

"It's like brimstone."

"Look, it's not a bomb, it's an oil drum!"

Seeing the cracked oil barrels all over the ground and the crude oil spreading and flowing like mud, Sherichko's face suddenly changed! "Retreat, retreat! Leave the artillery alone, retreat! The screams were higher than the others, making the atmosphere suddenly tense. No matter how stupid a soldier is, he can understand what his opponent is going to do when he sees the oil drums all over the ground. But it was too late, and the dive bombers and ground attack planes that had been attacking the Soviet forces outside the city quickly turned around and accurately dropped high-explosive bombs and rockets to the densest places where gasoline barrels were concentrated, and the oil drums in some scattered areas were also ignited by lightning armor-piercing incendiary bombs. In the dense explosion and strafing, the dropped crude oil was quickly ignited! The flames spread so fast that they became a prairie fire in the blink of an eye! Hundreds of Soviet troops who did not have time to retreat were consumed alive by the explosions and flames.

The Soviet Union was a big oil country, but it was a small oil refining country. When Germany, Japan and Italy were anxious about oil supply, only the Soviet Union had the luxury of transporting millions of tons of crude oil to Siberia and Central Asia every year to burn it directly for heating and power generation because of the lack of crude oil processing capacity and the high coal mining rate than crude oil. Because of this, Zhuo Fan, who quickly took Kyzylorda for nothing, not only looted from the power plant to make incendiary bombs, but also came up with a way to directly drop it to the most densely populated place of the Soviet army. Because the viscous crude oil releases a large amount of toxic smoke after combustion, many Soviet soldiers choked to death by the poisonous smoke that spread at the end, even if they were not burned to death.

In order to enhance the effect, Zhuo Fan hoarded 1,700 barrels of crude oil at the airport, and also ordered all planes not to be stopped, and used 1,000 Kazakh volunteers as porters, as soon as the plane landed, it was immediately moved into the cabin, and then the oil barrels were thrown into the sea of fire. In this way, in just one hour, using the airport less than 35 kilometers away, all 1,700 barrels of crude oil were put into the southeast and southeast sides of the red line. As more and more buildings were set on fire, half of the city was enveloped in flames, and even Zhuo Fan had to order his troops to blow up the adjacent buildings, and also blew up the ice of the Syr Darya River and sprayed it with a pumping machine to avoid burning himself.

The raging flames, the smoke that covered the sky and the sun, and countless shells that were detonated were like a heavy hammer, smashing Kacharov and the Soviet army into a daze! But before they could figure out how many soldiers were drowned in the sea of fire, the tank regiment led by Zhao Dengyu had already rounded back to the north and swooped down