Winter in Central Asia also comes early, and it is no warmer than the winter in northern Xinjiang. It has only entered the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the earth has been frozen. But it's okay, Rudolph. Diesel engine performance guarantee is still very good. It is also worthy of Liu Xian's large amount of money in the past ten years.

With the support of Chinese funds, Rudolph. Diesel's path was much smoother than the original path in history. At least he didn't have to run out of money and have no way to go back to the refrigerator factory to make a living. I can only use my spare time to continue experimenting and improve my machine step by step.

But Rudolph. Diesel engines still did not appear on the market before the start of the war, which was an 'obstacle' set up by Liu Xian. Failing to bring the big man back to China, Liu Xian only had time to wait for diesel engines to appear on the market. Good thing Rudolph. Diesel himself was more of a researcher and inventor than a 'businessman' like Edison. With no shortage of funds in hand, he did not refuse to postpone the launch of diesel engines, and he could also take this opportunity to improve this invention more and more comprehensively!

Liu Xian had previously conducted experiments in the Outer Khing'an Mountains and Xinjiang regions, and the efficiency of armored vehicles and tanks was still guaranteed in November of the lunar calendar or when a cold snap suddenly hit. If it weren't for such a conclusion in the palm of Liu Xian's hand, how could he have delayed the war again and again. In order to annihilate the enemy more, it was a lot of sluggishness for ten days and half a month.

Such considerations are unknown to ordinary senior officers of the Wehrmacht, and even less so to the enemy on the other side. They only thought that their strong forces and the unfrozen Ural River were a headache for the Wehrmacht, so the Chinese suspended the attack, waiting for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements on one side and the arrival of winter on the other.

The harsh winter is Russia's natural ally, but if Russia's enemies are well prepared, Russia will still have a headache. Moreover, China has recruited many indigenous soldiers in Anxi and Beiting provinces in recent years. Tens of thousands of soldiers were recruited from among the Buryats and Tatars in Siberia, who were as tolerant of the cold as the Russians, and were mostly very good riders!

The stalemate and trembling on both sides lasted from August to September 12, and Liu Xian ordered the armored troops arriving at the front line to attack. The target is in Bazartobe. Here is one of the nodes linking the Araut and Ural lines, where the Russian garrison has more than 100,000 troops. But it is also the place where the hydrological conditions of the entire Ural River are the best, and the water surface is not the narrowest. But the water flow is the gentliest. It is also one of only three railway bridges over the Ural River. It was just completed last summer.

The Russians deployed two armoured trains and a train gun with a 10-inch gun, which had been blown up by the Wehrmacht's airship unit before the battle, which had also sacrificed an Egret-class airship.

As soon as the day dawned, the attack began. The firepower, which was several times more fierce than the previous shelling, was poured by the Wehrmacht artillery on the Russian positions opposite. Even with the chariot troops, the battle was still opened with heavy shelling. Shells fell from the sky to the positions with a whistling roar, and the violent explosion made the entire battlefield boil.

There were loud explosions, black plumes of smoke rose up, and large craters on the ground were one after another. The hard soil is thrown like rocks for tens or even hundreds of meters. Hitting a person can also cause the effect of being stoned.

It was not safe to just huddle in the trenches, and the Russian soldiers were once again crammed into anti-artillery holes and rudimentary artillery bunkers. This has happened more than once, when the flour-like dirt turns to be as hard as a stone, and the Russian soldiers have to look for all the cover that can provide cover against the additional damage. Doors, wood, beds, almost everything that could be covered over the trenches were erected, and then covered with a thick layer of earth. This is the simplest anti-artillery bunker on the position. Hiding here, casualties from artillery fire can be minimized. In addition, it is fastened to the head with an iron pot.

The Russian army is not equipped with steel helmets!

A cacophony of machines rang out from Wehrmacht positions. When the shelling was over, tanks and armoured vehicles burst out of the Wehrmacht positions. It's no longer the crowds that attack, it's them. People will follow behind them.

The ground is very hard. Such road conditions are more suitable for the advance of armored forces.

Before the smoke of the shelling had cleared, a strange roar was heard from the side of the Russian position. The Russians pricked up their ears, it was not their delusion, their ears did hear the roar of the machine. Coming from the direction of China, low and clear.

"It's like the sound of a car starting, but it's much louder than a petrol engine. A lot ......," thought a noble officer.

It didn't take long for the north wind to blow away the smoke of the battlefield, and when the line of sight was clear, all the Russian soldiers and officers were stunned. What do they see? Huge figures, steel shells shimmering with an icy sheen in the sun. It's machine-driven steel...... Chariot.

Many officers and soldiers have the word 'car' in their heads. Because these things in front of you have a lot of things that make people associate it with a car. However, the muzzles of these vehicles can make the Russians understand the lethality of these things. There is a red flag of the Chinese on every car body!

The Russian officers and soldiers were horrified. Especially when the chariots have no scruples to collapse the road obstacles and press through the trenches. After pressing through the barbed wire, their strength is not known.

- A strange chariot driven by tracks. Its power was only visible from the vibrations that came from the ground.

The panic on the front line of the Russian army immediately spread backwards. Even the well-informed aristocratic officers had never seen or imagined such a weapon. Those elite commanders of the Russian army with excellent professionalism were also panicked and at a loss. As for the many soldiers recruited from the countryside, of course, they were even more overwhelmed.

"Bastard. What are you waiting for? Shoot, shoot me-"

A major officer finally reacted, raising his leg and kicking the heavy machine gunner next to him.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The heavy machine guns opened fire quickly, but after the bullets passed, the steel chariots were still moving forward, and the bullets hit the hull of the vehicles, and they couldn't penetrate the thick armor at all. It can only fly around irregularly like water droplets on stones, splashing everywhere and becoming ricochet. But this still attracted more Russian soldiers to shoot.

"Boom!"

A counterattack by the Chinese National Defense Forces ensued. A tank car slammed to the brakes, and the turret on top began to twist its angle. A few seconds later, the 37-millimeter short-barreled gun opened fire, and the shell accurately hit a Russian fire point in front. A heavy machine gun, which was still spitting bullets at the last moment, was blown up and thrown more than ten meters away. The shooter and ammunition man were killed on the spot.

But the misery of the Russian army has only just begun, just like their appropriate fire, after the first tank fired, more tanks and armored vehicles opened fire. Especially armored vehicles, the speed is faster than tanks, in the current situation that there seems to be no threat, the war has been honestly tracking the back of the tank car, not because they are worried about their own safety, but the wheeled armored vehicle is difficult to cross the trench on its own, must wait for the tank to block the front, lay a sapper bridge on the trench, the armored vehicle can pass smoothly.

Now that the two trenches had passed, and there were no more obstacles in front of them, armored vehicles accelerated out of the back of the tanks. The machine guns in the vehicles were relentlessly fired at the Russian soldiers who had nowhere to hide, and the Wehrmacht infantry who followed them also hid behind the vehicles, firing with light machine guns and semi-automatic rifles. In the blink of an eye, a big hole was pierced in the Russian front. It was a completely one-sided killing, which completely deprived the Russian army of the courage and fighting spirit to resist.

In charge of the Bazartobe Front was the Russian infantry general Lev. Tovesky, who, of course, could not be directly on the front line of the battle, in charge of the front line of Ivan . Major General Goncharov. He had absolutely no means of counterattacking to stop the steel monsters, and his only option was to lead the remaining Russian soldiers to retreat, hoping that the second line of defense could hold off the monsters that were spewing black smoke and cannonballs.

But it's really hard for a man to run four wheels on a plain on two legs.

"Dada...... "The heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles are recklessly harvesting the lives of Russian soldiers....... In the crowd of fleeing Russian troops, tongues of fire spewed and bullets rained down.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

In the roar of artillery, shells fell to the ground with a roar, the explosion was deafening, and shrapnel flew in all directions. Large swaths of Russian soldiers collapsed in a web of bullets and shrapnel, some died instantly, others screaming and crying for their lives.

One Russian soldier after another had a nervous breakdown, throwing away their rifles, kneeling on the ground, and raising their hands above their heads.

In front of the steel chariot, human flesh and blood are extremely fragile, and if you don't want to die, the only option for the Russian army is to surrender.

Therefore, in just two hours, the defense line with a width of more than 30 kilometers completely collapsed. Three divisions of Russian troops were completely routed, more than 5,000 people died outright, and 22,000 were captured. Three divisions of the Russian front-line troops were almost completely wiped out!

Without the slightest pause, the Wehrmacht continued to attack the second line of defense of the Russian army, and everything was still the same as the first line of defense.

In the case that the Russian artillery group of the size ceased to exist under the threat of airships, the Russian army had no means to deal with a large number of armored forces at all. The Russian soldiers are heroic, and some people do think of cluster bombs and explosive packs, but don't be fools for the infantry who follow the tanks, protecting the tanks from the threat of cluster bombs and explosives packs is one of their most important tasks in battle! (To be continued......)