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Andijan, September 1919.

By the time Blyuhel quietly arrived, the Central Asian Silk Road city was in chaos and turmoil, full of refugees and people preparing to leave, and months of fierce fighting had left corpses and blood everywhere. Hundreds of thousands of Slavic, Uzbek, Tatar and Uyghurs who had fled Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan gathered here, preparing to travel from here to Uzbekistan with their families.

With the extermination of the Soviets in East Kazakhstan and elsewhere, and the arrest of tens of thousands of Poor Party members and supporters, Andijan has become the last stronghold of the Poor Party in East Turkestan. After two months of holding out, the Fergana Front, together with the Poor Party members and guerrillas who had fled from all over the country, drove out the White Guards and strengthened the city's defenses, which now have a total of 20,000 men stationed here. Although the front was able to stabilize the front, the partisans that collapsed like a snowy mountain still made Frunze, the commander of Moscow and the Eastern Front, anxious, knowing full well that if the four regions were cleared, then Dutov would be declared to have no worries! The poor party has worked hard in the eastern part of Central Asia for more than a decade and is in danger of total annihilation, and the regional regime of Soviet Turkestan, which has a weak foundation, is likely to collapse in a chain!

So after returning to Moscow to report, he asked Blyukhel to come to Fergana to help Magzi and Suleimanov, and bring the 51st Division, which was more combat-ready. Blyukhel was also worried, in addition to the complete rout of the poor party from the four regions, and also worried about the weakening of the defenses in the West Kazakhstan and Orenburg directions after the withdrawal of the 51st Division, but unfortunately now Moscow has decided to eliminate Kolchak and Dutov first. This would have made it necessary to block the Chinese Defense Forces here so that they would not enter the more important South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

"Welcome, Comrade Blyukhel." Suleymanov was excited to see him: "It's great that you can come, now the comrades are in dire need of support." ”

"Rest assured, General Frunze is bringing more troops here, and South Kazakh and Uzbek troops will arrive in the next few days." After a few words to calm people's hearts, Blyukhel asked: "How is your situation?" And how many soldiers. ”

"The cavalry has three regiments of 2,300 men, and the rest are infantry." A big man with thick eyebrows stood next to him. He is Ma Gezi (Ma Sancheng). When speaking Russian, there is a strong Shaanxi accent, and you need to listen carefully to distinguish it. Although he and Suleimanov escaped from Almaty by chance, the newly formed cavalry suffered as many as 3,000 casualties. On the way to escape, he was frantically pursued by the Chinese cavalry, which reminded people of the encirclement and interception half a century ago. If it weren't for the familiarity with the terrain and the first to cross the Tianshan Mountains, I am afraid that the whole army would have been wiped out. But even so. After arriving here, there were only more than 1,000 people left, and almost all the military equipment was lost, so in the end they had to join the Fergan Front and hold this last stronghold together with the guerrillas who arrived from all over the country.

He continued: "The total number of people is 22,000, 16 cannons, 20 machine guns. We are also preparing to recruit soldiers from among refugees who have fled from all over the country, but there are not enough guns. ”

There are not enough guns, and after the destruction of heavy industry, the Red Army still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers using cold weapons such as long knives, so Blyukhel has no choice, and said: "Comrade Frunze has decided. Compile you as Turkestan Chapter 514 Yan and Uzbek Quan. The squadron could not continue to the west. Comrade Lenin and the Party Central Committee need us to hold this place! ”

When they heard that they had been promoted to a division, everyone was very happy, which showed that Moscow was finally determined to do a big job here! However, Blyukhel was not optimistic, although the 1st and 2nd divisions were both masters of 20,000 people, they were formerly miscellaneous guerrillas, and the composition was complex, not to mention the staffing was also very chaotic. Although the 51st Division is a descendant unit, its number is relatively small, only about 8,000 people. What's worse is that the weapons and equipment are too lacking, the whole army has less than 40 cannons, less than 100 machine guns, which is not as good as a brigade of the Wehrmacht.

"Plane enemy plane!"

While Blyukhel was arranging the battle plan, exclamations were already coming from outside.

After rushing out of the house, he and the others immediately saw that two large three-engine albatross transport reconnaissance planes appeared over Andijan, circling over and over again, as if searching for something. "How can there be a Chinese plane here?" Suleymanov was surprised, considering that Andijan is 1,200 kilometers from the Karakum fortress in East Kazakhstan, and it is impossible for current planes to cross such a long distance, even airships are very difficult to reach. Kashgar is even more impossible, it is located on a plateau, and it is also more than a thousand kilometers from Urumqi, how can the Chinese possibly transport the gasoline needed for the plane there?

Could it be Almaty? Blyukhel's face changed slightly, it was strange how the Chinese built an airfield in Almaty in such a short time, if the enemy can use aircraft reconnaissance for a long time, it will be much more difficult on his side.

On the plane, Cui Manshan shook his brain shell with a cruel smile, fixed himself with a seat belt, and then stuffed the long 25mm machine shell belt into the gun chamber, and saw that the 12.7 fanged machine gun in the tail direction was also ready, and immediately opened the shooting hatch. The strong winds slammed into the cabin, causing the plane to sway, but the pilot quickly took control.

"Fire!"

With a shout, Cui's brain shell, which dared to smash the Japanese head with a Molotov cocktail, aimed at a small group of cavalry below and pulled the trigger. The 25mm cannon with cartridge loading is a weapon prepared for the future aircraft of the Air Force, and since there are no planes that can carry it at present, everyone came up with the idea of using transport planes to carry ground attacks. With more and more engine power, these albatross transport planes, which were only equipped last year, can carry six 12.7mm heavy machine guns or two 25mm rapid-fire machine guns at a time to attack!

The unique rhythm of the shelling echoed through the cabin, and dozens of shells were scattered through the gaps in the wings to the ground. At the same time, the 12.7mm heavy machine gun in the back was even more tyrannical, and a 250-round cartridge belt was wiped out in just a few minutes. The poor party soldiers on the ground obviously did not expect that there would be artillery on the plane, and they were completely stunned by the complete lack of concealment. The 25mm fragmentation grenades were not as dense as the artillery shells, but they were not as numerous as the two planes staggered, and the machine guns and machine guns formed two terrible death belts in the line of fire, stirring up the people below on their backs.

It's a pity that the ammunition load of the albatross is still too small, so Cui Manshan stopped after attacking for a while, occasionally looking for important targets to come with a few shots.

But soon he was excited again, as four Roc bombers came into view. In order not to interfere with the bombing, the albatross was pulled back up to leave the airspace. After more than two years of fierce battles on the Western Front, and Yang Qiu instilled some air force combat methods in later generations, the Wehrmacht's air force operations have become relatively mature, and when the two albatross left, the Dapeng bombers with Gota as a template began to reduce their altitude. Since the Fergan Front had no air defense, and the rifles were not even an itch for the bombers, the pilots boldly lowered to an altitude of 500 meters, aimed at the poor positions near the Andijan refinery and began to drop bombs. Three 125-kilogram standard aviation high-explosive bombs broke away from the cabin and whizzed to the ground. Looking down from the sky, the bomb exploded and formed three terrifying fireballs, and the shockwave instantly toppled nearby people and buildings, and a mushroom cloud rose over Andijan for the first time.

Dai Jintang put down the binoculars and secretly said that it was a pity that the four bombers could only carry 12 large bombs, and the bombs were dropped with little accuracy, so it was completely impossible to cause much damage to the poor party. But this is already very rare, you must know that in order to allow the air force to participate in the war, the Northwest Theater used the Turkish-Western Railway (Turkestan Novosibirsk Railway) roadbed built during the tsarist period, mobilized 10,000 people and more than 20,000 prisoners of war to work day and night, and spent 4 months to finally lay the light rail left by Japan from Barnaul all the way to Lake Balkhash, and began to extend to Almaty Krai. However, due to the small volume of light rail transportation, it was necessary to ensure that the army could only support one air force group first, and 200 trucks and 1,000 horse-drawn carriages were used for special use, and the temporary airport in Almaty was finally repaired five days ago.

Fortunately, the Air Force is now in the northwest and there is nothing major to do, it is nothing more than reconnaissance, and the real battle still needs to be solved by the army.

Dai Jintang put down the binoculars and turned his head to look at a bearded Russian officer beside him: "Colonel Munstroff, the south will be handed over to you." "This officer, Monstrov, was under Dutov, and his more than 20,000 troops were the largest White Guards of this generation. Half a month earlier, after he had been driven out by the Poor Fergana Front, he had joined the 18th Mountain Brigade and was ready to follow behind to take revenge.

80mm and 120mm mortars were quickly erected, and Colonel Monstrov was very envious of these new equipment, knowing that he had nearly 20,000 people under his command and a few cannons, while a Wehrmacht brigade had less than 6,000 people and more than 60 cannons of various types! More than 200 grenadiers and almost 300 machine guns!

Boom, boom, boom.

Monstrov and other White Guard officers have not yet woken up from envy, and several violent explosions came from 6,000 meters away, they are all army officers loyal to the tsar, and many of them have participated in the just-concluded European war, so when they saw the fireball, their eyes suddenly straightened 150mm heavy artillery?! …… (Site. Your support is my biggest motivation. ).