The sea of sapphire yiyàng, hǎoxiàng pierced a dagger into the vast expanse of desolate desert. This is the topography of Zhouwéi in Kuwait Bay, where the sand sea, which was originally undefinite, is cut into the sky by the blue bay.

Taking advantage of the favorable terrain west of Kuwait Bay to block the Soviet army was not something that Zhao Zongyang and Lin Zuoda had just come up with in their heads, but one of several options that the Chinese expeditionary force had prepared early on. To this end, the Chinese Expeditionary Force also made some defenses in the Great Desert west of Kuwait Bay. The frontage of the defence extends 30 kilometres into the desert from the westernmost point of Kuwait Bay. Further west is the "sea of thunder" composed of hundreds of thousands of real and false mines, stretching for dozens of kilometers. If the Soviet Red Army could not make a detour of more than 100 kilometers, and did not want to break through and pay a rather heavy price for the "Thunder Sea", then they would have to honestly break through from the front. On the 30-kilometer front, the squadron built a solid defensive line, only about sixty anti-tank strongholds disguised as sand dunes, which could accommodate about 1 platoon and one anti-tank gun. On the night of July 22, 1932, 60 anti-tank squads took advantage of the darkness to quietly enter these strongholds, and with them entered the strongholds, along with five anti-tank artillery battalions belonging to artillery regiments at the corps and division levels.

These anti-tank artillery battalions are not equipped with 45 mm anti-tank guns donated by China to the North Korean army, but 75 mm/46 times caliber anti-tank guns of the 1928 model. This gun is an improved version of the 48 times caliber 75mm tank gun used in the Type C anti-tank destroyer. The gun is 3.7 meters long and weighs 1425 kg. The muzzle velocity of the shell is 792 m/s, the maximum rate of fire is 14 rounds per min, and the armor penetration force is 1000 meters to penetrate 116 mm thick homogeneous steel plate at a right angle, and 1500 meters to 102 mm thick homogeneous steel plate.

On the morning of July 22, three armored cavalry divisions of the 1st Chinese Armored Cavalry Corps began to deploy defenses north of the "anti-tank blockade" line. Due to shijiān tight frowning. Yijing didn't have time to build fortifications, so he used a tank equipped with a bulldozer bucket to shovel a sand wall in the desert that was 3 meters wide and 1.5 meters high, which served as a bunker for tanks and infantry. Behind this bunker, countless anti-artillery bunkers were built with sandbags.

On July 23, the main forces of the Soviet tank group, consisting of 8 tank corps and 5 cavalry divisions, arrived in the battlefield west of Kuwait Bay. At this time. Nearly 1,000 T28 and T26 tanks were available in these eight Soviet tank armies, and the equipment was about 60% in good condition. There are about 500 T28 tanks available, of which 150 are T28/1932 models with 30mm armor plates.

Except for tanks. The Soviets also concentrated 13 motorized artillery regiments or mounted artillery regiments along the front line of Kuwait Bay, deploying a total of nearly 500 suppressive artillery pieces. In addition, nearly 70,000 infantry or cavalry can accompany the tanks.

On the Chinese 1st Armored Cavalry Army, by July 23, 1932. There are also about 500 tanks and artillery that can be dispatched. The intact rate is maintained at more than 80%. In addition, 180 105mm or 155mm howitzers from five motorized artillery regiments assisted the battle, and 50,000 infantry and cavalry participated in the battle.

In the face of such a disparity in strength, Pavlov, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet tank group, whose confidence had been slightly depressed because of the appearance of the "anti-tank iron pipe", rose again.

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"Where is Comrade Kulik?"

Pavlov's former enemy command was built on a sand dune about 5 km from the "sand wall" defended by the squadron. From here, you can use a telescope to see the situation of the entire battlefield, and you can also clearly observe every move on the Chinese army's defense line. After holding a telescope to observe the enemy situation for a while, Pavlov suddenly called out the name of Kulik, the commander-in-chief of the cluster artillery. The latter was originally the head of artillery of the First Cavalry Army of the Red Army, a member of Stalin's line, and for a time he was branded as a backbone member of the "Stalin's Dzerzhinsky anti-party group". He was expelled from the party and sent to labor reform. However, because of his good attitude during the labor camp, he also actively reported and exposed some latent "Stalinists". Therefore, after Lenin's death, together with a group of former Red Army "military experts" (excluding former political cadres) who were in the "gulag" labor camp, they were pardoned by Trotsky, who was in urgent need of excellent officers to expand the Red Army, and returned to serve in the army.

"Comrade Commander-in-Chief, I'm here." Kulik, who had returned to the Red Army after all the hardships and became the artillery chief of the 1st Tank Army, stood up from the crowd behind Pavlov, gave Pavlov a military salute very respectfully, and then slowly spoke: "Report to the commander-in-chief, 468 cannons of 13 artillery regiments are ready, and the plan will start shelling in 3 minutes." ”

"Very good," Pavlov glanced back at Kulik, this person had the temperament of a revolutionary, bent over, with his head bowed, and a servile appearance, which really disgraced the face of the GCD people. "Half an hour, I'll give you half an hour, do you have a méiyou grasp the sand wall of the opponent's forward position to blast out a channel for a tank attack?"

"Comrade Commander-in-Chief," Kulik said in a flattering tone, "the Red Artillery undertakes to fulfill your instructions!" ”

"Alright then, let's start shelling now!"

With Pavlov's order, 468 artillery pieces of 13 Soviet artillery regiments rained shells into the center of the sand wall on which the Chinese armored forces were backing. A storm suddenly rolled up on the forward position of the squadron, and the trajectory of the shells suddenly formed a network of fire in the air, and countless shells fell and exploded near the sand wall, and the shock wave of the shells swept across the surface, turning the sand wall into a huángsè storm. After destroying the "Sand Wall Line", Soviet artillery fire swept through the defense line of the 1st Armored Cavalry Corps like a storm. Because the Chinese army had time to build strong anti-artillery fortifications, it suffered considerable losses in this wave of Soviet artillery shelling. The tank assembly sites of the three armored cavalry divisions were shelled at different times. Dozens of Type 31 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed by artillery fire! And the Chinese artillery group, in order to avoid premature exposure of the target, did not fire a single shot in the entire shelling of the Soviet Guochéng.

"Bombers! Soviet bombers are coming again! ”

Soviet artillery preparations also méiyou ended. Zhao Zongyang, who was watching the battle behind the Chinese army's battle line, heard someone shouting in Ziji's ear. He raised his binoculars and looked up into the northern sky, only to see what surprised him.

"Is this a Soviet bomber?" Zhao Zongyang took a breath: "Oh my God." It turned out to be a four-shot heavy bomber! They shimeshihou have this kind of big dick? ”

"Probably secretly developed, right? The reports of the intelligence services are always mentioned in méiyou. Lin Zuo, who was beside him, shook his head and said: "In the battle on the 20th, the Soviets used this kind of aircraft to bomb the British Basra and Baghdad airports, causing a lot of losses. However, such heavy bombers cannot dive and drop bombs, and dropping bombs at an altitude of 3 or 4,000 meters will not pose much to our positions. ”

"The fighter planes at the Bulgan base are in the air," Lin Zuoda looked up at the dense Soviet bombers and fighters in the sky, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There are at least two or three hundred, and it can't be stopped by relying on dozens of J-2s no matter what." ”

"Boom, boom, boom......" Lin Zuoda's words were not finished. The bombing of the Soviet Air Force began. The main force of this air raid was the Soviet TB3 heavy bomber, which belonged to the Soviet long-range aviation corps. Just like Lin Zuoda said, this kind of aircraft was developed under completely top-secret conditions. The original purpose of developing this aircraft was to use it for air strikes on China's Beidahuang oil fields, and even the Soviet Union's die-hard allies Japan and Poland were involved. Therefore, the Chinese intelligence department also learned of this top-secret information by means of Tongguo "Sky Eye".

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"Captain! Look, the heavy bomber Yijing of the Soviets has begun to drop bombs! Are we going to attack? ”

Just when more than 100 TB3s in the air began to bombard the positions of the 1st Armored Cavalry Army. Wang Shuming, who was hovering at an altitude of 5,000 meters, realized that Ziji had just made a mistake that was not too big or small. He thought that the Soviets would use four heavy bombers to bomb their own positions. In the concept of the Chinese Air Force. These four-engine heavy bombers are all weapons of the strategic air force and are used to bomb strategic targets such as cities, airports, and ports. Ruguo used to bomb ground troops, relying on the bombing accuracy of this heavy bomber, which can only bomb at the level of high-altitude jinháng, really does not know how many tons of bombs have to be dropped to destroy a tank or a cannon. So when Uncle Wang Ming found Shihou in the Soviet heavy bomber formation, his first reaction was that this kind of plane must have been going to bomb the Bulgan Air Base. So he commanded Ziji's fighter group to pull up and ambush these planes halfway to the Bulgan base, ready to give them a turán strike. As a result, the Soviets actually used four heavy bombers as tactical bombers. It was used to blow up the positions of the 1st Panzer Cavalry Corps. Only later did Zhidào, due to the backwardness of aircraft engine technology in the USSR. The range of the light bombers they developed was too short, with a maximum range of less than 200 kilometers when full of bombs, and they could not reach the Chinese positions in the Gulf of Kuwait from the airfields in Persia, while the Soviet advance airfields south of the Shatt al-Arab were still built, so they could only use heavy bombers to make cameo appearances as light bombers...... Anyway, Soviet light bombers also méiyou dive bomb function, bombing accuracy is equally miserable.

"His grandmother's!" Wang Shuming scolded, and shouted at the airborne radio: "The fourth and fifth squadrons are outflanked from both sides, and the sixth squadron is even more rushed!" Kill! Then he shouted and pushed the joystick, leading a squadron of J-2 fighters to pounce straight over.

Escorting these big TB3s were Polish-made P.7 fighters, and seeing dozens of Chinese fighters painted with blue sky and white sun markings coming out of the clouds, more than 120 P.7 fighters pulled up their noses and rushed over at full speed.

Since the performance of Zhidàoziji's fighters was far inferior to that of China, Britain and Germany, the Soviet Red Air Force could only find a way to do it tactically. And all they can think of is to fight more and fight less, and use their numerical superiority to deal with the Chinese, British and German fighters.

Of course, this does not mean that the Soviet Union has more fighters than China, Britain and Germany, but that it means creating an overwhelming numerical superiority in the local area and at the same time developing a tactic of three fighters attacking one enemy plane. Now it is this "group beating tactics" of the Soviet Air Force that comes into play shihou!

More than 120 P.7s were immediately divided into 40 or so three-three formations, quickly looking for the opponent Jinháng in the air to besiege. The Chinese fighter jets, on the other hand, use long wingmen to work in pairwise formations. Step forward to fight.

"Avoid grappling, use speed, and take them out with a dive!" Wang Shuming did not zhidào The Soviets developed the tactics of group beating with more strikes and fewer blows. But I saw the group of Soviet fighters that were pressed by the black. He still instinctively thought that he couldn't be entangled by his opponent. Otherwise, if you have three planes around ziji, you can get ziji into it.

"Catch up! If you collide with them, you can't let them dive even if you die with them," ...... meanwhile, Berezovsky, the commander of an aviation brigade of the Red Army who was in charge of commanding Soviet fighters, was also yelling at the radio of the Ziji landline. However, not every pilot of the P.7 fighter could hear his orders. Because except for the landlines of the squadron leaders and group leaders, the rest of the P.7 fighters were equipped with radio stations, and even if the planes with radio stations were installed, the quality of the Soviet-made radios was too poor. There are often glitches, and you may not be able to hear him.

But even if there was any order from Méiyou, these Red Army pilots, who were no less brave than any of their opponents, would have to do it. In intensive training over the past few months. They summed up a way to deal with the advanced imperialist aircraft, that is...... Strike! Ruguo's opponents who were engaged with them did not want to fight them, but wanted to rely on the speed advantage of the plane, and use the tactics of diving and firing to pull up and dive again against Ziji. The warriors of the Red Air Force will collide head-on with the enemy in the air! Use GCD people to fight the fearless Jingshén who is not afraid of sacrifice to defeat a qiē reactionary!

"Long live Trotsky! Long live the USSR! Long live the Shijiè Revolution! ”

Dozens of Soviet pilots shouted revolutionary slogans on the side. While piloting their P.7 fighters, they swooped down on the J-2 that swooped down from the sky.

"Da Da Da ......"

The pilots on the J-2 fighters that swooped down from the air did not want to use the method of collision to deal with Ziji, and when they saw that there was an opponent who did not know whether they were alive or dead, they pressed the machine gun control button on the control stick of the plane one after another, and a string of tongues of fire swept through the air, and immediately seven or eight P.7s were on fire and smoking, tumbling and falling. But how long did these Chinese pilots méiyou be happy, and something unexpected happened to them.

Only two loud "booms" were heard, and four planes crashed into each other in the air. Suddenly turned into two huge fireballs.

“…… How kěnéng?! Wang Shuming, who had just killed a P.7 fighter, was suddenly stunned by such a scene. It's not the case that two planes collide in an air battle, but it's extremely rare. And two at the same time......

"Captain, there was a P.7 that wanted to collide with me just now!"

"I encountered it too, but I managed to avoid it......"

"Captain, aren't these old hairy people crazy?"

"Captain, the squadron leader's plane of our fourth squadron has been crashed and destroyed by the enemy!"

Hearing the report of his subordinates, Wang Shuming was immediately shocked into a cold sweat, he never thought that the Air Force would have such a way of fighting together!

"Nonsense, nonsense, you're all dazzled! Don't think much, concentrate on fighting! "This reactionary Air Force Commander-in-Chief whose hands are stained with the blood of GCD people in history is a certain level of generality. In an air battle, it is not a matter of wanting two small planes flying at a high speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour to collide, even if one party is determined to be martyred, it will be difficult to achieve the goal. However, the Soviets' life-for-life style of play made Ziji's air force pilots, who were mostly first-time combatants, fearful. This is the really dangerous thing, and officers and men who are afraid of the enemy on the battlefield will find it very difficult to display their due combat effectiveness, even if they have the most advanced weapons in their hands!

So he simply took out the ruthlessness of "Wang Laohu" (Wang Shuming's personality can be seen from this nickname, and he is by no means Mr. Shime Good), and scolded the pilots under him, wanting to temporarily suppress the "fear of the enemy" that had just emerged in their hearts.

However, the people who can become air force pilots are not stupid, although everyone is submissive, but in their hearts they are attentive, and when the second wave of dives begins, these Chinese planes become cautious. As soon as the Soviets' P.7 rushed to a safe distance, they immediately gave up their dive and rolled to the sides, thus giving their opponents the opportunity to grapple.

However, when the Soviet Air Force pilots dragged their opponents into the dogfight as they wished, they were depressed to find that the Fokker D.21 (J-2) was not only fast, but also far more flexible than the P.7, which was really worthy of the masterpiece of a generation of aircraft design master Anthony Fokker. Even in the case of a three-fold enemy, it still firmly grasped the upper hand, although from time to time the Fokker D.21 (J-2) was shot down, but the Soviet P.7 often had to pay three times the losses of the opponent...... (To be continued......)