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The defensive battle for Mount Ultau had been going on for a whole day, and the Golan trench and the eastern slope of the mountain, which had appeared for the first time in front of the world, were littered with the corpses of soldiers and broken weapons and equipment on both sides, hundreds of trucks and tanks had been blown up and twisted, and the dense artillery shells of both sides had even scraped off the surface of the ground. In order to capture this most important barrier north of Kyzylorda, the two sides have their own tricks to strangle each other. However, in the face of the rock-solid and difficult defense line of the Wehrmacht Second Army, after seven hours of fighting, the Soviets had to temporarily retreat after paying the price of more than 50,000 casualties and hundreds of trucks and tanks. Similarly, the Second Army itself, after being broken through the trenches by Soviet infantry, paid the price of an entire division of casualties, and even the anti-tank guns were destroyed by nearly half.

However, the temporary cessation of artillery fire does not mean the end of the fierce battle. From morning to evening, the two sides invested a total of more than 1,900 fighters, and the Chinese Air Force, under Zhukov's air-ground joint attack, destroyed a total of 493 Soviet fighters at the cost of 67 downed planes in a single day, the largest loss since the beginning of the war, and seized air supremacy on the battlefield in one fell swoop. After completing the task of seizing air supremacy, the brave pilots also joined forces to destroy at least 70 tanks/armored vehicles, more than 400 gun emplacements and a large number of Soviet forces.

When the air was fiercely strangled, at the same time, the commanders of both sides involuntarily turned their eyes to the north. At 3 p.m. on May 3, fourteen BA27M armored vehicles, carrying a small squad of Soviet infantry and a dozen Cossack cavalrymen, quietly entered Kurgarsen. The Soviet Army, which regarded China as its number one target since the end of the civil war, borrowed a large number of Wehrmacht formations and tactics from the military, such as this reconnaissance team, which adopted the standard armored establishment of the Wehrmacht, with four vehicles as a platoon, three platoons as a company, and the company commander and deputy company commander each had a separate vehicle to avoid being killed at the same time and disrupting the command.

As soon as the reconnaissance vehicle stopped outside the town, the scouts and cavalry began to search the entire town. The population of Kurgasen is less than a thousand. Since the outbreak of the war, all the Kazakh residents have fled to Karaganda and other places. So the deserted town is full of items discarded during the escape, and you can also see several bomb craters, indicating that bombers have visited here. "Comrade company commander, there is no one here, and there is no trace of vehicles passing, only some horseshoe prints have been found in the south." A squad leader led the empty wine bottle and walked out of the farmhouse and threw it aside.

"Take your platoon and search the flanks along the river. Rick, go unload the boat. The cavalry prepared to cross the river to search. ”

The squad leader nodded, and led four vehicles north along the river, while the reconnaissance company commander sent four more armored vehicles to the south, and finally ordered the two assault boats on the trucks behind him to be unloaded and sent the cavalry across the river at a rate of one horse at a time. The platoon commander who led the team drove ten kilometers along the river, but did not find any car marks, and the vegetation was well maintained without traces of crushing. "Squad leader, do you want to move on?" The burping driver poked his head out of the BA27M armored car, carrying a small half bottle of Chinese liquor looted on the road. "No need. The river in front of us was not suitable for crossing the river than here, and the low bushes could not hide anything. Let's go, it seems that the enemy should still be on the south bank. The squad leader looked at the large knee-high bushes five kilometers ahead. Shaking his head, he snatched the bottle and got into the armored car. The four BA27Ms turned around and headed back, but the squad leader didn't know that it was deep in the low bushes that he thought he could see through at a glance. Large horse's hoof footprints are clearly visible.

It turned out that in order to take advantage of the Kurgasen ambush, Zhuo Fan deliberately arranged the crossing site in a low bush area 15 kilometers away from Kurgasen. So that the surface of the Kurgasen will not be damaged. In the end, he also had the Kazakh cavalry division repeatedly trample and bury the traces of the vehicles, and then inserted the crushed bushes directly into the dirt to disguise them as intact. But if the scouts approached, they could still see the clues. Unfortunately, the squad leader gave up, because he felt that this open and low bush could not hide the enemy, so there was no need to search, and as for the forest to the north, it was the defense line of the defenders of Alcarek.

Soon after the armored reconnaissance platoon returned to the town, the cavalry crossing the river had already sent back the news that there was no human population within 10 kilometers of the opposite bank. This was great news, and the company commander hurriedly opened the radio station, which was carefully wrapped in oilcloth. In the Soviet Union, radio stations were far more precious than tanks, and every time the troops captured a downed Chinese plane, they were very red when they saw the smashed radio equipment inside. And the one in front of him was one of the 50,000 units that were urgently purchased from the United States after the war.

The communications corps quickly contacted the main force behind, and when the company commander secretly praised the good use of American radio in his heart, he did not know that with the exposure of the Katyn massacre, the United States had completely stopped exporting to the Soviet Union. Of course, since the United States has not yet declared its entry into the war, this prohibition cannot eliminate smuggling, and a considerable number of American companies are actually still selling materials and industrial equipment to the Soviet Union, including important aluminum and oil refining equipment, and even Spain is involved in the smuggling of tungsten (the Soviet tungsten ore is in Eastern Siberia, and the resources of the entire Siberia during World War II in history have no mining records except for a few such as Omsk copper mine and iron ore in the Amur region, and the Soviet Union relies on raw materials from Ukraine, the Caucasus and the Urals).

"No enemies?" Major General Baranov, commander of the Fifth Tank Army, was surprised to receive the telegram, this general, who was unusually tall and thin, and spoke in a very soft voice, had come step by step from the grassroots level to the Frunze Military Academy, so his operational command was more stable than that of those officers who had climbed up by means of a great purge. As two decorated tank commanders who participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, he did not believe that the other side would give up such an important position.

The political commissar sitting next to him, wearing glasses, was also puzzled, smoking a cigarette and said, "Could it be that they didn't find us?" ”

Baranov shook his head: "Comrade commissar, this is impossible. We have already encountered three waves of reconnaissance planes since noon, and they must have sent the message back. ”

"But it's only been three hours since noon, and it takes at least five to six hours for their tank division to come over. Moreover, Comrade Zhukov is putting pressure on them, and this morning's telegram also says that more than one and a half armored divisions still show no signs of leaving the Ultau Mountains. ”

"But they still have cavalry, comrade commissar, don't forget, the Kazakhs have defected, they organized ten cavalry divisions. The Chinese will not mind letting them be used as shields to slow us down. ”

"What then? You can't just wait, can you? Commander Zhukov was under a lot of pressure! "The commissar was a little anxious, especially after learning that he had lost three divisions and hundreds of tanks in one night. Fortunately, he was more open-minded than the others, and knew that he had to obey Baranov's command militarily.

Baranov also couldn't accurately judge that it was reasonable to say that there should be an enemy to block, but now he didn't see anything, which made him nervous. However, he also knew that it was impossible for the troops to look foolishly across the river, and they must know that the Ultau Mountain had reached a critical moment, and the outflanking must be completed as soon as possible. With this in mind, he decided to send another cavalry battalion to cross the river in an assault boat and go 30 kilometers deep to find out before making a decision. However, in order to save time, he ordered the scattered troops to gradually concentrate on Kulgasen first.

This kind of caution made Zhuo Fan in the woods very anxious, seeing that time passed little by little, if the Soviet army chose to cross the river at night, I am afraid that it would fall into a chaotic battle. Night fighting was not a problem for the Wehrmacht, but it was very complicated after joining the Polish army, and the possibility of large-scale accidental injuries could not be ruled out. Moreover, the air force support at night is limited, and if the pontoon bridge is bombed, it will be a big sin to let the Soviet troops cross the river.

Just when the two sides were holding back their strength and wrestling secretly, the first batch of 12 snake-to-ground attack planes that rushed to support changed the stalemate.

The first batch of 12 Snake B planes arrived from the nearest field airfield in Rezikazgan, and the pilots were very tired after a day of fighting on the Ultau Mountains, so after seeing the Fifth Tank Army, they couldn't help but say that it was a series of rockets, and they all wanted to throw away the bombs and go home to rest as soon as possible. "Fire, fire! Shoot them down. After the defeat of the Soviet army in East Kazakhstan, it also learned from the Wehrmacht to move the anti-aircraft guns to the trucks, but the main 37-mm anti-aircraft guns of the Soviet army were inherited from the old German models, and the air defense capability was not strong, so the 12 snakes quickly dispersed Baranov's troops, and the 25-mm machine guns destroyed five BT5 tanks in a row.

However, the appearance of the snake attack plane not only did not make Baranov nervous, but made him feel that the other side used the plane to block him because the army was still behind and did not come up. At this moment, the reconnaissance battalion that crossed the river also sent back a telegram: "There is no enemy within 30 kilometers of the south bank of the Karaturgai River. ”

"Great! It was still dark in two hours. As long as the pontoon bridge is set up in two hours, their planes will be useless. After reading the telegram, the commissar excitedly picked up a pistol: "Comrade Baranov, you take the main forces, and I will go to the front to supervise the erection of the pontoon bridge." "Okay, Comrade Political Commissar, we must build the pontoon bridge as soon as possible." Baranov took the commissar's hand, and after focusing on the importance of erecting the pontoon bridge, he ordered the troops to turn south and assemble around Kulgarsen.

When Baranov dreamed of crossing the river at night and arriving at the west side of Mount Ultau tomorrow morning to complete the flanking attack, he did not know that his troops had already exposed a huge arc back because of the turn and contraction!

The attack of the first batch of Snake B attack planes lasted fifteen minutes, and after they left, Zhuo Fan gave the order to attack.

For a time, the engine in the woods shook the sky, and countless tired birds that returned to their nests were shocked and flew all over the sky. The first to rush out of the woods were Zhao Dengyu and the 510 regiment, who were wearing big knives and had a fiery temper. 112 36 main battle tanks, scattered in a standard wedge-shaped offensive formation, rushed in companies towards Kurgasen, 25 kilometers away. On the left flank is the 539th Regiment of the Mechanized Infantry Division led by Zhuo Fan himself, and on the right flank is the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Armored Brigade of the Polish Army.

"Enemy attack!"

When the billowing dust appeared from behind, a frightened scream suddenly came from inside the tank regiment, which was being ordered to shrink.

The cry also completely pierced the silence of Kurgasen...... To be continued)