Chapter 164

The preparation period for a major campaign is often not too short, and this time the campaign has made major moves from the Far East to Central Asia, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible to prepare for two months. The reason why the countdown has entered in just about ten days is that Central Asia and the Far East have been preparing for war for more than a day or two. Five or six years ago, they began to build warehouses and engage in strategic reserves, and various units have also been defending the border for a long time, and the railways that have spared no effort since the Republic of China have also played a role.

After receiving the telegram from Wang Chonghui, Fang Jianxiong pinched it and threw it in the trash, and explained lightly: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend people, so just answer the Japanese." Treaties or something, as if they hadn't mentioned it. ”

What are you kidding, signing a non-aggression pact with Japan at this moment, it's almost like your brain is in water. waited for Japan to spread out the Nanyang stall and couldn't stop it before turning his face, tearing up the notoriety of the treaty, Fang Jianxiong was inappropriate.

Wang Chonghui received the telegram here, and when he said goodbye to Songgang Yangyou, the tone of his voice was much more tactful. That means that China is now entangled in the west and north, and has no time to be distracted and does not want to do much. The implication is that if you sign a contract with Japan, how do you explain it to Britain and the United States? Anyway, everyone just keeps a tacit understanding, and this treaty cannot be signed.

Matsuoka Yoyo had no choice but to go back and explain to the country, at this time the Japanese war plane had already started, and there was no possibility of stopping. The affluent Nanyang is beckoning to Japan, and whoever stands in its way is the sworn enemy of the Japanese navy and army.

On September 15, at 4:59 a.m., Bardikurgan was silent in the pre-dawn darkness. Within the command of Almaty. The horse's hoof alarm clock began to tick into the countdown, and Liu Mingzhao seemed to stand in the courtyard very calmly, looking at the north.

Inside the General Headquarters of the Front in the city of Baldikurgan. Li Zongren kept staring at the phone, and his eyes never left at all. There was a dead silence in the headquarters, and suddenly a sharp phone rang, and the chief of staff, Tang Shengzhi, rushed up with an arrow, grabbed the phone and heard a powerful voice come from inside: "Begin!" ”

Darkness turned into day in an instant, the silence of the early morning boiled in an instant, and the Soviet positions outside the city turned into a sea of fire. 3,000 cannons roared together. The earth shakes and the mountains shake. Ten minutes later, the sky was just white, and the hell on earth caused by the intensive artillery fire continued. Above the clouds in the sky, dense warhawks flew over the city.

From Bardikurgan to the north, to the east, Repser, Molotov. Zhan Sugurov. More than a dozen important Soviet towns such as Salkhand were attacked by air, and airfields, railways, and army camps were all within the range of fierce strikes. The Air Force dispatched 800 Mustang-B fighters, 500 Eagle 3 fighters, 500 B-17 bombers, and 200 DC-3 transport planes.

For a time, the sky of East Kazakhstan was full of Chinese planes. The Soviet fighters stubbornly took off to respond to the battle, but lost the first opportunity. In front of a huge number of Mustang-B fighters, the Soviet army lagged behind the wooden I-16 fighters. It's almost a live target. About 300 I-16s and 500 I-15s were shot down in a single day, and five or six hundred Soviet warplanes turned into fireballs on the tarmac.

There is no doubt that the valor of the Soviet Air Force accelerated the pace of losses of the Soviet Air Force. The tenacious Soviet fighters, in the face of absolute inferiority, fearlessly responded to the battle, but the result was often that the six 12 and 7 caliber machine guns of the Mustang fighters were lightly torn to pieces.

The attack on the ground began after an hour of artillery preparation, and Sun Liren, who was holding a submachine gun, was the first to jump out of the trench, raised the submachine gun in his hand, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, rush with me!" "Sun Liren, who has always been called by Chen Changjie as a reserve and has not caught any big battles, his eyes have long been red, and he doesn't care about what command or not.

As soon as he rushed out of two steps, Sun Liren was thrown to the ground, and the chief of staff, Qiu Qingquan, said with a smile: "I have long prevented you from doing this, hurry up and return to the command car for me." Leave this work to someone else. As he spoke, he snatched the submachine gun and looked at the officers and soldiers who were surging forward like a tide with a smile, and his eyes flashed with envy.

The Wehrmacht's tactics were much the same as those of the Soviets, with the infantry charging and the panzers driving straight in. For the squadron that was still defending before, the Soviet army did not expect the counterattack to come so quickly, and they were not too well prepared for a while. The long-term attack under the fortified city was already lacking in morale, and it was suddenly attacked by a fierce counterattack, and the Soviet defense line tore several big holes in just three hours.

The three mechanized armies, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately rushed in along the opening, and then moved forward, forward, and forward regardless of it. Under the cover of more than 200 Mustang and 200 Stuka knockoff Eagle 4 dive fighters of the Air Force, they rushed all the way to the northeast along the road at the foot of the Altai Mountains.

On the first day of the war, the Ninth Mechanized Army ran 60 kilometers and occupied the strategic town of Kapal in the northeast, leaving hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops behind. On the northern front, the 8th Mechanized Corps easily penetrated the Soviet line and advanced to Yesukin, and in the center, the 11th Mechanized Corps appeared in Zhansugurov. The Soviet defense line was broken through by three mechanized armies in just one day, and the mechanized troops behind the Soviet defense line did not make any stop at all, leaving some mechanized infantry, and the main force turned around and rushed back, just like a few iron combs, mixing back and forth behind the butt of the Soviet army's defense line, and did not give the Soviet army a chance to assemble at all.

Boka Kirovka, the command of the Soviet army, in just one day, everything has changed. The counterattack of the squadron came very quickly, and the Soviet troops on the front line were scattered in one morning, and on the nearly 100-kilometer front, there were at least 50 Soviet troops currently in contact, and they were often the remnants of one or two infantry divisions gathered together, shrinking and holding in a small position. These troops are continuing to fight, but they don't know where to go, because there are squadrons attacking everywhere, and they can only keep defending. All of these forces made an attempt to take the initiative shortly after the battle began, but they were met with a merciless blow. The Chinese tanks rushed back and forth on the Soviet defense line like a knife cutting cheese.

Hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops have been fighting non-stop, without a moment of peace. It was night, but the gunfire never stopped. After a day of fighting, Lukin finally cleared up a vein, that is, the purpose of the squadron's campaign was to encircle and annihilate the Soviet army in East Kazakhstan.

The thirty-five infantry divisions of the Soviet army commanded by Lukin, two mechanized, 7788 add up to nearly 600,000 people, and they wanted to encircle and annihilate such a large military cluster, and Lukin never thought that he would be encircled and annihilated before this. But now he sensed that something was wrong, the tanks of the squadron had broken through sixty or seventy kilometers and appeared behind the three hundred thousand Soviet troops. Although Lukin now had ten infantry divisions and two mechanized corps in reserve, he never ordered a counterattack. I just want to figure out the situation and what the squadron is doing.

"You want to surround me?" Lu Jin muttered to himself at the map, a trace of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth, he still has enough reserves in his hands, as long as he fights back violently and destroys the first team in the squadron, he can basically stabilize the battle situation. There was no counterattack during the day, and another very important factor was the fear of the Chinese Air Force. After a day's fighting, there were no more Soviet planes in the skies of East Kazakhstan.

Just as Lukin was preparing to launch a counterattack at night, 200 DC-3s were approaching more than a dozen airfields west of Bardikul, and soldiers with parachutes on their backs were methodically boarding. The entire two airborne divisions, on the first night after the start of the war, began the largest airborne operation in the history of the squadron.

"Haven't you found the mechanized units of the Soviet army yet?" Liu Mingzhao was really a little anxious, and after a whole day, the Soviet Army's mechanized army was motionless, and this hidden level was really high. The aerial reconnaissance at high altitude has been fruitless, and if it flies low before the fight, it will be hit by Soviet fighters, and it can only take pictures at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and it is difficult to find anything. When the fight started, the mechanized units of the Soviet army would not move, which was really a headache.

"Don't worry, even if the mechanized units of the Soviet army launch a counterattack at night, it will be difficult to play a big role. Their tanks are facing our infantry bazookas at night, and that's what they call death. Zhang Zhizhong comforted, Liu Mingzhao nodded and said: "That's the truth, but I didn't find the mechanized troops of the Soviet army, and I always have a thorn in my heart." The airborne troops are about to set off, and tomorrow the skyborne troops will encounter Soviet tanks, and it will be a big problem.

"That's right, the airborne division doesn't have heavy weapons, and it's not easy to get it when it encounters mechanized troops. I don't know how Lukin used the mechanized troops, he never found the target, and he always felt empty panic in his heart. “

A blue flag on the sand table was pulled out by the staff officer, and another stronghold of the Soviet army was taken out. Liu Mingzhao looked at the progress map of the entire battlefield, the tenacity of the Soviet army far exceeded his expectations, and the entire counterattack battlefield was full of the positions of the Soviet strongholds reported back from the front. The number of troops Lukin put into the attack was about 300,000, and now looking at the sand table, there are a total of 55 blue flags, indicating that after the 300,000 Soviet troops were divided, there were at least 55 units formed or improvised to resist.

"The Air Force came and asked when it would take off." Zhang Zhizhong asked, Liu Mingzhao looked at his watch, it was already 11 o'clock at night.

"According to the original plan, it took off in an hour. Notify all mechanized units to immediately gather their troops to prevent a counterattack by the Soviet army. Liu Mingzhao added, and as soon as the words fell, the chief of intelligence rushed in: "Commander, the mechanized troops of the Soviet army have been discovered." ”

Liu Mingzhao, who had just sat down, jumped up from his seat and rushed to the map.