Chapter 813: Central Asian Battle (5)

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The orderly shouted God and drew a cross on his chest with all his might. The second lieutenant, who had vowed not to be religious, could not find the words to describe what Ziji saw. Even Lukin opened his mouth wide, and as more and more people raised their heads, everyone saw a scene that they would never forget, only to see hundreds of warplanes lined up as geese under the reflection of the slanting sun, like migratory birds migrating from Lake Balkhash obscuring their vision.

"Flak artillery! Artillery ready! ”

"Go tell Division Commander Nietzelev to get the plane off immediately! Damn, you're still in a daze? Ruguo, you don't want to be shot, just use the fastest speed to convey the order! "The group of planes that are getting closer and closer makes Lukin suddenly wake up and push a handful of orderlies" "The novel chapter is updated the fastest.

The poor orderly remembered that it was a serious mistake to shout God, and that many people were arrested for believing in religion during the Great Purge, and he was so frightened that he even forgot that there was a phone on the shijiè, and jumped directly into the car that had not yet turned off, lowered his head and rushed to the field airfield. In fact, there is no need for Lu Jin to remind him, Yijing is busy in the field airfield. The anti-aircraft positions consisting of six 76-mm and four 37-mm anti-aircraft guns had just opened fire, and four ghost cars swooped down at high speed.

The British, who invented the dive bomber, thought that dive bombing was useless because the plane could not maneuver when diving, and it would become a target. But they forgot that in actual combat, when the screaming came from the sky, everyone's first reaction was to run! Run! The farther you run, the better! This is what the current Soviet air defense positions look like, after the dive bombers with a long sound are aimed at them, the artillerymen don't even care about the officers' shouting, and immediately throw everything down and run around! No way, whether it's the JU87 or the Chinese FG3 (Dive Attack Aircraft) ghost car, it's so famous, rumored that the target they aimed at escaped from Méiyou.

In the massive explosion, eight 250-kilogram high-explosive bombs hit the air defense position one after another, and the explosion detonated the ammunition depot behind. The Soviet gunners, who had no time to dodge, were suddenly killed and wounded.

"With a machine gun!"

"Take off, let them take off!"

Nitselev didn't care about the air defense position at all, and stood in the center of the tarmac with a roar, braving the rain of bullets to direct the plane to take off. Hundreds of Soviet pilots rushed into the plane, but before they could launch, the dive squad that had changed out of state swept the tarmac with machine guns. Two 7.62mm self-defense machine guns frantically splashed bullets, leaving a dozen Soviet fighters launched by Yijing on the ground forever.

Just after the dive team, eight Snake B combat attack planes made a detour from the south flank. This time they used bombs, but instead used 90 mm ground attack rockets. This rocket has four rotating tails at the tail, which can rotate the rocket at high speed under the drive of gas, thus improving the accuracy of hitting. Each snake B can hang 8 rockets, plus 4 25mm chain cannons, giving this old machine a new lease of life. The 64 rockets were like 64 meteors falling from the sky, fiercely sweeping through the field airfield.

Since the Soviets did not repair the hangar at all, and the planes were parked directly on the grass, the exposed fighters became the best target for Snake B, and waited until Snake B was gone. There was not a single plane flying in sight at the entire airport.

Behind the snake was a ghost car, and behind the ghost car were five countless bombs falling from the sky, and the entire Aksu Ayure was shrouded in a huge roar that was difficult to distinguish the direction of, and the earth trembled in the explosion. Houses are collapsing, mushroom-like clouds are expanding and expanding, and the highest upburst is hundreds of meters long, and the dust cloud is permeated. Looming over the city.

The bombing and strafing of the first ** crushed the 150,000 soldiers of the Soviet 16th Army to the surface and could not move, and any moving target was ruthlessly strafed and pursued. These Soviet soldiers from Europe were hunched up, clenched their teeth and trembling with their feet trembling, until night fell and they could not see the planes, and then they dared to stand up and look up at the sky as if they were only now mingbái, what kind of war they were about to face.

"Comrade Commander? Comrade Commander! The orderly soldiers who escaped death from the airport returned to the headquarters only to find that Yijing had been blown up here, and General Lukin was lying on the ground with his face covered in blood.

"I'm fine, just a broken forehead." Lukin waved his hand to indicate that Méiyou was in trouble, took the gauze from the medic and stood up with his brow covered. The city in front of you is unrecognizable, full of flames and busy soldiers fighting fires. In fact, he summed up all the Chinese Air Force's tactics from Afghanistan to Ahvaz, and the main tactics used by small groups to penetrate and destroy air defense facilities and then bomb them on a large scale are the main tactics used. But Zhidào belongs to Zhidào, neither he nor any of the current armies of Shijiè countries can stop this tactic at present, and the only way to crack this tactic of bullying people is to form an air force that can be comparable.

Karpov and Mikoyan repeatedly suggested that replacing plywood with lighter aluminium could greatly improve the performance of current aircraft, but the Soviets' annual production of less than 50,000 tons of aluminum could barely sustain the production of T34 tanks, and they did not build a large air force at all. Only Yang Qiu, a strategist who deeply understands the Air Force, would build large-scale power stations in Chita and Guangxi to produce aluminum, when the country's power supply is still tight.

But this is all in the future, and what needs to be done now is to stabilize the troops as soon as possible in case of another air attack: "Extinguish the flames as soon as possible, and be careful that the enemy directs the night bombardment with firelight." Ordered the soldiers not to run around, and it was forbidden to light fires at night to cook and keep warm! Gather all the anti-aircraft weapons, is the division commander Nietsecov okay? That's good, he has a wealth of flying jingyàn, let him command the entire air defense forces. ”

Quick and accurate orders allowed the soldiers to gradually emerge from the panic, and when the radio station regained communication, an even greater bad news came. On the evening of October 17, 1939, from Pavlodar to Turkestan, all 231 field airfields on the Soviet Eastern Front were bombed, and the entire bombing of guochéng continued until 9 o'clock that night, according to the records of the Soviet army, a total of 3,218 sorties were attacked in three waves.

"Hey, Shime! Zhambyl's airfield was also bombed? How much is lost? It's all gone! ”

"Has Uyuk Airport been contacted? Keep in touch, they're in the desert, maybe they'll survive. ”

"It was reported that Caraguere's 6th Air Division was contacted, they were also bombed, and only five I153s survived."

"Report! The Kurgal Forest was not bombed, and the 56 BF109s there were operational. ”

"Tell them. Come here tomorrow morning. ”

Karaganda's command was in disarray, and everyone was helpless in the face of a massive air raid on Turán. Until 10 o'clock in the evening, there were still many pilots who could not contact the airport. Kulik had to send out cavalry near the airfield to investigate the situation. With a large amount of feedback back, the entire Kazakh Front's top brass was gloomy. In just five hours of air strikes, less than 200 of the 2,172 planes deployed on the front line of the Kazakh Front remained, about 10,000 pilots, ground crews and soldiers were killed, and countless losses of fuel and ammunition were lost in warehouses. On the East Kazakhstan front, four tank divisions were attacked, losing more than 160 tanks and armored vehicles.

"Can't wait!" In the face of serious losses. The chief of staff, Lieutenant General Smorodinov, suddenly said: "The enemy's aviation is far superior to ours, and if Ruguo continues to be beaten passively like this, I am afraid that if we can't wait for Moscow's offensive order, the troops will be completely blown up!" ”

His words immediately resonated with the officers of the front, who had seen the bombardment and would rather die in the attack than be passively beaten and killed on the ground by the plane. Kulik was also furious for a long time, so he immediately sent a telegram to Moscow asking for instructions, and then sent a sealed telegram to the Northwest Theater Command of China.

The content of the message is simple: hand over the culprit of the bombing, otherwise our army will attack immediately!

A minute later. The reply is lightning coming: hand over Stalin, get out of Asia!

The speed of this one-minute lightning reply was premeditated for Moscow to bite China to death, otherwise how could it be recovered quickly? It wasn't until later that everyone made qingchu. It turned out that it was not Xu Shuzheng and any officer who replied, but the telegraph operator who received the Soviet army because he was angry, so he sent a reply casually. But either way, the telegram must have stabbed the hornet's nest. Since both sides were clear, the Soviet Interior Guard troops stationed in Barnaul also received the telegram and directly forwarded the entire information to the Kremlin.

"This idiot! Is he still stunned to do shime? Are all the cannons I gave him rusty?! "Just finished reading Kulik's telegram. Stalin, who was furious with the bombing losses, had not yet vented his mind, and was stimulated by the telegram transmitted by Barnaul to completely lose his mind. Kulik was immediately ordered to attack and seize East Kazakhstan and Almaty as planned, and it was not until two hours later that it occurred to him that Motorov should be asked to draft a declaration of war and send it to the Chinese embassy in Paris, so as not to be substantiated.

What about sending shime to Paris? Because the Chinese embassy in Berlin was recalled due to the sale of planes to Britain, and the Soviet foreign affairs office in China had long been expelled, the nearest diplomatic mission was the Consulate General in Paris. But there is still a problem here, Motolov and the Soviet Foreign Ministry rarely deal with China in normal times, and even if there is something, it is the embassy in Berlin, and there is no way to contact the Chinese embassy in Paris, and finally Motolov had to send a telegram to the Soviet embassy in Paris, and then let the ambassador drive to declare war. After such a toss, it was not until 8 o'clock in the morning that the Soviet ambassador in Paris arrived at the Chinese embassy.

What Motorov did not expect was that French Foreign Minister Georges Bonet, who has always been known for his laziness, actually appeared at the Chinese Embassy that morning and was discussing with Ambassador to France Zeng Qi to buy a batch of transport planes.

Georges Bonnet became a witness and reported the big news that "Moscow declared war on China first" as quickly as possible. However, what he did not do was that China and the Soviet Union engaged in a substantial battle in the northwest yesterday evening, and the 550,000 Soviet troops, who had already been prepared, crossed the border from the northwest and entered East Kazakhstan at 3 o'clock in the morning. Almost at the same time, 300,000 Soviet troops in South Kazakhstan also crossed the border and launched an offensive on the Aitau mountain line from Aksuyek to Shaye at the southern end of Lake Balkhash.

When he learned that Kulik had concentrated most of his forces at the north and south ends of Lake Balkhash, leaving only four infantry divisions on the other side of the lake, and that the 16th Army, which was a reserve, was still more than 100 kilometers away, and that there were only three divisions left in the entire Karaganda, the news from the presidential palace in Beijing was not tense or even an atmosphere, but tears of joy and excitement!

"Hooked! Kulik has finally taken the bait! ”…… (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )