Chapter 194

The military order is like a mountain! With an order, millions of soldiers have to fight with their lives, and they have to go forward and succeed.

The pressure on the Samarkand line suddenly increased, which made Zhukov feel helpless. The Chinese's combat intentions were not discovered, and although adequate preparations were made, it was inevitable that they would fall into passivity after the battle began.

Zhukov could only order the Soviet troops on the defensive line not to retreat half a step, and they had to buy enough time for the transfer of the main forces. The war soon entered a white-hot situation, on the one hand, desperately moving forward, coupled with obvious equipment advantages, the momentum was difficult to resist. On the other hand, with its strong fortifications, anyone who dared to take a step back would be resolutely suppressed by the Warlords.

In this kind of battle, the casualties on both sides are not small, and the Soviet troops on the defensive side suffer even greater casualties. There is no other reason, the firepower of the Chinese side is too fierce. Especially in the direction of Samarkand in the middle, first of all, the Chinese planes cruised non-stop, and found that the slightly valuable target pounced on it like an eagle looking at a rabbit, and the Soviet army, which had no air supremacy, was miserable. The second is the Chinese rocket artillery, which is at the bottom with air superiority, frantically turning the Soviet positions into a sea of fire, as long as it is surrounded in the sea of fire, it is nine deaths. The last is the contest between the infantry, the Mosin Nagant equipped by the Soviet Army, compared with the semi-automatic equipment of the Chinese Army, has obvious advantages and disadvantages, not to mention that there is such a big killer as RPG. The Soviet army's firepower points struggled to survive the artillery fire and air raids, and in the end they could not escape the fate of being bombarded by rockets.

The battle in the Bezingen direction also began, Petrovsky was definitely a fierce general, he was on the front line, and after ten minutes of artillery preparation, the Soviets launched an uprising without hesitation.

Han Zhixin threw all his forces into it, and even personally shot in the trenches with a submachine gun, paying more than 100 casualties before the Soviet army was defeated. However, Petrovsky was also scared into a cold sweat by the huge casualties, the firepower of the Chinese paratroopers was too fierce, the fire network composed of general-purpose machine guns and submachine guns was like rain, and in just an hour of fighting, no one could rush into the town, and more than 300 corpses were left on the ground, and the number of wounded was almost the same. There are also terrible mortars, the number is called more than one, and the rate of fire is fast and the fire is fierce. From 2,500 meters to 500 meters, it is difficult to escape the mortars. The Soviet army's Maxim machine gun was mainly taken off by this thing.

The huge casualties made Petrovsky hesitate, he really had never fought such a battle. Petrovsky finally gritted his teeth and ordered another attack, not to fight, Bezinken is too close to Urgench, let the Chinese nail here, once the reinforcements arrive, they will soon be able to launch an attack on Urgench. Don't look at the more than 10,000 people in his hands, the Chinese paratroopers have tens of thousands according to the intelligence collection from various places.

When preparations for artillery fire began again, Petrovsky's lifelong regret befell him, and fifty Mustang fighters rushed to the Bezingen battlefield with their strong endurance. In an instant, the Soviet artillery position turned into a sea of fire, not to mention, and the assembled Soviet troops ran around like rabbits.

As soon as Han Zhixin saw this formation, he immediately ordered a counterattack. And personally with a battalion, launched a counter-assault. The Soviet army was caught off guard, coupled with the fierce air strikes, and was pushed back two kilometers before it could stand its ground. This is because the plane's bombs have been dropped, and the machine guns have run out of bullets. Relying on the speed of the voyage fast enough, the field aircraft group flashed first, and the rampant air battle was not even taken seriously, and there was no ammunition left at all.

Petrovsky almost burst into tears when he checked the casualties, a mixed brigade, all the artillery was reimbursed, more than half of the infantry were killed or wounded, and the cars he brought were basically killed by airplanes as fixed targets, and the roads were full of burning cars. As a result, there was no future for continuing the attack, so I had to turn around and walk back, and the remaining cars pulled the wounded, and the uninjured helped the injured who could still walk, and slowly embarked on the return journey.

Han Zhixin's side is also choked enough, a counterattack is certainly very cool, but all the people in his hands add up to more than a thousand. Lao Maozi played with his life, and the bite was not light. Fortunately, at this time, good news came from Yang Zui's side, the two mountain divisions began to parachute under the guidance of the ground, and a hundred light transport planes also brought a lot of equipment and materials, and the personnel and equipment of the field hospitals under each division also took small transport planes and landed on the temporary airfield made of alloy plates.

The Air Force also used a B-17 wing to drop large quantities of military supplies. Under the guidance of the ground, the formation of the two mountain divisions was basically complete, and it took only more than an hour, and a small transport plane also brought a regiment of anti-tank guns. The most fierce thing was that some experienced pilots even forcibly landed the C-49 on the alloy plate, and 48 wheeled armored vehicles were transported in one afternoon. Because of this move, the three C-49s rushed out of the range of the alloy plate and could not take off back. The equipment of a 75th Mountain Artillery Battalion and a 75th Battalion was successfully parachuted into several large pieces, which greatly enhanced the firepower in Yang Zui's hands. The other troops scattered in various places were also contacted one after another, and Yang Zui asked them to go to Bezingen to assemble. The main forces, after a short rest, rushed to Bezinken overnight. The commander-in-chief demanded that Yang Zui must take Urgench in the shortest possible time, so as not to be attacked from both sides by Soviet reinforcements. After all, the Soviet troops from Bukhara are more than 300 kilometers away, and a normal march is about 50 kilometers a day, and under the harassment of the air force, it is good to be able to walk 30 kilometers a day.

The feat of the Air Force reached Liu Mingzhao's ears and immediately attracted his attention. If the C-49 pilots the good landing, if the area of the alloy plate is expanded, and then the carrying weight of the aircraft is reduced, will it be able to take off and land without interruption soon? Isn't the Central Asian Air Force, which has 350 C-49s, a new means of warfare in the future? After the parachute force seized enough space, large-scale airlift became a possibility. Liu Mingzhao asked the Air Force to sum up its experience, saying that there are many grasslands in Central Asia, and the operational conditions of this model are available.

Our army in the middle of the road, under the command of Zhang Zizhong, launched a fierce attack, and in one afternoon advanced ten kilometers to link the Soviet defense line. Under Zhukov's strict orders, the Soviet army resisted desperately, and it was extremely tenacious, almost no position, and all of them were lost after they were killed. In just one day, the total number of Soviet casualties reached 100,000, and the Chinese casualties exceeded 50,000.

When night fell, the Soviet troops, who thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, unexpectedly heard the roar of bombers, and more than 100 B-17s appeared over the Soviet defense line, whining and dropping bombs. Based on experience, the Soviets looked for air-raid shelters one after another, but this time they dropped not ordinary bombs, but napalm.

More than a dozen kilometers of defense line were set on fire in the dark night, and everywhere there were soldiers who could not hold back and ran out of the bomb shelters, screaming and scurrying around. This kind of miserable situation is not to mention his own people, even if the enemy sees it, he will feel creepy. Taking advantage of the confusion in the fire of the Soviet defensive line, Zhang Zizhong threw in a tank regiment and concentrated his forces to attack the defensive line of about three kilometers in the middle. Under the cover of tanks, two elite infantry divisions advanced rapidly, and the Soviet artillery fire desperately opened fire to suppress it, regardless of the danger of being discovered. The two sides engaged in a fierce night battle, and our artillery did not show weakness, and the two armies engaged in a fierce artillery battle.

The fierce battle lasted all night, Zhukov put out the fire everywhere, put the reserves in his hands into the battle, and when the battle line was stabilized at dawn, he found that the central defense line had almost been fully broken, and a Chinese [***] team appeared about 20 kilometers away from Samarkand. And the entire Soviet defense line was compressed by as much as two-thirds overnight.

Zhukov soon made an even more astonishing discovery, as soon as the sky was bright, the mechanized troops of the [***] squadron attacked on all fronts, especially the western defense line, more than 2,000 Chinese tanks, posing in a cone, killed along a small hole in the defense line that was torn open. The Soviets were caught off guard, and the gap was widened several times in just one hour, and batch after batch of tanks rushed in. The damned Chinese planes appeared again, staring at the several units that Zhukov used to plug the gap, and it was impossible for Zhukov to plug the gap. The troops behind could only be ordered to form a defensive line again, hoping to rely on enough depth to block the assault of the steel torrent.

The commander of the 9th and 11th Mechanized Corps launched the attack was Li Zongren, two fully equipped mechanized corps, a total of 2,400 tanks, the torrent of steel rolled forward, along the way one after another Soviet troops were driven into a rout, saw the tanks coming, panicked and scattered to dodge. But they soon despaired, there were too many tanks for the Chinese. Wave after wave of tanks, wave after wave of armored vehicles, the vast majority of Soviet troops simply did not run, dropped their weapons and stood far away, staring blankly at the Chinese steel torrent rushing forward.

In the second day of the Thunder Plan, Li Zongren's unit advanced 300 kilometers westward at an average speed of 30 kilometers per hour, and the Soviet troops were invincible along the way. Occasional resistance was easily crushed.

It was only then that Zhukov realized that although Moscow agreed to his plan, it would be difficult for him to realize it in its entirety. Because before dark, the situation in front of him was as follows, the 10th Chinese Mechanized Army in the east had appeared 130 kilometers away from Samarkand, and the [***] team in the middle of the road coordinated to kill 30 kilometers away from Samarkand.

The tide of the battle changed so quickly that Zhukov was powerless and could only carry out his backup plan and retreat in the direction of Karshi. In this plan, the Soviet army had to abandon a large number of heavy equipment, and a large number of military supplies originally reserved for the counteroffensive should also be destroyed. (To be continued.) )