The nightmare of the Russians who were defeated in Almaty is far from over, most of the defenders of these fortresses are infantry, and it is a joke to want to run through the chariots, and even if they are cavalry, it is impossible to compare with the chariots on this more than 200-kilometer race, and the rolling yellow dust that has just run dozens of kilometers behind them has already appeared, and when the first five- or seven-millimeter shells fired from the Tiger chariot exploded in the Russian army, these exhausted guys did not hesitate to make the most correct choice, They fell to their knees on the side of the road and raised their hands.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Throw all your guns in front of the chariot and wait here for someone behind you to accept your surrender, I don't have the time to take you prisoner! Gao Mingjun, commander of the 2nd Armored Division, stood in the turret of a command vehicle, his head sticking out, brandishing his pistol and shouting at the Russians kneeling with rifles in hand.

Those poor Russian soldiers had no choice but to throw their rifles in front of the chariot one by one and let these nearly twenty-ton steel monsters be crushed into parts, and then they themselves stood up and walked east in despair, in front of them the Zarkent fortress group had become a huge burning torch, and half of the airship formation that replenished the guns carried coagulated qiyou shells, and it had become the standard tactic of the army aviation to blow up and burn first.

The 2nd Armored Division led by Gao Mingjun continued to rush towards Almaty, behind them was an infantry division and two cavalry divisions following in trucks, and then four infantry divisions advanced on foot. At the same time, another torrent of almost the same size, with the 3rd Panzer Division as the vanguard, was rushing on the north bank of the Ili River in the direction of Taldikurgan, and these two armies completely swept away the Russian Eighteenth Army, one south and one north.

This kind of stormy attack directly stunned the Russians, and the commander of the Russian Eighteenth Army in Almaty, General Zasulich, had drunk too much last night, and when he woke up today, he was told that the Zarkent fortress group had lost contact and was very likely to have fallen, and the commander of the army group, who was still in a daze, laughed directly.

"Vasily, you've drunk too much, haven't you? This joke is not your style. He said to his chief of staff with a smile.

"Your Excellency, Commander. It is true, the Chinese concentrated nearly two hundred bombers to bomb there, and our fighters rushed to reinforce them, but not a single one has returned so far, and given their fuel levels, it is estimated that they will never return, and our telephone contact with there was cut off seven hours ago, and there was no response from the radio transmission. The chief of staff said with an anxious expression.

Zasulic came to his senses and said with a solemn face: "It seems that there is indeed trouble there, but you don't need to worry too much, even if the Chinese bombers are powerful, the Zarkent fortress is not something they can capture in the short term." Maybe the bombs blew up the telephone lines and the telegraph room, did you send scouts? ”

"It was dispatched seven hours ago, and five batches have been sent in a row, all in military trucks." said the chief of staff.

"Well, all we need to do now is wait for news." General Zasulich nodded and said, and as soon as he finished speaking, the guards outside hurriedly ran in with a wounded scout.

"Report, report General, in. The Chinese are coming! The Scout said weakly.

Zasulich and the chief of staff were stunned for a moment, and then the chief of staff's face turned white, and then grabbed the scout's collar and shouted: "Where are the Chinese?" ”

"Distance, a hundred kilometers from Almaty!" The scout continued to speak weakly.

"What? That's impossible. Did they fly? Even Zasulich was not calm at this moment, this guy almost took the hand of the chief of staff and grabbed the scout collar and shouted, in his opinion it was a joke, a distance of nearly three hundred kilometers. Not to mention the infantry, even the cavalry don't expect to be here for three or five days under normal circumstances.

"War, chariot. Countless tanks. The Scout said.

Zasulich and the chief of staff changed their faces all at once.

"One, one hundred kilometers is, the distance three hours ago." The scout, foaming at the mouth of the blood, finally fainted after saying this, and just then the sound of a cannonball explosion was heard outside.

Gao Mingjun led his armored division along the military highway of the Russians, spent seven hours driving nearly 300 kilometers, and killed Almaty near the evening, although this is where the headquarters of the Russian 18th Army is located, and there is also a corps garrisoned, but in fact this army is stationed in several cities in Kazakhstan, and there is really only one infantry division and the direct troops of the group army here, with a total strength of about 25,000 people, and now they are killed in front of more than 30,000 people, including an armored division and an infantry division. In addition, there are more than three hundred combat vehicles.

At the same time as the 2nd Panzer Division arrived, the group of bombers that had taken off from the Ili airfield after reloading also arrived, and in the twilight these aerial beasts were the first to attack, and as the bombs roared and fell in Almaty, the ground offensive also began.

Almatuka is a completely fortified city built on a hillside on the road to the hinterland of Central Asia, so although the Chinese came suddenly, Zasulich was not caught off guard, and soon those Russian soldiers braved the bombardment of overhead planes to quickly enter the fortresses, ready to resist the steel torrent from China, but the next scene stunned them, because the steel torrent did not attack the city at all, as if Almaty did not exist at all, and went around directly.

"Chariot attack fortress? We can't do such stupid things, some of us are doing this work later, we just need to cut Almaty from the defense system of the Russian army, as for how to fight it, it's none of our business. Fifty kilometers west of Almaty, the huge legion finally stopped, and then Gao Mingjun said to the officers beside him while drinking tea.

He won't ram the Russian fortresses with chariots, the small Russian strongholds around Almaty are his dishes, and then cut off the road from Bishkek to here, wait for the landing bombers to blow up the turtle shells in Almaty, and the infantry behind them will take the city, and then continue to advance towards Bishkek.

Although the 2nd Panzer Division passed but did not attack, the Russians did not have the courage to come out of Almaty to make trouble for them, and now they are glad that the enemy made a wrong choice, not to mention that the bombardment in the evening also caused them heavy losses, and they had to hurry to clean up the corpses at night.

By the next day, the bomber group from the Ili airfield had returned to the city, and at the same time, the 2nd Panzer Division, which had been circling the city, had begun to clear the surrounding Russian strongholds, and the infantry division that accompanied them had built defensive positions to hold off the Russian reinforcements from Bishkek. In this way, the bombing of Chinese planes continued until the fourth day, and in the afternoon, the Russian troops in Almaty routinely cleaned up the corpses of the Russian soldiers killed in the morning bombing, and countless cavalry came like a flood that burst the embankment.

The Russian troops who cleaned up the corpses were frightened and hurried back to the ruined fortresses to prepare for defense, but unfortunately what baffled them was that this huge cavalry group also did not attack, but rushed from the north of the city like the armored group, and before these cavalry were all over, the airship fleet from Dihua arrived, and then smashed more than 600 tons of bombs and coagulation qiyou bombs under the desperate eyes of the Russians, and after this round of bombardment, Almaty was basically in ruins.

Fortunately, at this time, the reinforcements from Bishkek finally arrived, but what made Zasulich lament was that this reinforcement consisting of two Cossack cavalry divisions, like a lamb jumping to the mouth of a tiger, did not even have a little room for struggle, and was swallowed by the Chinese, the infantry defensive positions blocked their way forward, and the chariot clusters rushed them into countless small forces that could not support each other, Immediately afterwards, two Chinese cavalry divisions launched a murderous massacre of these Cossacks in the arid semi-desert steppe.

Poor General Zasulich and the remnants of his more than 20,000 soldiers watched their recent hopes come to naught, and they did not even dare to go out to meet them.

The two Cossack cavalry divisions of the Russians were almost wiped out in the end, and even if they didn't die, they ran away, and now Zasulich's only hope is that the other two armies on the northern front can come to reinforce, but unfortunately at this time, the attack cluster with the 3rd Panzer Division as the vanguard is also coming to Taldikurgan, although it did not attack, but it is impossible for the Russian army there to go south to reinforce, as for the others who can provide him with support, it has to be five or six hundred kilometers away recently! And there is not even a railway, I want to wait for them to come, in a month!

Almaty certainly won't last a month, and the next day, when the hateful bombers came again, General Zasulich was completely sure of that.

However, this general is very brave and tenacious, and has endured three consecutive days of high-density bombardment, and he has not yet surrendered, although at this time he has already received an ultimatum asking him to surrender, but General Zasulich haughtily refused, you must know that he has been bombed for more than ten days, and even his enemies cannot help but respect this general. However, by the fourth day his arrogance could no longer be maintained, because by this time four Chinese infantry divisions had begun to arrive one after another, and these infantry were carrying 280 mm howitzers, and it was obvious that if Zasulich did not surrender, the only thing that awaited him would be ruined. (To be continued......)