Chapter 121: Central Asia (6) Steel Torrent (2)

Lukin was a rare and excellent general, and when four warplanes appeared over the Soviet artillery position, Lukin immediately ordered the attack to be stopped, and the troops abandoned something unnecessary, and immediately turned around and retreated.

After only ten minutes of artillery firing, the Soviet artillery positions were reduced to ruins, and the god of war became extremely vulnerable in the face of the dive bombardment of aircraft. The Muslim League, trapped in Margerand, did not dare to pursue them, and Lukin kept leaving the Kazakhs and his allies behind, allowing them to block on the spot, and he himself moved as fast as possible with the Soviet army.

It's a pity that Lukin's actions become meaningless in the face of new means of warfare. After the tanks rushed to the mountain pass position, the remaining Soviet troops still stubbornly resisted to the last man, but it was of no practical significance. Zhang Zhizhong commanded the 21st Mechanized Division, under the uninterrupted cover of a squadron of fighters, and ran wildly along the road built during the Tsarist period, aiming at Yanki Kurgan, which was the only way for the Soviet troops to flee westward. Zhang Zhizhong did not care about the direction of Marjilan at all, the tank brigade took the lead, and the infantry fighting vehicles of the mechanized infantry brigade followed. In the face of small-scale blockade, the artillery was not armed with a few places, and the armor of the infantry fighting vehicle could not be penetrated by machine guns.

"Fast, fast, you must move fast, don't care about the local weapons in the town, just rush over." Zhang Zhizhong, who was in the command car, shouted into the microphone, and in just one hour, the mechanized division that had crossed the border rushed to Hamza. There was sporadic gunfire in the town, with 12.7 machine guns on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles sweeping as they rushed forward. The unlucky one was spotted by a plane in the sky and dived, dropping a 50-kilogram bomb. The local armed forces that were struck scurried with their heads in their hands, and the world was quiet. The torrent of steel rolls forward. The local armed forces no longer dared to provoke these evil gods.

By the time Zhang Zhizhong rushed to Yanki Kurgan, there was not even a decent defense here, and Lukin's troops had already been left behind fifty kilometers. In order to grab time, the faster infantry fighting vehicles rushed directly to the front, and there were only less than a thousand people to defend Yanki Kurgan, who simply set up a jam on the road. Infantry fighting vehicles rushed over with ease. The vehicle-mounted 12.7mm machine gun was like a storm, beating the militants on the intersection into lumps of rotten flesh. Local militants ran clean, and local residents closed their doors. Yanki Kurgan light yì succeeded.

Fang Rui, who got off the chariot, looked at the watch on his wrist, and the time was only four o'clock in the afternoon. After a day's attack, I didn't bother to eat at lunch, and now I can say that I am hungry and tired. But Fang Rui was a second lieutenant platoon commander. I have to keep working. Command his subordinates to seize various important places and build fortifications on the spot to prevent the Soviet army from counterattacking.

Fang Rui's identity is only known to Leng Yu and Xu Chongzhi in the entire Northwest Military Region. Therefore, when Fang Rui's company was the vanguard, Zhang Zhizhong did not take into account the possible danger of the crown prince. In the Republic of China in this time and space, there is nothing to say about the prince, and the Fang family is more low-key than ordinary people.

"Platoon leader, this old man is too unbeaten, right?" After the construction of the position. Fang Rui and his subordinates finally had time to eat. A group of people sat together and ate compressed biscuits with the taste of scallion oil that was hard to swallow in plain water.

"My dad said that. Lao Maozi's combat effectiveness is still very strong. As a soldier, strategically we can despise the opponent, but tactically we must pay attention to the enemy. After swallowing the last bite quickly, Fang Rui stood up from the ground and said, "I'll go to the company headquarters to have a look, everyone hurry up and rest." ”

At that time, the roar of the engine was heard in the distance, and there was a burst of cheers from the position, and the follow-up tank brigade also arrived, looking at the sun on the horizon, and then looking at the dead and silent town, Fang Rui suddenly frowned, and trotted to the company's house. When the company commander Leng Jie saw Fang Rui coming in, he beckoned, "How's the situation?" ”

"It's normal, but I always feel that it's not normal, and I can't tell you how it feels." As soon as Fang Rui said this, Leng Jie smiled and said, "Suspicious." As soon as the words fell, the town suddenly remembered the fierce gunshots, and a scream came, Leng Jie pounced and pressed Fang Rui under him. There was a bang, and smoke billowed from the house.

Fang Rui's ears were buzzing from the explosion, he felt damp heat on his upper back, and when he looked up, he saw the painful look on Leng Jie's face, and blood was gushing out of his arm. Fang Rui hurriedly took out the first-aid kit and skillfully bandaged Leng Jie, both of them were born in the Baoding Army Lu University, Leng Jie was two terms earlier, and the relationship was usually very good. This will take a look at Leng Jie's hand, Fang Rui's eyes are a little red after bandaging. "I said something is wrong, there must be old Maozi's militants still hiding in this city, just waiting for us to relax and take a bite."

Life instructor Liu Bing rushed in from the door, and after glancing at the two of them, his face changed, and he yelled: "Medic, medic!" ”

"Lao Liu, hurry up and let someone go to inform the battalion commander, don't let the commanders enter the city, the infantry must be cleared first." Leng Jie endured the pain and spoke, Fang Rui said with a stern face: "No, whether there are armed elements or not, all the people in this city have to be driven out." There aren't many of us, and we don't have the time or energy to spend with these rangers. ”

"There are tens of thousands of people in the city!" Liu Bing was a little unbearable, Fang Rui sneered: "The benevolence of a woman is not my race, and her heart will be different. Those militants are hiding in the shadows, they have mortars, and in case one of the artillery is taken out by the division command, then the fun will be great. ”

"Stop arguing and see how it goes." Leng Jie interrupted the dispute between the two, and Fang Rui left the company and quickly inquired about the news. The person who fired the cannon was not found at all, and he didn't even know where the cannon was fired.

As soon as Zhang Zhizhong's division headquarters arrived, he heard about the attack that had taken place in Yangji Kurgan, and immediately called the commander of the Jibu Brigade and others to scold: "Do you have any brains, such a big city, the work of clearing and suppressing things is hasty...... ”

After spraying, Zhang Zhizhong ordered the troops to clear it again, this time sending out tanks and searching from house to house. Zhang Zhizhong really couldn't do this kind of thing to drive away the people, and by the way, he also added a scolding to the brigade commander who mentioned this Jianyi. Fortunately, Zhang Zhizhong was in a good mood and blocked the escape route of the main force of the Soviet army.

Lukin's retreat can be said to have been quite unsmooth, and the reason is naturally that there is always a reconnaissance plane in the sky. If it was just reconnaissance planes, the problem was that every half hour or so, four fighters would arrive, and they would dive, drop bombs and strafe, forcing the marching team to not increase their speed.

Lukin organized several fires, but tried to knock out the plane, but failed, and could only be affected by the attack from the air. After a day of fatigue marching, Lukin, who decided to rush to Yanki Kurgan overnight, received a steady stream of bad news. The squadron was pursuing a cavalry division with a trucked infantry unit that was pursuing along the road, successively defeating Lukin's disconnected troops and now occupying Hamza. If this news is normal, Lukin, who had just gotten rid of aircraft reconnaissance, received another bad news, Yanki Kurgan was occupied by the Chinese, and a mechanized fast force arrived at Yanki Kurgan at about four o'clock in the afternoon. This unit is dominated by tanks and mechanized infantry and should be a mechanized division of the Chinese.

There was no way to escape to the west, only to the north or south, the problem was that after a day's march, the troops were already tired. Lukin ordered a temporary rest and struggled alone to find a way to escape, this army must not be captured by the Chinese, so many officers and soldiers were surrounded and annihilated, not to mention the question of responsibility, in terms of diplomacy alone, it is not a loss that the Soviet Union can afford. I had to go south, and I had to go overnight. Lukin made up his mind and was about to give the order when the sudden sound of cannon fire broke the brief silence.

Zhang Zizhong led the second division of the cavalry corps to finally catch up with the Soviet army, which was dominated by infantry, but did not expect that the equipment of the Chinese was far better than that of the Soviet army. In particular, it was equipped with a large number of truck-drawn artillery, so after Zhang Zizhong caught up with the Soviet army, he did not rush to charge, but calmly bombarded the temporary position of the Soviet army with heavy artillery fire.

"The Chinese caught up, only five kilometers from here, and a regiment after the break was glued." Political commissar Mikhail found Lukin, although he did not say it explicitly, but the meaning was very clear, he wanted to leave behind a broken infantry regiment of the Soviet army.

"Move now, to the west, there's not much time left." Lukin gave the order very decisively, but at this time, fierce artillery sounds sounded again in front, and a staff officer ran in panic and shouted: "Tanks, a large number of tanks, Chinese tanks are coming." Lukin suddenly changed color, but seeing that Mihai did not hesitate to pull out his pistol, he killed the staff officer, and shouted to the officers and soldiers who were in a mess: "Those who disturb the morale of the army will be executed on the spot." Now obey my orders, and the division headquarters will immediately move to the west,......。 Although it was very decisive, it was too late, and after Zhang Zhizhong learned the information transmitted by the air force, he left a regiment of troops to clear it, and the main force decisively advanced eastward, launching an active attack in the night.

The unprepared vanguard of the Soviet army completely collapsed in a charge of the tank brigade, and Zhang Zhizhong did not care about the scattered Soviet troops, that is, they continued to impact back and forth, dividing the Soviet army into pieces after pieces, and the Soviet army, which could not be cohesive, was finally completely chaotic on this night, and as Zhang Zizhong's cavalry troops caught up, the collapse of the Soviet army was inevitable.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Lukin and Mihai fled west on horseback with a guard company from the division headquarters. Of the entire infantry division, less than 500 escaped, and the rest were either killed in battle or taken prisoner. The power of mechanized troops was fully verified in this skirmish ......)