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In the early morning of November 11, the Kima airborne field was extremely busy. The first batch of soldiers who landed while eating steaming corn tortillas and luncheon meat boasted to their comrades who came behind and did not catch up with the white-knuckle battle, these heartless guys completely forgot how hard last night was, and in the blink of an eye, they blew themselves into a single-handedly tank, a squad wiped out a battalion and other miracles, which made the later recruits red-eyed and jealous, as if they saw their comrades don't wear battle medals, and they could only continue to hang the fart curtain.

Logistics soldiers began to clear the battlefield, gliders were dragged by vehicles and concentrated, and if they could no longer be used, they would be destroyed with explosives to avoid being left behind. The umbrella bags that had not had time to be searched last night were also found and concentrated, and were redistributed to the various units by special ordnance officers, and as for those captured Soviet weapons, they were left behind, and those that could not be used were brought back to Balkhash by truck, and transported back to the North-Western Wartime Maintenance Center in Almaty by landing craft for refitting.

The smell of luncheon meat wafting in the wind and the smell of tortillas made Kulokin and his partner sniff hard, and even the digging movement slowed down a lot. But before he could swallow his saliva, the bright bayonet had already been raised. The sentry's cold bayonet made Kulokin and the captured Soviet soldiers forget about hunger and bury their heads in hard work to level the surface.

He is now a captive.

Yesterday evening, after learning that the enemy was airborne behind them, one of their infantry divisions and tank battalions was ordered to encircle and suppress them, but when they were about to reach Kima, they learned that Balkhash had been stormed, and that the enemy had brought tanks by ship. What is even more unfortunate is that the Georgian dwarf division commander, who climbed up by nepotism, actually gave up the enemy who was close at hand, and canceled the operation in a panic and turned around to help. It was the order of this idiot dwarf that allowed him and his comrades to bumble for another hour, only to be ambushed by a Chinese tank battalion and two infantry battalions before they could see Balkhash.

There was no suspense in the battle. When you see that the BT tank, which everyone thinks is very powerful, can't even scratch the skin of the enemy's tank, the battle is over. In just 15 minutes, the reality of 17 tanks and dozens of trucks being destroyed made the Georgian dwarf raise the white flag without dignity, so fast that Kulokin couldn't even find a place to hide. It later became known that Commander Hafrov, although he led the remaining infantry regiment to resist with all his might, was unable to hold back the enemy who was pouring ashore like a tidal wave, and had to surrender after most of the important points were captured. And one and a half divisions, stationed in Orta Tereshin to prevent the enemy's landing from the peninsula, have not yet had time to reinforce. It was cut off by mountain infantry and dozens of tanks, and it is said that hundreds of people were crushed by the tanks and jumped into the icy lake water in despair and froze to death. Only a small number of troops broke through into the mountains, but as the weather became colder and colder, they could not resist for long due to lack of food.

After being captured, the corps commander and senior officers were taken away overnight. They were escorted here to help repair the field airfield. To be honest, he admires the work efficiency and methods of these Chinese counterparts. They put a shovel on the head of the armored vehicle, and after leveling the surface, they did not crush it strongly, but directly transported honeycomb aluminum alloy thick plates up to 1.5 cm thick, and then like a tangram, it took only four hours to build an H-shaped two-runway field airfield on this flat grassland.

Transport planes from nowhere landed in batches of ten minutes, and these transport planes were bigger than what I had seen last night. They did not turn off their flames, but quickly unloaded their soldiers or equipment and took off from another runway at the H-shaped airfield. One takes off and the other lands, fast and orderly. This efficiency is enviable. He roughly calculated that in the more than two hours since the run to the paving, 144 transport planes have landed, bringing 4,000 soldiers and a large amount of equipment.

"Assemble!" Kulokin was watching the fifth shipment of Ten land. A Russian voice came from the front. Everyone hurriedly threw away the shovel and gathered under the bayonet. "Petervich. Yakov, Andrey. Dozens of Chinese military police drove in the truck, and one of them, an officer with an armband he had never seen before, held a list and called them one by one. Hearing these names, Kulokin shuddered, knowing that these were all D members and GQ members of the army.

But these expressionless gendarmes did not even blink an eyelid, and found the captured commissars, D officers, and GQ members one by one, and then stuffed them into trucks. Thinking with his ass, Kulokin also knew that these people were finished, and maybe these ordinary soldiers could survive in the prisoner of war camp until the end of the war, but these people would disappear forever.

As soon as Zhuo Fan got off the plane, he saw several truckloads of prisoners of war being taken away, and handed a cigarette to Ye Zishan, who came to pick him up: "What are they doing?" ”

Ye Zishan and Zhuo Fan are college classmates, and after learning about his thrilling encounter from the battle report last night, Zhuo Fan sent a telegram to contact him and make an appointment to meet today. "They are all gendarmes of the Political Department, do you think they can do it?" Ye Zishan lit a cigarette, exhaled the white mist and drove him to the command in a jeep.

The troops were fully deployed, and it was about half an hour from the airport to the front finger, so Zhuo Fan took the opportunity to ask about last night. Thinking of the thrilling and chaotic scene a few hours ago, Ye Zishan still had some heart palpitations: "It's bad." We were blown north by the wind, about 7 kilometers away from the intended landing point, and as soon as I found a dozen men, I encountered the Cossack cavalry. ”

The chaos in the early days of the airborne troops last night made the whole command strand sweat, and at that time, Commander Xu and Commander Chu also scolded the staff officers and air force coordinators one by one. But now after listening to Ye Zishan's description, Zhuo Fan knew that this was not the case at all. Due to the strong winds, the first batch of 15,000 airborne troops were scattered on the steppe of about 150 square kilometers, and he and more than 2,000 people were unlucky, and deviated directly to the north by 7 to 8 kilometers, just as the Cossack cavalry had already discovered the airborne landing and was rushing towards it as fast as possible. By the time he had landed in more than ten minutes and found a small group of his lost comrades, the cavalry was in front of him, unable to prevent serious losses.

However, he and the junior officers reacted quickly, forming a temporary squad to divide and surround the cavalry and force it to evacuate, and even the later Soviet armored units were held back by them for 30 minutes, winning a buffer time for the main force. As for being scattered, they were helpless, they didn't even find a few umbrella bags at that time, and they didn't have a few heavy weapons in their hands. Fortunately, the later Air Force glider brigade forcibly landed, forming one firepower point after another, so the paratroopers scattered in 150 square kilometers finally found the assembly target. and soon launched a counterattack, but outflanked and annihilated this Soviet army.

"So, you've suffered a lot of losses?"

"yes." Ye Zishan twitched the corners of his mouth and sighed bitterly: "There are more than 2,000 people in total, and 1,000 were killed or wounded, accounting for seventy percent of last night's losses." ”

As a grassroots officer, Ye Zishan was very distressed, but Zhuo Fan was different, and the original plan had planned to lose at least 3 to 4,000 airborne troops. Now it has not even reached 2,000, and it should be said that it has not exceeded the estimated loss line. The main reason is that the cavalry assault was too miserable, and almost none of the airborne troops who were caught up by the cavalry survived. He is also responsible for this. Because he seriously neglected the shock of the Cossack cavalry.

In fact, the real danger at that time was the division that came out of Balkhash. When the airborne troops counterattacked, they were only less than ten kilometers away from the airborne landing field, and if they crashed in, they would at least double the losses, but God knows what happened to the Soviet division commander, who actually turned around and returned to Balkhash, only to find out after arriving after a bumpy hour. The 1st Panzer Division had taken control of the port.

On the whole, except for the air force's combat capability in a wide range of wilderness and low visibility at night is still not satisfactory, the other bases are relatively successful. Considering that this is the first large-scale airborne, crossing, and air-ground integrated operation in the history of the Defence Forces. There is no precedent for any country before, so accidents are acceptable, after all, no amount of exercises can replace actual combat experience.

But there's another key to turning the current fruits into a big win. Ye Zishan deliberately squeezed his eyes. He smiled gloatingly: "By the way, I heard that your First Army has met an opponent." ”

"The 16th Army of the USSR?"

"Hmm." Ye Zishan nodded mysteriously. deliberately slowed down the car: "When I went to the front just now, I saw Commander Chu and they were in a meeting. I heard that this Lukin was very difficult to entangle, and he had quickly moved south, but he knew that we were in the middle, and after the tank came ashore again, he stopped at Akchatau and did not move. Judging from the information of the reconnaissance plane, he should have judged that we would be entangled in the south, so he simply stopped there to strengthen the defenses, and I guess he wanted to cut off your road to Karaganda to the west and buy time for the full retreat of the Soviet army. ”

"Really? This is interesting, he is not afraid of losing the black yarn hat? Zhuo Fan raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Lukin to be so cunning, knowing that the airborne division was to deal with him, he actually watched several divisions being surrounded and suppressed and did not come down, which was completely different from most of the Soviet generals who rushed up in a hurry when they encountered the enemy. If he was entangled for two to three days, it was really possible to escape most of the Soviet troops.

Ye Zishan remembered Nietzecokov, who was killed last night, and said with a smile: "Who knows, probably his political commissar is finished." ”

Zhuo Fan also nodded, the political commissar in the Soviet army is a very important leader, although he does not bear the responsibility of command, but the power is very great, from the current situation, most of the political commissars are in control of the supervision team, and they can directly report to the front army headquarters, and many commanders' orders even need them to pass, so the political commissar died here, and Lukin was not restrained, so naturally he fought how advantageous he was.

However, neither of them knew that Nitsekov, the temporary commissar, had long been removed from his post by Kulik.

Seeing his old classmate frowning, Ye Zishan laughed and said, "Okay, my old classmate, don't worry about it." Lukin is cunning, but his boss is terrible. According to the people in the general staff, Kulik did not consider retreating after learning that we were airborne, and still ordered the troops to defend and attack on the spot. ”

"Not leaving?" Zhuo Fan was a little speechless, isn't this looking for death? Do you really think that with one unorganized personnel, more than 100 BT fast tanks and a few infantry divisions, and a group army of less than 70,000 can block the impact of the First Army in the field? Kulik doesn't think of Akchatau, with only a few hundred households, as a big city in Europe, right?

"Whatever, go get some order, and then go to my place for a drink, you can get a lot of authentic vodka last night." Ye Zishan parked the car at the door of the headquarters and pushed the door to let Zhuo Fan get out of the car: "Hurry up." I guess you'll only be able to stay for a while, I saw your 1st Armored Division and 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division start to assemble before I came, and don't blame me if you can't taste the good wine when it's too late. ”

"Just wait for me to get you drunk." Zhuo Fan was not in a hurry, stretched his sleepy body that had not slept all night, and pushed the door and got out of the car with a smile. Ye Zishan was stunned when he saw this: "What, you don't go to Karaganda?" ”

"Don't mention it, I was asked to be a pasteur again! By the way, you are ready, and the commendation and promotion order will be there soon. You kid is lucky, someone was removed last night for dereliction of duty. So the above is going to transfer you to the second regiment as a battalion commander, and by the way, give me a hand. ”

Ye Zishan, the battalion commander, hadn't thought about it yet, but he understood the meaning of the laydown, and blinked: "There is a new mission again?" ”

"Yes, let's go fight Kyzylorda."

"Kyzylorda? My old lieutenant colonel, you also take this task? Six hundred kilometers! I'm going to jump down again, you think I like to be a turkey and let people chase after the ass and shoot them! ”

In Ye Zishan's wail, the commendation order really came. General Qin Zhangshu, commander-in-chief of the army, personally brought the decision of the General Staff. All the commanders and fighters who participated in the encounter last night were awarded the Eagle Battle Medal, which represents the highest honor in the army, all the officers, including Ye Zishan, were commended, and the soldiers who died were also awarded the title of national first-class martyrs. This means that not only do their families receive a generous annual pension, but their siblings are also supported by the state until they graduate from university. It can also be regarded as comforting these partners who fought bloodily to buy time for their comrades-in-arms.

At the same time as the commendation order arrived, it also announced the end of the short break. The 1st Panzer Division, the 8th Mechanized Infantry Division, and the 126th Infantry Division, which were the first to cross, advanced on a rapid march to Akchatau under the protection of the air force, and the two airborne divisions also quickly assembled to cooperate with the 29th Army, which had begun to come ashore in Balkhash one after another, to detour south and encircle the main force of the Soviet Army on the southern front of Mount Aitaau. In order to ensure the rapid detour of troops, the command not only accelerated the crossing to transport much-needed trucks, but also used prisoners of war to build a second field airfield in Balkhash. 600 transport aircraft and gliders were put into operation, and a large number of wheeled hounds armored vehicles and jeeps were transported.

By noon, the number of trucks and jeeps assembled at the airborne fields in Balkhash and Kima had exceeded 2,000, greatly relieving the trouble of the troops marching slowly on their feet.

Ye Zishan did not leave. He and two infantry battalions of the Airborne Division, four wheeled armored battalions, and a Type 26 tank reconnaissance battalion of the First Armored Division were left at the airborne landing site, and Zhuo Fan quickly found Zong Lei, the deputy captain of the Falcon Brigade who was called by the Political Department for questioning. To say that he is also unlucky. It was dark at that time, and the hills blocked the view, and the Soviet troops did not turn on the lights. So he always thought that Nitsekov was only leading a supply convoy, and after informing the command, he wanted to lure the other side away so as not to crash into the airborne landing field, but after not thinking about firing, several regiments of Soviet troops rushed out from behind, including a Cossack cavalry regiment, although they lured away a dozen tanks and more than two hundred infantry, but they were still rushed into the airborne field by cavalry. What's even more unfortunate is that Ye Zishan actually drifted seven or eight kilometers north to meet the Soviet army going south, so there was no time to even warn.

Although even if there was no attack at that time, as long as Balkhash opened fire, Nietskov's troops would hear the noise of the aircraft group and rush into the airborne field at an accelerated pace, the result did not change much, but his actions still induced acceleration, so he was questioned by the Political Department for a long time, and was scolded by the commander and kicked in the ass a few times. In the end, the demerits of luring away some Soviet troops and scaring the snakes in advance were offset by the merits. was chased and killed by hundreds of Soviet troops and more than a dozen tanks all night, but the hair was not caught, so the Falcon commandos were holding back a sense of resentment up and down. After learning about the horse pole plan, he vowed to complete a beautiful raid to save face.

Since it takes time to modify the aircraft, Zhuo Fan and everyone took a temporary rest in Kima.

By noon, two big news came. After being suppressed for a long time, the Japanese learned that the war situation in Central Asia had entered a stalemate, and finally could not bear it anymore and started the Philippine campaign at 9 a.m. on November 11. Inoue Narumi's Third Fleet protected 20,000 Japanese troops from all over the Philippines, and although the Philippine military had been prepared for a long time and the United States had provided a large number of weapons and ammunition, no one was optimistic about them.

At the same time, when Zhukov learned that the Wehrmacht had unexpectedly completed the crossing at Balkhash with landing craft, he immediately realized that a huge encirclement was forming, so he urgently ordered the infantry corps stationed in Omsk to take a train to Pavlodar. In order to block this Soviet army, Long Yun organized two divisions to storm the Second Army, which was subordinate to the Siberian Front, and put on a posture of attacking Barnaul, dragging Zhukov's main force so that he did not dare to move. At the same time, the Air Force also dispatched 700 bombers from the Kazakh battlefield to carry out indiscriminate bombardment of the railway lines from Barnaul, Novosibirsk, and Omsk to Pavlodar, and also mobilized 200 Y-6 planes to support the Second Assault Group.

At the moment of counterattack on all fronts, Akchatau and Pavlodar have become the key points, and the biggest field battle in the two encirclements is about to break out