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The flames burned from 8 o'clock that night to 2 o'clock in the morning on 6 December, when half of Kyzylorda was in flames, Zhao Dengyu led 40 tanks to rush down from the north under the cover of two Yunsan gunboats. Although Kacharov sent all the T-34 and other tanks in his hand to intercept them, the "big knife" Zhao Dengyu directly used the tank bayonet tactic! Relying on the thick skin and flesh of the Type 36 tank, it often rushed to 500 or even 400 meters before firing. Let the remaining Type 31 tanks and armored vehicles be protected on the flanks and behind to prevent a sneak attack by enemy infantry anti-tank fire.

Poor T-34, whether it is firepower, armor or speed, Europe at this moment can definitely create a "34 panic", but now it needs to face the "36 panic" created by the Republic of China first, and it can't cope with this almost hand-to-hand tactic at all. In the end, with the help of flares thrown by gunboats in the air, 11 Type 36 tanks destroyed 31 Soviet tanks in a row in just half an hour, and the entire regiment destroyed as many as 71 tanks in one go. But in the middle of this, there was also a Yun-3 gunboat plane that was hit by ground fire because it circled for too long and crashed. At the same time, the three thousand cavalry of the 1st Kazakh Independent Cavalry Division, led by four wheeled armored battalions that had not yet appeared, suddenly turned back to the youth village and launched a sneak attack on the Soviet command here. Although it was impossible for four wheeled battalions and several thousand cavalry to sneak up on a heavily protected corps headquarters, they managed to bite off an entire regiment of Kachalov's troops on the periphery, and finally blew up the railroad again. When the Soviet troops gathered troops and tried to surround the wheeled armored battalion and the cavalry of the 1st Kazakh Independent Division, they found that the other side had already disappeared at night.

By four o'clock in the morning, a truck motorized infantry regiment and a 155-mm heavy artillery battalion of the Seventh Army, which had rushed from Balkhash, finally arrived in Kyzylorda, and even 33 tanks left behind by Zhao Dengyu caught up with the last train, which made Zhuo Fan, who had suffered serious losses in troops, breathe a sigh of relief. But before he could work out the next battle plan for cutting the encirclement, Kacharov, who learned that a large number of trucks had arrived, decisively abandoned the plan. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, a pontoon bridge was erected to cross the Syr Darya River from the youth village in an attempt to cross the Kyzylkum desert to Urgench in the Republic of Karakalpakstan. His sudden retreat made Zhuo Fan, Zhao Dengyu and others, who had been given a fresh force and were ready to do a big job, very depressed, they didn't expect the enemy to run so simply. But when I think about it, I can guess why Kacharov didn't fight. In two days and two nights, countless soldiers were lost, more than 300 tanks were eaten, and the main force of the opponent was also moving south at high speed. Although the hot-tempered Zhao Dengyu asked to lead troops to pursue, Zhuo Fan finally gave up. It's not that he doesn't want to eat the Kachalov Ministry. However, in the two-day blocking battle, the assault brigade had already lost more than half, and even Zhao Dengyu's second regiment was not completely overhauled, and the embarrassment of a large area of tanks once again appeared.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the belated bomber group from Balkhash finally arrived, and 118 H-5 aviation squadrons in conjunction with Kyzylorda launched the last wave of bombing against the Soviet troops. Having just crossed the Syr Darya River into the desert, Kacharov could not find any shelter to hide, and nearly 400 tons of bombs cost Kacharov several more battalions, as well as dozens of trucks and armored vehicles destroyed by the cannons of the fighters who arrived later. The wheeled armored battalions and the Kazakh cavalry, which had been moving behind the Soviet troops, also took the opportunity to attack, but because the Soviet troops had already prepared, the effect was not great.

As the reconnaissance plane reported that the Kacharov division had entered the desert, Zhuo Fan stopped all operations and ordered the battlefield to be cleared, and at the same time sent a report of the results of the Kyzylorda blockade to the Almaty command. In three days and three nights from the time of landing. More than 4,000 officers and men of the assault brigade, the Falcon Brigade and the various support units that arrived afterwards took part in the blocking battle, destroying 237 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 500 artillery pieces of various types, and 137 aircraft. 2 armoured trains, and a large number of weapons and baggage, including 7 T-34s, were also captured. More than 5,000 Soviet troops were killed, more than 2,000 wounded soldiers who were badly burned died a few days later, and 2,000 were taken prisoner. According to the report of the reconnaissance aircraft. The Kachalov division also took with it many lightly wounded when it retreated. In this way, there were about 150,000 Soviet casualties in the three days of fighting. And the Wehrmacht, which participated in the interdiction battle, also suffered considerable losses. There were 2,141 casualties among soldiers, of which up to 877 were killed, 61 tanks and armored vehicles were lost, and 17 aircraft were lost. Two separate Kazakh divisions also suffered 3,000 casualties, as well as the deaths of at least 1,300 Kazakh volunteers who volunteered to stay behind and Kazakh citizens who did not evacuate in time.

For both the attacking Soviet forces and the defending Wehrmacht, the small and short Kizylorda offensive and defensive battles were of great significance. In particular, Zhuo Fan's tactics such as using crude tools such as narrow streets and incendiary bombs against tanks, and weaving nets of fire with carefully calculated machine guns and rapid-fire weapons became the standard tactics of urban warfare in various countries in the future. The "heavy artillery sweeping" tactics adopted by Kacharov were also quickly captured by the Wehrmacht, and the Zhengzhou Industrial Company immediately launched targeted research, and modified a special urban barrier-breaking gun on the Type 36 chassis, named the Type 38 L20/210mm "Mountain Opening Cannon", and then launched a stronger Type 41 "City Sweeper" with a 305mm short mortar gun.

By the afternoon of the same day, Li Zongren personally led two divisions of the Seventh Army and a 30-man field photography team to Kyzylorda and, in cooperation with Zhezkazigan's troops, completely closed the northern gate of the Aral Sea. At the same time, the Airborne Forces and the 29th Army, which was moving south under the starry night, also took Turkestan without blood, and also routed the Soviet Uzbek Front in Shymkent and captured the city. With the successive victories of Shymkent and Kyzylorda, the two-month Kazakh war in Central Asia was officially declared over. Xu Shuzheng also suggested that the Kazakh Army Group cooperate with the Andijan Army to attack Tashkent, but in the end, because the weather was getting colder and colder, Tashkent was a real fortress again, and the Kazakh Army had been fighting continuously for two months, so Yang Qiu and the General Staff Department decisively stopped the ground offensive. The 33rd Infantry Corps, which was originally prepared to support the Andijan Group Army, was also transferred to Afghanistan to rush to the aid of Sun Chuanfang's Central Asian Army, which was underarmed.

What is hilarious is that for the sake of publicity, Zhuo Fan had to cooperate with the war photography team to set fire again in the ruins in the southeast of the city, and also asked the soldiers who were celebrating the victory in the Syr Darya Winter Swim to put on dirty clothes again, smeared their hands and feet and faces with scorched ash, drenched with ox blood, and finally rushed into the "battlefield" to show no fear of blood and fire. An epic picture of bravely killing the enemy and saving the people of Central Asia.

Only a week after the defeat of East Kazakhstan, Stalin was furious with the news that Kyzylorda had been blocked, and directly demoted Voroshilov, the chief of the General Staff who proposed to let Kacharov lead his troops to Lugin's aid, and Kulik, who had fled back, to captains, and sent them to the Baltic Naval District as company commanders, and also dismissed Apanashchenko from his post as commander-in-chief and drove him to Uzbekistan to serve as commander of the Front. Surprisingly, Lukin, who had escaped before the Wehrmacht completed the siege, was appointed commander-in-chief of the new Kazakh Front, Vlasov became deputy commander and chief of staff, and finally Rokossovsky was appointed commander-in-chief of the Chelyabinsk Reserve Army. Responsible for supporting Zhukov and Lukin.

Later, when the troika of Zhukov, Lukin and Rokossovsky, which ran through the entire war, was formally formed, Stalin ordered the early evacuation of high-ranking officials and pro-Soviet figures in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in view of the embarrassment of Skovolsov and other high-ranking Kazakhs, and finally scolded Beria and sent Zhdanov to Ukraine, Ufa and Chelyabinsk. supervised the production of T-34 tanks on the spot, demanded that the production be increased to 1,500 units per month before the arrival of the spring of 40, and asked Kalinin to supervise the manufacture of IL2 and other aircraft, while he himself personally grasped the development of weapons, hoping to find new equipment to deal with Type 36 tanks and air supremacy as soon as possible.

Despite Stalin's series of adjustments, the Soviets still faced many problems. From Pavlodar to Kyzylorda, the Kazakh salient divided the eastern theater into two parts. On one side was the northern front, led by the troika. On one side was the southern front led by Apanashchenko, which seriously lacked cohesion. And Uzbekistan and Siberia are like open arms, which, although on the surface they can pincer Kazakhstan, in fact form a very dangerously cantilevered state. If Siberia can still be held because of a string of fortified cities such as Barnaul, vast depth, and muddy road restrictions. Then Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, which are almost all flat deserts, are very easily truncated. In particular, the loss of Kyzylorda has made the Wehrmacht's forces directly aimed at the Republic of Karakalpakstan, which connects the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea, and the unfavorable situation in Iran is already very dangerous. Therefore, Zhukov and others suggested simply abandoning the southern front and completely shrinking the Republic of Karakalpakstan. But the stubborn Stalin rejected all ideas of giving up the territory and let Kacharov's 29th Army stop at Urgench. Chuikov's Fifth Army was also transferred from Belarus to form the Karakalpakstan Front, which crossed directly from Baku via the Caspian Sea route to reduce the pressure on the southern railway, which was affected by bad weather.

Although Stalin's plan to take advantage of the cold weather to sneak attack and then hold the line was broken, the severe cold and bad roads still saved his life, and while he was actively adjusting his preparations for a major counteroffensive after the beginning of spring, Yang Qiu and the General Staff also had to stop ground operations and begin to prepare for next year's spring and summer offensive. In fact, Yang Qiu has a lot of troubles now, first of all, there is a serious lack of railways. Neither East Kazakhstan nor Almaty had direct trains to the front line, which led to the use of trucks and pack horses to maintain supplies on the front line, and if it were not for the capture of a large number of supplies hoarded by the Soviet army, it might have been logistically strained.

So after discussion, he decided to put the prisoners into the construction of the railroad at once, and he was also prepared to lock up all the Soviet immigrants living in the occupied areas, and all the young and middle-aged people who were selected to join the railroad construction team, and the women and the elderly had to work twelve hours a day in the field factories in exchange for food. According to the forecasts of the Ministry of Transport, given that most of the occupied territories are currently flat and that there are roadbeds and railways left over from the Soviet Union, it will be possible to pave the railway from East Kazakhstan to Pavlodar, to Karaganda and Zhezkazgan by May next year at the latest, and to renovate and repair the railway from Almaty to Shymkent and Turkestan via Taraz and finally to the Aral Sea in Kyzylorda, provided that materials and tools are available. The Front Command also decided to take advantage of the winter truce and mobilize local Kazakhs and prisoners of war to immediately start building several wartime railways (narrow gauges, light railways with sleepers and rails laid directly on the ground, with a very low transport volume but larger than the fleet of trucks) to solve the urgent need.

In addition, Yang Qiu also called for the reopening of the Karaganda iron mine and the Balkhash copper mine as soon as possible, and urged Wang Zhengting, the cabinet, and the National Assembly to come up with a comprehensive "Kazakh rejuvenation plan" as soon as possible, and immediately launch a number of small-scale but quick-effective wool spinning, food processing and other small processing plants, so as to maintain stability in the Kazakh occupied territories, and at the same time, it can also make use of local resources, and use practical actions to express to Uzbekistan and other regions that China is not only expelling Soviet forces, but also helping Central Asia to rebuild its determination and ability to sustain its economy.

In the end, at the suggestion of Yue Peng, he also signed the first batch of Central Asian military aid. According to this document, the IDF will first help Kazakhstan establish an interim government that will recruit 300,000 young people from ethnic Kazakhs (including those in the country) and form six armies with a total of 18 independent divisions. Until the end of the war, it was under the unified command of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht and the Theater Command. At the same time, the Chinese government will immediately provide the Kazakh provisional government with an interest-free loan of 500 million yuan for government operations and economic recovery, and purchase at least 500 Serpent fighters and two armored divisions of Type 31 tanks.

After all these arrangements were made, Yang Qiu ordered the announcement of the battle report, and at the same time set off for Xinyang to meet Marshall and his party, who had been waiting for a long time.

A war report that is destined to shock people, and hundreds of newspapers across the country are fighting at night and printing at full speed, and it is about to completely ignite this already turbulent world