Qu Jungang's army had a total of seven divisions, and the actual establishment was that of a mechanized division in later generations, carrying 1,000 self-propelled artillery pieces of 200 calibers, seven tank regiments, and a total of 800 tanks. There were 1,500 armored vehicles, 2,000 infantry vehicles, all transported by converted chain-track trucks, and seven snowboard regiments, which were convenient for snowshoe-hiking raids and reconnaissance. There are four anti-aircraft artillery regiments, carrying modified chain-rail self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, providing support for the air defense of the fortified positions.

Behind them, there were the transport troops and infantry who cut down the wood, opened the transport routes, and transported large artillery, and took over their occupation of the city and the deployment of defenses along the way. Five hundred howitzers of 200 caliber have also entered the border, and one by one the big trees are falling, heading in the direction of Novokuznetsk.

There, the place they were to take by surprise, and then, leaving behind the defenses, the army would follow the Sayan Mountains along the plains along the Ryljoth River, straight to Novosibirsk, and then rush to Khantymansiysk, blocking the roads and railways in the Ural Mountains, so that the army there could only go around Central Asia.

Within five hours of Zhukov's withdrawal, the dwelling of the flag, and the mess being cleaned up, Qu Jungang's vanguard was already less than 30 kilometers away from Novokuznetsk, and only five or six kilometers from the road, and the mechanized troops could go up to the road.

There were two groups of patrol teams in front of Soviet Russia, and the cavalry of the two companies were quickly sniped by the lightly armed sharp knife troops, and the news was not yet known to the enemy.

Qu Jun had just heard the report from the front that he was approaching the road, and the reconnaissance team that crossed the road saw the town less than 30 kilometers away, and after looking around on the map, he gave the order to make a quick surprise attack and go straight to Novokuznetsk along the road, and at the same time send a telegram to the headquarters. The debriefing is expected to begin the assault within an hour.

Sun Tao received that Qu Jun had just entered the attack position, so he ordered Yu Lei's troops, who had already arrived at the attack position, to prepare for the attack.

Yu Lei's position at this time had already arrived in Gorno-Altaysk, which was only less than one hundred and fifty kilometers from the border, and Yu Lei's army had worn out two battalions of the enemy garrison, as well as two patrol horse teams, which had already approached there. Tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry vehicles all turned off their ignitions and quietly hid in the mountains and forests, looking at the targets in front of them.

Yu Lei's route was to attack Gorno-Altaysk along this side, and then follow the plain, seize two lonely mountains near the Sayan Mountains, and attack villages and towns along the Ob River. Surround Novosibirsk from this side, and form a defensive line fifty kilometers deep with the Qu army, which is convenient for intermediate defense and supply delivery, and each side defends on one side.

With everything ready, Qu Jungang's tank troops rushed straight to Novokuznetsk along the road, along the flat bushes, and at the same time. Yu Lei also launched an attack on Gorno Altaysk.

Tanks, rumbling and raising a snowy fog in the sky. On the white earth, it is like a ship that breaks through the snow waves, riding the wind and waves, and approaching the target.

At this time, Novokuznetsk had an infantry division with the strength of a cavalry regiment, which had just experienced the burning of granaries. The alertness was still quite high, but he did not expect that the enemy had crossed the difficult mountains and arrived at the doorstep.

The tank sped all the way and pounced on the target a few kilometers ahead, along the way. The people of Soviet Russia, who were out looking for food and preparing to survive the bitter cold, watched curiously as the tanks sprayed with numbers and painted with grass green were speeding through the snow. The dense mass of tanks whizzed past them not far away, but none of them thought it was an enemy army, and they all waved their hats happily.

Some of these people carried shotguns, some carried old-fashioned rifles, and some carried prey on their backs, and they did not become the target of the tankers, and they were not worthy of being shot by tanks.

The galloping tanks made the young Soviet Russians on horseback very excited, and with a breath in their mouths, they chased the tank group on the flank and rushed all the way to Novokuznetsk, apparently, taking these tanks as their own troops.

Those who did not move, watching the tanks at the edge of the mountains and forests, the cannons that could run quickly, and the tanks without barrels were about two kilometers apart, chasing the tank group in front, and they had nothing but excitement in their hearts.

Their own steel lions are about to move into the city, and they may get the food that follows the army, and they may not go hungry in winter.

The tanks did not pause all the way, and as they drove in, they had already fanned around the target. This move made the young man chasing the tank feel a strange atmosphere. Shouldn't tanks enter the city in formation? Why is it still spread out?

They slowly reined in the reins of their horses, and they felt a faint sense of unease as they watched the steel behemoths rush towards the city.

"What's that?"

The Russian soldier standing guard on the city wall shouted as he pointed to the snow and mist rolling in the distance.

"Is it cavalry?"

The other soldier said, staring at the black dots in the distance, puzzled.

Attracted by their shouts, the soldiers approached the walls and looked ahead.

In the cold winter sun, they saw small black dots in front of the churning snow mist in the distance, and they guessed.

An ensign raised his binoculars and looked there. He had not received a notice that the friendly troops were coming, and he did not know what this cavalry was here for.

Tank?

He saw the tank at the front end of the snow wave, the grass was green, and the shape was not the slightest difference from the T33.

New tanks again?

He put down the telescope in confusion, and just wanted to report to Lu Shang, suddenly, he saw that after the tank was five or six hundred meters away, one or two of them stopped, and in just a dozen seconds, they formed a big circle.

This is......

The lieutenant felt a little uneasy in his heart, and a sense of crisis made him panic a little.

Before he could finish his thoughts, his sight saw the guns of the tanks move, pointing at the city wall.

Want to fire?

The thought flashed through his mind, and then he saw the light of the fire erupting from there.

"Not good! Take cover!! ”

He shouted, turning back and throwing himself at the phone not far away.

With his shout, the moment the fire flashed in the distance, the roaring sound also reached the ears of the soldiers on the city wall.

"Enemy Attack !!"

The soldiers shouted in panic and quickly searched for concealment.

The moment the second lieutenant threw himself on the phone, the walls shook violently with a loud bang. Rubble flew from the sky, large chunks of the city wall were blown away in the explosion, and the defensive position at the head of the city was completely destroyed in a matter of seconds.

"Enemy attack!! Anti-tank guns! I need anti-tank guns!! ”

The second lieutenant grabbed the phone and screamed in the loud noise, not even bothering to answer what the other person asked.

"Enemy attack!?"

All the Russian troops were stunned, but they would not suspect anything. Because, the violent explosions speak for themselves, the enemy is coming!

"Quick! Get into the ground!! ”

"Quick! Anti-tank guns!! ”

One by one, shouts rang out in the city, and then, in the second round of tank shelling, one by one the anti-tank guns adjusted their muzzles, and then, a loud bang was heard, and one shell after another flew towards the tanks that had begun to move. From the discovery of the enemy to the attack. No more than three minutes before and after.

The roaring explosion made the eyes of the Soviet Russian youths chasing the tanks widen in horror one by one, and then the horses were frightened by the rumbling cannons, and they all went around, and even threw the owner on their back directly on the snow and fled alone.

As they fled, shells fell around the moving tank, and with a loud bang, they lifted up streams of frozen soil fragments. The snow and fog rolled and stirred, making visibility almost non-existent. It's white.

While!

With a crisp sound, a shell hit a high-speed tank, and before the cannon could be fired, it shouted excitedly, and then with a bang, the shell slipped and exploded, not penetrating the armor as expected.

"Huh!?"

Several people were a little silly when they watched this scene. The shell hit the tank and even slipped to the side.

Where do they know the way? This trapezoidal angle design of the armor, not to mention the thickness of the T62 armor, this design alone makes the beam energy of the armor-piercing projectile explode and cannot face the armor, and the moment the shell explodes, it has already slid to the side. Or the fuse at the tip of the bullet didn't hit the armor directly at all, but the body of the bullet rubbed against the armor and slipped off to the side before exploding.

After a brief moment of astonishment, the shelling continued. But the tank moved too fast, and every shell fell behind the tank.

The enemy's tanks did not delay in firing their guns during the march, and in the light of the fire, one anti-tank gun after another was destroyed, and a heavy machine gun was blown up, and the defense of the head of the city was wiped out before the tanks could get close.

The Soviet anti-tank guns were not all avoided, and some hit the turret, but after a period of fire, the imaginary picture of the turret being lifted did not appear, and the tank was still straight open, and then the muzzle spewed fire, and then the anti-tank gun that attacked it was destroyed.

As the distance approached, the heavy machine guns on the tank rang out.

Da Da ......

The dense rain of bullets instantly covered the position at the head of the city, and those already dilapidated positions were immediately beaten with sand and gravel, and patches of blood mist drifted in the debris and collapsed in the cold air.

The tank did not hesitate to crash into the city gate in the grenade throws by the remaining Soviet and Russian soldiers at the head of the city, rushed into several gaps in the city wall that had been blown down, and rushed into the city in the midst of the panicked figures in the city.

The Russian soldiers were already red-eyed at this time, and they pounced on the tank with grenades, but the machine guns on the tank continued to strafe, so that most of the charging Soviet and Russian soldiers could not get close to them, and they were smashed by the tongue of fire sprayed on the tank that twisted their bodies back and forth, and the loud roaring sound was also continuous.

In just a few minutes of fighting, the corpses of Russian soldiers were piled up near the city walls. And more figures poured down the streets, trying to block the Iron Lion with a human wall.

But the tanks didn't just rush into the city on their own, and before they could enter the walls of the city for two minutes, armored vehicles roared after them, and then rushed into the gaps.

Their entry shattered the idea of the Russian army approaching the tank and blowing up the tank with a human bomb, there were two heavy machine guns on the armored car, one anti-aircraft machine gun, although the anti-aircraft machine gun was not fired, but the dense bullets of the heavy machine gun blocked the street tightly, so that the enemy could not even get close to ten meters.

With the influx of armored vehicles, followed by infantry vehicles, dense steel behemoths poured into the city.

"Lay down your arms! Civilians return home!! ”

"Lay down your arms and civilians return home!!"

As the infantry vehicles entered, the loudspeakers on several vehicles shouted in Russian over and over again, and the soldiers were killed in the sound of gunfire.

The influx of steel instantly crushed the troops defending the city. They were simply powerless against tanks and could not stop machine-gun fire from tanks and armored vehicles. They couldn't dodge the shots on the infantry vehicles, and those small holes, they didn't have a chance to get close, and they couldn't aim and shoot, let alone throw grenades into them.

With the influx of large quantities of armor, Novokuznetsk became a mess. The crowd of people who ran in a panic heard the shouts and rushed to their homes, and if they remained on the street, they would surely die.

Later, when more armored vehicles and tanks fought fiercely in the city, the entire city was surrounded, and under the muzzle of the gun, those cavalry who tried to leave were beaten and flesh flew around, and they had no choice but to retreat back to the city, bearing the ravages of the steel behemoths in the city.

On the streets, as the fighting intensified, fewer and fewer people fro, and the civilians returned to their homes or hid in other people's homes, while the remaining soldiers remained desperate.

But how could they stop the tanks? Blocking armored vehicles? In less than half an hour, large groups of troops were scattered and most of them were shot in the streets.

"Lockdown the city! Drop your weapon! ”

In the dense gunfire and the explosion of grenades, the loudspeakers continued to sound, so that those stubborn Soviet and Russian soldiers were also shaken. In addition to the civilians, they chose to hide, they could not play a role in the war, and they could not stop the wreaking havoc of the steel beasts, they could only pray, pray for peace.

The battle was so sudden that the whole attack was controlled in the city, and only a small force of armed force was resisting, and in less than an hour before and after, the battle began to weaken, and after only four or five minutes, the gunfire rang out only occasionally.

The barracks had long been occupied and cleared, the soldiers on the infantry vehicles left quickly, the manpower cleared the soldiers who were hiding, those who did not resist, did not kill, as long as they laid down their weapons, they were safe for the time being.

"What?!! The enemy attacked Novokuznetsk!?? ”

Zhukov was shocked when he received the message.

When did the enemy enter the territory, run for 1,200 kilometers, attack towns, and defend the border?

He still came back to his senses, and the telegram that followed made him completely confused.

The message was from another town, Gorno-Altaysk, and they were also attacked by the enemy, and in a few minutes the enemy rushed into the city, armed with tanks of all colors, and tanks without artillery. They don't live at all, it's impossible to hold on, and it's unrealistic to escape. They were surrounded by tanks and armored vehicles. (To be continued......)