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At 1 p.m. on 4 December, the gunfire in Kyzylorda gradually subsided.

Whether it was Operation Barbarossa in history or Yang Qiu's Talas Plan, the Soviet army continued to use the European war period, piling up a large number of troops on the front line, so that the tactical arrangement of lack of in-depth protection was beaten to the ground. With the formation of a huge salient in Eastern Kazakhstan, places such as South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan fell into passivity. To make matters worse, Central Asia is not Europe with developed railway communications, and before the war, the Soviet Union had only two railways into the area east of the Aral Sea, and according to the calculation that each railway supported four to five army groups, it could only support about two million troops. Now that the Pavlodar point has been cut off, the needs of such a vast battlefield cannot be sustained by the southern railway of the Caspian Sea alone. So even a lightly armored brigade is not something that two rear second-line infantry regiments can withstand. In particular, the Falcon commando team's sneak attack on the airfield from the sky made the Soviet army lose the confidence to continue to resist, and when it was learned that the Kazakh cavalry division had changed course and crossed the Syr Darya River, the two infantry regiments did not even care about the internal affairs troops in the city, and abandoned them to try to break through in the direction of the Aral Sea.

Beria was very troublesome, Qin Jian and Kuibyshev reunited the Cheka less than three years after their defection, but the internal affairs troops were too cleansed, so their combat effectiveness was far from comparable to the era of "Ivanmir", but the madness did not diminish at all.

Five T-27 tanks belonging to the Soviet Interior Army, a relatively rare light tank that had inflicted heavy damage on the Kazakh and Central Asian peoples, had been destroyed by the Type 25's 40-mm armor-piercing shells, leaving only a skeleton scorched. As one of the most important targets, the Kazakh cavalry division, immediately after crossing the Syr Darya, launched a fierce assault on the Cheka Kazakh office, due to the lack of offensive firepower. In the end, Zhuo Fan heard the news and transferred four Type 25 tanks and two half-track assault vehicles, and after continuous bombardment with 105 mm cannons, the soldiers of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs were wiped out by the Kazakh cavalry.

"Kill them, kill them!"

By the time the Falcon commandos arrived and loaded a large amount of top-secret information onto trucks to be transported, the Kazakh cavalry had already unearthed the surviving Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs and Cheka soldiers, and had also arrested a large number of officials and immigrants from the Soviet Union. As the gunfire died down, the Kazakhs who were hiding at home came out of the house when they saw the cattle and sheep being snatched. Thousands of Kazakhs vented their century-old anger by forcing them to collectivize and encroach on vast fields of land, punching and kicking hundreds of prisoners.

"Zhuo Fan." Seeing a large number of ordinary Soviet immigrants being pulled out and beaten to death, Ye Zishan wanted to go up and persuade him. But Zhuo Fan grabbed him. "Let them vent, their resentment against the USSR is too deep." Besides, you can't stop all of this kind of thing if you stop it once. If we want to enter Central Asia, the USSR will have to withdraw, not only military-political, but also chemical and emigration! Both Sovietization and Slavization had to be thoroughly cleaned up by this means. It's better for them to do it than for us to do it ourselves. ”

He was right, the Talas plan included a plan to ban or deport immigrants who did not belong to Central Asia after the war. Therefore, as long as the results of this battle are officially announced, the Central Asian nations, including Kazakhstan, will inevitably set off a raging wave of independence movements. If they want to be independent, they must dissociate themselves from the Soviet Union, so this kind of thing will only increase. The scale will also get bigger and bigger. It may not be long before 3 million Slavs and other ethnic groups of the Soviet Union throughout Central Asia will be imprisoned in prisoner of war camps or deported under various names.

"Let's go, we're running out of time." Zhuo Fan took Ye Zishan away, and they really didn't have much time now. Intelligence agents have already sent back messages from Turkestan. Having learned of the attack on Kyzylorda, the commander of the 29th Army of the Soviet Reserve in Turkestan, Lieutenant General Kacharov, had already decided to set off immediately. The vanguard could arrive at midnight at the latest. Therefore, after returning to the temporary headquarters at the airport, Zhuo Fan immediately handed over the task of pursuing the remnants of the Soviet army to the commander of the Kazakh cavalry division, Alesik. This is an officer who secretly went to study at the country's military academy ten years ago and is now one of the members of the executive committee of the Kazakh National Socialist Party. He also asked Alesik and the 1st Kazakh Separate Cavalry Division to send the captured Soviets and immigrants to the salt marshes, where there was no fresh water and horses, and ordinary people could not get out of it on their feet.

In the face of 60,000 Soviet troops, on the Great Plains, where there was no danger to defend, cities were the only effective blocking positions. Therefore, Zhuo Fan also ordered the immediate evacuation of the city's 150,000 residents, organized the Kazakh Volunteer Army, and collected all weapons for use.

After dealing with these, the first reinforcements finally arrived.

In addition to two infantry companies, the first support was mainly aircraft. The arrival of 4 double-headed Jiao Night Combat types, 16 Thunderbolts, 20 Snake B, and 12 ghost car dive bombers quickly set up an air umbrella for Kyzylorda. Due to the poor aviation gasoline in the Soviet Union, in order to maintain ammunition and fuel consumption, the headquarters also specially sent two special oil carriers modified with the H-7 and eight Yun-10. A full 20 tons of high-grade aviation gasoline and 32 tons of ammunition have solved the problems of low fuel marking and mismatch of ammunition standards in the seized fuel.

By the time he finished eating, the infantry battalion in Zhuo Fan's hands had increased to four. What really pleased him was the enthusiasm of the Kazakhs, who had joined the Volunteers in just one afternoon, and many of whom were arriving with their horses from the Aral Sea and the surrounding settlements after hearing the news. In the end, he simply asked the command to reorganize it into the 2nd Kazakh Independent Division. Because Lukin took with him a lot of highly mobile Cossack cavalry when he fled, he was worried that he would come over to meet him at this time, so he let the wheeled armored battalion, which was not very useful in the four positional blockades, lead the Kazakh Second Independent Division to protect the rear, and at the same time be responsible for collecting young people who were willing to join the Kazakh Second Independent Division, and using guerrilla tactics to contain the Soviet attack.

Zhuo Fan was not an arrogant person, and he did not want to throw the enthusiastic Kazakhs into the arduous resistance battle too early and destroy the anti-Soviet enthusiasm that had been gathered so hard. So four infantry battalions, a half-track armored battalion and a tank company, could not hold it in any case. Just when he was worried, the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division, which had been on the road continuously, finally arrived at 8 o'clock in the evening. But what made everyone dumbfounded was that Commander Zhao Dengyu, who was carrying a big knife, only brought 11 Type 36 and 32 Type 31, and there were 6 lying nests as soon as they arrived here. "Head Zhao. This is your regiment? Ye Zishan wondered, a standard armored regiment of the Wehrmacht is 118 tanks, and the predecessor of the Seventh Armored Division was the Fifth Independent Armored Brigade formed after the new military reform in 1920, not a new unit, so even if there were losses in the previous battle, it was not so miserable, right?

The heavy blade was placed on the table, and everyone felt a chill. What era is it? Who would take a broadsword to drill into the best tank in the world at the moment? The bayonet on the muzzle of the gun means to fight at close range, not to cut people with a knife! Zhao Dengyu doesn't care about other people's opinions, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. At the age of eight, he never left his body, even if he became the commander of the armored regiment, he was reluctant to throw away this habit, and even Li Zongren had said that he had said many times, but he just couldn't change it. Fortunately, he also knows that times are different. There was no requirement for a soldier to learn to carry a knife, otherwise there would have been a broadsword armored regiment in the Wehrmacht.

After picking up the teapot and pouring it vigorously, Zhao Dengyu explained. It turned out that when he got the news, the troops had already traveled more than 70 kilometers in a row. You know, even the best Type 36 tank has a maintenance interval of only about two hundred kilometers. Previously, the First Army had attacked Karaganda in order to avoid reconnaissance in order to take a long detour. Running 240 kilometers in one night is already the limit of the limit! This time, he ran 400 kilometers in a row, which directly caused more than half of the tanks to lie on the road, and in order to hurry, he had to leave the tanks lying behind. I took the one in better condition, ran all the way and repaired all the way, and finally didn't lose time. But after this continuous tossing, not only did the armored soldiers toss up and down. The 43 tanks that arrived must also be overhauled immediately, otherwise the root will not be able to fight.

"I can't help it. Lieutenant Colonel. How many mechanics do you have here? Give it all to me. If you don't overhaul it quickly, I'm afraid it will delay the big thing. "It is impossible to complete the overhaul of dozens of tanks in a few hours, but now it is not a tank battle, and a small-scale maneuver as a support point can still be barely completed, so Zhuo Fan asked people to arrange for tank soldiers to rest, and handed over all the mechanic forces that could be collected in his hands to the 2nd regiment.

When Zhao Dengyu wiped the corners of his mouth and took away the two mechanic companies, an explosion came from the International Youth Village, 20 kilometers away.

After collectivization, many youth villages and international villages appeared in Kazakhstan, and these villages were actually collectivized farms. After arriving here, the assault brigade established a defensive line in the woods to the west, and with the cooperation of the Kazakh cavalry division, evacuated the entire village and dug up the railway. Although it was handled properly, the battle was fierce.

Although Kachalov's 29th Reserve Army was a reserve army, the Soviets deployed several armored trains in Turkestan, and the retreat of these armored trains was used as a striker.

Eight 76-mm guns from two armored trains constantly bombarded the forest, and Kacharov also threw in 20 BT tanks and more than a thousand infantry in an attempt to pull out the nail. Under the cover of machine guns and artillery, the railroad soldiers on the train also lifted out the steel rails stored on the train, trying to repair the railway and continue to move forward. Although Zhuo Fan's two Type 25 tank platoons deployed here tried their best to block it, they still couldn't completely block the rails from being paved one by one. At this critical juncture, two Y-3 gunboats played a huge role, constantly dropping flares to guide the way, and also firing heavily with machine guns and 40mm grenades on the ground.

Guided by flares, the dive bombers that arrived to support quickly blew up the two armored trains. Without the artillery and anti-aircraft artillery support on the train, the Soviets were unable to stop the attack of the Yunsan gunboats, and had to leave a large number of corpses behind at 3 a.m. and temporarily retreat. But soon, with the arrival of Kachalov's main forces, especially after the T-34 tank regiment, which arrived not so long ago, was thrown into battle, and the 40-mm grenades on the gunboat aircraft could not destroy these fast targets, the troops had to abandon the youth village and retreat.

Kachalov also knew that he must not be dragged here, and in the face of an open field behind the forest, he directly threw in more than 100 tanks, and when the sky gradually brightened, he also threw in more than 80 planes in one go. The Soviet pilots now know very well that their current equipment will not be able to stop the opponent no matter what, so the pilot's goal is very clear, that is, to fight to the death, use the number to drag the opponent, and buy time for the ground forces. Therefore, after many planes arrive on the battlefield, the first thing they think about is not to shoot down, but to directly hit them with full horsepower. This crazy tactic really worked, and three Snake B and one Thunderbolt that were covering the ground were crashed and destroyed. However, after the Kizil Odar combat squadron changed its tactics and took the initiative to distance itself to avoid fighting, the Soviet pilots were blinded and 31 were shot down in just one morning.

Battles on the ground are more intense than in the air. Since there was no danger to defend, and the tanks of the 2nd Regiment were not all repaired, the 10 half-track assault guns, which were the main force supporting the defensive line, assumed the responsibility of blocking the first round.

In order to make up for the disadvantage of insufficient armor and unfavorable terrain, the assault squad first dug a large hole in the ground, and then drove the half-track into it with only the barrel exposed, reducing the probability of being hit, and then firing fiercely at the charging Soviet tank.

The 105-mm cannon is incredibly powerful, and it can destroy all BT tanks and T-26 tanks except the T-34 from a distance of 1 km, so there are constantly tanks hit by them and exploding, and even the T-34 cannot withstand the power of 105-mm armor-piercing shells after rushing into 600 meters. In this round of bloody blockade, a gunner named Wu Hu and his squad set a record for assault artillery single-vehicle blockade, destroying 15 Soviet tanks in a row in less than 30 minutes, and when the Kizilorda blockade was over, he and his artillery squad completed the feat of 27 vehicles!

Of course, the loss of the assault artillery squad was also very serious, because the Soviet army had too many tanks, and it was a large plain that could not be defended, so when the planes refueled and came back to support, 7 had already been destroyed, and Zhuo Fan had to order the air force to block and let the remaining half-track assault guns all withdraw to the city.

By the time the troops withdrew to the city, nearly half of the two battalions, 20 tanks and half-track assault guns had been lost. At this time, a good news came, Xu Shuzheng decisively seized the opportunity of Kacharov's whole army to parachute the two airborne regiments directly to the outskirts of Kentau, east of Turkestan. Because most of the troops were taken away, the airborne landing went very smoothly, and field airfields were soon established.

Since the main forces began to move westward, it was no longer realistic to retract Turkestan, so Kacharov, who was facing encirclement, simply ordered to abandon Kentau and Turkestan, blow up the supplies, and then storm Kyzylorda with all his might. In order not to be dragged back, he, like all officers of his age, made the grave mistake of throwing all the remaining armored forces in his hands into the siege of the city.

"For Stalin, for the USSR, attack!"

More than 200 tanks covered more than 10,000 infantry, and under the slogan of the overseer, they poured into Kyzylorda