The 9th and 10th armies kept up with Yu Lei's troops during the battles of Almaty, Oskemen and Semiy. But their speed is not a little slower than Yu Lei, and the tank troops are advancing at full speed, not faster than Yu Lei's speed, chasing for six or seven hours, and always being left behind by Yu Lei for at least three hours, that is, 100 kilometers away.

At this time, the bearded man and the commander-in-chief, Meretskov, were also very confused, looking at the route of the enemy's army, and the villages and towns that were attacked along the way, they did not want to maneuver and detour, encircle the Eighth Army or make a detour through Almaty, so where are they going?

They were worried that the enemy would suddenly change direction, except for allowing the Ninth and Tenth Armies to continue to pursue the enemy, but they would not be able to deploy troops to intercept them head-on, and they were worried that they would divert the route to surround Almaty's reinforcements, so they placed heavy troops in the middle part and waited for them. However, several hours passed, and the troops who rushed desperately to the strategic points did not wait for the enemy to arrive, but the enemy troops were separated by one or two hundred kilometers from them, and went straight to the west.

It was not until it was confirmed that the enemy had taken Astana in half an hour that the bearded man gave the order that the newly formed 36th Army meet the enemy and let those troops that had been deployed along the way, but the enemy had not arrived, join up with the 9th and 10th armies, march in unison, and pursue the enemy. The troops of the Caucasus Military District were ordered to rush to Orsk to assist the 36th Army in meeting the enemy, using it as a battlefield for the fitness of the enemy, leaving all the enemy whose purpose was unknown, but who had penetrated alone, in that area.

Both of them have reason to believe that the other party's troops are only 100,000 or 200,000 at best, and they are besieged by several times the strength, and no matter how good they are, it will be difficult to escape. Their purpose was extinguished. It doesn't matter what their purpose is.

At this time, Yu Lei's army was in the last resupply, and after they captured the target, the transport troops that followed them also landed in the open space outside the city, trucks, and tanks. They moved quickly, refueled, replenished ammunition, and overhauled vehicles, and in just half an hour, the remaining fuel and ammunition were loaded onto trucks, and while the helicopter transport troops returned, the army was pulled out again.

Yu Lei had already learned that they were followed by an army of no less than 300,000. The distance is more than 100 kilometers, and the flanks do not know the number of roads, but I believe that there will be no less, if they do not move quickly, once the front is blocked, not only will they not be able to achieve the established strategic goal, but they will also fall into a stalemate, and will not be annihilated in the end. It is also a heavy loss.

So, they're in a race against time. In order to widen the distance with the pursuers behind and rush to the established position as soon as possible, on the banks of the Ural River, as soon as the artillery is raised, it is impossible for the enemy to break through the defense line in a short time.

They did not know at this time that the enemy in front of them was a mechanized force, consisting of three divisions. All add up to more than 3,000 tanks and tank artillery vehicles, as well as two cavalry divisions and two infantry divisions.

They were still more than a hundred kilometers apart, and they would meet in an hour.

Dong Ku and Zuo Boyang's in Almaty nervously waited for Yu Lei's arrival. At this time, Almaty went through more than ten hours of intense transportation. With a steady influx of ammunition supplies and more and more fuel, it is estimated that it is no problem to maintain the existing five or six days of the Yu Lei War. With time, the transportation will be accelerated, and as long as these supplies are in place, Boa Zhengyu Lei's army will not fall into the embarrassing situation of running out of ammunition and food.

Helicopters were parked in Almaty one by one, and more than 600 attack planes were hung with auxiliary fuel tanks to ensure a one-way round trip of 600 kilometers, and there was also fuel for combat. They are Yu Lei's guarantee in the most difficult time.

While Dong Ku was waiting nervously, Yu Lei's reconnaissance planes with his army saw the enemy's armored forces after encountering three waves of enemy planes, losing four, and shooting down more than 30 attack planes.

"Armored forces on the other side?"

Yu Lei frowned, and asked in the command car: "How many are you, the other party's model?" ”

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the opponent's armor is no less than two thousand, and T33 and tanks similar to self-propelled guns are mixed."

"Two Thousand ......"

Yu Lei frowned, then ended the call, changed the special channel and ordered: "Crazy Liu, your tank leaves one-third to guard the flanks and assist in the attack, and the rest move closer to me." ”

"Yes!"

Liu Haisong didn't dare to be careless, and quickly ordered to separate the tank and move closer to Yu Lei.

At the same time as Liu Haisong moved, Yu Lei ordered again: "Yu Ke, all your tanks are moving closer to me." ”

"Yes!"

Yu Ke also knew that there must be a situation in Lu Dao, otherwise, Yu Lei would not have transferred all his tanks. After shouting the order, he urgently ordered all the tanks to get out of the direction of travel and approach Yu Lei.

When Yu Lei mobilized his tanks to prepare for the battle, the commander of the 36th Army, Serokov, also saw the enemy's planes, and he knew that the enemy was not far away, so he ordered the troops to stop advancing, sent 200 tanks to reconnoitre, and attracted the enemy's army.

After Dong Ku received Yu Lei's report, he suddenly had a bad feeling. According to Yu Lei's relay, he remembered the Russian army's tank artillery trucks, the kind of direct-aim self-propelled artillery that specializes in dealing with tanks and fortresses.

If the caliber of this gun carriage is more than 100, even if it can't penetrate the tank's armor, it will love you to stun the tanker, or shock it to death.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered: "Order a large group of helicopters to rush to reinforcements!" ”

When the helicopter took off, he gave Yu Lei an order to use the tank as a decoy and shoot with its own propelled artillery, otherwise the damage to the tank would be very large.

Yu Lei frowned when he saw Dong Ku's message, he couldn't stop, once he stopped, the other party's pursuing troops bit it, and it would be difficult to get rid of it.

"Oh yes! You have great artillery, and Lao Tzu has it too! ”

Yu Lei's eyes flashed, and then he ordered: "The self-propelled artillery follows the tank, three kilometers away from the enemy, fires, the tank assaults, all attack aircraft land and refuel, and join the offensive sequence!" ”

He could not fight steadily, in that case he would have to stay for more than an hour, and then he would be overtaken by the enemy who was chasing him, after all, there were still three or four hundred kilometers to reach his destination, the banks of the Urals.

With his order, the self-propelled artillery, which was not intended to follow, also drove out of the fragments, followed behind the tanks, waited for the assembly, and launched a full-line assault.

The 200 tanks sent by Serokov swooped down on Yu Lei's army, which was to determine the enemy's defense and attract the enemy to the tank and artillery positions waiting there.

Tank artillery carts had to stop firing, so they had to build a position or stop while driving to aim. It is also because of this that tank artillery vehicles cannot fire in motion like tanks.

Serokov was very bad, he said that the tanks should be protected on the left and right flanks, blocking the front, and once the enemy tanks appeared, they would get out of the way and give up the attack to the tank artillery trucks, which would definitely deal a heavy blow to the enemy.

Yu Lei no matter how the other party arranges the formation, he must advance quickly, and he must defeat this mecha force on the way forward, not only can not stop, but also kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.

With the gap in the sky transmitted back by the helicopters, they were only two or three kilometers away from the 200 tanks of the Russian army's line head troops.

"A large group of tanks will attack, quickly deal with the opponent, and prepare for a surprise attack!"

Yu Lei calmly ordered.

A large group of 300 tanks, which is the most powerful among Yu Lei's three brigades, after receiving the order, a large group broke away from the marching team and rushed straight to the front.

The helicopters were still following the large army, and it was not appropriate for them to strike now, otherwise they would have to replenish their ammunition, and they would have to wait for the large army behind.

The tank's pounce was discovered by Russian tanks a few minutes later.

"Enemy tanks!!"

The head tank gave a warning, and at the same time, the muzzle of the gun was shifted, aiming at the speeding tank.

The roar of the explosion rose in the rolling snow waves, and in the light of the fire, the shells roared straight at the tanks on the opposite side.

The tank on the opposite side ignored it at all, and continued to move at full speed, with the meaning of a direct crash.

The rapid pounce of the tanks continued to burst into flames, and the rapid movement of the tanks made most of the shells miss, and the few that hit the turret were only a cloud of fireworks, and the tanks were still rolling and moving, unaffected.

This......

All the moments when they saw that the enemy tanks had been shot, but they were not damaged in the slightest, they immediately understood how the previous tanks had been destroyed. The enemy's tanks are really not what they and other tanks are capable of.

"Retreat!"

The commander did not hesitate to order, and the tank turned around and was saved, so it retreated at high speed and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

But since they have already opened fire, how could the charging tanks let them go at such a close distance?

Boom!

With a loud bang, the galloping tank fired.

The hit rate of the tanks advancing in bumps was very low, but there was always something that could be hit by covering the shots, and in the loud bang, several backward tanks were blown up, and a raging fire came out.

Seeing that the enemy's tanks could fire during the march, the Russian tanks were terrified, loaded and aimed, not aiming at all, and the bombardment also fired back.

But the T33's marching speed is much slower than that of the T62, more than ten kilometers per hour, in the roaring explosion, the tanks of the advance army approached quickly, and after a few minutes, the muzzles that can be mobilized have locked on to the tanks that are only a few tens of meters away, and one by one they braked sharply, and then spewed out fire with a bang.

In just a few seconds, thirty or forty tanks were hit and caught fire, and one by one they stopped moving, emitting smoke and spewing flames.

"Retreat!!"

"Get out of here!!"

All the tanks shouted inside.

The tanks of the 1st Brigade were also shouting: "Catch up, don't let one go!" ”

Yes, on the snow, the two tank units chased and fled, quickly approaching Serokov's army, and in a few minutes, they could meet each other...... (To be continued......)