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The enemy anchored and ambushed the pursuing force at Aktobe Station, and at the same time recaptured Orsk, which made the Russian top brass fully understand the operational intentions of the advance army.

In the Mulin Palace, the repeated defeats made the bearded man completely crazy, and he squinted his eyes and said gloomily: "As far as the current enemy's actions show one point, the enemy's target is not Moscow, but Baku!" ”

"Comrade Stalin, you are talking about the enemy going to attack our oil bases?"

Timoshenko asked inquiringly.

"The enemy is footed at the Aktobi station and is no longer advancing, they are going south across the Volga, bypassing the Caspian Sea is the Caucasus, the advance army has no oil, their target must be Baku!"

The bearded man said categorically.

Everyone looked at the map, and they all confirmed the accuracy of this statement.

Baku, the oil base of Soviet Russia, is also the largest oil field in Asia, it is a place that even the Western powers are hot about, the advance army has no foreign material support, no oil field of its own, they put aside the Japanese army at home, and invade Central Asia on a large scale, but stopped at Aktobe, obviously, its purpose is to gain a firm foothold, and then attack and seize the oil base.

The movement of the advance team was really fast, so fast that all the high-level people were out of breath. Baku must not be lost, although Soviet Russia does not have high-yield and high-tech oil refining equipment, but there are oil fields, equipment will slowly come up, once they lose Baku, it will be difficult for them to turn over.

At this moment, everyone was silent, they knew that they had to make a military operation related to the fortunes of the country, the army was still gathering, but the enemy's attack was too sharp, and the reinforcements did not even cross the Ural River, they were attacked by the enemy's air raids, losing tens of thousands of people and countless baggage. Several battles in Central Asia were crushing defeats. The 7th and 11th armies in Almaty were stagnant and could not get close even thirty kilometers under the superior blows of the opposing artillery.

Oskemen, like Semiy, attacked several times, but were blocked by the enemy's artillery, but the other side had no intention of attacking.

Look at it right in front of you. The enemy is clearly arranged, using Almaty and Oskemen as bait to contain the army, and when Amutobi has a foothold, they will block the Caspian coast, like Novosibirsk, eat the army inside, and then advance.

The oil base was the lifeblood of Soviet Russia, and Stalingrad was there. At the same time, Volgograd was the industrial base of Soviet Russia, where there was no room for loss, and at this time, it was impossible not to work hard.

The bearded man paced back and forth, pondering in silence, and in the middle of a sound, he looked up at all the generals and marshals and said: "We can't retreat, at the moment there are three infantry divisions of the army in Uralsk. Cavalry divisions of two corps, armored units of one corps. The defense was obviously insufficient, and the North and South Caucasus Military Districts increased their forces to protect the Urals, using the Volga as the second line of defense, and building heavy artillery positions on the banks of the Volga River, if the enemy broke through the Urals. Then shell the river and blast the ice. At the same time, the troops in Central Asia remained part of their forces in their original positions to contain the enemy, and the army advanced at full speed towards Amutobi and ate the large army there. Build a defensive line in the Aral Sea, stabilize your position first, block the enemy's westward advance, and accumulate strength before counterattacking! ”

The marshals and generals present also felt that this was the only way, first hold the defensive line, not be attacked by the enemy, and break through the Volga, and then the trouble would be great. The long-range surprise attack of the enemy army in Amutobi is not limited to the amount of ammunition and fuel carried by one to ensure consumption, and the army is constantly attacking, and the lone army there cannot hold out for a few days in the case of being flanked from both sides.

Therefore, the focus of the meeting was how to make the enemy troops in Almaty think that the army was still there, so that Oskemen would not dare to move because of the containment of the army, but Almaty could not withdraw too many troops, otherwise the enemy would besiege all the large troops near Oskemen, and it would be too late to rescue.

The bearded man did not know that Dong Ku was not going to attack the high-level Aiso, it was a densely populated area, and it was also the lifeblood of Soviet Russia, although Baku was the largest oil field in Asia, but Dong Ku's goal was not to take it, once he took Baku, he would definitely fall into the swamp of war and could not get out. And the powers, after they conquered the Caucasus and occupied Baku, an oil base that made their eyes hot, would inevitably intervene.

At this time, although the appeasement policy had not yet taken place, and the Munich conspiracy had not yet begun, Britain and France and other countries would not sit idly by and watch the advance army occupy the Baku oil base and grow stronger.

They will inevitably intervene, either by aid or simply by force. Britain, in particular, is still in full swing at this time, and they will not let the advance army grow, although it is far away from Britain, but the advance army is growing too rapidly, and with the largest oil field in Asia, it will threaten their interests. In particular, the Caucasus has entered Europe, bordering Turkey and Turkey, and they will threaten them in Europe at any time.

However, there are huge reserves of natural gas and oil near the Aral Sea, and at present, they have not been officially explored and exploited by Soviet Russia, and Dongku occupies these places where the desertification is serious, the drought is also very serious, the number of residents is not very large at this time, and it is not the main production base of cotton at present, and the value is not great from a certain point of view.

In particular, Dushanbe, later Tajikistan, has an astonishing reserve of various metals, especially uranium. However, at this time, only some ore layers were discovered, and small-scale mining was not an important mineral base in the CIS as it was in later generations.

Until the value of these areas near the Aral Sea is realized, the Great Powers will not mind if the advance army occupies these barren places and continues the war with Soviet Russia. That's a situation they're happy to see, and it doesn't hurt them to consume anyone.

Dong Ku didn't know that the bearded man had set the Ural River as the first line of defense behind the Ural River, and the Volga River, their mother river, was the second line of defense and the bottom line of the most stubborn back.

He received a report from Yu Lei in the early hours of the morning, reporting that the Russian army that was following was defeated, the amount of fuel and ammunition was huge, the Russian artillery was enough to build a defensive position at a distance of dozens of kilometers, and the machine guns and ammunition were sufficient. And the most interesting thing that interests him the most is the tanks thrown by the Russian army in the rout.

Some of the tanks were abandoned as the helicopters pursued the fleeing tanks and trucks, and it was soon confirmed that the intact tanks were out of gas.

And the enemy troops who fled to Alcarek in the middle threw down four or five hundred tanks, all of which ran out of fuel. But there were plenty of shells and bullets.

The tanks were gathered together by the pursuing troops, and after the supply trucks followed, they were all driven back to Orsk, and by the end of the morning cleaning the battlefield, 780 tanks were intact. The number of shells is that on average, a tank can have thousands of shells, which is enough for several tank battles.

T33 is a transitional version of T34, and the quality is not bad, at least for now, the performance is still good, but the size is smaller, and the caliber of the gun is smaller, but it is not a little stronger than the Japanese 97 tank, and it is not a class.

"Good stuff!"

Dong Ku can't use it though. But these tanks are good things to sell for.

He praised it and ordered: "Tell Yu Lei to let him leave the anti-aircraft machine gun and the Makqin defensive position, and the others, including tanks and some bulky artillery, are all concentrated in Amutobi, and when he gets a firm foothold and transports them back to Mongolia, see if he sells them to Lao Jiang or gives them to Lao Zhao, if Lao Jiang still ignores the Japanese army in Shanxi." Then give it to Lao Zhao. ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the fifth to leave to generate electricity. He added: "Lao Maozi's 81-caliber mortars are also good, there are thousands of them, plus there are 3,000 here, these are not needed, all of them are concentrated, waiting to be transported back." ”

"Yes!"

Number Five was ordered to leave.

Dong Ku looked at the map and said, "There will be no problem with Yu Lei in three days, but you can't be careless." According to the plan, speed up the transportation of supplies, let Yu Lei's combat effectiveness last for at least a month, and bring back those weapons and ammunition that can be loaded into helicopters and enter Mongolia by the way. ”

Zuo Boyang nodded, "Before the soldiers and horses arrived, the grain and grass went first." No matter how fast the enemy's movement is, it will take three days, and the task of the helicopter is to transport artillery shells to Yu Lei, there is no need to worry about bullets, and the fuel of the aircraft must be prepared, otherwise the strength of the air defense will be too weak. ”

Liu Chengcheng stared at the map and did not speak, he was thinking about how to gesture the territory in Central Asia and occupy it as soon as he could use it.

After Dong Ku finished speaking, he also fell into deep thought. So far, one side of this war is going at its own pace, and once Soviet Russia is run over the Ural River, it must not attack the Volga River to avoid causing a backlash from the great powers. And the Soviet Russian army, if it wants to eat it all, will inevitably consume ammunition sharply, and the previous blockade of the Caspian coast will be slowed down?

He was pondering about it, and Liu Chengcheng raised his head and said, "Captain, are you planning to eat all the Russian troops in the encirclement?" ”

Shaking his head, Dong Ku said what he thought just now, he didn't plan to eat all these armies, he didn't want to fall into the swamp of war, after all, there were still Japanese people who hadn't dealt with it, and now he occupied this place not to restore the territory of Temujin's time, but just to cover up the oil fields near the Aral Sea. Of course, it is also to teach the bearded man a lesson, and to recover a little interest from Soviet Russia's years of aggression against China.

"Captain, you are very correct in your thinking, if these large armies are eaten, if we are fully loaded, it will be a month at most, but the Italian and German shells will also consume most of them, so that our strength will be sharply reduced. And now we are fighting for war, using only bullets, artillery shells and tanks, and even those planes that have no oil to take off are thrown in Siberia and Baikal, so it is better to defeat them than to eat them, so that the Russian army can withdraw from the Central Asian and Turkestan Military Districts and give up this area. ”

Dong Ku, Zuo Boyang and the others didn't understand what Liu Yucheng meant, they all looked at him and waited for the following.

Liu Yucheng took a sip of tea and said: "According to the map of Soviet Russia, the towns on the south side of the Ural Mountains are still dense, but there are not many garrisons, at this time the Russian army is mainly defending Almaty and Oskemen, and the infantry just covered by the Qu army should clean up the south side of the Ural Mountains as quickly as possible, link the defense line with Yu Lei, form a circular front, force the Russian army here in Almaty to retreat, avoid being encircled, and in the case of unable to break through Yu Lei's defense line, the army here slowly advances, and the aircraft attack, with 7.62 heavy machine gun bullets, without other ammunition, to drive the enemy across the Caspian Sea, our strategic goal will not be achieved? ”

Dong Ku also had this intention, and he also understood the main intention of Liuluocheng to attack the southern side of the Ural Mountains in a hurry, and Liuluocheng was for the sake of the population. There are a lot of residents there, and if you move quickly, you will be able to retain the population there, but you will manage it......

After listening to Dong Ku's worries, Liu Yucheng couldn't help but smile, "Captain, these people are moving around in winter, cleaning up the party members you mentioned, and before the beginning of spring, the population here will be swapped with the population of Novosibirsk and Belgask, and the population will be disrupted on both sides, the Russians on Belgask's side have accepted the advance army in the past few days, although they are not welcome, but they are not resistant, especially every time they distribute food, they already believe that the advance army will not harm them, and when the time comes, these people will be diverted to the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, People on both sides are mixed, and the effect of word-of-mouth among the people is much faster than what we do for publicity. ”

"Good way!"

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Attacking and capturing are purely two concepts. It's easy to attack, as long as the force is sufficient. As for the occupation, the people's will is the most difficult to get, and it is necessary to guard against the infiltration and backlash of the enemy and the people at any time; once there is a contradiction, it will be very troublesome for management if it intensifies again. If it is suppressed in blood, it can be done, but there is no population in the territory of the advance army, and it is simply not enough to occupy such a vast land, so if these aborigines are gathered, whether they are Russians or other nationalities, as long as they do not resist, it will not be long before they will be assimilated by the advance army, and the prosperity of their lives will also give them no reason to resist.

"Good! Then cut the meat with a knife and pull it slowly! ”

Dong Ku nodded in agreement with Liu Chengcheng's statement. After a brief discussion, the troops of Almaty still did not move, including the Oskemen, and it was hard to hold on for a few more days, and the infantry and artillery that the Qu army had just escorted could be in place in two days at most, and when they arrived in Orsk, the Qu army had just begun to attack the villages and towns on the south side of the Ural Mountains, and built a defensive line under the mountains to resist the attack from the north side of the mountains.

In this way, the pace of the attack slows down, and the bearded man can take a breath, so he doesn't have to fight hard now, otherwise, the fierce battle continues, even if the firepower here is strong, but the man and the machine must always rest.

It's just that Yu Lei's place will slow down the pace of attack, which will cause the pressure on his defense to increase sharply, and the two-sided defense will make it a meat grinder.

However, there are helicopters to deliver supplies, and everyone is not worried that it will be breached, and if the number of shells is sufficient, it will be difficult for the enemy to get close even twenty kilometers, and the attack is even greater, that is, the consumption of shells is larger. (To be continued......)