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A violent blow began on all fronts, leaving Gorelenko breathless. At the moment when the news came, the airfield had been bombed by enemy planes, and the defensive positions set up in layers failed to stop the enemy's footsteps, and the airfield did not become a sea of fire, but including the hangar, it was also pierced by solid shells, and many planes were destroyed before they could leave the hangar.

The dense rain of bullets killed and injured people, resulting in no damage to the runway, without delaying take-off and landing, but people were gone. Even the command center was riddled with holes by dense steel bullets, and the half-meter-thick cement bunker was constantly knocked and broken, and it was open everywhere.

The enemy is not aiming to destroy the airfield, but to kill and injure!

Gorelenko keenly captured this information. The enemy will not be without high-explosive high-power bombs, just not used, purely killing.

This thought flashed, and he instantly understood the enemy's intentions, shelling, exchanging shells for lives, instead of trying to advance quickly, melee strangulation, obviously using strength to accumulate the vitality of this side and reduce his own casualties.

Zhan Dan, who was used in the repeated shelling, estimated that it was not too much to transport it by wagons, and the bombardment of four or five hours would probably cost thousands of tons or tens of thousands of tons of shells.

Not to mention the number of people killed and injured by shells, this strength alone is not something he can resist now. Once the enemy launched an attack on all fronts, and the positions were all destroyed and there was no cover, he had no optimism that he would be able to stop the enemy's slaughter.

Thinking of this, Gorelenko did not care that the airfield was being bombed, but urgently reported it, speaking out his judgment, and the enemy shelled all the lines. Their general offensive is about to begin.

Receiving the telegram, Commander-in-Chief Meretskov also agreed with his judgment. The enemy is to use artillery shells to cross the defensive line, and then attack on all fronts with sharp armored forces. And at present, the armed forces in Gorelenko's hands have no chance of winning against the other side in the absence of positions.

He is a rare elite in Soviet Russia, a trained soldier, not a recruit. The enemy's intention was clearly to kill and consume this elite. Once the army there is lost, it will be devastating for the situation.

He didn't dare to slack off, and quickly reported the situation to the bearded man, so that the bearded man decided.

The bearded man received a report from the front and urgently studied with the generals of the think tank, and they found that Gorelenko's judgment was indeed correct, and the other side could destroy the Tashkent airport with high-explosive bombs for safety. But the intensive bombing that took great pains did not inflict a devastating blow on the main body of the building, did not destroy the airport runway, but only to kill people.

As for the artillery positions, all the areas after the shelling were withdrawn from the positions late, the formation of the troops disappeared, and the artillery bombardment lasted for just a few hours. Three divisions had already filled the Syr Darya River, and the positions were gone.

As for taking it back. That was unrealistic, the enemy's armored forces did not move at all, and it seemed that they would wait for all the lines of defense to be destroyed before launching a general offensive against the troops without cover.

This can be seen from the fact that the enemy artillery began to bombard the positions on both sides of the gap on the east bank of the Syr Darya River, not just to tear the gap.

According to common sense. Open the breach, the army swarms in, carries out a quick breakthrough strangulation, and occupies one target after another. But they didn't, maybe. It is to use absolute overwhelming armored forces, without cover, to strangle on all fronts.

After all, their own artillery cannot hit their artillery positions, but the threat to tanks and armored vehicles is not small, so the enemy, in order to avoid losses in the assault, will make such a move, destroying all positions and clearing the way for the advance of tanks and armored vehicles.

But knowing the other party's intentions, retreating is a problem. Withdraw and retreat, where is the retreat? Moreover, the troops in the Aral Sea are a springboard for the counteroffensive, and if they are lost, it will add endless difficulties to the counteroffensive, at least it is impossible for the Caspian Sea to have troops join the attack sequence, and the sea surface is an absolute forbidden area.

According to the report just received, the range of the enemy's artillery fire exceeded the estimates, reaching 40 km, which is not at all the limit range of 30 km. In other words, once the defense line on this side of the Caspian Sea is lost, the enemy's artillery will directly bombard the ships and warships in the sea, and it will be impossible for them to cross the 40-kilometer death zone and attack the coast.

But without retreating, once the enemy launches a general attack, what will they use to resist? At present, they have no way at all in the current air supremacy and artillery bombardment, and the ground forces cannot even use one-tenth of their strength, so how can they block the enemy's general attack?

They were entangled, and Dong Ku did not stop shelling. Junzi's army continued to advance north and south along the scattered defense line of the Syr Darya River, so that the opening was wider, so that the armored troops could enter more positions on this side of the riverbank, and prepare to cross the river on the whole line.

There is no doubt that the enemy will blow up the ice on the river. They did this in Hulin, so Dong Ku would do this, allowing the enemy to withdraw from the defense line by himself and reduce the losses of the troops. These are veterans who have become tigers and wolves, and the real confrontation has not yet come, and their casualties will consume their strength.

And Dong Ku's goal is not just to occupy this place and drill wells for oil production. After a few days of studying with Zuo Boyang and Liu Chengcheng, his eyes have been opened to prepare for a bigger war.

He will not invade, but he must have strength to protect himself, and he will not give up this piece of Central Asia, which was originally China's land, but it was occupied by Tsarist Russia. Including the Tien Shan Mountains, including Kashgar Lake.

He knew history and knew that World War II would come sooner or later, and he was not the fuse of World War II, but Lao Xi was sure of attacking Soviet Russia. And to occupy this piece himself, the position where Lilaoch wants to attack is not far away, that is, Baku, the Caucasus region. And once he starts to extract oil here, after the news leaks, the powers may not have the opportunity to cross the desert to attack, but Lao Xi will take advantage of the situation to cross the Volga River and fight the Ural River.

After all, Lao Xi's current Tiger tank appeared a few years earlier than history, and the aircraft still has a zero-type enlightenment, which makes the strength of the bearded man farther away from Lao Xi, once Lao Xi advances, the bearded man has little chance to resist. And once Lao Xi expands, he will not necessarily take into account the threat of weapons companies and attack lands that do not belong to China. That is, the position he is currently attacking, and he may not be able to shrink back.

And in this battle, Dong Ku wants to let his strength be partially destroyed by the outside world, at least let the outside world know that he occupied Siberia in a very easy situation. Occupied Central Asia, occupied the Aral Sea.

After all, there are borders with other countries, and the smoke of war will blow to their borders, so that news will no longer be blocked.

Dong Ku's idea was right, at this time, although Afghanistan was pro-Soviet, it was a sovereign and independent country that still maintained its sovereignty and independence after defeating British aggression. They already smelled the Aral Sea battle on the border, constantly sending scouts to infiltrate the Aral Sea area, trying to gather information about the fighting. In order to ensure that their territory is not affected by the flames of war.

Although it is very barren, Afghanistan is one of the few countries in the world with rich mineral deposits, especially copper, iron ore, lithium ore, oil and gas and other strategic material deposits. It's just that no one is mining at this time. But the British and Soviet Union's struggle for colonial rights here kept the freedom-hungry people from the ground unyielding. Although very backward, for the taste of war. They were very sensitive, and the smoke of the battle in the Aral Sea drifted to the border. They're starting to plan ahead.

Soviet Russia did not allow the foreign powers to enter some of their sensitive areas, and they did a very good job of preventing spies and the like, which also led to their great war with the advance army, the loss of Siberia, and the loss of Central Asia without being known to the outside world.

However, because of the sensitivity of Afghanistan. Their great battle near the Aral Sea was shelled at Dongku, and they would soon be known to the outside world. Although the details of the road are not known, the advance army has reached the Caspian Sea and attacked the Volga River, which will be known by the world world.

That's enough. The advance army is armed in one place, and the Japanese who are fighting are now cowering. Having lost most of the occupied lands, the polar bears of the Red regime, which were now feared by the great powers, and in just over a month, broke through to the Caspian Sea, is enough to show the strength of the advance army.

The oppression caused by the constant shelling has forced the Russian army to face the status quo. They all knew very well that the advance army was a show of strength and a gesture to break through the defense line with hundreds of thousands of troops in the shortest possible time, occupy the territory east of the Caspian Sea in one fell swoop, and prepare for the attack on Baku.

The Aral Sea is more important than the Caucasus. Once the Caucasus is lost, the bearded ones dare not imagine, will they still have a chance to turn the tables?

In just over an hour of urgent consultations, Gorelenko's report was approved by the bearded men. That is, to withdraw troops, to guard the Caspian coast, to protect the Urals, to protect the Volga, and to avoid the loss of the elite in the Aral Sea battlefield.

They could not stop the advance army's attack, and the troops there in the Aral Sea could not stop the advance army's killing. Rather than die all, it is better to consolidate the defensive line, get a respite, readjust, and continue to fight back again.

The plan soon reached Gorelenko. On the Caspian Sea, ships were full of shuttles, and as long as all the ships that could cross the sea were activated, they rushed to Ki'an to meet the retreating supplies and troops.

Although the Caspian Sea is a large lake, small boats cannot survive the waves, and small boats are not useful, so the boats are slightly larger.

When Gorelenko received the order to retreat, he was not happy, and it was not because he was afraid of death that he submitted the report at that time, but because he had no way to keep the army here alive. This is the elite of Soviet Russia, and the gap in strength will be strangled by the other party, which is unacceptable to him, and he cares more about it than his own death, so he will submit a report on this withdrawal request, and fight to go to military court, and he will also keep the hundreds of thousands of troops here.

The artillery bombardment, as he began to deploy and retreat, was still bombarding, and the advance army, which had already seized air supremacy, did not carry out a large-scale bombardment. The number of enemy anti-aircraft artillery is not small, bombing, wounding the enemy a thousand, self-inflicted losses of eight hundred, loss of pilots, loss of aircraft, for the time being worthless.

Dong Ku did not intend to continue the attack, so there was no need to fight with the enemy. It was enough for him to oppress Soviet Russia and put on a posture that he could eat their army in a day or two. As long as the Russian army understands the intention, wouldn't it be better not to desperately occupy this place? Although he can take this place by storming and leaving tens of thousands of Russian lives, isn't it more cost-effective to not spend the price?

During the artillery bombardment, Qu's army had just occupied the defense line between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea, and the artillery moved forward and did not continue the attack, while the enemy had already retreated 40 kilometers along the entire line, giving way to the previously constructed defense line and building a defense line again in the rear to cover the withdrawal of the troops.

At this time, the Qu army did not know that the enemy had retreated on all fronts, and the Russian army was disabled with a single artillery bombardment. After occupying the defensive line, he ordered his troops to search for all weapons and ammunition in the sandstorm to avoid the sea of grenades, mines, shells and other fires left here in the future. Here, it's their territory. And now it is much easier to clean up than to be buried in sand.

As a result, new products of mine detectors, that is, metal detectors, and magnetic induction tubes were used by the soldiers. They are not battlefield minesweepers, but battlefield sweepers. If this is known to the outside world, it will also praise the wonderful.

After all, more advanced mine detectors have not yet been developed by various countries, and this will only come into being after the start of World War II, when mines are intensively arranged. And this is not high-tech, Dong Ku has already equipped this thing for sappers, but it has never been useful.

However, Dong Ku's mine detector is very sensitive, and the bullet will be sensed from a distance of ten centimeters, so the area it has traveled through is definitely not safe, but it is almost the same.

Dong Ku also did not know that the Russian army had begun to retreat, and his shelling finally stopped in the afternoon. The consumption of shells is still secondary, the life of the barrel, and the cleaning of the ash of the barrel make the shelling have to stop, otherwise, the shells will not pass smoothly due to smoke and unburned gunpowder, which will cause explosions.

The shelling, after five hours, finally stopped. On the banks of the Hill River, the sand and dust make the sky look like evening. It also prevented the advance detachment from seeing the position, but the helicopter saw a large number of ships on the Caspian Sea more than an hour after the artillery fire stopped.

The enemy still needs reinforcements? Or retreat?

These two judgments determine the direction of the next battle. In order to force the Russian army to retreat, Dong Ku consumed one-third of the artillery shells in stock, which was really distressing. If the Russian army withdraws, then he wins, because, in exchange for the lives of his soldiers, these shells are exchanged. It's worth it. And once the enemy increases its troops, then there is no need for shells to be invested here, it is a waste. He also has to force a breakthrough and attack to strangle the enemy.

Soon, the helicopter was scattered, and it was especially important to conduct reconnaissance at high altitude to see what the enemy was moving now.

In less than an hour, before dark, the news came back.

Several ports in the Caspian Sea were crowded, but instead of reinforcements, they were evacuated. Because, the helicopter pilots could not see the teams and supplies leaving the port, only the constant influx of supplies and trucks.

"Great!"

Dong Ku slapped his thigh excitedly. The depletion of shells finally led to the retreat of the enemy army, which meant that the plan could be carried out. (To be continued......)