The arrival of the Siberian cold snap frustrated Dong Ku's previous plan to slowly push the Russian army across the Caspian Sea, and he had to change his battle plan again, launch a general offensive in advance, and take this area before the cold snap arrived. In the smoke cannon season, the helicopter could not take off, and if he did not take it quickly, in the cold temperature, he did not know whether the antifreeze in the road could hold on, and he did not know whether the high-grade gasoline in the road could withstand the severe cold, and the diesel fuel on the 40th, and he did not know whether the road could be hung with wax, so he had to complete the offensive action as soon as possible.

Zuo Boyang and others don't know as much as Dong Ku, and they don't have a concept of the minimum temperature in the birthplace of the cold snap. They could never have imagined that the temperature here would drop suddenly, and the range of more than 10 degrees in one night would be guaranteed to reach more than minus 35 degrees Celsius in three days, and it would be possible to reach 40 degrees Celsius or more. The windy weather that follows will make the temperature even lower, and at that time, locomotives and airplanes will be tested, especially locomotives, whether they can withstand such low temperatures is really unknown. After all, the artificial low ambient temperature is constant, and the low temperature of a vehicle traveling in the cold wind will be a few degrees or even more lower than standing still due to the speed.

But Zuo Boyang and Liu Chengcheng were not opposed to launching a general attack, because the enemy's retreat could not be completed for three days. At this time, the supplies that came to Tashkent have not yet reached the shores of the Caspian Sea, and it is estimated that they will arrive at noon or afternoon at the earliest.

Zuo Boyang put down the telegram given by Dong Ku and said: "Captain, since you want to attack generally, then leave most of the baggage here, leave most of the Soviet Russian soldiers here, and let them have no strength to counterattack in Kaichun." ”

"I agree with that."

Liu Yucheng stood up and said: "Instead of leaving their fire and leaving a chance for their spring counterattack, it is better to extinguish it directly, so that the time for the enemy's counterattack will also be delayed." We've had more time to prepare, and we've got stronger defenses. ”

"In this way, the consumption will be very large, and it will also be a trouble for the inconvenience of transportation when the smoke cannon season enters here."

Dong Ku summed up and continued: "The first thing to solve now is the train, which is concentrated in the territory of the ramp and the locomotive. Arrive in Almaty, let the territory speed up the delivery of supplies to Oskemen, in three days, the smoke cannon will arrive, the offensive, start tonight! ”

After speaking, he came to the map, pointed to the map and ordered: "Inform the army of Junko to cross the river on all lines and go to Dushanbe." Bahara attacks until the border. Order Xing Yuan's army to move now, cross the riverbank, and in tonight's air raid, advance at full speed and go straight to the Caspian Sea. Qu Jungang and Liu Haisong were ordered to advance on all fronts and abandon the villages and towns around the Aral Sea. Rush to a few ports and block all the baggage that hasn't crossed the sea! ”

"Helicopter preparation. The captured high-explosive bombs are not used, but we still use our own steel ball bombs, and we have to bomb in turns, leaving no chance to breathe. ”

"Yes!"

There was a neat roar from the command.

As the order was given, Han Jie and Meng Zhaocheng, who were cleaning up this bank of the Syr Darya, stopped and concentrated their self-propelled artillery. Suddenly launched a bombardment of the opposite riverbank, and when the artillery hit, tanks and armored vehicles directly entered the river and slammed into the opposite bank of the river in the light of fire.

Sudden burst of attack. In the firelight, the tanks were injured on the river bank without waiting for the reinforcements from the other side to arrive, and then the armored vehicles and infantry vehicles rumbled up the river bank, and in less than fifteen minutes before and after, they crossed the Syr Darya River.

Seeing that the enemy had crossed the river, all the defenders here immediately went crazy and rushed forward one after another, trying to regain the lost position.

But they relied on their flesh and blood to block the advance of the tank, which was undoubtedly a fool's dream, and in the fierce strafing fire, they fell on the way to the charge.

A point of breakthrough, the moment the self-propelled artillery immediately crossed the river, the defense line here was also breached.

Junko's army went straight to Dushanbe on the left, and the army in the center also launched a fierce attack on the banks of the river opposite Turkestan.

At the moment when the artillery bombardment began in the middle of the road, the helicopters roared and swooped down on the opponent's position, and in just over 10 minutes, the artillery positions were destroyed one after another, and only one cannon was erected on the position, but the people were all lying on the ground.

The lethality of the steel ball bomb was quite terrifying, and the dense projectiles killed all the Russian troops who were not in the bunker, which was more violent than the machine gun fire.

At the same time as the artillery fire on the opposite side stopped, tanks and self-propelled guns, armored vehicles, infantry vehicles entered the ice one after another, and under the futile strafing fire of the opposite machine guns, pounced on the opposite bank.

At this time, night is about to fall, and in the dusk sunset, the flames of war suddenly ignited, which caught the Russian army off guard. After receiving the news that the enemy had begun a surprise attack, Mei Oh and Gorelenko, who had crossed the sea, hurriedly ordered the troops and important baggage to get on the barge and the steamer first, and ordered the troops behind to return to increase the defense, so as to block the enemy's advance and buy time for evacuation, even if it was a day.

At the same time as he gave the order, Dong Ku's helicopters were also assembled in place, and together with Qu Jungang's planes, and the one hundred and fifty planes that followed Shunzi, as well as Xing Yuan's place, all returned and gathered together.

"The first echelon takes off!"

At the airport in Tashkent, the voice of Sun Tao, who temporarily served as the aviation commander, sounded.

The helicopters of the first echelon were mainly attack aircraft, with 300 attack planes and 150 transport planes, which took off in the air.

The docks of the Caspian Sea were in a hurry at this time, knowing that the enemy had attacked, and the remaining defensive troops had lost their first line of defense, and everyone was desperate to load the ships as fast as possible, and those bulky and worthless machinery were all thrown aside, and tanks, artillery, and ammunition were put on board first, and the infantry also lined up and rushed to the ship.

On the sea, the boats moved quickly, but they were still much slower, and the capacity was too thin compared to the number of people and supplies leaving the dock. At this point, if it freezes, they will move much faster. But even during the ice period, the northern shore of the Caspian Sea will freeze, and there will be no ice near the southern shore.

It was slowly getting dark. The Russian defense line was wide-eyed, waiting for the enemy to attack. They knew that it was impossible for them to be able to do so, but they still had to carry out the order and buy time for the evacuation of the army.

Just when the sky was completely dark and the night covered the earth, Qu Jungang and Liu Haisong rushed forward in all directions, galloping all the way, flying towards Aktau, without even pausing, and directly launched an attack on Aktau.

At this time, Aktau was also a port, where 50,000 or 60,000 troops were gathered and were nervously boarding the ship. Although they knew that the enemy was more than 100 kilometers away from them, they had two lines of defense, and they did not expect the enemy to break through so quickly, and when the enemy army was still twenty or thirty kilometers away from the port, all the supplies were discarded, and the personnel quickly boarded the ship and tried to transport the troops out of the port.

Qu Jun had just finished refueling their tanks, and at a distance of twenty or thirty kilometers, without the slightest pause, they rushed straight to the rear positions and launched a full-line attack in the direction of the port.

When the self-propelled artillery was still three kilometers away from Aktau, it was lined up in a slippery line, and before the muzzles of the guns were all raised, the artillery roared.

Bombardment is not effective shooting, it is pure free bombardment, as long as the shell is fired out of the shell, and it does not care whether it hits the target or not.

As soon as the enemy shelling began, the artillery that had not had a chance to board the ship opened fire in the erection. Knowing that once the enemy approached, none of them could escape, and all the Russian troops except those who boarded the ship were desperate.

The night sky was lit up by artillery fire, and the projectiles dragged their tails in the sky, staggering, and each of them bloomed with light.

The self-propelled artillery here was extremely loosely arranged, and the shelling was just to cover the sudden advance of the tanks. The enemy's artillery was clearly aimed at the positions of the shelling, and no shells fell on the middle gap.

The tank units, under the light of the front and rear fire, went straight to Aktau, and by the time the enemy found out, their artillery fire had already begun.

At the moment of the big battle in Aktau, the helicopters of the first echelon had already returned. They lost sixteen attack planes and two transport planes, but they left behind corpses all over the sea and rivers of blood all over the docks.

Their bombing was simple and effective, and the weakness of air defense at this moment highlighted the drawbacks. Forty attack planes flew through the small airfield here, but all of them were shot down in the dark, bombed, and in the absence of a listening plane, the bombs were allowed to fall.

Anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns have tried, but in the explosion left machine guns and cannons, and the people who operate them, under the blow of dense steel balls, became corpses.

They had just returned home, and the planes of the second echelon, mainly transport planes, staggered past them, and before the Russian troops listened to the sound of the engine, and then it was clear at the same time, they roared and flew over the blazing pier and the dark sea, and then bombs rained down.

In the firelight, the attack aircraft locked on the ship exposed in the firelight, and the machine cannon bombarded a few shots, and the barge was blown out of a big hole, and the icy sea water poured into the cabin in the scream, and the influx of sea water made one Soviet Russian soldier fall into despair.

In the roar, the firelight did not dispel the severe cold, and in the violent explosion, the temperature continued to drop, and the speed was extremely fast, and the change in temperature was clearly felt.

The Russians who are familiar with the climate change here know that the bitter cold has come, and they do not leave in a hurry, this is their frozen cemetery.

Anti-aircraft artillery, in vain roaring into the sky, they could not do anything, the searchlights had long been shattered, and in the first wave of air raids, there was nothing left.

Gorelenko stood in the house not far from the pier, watching the fire flickering on the pier and the frequent light clusters above the sea, he once again refused the request of the guards to let him leave, he did not intend to leave people, or rather, it would be unnecessary to leave.

But he didn't know that behind this wave of planes, there was another wave of planes, air raids, which might not be interrupted tonight. (To be continued......)