Shen Wanqing said softly: "Zhang Hua sent a message that the situation in Kazakhstan has changed. ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What has changed?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "It's too chaotic here, it's hard to say, let's go out and talk about it." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, turned his head to Xiao Yingwu and He Di and said, "My head hurts a little, go back and rest first, you can continue to watch." ”

Xiao Yingwu and He Di didn't ask much, and said goodbye to Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan came out of the venue and asked, "What happened?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "The head of our intelligence station in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, was instigated by Russian spies, and it is very likely that Tsarist Russia has grasped our intention to provoke trouble in Kazakhstan and take the opportunity to enter Kazakhstan." ”

Lin Yuan was taken aback and said, "How could things be like this? The head of our intelligence station will be turned against by the enemy? ”

Shen Wanqing said: "We don't know the specific situation. ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay, don't worry, I'll let Xiao Yingwu lead the troops to set off tomorrow, enter Kazakhstan, and launch an attack before Tsarist Russia discloses our intentions to the outside world, you quickly inform Tang Fan, once you find out that the news is unfavorable to us in the world, refute it as soon as possible!" ”

The next day, January 16, Xiao Yingwu led the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division across the Sino-Kazakh border and marched to Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan.

The grassland in winter is covered in silver, which is very good-looking, and all kinds of equipment of the 7th Division are also covered with snow camouflage, and when crossing the Alashan Pass, it fought a battle with the Russian team stationed in the Alashan Pass, and as a result, the Russian army gave up resistance and surrendered.

When the 7th Division was 10 kilometers deep into Kazakhstan, it encountered a Kazakh nomadic tribe, and the soldiers of the 7th Division presented them with cold items, medicines, and other things, and the reporters accompanying the army publicized this incident.

Almaty is more than 700 kilometers away from the city of Alashankou, such a long distance, coupled with the lack of roads, so the action is relatively slow, not a moment and a half can be reached, during this time, Lin Yuan and Tsar Nicholas II The contest also began.

On January 17, Tsar Nicholas II brought the head of the rebellious intelligence station to the forefront, explaining to the world China's shameless acts, while Lin Yuan instructed his media to denounce Tsar Nicholas II's brutal rule and his expropriation of Central Asian herdsmen.

On January 18, Russia held a press conference in Almaty and displayed their T-97 main gun combat vehicle in a high-profile manner, which was jointly developed by Germany and Russia, weighed about 25 tons, and used a German-made fire control system, and the electronic components in the fire system were imported from the United States.

Russia also pointed out that China's TK-96 tank is only 15 tons, and the extra 10 tons of weight of the T-97 make it more powerful. Russia also displayed 105mm smoothbore tank guns, tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, shaped armor-piercing shells and other artillery shells.

Some military magazines in Britain, Germany and the United States also conducted a decent battlefield simulation of the two weapons, and then pointed out that the battle loss ratio of TK-96 tanks and T-97 tanks was about 3:1, that is, only one TK-96 tank could be destroyed for every three TK-96 tanks destroyed by the T-97.

Lin Yuan couldn't laugh or cry when he saw the results of such a simulation, thinking that these Western media are always like this, always like to belittle China's equipment, in my time, all kinds of domestic equipment will be belittled and smeared by the Western media, but the actual situation is that the Western media don't know China at all, and a lot of their news is hearsay.

In this era, the Western media is still so chasing after the wind and shadows, funny, let's just say this comparison between the TK-96 and the T-97, the fire control system of the TK-96 is based on the high-precision gyroscope and the fire control computer, and the fire control system of the T-97 cannot be compared at all; The TK-96 tank also has the ability to operate with night vision, the previous batch of TK-96 is equipped with infrared searchlights, and the later TK-96 uses a low-light night vision system, which can find targets two thousand meters away under the third-level starlight. I really don't know how the 3:1 battle loss ratio of the TK-96 tank and the T-97 tank was made.

At 8 a.m. on January 19, the 7th Division arrived in the northern city of Almaty, Taldikurgan, which was small and had only more than 10,000 inhabitants at this time, but it was strategically located on the left bank of the Karatal River, there was no shortage of water, and it was only 200 kilometers from Almaty.

The most effective weapon of Lin Yuan's troops at this time is definitely Wu Zhier, but Wu Zhier's flight time is short after all, and there must be a front-line airfield from which to take off to attack the Russian tank group, so Lin Yuan chose Taldi Kurgan as the construction site of the front-line airfield.

The Russian side did not see the intention of Lin Yuan's troops at all, and their strategy was to concentrate the main tank cluster in Almaty, and then launch a tank duel in the great plain north of Almaty, annihilating the main force of Lin Yuan's troops in one fell swoop.

So there was no decent defense at all in Taldikurgan, and the 7th Division captured the city without the slightest resistance, and they immediately began to build a field airfield here, erect navigation radars.

After the operation of the 7th Division, the 39th Division stationed in Urumqi and the 78th and 79th Divisions composed of reservists also entered Kazakhstan and garrisoned along the city of Alashankou and Taldikurgan, building a stable material transportation line for the front line.

Later historians commented on the Battle of Almaty, the Russian army stuck to Almaty and sought the strategy of the main decisive battle as incomplete, the Chinese army went on an expedition, and the Russian army did not take the initiative to attack, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Chinese army to fight a war of annihilation, but they stubbornly defended one place, passively slacked the battle, and watched the Chinese army's 7th, 39th, 78th and 79th divisions establish material transportation lines.

On January 20, the Chinese army was building with all its strength and did not advance, and the Russian side was overjoyed, believing that the Chinese army was shocked by the Russian army's new main artillery fighting vehicles and would definitely not march again in the future.

From January 21 to January 28, for seven whole days, both sides did not move, and the Chinese side was transporting oil and ammunition non-stop, while the senior Russian military officials in Almaty were indulging in balls and banquets.

On January 29, the prepared Chinese army began to march towards Almaty, and in the town of Albayra, a hundred kilometers from Almaty, the 63rd Regiment of the 7th Division encountered the Russian forward troops, and the first confrontation between helicopter gunships and tanks in the history of mankind was about to break out.