Chapter 617 Eight Hundred in a Day
Less than two hours after the battle, Almaty, Oskemen, and Omsk fell. Even the 9th Group, which was reinforcing Omsk, lost more than two divisions, and the other armies had not yet taken up the battle and did not arrive at the reinforcement site.
The speed of the advance army frightened all the Russian generals. They could not have imagined the horrors of the advance attack without experiencing it themselves. I can't imagine how the advance army could have done so quickly. But there is one thing they know that this battle cannot be lost, and once it is lost, Russia will go into decline, and even be beaten into the Mlin by the advance army.
The bearded man gave death orders one after another, and the armies from all walks of life were also desperate. They did not believe that the offensive of the advance army would remain like this forever, that a local armed force that had not been accumulated in a short period of time would be stronger than their entire country, and that the inheritance left by the Tsar would not be trampled on, which their ancestors had robbed with blood and sweat.
So, when Almaty's Shunzi put on a defensive posture and the follow-up supplies continued to pour into Almaty, when Han Jie and Meng Zhaocheng built a defensive line at Orskemen and Semyy, defending each other with horns, and jamming the Rubtsovsk army, the Rubtsovsk army divided the defense into two sides, one to defend in the direction of Novokuznetsk, and the other to defend the army approaching from Xingyuan.
After the Ninth Army was attacked by air raids and lost more than half of the troops reinforcing Omsk, it consolidated the defense of Paplodar and set its position ten kilometers away from each other, so that the artillery could be placed layer by layer to block the enemy. On the one hand, the situation of the battle was reported to the new commander-in-chief of Central Asia, Meretskov, waiting for further orders.
The Seventh Army, on the other hand, continued to march at high speed, reaching Almaty and expecting to reach its target in an hour and launch a general attack two hours later.
The Eighth Army still rushed to reinforce Bruzovsk. The Tenth Army built a defensive line on the one hand, and reinforced the Ninth Army on the other hand, blocking the enemy's advance in Omsk. The Eleventh Army increased its march, pursued the Seventh Army, and routed the enemy forces there with superior forces in Almaty.
The new 36th Army, near the end of the Caspian Sea in the Ural Mountains. Orsk began to assemble, and 1,500 tanks and 2,000 tanks and artillery trucks were constantly getting off the train, converging on the outskirts of Orsk, ready to choose a target to meet.
When Dong Ku captured Almaty in Shunzi, the command headquarters had already begun to move forward, and they took a helicopter first, flew directly to Almaty, and commanded nearby.
In this battle, he also knew that the Tao was a crucial battle. It is a decisive battle with the bearded man, not seeking to completely annihilate the Russian army, but must occupy the whole of Central Asia, take Kazakhstan, which has rich oil reserves, as its own, and block the speculation that the foreign powers are the source of oil for the advance army.
On the plane, Zuo Boyang, Sun Tao. Liu Yucheng studied carefully with Dong Ku and continued to refine the previous lightning plan.
This is a very bold one. And the adventurous plan is to quickly end the battle here. One strategy to force the retreat of the Russian army is to block the plain between the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, and use the branches of the Ural Mountains and the mountains between the Aral Sea to build a deep defensive line, block the counterattack from Moscow, and make a posture of encircling and suppressing the Russian army in Central Asia. The armies of Central Asia were forced to retreat from the Caspian Sea and into the Caucasus.
In this way, the end of the true intention will be accelerated. After all, with the speed and sharpness of the advance army's offensive now, I believe that once the bearded man fails to fight, he will open the passage between the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, and the Russian army will retreat without a fight. Give up Central Asia, give up Turkestan. They won't be stupid enough to throw all the armies here.
And this task is completed because of Lei, which is why Yu Lei rushed forward with baggage and motorized infantry. As for Shunzi and Xing Yuan, their task is to hold back the Russian troops, and while the Russian army is moving reinforcements, Yu Lei will complete the action of breaking through alone and building a defensive line.
Thousands of miles of raids, lone troops go deep, if it weren't for the strong mechanical troops, if it wasn't for the absolute certainty of ensuring logistics supplies, no matter how sharp Yu Lei's army was, it would have been wiped out.
The Oroqen warriors of the thirteen divisions are all trucks, and the front of the trucks are equipped with heavy machine guns, and Liu Haisong on the left, Yu Ke on the right, and Yu Lei in front of them rush forward, forming a channel nearly 30 kilometers wide, advancing, there is too much obstacle, and the speed is also due to the freezing of the ground, and there is no need to travel on the highway, and all are chain-track trucks, and they are not slow at all, and it is very easy to travel 40 kilometers in an hour.
They carried thousands of 200-caliber howitzers, and the Russian army's 81-caliber mortars obtained from cleaning the battlefield along the way were also loaded into vehicles, and all the bullets were carried.
In Dongku, the Russian Seventh Army and the Eleventh Army rushed straight to Almaty, the Tenth Army moved closer to the Ninth Army and attacked Omsk from the flank, and the Eighth Army reinforced Rubtsovsk, all of which were in motion, and the infantry was already in place.
At the moment when the infantry kept up with the footsteps, Yu Lei ordered a full-speed assault, and the helicopter transport went straight to Kustanay, which was 300 kilometers away.
The army quickly filled up the fuel at Yu Lei's order, and while the transport plane returned, the army abandoned Omsk and rushed to Kostana.
The Ninth Army left two divisions to defend Paplodar, and the Tenth Army Corps dispatched two mechanized corps, one cavalry corps and one infantry corps, and at the same time advanced towards Omsk, the large army also pounced on Omsk.
Yu Lei's movements were fast, the mechanized army and motorized infantry marched at an average speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour, and by the time the 9th and 10th Army Corps rushed to Omsk, they had already gone to the empty city.
Along the way, in those small villages, they plundered all the horses, without stopping, moving quickly. The helicopter followed closely at the front of the troops, doing reconnaissance work, so that the march of the team would not fall into the encirclement of the Russian army.
His sudden movement would be discovered only two hours later by the 9th and 10th armies. But at that time, it was too late for these two army groups to pursue, or rather, before they figured out that this was the intention of the army to go deep alone, and before they found this army, they could only follow and chase. As for interception, they are also powerless.
Sure enough, an hour and a half after Yu Lei left Omsk, the Ninth Army arrived at the battlefield where it had been attacked and littered with truck wreckage.
When he learned that the enemy had not even cleaned the battlefield, the commander Chuikov was puzzled.
Fighting to feed the war, this is a must, how can you give up cleaning up the battlefield? There was a lot of food, ammunition, and not all the trucks were burned, only some of them were destroyed by the fire.
Encountering the surviving soldiers who were hiding nearby, and learning that the enemy did not come back after the attack, Chuikov frowned and thought about it and ordered: "The reconnaissance battalion is advancing in multiple units, go to Omsk to check the enemy's defenses. ”
Following his order, the horses of the reconnaissance battalion left in the dust and galloped towards Omsk.
While waiting for the Tenth Army, Chuikov ordered to clean up the battlefield and collect the remains.
In less than half an hour, the reconnaissance detachment returned the news that there were no enemy positions in Omsk, and that they were moving forward, less than three kilometers from the town.
No outlying positions?
Zhukov looked at the map suspiciously, wondering why there was no position here, could the enemy be so confident that he could block the attack of the army here without a defensive position?
His doubts didn't take a few minutes. When the Russian troops of the reconnaissance team approached the city, they had already seen the panicked crowd on the street, but there was no shadow of the enemy, so they boldly came to the front of the city, and after asking a few people, they hurriedly sent a telegram to Chuikov.
The enemy has abandoned the city?!
Chuikov was puzzled, but since the enemy was not there, he had to be stationed.
So, while sending a telegram to the commander-in-chief, he ordered the troops to rush to Omsk without waiting for the 10th Army.
The news of the enemy's departure puzzled everyone, so one reconnaissance plane after another took off and began to search for the direction in which the enemy had fled, and at the moment when the Seventh Army arrived in Almaty and was ready to start the battle, it confirmed that the enemy had left, and the direction of judgment was probably to rush to Almaty and encircle the Seventh Army there.
No one expected that Yu Lei's departure was actually a super big encirclement of Malay at the end of the Ural Mountains.
When the enemy was studying, Yu Lei's army broke through villages and towns along the way, and plundered the oil when it saw it, but the guns had no time to take care of it. They don't have that, so many empty trucks, or stolen trucks that pull fuel.
100 kilometers, for them, is two hours, and the battle in the middle can be ignored or slightly.
Until Yu Lei captured Kostanay in the fierce battles of Almaty and Oskemen, the Russian army did not understand why this army went deep alone.
Kustanay was not close to Almaty, four or five hundred kilometers, and even if they marched all the way, it would take more than ten hours, and it was unlikely that they would encircle the Seventh Army and the Eleventh Army.
But what is this force going to do? The lone army went deep and advanced all the way, without capturing a single town, and from the beginning of the battle to about ten hours now, this force continued to march eight hundred miles, that is, four hundred kilometers, and reached Kustana. Aren't they afraid of being surrounded by a lot of them?
This is something that even bearded people can't figure out.
The movement of the enemy army seems to have little to do with the whole situation of the war, and it seems unreasonable to advance all the way, leaving no retreat and supply lines, and it should not be a mistake that the advance army can make, this is not to send fat meat to their mouths?
"Order the Thirty-sixth Army to meet the enemy forces advancing westward, and be sure to crush their tank forces!"
"Order the Ninth and Tenth Army to continue the pursuit of the enemy and form an encirclement!"
The bearded man couldn't figure it out, but he still gave orders one by one. (To be continued......)