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That's right, Xiao Xu ran away first. Originally, according to the plan, Xiao Xu's 123 Mobile Division, Lao Wu's 122 Armored Division, and the 21 Mixed Brigade would converge in Aktobe and then launch an attack on Orenburg's Red Army.

After the 21st Mixed Brigade conquered Aktobe, Xu Shuzheng's motorized infantry division arrived, and at this time, the 122nd Division was still waiting for the train on the shore of the Aral Sea. China's motorized infantry divisions in this plane are motorized infantry divisions equivalent to some countries in the original time and space, and they are equipped with all wheeled vehicles. This class is the fastest troop, so it was handpicked by Mr. Wen Yubi and named it "motorized infantry". No matter how high the mobility of the armored division is, it is impossible to compare it with the motorized division. Especially when running long distances, this is even more so, wheeled vehicles run 1,800 kilometers in one breath, and tracked vehicles dare not play like this, if they run so far from having to change tracks.

Today, when a reconnaissance plane was conducting a routine reconnaissance of Orenburg, it discovered that a large group of Soviet and Russian cavalry was moving southward, and the direction was Aktobe.

After receiving the information sent by the reconnaissance plane, Xu Shuzheng looked at the map and discussed with the 21st Mixed Brigade to let them build a defensive line on the spot, and he decisively led his subordinates north to meet the battle. Xiao Xu Zi is very aware of the characteristics of the mobile division, and if he stays to fight defense, he will not be able to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the mobile division.

These cavalry were indeed sent by Frunze, a total of three cavalry divisions, all Red Cossacks. Their mission was to expel the Chinese forces occupying Aktobe and recapture this important stronghold.

Frunze was originally prepared to let the Red Russian guerrillas in the Kazakh region delay the offensive of the Chinese army, and it should be said that this idea is correct, the guerrillas cannot fight head-on, but they can still do work such as harassment and attack on supply lines. However, it is a pity that the Kazakh region is really too peaceful, and the entire Kazakh region is dominated by plains, and there are very few terrains suitable for guerrilla warfare, such as mountains, forests, and forests.

China also has absolute air supremacy, and a large number of planes and airships patrol the sky at any time, and once they discover the Red Army guerrillas, they will summon the nearest troops to exterminate these guerrillas. That's right, the guerrillas in this area are mainly cavalry, but no matter how much cavalry can run, they can't outrun the planes.

Moreover, in order to deal with the guerrillas in such areas, China has mobilized a large number of large armed airships, which can now be said to be outdated, and they cannot defeat the current mainstream fighters at all, and they do not dare to attack ground forces with powerful anti-aircraft firepower. However, there was no problem at all in dealing with the guerrillas, who did not have strong anti-aircraft firepower.

Of course, there are not too many large armed airships, because the main purpose of these things is to make the great powers distort the technology tree, so naturally they will not build too many. Therefore, in order to make up for the lack of these airships, China has also developed several new weapons specially designed to deal with the guerrillas. One is a gunboat converted from the Y-4 "Stork" transport aircraft, in which one 40-mm cannon, two 20-mm cannons, and four 12-mm machine guns are installed on the aircraft.

The other is the "Sky Survey-1" small alert airship, the large armed airship is too expensive, and the purpose is narrow, even if the general manager is not bad for money, he is reluctant to build too much. But the small security airship is different, this kind of soft airship has a load of only about five tons, and the cost is quite cheap. There were only 12 soldiers on board, in addition to two pilots, a captain-observer and a communicator, and 12 soldiers operating weapons. Under the airship's pod, two twin machine gun towers that can rotate 360 degrees, each equipped with two 12mm machine guns, a ring of perforations around the pod, and observation equipment such as telescopes of various magnifications. Like the previous armed airships, it is filled with helium, which is not afraid of being blown up, and has an armored cabin to block machine gun fire.

This kind of alert airship usually flies in the air at 400-500 meters, and as long as it flies into the sky, it is equivalent to deploying a flying fire point, or armored. Take it as the center of the circle, radius 1. Within a radius of 5~2 kilometers is its hunting area, and the configuration of four 12mm heavy machine guns and eight excellent shooters is lethal to any unarmored target. Of course, this kind of small airship is very vulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and man-to-air missiles, but the guerrillas of this age will certainly not have these things in their hands.

These things can float in the sky almost all day long, and without armored vehicles, no one can get out of the fire coverage of these suspended turrets. Even if it is an armored vehicle, it may not be able to pass guò, the airship is equipped with two 15mm anti-materiel guns, and four 12mm heavy machine guns are also equipped with armor-piercing shells, even if the front cannot be penetrated, the top armor can not withstand it.

In fact, it was not the Red Army guerrillas who first enjoyed this "Sky Survey-1" alert airship, but the indigenous monkeys of Indonesia. This airship was originally intended to suppress the weapons of the natives of the new territory, and none of these people would have anti-aircraft guns. These airships worked extremely well with security companies in Indonesia and now look even better in the plains.

There is also a smaller "Sky Survey-2" alert airship with a payload of only 2 tons and a twin machine gun turret. This

Although the effectiveness of these weapons at night is not good enough, although they are equipped with searchlights and night vision devices, the effectiveness of night combat is still very low. But they can move in the sky, much faster than a two-legged man and a four-legged horse, and even if the guerrillas mix up at night, they can move dozens of kilometers in ten minutes or half an hour to redeploy a new blockade. Even if the guerrillas ran desperately for a day, they could catch up in just a few hours, and they could not run away at all.

Under the blow of these things, the partisans in the Kazakh region not only did not play a role, but suffered heavy casualties. In less than half a month, the remaining Red Army guerrillas did not dare to attack again, but desperately retreated to the Red Army-controlled areas in the west.

However, the guerrillas were never the key factor, and it was the regular army that ultimately decided the victory. Frunze didn't expect them to last long, but the defeat was still very unexpected for him.

However, the regular army battle was not easy either, and the situation of the Red Army was quite unfavorable from the very beginning, because they were not well armed and inferior to the other side. This time, they were not facing the rabble of the Russian White Army, but the 700,000 Chinese Heroes Division with a well-established command system, sufficient supplies, excellent equipment, rigorous training, several years of service, and experience in several battles.

Frunze currently had only 15 divisions at his disposal, and the Chinese army was too fast, and these troops were scattered in various key areas of Western Kazakhstan, most of which were fortified along the Uil and Ural rivers. This situation is not suitable for fighting the opponent.

Frunze is not stupid, he also knows that it is impossible to fight the People's Liberation Army head-on with his own family background, and he will not move at all. His strategy was to defend and wait for reinforcements from home, and I heard that the battle on the Caucasian side was going well, and Denikin's White Army was almost finished, as long as Denikin was finished, the 30 main divisions of the Caucasus could be drawn to support the Kazakh region.

But the defense can't stick to one place, and it's easy to get into the streets. Defensive operations must have a certain amount of room for maneuver, and although Orenburg is the center of this defense, it also needs to have an outpost as a barrier to the main position.

Aktobe was the most suitable outpost defense line, but he still underestimated the speed of the Chinese, and before a regiment that had just been sent over had time to eat, the Chinese ran from front to back, and the regiment was flown by car.

Frunze's first reaction after learning that Akto should not be defended was to take it back, and if this barrier was missing, Orenburg would directly withstand the Chinese troops. To his relief, according to the report of Aktobe's scouts, there were not many Chinese troops there, only one division and one brigade, and now he could immediately mobilize five divisions near Orenburg.

Among these five divisions were three cavalry divisions of the 1st Cavalry Army, which was his old subordinate, and they were all very elite Cossack cavalry. Frunze decided to personally lead this force to retake Aktobe and establish a defensive line there.

In Frunze's view, Aktobe is a small city built only in the late last century, it has no walls, and the Chinese army has just arrived, it will certainly not have time to build fortifications, and running over with the mobility of cavalry will definitely be able to catch the Chinese off guard. If you wait a few more days and the Chinese fix the fortifications, it will be troublesome, so it must be fast.

So he immediately went out of the city and led the first army of cavalry straight to Aktobe.

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July 17, 11 a.m., Yaisan.

Yaisan is located in a small town between Aktobe and Orenburg, less than 100 kilometers from Orenburg in a straight line. By this time the town had already been occupied by the 123rd Division, which had arrived in a hurry.

"Three cavalry divisions ......" Xu Shuzheng touched his chin and looked at the situation of the enemy army marked on the electronic map. Just now, the reconnaissance plane sent the latest information, Frunze's three cavalry divisions were already 30 kilometers away from here, and they were now stopping to prepare lunch. According to the pilot's description, there were cavalry everywhere, spreading seven or eight kilometers in a sprinkling manner.

"Division commander, do you want to fight?" a regiment commander asked excitedly.

Xu Shuzheng snapped his fingers and said, "Damn, the cavalry is amazing? We have eaten these three cavalry divisions! Let these old men see the gap between the times!"

Subsequently, Xu Shuzheng convened his subordinates to hold a brief combat meeting, and did not light a fire to cook at the moment, and ordered everyone to eat dry food, and immediately after eating, the final inspection of the equipment was carried out. Half an hour later, the 123rd Division started its vehicles and pounced at full speed towards the enemy's position.

Red Army camps.

"What, none of the reconnaissance troops have returned?" Frunze asked in surprise.

The chief of staff said with a dark face: "Yes, Comrade Commander, we have sent three reconnaissance battalions one after another, but so far nothing has been returned, and no one has returned......"

"Are they all sacrificed?" said a staff officer.

"Is it just an infantry division and an infantry brigade that they occupy Akto? In the Chinese army formation, there are few cavalry in the infantry division, how can it be possible to eliminate our three Cossack cavalry battalions? Or all of them, this is impossible!" said a Cossack officer dissatisfied. "Even if the infantry can defeat the cavalry, it is impossible to wipe out all the cavalry troops!"

Another Cossack chimed in: "That's right, that's it." If the cavalry can't beat it, how can the infantry outrun the cavalry?"

"Did they not find the enemy and ran straight to Aktobe?"

"But they shouldn't fail to report the situation......"

"Maybe it's the radio station that's broken, and that kind of broken radio station is more broken when it's broken than when it's not bad......"

Just when everyone was talking, an officer who was busy in front of the radio suddenly changed his face and ran over at once: "Report to Comrade Commander, report to the forward regiment, Chinese is coming! The number of people is about one division, and they have a lot of cars ......."

"Boom, boom...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a dense burst of cannonball.

Frunze's face turned green, and he was actually killed in front of him only to find out, it seems that the three reconnaissance battalions sent out must be more than lucky.

"Is there only one division?"

"Yes, there is only one, and the numbers of other troops have not been found around......"

"Immediately prepare for battle!" Frunze immediately ordered. Although it is now suffering a little loss, this Chinese infantry division is actually alone in the depths, which is also an opportunity. The forward regiment is five kilometers away, and now it will rush over to support, and by the way, this division can be eaten, and then there will be only one brigade left in Aktobe.

As for whether it was possible to fail, Frunze did not think about it at all. Three cavalry divisions and one infantry division can't win an encounter? Isn't that a joke? It's something you don't even think about.

"We want to let the Chinese know this time that even now, on the plains, it will always be the world of cavalry." A Cossack division commander patted the war horse under his crotch and said with a smug expression. "It's stupid that the Chinese have obviously cultivated the best war horses, but they don't pay attention to the cavalry troops!"

His mount is a Chinese product that he finally bought the year before last, a new breed of war horse called "Tianfu Horse". This type of war horse has been shown in several Chinese military parades. Not only is the appearance handsome, but also the performance is extremely against the sky, completely exploded all the previous war horses, and was sought after by a large number of cavalry and Hermes as soon as it appeared. Although China does not prohibit the export of this kind of horse, because of its small quantity, only a small number flows out every year, and they are all steers, stallions and mares are not sold. Even with such restrictions, each horse was sold for a very high price, and the master had spent almost half of his family's savings for several generations to buy such a horse.

"Boom, boom...... The sound of the cannon was getting faster and closer, and they could already see a cloud ......of smoke and dust rising from the horizon. This is the smoke and dust of a large number of vehicles traveling at high speeds.