As the attacking party, the National Defense Forces do not have much experience in such tough battles. Exercises and actual combat are two different concepts. There will definitely be fear on the bloody battlefield. The first week of tough battles mainly focuses on clearing the periphery, which is an abnormal process.

difficult.

It is not that Liu Mianyue and Xia Xiang have never thought of sending a mechanized force to detour behind enemy lines, but the risk of doing so is very high. After all, many of the strengths of the Soviet Army in the Siberian Theater have not yet been exposed, and the opponent they are fighting is an army with five million people.

For a strong country, no matter how cautious you are, you also want to accumulate some experience in tough battles. Although there will be heavy casualties, it is worth it from a military point of view. Bite the bullet and continue to fight tough battles is the best choice at the moment.

Now that a decision has been made, patience is essential. After a week, more than half of the Soviet army's peripheral defense line has been compressed, and the overall front has advanced more than 20 kilometers, and is less than ten kilometers away from the city of Novosibirsk. The 155 howitzer

They could fight directly into the city. This kind of head-to-head battle resulted in more than 50,000 casualties. Fortunately, the two army groups had enough troops. For the purpose of training the troops, the troops took turns to go into battle.

With the accumulation of experience, the number of troop casualties has dropped rapidly. The casualties in the last day were actually less than 5,000, but the results were greater than the previous six days. The front line advanced by as much as five kilometers. Speaking of the Soviet Army

The tenacity of the troops has not diminished at all, and the troops in the battle are getting more and more comfortable. After summarizing the experience every day, I unexpectedly found that in the process of attacking the enemy, the role of the rocket launcher was unexpectedly great. Generally, the machine gun position poses the greatest threat to the attacking troops.

, are basically broken with rocket launchers. After this summary report was reported, the General Staff Headquarters found a bunch of people to study and came to the conclusion. It is very simple, the accuracy of rocket launchers at close range is high. The main force of the Class A Division of the Far East Front Army

There are more, and the perverted ones equip the rocket launchers to the squad level, and the results will naturally be better. Unlike the B division, the worst ones equip the rocket launchers to the company level, and the better ones go to the platoon level.

War is the best testing ground for weapons, and orders to increase the production of rocket launchers were soon issued.

It is no longer possible to capture Novosibirsk on the Siberian battlefield as scheduled. Chuikov's changes disrupted the established deployment, but it also gave the Chinese team a testing ground for a tough battle. There was also a chance to eliminate the main force of the Soviet army. The gains and losses were difficult.

Evaluation, from the Chinese side, the significance of eating the main force of the Soviet army in Novosibirsk is far more important than conquering this not-so-large city. From Chuikov's perspective, this defensive battle cannot be omitted, otherwise

The Chinese were able to rely on the superiority of their mechanized troops to rush directly to Omsk before winter came. If so, Chuikov would have been investigated by the Political Department. That was really terrible.

The most painful thing about China and the Soviet Union is that neither Central Asia nor Siberia is a good battlefield. The environment in both places is quite harsh. In comparison, the environment in Central Asia is better. If it were not for thinking about Siberia

With all the resources, Fang Jianxiong would not invest the main force in this direction. In terms of adaptability to winter in Siberia, no one from any country can compare with Lao Maozi.

When the offensive in Siberia entered a smooth stage, the campaign in Central Asia reached a new level. Although Zhukov was very capable and commanded well, in the face of absolute strength, tactics were of little use. He did not get anything.

Before sufficient reinforcements were received, Zhukov did not have many good ways to reverse the defeat of the retreat, let alone save the 500,000 disorganized Soviet troops.

Of course, the existence of these Soviet troops is not meaningless. Under Zhukov's strict order, a small half of the Soviet troops who were divided and surrounded still put up resolute resistance, and most of them chose to surrender. Although only a small part

Despite the resistance, it still slowed down the advancement of the main force of the Central Asian Front.

Shymkent, the gateway to the north of Tashkent, the ultimate goal of the Central Asian counterattack is to seize Tashkent and establish a forward logistics base. The Taraz Fortress fell after holding on for three days, and Zhukov could only place his hope on Shymkent.

Guard for a few days. News soon came from the southern front. Sure enough, the Chinese ** team divided part of its troops and continued to advance southwest. The purpose was undoubtedly to cut off the connection between Samarkand and Tashkent. The other part turned its head and headed north. The target should be

Sildaria. Lukin, who retreated to Almarek, was under pressure from the Chinese army in Kokand. At this time, he could only ask for help again and again, otherwise he would not be able to block the Chinese army from the east.

A three-pronged Chinese army besieged Tashkent. Zhukov faced a difficult choice. Should he hold on for a long time or give up? If he wanted to hold on, Tashkent's geographical location made it easy to attack and difficult to defend. The Chinese could easily attack from three directions.

Come under attack. The Central Asian railway network built by the Soviet Union has now become the most convenient accomplice for the mobilization of the Chinese *** troops. Although Zhukov has repeatedly ordered troops to blow up railways and bridges, the scale and level of the engineering troops of the Chinese ***

It can be judged that it will not take long to repair these railways, and it can be completely repaired in a month at most. And it is hard to say whether some troops resolutely carried out the order to blow up the infrastructure when they retreated. The biggest concern is to escape during the retreat.

What's wrong? You lied about military information and you had no place to investigate. This is what Zhukov is worried about.

At this time, Liu Mingzhao and Zhukov thought of going together, and they both attached great importance to the railway network in Central Asia. After careful investigation, they found that the damage to the railways by the Soviet army before retreating was not very serious, but basically all the bridges were blown up.

Destroyed. The main task of the engineering corps is to build bridges. Fortunately, there are no big rivers in Central Asia. It only takes a month to repair the railway and fully open it to traffic. It can basically reach the frontline troops in 20 days. Now there are three

The Central Asian Front that besieged the Soviet army was less than 20 kilometers away from the gateway cities in the east, west and north of Tashkent.

Liu Mingzhao asked the front army staff to conduct repeated deductions every day, hoping to find some clues that might reveal Zhukov's military trajectory in Tashkent. There is no doubt that as the transportation hub of Central Asia - Tashkent, Liu Mingzhao is determined to win. Looking at it conversely, the enemy's key point is us.

Just click, if Zhukov can't see this, he doesn't deserve to be so valued by the president.

The busiest thing these days is not the ground troops, but the reconnaissance aircraft in the air. As long as it is not dark, the sky above Tashkent and within a radius of 50 kilometers around are all targets of air force reconnaissance. There is also the telecommunications department of the Intelligence Department, which operates 24 hours a day.

Working in three shifts, we kept our ears open at all times, hoping to catch some clues from the illusory telegraph codes in the sky.

The always mysterious motorcade came out of the Andijan Airport and drove slowly into the city in the night. It stopped at the entrance of the Andijan Fortress Headquarters, where the former enemy headquarters of the Central Asian Front Army was located. The people who got off the car were all men and women wearing ordinary military uniforms.

, a rectangular logo on each person's chest, marking that they are a secret force.

Waiting at the gate was Chief of Staff Zhang Zhizhong. A man in his early thirties got off the car. He walked calmly in front of Zhang Zhizhong. After saluting, he said in a low voice: "General Zhang, the first brigade of the TFZ troops, has been ordered to march to Central Asia."

Report from the Front Army Headquarters. I am Yang Shiying, captain of the First Battalion."

"Okay, I finally got you here." The voice came from the headquarters. Zhang Zhizhong turned around and smiled, and Yang Shiying stood at attention again and saluted: "Hello, General Liu!" Liu Mingzhao strode forward, stretched out his hands, and said

Yang Shiying said: "I have heard about the name for a long time, and I also heard that your unit has always been the president's favorite. Finally, we can see the true face of Lushan."

After some polite greetings, Liu Mingzhao and Zhang Zhizhong arranged for these people to go to rest first. Zhang Zhizhong found an opportunity to ask: "Commander, tfz unit, what does it mean?" Liu Mingzhao lowered his voice and said: "I have only heard of these three letters.

It is the abbreviation of Listener. It is said that everyone in this unit has the experience of studying in Europe, and they are all masters of telecommunications and code cracking. The exact number of people in this unit is unknown, but the first group seems to have only about thirty people.

, the equipment pulled more than a dozen trucks, and it seems that they are very professional, and they should be much more powerful than those in the Intelligence Section of the Telecommunications Department of the Front Army." (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome.
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