In early summer of 1941, the war entered the most critical half year...

In Europe, the United States is still mobilizing rapidly. The line of life and death in August tests the nerves of Roosevelt and the generals. England can no longer find a safe land. The British Empire squeezed out the last copper plate of the treasury, and Churchill even put all his bets on the Iberian Peninsula. Under his leadership, thousands of Allied pilots fought bloody battles over Madrid in the British Strait, in southern France, over Madrid. Faced with the obvious advantage of Allied air power, Goren, who fought alone, finally remembered an ally. Mussolini, who was clamoring to defeat Britain and the United States and use the Mediterranean as a foot basin, finally had the opportunity to deepen the devil's claws into Spain again. He sent a pilot to the front line to join forces with the Germans, trying to seize air supremacy, and also organized 200,000 wishes.

The Italian division followed the German army into the peninsula. Nearly four million troops from Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy and West fought in the Castile area centered on Madrid. Tens of thousands of chariots crawled between the plateau and mountains with difficulty. Whether Gibraltar can defend it, whether it can support the second increase in the US troops in August, and whether the German army's vitality can be consumed on the peninsula are placed in this battle. At the same time, in the Balkans on the battlefield, Greece is still indomitable, and 300,000 British, American and Greek coalition forces retreated to the hot spring pass and continued to fight bloody battles. The Yugoslav guerrillas led by Tito are still active, cooperating with the Allied forces to raid the German-Italy logistics line from all aspects, causing millions of German troops to fall into the Balkans. The angry Hitler launched a cruel large-scale search operation, filling various concentration camps with bones.

In Africa, Zhu Jiande captured Mogadishu on June 5 and defeated 50,000 Italian East African Legion. Rommel also led 200,000 German-Italian coalition forces and hundreds of tanks, and pointed the front of the troops at the Egyptian Suez Canal again. This time, it was no longer an attack. Hitler had vowed to seize this throat and cooperate with Guderian to completely close the Mediterranean! His old rival, the British Royal Navy, was unwilling to surrender. Cunningham, who revived his power, led the Royal Navy and, with the cooperation of the US Navy, exhibited with the Italian Navy with the cooperation of the US Navy.

The battle of sea power was launched. Hundreds of US [***] ships and transport ships detoured from South Africa and sent supplies and soldiers to Alexandria. The British General Staff also hurriedly transferred Vevere back to Egypt, leading nearly 500,000 US-Australia-Canadian-Egypt coalition forces, and was solemnly on the Tobrug defense line. The Middle East across the canal was also surging. Iraq's Jin Fang Group, Turkey's pro-German forces, and the Soviet Iranian Front led by Pavlov were ready to move, and a desert storm was about to take shape.

In Asia, the crazy Chinese navy continued its rapid offensive. Just one month after the Ryukyu landed, the 12th aircraft carrier battle group launched another attack. Zhang Zhaoyang led the newly delivered battleship Shanxi (Shandong-class No. 2 ship), the sister ship Shandong, and four Yanjing-class battleships and six aircraft carriers. To cooperate with the three aircraft carriers and seven cruisers of the 22nd aircraft carrier battle group, launching the intersection battle. Two fleets swept across the volcanic islands and Ogasawara Islands in the east of Japan, not only sending the Fifth Marine Division and three infantry divisions to the Marine Corps Division.

Iwo Jima, which was located at the critical position, cut off Japan's sea route to the east in one fell swoop. Finally, it also covered a squadron composed of two Yanjing-class battleships, four cruisers and two escort aircraft carriers, and detoured northward. Finally, with the support of a escort aircraft carrier (the third batch of escort aircraft carriers modified by the Vladivostok shipyard) and four cruisers, it crossed the Kuril Islands for the first time and entered the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, which not only allowed the navy to support Sakhalin Island and the north to fight nearby, but also successfully blocked all maritime channels of Japan's island.

However, the most severe thing is still the heartland of Central Asia, known as the Eurasian continental bridge. When the Ryukyu battle and the Korean battle that were decided to be named one after another, thunder came from the heartland of Central Asia, which had been on standstill for half a year. The news of the reassembled more than three million Soviet troops pounced east from the 600-kilometer front, swept across the country in an instant. The General Staff of Yanjing actively responded, and a large number of flying corps were transferred to the western front, and the intensity of the bombing began to weaken. The Myanmar offensive temporarily stopped, and the railway line to Central Asia was once again running at full capacity. The troops returning to China for vacation set off again. The 12 billion Yuan war budget, more than 20 million mobilizations, 7 million first-line soldiers, and 3 million Asian Allied forces, how to get rid of the predicament and lay a victory? It tests Yang Qiu's command art.

On June 9, Ilgiz, north of the Aral Sea, the shells fell like raindrops inside and outside the trenches of the National Wehrmacht. The 16th and 33rd Army stationed here were old troops who had participated in several battles in Europe and Central Asia. But even so, the fierce and continuous artillery bombardment of the Soviet army still made the veterans feel that the sky and the earth were sunken. Everyone was curled up in trenches and bunkers, enduring toxic smoke and violent shocks on the ground. Under the cover of artillery fire, gray-brown Soviet tanks appeared on the horizon, and the cold tracks rolled up rolling dust and rushed towards the defense line.

"Damn it! Is this still over? Is there any ability to go to the Ishim River to make trouble! Where is the Air Force? Why not yet!" In the hidden command post, after seeing the Soviet tank cluster through the periscope, Du Zishan, with a gorgeous hair, was extremely angry and kept asking where the Air Force was. He was from Heze, Shandong, and the former commander of the 49th Mobu Division. In the counterattack of Rezkazgan, it was he who went on battle and personally encouraged the soldiers, and in just one night he broke through Zhukov's broken Algabas defense line, helping the pursuing main force open the passage

.In the end, Liu Mingzhao not only let Liu Mingzhao eat Zhukov's main force, but also surrounded Lu Jin in one fell swoop. If Zhuo Fan was the sharpest knife in Liu Mingzhao's hand, then he was the heavy hammer to smash everything. It was their excellence that made Liu Mingzhao realize his pre-war vision and complete the epic Rezikazgan counterattack and the Battle of Petropavlovsk. During the promotion at the beginning of the year, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and transferred to the deputy commander of the Southern Kazakh Army. Two months ago, he led two armies to replace the first army that was originally stationed to defend this strategic town.

It is said to be a strategic town because the location of this place is too critical. It is located at the intersection of the Turgei River and the Irgiz River. To the north are the Costanai and the Ural Plateau, to the south are the Aral Sea, and to the east are Alcalec. From the map, it happens to be the most prominent part of the entire Central Asian defense line. Du Zishan, who participated in the Battle of Reneevel, knew very well that no matter who commanded the Soviet army on the opposite side, no matter where the main attack point of the counterattack was, he had to send heavy troops to deal with his protruding unit. Moreover, the benefits of breaking through here are obvious. As long as you seize it, you must

, it can directly threaten Alkarek in the south of Petropavlovsk, forming a large semi-encircle. So after taking over the defense here, he immediately improved the defense deployment according to his own experience. Not only did he use tens of thousands of earth-stacked containers, but he also built a large number of triangular fortifications with anti-tank guns and hunting tanks as the core. These fortifications are continuous, each of which is similar to a large triangle. There are countless small triangles in the big triangle, all of which are based on the natural saline-alkali valley of the Irguz River as the axis to form a defense line of 40 kilometers wide from north to south.

The battle situation was as he expected. In order to eliminate the Ilguz protrusion and level the offensive line to ensure the safety of the flanks, after the counterattack, Timhingo mobilized the 1st Ukrainian Army, the 13th Southwest Army, the 48th Moscow Army, and the 5th Tank Army, a total of 370,000 soldiers. With the support of more than 700 tanks and thousands of cannons, he launched a continuous fierce attack on the protrusion. "Air Force, the Air Force is here!" While waiting anxiously, the long-awaited Air Force finally appeared above his head. The black crowd, the attack aircraft like locusts.

The dive bomber group quickly flew over the town and flew towards the Soviet artillery cluster. Under the guidance of the ground guides, they quickly found the target and launched a fierce bombing on the slow-moving Soviet artillery positions. One by one, one bomb and rocket bombs instantly disintegrated the artillery cluster's offensive, and the shells were constantly being lured to explode, forming huge mushroom balls. Dozens of Soviet Il2 and Lag1 fighters rushed to try hard to drive out the attack aircraft group, but were jointly strangled by the J-Batianquan and the Thunderbolt Group that dived from high altitude.

After suppressing artillery, the second group of attack aircraft began to carry out turns to attack Soviet tanks. Especially the Hongshi 'bomb Truck' and the Snake-B attack aircraft in the aircraft fleet, they constantly used large-caliber navigators and cooperated with the newly developed small-caliber tungsten alloy armor-piercing bombs to attack fragile top armor. After the attack aircraft fleet finally roared away, the charging Soviet tanks were no longer in formation and had to retreat and reorganize.

Taking advantage of this gap, Du Zishan immediately asked the officers to call each combat position and ask about the troops' injuries. This is a must-do work during every attack, which can help him understand the situation of each defense point. Each defense zone and high ground woke up from the call, but the most sudden Highland 412, no matter how it called, never responded.

"Who is on the high ground?" After hearing the news, Du Zishan suddenly stood up.

"The 1633rd Regiment and the 122nd Anti-Tank Battalion." The staff officer raised his voice: "I don't think it's possible that all of them will be eaten by the Soviet army. It should be that the line was broken."

Du Zishan frowned, and he admitted that what the staff officer said made sense. No matter how strong the Soviet army is, it is extremely difficult to eat one of his regiments and an anti-tank battalion silently. But he was still worried and immediately shouted: "Zhao Siyuan!"
Chapter completed!