At 12 noon on April 3, 8 Type 25 tanks and 5 hunting dog armored vehicles arrived in the south of Bukhara City. The sudden appearance of the enemy in front of him surprised the 255th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army stationed here, because it was 230 kilometers away from the main battlefield in the east, and the surrounding deserts lacked occupation value. So at the beginning, the division commander Kafsky judged that it was a small force, but when he deployed the defense line, a complete armored regiment let him know why the opponent appeared here. Because this is the end of the Turkestan Mountains, although it is far away from the central battlefield, if the opponent breaks through to Navoy behind him, he can successfully cross the mountain barrier to form a left hook against Samarkand.

But he was not too worried, because he already had a new killer weapon, which was the six zis57 anti-tank guns that were urgently transported from Moscow before the Urgenchi Railway was cut off, and were the six latest T34/57 tanks. Kavsky, who graduated from Fulongzhi Academy, loved attacks and was very fond of attack. He had a good defensive style, so he immediately followed the armored breakthrough infantry clearing tactics that the National Defense Forces were best at, and he defeated the six anti-tanks according to the armored breakthrough infantry clearing tactics that the National Defense Forces are best at, and immediately used the six anti-tanks to follow the armored breakthrough infantry clearing tactics that the National Defense Force is best at, and then used the six anti-tanks to follow the tactics of the armored breakthrough infantry clearing that the National Defense Force is best at

The Kepao was split and deployed in villages on the left and right wings, and then deployed t34/57 in the dead corners of the city covered with hay and camouflage, and then placed the remaining t26 on the front, trying to seduce the opponent to the ambush circle of the powerful 57 gun. Finally, he placed the main infantry on the second line of the east of the city, so that when the enemy tanks rushed in, they could use the new tank as arrows to catch the opponent off guard and then throw them into the infantry.

Ji Ming, opposite him, was different. The creed of the National Defense Army Armored Division was to attack and continue to attack. If the 10th Panzer Division and the 106th Infantry Division had not been continuously advanced for 10 hours, they would have been trapped and exhausted. According to Du Yuming's character, two divisions would have been directly submerged in this small city. So Ji Ming's tactics were very simple. Two tank battalions made clamp attacks from left and right, mobilized defensive forces, and the remaining third battalions covered infantry to attack. "Listen! I know that it's hard for everyone to rush to travel. But because of the hard work, it is necessary to take down Bukhara as soon as possible to seize the water source! Do you understand?" As Ji Ming mobilized pre-war mobilization, the left hook punch against Samarkand was finally fired.

"Open fire!"

With Ji Ming's order, eight 85mm field howitzers were the first to launch artillery shelling. This lightweight field howitzers have replaced the old 70-infantry gun and 75mm field gun and become the standard weapon of the National Wehrmacht. Although the caliber has increased by only ten millimeters, the power of the projectile is 20% greater than that of the 75-infantry gun. Under the cover firepower of the artillery, the smoke of the small town of only ten square kilometers was churned, and simple mud-breasted buildings continued to collapse. From time to time, the Soviet army was killed by unlucky. Soon, four 122mm howitzers and 10 76-mm field guns deployed by Kavsky began to fight back. The shells went back and forth between the two sides and destroyed the surface.

"Assault! Assault! Infantry keep up!"

Two armored battalions were the first to rush out of the covered hills, and 81 31 tanks were divided into two routes, crushing out rolling sand and dust on the sand and rushing towards the east and west sides of the city. "Don't be anxious! Stay calm and wait for the tank regiment to seduce them." Seeing the tanks being dispatched, Kavsky shouted excitedly at the phone, and after stabilizing the anti-tank artillery position, he ordered the tank regiment's t26 to attack.

After experiencing the chaos in the early stages of the war, the Soviet army realized that there was a big gap between the weapons in their hands and the opponents. No one thought that the T26 could deal with several times the Type 31 tanks. So the Soviet tank soldiers knew their job very well, which was to seduce their opponents to the anti-tank position next to the village. "Boom Boom Boom." The empty sand became the best place for tank combat. The two tank battalions that impacted the two wings cooperated very tacitly. When they saw the T26, they immediately divided up a company to stop and fire the cannon. The remaining tank companies accelerated their pursuit to avoid slowing down due to artillery. The design was based on the needs of future wars. Although the 31 tanks that left the allowance had gradually given way to the Type 36, it did not mean that they were already behind. On the contrary, even now they could still be proud of the world, even Britain and the United States repeatedly expressed their desire to buy them in bulk.

Under the abundant design concept, the l56/70mm rifled gun was very powerful. Once it appeared, it led the long-barrel revolution of the world tank gun. Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union, and even the United States and Japan began to enhance the power of the new tank lengthened barrels. With the cooperation of the gunner's periscope, the rifled gun that was enough to penetrate the t34 quickly destroyed 7 t26s. Seeing that the remaining t26 were not good, the remaining t26 immediately accelerated to escape to the village. "The gunner is in place! Armor-piercing ammunition is ready." Seeing that the tank attracted the opponent, Amov, the captain of the anti-tank company, immediately issued an order loudly: "It is south of the direction, 1,500 meters away, fill in the bullets. Pay attention to the escaped enemy by the machine gun."

Under Amov's command, three slender 57mm gun barrels quietly emerged from behind the mud-breasted house. The zis2/57mm anti-tank gun was a weapon that was forced out. The poor anti-tank methods in the Battle of Avas and the East Kazakhstan made the Soviet Union learn from their mistakes. Even though they knew that the processing of this kind of gun was difficult, the rifle of 30 rounds of shells would be reduced by wear and accuracy, and 40 rounds of shells were spinning, etc., they still gritted their teeth and concentrated the few precision manufacturing capabilities in the country.

The armed forces were armed at a speed of 100 gates per month, in order to prevent the powerful 31 and 36 tank seas before the new tank appeared. Although they had just been equipped for a short time, Captain Amov was very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of this gun. After using a 76mm shell launch cartridge, he could shoot an initial velocity of 1,000 meters per second, which was enough to ensure that the 107 mm/35-degree homogeneous steel plate was penetrated at a distance of 1,000 meters. However, for safety, he did not attack rashly and chose to continue to narrow the distance.

Boom! After another T26 was caught up and exploded not far away, Amov ordered the attack. "Boom boom!" Three armor-piercing bullets made of hard high-carbon steel exchanged from Germany suddenly hit three 31 tanks that were unprepared 650 meters away. The 57 guns at this distance were as deep as 130 mm, which was far exceeding the front protection level of the 31 tanks, so black smoke suddenly emerged from two of the three tanks, and the remaining one was hit on the side transmission and stopped.

After winning the first battle, Amov was immediately confident and immediately aimed the muzzle at the tank behind. "Boom boom boom!" The anti-tank company was extremely fast. Less than ten seconds after destroying three 31 units, the second round of shells had been fired. Although this time, two rounds of aiming were knocked away, one shot hit the turret of the 31 tank. The scattering flow formed after the shell penetrated the armor, killing the gunner and loading hands directly. "Anti-tank gun! All reversed. Pay attention to search!"

Four tanks were destroyed in two rounds, which was something that had never happened since the war began. Company Commander Chang Gui immediately realized that he had been attacked by a new anti-tank weapon. After more than two years of training in the mountains of Afghanistan, although the officers and soldiers of the 10th Armored Division had almost changed one after another, the combat effectiveness and adaptability of the troops were very fast, even better than the several ace armored divisions in front. Therefore, the tank company immediately changed from advancing to retreating, and the tank soldiers even used various means to search for mysterious enemies.

When Amov saw his opponent running, he was unwilling to miss such a good opportunity, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the ammunition hand to move first. He led the anti-tank gun to fire another round. But it was this round that completely exposed the three zis2/57. When the three shells rushed out of the muzzle, at least three 31 tanks caught the flames of the muzzle. Although one of them was still destroyed, the remaining seven cars in the tank company transferred all the muzzle over. "Grenades! Fire at full speed! Kill them!" Chang Gui, who was furious, shouted to concentrate on the fire attack. The seven tank guns used grenades to aim at Amov's direction and kept pushing down the building. After a while, the two tank companies dragged behind also chased after him. After learning about the situation, the battalion commander ordered all to open fire and the infantry must find this new anti-tank gun.

After the news of the sudden new anti-tank weapon on the left and right wings quickly reached Ji Ming's ears. He immediately gave up the tactics of tank covering infantry, and should use infantry pilot tactics to protect the armored battalion to go deeper. This change caught Kafsky off guard. Because since the war started, the defense force's offensive tactics have always been the air force's pioneer, the armored forces broke through, and the infantry followed up to clear it up. Now it was disrupted all of a sudden, which made him very uncomfortable.

After learning the news, Du Yuming and Lin Xunnan from the company also realized that there were extremely valuable things hidden in the small town that was originally just a roundabout plank road, so they immediately sent a complete infantry regiment to participate in the attack. "Fire. Suppress and open fire!" More than a dozen tanks were lost in one attack, which made Ji Ming red. He stood on the tank with a cold look, commanded the tank guns to continuously bombard Bukhara. Under the cover of fierce firepower, the infantry increased to five battalions assumed the main attack mission. The cover of 60 and 80 mm mortars, and the infantry continued to advance alternately, and machine gun bullets sprinkled on the enemy like raindrops.

The Soviet army's defense was very tough, and they kept blocking the footsteps of the National Defense Forces with buildings and various bunkers, but Kafsky's deployment of troops and lagging reaction speed caused the troops to suffer a great loss. Since most of the infantry were arranged on the second line of the east of the city, when Ji Ming changed his tactics and gave way to the infantry's pioneering, the Soviet infantry that had just been dodged had to climb out of the trenches and bunkers, exposing himself to the superior firepower of the 10th Armored Division.

"At three o'clock, 873 steps. A t34 machine gun behind the earth wall aims at the earth wall to guide the artillery!" A platoon leader who found that the t34/57 was running back under the cover of the machine gun, shouting at the individual radio station how many steps he had run, using the easiest way to remind the tanks following behind. After hearing the need for specific wèizhi, he fell off the microphone and directed the machine gun to aim at the hidden wèizhi of T34. After two H32 general-purpose machine guns fired a string of dust on the earth wall, the gunner immediately aimed at the direction of the bullet aiming, and made a decisive choice.

The high-speed tungsten bombs issued. "Boom!" Although the 1935 l56/70mm rifled gun is not as good as the zis2/57, it can still penetrate 100mm/30-degree homogeneous steel plate within 1,000 meters. With high-speed tungsten bombs, the penetration depth can reach 110mm/30 degrees. Therefore, the high-speed tungsten bombs easily penetrate the earth wall, and then rushed into the ammunition compartment from the side below the tail of the t34 turret. After a loud bang, the bombs that detonated not only lifted the earth wall, but also lifted the t34 turret directly up to more than ten meters high.

The infantry pilot tactics have achieved results. Six t34/57, which were hidden by Kavsky, were not effective at all. They only destroyed two 31 tanks and were beaten to death by the infantry guided by a larger number of tanks. Seeing that the killer weapon was destroyed, Kavsky had no choice but to order the entire infantry to press forward and try to fight a city war. Ula's charge sounded throughout the small city, and the small place instantly turned into flesh and blood.

In hell, soldiers from both sides repeatedly strangled around the earth walls and buildings, and the bodies were scattered everywhere. Although the number of national defense forces was small, their firepower was more advantageous. The HJ32 machine gun was more powerful than the DP. Each squad was equipped with grenade guns and submachine guns, and the battalion level was equipped with four 84mm recoilless cannons. Even if there were individual weapons, the H32 semi-automatic rifle using 10 round magazine was faster than the Soviet Mosinggana hand-pull bolt.

Facing the National Wehrmacht that surrounded three sides, Kafsky had to lead more than 1,000 remaining troops out of the battle at 5 pm. A second-line infantry division blocked the opponent's armored regiment and an infantry regiment for four consecutive hours, and destroyed 21 Type 31 tanks, which was considered to have exceeded the task, but this success was overdue due to strategic failure. Losing Bukharin means a huge loophole appeared in the west of Samarkand. On the contrary, after realizing that the new anti-tank gun could cause fatal damage to the Type 31 tank, Du Yuming reacted faster and decisively shortened the rest time. With a continuous left hook, he occupied Navoy 70 kilometers away in the morning of the next day, completely opening the road to Samarkand.

"That's great! Sun Chuanfang has been holding back in Afghanistan for two years and can finally do a good job. This left hook is good!" After Du Yuming took Bukharin and Navoy in the front line command of the Tashkent Battle in Shimkent, Xu Shuzheng also shouted happily a few times. Even Dai Jintang and the staff were very happy, because the journey from Bukharin and Navoy to Samarkand was smooth and there was no danger to defend at all.

"Take Navoy, the west of Samarkand is open. There are 15 main players from Xie Ruyi and Sun Chuanfang attacking from both sides of the north and south. Samarkand is basically sure." Yue Peng, who stayed to inspect, nodded, picked up the teacup and covered his hands, his eyes circled around and fell on Tashkent: "Look at this place now, this turtle shell is really a brain-damaging sutra."

Seeing his worried look, Xu Shuzheng comforted him: "Don't be anxious. Eat Samarkand, Apanashenko's final retreat route was also broken, and only a large turtle formation left, can he fly to the sky?" Yue Peng nodded after hearing this, remembering the new anti-tank gun reported by Du Yuming, and said attentively: "By the way, the new anti-tank gun that Du Yuming mentioned should be sent to Zhengzhou immediately. I will arrange a special personnel test to see what new things Stalin has created."

"Don't worry, I've arranged a plane to go." Xu Shuzheng finished speaking, just as he was about to continue to arrange reinforcements for Du Yuming to expand the power of his left hook, the communications officer hurriedly ran in. After saluting him and Yue Peng, he reported: "Report, Beijing urgently sent a message. Let the Chief of Staff and Commander Xu go back to the meeting immediately."

"Oh? What happened?"

"Report to the Chief of Staff, I just received the news that the German army has landed in Norway!"... (To be continued...)
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