May 2, 4:30 pm.

Looking at the long-distance snake-B type combat attack aircraft group, Zhukov looked at his watch and breathed a sigh of relief. The time required for returning, refueling and changing ammunition was enough to ensure that the opponent could not come before nightfall. "Extinguish the remaining fire, please Comrade Golikov come to me, what did the scout find?"

Zhukov began to prepare for the attack. First, he ordered the extinguishing of the remaining fire on the surface, because as long as there was no fire, the night bombing in the open areas was a waste of ammunition, so that it could ensure that there would be no air strikes before the war began. As tanks and armored vehicles hiding in the woods, with camouflage nets drove out from the hidden place, a large number of infantry and trucks began to gather in the officer's whistle. Looking north from Uletao Mountain, the front of the 50-kilometer-wide front was filled with Soviet soldiers.

When Philip Ivanovic Golikov, commander of the Don River Army, arrived at the command post, most of the officers had arrived. The staff first drew a long red sign from Satepayev along the Ullotau Mountain according to the report of the scouts. When he saw Golikov coming in, Zhukov immediately pointed to the red line: "Comrade Golikov, look here. They built a 47-kilometer-long mound of soil in the front of the Ullotau Mountain from Ullotau to Satepayev. The northernmost part is three meters high, 17 kilometers long, and the middle section is slightly shorter. From the appearance, the mound of soil will affect the charge of the infantry."

Golikov, commander of the Don River Army, was a brave general during the Civil War. He graduated from the famous Fulongzhi Military Academy and served as the director of the General Staff Reconnaissance Bureau during the Great Purge. After the war began, he was transferred to the Don River to be responsible for the formation of a new force. Stalin was preparing to appoint Temuxingo as the commander of the Don River Army to support Zhukov, but considering that Temuxingo's position is higher than that of Zhukov and is difficult to command, he asked him to lead the troops to support the counterattack.

As the commander of the infantry army, he attached great importance to this sudden mound. So he immediately asked about the detailed height, size and size. In the end, he grabbed the commander of the 7th Tank Army Akhal Eugene. Peter Nikolayevich Akhal Eugene was the former commander of the 13th Tank Army of Kalinin. After the East Kazakhstan defeat, Stalin, who was eager to supplement the Eastern Front, transferred a large number of tank soldiers and officers from Ukraine and Kalinin. He was assigned to the Siberian Front and followed Zhukov to participate in the Soviet-Finn War. He was the two meritorious tank army commanders who opened the isthmus. He was appointed to the Siberian Front and followed Zhukov to participate in the Soviet-Finn War. He was the commander of the two meritorious tank army that opened the isthmus.

One. Another Major General Balanov served as the commander of the Fifth Tank Army. He is currently advancing deep northward, trying to bypass Ullatau Mountain. Ahar Eugene immediately found the key point from the description: "Their troops must be insufficient! Therefore, a three-meter-high mound was used in the distance to the north (the Soviet army did not know that there were fill containers under the mound in the north). Such mounds could block the progress of the tanks. But the harm was not very great. Tank guns could smash such mounds. The mounds in the middle were only two meters high, and the slope was very large, which would not affect the tank charge."

Hearing Akhar Eugene say this, Golikov thought about it and immediately suggested: "Comrade Akhar Eugene's words are of great reference value. Their defense forces are insufficient, so they must be deployed in the mountain slopes and hilltop positions of the mound. The mound is to expose my infantry to the open heights when climbing over. So I suggest that there is no need to waste shells on the mound. The artillery scale should be set at a distance of 500-1,000 meters behind the mound, and to kill their defensive infantry and anti-tank firepower, and start in twenty minutes. At the same time, tank troops are dispatched to escort the assault division to the mound, so that the infantry can shorten the attack distance of the infantry. As long as the tanks can protect the infantry and rush up, the enemy's long-range fire-killing threat can be minimized, and their night bombers will also dare not bomb at will because of the soldiers entangled with each other."

Zhukov nodded. Although he was worried about the sudden appearance of the mound, the problem was that he had no choice. Due to the repeated bombing and harassment of the Chinese Air Force, he had lost nearly half of his baggage, and the attack was ahead of schedule. The shells that should have been replenished before departure have just been transported from Chelyabinsk. This resulted in his powerful artillery, but only 110 shells per gun. If too many shells were wasted on the mound, it would be impossible to form a covering suppression firepower on the living forces behind. So after thinking about it, he asked, "Where has the Fifth Tank Army been?"

"Here, there are still 130 kilometers away from Kurgason. It is expected to cross Kurgason tomorrow evening. At the latest, you can detour the rear of Uletao Mountain and attack them to open the gap." Ahal Eugene quickly pointed out the location of the Fifth Tank Army and said: "From previous experience, every Chinese military base is equipped with a strong tank force. The Second Army opposite us has participated in the civil war, European war and Japanese war. Such a force must be

There are a large number of tanks, and I expect the total to be between 300 and 350. Their tanks are better than us, and if they cannot be dragged here with fierce attacks, it is likely to be a threat to Comrade Balanov. So my suggestion is to take an uninterrupted attack and use force to hold them back to buy time for Comrade Balanov. As long as his tank army and three infantry divisions go around behind, we can quickly open the situation and avoid entanglement and go to Kizilorda."

"Comrade Ahhar Eugene, don't be too nervous about their tanks. We also have a weapon comparable to t34/57." Golikov is worthy of being a political person and speaks very encouragingly. He smiled and said: "Our total strength has 25 infantry divisions, 2 tank troops, plus artillery divisions and other troops, and there are 410,000. The enemy has only 7 divisions, including Kizilorda, and there are only 11 divisions, which cannot stop us."

Golikov has the reason for self-confidence, not only because the total strength of the National Defense Forces on the opposite side is only 170,000, but also for this counterattack, the Moscow General Staff began to prepare for this counterattack last winter. Stalin also attaches great importance to Zhukov's counterattack tactics from east to west, so he specially strengthens his troops. The Fifth and Ninth Tank Army have been incorporated into a total of 7 tank divisions/brigades, with 1,976 tank types, of which the latest t34/57 has 1.

There are 32 vehicles, 1,100 t34/76. In order to implement the tactic of shortening the offensive distance, the remaining ones are fast tanks such as bt5, bt7, and t26. Not only that, Zhukov was equipped with a total of 1,626 large-caliber howitzers (Soviet military standard, 122 mm including or above are heavy artillery), of which the main 122 mm howitzers are 1,187. 152 mm howitzers are 40.

7, 26 B4 203mm howitzers, and 6 M1939 280mm howitzers (Br5). Although Golikov's Don Army belongs to an infantry cluster, Stalin also ordered it to strengthen it before departure, bringing not only 400 T34/76 tanks, but also 832 heavy artillery. It also requires the rear factory to produce two T34s, and one must be sent to Alcarek and Asnata, the closest to the battlefield. After 5 months of crazy replenishment, Zhukov currently has 7,635 guns of various types. There are more than 30,000 machine guns. In order to speed up the movement, the long-distance raid counterattack mobilized more than 4,370 vehicles and tractors, 4,100 carriages, and more than 20,000 livestock of various types. More than 40,000 local residents were recruited to ensure transportation.

Finally, more than 3,000 aircraft were deployed at all field airports around. According to the original words of the Politburo of the Moscow General Staff Department, even if the aircraft is not as good as the opponent, use a collision! It is necessary to ensure the smoothness of this counterattack.

Zhukov has also been listening to the officers' words. The most difficult problem for him is supply. He is very clear that this counterattack must be rapid, because the East Kazakh-Karaganda railway built by the National Defense Army with prisoners of war from last winter was only 200 kilometers away from here. Moreover, because the 29th Army did not have time to destroy the railway in the Kyzilorda blocking battle, the railway from Almaty to Kyzilorda has been opened to traffic with the end of last month, and it is also 200 kilometers away. This means that if it cannot be resolved as soon as possible, once it is brought up by the opponent's reserve team, he is likely to be blocked here! So after repeated thinking, it was decided to order all heavy artillery to place the ruler 500-2,000 meters behind the mound according to Golikov's opinion. He also concentrated his efforts to shell the slopes and hills on the east side of the mountain. Then he ordered the 76mm artillery in the army to destroy the mound.

But he didn't know that he had made a big mistake!

At about eight o'clock in the night, Soviet soldiers dragged a heavy artillery into the artillery position. The artillery aimed the muzzle at the slope and hill behind the mound according to the ruler. "For the sake of the Soviets, fire the gun!"

2122 heavy artillery were deployed intensively at a terrible distance of 30 gates per kilometer. In a loud shout, the defense line of Wuletao Mountain in the dark was instantly ignited by artillery fire! The entire slope on the eastern slope of Wuletao Shandong was full of dense fireballs, and the shells hit the hard volcanic sedimentary rocks, bursting out deafening sounds. The entire mountain range was trembling, moaning, and bleeding! Even in Liu Mingzhao's memoirs after the war, he wrote this way: "In the whole war, what made me most worried and nervous was not the enemy's tanks, not the fortresses, nor the new weapons, but the Soviet artillery cluster."

The overwhelming shells were covered with overwhelming, and the weaving was as dense as raindrops. Even though the Uletao Mountain was hard, Liu Mingzhao hid most of the main force in the western slope bomb-avoiding area and used thousands of tons of cement reinforcement fortifications, but the continuous artillery fire still made all the soldiers look blue, and some even closed their eyes and gritted their teeth to endure the urge to escape. Fortunately, due to the long-term precautions, Zhukov lacked supply ammunition, the firepower coverage intensity was only half as strong as Liu Mingzhao expected, so it did not play a big role. According to post-war statistics, only 1,300 casualties were caused. The anti-tank gun positions deployed on the east slope were clever and reinforced with thick cement. Only 19 were destroyed, and the remaining were intact.

"Transport the shells! Hurry up, hurry up! Hunting and killing tanks must be in place within ten minutes!"

In order to prevent being lured by artillery fire, all anti-tank positions had no shells at this time, and the hunting tanks were even evacuated early. So when the Soviet artillery fire weakened, Liu Mingzhao immediately ordered the shells to be transported. When the soldiers transported the shells to be transported with artillery fire, two hunting tank battalions with all BDD-plus armored, a total of 44 hunting tigers and 28 hunting tiger-bit hunting tanks (35-year-old 85mm hunting tank nicknamed tiger-bit, and 105mm called tiger-bit) also entered the semi-buried bunker that the engineers were cleaning up along the predetermined passage.

Just when the First Army was busiest, the Soviet tank cluster that launched a charge under the cover of artillery fire had entered a 13-kilometer fire circle. 220 t34/57 and t34/76 were the main force of the arrows, covering 362 fast tanks and 120 troop transport tractors/trucks, carrying three infantry divisions and more than 28,000 infantrymen to launch a charge. At the same time, Zhukov also divided 200 t34/76 and four infantry divisions to attack Sartpaev south, trying to drag the national defense force in the direction of Rezkazgan to prevent it from reinforcement of the Uletao Mountain defense line.

"Ula!Ula!"

The plains on the east side of Wuletao were full of crazy Ula sounds. In order to shorten the attack distance and prevent being suppressed by artillery soldiers and being blocked by bombers that would definitely come, a large number of Soviet infantry sat directly on tanks and tractors without any protection, and even directly threw in some tractors and trucks to follow the tanks to transport troops. This armored assault tactic, similar to the Japanese pig-strike tactic, was particularly crazy! Faced with the Soviet army, who was determined to shorten the distance and fight hand-to-hand combat, Liu Mingzhao's answer was very simple.

Two thunder 1937 Type 210mm Howitzer Battalion deployed in the north of the mountain range, three 155mm Howitzer Battalion, three 105mm Howitzer Battalion, five 85mm field artillery battalion and one 105 self-propelled howitzer battalion opened fire together. At the same time, deployed in the hidden area of ​​the hill, 16 old K16 type 150mm cannons removed from Karakum Fortress were also aimed at the rushing Soviet tank cluster. The k16 was an artillery star in the last European war. The National Defense Forces had equipped a large amount of equipment and dealt with after the war.

In the distribution plan of the German fire, 600 were selected to bring back the country, and the total number of the entire army was more than 1,500. Although it was eliminated from the front line due to problems such as overweight and caliber, most of them were used for protection of second-line and fortification fortresses, Liu Mingzhao was attracted by its range of 22,800 meters that only had a 210mm howitzer, straight and accurate trajectory and the power of 52 kilograms of shells, and deliberately removed it from the Karakum Fortress, and used more than 100 transport aircraft to transport all 16 guns and supporting ammunition artillery to strengthen the defense line.

Although the 484-barrel cannon cannot be compared with Zhukov's artillery, Liu Mingzhao also has his own killer weapon, which is the 107mm rocket launcher in his hand. However, he is not the kind of officer who likes to lift all the trump cards at once, so he temporarily detains more than 100 rocket launchers. The shells are constantly exploded in the charge of the Soviet army, and from time to time you can see tanks and trucks that are broken by the shells, especially the k16 cannons in the bunker on the top of the mountain and the excellent German Krupp craftsmanship. Even in the past twenty years, he can still accurately hit the running Soviet tanks and tractors.

The shells of both sides were strangled together, and the soldiers were split into pieces in the explosion, but neither Zhukov, who came up with the armored pig burst tactics or Liu Mingzhao, who kept killing soldiers, were moved. This is their war. Compared with the entire victory, the sacrifice number is always the last consideration.

“Open the light!”

At this moment, the battlefield suddenly lit up. After special modification, 12 T26 fast tanks equipped with high-power searchlights suddenly turned on the lights, and 12 snow-lit lamp posts pierced the soft soil mounds a few kilometers away, pointing the direction for the Soviet armored pig burst clusters in the darkness and the explosive fireballs. Seeing these modified tracked searchlights, Liu Mingzhao's mouth slowly curled up: "This Zhukov has so many ideas." The staff and officers behind him nodded unconsciously, and their eyes were all focused on the special trench covered with thin wooden boards in front of the pile, and were disguised.

"There are 500 meters left! Speed ​​up! Get ready to climb the hill! Be careful of infantry in the machine gun!" Captain Xinianke, who was commanding the assault, saw the mound of soil under the searchlight getting closer and closer through the observation window, and shouted excitedly: "Run over is victory! Comrades, rush and wait, what is that? What's going on? What's going on!" But Captain Xinianke was too happy. Before rushing out 300 meters, his eyes suddenly bulged out, as if he had seen a ghost! It turned out that in front of the observation window, a row of T34 tanks that had just been preparing to climb the hill were like staggering war horses, and they rushed forward and fell.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the t34/57 under his seat seemed to step on the air. The 25-ton car body leaned forward quickly, and then it thrust down like falling from a cliff, and its butt was raised high.
Chapter completed!