Whether the United States intervenes early or not can change the situation in Central Asia. There are only two competitors in this inner mainland that are bigger than Europe.

East of Ullatau Mountain, Algarbas.

On the slope of the hillside, the Soviet soldiers buried their heads and used engineer shovels to build positions and build fortifications. The troops that were still very morale before departure were already dead. Apart from the sound of dust flying, there was almost no sound. This cannot be blamed on the soldiers. Five tank divisions, eight infantry divisions, more than 30,000 artillery pieces of various types and half of the baggage were lost in three days and three nights. The price was too great. So when the news came back to Moscow, Stalin sent a telegram to the army, and he was angry and wanted to lift Zhukov's command. In the end, Golikov pleaded for mercy, so he asked him to continue commanding the crime and made meritorious service for the sake of winning the Sufen War.

Zhukov temporarily saved his seat, but the situation was already very bad. From his perspective, he actually wanted to retreat, because after the Fifth Tank Army was annihilated, it meant that this unit could easily go south along Uletao Mountain to attack him. However, Stalin stubbornly refused any reason to withdraw. The telegram not only asked to continue the attack, but also said that twenty divisions would be transferred to support.

"Twenty divisions? We don't have so many troops." Golikov looked disbelief. For the sake of the Eastern Front, Ufa and Don River were all drawn. At present, there are only 160 regular divisions east of the Caspian Sea and east of the Urals. Among them, 40 divisions of the Siberian Front were in the Siberian and Ural areas. Because Zhukov took away 15 divisions, half of them were still on the way from Europe. The Karakar Pakstan Front had 25 divisions to ensure the Gaogang barrier east of the Caspian Sea, 55 divisions of the Kazakhstan Front, and the remaining 17 divisions on its own, plus the garrison troops scattered in Alkarek, Chelinograd (now Asnata), Kokchetav (now Kokshetao) and other places, no troops could be drawn.

As for Tashkent, he had no idea that after the mobilization of Persia, the Caucasus and Europe, there had been more than 250 divisions, but most of the new recruits who were not satisfied with the organization and lacked weapons were the only ones to guard against the German Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic Sea, which had 82 divisions, but even if they were transported, there was not enough time.

"Comrade Golikov, there are no reinforcements. Comrade Stalin hopes to keep us going in this way." Zhukov shook his head. He knew best whether there were reinforcements. After the failure of the Fifth Tank Army, the garrisons of the three states of Akjiubinsk, Kostanai and Turgei were all facing threats, so it was impossible to draw, and Lujin's main force was dragged down again. Therefore, Stalin's so-called reinforcements were actually the Red Guards and guerrillas armed after the war.

He guessed right. In the afternoon, the first reinforcements finally arrived to meet. The reinforcements claimed to be one division were actually only 2,200, most of them were farmers and workers. They were wearing various clothes and were also pieced together with transportation tools. What's even more exaggerated is that on average, they only had one gun for every four people, and the entire division had only 2,500 bullets.

Although I was extremely disappointed, no matter what, it was finally supplemented. Golikov immediately handed over the guns and ammunition of the injured soldiers to them and spread them to the various troops. By the evening, more than 2,000 remaining soldiers who fled from Kurgasen and the supply transport teams from the Ishim River arrived, but when he set out, there were only half of them. The rest were all blown up by the Chinese Air Force on the way.

Compared with insufficient troops and insufficient supply, Zhukov's headache was where the sudden enemy would move? In order to figure out the scale and direction, he immediately found the soldiers who fled back. But the entire interrogation process was messy. The soldiers only knew that there were many Manchuria tiger tanks, but no one could tell the details clearly. Some said there were one thousand vehicles, some said there were five hundred, and even more outrageously said there were five thousand.

The judgement of the officers and staff was also extremely chaotic. Some said that the other party would go south along Ullatau Mountain, some said that they would continue to go north to Alkarek, some said that they would attack Akjubinsk Oblast directly westward, and some said that they would turn around and go southwest to go between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea to attack the Karakar Pakstan Front. Due to the lack of sufficient intelligence and the loss of air supremacy, even Zhukov and Golikov could not make accurate judgments, so they had to decide to defend and wait for information on the spot.

Compared with Zhukov, Zhuofan was much happier. After a day off, the convoy of supplies from Agadr replenished ammunition and oil, and brought a large amount of food and medicine. Then he took the train from Shimkent to Kizilorda, and then transferred to the truck to 3,877 infantrymen from the Polish Legion (Rodz is a Polish place name) also arrived smoothly to meet, not only replenishing the infantry that had been lost before, but also the multi-functional engineering tank battalion that came with them, but also solved the problem of the troops lacking engineering tanks.

Finally, Yue Peng, Chief of Staff of the National Defense Forces, Xu Shuzheng, Commander of the War Zone, Qin Zhangshu, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Kukor, Supreme Commander of the Polish Legion, and Prince Ailin, Commander-in-Chief of the Kazakh Independent Army, also sent a letter of commendation, and officially reorganized his team into the 23rd and 37th Armored Divisions of the National Defense Forces, jointly awarding the honors of the Tiger Division. Major General Odzinski's 10th Armored Brigade and the Rhodes Infantry Brigade were also officially adapted into the 1st Armored Division of the Chinese Polish Legion, awarding the honors of the Polish Eagle Division and the honors of the Tengre Division of the Kazakh Independent Third Cavalry Division.

There are many examples of reorganizing temporary troops into reorganized divisions in the war, but the honor of the Tiger Roar Division is not something that any unit can obtain. There are many troops in the army, but there are only 10 divisions with the tiger logo on the armband, namely the 1st Armored Division, the 2nd Armored Division, the 3rd Mechanical Infantry Division, the 11th Motorized Infantry Division, the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division, the 27th Infantry Division, the 101, 102, 103 and 104th Central Guard Division. I won’t talk about the familiar few, just talk about the 11, 22nd and 27th Divisions. The three units have participated in the Qingdao meat grinder battle. After going to France, they forcibly broke through the Ziegffei defense line in the Battle of Reneeville in the Battle of Reneeville, and in order to block the old troops that the German army surrounded and fought with six elite German divisions on the Zabar Mountain Highlands.

So Sun Chuanfang said that Chu Nan did not treat Zhuo Fan badly because the 3rd Mechanical Stage Division was the Tiger Roar Division. Now the 23rd and 37th Armored Divisions are included in the Tiger Roar Division, which not only proves the ability of the troops, but also shows that the Kurgasson Tank Battle is a turning point battle.

The same is true for the Polish First Armored Division to be awarded to the Eagle Division, and the Kazakh Independent Third Cavalry Division to be awarded to the Tengger Division.

Although the armband could not be sent down immediately, the excited soldiers immediately drew tiger patterns on their tanks. The third maneuver division, which was already honored by the Tiger Division, also drew a big tiger head on the side of the tank.

This is honor.

Three armored divisions, one mechanic and one cavalry division. Zhuo Fan was no longer willing to be an arrow so he immediately decided to divide his troops into two groups. He led Zhao Dengyu's 23rd Division and the Polish 1st Armored Division to attack Alkarek, and asked Zhou Yawei, the commander of the 23rd Division, and Wu Qiwen, the new commander of the 3rd Mechanic and Independent 3rd Cavalry Division, to lead his troops and the Kazakh Independent 3rd Cavalry Division to detour from the west of Tianjiz Lake to block Kurgarginsk and cut off Zhukov's retreat.

At noon on May 7, two armored divisions arrived at the periphery of Alcalek.

Alcarec is the capital of Turgei State and the southern gateway to enter and exit Costanai State. To the north is the Turgei Plateau and to the east is Lake Tianjiz. There was no railway here before the war began. It was not until the defeat of the Eastern Kazakh Battle that the Soviet army accelerated the construction of the Central Asia Railway Road like the National Defense Forces. Two railway troops were used to connect a temporary road of 230 kilometers from the main road of the Ishim River.

This is Zhukov's two most important material distribution points, but when Zhuo Fan arrived, he had been visited by the air force many times. Through the telescope, he could see the destroyed train station and warehouse. Because the location here is very important, once it is broken, the Turgai Plateau will be safely guarded, and the southeastern Ural gate Costana will be directly exposed to firepower, so the Soviet army has two infantry divisions here, with a total force of about 15,000 people.

Two armored divisions fought two infantry divisions, and others would definitely think they were easy to get it. But Zhuo Fan, who had experienced the city war in Kizil Orda, was very careful because he knew the difficulties of the city war. More importantly, from here on, the troops will officially enter the Slavic cultural circle. To put it simply, the Turgei Prefecture, Akmora, Costana and Northern Kazakhstan are no longer the vast and sparsely populated areas in the east, among which the two states of Costana and Akmora are the largest granaries of Kazakhstan.

The resource supplementary area of ​​the Ural industrial zone, the total population of the four states exceeds 2 million, of which more than 40% are Slavs. These people are different from Central Asian ethnic groups such as Kazakhs. They immigrated here since the Tsar era. Their thoughts, behaviors, etc. are all inclined to the Soviet Union. Moreover, after hundreds of years of subtle influence, the way of thinking and language of Kazakhs and other ethnic groups here have been Russianized, so many of them will not regard the National Defense Forces as liberators. On the contrary, they are full of hostility.

According to the investigation by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Soviet Union formed hundreds of Red Guards and guerrillas in at least these three states. Although these troops have very poor weapons and equipment and complex personnel, they may be able to wipe out all of them by putting them on the front, but if they go deep behind enemy lines, they have to be careful to avoid falling into chaos.

Major General Odzinski took the initiative to take over the task of tempting the attack. Like Zhuo Fan, he was very cautious and sent his own armored reconnaissance battalion. In order to ensure smooth attack, Zhuo Fan ordered the first to provide fire protection for the reconnaissance battalion. 24 seized 122mm howitzers (this kind of artillery is very good, so the National Defense Forces often use them in large quantities after seizure) and 16 105mm self-propelled howitzers were the first to roar. Countless fireballs were raised in the city that had been blown up by the Air Force again, and rubble and shrapnel made hissing screams in the explosion.

Using barrage cover, 29 Type 31 tanks protected the two infantry battalions and took the lead in charging forward. Captain Mergensky, who led the team, was an old officer who was very cautious in doing things. After setting off, he immediately controlled the speed and observed carefully. However, before entering the city, the 31 tank in the front still flew high like a rocket, and then tilted over to the surface.

"Mine!"

When Captain Mergensky shouted to remind everyone, a dense rain of bullets rushed out from all directions, and many Polish infantry hiding behind the tanks were caught off guard.

"Team Commander Zhao, send three battalions north to surround the rear. Artillery strengthens firepower! Minesweepers, minesweepers come up! Engineering tanks follow behind. If you see them, flatten me all you can see! Don't leave any blind spots! General Odzinski, let your people follow behind the engineering tank."... (To be continued...)
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