The night was as thick as ink, and everything was quiet. The depressed atmosphere before the war made it impossible for both soldiers to breathe. Through the effective blockade of seven days and at the cost of suspending the Tashkent encirclement and annihilation battle, Xu Shuzheng and Liu Mingzhao actively cooperated. At the Algarbass to Tardesa, on the Algabas to Tardesa, east of Uleta, hedgehog gathered 6,500 105mm, 155mm, 130mm car-mounted rocket launchers and 210mm howitzers. Behind each gun position were piles of ammunition. Each shell was full of insulting words. The soldiers vented their anger and emotions in their own way.

At one o'clock in the morning, when a harsh current passed through the headphones, the night was ignited instantly. The National Wehrmacht artillery, who had just been blown up by Zhukov's artillery a week ago, pulled the firing rope at the same time. Rumble, the rumbling fireballs rose from 12 kilometers, and the deadly Soviet position was suddenly broken by the sound of the shaking cannons. The entire defense line was like a volcano erupting! The earth trembled, and the sky changed color! A cluster of mushrooms expanded, rushing to hundreds of meters in the air.

The big clouds of smoke gathered into a whole piece, and loud noises were enough to shatter the eardrums. The exposed cover trenches were knocked dizzy and fled in a hurry. In a blink of an eye, the exposed positions on the ground had been blown to pieces, and the soldiers were buried alive by the collapsed trenches, and more people were blown to pieces. The broken limbs and arms and broken internal organs were mixed with earth and rocks and were thrown high into the air. The shock wave visible to the naked eye was like a gel, repeatedly washing the entire surface!

The terrible artillery fire seemed endless, with heavy ammunition trucks running back and forth in pieces, and no one would pity the enemy. The artillerymen pulled their clothes and shot out heavy shells in sweat. There was no need to look at the target or distinguish them. The entire order was only one within 40 minutes, and they would hit as much as they could!

In the attack position in front of the artillery, 212 heavy tanks were waiting quietly. The commanders pushed open the hatch cover and smoked big mouths to relieve their boredom. The gunner repeatedly checked the scope and counted the orange bullets on the chain. Behind and around the tank, there were elite commandos with helmets, wearing obvious white sleeves, and holding various weapons. The fierce artillery fire and the stagnant air made everyone sweat.

"Get the bayonet!"

The long-lost strange words made the soldiers who were responsible for the first round of assault missions boiled blood. Snowy bayonets came out, and under the reflection of the artillery fire, the cold light was like blood!

Du Zishan, 51, was gray-haired. He pushed the guard away and jumped into the trenches like a young man. As a major general commander of the 49th Infantry Division of the Second Army, his resume was dazzling in the eyes of soldiers. In the Qingdao meat grinder battle, the first Chinese infantry to break through the Ziggift defense line on the Western Front of France, and the Reniver City War chased the German vanguard. "Leggings are important, so that you can gain strength! No, your grenade cannot be hung too far behind. You must lower your head and run according to the 33 tactics! The sight at night is poor, you must follow the squad leader and sacrifice, and the deputy squad leader must stand out in time. The machine gun must suppress the firepower point. Yes, shout when running. The louder the better, and echo each other! Before jumping into the trenches, throw the grenade first! Don't think that the cannon can clear the Russians. I've seen artillery preparations that are several times stronger than this one."

Du Zishan moved forward in the trench. He comforted the soldiers to check their equipment and personally adjusted some soldiers who were not prepared properly. The division commander's personal care made many soldiers clamp the guns in his hands clatter. Finally, he picked up the rifle and raised his fingers high to the tip of the knife: "This. It makes you more courageous! It's not about killing the enemy! You are happier than me back then. The rifle is faster than the Russians, and the lower magazine is loaded faster! So use your brain more and use more bullets, and the bullets are always faster than assassination!"

"Who brings the first wave?"

"Report to the commander of the division, it's me." The thirty-year-old assault commander stood up.

"There are 70,000 Russians on the other side! They are hiding in the trenches waiting for you! So you not only have to complete the mission, but also have to take good care of your brothers!" Du Zishan, who had personally experienced the bloody quagmire pool on the Western Front, held the commander's hand hard. He understood how terrible the enemy who resisted stubbornly was.

The regiment commander was excited and hot all over: "Don't worry, the division commander, I can't take the position, I'll come to see you!"

"good!"

As soon as he finished speaking, three red flares suddenly appeared in the sky. Before the charge could sound, Du Zishan had already drawn out his gun and handed it to the regiment commander: "This was seized from a German general back then. Hold it! Remember one sentence! Infantry is the king of war! Infantry can truly solve the battle! Go, kill them all! Fight!"

"Kill and kill!"

"Defense Forces Attack!"

With 5 minutes left before the end of the artillery fire, bulldozers and tanks were the first to jump out of their attack positions. The air was filled with deafening engine roars and the pungent smell of insufficient combustion of diesel.

Almost as soon as the tank moved, Golikov, who was commanding the broken rear, jumped out of the bunker. At this time, the staff were already panicked, and they didn't expect that Liu Mingzhao could gather such a powerful artillery firepower cluster. "Don't tell me the loss! Enter the position, you must block the enemy!" Golikov roared angrily. He knew that if the broken rear failed, he would not only be done by himself, Zhukov, but even Lu Jin's flank would be done!

So, this is the place for the decisive battle!

The officers also knew that the responsibility was heavy and rushed into the position to mobilize soldiers regardless of artillery fire. However, the National Defense Force's firepower was too strong, which completely suppressed the Soviet army to be unable to look up from the surface. Many soldiers were holding guns and were shocked to death by shell explosions in the bunker! As the last shell fell, the Soviet soldiers had not yet taken a breath, and there were already batches of bulldozers and tanks in front of the position. Compared with Zhukov who was not prepared, Liu Mingzhao took steady steps. The lineup of fifty heavy-engineered tanks was a model of mechanized combat.

"Let's fire! Open fire!"

In Golikov's shout, the Soviet army's position was fully fired, and countless dazzling lines of fire rushed out of the high ground and rushed towards the steel giant beasts. The tracer bullets fired by the machine guns formed the magnificent line of the Ghost Scythe. However, the Soviet army's artillery fire was much weaker than the previous few days. Bulldozers and tanks with thick armor ignored damage at all. Even if they were occasionally hit on the side or exploded by grenades on the engine, they would not stop.

After the steel torrent broke through the defense line, tens of thousands of elite assault officers and soldiers faced the flames and leaped into the trenches along the passage opened by the tanks. While clearing the trenches, bulldozers and fire-breathing tanks also cooperated with each other to continue strangling the Soviet army on the second-line. The submachine gun firepower was fierce, and the remaining Soviet army continued to kill the remaining enemies in the position. The remaining Soviet army used human sea tactics to block the gap. The explosion and gunfire sound were connected in the position, with corpses and blood everywhere.

Du Zishan's care played a role. With the dense grenades opening the way, the 3,000 elite veterans of the 49th Mass Division quickly rushed to the highland marked 203. In just two hours, the 203 highland was completely broken. However, the commando leader who was the commando and was given a gun by Du Zishan died here to cover his comrades. When the body was carried down, he still held a pistol.

He didn't care about his sadness. After receiving the news, Liu Mingzhao immediately sent a 210mm heavy self-propelled howitzer battalion, climbed up to a 300-meter high ground to aim at Golikov's flank. The heavy 110-kilogram high-explosive grenade was condescending and smashed it hard at the enemy from five kilometers away.

Golikov was unwilling to lose his position. In order to block the gap, a whole division was sent to regain the position. The soldiers of the 49th Mofan Division tried their best to protect the artillery position. At the same time, although Golikov did not arrange the Golan trench, the traditional V-shaped anti-tank trench still delayed the advancement of the tank. In order to open the gap, not only the engineering tanks rushed to the front. The combat engineers also used blasting tubes to continuously blow up the gap. In order to compete for the gap, the soldiers on both sides repeatedly strangled and fired at each other. In order to deal with the tank breakthrough, the commando organized by Golikov finally drilled under the tank's belly with cluster grenades. The elite commando of the National Defense Forces vowed to protect the tank safety with a dense rain of bullets.

As time went by, the heroic combat engineers finally broke through more and more gaps with their flesh and blood. Along the gap, the tank cluster rushed to the trenches in the explosion. They repeatedly fired with synchronous machine guns, and many gunners were aiming at targets within a hundred meters. When the first dawn light poked out, all five high grounds in Algarbas had been captured. Behind the trenches filled with corpses, more than a dozen soldiers faced the artillery fire and joined forces to insert the national flag at the top. This picture was later photographed by military reporters and became a symbol of the victory of the Chinese National Defense Forces and return to Central Asia.

Algarbas's defeat caused Golikov, who had cut off the rear, to completely fail. By 3:00 pm, 30,000 of the 70,000 troops in the trough of the rear were directly killed, and the rest were either captured or fled in scattered ways. Even Commander Golikov was missing (it was later confirmed that he was rescued by the cavalry at the last moment and chased Zhukov's main force).

After defeating the Golikov army, Liu Mingzhao did not rest at all. He immediately ordered the 103rd Division and the 2nd Armored Division to follow the Soviet army. All the soldiers worked hard, and even had to eat with canned food while eating. Under this crazy pursuit battle, Zhukov's rear was constantly surrounded and cut. On May 11, after two consecutive days of pursuit battle, Zhukov borrowed the natural chasm of the Kuranutpes River and barely arranged a defense line. But before he could gain a foothold, Liu Mingzhao first used 12 divisions to confront him across the river, and then unexpectedly used the two Kazakh independent cavalry divisions stationed in Karaganda as arrows, crossing the river from Kievka, 80 kilometers northeast, and appeared behind him in just one day and one night.

When the National Defense Force had already cancelled the division-level cavalry organization, Zhukov never expected that Liu Mingzhao would use ancient cavalry tactics and suddenly fell into a passive state. Facing the National Defense Force surrounded from all directions, he had to give up the defense line that had been guarding for one day and drill into the Kurgarkin Forest. But when he crawled out of the forest to meet Lu Jin, Wu Qiwen and others who had been waiting here for a few days immediately launched a sneak attack! After two days and two nights of sleepless strangulation, Zhukov encountered the most painful failure. The troops were beaten from the initial 25 divisions, two tank troops and the 30,000 miscellaneous troops that were successively added one after another, and less than four divisions were successfully broken through, and the rest were surrounded and annihilated.

After eating Zhukov's main force, Liu Mingzhao not only did not weaken Zhuo Fan's armored cluster, but also handed him over the two armored divisions that Karaganda came to command. In this way, Zhuo Fan's armored divisions increased to 5, as well as 1 mechanic and infantry division and 1 cavalry division. He did not disappoint Liu Mingzhao's expectations. After eating Alkarek, it took only three days to take the 23rd Armored Division and the Polish 1st Armored Division to Atbasar, 210 kilometers northeast of Alkarek. Then he cleverly used

A captured T34 battalion used as bait, disguised as Zhukov's defeated troops, and easily tricked the defenders into capturing the train station in the west. When Lu Jin learned the news and ordered the garrison to retake the train station, the two armored divisions had already rushed into the city in lightning speed. Not only did they cut off the railway line to Ufa, but they also seized a total of 210 brand new T34/76 tanks prepared to be sent to the Kazakh Front, as well as a large number of materials and ammunition, including 500 122mm heavy artillery.

The railway line to the west was broken, Zhukov was defeated, and Lujin's flank was completely exposed to the powerful armored division of the National Defense Forces, forcing him to give up his attack. He led 55 divisions to retreat to Chelinograd (now Asnata) and Kokchetav (now Kokchetau). But the troops were only halfway through, and bad news came. Two armored regiments and three infantry divisions led by Ye Weixun and Xu Xiangqian detoured for 370 kilometers, suddenly appeared in Succinsk, southeast of Kokchetav, and seized the Siniuha Mountain Heights at an altitude of 947 meters that afternoon.

The Sinukha Mountain Highland is a natural barrier between Succinsk and Kokchetav. Standing on the hill, you can directly look down at the train line heading south from Petropavlovsk. The strategic position is extremely important. Therefore, in order to regain the highland, Lujin ordered five infantry divisions stationed in Kokchetav, plus three divisions of his vanguard, and a total of eight divisions launched a continuous attack on the highland. During the three days and three nights of siege, Lujin's Kazakh Front paid the price of 40,000 casualties. He was still unable to seize the highland, forcing him to give up the railway line and go west to the wilderness to try to detour to Petropavlovsk.

But he did not expect that Zhuo Fan, who grabbed Atbasar, had been waiting for him in the wasteland. At this time, Zhuo Fan's strength increased again because he used an aircraft to transport more than 1,000 tank soldiers and directly organized a total of 259 t34/76, 51 t26 and other tanks seized along the way into the sixth armored division. Faced with the frontal interception of three armored divisions, although Lu Jin invested a tank army and five infantry divisions, he was still entangled by Zhuo Fan and could not break through.

At this time, Liu Mingzhao had already pulled out a total of 55 divisions south of Akdem Mountain and merged into a huge arrow that spreads 300 kilometers westward. Just like Schriefen's revolving gate, with Akdem Mountain as the central axis, sweeping thousands of troops from south to north! At the farthest end of this large arc is Zhuofan's armored cluster.

Seeing that they were about to be surrounded, Lujin and Zhukov had to cut off their tails to survive and led their troops to the north into the Thousand Lakes. Just as they passed by Sherettiangiz Lake, they encountered the main force of Longyun who was interspersing westward. Knowing that this terrain armored troops could not move and could not eat their opponents in one breath, Longyun decisively gave up the idea of ​​completely encircling and led his troops to cut off Lujin's front and back contact. In the end, Lujin and Zhukov had a total of 80 divisions, and 3 tank troops (3 tank divisions per army) had only 19 main divisions back to Petropavlovsk. In addition, Zhuo Fan had been passing by and successively ate and expelled the troops in the encirclement. There were 75 divisions, and 720,000 Soviet troops were surrounded in the large triangle area of ​​Chelinograd, Suchinsk and Atbasar.

One old and one young, based on just eight divisions and three armored divisions, completed a deep interlude span of 600 kilometers. Although Zhuo Fan was unstoppable, Liu Mingzhao also defeated the large-scale offensive tactics like mercury, forcing Zhukov and Lu Jin to make continuous mistakes, and finally successfully surrounded the main force.

On May 21, after Liu Mingzhao's main force arrived, Zhuo Fan set out again and showed up to the southwest of Kokchetav. Interestingly, just when he was trying to attack, Ye Weixun and Xu Xiangqian also met with Long Yun, brought an armored division, and four infantry divisions volunteered to figure out how to attack the city from the east. Since there was no prior notice, both troops thought that the other side was the enemy, and their own artillery bombarded each other across five kilometers. Fortunately, they were discovered by the reconnaissance pilot in time, and the shelling lasted only less than five minutes, causing seventeen soldiers to be injured and a big mistake.

Yang Qiu did not wait for the final triangular area to encircle and annihilate. After learning that Liu Mingzhao's main force crossed the Ishim River, he knew that even if the gods came, they could not save the festering Petropavlovsk, and even Tashkent was no longer important. So he took Jiang Baili, who came to meet, and set off for Riyadh that night.

Just as he left Central Asia, Li Zhenzhong, Director of the Asian Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau, also quietly came to Saigon...
Chapter completed!