Guryev is located in the northwest of Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Ural River. It is the largest port city in Kazakhstan.
In 1645, Guri Nazarov, a Yaroslavl merchant who was trading with the Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate, built a wooden castle and named it Nizhny Uralburg. The castle was demolished the next year.
The Ural Cossacks sacked the castle, and the Guriev family later rebuilt the castle with stone between 1647 and 1662. Tsar Alexei sent an army to garrison the castle to guard against Cossack invasions, but in 16
Between 1670 and 1668, the Cossack army led by Stepan Razin once again occupied the castle. As time went by, the strategic significance of the castle gradually diminished, and in 1810, the castle was demolished.
, a city spontaneously formed around the original castle.
After the founding of the Soviet Union, due to Guriyev's important geographical location at the junction of Europe and Asia, the emergence of the Tengis Oil Field and the Kashagan Oil Field, and the discovery of coal and iron along the Weir River in the north, Guriyev
It became an energy and mineral supply center. During the Soviet Union's First and Second Five-Year Plans, oil refineries, power plants, textile factories, cement plants, sand and gravel plants, chemical plants, metal smelting plants, and steel were built in Guriyev
Factory, tractor factory and other enterprises, Guriyev became an important industrial center city in Kazakhstan.
After An Yi arrived in Guryev, he reviewed the troops at the airport and immediately visited Guryev accompanied by Huang Yingwu, director of the Guryev Military Control Commission, He Yifei, commander of the Seventh Army, and Xia Yuling, commander of the Ninth Army
Oil fields on the outskirts of the city. Early this morning, the Eighth Army, led by Tang Wen, had gone south to take over the defense of the Caspian Sea coastal cities from the Far East Army, establish a government, and completely block the connection between Central Asia and the Soviet Union.
Not long after leaving the city, An Yi, who had seen so many bleak scenes in the wilderness, no longer felt any novelty. He was closing his eyes and falling asleep when Huang Yingwu whispered that he had arrived.
An Yi opened his eyes and looked through the car window. On the desolate grassland still covered with ice and snow, he saw derricks and "kowtow machines" roaring and rotating in the sunset, standing tall, oil wells, and oil wells.
The oil pipeline is like a black dragon, majestic and majestic.
An Yi was dazzled by what he saw. He quickly opened the door and got out of the car. He only heard the "rumbling" sound of the motor, but he didn't feel it was harsh at all. Instead, he was just kind and moved.
Situ Rui, director of the Industrial Office of the Military Control Commission, looked excited: "Chairman, it is beyond imagination that the Soviets did not destroy the oil facilities and refining equipment before they withdrew. After we took over Guryev, we immediately organized the restoration of production, and now we have achieved Nissan's production
Four thousand tons of crude oil can basically meet our operational needs in Central Asia."
An Yi smiled faintly: "The Soviets knew that the Far Eastern Army did not dare to fight a war of attrition with them on the plains, so they simply did nothing. After the Far Eastern Army withdrew, they would just take it back. They did not expect that we would
Get in the way! Now things are getting interesting. Due to our involvement, the Ural front line will face a three-party melee in the future!"
Situ Rui nodded suddenly.
Situ Rui is the grandnephew of Situ Meitang. He is 28 years old this year. He graduated from the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology in the United States and majored in geology and aeronautics. He originally returned to China in 36 years with the intention of joining the Aircraft Research Institute of Aeronautics, but at that time Panzhihua developed
There is an urgent need for a large number of engineering and geological experts. His resume matches both of them. He is exactly the talent he needs. Regardless of the thirty-seven-twenty-one, the personnel files were assigned to the Geological Engineering Department of the Xufu Appeasement Office. Situ Rui worked hard in Panzhihua.
After more than a year, all work in Panzhihua is now basically on track, but there is a lack of professional geological engineering talents in Central Asia, so he was transferred to Central Asia to serve as the head of the Industrial Office of the Military Control Commission.
For the first time, An Yi saw the spectacular scenery of dozens of oil wells roaring together to produce oil, and his blood was gushing. Oil is known as the blood of industry. At present, An Jiajun's oil source is mainly imported from Southeast Asia. In addition, Yanchang Oilfield produces oil every day.
It can provide twenty tons of crude oil, and the Yumen Oil Field provides thirty tons of crude oil, giving Anjiajun's mechanized troops a steady stream of power.
However, if Japan cuts off its maritime transportation lines in the future and relies only on the 1,500 tons of crude oil produced by Yanchang and Yumen oil fields a month, it will obviously not be able to support such a large mechanized force. It can only rely on coal-to-oil technology, and the conversion of coal-to-oil
The rate is too low. Unless he has to, An Yi is really unwilling to do something like fishing in the lake. Now the daily output of Guliyev Oilfield is close to the combined output of Yanchang Oilfield and Yumen Oilfield in one month, and near Guliyev
, there are also two large oil fields. It is really hard to imagine how much oil will be produced if they are all put into production.
Not to mention anything else, even with this oil, we have to fight hard to keep Guriyev.
An Yi saw many engineers working between the oil wells. After thinking for a moment, he realized that they were digging anti-aircraft fortifications, and immediately asked: "How many anti-aircraft guns are deployed in the oil well area?"
Huang Yingwu replied: "120 88 guns! There is a steel plant in Guryev with an annual output of one million tons of steel. It actually has a 10,000-ton hydraulic press. After we took it over, we only added some key equipment and turned it into a military factory to produce
Artillery and anti-aircraft guns are given priority to satisfy our troops. All tractor factories have been converted to produce tanks and armored vehicles. Due to insufficient rubber, they are currently producing only tracked tanks and armored vehicles."
An Yi nodded: "If there are conditions, we have to go. If there are no conditions, we have to go. Oil is too important to us. Before this, I doubted whether it was worth fighting the Soviet Union for this piece of land that was undefendable."
It’s worth it, but now my consciousness tells me that we must keep it. Whether it’s for us or for future generations, we should do our best to protect this land. Kazakhstan’s underground resources are too rich. If we don’t use this
Opportunities to obtain land and resources that will supply our development in the coming decades or even hundreds of years. It is no longer possible to have such opportunities in the future, and Central Asia will forever leave the embrace of the Chinese nation."
Huang Yingwu was a little worried: "But... I have to say that even now, our military strength is too thin. Compared with the Soviets who often fight with large corps of dozens of divisions, our current six divisions are still
There are too few, and this area is an endless wasteland with no danger to defend, and it is likely to turn into a tragic scene like the meat grinder of Verdun in World War I."
An Yi nodded: "So we have to cover this thousand-mile wilderness with minefields and build more anti-tank trenches to delay the enemy's attack. At the same time, we must build more than ten permanent fortifications and solid fortresses to completely
Transform the Ural River defense line into a real insurmountable life-and-death line, making Moscow timid!"
"But our defense system has not been built yet, and the Soviet army has already launched an attack on Perm. I'm worried..." Huang Yingwu looked worried.
"Parrot, you grandson, it's not your style to be timid before fighting... Do you miss your wife at home?" An Yi joked.
Huang Yingwu blushed: "What's the matter? I'm just afraid that I won't be able to defend this place. I'm sorry for the boss's trust!"
An Yi nodded and his expression became extremely serious: "Don't worry, Parrot, I won't fight an uncertain battle. Before setting off to Central Asia, I had already transferred Jiuxiao away from the 30th Group Army, and based on my personal wishes, from
The 30th Army Group transferred a group of generals back to Xufu and reorganized them into three armies. Now Huzi and Brother Chengzhu have not fully recovered from their injuries. We will first transfer troops from them. The troops will be organized in a month at most, and then quickly go north.
, rush to support the Central Asian battlefield. Before that, I will transfer ten more flight groups to Central Asia to form an absolute advantage over the Soviet Air Force and firmly control the air! I don’t believe that such a multi-pronged approach will not win the battle.
Time to build a defensive fortress.
"Now, the Hunan-Guizhou, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Sichuan-Guizhou railways have been fully connected, and the defensive fortress in Pudong has also been completed. Our engineering troops are just free. Except for the five divisions of Nanhua's engineering troops, the remaining ten divisions are all
After being transferred to Central Asia, I have to erect a complete defense system no matter what! In the future, not only the western front will have to build fortresses, but also the northern front will have to build some fortresses as the fulcrum of strategic attack and defense. After Ye Cheng and others stabilize the situation in Central Asia,
We will gather into a large-scale mobile combat corps. As long as we stick to Central Asia as firmly as nails, when the international situation changes and the war ends, basically everything we get will be fixed in the form of a treaty.
No one can change this!"
Huang Yingwu's face turned red, and the rest of the Western Front Army generals were also excited and deeply inspired. They had already experienced An Yi's talents and strategies, so they had no doubts about An Yi's judgment and had already begun to think about future combat issues.
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An Yi waved his hand: "Let's go and have a look at the front line." After that, he turned around and got into the car.
Soon, the convoy started, and after an hour, it arrived at Ax, thirty kilometers to the west.
Throughout the wasteland, countless excavators roared, constantly digging out jagged trenches 2.5 meters deep and nearly 3 meters wide. The soldiers held engineer shovels and quickly laid the fired green bricks from the ground from the rear.
It was built into a stepped shape, and then began to be built on the trench. The blue bricks were quickly connected together, and shooting holes appeared one after another like a city wall.
In some areas where bricks were laid, the tops of the trenches were quickly covered with prefabricated steel panels, and then covered with thick sandbags, so that even if the trenches were directly hit by large-caliber grenades, they would not collapse.
Such fortifications were built every fifty meters from west to east, ten in total, connected by traffic trenches. And in order to prevent the front from blocking the firepower from the rear, each position was built as if it were a house.
The height is increased layer by layer. If the enemy attacks from the west, you will find that the Chinese army's position is like the seats in a movie theater, with layers of height increasing from front to back, forming a powerful three-dimensional crossfire.
The excavated earth and stone were not wasted at all. Some of them were filled with sandbags and became the cover of the trench. The other was quickly carried to the rear. If a wall was built up layer by layer, every one or two meters, the road roller would go up and crush it.
Press it, and then the mixer will spray a thick layer of cement on it, then pile the soil again, spray cement again, and lift up layer by layer.
When the rockery is built to more than ten meters, a shooting and artillery bunker will be built with strips of stone or blue bricks. When a shooting bunker as spacious as a house appears, it will be covered with two layers of reinforced prefabricated panels, and then continue to pile up earth and rocks and pour cement.
After the base was a few meters high, the shooting and artillery bunkers were built again. Repeated many times, a man-made cement mountain 60 to 70 meters tall with five firing holes and artillery positions, and stairs and passages connected to the rear appeared.
The hills piled up layer by layer from the ground are very stable, and due to the use of reinforced concrete, the defense is extremely strong. Moreover, on this 60 to 70-meter hill, there are densely packed shooting and artillery openings, powerful overlapping
The firepower will be fatal to opponents on the plains.
The entire project was coordinated very scientifically. The engineering troops were mainly responsible for starting the construction machinery and providing project guidance, while the infantry was responsible for laying bricks and applying cement. Looking from south to north, the entire construction site was endless.