The southern foothills of Mount Gertau in the south of Lake Balkhash.
Xiao Wu, Yang Si, Tang Weimin, Jin Ge and other generals stood in a two-meter-high and five-meter-wide bunker excavated with construction machinery. They approached the observation hole and used binoculars to carefully observe the movements of the Soviet troops on the opposite side and at the foot of the mountain.
Invisible from the surface, there are blasting tunnels hidden deep underground.
After half a month of arduous construction, large engineering machinery and equipment such as excavators, drills, and crushers were used, and tunnel blasting and civil engineering operations were frequently carried out. Fortunately, due to the continuous shelling and attacks of the Far Eastern Army, the Soviet army's attention was distracted.
He was restrained and did not even notice that his feet had been tampered with.
The entire tunnel is five meters underground, with a total length of 328 meters. It can accommodate an engineering machine to penetrate deep. So far, according to the suggestions of blasting experts, a total of ten charging chambers containing nitrate amine explosives have been excavated.
In the early hours of this morning, 50,000 tons of explosives and detonating charges have been placed, the blasting network has been laid, and the tunnels have been filled, waiting for the official detonation today.
Xiao Wu looked at his watch, led a group of generals out of the bunker, and went down the mountain from the northern foot of Mount Retao. After half an hour of driving, they arrived at the grassland at the foot of the mountain. They got on the armored vehicle together and drove for another hour.
Already more than 20 kilometers away, Xiao Wucai picked up the on-board microphone and spoke loudly: "I give the order to detonate now!"
"yes!"
The voice of Chu Bai, the engineering commander in charge of the blasting on the opposite side, came clearly from the speaker: "Commander orders, start detonating now! Five, four, three, two, one... start!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of "chichi" was heard. Everyone knew that it was the sound of burning gunpowder, and then the speaker became silent.
A quarter of an hour later.
"boom--"
There was a loud, earth-shaking noise in the distance, dust rose into the sky, and a strong earthquake was felt within hundreds of miles.
Fifty thousand tons of explosives were detonated at the same time. Due to the special geological structure, the entire mountain at the northern foot of Chuyili Mountain was easily lifted up. There were fortresses, artillery positions, anti-aircraft gun positions, machine gun positions and infantry positions above.
The whole thing was thrown out like a spray of water, and countless gravel and soil covered the sky. It lasted for a long time. The rising smoke shrouded the mountain for dozens of kilometers and rose thousands of meters into the sky.
Although they had already been notified, the Far East Army was obviously shocked by the power of the explosion.
You must know that there are more than ten thousand Soviet troops stationed at the northern foot of Chuyili Mountain. Although they are not all arranged on the front line, they are all around the main peak position. The entire mountain exploded and collapsed, which was no different from a magnitude 10 earthquake, which caused great harm to animals and plants.
The damage was fatal, and many lives were buried underground in an instant.
Although the entire mountain tilted towards the northern foot due to the blast point, the flying rock fragments alone were beyond human power. Moreover, due to the sudden break of the rock layer, the earth's crust produced strong fluctuations, and the entire Chuyili Mountain was
Within the area, large earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 8 were erupting. In the next two or three hours, the aftermath of the earthquake continued, making people think that heaven's punishment was coming.
It was not until the afternoon that the geological conditions initially stabilized. According to the intelligence fed back by the reconnaissance team, the entire northern foothills of Chuyili Mountain, covering an area of more than ten square meters, had collapsed. There were cliffs and strange rocks at the fault, and thick smoke was still emitting from some areas.
The local rocks even have karst phenomena, so you can imagine how intense the tearing was.
In the evening, further information came. The Soviet army deployed at the northern foot of Chuyili Mountain was almost completely wiped out. The reconnaissance troops who had gone 30 kilometers forward had not yet found any trace of the Soviet army. This devastating explosion
, almost burying the entire Soviet people. Of course, there is also bad news. Due to mountain collapse, railways and highway lines were buried. The engineering troops needed to dig out a new road so that the mechanized troops could continue to move south. Before that, they could only
Use infantry to infiltrate the attack.
Xiao Wu did not have the slightest sympathy. He immediately reported the latest situation to the theater and the General Staff through radio waves, saying that with the annihilation of the Soviet army on the Chuyili Mountain front line, the Soviet army in Xinjiang was very likely to go south to support, otherwise there would be no way.
Within ten days, Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, and Frunze, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, will be occupied by the coalition forces composed of the Far East Army and the Anjia Army.
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Ye and Li's front armies left three infantry divisions and three armored brigades in the forest line of the river mouth to prevent the Soviet counterattack, while the main force was divided into two groups. One group was commanded by Li Jinlong and passed through Kornokazakhdarya.
The town quickly moved westward, carried out a forcible crossing from the mouth of the Amu Darya River, and occupied Muynak, the most important seaport city in the southern part of the Aral Sea. Then it continued to move westward and occupied the most important part of the southern foot of the Donchenk Terrace.
The important city of Kungel blocked the westward path of the Uzbek Corps; all the way, commanded by Ye Cheng, quickly went south via Takupel, crossed the Sarekamesh Basin on the north bank of the Amu Darya River, and unexpectedly attacked the unguarded Tour.
The city of Tekul, and then across the river from Turtkul, occupied the northern cities of Sadouar and Lebaru in Kurmenistan, cutting off the railways and roads of the Uzbek Corps going south.
Ye Cheng's troops were unstoppable all the way. After occupying the cities of Sadouar and Lebaru, they took a short rest for half a day, and then left an infantry brigade to garrison. The rest of the troops quickly moved northward and advanced towards Urgench. Urgench is located in the central and western part of Uzbekistan.
The area, south of the Amu Darya River, was once one of the greatest cities on the Silk Road. Historically, this city was razed to the ground by Genghis Khan. Today it has welcomed new conquerors from the East.
The Soviet army has two divisions here, one of which is a very rare armored division in the Soviet army. A Soviet armored division has two tank regiments, each regiment has four battalions, and each battalion has ten KV7 or T26 tanks, plus
There are tanks attached to the division-affiliated reconnaissance battalion and regimental reconnaissance company. The total number of tanks in one division reaches one hundred and twenty.
The Soviet commanders were extremely shocked when they learned through the reconnaissance troops that the Chinese troops were coming along the railway from the southwest. They reported the news to the regiment headquarters in Nukus and at the same time drove their troops out of the city to actively fight.
The Soviet generals arranged all the KV7 and T26 light tanks into five even horizontal lines. Each front line consisted of more than twenty tanks, and they rushed towards the unsteady position of the Chinese army.
Maxim, the commander of the 1st Tank Division of the Uzbek Corps, climbed into his command tank with great ambition and issued the order to attack. After the tanks of the entire division were activated, he joined the attack formation of the fifth platoon and eighth battalion, located at
The rearmost part of the entire tank formation.
Behind each tank line was an assault force composed of infantry. Like the tanks, they formed five long skirmish lines and charged forward.
Through the unique command tower of the tank command vehicle, Maxim looked at the attacking force in front with great satisfaction. The formation of this force was perfect, just like the tank textbook, with proper spacing maintained. If such a formation was placed in an exercise
On the court, you can definitely score full marks.
Seeing the temporary blocking position set up by the Chinese army in the distance, Maxim was full of pride and quickly issued a combat order: "Go forward! Speed up and tear the Chinese into pieces!"
Soon, the Soviet tank at the front sent up waves of thick smoke and roared its motor as it rushed towards the high ground on the opposite side. The infantrymen accelerated and ran forward, shooting forward as they ran.
The anti-tank artillery position on the Anjia Army's side was set up on a hill at an angle of 30 degrees. When they saw the Soviet army attacking arrogantly, they immediately fired up the gunfire and fired countless shells into the Soviet tank column, even some
The shell landed in the infantry formation behind the tank. The Soviet tank showed no sign of weakness and immediately opened fire, starting a melee with the Anjia Army's anti-tank artillery.
The battle lasted for about a quarter of an hour. In the end, at the cost of losing five tanks and more than a hundred infantry, the Soviet army captured the anti-tank position set up by the Anjia Army on the front line, destroyed eight 37 anti-tank guns, and killed at the same time
Injured more than 20 Anjiajun soldiers.
"These old fools are not useless..."
After looking at the performance of the Soviet army, Ye Cheng, who set up his headquarters on the top of the hill, nodded slightly, turned around and said to Chief of Staff Huang Hanqian standing behind him: "Order the troops to launch a counterattack immediately and strive to eliminate as many enemy tanks as possible.
Create conditions for a strategic decisive victory for our tanks!"
Ye Cheng's order had just been issued, and the Soviet army had already begun a new wave of offensive.
Although Anjiajun has the advantage of high ground, in fact, this commanding height is only more than 60 meters above sea level and has a slope of only 30 degrees. It is not really an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack point. In addition to the Amu Darya River, the mountain is moist and covered with water.
There were no tall trees to rely on outside the thick bushes, so the Soviet army easily rushed up the mountain.
The Soviet army used limited artillery firepower support and launched a fierce attack by tanks. At this time, they had changed their formation, from the original five lines to a sharp triangle attack formation. This was mainly due to the terrain restrictions of the mountains, and also
In order to enhance the assault power of the troops.
Seeing the Soviet army approaching with great momentum, Ye Cheng was not nervous. Behind this hill, there were his direct guard troops and Li Yuewu's Second Tank Corps and Liang Zhenyu's Third Tank Corps. He had every reason to believe that his army could
Block the opponent's attack.
After the Soviet tanks traveled twenty meters, the branches and leaves of the nearly two-meter-high bushes on the hillock swayed slightly, and then soldiers carrying rocket launchers on their shoulders emerged from the dense bushes.
Facing the rumbling approaching tanks, they calmly pointed their rocket launchers at the Soviet tanks. Before the enemy realized that they were within the range of the rockets, accompanied by bursts of smoke, the rockets had already flown away.
Go out and accurately hit the armor surface of the enemy tank. Balls of fire quickly surrounded the Soviet tank. Almost at the same time, the turret of the Soviet tank flew away from its body in a violent explosion and was quickly submerged in endless smoke.
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Almost instantly, the charge of the Soviet tanks came to a standstill under the attack of rockets. Faced with such an unprecedented blow, the Soviet tank soldiers suffered a great psychological blow, and the offensive naturally followed more than ten
was hampered by the loss of one tank.
However, the Soviet infantry did not retreat, because they knew that if they retreated at this time, the Chinese on the mountain would definitely press over with thunderous momentum, and they would face the embarrassing situation of total collapse, so they ducked and
Quickly move toward the bushes where the rockets are fired, and prepare to eliminate the mysterious enemies hiding in the jungle.
At this time, a dense mortar shell suddenly fired from behind the bushes. At the same time, a large number of general-purpose machine guns began to roar in the bushes. The Soviet army was unprepared. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers seemed to be cut off.
The wheat fell down, and the rest quickly fell to the ground and fired back, but mortar shells continued to fall overhead, taking away a large number of lives, and the Soviet infantry attack was completely contained.