When the Soviet army in the Central Asian theater failed to attack the westward attack of the Almaty Corps commanded by Chuikov, but attracted all the attention of the Xiao Wu Corps of the Anjia Army, the central cluster led with three armored divisions and concentrated five cavalry corps.
and eight armies, pounced on Shymkent with overwhelming force.
The Yecheng Front of the Anjia Army left those who volunteered to join the army to defend the fruits of the victory of land reform. A cavalry division composed of local Kazakh young adults carried out harassment operations, and the remaining troops decisively chose to withdraw westward.
As the sun rose into the sky, Marshal Kulik, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Central Asian Theater, stood in front of the platform of the Shymkent railway station with high spirits, accepting reports from Pravda, Red Star, Rodrigo, Izvestia and other newspapers.
Photography and interviews by special correspondents.
"Comrade reporters, the main force of our Central Asian Red Army has recaptured Shymkent, which has important political and military significance. Shymkent is the capital of South Kazakhstan Oblast, located at the southern foot of Karatau Mountain, north of Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and is the capital of Central Asia.
One of the most famous ancient cities in the region. This city
The city was originally a settlement on the trade route from Central Asia to China. It was included in the territory of our country 74 years ago. It is the industrial and cultural center of Central Asia and the second largest population in Kazakhstan after Almaty.
, its recovery puts us in a strategically advantageous position."
The reporters recorded Kulick's speech with a swish of swish.
A reporter in his early twenties with a slightly green demeanor asked an inappropriate question: "Comrade Kulik, you said this is the second largest population center in Kazakhstan, but we followed the troops and did not find it when we arrived in Shymkent.
How many residents greeted us with hostile eyes after entering the city of Shymkent. I also heard that our vanguard troops were harassed by local Kazakh guerrillas in the Badam area west of Shymkent.
What's going on?"
Kulik's originally sunny face suddenly became extremely gloomy. He glanced at the press pass on the questioner's chest, snorted coldly, pointed at the inexperienced special correspondent of "Izvestia" and said: "Ana
Comrade Tory, as a reporter for the organ of the Supreme Soviet, you
, why is it not political at all? Is this what you can ask? Journalists should understand the historical responsibility they shoulder, which is to introduce the bright and great side of our party and the Red Army to our people, and those who are not conducive to unity
Stable things are best ignored.
"However, since you brought it up today, I am in a good mood, so I will make an exception to answer you. Kazakhstan, like other Central Asian regions, has sharp ethnic and religious conflicts, and pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism are prevalent. The people here are not satisfied with the Soviet Union's removal of them from the system.
dire straits
, they have completely forgotten the kindness they saved from the miserable life of being oppressed by landlords and powerful people. They have forgotten that it was our great Soviets who helped them build their own factories and farms so that every child can receive a complete education.
Lived a stable and happy life.
“The Chinese are very cunning. They abolished the Soviet collective farms and pastures in Shymkent and distributed the land and cattle and sheep to farmers and herdsmen. At the same time, they advocated freedom of religious belief and removed our abandoned Islamic, Christian, Buddhist and Taoist temples.
Renovation. These ungrateful Kazakhs are obsessed with
The Chinese people give small favors and small favors, believing that the inefficient private economy is the goal they pursue. They hate the advanced public collective economy and are happy to restore their faith. Therefore, many of them choose to invest in the Chinese people.
embrace and become a shameful traitor!
"So, the situation is as you can see. When they heard the arrival of our great Red Army, these guys with corrupt ideas actually fled with their families, and even took the initiative to join the army organized by the Chinese and became enemies of our Red Army. The rest
Those old guys who can't walk are also afraid that the Soviet Union will allocate heavy fields to them.
Newly returned to work, that's why there are scenes of local people hating our Red Army. Comrade journalists, I know you are all smart people, and you know what to write and what not to write. If you are not afraid that you and your family will be imprisoned near the Arctic Circle,
Concentration camp, just report the news of our Red Army’s victory!”
The reporters looked at each other in shock, then lowered their heads, not daring to say a word.
Who would have thought that a reporter from Izvestia named Anatole would not pick up any of the pots? He laughed at himself and said: "Thank you, Comrade Marshal. In fact, I was just asking casually. I didn't expect that the people here are so backward in their thinking and consciousness."
With such a low price, no wonder they were massacred for blatantly resisting to pay the public grain!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Anatole knew that he had said the wrong thing again, and his face turned pale.
It turned out that due to the occupation of the Caspian Railway by the Anjia Army, the Central Asian Red Army was cut off from the Soviet Union, and the army was severely short of food. After Shymkent was captured, the Soviet army's grassroots officers immediately organized soldiers and went door to door to search for food so that the soldiers could eat.
Belly, so that we can continue fighting.
Those who ran away with their families and their families would naturally not leave a grain of food behind. However, those who thought about the benefits of the Soviet Union and expected the Red Army to fight back were in great misfortune. Not only the cattle and sheep they had just received were confiscated.
, even the rations distributed by Anjiajun on a per-household basis were confiscated in the name of public rations.
Large-scale looting led to a civil uprising, and then just like the tragedy in Almaty, nearly 10,000 people in Shymkent were massacred. This incident was originally tried to be covered up, but it was
Anatole revealed it inadvertently. No wonder apart from his own face, which was as white as a sheet of paper and trembling all over, the rest of the reporters were also pounding in their hearts and did not even dare to breathe loudly.
A sinister smile appeared at the corner of Kulik's mouth: "Comrade Anatoly, why are you focusing on these things? Did the enemy bribe you and want to use your mouth and pen to slander the positive image of our Red Army? Let me tell you, in
I have the final say here, and I will never let the enemy agents succeed..."
Then, Kulik shouted: "Come here, take this agent who was bribed by the enemy and interrogate him strictly to see if he has any accomplices..."
The poor special correspondent of "Izvestia", who was paralyzed and incontinent, was taken away by the soldiers who rushed forward. Soon, the results of the crackdown on the enemy's spy network in the Central Asian theater will be announced. As for who will be captured by Anatolia
Whether Li Pan bites out and becomes the unlucky one depends on Kulik's needs.
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The Eastern Front Battlefield in Central Asia.
The fleet that took off from Ayaguz has been flying for an hour, covering a distance of 380 kilometers. Soon, it will arrive at the most fortified city in the north of Almaty - Talda Korgan. Along the way
The weather is clear, the clouds have cleared, and the fog has dispersed. From an altitude of two to three thousand meters, you can clearly see the rolling hills and canyons on the Kazakh grassland.
As the smoky city appeared at the end of the railway and the yellow highway, the fleet quickly spread out. The wings of the leading B2 bomber swung left and right, then turned around and pounced towards the city.
The following bombers quickly distanced themselves and formed a single column formation. In order to avoid the airflow generated by the flight of the preceding fighters, a distance of 200 meters was opened between each fighter plane. Five B2 bomber squadrons and an escorting A27 fighter squadron,
A line of long snakes formed in the air, and they rushed towards the battlefield in a black mass.
On the ground, the Chinese and Soviet armies were engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle.
The defending side is the Soviet army relying on the city and several defensive fortifications in the north of the city. The attacking side is the southward corps of the Western Front Army of the Anjia Army Mongolian Military Region commanded by Hu Jiyang. This corps has a total of three guard corps directly under the front army and the 10th and 11th Group Armies.
military.
Currently attacking the city, there are two infantry divisions of the 11th Army led by Major General Lei Dong, whom An Yi calls his fierce brother.
From the sound of gunfire, Lei Dong, who was standing on a hilltop behind the artillery position five kilometers north of the city, heard the huge roar of the aircraft motor in the air, and a smile of relief appeared on his face. Just from the roar of the aircraft, it turned out that
Having suppressed the sound of guns and artillery inside and outside Tardakorgan City, Lei Dong knew that the number of planes in the sky must be astonishing.
Hearing the huge roar in the air, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese and Soviet armies who were fighting fiercely inside and outside the city of Tardakorgan could not help but look up at the northern sky where the noise came from.
The fleet quickly arrived over the battlefield and kept circling in the air, looking for targets to attack. A pilot looked at the Soviet troops in the trenches outside Tardakorgan who were looking into the sky with fearful eyes, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
As soon as he pressed the control stick, the nose of the aircraft immediately dived at a 90-degree angle. When it reached more than fifty meters above the trench, he calmly pressed the bomb release button, and a black bomb quickly fell.
The Soviet army, from officers to ordinary soldiers, immediately lay down in the trenches to avoid bombing from the air.
"boom--"
Accompanied by a dull explosion, an orange-red fire dragon that was tens of meters long suddenly appeared. Thousands of degrees of heat and flames that were tens of meters high instantly enveloped the area.
While this bomber dropped incendiary bombs, twenty B2 bombers of the 1st Bomb Squadron dropped napalm bombs on valuable target areas on the battlefield.
The Anjia Army has a long history of using napalm, and it appeared frequently during the war against Japan last year. In order to deal with the enemies in Central Asia as soon as possible and free up its hands to deal with the Japanese offensive, the Anjia Army headquarters issued an order to use napalm.
Manufacturing of napalm bombs
It is extremely simple. It can be made by adding 97% gasoline, 3% natural rubber, and aluminum powder, white phosphorus and other chemical accelerants. Compared with ordinary bombs, napalm bombs cost less than
10% of the same type of aerial bombs, but still more powerful.
After the napalm bomb exploded, it only burned for a few seconds. With a burst of rising black smoke, everything seemed to be over. But it was not! The napalm splashed on the Soviet soldiers lying on the ground was like swallowing
The Devil of Human Life, Soviet Army Formation
Soviet officers and soldiers could be seen on the ground and outside with their bodies burning with flames and screaming in pain. They slapped the burning bodies with their hands, but the fire burned bigger and bigger. They had no choice but to roll back and forth on the ground to extinguish the fire.
His whole body was on fire.
Some Soviet soldiers whose bodies were burning had more fire spots on them, and people around them hurriedly avoided it, because the burning people's struggling would throw the burning oil on their bodies to others, causing secondary damage. The most terrifying thing was that they were burned.
A comrade who has lost his mind will sometimes hug you desperately and then die together inexplicably.
Outside the entire city of Tardakorgan, Soviet officers and soldiers could be seen running around in panic to avoid their comrades who had turned into burning men and the aerial bombardment.