On the morning of August 7, while An Yi was delivering a speech in Gancheng, western Hunan, Gu Changfeng also held a military parade at the military camp in the north of Saigon City. In front of many media reporters, he talked about the principles of protecting the homeland, defending the country, and regaining the homeland. , then the troops set off, passed through Saigon City from north to south, entered the military port, and boarded the troop carrier. Then, a huge fleet filled with twenty troop carriers sailed away from Saigon Port and headed for the vast sea.
The news was spread to Siam by thoughtful people and quickly caused a strong response in the Siamese government. Siam's preparations for war were accelerated again. A large amount of arms and supplies were transported from Bangkok to Sa Kaew, Basak, Kukan and other key border areas. Recently, from Japan, Fighter planes purchased by the United States are also gathered at military airports in border cities.
But no one knew that the fleet carrying the Anjia army did not actually leave very far. Soon after entering the South China Sea, it turned back, followed the coastline, and entered the heavily guarded Cam Ranh Bay. After the troops disembarked there, they would secretly connect to the Cam Ranh Bay port. The road to Tonle Sap Lake in western Tiannan Province leads to the border between Nam Hua and Siam.
...
At nine o'clock on the night of the 7th, on the left bank of the Syr Darya River shrouded in darkness, two Soviet BA27 armored vehicles were driving slowly. They belonged to the Armored Reconnaissance Company of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Army and were patrolling here to defend against the possible cross-river operation carried out by the Anjia Army at any time. .
At this time, a Soviet lieutenant sitting in the passenger seat was looking at the scenery outside the window with wan interest, a look of worry on his face. The Syr Darya River had been calm as usual for the past two days, but the Soviet lieutenant felt a sense of difficulty. There was unspoken fear. This was not only about the enemy's possible cross-river operation, but also about the situation of himself and his troops.
Two days ago, the news of Marshal Kulik's suicide spread throughout the Central Asian Red Army. Mehris, the political commissar of the front army who had cut off contact with the outside world, temporarily took over the command of the army. Mehris summoned all army generals to a meeting in Begovat , after half a day of negotiation, a plan was finally made for the main force to cross the Turkestan Mountains to the south, and to join the Tianshan Corps to the east before deciding on their future movements.
Due to the failure of radio communication, Mehris did not know at the time that Chuikov had begun to abandon Almaty in a step-by-step manner. Troops were crossing the Pamir Plateau southward, entering Afghanistan, waiting for an opportunity to enter Iran and return to the Soviet Caucasus. In order to avoid causing international disputes, the Soviet army began to use the name Xinjiang King Shengshi.
Sheng Shicai has entered Faizabad in northeastern Afghanistan, threatening Takhar, Kunduz, Baghlan and other northern provinces. Sheng Shicai plundered food and supplies in the areas surrounding Faizabad, leaving behind what he generally used as his own army. Half of the cost was sent to Chuikov to alleviate the increasingly severe food crisis of the Soviet army.
In the mission arrangement of Mehris, the Fifth Army is responsible for blocking the northern line and buying two to three days for the main force to retreat. The Second Army and the Sixth Army are also tasked with holding on, and they are respectively responsible for the Western Front. To defend the front and the eastern front, the Third and Fourth Group Armies, which had been severely damaged in previous battles, served as strategic reserves to support various areas at any time. Due to the inconvenience of crossing mountains and ridges, all the horses of the five cavalry corps were slaughtered and roasted into dried meat. For the troops to satisfy their hunger, the cavalry will be organized into infantry from now on, and will be restored when war horses are available in the future. In this way, after killing tens of thousands of war horses, the Soviet army unexpectedly obtained a week's rations at a cost of five hundred Many cavalry commanders and combatants were resolutely executed for disobedience.
On the night of the 6th, the main force of the Soviet army quietly packed up, first traveled south by road to Ulaqiube, then turned eastward via the mountain trail, and entered the mountains of Turkestan on the morning of the 7th, sending a large number of reconnaissance troops to prevent the Anjia Army from attacking.
The air force conducted reconnaissance and cautiously headed towards Zalal Abad, where the Tianshan Corps was located.
Knowing that they were being used as outcasts, no one was in a good mood, so it was not difficult to understand why the patrolling Soviet lieutenant couldn't cheer up.
The armored vehicle drove slowly, rolling forward in the area where desert and grassland combine. When it reached the bend of the Syr Darya River in the north, the armored vehicle was about to return. The lieutenant suddenly spotted a line of faint black figures to the north through the window. Look at the black figures.
How come its body shape is so similar to a Chinese tank?
The lieutenant was thinking: aren't the Chinese army preparing to launch a forcible crossing from the area around the railway bridge south of Tashkent? They have already crossed the Syr Darya River in the lower reaches, and then attack southward along the juncture of the grassland and desert areas?
Just when the lieutenant was hesitating, the black shadow and the armored vehicle were already very close. The lieutenant yelled at the driver, and the BA27 armored vehicle quickly rushed towards the row of black shadows.
"Da da——"
Almost at the same time, the 7.62mm machine gun on the ba27 roof rotating turret roared, and its straight trajectory drew a fiery red trajectory in the night, accurately hitting the leading black figure. The row of black figures was obviously worried about being attacked.
He was startled, but he immediately woke up. The leading black figure slowly turned around. At this moment, the lieutenant finally saw clearly what was on the opposite side. It was indeed a Leopard I tank owned by the Chinese.
The Leopard I tank's 76.2mm tank gun has a 42-fold caliber barrel and can easily tear through the armor of all tanks and armored vehicles in the world.
"Bang——"
The fire flashed, and the main gun of the Leopard I tank roared. A bolt of lightning came out of the muzzle with a muffled sound. The earth trembled, and the muzzle shock wave kicked up the sand and dust on the front side of the tank several meters high.
White light flashed in the distance, and with a heart-rending loud noise, the armor of the Ba27 armored vehicle was torn apart immediately like tissue paper. The pierced vehicle body made a strange "creak" sound and quickly twisted and deformed. The armor-piercing bullet was in
After penetrating the front armor of the armored vehicle, it mercilessly penetrated its wide body. A black-red flame suddenly spread out from the rotating turret on the top. Accompanied by a violent explosion, the BA27 car body seemed to be on fire.
Like a torch, burning fiercely.
The two BA27 armored vehicles were killed without even having time to send out an early warning signal.
Under the bright light of the burning fire, the Leopard I tank slowly emerged from the night. Without any intention of stopping, it slowly turned around the turret and continued to drive forward.
An hour later, next to the Ba27 armored vehicle burning like a torch, the ground began to tremble slightly, and a roar gradually approached. The sound of the tank engine became louder and louder, gradually turning into a deafening thunder-like roar.
One, two... one row, two rows... one hundred, two hundred... Countless steel behemoths roared into the area where the grasslands and desert combine on the left bank of the Syr Darya River. More than four hundred Panthers
Tanks, Wolf tanks and Soviet-made T26, BT7, and T28 tanks, together with hundreds of armored vehicles, formed a majestic and powerful steel array that spread for more than ten kilometers.
This huge team raised up dust, blue smoke and yellow-gray dust all over the sky, forming a huge curtain of sand, covering the sky and the moon, and combined with the earth-shaking rumblings on the ground, like
A huge sandstorm blew up.
...
At seven o'clock in the morning on the 8th, two tank corps, An's Army and Xiao's Alliance Army, suddenly appeared outside the city of Ilychi on the south bank of the Syr Darya River. However, it was not the tanks that launched the attack first, but an overwhelming fleet of aircraft.
The Anjia Army Air Force concentrated five aviation regiments, and six hundred B1, B2 bombers and Q1 attack aircraft were divided into five waves. Under the protection of one hundred fighter planes, they launched a fierce attack on Ilic City.
As the aircraft fleet entered the range, the anti-aircraft guns on the Soviet position also opened their throats. Amidst the dense roar, anti-aircraft shells rushed into the sky one after another, and small black clouds exploded in the middle of the Anjiajun aircraft fleet.
As it opened, the two B1 Mosquito bombers that bore the brunt were hit. One plunged straight to the northeast with billowing smoke, while the other was even more miserable. While it was sliding down, it was hit by another
A shell directly hit its wooden fuselage, and with a series of explosions, the entire aircraft was blown to pieces.
"Buzz——"
The roar of a series of planes piercing the air sounded as they dived, and the counterattack of the Anjia military aircraft group quickly began. The B2 dive bombers, with their wings slightly raised, like eagles, dived down at an almost vertical angle, flexibly dodging the Soviet troops.
At the same time, the anti-aircraft artillery fire poured bombs one after another on the air defense positions on the ground. These bombs were napalm bombs specially made by the Anjia Army. In just a blink of an eye, several anti-aircraft artillery fire points were covered by raging fires.
, countless Soviet soldiers ran and struggled in the flames that were more than ten meters high, and finally fell to the ground helplessly covered in flames.
Immediately following the arrival of the dive bombers was Anjiajun's Q1 attack plane. The 23mm cannons on the nose and the 12.7mm aviation machine guns on both wings were angrily spitting out deadly tongues of fire. In an instant, they destroyed those on the ground.
Several anti-aircraft artillery positions were silenced. The explosive machine gun bullets, as long as they hit a person, can easily take away everything they come into contact with, including broken limbs, broken arms, and broken bones.
Flying around on the anti-aircraft gun position, the scene is enough to drive people crazy.
Higher in the sky, the B1 Mosquito bombers were like a flock of geese, searching for targets in the sky. Soviet troop gathering points, material warehouses, etc. became targets. Rows of bombs fell like raindrops, making earth-shattering explosions.
, taking away a lot of lives.
Of course, facing the crazy attack by Anjiajun fighter planes, the Soviet army was by no means helpless. When the swooping B2 bombers were unable to strike with anti-aircraft guns, machine gun positions from all directions began to fight back fiercely.
"Da da——"
Amidst the roar of artillery fire, the crisp sound of the anti-aircraft machine gun seemed extremely pleasant, and the bullets sprayed from the muzzle formed a dense fire network, trying to pull down every low-altitude dive B2 bomber and tear it apart.
A smash.
The Soviet counterattack quickly achieved results. Amidst the thick smoke rising out of the sky, B2 bombers fell from the sky from time to time, dragging the thick smoke and falling to pieces in unknown places.
However, the Q1 attack aircraft equipped with alloy steel plates that followed closely behind the B2 bomber were not afraid of the Soviet anti-aircraft machine gun firepower. When they passed horizontally over the Soviet positions, they used their cannons and aircraft machine guns to hit the Soviets.
The anti-aircraft machine gun position was overturned, and soon the firepower of the Soviet anti-aircraft machine gun position became sparse.
At this time, the Anjia Army's tank group also began to take action and launched a fierce assault on the panicked Soviet positions.
Countless tanks and armored vehicles roared continuously, and shells were ejected from the muzzles, falling on the Soviet positions, overturning the remaining Soviet machine gun positions into the sky. The shells were like meteor showers falling to the ground at the same time, without any movement.
It fell intermittently on the heads of the Soviet troops.
The three-dimensional attack from above and below caused the Soviet resistance to completely collapse. The morale of the Soviet Fifth Army was completely depleted and the battle line collapsed. Under the Anjiajun's resolute assault, division and encirclement tactics, the Soviet Union, which had long been tortured by hunger, had difficulty even walking.
The officers and soldiers decisively chose to surrender.
By five o'clock in the afternoon, Ilyich City was recovered. An hour later, the Syr Darya River defense position in the northeast also completely collapsed under the attack of the Anjia Army tank troops. The Syr Darya River Railway Bridge fell completely into the control of the Anjia Army.
A steady stream of troops quickly passed through the railway bridge and the newly erected pontoon bridge, crossed the Syr Darya River, and advanced at high speed towards the city of Begovat where the Soviet troops gathered.