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    Chapter 194

    The military order is like a mountain!  With a single order from the commander-in-chief, millions of soldiers have to fight with their lives, and they have to go forward one after another.

    The pressure on the Samarkand defense line suddenly increased dramatically, which made Zhukov feel helpless.  No Chinese combat intentions were found. Despite adequate preparations, it was inevitable to fall into passivity after the battle started.

    Zhukov could only order the Soviet troops on the defensive line not to retreat even half a step, and to buy enough time for the transfer of the main force.  The war quickly entered a fever pitch. On the one hand, they were desperately moving forward, and with obvious equipment advantages, the momentum was difficult to resist.  The other side is defending with strong fortifications. Anyone who dares to take even half a step back will be resolutely suppressed by the supervising team.

    The casualties suffered by both sides in this kind of battle were insignificant, and the Soviet army, as the defending side, suffered even greater casualties.  There is no other reason than that China¡¯s firepower is too fierce.  Especially in the direction of Samarkand in the middle, first of all, the Chinese planes cruised non-stop. If they found a slightly valuable target, they would pounce on it like an eagle looking at a rabbit. The Soviet army without air supremacy was miserable.  The second is the Chinese rocket launcher. This thing relies on air superiority and crazily turns the Soviet positions into a sea of ????fire. As long as it is surrounded by a sea of ????fire, it is a narrow escape.  The final battle is between infantry. The Mosin Nagant equipped by the Soviet Army has obvious advantages and disadvantages compared to the semi-automatic equipment equipped by the Chinese Army, not to mention that it has such a big killer as an RPG.  The Soviet firepower struggled to survive the artillery fire and air strikes, but in the end could not escape the fate of being blown away by rockets.

    The battle in the direction of Bezingen has also begun, and Petrovsky is definitely a fierce general.  Visiting the front line in person, after ten minutes of short artillery preparations, the Soviet army launched a charge without hesitation.

    Han Zhixin put all his efforts into it, and even shot in the trench with a submachine gun.  It took more than a hundred casualties to defeat the Soviet army.  However, Petrovsky was also frightened by the huge casualties. The firepower of the Chinese paratroopers was too fierce. The firepower network composed of general-purpose machine guns and submachine guns was like rain. In just one hour of fighting, no one could break through.  Even if they entered the town, there were still more than three hundred corpses left on the ground.  The number of wounded was almost the same.  What's even more terrifying is the mortars, which are more than one in number and have fast fire rates and powerful firepower.  The distance is from 2500 meters to 500 meters.  No one can escape the mortar attack.  The Soviet Army's Maxim machine gun was mainly destroyed by this thing.

    The huge casualties made Petrovsky hesitate. He had never fought such a battle.  Petrovsky finally gritted his teeth and ordered another attack.  It won¡¯t work without fighting.  Bezingen is too close to Urgench, so let the Chinese pin it here. Once the backup arrives, they can quickly launch an attack on Urgench.  Don't look at the more than 10,000 people he has in his hands. According to intelligence gathering from various places, the number of Chinese paratroopers is tens of thousands.

    When preparations for artillery fire began again, something that Petrovsky regretted his entire life happened. Fifty Mustang fighter jets arrived at the Bezingen battlefield with their powerful endurance.  In an instant, the Soviet artillery position turned into a sea of ??flames.  He also chased the gathering Soviet troops around like rabbits.

    As soon as Han Zhixin saw this formation, he immediately ordered a counterattack.  And he personally led a battalion.  Launch a counterattack.  The Soviet army was caught off guard, and coupled with the fierce air strikes, they were driven back two kilometers before they could stand their ground.  This is because all the plane's bombs have been dropped and all the machine gun bullets have been fired.  Relying on their fast speed, the field aircraft group got out of the way first. They were so rampant that they didn't even take the possible air battle seriously, leaving no ammunition at all.

    When Petrovsky checked the casualties, he almost shed tears. In a mixed brigade, all the artillery was wiped out, more than half of the infantry suffered casualties, and most of the cars they brought were killed by planes as fixed targets. The roads were full of burning cars.  .  As a result, there was no prospect of continuing the attack, so we had to turn around and walk back. The remaining cars took the wounded, the uninjured ones supported the injured ones who could still walk, and they slowly embarked on the return journey.

    Han Zhixin's side is also in trouble. Although a counterattack is very satisfying, the total number of men in his hand is just over a thousand.  Lao Maozi is playing with his life, and he bites him back and hurts him badly.  Fortunately, good news came from Yang Zui at this time. Two mountain divisions began to airborne under the guidance of the ground. One hundred light transport aircraft also transported a lot of equipment and supplies. Field hospital personnel and equipment belonging to each division also arrived.  They all took small transport planes and landed at a temporary airport made of alloy plates.

    The Air Force also used a B-17 wing to airdrop a large amount of military supplies.  The parachute drop was much smoother this time. Under the guidance of the ground, the two mountain divisions were basically complete and took less than an hour. A small transport plane also transported a regiment of anti-tank guns.  The most fierce ones were some experienced pilots who even forced C-49 to land on the alloy plate, and 48 wheeled armored vehicles were transported in one afternoon.  Because of this move, three C-49s rushed out of the range of the alloy plate and were unable to take off back  The equipment of a 75th Mountain Artillery Battalion and a 75th Battalion were dismantled into several large pieces and successfully parachuted, which greatly enhanced the firepower in Yang Zui's hands.  Other troops scattered all over the country were also contacted one after another, and Yang Zui asked them to gather at Bezingen.  After a short rest, the main force rushed to Bezingen overnight.  The General Front Command asked Yang Zui to capture Urgench in the shortest possible time to avoid being flanked by Soviet reinforcements.  Yang Zui deliberately left a regiment of troops behind to hold on to the landing site as much as possible. It was not certain that the airlift could continue tomorrow. After all, the distance between the Soviet troops coming out of Bukhara was more than 300 kilometers, and a normal march would only take one day.  About fifty kilometers, under the harassment of the air force, it would be good to be able to cover thirty kilometers in a day.

    The feat of the Air Force reached Liu Mingzhao¡¯s ears, and it immediately attracted his attention.  The C-49 is very easy to control and can land easily. If the area of ??the alloy plate is expanded and the carrying weight of the aircraft is reduced, will it be able to take off and land without interruption soon?  Wouldn't the Central Asian Air Force, which has 350 C-49s, have a new combat method in the future?  After the paratroopers captured enough space, large-scale airlift became a possibility.  Liu Mingzhao asked the Air Force to sum up its experience. Central Asia is a place with many grasslands and has the conditions for this type of combat.

    On the middle route, under the command of Zhang Zizhong, our army launched a fierce attack and advanced ten kilometers in one afternoon, even defeating the Soviet defense line.  Under Zhukov's strict orders, the Soviet army fought tooth and nail and resisted with such tenacity that they lost almost every position they had. They were all killed in the battle.  Both armies fought at any cost. In just one day, the Soviet casualties totaled 100,000, and the Chinese suffered more than 50,000 casualties.

    When night fell, the Soviet army, who originally thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, unexpectedly heard the roar of bombers. More than a hundred B-17s appeared above the Soviet defense line, dropping bombs.  Based on their experience, the Soviet troops looked for air-raid shelters to take shelter. Unexpectedly, what was dropped this time was not ordinary bombs, but napalm bombs.

    The defense line of more than ten kilometers was ignited in the dark night, and there were scenes everywhere of soldiers who couldn't hold it in and ran out of the air-raid shelters, covered in blood and screaming and running around.  This kind of tragic situation, let alone one of our own, even the enemy would feel horrified when they saw it.  Zhang Zizhong took advantage of the commotion in the Soviet defense line in the sea of ????fire, threw in a tank regiment, and concentrated his forces to attack the defense line about three kilometers in the middle.  Under the cover of tanks, two elite infantry divisions advanced rapidly. The Soviet artillery fired desperately to suppress them regardless of the danger of being discovered.  The two sides launched a fierce night battle, and our artillery did not show weakness. The two armies engaged in a fierce artillery battle.

    The fierce battle lasted all night. Zhukov went around putting out fires and putting his reserve troops into the battle. At dawn, when the front line was stabilized, he discovered that the middle line of defense had almost been completely broken through, and a Chinese army appeared in the distance from Samarkand.  An area of ??about twenty kilometers.  The entire Soviet defense line was reduced by as much as two-thirds overnight.

    Zhukov soon made an even more astonishing discovery. At dawn, the mechanized troops of the Chinese Army attacked across the board, especially on the western defense line. More than two thousand Chinese tanks were arranged in a cone shape along the defense line.  A small hole was torn open and someone came in.  The Soviet army was caught off guard. The gap was widened multiple times in just an hour, and batch after batch of tanks rushed in.  The damn Chinese planes appeared again, staring at the several troops used by Zhukov to block the gap and bombing them indiscriminately. It was impossible for Zhukov to block the gap.  They could only order the troops behind them to form a line of defense again, hoping that they would be able to block the assault of the torrent of steel with enough depth.

    It was Li Zongren who commanded the 9th and 11th Mechanized Corps to launch the attack. The two mechanized corps were fully equipped with a total of 2,400 tanks. The torrent of steel rolled forward, and Soviet troops were driven out one after another along the way.  The defeated troops, seeing the tanks approaching, dispersed in panic to avoid them.  But they soon became desperate. The Chinese had too many tanks.  Wave after wave of tanks, wave after wave of armored vehicles, most of the Soviet troops simply stopped running, dropped their weapons and stood far away, staring blankly at the torrent of Chinese steel going towards them.  Rush forward.

    On the second day of the Thunder Plan, Li Zongren's troops advanced 300 kilometers westward at an average speed of 30 kilometers per hour. The Soviet army was invincible along the way.  Those who occasionally resisted were easily crushed.

    It was at this time that Zhukov discovered that although Moscow agreed to his plan, it would be difficult for him to fully realize the plan in the end.  Because before dark, the situation before him was as follows. The Chinese 10th Mechanized Army in the east had appeared 130 kilometers away from Samarkand, and the Chinese Army infantry and tanks in the middle fought together to reach 30 kilometers away from Samarkand.  nearby.

    The battle situation changed so quickly that Zhukov had no choice but to implement his backup plan and retreat in the direction of Kalsi.  In this plan, the Soviet army would have to abandon a large amount of heavy equipment, and a large amount of military supplies originally reserved for counterattack would also be destroyed.  (To be continued)
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