The Russian nightmare of defeating Almaty is far from over. Most of the defenders of these fortresses are infantry. It is a joke to outrun the chariots. Besides, even if they are cavalry, they cannot survive this more than 200 kilometers.
Compared with the chariots on the race schedule, the billowing yellow dust kicked up by the torrent of steel behind them had already appeared after they had run dozens of kilometers. When the first 57mm artillery shell fired from the Tiger chariot exploded among the Russian troops.
When the car started, these exhausted guys made the right choice without hesitation. They knelt down on the roadside and raised their hands.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't block the road! Throw all the guns in front of the tank, and then wait here for someone to accept your surrender. I don't have time to capture you!" Gao Mingjun, commander of the 2nd Armored Division, stood on a truck
In the turret of the command tank, he stuck his head out and waved his pistol, shouting at the Russians who were kneeling aside with their rifles raised.
Those poor Russian soldiers had no choice but to throw their rifles in front of the tanks one by one and let these nearly twenty-ton steel monsters crush them into parts. Then they stood up in despair and walked eastward. In front of them, Zarkant
The fortress group had turned into a huge burning torch. Half of the airship formations that were last replenishing their guns carried coagulation bombs. Exploding first and then burning has become the standard tactic of the Army Aviation.
The Second Armored Division led by Gao Mingjun continued to rush towards Almaty. Behind them were an infantry division and two cavalry divisions following in trucks, and behind them were a full four infantry divisions advancing on foot. At the same time, the armored
Another torrent of almost the same size, with the Third Division as the forward, is rushing towards Taldykorgan on the north bank of the Ili River. These two armies will completely clear out the Russian 18th Army from the south to the north.
This can be said to be a stormy attack method that directly stunned the Russians. General Zasulich, commander of the Russian 18th Army in Almaty, drank too much last night. When he woke up today, he was actually informed of the Zarkent Fortress Group.
Having lost contact and most likely fallen, the still confused commander of the group army laughed directly.
"Vasily, are you drunk? This joke is not your style." He said to his chief of staff with a smile.
"Your Excellency, Commander. It's true. The Chinese concentrated nearly two hundred bombers to bomb there. Our fighter jets rushed to reinforce them, but none of them have returned yet. Considering their fuel capacity, it will never be possible.
We're back, but our telephone contact with the place was cut off seven hours ago, and we haven't received any response from our radio transmissions," the chief of staff said anxiously.
Only then did Zasulic wake up and said with a solemn face: "It seems that there is indeed trouble there, but you don't have to worry too much. No matter how powerful the Chinese bombers are, Zarkent Fortress will not be captured in a short time. Maybe they can capture it in the short term.
It was a bomb that destroyed the telephone lines and the telegraph room. Did you send out scouts?"
"It was dispatched seven hours ago, and five batches have been dispatched in succession, all in military trucks," the chief of staff said.
"Well, all we need to do now is wait for news." General Zasulich nodded and said. As soon as he finished speaking, the guards outside hurriedly ran in carrying an injured scout.
"Report, report to the general, the Chinese are coming!" the scout said weakly.
Zasulich and the chief of staff were stunned for a moment, then the chief of staff turned pale, grabbed the scout's collar and shouted: "Where are the Chinese?"
"One hundred kilometers away from Almaty!" the scout continued weakly.
"What? This is impossible. Did they fly here?" Even Zasulich was not calm now. This guy almost took the hand of the chief of staff and grabbed the scout's collar and shouted. In his opinion, this was a joke.
, a distance of nearly three hundred kilometers. Not to mention the infantry, even the cavalry can't expect to get here in less than three to five days under normal circumstances.
"War, chariots. Countless chariots," the scout said.
"Zasulich and the chief of staff suddenly changed their expressions."
"One hundred kilometers is the distance three hours ago." The scout, with blood foaming at his mouth, persisted and finally fainted after saying this. At this moment, the sound of artillery shell explosions could be heard outside.
Gao Mingjun led his armored division along the Russian military highway, driving nearly 300 kilometers in seven hours, and reached Almaty near evening. Although this is the headquarters of the Russian 18th Army, and there are
An army is stationed, but in fact this army is stationed in several cities in Kazakhstan. There are only one infantry division and troops directly under the group army here, with a total strength of about 25,000 people. And now those who are fighting in front of them include
There are more than 30,000 people in an armored division and an infantry division, and there are more than 300 tanks.
At the same time that the Second Armored Division arrived, a group of bombers that took off from Ili Airport after reloading also arrived. In the dusk, these aerial beasts were the first to launch an attack. As the bombs roared and fell one after another, they exploded in Almaty.
opened, and the ground attack also began.
Almaty is stuck on the only road to the hinterland of Central Asia. It is a completely fortified city built on a hillside. Therefore, although the Chinese came suddenly, Zasulich was not caught off guard. Soon the Russian soldiers were
Braving the bombing from planes overhead, they quickly entered the fortresses, preparing to withstand the torrent of steel from China. However, the next scene stunned them, because the torrent of steel did not attack the city at all, just like Almaty.
It was as if it didn't exist at all, so I just bypassed it.
"Chariots attacking the fortress? We can't do such a stupid thing. We have people behind us who can do this job. We just need to cut Almaty from the Russian defense system. As for how to attack it, it's none of our business.
"This huge army finally stopped fifty kilometers west of Almaty, and then Gao Mingjun said to the officers beside him while drinking tea.
He would not ram a tank into a Russian fortress. The small Russian strongholds around Almaty were his favorite. Then he would cut off the road leading here from Bishkek and wait for the landing bombers.
Just blow open the turtle shell of Almaty, take the city with the infantry behind, and then continue to advance towards Bishkek.
Although the Second Armored Division passed by without attacking, the Russians did not have the guts to come out from Almaty and cause trouble for them. Now they are rejoicing at the enemy's wrong choice. What's more, the bombing in the evening also caused them heavy losses. They had to fight back at night.
Hurry and clean up the body.
By the next day, the bomber group from Ili Airport visited the city again. At the same time, the Second Armored Division, which was passing through the city, also began to clear the surrounding Russian strongholds. The infantry division accompanying them built defensive positions and prepared
Blocking the Russian reinforcements coming from Bishkek. The time continued like this until the fourth day amid the bombing by Chinese aircraft. In the afternoon, the Russian army in Almaty routinely cleaned up the Russian soldiers who were killed in the morning bombing.
Corpses of soldiers and countless cavalrymen came over the mountains and plains like floods bursting from embankments.
The Russian troops who were cleaning up the corpses were so frightened that they quickly returned to the dilapidated fortresses to prepare for defense. But what was puzzling to them was that this huge cavalry group also did not attack. Instead, it surged past the north of the city like the armored group. These cavalry
Before it was all over, the airship fleet from Dihua arrived, and then dropped more than 600 tons of bombs and coagulation decoys under the desperate eyes of the Russians. After this round of bombing, Almat
The map is almost in ruins.
Fortunately, at this time, the reinforcements from Bishkek finally arrived, but what made Zasulich lamented was that the reinforcements, composed of two Cossack cavalry divisions, were like a lamb jumping into the mouth of a tiger.
, without any room for struggle, they were swallowed up by the Chinese. The infantry defensive positions blocked their path forward, and the tank clusters rushed them into pieces and turned them into countless small groups that could not support each other.
, then two Chinese cavalry divisions launched a brutal massacre of these Cossacks on the arid semi-desert steppe.
Poor General Zasulich and the remaining 20,000 soldiers under his command just watched their recent hopes come to nothing, and they did not even dare to go out to respond.
The two Russian Cossack cavalry divisions were almost completely wiped out in the end, and even those who survived were scattered. Now Zasulich's only hope is that the other two armies on the northern front can come for reinforcements. Unfortunately, at this time, the armored three
The attack group with the division as the forward also arrived at Taldykorgan. Although it did not launch an attack, it was no longer possible for the Russian troops there to go south for reinforcements. As for others who could still provide him with support, they had to do so recently.
It's five or six hundred kilometers away! And there's not even a railway. I want to wait for them to come, maybe in a month!
It's a pity that Almaty will definitely not last a month. The next day when those nasty bombers flew in again, General Zasulich was absolutely sure of this.
However, this general is very brave and tenacious. He has endured three consecutive days of high-density bombing and has not yet surrendered. Although he had already received an ultimatum asking him to surrender, General Zasulich arrogantly refused.
, you must know that he has been bombed for more than ten days, and even his enemies can't help but respect the general. But by the fourth day, his arrogance could no longer be maintained.
Because at this time, four Chinese infantry divisions had begun to arrive one after another. These infantrymen were armed with 280mm howitzers. It was obvious that if Zasulic did not surrender, the only thing waiting for him would be destruction. (To be continued, please search.
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