"Oh God! My God! It's not really ......"

Looking at the direction of the rising sunset, Karimov only felt that his hands and feet were cold, this drunkard who had been educated by the party for many years was now chanting the name of the reactionary god God. Because he knew that he might soon see his old man, and thinking about what he had done over the years, he really couldn't imagine that he would be forgiven by the Lord...... It would be nice if there was an Orthodox priest here, at least a deathbed confession.

In front of him, about 3,000 people dressed in civilian clothes and holding shabby Mosin. The mouths of the Red Guards of the Nagant rifle were also full of words. But most of the chanting is not God, but Allah. Before the revolution, except for a few Slavic immigrants (Karimov's father moved from Western Siberia), most of the people were Muslins who believed in Allah. They hated the rule of the Soviet GCD even more than the Tsar, because the latter, although they were just as oppressive, did not force them to renounce their faith. The former exploited them even more, and demolished all the mosques, killed all the imams, and declared the Prophet Muhammad a counter-revolutionary......

Boom Boom Boom ......

After a burst of mortar bombardment, at least 1,000 Chinese airborne troops wearing camouflage uniforms lined up in several skirmish lines and slowly pressed up on Karimov. Behind these paratroopers there were already a dozen cannons (in fact, 75mm recoilless guns) lined up, and the muzzles were facing in their direction.

"Run!" I don't know who yelled heartbreakingly. Then dozens of Tajik Red Guards threw away their rifles and were about to flee for their lives, and they had not yet run far. The machine guns were already rattling, and several fiery snakes were whipping towards the deserters, and a dozen of them immediately fell to the ground and convulsed. The rest obediently picked up their rifles and returned to their posts.

At this time, the Chinese paratroopers also opened fire, their fire was extremely fast, everyone seemed to have a light machine gun in their hands, the air was full of whistling sounds, and the shells of mortars and recoilless guns exploded among the Red Guards. Dirt, rubble, fragments of rifles, and severed limbs were splattered everywhere. Seeing this scene, Karimov's spirit finally collapsed. pulled a captain who usually had a good relationship with him: "I'll leave it to you here, I'll go to the back to organize reinforcements!" He turned around and ran back. The captain grabbed him and said, "Comrade Karimov, now is the critical moment. The party is not thin on us......"

"What's not thin?" Karimov shook his arm, gritted his teeth and said, "You hold on a little longer, reinforcements will arrive soon!" After saying that, he didn't look back and ran away.

"Rush rush, rush with me!" Major Liu Yongyao, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the Airborne Forces, was commanding about a battalion of paratroopers to attack the positions of the Soviet Red Guards. However, this "battalion" was not the one he had commanded. Rather, it was improvised after being airborne to the ground.

Although they were temporarily assembled troops, they still cooperated with each other very well, and hundreds of officers and men formed an almost perfect stormtroop formation, and they did not need to be overwhelmed by the battle team, but rushed forward with artillery support. Liu Yongyao trembled with excitement, many of his subordinates had been on the battlefield, but he, the battalion commander, was an out-and-out "first battle".

"The enemy is in chaos! The enemy is in disarray...... Let's hurry up! ”

I don't know who shouted in the team, and at this time I still have the heart to observe the opponent's situation. It must be a veteran who has been on the battlefield a few times. Liu Yongyao concentrated on a careful observation and found that there was indeed some chaos on the other party's position. Figures kept flashing, and there wasn't much firepower to stop them. It seems that this battle has been won! Thinking of this, he picked up his automatic rifle and fired a burst of fire at the shaking figure on the Soviet position, and then accelerated his pace and rushed up.

Jiang Chunlin stood on a high place, watching his soldiers rush towards the enemy's position like a tide, and the firepower of twelve 75mm recoilless guns, eight 120mm heavy mortars, and more than twenty Type 31 general-purpose machine guns almost completely submerged the enemy's position. This is the first battle of the Chinese Airborne Forces, and the first battle must be won! Therefore, Jiang Chunlin did not hesitate to take out all the forces that he could concentrate in his hands and launched a fierce attack. Now it looks like it's working well, and the first wave of charges is in!

"Position! Commander Chiang, let's take the enemy's position! Seeing a military flag flying in the blue sky and white sun on the ground in front of him, several staff officers around Jiang Chunlin cheered.

After a while, a second lieutenant covered in gunpowder smoke came running over and reported: "Report to the commander! Our unit has already routed the Soviet defenders and captured the building of the Kailakum reservoir district! ”

"Even the district building has been taken! Now the Kailakum Reservoir is ours! ”

"Commander, we're winning!"

Hearing the staff officers around him talking about it, Jiang Chunlin's face also slipped with a smug look, and he turned his head and asked the staff officers around him: "How many brothers have been concentrated now?" Did Soviet troops come over in the direction of Kokand? ”

"Report to the commander, now the brigade headquarters of the three brigades have been contacted, and each brigade headquarters is under the control of 1,000 to 1,500 officers and soldiers, and there are nearly 2,000 people under the direct command of the headquarters. As for the direction of Kokand, there was no movement, but the air force reconnaissance found that a group of cavalry was coming from the direction of Khujand, about 2 or 3,000 cavalry. ”

Jiang Chunlin put down the binoculars and said lightly: "It's good to come, we can just meet the Soviet Cossack cavalry." As he spoke, he handed the telescope in his hand to the staff officer beside him, and strode towards the Kailakum Reservoir Management District building that he had just captured.

After walking a short distance, I saw paratroopers escorting the prisoners of war from the brigade to come over, all of them were Central Asian people wearing ordinary people's clothes, some were talking and laughing, and their faces were all relaxed, as if they were not prisoners of war but guests of the squadron.

"Commander, these people are all forced to join the Red Guards, and they don't deal with Lao Maozi, they didn't resist much when we attacked just now, and they all surrendered their guns. A few of them still want to go with us to fight the Soviet Red Army. Liu Yongyao, who won the first battle, pointed to eight or nine bearded and vicious-looking Central Asians under the Kailakum reservoir building.

"Very well, sue them. We are friends of Caliph Hussein, and we came to Central Asia to liberate the Soviet oppression, and we welcome everyone who wants to work with us! ”

Some of Jiang Chunlin's staff members knew Russian, and they all told Jiang Chunlin's words to him, and when they heard Caliph Hussein, they all showed surprised expressions. One of them also asked a few questions.

However, Jiang Chunlin did not have much interest in these Soviet national separatists. beckoned Liu Yongyao over: "Then, the Air Force has just sent a telegram that a group of old Maozi's cavalry is coming from the direction of Kuzhan." There were about 3,000 people. I give you 1000 people, do you have the confidence to defeat them? ”

"No problem, I promise to let them go and never return!"

Jiang Chunlin smiled and said: "You kid is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, I can sue you." Those cavalry were regular Soviet troops. Most likely the famous Cossack cavalry! You can't afford to be underestimated, you know? ”

"Got it! Commander, just look at it! ”

Jiang Chunlin nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, he asked Liu Yongyao to hurry up and command the deployment. At this time, the staff officer who had just been in charge of talking to those bearded Central Asians rushed over again and reported: "Sir, good news, those bearded men tell me that the Soviet army in the Ferghana Basin is very empty, and only there are some guard units in Ferghana City, where the headquarters of the Tianshan Front is located. Kokand and Andijan are both empty cities. Only a small number of police and internal security units are guarded by air defence units. ”

"Oh, really?" Jiang Chunlin raised his eyebrows. After thinking for a moment, he muttered, "It seems that this surprise attack was really a great success!" ”

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"I'm not leaving! I'm not going! You let me go, you bastards, scum, counter-revolutionaries...... Let go of me, I'm the commander of the Tien Shan Front! I will fight the enemy to the death in Ferghana! I will not be a deserter, and I will not die......" In the basement of the office building of the Fergana Municipal Committee, Baranov was trying to break free from the hands of several guards with big shoulders and round waists, struggling and swearing.

This scene is indeed ...... It's a bit like an arrest! However, Baranov was still the commander of the Red Army's Tianshan Front, and it was Boltman, the military and political commissioner of the Front, who ordered him to be removed from his command. This comrade commissar actually had good intentions, he did not want to send Baranov to a military court, but to save the life of this commander who could not think of it for a while and was ready to live and die with the city of Fergana.

From a large map hanging in front of Baranov, you can see how bad the situation in the Fergana Basin is now! First of all, the Kailakum Reservoir in the rear of the Khujand fortification zone had been firmly controlled by the Chinese airborne troops, and the 41st Army organized cavalry to counterattack, but it was defeated by the well-equipped Chinese paratroopers. The city of Kokand, east of the reservoir, was also attacked a few hours ago! About 800 people of the defending internal guard and air defense units held out for less than 2 hours before they were completely wiped out. Subsequently, Anglian in the northwest of Kokand, Namangan in the northwest of Kokand, and Isfara in the southeast of the Kairakum Reservoir were all reported to have been attacked by an unknown number of Chinese troops! This shows that the number of paratroopers of the Chinese army parachuted in the Ferghana Basin is very large, and the combat effectiveness is not weak!

What makes people feel even more serious is that all units of the Soviet 42nd Army, which defended the mountainous areas north and south of Ferghana, reported that they had been attacked by the Chinese army, and the troops could not withdraw at all, and the Khuzhan fortified area was also attacked by the Chinese 18th Army.

It seems that the shape of the entire Fergana basin has collapsed, and the two armies of the Tien Shan Front are in danger of total annihilation. Even the city of Ferghana, where the headquarters of the Front is located, could be attacked by Chinese paratroopers at any time! With less than 2,000 defenders in the city of Ferghana, it was impossible to hold on. Therefore, Bultmann had no choice but to decisively exercise the "final decision" of the political commissars and order the headquarters of the Front Army to move to the mountains of Gisar Alai and join up with the two divisions of the 42nd Army. Then find a way to cross the Gisar Alai Mountains to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. There was a 45th Army subordinate to the Tien Shan Front, and there was also a 46th Army in Samarkand, not far away, and a Soviet Army subordinate to the Indian Front in Afghanistan, which crossed the Amu Darya River to the south.

However, Baranov was reluctant to leave the city of Fergana, and repeatedly stated that he would fight the enemy to the end.

"I'm a GCD. If the party asks me to defend the Ferghana Basin, I will defend the Ferghana Basin, and even if I die, I will die in Ferghana. Don't run away! And now the situation in the Ferghana Basin has not reached the point of incorrigibility...... The Khujand fortified area is still in our hands, and the 41st Army and the 42nd Army are basically intact. The enemy's airborne troops are at most 10,000 or 20,000 people, and there are more than 4 million Soviet citizens in the Fergana Basin! There are no less than 40,000 GCD members alone! The time has come to call, no, to order all GCDers to take up arms in the fight against imperialism! These people are the masters of the USSR, and now that the USSR is in trouble, what reason do they have not to fight? You must know that the prisoners in the Karaganda concentration camp were actively enlisting in the Red Army. Aren't we, GCDs, as much of a love for the Soviet Union as the prisoners of labor camp? Baranov, who was hot-tempered and straightforward, grew louder and louder, and the Red Army officers in the room were speechless, not knowing what to do.

A hurried phone ringing finally broke the embarrassment. Vatutin, chief of staff of the Front, picked up the phone and listened to a few words before handing it to Baranov: "Comrade commander, it's the phone of Comrade Antonov, commander of the 42nd Army, the 167th Division of the 42nd Army has just repelled the Chinese paratroopers attacking Isfara. Comrade Antonov wanted to ask the command of the Front to transfer to Isfara. ”

To the south of Isfara is the Gisar Alai Mountains, and they are not very steep. It's easy to climb over. After crossing the mountain, you can't go far to Dushanbe. Once there, the headquarters of the Tianshan Front Army was out of the tiger's mouth. Everyone, including the commissar of the political council, Bultman, looked at Baranov with expectant eyes, although the commissar was the last cadre to make the final determination in the military, but it was Trotsky's order to defend the Ferghana Basin! If Baranov had to defend, Boltman would not dare to make a mistake.

"Comrade Bultman, please take some of the comrades from the headquarters to Dushanbe." Baranov knew what was going on in his side's mind, but he didn't plan to escape. "Someone came and called the Fergana Municipal Party Committee, the Andijan Municipal Party Committee, and the Osh Municipal Party Committee, asking them to gather all the GCD members and Komsomol members in the three places within 24 hours. Form a party member Red Guards and prepare for battle!

Call Comrade Antonov and ask the 167th Division to immediately launch a counteroffensive on the Kailakum reservoir! Call the command of the 41st Army. Order them to draw at least 1 infantry division to counterattack the Kailakum reservoir! In any case, be sure to recapture the Kailakum reservoir within 48 hours! ”

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"Take it down! The Kailakum reservoir has been taken down! ”

The headquarters of the 18th Group Army of the Chinese Army to the west of the Khujand fortified area was full of jubilation, and the failure of the previous attack on the Khujand fortified area made the three infantry corps of the 18th Army and the two Panzergrenadier Divisions, one Infantry Division, and one artillery group reinforced in the future, with a total of 200,000 officers and men, all feel disgraced. In particular, after the offensive of the Northern Front and the Siberian Front was progressing smoothly and the good news continued to come, the faces of the top leaders of the group army, including Zhu D, became more and more ugly day by day. But now, the 18th Army is finally able to raise its eyebrows, and as soon as the Kairakum reservoir is in hand, the Soviet 41st Army will be attacked on its back, unless they also build a fortified area like the front behind it, it will be a dead end.

"Look, Commander! The Kairakum reservoir is located between the remnants of the Kyrgyz and Giza Arei mountains, and is right between the Ferghana basin of the Khujand fortress. As long as the airborne troops occupy the Kailakum reservoir, the Soviet 41st Army in the Khujand area will be a turtle in the urn! Moreover, according to the report of the Airborne Forces, the deployment of Soviet troops in the Fergana Basin is very empty, and almost all of them are empty cities in Kokand, Fergana, Andijan and other places. ”

Hu Ruoyu, chief of staff of the 18th Group Army, couldn't help but shout excitedly: "By the way, the airborne troops have also seized their code books in the headquarters of the Soviet Red Guards in the Kailakum Reservoir, and they have obtained information by listening to the Soviet radio station, and the headquarters of the Soviet Tianshan Front has ordered the mobilization of Soviet GCD members and Komsomol members in the Ferghana Basin to take up arms and organize to fight us, it seems that they really have no soldiers to use!" ”

Mobilization of GCD members, Komsomol? Comrade Zhu D's black face suddenly became gloomy. Although the area of the Ferghana Basin is not large, it is the most densely populated region in Central Asia, and there are 4 to 5 million inhabitants living in the basin. These are all working-class vanguards made of special materials!

"Send a telegram to Jiang Chunlin, tell him to shrink his troops to the vicinity of the Kailakum reservoir, cut off the communication between the Soviet 41st Army and Ferghana, and then attack the flank of the Soviet 41st Army with a forceful part. Order the assault group to start the attack, be sure to take the Khujand fortress within 24 hours, and open the gates of the Fergana Basin! Sue Zhang Zhonglin, don't care about the loss of the hunter, I will make up for him as many hunters as he kills! Even if you fill it with steel, you have to fill it up for me! ”

As a cadre of the Central G, Zhu D naturally had a high regard for the combat effectiveness of the Soviet GCD members and the Communist Youth League members, so he was extra cautious in his orders, and as a result, the Soviet Tianshan Front, which was already in a completely desperate situation, was given a little respite.