While the Soviet fighters and the caliphate's mujahideen were fighting bloody battles outside Mecca, another fierce battle on the north bank of the Ili River, thousands of miles away, had come to an end, although Soviet shells still fell on the Chinese positions from time to time, but the gradually weakening intensity and scattered landing points made all the officers and men of the 2nd Panzer Cavalry Corps breathe a sigh of relief. In the headquarters of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Corps, located in an abandoned farm 20 kilometers north of the Ili River, Liao Lei squinted his eyes and listened to the battle report, arranging tomorrow's battle with his subordinates.

"It was the vanguard of the Soviet army that we drove across the river today, and the real battle should start tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. However, the Soviets will not cross the river from our front, the Ili River is not the Aloresa River, there is no way to cross it at all, and under the guard of our armored group, it is impossible to force the crossing, so they will choose to cross the river somewhere downstream of our army, and our army is not strong enough to open a tight defensive line along the river......"

Gong Chu, chief of staff of the 2nd Armored Army, was drinking strong coffee to refresh himself while frowning and introducing the situation. He was originally a Cantonese person, and went to Shaoguan to lecture on martial arts and the first phase of Whampoa, he was a student of Chang Ruiqing, and later studied in France to study armored troops, and he was a rare talent in the command of armored troops, and Zheng Zhongyuan, the commander of the 2nd Armored Army, was the real soul of the 2nd Armored Army, and he could come up with a dazzling combat plan every time: "The Soviet army on the south bank of the Ili River has hundreds of thousands, 10 times more than us, if they are allowed to cross the river, they will be placed on the Atyrau Desert in Sarysik, We can only sneak back to the Komsomol City to defend it, so we must block them south of the Ili River as much as possible, but we are only an armored cavalry army, and it is impossible to deploy a tight defense line along the river. The only way is to use the mobility and assault capabilities of the armored forces to carry out mobile defense, and use the tactics of half-crossing to deal the maximum blow to every Soviet crossing that is found. ”

Liao Lei listened to the report and stared at the sand table and map in front of him. On the table there is also a report that the Air Force has just turned around, and the actions of the Soviet troops during the day cannot be concealed from the Air Force reconnaissance. Their logistics line was also constantly harassed by He-111 medium bombers, and if it were not for the insufficient number of air forces assigned to the Northwest Front, the Soviet army cluster on the south bank of the Ili River would have run out of ammunition and food long ago. But now, their logistical supply situation is certainly not much better, so their offensive must not last long, as long as they can keep them blocked for a few weeks. Maybe I'll be able to go home. Thinking of this, he poured a few more sips of coffee and said with a refreshment: "The troops are regrouped, forming 5 division-level tactical clusters, ready to attack at any time, and then scatter the armored scouts." It was discovered that the Soviets had built a pontoon bridge and immediately reported it. ”

Zheng Zhongyuan saluted, turned around and left to reorganize his troops, but Liao Lei's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, his eyes swept over the map over and over again, and finally stopped on Lake Balkhash: "What is the movement on the other side of Lake Balkhash?" ”

"Not for the time being, but it won't be long before there will definitely be [Star Volunteer] Reborn Female Supporting Fight Read the full text." Gong Chu replied: "There is a railway connection between Karagan and Sareshagan on the western bank of Lake Balkhash, and the Soviet army cluster on the south bank of the Ili River is supplied through Guò Sareshagan. Grade estimates. The three Soviet reinforced armies would soon be massed at Salesagan west of Lake Balkhash, and if they could not achieve a breakthrough on the Ili River, they might use the Lake Balkhash fleet to land on our flank. ”

"Balkhash Lake Flotilla...... It's a nuisance! Can you get the Air Force to wipe it out? Isn't HNA's Attack 2 even a battleship able to deal with? The small wrecked ships of the Soviet Inland Lake Fleet should be fine, right? ”

"There should be no problem, the post department will go and report to the front army headquarters."

Before Gong Chu finished speaking, he saw that Zheng Zhongyuan, who had already changed into an armored soldier training uniform, wore a black beret, and wore a sand guard mirror around his neck, hurriedly ran back: "Yan Gong, I just got the news that the Soviet Balkhash Lake Fleet has entered the west of the Ili River and is advancing in Akol, and there are signs of a large number of Soviet troops gathering on the south bank of the Ili River west of Akol. It seems that there is a major breakthrough direction for Lao Maozi! ”

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Several gray-green Gaz half-track armored command vehicles arrived at the small town of Xinyangzhuang, about 15 kilometers opposite Akol. Sitting in the car was Pyotryonovich Baranov, who temporarily served as the commander of the Southern Front cluster of the Central Asian Front of the Soviet Army. When the car drove into the center of the town, there was not a single peaceful resident in sight, and the town seemed to have been abandoned. On the open field outside the original county center elementary school, Baranov saw a small Hawker transport plane.

Baranov quickly got out of the car and strode over to the plane. He noticed that the pilot was still in the cockpit, so he tapped his finger on the glass and asked, "Whose plane is this?" ”

"Comrade commander of the first-class group army, this is Comrade Frunze's special plane." After seeing the four gold stars on Baranov's collar badge, the pilot knew that the other party was a "commander of the 1st class army." This is a military rank peculiar to the Soviet Red Army, equivalent to a general or four-star general in a capitalist country.

"Comrade Frunze is already here? Where is he? Baranov asked, his tone extremely heavy.

"In the temporary command of the Southern Front cluster."

Hearing this answer, Baranov turned around and left, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Did you encounter any danger when you flew over?" ”

"We didn't encounter any danger, the weather today was not very good, the clouds were very thick, we flew above the clouds, and the Chinese planes couldn't detect us."

After hearing this, Baranov looked up at the sky, and sure enough, there were dark clouds, and it seemed that snow would soon fall, and then the difficulty of attacking the troops would be even greater. He sighed before walking briskly towards the county central elementary school, where his headquarters was located.

"Hello Comrade Commander." As soon as Baranov stepped into the war room, he saw Frunze looking at the map and hurriedly saluted. Frunze also turned his head to greet him, the commander of the Soviet Central Asian Front, who was also now tired, and both eyes were bloodshot.

"Comrade Baranov, where did you go just now?" When Frunze arrived, Baranov was not at the command, so there was this question.

"I just went to the headquarters of the 43rd Army, where their separate tank brigade and an infantry division organized a forced crossing in the area of Akol this morning."

"How are they doing? Did you lose the battle again? Frunze already saw the clue in Baranov's face.

"As soon as they crossed the river, they met the Chinese armored forces! More than 50 T-28s and T-28s of the 7th Separate Tank Brigade were all destroyed, and the loss of personnel exceeded 5000. The rest of the troops have retreated...... Chinese hunter tanks ambushed in a bush less than 5 kilometers from the north bank of the Ili River. The body of such a tank is low, only meters, so it is easy to hide. Moreover, the firepower of the 75mm anti-tank gun is fierce, even the T-28/1932 tanks are almost as papier-mâché in front of them, and the evil wife and the master mother are too fierce. I think we should imitate this kind of tank, which is very cost-effective, and this is the weapon that the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army urgently needs! ”

Baranov also served for a while as the head of the armored corps of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Considered an expert in tanks and armored troops, he threw his big cap on the table, took a large sip of Russian coffee from the hand of an orderly, and then continued: "In addition, Comrade Commander, I propose to change the original battle plan. We can no longer follow the original idea of large-depth assault operations; our armored troops are not opponents of the Chinese at all; without the sharp knife of armored troops, we cannot fight a large-depth assault; we can only use the static war mode of World War I, and use positional warfare to stabilize the battle line first. ”

Frunze thought for a moment. He nodded quickly and said: "I also have such thoughts, we have no air force superiority, and the armored corps is inferior to the opponent, the big depth assault is just a pipe dream, and the only reliable thing now is infantry and artillery." But...... Will the enemy use the tactics of a deep assault against us? ”

"This possibility is in existence." Baranov fiddled with the cup in his hand. "However, the Central Asian side does not have to worry too much, the logistics of the Chinese are not smooth, and it is difficult to gather a large number of mechanized troops." But in Poland...... Comrade Commander. Intelligence said that the Germans had 100 Panzergrenadier divisions and at least 20 Panzer divisions! Referring to the combat power of the Chinese armored forces in the Battle of the Alaresa River, it is really chilling! ”

"I will alert the Revolutionary Military Council to the threat of German armored forces." Frunze's face was also full of worry, for the Soviet Union, the gains and losses of the Eastern Front were not particularly critical, even if the Central Asian Front, the Baikal Front and the Far Eastern Front were all annihilated by the Chinese, as long as the railways were demolished in time and the roads were destroyed. The implementation of guerrilla tactics, long distances can also make the Chinese armored forces unable to exert their might. But if there is any mistake on the Western Front, the huge armored forces of the Germans will be able to enter Moscow by advancing 1,500 kilometers to the east!

Baranov put down the cup in his hand, and the expression on his face became a little heavier: "Strategically, Central Asia is only a secondary battlefield. It is enough for us to adopt an active defensive posture, and there is no need to constantly invest our strength. However, at present, the Central Asian side has successively invested 18 group armies, 4 tank armies, and a large number of border troops and logistics auxiliary units, with a total strength of more than 2 million. If we take into account the strength of the Trans-Baikal Front and the Far Eastern Front, we have already invested more than 3 million troops in three unimportant battlefields, which is really too much......"

"We must teach Chinese revisionism a profound lesson on the Eastern Front before we can concentrate our forces against Germany!"

Baranov could not finish his sentence when he was interrupted by Frunze, who looked at the high-sounding boss. sighed in his heart, if it were not for the loss of 3 army groups in the battle of the Alaresa River, Frunze would definitely support his opinion. But now, Frunze only wants to be ashamed of himself in order to maintain his position in the army, and has long lost the ability to think calmly that a military strategist must have. However, he could not let Frunze blindly fight hard and gamble with the lives of Red Army soldiers.

"Comrade Frunze, we have many ways to teach the Chinese a lesson, and we don't have to attack the Komsomol City, which is heavily defended by them." Baranov pointed to Almaty on the map and sneered: "You can send two army groups south to besiege Almaty, which is one of the two major strongholds of the Chinese in Outer Xinjiang, and nearly 3 million refugees have gathered in the city. Therefore, once Almaty is besieged, it is impossible for Bai Chongxi of the Komsomol City to remain indifferent......"

"Comrade Commander, I just received an urgent briefing from Moscow!"

Halfway through Baranov's words, the chief of staff of one of the clusters on the southern front shouted, looking shocked: "Comrade commander, Afghanistan...... Afghanistan is suddenly invaded by Chinese-backed Allah forces! They have reached the Salang Pass north of Kabul! ”

Afghanistan? Why did the Chinese invade Afghanistan? And how did they hit the vicinity of Kabul all at once? Frunze and Baranov glanced at each other. Immediately, he leaned down and began to study the map.

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By nightfall, Kabul was in chaos. This ancient city is the largest city in Afghanistan and the capital of the country, with nearly 300,000 inhabitants, making it a bustling metropolis. But now the streets of the city are empty. All the shops are closed. In the direction of the Salang Pass north of the city, artillery roared, and an armed force claiming to be Allah's army, as if falling from the sky, suddenly appeared north of the Salang Pass, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the Afghan king ** stationed there to lure the pet, and Lai Shang's wife read the full text. The 75mm mountain artillery roared incessantly, and the shells exploded on the positions of the mountain pass garrison, and the rolled up smoke and dust and sand rose high, and even the city of Kabul could be faintly seen.

When King Nader Shah of Afghanistan arrived, the Salang Pass to the north was under renewed onslaught. Since this is the choke point through the Hindu Kush into Kabul, Nader Shah has placed his most confidant army here. Now it seems that this decision was made entirely of the right one. However, the king, who was about to win the world, frowned tightly at the moment, and a sense of foreboding appeared in his heart.

As an Afghan serpent, he certainly knew how these Chinese-backed Allah Party appeared outside the Salang Pass - they certainly didn't fly over with wings, but those tribal elders in the northern foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains were luring wolves into the house! These guys have no concept of nations and nations in their minds at all, only their tribes and Allah! So he launched a rebellion against the former king Amanullah Khan, who was bent on changing the backward face of Afghanistan. Right now. They again chose to betray because they "did not respect the caliphate".

What a high-sounding reason, as a Sunni Mismlin, the caliph is the natural spiritual leader, and it is also the duty to defend Mecca and support the Msling brothers in India and Central Asia against the tyranny of Soviet Russia. But...... Don't these pious muslins think about their homeland, Afghanistan? Can this world war be mixed in by a small country like Afghanistan? If the Afghan state had been ruined in this world war, would they, the tribal chiefs and the grand imams, still have the power and power they have now?

"His Majesty the King."

The king's motorcade stopped in front of the command post of the Afghan army at the Salang Pass, and as soon as he got out of the car, Nader Shah saw his henchman, Major General Omar, the commander-in-chief of the Guards, approaching. This is a veteran who has followed him for many years, not only loyal but also with outstanding military talent.

Umar saluted Nader Shah, but when he looked up, he saw the marching procession behind the king's convoy in sight. His expression turned uneasy: "Your Majesty, have you brought all the troops from Kabul?" ”

Nadir Shah keenly noticed the uneasiness in the other party's eyes and asked, "What's the matter, didn't you report that Allah's army has more than 10,000 people?" That's why I brought some more troops over. ”

"But your Majesty, then Kabul is empty. In case the army of the Indian Mislin Union comes from Peshawar......"

"Indian Mismlin Alliance?"

"Yes, they have also recently started to receive aid from China, and it is said that Jinnah himself has secretly traveled to China to meet with Chinese Premier Chang Ruiqing, and there are rumors that Amanullah Khan is now in Peshawar!" Omar told Nader Shah all the rumors he had heard.

In fact, the relationship between Afghanistan and India's MSLIN Union is much closer than the outside world thinks. Because the Pashtuns, the main ethnic group in Afghanistan, also live in northwest India, and in later Pakistan, the Pashtuns were still the second largest ethnic group. At present, Peshawar, the stronghold of the M-Sling Alliance, was originally Afghan territory, which was seized from Afghanistan by British colonists, and Afghanistan in history also invaded India every once in a while.

Nader Shah's face was already blue, and if it was only the rebellion of the northern tribes and the invasion of Allah's armed forces, he could barely cope with it. But if the army of the Indian Muslim Alliance also fights, then he will not be able to cope with it. In the past, with the support of the Soviets, the M-Sling Alliance fought with the British and Indian armies for 7 or 8 years, and had already trained more than 100,000 elites in hundreds of battles, and their own Afghan army was just a novice who had never been on the battlefield in front of them! And there is almost no danger on the way from Peshawar to Kabul, and the possibility of holding Kabul on your own is almost zero.

Just when he felt overwhelmed, one of Omar's aides hurriedly ran out of the headquarters, shouting as he ran: "Your Majesty the King, Your Excellency General, it's not good, it's not good...... The Indians called! Their troops from Peshawar have already crossed the border and are really marching towards Kabul! ”

"陛xià! What are we going to do? Do you want to return to Kabul immediately? ”

Nader Shah looked back in the direction of Kabul and shook his head slightly: "No, let's go south to Kandahar, which is very close to the control area of the Soviet Indian Front, it seems that we have to take refuge in the Soviet Union!" ”