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Grass brown soil, yellow leaves withered. Standing on a high mountain ridge and looking into the distance, the entire Akchatau region is the scene of this harsh winter. Nobody likes this place, not even the herders, because the environment of this place is a bit special, with endless mountains stretching all the way to the Toklau River in the east and mountains in the west that are difficult to navigate.

Lukin chose a good terrain that whoever wanted to travel to Karaganda through would have to pay a sufficient price. After Sharif sent three telegrams with the same content, fighting broke out. A storm swept over the Soviet positions, which had just been carpet-bombed, and three separate heavy artillery regiments and six self-propelled artillery battalions of the Wehrmacht Army opened heavy fire on the 403rd Heights on the east side of Akchatau, the most critical area. The wooden stakes and barbed wire fences temporarily set up by the Soviet troops were lifted into the air, and the shock wave of the shells swept across the surface, setting off bursts of sand-yellow storms, and many Soviet soldiers were suffocated to death in the trenches by the shells, and their internal organs were shattered.

Kou Huainan, the commander of the third battalion, stood on the tank and shook his arm: "For the majesty of the republic, the Wehrmacht, attack!" Amid a hoarse shout, 41 Type 36 tanks led two infantry battalions in the first wave of the attack.

The artillerymen of the First Army showed a solid foundation at this moment, the pace of the shells was almost close to the front of the tanks of the third battalion, squeezing the Soviet troops to do barrage and advance slowly, and the infantry hid behind the tanks and rushed up the slope under the protection of thick steel plates. There is nothing fancy about the battle in the field, and the battle for your life-and-death position is extremely cruel. After the rain of bullets climbed up the ridge and stopped for a while, several 122-mm howitzers in the Soviet positions were immediately leveled, and the officers hoped to destroy the Type 36 tanks with Caliber.

Smoke filled the bunker on the ridge, and the 122-mm shells hit the front of the Type 36 tank at a speed of 700 meters per second, but to the disappointment of the Soviets, except for two that were blown up. The rest of the vehicles that were hit only paused slightly, and then charged at them again with black smoke. "For the Soviets!" Sharif's party commandos played the role of death squads, and the five commandos hiding behind the boulders were strapped with explosives and shouted slogans to rush to a tank that was close at hand.

Four of them were killed by infantry in the continuous explosions, but the last one fell to the side of the tank before being hit. Rumble! With a loud bang, the left track of the Type 36 tank was blown off, and the surface of the car was covered with black spots, and three tankmen inside were killed on the spot.

"Spread left and right! Don't let them come close. Mortar! Focus on knocking out the hidden spots! "In the face of the madness of the Soviet army, the commander of the infantry battalion quickly changed his tactics, took the initiative to get out of the tank bomb avoidance area, and led the infantry to spread out to both flanks. When many Soviet soldiers saw the scene just now, they were like enraged bulls. Frantically clinging grenades and explosives packs tried to destroy the tank, but most of them, except for a few, were killed.

"Up, up, up."

The infantry began to accelerate past the tanks, and the dense fire formed by the H37 fully automatic rifles, which completely suppressed the Soviet troops on the 403 heights in the trenches. As the most brutal trench sweeping battle began, small columns of smoke continued to rise from the high ground, and many Soviet soldiers could not avoid it. Simply pull the grenade and choose to die together. Although the soldiers of the Soviet 16th Army tried their best and even spared their lives to frantically countercharge, their opponents were much calmer. Seeing that the enemy was going crazy at the cost of his life, he simply took the initiative to open a certain distance and win with firepower.

The H37 assault rifle is comparable to a light machine gun. Often two or three Soviet troops who could hold down a platoon could not raise their heads, and the remaining infantry only had to approach and throw grenades. Under heavy firepower, the first line of defense on the 403 heights was gradually overwhelmed, forcing Lukin to wait an hour after the battle began. put in the few reserves.

With the start of the 403 Heights, Chunan took the 1st Armored Division as the lead. At the same time, two infantry divisions were thrown into the Akchatau area to launch a fierce assault.

"Captain, look, these hairy people are all crazy." Luxe refers to the most intense 403 Heights. The landscape was peculiar, like a giant loess adobe, and the smoke was everywhere with explosions and dust, and the fire of machine guns was incessant, and the fighting was much more fierce than that of Raineyvale.

"This Lukin does have something to do to motivate the soldiers to this extent." Chu Nan also nodded, and said regretfully: "If you let him command a front army, I'm afraid he will really lose to him if he doesn't make some blood." It's a pity that he now has only a half-crippled group army in his hands, and the width of the troop deployment is seriously insufficient, and last night's southward movement was all mobile forces, and there was not much reconnaissance force left after losing it. By the way, where are the 18th and 48th divisions? ”

Le Shi naturally understood the meaning of Chu Nan's words, in fact, from the beginning, everyone did not intend to entangle with Lu Jin. This is Kazakhstan, the land is vast and sparsely populated and there are countless places to detour, even if the terrain of Akchatau is special, 80 kilometers to the west Agader can also pass, nothing more than 100 kilometers more.

"It's already here, Commander Xu is kind this time, and we have brought our truck over first." Leshi smiled: "Commander, why do I think you favor one over the other? Why don't you let me switch with the 3rd Division? ”

"If you're not here, I'm afraid Lukin won't have the heart to fight." Chu Nan smiled and motioned to the staff officer to spread out the map: "Judging from the telegram intercepted by the headquarters, Stalin has strictly ordered that he is not allowed to take half a step back, and whoever retreats will be shot." And let Beria keep an eye on the families of the officers such as Kulik and Lukin! So they won't retreat until they have to. Now he had infantry in his hands, and it would be very difficult to drill into the mountains to the east and eat them again. So as long as you're here, he'll think we're trying to force our way north. Therefore, you and the 33rd Division and the 126th Division must put on a posture of strong pressure, and you can't be too ruthless all at once, you have to force him to keep putting in the reserves, slowly consuming him, and when I get to Karaganda, he won't be able to take many people with him even if he wants to. ”

Luxe actually knew that as long as the 1st Panzer Division was all here and dragged into a mess, Lukin would resist to the end. I just said that just now, but I just felt that it was a pity that such a big credit was snatched away by the third machine infantry division. So he saluted and promised: "Don't worry, commander, I know how to measure." ”

"Don't worry, I'll leave you half of the credit." Chu Nan patted him with a smile, and was just about to leave, when the communication soldier brought a surprising big news with the individual soldier radio on his back. Report. Telephone of the command. Saying that the vanguard of the 22nd Division has reached Pavlodar, let's speed up. ”

"Ye Wei inquired about Pavlodar?" Not to mention Leshi, even Chunan and even the Almaty Command are full of disbelief, you must know that the second cluster only broke out of the encirclement this morning, and Kulik has already mobilized troops to pursue and harass, how can it be possible to cross the 300-kilometer war zone in just seven hours?

"Did he fly over?" Looking at the sky where the snow began to fall, everyone was dumbfounded.

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"A battalion to the airport!"

"Sanlian, train station!"

"Second Company, Municipal Building."

"Commando. Blow up radio stations and radio stations! ”

"Buzz." In order to keep the ignition intact, the motorcyclist constantly turns the accelerator. Ye Weixun stood in the back seat, waving his hands and shouting loudly, one after another three-wheeled or two-wheeled motorcycles, crushing the blood of the Soviet army in the north of the city. Quickly rushed all over Pavlodar.

The influx of motorbikes turned this small city of 60,000 people upside down.

There was a roar of exhaust pipes everywhere, and the HJ32 general-purpose machine gun mounted on a three-wheeled motorcycle, as long as you saw someone wearing a Soviet military uniform, whether it was a staff member or a wounded soldier, it was directly swept by rows of bullets. "Tank, be careful. Tanks in front! "A squad of three-wheeled and four-wheeled motorcycles had just turned out of the street and arrived at the train station when they saw two British Vesk tanks imported by the Soviet Union in the early years parked on the side of the road.

As soon as the two sides looked at each other, they were all stunned. The motorcycles did not expect to meet the tanks, and the Soviet troops on the tanks also did not expect the enemy to rush straight into the city in an inconspicuous motorcycle. Just stunned. Machine guns rang out. The HJ32 fired desperately at 900 rounds per minute, and the hissing of gunfire woke up several other motorcycles, two of which slammed the throttle to the side, and the infantry in the back seat threw the grenade into the uncovered tank.

"Let's go! Come on! "The moment when the lead motorcycle yells and turns. Two explosions were heard from behind, and the Visker light tank was directly blown to pieces.

"Don't stop! Seize the high ground! What are you doing? Stupid! Throw the motorcycle away for me. Climb up, climb up and occupy the roof! ”

"Blow up the gates, grenadiers!"

"Boom!"

"Rush, rush in! Buzz. ”

The two Vesks here were blown up without knowing what was going on, and the motorcycle company that attacked the city hall went directly to the entrance of the city hall. The vigilant Soviet sentries put up desperate resistance, but the 84-mm recoilless guns that dismounted from the motorcycles announced their death sentences. Two shells in succession smashed the gate painted with red stars and sickles, and a two-wheeled motorcycle accelerated up the steps and rushed directly into the town hall without even waiting for the flames to be extinguished.

In less than three minutes, the sickle flag on the upper floor of the city hall was torn down and the Chinese flag was hung.

The battalion headquarters of the 613th Regiment of the Soviet Army in the south of the city was even more unlucky, and more than 700 officers and soldiers who were having dinner were rushing into the garrison from all directions before they picked up the lunch boxes. More than a dozen HJ32 machine guns, all submachine guns, and H37 assault rifles, especially reinforced from the 5th Armored Division, instantly flooded the barracks.

As for the city hospital and telegraph station, which were important targets, they were also besieged by more than a hundred motorcycles less than ten minutes after the occupation of the town hall. More than 200 guards were killed, more than 6,000 medical personnel and wounded soldiers were taken prisoner, and all radio stations were blown up.

Hurry, it's so fast! When the commander of the 219th Soviet Division stationed in Pavlodar heard the sound of motorcycles, he thought that reinforcements from Omsk had arrived, and even called the military band to organize a welcoming ceremony. Before he could hang up the phone, the sound of fierce strafing and the screams of his own soldiers came from outside. Although the divisional guards and officers swore to resist to the death, in the face of the more than 200 motorcycles and more than 400 elite infantry on board, they only lasted less than half an hour before they were wiped out.

Completely stunned! Although the 219th Division had already received an early warning and had deployed a defensive line to the south, everyone from the officers down to the soldiers believed that there would be no ground war until at least tomorrow, and they did not expect that the enemy would appear in front of them more than ten hours in advance.

The Chinese flag was raised in the city hall, the headquarters of the 219th Division was attacked, the railway station was occupied, the airport was occupied, the telegraph station was bombed, and so on, everything was in chaos! Without unified command, the remaining Soviet troops, unable to even send telegrams and telephones, became headless flies and could only blindly fight back under the leadership of grassroots officers. To make matters worse, they find themselves facing all the fastest motorcycles. And these strange motorcyclists obviously got the order, and if they could beat it, they rushed forward in a swarm, and if they couldn't beat it, they immediately retreated, and they didn't entangle, they really had to block it, so they simply blew up the motorcycles, and then used the buildings to build a defensive line.

"Hell, how many motorcycles are there!" A battalion commander and hundreds of Soviet troops were trapped behind the power plant, and they climbed to the roof of a building and used binoculars to see an army of motorcycles sweeping through the streets and alleys like locusts, and almost wanted to jump off the building.

He knew there that after learning that Zhukov saw through the intention of encirclement and ordered three divisions of the entire Omsk infantry corps to go south, Ye Weixun was very anxious. Because the Balkhash airborne has proven that in such a vast area. In addition, Kulik also sent several divisions to pursue the second assault group in parallel. In the end, even if you arrive tomorrow, it will definitely turn into a tough battle for the attack and defense of the city.

Although Pavlodar is not a fortress like Omsk, it often takes a lot of time to storm the city, and the second assault cluster is not afraid of attacking fortifications, but the command is afraid! Although Stalin strictly ordered to defend to the death, and Kulik also ordered several orders an hour to attack and defend to the death, but God knows what to think below? It would not be a joke to learn that millions of troops were about to be surrounded. Therefore, after discussing with Xu Zuyi, the commander of the 5th Armored Division, Ye Weixun decided to gather all the 1,577 motorcycles in the second group, led by Ye Weixun himself, and from the 22nd Division and the 5th Armored Division, the elite assault regiment composed of all veterans was drawn respectively, and then took a shortcut along the path along the Irtysh River.

In this way, the first all-motorcycle army in history, composed of 3,631 motorcyclists and elite veterans, braved the north wind and the low temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius to soar 300 kilometers in the wilderness on the banks of the Irtysh River at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. In the end, more than 30 vehicles were damaged, 11 people rolled down the Irtysh River and died, and they appeared in Pavlodar like lightning. In order to take it by surprise, Ye Weixun even spent 1 hour detouring back to the worst defense north before launching an attack.

And at this time, the second assault cluster is even a hundred kilometers away!

"Tanks! Cannon! We've found artillery and tanks! ”

The elite veterans smashed open the warehouses of the 219th Division, excitedly dragged out an entire battalion of 42 brand-new T34 tanks and 16 122mm howitzers, stuffed hundreds of shells, and scavenged a few boxes of vodka from the officers' quarters, before finally heading north under the dead eyes of Soviet prisoners. In less than two hours, there was a rumbling cannon sound from the north, and more than a thousand elite veterans who had been stimulated by the great victory and their eyes were red and they had forgotten the severe cold, drinking vodka, nibbling on Kazakh "tribute" sauce beef, driving Soviet T-34 tanks, and using Soviet artillery, to blow up the Soviet military columns that were going south at night.

At this time, the first batch of Y-6, which rushed to hear the news, had already sent 122 soldiers and 16 pilots who knew Russian to Pavlodar Airport. Why were there pilots in the first batch of support? That's because the speed was too fast, and when the motorcycle battalion stormed into the airfield, the Soviet pilots were still holding a pre-war mobilization meeting, so more than 70 aircraft of various types were captured, including 10 IL2 physical aircraft that the Wehrmacht had always wanted.

After the pilot was simply familiar, he drove the IL2 and I-15 into the sky to support the north to block the southward Soviet troops, as for the most I-16, no one dared to fly, this thing was designed without considering static instability