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"Go up! Go up! ”

There was jubilation at the headquarters of the Fifth Army in Semey, where the successive Soviet attacks had weighed on the 200,000 men and men of the Fifth Army and the follow-up support. And because of the need to show weakness and deliberately drag down the living forces of the Soviet army, everyone had to face the siege of hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops every day. But now, all of this is finally unraveling.

"Look, Commander! The Kima Hills are located exactly between Balkhash and Akchatau, and the 1st and 2nd Airborne Divisions have begun to counterattack and initially establish sniper positions. So that the enemy's 16th Army could not get down! They also seduced the infantry division in Balkhash, and the telegram from the 1st Panzer Division after it came ashore said that there was no decent resistance at all! Now that the 1st Division and the Airborne Division have been deployed to the flanks, one regiment of the 1st Division will be able to converge with the Airborne Forces and move in depth in two hours at the latest! In this way, the whole of Balkhash to Akchatau will be ours! ”

Chief of Staff Fan Shisheng couldn't stop shouting excitedly: "Now the headquarters has accelerated the crossing and landing, and there are more than 700 small boats ferrying back and forth in total. The airborne troops are also already cleaning up the landing site, and the glider brigade has brought a lot of honeycomb aluminum thick plates, and as long as they are laid on flat ground, a field airfield can be built. So according to my estimates, by tomorrow morning, there will be at least 50,000 troops crossing the lake! ”

Fifty thousand! That's enough for a small battle! It is no wonder that the staff officers and officers around them all shouted out happily after hearing this.

"Go, pull out the heavy artillery regiment allotted to us! Let the Soviet Maozi taste the power of our artillery! Two more 155 artillery regiments were dispatched to cooperate with them and give me the right to open the gap in the river. The assault cluster is ready, as soon as the artillery opens the situation, give me all the strength to rush out, be sure to take Pavlodar in two days, and seal this gate! "Good news. Long Yun was also rare and arrogant, and ordered to turn defense into offense.

"Commander, just look at it!" Ye Weixun was the most active, rolled up his sleeves, and rushed out of the headquarters with a steel helmet.

Soon, the seemingly ordinary houses in the east of the city were pulled apart by the combined efforts of the soldiers, and 36 Chongqing Zhenlei 1937 210mm heavy self-propelled howitzers and 36 ammunition loading vehicles were revealed.

Zhenlei 1937 is a new generation of army 210 mm suppressed howitzer developed in Chongqing, and it is also the largest motorized artillery equipped by the army. Adopt the Type 36 tank turf. With a total weight of 34 tons, the vehicle base is composed of a chassis and a gun carriage. Despite its rudimentary appearance, the 210 mm/L40 howitzer on it is very powerful, not only weighing 101 kg per shell, but also having a range of 21,300 meters when using a normal grenade. If the new concave range extender projectile is used, the maximum range can reach 24,400 meters. Importantly, regardless of its physique, it can also reach a maximum road speed of 48 kilometers per hour and an off-road speed of 22 kilometers, which can meet the capabilities of accompanying armored forces. The real problem of limiting the number of its equipment is the cost and resources, after all, the Wehrmacht is following the path of a large air force.

"Ready."

Unified telephone command. After the order to open fire came from the phone, there was a thunderstorm over the city of Semiy, and heavy shells roared and smashed into the positions of the Soviet 24th Army.

"Boom, boom!"

Earth-shattering explosions rang out from the south. The fire and the smoke were startled even by many of his comrades. "Mom, what kind of shell is that?"

"Look! At least a forty-meter-high column of smoke, right? ”

Countless soldiers were awakened by the roar of heavy artillery, especially the soldiers on the defensive line along the Irtysh River. Even widened his eyes, and he couldn't believe how he could have such a strong heavy artillery. You know, now it is surrounded on three sides: north, south, and west. To the east is mountainous again, how did such powerful artillery come to support? Could it be that it was hidden before? No, if there was such a powerful heavy artillery, why didn't it be taken out earlier, and it had to wait until so many sacrifices were sacrificed before it could be done?

While the soldiers were muttering with doubts on their faces, the Soviet troops on the opposite side exploded. You know, a 210 mm grenade is completely different from a 155 mm grenade, if a 155 shell falls three meters away, it may be able to survive by relying on cover, but as long as a 210 mm shell explodes within ten meters, Ji will not see a living person! Even hiding in a trench will be killed by the shock wave.

"Boom!" An earth-shattering bang sounded from 700 meters away from the command post of the 24th Army. The loud sound and shock wave swept away, throwing dozens of war horses and soldiers around them away, and also shaking the officers in the command post to stagger, and even the floor slab collapsed directly.

Without waiting for the Soviets to react, two more 210-mm shells fell. This time, it hit the field hospital directly. With a loud bang, dozens of tents were swept away, countless corpses scattered in all directions in a radial pattern, and more than a dozen military doctors were torn to pieces by shells.

Looking at the huge column of smoke dozens of meters high, Vlasov, who had just been promoted to commander of the 24th Army, had straight eyes. "What is this?" The maroon rolling pillar of fire clouds stunned all the Soviet generals. Don't look at the serious damage to the grassroots officers of the Soviet army, but the quality of the high-level and low-level soldiers is still good, so the senior officers immediately recognized that this is the power of at least 203 mm heavy artillery.

Boom, boom, boom, before he could wake up from the two waves of shelling, more and more shells began to fall. In particular, the 210-millimeter shells that were fired every minute could almost always smash a large crater several meters deep into the ground, and the Soviet soldiers around them were either killed or wounded, or at least completely deaf.

"What's going on? How can there be so many heavy artillery?! "Vlasov went completely mad. The Soviet generals around couldn't figure it out, they had been fighting for almost a month, and they hadn't seen the Wehrmacht have more than 155 mm heavy artillery (except for the fortress guns), how could there be so many 203 heavy guns overnight? You know, this thing is not a big thing that a transport plane can carry, and it is not a heavy weapon that can pass through the mountains to the east!

After 36 Thunderbolts opened fire in 1937, 2 howitzers of 72 regiments also opened heavy fire. This time, Long Yun also specially approved the supply of concave range extender shells that had been reluctant to take out before, so the range and strength of the artillery made the Soviet army, which was accustomed to Wehrmacht shells, completely confused.

"Commander, Comrade Commander!"

Vlasov and the senior generals were still struggling with how the heavy artillery came over, and the communicator of the 21st Infantry Division stumbled into the command post with blood on his face: "Comrade commander, the line of defense by the river has been broken!" ”

"How could it be. Where do you have a whole infantry division. ”

"Comrade commander, the Chinese concentrated 50 heavy artillery pieces to bombard our positions, and also dispatched at least 200 tanks and 100 armored vehicles! Commander Osvich, already sacrificed. ”

"Nonsense! Where did they get so many tanks? It's been almost a month since I played, do you think I don't know what's inside? If there are so many tanks, why now. When Vlasov, who was still angry, said this, he stopped suddenly, and his pupils shrank sharply into a cold star.

Because he found a serious problem!

The 203-mm heavy gun was not something that transport planes and mountains could deliver, so it must have been hidden somewhere before. And the correspondent now sees several times more clusters of tanks than usual. If it wasn't lying, wouldn't it mean that the previous Semimi defenders had not used all their strength at all! In the face of a day and night siege of more than half a million soldiers, which had increased to four army groups, it was impossible for any unit to be attacked by surprise to hide its strength. Well, now it's happening. This shows that in fact, the other party has already laid out a strong defense system in Semiy, and the reason why they deliberately pretend to be surrounded is completely in the hope of throwing out the city to drag the living forces!

Thinking of this, Vlasov's face suddenly turned as miserable as a blank sheet of paper. Conspiracy! It's a complete conspiracy! Now he can be sure that there must be somewhere broken through on the thousand-kilometer front from Semiy to Mount Aitau, and it is highly likely that it is a large army, so the opponent does not need to be hidden. Strike back with all your strength at once!

Vlasov guessed right, but it was too late. Relying on the two living forces of heavy artillery and the 5th Panzer Division, the 2nd Counterattack Group quickly broke through the Soviet defense line on the Irtysh River, with a total of 60,000 men and men in one armored division and three infantry divisions. With the help of more than 300 tanks and nearly 1,000 trucks, relying on the cover of the air force, they launched a continuous assault on Pavlodar at the fastest speed.

At the same time, thousands of tanks from the 3rd and 4th counterattack groups also jumped out of the sortie positions at the same time, and the Air Force even dispatched 2136 combat and bomber planes to clear the way for it. In particular, the 3rd group served as the 104th division of the arrow. The Central Guard Division, known as the army within the army, burst out with great combat effectiveness, and by 10 a.m. the next day it had broken through the Soviet defense line and ran 93 kilometers forward. If it weren't for the command, the infantry behind was worried that it would be easy to be cut off from the back. Maybe you can rush to the border by the afternoon.

Thousands of planes and artillery ravaged the already exhausted Soviet troops, and no one expected the Chinese Wehrmacht's counterattack to come so suddenly and quickly, and many units were driven back from the trenches by officers before they even fired a few shots, and kept retreating.

"Bang!"

"Where did they come from? Tell me! What the hell is going on, didn't you say before that it was impossible for the Chinese' tanks to cross Lake Balkhash ?! Kulik's fist slammed into the birch desk, and he was about to explode. Because he never imagined that the Chinese tanks would actually cross Lake Balkhash, he did not recover for half an hour after receiving Khaverov's telegram.

Kulik knows better than anyone that his life is hanging by a thread! If this wave of counterattack cannot be stopped, then there is no need for Stalin to make a move, and Beria's lackeys will also tear themselves apart! And now, the only ones who can save themselves are Lukin and the 16th Army, who criticized the demotion a few hours ago and almost sent someone to shoot him. What a great irony! Thinking of this, his face was blue and blue, especially the eyes of those staff officers and senior officers around him, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that a knife was poking his heart and digging his flesh.

But is there a choice now? The closest to Balkhash was only the 16th Army. So after thinking about it again and again, he slapped the table fiercely, deliberately suppressed everyone with the prestige of the commander of the front army, and shouted hysterically: "Let all the troops must hold on!" You must not take half a step back! Tell the commissars of the troops that the Soviets do not need deserters! Go and order Lukin again, let him immediately lead the 16th Army to reinforce Havrov, the enemy must be blocked! ”