Blyukher's early morning battle plan was to use the Sakhalin corps to make a feint attack head-on, they only needed to use many years of combat experience to attract the attention of the Chinese, the left and right flanks first feinted with infantry, consuming the energy of the Chinese, and then the two cavalry divisions behind the infantry on both wings, the 13th Cavalry Division and the 17th Cavalry Division, as the real main attacking force, after breaking through the outer positions, a large area to completely annihilate the garrison troops of the first to second line positions on the periphery of the Chinese defenders.

The 13th Cavalry Division attacked from the outlying positions on the right flank, on the banks of the Syr Darya River, south of the Kizil fortress, and the 17th Cavalry Division attacked from the northern positions of the fortress. According to the soldiers of the Third International Infantry Division, the Chinese had a considerable number of tanks, and their tanks were more practical than the German tanks, and the soldiers of the Third International Infantry Division were helpless against the tanks even after exhausting their means. In order to prevent the Chinese tanks from causing them trouble, the chief of staff, Sollinsky, specially selected two hundred young men strapped with explosives as suicide bombers, and died with the enemy's tanks. As soon as he was ready, Blyukhel ordered everyone to rest and wait for the battle in the early morning of the 17th.

The Soviet 30th Infantry Division and the 13th Cavalry Division attacked from the north, and the 1st and 17th Siberian Infantry Divisions made a breakthrough attack south of the fortress near the Syr Darya River. For this reason, when it was completely dark that day, the 1st Siberian Infantry Division came to the Syr Darya tidal flats early, and the water level of the Syr Darya River gradually decreased in early summer, and a large muddy tidal flat was formed. The Chinese inevitably had some embarrassment in the defense of the river beach in the fortress, and every summer the snow-capped mountains in the upper reaches of the Syr Darya River would flood once or twice because of the melting of ice and snow, and each time it would flood the south of the city, so this low-lying place in the south of the city was full of water and grass and mud, and the Chinese occupied the dry place and threw the mud to the Soviet army.

The Soviet encircling troops rushed to the mudflats early, and they were originally going to dig some fortifications, but all the water dug up here was muddy water, and everyone stopped digging, after all, they were attacking and didn't need any fortifications. The Soviet soldiers had to stand in the muddy water and wait for the start of the general offensive in the early morning, but fortunately this is Central Asia, the temperature at night is 212 degrees, and the old hairy people, who were originally very tough, drank vodka and talked quietly.

"Damn the Chinese!" These are the words that Soviet soldiers have always hung on their lips, and their resentment against the Chinese is growing.

At the same time, Du Baosan, the commander of the Yellow Dragon Regiment of the Chinese National Defense Forces, returned to the headquarters after inspecting the defensive positions in the front, and his brows were furrowed, this Soviet army is not easy to fight, it seems that he used to underestimate them. Judging by the two attacks during the day today, the enemy is a veteran. And his own soldiers are veterans, but they are all used to fighting civil wars, and they suddenly encountered this kind of life-and-death war between the two countries, and they did not adapt to many aspects.

Thankfully, their side has the advantage of artillery and firepower, as well as the advantage of defense. More importantly, after the elimination of the Third International Infantry Division, the whole corps underwent a different change in the psychology of the Soviet army, which could not be seen but felt.

Chinese soldiers are more confident, and whites are no more so.

After carefully looking at the surrounding arrangements, Du Baosan and Sun Liechen returned to Sun Liechen's front-line headquarters, and Tong Lin, chief of staff of the army, took the information just sent from the command center of the Ministry of National Defense and introduced that there are now as many as 220,000 Soviet troops and 44,000 troops in our army, which is five times their own strength. During the battle, the Chinese soldiers had to be used by one to five, and this battle was indeed not easy to fight.

"I expect them to launch a third general offensive tonight or early in the morning." The chief of staff judged Tong Lin and said, "Xiu Shuai said that the Slavs will never wait, and I guessed that their shells might be prepared for the first attack in the morning, but they did not expect that we were more prepared than them, and we had more artillery." ”

"When I was younger, I also dealt with Lao Maozi in the Northeast, and I thought they would do the same." Sun Liechen, the commander of the 29th Division, nodded and said, he is an old Northeastern, as early as the Russo-Japanese War, he was a beard, fighting the Russians for the Japanese and then fighting the Japanese for the Russians, so he has a better understanding of the Russians. He continued in Northeast dialect: "I ask (estimate) that Lao Maozi is attacking with cavalry, their cavalry is very powerful, brave and tenacious, the tiger can rush and kill, and the technology can surpass our cavalry immediately." ”

Tong Lin counted on the sand table: "Our army has laid mines and barbed wire in front of the position, but the number of barbed wire is insufficient, there are only three layers, if the enemy's cavalry breaks through a little...... I'm afraid that there will be danger in the outer positions. ”

Sun Liechen also moaned his chin, looked at Du Baosan and said: "Military seat, barbed wire has some effect on infantry, but I am afraid that it will not be effective for cavalry, and it still needs artillery, and more cannons are needed." ”

"If the opponent's cavalry attacks at night, it is also a great risk, but once they break through, the impact on us will be greater." Tong Lin said, "So five days ago, we dug a 10-kilometer-long, five-meter-wide, two-meter-to-two-and-a-half-meter-deep trench in front of the first-line position and the second-line position. If the enemy uses cavalry, we only need to abandon the front-line positions, and the enemy's cavalry will not be able to cross the horse trenches for a while. But this was also a temporary measure, the trenches were easy to dig out, and the enemy agreed to dig up and bury them. At intervals in the horse trenches there was a road for our tanks and infantry to lead to Guò from the rear, and on both sides of the road we added at least three more machine-gun pillboxes to the second-line positions. The bunkers in the front-line positions are semi-circular and external, so there is no need to worry about the pillboxes being reused by the Soviets after abandoning the positions. ”

Du Baosan carefully looked at the map and defense map, and said: "I had to give up the front-line position during the night battle, the enemy's strength advantage is too obvious. Relying on wire machine guns and mines, I am afraid it will be difficult to prevent the enemy from breaking through with cavalry, and if it is during the day, our artillery can provide support, and at night the artillery advantage is gone. And once the cavalry breaks through the first-line position, they will definitely outflank them, and the brigades and regiments that our army has placed in the first-line positions will become lone troops, and it is very likely that they will be swallowed up by the enemy's crowd-like infantry. The ratio of forces between the enemy and us is five to one, and none of us can die lightly. ”

"Isn't it too dangerous to abandon the front-line positions?" Tong Lin said helplessly.

"This is also a last resort, unless there is some way to prevent them from fighting at night and breaking through with cavalry." Du Baosan said: "Make full use of the trapped horse trenches, the cavalry of Soviet Russia is not easy to deal with." Also, transfer the tank brigade and be ready to stand by at any time, the cavalry against them still has to use tanks, and the infantry can only be sent to death. ”

"Yes." Tong Lin said.

Du Baosan's order was quickly carried out, and the defenders of the first-line position all retreated back like the second-line position, and even the barbed wire fence was moved back a distance of two hundred meters. The sky was not completely dark, the daylight was a little dim, and Cai Pingben, the commander of the 83rd Brigade in charge of defense, ordered the engineers to fill the trenches in the front-line positions with soil and raise them to a depth of half a meter before leaving.

Observing from the observation platform of the highest tower of the Kyzyl fortress, the enemy's cavalry did not move, but the headquarters judged that the enemy would definitely use cavalry tonight, after all, the corpses of more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers who attacked twice during the day were still on the battlefield. Even though the enemy was superior in numbers, no one wanted their soldiers to die in vain, and the same was true for Soviet soldiers who did not take death seriously.

At 0:00 a.m. on May 17, Soviet artillery suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers opened fire en masse. At this time, the Chinese Wehrmacht artillery immediately returned fire, and the fortress artillery estimated the position of the enemy's artillery positions in the darkness and returned fire on the enemy's artillery positions several rounds. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, the rear positions of the Soviet troops were in flames, and one of the ammunition accumulation sites of the Soviet army storing artillery shells was accidentally detonated, destroying more than 80 artillery pieces of the Soviet army. The shelling of the fortress artillery during the day was not even as great as the losses brought to the Soviet army by this accident, and it can be said that the probability of this blind cat encountering a dead rat also made the Chinese really run into it.

This small accident gave Blyukhel, commander of the Soviet Army East, a bad premonition in his heart, that tonight's battle would never be small.

Although one of the Soviet artillery positions was accidentally destroyed, 70 percent of the Soviet artillery fire remained, and the power of the Soviet running group was not completely destroyed. During the day, they had to fight guerrilla warfare because of the power of the Chinese fortress artillery, and at night they were finally able to concentrate and bombard the Chinese fortifications.

"Ulla!" The fire matched the smoke of gunfire, and the Russian soldiers roared, jumped up with bayonets, and rushed to the defensive positions of the Chinese.

In the third attack, as if the Soviets were not trying at all, 35,000 fighters from all six divisions of the Sakhalin Corps shouted into the frontal (western) attack. Kolchak sat right in the back, brandishing his command knife and shouting loudly that the soldiers were louder, but in reality they only threw in three regiments of 5,000 people, and more than 30,000 people hid in the improvised trenches waving their flags and shouting. In the dark night, the Chinese could not see clearly, mistakenly believing that the frontal position of more than 30,000 people shouting had been greatly impacted.

In order to test the main point of fire of the Chinese, the first BO to attack was infantry, and they placed the cavalry in the back in order to test the weak underbelly of the squadron's defense, and then relied on the high-speed breakthrough of the cavalry to occupy the Chinese positions at points and surfaces, and then to occupy the fortress - this was all predicted by the Chinese staff. rs！。

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