Chapter 936: The Defense of the Kizil Fortress

At present, there are three oil fields being exploited in China, and only the Karamay Oilfield is completely subordinate to the National Defense Forces, and the other two are the Puyang Oilfield and the Yumen Oilfield.

Among them, the oil field in Puyang, Henan Province, has just taken over the oil production equipment and is still in the process of preparation, and it belongs to Wang Maoru, his subordinate officers, and other officials subordinate to Wang Maoru's joint venture, and the state only holds 20 percent of the shares here, and Wang Maoru alone owns 30 percent. The third oil field is the oil field in Yumen, Gansu Province, which has a relatively shallow oil layer but poor oil quality, and can barely refine oil.

In exchange for such a poor oil mine for the East-West Railway, the American Electric Company felt that it had suffered a big loss, and they then asked the China to take a stake in the Karamay oil field. But Wang Maoru's reply to them was that it was okay to take a stake in the Karamay oil field, but the service life and delivery time of the railway had to be reformulated, which made the American company hesitate again.

Li Wenbin, director of the Secret Telecommunications Department, personally sent a secret telegram to send Blyuhel's battle plan to Ren Yuanxing, commander of the Western Regions Military Region. This battle is definitely won! ”

Subsequently, Ren Yuanxing and Zhu Yongquan, chief of the General Staff, immediately convened an order to deploy the military, and readjusted the deployment of troops in view of the fact that the other party had been informed of their troop deployment in advance. During the meeting, Wang Jiejun, commander of the Third Division, believed that it was absolutely impossible to wait for the attack of the Soviet Russian army, but to take the initiative to attack, so that the Soviet Russians could taste our strength. Chen Jiongming, the commander of the Jiaolong Army, believed that we should resist the enemy head-on and retreat slowly, and did not agree to take the initiative to attack, because our slow withdrawal from Central Asia was an excuse for the enemy, and we should not give the enemy any excuse.

Chen Jiongming's speech made Wang Jiejun laugh disdainfully, and Chen Jiongming said angrily: "Master Wang seems to have something to say." ”

Wang Jiejun pursed his lips, he was nothing less than Chen Jiongming's retreat, and even looked down on this "civilian general" and said with a little sarcasm: "Chen Junzuo, haven't you seen it clearly? Soviet Russia is ready to fight a good war with us, we have won, and we have created peace for China for more than ten years, and if we lose, maybe Soviet Russia will immediately tear up the "Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty" and drive straight into it, turning China into their Yellow Russia. ”

Seeing Chen Jiongming's expression of disbelief, Zhu Yongquan, chief of the General Staff, explained with a smile: "General Wang is right, this battle has already been estimated, so let us prepare four years ago." Soviet Russia will definitely fight, and we must also fight, and this battle will not be fought happily, and if it is not fought, it will not give up. And it's a battle that is not destined to go down in history, and maybe it won't be until a decade before anyone makes it public. So, folks, think about what to do. ”

Hearing that Wang Maoru had anticipated this battle for a long time, Chen Jiongming squinted his eyes and asked suspiciously: "In that case, why did you sign the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty?" Wouldn't that be too much? ”

Zhu Yongquan said: "The reason for signing the treaty is very simple, we want Russia to recognize that the land belongs to us, the purpose of this war is to be with, we want Russia to realize that these lands do not only belong to us, we can protect these lands, and completely wipe out the idea that they think they can take away at will." China is not a child with a huge amount of money, and our national defense forces are beasts that can kill them. ”

Since Ren Yuanxing held the position of supreme commander of the Western Regions Military Region, the other commanders of the other corps, Chen Jiongming and Du Baosan, became deputy commanders at this time, and they had to obey Yuanxing's command, and they had no command power. Ren Yuanxingjian immediately changed the arrangement of military forces, believing that since the Soviet Russian Eastern Army had ventured into the Kreuz fortress with fifteen divisions, we would use its recklessness to annihilate it. He then ordered the 32nd Division to be the general reserve and stay in Almaty.

Only the 43rd Division was left in Balkhash in Taisi Province, and the 38th Division and the 49th Division were left in the provincial capital Akduka, and Chen Jiongming was responsible for the defense of the entire Taixi Province. The enemy, who wanted to enter the province of Tessy from Astana, had to cross the desert and steppes without a railroad and first face the city of Balkhash. The Jiaolong Legion raised jīng and was assisted by the road aviation troops, which could not delay the tired division of the Russian expedition.

Ren Yuanxing ordered Du Baosan's Yellow Dragon Legion to move south from the north into the Kreuz Fortress to replace the defensive task of the Third Division, Wang Jiejun's Third Division was not an army used for defense at all, while Du Baosan's Yellow Dragon Army was better at defense. Although Zhao Hengxi's division of the 39th Division under the Yellow Dragon Army had just entered the Western Regions from Alashankou, the situation was urgent, and they had to be in charge of this task.

After withdrawing from the Kizil fortress, the 3rd Division, the strongest division of the White Tiger Army, moved to the Chu River valley east of the Kizil fortress, and after the war, surrounded the Soviet Russian army from the north of the Kizil fortress.

Subsequently, the 16th Cavalry Division of the White Tiger Regiment set out from Longcheng, crossed Tashkent, advanced along the Kolzikum Desert and the Syr Darya River, and encircled the Soviet Russian army on the south bank of the Syr River.

Ren Yuanxing led the 10th Division and the 31st Cavalry Division to be stationed in Longcheng, and immediately supported along the railway when the Soviet troops were dragged in front of and behind the fortress after the campaign was launched.

The defensive arrangement of the Western Regions Military Region was to use the Yellow Dragon Army as bait, and the main army of Yin* Soviet Russia attacked the fortress, and at the same time sent two divisions on the left and right flanks to contain it, so that the enemy could only face the defense of the fortress head-on. In the first three days of the battle, the enemy's forces were depleted, followed by the 10th Division of Qiao Sanbang Division and the 31st Cavalry Division of Guo Buluo. The headquarters of Yeonghae will go straight to the fortress and carry out a counter-encirclement of the enemy, while the headquarters of the 16th Cavalry Division, Makanranti, will not only be responsible for pinning down the enemy, but also use its mobility to cut off the enemy's supplies.

The whole plan was an encirclement and counter-encirclement plan, and although the enemy had more troops, we had the advantage of the railroad and could send a steady stream of reinforcements into the fortress. In addition, the 1st Bombardment Division of the Army Air Corps, the 3rd Bombardment Division of the Army Air Corps, and the 4th Assault Squadron of the Army Air Corps were also transferred to Longcheng, the 2nd Airship Transport Formation of the Army Air Corps was directly sent to Taixi Province, and the 3rd Airship Formation was to observe the movements of the Kreuz Fortress at any time. Eight reconnaissance planes of the 1st and 3rd Bombardment Divisions of the Road Aviation also took turns to reconnoiter enemy movements, especially along the Syr Darya River, after all, in Kazakhstan, which was short of water, it was impossible for a large number of Soviet Russian troops to leave the water source to attack.

And the key to victory and defeat this time is the hard Cheng dù of the Kizil fortress, and the yòu bait of the Yellow Dragon Legion is not only a yòu bait, but also a stone that knocks off the enemy's front teeth. Although the number of soldiers in the Huanglong Army was the smallest, the Shaanxi Army and the Hunan Army were the troops formed on the basis of the two most warlike regions in China. Ren Yuanxing also believes that handing over this most critical task to them is definitely the most suitable choice, and the people of Shaanxi and Hunan will not disappoint China.

When the commander of the Yellow Dragon Army arrived at the Kizil fortress, the division commander Du Baosan, accompanied by people, observed the fortress, especially after visiting the four 260mm fortress guns, and could not help but admire the Tiger King Jiejun of Central Asia.

This kid dared to confront He Rufei, dared to damage Chen Jiongming in person, and dared to shout with Ren Yuanxing, but people deserve to have proud capital, look at this defense, look at this steep pass, this kind of one-and-a-half-meter-thick cement castle, it was effortlessly captured, and four fortress cannons were captured intact, which he would definitely not be able to do by himself.

What made Du Baosan feel even more admired was that Wang Jiejun's attack did not lose his troops, but outwitted his subordinates. This gave him a great indication that he secretly told himself that in the future against the Soviet army, he must not let the other side's spies enter the city or fortress.

The Kizil fortress was built on the east bank of the Syr Darya River, integrated with the city of Kyzylorda, and there were two large railways in the north and south - now the north-west railway was demolished, and the only railway to the southeast was Tashkent, and this railway was completely in the hands of the Chinese national defense forces.

In addition to the four fortress guns, the Kreuz Fortress also had six 206 mm armored train guns, of course, it would be better if there were still shells, and it is precisely because of the absence of shells that these armored trains can only be used as large armored trains on the move.

Du Baosan immediately ordered the removal of six discarded guns without shells from the armored train, and installed twelve 12.7 mm UC8 large-caliber heavy machine guns and six 75 field guns, making these six armored locomotive heads six mobile heavy machine gun sweeping pillboxes and mobile turrets. At the same time, he ordered the gathering of the only thirty tanks of the Yellow Dragon Army to form a tank assault regiment, which was under the command of Luo Lin, the commander of the 114th Brigade. The four artillery units of the Yellow Dragon Regiment were also concentrated by him, and they cooperated with four fortress guns and six modified armored train guns to destroy the enemy.

At the same time, on the periphery of the Kyzil fortress, the Yellow Dragon Corps built several defensive positions, the first one was one kilometer away from the city of Kyzylorda as the first defensive position, built a barbed wire machine gun array and pillboxes, built a second defensive position five hundred meters behind the first defensive position, and in the middle of the position, eighty meters away from the second position, dug a horse trap ten kilometers long around the city of Kyzylorda, called the horse trap trench. Du Baosan even in the positional battle, if the Soviet cavalry contributed to break the position, what was waiting for the defenders was a massacre, and this horse trench was a grand gift for the Soviet cavalry. The third defensive position was based on the walls of Kyzylorda, and the height of the walls was increased, and several trenches were dug in front of the walls, as well as a horse trench. If these three defensive positions are captured, the squadron can only hold on to the three places of the Kizil fortress, the city of Kyzylorda and the railway station, and the three places form an equilateral triangle of triangular defenses that support each other and rely on each other, which can be said to be the last bottom line in the city.

Being attacked by the Soviet army into the city was the worst plan Du Baosan had ever made. (To be continued!)