The 412 Highland is located in the center of the valley eight kilometers in front of the town of Irgiz. There is a mountainous highland less than two kilometers long and a height of 100 meters. When Zhao Siyuan arrived here, the attack aircraft group had just left, and his comrades were clearing the wreckage and remains in the position. The entire highland was filled with a pungent smell. Through the smoke and dust, it can be seen that a large number of Soviet troops were trying to turn back again. A crossroads of black tank clusters had already slowly sailed along the flat valley. Behind the tanks, there were dense Soviet soldiers. "Brother! Where is the Commander Yang? Have you seen Commander Yang?" Seeing that the enemy was about to come up, the comrades were entering and leaving the combat position from the hidden place. Zhao Siyuan had to take a communication platoon and ask one by one.

"The regiment commander is injured, in the sanitary center on the back of the mountain." After finally getting news from the 1633 regiment commander, he was injured, so Zhao Siyuan had to run to the sanitary center on the back of the mountain. Just as he was about to get into the low sanitary center, with gauze on his head and one eye blindfolded, Commander Yang pushed away the sanitary soldiers and ran out of it. "Control Commander, your injury..."

"It's okay, I'll come back after this fight." Commander Yang was also a tough man. When he learned that the Soviet army started attacking again, he drove away the health soldiers blocking the road and rushed forward. "Captain Yang, what's wrong with your eyes?" Zhao Siyuan knew Commander Yang, so he quickly stopped him and asked about his injuries. "Xiao Zhao, why did you come in front? My eyes are fine, but my forehead is a little skin." Hearing that his eyes are fine, Zhao Siyuan breathed a sigh of relief and repeated Du Zishan's words.

"The shelling just now was too fierce and the wires were blown up. I'll send someone to repair it now. The army was not suffering much casualties, but a few anti-tank guns were blown up by the Russians, and the others... rumbled." Commander Yang led him to walk. As soon as he reached the front position, the dense shells fell down like hail again. "Be careful!" Commander Yang pushed hard. Even Zhao Siyuan was the liaison officer sent by the command center forgot, and forced him into the position: "Mad! Enter the position. Hurry! Don't stand there, everyone who can fight, get them all! Get ready for the anti-tank gun!" Then he shouted all the way and rushed into the nearest anti-tank gun position.

Zhao Siyuan was so amused that he had to ask the communication team to contact the headquarters to inform the situation here first, and then follow him to the anti-tank gun. The 412 highland is saline-alkali sandy land. It did not have a very strong fortification, so the engineers cleverly dragged in two destroyed Soviet tank wrecks and arranged them into an inverted trumpet-shaped gun basin. Then they covered the tank wreck with sand and stone, and the sides were reinforced with earth-stacked containers, and even the top of their heads were covered with wooden boards and mud.

There are only two anti-tank guns in the gun position (to prevent it from being destroyed, anti-tank guns are often deployed in a dispersed manner). One is a 105mm high-speed cannon removed from the damaged half-track assault vehicle. The other is an 85mm anti-tank gun. As soon as I entered the position, the artillery squad leader shouted: "Six T34s, three T26s, and two Su122s!" Following his voice, about 1,500 meters away, a Soviet tank company bypassed the shattered stones.

The valley, the shelling window entering the position. In the queue, two armored vehicles, like square box versions, were particularly eye-catching. This is the Soviet army learned the Su122 assault gun developed by China's hunting tanks based on last year's combat experience. As a guard of Du Zishan, Zhao Siyuan heard from the staff's introduction. The Su122 was modified with a mature T34 chassis and installed a 122mm Cannon howitzer. Since there is no turret, the weight is only three heavier than the T34/76.

Tons. The protection is also a different approach. The side and top armor is very thin, but there is no behind. However, the front armor is very inclined and has an astonishing thickness. According to the seized wreckage, the front inclination has reached 35 degrees and the thickness has increased to 76 mm, exceeding the front defense capability of the 31 tank. However, due to the constraints of technology and production capacity, surface carburizing and hardening technology is not used. But even so, its defense capability is very amazing.

"Bah! Mad. Learn from us! Are you shameless?!" The gunner was so angry that he spat hard when he saw the Su122. Because everyone knows now that the Soviet assault tanks were actually imitating the concept of the National Defense Forces' hunting tank. But there is no way to be angry. This is a war. A world war that can do everything! What's more, the Soviet army suffered a great loss last year on tanks, especially the "Manjaba Panic Disorder", which forced them to concentrate on developing anti-tank weapons and corresponding tank armored vehicles. So recently, people not only discovered a large number of Su100/122 assault tanks, but also found a small number of T34/85 tanks equipped with 85mm cannons. In the direction of the Petropavlovsk and Ishim, a large number of KV152 and KV100 heavy tanks improved from the KV chassis appeared.

"Armor Piercing Bomb! 600 meters, wind speed 3, correct... Fire!" With two crisp sounds, the capped armor-piercing bomb passed over Zhao Siyuan's head. The screaming sound of the shell rubbing against the air made people stand upside down. The artillery soldiers who had been through the battlefield did not miss the target. The first time they opened fire, a t34/76 was destroyed. But Zhao Siyuan, who was sharp-eyed, still found that the shell aiming at the su122 had a jump and failed to penetrate the front armor. This was basically impossible last year. Although the infantry were equipped with ordinary armor-piercing bombs, there were no expensive high-speed tungsten carbide armor-piercing bombs. However, at this distance, an indestructible armor target had never appeared.

It can be seen that the Soviet army has really made progress. While the thought arose from Zhao Siyuan's heart, rows of artillery shells were fired towards the position. The solid position blocked the shells, and the artillery quickly stood up and started a second firing. At the same time, several anti-tank guns deployed in other places also opened fire, constantly firing Soviet tanks into fireballs. Before we could see whether the two su122s were destroyed, a large number of Soviet infantry rushed out from behind the tanks and headed towards Gao.

The ground launched a charge. "Infantry! The enemy's infantry is coming! Fire!" The machine gun strafing and the explosion of shells made Zhao Siyuan's blood boil. He forgot what he asked, picked up his semi-automatic rifle and joined the battle. But he did not expect, and Du Zishan did not expect, even the Central Asian War Zone Command. He stayed for a whole 27 days of bloody battle, and finally buried his bones in this barren saline-alkali valley with tens of thousands of soldiers.

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In the Beijing General Staff, the lights were on the night. There were continuous news and war reports on the east and west fronts. Here, the officers and staff gathered together. In order to deal with these huge and messy information, the officers and staff even walked with wind. In the combat conference room, Chief of Staff Chu Nan personally stood in front of a large-scale high-definition map to explain the battle situation to the president and cabinet members. "This is the latest battle report I just received. The Central Asian Theater Command has basically judged the main target of the Soviet counterattack. The core of it is Petropavlovsk! There are about 150 divisions, starting from Kurgan and Costanai at the same time, and attacking here. The second attack point is here, the upper reaches of the Turgei River. The Sarekopa Lake area in the west of Alcarek, with a total force of about 40 divisions. This is the least of the three main attack points, but the terrain of this generation is open, so the Soviet army is targeted.

A large number of cavalry and fast light armored units were deployed in the ground. The last main attack point was the Ilgiz protrusion north of the Aral Sea. There were three armies and a tank army, and a reserve force of the army. The total strength was about 45 divisions. In addition, long-range reconnaissance aircraft entering the hinterland also found that not only were a large number of troops and baggage coming from the west, but about 20 divisions gathering in the Tyumen area. Mei Sheng and Sun Chuanfang both believed that Stalin probably wanted this Hantmansi to detour south from the north and sneak attack Omsk or Tomsk. To restrain our flanks... In this round of counterattack, the Soviet army used a lot of new equipment, including Katyusha rocket launchers, the latest Su series assault tanks, Zis-3 anti-tank guns, KV100 heavy tanks, etc., which pose a certain threat to our army...."

The long list of numbers made Gu Weijun and other cabinet members look a little uneasy. In the past, when fighting, mobilizing one or two million troops was already considered a large scale. Even last year's spring and summer offensive, it only invested more than two million troops. Now, the Soviet army alone has more than three million. In addition, five or six million troops are fighting each other in the vast Central Asia and Siberia. What a spectacular and terrible scene! And this is not considered to be the Sino-Korean coalition forces invested in the Northeast, North Korea, Ryukyu and other places, if it were the Persian Gulf

Let’s move with Nanyang for a while... they can’t imagine! On such a large scale, how long will this two-line battle last? How much fiscal budget is needed to be enough? The national manufacturing power has reached its peak! Normal economic activities are almost paralyzed! The food rations on the dining tables of the people have begun to shrink! The huge fiscal deficit and currency shadow have appeared! There are also the support of the people, and finally... the pressure from Congress and the inside has been formed for a long time. These are time bombs!

Thinking of this, Gu Weijun couldn't help but turn his head to look at Yang Qiu beside him. But what surprised him was that the President, who stood by the side, ruled the country for decades, established a national society, established a modern national system, and used various international contradictions to bring a backward country into the world war that can participate in the world war and mobilize tens of millions of troops, could not see any tension and anxiety on his face at this moment. Isn't he worried? Or is there any other foreshadowings he doesn't know?

"Shaochuan, what's wrong?" Yue Peng was surprised when he glanced at Gu Weijun, who was a little restless.

Gu Weijun really wanted to say what he thought, but it was not the time for people in the conference room to talk too much, so he waved his hand: "It's okay, I just want to know, how much investment do you plan to fight this time? How big is it? How long does it take?" Several consecutive needs were exactly what Bei Zuyi and others wanted to know the most, so everyone walked two steps towards the map. "It's still a defensive counterattack." Chu Nan picked up the teaching stick again: "Mei Sheng and Sun Chuanfang have transferred all the troops on vacation to the front line, and the 50 divisions of the Central Asian Alliance and the Polish Legion have also set off and are expected to be in place within a week. We still have a large air advantage now, and simply defending, there is no big problem. But in this way, the battle may be delayed until next spring. So Mei Sheng and the others still hope to launch a larger counterattack and implement a siege and cutting on the main force of the Soviet army.

October before, a large-scale encirclement and annihilation war was completed against the Soviet army. According to their observations, the weakest Soviet army is currently here..." The instruction stick pointed to Lake Sarekopa: "There are only 40 divisions in the defense line of Lake Sarekopa, and behind it is the wide Turgai Plateau. There are many lakes and hills. Judging from the geographical conditions, there are not enough conditions for a quick counterattack. But Zhuo Fan in North Korea gave us a new idea. It is to use elite armor clusters to implement small breakthroughs, cross the harsh terrain and then quickly converge. Then, we use our greater advantageous aviation power to send infantry to its front, and finally form a larger combat cluster. So they are also preparing to use this new tactic and cooperate with the cavalry divisions of the Central Asian Alliance to carry out rapid attacks on Costanai and Orsk to cut off the two Soviet supply lines.

The most important thing in this counterattack is to test the subsequent air transport capabilities, it also needs to test the defense of Petropavlovsk and Irgiz protrusions. We are not worried about Petropavlovsk now. There is a city as a backing here. As long as the Soviet army can't pinch our transportation line, we will be sure to stick to it. So the real danger is the Irgiz protrusion! We have calculated that it is expected to take three weeks from the assembly of troops to the crossing of the plateau. Therefore, whether Duzishan tribe can defend it is the key to deciding whether to launch a counterattack!”

"Du Zishan." Murong Han chewed the name and slowly narrowed his eyes: "I remember he was a special combat hero in the Battle of Reneewell, right?"

"He is an old guy who dares to fight and fight." Yue Peng nodded.

There was still a hidden worry between Gu Weijun's eyebrows: "The plan is good, but you must be careful. The Soviet army is not the Japanese army. With a plateau barrier, their combat effectiveness is several times that of the Japanese. Moreover, our troops are piled on the front line. At such a close distance, any mobilization may not be hidden from the Soviets. Once discovered, dozens of divisions will be thrown on the plateau."

Chu Nan said: "The Prime Minister hit the point! The president has considered this issue, so the afternoon of the previous day, he secretly asked Liu Mingzhao to lead 10 preparation divisions of the Northeast Army to support Central Asia. He also drew three armored divisions and mechanized divisions from Du Yuming's troops in Turkmen to join. In order to prevent the Soviet army from discovering, I have ordered Bai Chongxi and Du Yuming to join Tehran at the right time to cover them. As for Stalin... Haha, isn't this going to vote? Millions of square kilometers of land can stimulate him no matter what."

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Stalin used Iraq to restrain the Persian army, while Chu Nan in turn used the attack on Tehran to cover the troops. This is a very good way. Moreover, once the Siberian vote was successful, Stalin and the Slavs were obsessed with the temper of land-loving like life, they would definitely fight to the death! But the action of drawing the Northeast Army made everyone wonder. Gu Weijun shook his head even more: "Didn't it mean that there would be no transfer? In this way, wouldn't North Korea delay it again?" Bezuyi, Murong Han and others also shook their heads one after another. Japan must not delay it. They would rather retreat from the Central Asian defense line than missed to defeat Japan early, so as to completely end the two-line battle.

Faced with everyone's suspicious eyes, Yang Qiu and Yue Peng looked at each other, and both curled their lips. They smiled and said, "You forgot that we have an army that can be mobilized." "Oh, that one?" Gu Weijun became even more confused and pointed at Chu Nan: "Didn't Chu Nan say yesterday that the recent batch of recruits will not be able to invest until July?"

"Haha, my Prime Minister Shaochuan, why have you forgotten? Didn't we spend a special training fund at the beginning of the year?" As Yue Peng laughed, Gu Weijun's eyes lit up: "I understand, it's...dongdongdong." Bei Zuyi and others had not heard clearly what the three of them were fighting. A sudden knock on the door suddenly interrupted them. Yan Baohang rushed into the conference room with a quick look on his face: "President! Zhang Zhidan's urgent telegram! Three hours ago, the Iraqi army sneaked into the British Habania Air Force Base. There was intelligence, and the Soviet soldiers in the Kurdish guerrillas participated in the attack..."

The smile that had just surged on Gu Weijun and everyone's faces suddenly disappeared.

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Chapter completed!