On April 25, north of the Aral Sea, heavy rainstorms mixed with melting ice and snow, causing the water level of the Shellet River tributary flowing through the Akdem Mountain to surge by two meters in the river that could not be navigated. At this time, hundreds of simple wooden boats were parked, and the Soviet soldiers from the brigade were dragging a 122mm howitzer off the boat and transported it to the top of the mountain high ground by carrying horses. Lu Jin, wearing a rubber raincoat, stood in the middle of the pile of corpses. Two battalions of Chinese soldiers were lying in messy mud in front of and around them, and there were several times the broken remains of the Soviet soldiers who were being moved on the left and right sides of the highland. A tank army, a cavalry division and five infantry divisions were building pontoon bridges to consolidate the victory.

"Comrade Commander, Commander Zhukov is here"

During the reminder of the correspondent, Lu Jin turned his head and saw Zhukov climbing up the slope on the muddy road. After meeting, he immediately held Lu Jin's hand: "Comrade Lu Jin, you fought beautifully in this battle and used the enemy's method to fight back."

Zhukov rarely praises people, but the sneak attack on the Akdem Mountain Highland did play beautifully. Lu Jin took advantage of the opportunity of snow water melting in April, the river rises and heavy rains. He drifted down at night with a wooden boat, breaking through the defense line in one fell swoop. The entire attack was almost similar to the National Defense Force's crossing of the Balkhash Lake. Not only did he gain all the advantages of familiarizing himself with the environment and geography, but Lu Jin also played a tactic of using the other way, but Lu Jin had no expression on his face. On the contrary, he shook his head: "Comrade Zhukov, the price we paid is also very high, you see." He pointed his hand and looked solemn: "There is only one regiment, but it blocked the strong attack of our two divisions for the whole night. He paid a price of five thousand casualties and finally ran away by them. About a battalion was very tenacious, with high tactics and discipline. Comrade Zhukov, our enemy this time is very, very difficult."

Unlike most senior Soviet leaders who are so secretive about the Chinese National Defense Forces, Zhukov and Lu Jin are the few soldiers who dare to comment on their opponents in a positive way. In their opinion, there is nothing to hide. Only by being clear about the shortcomings can we know how to fight this war. But he does not think that the Chinese National Defense Forces has reached an unsolvable level, just like the high ground in front of him. As a newcomer, although with the support of local people, whether it is the foundation and familiarity with the environment, it is far less than the Slavic nation that has been operating here for hundreds of years. So he easily avoided the topic and said: "Comrade Lu Jin, you should look forward. The situation after the war between Germany and France is becoming more and more beneficial to us."

Lu Jin nodded, the French battle suddenly disrupted the European territory. After the German tanks were trapped in the French Plain, it meant that the Soviet Union could release at least 500,000 armed forces from Europe to Central Asia and the Caucasus. In addition, the continuous recruits had an opportunity to counterattack in a comprehensive manner. This was also the main factor for him to use surprise troops to seize the highlands. So he immediately asked about the war in the direction of Tashkent. You must know that as long as Tashkent is still there, the Chinese Defense Force on the opposite side would be restrained by at least 600,000 troops. Otherwise, this counterattack war would have to pay a greater price.

"I came to fight back." Zhukov waved his hand and asked the correspondent to spread the map. The two squatted in the mud to study it. "The latest news, they had launched a general attack on Samarkand yesterday. It was difficult to really block it, but it should be delayed for four to five days. I also asked Comrade Apanesechenko, who said that even if Samarkand was thrown away, he still had 30 divisions and 5 international columns in his hand, and he also armed the residents around him, and the total force was maintained at about 370,000. According to him, the reinforced fortress has successfully blocked the enemy for a month. Their attack intensity has been declining for a month. From various signs, they obviously have no means to deal with the reinforced fortress. Moreover, the intelligence says that there are no artillery more than 305 mm in their country that can deal with the fortress. The power of the bomb is too small in front of the reinforced fortress, so even if you start looking for a method at the first time, it will take a long time. This is our best opportunity!

After a winter, our supplies have been replenished, and the roads of ice and snow melted and thawed. Comrade Stalin has also ordered 35 divisions from the Southwest Military Region, Moscow Military Region and Don River Military Region to support us. The first batch of troops have arrived in Omsk. In this way, I can draw 15 divisions and 2 tank troops from Omsk and Petropavlovsk. My plan is that my 15 divisions and 2 tank troops will set out immediately and gather 12 divisions of the Don River Army that came from Ufa. From the junction behind you, you can cross the south so that you can deceive the enemy's aerial reconnaissance, so that they think that these are the forces you mobilized to continue the attack. After their attention is attracted here, I will go straight.

Take the attack on Rezkazgan and Kizil Orda, you see, their troops are relatively weak. They are stationed in Rezkazgan, two infantry divisions of the Second Army and the 24th Army. Kizil Orda only has two divisions of the First Army and two Kazakh rebel divisions. There is also a Polish division gathering in Turkestan and can be transferred to the city. Even if the Poles are added, there are only 12 divisions, including only two tank divisions. Moreover, the temporary military railway from Kizil Orda to Rezkazgan has not been opened to traffic yet, and they cannot support each other quickly. So as long as these two places can be occupied, the connection between the north and south of the Aral Sea can be fundamentally cut off, rescued Tashkent and surrounded the enemy's troops in Urgench!"

"Your job is to make a breakthrough from here and attract the enemies of Karaganda and Pavlodar." Zhukov's fingers drew a circle on the Akdem Mountain Highlands, and then pointed a slash towards Rezkazgan and Kizilorda fiercely.

"Go back to the command center"

Lu Jin also thought it was good, so he immediately pulled Zhukov back to the command post to continue to study the command post. After listening to the detailed offensive steps and targets, he was more worried about the troops' front-line breakthrough ability, but Zhukov had his own method: "Comrade Lu Jin, I have studied their offensive methods in detail. Most of the time I used the air force to provide front-line support. In the tank clusters covered infantry's offensive defense, they also relied on armored forces as support points, and used aircraft to block the battlefield 10 kilometers on the front. Infantry was responsible for the final position defense in Navoy. They used the tactic of infantry guiding tanks for the first time, but such tactics were not good in open fields, so I believe they would use the most convenient method."

Knowing tactics and cracking tactics are two different things. The National Defense Force's tank point infantry line ring defense tactics are perfectly matched. No matter which direction the assault requires the face of clamping firepower. With the air force blocking the battlefield 1,030 kilometers in front of the defense line, it is easy to disperse the charge troops through strong firepower. When the soldiers rushed to the position, they no longer have any cluster advantage. They are easily cut and eaten by tanks and infantry. In response to this situation, Zhukov came up with a way to shorten the offensive distance. First, use a tank army to make a breakthrough in the flanking desert, attract the air force and gather a large number of old tanks and armored vehicles. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the aircraft's dispatch frequency dropping at night, the infantry will be quickly transported to the front line of the defense line and at the same time, a large number of heavy artillery cannons will be arranged behind 12 kilometers to destroy the front line with strong firepower. When the first round of consumption troops and tanks pull the defense line, the main t34 tanks will penetrate inward along the gap.

Lu Jin pondered for a while. Zhukov's short-sold tactics are actually to actively sacrifice a large number of old-fashioned tanks that eliminated. Covering infantry shortens the attack distance in the last year, this tactic would be very distressing. However, with the direction of Europe transporting thousands of T34 tanks every month, it already has the ability to consume more importantly. Zhukov already has 200 latest T34/57 tanks in his hands. Facing the opposite 31 and 36 tanks is no longer the means of no use at the beginning.

So he immediately said: "You can go south from Asnata. The Kurgarkin Forest to the south is dense. You can escape the plane and reconnaissance for three days and arrive at Uletao Mountain. The altitude here is 500 meters and belongs to the hills. As long as you can break through, there will be no bad terrain that can stop the tanks."

"Okay" Zhukov recorded the route and solemnly handed the latest password book to Lu Jin: "This is Moscow's latest password, we need to change it every three days in this counterattack."

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"Report, Karaganda report, they found new signals"

In the communication and intelligence center of the Almaty War Zone, a lieutenant wearing headphones pulled off the letter sign paper and compared the Tashkent signal he had just received, and quickly walked into the office behind him.

In this intelligence center, hundreds of non-commissioned officers such as communications, mathematics and cryptography need to process five thousand communications from the lowest level white to the highest level of gold and monitor the radio and some wired telephone contacts of the enemy and us on the entire battlefield. In addition to communication, this is also an intelligence center in the Central Asian War Zone, analyzing thousands of various intelligences every day, including the most important Soviet radio contacts.

"The new signal appeared east of the Aral Sea two hours ago. I have compared it. The telegram from Tashkent a hour ago has not used the new password yet." After the lieutenant finished reporting, he handed the two signal spectrums to the major and major in the office to compare and signed the name immediately, wrote the two words purple and then gave it to the lieutenant: "Purple, forward it to Beijing immediately, request decipherment."

Soon, a purple top secret telegram with a multi-layer encryption representing the highest level flew to the back of the Beijing Ministry of Defense. Major Chi Buzhou, a cryptography expert of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau of the General Administration of Strategic Intelligence, who was hidden in the Xishan Forest, pulled off the telegram paper from the automatic receiver, took a look, and ran to the deciphering room quickly. "Mr. Luo Zuoji, the Soviets have changed their passwords again." In the office, several mathematical and cryptographic experts of different skin colors were busy. Chi Buzhou walked to Luo Zuoji, who had already served as deputy leader of the cryptographic team.

"Switched again?" After Luo Zuoji came to China, he immediately joined the cryptographic analysis team of the General Administration of Strategic Intelligence. The Enigma cryptographic analyzer he brought was also highly valued by Yang Qiu. With the Katyn tragedy, he was already serving China with all his heart.

Luo Zuoji frowned and opened the record at hand to find that the password was changed earlier than the Soviet army's normal Monday, four days earlier than the war period. There are only two possible such sudden passwords. Either they discovered that the enemy had deciphered their own password, or there was a new military operation, so he did not dare to delay, so he immediately took Chi Buzhou to the password cracking office on the third floor underground.

The password cracking room is actually a huge open basement. The core is a transistor computer about the size of a car in the center. Since the birth of the Star 1 computer, the 3010 computer team led by Hua Luogeng has conquered day and night. Yang Qiu also dug up a large number of transistor manufacturing talents in the economic crisis and proposed the topic of developing PN transistors. Finally, in 1937, the benefits of the finished transistor were first produced in 1937. Simply reducing the size of the computer by dozens of times is enough to explain all the problems. Compared with the original Star 1, the Star 3 in front of him is also a model that combines keyboard and punching, and cannot be considered a real logic computer, but the computing speed is

However, it is five times higher than Xingchen 1, with more simplified operation and longer life. Of course, the cost is extremely expensive. The price of a single unit is enough to purchase a Taishan-class destroyer. The main reason is that it cannot break through the difficulties of mass manufacturing of electronic tubes, especially in high-temperature sintering furnaces. How to control the steps of integrating special substances into transistors has been solved in large-scale processing so far. Therefore, the transistors currently used are all made in laboratory, and the yield rate is less than 5%. Fortunately, it is a period of war regardless of cost, so the Ministry of Defense purchased five units in one go. In addition to the aerospace, aviation and the National Air Defense Intelligence Center, one is here, and the other is at the Computer Research Center of Wuhan National Defense University.

Solving passwords is a complex calculation. For example, this computer specially made for the Intelligence Bureau requires more than a dozen methods such as Enigma password analyzer, Professor Kazmarc's calculation method, and the logical calculation method proposed by Hua Luogeng. So after the two arrived, dozens of staff immediately input the new signal through the huge and complex operating table keyboard to store tape, and then use the seized Soviet military password book to put the drilled paper in a special data box. Each time the staff stuffed a card full of small holes, the operating table needed to perform a complex calculation.

The calculation speed of 25,000 additions and subtractions per second does not mean that the new password can be solved immediately. Although there is a core code when formulating passwords in various countries, the Soviet Union and even Eastern European countries have very strong mathematical capabilities. Therefore, after a night of continuous calculation, it was initially analyzed that part of the information contained in the new radio signal is partly, but it is enough to make a judgment.

"Major" Rozoki handed the translated telegram to Chi Buzhou. After grabbing the fast food he sent, he hurriedly took a few bites, and then devoted himself to the analysis of this new password with everyone. For him, the emergence of the Star 3 computer not only brought the Enigma password analyzer they studied to a new level, but also opened a transparent window. Therefore, every deciphering work is actually a breakthrough in mathematics and computers.
Chapter completed!