Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 10, Raging Waves, Section 5, Stalin's Attack

The desert Gobi is endless, the yellow sand dances in the wind, and a few lonely shrubs add a bit of greenery to this full of yellow. The whole / small / net is weathered into mounds of various shapes, like mountain cliffs and collapsed palaces, recording the changes of history.

The silence of the desert was pierced by the sound of gunfire, hundreds of war horses were besieging a small hill, shells kept falling on the hill, the whole hill was covered in smoke, dozens of war horses rushed up, and the battle was soon over.

Five or six prisoners were brought to a lieutenant colonel in his thirties, with a full beard, who quickly walked up to a captive with a high nose and deep eyes, whose hair was not black but gray, his face was covered with blood, his head was bandaged, and he had been shot in the shoulder, but he was not bandaged.

The bearded man reached out and grabbed the captive's hair and pulled it back so hard that the captive was forced to raise his face, and the bearded man yelled at him, "What is it called?" ”

The high-nosed gray eyes stared at the beard, without saying a word, the beard sneered, and suddenly stretched out his finger and poked hard at the wound of the high nose, and the high nose let out a miserable scream, and the two soldiers held him hard, the beard did not stop, his face showed a cruel smile, and his fingers drilled in along the hole of the gun.

"What's it called? Say"

The high nose let out a miserable scream, his body couldn't help writhing, his beard stopped, he squatted down and stared at the eyes of the high nose: "I know your name is Leonov, a major of the Soviet Army," After finishing speaking, he stood up, looked at the other prisoners and scolded: "**, for you, Lao Tzu has been wandering around here for a month." ”

The bearded riding boots kicked twice on the ground, and the corners of his mouth twitched fiercely twice: "Lao Tzu really wants to cut you, babies, twenty lashes per person, not allowed to be killed, and then sent to Dihua." ”

This Soviet contingent infiltrated the Hami area and carried a radio station near the Dilan railway, sabotaging the Dilan railway. After Hu Zongnan took office, he specially organized a cavalry unit to pursue them, and at the same time strengthened the air force search, searching along both sides of the Dilan Railway.

After Bai Chongxi arrived, Bai Chongxi thought that no matter how elusive he was, they would always have to eat and sleep, and always replenish ammunition, Bai Chongxi ordered the police stations and the intelligence personnel of the military command to strengthen the secret monitoring of food and ammunition, and observe the homes of those who bought grain on a large scale, and also ordered the air force to block the sky in the Hami area and force these people to come out to get ammunition.

A few days ago, the local police station found that someone had bought a large amount of food, which was enough for more than a dozen people to eat for half a month, and the reconnaissance personnel secretly tracked the food, and finally determined that these people were the people they were looking for, and the pursuit team quickly rushed over from a hundred miles away, and secretly surrounded the task force, but this force was very cunning, and they found it when the encirclement of the pursuit team was about to form, and the task force immediately broke through and rushed out of the encirclement, and the pursuit team pursued it relentlessly, and pursued it for three days in a row on this empty Gobi. Today finally caught up with the elimination.

The news of the elimination of Leonov's contingent quickly spread to Dihua, Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan only breathed a sigh of relief, the hidden danger of the Dilan railway was eliminated, and the road construction troops stepped up to repair the damaged railway.

The strength in Bai Chongxi's hands is gradually increasing; the First Division of the First Army has all rushed to Dihua; the vanguard of the 78th Division is in intensive transportation in Haha; the 6th Division of the 2nd Army drawn from the Jiangnan Theater has all been airlifted to Dihua; the 4th Tank Brigade of the Eighth Theater has already arrived in Hami; the 9th and 14th Air Force Destroyer Brigades and the 11th Bomber Brigade have all been transferred.

The 46th Provisional Division of the 2nd Army, the 1st Cavalry Army, the 3rd Provisional Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Army, the 128th Division, and the Fifth Cavalry Army have been gathered around Dihua, and the total strength has reached more than 70,000 people.

The troops were sufficient for the time being, but the logistics were still relatively tight, Bai Chongxi formulated a battle plan, first to eliminate the rebels attacking the Qinghe area, with the 1st and 6th Divisions as the mainstay, with the 11th Cavalry Division of the Provincial Army and the 5th Cavalry Army, and the 9th Air Force Brigade and the 11th Bomber Brigade responsible for air support.

On the central route, Bai Chongxi mobilized the 1st White Russian Naturalized Army of the 1st Cavalry Division of the 46th and 128th Divisions to build a defensive line in the Manas area to block the rebel attack.

What relieved Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan was that Liu Wenhui pacified southern Xinjiang and eliminated the rebellions in Yecheng, Hotan, Tashi and other places. The thunderous force exterminated the rebels in the Wucha area and wiped out all the rebels in southern Xinjiang. Liu Wenhui then concentrated the main 136th Division in the Aksu area and the 137th Division in Yanxu, blocking the way for the rebels to attack southern Xinjiang.

However, the rebels' attack on Ellingback became more violent, and Dudfu sent several urgent telegrams every day, asking for reinforcements as soon as possible, or sending troops to meet the breakthrough, but Bai Chongxi refused each time, and each time he ordered him to hold on to help, and at the same time ordered the air force to provide support.

However, Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan both knew that Du Defu's casualties must be very heavy, but their persistence would attract the main force of the rebels and buy time for the entire counterinsurgency battle.

After eliminating Leonov's contingent, Bai Chongxi ordered the 78th Division to be transferred to Dihua, and at the same time urged the 4th Tank Brigade and the 42nd Army, the 3rd Cavalry Army, the newly formed 9th Army, and the 15th Provisional Division to speed up and arrive at Dihua in early May.

The 42nd Army and other units are the troops of the original Eighth Theater of Operations, of which the Reserve Seventh Division under the 42nd Army is already in Xinjiang, and the other two divisions of the army, the 48th Division and the 191st Division, are in northern Shaanxi.

The reason why it will take so long is mainly because the 3rd Cavalry Army and the 15th Provisional Division are already on the road and are trapped on the Xingan border, and due to Leonov's sabotage, the railway is intermittently interrupted, and military transportation is in an extremely abnormal state.

Bai Chongxi attached great importance to the counterattack on the Qinghe area, and he made Hu Zongnan personally the commander-in-chief of the front, and at the same time used some of the measures taken by Liu Wenhui to pacify southern Xinjiang as a lesson and sent them to all troops, requiring them to follow suit.

After Bai Chongxi arrived in Xinjiang, he understood the complexity of Xinjiang's counterinsurgency, which was first manifested in the fact that Xinjiang is too wide, the population is sparse, there are many ethnic groups, and there are various contradictions between various ethnic groups, including the contradictions between the Han nationality and other ethnic minorities, as well as the contradictions between ethnic minorities.

As the pastures are confiscated and redistributed, there is a conflict between the original pasture owners and the receiving pasture owners, and the government can profit from it, and the ethnic minorities can no longer unite against the government.

The second complication lies in the fact that the topography of Xinjiang is that the Tianshan Mountains stretch across the whole territory and deserts are spread throughout the region, with the Gurbantunggut Desert in the Junggar Basin in the north and the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin in the south. The Tianshan Mountains and the desert divide Xinjiang into several blocks, the Ahsan region, the Ili region, and the Dihua region, and you can look at three large oases, and to get from one region to another, you have to cross not only the desert Gobi, but also the many high mountains. As long as the rebels block a few communication arteries, the counterinsurgency forces can only fight through them step by step.

When the rescue of Chenghua failed, Hu Zongnan made a far-sighted decision to withdraw the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the Xinjiang Provincial Army to Qinghe and defend Qinghe together with the Qinghe Frontier Brigade.

The Qinghe area is the area where the Uyghur bandit Usman has been active for a long time, this Usman is a Kazakh, as early as the Sheng Shicai era, he raised troops against Sheng Shicai and Soviet Russia, and once shot the head of the Soviet Russian exploration group that came to the Qinghe area to investigate mining resources.

"For this Usman, he must take a two-pronged approach, one hand military and the other political, and tell him that if he is willing to accept the incorporation, the government can give him the name of a regiment, but he must draw a line with Soviet Russia and the Ili rebels, and assist the government in quelling the Ili rebellion." Before Bai Chongxi came, he had learned about Xinjiang's problems from Sheng Shicai.

Sheng Shicai was dissatisfied with Usman, but he believed that this man could cooperate with the Nationalist government in opposing Soviet Russia. It was under this circumstance that Bai Chongxi formulated this battle plan to first exterminate the rebels in the Ahsan area.

Hu Zongnan led 30,000 troops out of Dihua, went to Qitai, crossed the desert, went to the General's Temple, then crossed the Kalamaili Mountain and Beita Mountain, and went to Ulastai on the Sino-Mongolian border to rest for three days, and then moved along the Sino-Mongolian border, crossed the Ulungu River, and entered the territory of Qinghe.

The biggest problem with this route came from the Mongols, who also intervened in the rebellion in the Ahsan area, and about two regiments of Mongol troops directly participated in the Ahsan rebellion, and without the participation of the Mongol army, Chenghua should have been able to hold out for some time.

Now the entire Ili region, except for Dudefu is still holding on, the rest of the area has fallen, the rebels first established the * republic, but then canceled the name of the country, changed to the three districts of the autonomous government, the autonomous government issued a conscription order to the entire three districts, requiring young men over the age of 18 to bring their own weapons to join the army.

The rebel forces then swelled to nearly 100,000, and two Soviet infantry regiments and one tank regiment appeared on the battlefield, one of which was initially on the other side of the Manas River.

The armies on both sides of the Manas River gathered, and the battle clouds were thick, and the commanders of both sides deployed their troops, seeing that a major war was about to break out

"Shoushan, whether the first shot of this counterinsurgency can be fired or not depends on you." Bai Chongxi's strategy has been decided, and he is extremely confident: "You must pay attention to the situation in Mongolia, if you have any requirements, immediately telegraph to me, and the air force will cover your actions along the way." ”

Hu Zongnan nodded with a serious expression, he also hoped to lead his troops to attack, he was in Shaanxi these years, seeing Zhuang Jihua, Du Yuming, Guan Lin and Yu Ji, these Whampoa classmates shine on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, radiant, full of envy and hatred, but he also knows Chiang Kai-shek's purpose of leaving him in the northwest, so he does not ask for war, and honestly guards in Xi'an.

But what he didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek actually transferred him to Xinjiang to quell the rebellion, just from this move, Hu Zongnan knew how much Chiang Kai-shek attached importance to the Xinjiang rebellion, but he didn't expect him to return with his first move, so that Chiang Kai-shek sent Bai Chongxi again, which made him depressed and panicked at the same time.

Now Bai Chongxi has formulated a counterinsurgency plan, and the first step is to let himself take action, which makes him feel all kinds of feelings, but he knows very well that he must win this battle in order to save his reputation.

"Please rest assured that Commander-in-Chief Bai must be cautious and cautious to successfully pacify the Ahsan area."

After saying that, Hu Zongnan turned around, stepped into his jeep, and gave the order to set off, and the army left Dihua and headed west. Bai Chongxi and Zhu Shaoliang led all the members of the command to see each other off at the city gate.

Before the troops were finished, an officer walked up to Bai Chongxi and whispered in his ear: "A mysterious radio wave has been discovered." ”

Bai Chongxi nodded slightly, his gaze behind the lenses was calm and with a hint of mockery, Hu Zongnan did not go directly to the north, but to the west first, it seemed to be going to the front line of the Manas River, and after thirty miles out of the city, he secretly turned around and went north, from the edge of the Gobi to the north.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious and decided to close all the Russian consulates in Xinjiang, the Soviet Russian consulate in Dihua was closed, and all the Soviet Russians in the city, whether they were businessmen or diplomats, were expelled from the country. Now that the consulate was closed, Soviet Russia was caught off guard and forced to evacuate before it could deploy its intelligence network.

But neither Bai Chongxi nor Zhu Shaoliang nor Hu Zongnan dared to guarantee that there were no Soviet and Russian spies in the city, so they let Hu Zongnan go west first and then north. At the same time, the military commanders were ordered to closely monitor the airspace over Dihua. The military commander transferred three telecommunications reconnaissance vehicles from the interior and at the same time set up more than a dozen telecommunications reconnaissance squads to densely spread the entire city.

"Have you decided on the location?" Bai Chongxi asked in a low voice.

"It's been confirmed, Stationmaster Han asked if it was an arrest?"

"Catch, what are you waiting for, it is impossible for the Russians to set up a lot of radio stations, and if you catch one, you will have one less." Bai Chongxi's tone was very resolute, he knew very well that the Russians left in a hurry, and before they had time to deploy the spy network, there would be fewer radio stations, and it was likely that the entire Dihua would be this one radio.

The officer quietly left the group, quickly ran to the side jeep, grabbed the walkie-talkie and gave the order.

Following his order, a group of soldiers rushed into a mosque in Dihua City, and then several gunshots were heard in the mosque, and the surrounding Uyghurs suddenly stirred, and all of them surrounded the mosque, but when they arrived at the door, they found that the mosque was surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.

Several Uighur youths yelled at the army, and before they could say a few words, the soldiers who faced them raised their hands and opened fire, and the crowd immediately panicked and fled in all directions, while the soldiers continued to shoot into the sky behind.

The latest full book: 、、、、、、、、、、