In Shi Dakai's introduction and Zuo Zongtang's addition, everyone gasped, the situation in Xinjiang was even worse than expected, and a meat grinder was born, but isn't this Wang Feng's original intention?

"Bring me the map!" Soon, the group came to the former Ganxi Governor Yamen, the current Gansu Provincial Government Station, Wang Feng immediately turned his head and ordered.

Zuo Zongtang had large maps of Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, and Central Asia all the way to the Caspian Sea spread out on the table.

This map is obviously not as detailed as the map of other maps, this is no way, many places in this area are no man's land, even Wang Feng has not set foot in his previous life, but such as the Kunlun Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Altai Mountains, Tarim Basin, Jungar Basin, Aksai Chin, Fergana Basin and the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea and important rivers and Russian bunker lines are accurately marked, at that time, such a map is enough to be called a priceless treasure.

Gradually, Wang Feng's gaze stayed on Aksai Chin, the Ferghana Basin, Yibohai and Zaisangbo.

Aksai Chin, with an average sea level of more than 4,000 meters, is cold and dry, and is of extraordinary military significance, as it is an important passage from Xinjiang to Tibet, close to the central cities of India such as Delhi and Mumbai, and can also overlook the countries of Central Asia, and the rolling iron stream can enter the Central Asian steppes at any time.

The Fergana Basin is close to Tashkent, with beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant climate, no floods and beasts, and no epidemics of evil diseases, and is the richest region in Central Asia, and is extremely rich in oil and gas.

The Yibohai Sea, now known as Lake Balkhash, was connected to Zaisangpo to the northeast, and was built with a line of Russian bunkers encircling the Kokand Khanate.

Shi Dakai and Zuo Zongtang were also watching these places, Shi Dakai stretched out his hand and asked, "The commander-in-chief plans to divide his troops and garrison them here, blocking the road for Russia to go south to India or retreat back." Trapping him in Xinjiang? ”

Wang Feng nodded and said, "What do you think?" ”

"I think so." Zuo Zongtang muttered: "In order to fight against Russia, our army has mobilized a total of five group armies and a total of 14 armies, which is enough to use in the distribution of troops. It can be supplied from India, and the rest of the Ferghana and Russian pillbox lines can be supplied on the spot. ”

"Good!" Wang Feng responded in one bite, wrote several letters one after another, and after sealing them, he handed them to a black eagle and said: "Let Li Erhu forward my letter to the Indian side, and give Li Xiucheng and Li Erhu an order that Li Xiucheng's troops must capture Tashkent before the heavy snow closes the mountain in winter." Take control of the Fergana Basin, leave one army of Li Erhu's troops in Aksai Chin to garrison, and the other two armies must also advance at least to Yibohai before the heavy snow closes the mountain, and take the opportunity to remove the Russian pillboxes! ”

"Yes!" A Black Hawk took the letter and hurried away with another companion.

Li Xiucheng and Li Erhu were stationed in Xining, only 220 kilometers from Lanzhou to Xining, and could be reached in one day and one night. And the two armies received orders to go only one way. That is, along the north side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, through the southern foot of the Kunlun Mountains into Aksaiqin, and then from Aksaiqin into the Green Mountains, you can arrive in Tashkent in half a month, Li Erhu's two need to continue to go north, if there is no accident. It was completely in time for it.

Wang Feng also instructed: "We will rest in Lanzhou for two days, and from the third day, the whole army will march to Hami, and we must trap the Russians in Xinjiang, close the door and beat the dogs!" ”

August 21. The Second Group Army, the Sixth Army and the Eleventh Army, together with auxiliary combatants, totaled 220,000 people left Lanzhou and marched along the Silk Road to Hami.

The other way is also roughly the same, it seems that the cost is huge, but in fact, it is far less terrifying than it seems, after all, it is no longer an era of scarcity of materials, and the composition of war consumption has also changed dramatically, arms account for the absolute majority, and food and clothing are not worth a few dollars.

The country can produce hundreds of millions of canned food every year, and has won the two major granaries of Vietnam and Myanmar, agricultural production technology has been greatly improved after years of accumulation, chemical fertilizers are being popularized in large quantities, and the only thing that is restricted is transportation.

At present, the railways in the south have been repaired to Guangzhou, Changsha, Wuhan, Anqing and other major provincial capitals, and the railway construction in the north is also vigorous, such as Qingdao to Jinan, Jinan to Zhengzhou, Xi'an to Lanzhou, Lanzhou to Xining, Beijing to Tianjin and other short-distance railways have been opened to traffic one after another, and long-distance railways are also under intense construction.

Because Wang Feng has the advantage of being a traverser, he has saved a lot of trouble in line planning, so China's railway construction is not a little bit of construction, but a full flowering, and many short-distance railways only need to be connected to each other, which is a long-distance railway.

However, the Yangtze River is still a moat blocking the north-south traffic, and the Ministry of Railways did not achieve it overnight, but explored and planned the Yellow River Railway Bridge and the Huaihe Railway Bridge to accumulate experience for the future construction of the Yangtze River Railway Bridge.

As for clothing, shoes and hats, almost all of them come from prison factories and are produced by foreign captives, and the cost is extremely low.

It is about 1,400 kilometers from Lanzhou to Hami, of which a four-lane asphalt road has just been built to Jiuquan, making the road relatively easy.

After Wang Feng's arrival, the northwest region entered war mode, and the workers, peasants, and students in major cities in Chinese mainland also took to the streets to demonstrate, shouting the slogan that the Russians should get out of China, and the demonstrations spread from Nanjing to Beijing and from Suzhou to Guangzhou.

At the same time, the central government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Xinhua Daily, various government agencies, and civil society organizations also wrote articles one after another, denouncing Russia's barbaric act of aggression against China's Xinjiang, demanding that Russia unconditionally withdraw its troops, hand over the executioner to face China's trial, and that the Russian tsar apologize to the Chinese people and compensate for all losses.

In addition, Wang Youling and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took turns summoning envoys from various countries in China to demand that the international community condemn Russia's aggression and impose a trade embargo and economic sanctions against Russia.

In the midst of the mighty anti-Russian tide, the whole army arrived in Hami on September 15.

Hami is the throat of the Silk Road since ancient times, with the throat of the Western Regions, the Chinese Gongwei, and the gateway of Xinjiang, adjacent to Jiuquan in the east, the Turpan Basin in the west, and the outer Mongolia in the north, which is the only way for northern Xinjiang to travel to and from the interior.

There are three main cities in Hami, namely the three cities of Baihan and Manchu, with the surrender of the Qing court, the bannermen of Mancheng and the administrative institutions at all levels such as the Hami Hall have been withdrawn one after another, and the city is also occupied by the white people, and the white king of Hami took the opportunity to seize the right to rule.

On the day of stationing, Wang Feng gave the white king of Hami a hat of a Russian traitor, sentenced to death, and then waved his army to attack Hami Baicheng and Mancheng, only an hour, the two cities fell, slaughtering more than 6,000 men of various ethnic groups led by the Mongolian red, white and white flags and led by the Kazakhs.

Because of the strategy of closing the door and fighting the dog, Wang Feng was not in a hurry to march into Urumqi, and stationed himself in the same place, and launched a sweep of the nearby countryside with a small force, he needed to wait for Li Xiucheng and Ding Daquan to conquer the target and complete the comprehensive encirclement of the Russian army and the traitors of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

Ten days later, in the palace of the former general in Urumqi, Bai Huyan rushed in in a panic and shouted: "Your Excellency the Governor, the Democratic Alliance Army is here. ”

Kaufman, the governor of Turkskistan, moved his garrison from Tashkent to Urumqi long before the arrival of the Democratic Alliance troops, and made the Urumqi General's Mansion a temporary governor's palace.

These Han people who did not want to leave all had families and property, and they were reluctant to give up, thinking that the Russians would come to serve Russia, but they did not expect that they would not even give a chance to surrender, so they were killed directly, and their family property fell into the hands of the Russians, and their wives and concubines and daughters also became the playthings of the Russians.

Kaufman was holding a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Han girl in her arms, and the girl's tears were rolling in her eyes, but she didn't dare to cry or move, and let her big furry hands reach under her skirt, which made her sad and indignant, especially the strong fox smell mixed with the smell of smoke, which made her sick and nauseous.

But when Bai Huyan came in, it made her temporarily out of the sea of suffering, Kaufman took out his wet fingers, and said a little unhappily: "What are you panicking about? Aren't we just here to bring the Chinese in? Say, how many people came? Where are you now? ”

Bai Huyan hurriedly replied: "It's about 200,000, and it's stationed in Hami, and it will march to Urumqi at any time, after all, if it drags on any longer, it's winter, and it's very unfavorable to the operation, I don't think the Chinese army will drag it out until next year." ”

"Hmm~~" Kaufman asked again: "Are there any other military operations in China?" ”

"This" Bai Huyan showed a look of embarrassment, when he took refuge in Kaufman last year, he boasted that he was willing to take on the important task of spying on intelligence, and Kaufman was also very happy, after all, Bai Huyan's group of people, yellow skin, black eyes, a smooth mouth of Ganshan dialect, and a local, it is not easy to get some intelligence in the northwest?

But after the people were sent out, they were dumbfounded, after Zuo Zongtang's carpet cleaning, Gan and Shaanxi no longer had the basis for the survival of the Bai people, although the Bai people were the same as the local Han people in appearance, but there were subtle differences in behavior.

For example, slaughtering livestock, white is called slaughter, Han is called killing, such as death, white is called lifeless, Han is called death, in addition, Bai people are taboo to use their left hand, and it is also taboo to say temples, as well as differences in eating habits, and so on.

When some unfamiliar faces asked questions, they inadvertently revealed their identities, and the result was naturally that they were given to the garrison by the local Han people, and at that time, the suspects were mainly tortured to extract confessions, and after the torture, everything was recruited, and even the accomplices were out, and the garrison could easily dig out the spies lurking in. (To be continued.) )