From the day, the Ming army regained Dunhuang in the south of the offensive to the west, and advanced 150 kilometers to the north, along the way in the desert on both sides of the highway.8 The vehicles like the river shuttled on the road day and night, like a busy metropolis. Thousands of tanks, half-track armored vehicles, and artillery pieces were placed on flatbed trucks and followed the traffic of the brigade to the northwest at a speed of several tens of kilometers per hour. The attacking Ming army not only had sufficient ammunition and fuel, food and water, but could even achieve two fruits per person per day.

The huge transportation capacity not only met the needs of the Ming army itself, but also transported a large amount of surplus grain. Every time the Ming army liberated a residential area along the way, it would distribute food to the local people who were yellow and thin and starving.

As the Ming army advanced westward, it was found that this starvation was becoming more severe and more common. After Guazhou, some villages along the way are simply in the midst of famine. When asked, the Soviet army sent people to collect the grain, and they took it all away, leaving not a single grain. Not only did they collect the grain, but they also sent troops to block all roads leading to the areas controlled by the Ming army, preventing people from fleeing for their lives.

The Soviets would also send small groups to ride down to the village and search the villagers' food from house to house. Once found, pull it out and shoot it immediately. When you see someone in the village whose chimney is smoking, or whose house smells of cooking, immediately go and arrest someone. Now that the Ming army has arrived in these places, the villagers are already dying of hunger. They said that the Soviets were afraid that they would resist and were intent on starving them to death.

The more the Ming army advanced westward, the more serious the problems they saw, and the more they felt that they had arrived in time. Because I am afraid that in a few days, they will not see the villagers, but the corpses of the whole village.

At the same time, the Ming officers and soldiers also had a bad premonition more and more - the situation ahead may be just as they imagined. Possible...... There have already been cases where large numbers of people have starved to death.

These reports of hunger are increasingly gathered on the table of the Ming Army Headquarters in Lanzhou. At first, the top brass of the Ming army thought that this was just the inevitable life difficulties of the people during the war, but then gradually realized that something was wrong, especially after hearing about some artificial means of the Soviet army, they soon sobered up: this was another man-made famine similar to the one that occurred in Ukraine in 32-33.

The Holodomor is generally considered internationally to be Stalin's genocidal campaign against Ukraine – the use of starvation as a weapon. In the same context, as in the newly occupied territories of Central Asia of the Soviet Union, the situation in Ukraine was so unstable that Moscow feared that it would lose Ukraine, so Stalin approved a well-planned genocidal operation with starvation as a weapon – the entire territory of Ukraine was sealed off, no Ukrainians were allowed to leave Ukraine, and anyone who tried to escape the border was executed as a "class enemy". Then almost all Ukrainian peasants were declared kulaks, all their means of production and grain were confiscated, and they were systematically starved to death.

Later, in order to prevent Ukrainians from eating corpses to satisfy their hunger, the Soviet army specially organized a "corpse snatching team" to go to the village every day to snatch corpses from house to house. Moreover, a lot of new corpses can be grabbed almost every day. Even many people who were still dying were snatched away as corpses.

In 32-33 years, it is conservatively estimated that millions of people in Ukraine were starved to death. At the same time, a large amount of grain stolen from the hungry people in Ukraine was exported by Stalin to the West in exchange for foreign exchange. First, in order to build up the army and heavy industry, and secondly, to show the international community: there was no so-called famine in the Soviet Union, otherwise how could there be so much grain for export?

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After realizing the seriousness of the problem, Fang Dongcheng quietly invited Xiang Xiaoqiang over, told him with a serious face, and told him the worries in his heart.

Xiang Xiaoqiang listened and listened, and gradually became furious. A cold sweat gradually rose from the back of the spine.

"What's that......" he asked with a dry throat, "the Holodomor in Ukraine...... It's really not a grain failure...... Or a natural disaster? ”

Fang Dongcheng squinted and looked at him with the eyes of an alien, as if to make sure he wasn't joking.

"Oh, oh......" Xiang Xiaoqiang wiped the sweat from his forehead and disguised, "I'm in Beiqing...... No, in British schools, we have textbooks...... No, no, what, it's a bit of a mess......"

Fang Dongcheng said solemnly:

"Lord Wang, the current situation is very serious, it can be said that it is extremely critical, and it is really not the time to joke. The last general is about to report to Nanjing, and the last general suggests that you also report to your majesty immediately...... It's likely that we're going to have to adjust our campaign plan and go all out. …… The Ukrainian case has proven that this means of suppressing the revolt with starvation is very effective. And ......"

Fang Dongcheng looked around, lowered his voice and said:

"Lord Wang, if you really starve everyone to death...... If nothing else, what do we use to form the White Guards in Central Asia? Is it up to our Ming army to fight all the way to Moscow by itself? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang bit his lip and nodded slowly. Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong and said:

"Lord Fang, it's not right here. Since ancient times, famine has been the most inspiring revolt, and in ancient times, it was always the easiest time to overthrow a dynasty during the great famine...... In order to expand their strength, some rebel armies will even dig rivers and deliberately create famines...... How could Stalin use famine to suppress the revolt? Isn't this a salary to fight fires? ”

Fang Dongcheng shook his head and said with a wry smile:

"My lord, isn't this simple, what you said is the era of cold weapons, and there is not much difference between the equipment of the peasant army and the government army. The government army has a big blade, and the peasant army has a kitchen knife and a dung fork, as long as the morale is sufficient and the command is appropriate, it will still win! Therefore, the ancient imperial court was most afraid of famine, and when they heard that there was a famine, they immediately transferred grain for disaster relief, for fear of provoking a popular uprising and threatening the society of the country...... What now? What do the government army have machine guns, artillery, airplanes, tanks, armored vehicles, what do ordinary people have? It's nothing more than a kitchen knife and a dung fork. As long as there is no problem with the army itself, even if half of the country starves to death, those in power will not be afraid. - Don't talk about aircraft artillery, let's talk about machine guns, during the world war, Verdun, the Somme, the Marne, hundreds of thousands of modern troops of the two countries hedged, and tens of thousands of people were killed in a day, and they still couldn't rush through...... A group of hungry people with kitchen knives in their hands, even if they are angry, how can they resist? Are the European armies as angry as the battlefields of Verdun? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned when he heard this, shuddered, and said one word after a while:

"Oh."

He remembered that he had actually heard this truth before. It was before the Unification War, when I was having dinner in a summer resort, I listened to what Guangwu said. At that time, Guangwu was still very proud.

Xiang Xiaoqiang touched his forehead and whispered:

"Well, Lord Fang, how to decide, you have decided...... I'm going to go to your majesty. ”

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