The Ming army captured the Hami area, achieved results that had not been achieved for a year, and finally obtained a large oasis area outside the eastern gate of Tianshan in the two frontiers, which can be regarded as an advance base for entering Xinjiang.

Next, the Ming army concentrated its forces to attack the Turpan area. Compared with the Hami region, the Turpan region is a truly strategic location, and no matter whether it is attacking southern or northern Xinjiang, it cannot bypass Turpan. To the north of Turpan is the majestic Tien Shan Mountains, and to the south is the endless Taklamakan Desert, both of which cannot be crossed by the army. If Turpan is occupied, you can attack Dihua to the north, open up the Tianshan Pass, and obtain the key to enter the northern Xinjiang; If you don't pass the Tianshan Mountains, you can drive all the way west into southern Xinjiang, that is, attack the series of oases south of the Tianshan Mountains and north of the Taklamakan Desert: Bayingolin region, Aksu region, Kashgar region, and Hotan region in the southwest of the desert.

The Ming army did not pause in Hami for a while, but only left most of the troops participating in the Hami campaign to rest, and replaced a large number of fresh troops who had just gotten off the train for attacking troops. The recuperated tanks and recuperated soldiers continued to advance westward like lightning without stopping, leaving not even a little respite for the Soviet troops.

This also depends on the ample transportation capacity of the Ming army. While ensuring the logistical supply of the Hami campaign, so many rear troops can be transported. This was simply unthinkable in last year's tug-of-war. If it was last year, not to mention that Hami could not be defeated at all, even if it was defeated, it would already be the end of the crossbow, and as long as the Soviet army counterattacked, the Ming army would be driven back all the way along the desert.

But now, the Ming army has not only taken down steadily in Hami, but is still full of stamina and continues to rush forward.

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From the county seat of Hami to the county seat of Turpan, the road distance is about 400 kilometers, and most of the middle area is still the Gobi Desert of Pingchuan. Not only is this section much shorter than the one from Jiuquan to Hami, but it is certainly much easier to fight. Because the section from Jiuquan to Hami is the area where the Soviet and Ming armies have repeatedly fought for a long time, both sides have built relatively complete fixed fortification areas: continuous trench defense lines, mine areas, and so on. However, the Ming army never crossed Hami, and the Soviet army never built any defensive line west of Hami, nor did it lay any minefields. This is considered to be the rear. Just as it is unlikely that the Ming army would have planted minefields east of Jiuquan.

There is another very important reason, precisely because the area between Hami and Jiuquan is a "habitual war zone", and the two sides are already very accustomed to attacking and seizing here, no matter which side of the Ming and Suzhou sides, they regard the gains and losses in this area as less serious, and the command is very calm, and their mentality is relatively relaxed. But once Hami was defeated, for the Soviet army, it felt like entering their own door, and their mentality was all panicked, and they all had a feeling of "finished". It's like the Qing army fought the Yangtze River defense line and had a spiritual impact on the Ming army.

The commanders of the four armored divisions of the Ming army drove straight in, pursuing the Soviet army twice as fast as before Hami. Along the way, the Soviets were not able to organize a single strong resistance. In several tank battles, the Soviet tanks were also like headless flies, completely losing the strength of the desperate struggle before Hami. With a depth of 400 kilometers, it took only 5 days for the Ming army to chase down the county seat of Turpan. Along the way, the Soviet Army's 5 armored divisions and 5 infantry divisions were chased by the Ming Army's 4 armored divisions and were defeated all the way, and the road was full of remnants of the formed formation. The mass surrender of the Far Eastern campaign has now been repeated.

And the wave of Soviet surrender here is even worse than in the Far East. At least half of the Soviet garrisons in Central Asia, especially west of Hami, were made up of Central Asian soldiers. These soldiers were born and raised in several Central Asian republics, and many of them were of the same ethnic group and spoke the same language as the local population of the occupied territories. The rule of the Soviet Union in several member states of Central Asia was already unstable, and the ethnic contradictions between the locals and the Russians were quite fierce. Those black-haired, black-eyed, red-faced Central Asian soldiers were already very unhappy that the yellow-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned, hook-nosed Russian cadres sent from afar rode on their heads. Now I have seen with my own eyes that under the command of those Russian-speaking "comrades" from Moscow, a large number of compatriots who speak their own language have been starved to death, and the morale of the army has already changed considerably. Now, half of the Central Asian officers and soldiers have become the main force of the surrender of the Soviet army.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang and his entourage have just entered the Hami area. He and the reporters were very excited, and they were frantically photographing the corpses that had been starved to death and slaughtered, when they suddenly received a telegram from Fang Dongcheng in Lanzhou, saying that His Royal Highness the Prince was invited to take the reporters to investigate in Hami, and Turpan in front of him would soon be taken again, and the situation there was more serious and there were more "highlights".

Xiang Xiaoqiang was even more excited, and he couldn't wait to fly to Turpan immediately. With a convoy and reporters, he first spent two days investigating the situation in Hami, mainly collecting evidence of the massacre of the Soviet army. Then in the next few days, from early morning to late at night, he was not idle for a moment, non-stop, and ran all over the oasis area of more than 100 kilometers on the east and west sides of Hami County. The task outside the city was mainly to gather evidence of famine. They started looking at one village a day, then two villages a day, and finally five or six villages a day. Now the corpses in each village are guarded by the military police of the Ming army, and they are not allowed to be buried, just waiting for reporters and investigation teams to take pictures. But in May, the weather was already very hot during the day, and Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others had to try to shoot as much as possible before the corpses in the villages were dried or dried.

At this time, more and more reporters rushed to the mainland. Representatives of many more international organizations, such as the International Red Cross and various associations, also arrived. Journalists and internationals in the Hami area have gathered more and more, and they have formed an investigation team of more than 100 people, and they are no longer as desperate as Xiang Xiaoqiang did in the first few days. The investigation team was divided into several routes, and went to different areas. In less than half a month, all the settlements in the entire Hami area were surveyed. Some locals with knowledge, as well as captured Soviet officers, pointed to several secret burial sites. These burying pits were also dug by the Ming army. There is no such scale as a "mass grave", but there are still many large pits with hundreds or thousands of people. There are many corpses in the big pit, and they are still there, emitting a foul smell. There are few corpses in many small pits, and the moisture has been almost absorbed, and it is estimated that after a while, it will become a standard dried corpse.

In the face of these horrific scenes, the reporters and the investigators were all shocked. As before, the Ming army provided two radio stations for the reporters, and two intelligence officers sent articles for them. Of course, battlefield manuscripts should be reviewed as usual, and all places where military secrets might be exposed must be revised. Those two intelligence officers also played the role of censors.

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The Battle of Hami went exceptionally well. From May 24 to June 7, the entire Turpan region, that is, the area south of the Tianshan Pass and east of Bayingolin, was taken in the north. Now, the Ming army was only 130 kilometers away from Dihua in the north.

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