The Ming army's two-way offensive, one south and one north, formed a pincer offensive and met on the west side of Hami. The pincers were closed, and Hami and the surrounding area were enclosed.

Entering the Hami area is considered to be entering Xinjiang. Around Hami, there is an oasis belt of more than 100 kilometers and more than 10 kilometers wide, which runs from east to west, and the highway into Xinjiang passes through the oasis. Now, two armored divisions and three infantry divisions of the Soviet army, about 50,000 people, are ordered to hold Hami at all costs. Facing the Ming army that was driving straight in, the Soviet army in Hami was compressed smaller and smaller, and watched itself being surrounded.

In the classroom of any military academy, any cadet knows that this is a big taboo. With a lot of strategic depth, it is simply impossible to let hundreds of thousands of troops fall into a siege in order to hold on to a certain place. The correct thing to do is to withdraw in time before the encirclement is closed. Because of the 100,000 troops, this is not a small number, and for any team, the loss of 150,000 troops is a big loss of vitality. Unless it is a strategic place like Turpan and Dihua, both of which guard the Tianshan Pass and are the gateway to northern Xinjiang. However, Hami, the surrounding terrain is open, flat and flat, and the room for maneuver is very large, which is nothing more than guarding the road. And this Hami is no more special than Yumen and Guazhou.

But Stalin gave a death order forbidding the Hami defenders to break through, forbidding them to take a step back, and promising to send reinforcements immediately. So the commander of the Hami garrison did not dare to break through, but just insisted on Hami. And this also gave the Ming army an opportunity to encircle and annihilate a large number of Soviet troops.

The siege of Hami began. The goal of the Ming army was to eat the five divisions in the encirclement before the Soviet army could send reinforcements to counterattack. Because the Soviet army in the Hami encirclement had only two armored divisions and more than 200 tanks, the Ming army had a great advantage in tanks. Fang Dongcheng mobilized five armored divisions of the People's Guard to besiege Hami, with a large group of dive bombers as air support.

Ming and Soviet fighters bombed fiercely in the sky, while dive bombers from both sides aimed at each other's troops......

The battle was fierce in the sky, but on the ground, to the surprise of Fang Dongcheng and the Ming officers and soldiers, the siege was surprisingly smooth. The Soviet soldiers in the encirclement were like having a nervous breakdown, not holding on to the fixed line of defense at all, but in a mess, shooting everywhere, and many guns and bullets were flying inward. When the dive bombers roared down, many Soviet soldiers even rushed out of their hiding places, covered their heads and ran in the open area, and some even shot behind them and threw grenades.

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Shi Shengli's regiment had approached a larger village outside Hami. His tank was hidden behind a low mound, exposing only a little above the barrel and turret, which stretched straight out and pointed at the village in the distance. He leaned out of the turret and held up his binoculars to take a closer look. Like others, he was puzzled by the strange behavior of the Soviet army.

"No," he muttered...... "the Soviets always like to hide in our houses and use civilians as meat shields when fighting in the streets...... What's going on today? ”

After a moment, his eyes suddenly widened and he held back his breath.

At the entrance of the village in the distance, an old man came out with a rifle and shot at the back of a Soviet soldier. I saw a flash of fire from the muzzle of the gun, white smoke drifting by, and the Soviet soldier more than ten meters away fell to the ground. Then the old man pulled the bolt of his gun and fired again, killing another Soviet soldier. This is probably an old hunter, and his marksmanship is very accurate.

At this moment, more than a dozen villagers brandished sickles and hoes also rushed out, chasing several Soviet soldiers and chopping, several of whom had rifles in their hands, as if they were all Soviet Mosin Nagant, and it seemed that the bullets were finished, so they used them as bayonets.

The Soviet soldiers each fired a shot and knocked down two villagers, and then before they had time to pull the bolt, they directly fought hand-to-hand with several villagers with bayonets. There were many villagers, and in the blink of an eye, several Soviet soldiers were cut down to the ground. One of the big men was not Han Chinese, he pulled out a small knife from his boots, bent down and cut the throats of several Soviet soldiers very quickly.

Suddenly, an earthen wall collapsed, and a Soviet tank came out with green smoke, and without saying a word, the front machine gun sprayed flames, and more than half of the villagers were swept down in an instant. The tank spun around and rolled directly over the piles of corpses of villagers and Soviet soldiers, turning its turret and firing at the Ming tank on the other side of the street......

Shi Shengli immediately understood, and the people in the village saw that the Ming army was coming, and seized this opportunity to start resisting.

The Soviet army was overwhelmed by the sudden explosion, and there was still a fierce attack by the Ming army outside, and there was not even time. The entire defensive deployment was disrupted. The muzzle of the gun is aimed at the Ming army outside or at the people inside, and it completely depends on whether the situation outside is more serious or the situation inside. As a result, the Soviet army's approach was different in every part of the entire defense line, and the field telephone line in Hengbu Village had long been cut into N sections, and the division could not contact the regiment, the regiment could not contact the battalion, and the battalion could not contact the company, and the whole thing was a mess. In addition, the Ming dive bombers above their heads screamed like ghosts, and the shells and bombs screamed and smashed down...... In many places, the positions of the Soviet troops were directly disorganized.

Shi Shengli was excited, holding the telescope in one hand and the headset in the other, anxiously reporting the situation.

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And his report was also very timely, and the division headquarters had already received a report at this time, saying that the village seemed to be born. Because it was reported by the commander of a tank in battle, the division headquarters feared false alarms due to the chaos on the battlefield. Now suddenly received a report from the tank regiment commander Shi Shengli, which was confirmed at once.

Over the next hour, the divisional headquarters of several divisions of the Ming Army received similar reports. There are more than a dozen villages around Hami, and they are basically all gone. The headquarters of the group army immediately ordered the army aviation units attached to it, eliminate the best fighter pilots, and fly the fighters low over the city of Hami to observe the situation in the city.

Soon, the Army Aviation Unit reported again. There was also chaos in the city of Hami. The Soviets drove tanks to shoot at the people in the streets, and the people attacked the Soviets everywhere like crazy...... Now that the Ming army has not yet entered Hami City, the "street fighting" has begun in Hami City. The headquarters of the Ming Army Group Army did not have time to consult Lanzhou, so it immediately made a decision and ordered the dive bombers to start bombing the city of Hami, and the target was the Soviet tanks parked on the street. As for causing accidental injuries to the public, it can't be controlled.

At the sound of an order, the dive bombers of the two squadrons urgently flew over the city of Hami, dispersed, selected their own targets, and began to dive and drop bombs.

There were not many Soviet tanks in the city, and after they all started, only a dozen were urgently transferred from outside the city. These tanks now occupy the main street intersections of the city, as well as open spaces such as the vegetable market and the mosque square in the city center. The tank was parked there, the turret turning frighteningly slowly, and the coaxial machine gun spewed tongues of fire from time to time, firing at all civilians in sight. The streets were littered with corpses, and blood had pooled into streams along the stone slabs on both sides of the road. Many more citizens either hid in alleys or climbed onto rooftops and attacked the Soviets with captured Soviet guns.

A dive bomber swooped down, and with a terrible roar, three bombs flew down, and the street was suddenly filled with smoke, and the houses next to it collapsed, and white dust and black smoke rolled alternately, obscuring half of the street. In the midst of the smoke, suddenly a large fireball flew into the sky - the tank exploded.