As Xiang Xiaoqiang said, the Soviet army is an unpredictable army. The extremism of the armed forces that have been poured out with extreme ideology is also astonishing. At a time when morale was high, the Soviets were as strong as an army, fought valiantly, and believed that they were invincible. But once you lose morale, you will be ruined. A healthy and normal army loses only morale at this time, but the training, quality, and sense of honor of the soldiers in peacetime are still there, and they can provide the least support and wait for the time to redeem the defeat.

But the Soviet army is not a healthy and normal army, but a deformed army created by extreme ideology, **, lies, and cruel high-pressure methods. Peacetime commissars told them that the Red Army was the most powerful army in the world, an invincible army. But now this is obviously not the case, the Red Army will also be beaten to the ground, and the Red Army will be defeated miserably, and what is said above is false, and the above is lying to them. Once the time comes to this, the Soviets will lose more than just morale. There are also many people's faith, at least some of them, that are beginning to crumble as morale collapses.

How much victory the Ming army can achieve now depends almost not on the degree of resistance of the Soviet army, but on how far the logistics of the Ming army can support them to advance.

On July 20, Dihua was recaptured. Since then, the mountain pass between southern and northern Xinjiang has been opened. The Ming army no longer had to make a detour from the Great Gobi in the northeast, but directly crossed the Tianshan Pass by road and entered the northern Xinjiang. The distance from Hami to northern Xinjiang was shortened by 500 kilometers at once, a full half.

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The significance of Dihua is not only to open up the north-south passage. In and around Dihua City, the Soviet army built a series of large granaries. Most of the grain looted from the north and south is stored here. Some of the grain has been transported to the Soviet Union, but because there is no railway here, and the Soviet army's automobile transportation capacity is limited, and it has to give priority to battlefield transportation, the grain is transported very slowly. Before the Ming army encircled Dihua, Dihua still stored about two million tons of grain. Mainly corn and wheat.

These two million tons of grain were regarded as a decisive strategic resource by both the Ming and Soviet armies. Since ancient times, grain has been the most important war material, although in modern times, the status of grain on the battlefield has given way to weapons and fuel, but once it reaches such a huge amount of 2 million tons, it is not an exaggeration to say that it can already determine the outcome of a local war.

Based on 1.2 kilograms of grain per person per day, then 2 million tons of grain is enough for 2.28 million people to eat for a year. Even if half of it is used for disaster relief and the other half is used to raise troops, it can expand the Central Asian White Guards by 1.1 million more. Of course, if calculated on a half-year basis, an additional 2.28 million Central Asian White Guards can be expanded. In this way, the transportation pressure of the Ming army will be greatly reduced - at least in a year or half a year, there will be no need to transport so much grain, and the Ming army will not have to transport too many troops. The vast amount of capacity saved could be used to transport ammunition and fuel to arm these Muslim forces. The additional 2 million Muslim troops, as well as the extra transportation capacity, were enough to ensure that the Ming army would maintain military superiority in Central Asia in the coming year.

After the Ming army encircled Dihua, Moscow sent an order, requiring the defenders of Dihua to burn all the grain and not leave a grain for the Ming army. However, the Ming army once again activated the "Order to Save Civilians" and used airplanes to distribute leaflets over Dihua, informing the Soviet army that this grain was the life of the people in the two Xinjiangs, and that for every ton missing, hundreds more people would starve to death. If the grain is burned, then all officers of the Dihua Soviet Army of the rank of lieutenant and above will be shot.

The leaflet also used several Chinese characters to tell the people of Dihua that now the Soviet army is about to burn grain, which is all your life-saving food, and whether you can survive depends on whether this grain can be saved.

Originally, the Soviet army in the city had already driven tanks into the streets, and they were strictly guarded against **. But now that the leaflet is scattered, I can't control it anymore. The Soviet troops of a division in Dihua suddenly fell into the "vast sea of the people's war" again. Communications were interrupted as usual, and the division could not find the regiment, and the regiment could not find the battalion. In addition, 2 million tons of grain is too much, and it is divided into several large grain warehouses and stored, not in one place, so the defenders of each granary do not know what to do. The phone didn't work, and it was difficult for the heralds sent out to pass through the city full of **. Some of the defenders of the granary were very conscious, and felt that they would rather be shot than let the grain fall into the hands of Ming imperialism and local rich peasants. And they set it on fire. However, most of the defenders of the granary are not so tendonous, and they all want to defend it first.

** inside the city, coupled with the onslaught outside the city, soon, Dihua was conquered by the Ming army. Of the 2 million tons of grain, about 60,000 tons have been burned. - There is too much food, and even the hundreds of liters of gasoline in the hands of the granary defenders can burn so much in a hurry.

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The Ming army extinguished the fire and protected the remaining grain. Many tasks were carried out at the same time: dealing with prisoners, arranging air defenses, consolidating fortifications, and distributing some food to the city of Dihua...... In addition, a military tribunal was soon formed to try the officers of the company where the Soviet troops burned grain.

The court-martials were held next to a granary in the city of Dihua, which was the one that was set on fire. The people in Dihua City gathered around to watch, and the shouts of "kill them" resounded in the sky. It was easy for the military police of the Ming army to quiet the surrounding people. The judge, a colonel of the Ming Army's Judge Advocate General's Office, finally pulled his face and solemnly pronounced the verdict:

As he said this, dozens of people in the entire courtroom stood up. And several Soviet defendants were originally standing, and at this time, listening to the translators around them, they were already dead.

The judge coldly swept around several people and said:

"Sentenced to death to six defendants and executed."

"Smack!"

The gavel slammed the table. At that time, six Soviet officers were paralyzed.

The twelve Ming army gendarmes next to them went up, tied them up very quickly, and then put them into the car and drove out. The onlookers behind let out a tsunami-like cheer and followed the car all the way to the outside of the city.

An open field has been selected outside the city, and six pits have been dug. The gendarmes carried six Soviet officers to the edge of the pit, and then the firing squad officer shouted:

"Raise your gun!! —Preparation—"

A Soviet officer suddenly trembled and shouted:

"Comrade Stalin's ......"

"Put !!"

There was a dense burst of crisp gunfire, white smoke drifted through, and six Soviet officers fell into the pit in unison.