More than a dozen Soviet tanks in Hami were reduced to scrap metal under the bombs of dive bombers in the blink of an eye. (Without the deterrence of tanks, people hiding in houses and rooftops rushed out and reoccupied the important streets.) The Ming planes kept flying overhead, and when they found that there were Soviet troops gathered, they swooped down and strafed. And the spies lurking in the city, at this time, also put life and death out of the way, openly put the radio station that is usually hidden, climbed on the roof to call, and reported the shooting coordinates for the Ming artillery outside.

The telephone lines in the city have long been left intact, and now even in the same city, the communication between the various units of the Soviet army can only be carried out by heralds. Radio, which is only equipped with relatively high-level units, is also easy to be intercepted by the Ming army. In the environment of planes flying in the sky and cold guns and knives everywhere on the ground, the Soviet troops everywhere in the city felt isolated. They were all surrounded by fear and nervousness, and they almost opened fire when they saw someone running in the distance. Some Soviet trucks with Makqin heavy machine guns in the back were speeding down the streets, and the Soviet machine gunners were like crazy, regardless of whether they were attacked or not, they just strafed the houses on both sides of the road, and chased after people when they saw them. The walls of the houses lining the streets are riddled with bullet holes, and there is hardly a single intact window. Everywhere there were the corpses of civilians who had been shot and fell to the ground, and the walls were covered with blood splattering east and west.

Now the Soviet army is no longer "repressive", it has escalated to indiscriminate massacres. And the people of the city are no longer rioting, but fighting for life. Both those who had supported and did not support the insurrection were now participating.

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The five divisions of the Soviet Army, which are said to be not small in strength, are defending a long and narrow area, with a small area but a large perimeter. It is more than 100 kilometers long, but more than 10 kilometers wide, and it is basically defended along the oases and residential areas around Hami. This is tantamount to spreading the forces very widely, and there is not much depth. At first, the Ming army did not quite understand what the Soviet commander thought, why he set up a defensive line exactly according to the shape of the oasis, and the defense line was as long as the oasis was long. If the oasis is 1,000 kilometers long, do you have to spread these five divisions evenly into a 1,000-kilometer defense line? If the commander of the Ming army had come to fortify, he would have shrunk his forces a long time ago, and the ratio of length to width of the entire defensive area should be roughly the same, and the area should be increased and the perimeter decreased, so that the troops would be concentrated and the depth would be large. That's the way to defend.

But as the Ming army successively captured some villages around Hami, it gradually understood. In these villages, people are dying of starvation in almost every household. Many of them still have corpses in their homes, and they look like skeletons. Previously, the Soviet army also sent people to snatch the corpses and transport them to the depths of the desert in the distance to be buried in a centralized manner. But in the past few days, the Ming army's offensive has been tight, and the Soviet army only cares about arranging defenses, and does not care about robbing corpses, which allows some newly starved corpses to remain.

From Hami, it was time to enter an area where people were already starving to death on a large scale. The Soviets defended along the oasis, which was tantamount to defending along the populated areas, in order to cover up the evidence that they had created the Holodomor. Stalin's imposition of the Hami defenders not to retreat a single step and not hesitate to encircle the 150,000 troops was not a military consideration, but a political one.

He didn't expect that the Ming army's attack this time would be so smooth, and it would be able to approach the Hami area. What's more, the Hami region is just the beginning, and further west into the two frontiers, the famine situation is even more serious. Once the Ming army occupies Hami, then the next target will definitely be Turpan and Dihua. And there, it's already hell on earth. Stalin knew what it meant for the Ming army to storm the Soviet-controlled zone. It means a big exposure, it means covering up all kinds of tragic truths for many years, and exposing them to the flashing lights of the world without any cover. This was done last autumn when the Ming army invaded the Siberian Far East. Stalin was deeply stimulated at that time, the image of justice that the Soviet Union had painstakingly built for many years collapsed at a faster rate, and the Bolshevik organization around the world even appeared in waves. The more free the media and the more open the information, the bigger the tide.

Therefore, this time he is determined to cover this lid at all costs. There was no such famine last time, and it was already so. If it is uncovered by the Ming army again this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

But he didn't expect that the effect of this riot would be so great. The main reason is that the timing was particularly good, and it happened to be stuck with the time of the Ming army's onslaught, so that the Soviet army could not take care of both inside and outside. Moreover, the Soviet defense area basically had no depth, which also played a great role. A riot in one village can almost cut off half of the entire defense zone. And the telephone lines were all artificially destroyed, and the Soviet command did not know what was going on everywhere at all. This was something that Stalin could not have imagined when he stayed in the Kremlin.

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From about 9 o'clock in the morning of the 23rd to the beginning of the battle to attack the outskirts of Hami, to about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet army's narrow position of more than 100 kilometers had been divided into six sections by the Ming army. And the interval between several sections is more than ten kilometers, because the area in between has been occupied by the Ming army. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle for the assault on the county town of Hami began. Although it is located in the Western Regions, it has been operated by the Ming and Qing dynasties for many years, and the city wall is also built in accordance with the traditional style of the mainland. That is, the style of the outer city bricks, the rammed earth in the middle, and the battlements above.

The Ming army transferred eight 150-mm heavy howitzers and sixteen 105-mm heavy cannons, and under the cover of dozens of tanks and assault guns, began to dismantle the city walls. 24 heavy guns lowered their muzzles and fired directly at the walls. At the head of the city, the Soviets set up machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank guns desperately returned fire, but soon the city was drowned in a sea of small and medium-caliber shells and machine gun bullets. The positions that were directly bombarded by those 24 heavy artillery pieces could not be said to fight back at all, and even people with walls were directly engulfed by a large explosion like a landslide and a crack.

In just ten minutes, the four walls of Hami County almost collapsed, turning them into a hill mixed with brick and earth. With the order of "ceasefire", all light and heavy artillery stopped firing, and the heavens and the earth seemed to stand still. A few minutes later, the dense smoke and dust became thinner, and at this time, the sharp whistle sounded one after another on the Ming army's position, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles roared at the same time, spewing green smoke and rushing over, climbing the pile of ruins of the city wall, and driving straight down.

In the back, more Ming soldiers jumped out of armored vehicles, automatic rifles in their hands, and rushed into the county town of Hami with a shout.

Suddenly, the sound of guns and cannons and shouts of killing was loud all over the city, and the shouts of "rush" and "wula" were intertwined with each other. Gradually, the latter's voice became less and less powerful.

At half past five in the afternoon, the main battle in the city was over, and only a few sporadic clearances remained. The sickle-hammer flag above the mosque rolled down, and a bright yellow dragon flag was raised.

On May 23, Hami, an important town in eastern Xinjiang, was recovered by the Ming army.

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