Episode 60 The friction between God and Allah

Stalin immediately guessed the reason: the Ming army's front was too long and could not continue the large-scale offensive, and secondly, the Ming also hoped that the German army and the Soviet army would lose both, and finally the Ming army would spend a small effort to pick up the big fruit.

Stalin immediately seized the opportunity and continued to speed up the transfer of troops from Central Asia to Europe. Of course, this is to quench your thirst, but there is no other way to do it at the moment. Now the two enemies of the USSR, Ming is strong and Germany is weak. However, although the Ming State was strong, it was difficult to eliminate the Soviet Union in its geographical location, and at most it occupied more land. And now that the end of the strong crossbow has been revealed, it will be difficult to occupy much more in the future. And although Germany is weaker than Ming, but in Europe, it is absolutely possible to hit Moscow, and the danger is much higher.

Germany was also very anxious, and the ambassador to Ming kept asking to see the Foreign Minister, conveying Hitler's urging to ask the Ming army to continue the offensive and cooperate with the German army to flank the Soviet Union. The ambassador conveyed Hitler's exact words:

- The Führer "looks forward to the meeting of the soldiers of the Ming Empire and the Third Reich in the Caspian Sea." ”

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Obviously, now the Germans are feeling more and more pressure. And German intelligence also knew that these extra Soviet troops were transferred from the East.

The attitude of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty is also very sincere, saying that now the Ming army has indeed reached the "apex of the offensive", from Lanzhou to central Kazakhstan, there is no railway distance in the middle, and it is already as long as half of Europe. Even if the Ming army has a large number of military vehicles, there is a limit to the amount of transportation. Now it's almost there. The Ming army has done too much to fight the Soviet Union, and Germany should not be too demanding on this, and please ask Chancellor Hitler's understanding for this.

Hitler didn't think as deeply as Stalin, he didn't expect that Ming Guo was deliberately draining the German army. Hitler looked at the map and indeed sighed for such a long front of the Ming army. He was also very understanding. So, he retreated and asked the ambassador to convey other requests: he wanted the "Ming-Russian coalition" to make another offensive to the north and occupy Chelyabinsk.

Chelyabinsk is located in the north of Kazakhstan, on the territory of Russia, 127 km from the border of Kazakhstan and less than 100 km from the Ural Mountains. The city is an important city in Central Asia and is one of the most important major hubs on the Trans-Siberian Railway. If Chelyabinsk can be captured, the Trans-Siberian Railway will be cut off. Cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway here would be tantamount to cutting off the European and Asian parts of the Soviet Union.

At present, in the central part of Russia, west of Lake Baikal, there are still many Soviet troops stationed, and all kinds of resources there are also continuously transported to Europe through the Trans-Siberian Railway, and weapons, vehicles, and materials produced by factories in the European part are also transported to the Asian part by rail. Hitler's proposal was really good, once Chelyabinsk was occupied, the Soviet army in Central Siberia would be alone, and it would be much easier for the Ming-Russian coalition to take Central Siberia. The area west of Lake Baikal was also the territory that the Ming Kingdom granted to Free Russia.

Although Chelyabinsk is only more than 100 kilometers away from Kazakhstan, the main force of the Ming army is indeed unable to carry out such a key battle. Therefore, now the Ming army does not seek to occupy, but only strikes from the air, mobilizes a large number of twin-engine bombers, and carries out strategic bombing of Chelyabinsk, focusing on the destruction of the railway junction. At the same time, the Cossack cavalry and Kazakh cavalry of Belarus were sent from Kazakhstan to constantly harass Chelyabinsk more than a hundred kilometers away.

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The Ming army constantly noticed a problem, and this problem began to be not to be underestimated.

- The main Ming army, which was mainly Han Chinese, now had two main vassal armies: one was the Muslim army in Central Asia, and the other was the White Russian army of Free Russia. Either of these two forces could get along with the Han Ming army, but the relationship between the Muslims and the Russians was tense and increasingly tense, and they could not even be used together. Now in a campaign, either Muslim troops are used, or only Russian troops are used, or the left flank is given to Muslim troops, the right flank is given to Russian troops, and the center is separated by Han Ming troops. In short, it is not possible to put the Muslim troops and the Russian troops directly together. In that case, you have to lose the battle. Not to mention that they can't work closely together, it's good if they don't clash.

It is no wonder that the contradictions between the two sides are mainly religious, in addition to historical. The contradiction between the Russian forces believing in God and the Muslim forces believing in Allah is doomed to be irreconcilable. The Ming army did not believe in anything, did not have its own fixed beliefs, and when they went to the Muslims, they could follow and say that Allah was good, and when they went to the Cossacks, they could follow and say that God was good, but it was not a big problem to get along with either side. Moreover, now the main battles are in the Muslim regions of Central Asia, and the Ming army has strict military discipline, basically no theft, robbery and the like, and has a good relationship with the local people. And the Cossacks of the Russian army will not work, wherever they go, they will steal and rob them.

Muslims prohibit the eating of pork and the prohibition of alcohol, although the Ming army does not believe, but in the Muslim area of the war, can do full respect for local customs, the army food is completely free of pork, no alcohol. But as we all know, the Russian army is a force composed of drunkards, from generals and marshals to small soldiers, basically all of them are drunkards. Both the Free Russian Army and the Soviet Red Army were the same in this regard, they could go without food, they could not leave wine without drinking, and it was harder to keep them from drinking than to let them die. When Russian officers and soldiers were stationed in local villages, they were besieged by the locals many times because of gathering crowds to drink. The Russian soldiers opened fire in self-defense, and immediately someone reported to the Muslim troops stationed nearby, and soon a group of Kazakh soldiers galloped in, so the Kazakh vs. Cossack fire was staged.

This has happened several times, and each time it has cost several lives. In the military tribunals of the Ming army, there are more and more cases of this kind. Tang Yunsheng even sent a telegram directly to Denikin in his personal name, asking him to strictly control the Russian army under his command, and it is best to issue a ban on alcohol in the Russian army. At the very least, there should be a ban on alcohol in Muslim war zones. But Denikin called back that this is the tradition of the Russian army, and it is impossible to ban alcohol. This not only seriously undermines morale, but also makes it impossible to operate and cannot be implemented at all.

Also, from Denikin himself, to the commanders of the group armies, army commanders, division commanders, brigades, battalions, battalions, companies, platoon leaders, and soldiers, most of them are drunkards. Even the gendarmes who are responsible for law enforcement in the army are mostly drunkards. Who do you ask to ban whose alcohol?

In this situation, Nanjing's decision-makers have no choice but to try their best to appease and calm down the contradictions between the two sides. As long as this contradiction is not too big to affect the war against the Soviet Union. In addition, the top management of the Ming Dynasty also has an extra layer of ideas, feeling that this contradiction can also be exploited.

After the disappearance of the Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union, there will be a "three-legged" situation in Central and West Asia: the Russian Federation in the northeast, Nazi Germany in the northwest, and a series of new Muslim countries in the south. The contradictions between these three will continue to ferment and expand, and the Ming Dynasty, who lives in the east of Eurasia, will be able to maneuver in the middle and become a balancer and mediator. And the two series of vassal states - the Russian Federation and the small Muslim states of Central Asia, in the foreseeable future and for a long period of time, will not be enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but will only compete to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty.

In this sense, it can also ensure the tranquility of the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty to the greatest extent.