In the desert, the yellow sand dances with the wind, and a few lonely shrubs add a bit of green to the yellow. The mounds of earth of various shapes are like cliffs or collapsed palaces, recording the changes in history.

The gunshots broke through the silence of the desert. Hundreds of war horses were besieging a small hill. Cannonballs kept falling on the hills. The entire hill was covered by smoke. Dozens of war horses rushed up and the battle ended soon.

Five or six prisoners were taken to a lieutenant colonel in his thirties and bearded. The lieutenant colonel quickly walked to a high-necked prisoner. The prisoner's hair was not black but gray, his face was covered with blood, his head was wrapped in a bandage, and he was shot on his shoulder, but he was not bandaged.

The bearded man reached out to grab the captain's hair and pulled it back hard. The captain was forced to raise his face. The bearded man shouted at him, "What's the name?"

The tall nose's gray eyes stared at the beard and said nothing. The beard sneered, and suddenly stretched out his finger and poked hard on the wound of the high nose. The tall nose screamed. The two soldiers held him hard. The beard didn't stop, and the bearded smile appeared on his face, and his fingers drilled into the hole of the gun.

"What's the name?! Say!"

Gao Nose screamed, his body twisted, his beard stopped, and he squatted down and stared at Gao Nose's eyes: "I know your name is Leonov, the Soviet Military Table Tennis School." After saying that, he stood up and looked at the other prisoners and cursed: "Damn, for you, I have been wandering around here for a month."

The bearded horse boots kicked the ground twice, and the corners of his mouth twitched fiercely: "I really want to chop you up, the kids are not allowed to beat you to death, and then sent to Dihua.

This Soviet contingent infiltrated the Hami area and carried a radio station to operate near the Dilan Railway to destroy the Dilan Railway. This contingent frequently succeeded in the early stage. After Hu Zongnan took office, he specially formed a cavalry unit to pursue and suppress them, and at the same time strengthened the air force search and searched along both sides of the Dilan Railway.

Various intelligences show that this task force is not large in number and its activities are elusive. "Hu Zongnan chased after half a month but could not find their traces. After Bai Chongxi took office, Bai Chongxi believed that no matter how elusive he was, they always had to eat and sleep, and always had to replenish ammunition. Bai Chongxi ordered local police stations and the Central Military Commission intelligence personnel to strengthen secret monitoring of food and ammunition. "Observe those who buy food on a large scale, and in addition, ordered the Air Force to block the sky in the Hami area and force these people to come out to get ammunition.

A few days ago, the local police station found that someone had purchased a large amount of food, which was enough for more than a dozen people to eat for half a month. "The reconnaissance personnel secretly followed the food and finally confirmed that these people were the people they were looking for. The pursuit team quickly rushed over from hundreds of miles away and secretly surrounded the contingent, but this unit was very cunning, and they discovered it when the encirclement of the pursuit team was about to form."

The task force immediately broke through the encirclement and broke out of the encirclement. The pursuit team pursued the enemy relentlessly. "In this empty Gobi Desert, they chased for three consecutive days." Today, they finally caught up and eliminated.

The news of the elimination of the Leonov contingent quickly reached Dihua. Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan only spoke easily. The hidden dangers of the Dilan Railway were eliminated, and the road construction troops stepped up the repair of the damaged railway.

Bai Chongxi's power is gradually increasing. The first division of the First Army has all arrived in Dihua. The vanguard of the 78th Division is concentrated in Hami. The 6th Army of the Second Army drawn from the Jiangnan War Zone.

The divisions have been airlifted to Dihua, the Fourth Tank Brigade of the Eighth War Zone has arrived in Hami, and the 9th Battalion of the Air Force Destroyer, the 14th Battalion of the Bomber, and the 11th Battalion of the Bomber, have all transferred to complete.

There have been gathering around Dihua. The 46th Division of the 2nd Army, the 1st Cavalry Army, the 3rd Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Army, the 128th Division of the Naturalized Army of the Belarusian Army, the 128th Division, and the Fifth Cavalry Army of the Cavalry, the total strength has reached more than 70,000. In addition, the Dihua Guard Team, a 5,000-man volunteer team organized by the Han people of Dihua. Only then did Bai Chongxi get some confidence.

The troops were temporarily sufficient, but the logistics was still relatively tight. Bai Chongxi formulated a combat plan to eliminate the rebels attacking the Qinghe area, mainly the 1st and 6th divisions, accompanied by the Provincial Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Army, the Ninth Battalion of the Air Force and the Eleventh Battalion of the Bombers were responsible for air support.

In the middle route, Bai Chongxi mobilized the temporary assembly of the 46th Division and the 128th Division's First Cavalry Army to build a defense line in the Manas area and block the rebels' attack.

What comforted Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan was that Liu Wenhui pacified southern Xinjiang and eliminated Ye Cheng.

The rebellions in Hotan, Tash and other places finally wiped out the rebels in the Ucha area and wiped out all the rebels in the southern Xinjiang. Liu Wenhui then concentrated the main 136th Division in the Aksu area, and the 137th Division in Yanshe, blocking the rebels' attack on the southern Xinjiang.

However, the rebels' attack on Ailinbak became even more fierce. Du Defu sent several urgent telegrams every day, asking reinforcements to reinforcements as soon as possible, or send troops to break through. However, Bai Chongxi refused every time, and ordered him to stick to the aid and order the Air Force to provide support.

But Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan both knew that Du Defu's casualties would be very tragic, but their persistence would attract the main force of the rebels and win time for the entire counter-rebellion battle.

After destroying the Leonov contingent, Bai Chongxi ordered the transfer of the 78th Division to Dihua, and at the same time urged the Fourth Tank Brigade and the 42nd Army, the 3rd Cavalry Army, the newly formed Ninth Army, and the temporary 15th Division to speed up and must arrive at Dihua in early May.

The 42nd Army and other troops were the former Eighth War Zone troops. The 7th Preparatory Division under the 42nd Army was already in Xinjiang. The other two divisions and the bu division of the army were in northern Shaanxi. After the rebellion, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the army to the west, but due to the handover of defense and transportation, he failed to set off on time. He has only arrived in Lanzhou now, and it will take at least one month to arrive in Dihua.

The reason why it took so long was mainly because the 3rd Cavalry Army and the 15th Division were already on the road and were trapped on the New Gansu border. Due to Leonov's destruction, the railway was open and interrupted, and military transportation was in an extremely abnormal state.

Bai Chongxi attached great importance to the counterattack against the Qinghe area. He asked Hu Zongnan to personally serve as the commander-in-chief of the front line, and at the same time sent some measures taken by Liu Wenhui to pacify southern Xinjiang as experience to all troops, requiring them to implement them accordingly.

After Bai Chongxi arrived in Xinjiang, he realized the complexity of Xinjiang's suppression of rebellion. This complexity is first manifested in that "Xinjiang is too wide, has a sparse population, and has many ethnic groups. There are various contradictions between various ethnic groups, including the contradictions between the Han and other ethnic minorities, as well as the contradictions between ethnic minorities. Liu Wenhui's most powerful strategy is to confiscate the grasslands of the rebels. Now most ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are nomadic peoples. The grasslands are a matter of life for them. Once confiscated, the entire tribe will fall into a desperate situation.

As the grassland is confiscated and redistributed, the original grassland owner and the accepting grassland owner have conflicts, and the government can make profits, and ethnic minorities can no longer unite to deal with the government.

The second complexity lies in the terrain of Xinjiang, the Tianshan Mountains scattered across the entire territory. The deserts are spread throughout the region, the northern border is the Guerbantonggut Desert in the Junggar Basin, and the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin in the southern border. The Tianshan Mountains and the desert divide Xinjiang into several blocks, the Ashan area, the Yili area, and the Dihua area. You can see three large oasis. To go from one area to another, you not only have to cross the desert Gobi, but also cross many mountains. As long as the rebels block a few major transportation routes, the anti-rebellion troops can only fight step by step.

When the rescue of Chenghua failed, Hu Zongnan made a visionary decision to withdraw the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the Xinjiang Provincial Army to Qinghe and jointly defend Qinghe with the Qinghe Border Defense Brigade.

Qinghe area is a region where Uyghur bandit Usman has been active for a long time. Usman is a Kazakh. He raised an army to oppose Shengshicai and the Soviet Union as early as the Shengshicai era. He once shot and killed the head of the Soviet exploration team who came to Qinghe area to investigate mining resources.

"We must work on two-pronged approaches to this Usman." One hand is military and the other hand is political, telling him that if he is willing to accept the incorporation, the government can give him a regiment number, but he must draw a clear line with the Soviet Union and the Ili rebels and assist the government in quelling the Ili rebellion." Bai Chongxi learned about the problem in Xinjiang from Sheng Shicai before coming.

Sheng Shicai was very dissatisfied with Usman, but he believed that this person could cooperate with the National Government in opposing Soviet Russia. It was precisely this situation that Bai Chongxi formulated a combat plan to first wipe out the rebels in the Ashan area.

Hu Zongnan led 30,000 troops out of Dihua, to Qitai, crossed the desert, to the General Temple, crossed the Kalamari Mountain and Beita Mountain, and rested for three days at Ulastai on the Central Méng border, then followed the Central Méng border, crossed the Ulungu River, and entered the Qinghe territory.

The biggest problem with this route comes from Méng Gu, who also intervened in the Ashan area rebellion. About two regiments of Méng Gu army directly participated in the Ashan rebellion. If the Méng Gu army had not participated, Chenghua should have been able to hold on for a while.

Now, except for Du Defu, the rest of the area has fallen. The rebels first established the Eastern Turkestan Republic, but then the country's name was abolished and changed it to the autonomous government of the three districts. The autonomous government issued a conscription order to the entire three districts, requiring young men over 18 to bring their own weapons to join the army.

The rebel forces immediately soared to nearly 100,000. Two Soviet infantry regiments and a tank regiment appeared on the battlefield. One of the infantry regiments and tank regiments first appeared on the other side of the Manas River.

The two sides of the Manas River gathered in large numbers, and the battle was densely covered! The commanders of both sides dispatched troops and generals, and saw that the battle was about to break out!

"Shoushan, whether the first shot to suppress the rebellion can be fired depends on you." Bai Chongxi's strategy has been decided, and he is very confident: "You must pay attention to the situation in the ancient territory. If you have any requests, please call me immediately, and the Air Force will cover your actions along the way."

Hu Zongnan nodded with a serious expression. He also hoped to lead his troops to attack. In recent years, he was in Shaanxi. Seeing Zhuang Jihua, Du Yuming, Guan Lin conquering Yu Ji, these Huangpu classmates shining on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, shining with light, and their hearts were full of envy, jealousy and hatred. But he also knew the purpose of Chiang Kai-shek leaving him in the northwest, so he didn't bother to fight and stood in Xi'an honestly.

But what he didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek actually transferred him to Xinjiang to quell the rebellion. From this action, Hu Zongnan knew how much Chiang Kai-shek valued the rebellion in Xinjiang. However, he didn't expect that he would return with his feathers for the first time, and even Chiang Kai-shek sent Bai Chongxi again, which made him depressed and frightened.

Now Bai Chongxi has formulated a plan to combat the rebellion, and the first step is to let himself take action, which makes him feel all kinds of feelings, but he is very clear that he must win this battle to restore his reputation.

"Don't worry, the commander-in-chief of the innocent will be cautious and pacified, and the Ashan area will be smoothly pacified."

After saying that, Hu Zongnan turned around and stepped on his jeep and ordered his departure. The army left Dihua and advanced westward. Bai Chongxi and Zhu Shaoliang led all the members of the command center to see him off at the city gate.

Before the troops were finished, an officer walked to Bai Chongxi and whispered in his ear: "Discover a mysterious electric bo."

Bai Chongxi nodded slightly, and the eyes behind the lens were calm and sarcastic. Hu Zongnan did not go north directly, but went west first, as if he was heading towards the front line of the Manas River. After leaving the city for thirty miles, he secretly turned around and went north, and penetrated north from the edge of the Gobi Desert to the north.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious and decided to close all Soviet consulates in Xinjiang. The Soviet consulate in Dihua was closed. All the Soviets in the city, whether traders or diplomats, were deported. This action invisibly severely hit the rebel intelligence system. In the past, the Soviet consulate personnel used their diplomatic identities to publicly collect intelligence for the rebels, and even if the Chinese side knew, they could do nothing. Now the consulate is closed, the Soviet Union was caught off guard and was forced to evacuate before they could deploy the intelligence network.

But neither Bai Chongxi nor Zhu Shaoliang nor Hu Zongnan dared to guarantee that there were no Soviet spies in the city, so Hu Zongnan was asked to go west and then north. At the same time, he ordered the Military Control Commission to closely monitor the sky above Dihua. The Military Control Commission transferred three telecommunication detection vehicles from the mainland and formed more than a dozen telecommunication reconnaissance teams to spread the entire city of Dihua.

"Have you confirmed the location?" Bai Chongxi asked in a low voice.

"It has been confirmed, Webmaster Han asked if he was arresting someone?"

"What are you waiting for? The Soviets cannot arrange many radio stations. If you catch one, you will lose one." Bai Chongxi's tone was very firm. He knew very well that the Soviets left in a hurry and had no time to deploy a spy network, and there were even fewer radio stations. It is very likely that the entire Dihua would have this radio station.

The officer quietly left the team, ran quickly to the jeep beside him, grabbed the phone and issued an order.

With his orders, a group of soldiers rushed into a mosque in Dihua City. Then several gunshots came from the mosque. The Uyghurs around him suddenly got up and surrounded the mosque. When they arrived at the door, they found that the mosque was surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.

Several Uyghur young men cursed at the army. Before they could curse a few words, they shot their soldiers when they raised their hands. The crowd immediately panicked and fled in scattered. The soldiers continued to shoot at the sky behind.@.
Chapter completed!