On the night of the 20th, in the town of Juzarez, a murder in a barracks occurred at the garrison of the 16th Cavalry Division.

Two Han soldiers of the 45th Brigade were cut with knives and killed when they went out to pee in the middle of the night, and the other soldiers kicked down the bodies when they went to the toilet. Due to the rumors that the Turks wanted to retaliate during the day, the Han soldiers were also nervous at this time, and immediately thought of this, and the irritable Turks were waiting for an opportunity to retaliate. This move caused great dissatisfaction among the Han soldiers of the 45th Brigade in the barracks, and some soldiers shouted at the moment: "We also want to retaliate!" However, there were still calm officers who said that the matter was strange and that the commander should be found to deal with it, and ordered everyone to protect the scene.

When the Han soldiers of the 45th Cavalry Brigade of the 16th Cavalry Division found the brigade commander Aziz, the drunken Aziz only said lightly that these two people were killed by Soviet spies, and the two Han soldiers who died should be counted as heroes. During the war, the stability of the military camp was of paramount importance, and the Han officers immediately protested, and Aziz said angrily: "Do you dare to disobey military orders? The Han officers left angrily, and at this time, Aziz thought that this matter was not easy to handle, so he first found the chief of staff Qi Bin to discuss.

From Qi Bin's point of view, whether it is Turkic, or Wuer, Mongolian, Han, Hui, Manchu, or Kazakh, they are all Chinese, and he especially hopes that China will not have ethnic contradictions and lead to wasted internal fighting. He had a good mind, so he immediately dealt with the matter after Aziz had told him. No matter who killed these two Han soldiers, it is absolutely impossible to cause infighting at this time. Although Aziz's attitude is problematic, there is no problem with the way he handles it. Qi Bin supported Aziz's approach and blamed Soviet Russia for a bad behavior.

But the soldiers were not stupid, and some Han officers loudly asked how Soviet spies could kill corpses? How is it possible to dismantle a corpse in eight pieces? Under Qi Bin's deliberate suppression, the Han soldiers of the 45th Brigade returned to the barracks angrily, but the more they thought about it after they went back, the more they held their breath, and the more they thought about it, the more unpleasant it became.

"He's a Turkic dog, and he must be towards his own people. We can't reason with him, let's go to Zhao Luzuo for comment. A soldier said.

The Zhao Brigade seat in the mouth of the soldiers is Zhao Ajiu, the commander of the 142nd Brigade. They felt that Chief of General Staff Qi must have become a "traitor" in this matter, and immediately expressed their distrust of him and their disapproval of the handling of this matter.

So the Han soldiers of the 45th Brigade found the Han soldiers of the 142nd Brigade in the middle of the night, and the soldiers of both sides discussed together. I felt that these Turks were going to bully the Han Chinese. The Han soldiers of the two brigades immediately united and prepared to find trouble with these Turks. They prepared knives, guns and clubs, and in the second half of the night they retaliated against a group of Turkic soldiers.

Early in the morning of May 21, the Turks also immediately gathered to trouble the Han soldiers.

The two sides first began to quarrel verbally, then began to push each other, and then used weapons to confront, with more than 3,000 Turkic soldiers and more than 5,000 Han Chinese soldiers from the northwest fighting first, then gun-to-gun, roaring confrontation in the barracks.

Division Commander Makanranti had just listened to Qi Bin's report on last night's handling of the situation. He praised Qi Bin for doing a very good job, but they didn't expect the rumors to have such a big impact among ordinary sergeants. Chief of Staff Qi Bin showed his immature and idealistic side at this time. He asked the soldiers of the two sides to retreat and temporarily separate, and the respective commanders persuaded them.

Zhao Ajiu resolutely disagreed, and he believed that the best way now was to solve the problem, find the murderer, and give everyone justice, instead of putting the contradiction on hold -- the contradiction was only postponed, and it was not resolved, but it would breed greater contradictions.

Although the Turkic soldiers have only been in the army for a year or two, the regulations on the management of Wehrmacht soldiers clearly stipulate that the death penalty must be carried out for those who attack the robes, so it is impossible for the Turkic soldiers to make this mistake. He believed that the Han soldiers were now making trouble, and that the beating of the Turkic soldiers in the second half of last night must be severely punished, and that the beaters must enforce wartime military law.

In the wartime military law, it was stipulated that the death penalty must be carried out if you attack your comrades-in-arms, and Qi Bin also felt that it was too strict, and he was just about to persuade him, when he heard Zhao Ajiu shouting loudly: "No, this will only make the contradiction bigger and bigger." ”

The commander of the 25th Brigade, Aziz, said: "Your people are slaughtering our people behind their backs, and we are here to work for you Han people, are you fools when we are Turks?" ”

Zhao Ajiu was furious, pointed at Makanranti and scolded him for favoring his old subordinates, he was a complete fool, is such a rumor credible?

Makanranti sneered and said The rumors are not credible, why do you want to kill the messenger, are you a thief? The division commander and the brigade commander quarreled at the command headquarters, but you can imagine what the state of the soldiers will be, the chief of staff Qi Bin still wants to be a good person to persuade peace, but both sides are not satisfied, Zhao Ajiu pointed at Qi Bin's nose and scolded: "You nerd, what's going on?" Can't you still see who is who? ”

Qi Bin, the chief of staff who tried his best to let the two sides coexist peacefully, also looked wronged, and he tried his best to resolve the conflict, but the commanders of the two sides almost moved, Zhao Ajiu threw his hat on the ground and said angrily: "Fuck, Lao Tzu is angry enough, death is death, everyone dies together!" your grandma, whoever dares to move these soldiers, I'll him. "Let's say it, I rushed away angrily, Makanranti was taken aback by Zhao Ajiu's fierceness, and he was also a little regretful and afraid, there was such a strict contradiction and conflict in the army, this was his responsibility as the commander of the division. He hurriedly said to Qi Bin: "You go and persuade him, why is this Brigade Commander Zhao so bad-tempered." Qi Bin hurriedly left the headquarters and chased out to persuade Zhao Ajiu.

Aziz took the opportunity to say beside Makanranti: "Master, the Han people are too arrogant, they don't treat us as human beings, let alone take you in their eyes. Look at the fact that just now, he actually yelled at you, and they looked down on us Turks in their hearts. ”

Makanranti's heart floated from side to side, and it was no wonder that his mind became fast, he had no concept of the country in his heart, only the concept of the strong being king. At the beginning, when he returned to Wang Maoru, he saw the strength of the squadron, but now that he saw the rise of Soviet Russia, he naturally had a very complicated heart, after all, he grew up in Tsarist Russia, and there was a trace of the concept of the state in his heart that was also instilled in him by the Tsarist Russian Empire - of course, there was also hatred.

The confrontation between the Turkic and Han soldiers intensified at noon on the 21st, and in the ensuing confrontation, more people joined in. Yellow-skinned ethnic groups such as Hui, Mongol, Manchu, Tibetan, and Kalmyk soldiers joined the ranks of the Han soldiers, while the Vul, Tajik, and Kyrgyz Central Asian white soldiers joined the ranks of the Turks.

The confrontation between the two sides is very obvious, one side is a yellow race, a typical East Asian race with small eyes and a small nose, and the other side is a Central Asian white race, with big eyes and big noses, and this is not only an internal contradiction in the army, but also a racial contradiction.

Chief of Staff Qi Bin solved the problem by force, while the division commander Makanranti did not seem to want to solve the problem, and no one knew what he was thinking. In fact, Makanranti himself didn't understand it, on the one hand, he felt that he should fight for the interests of his people, and on the other hand, he was afraid of offending Wang Maoru and finally being punished, and in the swing from side to side, the 16th Cavalry Division fell into confusion.

In the confrontation, the Han side is actually restraining itself, their strength is much stronger, and most of the Han cavalry officers are military academy graduates, they understand the importance of national character better.

The political system of this country is the political system of the Han people, and they naturally do not want any behavior that is detrimental to the political system, and those that can be resolved peacefully must be resolved peacefully, unless they have to do so, the two sides still sit down for peace talks, especially to hand over the murderer. But the Turks are more agitated, perhaps because of their ethnicity, but also because of religion, and they are more aggressive and sensitive. But both sides know that a single confrontation that escalates into an attack is a point of no return for both sides. After all, it is still unknown whether the Turkic migrants were injured and secretly executed, but if there is a real fight, those tribesmen will definitely be executed.

Just before the civil strife broke out in the 16th Cavalry Division, when they had just captured the Soviet spies, it was also on May 20 that more than 5,000 people of the Kazakh Independent Cavalry Division escaped from the Ares Salt Marsh under the guidance of the Kazakh locals. Blyukhel was overjoyed and immediately sent to the rear to monitor the Wehrmacht's 16th Cavalry Division. The news that came from the Chinese cavalry division was that the Chinese were really in civil unrest, and they fought with themselves, and Blyukhel laughed and said that let the Chinese taste the bitterness.

The Soviet army then launched a fierce attack on the Kizil fortress, due to the decreasing number of fortress artillery shells, so that the artillery suppression of the squadron gradually equalized with the other side, and the contrast between the two sides in artillery fire finally reached a balance, which made the commander of the Soviet Eastern Army Blyukhel very happy, and what made him even happier was that the Chinese 16th Cavalry Division fell into his counter-plot, the Turks and the Han people fought, and in vain consumed a cavalry division of more than 13,000 people on the other side.

"Do we need to attack them?" Sollinsky asked excitedly, this is a good opportunity, an opportunity to deal with the enemy's cavalry units.

Blyukhel smiled: "There is no need for the time being, if we attack them, it will force them to unite their guns, if we don't stimulate them, they will fight sooner or later." If Blyukhel had known that two thousand years ago there had been a Chinese tyrant named Cao Cao who had dealt with the sons of his rival, Yuan Shao, in the same way, he would have said aloud that the hero had seen the same thing.

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