"Are you sure the gunfire is happening in this direction?" Ma Zheng stared at the trembling Tanma who was kneeling on the ground and said.

"Lord Biaotong, the villain did hear gunshots in this direction. And it wasn't the villain who heard it alone, our whole class heard it! And I vaguely heard the trumpet of our charge! ”

"Nonsense! There is no sign of troops passing by here, and we may have the sound of fighting. You're not trying to tell me that the enemy is fighting in the mountains and forests ahead! Ma Zheng said. It's almost close to the mountains now. But he didn't find the battlefield that Tanma said, which made Ma Zheng a little impatient.

"Report—A battlefield was found on the edge of the mountain forest, with the corpses of hundreds of people. Look at the dress should be the Gansu New Army! In the distance, a scout horse rode quickly and shouted from afar.

This made the probe who was kneeling on the ground breathe a sigh of relief. You know, he has no other skills, but his ears are particularly sensitive, so he was selected into the Tanma class. Later, when their squad was investigating, they heard gunshots and trumpets, so they reported to Ma Zheng, the commander of the horse team.

"Take me to see it!" Ma Zheng's expression changed, hundreds of corpses of the new army! It shows that the scale of this battle is probably not small! Otherwise, there would not have been so many corpses. Ma Zheng glanced at the probe horse kneeling on the ground and said, "Get up!" You have made a great contribution this time, and this standard system will reward you a lot when you go back! ”

"Thank you." Tanma Daxi, who was kneeling on the ground, only felt cold on his body when he stood up, and then he realized that his back had been wet with cold sweat.

looked at the corpses of the Gansu New Army that were neatly stacked in front of him. Ma Zheng only felt a chill. What is the hand of the force? Judging from the number of these war dead, the number of people in this battle is definitely in the thousands. And from the fact that only the corpses of the Gansu New Army were discarded, it can be seen that the Gansu New Army should have been defeated. As for how many were captured, Ma Zheng couldn't guess. Judging from the neat corpses and the clean weapons and ammunition that disappeared, the enemy retreated calmly. And the most likely direction is into the mountain forest. However, the cavalry was not willing to fight in the mountains and forests, so Ma Zheng would not send people into the mountains and forests.

"Order the troops to search a five-kilometer radius, and report immediately if they find an anomaly." Ma Zheng quickly ordered. He thought of what Tan Ma had just said, and heard the horn of the Western Army. How is this possible! Although the size of the Western Army is the largest among the various forces in the Ganning region, the territory of the Western Army is also the widest, and the places that need to be stationed are also the largest, so there are not many troops that the Western Army can transfer at one time. Since the commander sent his own 500 men, he would never send other troops of the Western Army to this area. Although the Zhuma forces in the Ganning region were basically split from the Western Army. But the moment the horses separated, they would change their temperament and the sound of the charge, indicating that their troops had become independent. Therefore, there were no troops using the same charge in the Ganning area at all.

"Could it be a passing unit of the Western Army?" Ma Zheng pondered. Thinking of this, Ma Zheng began to wonder why he didn't carry a radio station. Although radio stations are relatively scarce in the northwest region, the Western Military Family has a great cause, and although there are not many radio stations, there are still a few idle radio stations in Tianshui County. It's just that Tianshui's radio stations are basically the kind of antiques that are large in size, easy to malfunction, and not carry, plus Ma Zheng's troops are all cavalry, in his mind, in this Tianshui hinterland The nest of the Western Army, it won't take long to exterminate those bandits, and there is no need to carry those bulky radios.

The abnormality discovered by Ma Zheng has not yet been reported to Ma Anliang, a major event made the entire Ma Jiajun feel like a great enemy, and all the contradictions within the Ma Jiajun during this time were covered up, all because of the arrival of reinforcements from the northeast.

After more than half a month of trekking, an elite army of 35,000 people finally rushed over from the front line of the handover between Mongolia and Russia in the north. For a time, the strength of the northeast doubled from more than 30,000 to nearly 70,000. It is more than 20,000 people in the Ma Family Combined Army. This situation suddenly made the Zhuma forces feel a heavy pressure.

With an elite army of 70,000, how can the Ma family combined army with only 50,000 resist? What's more, the 50,000 Ma family army was full of internal contradictions, and even because of Zhang Guangjian's invasion of Gulang, the Ma family coalition army system almost collapsed. Reinforcements from the northeast dispelled the division of Zhuma at once. They are very wise to unite together, and with the 50,000 cavalry of the Ma family's army, they can still fight with the northeast. After all, the cavalry in the northeast added up to only 25,000 people, and the remaining 40,000 people were infantry.

On the European battlefield, cavalry has gradually been eliminated by infantry, to be more precise, by the increasingly powerful automatic firepower of infantry. However, in this northwest frontier, although there are also heavy machine guns, they are scarce in number and cannot form a scale, coupled with the large consumption of bullets, this kind of gold-swallowing beast is not something that any force can afford. In this Ganning area, only the army of Zhang Guangjian, the overseer of Gansu, had ten heavy machine guns, which was still the old foundation of the Beiyang Army that followed him into Ganning. Even though the Gansu New Army had heavy machine guns, they lacked ammunition. The heavy machine gun also struggled to play its role as a cavalry killer. More often than not, heavy machine guns were used as a strategic weapon, or Ma Anliang would not have believed that the Gansu New Army, armed with ten heavy machine guns, would capsize in the gutter of Gulang County.

However, the Northeast Security Army is different, because of the special geographical environment of Northeast China, the Japanese and Russians have been pouring into the Northeast region in a steady stream, coupled with the bandits in the Northeast who have been fighting for many years, there is a big gap in military supplies, and a stable arms market has already been formed in the Northeast, and the world's new weapons have flowed into the Northeast in a steady stream, until the outbreak of World War I, the West has become the world's largest arms market, and this small arms trading market in the Northeast has slowly shrunk. It was not until Feng Yong's Northeast Security Army rose strongly that this arms market completely disappeared.

After all, Feng Yong never thought about ordering firearms from abroad on a large scale. He has always wanted to go the path of producing his own supplements. Otherwise, there would not have been a new type of rifle that lasted more than half a year, the Zhonghua 16 Style, on the market.

It's just that the current Type 16 rifles are still in the arsenal of the northeast, and only a small number of them have been sent to a military region for application experiments. It is worth celebrating that the Type 16 rifle is currently working well, and the soldiers like this rifle produced by Northeast China very much.

Although the arms market was closed, no one can count the number of guns that have been lost to the three eastern provinces in recent years, among which Japanese rifles are the largest. Most of them are vintage rifles of the 30s. The current Northeast Security Army is no longer equipped, but it is still used in local security regiments.

As a brilliant weapon in the Russo-Japanese War, the heavy machine gun has always been respected by the Northeast armed forces. Of course, the perennial turmoil in the Northeast has made the three eastern provinces not rich, and although the Northeast is rich in mineral deposits, after the Russo-Japanese War, the larger minerals were basically monopolized by the Japanese and Russians. It is very difficult for the local forces in the northeast to intervene. But that's it, the capable Northeast armed forces will also get a few heavy machine guns to fill the façade. However, there are not many people who use heavy machine guns to participate in the war, after all, the consumption of bullets by heavy machine guns is too great. No one force can afford it. Even such a large contingent as the 27th Division and the 28th Type could not afford it, let alone small bandits.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Northeast, a lot of heavy machine guns were seized from the armed bandits in various places. Feng Yong concentrated the heavy machine guns to form a large-scale firepower cluster, and even transferred hundreds of heavy machine guns from various military regions to the Western Military Region and the Northwest Military Region in order to advance westward into Mongolia.

Therefore, the heavy machine guns of the Northeast reinforcements completely panicked the Ma Jiajun in the Ganning area. They did not know how powerful the firepower of the heavy machine guns was in concentrated use. But instinctively frightened by this heavy firepower weapon.

For a time, the confrontation between the Northeast and Ma Jiajun was formed again.

"Lao Cui, it's really not the right time for you to come!" This was Zhang Xiaoshan's first sentence when he saw Cui Xiaolong. This made Cui Xiaolong feel inexplicable.

Li Jun didn't say anything, and he couldn't see the slightest disappointment on his face.

"What's going on? Is something wrong? Cui Xiaolong felt that the second monk was confused.

"The chief of staff has played a big game of chess in the Ganning region, and if it succeeds, the Ma Jiajun will be split because of internal suspicion. In this way, our Northeast can swallow the entire Ganning region without much effort. But we all miscalculated the speed of your Lao Cui leading the troops, your arrival has made our Northeast Security Army have achieved an absolute advantage in the strength of the troops, and the pressure on the Ma Jiajun in the Ganning area is heavy, under this pressure, the rift that we originally used to make in the Ma Jiajun has lost its effect, and the Ma Jiajun is closely linked together. Zhang Xiaoshan said, there was no pity in his tone.

"That's it! If I had known that, I would have marched more slowly! Chief of Staff, if we don't take action now, with our superior strength, plus two regiments of heavy machine guns as a supplement, not to mention that the Ma Jiajun has less than 50,000 people, even if it is 100,000 people, we can eat it! Cui Xiaolong said.

"Huh! Don't worry, now that the Ma family army is in a group, it is the time when they are most united, and it is also the time when their combat effectiveness is the strongest, at this time to attack, even if we can win, we will suffer heavy losses, plus we don't need to hurry, we can slowly annex the Ganning region, which is more secure and more effective. Li Jun said with a smile.

"I listen to the Chief of Staff. Commander, are you not arranging for the troops to rest and rest! The soldiers of the rapid march along the way are really tired! Cui Xiaolong turned his head and said to Zhang Xiaoshan. The two have been partners for a long time, and they are both young people, so the personal relationship is also very good.

"No problem. The last thing we lack in the Northeast is food! But you, the commissar, should hurry up and take over these messy things! It wasn't until you left that I learned that the work of a political commissar is really not good. Zhang Xiaoshan said with a sigh.

(To be continued)