Chapter 254: The Battle of Xifu Attack on Baoji

The Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang from Fuping was different this time, and advanced rapidly with one division as the forward force, because it was equipped with a large number of automobiles, and the march was very fast.

Pei Changhui, a cunning old fox, saw the current difficulties of the Northwest Field Army, and also saw through the combat intentions of the People's Liberation Army to some extent, so he wanted to take a bite.

When people are old and sophisticated, when they can't see or are not sure, this Pei Chang will never make a move, but once he sees the flaws of our army, he is also very ruthless.

The large army waded through the billowing smoke and dust, and the Kuomintang troops in yellow uniforms rushed towards Baoji like a flood that had opened the floodgates.

When the Kuomintang Pei Changhui Corps was about to advance, there was also a Kuomintang support force for Baoji that was also on the march.

The army, which consisted entirely of cavalry, surged like a vicious wave, and the horses trotted along, and thousands of horses' hooves raved the earth, trampling the dead grass and trees on the ground, and the sabers glittered with cold light, and the hooves nailed to the horses' hooves sparkled small pieces of stones.

Seeing this, everyone knows that this army is the 82nd Division of Qinghai Ma Bufang, and the Qingma Army is the most powerful of the three horse warlords in the northwest, with a total strength of nearly 200,000.

The 82nd Division is the old army when Ma Bufang started, and it is the descendant of the Qingma Army, the elite of the elite, and the division commander is Ma Bufang's eldest son Ma Jiyuan.

It stands to reason that the troops in the world can't produce any good commanders, but this Ma Jiyuan is an exception, among the juniors of the Ma family, he is the most optimistic about taking over Ma Bufang's class, not only for the deep city, but also very strategic in fighting, known as the best young general of the Ma family in the northwest.

In order to persuade Ma Bufang to send troops, the Kuomintang Nanjing Government not only issued an order from the Ministry of National Defense, but also wrote a personal letter to Ma Bufang by President Chiang, in which he praised him as the pillar of the northwest and the pillar of the party-state, and promised that after the battle was over, he would definitely transfer advanced weapons and equipment to the 82nd Division and Ma Bufang's troops.

The Kuomintang government had always been wary of the local Kuomintang troops in Qinghai and Ningxia, and Chiang Kai-shek strictly ordered these local warlords not to fight each other and strictly control their power in the corners of Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu.

In order to show his loyalty to Chairman Chiang, Ma Bufang repeatedly declared in public that Qinghai's armed forces were all national troops, a part of them, and did not belong to him personally, and that he himself was also a general of the state, and that as long as the chairman gave an order, his entire army could be unconditionally mobilized.

Ma Bufang did not show his loyalty in vain, Chiang Kai-shek thought that this person was okay, and he still had a bit of a sense of the overall situation, perhaps in order to appease, he allocated a full set of weapons and equipment of a heavy artillery battalion to Ma Jiajun not long ago.

This time, the Nanjing Kuomintang government ordered it, and Ma Bufang also made a variety of considerations, no matter how bad the Kuomintang is, it must be stronger, what is it doing? It is engaged in communism, it is a force that serves the poor, and if such a force wins the world, it must first use people like itself and family to communize.

Judging from the land reform carried out in their so-called liberated areas, they are the targets of communism, and all the family property they have accumulated over the years has to be distributed to the poor people.

The land is divided, the houses are divided, the money is divided, anyway, all their own qiē must be divided, in the liberated areas, the landlords and rich people who have been divided into land have to work on their own to support themselves, whether this is called self-reliance, abolish exploitation, this is not a life of human life, think about these and tremble in my heart.

This time, our Qinghai army also made a difference, so that Chairman Jiang and those government officials in Nanjing could see who was the pillar of the great northwest, and it was Ma Bufang who could save the foundation of the party-state in the northwest, not Hu Zongnan.

Ma Bufang, who had made up his mind, did not dare to slack off, since he wanted to fight with the People's Liberation Army, he had to fight beautifully, and give him a hard beating, so Ma Bufang sent his old army to reorganize the 82nd Division.

The Kuomintang has a brigade system under the integrated division, and there are regiments under the brigade, which is actually the size of an army, and is the same level as the columns of the People's Liberation Army.

Ma Jiajun's power is not small, but they also have their own weakness, and this weakness is that the equipment of the troops is always unable to go up, and the industrial base of the great northwest is very weak, and Ma Jiajun cannot produce it by itself, so it can only rely on the Kuomintang government to allocate it.

And the heavy artillery battalion specially granted to Ma Bufang by Chiang Kai-shek was also equipped to his own 82nd Division as a treasure.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the 82 nd Division has been raised to a new level; the 82 nd Division is a cavalry-based unit, with the degree and impact power being the superiority and the firepower being the inferior, and a heavy artillery battalion just making up for the weakness of the troops' firepower, which is much stronger than having to add one more cavalry battalion to the 82 nd Division.

There is a good saying that how much water a wooden barrel can hold does not depend on how long the long board is, but on how short the short board is, and this heavy artillery battalion just makes up for the shortcomings of the 82nd Division, so the young and vigorous division commander Ma Jiyuan is full of confidence.

It is said that it is difficult to deal with, it depends on who it is, in the eyes of our Ma Jiajun, the People's Liberation Army is nothing great, and thousands of people have died in our hands, this time let them see how powerful our Ma Jiajun is.

At the end of 1935, after the Central Red Army (on the one hand) arrived in northern Shaanxi on the Long March, the Ma family, which was entrenched in the northwest, was terrified, fearing that the expansion of the Red Army would threaten them, so they wrote to Chiang Kai-shek's central government several times in succession, and took the initiative to ask Ying to encircle and suppress the Red Army that had just arrived in northern Shaanxi, and Chiang Kai-shek was also very satisfied with this.

Chiang Kai-shek must have been very satisfied, at that time the greatest strength in the northwest was Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, but the elder Chiang's brother Zhang Shaoshuai had no interest in fighting with the Red Army, and he was bent on fighting back to his hometown and fighting with the little devils.

In October 1936, the Red Fourth Front Army formed the West Route Army, crossed the Yellow River in Gansu Province, and marched into the Hexi Corridor.

At that time, the Red Army's Western Route Army had to eat no food, and there were no bullets, and the soldiers after the Long March were extremely weak, and it was the time when their combat effectiveness was at their lowest.

In this Hexi Battle, almost all of the 21,000 Red Army Western Route Army died under the knife of the Ma cavalry, and the corpses of the Red Army soldiers were all over the field, and the blood flowed into pieces.

After Ma Bufang returned to Zhangye, he executed all the more than 3,000 captured Red officers and soldiers by such tortures as burying them alive, shooting them, burning them, digging out their hearts, taking out their galls, and cutting out their tongues.

There was a women's regiment in the Western Route Army of the Red Fourth Front Army, and this women's regiment was also wiped out in this battle (otherwise there would be a lot more female Red Army soldiers in northern Shaanxi, which is a pity), and the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun first attacked the captured female Red Army soldiers, and then distributed them to their subordinates as playthings, and those who disobeyed were pulled out and killed, or sold to the local Jiyuan.

In the end, there were only more than 400 people left in the West Route Army of the Fourth Front Army, and these more than 400 people arrived in Dihua (now Urumqi) in Xinjiang, where the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai was relatively tolerant of people because he wanted to use the aid of the Soviet Union, so these more than 400 people set up a new battalion in Dihua to learn the repair and driving of cars, tanks, and airplanes in Sheng Shicai's troops.

Later, the warlord Sheng Shicai also took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek, and the life of these hundreds of Red Army soldiers was not easy, and with the help of the Party Central Committee and the Kuomintang general Zhang Zhizhong (not the Zhang Zhizhong who died fighting the little devil), they finally returned to Yan'an after many hardships, and the miserable state of the Western Route Army was unbearable.

Later, these Red Army soldiers who had studied tank, automobile, and aircraft repair and piloting became the leaders of New China in these fields, including General Lu Liping, commander of the air force of the Shenyang Military Region.

There is also a little episode when it comes to General Lu Liping, during the Red Army's Long March, Zhang Guotao wanted to set up another Central Committee and conspired to defeat the Red Army and the leading Party Central Committee, but this matter was discovered by Marshal Jianying at the time, and Shuai sent someone to notify the leading Party Central Committee.

After getting the news, the Central Red Army went north on its own overnight, and Zhang Guotao's plan also failed, and it was General Lu Liping who specifically carried out Shuai's orders, and later commented to Shuai that "Zhuge is only cautious in his life, and Lü Duan is not confused about major matters."

It's a bit too much, let's go back to this chapter, while the Kuomintang Pei Changhui Corps and Qinghai Ma Bufang's 82nd Division were advancing rapidly, the battle of the Northwest Field Army besieging Baoji officially began.

The first and second columns of the field army were put into attack at the same time, and Commander Wang Zhen of the second column put all the three main brigades on the first attack.

This also has something to do with the fact that there is one more regiment in the second column, and according to the combat effectiveness of the regiment, it can be used by a main brigade, so Commander Wang's confidence is more than that of the first column that attacks side by side.

After several major battles, the equipment of the Second Regiment has been greatly improved, and the days of taking a few bullets and grenades as treasures as before have long been a thing of the past.

The artillery fire of the two columns first prepared for more than half an hour of fire on Baoji, and then the assault troops began to break through, and Regiment Commander Zhao closely observed the progress of the troops, and from time to time issued new combat orders.

Thank you friend "Moon Girl Fenghua" for your opinion, about the forty-four chapters of the Battle of Waterloo is indeed Lao Ba's mistake, some people have mentioned it before, but Lao Ba is a stupid person, I don't know how to revise it after I finished writing, I tried a few times and didn't get it right, I simply didn't get it, and I put the problem on top, so that everyone can see it, and friends are welcome to give more valuable opinions.

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