Chapter 233: The Northwest Three Horses of the Battle of Xifu

After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China for more than 200 years, the whole country was in a state of anarchy, just as Hu Quan, the commander of Zhongyi Rescue ** in the model drama "Shajiabin", said, the heroes of the troubled times rose from all directions, and if there is a gun, it is the king of grass, hooking up the three parties to sweep up, Lao Jiang, the devil, and the Qinghong Gang.

In old China, there were many warlords, large and small, tearing each other apart, fighting for territory, with a dozen guns could pull up a team of about 100 people, and with a team of 100 people, they could occupy a large piece of territory, and with a piece of territory, they could eat and drink spicy women and play with women.

The discipline of the warlord's team is uneven, and the common people who meet a little better can still have a little way to live, and the bad ones are miserable, and there is a warlord named Sun Dianying in the Central Plains, and this guy's army has a famous food called "bell noodles".

The British military discipline of Sun Dian, who was commonly known as Sun Laodian by the people, was corrupted, and the troops had to arrest the beautiful women of the local chief everywhere they went, stripped off their clothes, and tied a small bell on the ru room for the officers and soldiers to catch noodles to eat, and these officers and soldiers sat on the side to admire, which was the famous "bell noodles"

However, this guy didn't get a good reward, and he became a ** after taking refuge in the Kuomintang group, but he was too greedy, and privately opened the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette, and was later shot dead by Chairman Jiang who he took refuge in under the public opinion of the people across the country.

After more than 10 or 20 years of scuffle, several major warlord groups gradually formed in China, including the Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang cliques in the northeast, the Wu Peifu clique in Zhili, the Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren cliques in Guangxi, the Wang Jialie clique in Guizhou, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Liu Wenhui (the elder brother of Liu Wencai, a well-known big landlord) and Liu Xiang in Sichuan, Feng Yuxiang in the northwest, and so on.

And in the northwest of our China entrenched are the warlords known as the three horses, namely Ma Bufang in Qinghai, Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Hongbin in Gansu.

The most powerful Qingma Group is the most hostile to the ** people, followed by Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Hongbin in Gansu is more tolerant of the ** people, this Ma Hongbin once said to people in private, I didn't see that the Kuomintang was good there, and he had cooperated with the ** people.

From the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty to 1949, the 'Three Horses' families in Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu were all born in a remote and isolated land in southern Gansu.

Specifically, he was born in the two poor ravines of Linxia (Hezhou) Xixiang Mo Nigou and Yangwa Mountain, and everyone knows that Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin, who later controlled the lifeblood of Qinghai, Ningxia and Gansu provinces, in fact, the ancestors of the three horse families were also famous.

Ma Fulu, the Zhenwei general of the Qing Dynasty, was killed in battle with the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Ma Haiyan, born in Orion, the escort of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and his son Ma Lin was the first king of Qinghai, who had been very witty in preventing the British army and Tibetan separatists from ceding Tibet.

Ma Zhanao, in the eleventh year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, he served as the governor of the three banners of Zuo Zongtang's horse team, and was later promoted to the commander-in-chief of the army because of his meritorious service, and was given the name, "Le and Zimbaturu". "Baturu" is the Manchu word for "warrior".

Here the author wants to say a few more words, now the TV screen is flooded with Qing dramas, but some places are wrong, for example, the Manchu army called it the Eight Banners, four Zheng, four pairs, but in terms of title, it is not the same as in TV, for example, the 'Zheng' of the Zhenghuang Flag, although it is called the Zhenghuang Flag in terms of writing, but it is not 'Zheng' in pronunciation, and the correct name should be 'Whole Yellow Flag'.

It's a bit too much, let's go back to this book, Hu Zongnan's phone call was directly to his principal, and Chairman Jiang also thought that this method was feasible after thinking about it, and personally called Ma Bufang and asked him to send troops to attack the Northwest Communist Army.

These three horse families have always been at odds with the Central Army of the Kuomintang, and there are contradictions between them in the struggle for power and profit, but in general, it is the most powerful Tsing Ma group that has the upper hand.

Chiang Kai-shek was also suspicious of the Ma family's army, and although he was superficially entrenched, he had always been on guard, and for many years he strictly controlled the power of the three Ma families within the three provinces.

Don't look at this Qinghai Ma Bufang usually doesn't treat Hu Zongnan very well, but he doesn't dare not give the face of the chairman, in order to show loyalty to Chairman Jiang, Ma Bufang said in public that his army is the army of the state, an army that obeys the command of the leader, and he is a general of the country, not a warlord.

That's what he said, but this guy is very different from others, how is it different? He set a few rules himself.

First, the middle and senior commanders in the army must all be Muslims like him.

Second, it must also be his fellow countryman.

Thirdly, it must also be a relative of their family.

In this way, although the Ma Jiajun is still a unit within the Kuomintang establishment, it is no different from its own private army.

The army made in this way is only named **, in fact, it is Ma Bufang's own army, and the strange regulations have created a very strange army, so the cohesion of this army is very high, but because the selection range of middle and senior commanders is very small, the combat effectiveness has not been greatly improved.

The family army is very obedient, and in this army, Ma Bufang is fragrant when he farts, but because there are few smart commanders, he is very average in tactics.

In the combat meeting with his subordinates, Ma Bufang struggled to study what to do? The meeting lasted for a whole day, and all the generals said that the hatred between our Ma Jiajun in Qinghai and ** was too deep, thinking that the Red Army's Western Route Army was hit hard in their hands, and how many soldiers of the Red Army died under their sabers, if we see the Communist Army becoming bigger and stronger today, it is very unfavorable to us, if Hu Zongnan is eliminated, it will be our turn next.

Chiang Kai-shek, who nominally submitted to the Nationalist government, was always wary of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and the consistent method adopted by Chairman Chiang was to urge the tiger to devour the wolf.

Use the local miscellaneous cards and the ** army to fight to the death, and do their own to collect the benefits of the fish, it is best to fight both of them, and then their central army will take over, so that some warlords think that it is best not to be eliminated, so that they can have a living space and leave a place in the cracks.

Ma Bufang, who thought about it for a while, finally made up his mind, although Hu Zongnan had contradictions with himself, he was better than **people, and if he won the world, he would share the industry left by his ancestors.

Ma Bufang, who made up his mind, sent his main elite troops, reorganized the 82nd Division, and set off to aid Baoji, the division commander was his son, Ma Jiyuan, a young general who was very famous in the northwest.

This 82nd Division has three brigades and nine regiments like other integrated divisions of the Kuomintang, but it is also different from other Kuomintang units, the difference is that it has a large number of cavalry units.

The 82nd Division, which was commanded by Ma Bufang's son Ma Jiyuan, is the elite unit of Qingma's lineage, which not only has infantry, but also four main cavalry regiments, all of which are old troops when Ma Bufang started, each cavalry regiment is not only well-equipped, but also more than 2,000 people, so this 82nd Division does not count the strength of infantry, and the cavalry alone exceeds 10,000 people.

When Qingma's 82nd Division rushed to Baoji, the left flank, the second column and the fourth column of the Northwest Field Army were also advancing rapidly.

Li Yong's independent regiment was still marching with the large army at the beginning, and it didn't take long for the problem to come out.

Because a large number of cars were captured in several battles, the current 3,000-odd people of the Independent Regiment have all been motorized.

There was no way to march with the infantry, so Commander Wang Zhen thought about it for a moment and ordered the independent regiment to be the vanguard of the two columns and open the way to advance.

The separate regiment, having received the order, quickly moved forward from the side of the fighters of the two columns, and the cars were one after the other, pulling rice and noodles on the cars, while the large-caliber howitzers were dragged behind the cars.

A total of more than 200 cars and artillery troops dragged a long distance, and the officers and men of the independent regiment on the cars wore steel helmets, submachine guns collapsed on their chests, their heads were high, and Niu B's eyes were looking ahead.

The crazy appearance of the soldiers of the independent regiment, the soldiers of the other brigades and regiments of the second column are almost used to it, and they have been taught a lot, and they don't feel any surprise, the independent regiment, the commander's baby bump, the cow is as it should be.

The scene of the quick passage also shocked Commander Wang, ***, Li Yong, this kid does have some way, this car is really a good thing, it must not be burned if it is captured in the future, it is best to load the whole column on the car, that is called beauty, but now I can only think about it, other troops don't even have soldiers who drive cars, let alone any cars.

Looking at the independent regiment from the side, the soldiers of the fourth column couldn't close their mouths no matter how big they opened, good guys, this is too bullish, the soldiers have asked if it is the troops of the second column? Anyway, we don't have such a team in the four columns.

Some of those who knew the situation said: "Don't make a fuss, it's the second column, it's an independent regiment directly under the column, and it's the unit that is guarding the fork in this battle." ”

The soldiers of the fourth column said, well, it is not a loss to be able to hold the fork, it is powerful to look at this way, look at this car, our whole column does not have so much, right? There are also other people's weapons, rifles are very few, most of them are machine guns and submachine guns, and then look at us, only the squad leader is holding a submachine gun, and it would be good for others to have a better 38 and Zhongzheng, this gap is too big. Lao Ba had something to do and had to break off for a while.