God bless the Wehrmacht, in the evening, the Tang Division appeared as a star. The main force of the Sheng Tang Division, which was originally used as the general reserve, prepared to attack Gouwa Mountain on the 26th after the Feng army occupied Shenjialing (on the 25th, the 4th Army had a containment attack on Gouwa Mountain). At 10 o'clock in the evening of the 25th, several scouts of the front-line troops of the 3rd Army touched the Gouwa Mountain to reconnoitre, at this time the Gouwa Mountain position was empty, continued to go deeper, caught an enemy deserter, the first trial, knew the enemy's movements, came back to report, the regiment commander immediately sent a battalion directly into the iron bridge. Judging from the description of the vanguard company, the company set off at about 11 o'clock, and it was pitch black all the way, and there was no enemy in sight (the first cavalry regiment had already run away), and the green horse did not even have a guard cover in this important direction, which shows that the green horse is indeed exhausted. It wasn't until the iron bridge that I saw the crowded enemy rushing to cross the bridge. The company immediately opened fire, thereby cutting off the enemy's retreat. At this time, it is 0:00 on the 26th.

Originally, if Qingma could organize an orderly counterattack, it would be able to recapture the bridgehead, but the key is that at this time, Qingma was completely chaotic, although there were also some Qingma officers and soldiers who counterattacked and wanted to recapture the bridgehead, but it was neither disorderly nor effective. Officers and soldiers in the dark bell no one will look for anyone, no one will sacrifice their lives to attack the Wehrmacht, make wedding clothes for others, so in the end hide and run. As Wehrmacht reinforcements continued to arrive, the stranded Tsing Ma on the south bank lost its last chance to escape.

After the Tang Dynasty Division took control of the Tieqiao, it began to attack Xiguan, and on the morning of the 26th, fierce street battles began on today's bustling Zhangye Road. In the morning, the Wehrmacht troops pressed down from all directions, and the green horses that were blocked on the south bank either died or surrendered, and many people ran to the edge of the Yellow River to swim across the river, the water in the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River was not deep, but the water flow was sharp in summer, and there were many mud and sand whirlpools, and generally those with good water quality did not dare to go down to swim. The officers and soldiers of the Qingma had no choice, some of them found a fast woodblock, some relied on horses to venture into the water, some of them relied on horses to pass the time, and quite a few were swept away by the Yellow River. This is how a deputy commander of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (some say that both the chief and deputy commanders are) escaped. Many more were not willing to die in the water, and surrendered on the river beach. At noon on the 26th, the resistance of the last True God Army stopped, and the Battle of Lanzhou ended. Tsing Ma once again "fell to the limit"

The agility of the Tang Dynasty Division largely made up for the sluggishness of the Wehrmacht's forward command, so that the number of enemies destroyed in the Lanzhou Battle increased sharply to 5,700, of which at least 3,300 were Qingma capable of fighting, especially the combat soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Regiment who did not suffer much loss on the position. If there is no final action of the 3rd Army, the enemy will all escape (can escape), not only the result of the Lanzhou Battle is more than 1,000 people eliminated on the position, but also the future Qingma still has the ability to resist, and the future troubles are endless. The Sheng Tang Division took the initiative to attack.

The battlefield report of the National Defense Force is that the Lanzhou Campaign annihilated most of the Qingma cavalry and all the infantry, the first cavalry regiment, most of the Zhenshen Army, and the Ningma reinforcements, killing and wounding 5,713 people, capturing 1,476 enemies, and destroying a total of 7,200 enemies.

In terms of numbers, even the Japanese army admired the Wehrmacht's battlefield statistics, especially the statistics on the number of enemies destroyed. It is better than a Heigoutai assault, if the various units exaggerate the number of enemies to be destroyed, Wu Chenxuan will not find the 1,000 people hidden in the valley by the Russian army. There is no way to evaluate the number of 7,200 enemies destroyed in the Lanzhou Campaign, but the number of enemies destroyed in Shenjialing is quite interesting, because there is a comparison of the other party's own numbers, and even the numbers admitted by Qingma are higher than the statistics of the National Defense Army.

According to the statistics of the Wehrmacht on the number of enemies destroyed in Shenjialing, 1,800 enemies were killed or wounded, but the chief of staff of the 3rd Qingma Infantry Regiment said that only 800 of the 3,400 people in the four battalions of the 3rd Regiment were counted, and the commanders of the three battalions of the Third Regiment were all killed. Of the 3,100 reinforcements in the second batch, only 1,000 remained, and the rest should have been casualties. Combined, then, the two groups suffered 4,700 casualties, which is a lot higher than the Wehrmacht statistics.

And what about the Wehrmacht's own casualty figures? In the Lanzhou Hualin Mountain Martyrs Cemetery on the northern slope of Shenjialing, I saw a figure that can be remembered that the Wehrmacht lost 1,297 people in the Lanzhou Campaign (including the "trial attack"), a difference of 1,300. I can't remember the number of wounded from more than 3,000 or 4,000, but based on the number of killed, the total number of Wehrmacht casualties should be more than 5,000. In this battle, the national defense forces (including the Feng army) suffered casualties of more than 20 cadres above the battalion level, and the three battalion commanders who died were all in Shenjialing.

As the attacker, the casualties of Shenjialing Fengjun are far less than those of Qingma, I think the reasons may be: first, there are no permanent fortifications in Shenjialing, and it is a civil structure fortification that is repaired in a hurry, second, the artillery and automatic firearms supported by the national defense force are dominant, and third, Qingma's combat method is to rush up desperately under the coercion of the supervising team, and when the opponent's firepower is strong, the casualties are of course large.

Looking back, look at what kind of troops the 7,200 Qingma people annihilated are, of which there are about 2,000 security regiments in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, because the fourth and second regiments of the Qingma cavalry retreated early, most of them fled, so among the remaining 5,000 people, the main cavalry regiment and three Qingma infantry regiments accounted for the vast majority. When Qingma retreated, of course, the head was in the head, and the logistics of the organs ran first, and the people who were blocked on the south bank should basically be the combat troops. Therefore, the Qingma cavalry and infantry lost more than 4000 combat soldiers, and indeed lost their combat effectiveness, in particular, both sides generally believe that the Qingma cavalry infantry loss is not less than 3000, at least 3500* people, so it is still very happy that the combat soldiers of the Qingma, who were full of blood debts during the massacre of the Han people, were basically annihilated. Judging from the fact that at least one deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment was swimming across the river, most of the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, which was strong in combat, were blocked on the south bank.

It should be said that more than half of the cavalry of Qingma in the Lanzhou Battle was lost, while the infantry was basically lost. However, it is a permanent regret for the Wehrmacht that the Hui men and bandits of the blood-indebted True God Army were not annihilated, and finally broke up and fled.

On the afternoon of the 25th, Ma Qi left Lanzhou and ran to Yongdeng. According to his idea, after the main force withdrew from Lanzhou, it rushed to Hexi, where it would meet the cavalry of the Hui people from Xinjiang and continue to fight against the national defense army. The next day, the news of the defeat came, especially the first and third regiments of the cavalry of the Qingma Guarding Force were also basically lost, Ma Qi was heartbroken, crying and saying: "I thought the first regiment was still complete, but I didn't expect it to be all lost." He knew that he couldn't fight it, and after consulting with a few leaders, he decided to dismiss his troops and go on his own. On the 28th, after leaving a letter to his subordinates (most of the leaders of his subordinates were not in front of him at that time), Ma Qi went directly from the small road to Xining, Qinghai to clean up the family's old and young and prepare to run away. Ma Buqing had already pretended to be a merchant and entered Yinchuan City, and then diverted to Tianjin via the grassland.

The cavalry troops that had been deployed on the north bank of Qingma went directly to Qinghai, and the troops that escaped from Lanzhou had already broken up partially, and most of the rest went to Yongdeng, Gansu, where it is said that there were 5 or 600 people gathered. According to Ma Bufang's intentions, the soldiers from Gansu were all dismissed, and the soldiers from Qinghai returned to Qinghai first, but most of them were scattered on the way. In the battle of Lanzhou, almost all the leaders above the head of the Qingma regiment slipped out, and finally on the 30th, the big and small leaders gathered in Xiangtang at the junction of Qinghai and Gansu, and then fled to the triangle city west of Xining and Shangwuzhuang in the south with a small number of soldiers.

On September 4, the 11th Independent Cavalry Division arrived outside Xining, and the first thing it did was to build fortifications, fearing a counterattack by Tsing Ma. In fact, at that time, Xining City actually did not have a formed Qingma infantry squad. On September 5, the 11th Division entered the city and Xining was recovered.

The troops are light, the master is flying, the head and brain of the Qingma army, which is characterized by feudal control, after the complete collapse of the spiritual will, is very democratic at the moment, under the chairmanship of Zhao Zhen, the head of the fourth cavalry regiment, and Ma Zhenwu, the deputy head of the second cavalry regiment, everyone held a meeting to speak freely and discuss what to do. Ma Zhenwu said that those who can go are gone, and we have no effective and inexhaustible loyalty to their father and son. The letter left by Ma Qi was to ask the "babies" to unload their armor and return to the field, bury the guns, and wait for the opportunity to continue killing Han dogs. If this can really be done, it will be simple, everyone can go home separately, but the real problem of these big "babies" is that it depends on how the Wehrmacht deals with them. Discussion and discussion, it seems that no matter how afraid the Wehrmacht is of settling historical accounts (many of the big "babies" have Han blood debts), there is only one way to surrender. With the arrival of the surrender group organized by the upper echelons of the Hui people in Shandong, these leaderless dragons, or collapsed monkeys, began to negotiate with the Wehrmacht about surrendering. On September 8, the remnants of 2,800 Qingma officers and soldiers (including the two newly built security regiments in Qinghai and part of the old and weak of the Zhenshen Army) surrendered to the Wehrmacht at Menyuan. The Tsing Ma military group has since come to an end. "Qingma shares" have since been "delisted".

The green horse heroes Ma Qi, Ma Bufang, and important leaders Ma Buluan and Ma Zhongying fled abroad, but Ma Buqing did not flee overseas from Tianjin, and later surrendered to the government when the army recovered Tianjin, and was forgiven. Most of the important leaders who remained did not end well, and this is not because the Wehrmacht is not trustworthy (when surrendering, the Wehrmacht promised not to blame the past) and engaged in settling accounts after the autumn. On the contrary, the IDF, owing to its ethnic policy, was quite lenient towards these people, and at first there was no one to detain them, but only to run semi-closed study courses for these people for a few months, during which they were able to move quite freely. The problem is that these people have a strong religious plot in their bones, and it is their nature to be anti-Han and anti-alien, and after going through the period of mental collapse brought about by the military collapse, these people began to be ready to move, openly or covertly instigating rebellion. Although these rebellions have come to naught (they thought that the little pills in the hands of Mr. He of the Sentiment Department were so delicious, and the implanted bugs tirelessly shook their plots, and the reason why they only started to arrest people on the eve of the rebellion is for the reason you know).

Since it is shameless to give face, then the new account and the old account are counted together. Ma Ying of the cavalry left behind in the regiment, Ma Zhenwu, deputy of the second cavalry regiment, and Ma Chengxian, the cadre of the True God Army, led the crowd to resist arrest, and were surrounded by the Han division. After being captured, Ma Baohai, a veteran of Qingma, was tried and shot in public, but his family did not affect his family, although his family was expelled into the Great Gobi and never came out. In the dark, Zhao Zhen, the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment, Tan Chengxiang, the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, Yang Xiurong, the deputy commander of the regiment, and Han Qigong, the commander of the cavalry battalion directly under him, were on the way to escape by the flying team from the direction of Xi'an to practice shooting on the ground, and several large convoys of men, women and children encountered a group of swift ground attack planes and three wild goose bombers on the unobstructed Gobi, and they were wiped out without holding out for three minutes. Trying to escape on this big Gobi is a science fiction film. As for sending people to clean up the battlefield? There is no need, the wolves in the Gobi Desert at night will be diligently cleaned up, and whether they live or die, they will never cause trouble to the Wehrmacht.

Later, when Ma Qi was passing in Sichuan, he was made a river barrier on the Jialing River by Brother Pao, and the family was looted, and then the enthusiastic Sichuan Brother Pao invited these children's shoes that grew up on horseback to practice water in the Jialing River, apparently judging from the number of floating corpses salvaged in Chongqing, none of them were spared. Ma Bufang was also nowhere to be found later, but the conclusion of "suspected death" was found in the archives of the later Intelligence Department. The only important leader of Qingma who received a good death was Ma Buqing, who walked through the prairie to Tianjin, and later became a researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies and wrote many reminiscences and published them.

Looking at Qingma, with the courage of its soldiers, it won more and lost less in the Qing Dynasty decades of battles, and finally could not resist the historical trend and was swept away by the powerful national defense army.