In the battle of Jiuyu, the Jin army fell to the bottom completely, and Yan Laoxi felt that it was difficult to resist the powerful offensive of the Red Army, so he repeatedly sent an order to invite the Central Army to join the Jin war. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chang Kaishen soon responded to Yan Laoxi's request and transferred nearly 100,000 troops from Luoyang, Xuzhou, Wuhan and other places, and the troops were divided into three routes to enter Jin for reinforcements.

At the same time, Chang Kaishen also sent a telegram to Ma Jiajun in the northwest, inviting Ma Jiajun to join the central army to hunt in northern Shaanxi, and promised that Ma Jiajun would hand over the territory of northern Shaanxi to Ma Jiajun after he conquered it.

Although northern Shaanxi is barren, but for the Ma Jiajun, who has always been embarrassed, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and Ma Bufang, chairman of Qingdao Province, took the lead in responding, leading 50,000 foot cavalry to set off from Tianshui and advance along Pingliang and Zhenyuan to Qingyang, where the Red Army was stationed.

Yan Laoxi saw that all the armies came to help, so he actively dispatched troops to try to cooperate with Chang Kaishen's army to aid the Jin Dynasty to besiege the Red Army of our Eastern Expedition in the Luliang Mountains in a corner of the western Jin Dynasty, and then annihilate it.

In view of this situation, the General Headquarters of the Red Army held a meeting in Guojiazhang at Jiaokou on 12 March, and after full discussion and study by the cadres attending the meeting, the meeting finally decided that our troops should be divided into two routes:

The 3rd Army Corps of the Reserve Army took over the combat position of the Shaozong and the 1st and 15th Army Corps continued to advance eastward and southward, pinning down the Central Army and the Jin Army, mobilizing the masses, expanding fund-raising, establishing a revolutionary base in Hedong, and accumulating anti-Japanese forces.

Zhangcheng's Shaozong made his own way, returned to Qingyang, reinforced the Red Fifth Army, and resolutely eliminated the Ma Jiajun who dared to invade the base areas of our Soviet region.

On the occasion of parting, Zhang Cheng specially found two guards of Liu Zhidan, the commander of the Red 28th Army, these two guards are Zhang Cheng's old subordinates, who had received special forces selection training organized by Zhang Cheng when they were in southern Jiangnan.

Historically, Liu Zhidan died heroically in the Eastern Expedition on April 14 when attacking Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County, and due to the unexpected appearance of Zhang Cheng, he did not know whether this tragedy would be repeated.

However, character determines fate, Liu Zhidan likes to charge forward in commanding operations, and it is difficult to guarantee that Liu Zhidan will sacrifice as heroically as he originally did under the great inertia of history.

Out of the friendship of the revolutionary comrades, coupled with Liu Zhidan's tremendous contributions to our party and our army, it is impossible for Zhang Cheng to remain indifferent to watching this revolutionary father step into the abyss of death.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng met with the two guards around Liu Zhidan in the name of meeting his old comrades-in-arms, and after the meeting, Zhang Cheng solemnly demanded that the two guards must not leave Liu Zhidan's side an inch after going to the battlefield, and must ensure the safety of Liu Zhidan's life.

Although the two guards were confused by Zhang Cheng's order, they expressed their determination to complete the task out of awe and worship for Zhang Cheng.

Seeing this, Zhang Cheng was relieved. Seeing off the two guards, Zhang Cheng ordered the whole army to be ready to go south to Qingyang at any time to conquer Ma Jiajun.

Ma Jiajun was the local warlords who actually controlled Gan Province, Ning Province, Qing Province and other places during the Republic of China, and they took their family and blood ties as the link, started from the recklessness, prospered in the troubled times, and fought among various forces, once occupied all of Gansu, Qing, Ning and a part of the new province, and almost controlled the entire northwest region of our country, and were a very strong force among the warlords of all walks of life in our country.

Ma Jiajun is mainly divided into Ma Jiajun of Qing Province and Ma Jiajun of Ning Province, commonly known as Qingma, Ning Ma, the representative of Qingma is headed by Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang, and Ning Ma is only Ma Hongbin, and Ma Hongkui is the first to look forward.

Historically, after the Second Meeting of the Red First and Fourth Front Armies, in order to open up the international line between the northwest and the Soviet Union, the Red Army once formed the Western Route Army with the Four Front Armies to carry out the Ning Province campaign plan, attempting to cross the Yellow River to the northwest and open up the international communication line of the Soviet Union, but did not correctly judge the true strength of the Ma Jiajun at that time, resulting in a crushing defeat of the Western Route Army and almost all the annihilation.

Ma Jiajun was particularly brutal and unkind, and carried out a terrible persecution of the captured soldiers of the Western Route Army, only 4,000 of the 9,200 captives survived, and the rest were all brutally killed by the Ma Jiajun.

Zhang Cheng was particularly indignant every time he remembered this period of history, and he wanted to wipe out the Ma family's army. However, thinking of the strong strength of Ma Jiajun and the imminent all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he did not want to consume the vitality of our army on the northwest land, and even planned to make a suggestion to the commander-in-chief to open up the international channel of the Soviet Union, not to go to the northwest, but to go to Suiyuan.

Zhang Cheng didn't want to provoke Ma Jiajun, but Ma Jiajun kicked his nose and bullied the door.

After receiving the order from the central government, Zhang Cheng immediately sneered: "Ma Jiajun! I thought I was going to let you go for the time being this time, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to jump out. Well, very good! In this case, don't blame me for being ruthless and avenging the blood hatred of the Western Route Army in history. ”

Then, Zhang Cheng ordered the troops to quickly hand over the defense with the Third Army Corps, and immediately assembled at Suide, preparing to cross the Yellow River west and return to Qingyang.

The attack on Qingyang this time was Ma Bufang, the number one person in the Ma Jiajun. Ma Bufang, the word is fragrant, and the name is Husseini. Hui, a native of Linxia, Gan Province, was the leading figure of the warlord Ma Jiajun in the northwest during the Republic of China.

Ma Bufang is particularly absurd and shameless, even among the corrupt upper echelons of the KMT. He once said publicly: "Whoever gave birth to me, and who was born of me, is guilty of adultery." ”

The meaning is very simple, except for my mother and my daughter, everything else can be done casually, so the wives and daughters of his subordinates, sisters, nieces, brothers and sisters-in-law, and brothers-in-law of his own family cannot escape his claws.

According to records, there are nearly a thousand women who have been toyed with by him. He once killed three people in order to seize a pair of beautiful sisters at the same time. It's really a heinous crime, and it's hard to write about it.

In addition to lewdness, Ma Bufang is also particularly brutal, just look at how he brutally tortured the prisoners of the Western Route Army in history.

At this time, in the Zhenyuan County Government, Ma Bufang, the chairman of Qingdao Province and the commander of the new Second Army, who was temporarily stationed here, was looking at the map, thinking about how to capture Qingyang, and then go straight to Yan'an and take northern Shaanxi in one fell swoop.

Ever since the Red Army entered northern Shaanxi and wanted to establish a base area in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, Ma Bufang regarded the Red Army as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh. Gan Province is his hometown, coupled with the neighboring Qing Province, Ma Bufang, who wants to be the king of the northwest, has long regarded Gan Province as his bag, but the Red Army wants to establish a base here, which undoubtedly offends his rebellion. So when Chang Kaishen offered northern Shaanxi as a condition in exchange for Ma Jiajun's troops, Ma Bufang did not hesitate at all, and was the first to stand up and respond.

After receiving Chang Kaishen's order, he led the main force of more than 50,000 green horses from Tianshui early, rushed to Zhenyuan in only one day and one night, and set up a temporary headquarters in Zhenyuan.

After the main force of Qingma entered Zhenyuan, Ma Bufang acted quickly, and constantly sent small teams of cavalry to reconnoiter in the direction of Qingyang and inquire about the news of the Qingyang garrison.

Northern Shaanxi is so big, and the greedy Ma Bufang doesn't want to share a piece of the other Ma Jiajun. Gan Province was originally the territory of Ma Hongbin, another important figure in Ma Jiajun, who was the nominal ruler of Gan Province and worshiped the chairman of Gan Province.

But since the "Lei Ma Incident", Ma Hongbin has already collapsed, and Ma Bufang doesn't take him seriously at all, just looking at Ma Bufang without even saying hello and directly garrisoning Tianshui, you can know how he despises Ma Hongbin.

As for Ma Hongkui of Ningma, Ma Bufang is Ma Bufang's rival for the king of the northwest, Ma Bufang plans not to wait for Ma Hongkui's main force to arrive, and immediately launch a full-line attack on Qingyang, a quick battle, take Qingyang as soon as possible, and eliminate the 13th Division of the Red Fifth Army on the opposite side.