Ma Yuanhai originally wanted to launch a night attack on Qingyang, but the Red Thirteenth Division had already prepared, but as a result, Qingma not only failed to steal chickens, but instead lost 300 carefully selected daredevils. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Facing Qingyang City, which was armed to the teeth like a hedgehog, Ma Yuanhai was completely out of options, so he had no choice but to continue to besiege Qingyang and wait for Ma Bufang's reinforcements.

On the morning of March 24, Ma Bufang felt refreshed after doing the "morning exercise". However, he was still worried about the results of the night attack launched by Ma Yuanhai's troops, and before breakfast he came to the communications office and sent a telegram to Ma Yuanhai asking about the results of the night attack.

Unexpectedly, Ma Yuanhai didn't respond for a long time, Ma Bufang hadn't eaten breakfast yet, his stomach was growling, and he yelled impatiently to the radio staff: "Hurry up and let Ma Yuanhai call back, otherwise I will remove him." ”

Under Ma Bufang's urging, Ma Yuanhai finally called back, and the message was only a few words: The red bandits are prepared, and the night attack is fruitless.

After Ma Bufang received the report, he was suddenly furious, and he had nowhere to vent his anger for a while, so he returned to the bedroom and tossed the student girl he snatched yesterday to death before calming down his anger a little.

After Ma Bufang calmed down, his mind became active: it seems that the red bandits in Qingyang are indeed hard bones, and they can still be taken down if they attack at all costs, but they will also lose one or two thousand soldiers and horses.

Now my Qingma cavalry plus the local security regiment, the full battle is only 70,000 or 80,000 people, and if you take a Qingyang, you will lose 20,000 people, which is too worthless.

Ma Hongkui is like a ghost, he has always been unprofitable and can't afford to be early, if he wants to pull him onto the thief ship and give him a piece of fat, alas! Strength, strength, everything is strength, if I have half of Chang Kaishen's strength, why do I need to look at others.

After the annihilation of the Red Bandits, the anointed land of Gannan must be in his own hands. Reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, as for the barren land in northern Shaanxi, let Ma Hongkui forget it.

After careful consideration, Ma Bufang sent a telegram to Ma Hongkui and invited him to attack the Red Army together.

Ma Hongkui had already coveted Gannan, so he naturally didn't do it, so Ma Bufang carried Chang Kaishen out and said that this was the chairman's order.

Ma Hongkui is not afraid of Ma Bufang, but he is still a little afraid of Chang Kaishen, thinking that although northern Shaanxi is barren, at least the power has been brought into North China, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and finally agreed to Ma Bufang's conditions.

After agreeing with Ma Hongkui, Ma Bufang sent a telegram to Ma Yuanhai, asking him to reorganize the troops, firmly trap the red bandits, and four days later, meet with Ningma and launch a general attack on Qingyang.

In the end, Ma Bufang also sent a telegram to Chang Kaishen, crying to him about the loss of Qingma's attack on Qingyang, and asked Chang Kaishen to send equipment and pay to compensate Qingma, Chang Kaishen in order to successfully exterminate the Red Army, Ma Bufang's reasonable and unreasonable requirements were all agreed, and he had only one request for Ma Bufang: that is, he must exterminate the Red Bandits, seize the base of the Red Bandits, and let the Red Bandits become lost dogs again.

Ma Bufang naturally agreed, and after blackmailing Chang Kaishen fiercely, he lifted his spirits again, pulled the guards and walked on the street to see if there were any good-looking girls to snatch them, and they were ready to be the groom again tonight.

Ma Bufang decided that four days later, the Qingning Erma would assemble and then strike a fatal blow to the Red Army, but he didn't know that these four days gave Shaozong the opportunity to rush to Qingyang in time, so to speak, he dug a pit and buried himself.

On the evening of March 26, the 1st Division of the Young Column, which arrived in Qingyang in time, entered Qingyang City in batches under the cover of the Red 13th Division, taking advantage of the cover of night, and after the two armies met, the defenders of Qingyang reached 15,000 people, and the defensive force was unprecedentedly strong, and all this, Ma Jiajun was still in the dark.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 27 March, the main force of the Young Column, which had been traveling day and night, rushed to Chicheng Township, which was only 50 miles away from Qingyang City, and the Party Committee of the Young Column held a pre-war meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level to discuss how to eliminate the Ma Jiajun.

Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming first made a report on the enemy situation to the participating cadres: "According to the battle report sent by Chen Bojun, commander of the 13th Division of the Fifth Army Corps, on the 21st, Qingma launched an attack on Qingyang with 3,000 cavalry, and was defeated by the 37th Regiment guarding Qingyang; On the 22nd, the Qingma infantry cavalry jointly attacked and was again routed by the 13th Division;

On the morning of the 23rd, Qingma dispatched a large number of heavy weapons to launch a full-line attack on Qingyang, and after the 13th Division broke through the enemy's artillery position, the enemy was defeated; That night, Qingma launched a night attack on the 13th Division, and after being recognized by the 13th Division, it retreated again.

In the next few days, there was no sign of Qingma attacking Qingyang, and Division Commander Chen judged that the enemy was gathering forces and preparing a larger attack; On the evening of the 26th, Li Yunlong called that his 1st Division had secretly entered Qingyang on the evening of the 26th.

At present, the garrison of Qingyang has 15,000 troops, 30,000 green horses and cavalry under Qingyang City, plus 20,000 soldiers and horses from Zhenyuan and Ma Bufang, and 30,000 soldiers and horses from Ma Hongkui who is about to arrive, the total number of enemies in front of our army is more than 80,000, and the total number of our troops plus the Red 13th Division is only 26,000, and the ratio of enemy and our strength is about three to one. It is expected that this afternoon, after the Ma Jiajun integrates its forces, it will launch a general attack on Qingyang. ”

After the chief of staff finished speaking, the political commissar stood up and mobilized loudly: "The battle of Qingyang is related to the security of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningqing base area, and as soon as Qingyang is lost, the western barrier of the Soviet area will be opened to the Ma Jiajun, and Yan'an will be completely exposed to the enemy's horses' hooves, so this battle will be won but not defeated."

Ma Jiajun is rooted in most of the northwest, and its reactionary rule has made the people of the northwest miserable, but its cavalry is numerous, and its mobility is very strong, we can't beat him even if we want to, but now he has left his lair to attack our fortified city, which is a great opportunity to destroy Ma's army.

As long as the Ma Jiajun is annihilated, our army will be able to take advantage of the situation to take Tianshui and Lanzhou, and with Lanzhou as the base for its advance, it will be able to attack Xining to the west and Yinchuan to the north. Comrades, this is the best time for us to completely grasp the great northwest! ”

After the political commissar mobilized, Zhang Cheng stood up and pointed to the military map on the wall with his baton to make combat arrangements: "According to the current situation, although the enemy is outnumbered, our army is the defending side, holding Qingyang Jiancheng, defended by Li Yunlong's 1st Division and the 13th Division of his brother troops, and it should be as stable as Mount Tai."

Due to the annihilation of Hu Zongnan's first division, our army captured a large number of advanced weapons and was well-equipped; On the other hand, although the Ma Jiajun has a large number of cavalry, the disadvantage of being a local warlord makes them lack weapons, coupled with the external battle, it is difficult to supply, so our army's tactic is to fight a war of attrition. It was planned that the defenders of Qingyang would gradually deplete the enemy's troops, and when the enemy's horses were exhausted, our army would come out from the rear and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop.

Secondly, the combat units directly under the column strictly sealed the news, quietly entered the hot spring township, and when the Ma Jiajun was completely caught in the war of attrition of our army, they organized automatic fire to raid the back of the Ma Jiajun, combined with the Qingyang defenders inside and outside, and smashed the enemy in one fell swoop. In addition, the rest of the Third Division was waiting for the Ma Jiajun to flee after the defeat of the Ma Jiajun on the southward route, and it was necessary to prevent the Ma Jiajun from fleeing after defeat.

In the end, the whole column concentrated most of the heavy machine guns, selected capable soldiers to secretly stationed on the Changqing Highway in Nanzuo and Lijiaxi, established concealed machine gun positions, built strong fortifications, and after the defeat of the Ma Jiajun, completely blocked the retreat route to the west of the Ma Jiajun and annihilated it in Qingyang. Did you get it? ”

"Understood! Resolutely destroy the enemy! The cadres shouted in unison.

Seeing that everyone had clearly understood, Zhang Cheng was not verbose, waved his hand and said, "Break the meeting!" ”