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"We can discuss this with Yan Xishan, I think Yan Xishan will not refuse us, because with us guarding the border of Shanxi, it can form a buffer zone for him to avoid the Northeast Border Army directly attacking Shanxi." Xiao Zhenying said.

Song Zheyuan, who had not spoken, finally spoke, stood up and said: "Everyone, since everyone has no objection to the chief of staff's suggestion, then let's act quickly, the sooner the better, otherwise once the Northeast Frontier Army learns about it, it will inevitably pursue it, and then our retreat will become a problem, but it will be very bad." ”

"Yes!" Including Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming, a group of senior officers of the First + Pig + Pig + Island + Novel Army stood up at the same time.

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In Zhangjiakou, it has been a day and a night since Zhang Zizhong left, and he has not heard back from the 29th Army.

In the headquarters, Jiang Baili asked Zhang Xinghan in confusion: "Commander, why didn't you agree to Zhang Zizhong's request for peace talks for the time being yesterday?" and then deal with them the same way they did with Sun Dianying. ”

Zhang Xinghan shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "I said that there are many talented people in the 29th Army, even if we agree to negotiate peace with them, they will not really surrender to us like Sun Dianying's 41st Army, so if you want to fool them, Nandu is too big."

Moreover, this western expedition is imminent, and a small 29th Army with less than 30,000 horses is really not our most important goal, our most important goal is the Northwest Majia Army.

They have ruled the northwest for a long time, and there are many ethnic minorities in the northwest, and there are also differences in religious beliefs, Ma Jiajun is good at taking advantage of various ethnic and religious contradictions, and he is a difficult opponent, so people have to be careful. ”

Suddenly, a communications soldier hurried in. Before saluting, he reported to Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili: "The general seat, the staff seat, and the front troops report that they found that the 29th officer in front of them had all withdrawn. ”

"Withdrawn?" Jiang Baili was a little surprised.

Zhang Xinghan smiled and said: "See, this is their group of talents, they would rather run away than be willing to live under others for a long time and accept my command."

If I were a dictatorship, they would be hypocrisy, hypocrites who were selfish. ”

"Then what are we going to do next, Commander?" Jiang Baili asked, "Do you send troops to pursue?" ”

Zhang Xinghan shook his head and said, "Pursuit? There's no need for it. Since they don't want to stay, don't regret it in the future, it's not that we didn't give them a chance. ”

Walking to the map and swiping his pen, Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered: "Order the 212th Division to immediately seize Xinghe County, and the whole army is ready to march to Ulanqab." ”

"Yes." Jiang Baili nodded vigorously, turned around and left.

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The eight divisions led by Zhang Xinghan were the 210th, 211th, 212th, 213th, 214th, 215th, 216th, and 217th divisions, which were the main forces. Basically, they were all captured and incorporated in the former Northeast Army in the Battle of Pingjin more than half a year ago.

However, after more than half a year of reorganization, transformation, and infiltration, more than 70 percent of the middle- and grass-roots officers in these divisions were selected by Zhang Xinghan from other units and even from the Longxing Military Academy.

It can be said that the old headquarters of the 100,000 Northeast Army has been firmly in the hands of Zhang Xinghan.

Because these troops themselves are elite veterans of the Northeast Army, they were affected by various factors such as weapons and equipment during their previous service in the Northeast Army. As a result, they failed to play as well as they should.

Now, after joining the Northeast Frontier Army, the weaponry, equipment, and logistics support are not the same, and the combat strength has naturally risen suddenly. Compared with Zhang Xinghan's original ten reorganized divisions, it is not far behind, because these officers and soldiers are basically veterans who have served for more than three years.

He has been training for a long time in the Northeast Army, and many of them are elite veterans brought out by Zhang Xueliang. After the battle of Pingjin when he came out of the customs, and the later battle of the crusade against Shi Yousan, both the level of training and combat experience were quite good.

In this western expedition, Zhang Xinghan mobilized nearly 200,000 army and air forces, all of which were elite veterans with combat experience, aiming to wipe out the Majia Army in the northwest in one fell swoop and completely occupy several provinces in the northwest.

In terms of troops, at this time, the Ma Jiajun composed of four horses could gather less than 100,000 regular troops, and the equipment was inferior, and it was not at the same level as the Northeast Frontier Army.

Even the Jin Sui Army and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army were inferior.

Therefore, in this western expedition, the Northeast Frontier Army occupies an absolute advantage, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is that the ethnic minorities in the northwest region gather, and the Ma Jiajun is mostly composed of Hui people, and it is likely to use the disputes of various ethnic groups to organize the Northeast Frontier Army to dominate the northwest, so if you want to conquer the northwest, you must deal with the possible conflict between the local ethnic groups and appease them.

The main force of the Northeast Frontier Army went out of the pass in a big way, and the soldiers took Chahar without bloodshed, and it was naturally impossible to hide such a big movement from Ma Jiajun's eyes.

Chahar was captured by the Northeast Frontier Army, and Ningma, led by the brothers Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui, bore the brunt.

Ningma's sphere of influence is based in Ningxia and radiates to Gansu and Inner Mongolia, and its military strength is slightly weaker than that of Qingma led by Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing.

The unit has only one new division and a new seventh division, and its main body is the three brigades and one special service regiment that Ma Hongkui brought back after the Great War in the Central Plains, and after several years of expansion, the strength of the regular army has reached more than 25,000 people.

In addition, Ma Hongbin's 35th Division, about 10,000 people, plus several cavalry regiments and a number of militia regiments, the total strength of Ningma is about 60,000 to 70,000, of which the regular army is less than 40,000.

Knowing that the Northeast Frontier Army soldiers were out of the customs in two ways, Ma Hongkui was shocked and hurriedly convened his eldest brother Ma Hongbin and other confidant generals to discuss countermeasures.

The capital of Ningma is located in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Province, in Ma Hongkui's provincial chairman's office building.

More than 10 senior generals from Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ningma are holding urgent consultations in a conference room.

A middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a military uniform, sits at the head, this person is Ma Hongkui, chairman of Ningxia Province, and Ma Hongbin is sitting at the bottom left of him.

Everyone at the meeting was Erma's henchmen, but at the moment they were extremely nervous, and there was no more lively laughter during the previous meetings, and the entire conference room was silent.

"Brothers, Zhang Xinghan, the king of the Northeast, personally led more than 200,000 army and air force soldiers to march westward in two ways, and took Chahar without blood in just a few days.

According to the news from the front, its forward troops have already shown signs of advancing towards Ulanqab, and the move is very intriguing, what do you think about this? Ma Hongkui broke the silence of the scene and looked at everyone and asked.

Hearing Ma Hongkui's words, everyone's faces changed again, before coming, some of them more or less knew about the situation, but they didn't expect the situation to be so serious.

They know the brilliant achievements of the Northeast Frontier Army, as more than 200,000 troops swept across the Goryeo Peninsula in less than a month, and the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was fought by more than 100,000 troops, was wiped out.

Behind these brilliant achievements is the performance of powerful combat power, and now that Zhang Xinghan has mobilized more than 200,000 army and air forces to march westward, how can they not feel trembling and chilling?

Ma Hongbin, who was sitting at the bottom left of Ma Hongkui, glanced at everyone and said slowly: "Shaoyun, the Northeast Frontier Army is powerful, and it is definitely not something that our Ningxia Army can compete with alone, I suggest that we immediately contact Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing and gather the Ma Family Army of our two provinces to fight against Zhang Xinghan's Northeast Frontier Army, so as to have the possibility of victory." ”

Ma Hongkui nodded when he heard this: "What the eldest brother said is very true, I will send someone to get in touch with the two brothers Ma Bufang, I hope they can focus on the overall situation, join forces with us to fight the enemy, and protect the northwest together!" ”

"They will, our relationship with the Qinghai Army is cold, Zhang Xinghan is strong, in order to avoid being broken by them one by one, only the four of us can unite to keep the northwest!" Ma Hongbin said.

Ma Hongkui nodded in agreement, and then ordered his subordinates to draft a telegram and contact the Tsing Ma army.

At the same time, he said to Ma Hongbin: "Big brother, if the Northeast Frontier Army decides to advance westward, the Jin Sui Army in Ulanqab and Guisui (now Hohhot) may not block its westward advance, so I think we should prepare in advance." ”

"Well, I suggest that we immediately transfer three cavalry regiments and four militia regiments to garrison Jiuyuan, in case the Northeast Frontier Army crosses the river into Ning! In addition, it is urgent to recruit the township warriors to form a militia regiment, just in case! Ma Hongbin nodded.

"Okay, so very good, in addition, I also suggest that the main force of our two divisions advance eastward along the Yellow River, deploy defense in Wuyuan, as the second line of defense, and resolutely block the Northeast Frontier Army, waiting for reinforcements from Qinghai!" Ma Hongkui nodded briskly.

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Both Ulanqab and Guisui now belong to Suiyuan Province, and at this time most of Suiyuan Province was under the control of the Jin Sui army of the warlord Yan Xishan.

The main force of the Jin Sui Army stationed in Suiyuan was Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army and some local armed forces, with only two divisions and less than 40,000 troops.

Moreover, there are less than 20,000 troops stationed in various parts of Suiyuan Province that can concentrate in Guisui and Ulanqab.

After the 29th Army fled south, Zhang Xinghan commanded the troops to fully take over the Chahar counties, and at the same time ordered Shen Ke to lead the 212th Division to advance westward along the Pingsui Railway.

The 212th Division took only one day and one night to march to the Ulanqab station, and the defending 35th Army did not dare to resist and was ordered to retreat and get out of the way.

After the 212th Division left more than 1,000 troops directly under the division headquarters, the main force continued to advance westward along the railway line, and the front of the troops was directed at Guisui, the capital of Suiyuan Province.

Fu Zuoyi urgently flew to Yan Xishan at a critical time to ask for a countermeasure.

At this time, Yan Xishan was furious that he failed to reap the benefits of the Pingjin Campaign. (To be continued......)