(Everyone: Apologies. This chapter is a transitional chapter, with a large amount of text being quoted and excerpted. It's not that the kid wants to get your money, it's really a must for the article! ）

It turns out that this is related to the fact that Li Jiansheng knows Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui very well!

In fact, Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui are not brothers, but cousins. Ma Hongbin's father's name is Ma Fulu, the word Shou San, once led the Hui army Mabu Seven Battalion Banner, compiled as the "Jian Lian Army", stationed in Shanhaiguan, Yongping Mansion and Jizhou Gangjun Town and other places. In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing. On the 22nd day of May of the lunar calendar of that year, Ma Fulu's cavalry engaged with the invading army in the Langfang area, inflicting heavy losses on the invading army, which is known as the first fierce battle of Gengzi. On the 26th, Ma Fulu entered the city to defend the Zhengyangmen (front gate) tower. At that time, the invading army took the British embassy as a base, set up ten gates in front of the city, and forced the Zhengyang gatehouse, trying to seize the commanding heights. Ma Fulu encouraged the soldiers to attack the fence, fought for three days, captured the second gate, and supervised the battle, and captured the seven gates in a few days, but only one gate was not lowered. On the night of June 6, the missile entered and died on the battlefield. After Ma Fulu was killed, Jian Lian's army was continued to be led by his younger brother Ma Fuxiang. Ma Hongkui is Ma Fuxiang's eldest son.

When Ma Fulu was killed, Ma Hongbin was only 16 years old and still in his hometown. When his uncle Ma Fuxiang returned to Gansu to serve as the deputy general of the Jingyuan Association, he ordered Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui to study in the department. When Ma Fuxiang was the chief soldier of Xining Town and the acting minister of Qinghai, he established the Xining Mining Horse Team. Led by Ma Hongbin, it started from then on, and later developed into Ma Hongbin's basic armed force. Later, after several battles, he showed his military talent and composure and bravery, which was deeply relied on by Ma Fuxiang. In 1920, the war between the two warlords of Zhiwan and Anhui began, and the direct warlords won, and Ma Fuxiang was on the side of the direct warlords at that time, so he had to be promoted to the commander of Suiyuan. Ma Hongbin was then promoted. In 1924, after the Second Zhifeng Warlord War, Feng Yuxiang served as the Northwest Frontier Supervisor and allowed Ma Hongbin to recruit troops on his own. In 1926, Ma Hongbin's department was reorganized into the 22nd Division of the National Army, with Ma as the division commander, under the jurisdiction of three brigades, with more than 8,000 people. Later, he has been suppressing bandits in the local area, and he has quite a success. After the defeat of Yan and Feng against Chiang, Ma Hongbin accepted Chiang Kai-shek's appointment, and the troops were reorganized into the Seventh Division, with Ma as the division commander, and later appointed as the commander of the Ganliangsu frontier. In the winter of 1932, when Ma Hongkui was preparing to take up the post of chairman of Ningxia Province, when Ma Hongkui's 35th Division was stationed in Henan, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Ma Hongbin to go to Henan to replace Ma Hongkui as the commander of the 35th Division, and handed over the 7th Division to Ma Hongkui to exchange defensive troops. Later, in order to win over their brothers, Chairman Chiang allowed the names of the two units to be exchanged, and changed the 7th Division to the 35th Division. During this period, Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui were not in harmony because of the contradictions in power, and later there were disagreements over the army garrison and the supply of weapons and ammunition, and there were still contradictions, and Ma Hongbin's 35th Division was still stationed in the Jinji area. Since then, Ma Hongbin has been based in Zhongning and has been stationed here for a long time. Soon after, Zhu Shaoliang, director of the Gansu "Appeasement" Office, ordered the 35th Division to march to Longdong to block the Red Army.

In the summer of 1935, Ma Hongbin's cavalry had some contact with the Red Army in Liucun, and all of them were skirmishes. At that time, Chairman Chiang ordered Zhu Shaoliang to order Ma Hongbin to block the anti-Japanese Red Army from the north and enter northern Shaanxi. Ma Hongbin sent the infantry of the 1st O 4th Brigade to deploy defenses in the Pingliang area. In Zhengning County, there was contact with Hutou and four villages successively, and both sides were injured. In the autumn of 1935, the 25th Army of the Red Army passed through Pingliang in the eastern part of Xuhai, and Ma Hongbin's department fortified and blocked it, and sent troops to follow it, and the camera was pinched. The Red Army routed three battalions of the Maji'an Regiment of the 35th Division, which was chasing the Red 25th Army at Malianpu, near Baishui Town, Pingliang County. At this time, Ma Hongbin was rushing to Ma Lianpu and led more than 20 followers to participate in the battle, when it was dusk and it was raining heavily, and the Red Army withdrew from the battlefield. The next day, Ma Hongbin collected troops in the local area and buried the fallen soldiers. The Red Army had advanced to the Wangmugong Mountain in Jingchuan County, defeated the 2O 8th Regiment of the 35th Division, and the regiment commander Ma Kaiji was killed. The Red 25th Army smoothly moved north and entered the base area in northern Shaanxi.

Later, another Red Army passed through Longdong, and the Northern Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area sent the Red Army to respond. When Ma Hongbin's Yechengzhang Brigade was stationed in Quzi Town, Huanxian County, it was properly brunt, and after the battle, it was defeated by the Red Army, and Yechengzhang was wounded and captured. The Red Army was released after education. Later, he encountered the Red Army at the Baiyang River in Guyuan and was defeated by a battalion. After several encounters, Ma Hongbin was taught a lesson, knew the strength of the Red Army, and did not dare to act rashly.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons why Li Jiansheng dared to write to Ma Hongbin. Another important reason is that Li Jiansheng agrees with Ma Hongbin very much, in addition to the fact that Ma Hongbin did not massacre the Red Army soldiers, but also because Ma Hongbin is a patriotic general who actively resists Japan.

It turned out that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Ma Hongbin's department was organized into the 81st Army, and Ma Hongbin was promoted to army commander, and his jurisdiction was still the 35th Division of the original army and an independent 35th Brigade, and he was later ordered to go to Suixi to resist the Japanese army. Later, he insisted on fighting against the Japanese invaders, killing and wounding the Japanese army, because the troops only had old rifles, and most of them could not resist, so the casualties were heavy. In particular, after the Japanese army captured Xinmin Fort, they used it as a base to carry out a "sweeping" battle on the beach. The puppet Mongolian cavalry was also transferred from Baotou, claiming to be five divisions (in fact, there were only two or three hundred men in each division), and they were stationed on the beach. Ma Hongbin ordered all regiments to take advantage of the fact that the enemy's cars could not travel smoothly in the desert, and to use the tactic of "grinding plates" to maneuver around the enemy, to advance and retreat, and to advance when the enemy retreated, to keep a distance of five or six miles from the enemy, and to counterattack when they encountered favorable terrain and opportunities. Twenty or thirty men were selected to form an assault team, which went to the vicinity of Xinmin Fort at night to fire guns to disturb the enemy, so that it would not be peaceful. Eight or nine days passed like this. Later, when the Japanese army was suddenly advancing on foot, they launched an encirclement and attack from many sides, wounding and killing more than 200 enemy soldiers, and corpses were everywhere. Originally, he wanted to completely annihilate the attacking enemy, but unfortunately the enemy's tanks came to rescue, and a large number of enemy soldiers came to reinforce him, so Ma Hongbin's troops quickly retreated.

After the Japanese army withdrew, Ma Hongbin's headquarters after several days of preparation, respectively attacked the puppet Mongolian cavalry on the beach, and after more than a month of dozens of battles, the puppet Mongolian army retreated at the touch of a touch and escaped the Yellow River. The enemy stronghold in the westernmost area was conquered by Fu Zuoyi's troops. As a result, a large area of beach land in the Yikezhao League was completely recovered. In the winter of 1941, the Japanese army crossed the south of the Yellow River and swept to Taoliming, Dashuwan and other places south of Baotou, and encountered the Ma army. After two days and nights of fierce fighting, Ma Hongbin's unit repelled the enemy army, and sent troops to attack the Japanese invading army at the Zhaojun Tomb west of Baotou several times, and to the east of Baotou, the soldiers disguised themselves as ordinary people, destroyed the railway, and blocked the operation of the Japanese army. In 1942, Ma Hongbin fought with Fu Zuoyi in Suixi. In the winter of that year, Fu Zuoyi's troops captured the Japanese army position in Cai Dengtai, Ma Hongbin's 179th Regiment Ma Dianbang's division captured Shijiayingzi, and the 2O 5th Regiment captured the Japanese army position in Xincheng.

Ma Hongbin fought well in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which made Li Jiansheng's subordinates merciful. Otherwise, with Ma Hongbin's troops, it is really not enough to see. Of course, if you want to finish destroying Ma Hongbin's division, if you are already aware of it, although the cavalry of only four brigades can win a complete victory, there will definitely be losses in the division. However, the tens of thousands of troops that Li Jiansheng arranged in the first line of heaven are not vegetarians. Of course, although Li Jiansheng did not make a move on Ma Hongbin in the end, in addition to these recognitions, it was also because he knew that Ma Hongbin finally threw himself into the arms of the people. It turned out that during the Liberation War, on September 19, 1949, Ma Hongbin's department accepted the conditions put forward by the People's Liberation Army in Zhongning County, declared an uprising, and jointly signed the agreement. Signing on behalf of the PLA was Zeng Siyu, commander of the 64th Army of the 19th Corps. After Ma Hongbin and his subordinate unit, the 81st Army of the Kuomintang still had more than 10,000 people, and the 19 th Corps of the People's Liberation Army sent more than 300 cadres at all levels to various divisions, regiments, battalions, and companies to take up political work, and reorganized it into the Second Independent Army of the Northwest Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Ma Hongbin was appointed vice chairman of the Northwest Military and Political Commission and a member of the Central National Defense Commission. Before and after the liberation, Ma Hongbin devoted himself to ethnic unity, especially the unity of the Hui and Han nationalities in Gansu and the unity among all ethnic groups, and often cited the ethnic events in the history of Gansu in the past 100 years as a warning to educate the masses of all nationalities, and repeatedly explained the greatness of the party's ethnic and religious policies, which was very praised by the people.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Li Jiansheng did not do much and wrote directly to Ma Hongbin. Unexpectedly, it was really as he thought. Therefore, when the Ma Hongbin brothers proposed 5,000 horses, Li Jiansheng knew that he was sincerely reconciled, you know, his own army was less than 2,000 horses, and Ma Hongkui's strength was inferior to him. Therefore, these 5,000 horses really show his sincerity.

After dealing with the "Northwest Four Horses", Li Jiansheng's department immediately returned to the division. It's just that what he didn't expect was that an unprecedented big war would welcome him again. The other side of the big battle was none other than Hu Zongnan's First Army!