Sure enough, those who were carried in were Sun Yuqing, the commander of the Red Ninth Army, who was seriously wounded, and Xiong Houfa, the commander of the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army.

Sun Yuqing, born in March 1909 in Huang'an County, Hubei Province (now Hong'an County), participated in the Jute Uprising in November 1927, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1929, and soon joined the party. He is one of the famous generals of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area and the Red Fourth Front Army. Sun Yuqing paid special attention to the ideological building of the troops and the cultivation of their fighting style, fought bravely, made many meritorious achievements, and enjoyed high prestige among the troops. In 1934, he was exceptionally promoted to commander of the 31st Army of the 4th Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army because of his military exploits. In August 1935, after the Maoergai Conference, he was transferred to the 9th Army of the Red 4th Front Army as a commander. In October 1936, after the three main forces of the Red Army successfully joined forces in Huining, the Central Military Commission instructed the headquarters of the 30th Army, the 5th Army, the 9th Army and the 4th Front Army of the Red Army to cross the Yellow River to the west to implement the Ningxia Campaign Plan, as well as the "New Operational Plan" for the establishment of a revolutionary base area in the Hexi region and the opening up of international channels. He led the Red Ninth Army, under the unified command of the Military and Political Committee of the West Route Army, to wage an arduous and bloody battle against more than 100,000 troops of Ma Bufang, commander of the Kuomintang Northwest "Suppression of Bandits" 2nd Defense Region, in the Hexi Corridor area of Gansu Province. In March 1937, he led his troops to fight the enemy in the Qilian Mountains area of Suzhou District, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and was unfortunately captured. On May 17 of the same year, he was escorted to Xining City, Qinghai Province. In the face of the enemy's threats and temptations, he was unyielding and righteous. Soon, because he refused to surrender, he was ordered by Ma Zhongyi to be hacked to death in the stable in the backyard of the residence. He was only 28 years old at the time of his death.

Xiong Houfa, a native of Ganjiawan, Xuanhuadian Township, Luoshan, Henan Province (now Dawu, Hubei), was born in 1914. He joined the Peasant Red Guards in 1929 and the local Red Army in 1930. Because of his bravery in combat, Xiong Houfa served as the commander of the 263rd Regiment of the 88th Division of the 30th Army of the Red Army at the age of 19, the deputy commander and commander of the 88th Division at the age of 20, and the deputy commander of the 30th Army of the Red Fourth Front Army and the commander of the 88th Division at the age of 22. After the three main forces met in 1936, on November 11, the Red 30th Army, the Ninth Army, and the Fifth Army that crossed the Yellow River formed the Western Route Army, with a total of more than 25,000 people, and advanced to Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou. Traveling to Yongchang, Ma Bufang poured all his frenzied counterattack. On January 23, 1937, all the Western Route Army assembled in Ni's camp to hold on. Ma Bufang mobilized more than 80,000 infantry cavalry and militia groups to attack the Ni family camp in turn. After seven days and nights of bloody fighting, the Red Army ran out of ammunition and food, and suffered heavy casualties. On March 5, he led the 88th Division to break through with the entire Western Route Army, marched to Sanliugou 50 miles away, and was once again heavily surrounded by the enemy. In the fierce battle, he was seriously wounded. On March 14, when the troops arrived in the Qilian Mountains, their injuries became serious and they were unable to walk, and he resolutely requested that he and some of his comrades stay in the Qilian Mountains to fight guerrillas. On March 22, the enemy came to search the mountain, and he led more than 100 soldiers to fight the enemy to the death. During the battle, he was seriously wounded in the leg, and in the end there were only five or six men left, surrounded by enemy troops, and finally captured because he ran out of ammunition and food. After being captured, Ma Zhongyi persuaded him to surrender many times but resolutely refused to surrender, and then Ma Bufang ordered, and Ma Zhongyi ordered him to be tied to a cannon barrel and bombarded to death. He was only 23 years old when he died, but this time, before Ma Zhongyi killed him, the two were rescued by Li Jiansheng first. Now that it was confirmed that it was the two of them, Li Jiansheng immediately came over to say hello. After Sun Yuqing and Xiong Houfa saluted and thanked Li Jiansheng, they accepted his arrangement peacefully and were carried out for treatment. When they went out, Li Jiansheng wiped a cold sweat and said secretly: I didn't expect that I would annihilate the Ma Jiajun like this and save so many backbone members of the Red Army! Fortunately, it came early, and it is estimated that if it comes later, these backbones are afraid that they will be killed by Ma Bufang as in history!

Not to mention that Li Jiansheng's side completely annihilated the three brigades and one regiment of Ma Bufang's department, and carried out a comprehensive rest, but said that Ma Bufang got the news on the road and learned that his entire army was annihilated. The purpose is, of course, to move the rescuers to take revenge.

However, what Ma Bufang didn't expect was that before, the brothers Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui, who had treated him like guests before, heard that his troops were wiped out at this time, and their attitude towards him changed greatly. At least, he could still see the Ma brothers on the first day, and from the next day, no one could see him. Ma Bufang was so depressed that he vomited blood, but he didn't have the capital at hand, so he asked for money, and the money was cleared away by the red bandits; to the territory, the territory is occupied by the red bandits; If you want soldiers, they will all be wiped out by the red bandits! He was alone. After staying in Ningxia for a month or two, it was really not a problem, so I had to accept some money and food from Ma Hongbin and go to Chairman Jiang. As a result, apart from the warm words and consolation, there was no substantive content. In a fit of anger, he went directly to the United States to "rest" until he died of illness and never returned to his hometown for the rest of his life.

Why did Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui brothers change their attitudes? The reason is a letter from Li Jiansheng!

It turned out that the two brothers, Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui, had discordant personalities. Ma Hongkui was determined to crack down on the red bandits and avenge the brothers Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang, but Ma Hongbin disagreed. On the one hand, his troops exchanged fire with the red bandits many times, although the scale was not large, but they did not win a single victory. Right now, even the powerful Ma family army like Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang has been wiped out without moving on the side of the red bandits, what does that mean? It shows that the strength of the red bandits is extraordinarily strong. What is the difference between fighting against this powerful force and looking for death? The two, Ma Hongbin is somewhat familiar with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, and they have intersected when the red bandits are developing in the northwest direction. As a result, in a casual chat, he remembered a name: Li Jiansheng. If there is such a person among the red bandits who leads the troops, you must not resist! This person is the number one warrior in the **, with soldiers like a god, and the soldiers are wide, the battle has never been defeated, and the death is shameless, it is really a scrape of three feet, and the dead man has to pull out a few pieces of silver! Third, he received a handwritten letter from Li Jiansheng. After reading it, thinking about the situation in front of him, and then thinking about the words that Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and other characters were convinced, he dispelled the intention of fighting back against the red bandits. Although Ma Hongkui wanted to avenge Ma Buqing's brothers, he was not stupid, he knew that his strength was not enough, and when he saw that Ma Hongbin didn't do it, he knew that he couldn't stand alone, so he reluctantly dispelled the idea of fighting Li Jiansheng's department.

It was rare for the brothers to sit down and reach an agreement, and finally agreed on the agreement, and a letter was delivered to Li Jiansheng, taking the initiative to say: The two armies do not fight each other, and their brothers provided Li Jiansheng's department with 5,000 high-quality war horses, winter materials, grain and grass, silver dollars, and weapons. He also said that the northwest is indeed poor, and these materials have dug up the old bottom of the brothers. That means that Li Jiansheng is going to speak again. When Li Jiansheng received this letter, he smiled. Secretly, digging their brothers' old bottom is not necessarily, but these materials at least show their attitude, especially the 5,000 high-grade war horses are offset, and they don't say much at the moment, and they reply with a pen, expressing their appreciation and gratitude to Ma Hongbin and Ma Hongkui for their righteous deeds. After this letter arrived in the hands of the Ma brothers, Ma Hongkui laughed to death: What do they have to ask Li Jiansheng for? The reverse is possible. Ma Hongbin also wanted to joke at first, but in the end, he kept an eye on it and put the letter away. As a result, it was actually used later, and it was used twice. The first time, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Hongbin's troops fought to the death with the Japanese invaders, and as a result, the flanks were taken advantage of by the Japanese invaders, and his troops were almost surrounded and completely annihilated. At that time, it was the second period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the Red Third Front Army under Li Jiansheng had been reorganized into the 125th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, with Li Jiansheng as the division commander and Luo Ronghuan as the political commissar, with 8 brigades under its jurisdiction. The closest to Tama Hongbin's division was the 125th Brigade of the 388th Division. At that time, Ma Hongbin asked for help from several directions at the same time, including Yan Xishan and Hu Zongnan, who were closest to the rate and belonged to the same team, thinking that they were the most likely to come to the rescue. It's just that he, who has always been accustomed to not putting his eggs in the same basket, sent an adjutant to the 125th Brigade of the 388th Division, the brigade commander Lu Keshan, and the brigade chief of staff Qian Zhuangming were both on the front line at that time, and only a big man named Guo Zhengjun, a political commissar, was at the brigade headquarters and received him. Knowing its intention, although it was a little strange, after reading the letter carefully, he didn't say anything, just let it take it back, and he made his own arrangements. The adjutant had no hope when he came, but at this time he thought it was impossible, so he came back early to report the news. Ma Hongbin waited until the adjutant came back, but he couldn't do anything, and he didn't see Yan Xishan and Hu Zongnan come to the rescue, and sighed in his heart that he would die this time. Knowing that the anti-Japanese affair was too big to retreat, he wrote a suicide note and went to the battlefield in person. However, what he didn't expect was that after his troops were surrounded by the Japanese invaders, he was killed alive by a unit and took his troops out, and then, this unit and his troops counter-surrounded the Japanese army. Somehow, Yan Xishan and Hu Zongnan, who were not enthusiastic about him, also sent heavy troops to surround this Japanese army this time. The four armies joined hands and forcibly annihilated the two Japanese brigades. Later, Ma Hongbin learned that the first to open a bloody road from the Japanese encirclement to meet them was Li Jiansheng's 125th Division 388th Brigade! Later, Yan Xishan and Hu Zongnan were extremely enthusiastic in sending heavy troops to encircle the two Japanese brigades, although it was possible to see the four troops join forces to completely annihilate the two Japanese brigades, but also because Li Jiansheng personally wrote a letter to Yan Xishan and Hu Zongnan. I don't know the content of the letter, but it really touched the hearts of the two, and the two of them shot together, and there was really a big victory. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being. As for the second time the letter was used, it was during the Liberation War, when Ma Hongbin led his troops to revolt, and it was his henchmen who contacted Li Jiansheng with this letter and finally facilitated it. Of course, this is also a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.

The letter later became a historiographical story. It's just that why did Li Jiansheng's letter to Ma Hongbin play such a big role? We have to start from the beginning.