Qinghai Province, Xining Ma Mansion.

As soon as Ma Hong finished speaking, he was recognized by many people, and Ma Bufang's henchmen basically agreed with Ma Hong, the commander of the Fifth Cavalry Army.

Ma Bufang's confidants all believe that now is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and what is advocated is the anti-Japanese war national united front, and Zhang Yunfei will not fight with himself because of these dozens of people.

From Ma Bufang to these close confidants, they are all fierce people, and they don't look at dozens of lives, and they also think that Zhang Yunfei should not pay that attention to it, and the telegram sent by Zhang Yunfei must be on face.

In the end, as long as Ma Bufang is tougher, Zhang Yunfei must be helpless, Ma Bufang's henchmen all think that Zhang Yunfei is dry thunder and does not rain.

As soon as Ma Hong finished speaking, Ma Bufang's other confidant, Ma Qing, chief of staff of the 40th Group Army, was also one of Ma Bufang's left and right arms.

At this time, Ma Qing also began to express his opinion, "Commander-in-chief, I also think that we should not worry too much this time, although Zhang Yunfei has heavy troops, he occupies too much territory, and he has to guard against the attack of little devils, and he will definitely not send a large number of troops over."

If Zhang Yunfei wants to attack us with troops, then his troops in Shanxi will be empty, and the little devils will definitely invade Shanxi, now, there are a lot of little devils who died in Zhang Yunfei's hands, and the little devils also want to take revenge, such a good opportunity, the little devils will definitely not let it go.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if Zhang Yunfei really draws some troops to attack us, we have nothing to fear, and we are now strong and strong.

Moreover, Shanxi is far away from our Qinghai, we have 70,000 or 80,000 guns, and 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry, Zhang Yunfei does not send 108,000 horses over, how can we be our opponents, if Zhang Yunfei sends 20,000 or 30,000 horses over, it will not be enough for us to stuff our teeth. ”

Listening to Ma Qing's analysis, many people thought it was true, and at the end, many people laughed.

Ma Bufang listened to everyone's analysis, and he was also relieved, a high heart, slowly put it down, Ma Bufang thought, Zhang Yunfei will definitely not send troops over, this time Zhang Yunfei must be thunder and rain.

If Zhang Yunfei listened to the analysis and speeches of Ma Bufang's henchmen, he would definitely die of laughter.

Ma Bufang's intelligence work is really backward.

In addition, Zhang Yunfei is also equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, tanks and aircraft, which is not something that Ma Bufang, the tens of thousands of cavalry and infantry with backward equipment, can compete with......

The day after Zhang Yunfei gave the order, at noon.

More than 100 armored vehicles of the mechanized infantry brigade, as well as three or four hundred armed off-road vehicles, have already swooped down from three directions, less than 20 kilometers from the city of Bazhou.

The three cavalry regiments of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Cavalry Division, with 7 to 8,000 cavalry soldiers, were also divided into several routes, closely following the mechanized infantry brigade.

This time, the mechanized infantry brigade and the first cavalry brigade fought together, and the pace of the march slowed down a lot.

At present, the huge armored clusters of the 1st and 2nd Tank Brigades are approaching Xining, which is less than 100 kilometers away.

This time, Zhang Yunfei used such a large armor force, which showed that Zhang Yunfei was really angry and wanted to annihilate Ma Bufang in one fell swoop.

Outside Bazhou City, the troops of the 36th Group Army are gradually completing the encirclement, and the troops are getting closer and closer to the county seat, but until now, the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun in Bazhou City is still unaware.

With Ma Biao, the commander of the First Cavalry Division of the Ma Jiajun, coming to Bazhou, most of the cavalry of the First Cavalry Division also came to Bazhou.

The first cavalry division of the Majia Army had about 8,000 people, and now, there are 5 or 6,000 cavalry in Bazhou, and only about 2 or 3,000 people continue to stay in Wuwei City.

At this time, inside and outside the city of Bazhou, there were cavalry figures of the Ma Jiajun everywhere, these cavalrymen were either drinking and gambling there, or fart and chatting there, and a few were still there to rob the things of the common people in the city.

Among these people, there were many bandits in the past, and these cavalrymen were good and bad, but now they are all wearing [***] uniforms, but in fact, they are basically bandits.

In the east of the city, about a cavalry company, more than a hundred cavalry of the Ma family army were cruising there, and these cavalrymen were originally on guard, but these cavalrymen did not take this alert seriously.

The cavalry company commander who led the team was smoking a cigarette and wearing a hat crookedly, playing cards with several platoon commanders, and because the weather was relatively cold, a big bonfire was lit next to it.

Beside the campfire, twenty or thirty cavalrymen gathered, and these cavalrymen were also roasting around the campfire, and there were very few cavalrymen who were really on guard there.

A cavalry platoon commander who was participating in gambling also had an obscene face, holding a cigarette, and complained dissatisfiedly, "Sit, let's go back to the city to drink later, this place where birds don't, you need to be vigilant, I haven't seen a single bird feather, and it's so cold." ”

The cavalry company commander may have drawn a good hand of cards, and his luck was relatively strong, so he didn't want to leave, so the company commander hurriedly said: "Don't worry, let's play a few more hands before leaving, and then we will be a little better." "When these cavalrymen of the Ma Jiajun were playing up, one of the units of the mechanized infantry brigade, dozens of Type 39 armored personnel carriers and hundreds of armed off-road vehicles, was rumbling towards this side.

Several cavalrymen of the Ma Jiajun who were on guard on the periphery looked at the vast and flat Gobi Desert in the distance, yellow dust was billowing and many black dots were coming here.

The cavalrymen thought they had seen it wrong, and rubbed their eyes in disbelief, yes, there were indeed a large number of chariots in the distance, coming this way.

These cavalrymen, although they have basically never seen real tanks and armored vehicles, but looking at the Type 39 armored troop carriers and armed off-road vehicles in the distance, the momentum is amazing, and they also know that these are not easy to deal with.

Moreover, in the hearts of these cavalrymen, these are all chariots, whether they are armored vehicles or off-road vehicles, all of them are chariots, and the cavalry of these Ma Jiajun shuddered when they thought of so many chariots.

These cavalrymen saw so many chariots in the distance, although they didn't know for the time being, which army these huge chariots belonged to, but the enemy's possible surname was very large, these cavalry were a little frightened and turned a little pale, and then turned their horses' heads and ran back.

Among these cavalrymen, one of them was still a squad leader, and the cavalry squad leader of the Ma Jiajun ran to the cavalry company commander in a panic and shouted: "Lian Zuo, the big thing is not good, the big thing is not good." ”

The company commander of the Ma Jiajun, who was drawing a good hand of cards, saw the squad leader shouting there, and suddenly his heart was on fire, and he threw away the cards in his hand, and reprimanded loudly: "You kid is impatient, shouting." ”

Seeing that his company commander was angry, the cavalry squad leader was startled, and suddenly his voice weakened, pointed to the distance, and whispered: "Lianza, look, there are a lot of chariots in the distance." ”

Hearing this, the company commander looked in the direction pointed by the squad leader, and saw that a large number of chariots in the distance, raising the yellow sand in the sky, were moving towards his side at high speed.

Seeing this scene, the cavalry company commander of the Ma Jiajun was still holding a cigarette, but suddenly, his mouth opened so wide, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground with a "snap".

This action of the cavalry company commander of the Ma family army was maintained for at least ten seconds, and it took a long time to react, and the cavalry company commander who reacted was obviously a little panicked, and he was used to seeing the cavalry of the Ma family army with backward equipment, when had he ever seen such a big battle.

"Quick, everyone, get on your horse and run to the city."

After shouting, the cavalry company commander was the first to get on the horse, and the action was relatively quick, and he hurriedly ran to the city, and the other cavalrymen, seeing that their company commander was the first to escape, suddenly hated only a few legs, quickly got on the horse, and ran to the city.

Mechanized infantry brigades.

Pan Guoxing, the brigade commander who had just been promoted to colonel, was riding in the driving of an armed off-road vehicle and saw more than 100 cavalrymen of the Ma Jiajun army fleeing in front of him, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Brigade Commander Pan thought to himself, it was really a rabble, and before the war started, they ran faster than rabbits.

Brigade Commander Pan picked up his wireless telephone and immediately said: "Everyone, pay attention, we are about to approach Bazhou City, everyone is ready to fight, and if you encounter Ma Bufang's cavalry, you will be killed, unless they lay down their arms and surrender." ”

In this attack on Ma Bufang, in the end, it was still the Chinese killing the Chinese, Zhang Yunfei explained, as long as the other party laid down his arms, he could not kill, but if he had to resist stubbornly, then he would be killed.

Of course, for some high-ranking and middle-ranking officers of Ma Jiajun, whether they surrendered or not, Zhang Yunfei was ready to annihilate them on the spot, and he did not intend to let any of them go.

Those low-level officers, who lay down their arms and are willing to be prisoners, can not kill for the time being, and then slowly settle the accounts later, it is indeed a human life in their hands, and they usually do a lot of evil, and if they find out in the future, they will still be shot.

As for ordinary soldiers, who are willing to be prisoners, Zhang Yunfei is also willing to laugh at them, and now the construction of the Great Northwest Base Area just needs labor, and these prisoners can just serve as free labor.

After receiving the order, all the fighters of the mechanized infantry brigade were ready for battle, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the city of Bazhou in the distance, and the battle was about to break out.

(To be continued)