Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Northwest Turmoil
The news of the defeat of the Wehrmacht with 10,000 men and the defeat of the Wehrmacht with 10,000 men was quickly reported by the British media, and this news became the headlines of major newspapers, all of which praised how strong Britain was, once again showing how stupid the Chinese government and Britain were to fight.
"The imperial warriors are mighty, and the sister of the Huaxia Army is defeated!"
"Stupid Huaxia, they must pay a huge price!"
"The strength of the empire is not something that a savage pigtail can threaten!"
"Soon the empire will expand its interests in China!"
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Soon the whole of Europe knew the news that the army of the Chinese government was beaten and retreated, and Germany held a special discussion for this after knowing the news, and the result of the discussion was that Huaxia should not be so weak, and it did not hear that Huaxia used aircraft on the battlefield, but retreated after resisting for a while, and Germany knew the strength of Huaxia best, and Huaxia's army was only a little weaker than their German army, and it was impossible to defeat the British army.
For this reason, Germany also sent intelligence officers to Tibet to collect information about the British army and the Wehrmacht, and Wilhelm II and a group of generals and marshals felt that there must be something in it.
The Chinese government has now become a joke of European countries, and it is even trying to confront the world's number one power.
Japan also gloated at the jokes of the Chinese government, and Japan also stepped up the temptation of the Ma Jiajun, and continued to increase troops in the Yalu River.
Tsarist Russia also stepped up the increase of troops in Outer Mongolia, and Nicholas II was still a little entangled in the small victory of Britain in Tibet, he thought that Britain could suffer a little in Tibet and then destroy the Chinese army, of course, it would be great if it could fight a protracted war.
The vast majority of intellectuals blamed the Huaxia government for Tibet's defeat, and Huaxia's strength was no match for Britain's opponents. Others were disappointed by the government's failure, thinking that the Chinese government would bring them exciting news; The people in East China are still angry, they support the Chinese government, they think that there must be a reason for this defeat, although they don't know what it is, but they still donate money and materials to support the national defense force like the Beiyang Army last time; The southwest and other provinces are very enthusiastic, a large number of young men automatically find the defense force in the southwest and ask you to join the army to go to Tibet to fight the British, and the people are also very supportive of the southwest army, they are collecting money and goods to the southwest army, because it is their good men in the southwest who fight in Tibet.
The Ma Jiajun in the northwest gathered again in the Majiafu in Lanzhou, and the Japanese came every day to urge Ma Anliang to seize the opportunity to send troops immediately, and now the defeat of the National Defense Army in Tibet is a good opportunity, so Ma Anliang did not hesitate to gather the core figures of the Ma Jiajun again, and he wanted to send troops to attack the national defense force of the Chinese government this time.
Ma Qi and Ma Fuxiang and others came here again, these two came with different moods, Ma Qi was uneasy, because he knew that the loss of 30,000 yuan did not hurt the vitality of the Huaxia government, so he thought that the Huaxia government was not something that Ma Jiajun could compete with now; Ma Fuxiang is very relaxed, because once he defeats the National Defense Army, then he will not be threatened by the Shaanxi National Defense Army in Ningxia, and he will be able to expand his territory.
The core figures of Ma Jiajun think almost the same as Ma Fuxiang's, they are all thinking about expanding their territory and interests, so they don't think about other things at all, which is what the Japanese want most.
After discussing it, everyone decided to send troops to attack the national defense army three days later, with Ma Fuxiang sending troops to Shaanxi, Ma Anliang himself sending troops to Sichuan, and the rest followed behind their butts, while Ma Qi did not send troops with Ma Anliang, but just slapped thousands of people to follow his ass, which is also where Ma Anliang is very depressed.
Just when they were determined to attack the Wehrmacht, Qin Yu also received information that the Japanese had transported a large number of weapons to Ma Jiajun during this period of time, and Ma Jiajun once again gathered the core figures together, and it was estimated that they would make a move in the next few days, hoping that Qin Yu would pay attention.
Qin Yu looked at the news and raised lightly on the corner of his mouth, and smiled evilly, and then asked the telegraph operator to send a telegram to Jiang Fangzhen asking him to prepare for the attack of the Northwest Army, and this time to completely solve the Northwest problem.
Jiang Fangzhen began to act after receiving Qin Yu's telegram, and a full 200,000 soldiers were constantly busy in the military buildings that had been prepared at the junction of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Ningxia, and Gansu, and tanks and artillery were also constantly being transported here.
At the same time, Chen Fu, who was in Beijing, was also leading 200,000 soldiers to deploy defenses in the Mukden area to prevent the Northeast Army from entering the customs and causing trouble, and another was to deter the Japanese.
Ma Fuxiang's army in Ningxia has expanded to 100,000 people because it has been continuously expanding with the help of Japanese weapons and money some time ago, but more than half of the army is new recruits who have not been well trained, and more than half of the weapons are Japanese-style weapons.
This time Ma Fuxiang decided to attack Dingbian first, and then attack other national defense forces in Shaanxi, for his cavalry Ma Fuxiang is very proud, the cavalry in China is the most powerful cavalry in the northwest, he has not heard that the national defense army has cavalry, as for those iron boxes Ma Fuxiang thinks nothing.
Ma Anliang was preparing to attack the empty Sichuan, and he believed that the army of the National Defense Force in Sichuan had basically been placed in Tibet, so he did not have any troops, so he took the army that had recently expanded to 150,000 to attack Sichuan. Ma Anliang decided to march from Qingchuan to Sichuan, and then attack Guangyuan.
Jiang Fangzhen put a large number of troops in Shaanxi, only about 50,000 troops were deployed in Pingwu, Qingchuan, Guangyuan and other places in Sichuan, and the rest were placed in Dingbian, Yan'an, Baoji and Hanzhong in Shaanxi, especially Dingbian, Baoji and Hanzhong were the top priorities. As for Sichuan, Jiang Fangzhen believed that Ma Anliang would not send troops to Sichuan first, because the transportation in Sichuan was too poor and the terrain was also rugged, which was not suitable for the cavalry march. However, just in case, Jiang Fangzhen still deployed 50,000 troops to several places where Majia's army was most likely to march into Sichuan.
In mid-September 1912, Ma Fuxiang led a large army to Dingbian continuously, and Jiang Fangzhen of Xi'an received information as soon as Ma Fuxiang entered the border of Shaanxi that Ma Jiajun in Ningxia was rushing in the direction of Dingbian, which was completely expected by Jiang Fangzhen, and he immediately telegraphed the 70,000 national defense troops in Dingbian to be ready for battle.
After receiving the news that Ma Jiajun was rushing here, the Wehrmacht in Dingbian immediately prepared for battle according to Jiang Fangzhen's order, replenished ammunition, and prepared 100 tanks for battle.
A few hours later, the Wehrmacht heard a rumbling sound coming from the front, and the soldiers standing in the watchtower saw the yellow dust billowing in front of them, and a large number of horses were galloping, and they took the binoculars to see that a cavalry was rushing here, it turned out to be the cavalry of the Northwest Majia Army, and the soldiers hurriedly said to the officers below: "Report to the sir, a large number of cavalry of the Northwest Army are coming from the west, and it is estimated that there will be fifteen minutes to reach the front of the position." ā
The officer immediately ran to it, took a look at the binoculars, and then immediately ran to report to the person in charge that a northwestern cavalry of about a thousand men was coming towards them.
The person in charge is Duan Qirui, who entered the National Defense Army after being persuaded by Yuan Shikai after the surrender of Beiyang, Qin Yu was not very willing to let Duan Qirui enter the National Defense Army, but Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Yijian yƬ Qin Yu accepted Duan Qirui, one was to comfort Beiyang and the other was for the sake of the Northeast in the future, and it could reflect the inclusiveness of the Chinese government, Duan Qirui's military talent was still very good, so Qin Yu let Duan Qirui serve in the reorganized National Defense Force.
This time the Dingbian was Jiang Fangzhen who asked Duan Qirui to garrison, and Duan Qirui knew a little about the Ma Jiajun in the northwest when he was in the Beiyang Army, so he was put in Dingbian by Jiang Fangzhen.
Duan Qirui frowned after hearing that it was only a thousand cavalry, he remembered that Ma Fuxiang in Ningxia also had at least five thousand cavalry, and the recent large-scale expansion of the army should not be just a thousand cavalry, and then he thought about it again and knew that this was Ma Fuxiang's temptation. Duan Qirui immediately ordered the tank troops not to move, just use the Makqin heavy machine gun in the trench to shoot, now is not the time to expose the real strength, and he also has to verify the effect of the combination of trenches and dense heavy machine guns on the cavalry.
Listening to the rumbling sound getting closer and closer, the Wehrmacht soldiers were very worried, after all, they had not yet made contact with the cavalry, and the palms of the soldiers with heavy machine guns were sweaty, and the momentum of the cavalry was really strong.
Duan Qirui saw that those soldiers were wiping cold sweat and scolded loudly: "What are you afraid of, hurry up and pay attention to the enemy, just shoot the bullets in your hands into the enemy's body, what are you afraid of in the trenches and heavy machine guns, wait a minute, give me a hard beating." ā
After hearing this, those soldiers began to treat it correctly, after all, they were all systematically trained and quickly entered the state.
The rumbling sound was getting closer and closer, and the Ma cavalry in the northwest finally appeared in the eyes of the Wehrmacht, and those cavalry began to rush there as soon as they saw the Wehrmacht's position. The strength of these cavalrymen is really not covered, they are constantly playing tricks on horseback, shooting at the Wehrmacht while playing tricks.
Seeing that the Northwest cavalry was desperately rushing upward, the Wehrmacht fired at them with full horsepower, and the bullets were smashed on the cavalry without money, and some of the Northwest cavalry who were rushing forward were hit and fell down, and some were trampled to death by the cavalry behind them, and there were many horses running around under the strafing of machine guns and artillery shelling.
In less than half an hour, more than half of the cavalry in the northwest were wiped out, only a small number of cavalry fled, and the position was full of blood, most of which were war horses, and those war horses were basically crippled or killed, the scene was very terrifying.
Duan Qirui asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and soon he learned of his losses, this time with a loss of fifty men, and it seems that the trenches combined with dense machine guns worked very well against the cavalry.
Just when the Northwest Cavalry attacked Dingyuan, Ma Anliang's army had already entered the border of Sichuan, and Jiang Fangzhen thought that Ma Anliang would march into Hanzhong, but he waited for a long time and had no news, so Jiang Fangzhen began to pay attention to the border of Sichuan.