Almost everyone in the know was worried that Qin Wei's excessive persecution of Zhou Fohai would make the big traitor disgusted, so that the other party would change his attitude that was still cooperative. But to their surprise, in the face of Qin Wei's conditions where there was almost no room for improvement, Zhou Fohai did not show much toughness...... Three days, only three days after meeting Xu Yuanju, he put forward his "condition", and this condition was reported to Qin Wei by Xu Yuanju, and after Qin Wei "enriched" it, and then handed it over to Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman of the committee was also stunned.

However, Zhou Fohai's "conditions" still need some time to prepare, and they are extremely secret, so most people's eyes are attracted by the events that happened on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The "Green Horse", which has dominated Qinghai for 40 years, was taken down.

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It all started a few months ago.

No one knows what is going on, but it is rumored that there are high-level members of the Nationalist government stirring up the storm in it...... The Sichuan Army, which had already suffered a great loss in strength and could barely resist Chiang Kai-shek's butcher's knife, suddenly marched towards Qinghai. This aroused the vigilance of Ma Bufang in Qinghai. On the one hand, Ma Bufang sent a section of Ma Jiajun under his command to block it, and on the other hand, he complained to the Chongqing Nationalist Government in the name of the Qinghai Provincial Government, claiming that the Sichuan Army deliberately provoked.

Chongqing was extremely angry at this incident, and Defense Minister He Yingqin even openly questioned the purpose of the Sichuan army's operation, and at the same time, in the name of the Military Commission, demanded that Pan Wenhua, commander of the 28th Group Army, immediately withdraw the troops sent to Qinghai.

In the face of such doubts, Pan Wenhua also quickly came forward, claiming that this was just a very normal military operation, and the purpose was only to stabilize the Sichuan border, not to try Qinghai as the outside world speculated. Moreover, he also claimed that Qinghai's "Ma Jiajun" was brave and good at fighting. and all of them are cavalry, even if the 28th Army under his command attacks all, it may not be able to defeat the other party, how can he only send one to provoke? What's more, most of the main forces of the Sichuan Army were fighting abroad, how could he, as the commander of the 28th Group Army, provoke internal strife at this time? Therefore, the suspicions of the Qinghai provincial government are groundless. However, since this operation had aroused tension and suspicion on the Qinghai side, he was willing to withdraw his troops.

The situation eased in this way, but the talk began.

Everyone seemed to suddenly remember the heroism of the Sichuan Army in the War of Resistance and the great contribution of the Sichuan Army to the War of Resistance. It was a team of people who wore straw sandals and fought hard with the Japanese. In the "Battle of Songhu". Almost all the officers and men of the Sichuan army died on the battlefield, and only more than 2,000 people retreated to Hubei; In the "Battle of Zaoyi", the Sichuan army once again became the main force, destroying 40,000 enemies, but itself suffered more than 200,000 casualties; Battle of Nanchang. The base of the tomb of the Sichuan army is stubbornly defending Nanchang City; In the Battle of Changsha, the Yang Sen Division of the Sichuan Army blocked the three main divisions of the Japanese army head-on...... Among the 6 lieutenant generals in Izukawa. There were 4 heroic martyrs. The first batch of more than 400 regiment-level officers who went out of Sichuan basically all died on the front line, and even the provincial chairman Liu Xiang died outside Sichuan for the Anti-Japanese War. What an honorable group of people this is? …… Everyone's enthusiasm for the Sichuan army suddenly increased. Some schools even organized condolence groups to visit the Yang Sen Department of the Sichuan Army on the front line in Changsha.

And the Sichuan army is so heroic, wearing straw sandals and patched clothes that they have to fight the Japanese devils, how did the troops in other provinces behave? People "naturally" remembered the Qinghai "Ma Jiajun" who had just had a conflict with the Sichuan army!

Soon, Ma Jiajun's anti-Japanese war deeds were found out.

Not bad. The cavalry of the Ma Jiajun fought bravely and decisively, and defeated the Japanese army several times; And when they were defeated in battle, hundreds of soldiers even committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river because they did not want to be prisoners...... These are all heroes. People couldn't help but admire and let out a chorus of praise. Some people even asked for the "Ma Jiajun" to be awarded. But then again, the Ma family army is so capable of fighting, and they are all such powerful cavalry, shouldn't they gather more and send them to the front line to fight against the Japanese invaders? This suggestion was made and quickly gained the approval of the majority. Although it is now the era of aircraft and artillery, the cavalry still has a lot of room for combat. And in the midst of such discussions, people quickly "discovered" ...... The Ma Jiajun on the front line was just a "militia group" temporarily recruited by the Qinghai government, so it was only a so-called "provisional" cavalry division. In other words, the regular troops of the Ma Jiajun still remain in Qinghai, and their combat effectiveness is even stronger.

All of a sudden, people were boiling.

Tens of thousands of regular cavalry with strong combat effectiveness! How can you stay at home and watch the door? Look at the Sichuan army, hundreds of thousands of them are sent to the front line, and your Ma Jiajun should study one or two carefully!

Public opinion changed so quickly that the Qinghai provincial government, which was still immersed in praise, immediately realized that something was wrong.

Ma Bufang is not a fool. He didn't believe that the so-called voice of letting Ma Jiajun go to the front line was just from some newspapers...... No one is using means behind his back, who will take out him, a local tyrant hiding in the rear, to talk about things?

However, public opinion is raging!

Before he could react, the common people everywhere had already urged Qinghai to send troops through their own discussions.

One cavalryman is worth ten infantrymen. Tens of thousands of cavalry, enough to be hundreds of thousands of heroes! Your Qinghai Ma family has such a strong army, and you should contribute to the country.

The Nationalist Government also went against the norm and quickly reacted to this wave of popular discussions: the Military Commission issued an order requiring Ma Jiajun to send two divisions of cavalry to the Second Theater of Operations, which would be led by General Fu Zuoyi, who had just won a series of combat victories in Inner Mongolia.

Of course, Ma Bufang would not agree.

But he also sensed that Chongqing was suspicious of attacking him...... So, he urgently activated public relations measures. People went to Chongqing with a large amount of gold and silver to lobby those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, hoping that the Military Commission would cancel the order. However, the previously invincible Golden Bullet offensive seems to have lost its effect. Not only did the Military Council still insist on the previous order, but Chiang Kai-shek also publicly criticized his behavior.

Soon, newspapers in Chongqing began to report on Ma Bufang's many atrocities during his rule in Qinghai. There are countless things like murder and arson, robbery of people's daughters, and many atrocities have reached the point of heinousness.

People's resentment against Ma Jiajun is getting deeper and deeper.

The signs that the central authorities are going to attack Qinghai are becoming more and more obvious.

The Sichuan army began to march towards the Sichuan-Qingdao border again. Not only that, Zhu Shaoliang and Ma Hongkui in Gansu also sent a part of their troops to the Qinggan border to "inspect"! And Ma Hongkui, who is one of the horses in the northwest, also secretly told Ma Bufang: The above does have the intention of attacking you, but according to the order I received from my brother, this idea above is not particularly firm. After all, your Ma Bufang's cavalry is not easy to mess with, and it is stationed in various key passes on the Qinghai border, if it was fine before, it is now mainly a war of resistance. Therefore, as long as you make a resolute resistance and send a little gold and silver to Chongqing, you should be able to withstand this wave of trouble.

Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui have been friends for many years, and they know this old brother's "slippery head" very well, and they also believe in the news they tell. After all, if Lao Jiang really planned to clean him up, how could he only send Chuan Jun, Zhu Shaoliang, and Ma Hongkui to deal with him? It's not that he is arrogant, just relying on these people, if he wants to break into his Qinghai, it is basically wishful thinking. But Ma Bufang was unwilling to tear his face with Chongqing. Therefore, on the one hand, he sent troops to the border between Sichuan-Qingdao and Qinggan to block the two "enemy forces", and on the other hand, he obediently prepared a batch of gold and silver and sent it to Chongqing.

Maybe it was expected by Ma Hongkui. Seeing that Ma Bufang had sent almost all his cavalry to the border passes, and had received a large amount of money from Qinghai, Chongqing's attitude eased. First stopped the two teams that were still advancing, and then informed Ma Bufang that the central government would send a special envoy to Xining to "mediate the dispute between the three provinces"!

Ma Bufang was deceived in this way.

Because neither the Sichuan army nor the Gan army had withdrawn, his main forces were placed on the border, and only one guard battalion was left in Xining. The central envoy had to fly to Xining, so he had to leave Xining and go to the airport in the suburbs to pick him up. Because this time, the level of the central envoy is a bit high, and it is Zhang Qun, a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek. This is a big man who originally planned to succeed Liu Xiang as chairman of Sichuan Province, but he has been resisted by Pan Wenhua and others, so he failed to get his wish. But a person of this level has a mission entrusted by Lao Jiang, and he, the chairman of Qinghai Province, must go to meet him.

And that's not all.

The central authorities have ordered that at the same time as this "mediation," some important generals of Ma Jiajun should be promoted to the rank of "in recognition of their contributions to the great cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression." Therefore, Ma Bufang must prepare a promotion ceremony in Xining. According to the news that Ma Bufang spent a lot of money to obtain from Chongqing, the purpose of the central government to do this, in addition to the purpose of comforting Qinghai, actually wanted to transfer troops from Qinghai to the front line, so he gave Ma Jiajun a little sweetness.

Ma Bufang didn't care about the news. Those who don't have military ranks are only secondary, and if they want to take soldiers from him again, there is no door. However, the central government still has to give face, first serve the envoy well, take over the military rank, and then spend money to deal with the matter of troop transfer, and drag it on.

Ready, Ma Bufang began to prepare to meet the central envoy.

He never thought something would happen.

Zhang Qun came by plane, and it was impossible to bring many people. The Sichuan army and the Gan army were also blocked out of Qinghai, and the entire territory of Qinghai was his world, so who should he be afraid of?

But he didn't know that there was already a new class of troops in the world of Lu Dao, and he didn't know that Lu Dao even China had such a class...... When he took his brother Ma Buqing and several major generals of Ma Jiajun to see the twenty planes that suddenly appeared in the sky at the airport outside Xining, it was already too late. The elite paratroopers of the two battalions descended from the sky and easily captured the Ma brothers, who had only brought a company of guards, and several other major generals of the Ma family's army. After that, they didn't even enter Xining City, and the airborne troops directly "transferred" at the airport, and flew back to Lanzhou with Ma Bufang, Ma Buqing, and others.

The whole operation took less than half a day, and the actual execution time was less than an hour.

Qinghai "fell"! (To be continued......)