In the past two days, the first batch of troops formed set out to the defense area of the 21st Division, and on the third day, the first batch of recruits recruited from various places in northern Shaanxi arrived in Qingyang, and most of the Eighth Army Corps completed the assembly near Pingliang. www.biquge.info With Xu Shiyou as the division commander and most of the cavalry regiments directly under the central government as the foundation, the newly built Fifth Cavalry Division with personnel from the 3rd, 4th, and 7th Cavalry Divisions was transferred from the 3rd, 4th, and 7th Cavalry Divisions, with a total of 4,000 people to complete the basic coordination training.

On the mighty side of the Red Army, after receiving the news that the central government sent troops to rescue, Zhang Wang and the others hurriedly rushed to the direction of Qilian Mountain without any detour in a straight line. In the process of thinking about the breakthrough of the remaining veins of Qilian Mountain, the Western Expeditionary Army showed its powerful attack power, and broke through the blockage of the Ma Jiajun all the way, but the Houwei troops under the command of Lin Biao, who were excluded, were miserable, and were cut by the Ma Jiajun like a cutter. In just a few hundred miles, the rearguard troops defeated Qing Shui once, Han Zuo twice, Gucheng four times, and the captain five times.

is a good military god, although the team has been reduced repeatedly, the team is defeated but not defeated, the defense is in the middle and the attack, and the means of ambush feints emerge in endlessly, and the Ma Jiajun who is chasing and killing by taking advantage of the situation still does not dare to be presumptuous. The striker's Dong Zhentang's department is also invincible. It's a pity that the commander was too naïve, first panicked, and then feared the enemy like a tiger. When Quanjin entered the Qilian Mountains, the strength of the troops was reduced to less than 70,000 due to successive battle losses and epidemics.

The urgent telegram of the Western Expeditionary Army flew to Wayaobao like snowflakes, and the situation became more and more critical day by day. The supply problem of tens of thousands of people in the mountainous areas, and the aggressive encirclement and interception of the Ma Jiajun, made the situation of the Western Expeditionary Army worse day by day. The central authorities, who had lost patience with Zhang Xueliang, formally telegraphed Xia Xinsheng, who had led his troops to wait for him, to immediately launch a surprise attack plan, and the original plan to attack Yinchuan was abandoned.

Xia Xinsheng, who received the order, appointed Xu Xiangqian as the commander of the former enemy, and Zeng Zhongsheng as the chief of staff led the Red Eighth Army to take Pengyang, Guyuan, and Zhenyuan with the cooperation of Xu's Fifth Cavalry Division. Make a northward posture. Attract the attention of Ma Jiajun, and at the same time create conditions for a large army to raid Lanzhou. Most of the cavalry corps set off after the Eighth Army had cleared the periphery of the two places.

On the central side, the central authorities launched an offensive in Ningxia with two routes, divided into two routes, the north and the south, with more than 4,000 troops from two regiments, and more than 1,000 local work teams, political propaganda teams, and underground party organizations from various localities to sweep up most areas in southern Ningxia, form militia units, and extensively mobilize the masses. The Ningnan Revolutionary Committee was formed by Bogu and others, and the Soviet district governments were established in various places to eliminate local *** elements.

On the northern front, the main force of three regiments and the newly formed troops of two divisions marched northward to sweep away Lingwu, Wuzhong, and other places, and took advantage of the emptiness of Ma Hongkui's forces to thoroughly control the south bank of the Yellow River, develop armed forces in the locality, and make a posture of crossing the river to the north. Conditionally made a northward movement to force Ma Hongkui's department to return to the division for rescue.

At the same time, a large number of work teams were dispatched to the southern part of Gansu to form peasant armed forces in more than a dozen counties and cities around Tianshui, and with the cooperation of Qingyang, a peasant uprising was launched extensively. Echoing the westward work of the Red Star Column.

The first to start was the attack on Zhenyuan by two regiments of Zhong Wei of the 21st Division. Zhenyuan is located north of Qingyang and northeast of Pingnan. Strictly speaking, when Liu Zidan established a base area, revolutionary forces entered all over the country, and after the Red Star Column entered Qingyang, the revolutionary armed forces in the surrounding areas also received great support. Whenever the 21 st Division went to the ground, the local party committees quickly consolidated the victories. In less than three days, the siege of Zhenyuan was completed.

Almost the battle with Zhenyuan was only a front and rear footwork, He Dongsheng's 22nd Division entered Pengyang, the 5th Cavalry Division under the leadership of Xu Shiyou broke through along Pengyang and Liupan Mountain, sweeping away the enemy forces along the way, and the 22nd Division approached Pengyang from three directions with a thunderous momentum. County.

The cavalry division advanced more than sixty miles in one day, and then a regiment of Zhao Kuwa's 23rd Division and 22nd Division, under the command of Xu Shuai, swept Pengyang along the way. The power between the county seat and Liupan Mountain. All the way to Guyuan.

More than ten hours after the departure of the Red Eighth Army, the large force of the cavalry army replenished food when it was dark, and advanced to the Pengyang border to assemble. Since the cavalry corps joined the **** sequence, it has not participated in the military operations of the Red Army, and has been in the process of ideological construction, discipline rectification and military training. In Xia Xinsheng's words, it is to forge a sword, and the cavalry army should be put into the furnace to be re-forged and quenched. What is more important is to reshape the soul of this force.

There has never been a truly authoritative statement about the military spirit, and there are different versions, and different people feel different military spirits in the same army. In a way that is easier for modern people to understand, it is the corporate culture, and the military soul is also a part of the army culture, and even the most important part.

Like the god of the army, Dongye, after 802 (minus one defense and harmony), according to the tradition of the military, the follow-up troops developed by this army should eliminate someone's influence, completely defeat their idea of governing the army, and then step on 100,000 toes, so that they can't turn over. It's just that after more than 20 years of hard work, when it came to the war in the southwest, the descendants of Dongye still had a strong demeanor of the military god army.

In the words of a certain general, as long as the number of this unit is still there, and it has not been broken up and reorganized, even if the army is gone, the military spirit is still there. Of course, such a statement is a bit evil, and Xia Xinsheng doesn't agree with it so much.

It is true that the Northeast Army is indeed not very competitive, taking the actual combat all the time as an example, the first Zhifeng War was defeated by the Zhifeng Army, and the second Zhifeng War was based on Feng Yuxiang's rebellion.

Guo Songling's rebellion was suppressed by devils, and the Northern Expedition was defeated by Jiang Jieshi. The battle on the Middle East Road was defeated by the Soviet army. In the Central Plains War, to deal with Shiyou's 300,000 people, he was defeated and returned, and he had to transfer troops from outside the pass. The Great Wall resisted, and the Northeast Army was the first to be defeated. Encircled and suppressed 30,000 or 40,000 Red Army troops, and reimbursed two divisions at once. It can be seen that there is no battle that the Northeast Army does not dare to lose, and only the Chinese men's football team can be compared. But the Northeast Army has a huge number of personnel, sufficient funds, and excellent equipment, why is this so?

If you look at history and look back, you can understand that on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, in 1937, the operations of the 67th Army on the Jingpu Road and other places such as Yao Madu could take advantage of the devils. During the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, the Northeast Army was also on the front line, not to mention the results, its will to fight was not owned by the current Northeast Army.

It also shows that the military soul can be tempered by beating. The Northeast Army started as bandits, and its congenital lack of military quality and lack of political belief should be the reason why this unit seems to be so unbearable in combat power. (To be continued.) )