From to 1935 2020

This is a large number of "white hat" residential areas, and it is also Ma Bufang's most important foothold east of the Yellow River.Take him down, and Northwest Sanma will be completely expelled from the Hedong area.

At noon that day, Huang Ke met Pan Hannian and got the latest telegram from him: After three days of fierce fighting, Lanzhou had been captured, Ma Hongkui fled with a few cavalry from the Ma family army, and the defenders were nearly wiped out.

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Lanzhou City

Lanzhou's offensive and defensive battle is over.

"Is this the fighting power of religious fanatics? They are really a bit like us!"

Wearing a thick leather jacket, Lin Husan walked on the streets of Lanzhou, looking at the city that was still smoking, with ruined walls, and corpses wearing cashmere hats and white hats everywhere, he sighed deeply. in one breath.

Those wearing cashmere hats are the regular army of Sanma, while those with white hats are the cannon fodder troops of the militia organized by them.

The battle to attack Lanzhou felt very strange.

The battle itself went pretty smoothly.

The first army, which was greatly supplemented by Hu Zongbu, was the main force to attack the east part of Lanzhou. Lin Husan's troops had enough bullets and unconscionable artillery shells. The troops that beat Ma Hongkui had a complete crushing advantage in firepower.

But what makes Lin Husan feel weird is the process of fighting.

His feelings are familiar yet reversed.

During the Ruijin period and the Long March period, most of the time the Red Army had to launch a bayonet charge due to lack of ammunition and could not fire a few rows of guns.

After meeting Huang Ke, taking down the southern part of Hu Zong, and receiving a large amount of arms from the Soviet Union, Lin Husan was instructed to attack Lanzhou this time, not to save ammunition at the cost of sacrificing the lives of soldiers. Let go and shoot - the more than 400 million rounds of ammunition shipped by the Soviet Union, dozens of tons of explosives, a large amount of primer and cotton that can be used for reloading bullets, and the nearly 200 million rounds of ammunition that Huang Ke has already robbed. When the Red Army of the Central Army attacked Lanzhou, they could use their hands and feet to cover their tactics with firepower.

To be able to "fight the battle of prosperity like the Central Army fights", regardless of the first army of Lin Hu's three divisions, or the fourth army (Xu Shuai) and the fifth army (Dong Zhentang) who went south to help in the battle, every Red Army unit participating in the battle , in order to reduce casualties, they are all trying to give priority to using guns to deal with the enemy.

As for Ma Hongkui on the opposite side, his main force during this period was only more than 15 people.However, in order to defend Lanzhou, during the two-month period from mid-August to December, all the people were recruited as soldiers, and all males over the age of 5 were recruited into the "Tuan Ding".In Lanzhou alone, plus the support gathered from other places, more than 52 "security regiments" were organized, a total of [-] regiments.

There are not many decent guns in these security regiments. Whether it is a single shot, a bird gun, or even a cultural relic-level gun in the Tongzhi era, you can see it, but more often, it is just holding a big knife and a gun. The spear went straight into battle.

Whether it is the east part of Lanzhou or the Hexi part, the Red Army generals on the two fronts, in the battles of the past few days, the most impressive thing is that the group, under the urging of the supervising team, charged at the Red Army positions with swords and spears. Countless vigilante troops launching a desperate charge.

This situation surprised Xu Shuai who participated in the battle.

"If we only have more than 2 people and we don't have enough bullets, we will really be overwhelmed by them!"

When attacking Yinchuan, Ma Hongbin's troops who believed in Confucianism were not motivated enough to fight, and he himself was relatively soft-hearted, and he did not really use his troops like mud.But when the Red Army rushed to cross the Yellow River, the fighting will of its subordinates had already impressed Xu Shuai.But when he attacked Lanzhou City, Xu Shuai realized that he still underestimated the "Ma Jiajun".

Hundreds of local militiamen wearing various hats, driven by the supervisory team, charged towards the Red Army positions with big knives and earthen guns, like moths flying to the flame.In a short period of time, his fanatical fighting spirit once caused Xu Shuai to have the illusion that the troops on the opposite side looked like the Red Army.

"Is this the pinnacle of the 'thinking' feudal army organized with religious fanaticism?"

Both he and Lin Husan felt similar feelings at that moment.

Then, the barrage of Mark secret machine guns and various automatic weapons defeated the desperate attacks of these local militias.When the battle was fierce, the Red Army on some battlefields even directly mounted the unscrupulous guns to the front line, and used them as mortars to fire blasting explosives at the Ma's army who were launching a sea charge.

Throughout the Battle of Lanzhou, the five armies of the Red Army wiped out nearly 5 people from Ma Hongkui's troops.Among them, more than 6000 people were killed and injured, and 1 were captured. The ratio of the number of killed and wounded to the number of prisoners was close to 1:[-].Compared with the battles that the Red Army has experienced in the past ten years, this is very rare-the miscellaneous troops of the Central Army in the past usually started to collapse and flee after losing more than [-]%.

And in this process, if Xu Shuai and Dong Zhentang's troops hadn't consciously searched for Ma Hongkui's main force as a priority attack target, they had defeated the main force of Ma Hongkui's troops in advance, forcing him to abandon the city and flee on the third day after the siege So much so that the expelled local militias lost their command and collapsed and surrendered on a large scale, with a higher proportion of being killed or injured.

The Battle of Lanzhou lasted for 72 hours, during which there were extremely fierce street battles, and a quarter of Lanzhou City was destroyed by the war.

After the war, walking on the city streets that were still smoking, whether it was Lin Husan, Dong Zhentang or Xu Shuai, the Red Army generals, or Deng Fa, Dai Jiying and others who followed the main force into the city and were responsible for the future "sweeping" work At this time, the feeling in my heart is very heavy, and there is no sense of joy and relaxation after winning.

The Red Army, which wiped out 4000 enemies, also suffered nearly [-] casualties, and the actual number of victims was over a thousand.Fortunately, the precious antibiotics provided by Huang Ke ensured that no soldiers would die of infection after the war.However, the Red Army, which has an overall superiority in firepower, still paid a considerable price.

Deng Fa whispered in Lin Husan's ear, "Different from the cities we conquered before, this is a dangerous city."

The battle in Lanzhou City has ended, but for him who is in charge of the future "elimination of special forces" and "suppression of counter-revolutionaries", the battle has just begun.

Deng Fa, who did not participate in the war, has already learned from the feedback from the soldiers on the front line that what happened when he attacked the main city of Lanzhou. Many soldiers were actually in the street fighting in the city, and suddenly "turned from the people to the bandits". Injured or even sacrificed.And this situation is also the same as the information obtained from the exchanges with the Northwest Army and Guanzhong Swordsman before the war.

Deng Fa said blankly to Lin Hu:

"The people are also the bandits. Mount the horse to serve as the army, and dismount to serve as the people. This is the difference between this land in the northwest and other places."

Lin Hu took a look at Deng Fa. He walked over from the hail of bullets and the sea of ​​corpses and blood, and his scalp felt a little numb.

This person is actually Ye Ruofu from the Soviet District!Before the Long March, the Ruijin Red Army killed a group of so-called "unstable" and "dangerous elements" who "could leak secrets" when Deng Fa executed someone's order to "remove special" in order to "keep secret".As for those who died, many, it can even be said that almost all of them were innocent and should not be killed.

This person's heart is cruel and poisonous enough, and the person who gave this order......

As a soldier, he actually disliked these anti-revolutionary cadres in his heart-in fact, when the Soviet Union began to purge the "Wang Ming elements", those people who were sent back from the Soviet Union and were related to 28.5, especially these anti-revolutionary Cadres, life in the Red Army is not easy.Although the Tianshui meeting determined their gender and sent most of them to "reform through labor", the view that "the punishment is too light" has been slandered in many people's hearts.

Lin Husan was no exception. He even heard some people mockingly say: These black sheep are the most revolutionary and bravest only when they kill the Red Army's own people.

"Are you fighting poison with poison? No wonder you regretted that Xia Xi wasn't here when you left last time... You came from 70 years later, and you are still restless here after 70 years?"

Lin Husan had heard about what Xia Xi did in the [-]nd and [-]th Army Corps. What Huang Ke strongly recommended to Wu Hao, what did he want to do, how could Lin Husan not understand the subtext behind it?

None of the people who have made it this far in this era is a fool. In fact, all of them are human beings, because fools have long been eliminated by this harsh era.Huang Ke didn't hide anything about the future from the chairman alone, but other people, as long as they wanted to, could deduce a lot of information from his usual unintentional discussions, opinions, and cognitions.

Lin Husan is such a "careful person", and he is definitely not the only one.

Huang Ke's hostility towards Sanma and those behind them was even more hostile than towards Chang Kaishen.Lin Husan discovered very early on that Huang Ke's view of Chang Kaishen was extremely disdainful of "the soil has buried his throat, and sooner or later he will be a dry bone in the grave". Instead, he regarded Sanma and the two forces in Xinjiang, But with "excessive vigilance" and strong vigilance.

Why do you have this view?

Because he "regrets" that Xia Xi is not here, he also offered to suggest that Deng Fa and Dai Jiying, the most angry and hated guys in the Red Army, should handle the follow-up work here.

You must know that what Deng Fa did in the Ruijin Soviet Area was actually no worse than Xia Xi, and Dai Jiying, if the Central Red Army hadn't arrived earlier, he would be the second Xia Xi sooner or later...

"With that person's shrewdness, of course he can see what Xiao Huang is thinking and what he wants to do. What I didn't expect was that he would actually follow Xiao Huang's suggestion and agree to let Deng Fa and Dai Jiying come out! That People, that person is really different from the chairman, he has a needle hidden in the cotton, soft on the outside and sharp on the inside!"

Among the generals in the central high-level, Lin Husan and Huang Ke spent the longest time together, especially during the time when they crossed the grass, the two of them almost stuck together for a long time.At that time, Lin Husan had a very simple idea: he just wanted to learn more military skills from Huang Ke, which belonged to the "future Lin Husan".

During those few days of getting along, Huang Ke had no psychological defenses against Lin Husan, and answered whatever he asked.But in the process, the two occasionally talked about the future of the Red Army, as well as their "view chat" about the leadership of the Red Army.

As a bystander, Lin Husan could see Huang Ke's style of getting along with the high-level people. He noticed a detail very early on: Huang Ke, a "little young man", is a bold guy. Seeing him in Shanghai, You can understand what Changsha did.

Huang Ke, who has made many great contributions to the Red Army, is actually the most open-minded in front of the chairman, and even dares to be "naughty" to do some seemingly childish things.However, he was so bold that "he dared to attack Changsha with 21 people", but in front of another person, he was very cautious in speaking and doing things, and was very polite.

Although these are just some small details between words and deeds, Lin Husan still sees the hidden meaning behind it.

A time traveler, coming from the future, standing in the downstream of history... He knows everything about us, even what we have done in the future, our character, and the evaluation of us by future generations.In a sense, we are almost transparent in front of them!

Since then, Lin Husan has understood many things...

Lin Husan remembered the man who sent Deng Fa and Dai Jiying over.Dai Jiying was personally punished by him, and was rushed to a farm in northern Shaanxi to undergo labor reform.However, he was also "liberated" by himself, and then sent to Lanzhou in the name of "contributing crimes and meritorious service", and in Yinchuan, I heard that another group of anti-revolutionary cadres was also sent there.

"Politics is such a dangerous thing..."

In history, after the liberation, he was affected by the gunshot wound on his body and only had half his life left. He had been imitating Xu Da for a long time, and he stayed in the Northeast and refused to take care of things. Unfortunately, the tide of the times made it impossible for him to be alone , and there were two bastards in the family who couldn't tell how much they weighed. In the end, he couldn't make Tang He, but became Sapphire...

Lin Husan shook his head, put the worrying things out of his mind, and then concentrated on thinking about how to fight the last battle of this year.

When Ma Hongkui was defeated and left Lanzhou, he only took away more than 1000 horses. Now in the entire Northwest, only the main force of more than 4 people from Ma Bufang's "new" Second Army remained.After this battle, Ma Hongkui only had a small piece of territory near Minhe with a population of less than [-] people left.

But among the three horses in the Northwest, Ma Bufang, the most powerful, still has strength.

Unlike the Kuomintang army, which was full of empty wages, Ma Bufang's main force of 2 people was actually 5000 people.There is only excess, no moisture.After the Red Army came out of northern Sichuan, Ma Bufang immediately started "all people are soldiers" in his control area. Male young adults over the age of 5000 must be incorporated into regiments.A total of 15 security regiments were expanded, reaching more than 107 people. (This is a historical fact)

Historically, Ma Bufang's troops used this "all people are soldiers" method to overwhelm the West Route Army.

However, this characteristic of the Ma family army still cannot escape the essence of the "guardian dog" of the warlord forces.The biggest weakness of his tactics is that he can't fight too far away from home.Ma Bufang mobilized more than 100 public security militias, cannon fodder troops, and local defenses to fight on the inside. It is indeed a headache, but to fight on the outside, the northwest is a bitterly cold place, a little far away from home, and logistics supplies are a disaster.

The Red Army's offensive against the three horses deliberately focused on Ganma and Ningma in the early stage, but turned a blind eye to the Yongjing-Linxia area in Hedong. The purpose was to prevent Qingma from fighting the "people's war" of local defense.

After defeating Ningma in the First World War and Ganma in the second time, the chairman's view is that the Red Army is close to the peak of its fighting power, and it is time to make preparations for the end.

The final final battle is the Yongjing-Linxia area.

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The Yongjing area in Hedong (belonging to Linxia), is adjacent to Yuzhong in the east, and adjacent to the Tibetan area in the southwest.

Among the three horses in the Northwest, Ningxia, controlled by Ma Hongbin, has a population of 40. There is a mixture of Han and Hui here. Ma Hongbin himself is a rare Muslim who believes in Confucianism. it is good. (The population of the whole province should be around 70 people after deducting the missing, scattered, and out of his control)

The population of Lanzhou area and the forces under Ma Hongkui's control is about 60, of which the population of Lanzhou City is 11, and the surrounding area has more than [-] people. Lanzhou and the most fertile areas around it have been lost, and the territory in southern Ningnan has been completely occupied by the Red Army. , Ma Hongkui was basically on the verge of collapse.

Here I want to explain that Ma Hongbin, who is actually the weakest in Ningma Ganma, can only control Yinchuan City and a few cities to the north, and many territories in the south of Ningxia are actually controlled by Ma Hongkui.Ma Hongkui actually controlled a lot of territory in northern Gansu and southern Ningxia, and he was habitually called Ganma only because the center of power was in Lanzhou.

The strongest Ma Bufang faction has a population of 200 million under its rule, including the entire Qinghai (population 150 million), and the part west of Wuwei (Liangzhou), Gansu, Yongjing Linxia area (population of Yongjing County is about 4, but it belongs to There are 24 people in the Linxia area of ​​​​Hedong). (The Northwest Territory is so sparsely populated.)

Note: Although Wuwei belongs to Ma Bufang in name, it is actually controlled by Ma Buqing. It’s just that the two brothers of the Ma family have a good relationship and basically act in the same pace. They are usually regarded as one, but in fact, the two sides still have their own differences .Throughout the Northwest, the power of the Ma family can actually be regarded as a huge family business, dividing up territories of different sizes based on blood ties. If it is to be subdivided, it is actually far more than three horses or five horses.

Yongjing is 140 kilometers away from Yuzhong and only 95 kilometers away from Lanzhou.Shortly after taking Lanzhou, on December 22, the Yongjing-Linxia Battle broke out. Ma Bufang, who realized that Hedong was undefendable, actually gave up the entire Hedong area and retreated to Qinghai.Before leaving, Ma Bufang took away a large number of young adults and all the livestock from the local area.

Chairman Li Runshi's plan to wipe out a large number of Qingma's viable forces in the Yongjing area was aborted because of Ma Bufang's voluntary abandonment.

So far, the Red Army's two-month winter offensive launched in early November has come to an end.

After the war, the Central Red Army completely united the northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu base areas, and opened up the Ningxia base area.

The reason why they stopped to rest at this time was because of the two months of fighting, the territory of the Red Army had expanded too much, even to the point where it was a bit "overwhelmed".

Compared with the Ruijin period, the combined bases of the three places control an area of ​​more than 130 million square kilometers!In terms of area size, it is almost larger than the historical base areas behind enemy lines after 1945.

The distance from Lanzhou to Tianshui is 320 kilometers, and the distance from Lanzhou to Yan'an is as high as [-] kilometers.The area of ​​the base area is too large, and the Red Army's grassroots forces in the newly occupied areas are weak. This is the biggest problem.

Unlike the south, the northwest is sparsely populated. The newly acquired Ningmaganma territory has a total population of less than 100 million but an area of ​​more than 80 square kilometers.It looks scary, but in fact, except for a few central cities, in most areas, the Red Army can only be said to be "the sphere of influence in name."

"Before establishing our own powerful cavalry unit and establishing a solid grassroots organization to control various folk villages, these areas are actually all racetracks where the Majiajun cavalry can come whenever they want!" ——Chairman Li Runshi is actually very interested in the current strategic situation in the Northwest Sober, not ignoring the crisis behind it because the situation is so good.

If there is no threat from Chang Kaishen in the east, Chairman Li Runshi will naturally order the Red Army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, go west, take Xining, and seize Wuwei.If Qing Ma was severely injured, even if he could not be eliminated, he would occupy his best territory, and he would be demoted from a "local warlord" to a "rogue".Then slowly compress his living space little by little and destroy him—in history, the People’s Liberation Army really eliminated the influence of the Three Horse Forces, but it took a full ten years, and at the same time suppressed more than 20 people after liberation , This is the final elimination of the Ma family army.

In the northwest area, the power of Sanma is not the only one.It is close to the Tibet area of ​​Qinghai and Gansu, itself is the Tibetan, Hui, Han tripartite forces intertwined.Tibetan forces cannot be ignored, and they have been feuding with Sanma for centuries.In the Yongjing area of ​​​​Hedong, bloody conflicts between local forces and the Tibetan cavalry chieftain forces in the west have continued in the past few decades.In Ningxia, the conflict between the Sanma and the Mongols also lasted hundreds of years...

Just like treating Mongolian nomads, in the past few months, the Red Army has also sent medical teams into Tibetan areas, using precious medicines as pioneers to establish friendly relations with Tibetans in Tibetan areas.In the northern Sichuan guerrilla zone close to Tibet from Songpan to Tianshui, in the past three months, relying on the large amount of antibiotics left by Huang Ke to "clear the way", Wang Weizhou's troops, who established the guerrilla zone in northern Sichuan, have already fought with the entire Songpan-Xikang area. Tibetans have established a semi-alliance of "mutual non-aggression".When the main force of the Red Army came out of northern Sichuan, there were only a thousand people in Wang Weizhou's "independent division" left behind, but in the past few months, the number has increased to more than 3000, and many of the new soldiers are from Xikang and northern Sichuan. The Tibetans in the northern Sichuan area even formed a cavalry battalion of hundreds of people.

After the previous heavy losses, and the joint suppression of so many other forces, the three horses in the northwest, the arms purchased from the Japanese were robbed by Huang Ke, and now Ma Bufang can only stay in Xining and Wuwei honestly. two places.

The reason why he didn't play Qingma at this time was that Ma Bufang's territory was too large, there were a lot of mobile cavalry, and there was a lot of room for strategic maneuvering.More importantly, according to the information obtained from within the Democratic Party, with the rapid expansion of the Red Army's influence in the Northwest, Chang Kaishen has become increasingly unable to tolerate this situation, and "all-out suppression" is imminent.And the Red Army, which launched a major war just after the Long March, had indeed reached what is called a "turning point of strength" in the military after winning the two strategically important places of Lanzhou and Yinchuan, and needed to stop and rest.

After the bridgehead into the Hexi Corridor was established, the war against the three horses came to an end for the time being, and the whole army rested.

And throughout December, the Chairman of the Standing Committee who stayed in Nanjing received the most calls for help one after another from the Northwest Sanma...

At this time, under his urging, Zhu Peide's third army finally rushed to the outside of Tongguan at the end of December.Join the new first army that has just been upgraded from a "division" to an "army". Yes, its predecessor is Sun Yuanliang's "First Division".Because the former "No. 12 Division in the World" was captured by the Red Army in the First World War, it was too famous and too shameful. Chang Kaishen recently replaced him with the "army" organization during the Northern Expedition.The name was changed to "New First Army". The original First Division has now been replaced by the name "New First Division". There are two divisions in total. The second division is called "New Second Division". The personnel were the "deserters" of the former First Division of Tianshui and the messy militia recruited temporarily in Hanzhong, and the people who were abolished from the original First Division.

The third main force, however, was trapped by Huang Ke and was rejected by the Hunanese as Wei Lihuang's force, which was forced to return. It had three main divisions.The total strength of the three armies combined exceeded 10, and they were approaching Tongguan, assuming that they would enter the pass at any time to attack the Red Army.

This is also the largest "long-distance support" from the Central Army for the Northwestern Sanma, who were being beaten by the Red Army throughout December... because the Central Army just put on a gesture and refused to move out of the camp.The reason is that between the Central Army and the Red Army, there are still soldiers and horses of Zhang and Yang.

"Mother Xipi, mother Xipi! Zhang Yang is shameless, colluding with the red bandits, he should be killed, he should be killed!"

At this time, Zhang Yang had become a pig teammate in Chang Kaishen's eyes who occupied the latrine and cheated him.No matter how much he urged outside Tongguan, Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang refused to actually move and send troops, and the reason was still the same: pay quickly!Don't need banknotes, you have to go to the ocean!

Chang Bald, who had already been tricked once by the "Yan'an Seven-Day Tour", of course refused to spend real money, and the two of them naturally stood still, just sitting and watching the three horses' fiasco without making a move.

Chang Kaishen, who cherishes his life for doing great things, is willing to regard his precious main force as a pioneer and rush to the front to die for the three horses when Zhang Yang refuses to make the first move?

Under such a situation, Chang Tuzi can only hope that Sanma will be "brave" this time.