Yang Hucheng was really surprised to be able to contact the Ma Buqing Department of Ganzhou on November 20.

"Congratulations to Commander, this is a good omen!" Wang Yishan, chief of staff of the 17th Route Army, congratulated Yang Hucheng with a smile, "With Ma Buqing's joining, we have formed a situation where the 6 armies besieged the People's Army from all directions from southeast, west and north. In addition, the equipment improvement, firepower strengthened, and the restoration of Gansu and Ningxia provinces is just around the corner!"

"Brother Yishan, I'm afraid it's not that simple." Although Yang Hucheng is confident enough, he did not dare to take it lightly for the people's army in one day and swept across Gansu and Ningbo provinces. "The People's Army can cover Gansu in just a few months, and its combat power cannot be underestimated. I just hope that the other routes can restrain the strength of the People's Army and increase the chances of our Shaanxi main attack troops."

In Yang Hucheng's mind, he had no hope for the Ganzhou Ma Buqing Division. Now that he has contacted him, he will send troops to attack Wuwei eastward. According to time, the equipment transferred to Xining is too late to transport to Ma Buqing, but as long as he can send troops to attack Wuwei, no matter what the result will be, at least he can restrain the People's Army's troops in the Hexi region and increase the chance of the other five routes of troops.

Of course, for Longnan Lu Dachang, Xining's Ma Lin and Ma Bufang, Yang Hucheng also regarded them as auxiliary attack directions. Yang Hucheng really relied on his two divisions, Ma, and Jing Yuexiu's strengthening brigade.

After Jing Yuexiu from northern Shaanxi was strengthened, in addition to the four infantry regiments originally scheduled to be sent and one cavalry regiment remained unchanged, the original field artillery battalion and the mortar battalion were upgraded into a field artillery regiment. After the mortar regiment joined the attack on the eastern part of Ningxia River. In order to unify command, Jing Yuexiu formed a temporary reinforcement brigade of the troops of the unit, commanded by Gao Shuangcheng, the general under his command.

Among the equipment allocated to the Tongguan camp in Nanjing, there were 36 75-caliber field guns, 60 81-caliber mortars, 40,000 guns and corresponding ammunition. In terms of quantity alone, Chiang Kai-shek definitely invested a lot of money in the besieging of the People's Army, but in fact, the Nanjing government did not spend much money. These weapons were basically the spoils seized from the Yan Feng coalition during the war last year, and many of them were confiscated after the war. After selection and renovation, they were transported to Xi'an this time. However, even the refurbished equipment made the army heads of the northwest provinces very happy. Just look at the fact that many soldiers of the Ma Qingyuan Division under Yang Hucheng were holding Hanyang Magazine, which was almost bald from more than 20 years ago, and the rifle was almost worn out, you can know how the equipment of Jing Yuexiu, Lu Dachang, Ma Lin and other departments were.

Regarding the batch of equipment transported by Nanjing, Yang Hucheng, in addition to sending Jing Yuexiu 12 field cannons, 12 mortars, 8,000 firearms and corresponding ammunition, distributed 24 field cannons, 24 mortars and 20,000 firearms to Sun Weiru and Ma Qingyuan divisions, and transported 24 mortars and the remaining 12,000 guns to Ma Lin and Ma Bufang in Lu Dachang, Longnan and Xining respectively.

In Yang Hucheng's mind, he had used the old equipment replaced by his troops to distribute it to Longnan and Xining, and left the idea of ​​himself with the equipment transported from Nanjing. However, radio operators sent by Nanjing to various troops arrived in Xi'an with this batch of equipment. It would be difficult to hide it if they were tampered with it. After some consideration, Yang Hucheng gave up this idea.

Now among the six armies, Yang Hucheng's three most confident troops have been prepared for attack: Gao Shuangcheng has led nearly 8,000 troops from 7 regiments, large and small, to the Dingbian area, and can launch attacks on Yanchi and other places in Hedong, Ningxia at any time; Sun Weiru's three brigades have been deployed to the Changwu-Longxian line, and can attack Jingchuan, Lingtai, Huating and other Longdong areas just by orders; two brigades of Ma Qingyuan's division have arrived in Liangdang and Huixian, and can launch attacks on Qingshui and Tianshui at any time. With the greatly enhanced firepower, Yang Hucheng believes that even if Gansu and Ning provinces cannot be restored in one fell swoop, they can achieve enough results in dealing with Nanjing.

As for the three divisions of Lu Dachang, Xining Ma Lin and Ma Bufang, and Ganzhou Ma Buqing, although they are restraining their forces, the total strength of more than 20,000 troops should have bitten off a few pieces of meat from the People's Army. Moreover, with the radio operators sent by Nanjing, Yang Hucheng was not afraid of these three groups of people being cheated.

Considering that the Ma Buqing Army was a little late to receive the news, Yang Hucheng decided to give the headquarters a few more days to prepare, and agreed that the six armies would launch an attack on the People's Army from different directions on the 28th.

Yang Hucheng is basically ready, and the people's ministries are basically in place.

From October to now, after several twists and turns, all the 24,000 people supported by Yimeng finally arrived at the Northwest Base and were dispatched to various columns and government departments of more than 50 counties. With the addition of these people, the combatable force in the Northwest Base reached about 70,000 and the government staff reached about 10,000. This greatly alleviated the pressure on the Northwest Base in terms of force and other aspects, and further strengthened the People's Army's control over the base.

By mid-November, the forces of various departments of the People's Army have been adjusted.

Now, in addition to the original three main columns, the fourth main column led by Chen Zhiyuan and Cui Yi has been added. The troops of these four columns are all around 13,000.

In addition, the special column's troops increased to 6,200 people, the artillery column's troops increased to 6,000 people, and the sect column's troops remained unchanged. Of course, these three columns drew a total of 2,500 troops to establish a combat training center in Haiyuan, and are starting to train new recruits.

On the 19th, Zhang Mingrui, Yang Tianming, Liu Jifeng, Xu Chaoyuan, Chen Zhiyuan, Wang Fengshan, Yu Zhenshan and others gathered in the combat command room of the Haiyuan Training Center to convey Zhao Zhenzhong's telegram and make specific arrangements for the upcoming operations.

"According to the news of the Dingbian Chinese Business Group transferred from Wu Mingshan a few days ago, Jing Yuexiu's troops received equipment supplements and strengthening from Nanjing, and already had field artillery regiments and mortar regiments. If Jing Yuexiu's troops can do this, it is believed that Yang Hucheng troops will not be much worse. Therefore, each unit must pay attention to strengthening the prevention of the enemy's heavy firepower during combat to reduce unnecessary losses." Zhang Mingrui looked at everyone present and continued, "The enemy situation has changed like this. According to the request of Mr. in early October and the day before yesterday, we will also adjust the specific deployment of this battle this time."

In the new deployment, Xu Chaoyuan's third column will be responsible for responding to the attack of Sun Weiru's division of Yanghucheng's division in Shaanxi; Liu Jifeng's second column will be responsible for responding to the attacks of Ma Qingyuan's division of Yanghucheng's division in Longnan and Lu Dachang's division; Chen Zhiyuan's fourth column and Yang Tianming's special column will be responsible for dealing with the enemy troops in the Hexi Corridor, Qinghai's direction and the north of Minxian County in Longxi; Zhang Mingrui's division of the first column will be responsible for dealing with Jing Yuexiu's division attacking Yanchi.

Given that the enemy's firepower was strengthened and the defense line of the Second Column was too long, the Jiao Column decided to be responsible for the defense of Huanxian, Qingyang, Heshui and other places, and serve as a battle reserve team to join the second and third longitudinal directions at any time; the 38 75-caliber artillery and 16 105-caliber artillery of the Artillery Column are used by the first, second and third longitudinal directions.

"There is no problem with the 75-caliber artillery, but I do not recommend the use of 105-caliber artillery in this battle." After Zhang Mingrui finished talking about the relevant deployment, Wang Fengshan said, "Now, 105-caliber artillery in China is rare. If we use this battle, it will definitely make Yang Hucheng and Nanjing more vigilant and investigate the source, which will cause unnecessary trouble."

After Zhao Zhenzhong and others transferred the equipment transported from the arsenal in the three eastern provinces to the northwest base, the cannon column was really a shotgun replacement. From the original 12 American 75 caliber field guns, it has increased to the level of having American 38 Liao-made 75 artillery pieces and 16 105 caliber artillery pieces.

"Fengshan's concerns make sense." Yang Tianming agreed, "From last year's Central Plains War to the present, in the domestic battles, except for the Yimeng side who used 105-caliber artillery when bombing Ma Hongkui's troops this spring, I have never heard of other forces using this caliber artillery. It is worth it to be cautious. Besides, the mortars and the 75-caliber artillery reinforced artillery columns equipped by our columns are enough to cope with the enemy's encirclement."

After thinking about it carefully, Zhang Mingrui felt it made sense, so he nodded and said, "Okay, the 105 cannon of the cannon will not be used this time. Do you have any other opinions?"

"I have some extras." Xu Chaoyuan said, "The Fourth Column is newly established, but the task this time is not light. I suggest that our three main columns all take out 1,000 war horses to supplement the Fourth Column. In this way, their mobility will be greatly improved, and the battles in the Hexi Corridor and Qinghai direction will be more confident."

The Fourth Column was established late and did not catch up with the opportunity of each column to divide the horses. Therefore, there are only 500 horses supported by the first column in the entire column. This situation is indeed not conducive to the combat in the Hexi Corridor and Qinghai direction.

"Oh, hurry up, each column of our column will bring 1,000 people and horses to the Fourth Column. In this way, the Fourth Column will have 3,000 available cavalry, and there is no need to train anymore." Liu Jifeng said very simply, "Of course, the Fourth Column will also have to use 3,000 troops to supplement our three columns."

Zhang Mingrui, Xu Chaoyuan and others looked at each other, and they all thought that Liu Jifeng's idea was good. "Okay, let's decide according to what Jifeng said." Zhang Mingrui made the decision.

"Haha, thank you brothers for your strong help." Chen Zhiyuan, who unexpectedly got 3,000 cavalrymen, was so happy that he couldn't stop. "With this cavalry, it would be even more problematic to complete the task. When we take down the Shandan Army Horse Farm, we can get at least a few thousand good horses, and we don't have to worry about not having any war horses in the future."

The Shandan Military Horse Farm is located in the Damaying Grassland, Qilian Mountains, 55 kilometers south of Shandan County. It is the oldest and largest horse farm in the world. It is flat, lush water and grass, and a suitable climate. It is an ideal place for horses to reproduce and grow. Since the Western Han Dynasty, it has been based on local Mongolian horses and has introduced various Western Regions good horses. The Shandan Horse Farm is famous all over the world. As a result, the Shandan Horse Farm has also become a royal military horse breeding base for all dynasties.

Since the previous year, the Shandan Army Horse Farm fell into the hands of Ma Buqing, and the Ma Bufang brothers became the source of their expansion of cavalry strength. It can be said that if there were no Shandan Army Horse Farm, there would be no Qingma forces that traverse the northwest in the original history.

"Haha, what about this good thing?" Liu Jifeng said happily, "Then like this, our 1,000 horses were lent to the Fourth Column. After you take the Shandan Horse Farm, you will return 1,000 Shandan good horses to each column. According to the words of "Shopkeeper Zou", this is called borrowing and repaying."

Seeing that Liu Jifeng had gone from being generous just now to being as generous as he is now, everyone couldn't help laughing.

After laughing, Yu Zhenshan asked: "Mingrui, Mr. Mingrui used to comment on the strategies adopted by both sides when Chiang Kai-shek attacked the CCP forces after the war last year. Now we are also facing the enemy's six-way siege. Why are the strategies we adopted very different from theirs? I know that our current arrangement is definitely fine, but what is the reason for the difference?"...

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