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Since the attack of the Fourth Column was launched in the morning, more than 10,000 troops led by Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang brothers have been passively beaten everywhere.

In order to severely damage the Qingma forces in this battle, Chen Zhiyuan had already concentrated 15,000 troops after being strengthened by the cavalry of the sect column. After sending Cui Yi and others to attack, Chen Zhiyuan still retained 8,000 troops to attack the Ma brothers in front of him. At this time, after a day of fierce fighting, the remaining combatable forces were only more than 8,000. Chen Zhiyuan believed that with the preparation and unpreparedness, coupled with the advantages of his troops in firepower and technical and tactical levels, he could completely suppress the Ma brothers. When several troops from the Fourth Column were sent to the front, several sides would join forces to encircle them and even annihilate the Ma brothers.

After the attack was launched in the early morning, Chen Zhiyuan only left a battalion of troops in Yongchang City to keep alert, so he sent out the troops at hand. Since he knew the opponent's strength after a day of fighting, he clarified the enemy's camp and made careful arrangements, there was no need to keep any reserve teams when he was sure to win.

After the fourth vertical mobilized hundreds of mortars to bombard the Ma brothers camp of Shuimochuan Fort, the enemy troops who were still dreaming were completely stunned. In the barracks, many of the more than 4,000 horses who were temporarily kept in several places were frightened and rushed around in the barracks, which further added to the chaos in the barracks.

However, at this time, Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang were not in Shuimochuan Fort, but in the new castle behind. When the Ma brothers woke up, they listened to the dense guns and cannons coming from the direction of Shuimochuan Fort, and saw the fires rising from the night sky from time to time, and knew that something was wrong. However, before the Ma Buqing brothers made a response, the camps in the new castle area were also bombarded and began to fall into chaos.

Looking at the chaotic scene of the people in the camp shouting and neighing, Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang brothers felt cold in their hearts. Previously, their troops had attacked for a whole day, but the other party did not make a decent counterattack, but now they launched several places at the same time. Judging from the momentum, the other party had no more than 5,000 troops! They didn't care about guessing how many troops the other party was hiding, Ma Buqing said: "One to organize everyone to retreat first and retreat to the mountain pill!"

"We cannot retreat to the mountain pill, retreat to the source of the gate, we will return to Xining!" Ma Bufang insisted, "Hexi Corridor can be thrown away, but Qinghai is our foundation!"

"Brother, do you think I don't know?" Ma Buqing pointed at the southeast direction with his finger and smiled bitterly, "Look at the direction leading to the gate source, there are also fires flashing there. I guess the thousand people you stayed in the back road were also attacked. We can only retreat to Shandan first!"

Ma Bufang looked along Ma Buqing's fingers and saw fires flashing from time to time in the direction leading to the door source in the distance. Although the distance was far and I could not see clearly, Ma Bufang knew that it was not a bonfire, but a fire from the explosion of the shell. Thinking that the rear road was broken, Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang's heart were cold.

Gritting his teeth and encouraging himself to a little bit of energy, Ma Bufang nodded and said, "Okay, let's take everyone to retreat to Shandan first!"

After occupying the Shandan Army horse farm, the proportion of cavalry in Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang's troops was very high. However, when Ma Bufang led 8,000 people to cross mountains and ridges back to Xining, he had to kill horses because he could not find food in the mountains for a long time. After the 8,000 people returned to Xining, there were not many horses left. This time, he agreed to attack Yongchang with Ma Buqing. The two brothers gathered less than 5,000 cavalry. In addition to the war horses and more than 4,000 pack horses in total, there were also more than 3,000 horses of various types in the Xin Castle area.

Originally, with so many horses, the mobility of the Ma brothers increased greatly, and retreating was no problem. But now, due to enemy shelling, many horses were frightened and ran around in the camp. It was not easy for the Ma Buqing brothers to withdraw their troops under the attack of the other side.

After finally receiving the defeated soldiers from Shuiquan Fortress and the new castle, they organized more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 2,000 infantrymen, Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang led everyone to march west along the Great Wall.

Looking at the 6,000 remaining people in front of me, thinking about the scene of more than 10,000 people when they went out to fight, Ma Bufang sighed and said, "I'm fighting like this, and I don't know what the other routes are like now. I just hope that there will be no accident in Xining."

"It shouldn't be?" Ma Buqing said with some uncertainty, "If this People's Army can really defeat our various encirclement forces at the same time, then they will be the only one in the northwest. I think they should not have the strength now."

"I hope so." Ma Bufang was worried.

In the hazy morning light, this group of defeated soldiers was ambushed at the foot of Yanzhi Mountain when they passed by Dingqiang Temple at the foot of the Great Wall and headed towards Fenglepu. Fortunately, the opponent's troops were not large and they attacked again. The Ma brothers did not suffer much loss after losing more than a thousand infantry.

"How could there be an ambush in this place?" After leaving the pursuers, Ma Buqing was still in panic.

"We'd better send someone to the front to explore." Ma Bufang became increasingly worried about the future. "There are enemies here, and it's hard to say whether the Shandan is still in our hands. Be careful, there's no big mistake."

The troops pursuing the Ma Buqing brothers in this place were the fourth column detachment after successfully attacking the Shandan Army Horse Farm. Since there were only 1,000 cavalry and did not carry heavy weapons, and they had to look at the Gujun Horse Farm, the first detachment had to take the opportunity to harass the Ma brothers.

As the mountain dan got closer and closer, when Ma Buqing and his party walked to the vicinity of Hongsi Mountain Pass, the people who went to the front to explore brought a few people to the Ma brothers.

"Ma Lu? Why did you get here? What happened in Ganzhou?" As soon as he saw the people in front of him, Ma Buqing felt a sank and asked hurriedly.

"Two division commanders, Ganzhou is lost." Ma Lu said with a sad face, "In the early morning, thousands of people broke into Ganzhou City. With guns and cannons, the brothers really couldn't stand it, so they had to retreat to the high platform. I was afraid that the division commanders would suffer when they came back, so I rushed over to report the news."

Ma Buqing had previously received a promise from Ma Lin to give up the position of the commander of the Gansu Cavalry First Division, but before Ma Lin gave up the throne, the Gansu Cavalry First Division was beaten to pieces by the People's Army. But Ma Bufang is now a division commander, and Ma Buqing is unwilling to others to call him other names, so everyone also called Ma Buqing the division commander.

Previously, when Ma Buqing sent troops from Ganzhou, in order to ensure the safety of the rear, he deliberately left Ma Lu and more than 1,000 people behind, but unexpectedly something happened in Ganzhou.

"Damn it! I'll kill you!" After hearing such bad news, Ma Buqing was so angry that he was about to pull out his gun.

"Brother, you can't blame Ma Lu for this matter. There are thousands of enemies who suddenly broke into Ganzhou to attack. Even if you and I are there, you can't stand it with a thousand people." Ma Bufang grabbed Ma Buqing's wrist and said, "And it's very rare that he can let his brothers retreat to the high platform and come to warn us. Don't blame him anymore."

After pausing, Ma Bufang sighed and said, "I lost Ganzhou. I can't go to Shandan whether I lost it or not. Otherwise, I will be under the attack of the enemy from both sides of the east and west. The enemy won Ganzhou and won such a victory again. There must be pursuers behind me. We must go to Gaotai to set up defenses quickly."

After hearing what Ma Bufang said, Ma Buqing gave up and glared at Ma Lu and said, "I'll spare you this time. If I do something again in the future, I will kill you!"

While Ma Lu was timid, he sighed in his heart: He ran from afar to warn him but almost got a gun. It was still the second young master who was reasonable.

When they learned that there was a change in Ganzhou, the Ma brothers did not dare to delay. The group rushed over Dapandaokou, rushed to Gaotai through Banqiaobao and Pingchuanbao.

On the afternoon of December 1, the first thing Ma Bufang did after rushing to the high platform was to have someone set up a radio station and contact Ma Lin, Xining and Yang Hucheng, Xi'an.

Yang Hucheng had hope for the Ma brothers, hoping that after the other encirclement and suppression troops suffered great defeats, they could bring some good news. However, when they contacted each other, they also received news of a crushing defeat. They couldn't help but feel depressed.

When the Ma brothers received a telegram from Ma Lin, they were stunned: Gao Shuang succeeded and failed in Jing Yuexiu's army! Sun Weiru, Yang Hucheng army, and Ma Qingyuan army suffered a crushing defeat! Lu Dachang army suffered a crushing defeat! Ma Lin army suffered a crushing defeat! 6 counties including Longxi Hezheng, Lintan, Linxia, ​​etc. were lost! Five counties including Qinghai Menyuan, Minhe, Xunhua, Hualong, and Ledu were lost!

What shocked the two brothers the most was that the People's Army actually launched a counterattack against the encirclement and suppression troops in all directions in the early morning of the 29th! This shows that the People's Army's combat power is not as expected before, but the real No. 1, Northwest Headquarters.

After the shock, the two brothers Ma Buqing felt bitter in their hearts.

"I want to go back to Xining." Ma Bufang said after sighing.

"Menyuan has been occupied by the enemy. The road to Xining from Ganzhou, Yongchang and other places has been cut off. It is even more difficult to go back." Ma Buqing advised, "Besides, it is already snowing now, and it is even more difficult to travel through the Qilian Mountains. Even if you want to go back, you will wait until the spring is coming next year."

"I can't wait." Ma Bufang smiled bitterly, "Now Qinghai has lost 5 counties, and the People's Army is approaching Huangzhong Valley. If we wait for the spring next year, I guess Xining is no longer in our hands. Our uncle can't stand the situation at this moment."

When Ma Lin was young, he was under the protection of his brother Ma Qi. After he was aged last year, he was keen on making money and asked him to command the Xining area to confront the People's Army. That would definitely be lost faster.

Seeing that Ma Buqing was still hesitating, Ma Bufang said again: "Don't worry, although the road we have to walk longer this time, we have experienced the last time we went back to Xining, so it should be easier this time. In addition, although it is difficult to walk on the mountain when the heavy snow is blocked, it will be even more difficult to walk after the snow melts in the spring next year."

After pondering for a while, Ma Buqing asked, "Do you think we can really deal with the People's Army after we go back? That is, we will bring all the troops here back to Xining. With the situation in Huangzhong and Huangyuan, and with the population and supplies in that area, can we really defeat the People's Army?"

Ma Bufang was silent. Yes, his brother mobilized more than 10,000 elite troops, but was easily defeated by the opponent. Just because there are more than 8,000 mobs in Xining, how can he fight with the opponent? Moreover, the shortcut to the Hexi Corridor on the Menyuan side was cut off, and several counties on the junction with Gansu were taken away by the opponent. The only way out of Qinghai was to cross the Qaidam Basin and enter Xinjiang and Tibet. If the ammunition was exhausted, he would have no place to replenish it even if he spent a high price. At that time, would he use a big knife, a spear and a People's Army to fight to the death? That was just a death.

As for joining the People's Army, neither brother had the idea of ​​this. If that were the case, not only would the troops in their hands be lost, but the fields and property in their homes would also be divided up. If the so-called blood debt was liquidated, the guys who were eating with their brothers would not be able to be saved. Why bother?

"I still have to go back." After pondering for a while, Ma Bufang broke his silence, "Xining is our foundation. Even if we can't defeat the People's Army, we cannot make the huge business left by our father in vain and make our enemies! I will go back and see the situation before making a decision. If it really doesn't work, take away all the people and things that can be taken away, and destroy all the things that cannot be taken away! Never give others a discount!"

After a pause, Ma Bufang gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "That boy Ma Buying can make a fortune in Hexi and Xinjiang. It doesn't matter that our brothers can't do it! If the situation is wrong, I will bring people to meet you next spring. We brothers will make another world in Hexi and Xinjiang!"...

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