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Chapter 4: Sharpening the Army (2)

On the way to Guyuan, Huang Shaohong also observed the situation in Chadong and Chabei. Knowing that what Sun Dianying said was true, he no longer pursued his military discipline. He asked, "Why did I hear that you will retreat backwards without contacting the enemy?"

As soon as the rumors were mentioned, Sun Dianying was furious and argued with a red face: "I said I would retreat if I didn't see the enemy. Please go and see where are my wounded soldiers? Someone spread rumors that I was appointed by Manchukuo. Minister, you know, the whole country knows that I, Sun Dianying, dug up the ancestral grave of Xiao Puyi. Even if I go to vote for him, will he tolerate me? Wouldn't I send my slutty head to the knife?"

At that time, the incident of Sun Dianying's dig for the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty was not only mixed in China, but also had many influences on the international community. It must be an exaggeration to say that everyone on earth knew it, but it is an indisputable fact if the great powers knew it. Among them, in addition to some old and young people in the Qing Dynasty crying and gritting their teeth and asking the authorities to severely punish Sun Dianying, which caused a lot of influence on him, there were also many foreign cultural relics dealers who heard the news, making Sun Dianying's reputation famous at home and abroad.

Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, the fact that Sun Dianying dug up the imperial tomb basically cut off the possibility of his resignation to Manchukuo. When Huang Shaohong came, he did see that Sun Dianying's troops were injured. He heard that he was right at this time and pondered for a moment.

Seeing this, Sun Dianying patted his chest again and said confidently: "Although I, Sun Dianying, was a bandit and had been in trouble for decades, I still know some national justice. Even if I am stupid, I know that I have an irreconcilable hatred with Xiao Puyi. Those who spread rumors simply want to slap me, so I ask the Minister to report to Minister He and deal with it properly. I will definitely obey the order and have no other intentions!"

After the inspection, Huang Shaohong saw that Sun Dianying's troops did suffer a lot in the previous battle, so he dispelled his doubts and agreed to pay an owed 400,000 yuan and 40,000 bags of flour immediately. He also designated Sun's troops to deploy defenses in Guyuan, Dushikou and Zhenlingkou areas to the east and north.

Later, Sun Dianying's troops fought several more battles with the puppet army. After evacuating Guyuan, they stationed in Dushikou and Zhenlingkou areas until the Great Wall was in a truce. But shortly after the Great Wall was in a truce, Feng Yuxiang caused trouble in Chahar again.

After Feng Yuxiang established the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Chahar, he sent someone to contact Sun Dianying to express his intention of cooperating with anti-Japanese. Sun Dianying had made a living under Feng Yuxiang, so he naturally knew how his boss was. Moreover, now he has been in good condition with the care of the Nanjing authorities and is doing well, so he doesn't want to get stuck in it and wants to move to another place.

Although Sun Dianying's troops suffered a lot of losses in the Great Wall's War of Resistance, the Sun troops later annexed two cavalry brigades of Tang Yulin who was defeated from Rehe, an infantry regiment, and other mixed volunteers. The total strength increased instead of decline, reaching more than 70,000 people.

If such a force is mixed with Feng Yuxiang, the situation in Chahar will be in chaos. With concern, the Nanjing authorities wanted to transfer Sun's troops from Chahar. But at this time, there was no place for North China provinces to settle Sun Dianying's more than 70,000 troops. In the end, I don't know who came up with the idea that many areas in Qinghai are still not in the hands of "people and bandits", so I simply asked Sun Dianying to go to Qinghai and gave the title "Northwest Cultivation Supervision".

In history, Sun Dianying received the appointment of "Qinghai Northwest Reclamation Supervision", but now it is "Northwest Reclamation Supervision", with its headquarters in Qinghai. It seems that Sun Dianying has a lot more authority, but in fact, since most of Ningxia and Gansu provinces and the Qinghai Hehuang Valley area are all in the hands of the People's Army, it is still uncertain whether Sun Dianying can arrive in Qinghai as he wishes.

After accepting the appointment, although Sun Dianying knew that this trip would probably be inevitable to face the People's Army, he thought that he had dealt with the tanks, cannons and planes of the little Japanese for a long time. The People's Army did not have these guys, so it would not be more powerful than the Japanese, right? Therefore, he didn't take it seriously and planned to travel westward to Baotou via Pingsui Road, then turn south, cross the western part of Ningxia, and enter Qinghai.

It happened that the Fu Zuoyi army of the 59th Army was ordered to return to Suiyuan on June 28, and Sun Dianying planned to follow Fu Zuoyi army and travel westward through the Pingsui Railway. In Sun Dianying's view, it would be much better for Fu Zuoyi to come forward to deal with Feng Yuxiang and others than for himself, at least, it would avoid many things that were difficult to get involved.

Fu Zuoyi did not refuse the meaning expressed by Sun Dianying in person. Although Fu Zuoyi looked down on Sun Dianying, the bandit leader who digs out his ancestral tombs, Sun Dianying fought in the Great Wall. Thinking of the relationship between fighting against Japan, Fu Zuoyi agreed to Sun Dianying's request.

In order to allow the troops to return to Suiyuan as soon as possible, Fu Zuoyi sent people to the reconnaissance routes in Zhenbiancheng, Laiyuan, Weixian and Yangyuan, and prepared to bypass Zhangjiakou to travel westward. However, later, it was probably caused by misunderstandings from Feng Yuxiang's alliance army, so he sent Zhao Jinbiao to Zhangjiakou to pay homage to Feng Yuxiang to explain the troops' return to Suiyuan.

Feng Yuxiang, holding the banner of anti-Japanese war, could not refuse the request of Fu and Sun's anti-Japanese teams to pass through Zhangjiakou. After all, Feng Yuxiang's troops are now fighting only puppet troops. Fu Zuoyi and Sun Dianying can fight with Japanese planes and tanks to the death. The previous carjacking incident just stopped. If Feng's troops now make trouble to prevent the anti-Japanese troops from returning, the saliva from the whole country could drown Feng Yuxiang.

On July 3, the vanguard of the 59th Army had successfully passed through Zhangjiakou, and the remaining troops were transported back to Suiyuan one after another. On July 13, the vanguard of the 41st Army of Sun Dianying's army also arrived in Baotou from Chahar. However, since Sun Dianying's army now has more than 70,000 troops, which is much more than Fu Zuoyi's army, Sun did not arrive in Baotou until July 29.

When Fu and Sun passed by Zhangjiakou, Feng Yuxiang also held two welcoming and seeing off ceremony. After all, getting closer to the anti-Japanese team can also show that Feng Yuxiang is sincere in fighting against Japan, right?

Sun Dianying took office as the supervisor of the Northwest Cultivation Reclamation and led his troops to Baotou. While arousing Zhao Zhenzhong's vigilance, he was really happy. Among them, the happiest one was Ma Hongkui, the other was Yang Hucheng, followed by Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang brothers, and even Hu Zongnan, who were in southern Shaanxi and Lu Dachang, who was in Wudu, were very happy.

If Sun Dianying's troops want to enter Qinghai, they must pass through the People's Army's defense zone. It is a sure thing to fight two times. Sun Dianying now has more than 70,000 people, and the total strength of the troops that each unit in the northwest can gather has exceeded 200,000. Such an army launched an attack on the "civil bandits" from several places at the same time. Even if they cannot be wiped out at once, they can at least make some results. It can be said that the arrival of Sun Dianying's troops has brought the northwest Zhuma, Yang Hucheng, Hu Zongnan and others a great opportunity to pacify the "civil bandits"

In history, after Sun Dianying's troops drove to Baotou in July, Sun Dianying decided to advance by force until November because the northwest horses opposed their transit. Later, Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, Ma Buqing, and Ma Bufang joined forces to resist the Sun's troops, and a war of "four horses to resist Sun". But now, most of Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai are occupied by the People's Army, and the northwest horses have been driven to Xinjiang. If Sun Dianying's new force joins, Ma Hongkui, Ma Buqing, Ma Bufang and others are eager to join. These "three horses" seem to have seen the scene of regaining Ningxia and Qinghai.

On July 22, the dusty Ma Hongkui rushed from Xinjiang to the 41st Army Command Center established by Sun Dianying in Linhe. After meeting, Ma Hongkui hugged Sun Dianying and cried: "It can be seen that the elder brother is now bullied, and the brother is gone. My mother and his wife and children are still in the hands of the 'people'. Brother, you have to help your brother."

At the beginning, Sun Dianying and Ma Hongkui were both led by Feng Yuxiang. Sun Dianying was a bandit, and Ma Hongkui was reckless and often caused trouble. Several times, Sun Dianying helped him to help him. After a while, the two of them had the right temper and became brothers.

"I haven't seen each other in recent years, my brother has changed a lot." After seeing Ma Hongkui, Sun Dianying almost recognized him. After a careful look, the shadow of Ma Hongkui could still be found in the thin middle-aged man in front of him.

"One of us brothers hit the ground, your mother is my mother. Since I'm here, I'm going to help my brother exhale this anger!" Sun Dianying patted his chest and took a big bag, "Good brother, sit down and say slowly."

Seeing Sun Dianying agreeing, Ma Hongkui felt much more relaxed. After sitting down, Ma Hongkui wiped his tears, picked up the teacup and drank water, sighed, and said sadly: "The child has no mother, it's a long story. I believe my elder brother has heard of the fact that Ningxia fell into the hands of the 'people'. I think I'll start with the defeat of last year."

After Ma Hongkui was defeated last year, he once led more than 7,000 defeated generals to garrison in the Heliangtai area of ​​the back tower. Later, Ma Hongkui asked the Luoyang authorities for help, but the telegrams did not get the response after several times. In the end, Ma Fuxiang, who was recuperating in Tianjin, sent a telegram to his son, saying that the Qingma had entered Xinjiang to develop. Xinjiang Jin Shuren had a good relationship with him at the beginning, but now he greeted him, so that Ma Hongkui might as well go to Xinjiang to stay calm and wait for the opportunity. When Nanjing freed up his hands, the "people and bandits" would definitely be resolved. It would not be too late to go out to Xinjiang to recover Ningxia.

In history, Ma Fuxiang was infected with an epidemic in order to make trouble for his son and ran around and died in August 2018. However, because the guards were severely injured by the army in Shandong, Ma Hongkui's army, he became a blessing in disguise and avoided the confrontation with the Red Army in Henan. There was no such thing as causing trouble, which indirectly made Ma Fuxiang live to this day. Of course, because Ma Hongbin was captured, his old wife and grandson were trapped in the hands of "people bandits". In depression, Ma Fuxiang's health has always been poor. He has been staying in Tianjin for rest since last year.

After receiving Ma Fuxiang's telegram, Ma Hongkui thought that the food and wages allocated to Luoyang are sometimes discontinued, and the troops may be broken at any time. Suiyuan is the Jinsui army that he is not in dealing with. If he stays here, it will be difficult for him to change his situation. It is better to go to Xinjiang like what his father said. Moreover, Ma Hongkui thought that Qingma and his wife could make a difference in Xinjiang. At least he had a friendship between his father and Jin Shuren, at least he would not be worse than them.

After making up his mind, Ma Hongkui began to prepare for entry into Xinjiang. After preparing clothes for cold protection and some food on the road, Ma Hongkui led his troops to advance to Xinjiang through Yuhai, Juyanhai and other places. Of course, he did not forget to call Jin Shuren to explain the situation before leaving. At the same time, Ma Hongkui called the Luoyang authorities, saying that his troops could not raise food and money, so in order to spend the winter, he now led his troops to Juyanhai to Xinjiang.

During the Republic of China, Ningxia's territory was far wider than later generations, and the Juyanhai area in the north of Suzhou was also under the jurisdiction of Ningxia. From Juyanhai through Xingxing Gorge to Hami, it was even closer than from Suzhou to Hami. Therefore, Luoyang also recognized Ma Hongkui's food. Of course, Luoyang also telegraphed Ma Hongkui that the ministry must return to Ningxia after the beginning of next spring. After all, Ma Hongkui was still wearing the hat of the chairman of Ningxia Province. There was no food at home, so you can go to your neighbor's house to have a meal, but you can't throw your home away and go to someone else's house to hang out with you, right?

For Jin Shuren from Xinjiang, Ma Hongkui's arrival has increased the weight to balance the forces of several parties, and his friendship with Ma Fuxiang is naturally very welcome.

After Ma Zhongying entered Xinjiang in the summer of 1931, he gave Jin Shuren a headache. He sent troops to clear the enemy several times but was defeated. When Ma Buqing sent troops to Hami to arrest Ma Zhongying, Jin Shuren was cautious and welcomed. It would be great if someone could deal with Ma Zhongying, but if Ma Zhongying's uncle and brothers came to deal with him, Jin Shuren was always a little uneasy. Who knows whether the two brothers would reconcile, and whether they would work together to deal with him and plot against Xinjiang?

When Jin Shuren received telegrams from Ma Fuxiang and Ma Hongkui, after thinking about it, he happily agreed that Ma Hongkui's troops would enter the border. Anyway, one horse was driven, two horses were released, and Ma Hongkui was also too lice and did not bite people. Besides, although Qingma and Ningma were both born in the Linxia Ma family, they were not a clan. Moreover, from history, Ningma was much more reliable than Qingma, at least Ningma had no experience of rebellion. Moreover, Ma Hongkui not only had the seniority higher than Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang's brothers, but also had the hat of the chairman of Ningxia Province. At that time, some things would be much better if Ma Hongkui came forward...
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