In this time, Ma Hongkui left about 5,000 troops in Xinjiang, the remaining nearly 25,000 troops were all concentrated in the Helan Mountains to Chimukou area of ​​Ningxia Plain, and fought hard to attack with the intention of opening the path to the Ningxia Plain as soon as possible. In order to obtain the position of the chairman of Gansu Province in the future, Sun Dianying concentrated more than 70,000 troops in his subordinates to the Sanguankou area, and took turns to fight. Not far south, there was Ma Bufang's troops at Shuangshankou, and they fought hard for several days.

Fierce battles in Helan Mountain are in full swing, and there have been gunfires in the north of Shizui Mountain and Zhenyuan Pass in the past few days. It is just because they are worried about the artillery fire of the People's Army across the river in the Chazi Mountain area of ​​Hedong. Pang Bingxun, Xiao Zhichu, Wang Jingguo, Kong Lingxun and other troops have concentrated their troops to the direction of Zhenyuan Pass.

In mid-October, although the Yellow River flood season had passed and the flood in the condom had subsided, the quagmire after the flood could not be solved in one or two days. Ma Hongkui, Sun Dianying and others had also wanted to use troops to the Chazishan area of ​​the Condom, but after sending people across the river from Baotou to explore the situation in the condom, they had to give up their thoughts.

The area around Zhenyuan Pass is a distance from the Yellow River, so there is no need to worry about artillery fire on the east bank. However, the terrain here is dangerous, and the People's Army has built perfect fortifications, which is difficult to chew without heavy firepower. However, the several mountain cannons that were mobilized to the north were counterattacked by the People's Army after a few artillery fire, and they were all knocked into scrap iron. In desperation, the four divisions of Pang, Xiao, Wang, and Kong could only urge their troops to attack.

After a few days, if it weren't for Ma Hongkui, Sun Dianying promised that there would be great benefits after defeating, Pang and Xiao really wanted to quit. There was no way, the loss was too great

Since the war started, Pang and Xiao had great efforts in fighting because of the temptation of horses and Sun, so there were only a lot of casualties, and even the ones who died in battle were about two thousand injured. Wang and Kong had a heart-warming worker, each of them was about one thousand injured, and most of them were injured, and not many of them died in battle.

Faced with such a result, Xiao Zhichu, Wang Jingguo, and Kong Lingxun's three divisions were acceptable because of their large military forces, but Pang Bingxun's unit had less than 10,000 people, and they were injured in two thousand at once. This was already a trauma. In his heartache, Pang Bingxun had a gloomy face all day, and it seemed that it was even worse than others owing him tens of thousands of dollars.

However, he had already lost so much, and if he gave up halfway, he was really unwilling to accept it. Thinking about the bright future after the victory, Pang Bingxun could only grit his teeth and endure it. However, he also secretly told his two brigade commanders that he would fight more leisurely in the future.

"I only now know that there is a parent above and a group of brothers next to him. It's a good life." Wang Jingguo, who was watching, saw Pang Bingxun's current embarrassment, and privately sighed to Kong Lingxun, "With Chief Yan supporting him, we don't have to fight to the death like Pang Cleniko like Pang Cleniko, just to fight to the death for the food given by others."

Kong Lingxun joined the Jinsui faction halfway, but he had experienced the Central Plains War together and suffered hardships with Wang Jingguo and others after the war. Although he was not Yan Xishan's direct descendant, he was not an outsider.

"Brother Zhi'an said it well. We have Chief Yan on it, which is much stronger than Pang." Although he was dissatisfied with Yan Xishan's approach to being close to each other, Kong Lingxun's current difficulties could not help but feel dissatisfied.

Faced with the serious losses of each unit, Xiao Zhichu once suggested that Ma and Sun draw troops to move south along the western foot of Helan Mountain and launch an attack on the Hongshui County area at the junction of Gansu and Ningxia Hexi. Even if it cannot succeed quickly, it can rein in the strength of the "civilian bandits" again, which is conducive to combat in Hexi, Ningxia or other directions.

Moreover, as for the current operations in the northwest and western parts of Ningxia He, due to terrain restrictions and enemy firepower suppression, more than 170,000 troops could only take turns to advance, and it was difficult to deploy their troops. Instead of lingering like this, it would be better to draw some troops to open up a battlefield.

Xiao Zhichu's suggestion is indeed reasonable. Ma Hongkui and Sun Dianying were also moved at one time, but after comprehensive consideration, they had to give up this suggestion. Ma Hongkui knew that there was a strong cavalry unit in Hexi, Ningxia. If he sent troops south to fight for hundreds of kilometers, as long as he could not succeed in one strike, under the threat of the enemy cavalry, the logistics supply of the raiding troops would be worrying. Even the entire raiding troops had the possibility of being wiped out. There was a barrier of the Great Wall between Hexi, Ningxia and the Hexi Corridor in Gansu. The possibility of the raiding troops being able to succeed in one strike was too small.

The northern army was blocked from the attack, while the eastern road went west from Zhiluo Pass to attack Yang Hucheng, the People's Army on the front line of Ziwuling, and Jing Yuexiu's troops made no progress. The relevant battle situation was even more unremarkable, and the taste was just as good as wax.

The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army was Sun Weiru. The participating troops included the 17th Division where Sun Weiru was also the division commander, Ma Qingyuan's security division and Gao Shuangcheng, the team in Jing Yuexiu in northern Shaanxi, with a total force of about 50,000.

In the first half of this year, while Chiang Kai-shek appointed Shao Lizi as the chairman of Shaanxi Province, he also asked Yang Hucheng to concentrate on serving as the director of the Xi'an Pacification Office in the name of "Stable Northwest", and also appointed Sun Weiru as the commander of the 38th Army. Although due to the emergence of the People's Army, Sun Weiru did not enter Gansu to pacify the Dingleima Incident and did not take charge of Gansu, after Hu Zongnan's Division entered the northwest, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Sun Weiru as the commander in the spring of 1933, with the 17th Division, 42nd Division and Shaanxi Guard Division. This appointment was nearly a year later than the original historical appointment.

In the spring of 33, Yang Hucheng specially ordered that all the former 17th Route Army troops would be under the unified command of Sun Weiru, the commander of the 38th Army. The appointment of Nanjing and Yang Hucheng's telegram made Feng Qinzai and Ma Qingyuan very dissatisfied. Compared with qualifications and military achievements, Feng Qinzai was better than Sun Weiru, but in the end, Sun Weiru rode on his head. As soon as the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War broke out, Feng Qinzai, who was unwilling to obey Sun's command, asked for war to Nanjing and went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.

Although Ma Qingyuan is not as experienced as Sun Weiru, his contribution is no less than Sun. He has been doing hard and dirty work of the 17th Army all year round. Now he wants him to obey Sun Weiru's command, so he is naturally full of complaints. However, he has never been given the opportunity to stay away from Yang Hucheng's attention before, so Ma Qingyuan had to reluctantly express his obedience to the order. While waiting for the opportunity, he secretly sent his confidant to secretly contact Hu Zongnan, who was stationed in Nanzheng.

However, when the Great Wall War of Resistance was fierce, Hu Zongnan did not receive the principal's will and did not dare to annex friendly troops at this critical moment, so the matter was put on hold.

Therefore, when Ma Qingyuan and Sun Weiru were fighting together, influenced by Ma Qingyuan, the guard division commander, the guard division was significantly inferior to the 17th Division in all aspects of energy.

At the frontline combat meeting, when Sun Weiru accused the security division of the security division of the war, Ma Qingyuan couldn't help but say: "The original mission of the security division was to pacify Shaanxi, not for foreign warfare. Besides, the brothers of the security division were hungry and full, but they could not compare with the brothers of the 17th Division with the central government's food and salary. From last year to now, the military division's brothers still owed two or three months of military salary but did not pay them."

The words of holding a gun and a stick choked Sun Weiru. The two divisions with different requirements and different treatments required the same combat standard, which really sounded like Sun Weiru was trying to force others.

Gao Shuangcheng, who was standing aside, hurriedly smoothed out: "Even if the two commanders do not consider the consequences of this war, they must consider the tens of thousands of brothers gathered in this area. They cannot take advantage of loopholes for the "people and bandits". If you have something to discuss, don't hurt the harmony."

But when I was worried, the combat meeting had no decent results. The subsequent battles were still the old routine of repeated attacks, retreating, attacking again, and retreating again. Yang Hucheng and Jing Yuexiu's troops were exhausted day by day, and their morale faded and the officers and soldiers were exhausted.

Compared with other troops to attack the suppression, Hu Zongnan and Lu Dachang did not have the record of conquering several cities like the Western Army's Cavalry and Buqing Army, nor did the strong military strength of the Northern Army's Horses and Suns, nor did the Eastern Army's Suns and Horses' disagreement. In comparison, the Southern Army, especially Hu Zongnan, fought very well. However, the Lu Dachang unit had suffered consecutive defeats in the hands of the People's Army, and its combat effectiveness was indeed not as good as Hu Zongnan's. As a result of the cooperation between the two units, Lu Dachang dragged Hu Zongnan's back.

Hu Zongnan and Lu Dachang divisions combined, with a force of more than 50,000. According to Hu Zongnan's deployment, Wu was the rear of the two divisions in this battle, and there was no need to lose. Therefore, 4,000 troops from Lu Dachang division were left to defend. Xigu County and Dangchang Division were important towns on the way to march, and they were also the only way to contact Wudu. They also had to be strictly guarded. However, Xigu County was far away from the Longnan counties occupied by the People's Army, leaving 1,500 combat personnel from Lu Dachang division, while Dangchang Division

Although it is nearly 200 kilometers away from Lixian County, it is only more than 60 kilometers away from Xuanshui Town at the southwest end of Lixian County and only more than 70 kilometers away from Minxian County. Hu Zongnan left a regiment of his northwest supplementary brigade and the remaining troops of Lu Dachang. Among them, more than 11,000 troops from Lu Dachang will send more than 8,000 troops to attack Lixian County to restrain the People's Army's troops in Longnan. As for Hu Zongnan, he will lead more than 30,000 troops from the First Division to attack Minxian County.

On the People's Army, Liu Jifeng received two reminders from Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Hao. After researching with Xu Mingyi, Jiang Bin and others, he adjusted his troops.

Li County, Xihe, Cheng County, there are Min'e Mountain, Western Han River, Heiyu River, Lizhong Mountain and other dangerous areas, leaving 5,000 troops to resist the coming enemy and wait for reinforcements.

Minxian is located at a critical moment, connecting Lanzhou to the north and Longzhong to the east, which is a must-pass place for the enemy to advance. Jiang Bin, the chief of staff of the Second Column, led 15,000 troops to garrison here. With the improvement of fortifications in Minxian County, Yashanzhai, Yehuqiao Village, Muzhailing and other people, as well as the strengthened Second Column Artillery Regiment, Jiang Bin and others withstand the early offensive of Hu Zongnan.

In Zhang County, more than 60 kilometers away from Min County, Xu Mingyi led more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 6,000 infantry to reinforce Min County at any time. As for the remaining 1,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, Liu Jifeng led the charge of Tianshui.

After the fight started, Hu Zongnan was full of confidence. With his more than 30,000 troops, he won't be able to capture a county town? But when the battle began and several attacks were frustrated, Hu Zongnan realized that the "civilian bandits" on the opposite side were harder to deal with than any enemy he had encountered before.

From the perspective of firepower, the opponent has a lot of machine guns, mortars, and landmines, and even more equipment than the first division of the Central Army, the combat command level; and from the perspective of combat command level, just looking at the opponent's clear layers, staggered firepower distribution points and different types of fortifications built according to the terrain, we can infer that the opponent is not a good person; and from the perspective of the combat skills of the opponent's officers and soldiers, from the opponent's dare to put the attacking troops to about 100 meters before opening fire, and no matter what kind of attack the fortifications were encountered during the entire battle, no matter what kind of panic the "civilian bandit" officers and soldiers were seen, this is a unit with strict discipline and high military literacy.

After a few days of attack, Hu Zongnan's heart began to sink little by little, and his expectations for the future were cast a shadow: the result of this battle is probably not optimistic. Hu Zongnan also began to wonder: When did such a powerful team exist in the northwest?

Jiang Bin, who was opposite, had participated in many defensive operations in Yimeng before. When facing this government unit with the title of "First Division", he also praised: "This First Division is really worthy of being the direct line among the Chiang Kai-shek's direct line, which is much stronger than Chen Tiaoyuan and other troops he met in Yimeng. If it weren't for the complete fortifications before and suddenly meeting, with few to many, it would be hard to say the result."

Hu Zongnan also wanted to detour to the rear or flank of the enemy in front of him, but Minxian was near the corner of the Tao River turning from east to north to south. To the west is the endless Tao River, and to the east is Mine Mountain. The People's Army built effective fortifications on Yehuqiao Village, the Yashan Village on the mountain, and the Muzhai Ridge behind him. Hu Zongnan couldn't find the enemy's air barrier.

After many attacks, it can be calculated that the enemy troops in front of us are less than half of their own troops, which may be the hope for the First Division to win. Although the terrain is unfavorable and the troops cannot be deployed, Hu Zongnan had no choice but to send troops to take turns to attack.

The battle situation continued to continue in a situation that made Hu Zongnan feel frustrated...

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