Ten minutes later.

Comrade Deng Wenping, Comrade Liu Dazhu, and dozens of major or above staff officers in the General Staff Department, all came to the conference room.

The staff members who were notified to attend the emergency meeting felt a little strange. Many people were wondering whether they were going to fight the Japanese again.

Even Comrade Deng Wenping suddenly received a notice and asked to go to the conference room for a meeting in ten minutes. He was confused because he was busy dealing with the Eighth Route Army's Hundred Regiments Battle and had no action on the 36th Army.

Comrade Liu Dazhu had just sent the telegram and immediately held a meeting as soon as he received the notice. Liu Dazhu guessed that it might be related to the Bazhou incident. So Comrade Liu Dazhu strode into the conference room with a happy look on his face.

Seeing that everyone was here, Zhang Yunfei looked around and said slowly: "Comrades, this time we hurriedly called everyone to have a meeting because yesterday, a working team in Bazhou was attacked by a battalion of Ma Bufang. More than 30 of us, except for one of our successful escape and two were arrested, all the other comrades were killed."

After Zhang Yunfei finished speaking, everyone was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, someone dared to kill the comrades of the 36th Army. After a long time, everyone started to talk in a low voice, and most of the comrades looked angry.

No one expected that Bazhou was just a small county with a population of only tens of thousands. It was in the northeast of Gansu Province and far away from Qinghai Province, this would happen.

Comrade Deng Wenping, director of the General Affairs Department who just heard the news, was also a little surprised and said after a long time: "Commander-in-Chief. I didn't expect that under the overall situation of the anti-Japanese national united front, someone openly destroyed the united front of the Anti-Japanese War and undermined the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. I can't believe it! Commander-in-Chief, we must severely punish such people."

With the statement of Comrade Deng Wenping, director of the General Political Department, everyone expressed their opinions and demanded that the murderer be severely punished and sent troops to Qinghai.

Seeing that everyone started to discuss, Zhang Yunfei immediately pressed his hand down, and everyone's discussion stopped abruptly.

Zhang Yunfei said seriously: "Comrades, we will definitely punish the murderer severely. We must pay the blood debt. Just now, Comrade Liu Dazhu sent a telegram to Ma Bufang from Qinghai in the name of our army in accordance with my request. Ma Bufang handed over the murderer and compensated for the losses. He held a press conference and publicly apologized to us.

But Ma Bufang has been entrenched in Qinghai for many years, and I guess it is difficult for me to apologize to us, so we must be prepared to send troops to Qinghai."

As soon as Zhang Yunfei finished speaking, Chief of Staff Zuo also expressed his opinion: "Commander-in-Chief, I suggest sending troops to Qinghai immediately and put pressure on Ma Bufang's troops."

Then, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Comrade Liu Dazhu also expressed his opinions and requested to send troops to Qinghai.

Seeing that everyone's opinions were unified, Zhang Yunfei immediately said seriously: "Now Issuing an order to order the First Cavalry Brigade and Armored Division of the Cavalry Division to quickly assemble to Baotou. After completing the assembly, go south immediately and take the airborne regiment of Qinghai. The Flight Brigade is ready for combat."

Nowadays, the Cavalry Division and the Armored Division are all units with strong mobility, and Ma Bufang's troops are also known for their cavalry, which is just right for the Cavalry Division and Armored Division.

As for the airborne regiment of the Flight Brigade, it has been established for a long time. Everyone's training has been well done, but they lack practical experience. This time, they took the opportunity to come out and practice.

As soon as Zhang Yunfei conveyed the order, everyone showed excitement. One by one, the orders were immediately transmitted to the hands of various participating troops through radio waves.

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Northeast of Gansu, Bazhou County.

This county town is a few dozen kilometers north of Guisui Province. It is desolate here. In spring and summer, only a little green is found in the radius of more than ten kilometers around the county town. Even further away is the endless Gobi Desert.

There were several Japanese soldiers and about a platoon of puppet troops stationed here. As the Japanese Mengsui Army was completely wiped out, the Japanese didn't know where to run. After the Japanese ran away, only a dozen puppet troops and several officials from the county government were left to maintain the county's order.

A few days ago, a work team of the 36th Army, about a platoon of soldiers came here to promote policies, mobilize the masses, and prepare to establish an armed force of about one company here, an armed force belonging to the local security brigade.

But starting from noon yesterday, hundreds of cavalrymen in military uniforms suddenly came to the county town. The platoon leader Hu, who was leading the team, quickly revealed his identity, but these cavalrymen, without saying a word, shot at platoon leader Hu and others.

The soldiers who were caught off guard were almost all sacrificed before they could organize effective resistance. Platoon leader Hu and a soldier were arrested, and only one soldier was able to escape under the cover of everyone's desperate efforts.

Now, in just one day, more and more cavalrymen appeared in and around the county town. These cavalry belonged to the First Cavalry Division of the 82nd Army of Ma Bufang's army, with an estimated number of thousands.

There is an infantry division and two cavalry divisions under the 82nd Army. The commander of the First Division is Ma Biao and the commander of the Second Division is Ma Lu. Each cavalry division has about 8,000 people.

Not only these two cavalry divisions, but also the top leaders of the entire 82nd Army, were basically composed of personnel surnamed Ma, all of whom were Ma Bufang's confidants, and they were basically returned. Therefore, Ma Bufang's troops were also called Ma Family Army.

Yesterday, a cavalry battalion came to the county town. Now, there is at least one cavalry regiment, more than a thousand cavalrymen. Since I learned that all the Japanese in the northwest were wiped out by Zhang Yunfei, Ma Bufang couldn't wait to send his first cavalry division and second cavalry division to start to seize the territory everywhere.

The county town of Bazhou, the location of the county government, had been occupied by a large number of cavalry at this time. In one of the houses, two soldiers from the 36th Army were tied to two pillars.

One of the two soldiers, one of them was Platoon Commander Hu. It was obvious that both of them were tortured by these cavalry once, with blood stains on their bodies, and their clothes were beaten to pieces, and their spirits were extremely depressed.

In this room, several Ma family cavalrymen were drinking heavily there, laughing arrogantly.

A one-eyed Ma family army with a Mauser pistol diagonally was obviously a small leader. The one-eyed Ma family army took a big sip of wine and said, "Oh, his grandmother, these two are really stubborn. We are both tired of fighting, so we won't say a word."

The other person looked flattering, "Liang Zu, if this is the case, the task assigned to us by the troop is probably not complete. The troop asked us to ask how many people they had come to the 36th Army."

"Hey, I have been a soldier for more than ten years. There are not ten or eight of them killed by me, but I have never seen such a tough guy."

"Second, our regiment was ordered to station in Bazhou this time. Isn't it too much to use? There are hundreds of people in each regiment. How big is Bazhou? It's a place that is the size of a palm?" After saying that, the Ma family soldier shook his head.

The one-eyed company commander patted the head of the Ma family soldier, "You guys know, what a fool. Although Bazhou is a small place, it is northeast of Gansu, and further north is Guisui. We are stationed here, so we will take the lead in the entire northeast of Gansu to our Ma family army.

Let me tell you, our Commander-in-Chief Ma (Ma Bufang) has ambitions. As soon as the Japanese in the northwest were eliminated, Commander Ma ordered us to grab the territory as soon as possible. Now, even our Master came to Wuwei yesterday, and tomorrow, the Master may come to Bazhou in person."

"Really? The teacher will come tomorrow?"

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, the one-eyed company commander was furious, "Will I lie to you?"

Platoon Commander Hu, who had just woken up from a coma, heard the conversation between these Ma family soldiers and spat out a mouthful of blood and sputum, and "spray".

Hearing the "puff" sound, the one-eyed company commander put down his wine bowl and said viciously: "Boy, do you want to be beaten by us again?"

Platoon Commander Hu was not afraid and laughed, "It's almost the same for you to scratch your tickles. I tell you, you have caused a big disaster. You are a miscellaneous army, even our 36th Army dares to provoke you. I really don't know how to write the word "death".

I tell you that our army of hundreds of thousands will reach here in a few days. When it falls, I will kill you all the messes with your own hands to avenge the dead comrades.”

As if I heard some big joke, the one-eyed company commander burst into laughter, "Who are you scaring? There are 100,000 troops, why did I see only 30 of you yesterday? Let me tell you, we will not be afraid of your 36th Army.

We came here and killed your 36th Army under the order of our Commander-in-Chief Ma. We also agreed to this before. Our Commander-in-Chief Ma said that everyone who competes with us will be killed without any consequences. By the way, I haven’t told you who our Commander-in-Chief Ma is.

Our Commander-in-Chief Ma is Ma Bufang, known as the "King of Qinghai". Our Commander-in-Chief Ma holds heavy troops and is the chairman of Qinghai Province. In Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia, they are all deeply rooted and are all under our Ma family army. We will be afraid of your 36th Army."

After the one-eyed company commander finished speaking, the people next to me all had a very great look, and he looked like he didn't take the 36th Army seriously.

Upon hearing this, Platoon Leader Hu shook his head and thought to himself, he is really ignorant and fearless, a group of typical stupid ones.

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