In Ma Hongkui's personal dictionary, there was once a very loud term - Helan Jun. The name of this army comes from Yue Fei's "Manjiang Hong" "Driving a long car and stepping on the Helan Mountain". The commander was Ma Quanliang. There are four divisions under it, most of which are composed of local security guards, all of which are miscellaneous units with no combat effectiveness. Ma Hongkui placed high hopes on the Helan army, hoping that it would be mighty and majestic, and even after preparing for failure, this unit would cross the Helan Mountains and go to the Alxa area to fight guerrillas.
Ma Hongkui has a loud nickname - Slippery Horse. This slippery personality development has been formed since he was very young. In 1902, his father Ma Fuxiang was appointed deputy general of the Gansu Jingyuan Association for his merits in escorting Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, and at the age of 10 he began to live with his father in Jingyuan. At that time, the Ma family did not have much power, Ma Hongkui may not be as obese as later, and when he returns from school, he will always be beaten by a classmate and his nose is blue and his face is swollen. He went to his father, and he said, "If you don't come out, you won't beat him up!" "He is very lost, the other side is tall and tall, how can he beat him?"
Thinking about it, Ma Hongkui came up with a good way - "taking advantage of the situation". He found another classmate in the class, ate and drank well for this classmate, and when the time was ripe, he said his thoughts and asked the classmate to be a thug and take revenge for himself. The classmate agreed, called the one who had beaten Ma Hongkui earlier to a broken temple, and knocked him to the ground with three times and five divided by two words, claiming that if he beat Ma Hongkui again, he would let him eat this fist forever. Ma Hongkui laughed loudly, and since then he has tasted the sweetness of "taking advantage of the situation" and can go to school in a beautiful way. This also prompted him to become more elaborate in the days to come.
Cunning people always have a lot of ghost ideas, and Ma Hongkui is the same. After the victory of the War of Resistance, Ma Hongkui took the opportunity to expand his power and arrested many strong men to fight for his own life, but these people would always run away one by one at night, and the officers in charge were no longer recruited. Ma Hongkui pondered bitterly and thought of a good way -- to put away the clothes of these arrested people at night and manage them by the officers. Thus there was a view in the Camp of Nimma —every night the clothes of the soldiers were piled up into hills, and every morning the clothes of the hills were distributed one by one by the person in charge.
This trick worked very well, there were fewer people escaping, Ma Hongkui was very proud, and he wanted to see the combat effectiveness of the troops who had been "left" by himself, and decided to pull an emergency assembly at night. The whistle sounded, and the sleeping soldiers were awakened and ran out one by one, but when they ran to the clearing, they found themselves naked and folded back. Ma Hongkui was very angry when he saw it, but the fact that the soldiers had no clothes at night was caused by him, and no wonder others had to cancel this "regulation" with their heads down. Those who could run away quickly ran away, and Ma Hongkui was helpless and could only sulk.
In addition to "taking advantage of the situation" and having many ghost ideas, Ma Hongkui's cunning has another aspect of the embodiment - hard mouth. On the eve of the liberation of Ningxia, it was not that our personnel did not win Ma Hongkui's surrender, but Ma Hongkui insisted on stubborn resistance. He said: "Soldiers have the responsibility to defend the territory, I am just doing my duty as a soldier, I must fight!" There's a shot and a shot, a shot! Our staff asked, "Can't fight?" He said, "Then let's go!" Our staff asked, "What if I can't leave?" He said, "Then die!" But at the same time as his mouth was hard, he let his fourth aunt Liu Muxia buy real estate in Taiwan and Hong Kong, ready to flee at any time.
In 1949, Ma Hongkui and Ma Bufang agreed to nominate each other, with Ma Bufang as the military and political chief of the Northwest And Ma Hongkui as the chairman of Gansu Province. Lao Tzu was gone, his son succeeded to the throne, and in May of that year, Ma Hongkui's son Ma Dunjing was promoted to lieutenant general of the Ningxia Corps (in charge of the 11th Army, 128th Army, and Helan Army). At this time, although Ma Hongkui was still the "chairman" of Ningxia, he did not care much about many specific things, pushing his son Ma Dunjing to the "front line", which had the meaning of letting Ma Dunjing let go of his hands and feet.
After Ma Dunjing took office, he quickly thought of Dali Zaya of Alxa, and asked Dali Zaya to come to Yinchuan and ask Dali Zaya to prepare war horses, camels, grain and other materials, on the one hand, to prepare for stubborn resistance; on the other hand, he wanted to build the defense facilities of Helan Mountain, and prepared to transport the gold and silver treasures he had stolen to the South Temple and North Temple in Alxa as a last resort, so that after the failure of the "Ningxia Corps" to enter Alxa to fight guerrillas. However, Dali Zaya told Ma Dunjing that there was no water source in Helan Mountain, and that its northern Alxa was an endless Gobi and a great desert, which was not suitable for a large number of troops to carry out guerrilla warfare.
In July, Xu Yongchang, an important member of the Republic of China government, flew to Yinchuan and proposed that as long as the "Ningxia Corps" insisted on holding out in the Helan Mountains for three years, the Nationalist army would be able to counterattack and return, and as for the ammunition and weapons they needed to carry out guerrilla warfare north of Helan Mountain, the Nationalist army would airlift supplies. Darizaya objected, and Ma Dunjing believed that Darizaya's statement was true and agreed with Darizaya's statement. Xu Yongchang felt that what the two men had said was reasonable and did not insist on it, but he repeatedly demanded that the "Ningxia Corps" do a good job in making military arrangements in the Ningxia region, and could not waver in the slightest, and that the great cause of "suppressing chaos" should be carried out to the end. Declare: As long as you persist, you will win.
In late August, Lanzhou was liberated, and Qingma was beaten to a pulp, and the "Ningxia Corps" had no intention of fighting again. Ma Hongkui saw that the situation was not good, decided to leave first, and flew to Chongqing in early September, all in "secrecy". On the morning before leaving, one of Ma Hongkui's nephews went home to eat, and when he saw that the family was in a mess and the breakfast was not much, he said: "If you have not been defeated, you have to let people eat and eat well!" So, he went out to sell food with a good face, but when he returned, Ma Hongkui had already left by plane, and he was also left in Yinchuan.
When he arrived in Chongqing, Ma Hongkui said that he was not ill, but one day at noon he was still approached by President Yan, President Jiang and others -- the Garden of lianjia where he lived was covered with plainclothes for a while, and after that, the president and others appeared. In the face of the president, he burst into tears, claiming that he was sorry for the president and sorry for the party-state. The president asked him to take the plane arranged by the government to Go to Taiwan, and in front of the president, he agreed to it, but after the president left, but after the president left, he said that the president did not trust himself, and he had been controlled and monitored. It is also said that the general of the defeated army is not as good as the chicken dog.
On September 21, the three lines of defense of the "Ningxia Corps" were completely destroyed by our army. Ma Dunjing fled to Chongqing by plane and joined Ma Hongkui. At this time, the Helan Army and the 11th and 128th Armies, which had high hopes from Ma Hongkui, had no long vehicles to break through the Helan Mountains, let alone go to Alxa to fight guerrillas. Without commanders, they collapsed one after another. Ma Quanliang, commander of the Helan Army, surrendered to the People's Liberation Army, and on the 26th Ningxia declared peaceful liberation. Ma Hongkui Ma Dunjing hugged father and son and cried: "Ningxia is gone!" ”
There is no hope, no cunning, no hope. On October 13, Ma Hongkui and others flew to Taiwan on a chartered flight. Before leaving, he still did not forget to "slip" again -- he ordered people to intercept all the more than 1,700 gold that the Nationalist army had previously paid to the "Ningxia Corps" and "drank" the last soldier's blood. Poets say that they make a living with fireworks and love with poetry. But it must be understood that the world is not a world that can do whatever it wants. "Sliding" to the end, slipping down often can only be their own. Because, many things, do not give some people a chance. Therefore, if you lose, you can only fail.
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