He was the most beastly general under Chiang Kai-shek, ravaging more than 5,000 women and giving birth to his granddaughter
History changes at the speed of turning stars, the vicissitudes of a hundred years are fleeting, the silent beginnings and ends of time overlap together, and the mottled pages on the history scrolls all disappear into the long river. History takes this moment as the starting point, comes out of the gap where time is missing, and slowly walks into the distance under the stars, leaving the back of the side by side. The most glorious time in history always seems to be particularly vicissitudes, and the brightest time is lined with sadness. Next, let's experience the vicissitudes of history.
Today's topic: He was the most animalistic general under Chiang Kai-shek's account, ravaging more than 5,000 women, and his granddaughter bore him children
During the war years, there were many heroes who could sing and cry, but there were also many scum who had been left behind for thousands of years, and the northwest warlord Ma Bufang was such a person. During the Republic of China period, there were several powerful military forces in the northwest region of China, and the people leading these troops were all surnamed Ma in Hezhou, so they were collectively called 'Ma Jia Jun'.
Ma Jiajun was originally a family armed force, but at that time, China was in turmoil and strife, Ma Jiajun went with the flow, successively defected to the Qing government, Beiyang warlords, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, etc. With a strong backer, Ma Jiajun's strength was even stronger, ruling the northwest region for decades, and also gave birth to a number of prominent warlords surnamed Ma, and Ma Bufang was one of them.
Born in 1903, Ma Bufang is a native of Hezhou (present-day Linxia), Gansu. His family was the head of the Qinghai local military clique, and Ma Bufang joined the family corps after graduating from the Ninghai Officer School. After Chiang Kai-shek took power, Ma Bufang became a red man, and he successively served as a brigade commander and division commander until he became the commander-in-chief of the group army, and living in a corner of the northwest made Ma Bufang a veritable 'earth emperor', which also fueled his absurd and cruel arrogance.
In August 1936, Ma Bufang was inaugurated as the commander of the Second Defense Zone of the Northwest Bandits. In October of the same year, the Fifth Army, the Ninth Army, and the Thirtieth Army of the Red Fourth Front crossed the Yellow River and began the years of the Western Expedition. As the Western Route Army advanced along the Hexi Corridor, Chiang Kai-shek called Ma Bufang and ordered him to lead his army to block the Red Army. Due to the poor equipment of the Western Route Army, the logistics were almost cut off, and after a fierce battle between the Hexi Corridor and Ma Bufang's cavalry, the casualties were tragic. Most of the main leaders of the Fifth Red Army, the Red Ninth Army, and so on, died heroically.
More than a thousand remnants of the Western Route Army fought desperately to break through, only to be able to enter the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang and avoid Ma Bufang's extermination. However, the Red Army soldiers who were captured in the Battle of Hexi ended up in an extremely miserable situation. After Ma Bufang escorted the captured fighters to Xining, he slaughtered and buried thousands of people alive, most of the female fighters were rewarded by Ma Bufang to the officers and soldiers as wives and concubines, and those who survived were also sent to hualong generation as coolies. According to the final statistics, the Western Route Army had about 21,800 people, more than 7,000 killed in battle, about 5,600 people who were captured and killed, and about 4,500 people who were missing.
If it is only defeated on the battlefield, there is nothing to say. But Ma Bufang's brutality lies in the fact that he killed captured Red Army soldiers in every variety of ways, including those buried alive, taking galls, shooting, digging hearts, and cutting tongues, and his crimes are too numerous to describe.
According to the survivors' recollections, Ma Bufang connived with his men to mutilate the captured soldiers, and the officers and men of the Ma family army heard that eating steamed buns with human blood could cure diseases and strengthen their courage, so they pulled out the captured soldiers of the Red Army and hacked them to death on the spot, and ate them with hot steamed buns dipped in human blood. Some officers also used Red Army soldiers as live targets for practicing marksmanship or playing games. Even more tragic were the captured female soldiers of the Red Army, who were forced to become wives and concubines of officers and soldiers, and some of whom were also sold elsewhere.
During the Liberation War, Peng Dehuai led the First Field Army to the west and launched the Lanzhou Campaign. Before the general offensive began, Ma Bufang knew that he had reached the end of the road and that the People's Liberation Army could not let him go. So Ma Bufang quietly sneaked back to his old lair, Xining, leaving his son Ma Jiyuan to urge his subordinates to fight to the death. In the First World War of Lanzhou, the main force of the Ma Bufang Group was annihilated. However, Ma Bufang escaped the disaster, and he spent a lot of money to hire 9 of Chennault's planes, transported the looted treasures, and then fled to Taiwan with his relatives. In 1948, the Communists announced a list of first-class war criminals, and Ma Bufang was among them.
Ma Bufang, a man of absurdity and promiscuity, once said: Those who give birth to me and those who are born to me are all adulterous. After mastering the heavy army in the northwest, Ma Bufang's claws reached out to his subordinate wives and daughters, the sisters, brothers-in-law, nieces of the Ma family, and even his own granddaughters, and later gave birth to a son for Ma Bufang. In order to hide his eyes, Ma Bufang personally killed the baby. According to statistics, there are more than 5,000 women who have been ravaged by Ma Bufang.
However, such a demon, after fleeing to Taiwan, was still happy and happy, and Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Arabia as an ambassador. Even when he was abroad, Ma Bufang still did not change his absurd nature, and the maids of the hotel, the dancers in the dance hall, and the female dependents of the subordinates who followed him to Cairo to make a living could not escape the clutches of Ma Bufang. In the end, Ma Bufang ended his sinful life on July 31, 1975.
A page of history is like a mirror, after reading the above several historical events, what did the netizens realize from it? In fact, history will not disappear easily, we will always recall them from time to time, because the road that history has traveled is a lesson for our past, and we are always extra down-to-earth and at ease when stepping on the road that our predecessors have walked.