To be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself.
This sentence is very applicable everywhere, especially in the face of a vicious enemy, and it is impossible to repay the psychology of luck.
Our army once complained about the virtue of an enemy army, but it caused even greater casualties.
This enemy army was the Ma family army, which once had a well-known name during the Republic of China period.
In order to calm our army, we gathered our cavalry and waved their troops to the west, and the Ma family army fled in a hurry
Ma Jiajun rose in the era of warlord division in the Republic of China and was a generation of hegemons in the northwest region.
There were three main leaders: Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Hongbin.
At the beginning of their establishment, the three horses were each other's in-laws, and a strong social network closely linked them together, and eventually became a system, collectively known as ma jiajun.
They were entrenched in the northwest, accumulating wealth for generations, accumulating a lot of wealth, once claiming to be the king and hegemony, and the Republic of China government at that time tried to occupy it, but it failed.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, even the Japanese army with high-end equipment was difficult to match in the face of such a tujue king as Ma Jiajun.
Therefore, even if the Ma family army later only had a part of the guerrillas left, it should not underestimate their toughness.
On March 18, 1958, the remnants of the Majia Army began to riot near Chebagou in Gannan.
The Lanzhou Military Region of our army quickly received the news and dispatched 28 infantry regiments and cavalry regiments successively.
In the years of fighting against the Ma family army, our army has deeply understood the importance of cavalry.
For so many years, he has not slackened his training of cavalry.
At that time, the cavalry sent by our army can be said to have used all the cavalry regiments. Mongolia, Sanhe, Shandan, Menyuan... The cavalry of the eight major regions assembled on the plateau, and the ten thousand horses roared and the momentum was like a rainbow.
In addition to the cavalry, our army has also used air corps, engineer corps and other branches of troops to assist in combat.
Our army went to deal with the enemy in such a mighty way, and because the other side was very cunning and used guerrilla tactics, often we had just finished fighting this side and had to deal with the next war.
However, in the case of abundant military strength and diverse weapons, our army still gave the enemy a considerable deterrent.
When the rebels faced the encirclement of our army, they all covered their heads and fled in a hurry.
Fleeing in all directions, they held a villain mentality and were indignant at our army.
Therefore, wherever they went, any red army cadres were kidnapped and robbed, and they were sentenced to capital punishment to vent their anger, even to the corpses, and the cruelty of the means was heinous.
Instead, the soldiers who tried to let the Ma family live were killed, and the warriors were forced to capture all the enemy bandits
In April, the 1st Cavalry Division of our army came to Amu to hu.
The 1st Cavalry Division was reorganized from the original Eighth Column Cavalry Brigade of the Jinsui Field Army in March 1949 in accordance with the instructions of the central authorities in order to unify the unit numbers.
From September 1945 to the reorganization, the Eighth Column Cavalry Brigade of the Jinsui Field Army annihilated more than 20,000 enemies and captured more than 10,000 prisoners, contributing to the liberation of all of China.
Such a brave and warlike clan is naturally unstoppable and invincible in cracking down on the remnants of the party, and has beaten the remnants of the Majia Army to the end of the road.
However, even if our army has the advantage, it still holds the idea of the unity of the whole world and wants to give the remnants of the party a chance.
So at that time, our army sent a platoon of soldiers to cover the professionals, and with the mentality of negotiation, entered their garrison, a temple.
However, I did not expect that the other side was fierce and fierce, and actually took advantage of the fact that our army was not prepared, raised its gun and aimed it at our army that had entered for peace talks.
In the end, a platoon of men was almost completely annihilated.
At that time, Rong Yao of the 1st Cavalry Division coincided with the return to his hometown to mourn, and survived.
When he returned to the barracks, he was devastated to see the bodies of the soldiers in the second and third platoons where he was located.
Subsequently, he took over the position of platoon leader of the three platoons, and was bound to beat the Ma family army to the ground.
Once, Rong Yao took four squads to the squat point, found the enemy's sentry, and immediately he judged the enemy's position.
So he divided his troops into two routes, one for the ambush, and his troops to the depths.
But
Not long after Rong Yao's troops passed, they were discovered by the remnants of the party, and in an instant gunshots were heard in the valley.
At this time, it reflects the increasingly perfect equipment and tactics of our army in the process of development.
Our army counterattacked with strong firepower and forced the enemy bandits into an ambush. But the enemy bandits were very stubborn and still resisted.
Rong Yao found that the only ambush gap they wanted to escape was -
North of the ditch
。
There is a forest in the north of the ditch, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In order to deal with this matter quickly, Rong Yao hurriedly ordered his troops to plug the gap, while chasing the enemy bandits with other cavalry.
The warriors fought so hard that they even slid down dangerous snow slopes, their bodies covered in blood
This only caught up with those murderous bandits.
In addition, there is also a deep impression of Rong Yao's experience of catching bandits.
once
While he was chasing thirteen bandits, he encountered a very ridiculous thing.
It turned out that they were fighting on horseback at that time, and the horses of the Ma family army were very heavy, and gradually they ran slowly.
those
In order to escape for his life, the remnants of Ma Jiajun began to take off their clothes one by one and lose weight
In the end, he actually took off his clothes and rode naked.
In this battle,
The Ma Family Army, who fled in a hurry and did not choose a path, was in stark contrast to their previous fierce gods
Fortunately, in the end they were wiped out.
Rong Yao deeply remembered the tragic death of his comrades-in-arms, and did not feel sad about them at all, but instead took advantage of the victory to pursue, and finally surrounded these remnants with other comrades-in-arms and annihilated them in one fell swoop.
In this way, with the conviction of defending the motherland and defending the people, with full of enthusiasm,
At the end of November 1958, our army eliminated most of the remnants of the Party.
In the end, our army annihilated tens of thousands of rebels and captured more than a thousand.
He once formed a bloody vendetta with our Red Army, and after liberation, the main leader fled to Taiwan
Speaking of the entanglement between our army and Ma Jiajun, it can be traced back to 1936.
At that time, the Red Fourth Front of our army formed the Western Route Army and marched all the way to Ningxia in an attempt to open up an international passage to the Soviet Union.
Ningxia was Ma Jiajun's territory, and naturally it would not be so easy for the Red Army to pass through
As a result, a fight is inevitable.
The Ma family army, led by the Ma Bufang brothers, carried out a brutal attack on the Red Army.
According to relevant statistics, when the Red Fourth Army went out on the expedition, there were more than 20,000 people, more than 7,000 people died in battle, 5,600 people were brutally killed after being captured, and 4,600 people were lost and scattered.
In order to redeem those prisoners of war, our army, which was not optimistic about its financial situation, went around raising funds
He also invited Ma Bufang's teacher out of the mountain.
In the end, through various channels, 4,500 people were redeemed.
It can be said that this section of the Western Expedition road is full of blood and tears, the Red Fourth Army is almost completely destroyed, and our army has since formed a bloody vendetta with the Ma Family Army.
Later, in the War of Liberation,
Chiang Kai-shek frantically co-opted the three horses as a tool of his own civil war, trying to use the nightmare of the Western Expedition Road to psychologically suppress our army.
However, at this moment, ma jiajun is no longer the same.
Originally
At that time, Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui had internal contradictions.
This is a fatal blow to Ma Jiajun, who is linked by the family.
This also means that the Ma family army no longer has the same strong cohesion as before, and once there is a rift, it is the beginning of their destruction.
In 1949, the Battle of Lanzhou began, and majia army and our army came to a fateful confrontation.
This was the most crucial and fierce battle of our army in the War of Liberation.
In this battle, the two sides turned the tide.
The fierce attack of our army along the way defeated the Majia army one after another, and finally started from Lanzhou City, and finally the entire northwest region was liberated.
And those who were once arrogant and arrogant Ma Bufang, the leader of the Ma Family Army, and others were invited by Chiang Kai-shek one after another to flee to Taiwan, and only Ma Hongbin surrendered.
However, after Ma Bufang fled to Taiwan, he remained stubborn.
He boasted to Chiang Kai-shek that he still had tens of thousands of guerrillas in Gansu and Qinghai, which could deplete the strength of our army.
Chiang Kai-shek was moved by Ma Bufang's words,
There is also the idea of a resurgence and a comeback
So he ordered Ma Bufang to remotely control the so-called remnant forces and make trouble in the country.
Of these remnants, the most powerful was led by a man named Ma Liang.
The remnants of the army have been plotting a comeback, repeatedly rebelling and killing civilians and cadres
Speaking of Ma Liang, this person can be said to be a model of ingratitude.
Ma Liang is Ma Bufang's uncle and can be regarded as a small leader of the Ma family army.
In the process of liberating Ningxia,
Ma Liang did not have time to flee, so he pretended to surrender to our army
At that time, in order to give the new regime a stable domestic environment, our army decided to appease these troops and gave them many preferential policies.
While taking the preferential treatment given to them by our army, Ma Liang secretly communicated with Ma Bufang and Chiang Kai-shek to gather reactionary forces from all sides such as scattered bandits to besiege ordinary people and Red Army cadres.
In addition, the other Majia remnants are not to be outdone.
They have made disturbances in the northwest region of our country five times, disrupting the economic construction and people's stability in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic.
They took the high-end equipment that Chiang Kai-shek had airdropped and frantically burned and looted.
While the bandits were wandering, they also cajoled the common people who had been kept in the dark because of poor information and induced them to join the rebel camp.
As a result, in the process of rebellion, the number of remnants of the party increased day by day, even as high as tens of thousands.
Everywhere they went, it was like a tornado, and there was no peace to speak of.
The most innocent are the ordinary people who thought they could live a good life with peace of mind after the founding of the country.
They were brutally murdered by the remnants of the Ma family army, and in the first four rebellions, the safety of people's lives and property was greatly damaged.
In 1953, our army finally confronted Ma Liang.
This man who stirred up the situation in the rebellion was still running wildly on the grasslands of Qinghai with his cavalry.
But our cavalry, which has gradually begun to expand since the Red Fourth Army, and has a militarized management and scale, is no longer the same as in the past.
Ma Liang, who thought that he could take advantage of the cavalry and once again strike our army hard, found that his troops were defeated like a mountain.
He quickly shifted his position and went all the way south to the Border of Sichuan-Gansu.
After three months of mediation, the Maran bandits were captured on 18 May by our army in the forest near Jorgyer.
Since then, the main force of the Majia Army in the northwest has been completely eliminated.
It was thought that the war would end and the people could live and work in peace and contentment.
Unexpectedly, even if the main bandit team of the Ma family army was annihilated, they still did not give up the rebellion.
During this period, our army has been trying to persuade these stubborn remnants to ease the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves and win over some enemies.
Even after many desperate attempts, victory was won, and the remnants of the party were captured, they only severely punished the instigators led by them to set an example.
Followers, on the other hand, are mostly lenient.
But these bandits, on the contrary, regarded the leniency of our army as cowardice, and began to intensify their efforts, trying to set off a terrifying wave in the northwest again.
So in 1958, the gannan rebellion, the largest rebellion in the early days of the founding of the people's republic, began.
However, as mentioned at the beginning, during the Gannan Rebellion, our cavalry showed extraordinary combat effectiveness and showed mercy to the rebels several times.
Several times to quell the chaos, not only did not make the rebels grateful, but also let the heroic martyrs of our army suffer tragic sacrifices.
And this time Gannan put down the rebellion, which made our army deeply understand a little -- in the face of these rebel parties, we can no longer be merciful and soft-hearted, and we must cut the grass and remove the roots in order to avoid future troubles.
Afterwards, he no longer mercifully attacked the remnants of the Ma family army, and it took several years to finally achieve peace
During the counterinsurgency period, our army has always practiced the "four noes" policy: no killing, no detention, no sentencing, and no criticism of fighting.
Our army hopes that the rebels will understand that they will die if they fight us, but if they surrender, there will be a way to live.
However, the rebels have always repeatedly jumped between surrender and rebellion, not only losing the trust of our army, but also causing thousands of martyrs to die.
There is no need to endure any longer.
In order to find out the remnants of the party lurking among the masses, the local government in Gansu began a series of clearance activities.
During this inventory activity, our party fully mobilized the local people and arrested more than 400 remnants of bandits with heavy blood debts.
These remnants include not only the Ma family remnants, but also some landlord squires who fish in muddy waters, and police officers of the old regime.
They are attached to the Ma Family Army, follow the Ma Family Army fox false tiger power, as a mighty blessing, the common people hate them, no less than the Ma Family Army.
During the Battle of Hexi, these so-called "vigilante groups" gathered and went around arresting and killing the Scattered Chinese Red Army in a very cruel manner.
A landlord once threw a badly wounded Red Army soldier in the grass and made him freeze to death;
And also
The bullies, using the trust of the Red Army, tricked them into nowhere, seized their weapons and equipment, and eventually killed them alive...
These people are not kind, they are not only the lackeys of the Ma family army, but also the reserves of the reactionary forces.
If their evil thoughts are not snuffed out in the cradle, more innocent people will suffer.
After years of investigation, it was not until 1961 that these reactionary forces were completely eliminated.
And those who have been cleared out of the remnants of the party, what awaits them will be capital punishment.
At the end of 1961, according to official statistics, the total number of bandits was as high as 160,000, and the number of firearms was as high as 80,000, which completely quelled the rebellion in 32 counties and cities.
Since then, the term "Ma Jiajun" has officially withdrawn from the stage of history, and the opportunity for Ma Jiajun and Chiang Kai-shek to make a comeback on the mainland has also been successfully cut off by our army.
China has finally been able to put the general direction into the input of production, and the people's lives can finally enter the settlement and contentment of the people.
epilogue:
Ma Jiajun's cruelty is unimaginable to good people.
In the face of the ferocious enemy, our army has tried to soften their attitude and strive for reconciliation between the two sides.
However, in the face of the benevolence of our army, they have become more and more aggressive, and they have also paid retribution, mutilating the lives of our army, and not even sparing the remains.
How can we repay virtue if we repay our grievances with virtue?
For the sake of the big picture,
For the sake of the happiness and tranquility of all the people, our party finally decided to make a painstaking effort to annihilate the Ma family army in one fell swoop
Absolutely can not let them have a chance to mess up halfway, and completely eliminate the resurgence.
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