In December 1936, in order to force Chiang Kai-shek to abandon the "internal defense" and jointly resist Japan, patriotic generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an, known in history as the Xi'an Incident.
On December 23, the 13th day of the Xi'an Incident, before Chiang Kai-shek got on a plane to leave Xi'an, he told Zhang Xueliang: "On December 23, before leaving Xi'an on the plane, Chiang Kai-shek said to Zhang Xueliang:
In the future, I will never suppress the Communists
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The peace of the Xi'an incident made all the forces breathe a sigh of relief, but Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to Nanjing, immediately detained Zhang Xueliang, and then Yang Hucheng was also removed from his post and retained, and the situation became confusing again.
Learning of this situation, the happiest person is Ma Bufang, the king of Qinghai, for a very simple reason.
At that time, the Red Army of the West Road was fighting with the Ma Family Army in the Hexi Corridor
If there is a truce, the Red Army is bound to seize the opportunity to establish a base area and threaten Ma Bufang's rule.
In order to consolidate his territory and to show loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, on December 28, 1936, Ma Bufang sent a "thrifty" telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, saying:
But if you kill a thief, you may be loyal!
", began to go all out to encircle and suppress the Red Army on the Western Road.
And at this time, the Western Route Army, adhering to the "
Don't rely on foreign aid, rely on yourself to unite and struggle, and open up the situation
The policy of continuing to march west became a lone army, successively occupying Linze, Gaotai and other places.
These places returned to the Han Dynasty, and the Red Army had no mass base, so Ma Bufang, who was tacitly acquiesced by Chiang Kai-shek, began to exert all his strength to frantically counterattack the Red Army.
On January 12, 3 brigades of the Ma family army, supported by aircraft artillery, besieged Gaotai, and fought a bloody battle on the 8th.
Dong Zhentang, commander of the Red 5th Army, and Yang Keming, director of the Political Department, died heroically
The Red 5th Army was almost completely destroyed, which was also the worst fiasco in the history of the Red Army.
Immediately afterward, at the Ni family camp in Zhangye County, the Western Route Army fought another big battle with the Majia Army, and under the superior strength of the Majia Army, the Western Route Army once again suffered heavy losses and could only retreat while fighting.
On March 14, 1937, the Western Route Army retreated to Shiwo near Qilian Mountain, where a meeting was held.
Xu Xiangqian and Chen Haochang left the troops and returned to northern Shaanxi to report on the situation, while Li Xiannian, Wang Shusheng, and eight others stayed behind to take charge of the dispersion and transfer of the Western Route Army
After deciding to disperse and transfer, the most painful thing was the wounded soldiers, and it was obvious that in the next long journey, their chances of survival were slim, li Pingren, who had been the chief of staff of the Red 5 Army, and Xie Liang, the political commissar of the 13th Division, thought so.
Li Pingren and Xie Liang are both from Jiangxi, one from Wuning, one from his hometown, one from his hometown, and both are old Red Army soldiers who joined the revolution in 1930, and they are steel fighters who have come step by step from the struggle between blood and fire. The reason is simple, they all hurt their feet.
Xie Liang was wounded in the leg in November 1936, when Gansu Shandan Shilipu blocked the enemy's attack, after being wounded, the guards advised him to go to the battlefield first, but Xie Liang refused, and persisted until the enemy was repelled, and then withdrew.
At that time, the conditions of the Western Route Army were very difficult,
The bullet in Xie Liang's leg could not be removed, and there was no medicine to heal it, so that the wound became inflamed and the fever was 40 degrees
To contain the wound, the doctor put ice cubes on his legs, and after a dozen days, the fever subsided, though
The legs were severely frostbitten
Li Pingren, on the other hand, was fighting in Yongchang, Gansu, to cover the breakthrough of the troops.
The left thigh bone was broken and has not been treated effectively
After deciding to disperse the breakthrough, at the same time, the Red 5Th Army, and Li Pingren and Xie Liang, who were also "crippled", accompanied by them, were trapped in the snow-white Qilian Mountains.
Li Pingren's injuries were more serious, and he had a high fever and was as thin as wood, in order to relieve the pain, he took the opium dispensed to him by the hospital again and again to relieve pain, but even so, after the effect of the medicine, he still curled up in pain and shivered.
In the end, Li Pingren failed to persevere and died honorably on March 18, 1937, at the age of 29.
After Li Pingren's sacrifice, Xie Liang buried him and continued to move forward, it was difficult to meet the herdsmen in a ravine, but the herdsmen were unwilling to let him enter the tent, and only exchanged 3 yuan for some food, more unfortunately, it was not long before the Ma family army searched the mountain, they found him, xie Liang became a prisoner of the Ma family army.
After a brief treatment, Xie Liang was sent to Ma Lu, the commander of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Ma Family Army, and upon hearing the news, Xie Liang breathed a sigh of relief, because he knew that he could not die.
Why did Xie Liang have such thoughts? This is related to a battle between the Western Route Army and the Ma Family Army.
Ma Lu, a native of Hualong County, Qinghai, a Huimin, joined the local folk gang brotherhood in the early years, and later defected to the Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing brothers, starting from a small messenger soldier, and in just over ten years, he became the right and left arm of the Ma family brothers and served as a brigade commander.
Ma Jiajun, brutal and murderous, in the early years, treated the local Tibetans, slaughtered at every turn, even after many years of liberation, the local Tibetans mentioned Ma Bufang, they were "talking about horse color change".
Treating the Red Army that entered the Hexi Corridor, Ma Jiajun also adhered to the consistent style, and the captured Red Army of the West Road was only buried alive, and more than 3,000 people were buried alive.
At the beginning, Ma Lu, like Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing, also killed the captured Red Army, and Moreover, Ma Lu was the main force of Ma Bufang's main force, the Fifth Green Cavalry Division, and from the very beginning, he fought against the Western Route Army, almost without a fight, Yongchang, Gulang, Ni Jiayingzi and other major battles, Ma Lu all participated, with the excellent mobility of the cavalry, the Western Route Army that Ma Lu often chased could not even eat, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Ma Lu was the vanguard of the Red Army encircling and suppressing the Western Road.
In the early stages of the great battle between the Western Route Army and the Majia Army, Ma Lu's cavalry brigade was defeated by the Red Army, and in a major battle on a mountain, Ma Lu was defeated by the Red Army, and his regimental commander Wei Zhen and hundreds of subordinates were captured by the Red Army.
In order not to form a deeper bond with Ma Lu, and also to consider the future joint resistance against Japan, in the end, the Western Route Army released Wei Zhen and the captured Ma Jiajun.
Ma Lu was born into a gang, the most talked about righteousness, the Western Route Army threw a peach, he reported to Li, and soon, Huang Huxian, who was then the chief of staff of the Red Third Army, was unfortunately captured by Ma Lu's subordinates.
Ma Lu, who learned of this, did not speak up,
He treated Huang Huxian with courtesy, and after more than twenty days, he secretly released Huang Huxian and let him return to Yan'an
In addition, Malu was also the most gentle in his treatment of Red Army prisoners, not only incorporating them into his own troops, but even serving as platoon commanders and military doctors.
In Ma Lu's troops, Xie Liang stayed for a while, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent back to Yan'an.
Looking at Xie Liang's lost left leg, Chairman Mao was very distressed and said to him:
Only in his twenties, very young, legs gone, what to do? Go to the Soviet Union to rule!
In addition to Xie Liang and Huang Huxian, there was also another one, who was also sheltered by Ma Lu, who was able to survive, and he was qin Jiwei, who was famous.
Qin Jiwei, a native of Huang'an, Hubei Province, was born in a cold and bitter background, lost his father at the age of 8, lost his brother at the age of 10, was lonely and bitter, joined the children's group at the age of 13, and participated in the jute uprising, and was one of the youngest rebels.
In 1929, Qin Jiwei joined the Red Army, and from then on the Southern Expedition to the North War, after the end of the Long March, Qin Jiwei, who was in his early 20s, was already a regimental commander of the Red Fourth Army, and then followed the Western Route Army into the Hexi Corridor.
In january 1937, during the Battle of the Ni Family Camp, Qin Jiwei was unfortunately captured, and after being captured, Qin Jiwei lied that he was a brother-in-law and that he was a soldier for food, and Ma Jiajun did not take him seriously.
But soon, a traitor came and identified Qin Jiwei as the regimental commander during the Long March, and the enemy began to interrogate Qin Jiwei.
In order to avoid being tortured, Qin Jiwei "honestly confessed" and said:
I was never a regimental commander, I was a company commander, I was responsible for training new recruits after I was wounded, I was called a new regiment, but I didn't even have a letter of appointment.
Seeing that Qin Jiwei said "really", the interrogators no longer asked him.
But not long after, another traitor appeared, some people said that he was Xu Xiangqian's staff officer, this time, Qin Jiwei was indefensible, he thought that he would undoubtedly die, but he did not move.
Afterwards, Qin Jiwei learned that it was Ma Lu of the Ma Family Army, who greeted the guards in the prison and wanted to give preferential treatment to Qin Jiwei.
After sitting in Ma Jiajun's prison for more than a month, Qin Jiwei was handed over to Hu Zongnan's men, and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he returned to the organization, at the same time, in response to Chiang Kai-shek's call, Ma Bufang sent his uncle Ma Biao, with a cavalry division, to the anti-Japanese front, and Ma Biao served as the commander of the second brigade in this team.
This team successively fought bloody battles with the Japanese army in Xianyang, Tongguan, Jinnan, Lanfeng, Shangqiu and other places, and was extremely brave.
In the spring of 1939, Ma Lu was transferred to Yao County, Shaanxi Province, and promoted to division commander.
Although at the time of the Red Army's western expedition, Ma Lu fought countless bloody battles with the Western Route Army, but at this time, he got along with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi very well.
Not only did they receive grain and ammunition from the Eighth Route Army, but they also received Zhu De, Lin Biao, and He Long, who passed through other defensive areas
et al.
In 1940, when Ma Lu was ordered to garrison Suide and pass through Suide County, he was blocked by eight roads, in order to avoid misunderstanding.
Guo Huaruo took Premier Zhou's handwritten letter and showed it to Ma Lu, and Ma Lu also sent his regimental commander Bai Muzhen to Yan'an to meet the chairman in person
He also reported to Jiang Dingwen, commander of the Xi'an Theater, and canceled the order to go to Suide.
Seeing that Ma Lu was so knowledgeable, Chairman Mao was full of appreciation, and when Bai Muzhen left Yan'an, he personally wrote a picture."
Anti-Japanese hero
"Pennant, let's give it to Marlowe."
Unfortunately, because Ma Lu was close to the Eighth Road, soon after this incident, he was suspected by Chiang Kai-shek and dismissed by Ma Bufang.
Although he lost his military position, Ma Lu had been operating under Ma Bufang for many years and had long saved up his business, and it is said that his compound had
108 houses, more than 400 acres of paddy fields, more than 100 mules and horses, employing more than 20 long-term workers
But even though he was so wealthy, Malu continued to exploit himself and appropriate large tracts of peasant land for himself.
Fortunately, Marlow died in 1947, and if he came to the founding of the country, a large landowner like him would definitely be unlucky.
It is worth mentioning that because of Ma Lu's care, Qin Jiwei, Xie Liang, and Huang Huxian, who escaped the disaster after being captured, were lucky enough to walk through the war years.
At the time of the 55th title, Qin Jiwei was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, while Xie Liang and Huang Huxian were both major generals.