In April 1949, our army had crossed the Yangtze River, and most of the southern region had been liberated, but when our army turned around and prepared to liberate the Great Northwest, a strong enemy appeared to confront our army, that is, the Majia Army, which had been entrenched in the northwest region for nearly eighty years. This team has been on the ground for many years, entangled, and it is not an easy task to eradicate. After our army entered the northwest, it was also this army that inflicted heavy damage on our army. In order to liberate the northwest region and to avenge our army, the superiors appointed General Peng Da to completely annihilate the Majia Army, and sending Peng Lao was always an incomparably correct thing, because he completed the great liberation of the northwest in four months, and the first battle of the total annihilation of the Majia Army was also known as the Battle of Peng Laozong's Conferring Gods. So how did Mr. Peng sprinkle blood on the great northwest that year, and what will be the final fate of Ma Jiajun, and then I will explain it to you specifically.
Ma Jiajun
Led by Mr. Peng, who was on a horseback, the First Field Army of our army successfully broke through the Yangtze River defense line, repelled the enemy troops entrenched along the Yangtze River, and then went all the way north. When they arrived in the northwest region, they were blocked in the middle of the road by a team riding on horseback with a large knife, and they also had inextricable ties with the Red Army's Western Route Army, and the reason why the northwest had not been liberated for so many years was because of them, for which our army had to send armed forces to suppress it, that is, the Red Army's Western Route Army, but the northwest was not liberated, and many soldiers of our army died under their knives. Now the enemies were extremely red-eyed, and the two teams fought fiercely in Lanzhou. Before the liberation, this land in the northwest had always been the domain of Ma Jiajun, and had become the representative of the local grassroots strength, and they had been a hereditary system for generations, equivalent to the earth emperors in the northwest, and controlled the local political economy and other livelihood matters. However, this may also be related to the time of their appearance, Ma Jiajun was conceived in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and grew up in the chaotic period of warlords.
cause
During the Mainland Civil War, the Majia Army, which was lurking in the northwest away from the war, once again stepped onto the stage of war. Under the command of the Nationalist government, fierce struggles broke out against the Red Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu region. In 1936, in order to seek more support and large troops, the Red Fourth Army, after successfully crossing the Yellow River, began to travel westward, forming the Western Route Army to the Hexi Corridor, intending to use Xinjiang to contact Soviet international communism in the north of the mainland. The Hexi Corridor, located in the northern part of the Qilian Mountains, is a strategic point in the northwest region, and if the troops want to pass through here, they will inevitably clash with the Ma family army. Although the Ma family army has a formation but has been in the desert for too long, it can basically be regarded as a relatively disciplined bandit nest, not to mention that they have also defected to the National Government, and now that they see the Red Fourth Army that has thrown itself into the net, it is really a rabbit crashing into the wolf's den, and it is sorry for their identity not to eat, and it can also take this opportunity to completely eliminate the strength of our party in the Shaanxi-Gansu region.
fiasco
The Red Fourth Army had not yet reached the Hexi Corridor, and ma Jiajun was already ready, setting up many traps and ambushes on the road, waiting for the Red Fourth Army to throw itself into the net. Because the Red Fourth Army had just reached the border of the Hexi Corridor, it began to exchange fire with the Ma family army, and the two sides fought from the east to the west, from the Gaotai area to the Ni family camp, and many of the fighters on both sides fell into the billowing Yellow River. In fact, there are some problems in the westward journey of the Red Fourth Army itself, at this time the soldiers have just experienced the Long March, they are all physically and mentally exhausted, and now they have encountered the Ma Jia Army, which is strong and fierce, whether it is physical fitness or military strength, the Red Fourth Army is not an opponent of the Ma Family Army. Behind the Majia Army is the National Government, the reserve force is sufficient, looking at the Red Fourth Army, the military equipment is backward, not only is there no heavy weapon cannon, the best weapons of the soldiers are ordinary guns and bombs, but this is compared with the Majia Army, which is good at mobile warfare, these weapons can not play a role at all, sometimes they will drag their legs, and the Majia Army is counted as cavalry, the cavalry is originally climbing fast and accurate, and the soldiers are also afraid of accidentally injuring their teammates in the melee. Therefore, no matter how strong the will of the Red Fourth Army was, no one surrendered or sneaked away during the entire battle, but it was still defeated and retreated by the Ma family army. Seeing that it was impossible to win, the commander of the Western Route Army had no choice but to let the Red Fourth Army retreat at the fastest speed, even so, the Ma Family Army still did not let go of the Red Fourth Army that took the initiative to withdraw, but instead kept chasing after it, and the original Red Fourth Army had thirty thousand horses, which was sharply reduced to eight hundred after this battle, and finally successfully escaped with the support of reinforcements, otherwise all thirty thousand people would have to take it.
contradiction
This was the most tragic war in the history of the Red Army, but this was not the reason why President Peng was really angry; victory or defeat was a common affair of soldiers, and our army could only say that its skills were inferior to those of others when it lost. The most infuriating thing is the evil deeds of the Majia army after the end of the war, this time more than 7,000 soldiers were killed, but tens of thousands of people were taken prisoner, and these captured Red Fourth Army suffered many beatings and humiliations in the Majia army camp. The treatment is also very different from our army, they never know the four words of treating prisoners well, throw all the prisoners in the camp cell, and then they don't care, and they don't provide bedding for the prisoners, the soldiers can only withstand the cold wind of the northwest night and wrap themselves tightly with their clothes, some soldiers still have wounds on their bodies, in such an environment, the fever does not retreat, some soldiers can't look down and plead with the guards, hoping that he can find some wound medicine for the wounded soldiers, this behavior is more irritating to the Ma family army, not only let them do all kinds of chores When they were in a bad mood, they would beat up prisoners of war at will. After the superior leaders saw the way Ma Jiajun treated prisoners of war, they were worried, and sent emissaries to negotiate with Ma Jiajun many times, and also sent non-party personages as lobbyists, this time so that Ma Jiajun stopped abusing prisoners of war, and also rescued some fighters, but some fighters, because of injuries and illness and cold environment, have been forever closed in the cell, and the body has also been thrown by Ma Jiajun in the yellow sand in the desert. After this incident, ma jiajun's fierce name was even worse, and the soldiers of the Red Fourth Army also hated them and hated them to the point of itching their teeth, hoping that in the follow-up war, they could avenge their comrades-in-arms.
background
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty at that time came up with a way to govern the country with Han and moved a large number of Han people into the northwest region, but this caused opposition from many Manchus. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many civil uprisings in Shaanxi, the most famous of which was Ma Hualong who occupied Jinjibao, Ma Zhan'ao who occupied Hezhou, Ma Guiyuan who occupied Xining, and Ma Wenlu who occupied Jiuquan. Later, majiajun was recruited by the imperial court and became a guard appointed by the imperial court, although it did not enter the Qing army, but they also received professional and modern military training, and the strength of the Majia army after systematic training was even stronger, and it was also entrusted with the heavy responsibility of escorting the members of the royal family to a safe place when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China. Ma Jiajun has always believed in the current affairs of the times as Junjie, so after the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising, the imperial throne of the Qing rulers was crumbling, and most people in the country already had free ideological consciousness. When Ma Jiajun saw the situation, he immediately abandoned his identity as a defender and took the initiative to devote himself to the career of the National Revolution, and also absorbed many Han Chinese.
Political location
In 1921, ma jiajun was reorganized by the enemy government, and many capable people were entrusted with heavy responsibilities, and later Ma jiajun was taken under the command of Feng Yuxiang, the king of the northwest, and officially stepped onto the stage of warlord melee. After the outbreak of the Central Plains War, General Ma immediately threw an olive branch to the new ruler of the Nationalist government, because he was grateful for the sacrifice of the Ma family army on the battlefield, in 1931, the leaders of the Ma family army, Ma Fuxiang and Ma Qi, were commended, and they also just took Qinghai and Xining to be managed by them, with the help of the National Government, the ma family army's power continued to expand, and the combat strength gradually increased, becoming the dominant Humvee in the northwest grassland, and the Ma family army had an absolute dominant position in the northwest. There were reasons for this, having won a place in the warlord melee, but another reason was that the Nationalist government wanted to establish an important guarantee of prestige in the northwest. Ma Jiajun's behavior is good to say that the eldest husband can bend and stretch, and the ugly point is that the grass on the wall, where the wind blows him down, but in that chaotic era, the qinggao people can't survive.
Mr. Peng went to the Great Northwest
After the end of the resistance to the Japanese invasion of China, the Nationalist government was bent on establishing its own dictatorship, and then brazenly launched a civil war. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the status of our army in the hearts of the people was very high, and after the outbreak of the civil war, there were many followers, and after the National Government saw such a situation, it also sought rescue troops at home and abroad. Especially when they learned that General Peng was going north to the Great Northwest, they also immediately sent a telegram to Ma Jiajun, asking them to do their best to intercept President Peng and prevent our army from liberating the northwest. Although it was General Manager Peng who fought against the MaJia army in the great northwest, and the war was finally won, in fact, the person who was favored by the superior at the beginning was not General Peng, but Marshal Xu Qianqian, after all, he was originally the commander of the Red Army's Western Route Army, and he and the Ma Family Army were also quite deeply related, so they pointed to this battle to avenge the soldiers. However, he was injured in the previous battle, and his injuries were not good enough on the day he was going to the northwest, so he could only let Mr. Peng go to the northwest with his anger. The year 1949 was the most important year of the War of Liberation, and our army not only crossed the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, but also fought the recalcitrant enemy army back and forth. By the second half of 1949, the situation was already very clear, the morale of our army had increased greatly, and the nationalist side was already bound to lose.
Northwest two horses
After studying the battle situation, the superior leaders decided to send General Peng to lead the First Field Army north. The Nationalist government also knew that they had lost this battle, but on the surface it was still light and breezy, and it also sent three generals to guard the northwest, including Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui, who were originally the leaders of the Ma Family Army, and Hu Zongnan, a senior general of the Nationalist Government who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy. However, Mr. Peng did not take Hu Zongnan to heart, so he was known as a protégé of Tianzi in the Nationalist government, but in Mr. Peng's view, he was a foreign monk with great ambitions and talents, and he did not have to pay attention to his heart. In the past, when fighting with our army, he achieved repeated defeats and repeated defeats, and also sent a large number of rebel fighters and materials to the First Field Army of less than 30,000 people for Mr. Peng, and was later transferred to the rear by the Nationalist government for adjustment. Moreover, Mr. Peng had already figured out his way of fighting, and he was not worried that he would not be able to take him down. What really worries Mr. Peng is the northwest second horse, as the saying goes, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and Bu Fang and Ma Hongkui, who have been entrenched in the northwest for many years, have a natural understanding of the northwest, if the two sides go to war here, our army is at a disadvantage, and there is no place to hide in the desert, and the Red Fourth Army suffered a big loss on the terrain.
A lot of defensive engineering
In July 1949, three senior generals of the Nationalist government met in Jingning, Gansu Province, to discuss the battle plan, and after carefully studying the map, they decided to lead some of Peng Laozong's troops to the Pingliang area, take advantage of the mountainous advantages of Liupan Mountain, trap our army inside, and then annihilate them. After Knowing their battle plan, Mr. Peng also quickly found a way to deal with it, and prepared to divide and block Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui, but before Mr. Peng could make a deployment plan, contradictions arose within the Ma family army. Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui were more active than anyone when they took on the task, but after seeing that the general trend of the Nationalist government had gone, they both began to shrink their heads, one of them quietly returned to Ningxia without greeting the other, and the other chose to return to Lanzhou to redeploy, he wanted to use The complex terrain of Lanzhou and the strong fortifications to resist our army's troops. Neither of them had eaten in a manger, and the originally decided pingliang decisive battle was naturally aborted. Mr. Peng took advantage of this opportunity to lead the First Field Army to Pingliang and liberate more than a dozen surrounding areas. After all the way to Lanzhou to attack, Lanzhou since ancient times is the northwest fortress, backed by the Yellow River facing the South Mountain in all directions, the strategic location is very important, and the National Government used to be stationed in Lanzhou, built a lot of defense projects here, built here into a military town, so here is a natural easy to defend and difficult to attack the key place, Ma Bufang also saw this, so he took this as his home, but also further strengthened lanzhou's defense, not only in the front of the layout of a large number of firepower bunkers, There was also barbed wire and mines were also buried. Ma Bufang was particularly confident in his defense project, and said that there was no unit here that could be attacked, and after hearing that General Peng wanted to attack Lanzhou, he said that General Peng was going to suffer a loss this time.
tactics
It was just that he did not expect that his deployment just happened to be in the arms of Mr. Peng, because what Mr. Peng was most afraid of was that the cavalry of the Majia Army would have to conduct mobile combat with our army, because all the soldiers in our army were infantry, and when the cavalry and infantry fought, the infantry could not take advantage of it at all, and it was difficult for the cavalry to capture it when they were in and out. Now Ma Bufang wants to launch a city offensive battle, which is a very high opportunity for our army. And General Peng also immediately adjusted the strategic deployment, let some soldiers first go to Guyuan and Haiyuan areas, grasp the traffic arteries there, in case Ma Hongkui sent troops to support Ma Bufang in the subsequent war, and also deployed some troops in Baoji and Tianshui, in order to be able to observe the movement of Hu Zongnan's army at any time, if they had signs of supporting Lanzhou, they immediately blocked. This time, whether in terms of strategic deployment or in terms of combat planning, Mr. Peng and the soldiers of our army are determined to annihilate the Ma family army and liberate the Great Northwest. In order to completely cut off Ma Bufang's rear road, Mr. Peng also led the Second Corps and the Tenth Corps of the Regiment to set up an encirclement circle on the east, west, and south sides of Lanzhou, completely encircling Lanzhou within the line of sight of our army. However, after these were all deployed, Mr. Peng did not order an immediate attack, because Lanzhou's defensive strength was also quite strong, and Ma Bufang was definitely ready for everything, and if he rushed to attack at this time, it might cause unnecessary damage to the soldiers of our army. Ma Jiajun was already the turtle in the urn, and it was only a matter of time before he took him, and he was not in a hurry to attack at this time. Moreover, in order to rush to the northwest as soon as possible, our army is marching in a hurry all the way, and the logistics troops have not yet kept up, and it is difficult for qiao women to cook without rice, and there is no material, no supply, and no way to fight. Therefore, not rushing to war is also for the sake of allowing soldiers to rest for a few more days and have a good state in order to achieve more with less on the battlefield.
The casualties were heavy
Mr. Peng was not idle, and had been discussing tactics with other leaders of the troops, thinking about how to take the Great Northwest with the least casualties. Therefore, after resting, they made a feint attack on Lanzhou City, just to test their strength. However, having been able to stand in the northwest for so many years, Ma Bufang must also have real ability; he had long been prepared for battle, standing on a high place and commanding Ma Jiajun to take advantage of his condescending geographical position to launch an attack on our army, making our army's feint attack into a real attack. In August of that year, our army sent the Thirty-sixth Army of the Sixth Army of the Fourth Army, the Sixty-fifth Army, and nine other corps to attack the Majia Army in their main positions, but after a day of fierce fighting between the two sides, instead of attacking a single area, our army suffered countless casualties. Only one corps had lost nearly eight hundred men, and if they continued to attack in this way, all the fighters would be afraid that they would all die, and all the soldiers immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat to their positions. After returning, General Manager Peng immediately gave them a meeting, warning them not to take the enemy lightly, to learn from the experience and lessons of this time, to re-observe the terrain and firepower deployment of the enemy troops, and then to attack again after they have a clear understanding, knowing that they will not be defeated in a hundred battles. The soldiers suffered serious casualties, and Mr. Peng himself also carried out profound reflection, but as long as the Great Northwest can be liberated, the death of these fighters is not in vain.
Blood sprinkles the Great Northwest
After the meeting, Mr. Peng personally went to the front line to observe the battlefield situation, and soon he found a breakthrough in the Lanzhou Campaign. In the four directions of Lanzhou City, the Nanshan area is guarded by Ma Bufang's heavy troops, and the east and west sides are grasped by our army, while the north is exactly the water of the Yellow River, and the bridge above the Yellow River is the only passage for the Ma family army to the outside world. By the next day, Ma Bufang was not attacked by our army again, and thought that our army had retreated in spite of the difficulties. He also smugly sent a telegram to the Nationalist Government, ready to ask for some rewards, but before the telegram could be sent, Ma Bufang's subordinates said that his hometown of Linxia had been attacked by our army, and it turned out that after Discovering the breakthrough point in Lanzhou, General Manager Peng not only began to mobilize troops to prepare to capture the Yellow River Bridge, but also dispatched some soldiers to attack Linxia, which was very close to Lanzhou, so that all of Ma Bufang's back roads could be cut off. When Ma Bufang saw that his hometown had been raided, he immediately sent troops to support him, and Mr. Peng just saw this opportunity, and as soon as Ma Bufang's two cavalry teams left, the soldiers of our army immediately rushed up to attack Lanzhou.
summary
The soldiers of today are no longer, the Western Route Army that met the MaJiajun narrow road that year, the Western Route Army at that time was mentally tired and backward in weapons, and now the morale of the soldiers is high, and the weapons are not known how many times better than before. Our army attacked at the same time from the three directions of Lanzhou's east, west, and south, and before the official start of the war, it also launched artillery to bomb the Lanzhou position for half an hour, and the feng shui took turns, and the Red Fourth Army, which was originally hit by the cannon and could not stand straight, has become a thing of the past. After the bombing, all the soldiers rushed to the front to attack the Lanzhou positions, and directly took all the peripheral positions around Lanzhou. After learning that After the fall of Lanzhou, Ma Bufang escaped overnight, and when he walked to the Yellow River Bridge with his son and elite troops, he was discovered by our army, but unfortunately he still fled to Chongqing in the melee, and all the remaining subordinates were killed. The next day, Mr. Peng entered the city of Lanzhou and surrounded and annihilated all the Ma family troops. He then attacked Ma Hongkui's troops stationed in Yinchuan, but he fled to Chongqing, knowing that victory was hopeless. At this point, our army in the northwest was recaptured, and the Ma family army, which had once again occupied more than eighty years, also officially disappeared. Our army not only avenged the Red Fourth Army, but also officially opened the way for the interior to connect with Qinghai, Xinjiang, and other places.
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