After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, Zhang Qun thought about it over and over again, and discussed it with Shao Lizi, Zhang Zhizhong, and Chen Cheng, and then called Chiang Kai-shek: "If the attack of the two horses fails and the main force is annihilated, how to deal with the Gansu issue? Since we need to negotiate, why bother
Take this risk again and give the Communist Party a statement that our party has disrupted the armistice negotiations?”
Chiang Kai-shek did not get angry this time, and he called back patiently and explained that Erma attacked Tianshui to regain the lost land in Gansu and to test the strength of the Communist Party. If the Communist Party asks questions, local forces may answer without obeying the central order; if Erma attacks are not smooth,
If the Communist Party has a large-scale increase in troops to Gansu and occupy the entire territory of Gansu, it will immediately restrict it by not being able to use wars during the ceasefire. Otherwise, the central government will enter Shaanxi in large quantities and mediate the dispute between the Communist Party and the Second Mas, and the consequences will be caused by the Communist Party.
One side assumes the responsibility. In short, it is to confirm the charges of civil war and provide an excuse for the central government to attack and suppress the attack. If the main force of the two horses was quickly annihilated and the Communist Party is strong, then negotiations will be made immediately and all military actions will be stopped.
Zhang Qun sighed in his heart that the poor Erma was regarded as a touchstone for testing the strength of the Red Army by the chairman, and it was completely sold.
Although Zhang Qun secretly complained in his heart, he no longer mentioned the resignation. He carefully studied how to negotiate with Zhou Enlai. After all, it was not easy to make the Communist Party withdraw from northern Sichuan out of thin air.
Tianshui is the birthplace of the legendary Fuxi family. It is known as the hometown of Emperor Xi. It is also the birthplace of Qin State and the Qin people in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Li Qing, commander of the 13th Red Division, political commissar Chen Dazhong, chief of staff Wang Nanhu, and director of the Political Department Chang Huayu were gathering in the division headquarters at this time, studying defense against the Tianshui map.
Since the 13th Division attacked Tianshui, according to the instructions of the Legion Commander, the troops had already built fortifications in Tianshui and were ready to defend themselves. In addition, they had obtained the ammunition and supplies stored in Tianshui by Hu Zongnan. The current 13th Division said that it has excellent weapons.
It's not an exaggeration to have ammunition enough.
After receiving the telegram from Liu Yimin, Li Qing knew that the commander of the army was determined to wipe out the main force of the Ma family here. Therefore, the mission of the 13th Division was very clear, which was to firmly attract the main force of the Ma family and allow it to continuously reinforce, forming a
The vortex completely sucked the main force of the Ma family army into the vortex and submerged it. Therefore, he left all the 38th Regiment, the 39th Regiment and the division's direct troops in the county town, allowing the elite 37th Regiment to occupy the key points of the county town. If the enemy attacks, rely on the Fortification Festival.
The fight against the enemy gradually led the enemy to a county town with complete fortifications, which would be their burial place.
According to the information of the division's reconnaissance company and the legion's reconnaissance battalion, the main Qingma Ma Bufang's 100th Division, Ma Buqing's Fifth Cavalry Division and a large number of security regiments have set up camps in Gangu County. If it weren't for the truce order, Li Qing's temper would have been premature
So they went to the door. Now, they didn't go to trouble the Ma family army, but instead they came to the door.
The only thing I don’t know now is Ma Hongkui. Will Ma Hongbin send troops to Tianshui to participate in the battle. Liu Jian of the 12th Division was in Pingliang, so I’m afraid Ma Hongkui is not that bold? If Ma Hongkui’s 7th Division and Ma Hongbin’s 35th Division also came to join in the venue.
Then, this drama will be much better.
The problem now is that the Ma family army must first take action, and then attract all its main forces to the vicinity of Tianshui County, so that it can do its best to attack the city, creating conditions for the main forces of the army to encircle and annihilate.
This kind of war is very unaccustomed to the 7th Army, which is used to attacking. Starting from the 18th Regiment, Li Qing followed Liu Yimin and fought a battle that took the initiative to attack, deployed the enemy first and fired the enemy first, and fought a battle that made the enemy unpredictable.
,When Li Qing was waiting for the enemy to come to the door, he felt uncomfortable all over and felt like he had a cold. Chen Dazhong laughed and thought of something wrong with him even if he wanted to fight.
In fact, there is nothing good about this map. I have been occupying Tianshui for some time. These people look at the map every day without any trouble. They have already studied Tianshui's map thoroughly.
Li Qing coughed, shouted several people from the front of the map, poured a glass of water, drank it down, and said, "This battle is the most boring. When the battle is decided by the enemy, that's what to do.
OK? If they are timid and dare not attack, wouldn’t we wait in vain? Old Chen, send a telegram to the commander of the army to see if we can send small troops to attack and tease Ma Bufang.
It depends on whether he dares to respond."
Chen Dazhong said: "That won't work. Now is the period of the Kuomintang-Communist armistice negotiations. Let's fight here for happiness. Vice Chairman Zhou and others don't know how much verbalism will be spent. I won't send such telegrams, and I won't allow you.
hair."
Li Qing smiled suddenly: "Old Chen, are you becoming more and more like a political commissar?"
Chen Dazhong said: "I was originally a political commissar, it's not a question of whether I look or not!"
Li Qing said: "The more you speak, the more serious you become, as if you have forgotten what I did before! By the way, I was anxious, so I would send a telegram to ask where the commander of the army went. The size of this unit
The defense area is getting bigger and bigger, and it is difficult to meet the commander of the Legion. When the commander of the Legion arrives, I have to suggest to him that he should quickly think about building the railway, otherwise the speed will be too slow if he just runs on two legs.
Now.”
Wang Nanhu said: "That is, building railways is the top priority. When we occupy Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai, there is no railway. Not only the railway, if an agreement is reached with the Kuomintang, this highway must also be built, otherwise the troops will be mobilized too slowly.
If something happens in Xi'an, when we arrive, the daylily will be cold.”
Chang Huayu shook his head and said softly: "The railway construction and highway construction are all major issues you are considering, but in my opinion, this has nothing to do with our 13th Division. After the battle,
I guess we are going back to Xi'an. Maybe when will this place be come again? But Hu Laohu, this unlucky guy, may not be able to leave after coming here this time. Maybe the commander of the army will ask him to stay and train cavalry.
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Li Qing said: "Hu Laohu also has to leave. After fighting the Ma family army, he will fight against the Jinsui Army and the Central Army. The cavalry must be responsible for guerrilla and assault missions. Just look at the commander of the army who is unlucky, and he will be given the unlucky person.
Stayed." After saying that, his eyes looked straight towards Chen Dazhong, Wang Dahu, and Chang Huayu's face.
Chen Dazhong laughed: "Teacher Commander, you are too unkind. This new team has only been formed for a few days, and you want to drink and say goodbye to drink? Anyway, I am the political commissar, and I want to follow the troops to fight the Central Army. Don't go
I look on my face."
Wang Nanhu said: "It's great to fight the Central Army. How can I miss this kind of thing?"
Li Qinggang looked at Chang Huayu. The person who usually whispered in detail was furious: "Don't look at me, I remember that you were all fighting happily in the main camp back then. I was squatting alone in the recruit camp and was so angry that I had nightmares every night.
. I finally got away and wanted me to stay, but there was no door!"
Li Qing sighed and said to himself: "What a pity, I guess this is another position for a teacher."
Wang Nanhu said: "As long as I can fight the Central Army and let me be the regiment commander, the battalion commander is fine. I don't care about the division commander behind this."
Li Qing said: "Forget it, I don't want to stay, so I won't suggest to the commander of the army. Hurry up and go out to check the fortifications carefully. I heard that Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing's cavalry are still very powerful. I'll go to 37
The regiment, the political commissar went to the 38th regiment, the permanent director went to the 39th regiment, and the chief of staff went to the direct troops. Let's go!" After saying that, he walked out directly.
Several people followed.
Gangu County Government, acting chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Government, security director, and commander of the newly formed Second Army and commander of the 100th Division, Ma Bufang, is also looking at the map.
After the Red 13th Division attacked Tianshui, and after the Red 12th Division attacked Pingliang, Ma Bufang stared at Tianshui. His original idea was very simple. If the Red Army just passed by, he would not fight. If the Red Army occupied Tianshui, Pingliang would not leave.
, then fight firmly.
Therefore, in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's order, he led all his main forces to Gangu early, set up a command center in Gangu, concentrated more than 70,000 Qingma's main forces, built a solid defense line in Gangu, and blocked the Red Army to continue to move towards
The hinterland of Gansu was deep. At the same time, he did not forget the brothers of Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin in Ningxia, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to send them a telegram to set up defense lines around Pingliang to prevent the Red Army from attacking Ningxia.
Today, when Chiang Kai-shek received a telegram from him and Ma Hongkui to concentrate their main forces to attack Tianshui, Ma Bufang immediately took action. While sending a small group of cavalry to investigate Tianshui, he also issued a power to urge Ma Hongkui to lead the main force of the 7th Division to go south, leaving Ma Hongbin's thirty-five
The division monitors the Red 12th Division. Ma Bufang plans to wait for Ma Hongkui's main force to attack the entire line as soon as it arrives, resolutely take down Tianshui and destroy the Red 13th Division opposite.
Ma Bufang is 32 years old this year. He looks very smart and enthusiastic, but in fact he is very licentious and cruel. There is a song about the northwest flower singing: "The tiger going up the mountain and the wolf going down the mountain is more fierce than Ma Bufang's bandits." Ma Bufang's green horse
The brutality of the troops is a true depiction.
In history, Ma Bufang did several things that were surprising. Let me first talk about a funny thing. When Chiang Kai-shek was elected president, he summoned Ma Bufang and his son in Nanjing. After meeting, after a greeting, Chiang Kai-shek pointed at Chiang Ching-kuo who was following him.
Ma Bufang said, "This is a dog's son Jingguo." When Ma Bufang heard that President Jiang was so polite, he actually said that his son was a dog's son. How could he introduce his son? When this guy was excited, he took his son Ma Jiyuan's hand and said:
"This is the horse's aid from Donkey Ri." Chiang Kai-shek came back to his senses and laughed. In this way, Ma Bufang was the first person in the Republic of China. To talk about a licentious person, Ma Bufang has a famous saying, "
If I give birth to me, I will be raped." It means that he is not polite to others except his mother and his daughter. He said this and did this, and his granddaughter was once occupied by him.
Some people say that Ma Bufang had more than 5,000 women in his life, which was the best in the world. Later, Ma Bufang fled to Egypt, fell in love with his cousin Ma Yuelan, and occupied him. Finally, he asked Ma Yuelan to write a letter to ask her mother and
The two sisters came to live with him, and Ma Yuelan couldn't stand the great humiliation. She fought back and complained to the relevant departments in Taiwan, and finally got rid of the clutches. However, this incident caused diplomatic disputes back then, which everyone knows. Another thing is Ma Bufang's cruelty.
, similar to Chen Guangzhong who was shot dead by Liu Yimin's army, but Chen Guangzhong is not as famous as Ma Bufang's army, because Ma Bufang's army once destroyed the Western Route Army Army that passed the Long March. There are countless cases of his murderous Red Army prisoners of war and insulting the female Red Army soldiers, which led to me later
Until the Liberation War, there were no combat troops with pure female soldiers. Later, when the Northwest Field Army liberated Gansu and Qinghai, Mao Zedong ordered Peng Dehuai not to rebel or surrender, but to allow them to surrender unconditionally.
, the founding leaders were so hated that they did not have the Central Army, including the Hunan Army, which fought bloody battles with the Red Army in Xiangjiang, and the Gui Army, Ma Bufang was the first.
Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, the fate of many people has also changed. Ma Bufang's fate will also change, and I am afraid he will never be the King of Qinghai again. Unfortunately, this guy was unconscious and not only came to the front line in person, but also deployed battles there.
Little did he know that the god of death was already waving to his troops.
It takes more than 360 miles from Xi'an to Baoji. If you force yourself to march, you will have to arrive for two days.
On the evening of March 26, Huang Su and Cai Zhong led the direct troops of the Legion assigned to the Xi'an Garrison District to use the night cover to quietly leave Xi'an and advance towards Baoji. Afterwards, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan handled the problems left over from Xi'an, they led the Legion headquarters.
He also left Xi'an and rushed west.
On spring nights, so many troops were marching on the Qinchuan land with torches, and their momentum was very spectacular. Unfortunately, Liu Yimin was not in the mood to enjoy this wonderful scene, and his mind was thinking about what Chiang Kai-shek was doing all the way.
Before leaving Xi'an, he received a notice from Vice Chairman Zhou on the negotiations. Zhang Qun asked Vice Chairman Zhou to restrain the Red Army from making military deployments for the time being, and specifically asked to restrain the Red Seventh Army from not blowing up the Tongpu Railway and attacking Luoyang Airport. Could it be that Zhang Qun really can
Tell Chiang Kai-shek not to fight a civil war?
Think about it, although Zhang Qun said that if Chiang did not agree to the armistice negotiations, Liu Yimin, who is familiar with history, knew that Zhang Qun and Chiang Kai-shek would never leave each other. Maybe Zhang Qun had a lot of negotiations with the Japanese, but for the Japanese
He was very vigilant and realized that the Japanese were the enemy of China, so he tried his best to promote peace talks. This may be different from Chiang Kai-shek in terms of understanding, but Liu Yimin knew that Chiang Kai-shek could not let Zhang Qun resign, and Zhang Qun did not
It may break with his old classmate. It is very likely that a compromise will form between the two. As for who is the victim of this compromise, it is hard to say. Either it is the Ma family army or the Sichuan army.
If Chiang Kai-shek stopped fighting a civil war, it would be a blessing for the country and the nation. With the development of the past two years and the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China's situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan would at least be much better than in history, and maybe it could be partially located.
A few victories will come to the battlefield to curb the ambitions of the Japanese army.
If Chiang Kai-shek still wants to fight, the negotiations will become his cover. However, judging from the current situation, our party has shown that it is willing to obey the leadership of the National Government. Chiang Kai-shek may have no excuse to fight now. It seems that he still has to be serious.
Study Chiang Kai-shek's mentality and see what the chairman is thinking.
If Chiang Kai-shek stopped fighting, wouldn’t it be a joke if he mobilized all his troops like this?
Just joke, it’s better to be a joke. If you don’t fight, it’s better to beat it than to beat it.
I don’t know if the Military Commission monitored the telegram between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Qun, so I had to ask when I was camping.