At 2 a.m. on August 25, 1949, Peng Dehuai, then commander and political commissar of the First Field Army, issued an order to launch an attack on Lanzhou on the whole line.
Hundreds of cannons of the Artillery Regiment of the First Field Army roared at the same time. Suddenly, the entire Lanzhou City shook and the mountains shook and the flames soared into the sky.
After more than half an hour of artillery fire coverage, the corps of the First Field Army quickly launched a full-scale attack on the Lanzhou defending enemy.
After dozens of hours of fierce fighting, on the morning of the 26th, our army's red flag was finally planted on the top of Lanzhou city.
Ma Bufang The impregnable Lanzhou city defense that was boasted by the impregnable was smashed by our People's Liberation Army in just one week.
According to statistics, in this battle, our army wiped out more than 27,000 main forces of Ma Bufang. The remaining enemy fled to Yongdeng and Xining areas under the leadership of Ma Bufang's eldest son Ma Jiyuan .
After Lanzhou was declared liberation, Peng Dehuai ordered Wang Zhen to lead the First Corps to advance to Xining immediately to eliminate the remaining enemies.
Interestingly, before the army led by Wang Zhen arrived in Xining, Ma Jiyuan was like a frightened bird and quickly fled to Chongqing by plane.
Xining defenders, who had no leader, were soon defeated by our army. On September 5, Xining officially announced its liberation.
At this point, the power of Qinghai " Ma Family Army " led by Ma Bufang has basically been disintegrated, but the Ningxia "Ma Family Army" led by Ma Hongkui is determined to defend Ningxia to the death.
On September 10, 1949, Peng Dehuai ordered Yang Dezhi to lead the 19th Corps of the First Field Army, divided into three groups, shouting the slogan of "Go to Ningxia, destroy the Ma family army, and liberate the people of Ningxia" , and marched from Guyuan County and Haiyuan County to Ningxia.
Our army was in a state of unstoppable power and won consecutive battles. The "Ma Family Army" along the way fled. On the morning of the 14th, our vanguard arrived at the suburbs of Zhongning .
After three days and four nights of fierce fighting, our army wiped out three enemy divisions, and another army and three cavalry regiments were defeated.
From the 23rd, the desperate "Ma Family Army" announced an uprising under the leadership of Ma Quanliang and Lu Zhongliang. On the evening of the same day, the People's Liberation Army entered Yinchuan and Ningxia declared liberation.
After the liberation of the northwest, Peng Dehuai was appointed as the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the Northwest Military and Political Committee, and commander of the Northwest Military Region, and began the construction of the Northwest Northwest.
Not long after, the Korean War broke out, and Peng Dehuai was appointed as the commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and continued to lead the army to the expedition.
1952, when the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea was in full swing, General Peng was forced to return to China for treatment due to illness, and Deng Hua was in charge of Zhishi's work.
At that time, for the sake of President Peng's health, the doctor told him that he must rest, not work hard, and not be angry.
But Mr. Peng quickly got angry again!
At that time, his old subordinate and then director of the Political Department of the Northwest Military Region, Liao Hansheng, brought him a shocking news: "Ma Family Army" was rekindled again!
What's going on?
In the battle to liberate the northwest, although our army annihilated most of the "Ma Family Army", a few remnants still hid. They hid guns, sabre , etc., waiting for the opportunity to get up again to confront our people's government.
Especially some generals of the original "Ma Family Army". Although they turned to darkness and light on the surface, they did not surrender due to the influence of local customs and religion, as well as the brainwashing of Ma Bufang.
In addition, at that time, our country was fighting the "United Nations Army" on the Korean battlefield. The domestic situation was relatively serious. In addition, with the instigation of the Taiwanese authorities, they took this opportunity to ignite the rebellion and establish the so-called "land Taiwan".
After listening to Liao Hansheng's report, General Peng was furious and immediately ordered Liao Hansheng: "We must win this battle and kill the rebels in the cradle, otherwise we will come to see me!"
In fact, from September 1949 to July 1951, the "Ma Family Army" had gathered many people to rebel.
However, before General Peng returned to Beijing to preside over the work of the Volunteer Army, the remnants of the "Ma Family Army" launched a very small scale and was not as good as the climate.
On May 8, 1950, Ma Yunshan, the former 82nd Army Brigade Commander of the "Ma Family Army", organized remnants, bandits, spies, etc. to launch a rebellion, namely the "May 8 Rebellion".
In the early morning of that day, Ma Yunshan led the rebels to attack the Anguo District Government and several district and township governments, killing more than 300 officers, soldiers, cadres and masses, and robbing 45 guns, 3,395 grenades, and more than 200 bullets.
After more than two months of hard work, our army quelled the rebellion. The bandit leader Ma Yunshan was shot dead by his accomplices in the internal strife.
But that's not over yet. On April 2, 1951, the former commander of the Eighth Cavalry Brigade of the "Ma Family Army" in Qinghai, Ma Ying- colluded with Ma Guoyuan and Ma Guolian to rebel, and also established the so-called "New Third Regiment of the Central Committee". This was the sensational "42 Rebellion".
This rebellion caused hundreds of officers, soldiers and masses to be killed in our army, and it also seriously affected the progress of land reform.
For this reason, the Northwest Military Region sent two divisions of cavalry and infantry, plus local militias, armed forces and other joint operations, and finally wiped out the rebels in one fell swoop.
But the remnants of the "Ma Family Army" did not give up. After that, they successively created a series of rebellions, but they were all wiped out by our army.
Now, the "Ma Family Army" has become active again. After receiving the strict order from General Peng, Liao Hansheng prepared to completely disappear from the northwest land in one go.
In March 1953, Liao Hansheng commanded the First Cavalry Division and the 11th Infantry Division of the Northwest Military Region to launch a full-scale attack on the remnants of the Ma family army.
In order to completely and cleanly eliminate this bandit army, Liao Hansheng also transferred the air force to cooperate with the ground troops to attack.
After the battle began, the soldiers shouted the slogan of "Don't stop the troops unless the bandits are destroyed" , and rushed towards the enemy with a rush of sea.
Before this, our army basically adopted a "ground-to-ground" attack model. Although it wiped out the bandit army, its strength was not enough, which also made them feel that there was still a possibility of a "turnaround".
But this time, our army directly dispatched the air force to strike the bandits, causing them to withstand a violent blow that they had never suffered before.
After two months of hard work, all the remnants of the "Ma Family Army" entrenched in the northwest region were annihilated by our army. The bandit leader Ma Yuanxiang was shot dead and more than 1,000 armed personnel were captured.
From this time on, the northwest land was truly calm, and the "Ma Family Army" has become a "historical noun" in the long river of history.
