For the Shengshicai Department in front of us, the first thing to solve is the problem of existence and non-existence. The team of less than 8,000 people in front of us finally achieved one shot with each other. The ammunition was sufficient, but the two groups of ammunition equipped with Russian-made Mosinna dry rifles were a little nervous.

Sun Dianying also said that there was no way to do this. There was no arsenal in China that produced 7.62 mm rifle bullets. Besides, no one in China except Sheng Shicai used rifles of this caliber.

But in this way, nearly two thousand water beads in Sheng Shicai's hand would sooner or later fall into the state of a fire stick. In the end, Sheng Shicai could only persuade himself: "Forget it, it's a waste of time anyway."

Now Shengshi understood why the Tsarist Russians dared to support him, and gave him money and arms but did not build a military factory for him. It turned out that they were guarding him here. I thought that if there was no ammunition at the city of Dihua at that time, Shengshicai felt that he could have fought for at least a few more days. The Tsarist Russians looked a little careless, and it turned out that they were not stupid enough.

But now it is not the time to fight against the Tsarist Russians, but it is the fundamental reason to first capture a piece of territory to settle down. Shengshicai's troops changed their weapons and rested for several days, and sent troops to advance eastwards - the troops with less than 8,000 people brought almost the same number of women and camels, horses, cattle and sheep several times more. This is also a miracle of marching.

As for Hami City behind him, a fire was set aside and burned into ruins in the raging fire. Shengshicai ordered the burning of Hami City to destroy the evidence of the city massacre, and the other was to make a desperate attempt to fight bravely. Now the officers and soldiers of Shengshicai's army wanted money and women, and if they did not have some ruthlessness, the combat effectiveness of this unit would be greatly reduced.

Although the Ma family army has been scattered northwest for decades, it seems to be just a mob in the central government of Nanjing, there are differences between the mobs and at least it is not comparable to the mobs like the Hami Rebel Army.

After the Shengshicai army, who had been burning and boating, won consecutive victories, removed more than a dozen checkpoints from the Ma Buqing Ma Bufang's army, and defeated a cavalry regiment of Ma Bufang in the field near Yumen Pass, and killed one of Ma Bufang's nephews in the battle. The troops headed straight to Jiayu Pass, and at this time there was only an incomplete cavalry brigade of the Ma family army. The situation was quite unfavorable to the Ma family army.

When Ma Bufang heard the report, the first thing he did was to go to the house of his niece-in-law who had just become a vain, and shouted: "Niece-in-law, I'm here to comfort you again on behalf of my nephew. This time my nephew is watching us in the sky."

After trembling a few times on his familiar niece-in-law, Ma Bufang began to consider how to deal with the problem of Sheng Shicai's eastward advance.

In recent years, the Ma family army, which traversed the northwest, no longer had the majesty of killing anyone. First, the Dongling thief Sun Dianying advanced westward with the support of Nanjing Central. After several major battles in Qinghai, Gansu, the Four-Ma Alliance lost troops and lost some Gansu and the entire Qinghai, including Lanzhou.

As soon as this matter stopped, the Japanese came again. After forcing the Yellow River to defeat Yang Hucheng's troops, they occupied the part east of the Yellow River in Ningxia. The Ma family army fought with the Japanese several times, and it can only be said that the losses of both sides were heavy. However, the Japanese came at that time, and there were only a few people in the Ma family army, so they could not afford it. So the Ma family army contracted its power and gave the Ningxia part east of the Yellow River to the Japanese.

Then the Central Army from Nanjing came, but the Central Army from Nanjing was not a good bird. After killing Yang Hucheng to boost the morale of the army, he killed the Japanese and killed the Japanese in a few months, but the territory of Ningxia east of the Yellow River did not mean to return it to the Ma family army at all. You should know that although Yang Hucheng did not have a surname, he was also a disciple of the people and a natural ally of the Ma family army.

The Ma family army is now trapped in some Gansu (except Lanzhou and Gansu south of the Yellow River), a small part of Ningxia and a small part of Mongolia. The territory is not small but there is no oil or water. Except for Yinchuan, the provincial capitals of these places are all in the hands of the Central Army. The four-Ma coalition forces now have more than 30,000 people, and the lack of guns and pay is the current situation of the Ma family army.

Some time ago, when Tsarist Russia was expeditioning Xinjiang in the east, the Ma family army also symbolically asked for help from the central government - the central government did not need reinforcements, just give more weapons, food and salary.

As a result, the Nanjing Central Committee found five thousand red rust sabers from somewhere, and 20,000 black gunpowder grenades were handed over to the Ma family army. I won’t say much about the red rust saber. The one that was used to chop firewood must be the saber. I don’t know where the black gunpowder grenade was found.

This thing is called a grenade, but it is actually a large firecracker. The ratio of black gunpowder for this batch of grenades may also be a problem. After throwing it out, the sound and black smoke were quite scary. However, after Ma's army conducted many tests, no sheep was directly killed by this black gunpowder grenade. Relatively speaking, it is not very difficult to get injured.

Nanjing's sincere heart to the Ma family army was very clear. If the Ma family army had not wanted to maintain their vigor, they would have long since defected to the Japanese or Tsarist Russians. The conditions they offered to make the Ma family army rebel hundreds of times better than the support provided by the Nanjing Central Committee.

Ma Bufang thought about it but had no idea. Just as he was about to discuss it with Ma Buqing, the mother-in-law of the niece-in-law outside the door came back. Ma Bufang was immediately moved again and grabbed the niece-in-law's mother-in-law into the house and pressed it on the white body of his niece-in-law, laughing: "It's just right here, let's have a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law today, hahahahaha."

For Ma Bufang, military and national affairs are far less important than having fun in time.

As Shengshicai's troops entered Gansu deeper, their connection with Sun Dianying's troops in Qinghai became closer and closer. Shengshicai's troops used gold, silver bulls and horses stolen from the territory of the Ma family army to exchange for the arms of Sun Dianying's troops.

While Sun Dianying's troops were getting bigger and bigger, they also said that when the war situation was unfavorable, the Shengshicai troops could withdraw to the near post with Qinghai Guard troops at any time. The Ma family army suffered a lot of losses and did not dare to come here. Sun Dianying's small statement made Shengshicai troops even more courageous.

Sun Dianying said that there is no benefit, who will do it? Now there is a benefit that must be arbitrary. We must protect the safety of large customers well.

The hatred of the people of Gansu for Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang is equivalent to the hatred of the people of Xinjiang for Shengshicai. Although Shengshicai is not a good bird, Shengshicai had not had time to do evil in Gansu here than the Ma family army. After Shengshicai entered Gansu and fought a few small battles, many young and strong Gansu were going to join Shengshicai's team to fight the Ma family army.

This time, Sheng Shicai's team expanded again. After the battle at Yumen Pass, the Gansu people defected to Sheng Shicai's unit and reached a small scale. After leaving out the battle losses, Sheng Shicai discovered that his current troops had more than 10,000 people. The five subordinate brigades all had two thousand people, and each regiment had a scale of thousands.

As for weapons, it was not a problem. The two thousand fire sticks with few bullets and few bullets were sold to Mongolian herders for cattle and sheep. Those Mongolian herders could get a small amount of 7.62 rifle bullets to fight wolves and prevent robbers, but the pitiful number was meaningless to the Shengshicai tribe.

The 7.92mm rifle that the Shengshicai Department has equipped with more than 10,000 people has obtained from Sun Dianying, which has a wide range of sources, including Hanyang, old sleeves, Jin, Fengzao, etc., and there are even a very small number of medium-term rifles. The Czech light machine guns that also use 7.92mm rifle bullets now have more than 200 Czech light machine guns.

The victory of the Yumen Pass was thanks to the automatic firepower of these light machine guns and the Shengshicai Department equipped the five hundred flower mechanisms at this time. Shengshicai Department taught the Ma family army a lesson in Yumen again - the era of sabers has passed. In the past, the Ma family army, who had crossed the northwest, once again turned into rotten meat under the horse's hooves under the gushing firepower.

The only regret is that the number of light mortars is still a little small. So far, Shengshicai's unit has only one gun company equipped with twelve sixty-mm mortars. It may be enough to attack the Ma family army for the time being, but Shengshicai has always thought of one day returning to Dihua and re-assembling the throne of the Xinjiang king.

Sheng Shicai's voice: I am the man who wants to become the king of Xinjiang.

What's the point? Ma Bufang said: I am the man who wants to become the king of **.

After the victory of the Yumen Pass, Sheng Shicai's ambition was also high. His original plan was to take over Jiayuguan, Gansu and the Ma family army and rule from here. After all, the total strength of the Ma family army's four-ma coalition was five times that of Sheng Shicai's advance eastward. However, victory was also a cup of poisonous wine. As the gap between the two armies narrowed, Sheng Shicai also revised the original plan and captured the Zhangye army and entered Shandan Minle.

Another advantage of doing this is that it is closer to Sun Dianying's troops in Xining, Qinghai. This means that you can get arms faster. As for the Ma family army, who is afraid that he will do anything, the central government will not support the Ma family army now.

Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing did underestimate Sheng Shicai. He originally thought it was a defeated general from Xinjiang. How much combat effectiveness can he have? A cavalry regiment cannot solve it, and a cavalry brigade cannot do it. Ma Bufang's troops in Jiayuguan were defeated by Sheng Shicai's troops again, which made Ma Bufang, who was busy playing with women in Wuwei County, wake up a little a little.

After Jiayuguan was seized, Ma Bufang summoned his generals, the sons and nephews of Ma Bufang, and cursed in the hall: "A group of wastes, I can't live a peaceful life when I play with a few women, but I actually defeated the defeated generals who came from Xinjiang. Tell me what else can you waste besides eating and making manure."

"Uncle, we have said that Shengshicai's troops have fierce firepower and are a strong enemy who wants to give their all, but you don't believe it."

Ma Bufang cursed: "He was fierce. He used to rely on the Tsarist Russians to defeat us. Now the Tsarist Russians have destroyed most of him and driven out of Xinjiang. Thousands of defeated soldiers lack guns and bullets, and have fierce firepower. How is that possible!"

"Uncle, that's the old Huangsheng. In Shengshicai's department, they used bullets similar to those in the Central Army. At least our spies have seen Hanyang and Czech styles in their troops."

Ma Bufang rolled his eyes and asked, "What do you mean is the Central Army behind him now supporting him."

"I don't know whether the Central Army supports him. At least the hands and feet of Sun ** from Qinghai are behind him. Otherwise, no one else can give it away."
Chapter completed!