Ma Dunjing's Character Activities

1949 From August to September, the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated Lanzhou and Xining successively, and the main force of Ma Bufang, the military and political chief of the Northwest Kuomintang, was basically wiped out. The military and political deputy commander Ma Hongkui's fourth army of 70,000 men retreated to Ningxia, under the command of Ma Dunjing, son of Ma Hongkui, from Jingyuan in the south to Jinji, Qingtongxia and Lingwu in the north, in an attempt to stop the People's Liberation Army from advancing northward.

In order to annihilate Ma Hongkui, the First Field Army was led by Yang Dezhi, commander of 19 Corps, and Li Zhimin, political commissar. In early September, Lanzhou, Dingxi and Haiyuan marched in the direction of Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia. By 15, Jingyuan, Tongxin and Zhongning were liberated one after another, and Jingtai garrison cavalry 1 brigade surrendered.

19, Ma Hongkui's main defensive centre-back 8 1 Army accepted the conditions of the People's Liberation Army, held an uprising, and was reorganized into the 2nd Army in the Northwest of China People's Liberation Army.

From 19 to 2 1, 19 corps captured Qingtongxia, Jinji and Lingwu respectively, and annihilated 128 army and 1 1 army. Ma Dunjing escaped by plane.

On 23rd, Lu Zhongliang, commander of128th Army, defected. That evening, the People's Liberation Army entered Yinchuan, and Ningxia was liberated. In this campaign, * * * annihilated and reorganized more than 40,000 Kuomintang troops, ending Ma's decades-long feudal rule in Ningxia.