What is the difference between the Northwest Army and the Shaanxi Army? It is all a geographical concept, but obviously, the geographical scope of the Northwest Army is larger, and the Shaanxi Army is also equivalent to a part of the Northwest Army.
This is equivalent to the concept of prefecture-level cities and county-level cities in administrative divisions, and county-level cities that are not well-known, if they are asked, are they ** people? They often say the name of the prefecture-level city, because it is easy to understand, after all, it is highly recognizable.
But if the county-level city is too famous, such as the concepts of Jinhua and Yiwu, Yiwu people will say that they are Yiwu people, not Jinwu people. Such is the concept of the Northwest Army and the Shaanxi Army.
The main areas controlled by the Northwest Army were parts of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Henan. The main spheres of influence are in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia.
The main figure of the Northwest Army, Feng Yuxiang, who everyone is familiar with, said that the Northwest Army is Feng Yuxiang's troops, and on the whole, the core figure of the Northwest Army is Feng Yuxiang.
With Feng Yuxiang's defeat in the Central Plains Warlord War in 1930, the Northwest Army collapsed. Subsequently, Yang Hucheng, Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin came to the fore and became the respective leaders of the Northwest Army.
Yang Hucheng occupies Shaanxi; Ma Bufang occupied Qinghai and was known as the "King of Qinghai"; Ma Hongkui occupied Ningxia and was known as the "King of Ningxia"; Ma Hongbin occupied Gansu.
Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Hongbin are also known as the Shaanxi Army of the Northwest Three Horses and Yang Hucheng, all of which are called the Northwest Army. But if the three horses have made any achievements in the War of Resistance, to be honest, they are very small, they are bandit-level existences, and the Shaanxi army looks down on them a little.
But to tell the truth, if you want to talk about resisting Japan, it is also the Shaanxi army, the Shaanxi army fought the Eastern Expedition Campaign, the Yongji Defense Battle, the June Six Campaign, and the Zhongtiao Mountain Campaign, all of which were fought with the Japanese, and based on the courage of the Shaanxi Army, it was praised as the "Iron Pillar of Zhongtiao Mountain" by Wei Lihuang, the commander of the First Theater of Operations. The Japanese were blocked in Shanxi and did not enter Shaanxi.
The most famous thing in the Northwest Army is the broadsword team, why is it the broadsword team? In a word, it's poor, and if you can't keep up, you can only use cold weapons.