Background
He was a member of Ma Bufang"s family, Ma Biao was the eldest son of Ma Haiqing 馬海清, who was the sixth younger brother of Ma Haiyan, the grandfather of Ma Bufang.
马彪, 馬彪
He was a member of Ma Bufang"s family, Ma Biao was the eldest son of Ma Haiqing 馬海清, who was the sixth younger brother of Ma Haiyan, the grandfather of Ma Bufang.
Ma was too young to participate in the First Sino-Japanese War, in which he wanted to fight. He then joined the Kansu Braves, serving under Ma Haiyan, fought against the foreigners in the Boxer Rebellion at the Battle of Peking (1900) and helped guard the Imperial Court when it evacuated to Xi"an. He was prominent in the Qinghai – Tibet War, a theater of the Sino-Tibetan War.
He was sent by Ma Bufang to create an incident against the Tibetan army at a monastery at Yushu.
This set off the Qinghai Tibet War. He was commander of Yushu Defense Command, Qinghai Province, and he also led the 1st Provisional Cavalry Division, 8th Cavalry Division, 2nd Cavalry Army, and served on the Military Advisory Council.
Ma Biao participated in encirclement campaigns against the Communists. He fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War.
His rank was Major General.
Immediately after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Ma Bufang arranged for a cavalry division under Ma Biao to be sent east to battle the Japanese. Ma Biao crushed the Japanese at the Battle of Huaiyang. Ma Bufang"s army battled extensively in bloody battles against the Japanese in Henan province.
The Japanese could not even pick up their dead, they instead cut an arm from their corpses limbs for cremation to send back to Japan.
The Japanese did not dare make an offensive like that again. “恨不得馬踏倭鬼，給我已死先烈雪仇，與後輩爭光”。 During World World War II, the China Information Publishing Company included an article on Ma Biao in Volume 4 of its publication "China at War", which discussed both his service in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and his fight against the Japanese in World World War II in Henan.
According to the article, he knew four languages: a indigenous dialect, Tibetan, Arabic, and Chinese. He had a beard. Ma Biao died at age 63 due to a car accident in Xining.
"I am eager to stomp on the dwarf devils (A derogatory term for Japanese), I will give vengeance for the already dead martyrs, achieving glory with the younger generation." said by Ma Biao with reference to his service in the Boxer Rebellion where he already fought the Japanese before World World War World War II By the time of World World War II he had been in the military for over 40 years, and his service in World World War II against the Japanese was regarded as the pinnacle of his achievements by himself.
