[2] Ma Qi led the Ninghai Army in November 1918 to seize and garrison Labrang monastery from the Tibetans.
[4] The Tibetan Golok people, owing allegiance to Labrang, attacked the Muslim Ninghai Army several times.
The Muslim army then called for negotiations, during which they slaughtered the Goloks, killing "men, women and children", and drowned thousands of them in the Yellow River.
Ma Qi responded with 3,000 Chinese Muslim troops, who retook Labrang and machine gunned thousands of Tibetan monks as they tried to flee.
Wei Fu-chih was born in Kao-lan district in Gansu in 1895, his alma mater was Paoting Military Officers' College, and among the positions he held was battalion commander in artillery corps of the Ninghai Army.