sentences:  The Santa Muslim Dongxiang Mongols continued to play a major role in his army, protecting towns.Ma Fuxiang's Santa troops maintained an old Mongol and Qing custom of distributing specially marked arrows as tokens to officers to show their status.Among the posts he held was Commander of the 6th Mixed Brigade of Gansu Army in 1922 and 7th Division of the Northwest Army in 1926
  
  Ma Fuxiang had inherited his army from his family, from Ma Fulu and Ma Qianling.