Chapter 147: The Battle of Tianshui (I)
At 7 pm on the 29th, the Red Seventh Army held an operational meeting in Yuanlong, the Red 11th Division, the Fourth Unit, the Corps' direct artillery regiment, heavy machine gun regiment, cavalry regiment, engineer regiment, guard regiment, field hospital, communication battalion, reconnaissance battalion
The heads of other units attended the meeting.
Chief of Staff Zeng Zhongsheng pointed to the Tianshui map drawn by the reconnaissance battalion and said: "According to the report of the 13th Division, at 2 noon today, Qingma launched an attack on Tianshui with three cavalry regiments, and was severely injured by the 38th regiment that I guarded the city. At 5 pm
The Qingma infantry arrived and launched a tentative attack on the arc-shaped northern wing of the arc-shaped mountainous land behind Tianshui, and was defeated by our only regiment and the second regiment. The enemy immediately launched a full-line attack.
, the first security regiment was assigned to a cavalry regiment, two militia attacked the arc-shaped northern wing, the second security regiment was assigned to a cavalry regiment, two militia attacked the southern wing, the fifth cavalry division was assigned to a cavalry brigade, three security regiments, three
A militia attacked the middle of the arc-shaped mountain, with three infantry regiments of the 100th Division each belonging to a cavalry regiment, and two militia attacked the west gate, south gate and north gate of Tianshui County. Due to the strong position and strong firepower, our artillery was destroyed.
The enemy artillery position, so the enemy's full-on attack was not long before it had to stop. Now, the Ma family army surrounded by Tianshui City are Ma Bufang's 100th Division and two cavalry brigades of Ma Bufang's New Second Army, and two cavalry brigades of Ma Buqing Cavalry 5th Division.
An infantry brigade, plus some security regiments and militias, had a total force of about 70,000. In the afternoon's attack, the enemy lost about 6,000 people, and the main force of Qingma and the main force of Qingma has reached about 65,000. At present, the main force of Ningma Ma Hongkui's 7th Division has crossed.
Weihe River, joining the battlefield, the enemy's troops have reached 90,000. It is expected that the enemy will launch a night attack on our 13th Division and the only division's position today."
After the introduction of the situation, Zeng Zhongsheng said: "According to the enemy situation on the battlefield and the deployment of the corps commander, our army is determined to concentrate the troops directly under the corps, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 13th Division, the 13th Division, the 4th Division, a total of five divisions, under Tianshui City.
, between the river and the Wei River, Ma Bufang, Ma Buqing and Ma Hongkui's main forces were wiped out. The specific deployment is as follows: First, with the 13th Division, the only division guards Tianshui County and the mountains behind the county town, defends with fortifications, attracts the attack of the Ma family army, and gradually consumes the Ma family army's troops
.When the main force completes the deployment, when the Ma family army finally collapses, it attacks from Tianshui and strikes directly at the back of the Ma family army. The 2nd and 12th Division have secretly moved south from Pingliang and have now arrived at the Weihe Line. Today, we crossed the Weihe River, deployed defense lines along the Weihe River to block the attack
And oppress the enemy. When the enemy collapses across the line, they will steadily pursue them from north to south. The Third, the Fourth Division led a mortar battalion of the Artillery Regiment and a third battalion of the Heavy Machine Gun Regiment to secretly occupy Yuquan Town tonight, deploy defenses along the Jihe River, and block the enemy
Escape south and undertake the task of steadily attacking the enemy's main force from south to north. Fourth, Huang Su and Cai Zhong led the army artillery regiment, heavy machine gun regiment, engineering regiment, plateau, Yuan Guoping led the 11th Division to arrive at the Zhongliang line tonight to establish
Ambush the positions, cut off the connection between Tianshui and Gangu, and the plateau is responsible for unified command. The legion headquarters leads the cavalry regiment, and the guard regiment operates with the 11th Division, establishes a command center in Zhongliang, and the cavalry regiment and the guard regiment act as reserves for the entire legion. The overall idea of ​​the battle is
When the enemy was tired of attacking, they found that the main force of our army was surrounded on both sides of the north and south, and they would inevitably retreat in the direction of Gangu. After encountering heavy firepower attacks from our 11th Division and the legion, it is very likely that Ningma broke through the Wei River and Qingma broke through the direction of the Jihe River.
.At this time, the 12th Division was blocking the Wei River, and the fourth Division was blocking the Ji River. It surrounded the enemy under Tianshui City. In the narrow space between the Wei River and Ji River, our army surrounded the four sides and gradually advanced to force the enemy to collapse."
After Zeng Zhongsheng finished speaking, Liu Yimin stood up, glanced around the cadres' faces with his eyes, and said loudly: "The Battle of Tianshui is related to the overall situation of our army in establishing the strategic base of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. Chairman Mao and Deputy Zhou
Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Zhu are watching us, all the soldiers of the entire army are watching us, and all the knowledgeable and hard-working people in the country who are looking forward to uniting in anti-Japanese war are watching us. Ma Bufang Group has many cavalry and strong mobility. We usually
Even if he wants to hit him, he can't catch up with him. Now he dares to do his best to invade Tianshui. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. My Tianshui City fortifications are solid and as stable as Mount Tai. My 13th Division, the only division has advanced weapons, strong firepower and ammunition.
Not to mention that the Ma family army with simple weapons cannot capture it, even the Central Army cannot capture it. The Ma family army must be desperate under Tianshui City, with blood and returning in vain. We are just about to attack the Ma family army when it is unable to capture the city and morale collapses.
, , rush the army to fight out and completely annihilate him. Therefore, each unit must control the rhythm of the offensive. After reaching the designated position, it must establish an unbreakable blocking position to resist the impact of the cavalry in the event of the Ma family army's cavalry when they are fighting to the death
The offensive wave is blocked. It is strictly forbidden to show off your power and attack without authorization. Our strategy is to use fortifications and firepower to bully the Ma family army, so that they can know what modern war is. After repelling his large-scale impact, we will advance 500 meters and 500 meters.
, Every further push, you must build a position. Finally, you must trap the Ma family army in Tianshui City and force him to automatically put down his weapons. Do you know my guiding ideology?"
The cadres replied in unison: "It's clear!"
Liu Yimin nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "What is the main force? It is not the number, not the time of establishment, but whether it can be invincible and attacked. In my eyes, you can defend and attack fiercely.
The troops that cannot be dragged down, and the winning force is the main force. The 11th Division is of course the well-deserved first-class main force of our army. So what about the Fourth Unit? This battle is not only the first battle of our Fourth Unit and the One Division, but also ours
The battle of fame. I hope that after this battle, our only division, the fourth division, can make the enemy frightened like the original first, second and third battalions. Chen Dayong, Liu Yi, Li Deguang, and Shi Ran
, tell me, are you confident?"
Chen Dayong stood up and said, "Report to the commander of the army, the Fourth Division will never slander the battle flag of the Seventh Army. Please rest assured, complete the task resolutely, and not let a single Ma family army go."
Liu Yimin looked at Liu Yi, Li Deguang, Shi Ran, and several people shouted in unison: "Please rest assured that the commander of the army, the fourth division will definitely be invincible and will be invincible."
Liu Yimin stopped talking and waved his hand: "Set out!"
The cadres came out one after another. Liu Yimin told Zeng Zhongsheng to send his just-in-one deployment and his speech to Liu Jian, Li Qing and Feng Dafei, and organized the army headquarters to set off immediately. After that, he took the lead and led the team to set off.
After receiving a telegram from Ma Yuanhai, Ma Bufang was shocked. He didn't expect that the Red Bandits would have prepared for it. It seemed that Tianshui City was not easy to fight, so they might have to spend a lot of money.
After thinking for a while, Ma Bufang decided to take advantage of his night battle and close combat and launch an attack while at night. He didn't believe that only a few thousand people could stop his 90,000 troops from attacking. Even if he stepped on a horse, he could even put him on the small.
The little Tianshui stepped on the ground. So he ordered Ma Yuanhai to attack resolutely by night battle. Even if more than 20,000 people died, Tianshui would be taken down. As for Ma Yuanhai's request to resign from the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, Ma Bufang said this: "I just started fighting."
, What position should I quit? Could it be that my cousin's guy was kicked by the donkey? No?"
Thinking about this battle, I had to ask Chiang Kai-shek for something. So Ma Bufang sent a power to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that after an afternoon of attack, the Red Bandits suffered heavy losses and killed more than 3,000 Red Bandits Tianshui defenders. However, the troops suffered huge losses and killed 6,000 of them.
More than 2,000 people were injured and the food, grass and ammunition were seriously damaged. Please ask the Chairman to supplement it. In addition, in view of the heavy firepower of the troops, please ask the Chairman to send the air force to assist in the war tomorrow morning and blow up Tianshui City to flat ground.
After sending the telegram, Ma Bufang considered that Ma Hongkui's troops could not be commanded, so he sent a message to Ma Hongkui, asking him and Ma Yuanhai to command the front line battle together.
After receiving Ma Bufang's telegram, Ma Yuanhai hurried to see Ma Hongkui who had arrived at the battlefield. When Ma Hongkui heard that Ma Bufang was not in Tianshui, but in Gangu, he felt annoyed: He urged him one by one, one by one, and I was here.
, You are hiding in Gangu, isn't this a joke? Therefore, when Ma Yuanhai asked Ma Bufang to be jointly commanded by them to carry out night battles at night and close combat plans, Ma Hongkui said coldly, our army had just arrived
The battlefield needs rest. I won’t participate in this night battle. You attack first, and our army will plunder the formation for the brothers.
Ma Yuanhai had no choice but to send a telegram to Ma Bufang and reported that Ma Hongkui was unwilling to participate in the night battle. Then he arranged for the troops to prepare ladders and explosive packs to prepare for the city overnight.
After receiving the telegram, Ma Bufang sent three telegrams to Ma Hongkui, asking him to cooperate with the night battle attack, and at least to restrain the enemy. In the end, Ma Hongkui finally agreed to take on the feint attack.
Li Qing and Feng Dafei saw the Qingma troops at the foot of the mountain at the command center of the mountain shouting horses and the torches were clear. He knew that the enemy was going to launch a sneak attack and had a night battle. He immediately ordered the troops to eat, rest, strengthen the protection of the positions, and at the same time strengthen the two wings and the rear.
Mountain positions, ready to deal with the enemy's night battle.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Ma Yuanhai called the commanders of the New Second Army and the Fifth Cavalry Division and said hoarsely: "The attack failed this afternoon mainly because our army's attack direction was too much and its troops were dispersed. However, the main loss was
It was a militia. The more than 30,000 main force of our army had basically no losses except for the three cavalry regiments. Tonight, we concentrated our troops to capture the county town, and the 7th Division was responsible for attacking the back mountain, and restraining the red bandits on the mountain from being unable to reinforce.
We still have more than 60,000 troops, and even with our feet, we must level Tianshui City. We must prepare more explosive packs and bundles of grenades to open the city gate. The Fifth Cavalry Division is responsible for taking down the North Gate, and the 100th Division is responsible for taking over the 100th Division.
Going to the west gate, the first and second regiments of Qinghai Security Regiments commanded the militia to take down the south gate. Ma Tingxiang, the commander of the siege of the north gate, Han Qigong, the commander of the siege of the west gate, and Ma Yulong, the commander of the siege of the south gate, was forced to attack in the afternoon.
The artillery position was destroyed and the losses were huge. At night, I pulled up the field cannons and aimed at the Ximen and bombarded me with a fierce breakthrough. The two cavalry brigades of the Fifth Cavalry Division and the Cavalry Brigade of the New Second Army set up ambush positions in the south and north of the city.
When the Red Bandits on the mountain come down to support him, kill him!"
Seeing Ma Yuanhai's murderous look, the officers were all excited as if they were injected with chicken blood, as if Tianshui City was already theirs.
Looking at the officers' expressions, Ma Yuanhai knew that morale was rising. He said, "We have a special point in fighting night battles. If we don't fight now, we will fight again until late at night. At that time, it is time for people to get into trouble, and it is easy to attack suddenly.
Effect. Now each unit is going back to arrange the soldiers to sleep, and ask the militia to make long ladders, make more torches, and create more momentum, so that the Red Bandits think that we will attack at any time and cannot sleep. By two o'clock in the evening, the entire army gathered secretly and killed together.
If you go straight to the city wall, whoever climbs up first will be the female red bandit in the city. Have you heard it clearly?"
The officers shouted together: "I heard it clearly!" Ma Yuanhai waved his hand and asked everyone to go out and prepare.
Li Qing and Feng Dafei waited until 10 o'clock in the evening when the Qingma troops were not in action. They were all surprised and called the leadership team of the 13th Division and the only division to study what Qingma wanted to do.
Lei Ming, the political commissar of the only division, looked at the camp of Qingma troops at the foot of the mountain, and said, "Two division commanders, this Qingma commander is not simple. He is a tired plan and wants us to stay asleep all night.
, and then launch a sudden attack when the soldiers were most trapped. And this attack must be a desperate bet, targeting a point on the county town or a mountain, with the purpose of breaking through in one fell swoop."
Feng Dafei thought for a while and said, "It makes sense. But this attack point must be the county town. Because although there are city walls, there are many people. As long as the ladder can be placed on the city wall, it can attack upwards. Moreover, the city wall of Tianshui is not high.
I can't stand so many people and ants climbing up. If they reach the city gate, they can blow up the city gate. Besides, our army has strong forces on the mountain, so we are not afraid of them coming to attack, but there are too few troops in the city. Although the 38th Regiment is the main force
The group, but the tiger cannot defeat the wolves!”
Li Qing thought carefully and found that this was indeed the truth. The commander of the army repeatedly told Qingma to avoid life in the war. If they rushed up and rushed into the city, it would be troublesome. Although the 38th Regiment was ready for street fighting, he would not let him go.
Wouldn't it be better for the enemy to break through the city wall?
After discussing with Feng Dafei, Li Qing immediately ordered the 39th Regiment to hand over the position to the supplementary regiment, and together with the Unique Regiment, enter the county town from the east gate in front of the position. Lei Ming, the political commissar of the Unique Division, entered the city with the troops, and took charge of unified command and guarding the city. He also asked them to
Use the mortar companies of three regiments to exert the power of shelling.
After Lei Ming entered the city, he met Hou Sanxi and Yu Qingshan, and immediately arranged a shift to rest in the army and ordered the three battalions of the Unique Regiment to be assigned to the 38th Regiment to defend the three battalions of the west gate, the north gate and the south gate, and the 39th Regiment took the reserve team.
The former 13th Division straight troops guarded the east gate to ensure the connection between the mountain. Then Li Chang gathered the mortar companies of the three regiments together and appointed Li Sheng, the company commander of the mortar company of the 38th regiment, to unify the command and immediately establish a position.
Calculate the range and calibrate the bombardment area.
Li Chang really wanted all the mortars to aim at Qingma Camp to have a three-scattered volley. Unfortunately, the mortars of the three regiments were all small 60 mortars, and the range was limited, so he had to give up.
At 2 o'clock in the evening, Ma Yuanhai ordered the troops to gather, but the militia was in front and the elite troops were behind, and they quietly came to touch several city gates.
Song Wenhu's fourth battalion was in line with one row, and at this time he was responsible for the surveillance and defense mission of the city gate from Ximen, which was facing Gangu to Tianshui Road.
Since the battle won in the afternoon, the soldiers have high morale and have been waiting for Qingma to continue attacking. However, the waiters were almost asleep and there was no movement in Qingma.
Song Wenhu was about to smoke a cigarette and take care of his spirits when he heard a soldier say, "Platform leader, come up!"
Song Wenhu looked under the city wall and said, beloved, there was a large black area, and he couldn't see how many people were. Needless to say, the one who came to the city gate was preparing to explode the city gate, and the one who carried the ladder was preparing to climb the city wall.
Song Wenhu did not dare to neglect, so he asked a soldier to report to the company commander, and ordered the entire platoon to concentrate firepower on the enemy who came to the city gate, so that they could not get close to the city gate.
As soon as Song Wenhu and his teams were on duty, they immediately opened fire at Ximen. Soon the machine guns in the castle in the city wall and the half-middle-rise fire point also opened fire.
It took less time and the directions of the West Gate and the North Gate also started.
The person who was responsible for the Ximen attack mission was the 100th Division of Qingma, which was Ma Bufang's starting unit, and he himself served as the division commander. At this time, Han Qigong was responsible for commanding the 100th Division to fight. This person is an anomaly in the Ma family army, because the Ma family army basically
It is a family army, and the standard for employing people is the four words "Gan, He, Hui, Ma", which means that it must be from Gansu, Hezhou, Hui, and Ma surname. Han Qigong is from Xunhua County, Qinghai, Han nationality, and Ma Bufang
None of the four standards for employing people is connected. However, this person is indeed capable and can advance step by step in the seriously xenophobic Ma family army, which shows that he is indeed capable, has military achievements, and is also particularly loyal to Ma Bufang.
In history, Han Qigong has always occupied an important position in the Qingma army. Especially when Qingma eliminated the Western Route Army of the Red Army, Han Qigong was an important general of the Qingma army. The militia he mobilized alone to attack the Red Army reached 40,000 or 50,000 people.
Later, he was shot dead by the people's government.
At this time, Han Qigong, who was standing in the command post, saw that the sneak attack failed and ordered a strong attack on the whole line. So the soldiers carried long ladders and rushed towards the city wall.
When the fourth battalion commander of the 38th Regiment, who served as the guard of the West Gate, saw that the situation was critical, he immediately ordered the Fourth Battalion and the One Battalion to go to the city wall, and all fire points were opened, and the flying thunder cannons were fired immediately, and the artillery was called for support.
The Red Army soldiers were really open this time. No matter whether it is Hunan Army, Gui Army or Central Army, no one can compare to the Qingma Army in terms of bravery. Seeing that the Red Army's firepower was so fierce, the soldiers were still stepping on their comrades' bodies to move upwards.
He pounced and put some ladders on the city wall. The soldiers didn't know that these were just the militia and security regiments that took the lead, and the three regiments of the 100th Division of the Qingma were still supervising the formation behind!
Soon a soldier climbed up the ladder.
Lei Shun, the squad leader of the 9th squad of the 2nd Company of the Fourth Battalion, led the whole squad to guard the city wall, shooting and dropping bombs. A ladder happened to be next to him. He pushed it twice without pushing it. Looking down,
Several Qingma soldiers were fixing the ladder desperately. He grabbed a grenade, pulled the string, and threw it down for three seconds. The grenade exploded above the Qingma soldiers' heads, and Lei Shun shouted two times.
The soldier, holding the ladder with a butt, shouted "Get up!" and overturned the ladder. The green horse soldier on the ladder fell down. Lei Shun grabbed another grenade and threw it down, turning around.
Only then did they realize that the two soldiers were exposed because they used too much force and were immediately taken away by the enemy's machine gun bullets.
There were too many enemies and they attacked the city again. As soon as the distance was close, the light and heavy machine guns of the Qingma troops who were the cover brought casualties to the Red Army on the city wall. The soldiers did not dare to show their heads and would sacrifice if they were not careful.
Of course, it is impossible for the enemy to climb up. The firepower of the Fourth Battalion and the Unique Regiment and the First Battalion was something that the Qingma troops could not imagine. The corpses under the city walls were getting higher and higher.
At this time, the mortars in the city spoke.
After receiving the call for help from the Fourth Battalion, Li Sheng immediately ordered three mortar companies to carry out five volleys outside the West Gate according to the calibrated firing boundary, and all the shells fell into the middle of the dense formation of the 100th Division and the militia.
The 100th Division attack formation was suffocated.
Subsequently, Li Sheng commanded three mortar companies to provide fire support to the south gate and the north gate at one time.
Because the range of the Sky-Booming Thunder Cannon is too close and it is not convenient to move, the soldiers of the Qingma army are not stupid. When they see that the guys are too powerful, they try to avoid its bombardment range. Therefore, the Sky-Booming Thunder Cannon will be fired for a while.
The position was transferred to form a launch gap.
Seeing the Red Army's mortars shifted their shooting direction, Han Qigong felt that it was time. While notifying the artillery regiments of five field artillery transferred from the artillery regiment to bombard the Ximen, he ordered the militia to remove them and let the three infantry regiments of the 100th Division directly enter the Xicheng.
The door's attack was determined to play the trick with one blow.
Ma Bufang's field cannon was a Japanese Taisho 21-year-old field cannon. It was a new cannon that Ma Bufang had just bought from Japan with the money to sell opium. This time, Ma Bufang's main force came out and brought these five field cannons.
After the test fire, five field guns adjusted the firing distance, followed by a five-scattered volley, which immediately raised the city gate tower above the west gate, and buried all the Red Army soldiers in a squad.
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Another round of five shots came down, and the wall above the city gate was already falling from afar.
When the fourth battalion commander saw that it was not a play, he immediately ordered the troops preparing for street fighting to take their place, guarding against the enemy's breakthrough of the city gate, and immediately reported to the regiment headquarters.
Li Chang had already made it clear at this time that the enemy's most elite unit was at Ximen, and immediately ordered the 39th Regiment, which served as the reserve team, to launch a dispatch to reinforce Ximen and defeat the enemy.
The Xicheng Gate finally collapsed under the continuous bombardment of five field cannons. However, the good luck of the five field cannons of Qingma has come to an end. Li Qing, who is on the mountain, has been impatient for a long time, because he is afraid that the enemy will have mountain cannons or
The field cannons have been waiting patiently for the artillery battalion. Seeing that the enemy's field cannons finally opened fire, Li Chang ordered the mountain cannon company to fire and destroy the enemy's field cannon positions.
The range of mountain cannons itself is not as far away as field cannons, but the gap is not very big. In addition, this is at night, in order to improve the accuracy of artillery bombardment, the Qingma Artillery Regiment pushed the field cannons forward as much as possible. This time, the mountain cannon company of the Artillery Battalion of the 13th Division was prompted.
Catched.
The company commander of the mountain artillery company was Yang Degui, who was the first to hit the mortar position of the 62nd Division of Tao Guang during the Battle of Xikou. He was awarded the special merit at the establishment meeting of the Central Guard Division of Jingwu Prefecture. He was originally the fourth brother.
The camp was specially transferred from Gaoyuan and Hong Chaoyuan to strengthen the power of the 134th Division's artillery battalion.
After receiving the firing order, Yang Degui visually measured the distance of Qingmaye's position, and quickly reported the coordinates. After a test shot, he adjusted slightly, and then a volley of six mountain cannons was fired, and then another volley. I know
The shells exploded when they arrived at the Qingma Field Cannon Position and stopped the shelling.
After killing the enemy's field artillery positions, the 13th Division's Artillery Battalion and the Unique Division's Artillery Battalion were no longer scruples, six mountain cannons and dozens of mortars began to fire out of the west gate.
Han Qigong saw that the west city gate was blown down by a field cannon, and ordered the cavalry to join the battle. He attacked the city wall with the security regiment and militia to attract the attention of the Red Bandits. He picked up the sabre and rushed out of the command center, leading three elite regiments of the 100th Division.
, howling, and killing towards the west city gate.
After Qingma's field artillery was blown up, the Fourth Battalion and the Unique Regiment's First Battalion immediately adjusted their deployment, built simple fortifications at the collapsed city gate, mobilized light and heavy machine guns to block the enemy.
The troops of the 100th Division are worthy of being a bloodthirsty and easy to kill. Three regiments have more than 9,000 people rushed towards the West City Gate in three waves, completely ignoring the bullets fired from the opposite side.
Seeing that the barrels of the heavy machine guns of the Fourth Battalion and the Unique Battalion were red, the soldiers of the 100th Division fell down like cutting wheat, but no one turned around and did not talk about any tactics.
Blindly impacting the sea of ​​people.
Seeing that he finally rushed to the city gate, many soldiers dropped their guns, pulled out the big sword on their backs, howled like a wild wolf, and rushed to the gap in the city gate.
Seeing the city breaking in front of you, the shells of two artillery battalions on the mountain and three mortar companies in the city fell down, and the stormtroopers of the 100th Division were blown into two sections.
Han Qigong was thinking of letting the troops rush through the sea of ​​death composed of artillery fire and rushed into the city. He saw the soldiers rushing into the city gate like a man who was being drunk and pushed by someone else, and staggered out.
, soon was submerged in artillery fire and bomb rain.
It turned out that the reinforcements of the 39th Regiment arrived. The light machine gun and the submachine gun were on the head and formed a barrage, forcing the soldiers of the 100th Division who rushed into the city gate and sent them into a purgatory made of artillery fire.
Although Han Qigong was cruel and arrogant, he knew that if he continued to attack, he would only bring shame on himself. He had to look at the broken 100th Division sadly and order the attack to stop.
In fact, the Fifth Cavalry Division at the North Gate had already stopped attacking. After all, they were Ma Buqing's troops. Although they were equally brave, what would they do if they could not attack?
Seeing that the sound of killing and gunfire from Ximen stopped, the offensive at Nanmen naturally stopped.
As soon as several siege commanders met and summarized the losses, Ma Yuanhai's lips turned black and trembled all over and could not speak.
In this wave of strong attack, the Qingma suffered a great loss, the field artillery position was taken, and there was no more artillery fire support. The troops suffered even greater losses. The original 65,000 people were less than 50,000 now, the key is the most elite.
The 100th Division was ravaged by the artillery fire of the Red Bandits and lost more than 3,000 people, and a whole regiment was gone.
Ma Yuanhai felt that this battle could not be fought anymore. From the afternoon to the night, the 70,000 people brought by him turned into less than 50,000. The artillery regiment was gone. I don’t know how much effort it will take to rebuild it in the future.
The bandits were definitely not as they had imagined, but were alone with thousands of people, but elite troops who had been waiting for a long time. If they continued to fight, they would probably not be able to capture them even if they threw all the troops here.
Let’s look at Ma Hongkui who cooperated. He had more than 20,000 people in one division, and he couldn’t even rush up the hillside on the north wing. He was just a worker.
After calming down, Ma Yuanhai sent a telegram to Ma Bufang, demanding the withdrawal of troops back to Xining, and our brothers couldn't afford to offend this Red Bandit.
Ma Bufang gets up at 4 o'clock every day. After getting up today, she had just finished washing up and before she could recall the beautiful scenery of the girl on the stage at night, she sent Ma Yuanhai's telegram.
Ma Bufang was shocked when he saw it. The Red Bandits unit had such strong combat power, which made the 100th Division break out of blood. This is great!
Ma Bufang wandered around the yard for a long time and was thinking about what to do. He was not afraid of the huge losses. Those militia groups could be rebuilt if they lost money. Anyway, they didn't have to pay for their own money. The soldiers brought their own equipment. The 100th Division and the security guards were the first, second and third regiments.
You must never lose. What should you do? Just withdraw your troops like this?
Ma Bufang was unwilling to retreat like this, so he sent a telegram to Ma Hongkui, urging him to concentrate his strength to attack after dawn and cooperate with Ma Yuanhai to capture Tianshui City.
After sending a telegram to Ma Hongkui, Ma Bufang sent a power to Ma Yuanhai again, asking him to rectify the troops and attack again after dawn. We suffered heavy casualties, and the Red Bandits must have suffered heavy casualties. Now we are competing to see who can persist. However, after dawn
When attacking, let Ma Hongkui's troops and the Fifth Cavalry Division attack first, and their own troops supervise their attacks. Never let the 100th Division suffer any further losses.
Then Ma Bufang sent a second telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, truthfully reporting the losses of the troops, asking whether to temporarily give up the capture of Tianshui and retreat to Gangu to establish a defense line. If the troops continue to fight, Qinghai's armed forces will probably be destroyed.
Tianshui City was down. At the same time, Ma Bufang proposed that the central government must send air force to participate in the war. Now that the artillery fire of the New Second Army has been completely lost, it is no longer possible to provide firepower support to the troops.
Ma Bufang did not go to the front line in person, so the telegram he sent to Chiang Kai-shek only talked about the destruction of his artillery and the casualties of the troops. If he went to the battlefield and witnessed with his own eyes how his soldiers died, he probably sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek.
It’s not like this, but run away first and then send a telegram. The content of the telegram should also be like crying and dying.
However, Ma Bufang said something right. The Red Army in Tianshui City was indeed quite casualties, especially the Fourth Battalion and the Unique Regiment Battalion that guarded the Xicheng Gate. After a fierce battle, the casualties were more than half.
The platoon-level cadres were almost injured. All those who survived were injured.
Li Chang had no choice but to order the two battalions to retreat and rest, and to transfer the 7th Battalion of the 39th Regiment and the 13th Division's Engineer Battalion to defend Ximen.
After the war, blood was everywhere on the battlefield, and medical soldiers were busy treating the wounded, and the martyrs were also removed from the stage.
Li Chang led the cadres of the 38th Regiment, the 39th Regiment and the One Regiment to inspect the fortifications. When he arrived at the Xicheng Gate, he saw that the field cannons were so powerful, and Li Chang said to Hou Sanxi beside him: "Send time to the commander of the army,
It must be said that Ma Bufang has five field cannons, which are very powerful and have been destroyed by our artillery."
Speaking, he said to himself: "Ma Bufang didn't know where to get the wild cannons. Why did Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army rarely have wild cannons? Strange!"
Chiang Kai-shek received the first telegram from Ma Bufang and sneered. These local warlords knew that they wanted money, guns, and artillery. At the beginning of the fight, I was afraid that even a Red Bandit had not caught it, so he said that he would kill more than 3,000 people.
He suffered more than 8,000 casualties, just trying to blackmail the central government. Could it be that the central government has really become the mint they see, and can silver dollars be produced anytime and anywhere?
Send planes to bomb, it is light to say that this bombing is to tell the people of the world that the Central Army has participated in the war? Wouldn't that provide the mastermind behind the civil war? It's whimsical and stupid!
After Chiang Kai-shek put down Ma Bufang's first telegram, he ignored Ma Bufang.
At around five o'clock, the confidential staff officer on duty woke Chiang Kai-shek up and handed him Ma Bufang the second telegram.
After seeing this, Chiang Kai-shek was puzzled. It was said that Ma Bufang's troops were powerful in combat, so they could not even take any Tianshui, and they even asked for a withdrawal. Isn't it amazing!
However, this was a major event after all. Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the confidential staff to notify Yan Daogang, Yang Yongtai, and He Guoguang, and immediately rushed to the official residence to discuss major issues.
After a few people arrived, Chiang Kai-shek had already washed up and was waiting in the study.
Yang Yongtai took Ma Bufang's two telegrams and looked at them, silent. After pausing for a while, he picked up the telegram again, looked at it carefully, and said, "Senator, I feel that we are a little wishful thinking?"
Chiang Kai-shek stared at Yang Yongtai's eyes for a long time and asked, "What does Changqing mean?"
Yang Yongtai said: "Commissioner, the one who defends Tianshui should be the troops of Liu Yimin's Red Seventh Army!"
He Guoguang interrupted: "It should be. Because it was Liu Yimin's troops who occupied Xi'an, and only he could be insatiable and ignore anyone's orders. When the armistice order was issued, he used the excuse that the troops did not receive the order to seize Tianshui and Pingliang, Guyuan. .”
Yang Yongtai said: "The problem is here. Judging from Liu Yimin's previous combat situation, he always grasped the information in advance and carried out ambushing unexpectedly. This time, Ma Bufang's main force confronted his troops for so long, and he could not have known that the forces of the two sides were so disparity. How could he Will the Tianshui defenders become lonely? There must be ghosts here!"
Yang Yongtai's statement suddenly attracted everyone's attention. Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the staff on duty to bring all the telegrams from Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin these days, and he wanted to take a closer look.
After the telegram was brought, several people looked at each letter. When they saw Ma Hongbin's telegram reporting the Red Army's retreat from Guyuan, Yang Yongtai's eyes lit up and he said, "The problem is here!"
Several people looked at Yang Yongtai. Yang Yongtai shouted with a telegram in his hand: "The Red Army withdrew from Guyuan, why? Guyuan is a bridgehead to control Ningxia, and its strategic position is so important. How can we say that the defense is removed? "
He Guoguang pondered for a moment and said, "There is a problem. The capture of Guyuan was carried out at the risk of violating the armistice order. There is no reason to withdraw defense casually. Besides, this is Liu Yimin's army. When he seized Guyuan, I felt that He had a thorn stuck in Ning Ma's throat. Why would he be willing to give up automatically now? It was definitely not because he was afraid of Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin. How could Ning Ma's troops get into Liu Yimin's eyes? He is a regiment of He dared to fight He Jian at that time, how could He Jian's troops be compared with Ningma's troops? Now he actually took the initiative to withdraw defense. What exactly is he going to do?"
Chiang Kai-shek blurted out: "Tianshui!"
Chapter completed!