Just as Zhang Qun, Zhang Zhizhong and Chen Cheng were thinking about their concerns, Shao Lizi spoke: "Yue Jun, have you asked Nanjing for instructions and see what they have to do? If necessary, please ask the Chairman to order Ma Bufang and ask him to first
Withdrawal of the siege. Can everything be resolved in negotiation? We can’t talk here and kill him, isn’t that right?"
Zhang Qun hated and happy. He hated that Shao Lizi was incompetent and asked the Chairman for instructions? Didn’t he think this was the Chairman’s deployment? Although Ma Bufang was cruel, he didn’t give the Chairman’s order, and he was full.
It's okay, go fight the Red Army to the death? What's good is that the atmosphere in the five halls is tense now, and the two sides are at odds. Shao Lizi's statement finally gave both sides a step and he also had a ladder to speak.
So, Zhang Qun continued Shao Lizi's words and said, "Mr. Enlai, I suggest a break in the afternoon. We report to Nanjing immediately and ask Chairman Jiang to strictly order Ma Bufang to stop the attack and send personnel to Gansu to mediate if necessary. In any case, this negotiation
We cannot interrupt, we will continue to negotiate tomorrow morning. I wonder what Mr. Enlai thinks?"
Zhou Enlai nodded and agreed. Then he said, "Please report to Nanjing as soon as possible until the civil war. We must hold a press conference to explain the situation to the people of the whole country. Let the people of the whole country understand who is provoking the civil war.
Who is destroying the peace talks? We soldiers cannot shed blood or sacrifice in vain."
Zhang Qun knew that it was impossible to stop Zhou Enlai from holding a press conference, but he did not insist, so he said, "Mr. Enlai, please be careful when speaking at the press conference, and you must not get rid of Ma Bufang and Chairman Jiang together. This matter is with Jiang.
The chairman has nothing to do with the National Government. This matter cannot affect the overall negotiation situation."
Zhou Enlai was so angry that he said, "Okay, since your side said that, it was Ma Bufang who provoked the civil war. He was the culprit of the destruction of peace talks! We must expose him so that the people of the whole country can recognize his face."
Zhang Qun sighed in his heart. No matter whether Ma Bufang wins or loses, he will become stinky. But no matter how he sighs, Zhang Qun no longer takes Zhou Enlai's words, stood up and bowed politely, and went with Shao Lizi and Zhang Zhizhong.
Chen Cheng came out one after another.
Seeing the Kuomintang representatives coming out one after another, Liu Shaoqi said to Zhou En: "Vice Chairman Zhou should immediately suggest to the central government to send powerful troops to pick up the Tianshui defenders to break through. If it is too late, they may not be able to get out."
Before Zhou Enlai could speak, Ye Jianying said: "Don't worry, the 13th Division of the Seventh Army stationed in Tianshui is the main force, and Ma Bufang will not be able to get it for a while. However, the direction of Tongguan in northern Sichuan should be more vigilant, and Chiang Kai-shek needs to be strictly guarded.
Raid."
Dong Biwu said: "That's right, but after all, we have too few troops, and Ma Bufang is another murderer who kills without blinking. I think it's better to remind the Chairman and the CEO quickly, and let Liu Yimin and Lin Biao and others go to rescue him. It's too late.
I'm afraid I'm not in a hurry."
Ye Jianying said: "How to save it? The mountains are high and the road is far away. When the rescue troops arrive, the daylily is cold. Don't worry, since Liu Yimin dares to put the 13th Division there, he will definitely have a backup plan. Ma Bufang is obsessed with it.
As a lackey, he actually attacked the Red Seventh Army. He didn't ask what business that kid Liu Yimin was doing! I think Ma Bufang is probably not far from death this time."
Zhou En said: "The Chairman, the President, Bo Cheng and others have their own considerations in military affairs. Our task is to negotiate. Let's go back to Xi'an to hold a press conference. Don't let the reporters wait in a hurry."
Just as Zhou Enlai walked out of the five halls of Huaqing Pool, the Qingma front commander Ma Yuanhai was already squatting on the ground and crying loudly.
No wonder Ma Yuanhai cried bitterly. In just one hour, the three cavalry regiments he sent to enter Tianshui City lost one third. Seeing the city gates open, the cavalry of the three cavalry regiments
They lined up in a long line, shouting, and rushed towards the city gate with their shaky sabers. Seeing that the vanguard of the cavalry regiment had entered the door opening, Ma Yuanhai was about to excitedly order to report to Ma Bufang to capture Tianshui, but at this moment, it suddenly rang out
The dense gunshots knocked Ma Yuanhai out of nowhere. On the Tianshui city wall, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and countless guns suddenly appeared and opened fire on the cavalry regiment of the Qingma.
None of the cavalry who entered the doorway ran out. Fortunately, the cavalry had a large target, and when they entered the city, they had two columns, and the marching line was relatively long. The troops behind them were not a show, so they hurriedly turned their horses and stepped on each other to death.
Only when the young man fled back to his starting position.
Seeing the Red Army in the city gate lifting out the cavalry's bodies in the door, putting them outside the city, and then closed the city gate calmly, Ma Yuanhai knew that he might have encountered a tough guy now.
Not bad, you will even get bleeding.
But if Ma Yuanhai can be appreciated by Ma Bufang so much, he must have his own thoughts. He is not only cruel but also as simple as cruel!
Wiping away tears and stopping the riots of revenge from his subordinates, Ma Yuanhai ordered all the cavalry to dismount and build positions to prevent the Red Bandits from taking advantage of the situation to counterattack, and wait for the infantry to come up before deploying an attack.
The 38th Regiment of the Red 13th Division, the 13th Division Heavy Machine Gun Battalion, Engineer Battalion, and the Battalion of the Battalion were commanded by the 38th Regiment. According to Li Qing's deployment, the 38th Regiment guarded the county town and the 39th Regiment, and the supplementary regiment guarded the back mountain of the county town, and the second one was the only one.
The regiment guards the northern wing of the mountain, the southern wing of the III regiment guards the mountain. The heavy machine gun battalion of the Unique Division and the III regiment strengthened the Second Independent Regiment and the Third Independent Regiment respectively. The artillery of the two divisions gathered together to command and established positions in the back mountain.
Artillery fire can cover the surrounding areas of the county town and provide firepower support to each regiment. The 37th regiment and the unique regiment are assault corps.
Hou Sanxi, the commander of the 38th Regiment, and Yu Qingshan, the political commissar, were both company commanders and instructors of the 18th Red Regiment when the Xiangjiang River were reorganized. They have now grown into regiment-level commanders. After accepting the task, they were based on the Red Army Infantry Training Outline compiled by Liu Yimin.
Defensive battle positions required, a large number of land mines were buried in the open space outside the county town, and electric explosive packs of engineers were buried on several major roads. Bunkers were built under the city wall, and perforations were taken out on the city wall, and the county town was also put into the city wall.
The people moved, built barricades on both sides of the street, and temporarily opened up the courtyard. In this way, the entire Tianshui City became a large fortress, outside the city was a mine array, explosives pack, on the city wall, in the middle of the city wall, the base of the city wall was three levels
Firepower Net, there are street fighting fortifications in the city. Just waiting for Qingma, Ningma's main force came to attack the city.
When the cavalry of the green horse entered the city just now, Hou Sanxi did not order the explosives to be fired. The reason was very simple. The cavalry formation was too loose, which affected the killing effect. The flying thunder cannons on the city wall did not fire, and the firepower point of the bunker at the base of the city wall did not fire. Hou Sanxi
And Yu Qingshan should implement the command of the commander to control the fighting rhythm and attract the main force of the Qingma to siege. When they form a dense formation and siege on all sides, let them taste the taste of attacking the Red Army.
The first battle won, and the cadres and soldiers were in high spirits. Hou Sanxi and Yu Qingshan went to the battalions to see. Seeing that the cadres and soldiers were eager to fight, Hou Sanxi repeatedly told them to pay attention to saving ammunition and aimed at shooting. This kind of target shooting opportunity will be difficult in the future.
When encountering, sharpshooters are all trained on this kind of battlefield. Because of their strong fortifications, the soldiers do not feel panic and are easy to perform their shooting skills. Besides, everyone knows that the Red Seventh Army advocates attack, attack and attack, and this kind of defense
This is the first time in the history of legion battles, and we will not encounter too many in the future. We must not miss the opportunity to train troops.
After returning to the command center, Hou Sanxi said to Qingshan: "The commander of the army and the others didn't know where they were. It seems that the main force of the Qingma came out this time. This is probably going to turn into a sea of corpses and blood under Tianshui City.
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Yu Qingshan said: "No matter where the commander of the army and others go, we just need to guard Tianshui well. I think the commander of the army means to consume the main force of Qingma and Ningma under this Tianshui City. Otherwise, we will seize Hu Zongnan.
The commander of the Legion will definitely order the ones transported to Xi'an. All of them are left here, I'm afraid it's just for this day. Think about it, the commander of the Legion, you said that the commander of the Legion is younger than us, how could he know Qing
The horses will definitely come to attack Tianshui, and they will also strictly order the Unique Division to reinforce. It’s ridiculous that Ma Bufang has no idea about the situation of our army. Not to mention that the Unique Division has arrived, there is no Unique Division. With this sufficient ammunition, it is excellent.
Weapons and green horses cannot defeat this Tianshui City. Is there really a person like Zhuge Liang in this world?"
Hou San smiled and said, "There must be people like Zhuge Liang. I see that our Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu are even more powerful than Zhuge Liang."
Yu Qingshan took off his military cap, touched his bald head, and said with a smile: "This battle is a tough battle. Qingma will definitely attack the death. I don't know if there are many cannons. If there are heavy cannons, it will be troublesome."
, This city wall cannot hold back the heavy artillery bombardment."
Hou Sanxi said: "Ma Bufang is a local warlord. Where did he get the heavy artillery? At most, it would be nice to have two mortar companies. I think you are stupid when you learn the infantry training outline. There are many things that the Legion Commander said in the book.
They are all for dealing with the Japanese. Where do these local warlords have those things!"
Yu Qingshan thought about it, and he smiled embarrassedly and went to look at the map.
Two hours later, the Qingma infantry finally arrived. Ma Yuanhai adjusted his deployment and decided to occupy the arc-shaped mountain behind Tianshui first, and then use a mortar to bombard Tianshui City with a high point.
Considering that all the elites were lost when entering Tianshui City just now, Ma Yuanhai was so careful that he ordered Qinghai Security Regiment 1 to lead two militias to attack the northern wing of the arc mountain, and the Second Security Regiment 2 to lead two militias to attack the south of the arc mountain.
Yi. Ordered the three regiments of the 100th Division to lead two militias each, bring explosive packs and ladders for siege, and attack the three gates of the north, west and south respectively.
After the deployment was stopped, Ma Yuanhai left the three commanders of the 100th Division, the first and second regiment commanders of the 100th Division, and told them to let the militia rush forward and the elite troops to maintain combat power.
The commanders naturally understood it and immediately organized troops to enter the attack position.
At half past five, Ma Yuanhai ordered the security team to launch an attack. So, the two main security teams of Qingma drove the militia to pounce on the arc-shaped mountain. Seeing that it reached the foot of the mountain, there was no gunshot on the mountain, these militias went crazy.
Some waved their knives, and some held their guns and began to rush towards the hillside.
With a rumbling sound, the mines buried at the foot of the mountain began to explode one after another, and the broken limbs flew up, and the wailing sounded immediately. Strangely, although these militia had never seen the mines, they were bloodthirsty.
Ru Ming, when he smelled the smell of blood, he yelled in his mouth, and continued to rush up along his companion's body. Even the security soldiers who were pressing the formation behind him were vigorous and unconsciously joined the stormtroopers, carrying them in a hurry.
The militia rushed upwards.
Cheng Baocheng, the leader of the Du Er regiment guarding the north wing of the arc-shaped mountain, looked at the security group that was charging wildly with a telescope in the command post. The militia group said, "Idiot!" and ordered the fire to open. In an instant, on the hillside
Gunshots and grenade explosions were everywhere. The fierce security group and the bloodthirsty militia dropped hundreds of corpses and retreated.
Ma Yuanhai saw the security team attacking on both wings from the telescope. The militia retreated and finally saw the situation clearly. It turned out that Tianshui City was already ready for battle and the fortifications were quite complete. If you want to take it down, you might have to spend your capital.
He decided to attack again. If he conquers it, it would be better. If he could not conquer, he would report the situation to Ma Bufang and wait until Ma Hongkui's main force in the seventh division arrived before attacking.
This time, Ma Yuanhai used all the mobilized mortars and more than 50 heavy machine guns to provide fire protection. The first regiment and the second regiment strengthened a cavalry regiment in the direction of each, and a cavalry brigade was put into the middle of the arc-shaped mountain.
, Three security regiments, three militia groups, and three regiments of the 100th division each strengthened the Fifth Cavalry Division and one cavalry regiment, launching attacks on three city gates and arc-shaped mountains.
Tens of thousands of people attacked together, and from the air, it was dark and spectacular.
With Ma Yuanhai's order, the Qingma troops rushed toward their respective attack targets.
Standing at the command post on the top of the mountain, Feng Dafei had already seen that Qingma was trying his best, so he immediately ordered the troops to close the enemy and ordered the artillery to open fire to destroy the enemy's artillery and heavy machine gun fire.
This Qingma army is a unit maintained by clans, blood relatives and faith. It is a desperate battle when fighting. But it is also very cunning. It always lets the militia and security forces walk on the road, and the elite forces maintain their combat effectiveness, waiting for the militia and security forces to go with their opponents.
When the battle is almost the same, the elite troops will rush up in one go, which will not only easily defeat the opponent at critical moments, but also maintain the strength of the elite troops. Today, Ma Yuanhai is still playing this trick.
Many people in later generations did not understand that the Qingma army had no military pay, and even the soldiers had to bring their own war horses and quilts. Why could they maintain such strong combat effectiveness? Historically, Qingma had a good record in fighting against our army until the War of Liberation.
After the Northwest Field Army defeated Hu Zongnan and attacked Yan'an, Qingma also tried to fight with the already very powerful field, in an attempt to regain Xi'an.
In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Qingma army was overestimated. This army generally said that its tactics were rigid, its commander quality was poor, and its equipment was not good. The problem was that his opponents were relatively weak in the past, which made him always dominate the northwest. History
In the past, in 35 years, Hu Zongnan wanted to deal with Ma Bufang, but Ma Bufang's gold was effective, making Hu Zongnan unable to deal with him. Later, Chiang Kai-shek replenished equipment for Ma Bufang, and his firepower was slightly stronger.
During the Western Route Army, the three main forces, one army soldiers had an average of more than 20 bullets, one army had an average of 15 bullets, and one army had an average of 5 bullets, and it was not supplemented, so the combat effectiveness was naturally greatly reduced, which allowed the Ma family army to succeed.
Now, Qingma has met the Red 13th Division and the Only Division. The Red Army's tactical ideas have been advanced for many years than the Qingma troops, and their weapons are much more sophisticated than theirs. Qingma can be said to have nothing in addition to relying on human-sea tactics.
It method.
Ma Yuanhai watched the troops rushing in the arc of Tianshui City like a wave, muttering to himself, "Bless by God," his eyes full of longing, hoping that tens of thousands of troops would break through the Red Army's positions in one fell swoop.
Qingma's mortar and heavy machine gun fired at Tianshui City. The shells exploded on the city wall and inside the city one after another. The heavy machine gun also beat the Red Army on the city wall to the point of being unable to raise its head. Ma Yuanhai was overjoyed. Now, the kids could finally rush up.
It's right.
Soon, Ma Yuanhai's mouth was praying and the green horses rushing to the city wall attacked the formation. They were blown up by something and flew everywhere. The road leading to the city gate was even more terrifying, and the whole squad was
The platoon of soldiers was thrown high, and their arms were broken and their legs were broken.
The explosion finally stopped. Before Ma Yuanhai could be glad, the nightmare came again. Machine guns stretched out from the base of the city wall and the middle of the city wall, and opened fire violently at the Qingma stormtrooper, beating the soldiers who were carrying the ladder and screaming.
Rolling all over the ground.
Then the Red Army artillery on the arc-shaped mountain fired fire, and it turned out to be mountain cannons, with six shells hitting the Qingma's mortar position. After several rounds of artillery fire, the Qingma's mortar position was destroyed.
.Then, the Red Army's mountain cannons began to hit Qingma's heavy machine gun position. The machine gun soldiers threw down the machine gun and ran away. The slower they ran, and they were thrown into the sky with the heavy machine gun. The Red Army's mortars aimed at it.
The Qingma troops' dense formations of artillery fired, and each round of artillery fired, the middle of the team could be blown up with an empty field.
Ma Yuanhai didn't know that Hu Zongnan had stored a large amount of weapons, ammunition and supplies in Tianshui. Six of the mountain cannons were not unboxed and assembled. After the 13th Division was seized, Liu Yimin directly ordered Li Qing to equip the 13th Division's artillery battalion and set up a mountain cannon company. The first battle was
Make contributions.
Ma Yuanhai was in great pain. He couldn't figure out what kind of troops this was, with such strong firepower and endless defensive tricks. He didn't know what more vicious tricks would be waiting for him next.
Ma Yuanhai really guessed it right. As soon as the Qingma's mortar position was destroyed, the Red Army's light and heavy machine guns went up to the city wall again, and they were condescending to the Qingma storm team and began to splash bullets like water. What's even more terrifying is that more than a dozen
A sky-bang thunder began to fire, and the explosive pack dropped to the head of the Qingma army and exploded. Groups of soldiers fell down in one go, bleeding to death in all their orifices.
Ma Yuanhai couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, and the attack on the whole line died like this.
Ma Yuanhai was puzzled. Why is this Red Army unit different from other troops? He won and did not pursue the victory, which completely failed to kill the cavalry strangulation plan he arranged.
The setting sun was like blood. There were people and horse corpses everywhere on the battlefield, and the air was filled with blood.
Ma Yuanhai sat on the ground of the temporary command center without saying a word. The brigade commanders of the Qingma troops around him were also silent. If you have anything to say, a full-line attack was under Tianshui City and on the arc-shaped hillside,
More than 4,000 corpses were left behind, and the losses of the cavalry entering Tianshui City and the security regiment's tentative attack on the arc-shaped mountainous areas were killed. More than 6,000 people were killed just after the war began, not including the wounded soldiers. Moreover, the mortar was basically destroyed.
, the heavy machine gun was almost blown up. When did the Qingma troops suffer such a loss?
Ma Yuanhai decided to report to Ma Bufang truthfully and ask him to make a decision. It seems that he can't continue to do this front-line commander, so please choose another clever one!
At this time, in the conference room of the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government of Shaanxi Province in Xi'an, Zhou Enlai was holding a press conference.
Zhou Enlai informed the reporters of the achievements made in the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which mainly included three main items. First, he reached a consensus that "it is time to unite and fight against Japan." Second, he completed the negotiations for the exchange of prisoners of war. Now the Red Army captured the generals of the National Army.
All of them were concentrated in Xi'an, and they could be exchanged after the National Army sent the Red Army prisoners of war to Tongguan. Third, the two sides had fully exchanged opinions on the issue of northern Sichuan and formed preliminary opinions on certain aspects.
After reporting the situation, Zhou Enlai changed the topic and said: "What is regrettable is that when the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are about to achieve major results, some people ignored the overall situation of anti-Japanese and national salvation and were willing to be national sinners, and brazenly launched a civil war to undermine the peace negotiations. At noon today
At two o'clock, Ma Bufang, acting chairman of the Kuomintang Qinghai Province and commander of the New Second Army, dispatched 70,000 elite troops from the Ma family army in Qinghai to launch a sudden attack on our Tianshui base area, surrounding our army. Tianshui City is in danger, and our troops guarding the city are in danger! Ma Bufang
Who? How dare he be so bold that he violated the armistice order and attacked the Red Army, which was in a state of armistice? Here, I protested strongly to the Nanjing National Government, demanding that the Nanjing National Government immediately order Ma Bufang to stop attacking the Red Army, stop civil war, and maintain
Original defense line. Otherwise, in the hearts of the people of the whole country who love the motherland, Ma Bufang is the sinner who destroys the armistice negotiations, and those who support him in the civil war will not be able to escape."
A reporter asked: "Which Red Army unit is defending Tianshui? Can they resist Ma Bufang's attack?"
Zhou Enlai replied: "The army number involves military secrets and there is no way to tell us. However, our army is brave and good at fighting, and Ma Bufang will inevitably get bleeding. Of course, it cannot be denied that because the enemy's troops are too strong, our defenders have limited troops and weapons
There is insufficient ammunition, and it is still difficult to answer whether Tianshui can hold on to it."
Another reporter asked: "Mr. Zhou, is the Tianshui incident an isolated incident or the fuse of a major incident? As far as I know, the Central Army is currently stationing millions of troops in Tongguan and northern Sichuan. Will they take the opportunity to launch an opportunity to launch a campaign against the Red Army.
attack?"
Zhou Enlai replied: "I can't answer this question, only the National Government can answer it. However, I can tell you that now that foreign enemies are invading, the people of the whole country are eager for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to stop the civil war and resist Japan unanimously. I don't believe that those in power in the Nanjing National Government will
So short-sighted, I can't see the domestic situation clearly. If they really want to fight a civil war, the Communist Party of China will unite all patriotic forces, patriots, and lead the people of the whole country to stop the civil war. Whoever fights a civil war will defeat whoever fights a civil war!"
After the press conference, Zhou Enlai hurried to the General Staff of the Red Army and went to study military information.