Chapter 148: The Battle of Tianshui (2)

Chiang Kai-shek, Yang Yongtai, He Guoguang, Yan Daogang and several others grabbed the map and saw it. They immediately felt illuminated. The time when the Red Bandits retreated to Guyuan was basically the same as when Ma Hongkui marched into Tianshui. Needless to say, this Red Bandits unit was

Isn’t that intention clear when he followed the main force of the seventh Division of Ma Hongkui?

Chiang Kai-shek still had some luck in his heart and ordered him to send a newspaper to Ma Hongbin, telling him that Pingliang was an empty city, and he asked him to capture Pingliang immediately, and be sure to find out where the Pingliang Red Bandits were going.

After waiting for half an hour, Ma Hongbin did not call back. Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he cursed his mother and warlords all deserved to die.

Yang Yongtai said: "Commissioner, there are two scenarios that can be made now. One is a better situation. That is, Liu Yimin's democratic force has not moved on the line of Tongguan in Xi'an. The Pingliang defender only went south to reinforce Tianshui and played a role in restraining harassment.

, assist the Tianshui defenders in defending the city. The second situation is more serious, that is, Liu Yimin uses Tianshui as bait to attract Ma Bufang's main force to attack, and he must solve the main force of the Ma family army in one fell swoop under Tianshui City. This situation is very terrible. My personal judgment

It should be the second type, because from Ma Bufang's telegram, the first time it said that 8,000 casualties and 3,000 Red Bandits were killed. The second time it said that his troops were less than 50,000, and they demanded that the attack be stopped and retreat to Gangu

Arrange defense on the front line. And if you continue to fight, the Qinghai armed forces will all be explained to Tianshui City. This shows the problem, that is, the one who stationed in Tianshui was Liu Yimin's elite troops, and they obtained the weapons and ammunition hoarded by Hu Zongnan.

In addition, the Ma family army, which is known as fearless, is bleeding and unwilling to fight again. At the same time, the Tianshui defenders were able to destroy Ma Bufang's artillery with artillery fire, which is enough to prove that the defenders have strong firepower, well-trained and strong fortifications. I think

, Liu Yimin is afraid that he wants to use Tianshui City to consume Ma Bufang's main force, and then encircle and annihilate it. If I make a good judgment, Liu Yimin's main force may be rushing to Tianshui day and night, trying to solve the problem in Tianshui."

Yan Daogang said: "If Liu Yimin attempts to succeed, then will Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia all become Red Bandits? That's terrible. Once Ma Bufang's troops are annihilated, our army will have no military group or Red in Ganningqing.

If the bandits compete, then the whole northwest will be over, not just Shaanxi.”

Chiang Kai-shek felt so sad that he immediately ordered the Air Force to send planes to investigate the Tianshui area and determine the situation on the battlefield. At the same time, he ordered Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui to quickly report the number of Tianshui defenders to investigate whether there were any main movements of the Red Bandits around the battlefield.

At 5 a.m., Liu Yimin had already led the army directly under the army and the 11th Division to Zhongliang.

Zhongliang is located on the road from Tianshui to Gangu and Lanzhou, and is the only way for the main force of Qingma to withdraw from Gangu.

The troops came around from Ji Henan and marched overnight, and were very tired.

Liu Yimin asked the troops to rest for an hour, and took Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, Gaoyuan, Huang Su, Yuan Guoping, Zhao Jie, Zhou Yi and the political commissar of each regiment to see the terrain.

The reason why the middle beam is called Zhongliang is named because of the terrain. It is located in the middle of a beam, and there is a large ditch below the beam. At this time, the road connecting Xi'an and Lanzhou passed by the beam. Liu Yimin knew that later generations 310

The national highway was changed to a ditch and passed.

It would be easy to lead the Qingma cavalry into the ditch. Unfortunately, Liu Yimin knew that it was impossible. Cavalry warfare strictly requires terrain, and entering the ditch would mean death. The Qingma would not put the road on the beam.

Don't leave, but go to the ditch.

After seeing the terrain, Liu Yimin decided to block the slope along the uphill slope of the road after Tianshui weighed it out, and used the firepower of the artillery regiment and heavy machine gun regiment to kill the enemy in large quantities. He asked the 11th Division to set up blocking positions 4 kilometers across the ridge, completely

Block the main force of Qingma back to Tianshui City, and then implement firepower strangulation.

After Liu Yimin made up his mind, he asked Zeng Zhongsheng, Cai Zhong, Plateau and Huang Su to lead the cadres to divide the defense zones and organize troops to set up positions strictly in accordance with the requirements of infantry training. He returned to the temporary command center and went to Liu Jianli's 12th Division.

Chen Dayong contacted the Fourth Division and asked about the progress of the troops.

The 12th Division and the Fourth Unit Division called back, and they were all in place and were building fortifications.

Liu Yimin contacted Li Qing and Feng Dafei again to inquire about the battle situation, informed that the main force had been in place, and praised the 28th Regiment and the Unique Regiment that was defending Tianshui City.

Seeing that the troops were in place, just waiting for the decisive battle after dawn, Liu Yimin sent a telegram to the headquarters that had arrived on the battlefield and had been deployed.

Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and Liu Bocheng who were in Xi'an did not sleep all night and were waiting for news from Tianshui Front. As soon as they received a telegram from Liu Yimin, Mao Zedong immediately ordered Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai, Xu Xiangqian and Tongguan Front, River Defense Front Command, Tianshui Front I

The main force of the army has been in place, and the decisive battle is about to begin. All units are required to enter a state of emergency and strictly prevent sneak attacks by the Kuomintang army.

After sending the telegram, Mao Zedong smiled and said to Zhu De and Zhou En, "Enlai, boss, it's about to start. The Ma family army is about to become a historical term. We will sleep in the General Staff for a while. I guess Nanjing will soon be in chaos.

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Liu Bocheng said: "Do you need to remind Liu Yimin to be careful of Chiang Kai-shek's desperate attempt to jump over the wall and dispatch air force bombing?"

Mao Zedong waved his hand: "No need, Liu Yimin is fighting, these questions are common sense. We don't have to talk too much, just wait for the good news."

Mr. Zhu said: "Chang Kai-shek may have a big fight, he will not watch Ma Bufang's group be destroyed."

Zhou Enlai also said: "It is true. Once the main force of Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui is destroyed, Qinghai and Gansu will no longer have the main force of the enemy. Ma Hongbin of Ningxia is not an opponent of our army. Seeing that Gan Ningqing is about to become a red base, Chiang Kai-shek

If he knew the situation on the battlefield, he would probably keep cursing. I guess he would take three measures: First, he would make an appointment with us immediately, demand a ceasefire on the battlefield, and let the Ma family retreat. Second, he would order the air force to launch a bloody road.

To cover the Ma family army's breakthrough. Third, launch a powerful offensive on the north of Sichuan, Tongguan and the Yellow River, forcing our army to withdraw from Tianshui."

Mao Zedong yawned and said with a smile: "The soldiers come and the generals come and the water comes and the soil is flooded. Zhang Qun comes and has the Enlai dealt with it. No matter what, it is okay. There are Lao Peng and Lin Biao in northern Sichuan. Let's go forward, but Chiang Kai-shek cannot get it. Tongguan and

Liu Yimin of Hebei has made arrangements, and it doesn’t matter if necessary to give up Xi’an. Anyway, the main force of Qingma will never be let go. After the Qingma is solved and the Seventh Army returns to the army, the enemy of Hebei will naturally be honest in Tongguan. OK.

I'm going to sleep. Who wouldn't want to sleep and keep waiting? Wait until the good news comes before waking me up." After that, I went to rest.

President Zhu and Zhou Enlai also went to rest one after another. Only Liu Bocheng was worried, so he pulled the chair to the map and sat down, stared at the map and pondered.

Under Tianshui City, Ma Yuanhai went to Ma Hongkui's tent again, introduced him to the battle situation and the losses of the Qingma, and asked Ma Hongkui to urge the main force of the 7th Division to launch a quick attack, as both the Ma family army in the northwest. Otherwise, Member Jiang

After a long time, everyone's face is not good-looking.

Ma Hongkui and Ma Bufang have different personalities. Ma Bufang is brave and fierce, but Ma Hongkui is relatively sloppy because he has been by Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong and is used to being intrigues and deceitful in politics and officialdom. Therefore, Ma Yuanhai said this to him.

It's like playing the piano against a cow.

After listening to Ma Yuanhai's introduction to the loss of Qingma, Ma Hongkui thought, what you have lost is the militia, at most a little security team, the elite will not suffer much loss. Let us attack at this time, obviously, let me touch the stone like you.

Can I do this? But since I have come, it is not good to stop moving at once. If Ma Bufang sues Nanjing, Chairman Jiang will not be able to explain. Besides, he has wading through the muddy waters, but has not seriously fought with the Red Bandits.

It's a bit cowardly. You still have to fight. If something is wrong, you can retreat immediately.

So Ma Hongkui told Ma Yuanhai that the New Second Army and the Fifth Cavalry Division continued to attack the city, and the Seventh Division immediately launched an attack on the Red Bandits guarding the mountain. If the attack went smoothly, take down Tianshui in one go. If the attack was not smooth, stop the attack immediately and surround him first.

Let’s talk about it.

After the two agreed, Ma Yuanhai went back to adjust the deployment. The Infantry Brigade of the Fifth Cavalry Division was still responsible for attacking the North Gate. The security regiment continued to attack the South Gate. He transferred a cavalry brigade of the Fifth Cavalry Division to replace the 100th Division to attack the West Gate. He led the new second army.

The two cavalry brigades, the 100th Division and the other cavalry brigade of the Fifth Division made the second wave of attack troops.

Ma Tingxiang was angry when he saw Ma Yuanhai's deployment. But there was no way. The New Second Army fought to the death at night, and there was indeed too much casualties. He didn't say much, urged the troops to quickly reach the attack position and prepare to launch an attack.

Seeing that all the troops were in place, Ma Yuanhai ordered an attack.

At this time, it was already 6 o'clock in the morning and the sky was gradually clear. Standing on the roof of the temporary command of the Zhongliang Legion, holding a telescope, you can see the real scene of the fierce battle between the two armies under Tianshui City.

Liu Yimin observed the situation on the battlefield and saw that the Ma family army rushed upwards one after another, like a crazy tiger. The defensive troops on the hillside were properly equipped with firepower, and he firmly blocked the Ma family army who was rushing upwards in front of the hillside. Look at the attack sky again

The Ma family army in Shuicheng carried the ladder and shouted and rushed towards the city wall. Rows of soldiers were beaten.

Seeing that the sky was clear, Liu Yimin sent a report to Li Qing, ordering the artillery of the 13th Division and the One Division to fire all the artillery to completely destroy the attacking will of the Ma family army.

Now, Ma Hongkui could no longer sit still. Groups of shells hit the troops' dense attack formation, causing waves of bloody storms. If this continues, the troops will be destroyed immediately. He immediately ordered the troops to order them.

Stop the attack, and all units rectify their formation and organize their supplies.

As soon as the troops were withdrawn, Ma Hongkui received a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek asking him and Ma Bufang to report the Tianshui defenders' numbers immediately and investigate whether there were any signs of the main movement of the enemy army around. Ma Hongkui thought to himself that there was no flag at the top of the city and no prisoners were caught, so how could he know the other party

The number? But the saying that there is no movement of the main force of the enemy army around is too critical. What does Chairman Jiang mean? Could it be that the Red Bandits still have the ability to keep their entire army?

Ma Hongkui did not dare to neglect his slightest and immediately sent a cavalry company to investigate in the direction of the Wei River, and then asked Ma Yuanhai if he knew the number of the defenders.

Ma Yuanhai said that the 13th Division of the Red Seventh Army guarding the city was known from the people before the battle began.

Ma Hongkui was furious and asked Ma Yuanhai why he didn't tell him that the Red 13th Division was guarding the city?

Ma Yuanhai was disheartened by the failure of the siege. Seeing Ma Hongkui so angry, he said, "No matter what unit he is, who is not fighting?"

Ma Hongkui smiled angrily, pointed at Ma Yuanhai and said, "I think there are fewer people who have died? Do you know what unit this Red Seventh Army is? Why don't you listen to the radio and read the newspaper?"

Ma Yuanhai stammered his neck and said, "I can't read, how can I read the newspaper? Anyway, Zixiang will hit anyone she wants to hit. Why am I locked up so many things?"

Ma Hongkui was so angry that he said to Ma Yuanhai: "Okay, okay, you have a habit. Let me tell you, do you know who destroyed Hu Zongnan's first division? It's the Red Seventh Army guarding Tianshui City! You also have this army.

Dare to fight. I know in Pingliang that the 12th Division of the Red Seventh Army guarding Pingliang City was the one who guarded Pingliang City. The cordon was fifty miles away from them, for fear of provoking them, so I asked them to bite them. You are fine, if you don't know how powerful the enemy is, just open it

Now you send a telegram to Zixiang immediately, I'm going to withdraw my troops. You are so powerful, I won't fight anymore. Just attack this time, and my regiment will be gone. Although you have many people killed, they are all

The militia. I am all the regular soldiers who die."

Ma Yuanhai said: "At 5 o'clock in the morning, I sent a telegram to Zixiang and told him that he could not fight. He insisted on attacking again, and this time there were thousands of people missing. I want to withdraw the defense of Gangu, and we will go to Gangu together.

Bar?"

Ma Hongkui was about to say that he was going back to Ningxia when he saw the cavalry company commander who was sending a reconnaissance and broke in. Ma Hongkui grabbed the whip and whipped it up, whipping and scolding: "Baoba, haven't you seen me discussing military affairs?"

?Not eye-catching."

The company commander covered his face and hid, shouting: "Sir, the main force of the Red Bandit was found by the Wei River."

Ma Hongkui stopped fighting now and ordered the cavalry company commander to explain clearly.

The cavalry company commander said that he and his brothers were ordered to go for investigation. When they were about to reach the Wei River, they encountered a large Red Bandits army, and one company ran back and he was alone.

Ma Hongkui asked how many people were there?

The cavalry company commander said: "I don't know how many people there are. But there are still troops passing by on the floating bridge of the Wei River, with guns and many machine guns. His brothers all died under the heavy machine guns of the Red Bandits."

Ma Hongkui and Ma Yuanhai looked at each other in shock, unable to close their mouths.

Finally, Ma Hongkui came to his senses and quickly called the staff to call Chiang Kai-shek and reported that the defending troops were the 13th Division of the Red Seventh Army. The main force of the Red Bandit was found on the Weihe line on the north side of our army. It was suspected that the main force of the Red Seventh Army arrived. I

The army stopped the troops under the strong city, and it was impossible to attack. The troops suffered too much loss and were as dangerous as the situation. I asked the Chairman to immediately send an air force to cover our army's retreat towards Gangu.

As soon as Ma Hongkui sent Chiang Kai-shek the telegram came. Ma Bufang's telegram came.

Although Ma Bufang was cruel, he was indeed a smart person. When he saw that Chiang Kai-shek asked his troops to investigate whether there was a main movement of the Red Bandits around, he understood that he might have fallen into the trap of the Red Bandits, otherwise Chairman Jiang, who was far away in Nanjing, would not have sent a telephone number.
To be continued...