Chapter 149: The Battle of Tianshui (III)

In the early morning, the sun jumped out of the Qinling Mountain Pass and shone on the slowly flowing Wei River, slowly dispersing the mist in the river surface, in the plains, and in the valley. The mist was slivered from the woods and the fields, a trace of

Strands, floating up in balls, gradually dissipating.

As the fog dissipated, the flowers and plants in the fields showed smiles. The red, pink, tender yellow, lilac, mountain dandan, dandelion, famous and unknown flowers and wild grasses were all in the early morning of spring.

Blooming beauty seems to be announcing to the world that they are the graceful spring girls. They are using their lives to render colors, colorfulness, freshness, and hope.

Liu Jian stood on a high ground by the Wei River, behind him was Zhao Shan, the political commissar of the 12th Division, Li Congmin, the director of the Political Department, and Wang Bingsan, the chief of staff.

Last night, the 12th Division set out from Weinan Town, crossed the Wei River, and occupied the position. Now everything is ready, just waiting for the enemy to come up.

Looking at the boundless spring scenery, Liu Jian felt emotion, the soldiers were fighting in such a beautiful spring. Fortunately, after the end of this battle, the Ma family army, which had long occupied the northwest, would be uprooted, and the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest should be happy.

Inspire the Red Army to welcome.

Seeing that Liu Jian was still moving, Zhao Shan felt that Liu Jian's words and actions were imitating the commander of the Legion, and he smiled and said, "Teacher Commander, if the commander of the Legion is here, he would recite poems at this time. How about it?

You can also give us a song to open our eyes?"

Liu Jian smiled embarrassedly, scratched his head, and said, "If I had the ability of the Legion Commander, I'm afraid I wouldn't have called Liu Jian."

Several people laughed.

Before the laughter was over, I saw dust flying in the distance. When I heard it again, I knew that the enemy's large-scale cavalry troops were attacking.

Liu Jian shouted: "Chief of Staff, order the troops to prepare for battle!"

Teng Xinxing is from Guilin, Guangxi. He is 25 years old this year. He is from the same county as the leader of the Gui army, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Li Tianyou, the commander of the Red Fifth Division. After graduating from primary school, he joined the Gui army and joined the Gui army's teaching team.

After the team came out, they became the platoon leader. They were captured by the 18th Regiment during the Gulingtou Battle. At the beginning, he was very stubborn because he believed that the Gui army was the best army in China, and the Red Army was just a group of bandits. Xiyanzhong

During the military period, the complaint movement carried out by the 18th Regiment finally awakened him. Together with Li Dexian and Song Wenhu, he led the transformation of the prisoners of the Gui army. Therefore, the three of them also studied in the teaching team of the 18th Regiment for a short period of time and became a

A glorious Red Army soldier.

Teng Xinxing looks very gentle and introverted, but because of his good cultural foundation, high combat quality, fast acceptance of new ideas, calm and brave when fighting, he also makes rapid progress. Now, he is already the 34th Regiment of the 12th Red Division.

The first row of the third company of the battalion is headed.

The first row of positions is on the first line of defense of the 34th Regiment. Behind is the second line of defense formed by the heavy machine gun position of the regiment fire battalion, and then the mortar position. The first row of positions is to prevent the enemy from attacking the fire position of the regiment.

, protect heavy machine guns and mortars to shoot safely.

This is the position of the 13th Division. Infantry protects heavy firepower at all levels and ensures the effect of heavy firepower strikes.

After receiving the order to prepare for the battle, Teng Xinxing ordered the soldiers to take the battle position, and all the heavy machine guns of the platoon and the light machine guns of each squad were in place.

As soon as he was ready, the enemy's cavalry brigade rushed up.

Although the green horse cavalry is of average equipment, it still has research on cavalry tactics. The formation is a regular triangle, and the sharp corners are like a cone, hitting the position of the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division.

When Teng Wenxing saw that the enemy's sword tip was right, he immediately ordered the soldiers to turn on the wreck guns and put them in front of him, preparing to fight in close combat when the enemy rushed to him.

The predecessor of the 34th Regiment was the second battalion. The equipment of the 1st Battalion of the 34th Regiment was exactly the same as that of the 1st Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the 11th Division. In addition to rifles and submachine guns, the soldiers all had a melee shell gun, and each squad had two lightweight guns.

Machine gun. Ma Yuanhai did not understand the characteristics of the various units of the Red Seventh Army, and shot the attack arrow at the first battalion of the 34th Regiment, the 12th Division, which was naturally going to hit a wall.

The enemy rushed over, and the war horses stomped on the ground, and Teng Wenxing watched as the war horses kept falling into the trap, and the war horses kept stomping on the mines, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: Damn it, no

I can also touch the signboard when I read, and I dare to attack the first battalion of the 34th Regiment. I’m so tired of living!

500 meters, 400 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters, the smug smile on the face of the green horse cavalry can be seen clearly. Teng Wenxing no longer appreciates the beautiful scenery of the green horse cavalry falling into the trap, and shouts to beat him.

The submachine gun in his hand began to roar.

Gunshots suddenly appeared on the first camp's positions. The bullets fired by the light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles were like a fire dragon, rolling towards the green horse cavalry that was charging, burning the sharp corners of the triangle cleanly.

The war horses whine and blood splattered. The knights holding scimitars were knocked down to the ground by bullets before they rushed to the Red Army's position.

The cavalry charge is different from infantry, with huge inertia. The sword tip is broken, which does not affect the continued rushing of thousands of troops behind. The cavalry behind still surges up, trampling the comrades and dead horses who fell to the ground in front of them into flesh and blood.

Blurry, a mess.

The war drums urged, the battle flags were flying, and the horns were heard. The powerful green horse cavalry ignored the bullet rains of the first battalion, activated the mounts, and set off a frenzy to sweep towards the Red Army positions. They had only one purpose, rushed up and used a saber.

Cut down all the Red Bandits!

Liu Jian stood behind a big tree, watching the green horse stormtroopers, which were as dark as the Qiantang tide, were getting closer and closer. He immediately received the heavy machine gun position of the 34th Regiment and the division, and remembered it.

During the passage, the commander of the legion taught Hu Laohu a lesson. He even remembered the 7,000 Mongolian cavalry led by Senggelinqin, who was said by the commander of the legion, who was killed and killed by the British and French coalition forces, and the French army only suffered 12 casualties.

The tragic story, I looked at the Qingma cavalry team with a little pity, ordered the division's heavy firepower and the 34th Regiment to open fire on all sides, and all artillery soldiers aimed at the middle of the enemy cavalry team.

At this moment, the battlefield was immediately lively. Groups of shells fell into the middle of the horses, abandoning groups of war horses high, and the horse's cavalry was thrown away from the saddle, and then fell to the ground, becoming a roaming under the horse's hooves

soul.

Countless heavy machine guns, light machine guns spitting bullets, and used magazines and chains to roll up a gust of wind, rolling the green horse cavalry into the center of the whirlwind, tearing and dancing, then throwing it to the ground, turning it into a

Becoming a floating duckweed on the ground.

The green horse cavalry, who were hit hard, quickly changed their formation and separated from the middle, split into two groups, and continued to roll towards the two wings of the 13th Division's position, intending to break through the two wings.

The artillery and heavy machine guns of the 13th Division immediately extended their fire, chasing the formation of the green horse cavalry with artillery shells and bullets, constantly reaping lives.

Arranged on the positions of the 35th and 36th Regiments on both wings, guns and cannons flicked together, killing the tactics of breaking through the wings of the Blue Horse Cavalry in their dreams.

Under the double blow of artillery shells and bullets, the fierce green horse cavalry could no longer support it. I don’t know who led the lead, but the retreat began anyway. The cavalry behind turned their horses and began to go to the road leading to Gangu

Run away.

Therefore, the battle planned by Ma Yuanhai to use cavalry to attack the Red Army's Weihe defense line was declared defeated in just one charge.

Ma Yuanhai took the guards and was surrounded by the dispersed cavalry. At this time, he was no longer sad, but his mind became clear.

The Red Army's powerful firepower is just to prevent its troops from breaking north? Is there no main force of the Red Bandits waiting in the direction of Gangu? It seems that the Red Seventh Army is like a hunter on the grassland, and it is probably set up long ago.

After getting into a trap, I waited for my idiots to jump.

If you can't go to Gangu, there will definitely be a dead end. If you can't go to Tianshui City, Ma Hongkui is right, the Red Seventh Army in the city is not something that your own troops can afford. Now there is only one road left, that is, go south

Crossing the river and breaking into Longnan. But when I think about it, if the Red Seventh Army was preparing to completely destroy the Ma family army, I would be dead there. After thinking about it, I felt that there was no way out, so I just wanted to die. The battle ended up like this

At the very point, the troops suffered such great losses, even if they ran out alive, they would have no shame to see anyone.

Ma Yuanhai was about to commit suicide when he saw Ma Lu running over with a team of guards, and he didn't get off the horse. He immediately asked him loudly: "The troops have all been disbanded, what should I do now?"

Ma Yuanhai was shocked, yes, what should I do? After seeing again, there were corpses of people and war horses everywhere on the battlefield. Ma Yuanhai felt moved and could not die. These were all soldiers of the Ma family. No matter what, they had to take some of them, otherwise,

Qinghai is over.

Ma Yuanhai recovered his spirit and said to Ma Lu: "What should I do? Hurry up and gather the troops, organize the formation, and rush out in a bloody way. Otherwise, they will all die!"

After saying that, he clamped his legs and activated his war horse, and took the lead in chasing the defeated soldiers.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was defeated in charge, Liu Jian immediately ordered the entire division to advance and narrow the encirclement.

Ma Hongkui was leading his seventh division to run along the main road towards Gangu.

He had heard the sound of gunfire in the direction of the Wei River and knew that it was Ma Yuanhai who was attacking the Red Bandits' positions.

As for whether Ma Yuanhai could drive the Red Bandits into the Wei River to feed the turtles, Ma Hongkui didn't want to, nor did he think about it. Tianshui City's offensive battle had already made him understand that the Red Army was not easy to mess with, and it was justified to break off contact as soon as possible. Besides, if Ma Yuanhai succeeded,

Aren't you safer?

Listen to it, why did the guns and cannons stop? Could it be that Ma Yuanhai collapsed so quickly?

Ma Hongkui is different from Ma Yuanhai. He has seen the world. Not to mention anything else, just Yuan Shikai's Beiyang elite was no match for his troops. Not to mention the Red Army, which is so densely defensive to Tianshui City today, Ma Yuanhai will definitely fail.

, but I didn't expect that the failure would be so fast, and I don't know how much combat effectiveness the cavalry he brought with me still has.

If the cavalry brought by Ma Yuanhai was destroyed by the Red Bandits, then when he arrived in Gangu, he would probably have to speak well with Ma Bufang. His 7th Division's troops did not suffer much loss, so we can't always let him guard Ningxia! Ningxia only has nothing to do

There are 700,000 people, very poor, so where is Gansu?

Before Ma Hongkui could finish his imagination, gunfire sounded in the direction of the cavalry brigade in front.

Zhou Yi, the chief of staff of the 11th Division, was lying on the position of the 31st Regiment, and was observing the Ma family army with Wang Dahu and Wang Xinyun.

The Ma family army cavalry team on the road was very long, with at least six or seven thousand people. The soldiers were very alert, maintained their combat formation, and rushed towards the 11th Division and the troops directly under the legion.

Zhou Yi thought, this would not work. As soon as the fire was opened, the leading cavalry would not escape, but the ones behind would immediately retract. The enemy must feel that there is hope for breaking through and attracting them to attack on a large scale, so that the powerful legion's direct firepower can play a role.

.

After discussing with Wang Dahu and Wang Xinyun, Zhou Yi immediately reported to the plateau and asked him to tell the Legion Commander that the direct heavy firepower of the Legion and direct firepower of the 11th Division will not open fire for the time being. No heavy machine guns of each regiment are allowed to open fire, only rifles and light machine guns are allowed to open fire.

, it must create an illusion, that is, the main force of the Red Army is on the front line of the Wei River, where it is just a blocking force. Let them attack with all their strength, and then fire all the heavy firepower to annihilate the enemy here. At least, they must completely defeat their resistance.

Will, create conditions for the final elimination of them.

Zhou Yi's suggestion was quickly approved, and now he is waiting for the Ma family cavalry to enter the range.

The vanguard of Ma Hongkui's 7th Division was Ma Yongchang's cavalry regiment. Due to his rush to retreat, he did not even send a vanguard. The entire regiment advanced quickly along the main road in a battle formation.

The engineer regiment guarding the middle of the road was the army regiment, and behind them were the army's heavy machine gun regiment and artillery regiment.

The engineers brought many explosive packs, and all electric detonation explosive packs were buried within 1,000 meters of the road in front of the position, preparing to let the Ma family army have a good taste of flying.

The commander of the engineering regiment Ren Chaoran and political commissar Li Zengyu watched the Ma family cavalry regiment enter the range and ordered the firing. In addition to the heavy machine guns, the light machine guns and rifles immediately started to scream happily, which made Ma Yongchang regiment dizzy and retreat quickly.

When Ma Hongkui heard gunfire sounds in front of him, he knew it was broken. The Red Bandits had blocked their way. Just as they were about to order the troops to retreat, they saw Ma Yuanhai taking the cavalry on the Wei River retreating. After a little observation, they
To be continued...