Chapter 388: Bloody Battle of the Green Horse Army
The 258th Division of the Qingma Army took advantage of its fast speed to catch up with the Northwest Field Army on the march from behind, and the battle immediately began, and the 10th Infantry Brigade of the People's Liberation Army in charge of the rear of the palace, under the leadership of Brigade Commander Gao Jinchun, launched a fierce battle for position with the enemy in order to cover the safe withdrawal of the main force. Where are the novels updated the fastest? Please look for Aishang Novel Network biquge.info please remember our website) (Crazy 'read the novel hand-played)
After a few rounds of competition, the soldiers found that the cavalry unit of the Ma Jiajun that caught up was difficult to entangle, although the firepower was not as good as the Central Army, and the weapons were even worse than the Central Army, but the ruthlessness of daring to fight was much stronger than Hu Zongnan's troops.
The Ma Bufang military group from Qinghai is a very characteristic force, and if you want to get ahead in this Ma family army, you must first meet several conditions, one must be a Muslim Muslim, the second must be a fellow villager in Ma Bufang's Linxia area, three must be Ma Bufang's relatives, and finally there is one that it is best to have the surname Ma or the surname Han.
And after satisfying these conditions, the officers are basically his brothers, cousins, and nephews, and many young people in Ma Bufang's family who are fifteen or sixteen years old have been named company commanders and battalion commanders, and after the age of twenty, they are basically officers above the regimental level.
Han people, ordinary Hui people, and local ethnic minorities in his army, no matter how much merit they have, it is good to be able to get a company commander, and then work up to the regiment commander, so it is a very ignorant and fierce army, and Ma Bufang's order is no different from the holy decree in this army.
To put it bluntly, this is a family-style local warlord army, although it is under the banner of the Kuomintang, if there is no order from Ma Bufang, Hu Zongnan, the supreme commander of the northwest battlefield, will not be able to command, but it is undeniable that the cohesion of this army is far stronger than Hu Zongnan's Central Army, and few surrender without fighting until the end.
The fighting style of the Ma Jiajun brought great pressure to the 10th Brigade, because of the speed advantage of the cavalry, and when the soldiers of the 10th Brigade knocked down the war horses, the soldiers of the Green Horse Army had already rushed to a place not too far from the position, and some of the war horses rushed to a distance of only a few tens of meters from the front of the position.
The soldiers of the Ma family army who rolled down from the horses were immediately killed by a burst of indiscriminate gunfire before they could stand up, but when more and more enemies rushed in front of them, the soldiers of the 10th Brigade seemed a little overwhelmed.
There were constantly war horses rushing over, and soldiers kept rolling off their horses, and then they were killed by the soldiers one after another, but these soldiers of the Ma family army were like crazy, staring at blood-red eyes, distorting their faces, stepping on human corpses and horse corpses and continuing to rush upward.
Gradually, the number of soldiers of the Ma Jiajun who rushed over continued to increase, and the soldiers had to be distracted from the infantry while dealing with the cavalry in the distance, and in the case of insufficient firepower, the attack arrows of the Ma Jiajun were getting closer and closer to the front line.
The horse who was supervising the battle in the back was overjoyed, and this guy pulled his neck and shouted: "Brothers, if you work harder, you will rush up, and the first officer who will rush up will be promoted to the third pole, and the people who will come will use all the troops, and those who have no horses will also rush forward." ”
Ma Desheng was going to make a desperate bet, wanting to use the offensive of Mount Tai to destroy the will to resist the PLA defensive troops, and after several charges failed to achieve results, he fought all four regiments under his command.
When fighting a positional defensive war, the best way to deal with the cavalry that is charging frantically is to use dense firepower to wipe them out on the way to the charge, no matter how strong an army is, it has weaknesses, and the cavalry is even more so, no matter how rampant these cavalry are, they can't shoot when they rush to the middle, even if the work on the horse is good, you can straighten your waist and shoot a few shots, but you can't see the head, and the so-called cavalry is just a battle in the era of semi-cold weapons.
The cavalry is characterized by its high speed and mobility, and it can use the power of the impact of the war horse when riding on a horse and slashing with a sword, so it is very disadvantageous and stupid to use infantry and cavalry in hand-to-hand combat in the plains. 【Leaf*Child】【Yo*Yoo】
Although the cavalry of the Ma family army was fierce, it could only exert its combat effectiveness when fighting in close combat in the plains, and the first task of the infantry against the cavalry was to delay its maneuver and force them to dismount and fight.
The best way to force the cavalry to dismount was to dig a large number of trenches and set up obstacles, and then use powerful firepower to eliminate the dismounted soldiers.
The Fourth Column and 10th Brigade of the Northwest Field Army engaged the enemy in a hurry, and there was no time to dig trenches and set up obstacles, and several major battles with Hu Zongnan made great progress in the PLA troops, and the weapons and equipment were also greatly improved, and each person carried more than 100 rounds of ammunition, but because the Northwest Field Army's family background was too thin, most of the soldiers used 38-type rifles captured from the Japanese army, and the rapid-fire firepower was insufficient.
As a result, although the fighters tried their best to kill the enemy halfway with fire, they were gradually approached by the frantically charging enemy due to the rate of fire of their weapons.
Brigade Commander Gao Jinchun commanded the battle on the front line, starting from the Red Army, the commander of the People's Liberation Army must be at the front in every battle, this is the tradition of our army, this veteran commander saw from the actions of the 258th Division that the enemy was trying to fight hard, and also transferred the 30th Regiment of the reserve in his hand.
The soldiers used all the weapons in their hands to shoot at the frantically charging enemy, and the barrels of the Czech-style light machine guns were red with the 38, 79 and Hanyang-made, but they couldn't stop the cavalry charge.
The Czech light machine gun is a very good infantry squad weapon, but the disadvantage of this weapon is that the magazine capacity is only twenty rounds, and the barrel must be replaced for every two hundred rounds fired (it is red, not replaced), this is still an old shooter, and it is estimated that the barrel must be changed when the magazine is six or seven shots are played, otherwise the bullet will really lose face.
Brigade Commander Gao had already skimmed the binoculars, and lay in the trench like the soldiers, holding a rifle in his hand, his eyes widened, and he kept saying: "***, it would be nice to have a few more Makqin and mortars." ”
The Makqin heavy machine guns of the 10th Brigade were constantly strafing, and the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun who died within the range of heavy machine gun fire was like bundled rice, but as Brigade Commander Gao said, this kind of water-cooled infantry heavy firepower was still too little.
Seeing that Ma Jiajun rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters from the front line, and fifty meters was a few steps away for a war horse, Brigade Commander Gao shouted: "Grenade." ”
The lid of the grenade had already been opened, and the ring of fire had already been pulled out, and before the words of the brigade commander Gao landed, rows of grenades were thrown like heavy rain, and the crows and crows were all over the sky, and the shrapnel that exploded turned the front of the position dozens of meters away into a slaughterhouse for killing, and the dead people and dead horses were all over the border, and the soldiers of the 10th Brigade threw three rounds in a row, and thousands of grenades blew up the war horses and jumped around.
Seeing the opportunity, the high brigade commander shouted: "Comrades, get on the bayonet and pick the enemy down." With the bayonet rifle in hand, the first one jumped out of the trench. ”
The commanders of the People's Liberation Army are admirable, the commanders of the first level of the brigade still go to fight with the enemy with bayonets, there is no life or death, the brigade commanders have rushed out, what else do the soldiers have to say, the three regiments of the 10th brigade screamed and rushed upward, holding bayonets and fighting the enemy hand-to-hand.
The Qingma Army is indeed not simple, it does not retreat with heavy casualties, the war horse is killed or does not retreat, it becomes an infantry and also rushes up with a saber, and when the PLA rushes up, they also hold a saber to meet it.
Only a few dozen meters away, the red-eyed two sides quickly collided, and the shiny saber and the snowy bayonet slammed together.
Suddenly, in front of the position, flesh and blood flew sideways, sabers slashed, bayonets stabbed, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and both armies used the strength of their whole bodies to stir up a bloody battle.
Ma Desheng's 258th Division is not an integrated division, there is no brigade structure, the division is subordinate to four cavalry regiments, the total number is about 10,000, and the PLA's four columns and ten brigades are three infantry regiments, with a total strength of more than 8,000.
Ma Jiajun's 258th Division had a slight advantage, but it did not have an absolute advantage, and in addition, a large number of manpower had been lost in the first few charges, and the personnel of the two armies were generally similar at this time.
In this way, the battle will be fierce, and if the two armies have an absolute advantage on the one hand, they will retreat or flee on the other, the reason is simple, no one wants to fight a hopeless battle.
But the current situation is that the strength of the two armies is about the same, and neither can eat the other, just like two strong men wrestling their wrists, and no one can help anyone if they are deadlocked.
What to do, only depends on the will of the two armies, and what is competing in the case of similar strength is the willpower of the army.
The tragic battle lasted from the afternoon to the evening, the corpses of the personnel on both sides covered the entire battlefield, and the blood flowed out of the human body and was immediately frozen by the cold earth.
But what kind of unit is the 10th Brigade? The hero's fourth column is the old Red Army unit composed of the 26th and 27th Red Army of Northern Shaanxi, which is a unit formed by General Liu Zhidan. Then you've found an opponent.
Just when the battle reached an inextricable stalemate, the anger of the soldiers was completely aroused, and the reason was very simple, no one and the troops dared to compare their courage in front of the PLA, the little devils were not good, the Kuomintang was not good, and you local warlord Ma Jiajun were not good.
The Beacon Years of Youth Chapter 388 Bloody Battle of the Green Horse Army (Text)