Chapter 517: Fighting Lanzhou's Capture of the Bridge
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A small force that suddenly appeared made the soldiers of the Qingma Army nervous, and the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun guarding the Yellow River Iron Bridge were not all waste, don't look at Ning Erzi, they were all wearing Kuomintang military uniforms, and they were still seen some clues (
The slight difference in weapons and equipment and military uniforms made the soldiers of the Green Horse Army behind the barricade tense their nerves, and while asking for the password and number, the weapons in their hands were also raised.
"What the hell are you, don't you see Lao Tzu's clothes? Lao Tzu is from the guard company of the 14th Brigade Headquarters, and he just came back from a meeting with our brigade commander, and came to the big iron bridge in advance to arrange the guard according to the request of our brigade commander, understand? Lao Tzu belonged to the guard company of the 14th Brigade, and quickly moved the barricades, and our brigade commander arrived later. ”
Ning Erzi, who was wearing the uniform of a Kuomintang captain officer, trained these soldiers who were guarding the card in the clouds and mountains of fog, so it seems that they are on the right path, no wonder the equipment is so good, it turns out to be the brigade headquarters guard company, this is possible, but I have never heard of what meeting the headquarters in the city is going to hold.
"When is the meeting? How did we not know? ”
"You guys are bullshit! If you want to know the content of the meeting, ask your division commander Ma Ying to go, hurry up, we are still waiting to return to the defense area. Ning Erzi shouted very presumptuously.
A soldier asked in a low voice: "Squad leader, why are the people of the 14th Brigade so cross?" Aren't their 14th brigades all under the control of our Eighth Division? ”
"No reason, people have a grudge against our Eighth Cavalry Division, and it is understandable that they are angry with us, there are not a few people left who were beaten by the communist army in Guguan, how can they be psychologically angry, they are all people around the commander, and Niu X is used to it. It's still light, maybe you'll have to beat people, forget it, let them pass. ”
A large railing used as an improvised barricade was moved. The machine gun in the sandbag bunker also pointed its gun at the sky that was about to go dark, and the soldier with the machine gun leisurely lit a cigarette.
The red flames of the cigarettes flashed brightly, and the soldiers who smoked simply didn't look at Ning Erzi and them anymore, and chatted about the topics of interest with a smile.
This is a good opportunity, what the scouts want is the numbness of this enemy, Ning Erzi made a look, and a few fighters quietly approached the relaxed machine gun bunker, saying that it was too late. At that time, Ning Erzi and a few soldiers took off the grenade on their bodies, pulled the fire and threw it in.
The time was too short, so short that the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun had no way to react. With a delay of 3.6 seconds, white smoke grenades rang out in the semi-enclosed environment of the machine-gun bunker, boom, boom, several dull explosions sounded in the bridgehead position of the Yellow River Iron Bridge, and the machine guns and soldiers flew into the sky with the explosions. The soldiers guarding the bridge of the 8th Cavalry Division, who were not mentally prepared, were panicked by a reconnaissance platoon of the Separate Brigade.
After the grenade went off, Ning Erzi commanded the soldiers to sweep with submachine guns, and hundreds of Tangmu types were fired wildly, and the firepower was boundless, and they engaged in close combat. The short firepower of the submachine gun quickly took over, and after seeing that the enemy at the bridgehead was entangled. Zhang Jinsong commanded the follow-up troops of the reconnaissance battalion to pounce violently, and the battle began near the big iron bridge.
The Eighth Cavalry Division of the Green Horse Army had only more than 5,000 people. The troops guarding the bridge are called a regiment, but the so-called regiment is only about 1,000 troops, counting the empty salaries and wounded soldiers, it is estimated that it is not even a thousand, and this point of men and horses can not be supported in less than ten minutes under the fierce fire of the reconnaissance battalion, and the officers and men who have lost confidence run along the iron bridge, and on the way to escape, from time to time some people panicked and fell down.
The whole battle lasted less than half an hour, and the reconnaissance battalion used swift movements to defeat a regiment of the bridge-guarding unit of the Tsing Ma Army and occupy the bridgehead.
Seeing the signal sent by the reconnaissance battalion, the main force of the independent brigade arrived on his heels, and so far the battle has been smooth, defeating a regiment of the enemy and seizing the bridgehead, the troops have not suffered major casualties, but the battle has just begun, the Qingma Army will not let the independent brigade succeed, and will fight with the PLA for the only way to survive the big iron bridge.
The loss of the bridgehead position made Ma Ying, the commander of the Eighth Cavalry Division, extremely angry, although it was only a bridgehead position, and the other side was still in the hands of the Qingma Army, but there was no difference between occupying the bridgehead position and occupying the entire bridge, as long as the PLA was nailed there, the Ma Jiajun in Lanzhou City had no way to break through.
Ma Ying, who took out the ****, didn't say a word, and shot the regiment commander who ran back, and then shouted and commanded the troops to counterattack, saying that the PLA could not occupy the big iron bridge, otherwise the brothers in the city would only have a dead end, and even if they were not killed by the PLA, they would have to be shot by the commander.
Ma Ying didn't know that the commander-in-chief Ma Jiyuan had just run out not long ago, and the cavalry division commander of the Green Horse Army was still naively fantasizing about how to make meritorious contributions after the battle, how to go one step further, and become a bigger officer, but fantasy is always fantasy, and it seems that his wish can never be realized.
Under the command of Ma Ying, the bridge-guarding troops of the Qingma Army rushed over like a tide, trying to take advantage of the superiority in personnel to recapture the bridgehead occupied by the People's Liberation Army.
At the critical moment, Ma Ying moved his heart again, the bridgehead occupied by the PLA must be recaptured, but it is another problem to use that force to compete with the PLA, of course the Eighth Cavalry Division can't be used, just like that, I still have a life in the future, and the 14th Brigade is not good, the 14th Brigade is always in other places with itself, if they are allowed to go first, it is estimated that they will have to go to the commander-in-chief Ma Jiyuan to complain before the battle is over, so there is only one choice left, use the new 1st Division to attack the position of the Communist Army, This newly formed first division has not yet tasted the taste of the People's Liberation Army, and it is just using them to train its hands.
The newly formed First Division, which numbered more than 5,000 people, attacked along the iron bridge under Ma Ying's orders.
Li Yong, the brigade commander who rushed to the vicinity of Tieqiao, ordered the troops to counterattack with Li Jiangguo's first battalion, Ma Quanyou's second battalion to respond and beat the attacking Ma Jiajun back, and Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion was simply handed over.
Zhang Jinsong also knew that a few infantry battalions were effective in positional warfare, and he handed over the position to the first and second battalions very happily without being verbose, for which Zhang Jinsong was also praised by Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou, and the two of them smiled and said: "Look, Lao Zhang has a style, rest assured, you are indispensable if you have benefits." ”
Zhang Jinsong muttered a little indifferently: "Pull it down, what good things are there, just rely on these poor Ma Jiajun who want to be pants, what good goods can be brought back, Lao Tzu is not rare." ”
This is also the reason why the brigade commander Li Yong only uses two infantry battalions to deal with the enemy's shock troops, why only two battalions are used, the new first division of the Qingma Army has more than 5,000 personnel, a lot of them, but most of the soldiers are holding old-fashioned rifles in their hands, Hanyang is good, even the old sleeve is still on his back, coupled with the narrow geographical location of the iron bridge, Li Yong feels that it is enough to use two infantry battalions, and the remaining troops must be ready to deal with the Ma Jiajun brigade that retreated from Lanzhou City.
The battle began at the moment when the soldiers of the newly formed 1st Division of the Tsing Ma Army rushed to the bridgehead, and Li Yong ordered the 1st and 2nd Battalions to strictly prohibit the use of light and heavy machine guns, grenades, explosives, mortars and other destructive weapons.
The Yellow River Iron Bridge was not easy to come by, and Li Yong didn't want this iron bridge that brought good news to the people of Lanzhou to be destroyed in his own hands, no matter what the reason, it would be a pity to blow it up.
Lanzhou City has always been the traffic of the East and the West, the Central Plains and the Western Regions must pass through, the Yellow River through the city is the insurmountable obstacle that lies across the head of the transportation hub of Lanzhou City, the common people have a saying that "across the river is like the next day, crossing the river is like crossing the ghost gate", a Ming Dynasty built the Zhenyuan pontoon bridge with more than 500 years.
The Yellow River Iron Bridge was built in 1907 during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, in that poor and weak era at that time, it was not easy to build such an iron bridge, it took a total of one and a half years, and it took more than 300,000 taels of silver to complete, all the materials and accessories were transported from Germany thousands of miles away, including thousands of barrels of ash, all of which were German goods.
The Yellow River Iron Bridge was renamed Zhongshan Bridge in 1906, started construction in 07 years, completed in 08 years, the construction period lasted one and a half years, supervised by the engineers of Germany, the United States and China, in 1989, 80 years later, the iron bridge warranty expired, the German authorities had to Xinlan City Women, while inquiring about the situation of the iron bridge, the contract expired, the rigor of the German people can be seen, extraneous words, not much to say.
Li Jiangguo, the commander of the first battalion, muttered: "If you don't let it be used, you won't use it, what's the big deal, what kind of battle haven't we fought, I think it wasn't like we could fight a big battle with less than ten bullets back then, listen to my orders, and prepare to shoot." ”
Since the brigade commander refused to allow the use of mortars, the 1st and 2nd Battalions put two heavy machine gun platoons in the front in line with the principle of heavy front and light rear in the arrangement of firepower.
Dozens of water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns opened fire fiercely after the newly formed first division of the Qingma Army entered the firing range, and the bullets swept over like a strong wind, and the bridge deck of the Yellow River Iron Bridge was not wide, and the troops could not deploy at all, so these soldiers of the Ma Family Army could only bend down and hold the rifles in their hands to attack along the bridge deck.
There was no covering firepower, no wide area to deploy troops, and all the qiē could only be filled with the flesh and blood of the soldiers, and the results of this extremely rubbish tactic to attack a position defended by dozens of heavy machine guns can be imagined.
Dozens of meters away in front of him were soldiers like sheep of the Qingma Army, and a fiery snake more than a foot long erupted from the barrel of Makqin's gun, and the empty bullet chain flowed through with a roar, and the bullets of the PLA guards were so dense that the bridge components on the iron bridge were red.
The corpses on the bridge deck fell one after another, and blood dripped down the cracks of the bridge components into the rolling Yellow River, and many soldiers of the newly formed First Division of the Green Horse Army gave their lives before they could understand what was going on on the battlefield. (……)
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