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Chapter 537 Niushou Mountain

The painstaking persuasion was quite effective, and these sappers were also sensible people, and most of them had no aversion to doing anything with the PLA, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion who were eyeing each other around them did not dare to express themselves even if they did not want to do it.

The combat effectiveness of the sappers themselves is very average, plus they are not prepared, and some of them did not even bring weapons when they assembled, and the fighters of the reconnaissance battalion are already very sure of them, and the difference is only the last step.

Zhang Jinsong also knew what they thought, most of the people in the independent brigade were composed of captured soldiers, so he was very aware of the psychological state of the grassroots soldiers, and Lao Balu was very experienced in doing this kind of work.

Including the two sons of Changning in a platoon, they were all born as prisoners, don't look at the reluctance at the beginning, as long as they are educated well, they are all good soldiers, and it depends on how well the political and ideological work in the PLA troops is done.

Striking while the iron is hot, Zhang Jinsong continued to work: "Brothers, you sappers are treasures in the troops of our People's Liberation Army, as long as the brothers can throw over, we can't ask for it, if you don't want to be a soldier, it's easy to do, we send the money home, however, I want to persuade everyone, the whole country is about to be liberated, this world is the world of our liberation and release of the army, at this time go home and plant something, simply do a great cause with our People's Liberation Army, and it will not be in vain." ”

There is an old saying in China, called "those who know the times are the heroes" The war has been fought to the present stage, and everyone knows that the Kuomintang is finished, Qinghai's Ma Bufang is finished, and Ningxia's Ma Jiajun is also seeing that it is coming to an end, and the officers and soldiers are worried about their future.

The soldiers shouted in a hurry: "Sir, we all want to be the Eighth Road, we want to be the People's Liberation Army, as long as we can be taken in." ”

It didn't take a single shot to solve an engineer battalion, Zhang Jinsong was in a good mood, and laughed in the face of the prisoners who wanted to be the Eighth Road: "If you want to be the Eighth Road, I can protect you in front of the chief, as long as you have a skill, you will definitely be reused in the PLA troops." ”

Zhang Jinsong did not lie to them, in the later stage of the Liberation War, the scale of the army expanded too quickly, and units such as engineers were indeed a branch of the army in urgent need.

Speaking of this, Zhang Jinsong's words changed: "Brothers, if you want to be the eighth road, I will raise my hand to welcome, so that we are a family, I will tell the truth if we are a family, we have to hurry up and get the explosives buried in the embankment out, the explosives don't come out, I can't eat well, brothers, let's do this work overnight, everyone says okay??" ”

Under the organization of Zhang Jinsong, Ning Erzi and Deputy Army Commander He Shuheng, it took more than two hours to get everything ready, and the explosives, detonators, fuses, and fuses were all recovered.

At this point, the task assigned to the reconnaissance battalion by the independent brigade was successfully completed, and Zhang Jinsong led the soldiers to ensure the safety of the Yellow River embankment while capturing an engineer battalion of the 128th Army of the Kuomintang Ningxia Majia Army, and the hidden danger hanging over the heart of the brigade commander Li Yong was eliminated.

At the same time that Zhang Jinsong and his soldiers were busy working on the Yellow River embankment, the 19th Corps' encirclement and annihilation of the 128th Army of the Ningma Army began.

To deal with a 128th Army, of course, there was no need for the entire 19th Corps to be dispatched, and Commander Yang Dezhi and Commissar Li Zhimin handed over the task to the 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army, and at the same time strengthened the 1st Independent Division, the 2nd Independent Division, and the Li Yong Independent Brigade of the Northwest Military Region, a total of six divisions and brigade-level troops, and surrounded the 128th Army with absolutely superior forces.

The intelligence reconnaissance before the war was that the strength of the 128th Army in Ningma was to garrison Lingwu with the military headquarters and the 256th Division, and the 356th Division and the 20th Cavalry Brigade to guard Jinji.

According to the characteristics of the enemy's troop allocation, Zeng Siyu, commander of the 64th Army, decided to concentrate his forces on destroying the enemy of Jinji first, and then rush to Lingwu.

The 128th Army of the Ningma Army itself was a grade worse than the 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army, and in this case, it divided its troops to garrison Lingwu and Jinji, while the 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army only fought one Jinji, so the advantage in terms of strength was too great.

During the entire process of liberating Ningxia by the 19th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, the Ma Jiajun in Ningxia did not organize a strong resistance, although this was related to the strength of the two armies, and it was also inseparable from the fool-like tactics of the Ma Jiajun in Ningxia.

The Ningma Army has a total of more than 80,000 troops, and these more than 80,000 people are not used in a centralized manner, but dispersed their forces to defend layer by layer, and the main force of the 128th Army did not learn this lesson when it confronted the PLA, and when the 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army pressed the border, the troops were divided into two units, respectively guarding Jinji and Lingwu, which laid a fatal hidden danger for the failure of the battle, so some people say that whether it is the Qingma Army or the Ningma Army, it is indeed commendable in daring to fight and dare to fight, and it is not worth mentioning at all in terms of tactics. Commander-in-Chief Ma Dunjing's level is not necessarily comparable to that of an ordinary battalion and company commander of the People's Liberation Army, and it is pure nonsense to compare tactics with Commander Yang Dezhi.

Jinji, built around the middle of the Qing Dynasty, is an ancient castle with a city wall, only about 50 kilometers from Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, and Niushou Mountain, which is more than 1,600 meters above sea level outside the city, is its natural barrier.

If you want to encircle and annihilate the 128th Army, you must first fight Jinji, and you must first conquer Niushou Mountain, which is more than 1,600 meters above sea level, has become the key to the first battle of Jinji.

The enemy's deployment in terms of strength was that the 356th Division was stationed inside Jinji City, the 20th Cavalry Brigade was cruising outside Jinji City as a mobile force, and the 3rd Security Division was guarding Niushou Mountain.

In view of the deployment of the 128th Army in Ningma, Commander Zeng Siyu ordered the 191st and 192nd Divisions of the 64th Army to launch an attack from both sides of Niushou Mountain, while the Li Yong Independent Brigade made a detour through the back mountain and launched an attack from the flank and rear of Niushou Mountain, first eliminating the 3rd Security Division, seizing the commanding heights outside Jinji City, and using the 1st Independent Division and the 2nd Independent Division of the Northwest Military Region and the 20th Cavalry Brigade directly under the army to monitor the 356th Ningma Division and the 20th Cavalry Brigade in Jinji City.

The third security division of the Ningma Army has only more than 5,000 people, but the besieging 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army has used three main divisions (191, 192, independent brigade), with a total strength of more than 30,000 people, and the ratio of the strength of the two armies has reached an astonishing six to one. In the battle of Niushoushan, they concentrated several times the enemy's forces and technical weapons, and strived to defeat the enemy's third security division in one fell swoop.

The battle started in the second half of the night, and the 64th Army of the People's Liberation Army did not underestimate the enemy because the enemy only had a miscellaneous security division, and concentrated a large number of heavy artillery before the war, because with the addition of the independent brigade force, Commander Zeng Siyu had more than 200 artillery pieces in his hands.

With the order of Commander Zeng Siyu, several heavy artillery groups of the People's Liberation Army aimed at the Ningma Security Division on Niushou Mountain.

More than 200 artillery pieces, a few salvos are more than 1,000 shells, the explosions are shattering, the bullets hit one after another, and the artillery torches are red for half a day.

The altitude of Niushou Mountain is more than 1,600 meters, the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the third security division rushed to repair many field fortifications, and wanted to rely on these fortifications to defend to the death.

However, the 3rd Security Division is a local army after all, and the soldiers and officers have never seen such artillery fire, let alone seen it, and they have never even heard of it being able to carry out such artillery attacks.

The PLA's ferocious artillery preparations lasted for half an hour, and after half an hour, the infantry attack began, and the independent brigade, under the command of brigade commander Li Yong, launched an attack from the flank of Niushou Mountain.

The first wave of the attack force of the independent brigade was two infantry battalions, and because of the strong request of Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, and Ning Jinshan, the commander of the fourth battalion, the brigade commander Li Yong, used the three and four battalions as sharp knife troops to plunge into the top of the mountain.

The fighters of two battalions, in units of combat groups, under the cover of strong fire, advanced to the top of the hill to attack.

Attacking fortified positions in the mountains is one of the subjects that the cadres and soldiers of the Independent Brigade must practice in peacetime, and in addition to their constant participation in actual combat, such battles are already familiar to the soldiers of the Independent Brigade.

Dozens of mountain artillery, field artillery and infantry guns were all pushed up by the soldiers, and the artillery battalion commander Gao Xiang demanded that his soldiers, the soldiers of the front-line infantry battalion and the targets they wanted to attack must be within the effective strike distance of their own artillery fire, in other words, the small-caliber direct-aim artillery of the artillery battalion must closely follow the infantry and provide the most direct fire support for the infantry.

The 3rd Security Division of the Ningma Army built a large number of temporary firepower points on the mountain, and most of these firepower points were built on the direct slope of the mountain where the infantry was going to attack, and this kind of firepower built on the positive slope was the most favorite target of the infantry artillery.

The artillery fire continued to extend and shoot in front of the infantry, and the firepower of the Ningma army was knocked out by the infantry artillery as soon as it appeared, and after half an hour of hard topping, the Ningma officers and soldiers on the mountainside were a little unable to support it, and the soldiers were frustrated to find that they were on the defensive side, but there was no way to confront the PLA.

Aim, fire, tom, another shell fired, and a few seconds later, a bunker containing a dozen people was blown into the sky.

Such scenes were constantly played out in the area of the attack force of the Independent Brigade, with the infantry testing the fire in front and the artillery continuing to follow up, and bombarding them when there was resistance.

If the defending side encounters an enemy with strong firepower, the inclined fortifications will become the target of the shells.

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