Chapter 724: Collapse at the touch of a button
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After several days of preparation, the long-brewing Battle of Qamdo finally began, in fact, it is not accurate to call such a battle a battle, because the PLA side has only one 18th Army, and the 18th Army has not put all its strength into it, and the first-line attack force only uses 52 and 53 divisions, while the Tibetan army's guard troops and militia combined are only more than 10,000 people. It's all there
The scope of the battle is only a small scale of tens of thousands of people, which cannot be compared with the major battles fought by the PLA in the past, but in terms of importance, it is not an exaggeration to call it a battle.
As soon as the battle began, the Tibetan army's ferocious attack gave the Tibetan army a bitter fruit, and in the eyes of the Tibetan army, the strongholds and fortresses that were like copper walls were smashed to ashes, and several artillery groups of the People's Liberation Army opened fire at the same time, and the flames brought up by the explosion of the shells stained half of the sky red.
The Eighteenth Army's sharp knife troops, which launched simultaneous attacks in several areas, forced their way across the Jinsha River under the cover of powerful artillery fire, and the ferocious attack made the Tibetan soldiers stunned, because they had never seen such a battle before.
Looking at the battlefield where the corpses were blown up by artillery fire, those guys who shouted before the war that they were going to fight a decisive battle with the PLA couldn't even let out a fart, and they only now knew what a regular army was, what a powerful field force was, and why the millions of troops of the Kuomintang were not opponents of the PLA, but it was too late to figure it out.
The front-line troops of the Tibetan army were about to collapse at the first touch, and the phone calls asking for reinforcements came one after another to the official residence of Lalu, the governor of Qamdo, asking him to send troops, but Lalu had already run out of troops to send, and he only had a guard company left in his hands that was last used to save his life.
Lalu didn't say nonsense, Qamdo really couldn't get reinforcements, a total of 10,000 troops, to guard a defense line of more than 1,000 kilometers and a depth of more than 700 kilometers, this is simply an impossible task, the battle has just begun. The strength is stretched, Lalu has sent all the soldiers who can be sent out, and there is only one guard force in his hands at present, there are more than 100 people, it should be the size of a guard company, this guard team of more than 100 people is the last strength in Laru's hands, and he has to rely on them to escape, so he will not send the guards until the last moment.
Knowing that there was no hope for reinforcements, the minds of the officers with troops in each generation were active. Because it really can't stop the impact of the PLA troops, it is likely that you will die here if you go down again, since you can't fight and don't want to die, then there is only one way, just face your legs and stomachs forward.
The Tibetan army along the Jinsha River ran away. The elite of the Tibetan army, which claimed to be able to block the advance of the PLA, was defeated without holding on for even a day.
A small group of a dozen people. Large groups of several hundred people. The scattered Tibetan army was like ducks scrambling to escape, guagua screaming and running back, while the PLA troops chased after them.
It is better to cut off one finger than to injure 10 fingers, and to concentrate superior forces to fight a war of annihilation is a fine tradition of the PLA all along, and it is also the guiding principle for the troops to fight a war. Therefore, defeating the Tibetan army is not the result of the attacking troops, but the goal is to annihilate them completely.
Commanders at all levels of the PLA's front-line units are ordering their troops to pursue them fiercely and to catch the defeated Tibetan troops. In order to achieve complete annihilation.
The soldiers of the 18th Army are all soldiers in the plains, and they are very unaccustomed to the oxygen-deficient climate of the plateau, while the soldiers of the Tibetan Army are very accustomed to it, and most of the Tibetan troops are cavalry, don't look at their ability to fight, but the speed of escape is not slow.
The two divisions of the Eighteenth Army were chasing and chasing, chasing and chasing them, and they must catch up with them, and only by destroying them all can the enemy's ambitions be dispelled.
The order of the higher authorities is to catch the enemy, but the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army are not immortals, and the objective geographical reasons have a great impact on the troops, no matter how desperately the soldiers chase after the scattered Tibetan soldiers, the back of the fleeing is still getting farther and farther away.
There is no doubt that the scattered Tibetan army ran away, without a trace, and the infantry had no way to catch up with the cavalry, this is beyond doubt, and the commander of the 18th Army, Zhang Guohua, angrily crumpled the telegram in his hand, and the young commander called out to the combat staff of the military headquarters and asked how many enemies the front-line attack troops had destroyed.
The statistics were reported, and the report showed that in the assault and the subsequent pursuit operations, the Tibetan army wiped out by the attacking forces of the 18th Army reached as many as 5,000 or 6,000 people, and the results were good, but there was still a considerable gap between the deployment and plan before the battle.
"Old Tan, come and see, none of the troops were completely annihilated, all of them were defeated, and these Tibetan army's representative regiments ran faster than rabbits."
Political Commissar Tan Guansan, who was more than a decade older than the army commander, was much less angry, and he and Commander Zhang Guohua stood in front of the wall chart in the war room to carefully check the location where the attacking troops had arrived, and replied with a smile while watching:
"Commander, defeat will be defeated, the head of the headquarters did not expect in advance, the brother troops from the great northwest have already arrived at the predetermined position, if a qiē shun lì, the Tibetan army will not be able to run."
In fact, Commander Zhang Guohua also knew that the Duli Brigade had reached the designated position, as long as the Duli Brigade blocked the enemy, the Tibetan army would not be able to escape, but there was really a breath in his heart that he couldn't get out.
The Battle of Qamdo was fought by Erye, and of course the 18th Army of Erye was the main battle, but this battle was fought over and over, and the hope of annihilating the Tibetan army was pinned on the heads of the brother troops who came from afar.
"Commander, I know what you're thinking, don't you just feel that your face is gloomy, the head of the headquarters has already ordered that the Duli Brigade of the Second Army has been assigned to our Eighteenth Army, and the current Duli Brigade is also a member of our Eighteenth Army, what are you not satisfied with? Besides, as long as you can destroy the enemy, which army fights the same, you kid can't think about it. ”
Commander Zhang Guohua smiled: "The political commissar is still thoughtful, and immediately sent a report to the Duli brigade and ordered them to resolutely block the retreat of the Tibetan army to escape, and when the large army arrives, it will be encircled and annihilated." ”
With the sound of tick-tock telegraphs, the order of the commander of the Eighteenth Army reached the Duli Brigade, which had already arrived at the Uzchi.
After several days of arduous marching, the Duli Brigade, which had rushed from the Great Northwest, finally arrived at the predetermined position set before the war, and was intensively constructing fortifications, and the guard company commander Li Jia trotted all the way over: "Brigade commander, the order of the front commander of the Eighteenth Army. ”
The telegram gave a detailed account of the scope of the 18th Army's attack and the development of the battle situation after the launch of the Qamdo Campaign, and demanded that the Duli Brigade must ensure that not a single Tibetan soldier runs back to Lhasa and that the enemy must be completely annihilated near Qamdo.
The tone in the telegram was very polite, and several words of invitation were used, but Li Yong understood that this was because the Duli Brigade was a unit from afar, and the head of the 18th Army spoke in a polite tone, but an order was an order, and it was necessary to carry it out without discount.
"Call back to the front commander of the Eighteenth Army, our troops have all arrived at the predetermined position, and blocked all roads, rivers, bridges, passes, and commanding heights, and resolutely do not let a single enemy escape our defensive line, please rest assured that the commander will resolutely complete the task."
"Lao Wang, do you think it's okay for me to call back like this?"
Political Commissar Wang Chengde: "Of course, the order of the commander of the 18th Army must be resolutely implemented, and I completely agree. ”
The duli brigade that occupied the Wuqi was also sent out a large number of reconnaissance troops while building fortifications, and there was only one task, to quickly determine the situation of the fleeing Tibetan army, and to prepare for the upcoming blocking battle, the reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong also learned the lessons of the past, in order to facilitate reconnaissance, let some of the soldiers change into the clothes of the local people, fortunately, there was a platoon of Tibetan soldiers sent by the ninth generation to lead the way, this time it played a role, Li Yong personally came to the reconnaissance camp, Let a platoon of Tibetan soldiers and Zhang Jinsong's scouts mix together and set off together to carry out reconnaissance missions.
It is somewhat unreasonable to let the troops who have just revolted carry out combat missions, but there is no way to do it, because in order to find out all kinds of information that the troops need, they have to deal with the locals, and language has become the biggest obstacle.
A platoon of the nine generations of the book and the soldiers of the Duli Brigade marched together continuously, and the two troops were already very familiar, especially with Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion eating and drinking together, and they had a certain affection for each other, and when they saw the leader of the Duli Brigade personally come to talk to them, the soldiers of this platoon said that they must cooperate with the army to complete the reconnaissance mission, and asked the chief to look at their table.
At the same time as the Duli Brigade was making frequent movements in Wuqi, the city of Qamdo, dozens of kilometers away, was already in chaos.
As the unfavorable news from the front line continued to spread, the people of the whole city of Qamdo were panicked, and the rich people fled in all directions, some carrying belongings, some dragging items that they thought would be useful in the future, and fleeing to places where they felt safe.
The communist army and the communist army want to be communist and communist, so those rich people who have listened to the propaganda are frightened to death by the news from the front line, and some people go to the governor's mansion to find the chief manager Lalu and ask whether all kinds of news flying all over the sky are true, why the so-called elite Tibetan army can't resist the attack of the PLA, don't they say that the PLA is nothing remarkable when they drink!
But when they arrived at the governor's mansion, the people who came to inquire about the news were even more panicked, because the chief administrator who had promised them the day before had long since disappeared.
Needless to say, this is a run, even the chief manager has run, what hope is there in Qamdo. (On Monday, Lao Ba and the old guys want a few likes, bow and thank) (To be continued......)