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Chapter 511: The Siege of Lanzhou

In the military headquarters of the Sixth Army, Chen Haihan, the commander of the 16th Division, asked to use his own troops as the main attacker, and his reason was that the 17th Division had suffered huge casualties in the previous offensive against the battalion leader, and should be retired and left as a reserve or second echelon, and the consumption of the 18th Division was also greater than theirs, so it was most appropriate to use the 16th Division as the main attacking force.

The current strength of the Sixth Army is three main divisions (16th, 17th, and 18th) plus an independent brigade that has been temporarily transferred, and Division Commander Chen Haihan did not mention the Independent Brigade when he stated his reasons, but everyone in the meeting hall understood the subtext and unspoken meaning of Division Commander Chen Haihan, the main attack mission is the most dangerous and the most casualties, so it is necessary to use the old troops of the Sixth Army to do it, and no matter how good the weapons and equipment of the Independent Brigade is, they cannot afford to lose this person in the Sixth Army.

Li Yong admires this old comrade-in-arms and big brother who has fought side by side with him many times, the 16th Division is the old unit of the Sixth Army, and it is also the old bone unit of the People's Liberation Army, the commanders and fighters have an extremely high will to fight, no one is afraid of sacrifice, death is nothing in their eyes, but their equipment is far from meeting the needs of the strong city attack, once Commander Luo Yuanfa makes the decision to let them serve as the main attacker, the 16th Division will have a large number of outstanding cadres and soldiers sacrificed.

The liberation of Lanzhou is imminent, and the liberation of the whole country is imminent, Li Yong does not want this heroic army to suffer heavy losses because of equipment, which is the precious wealth of the people's army.

"Army Commander, I have a different opinion, I think Division Commander Chen's reason for letting their 16th Division serve as the main attack is not sufficient." Li Yong doesn't care about his old comrades-in-arms at this time, he must fight if he should fight.

Division Commander Chen Haihan, who had always been sitting with Li Yong, stabbed Li Yong's waist with a big fist, and said in a low voice: "Dayong, what are you guy causing me to do, why can't our 16th Division do the main attack?" ”

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Yong stood up, walked to the map in the military headquarters, pointed to the city fortifications in Lanzhou and said: "Chiefs (because of age and seniority, Li Yong is still used to calling commanders of the same level as leaders), Lanzhou is a well-fortified city, although we have cleared the periphery of the enemy, but there are still the main city wall and the surrounding outer trenches, pillboxes and street fortifications need to be solved, at this stage our army still lacks effective weapons for attacking fortifications, specifically, from the area where our army launched an attack, The main city wall area of Lanzhou is a large open area, before the war Ma Jiajun has cleared all the obstacles blocking the shooting boundary, which will bring a huge threat to the attack action that our army will launch, even if the soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice, under the rain of bullets to pass this open land, the casualties will be very heavy. ”

When Li Yong said this, the room gradually quieted down, all of them were veteran soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and of course they were very clear about Li Yong's statement, but what could be done, if they wanted to make the troops suffer fewer casualties, they had to suppress the enemy's firepower, but with the existing equipment of our army, it was impossible to completely suppress the enemy, and the enemy's counterattack would be very crazy.

Commander Luo Yuanfa had long heard that this small brigade commander of the Independent Brigade had a lot of ideas, and he had fought very well in the battle of attacking the battalion leader in the previous stage, which made him have a little interest and confidence in Li Yong's speech, and Commander Luo Yuanfa said in an encouraging tone: "Go on. ”

Li Yong: "In order to reduce casualties in our army, in the urban assault operation, the most traditional method of operation is to use tunnel tactics, dig the trenches directly in front of the enemy's city wall, and then use a large number of explosives to blast the enemy's fortifications, just like the second attack on Yulin, so that we can shorten the impact distance of our army, and can use sudden blasting to shock the will of the defenders, but now it is not possible, the field army's general attack on Lanzhou has been issued, the battle is about to start, we have no time to dig tunnels, and there is no effective siege equipmentOnly by rushing through under the rain of bullets, if you do this, a large number of casualties will not be avoided. ”

After the Northwest Field Army took the positions on the outskirts of Lanzhou, in order not to give the Ma Jiajun in the city a chance to calmly deploy defenses, it ordered all its subordinate units to immediately attack the city, so that the tunnel tactics and earthwork that our army was good at would not be useful.

Master Chen Haihan twisted Li Yong's teeth with his big hand: "Your mother, you kid has been verbose for so long, if you have any tricks, hurry up and say it." ”

Li Yong smiled: "My opinion is that with our independent brigade as the main attack force, everyone knows that the weapons and equipment of our brigade are not ordinary, and I am here to assure you that as long as our brigade goes up, we will definitely be able to overcome the above difficulties and open the southern gate of Lanzhou." ”

As soon as Li Yong finished speaking, a guy in the conference room became lively, and laughter came and went, he ***, it turned out that this little brigade commander had been around for a long time, and he wanted to compete with our divisions for the main attack task, no, this is not okay.

Although everyone knows that what Li Yong said is reasonable, they just can't get around this bend, and they can't say that the troops supported by the headquarters can do the main attack, which is too faceless, and what can be said after the battle is over, saying that the task of our Sixth Army is to attack the south gate of Lanzhou, but the main attack force is the support force transferred from the field army, which obviously means that we can't do it, and if we continue to do this, our Sixth Army will not have to nest for a lifetime.

After finally winning everyone's opinions, army commander Luo Yuanfa issued a compromise order, ordering the 16th Division, the 18th Division, and the Independent Brigade to attack the city at the same time in the three attack areas.

While making the above decision, Commander Luo Yuanfa also moved a little bit of his mind and used the independent brigade to launch an attack in the middle, and the 16th and 18th divisions were on the left and right sides of the independent brigade, and it seemed that the three troops attacked at the same time, but the focus was still on the independent brigade, because Commander Luo also thought that what Li Yong said was reasonable.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, under the order of Mr. Peng, the battle for the main city of Lanzhou suddenly began, and the First Field Army concentrated all the artillery fire that could be concentrated, and carried out a devastating blow to the city fortifications of Lanzhou.

The general offensive was finally launched, and several corps of the Northwest Field Army have been constantly moving and shifting the battle for a period of time. For this day.

At the beginning of the Lanzhou Campaign, Ma Bufang and Ma Jiyuan's father and son plan was to use the Qingma Army to give the PLA heavy casualties in the battle on the outskirts of Lanzhou, and then use the main city to hold on, and when the PLA attack force was weak, Hu Zongnan's Central Army, the troops of the former Northwest Military and Political Chief's Office, and Ningxia's Ma Jiajun attacked together to wipe out the Northwest Communist Army under the city of Lanzhou, but what now? After the troops of the People's Liberation Army took the outer defense line of Gaolan Mountain, they had launched a general attack on the main urban area of Lanzhou.

The planned Kuomintang Central Army Hu Zongnan was being chased by his old classmate, General Zhou Shidi, the commander of the 18th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, with the troops. ”

And it turned out that the troops of the Northwest Military and Political Chief's Office were also running into the depths of the Hexi Corridor under the leadership of Deputy Director Liu Ren. I don't know what Ma Bufang's mood is as the director of the Northwest Military and Political Chief's Office, but the troops nominally under his command can't even mobilize a single soldier, but the blisters on his feet are his own, and they have nothing to do with others. Even if you think about it, it's too late.

There is also a relatively close army is Ningxia's Ma Jiajun, but it is too unrealistic to let Ma Hongkui, the old fox, give up his nest in Ningxia and fully support Lanzhou, the People's Liberation Army in addition to using an army to continue to contain and exert pressure militarily, but also use General Fu Zuoyi to persuade him repeatedly, even if this old guy can't be allowed to revolt, surrender or surrender, as long as he sways and is undecided, it has been proved that the PLA has achieved its strategic intentions, The Battle of Lanzhou has reached the last critical moment, and the Ningma Army troops in this Erma Group are still standing still in Ningxia.

None of the three planned Kuomintang troops came to cooperate in the battle, and the Qingma Army could only defend Lanzhou alone.

In the south of Lanzhou City, in the theater of the Sixth Army of the People's Liberation Army, Commander Luo Yuanfa launched an attack at the same time with the 16th Division, the 18th Division and the Independent Brigade.

The large army charged, the scene was very spectacular, but it was also very tragic, fighting was not a game, at the same time as the Northwest Field Army launched an attack, the firepower of the Qingma Army that was not killed by artillery fire was resurrected, the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun howled and resisted frantically, and the hot machine gun shells flew out in strings.

The Qingma Army is the sworn enemy of the PLA, and these people understand from top to bottom that once the PLA enters Lanzhou City, there is no good fruit for them to eat, so the mentality of resisting is the same, whether it is an officer or a soldier, they are very hard to fight against the PLA.

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