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Chapter 512: The Secret Weapon of Zhan Lanzhou

Bullets flew in the air, sporadic shells fired from inside the city exploded in the charging troops from time to time, and from time to time someone fell down in the impact, lying silently outside the city of Lanzhou, lying on the land that was about to be liberated.

Looking out from the gaps in the city walls and positions guarded by the Qingma Army, the large troops of the People's Liberation Army spread over the mountains and fields like mercury, and the soldiers in gray military uniforms surged up wave after wave with the undulation of the terrain, like a strange gray sea.

The light and heavy machine guns of the soldiers of the Green Horse Army kept firing from point to point, and the barrels of the guns were red when they were fired continuously, but the PLA soldiers who came over were not few, and the bullets were as if they had no effect.

The time has come for the final decisive battle with the Qingma Army, and with the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Field Army, it will be easy for the two armies to come into contact once they come into contact, and commanders at all levels understand that as long as the troops can rush forward and open a breakthrough, they will be able to control the victory in their own hands.

However, the breakthrough was not so easy to open, not only did the Green Horse Army have a large number of light and heavy machine guns, but also some small-caliber artillery pieces have not been completely solved, especially the small mortars at the battalion and company level that move with the troops, and most of them have been retained.

Now, it is these weapons that are causing a lot of losses to the charging soldiers, flat and open land, no houses, no trees, no stones, no various concealments to rely on, the commander of the Green Horse Army has long used his strength to remove all the obstacles that can affect the firepower, on the surface of the light, the machine gun fire is a cloud of smoke and dust, and our army has no tunnels, no tunnels, no weapons that can cover the infantry charge, the soldiers can only use their own flesh and blood to rush over, At each distance, a large number of soldiers were killed or wounded.

In order to facilitate the command of the battle, the brigade commander Li Yong and the political commissar Wang Chengde moved the command headquarters to the forefront, and together with the brigade command post, there are also artillery battalion headquarters, tank battalion headquarters, and machine gun battalion headquarters. Li Yong didn't want a lot of casualties to happen to his troops.

At the same time as Commander Luo Yuanfa gave the order, the artillery preparation of the independent brigade began, and the battalion commander Gao Xiang and the soldiers of the artillery battalion almost used all their strength to bombard the city fortifications in Lanzhou, because the soldiers all knew that the comrades of their brigade were about to attack, and if they destroyed one more firepower point, the comrades-in-arms of the infantry battalion were very likely to lose a group of people, and it was a group of people, so every shell they fired was very important.

Bombardment, bombardment, incessant bombardment, delayed diversion of armor shells to deal with city walls and firing points, anti-personnel trigger or air-burst grenades, incendiary bombs specially left, the entire area attacked by artillery was turned into a sea of fire, and batches of various types of ammunition kept coming, batch after batch repeatedly.

The battalion commander Gao Xiang took out all his family resources and prepared three bases of ammunition to attack the enemy's in-depth fortifications while attacking the forward positions.

The personnel in the command headquarters were constantly looking at their watches, because the time given by the superiors to prepare for the artillery fire of the independent brigade was half an hour, and after half an hour, the infantry would begin to attack, and the brigade commander Li Yong took the first and second battalions as the first assault echelon, the third and fourth battalions as the second assault echelon, and the fifth battalion, the reconnaissance battalion, and the brigade headquarters as the third echelon.

The hands on the watch were ticking, and the expressions of the personnel in the brigade headquarters were also different, Gao Xiang, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, was nervously directing the battle, Wei Gang, the battalion commander of the machine gun battalion, was excitedly lying on the observation hole to watch the bombardment effect of the artillery fire, and only Jiang Tiexiong, the battalion commander of the tank battalion, and Li Yuming, the instructor, were a little nervous, and the two of them bowed their heads together from time to time and muttered a few words.

Brigade Commander Li Yong was a little strange, what were these two guys secretly doing together: "Jiang Tiexiong, Li Yuming, what are you two muttering?" Is there anything you can't say out louder? ”

Seeing that the brigade commander asked, the two had to raise their heads, and Li Yuming, who was easy to talk, replied: "Hehe, brigade commander, the two of us are thinking about things, thinking about big things." ”

Li Yuming's answer was a bit funny, and political commissar Wang Chengde also asked with some curiosity: "Haha, what big things do you want?" Wouldn't it be better for us to come up with an idea for you. ”

Li Yuming straightened his body and replied loudly: "Political commissar, you also said that after the battle in Lanzhou, it is very likely that there will be no major battles, this is the last chance to make meritorious service, and if you miss this village, you will not be able to catch up with this store, so we are discussing how to make meritorious service, or make great contributions, today we are depressed for a day, originally we wanted our tank battalion to cooperate with the first battalion to fight, but after the battalion collar was knocked down, our battalion did not fire a single shot, what is this called cooperative combat?" How can we make meritorious contributions if we continue to do this? Li Jiangguo, this kid has made us ducks, and I am not finished with him. ”

Li Yuming's words made the command center laugh, the battalion commander of the machine gun battalion, Wei Gang, almost laughed and flashed his waist, this guy cheered for Li Yuming and Jiang Tiexiong: "Yes, I just want to finish with Lao Li, this guy is not a good person at all, you don't know, don't talk about your tank battalion, I was anxious enough at the time, and I thought that this kid was going to eat alone, and then I finally used our battalion, I am so careful, I have been constantly plopping, plopping, jumping, almost jumping out." ”

The conversation between Li Yuming and Wei Gang swept away the tense atmosphere in the command headquarters, and even Gao Xiang, who was directing the artillery bombardment, grinned non-stop, and the political commissar Wang Chengde was laughing and crying by the two of them, and the political commissar Wang pointed to Li Yuming's nose and said: "Look at your little bit of interest, isn't it just that you haven't hit the battalion, what's the big deal, after the artillery fire stops for a while, your battalion will start an assault, it's not easy to make meritorious contributions, just look at your appearance." ”

Li Yong didn't pay attention to Li Yuming and Wei Gang's nonsense together, but turned his head and asked Gao Xiang: "How is it, are a few big guys in your camp ready?" ”

Gao Xiang: "Don't worry, brigade commander, it's been prepared for a long time, the soldiers have said that this is the first time that a few big guys have gone to the battlefield, and it is very likely that it will be the last time they will go to the battlefield, so even if they play with their lives, they will definitely surprise the enemy." ”

The big guy in Li Yong and Gao Xiang's mouth is the independent brigade has been reluctant to use, the only five 150 mm German-made heavy howitzers, which is the largest caliber artillery on the Chinese battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, it is a secret weapon in the independent brigade, until the establishment of the artillery battalion has been hidden by the brigade commander Li Yong like a baby, not a single shell has not been shot, not Li Yong does not want to use them, it is really difficult to solve the ammunition, from the beginning of these big guys, The battalions and companies of the Independent Brigade began to collect shells for these guns, but no matter how they tried to do so, only about 200 rounds of ammunition were collected, which means that the entire brigade of the Independent Brigade only had more than 200 shells for this kind of artillery, and on average there were only 40 rounds per gun.

This was captured from Hu Zongnan and all kinds of Kuomintang Central Army, and after fighting against the army of the Second Horse in the northwest, the Independent Brigade had not even caught shells of this caliber, so Li Yong had been hiding these artillery pieces in order to use them at the most critical time, what was the most critical moment? Now it is.

The weapon of siege is artillery, especially large-caliber artillery, which can sometimes play a decisive role, for example, now, if you want to open a breakthrough, you must blow up the city wall, how to blow up the city wall? I can also know with my heels that as long as we reach the vicinity of the city wall, the grenades of the Qingma Army will definitely fall like heavy rain, and the soldiers who deliver explosives will not suffer many casualties, and it will be easy to do with these cannons, Li Yong's idea is that when the troops are attacking the city, push these heavy howitzers up, the closer the better, use the cannons to aim directly at the city wall, and use these more than 200 rounds of 150 mm shells to blow up a gap in the city wall of Lanzhou, as long as it can blow up a gap, the next thing will be easy to do.

At this time, the soldiers of the artillery battalion knew that the brigade commander had not allowed the purpose of using these cannons, it turned out to be to deal with the city wall of Lanzhou, and the soldiers admired Li Yong to the extreme, or the brigade commander Gao Ming, Gao Ming knew more than a year ago that our brigade would attack Lanzhou in the future, and he could not win the battle with this brain!!

In fact, this is because the soldiers overestimated Li Yong, and the general trend of the Northwest Field Army is that Lanzhou must be liberated in the future, and the liberation of Lanzhou will definitely be a vicious battle, and what Li Yong has done is just some preparations for a rainy day.

Under the leadership of Li Yuming and Jiang Tiexiong, dozens of tanks of the tank battalion rushed out with a bang, and several vehicles and a combat unit swooped down on the city of Lanzhou, starting with an M4 tank platoon led by battalion instructor Li Yuming.

Behind the tank troops are the infantry of the first and second battalions, and in the middle of these infantry are the five 150 plus howitzers of the artillery battalion, and the soldiers push these cannons forward, for fear of being pulled back by the infantry, in the words of these artillerymen, don't look at us as artillery, we can also be infantry at critical times, and the artillery can also be bayonet.

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