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Chapter 504: The bloody battle of Zhan Lanzhou will not retreat

Yingpanling is the main peak of Gaolan Mountain, famous for its strong fortifications, and the Ma Jiajun in Qinghai can take advantage of the dangerous terrain in addition to the dangerous terrain of Gouwa Mountain and Majia Mountain, which are horns of each other, such a geographical location makes the attacking side very uncomfortable.

This is a three-legged type of fortification, in the south of Lanzhou City formed a main peak camp leader as the basis, with the left and right Gouwa Mountain and Majia Mountain as the auxiliary of a relatively complete defense system, the firepower on the three positions can support each other, therefore, the PLA attack force no matter where the attack starts, will suffer from the three sides of the same firepower.

In view of this situation, the Sixth Army of the People's Liberation Army, which was mainly attacking the battalion leader, decided to attack the two positions of Majiashan and Gouwa Mountain with part of the 16th and 18th Divisions, and attacked the main position of the Qingma Army with all the strength of the 17th Division and the rest of the 16th and 18th Divisions, and used the Li Yong Independent Brigade supported by the headquarters as the general reserve of the whole army.

The battle plan of the Sixth Army seems to be to attack the three positions at the same time, but this is just a cover to make the enemy unable to perceive his true intentions, and the battles on Majia Mountain and Gouwa Mountain are only to contain rather than capture, and the real goal of the Sixth Army is still the battalion leader, and only by capturing the battalion territory can the remaining two positions be suppressed by firepower, otherwise even if they use great strength to take these two positions, they will not be able to hold them.

Containment is not a feint, if the enemy can't get out of his hands, it must be hurt, and the task is not simple, the commander Luo Yuan issued an order to the commander in charge of attacking these two positions: No matter what difficulties are encountered, no matter how much sacrifice there is, we must contain the enemy on Majia Mountain and Gouwa Mountain, first, we must not let the enemy reinforce the battalion to lead. Second, these two positions should not be allowed to form crossfire on the troops attacking the battalion.

In the early morning of 25 August, the second attack of the Northwest Field Army on Lanzhou City began, and the two corps launched an attack on the entire front from a radius of several tens of kilometers.

Commander Luo Yuanfa of the Sixth Army gave an order, and more than 100 reinforced cannons opened fire together, and the muzzles of the guns were retracted, and the shells were smashed into the position of the Qingma Army, and the battalion leading position was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire.

Anti-explosive shells, armor fragmentation shells, grenades, incendiary bombs, and other shells were fired in batches, and the whistling and screaming of the shells cutting through the air made people frightened, and the artillery commander Gao Xiang was well aware of his heavy responsibility, and took an artillery command group to the front line to personally direct the artillery bombardment.

The artillery fire extended to the top of the hill little by little, and the bullet impact points were one after another, and Gao Xiang commanded the troops to constantly correct their positions, hitting barbed wire, hitting minefields, digging trenches, building pillboxes, and hitting hidden firing points, and the artillery units under Gao Xiang's command impressed the infantry of the Sixth Army with their surprisingly accurate rate.

The heavy howitzer battalion of the independent brigade is the trump card firepower of the whole brigade, and the total number of various artillery pieces exceeds more than 100, of which the main force is more than 80 105-mm howitzers.

The whole position was trembling, from time to time there were masonry structure fire points and the corpses of personnel were blown up into the sky, the troops fought with momentum, and the fierce outbreak of artillery fire was a very good way to enhance the momentum of the troops, the artillery attack on the battalion leader made the troops waiting at the bottom of the mountain excited, the soldiers watched the excitement while preparing, and some even said in a sour tone: "Look, the artillery fire of the independent brigade is still powerful, if we can do this two days ago, maybe we will take down the enemy." ”

The ferocious artillery bombardment lasted for a whole hour, and this kind of artillery preparation was unprecedented in the history of the Sixth Army, and the positions held by the Green Horse Army were shrouded in gunsmoke, and after the artillery bombardment, the real infantry attack began.

The assault force of the Sixth Army attacking the battalion leader is the 50th Regiment of the 17th Division, which is a heroic unit, with history and heritage, and is extremely good at attacking mountainous fortifications in the entire Sixth Army's regimental level troops, and it was this 50th Regiment that made great contributions in the attack on the strongly-fortified Panlong Town of the Kuomintang Central Army two years ago, and this time Commander Luo Yuanfa took them out again, just to use this sharp knife tip to penetrate deeply into the enemy's heart.

The 50 th Regiment lived up to its high expectations and achieved certain results in its first attack on the battalion leader a few days ago, with the 3rd Battalion occupying a small position of the enemy and always holding it in his hands, which was not easy, because the entire field army did not make any progress in the first attack on Lanzhou, and only the 3rd Battalion of the 50th Regiment could be regarded as occupying a small piece of the enemy's position, even this small position was still under the threat of enemy fire.

After the failure of the first attack on Lanzhou, General Peng ordered the troops to readjust their deployment and fight again after being fully prepared, but the red-eyed third battalion did not carry out the order to withdraw, but asked the higher authorities for instructions, if their battalion did not withdraw, they would be involved with the enemy, waiting for the next large army to launch an attack.

The original fighters of the third battalion numbered more than 500 people, and after occupying this small position, there were not even 200 of them, and they really did not want to withdraw this piece of position that they had exchanged their blood and lives for, and said that they would not withdraw anything.

With less than 200 soldiers, less than 100 meters away from the enemy's nearest position on the battalion territory, in order to pull out the tip of the knife that the PLA had stuck in its stomach, the Green Horse Army tried all kinds of methods, using grenades, explosives packs, and light and heavy machine guns to blockade it, but no matter what method was used, this small unit was always nailed there and held out for several days.

After the second attack began in the early morning of the 25th, the 50th Regiment of the Commando rushed forward with a loud voice, and the soldiers rushed desperately, because there were still comrades of the 3rd Battalion entangled with the enemy, and it would be dangerous not to pick them up.

The main force of the attack battalion of the Sixth Army was the 17th Division, and the commando of the 17th Division was the 50th Regiment, and the forward force of the 50th Regiment was the third battalion that had been entangled with the enemy for several days.

There was no water, no food, no ammunition, and two-thirds of the casualties, but the third battalion just held on and did not retreat, and after the second attack of the large army began, because of the geographical advantage, the third battalion could break through much faster than other troops.

Forward, assault, rushing forward while the smoke of gunpowder from the artillery fire has not yet dissipated, the soldiers swooped forward, the tip of the knife of the third battalion is the seventh company at the front, and there are forty-five personnel in the seventh company who can still fight, and the instructor Cao Derong divided these forty-five fighters into nine combat groups, five in each group, and marched up into a combat team to attack.

Instructor Cao Derong is a veteran with a long beard, dark complexion, strong body, always carrying several rice bags and rifles on his back when marching, although the weight is much larger than other soldiers, but the instructor's body is always straight, Cao Dirong's qualifications are very old, is the oldest soldier in the entire seventh company, whether marching or fighting, the instructor is an example for everyone to learn.

After the order to stop the attack was issued, the third battalion was reluctant to withdraw from the occupied position, because many comrades-in-arms paid for their lives, in fact, this was only one of the reasons why the third battalion was unwilling to withdraw, and another reason was that their battalion had been involved with the Kuomintang defenders when they were fighting Panlong, and their approach was praised by the commander-in-chief of the field army, Mr. Peng, so the commander of the 17th Division agreed to their request.

After the resumption of our army's attack on the battalion position, the 3rd Battalion could not wait to plunge into the bloody battle of attacking the enemy's forward position, and the nine battle groups of the 7th Company of the Sharp Knife alternately attracted the enemy's fire and covered each other's advance.

The camp lord's position was steep and the pillboxes were strong, and although our artillery fire was fierce, it was impossible to blow up all the enemy's fortifications, and the attacking troops suffered heavy casualties because they were exposed to enemy fire.

When the troops rushed to the front of the main position, they were blocked by a high and steep cliff, a large cliff more than a zhang high, half natural and half artificial, with no place to stay, and on the waist and top, there was still the dark fire of the Green Horse Army in the spraying tongue of fire, and the officers and men of the 50th Regiment of the shock unit kept falling down in the fire net, and the four companies that moved to the forward position could not go up or down, and were completely exposed to the enemy's fire.

This large cliff is about five meters high, which was specially dug by the Qingma Army before the war, and there are secret tunnels in it that can communicate with each other, so that they can support each other in terms of personnel and firepower.

The form is tense, dangerous, extremely dangerous, this is a dead angle that artillery fire can't hit, the 105 mm howitzers commanded by Gao Xiang are all curved guns, and the shells can't hit this position, what should I do? There was only one way, to carry forward the old tradition of our army and blow up the cliff with explosives, but the enemy's bullet rain was too dense for the firepower of the three battalions to be suppressed at all, and the soldiers who carried out the blasting mission fell in front of the cliff one after another.

The Seventh Company used two combat teams to blow up this big cliff, but ten soldiers fell halfway, instructor Cao Derong looked around, his soldiers were running out, and there were only more than 20 people left in the Seventh Company of more than 100 people who could still continue to fight, and the company commander had already been seriously injured and carried down, and he himself was wounded in two places, and his body was stained with blood.

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