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Chapter 498: The first battle of Zhan Lanzhou was frustrated

The first obstacle encountered by the commandos was the bombed barbed wire, which had been hung by the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun before the war with countless grenades and small aerial bombs, and although some of them were destroyed by artillery fire, some of them were not detonated

From time to time, the soldiers in the charge were caught by obstacles, and then they were knocked down by grenades or aerial bombs that suddenly exploded, and the speed of the troops' advance slowed down, and under the orders of the commando commander, the soldiers at the front were ready to cut the barbed wire that was blocking the road with the vices prepared in advance.

However, this seemingly inconsistency was not a big deal to complete, and the covering fire behind the commandos could not suppress the enemy hiding in the fortifications, which caused the commando fighters to break through the obstacles in the rain of bullets.

The bullets flew like locusts, one went up and fell, and the other went up and fell, and the commando team was suppressed by the rain of bullets from the Green Horse Army and couldn't raise their heads.

What to do? Time passed little by little, the casualties of the troops were getting bigger and bigger, and the commandos lying under the fire net made the soldiers behind them jump in a hurry, but they could only be in a hurry, and there was no way to rush up, at this time, I saw the soldiers of the commando standing up under the enemy's fire net, divided into countless battle groups, and rushed forward against the rain of bullets.

What is Commando? The commando also has a name called the death squad or the sharp knife unit, which is a unit with strong combat effectiveness, and the fighters' personal qualities are also very high, at this time they also see that the situation is not second, and the comrades in the back can't come up, and they are suppressed by the fire of the enemy on the opposite side, in this case, it is useless to lie on the ground and wait, only to fight to the death with the enemy.

Rushing upwards under the rain of bullets, under the dense fire net, there were constantly casualties and fell to the ground, relying on the tenacious will to fight, and finally rushed through the obstacle belt set up in front of the position by the Green Horse Army, but the assault team also paid a considerable price, and at least a third of the soldiers who were sacrificed and wounded fell.

The next difficulty encountered by the soldiers who had broken through the obstacles and the barrier was the minefield, and after a long period of preparation, the Ma Jiajun connected different types of anti-infantry mines into plum blossoms or chain mines, and stepped on a series of rings, which the horse bandits called earthen planes.

If the artillery fire of the Northwest Field Army is sufficient, it can use platoon artillery to advance layer by layer until the minefield area is exhausted, but in the troops at that time, it was impossible to completely remove mines with artillery fire, and the artillery of the People's Liberation Army could not do this.

What to do? Of course, the fighters of the assault team could not expect to rely on artillery fire to clear the enemy's mines, and they had to rely on themselves.

A battle team of three, carrying rudimentary tools to manually clear the enemy under the rain of bullets, this is how the fighters did it.

The movements of the assault team were clearly seen by Ma Jiajun in the fortifications, and the firepower turned around at once, and the bullets hit the demining fighters and popped, hitting the bodies of blood flowers one after another.

The soldiers were anxious, and when the enemy was dark and clear, the weapons in their hands could not suppress the firepower of the Ma Jiajun at all, and they saw that the comrades-in-arms who cleared the mines were killed and wounded one group after another, but the progress was not great.

The situation became more and more critical, and the casualties of the troops continued to increase, but they did not even break through the enemy's forward positions.

The movements of these fighters were very clear to the comrades behind them and the leaders behind them, and the soldiers were surprised for a moment and immediately figured it out, this demining team wanted to use two legs to wade through the minefield, use their own flesh and blood to kill a bloody path for their comrades, and use this method to shorten the time of attack.

The tenacity of the troops is reflected here, in the face of the minefield and the bullets blowing in the wind, there are a few people who can do this, and the moment they get up and rush forward, they decide that these soldiers will never come back, and they are destined to become a hot spot on the eve of the liberation of New China.

A little soldier stepped on a mine, boom, shrapnel everywhere, it was a special anti-infantry mine, in the violent explosion, he was immediately blown down, but this little soldier shook and stood up, with one leg jumping forward, the comrades behind saw very clearly, this little soldier's leg has been blown off, blood splashed down the tattered trouser tube, he is moving forward with one leg.

In the blink of an eye, he stepped on another mine, and the little soldier's only remaining leg was also blown off, and the little soldier fell down and never stood up again, but under the surprised eyes of his comrades, the little soldier was still moving forward, and he was crawling forward with his two arms, because he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't go back, but he still had to move forward, even if he could press another mine, it could also reduce the danger for the comrades behind.

The soldiers of the commando team all cried, the little soldier was a little comrade-in-arms they were very familiar with, because of his young age, he was very active in normal times, and almost all the soldiers of the company were his good friends, and they all understood that this little soldier, who was only seventeen years old, would never come back.

The soldiers of the commando team had blood-red eyes, they couldn't hold it anymore, they all stood up from the ground with a sudden bang, shouted slogans and pounced forward, rushed, even if they were all sacrificed, they had to rush forward, otherwise what would they call the sharp knife troops.

The barricades rushed through, the minefields were rushed by the fighters, more than half of the fighters of the assault team fell, and the casualties exceeded 50 percent, but what awaited the fighters was not a smooth road and the rout of the enemy, but a cliff nearly ten meters high.

These cliffs were excavated by Ma Jiajun on the basis of the original terrain, and the flood-type mountain bag spent a lot of effort to set up a steep cliff, and then dug various shooting holes and fire points in the middle of the cliff, and the soldiers of the commando team could not see the shadow of the enemy at all under the steep cliff slope, but the bullets and grenades of the Green Horse Army fell like raindrops.

The casualties of the fighters increased rapidly, the soldiers fell one after another, and the assault team paid a heavy price, but they still did not rush forward, not only did they not rush forward, but they did not even see the face of the enemy, such a battle made the soldiers both aggrieved and angry.

Just when the assault team was at a loss under the cliff excavated by the enemy, they only heard a burst of roars from the position of the Qingma Army, and then rushed out countless soldiers of the Ma Family Army, all of whom were holding sabers, shouting wildly, and rushing up in a frenzy.

This was the counterattack force of the Ma Jiajun, and after seeing that the PLA commando attack was frustrated, it seized the opportunity to carry out a counter-charge.

Under the cover of their own firepower, the Qingma Army formed a reactionary counterattack in a battalion, and the attacking and defending sides immediately entered a cruel white-knuckle battle, and the sabers of the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun were waved like a violent wind, and the officers and men of the PLA commando team were splashed with flesh and blood.

The counterattack of the soldiers of the Qingma Army made the soldiers of the commando feel very sudden, because when they fought with the Kuomintang Central Army in the past, few enemies dared to play counter-charge with the PLA, and such tactics were imposed on the enemy by the soldiers of the PLA, but I didn't expect the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun to dare to do this.

The soldiers of the Ma Jiajun in Qinghai are inferior to the Kuomintang Central Army in terms of weapons and equipment, and their strategy and tactics are even worse than the regular army, but the sense of daring to fight hard is much stronger than that of the Kuomintang Central Army, and in a certain sense it is a bit like the troops of the People's Liberation Army.

The commando team of the People's Liberation Army was originally not large, and after passing through several obstacles and blockade areas, not even half of the people remained, and they were caught off guard by the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun who suddenly counterattacked under the cliff.

The officers and men at all levels of the People's Liberation Army did not lose heart, but launched a second, third, and even fourth attack in succession, but they still failed to succeed in many attacks, and the attacking troops encountered the fierce counterattack tactics of the Ma Jiajun at critical times.

Outside the city of Lanzhou, in Majia Mountain, in Yingpanling, in Gouwa Mountain, in Shenjialing, in Shili Mountain, and in various sections of the PLA's attack, the impact and counter-shock were repeated several times, and the fierce battle was fought for a whole day, and the PLA's attack on the outlying strongholds of Lanzhou did not achieve any results, except for a part of the troops that broke through to the enemy's second line of defense, the vast majority of the troops' attacks were blocked.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the Northwest Field Army issued an order to stop the attack on the whole front, and as the sound of guns and artillery gradually thinned out, the first attack of the People's Liberation Army on Lanzhou City was declared a failure.

Outside Lanzhou City, the headquarters of the First Field Army, the senior commanders of the field army of the second and 19th corps were basically all there, and it was Luo Yuanfa, commander of the Sixth Army of the field army, who was talking.

Commander Luo Yuanfa's Sixth Army is responsible for attacking the main defensive position of the Ma Jiajun Battalion Leader, which is the commanding height of Gaolan Mountain and the southern gate of Lanzhou City, so Mr. Peng asked Commander Luo to be the first to talk about his views.

Commander Luo Yuanfa picked up a stick, pointed to the map and said: "When we first launched the attack, our artillery fire only destroyed the enemy's surface fortifications, and when the artillery fire was transferred or extended, the enemy hiding in the bunker drilled out again, and our army's demolition detachment was difficult to approach the cliff and could not carry out effective blasting. ”

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