The beacon of youth

In the headquarters of the Sixth Army, Commander Chen Haihan of the Sixteenth Division asked to use his own troops as the main attack. His reason was that the Seventeenth Division had suffered huge casualties in the previous attack on the battalion and should retire as a reserve force. Or the second echelon, the [-]th Division is more expensive than them, so it is most appropriate to use the [-]th Division as the main attacking force.

The current strength of the Sixth Army consists of three main divisions, the Seventeenth, and an independent brigade transferred temporarily. When Master Chen Haihan stated his reasons, he did not mention the independent brigade, but everyone in the meeting understood what Master Chen Haihan meant. Subtext and subtext, the main attack mission is the most dangerous and has the most casualties, so the old troops of the Sixth Army must be used to do it. No matter how good the weapons and equipment of the Independent Brigade are, their Sixth Army cannot afford to lose this man.

Li Yong admires this old Zhan and his big brother who have fought side by side with him many times. The Sixteenth Division is an old unit of the Sixth Army and an old bone unit of the People's Liberation Army. The fighting will of the commanders is extremely high. No one is afraid of sacrifice. It's nothing in their eyes, but their equipment is far from meeting the needs of a solid city attack. Once Luo Yuan's army makes the decision to let them take the main offensive, the Sixteenth Division will have a large number of excellent 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 due to equipment reasons. They are the precious wealth of the people's army. A little loss is a little bit. This was Li Yong's psychological thinking at the time.

"Commander, I have a different opinion. I don't think Commander Chen's reason for letting their [-]th Division be the main attacker is not sufficient." At this time, Li Yong doesn't care about whether the battle is old or not, and the battle must be fought.

Master Chen Haihan, who was always sitting with Li Yong, stabbed Li Yong's waist with his big fist, and said in a low voice: "Dayong, what are you doing to me, you bastard? Why can't our [-]th Division do the main attack?" ?”

Under the eyes of everyone, Li Yong stood up, walked to the map in the military headquarters, pointed to the city defense fortifications in Lanzhou and said: "Due to the age and seniority of the leaders, Li Yong is still used to calling commanders of the same level." Lanzhou is a solidly fortified city. Although we have cleared out the surrounding enemies, there are still main city walls and surrounding trenches, bunkers and street fighting fortifications that need to be dealt with. At this stage, our army still lacks effective weapons for tackling tough battles. Specific details He said that from the area where our army launched the attack to the main city wall area of ​​Lanzhou, there is a large open area. Even if the soldiers were not afraid of sacrifice, they would still suffer heavy casualties if they passed through this open land under the rain of bullets.

When Li Yong said this, the room gradually became quiet. They are all veterans who have experienced many battles. Of course, they are very clear about what Li Yong said, but what can be done? To reduce the casualties of the troops, they must suppress the enemy Firepower, but it is impossible to completely suppress the enemy with the existing equipment of our army, and the enemy's counterattack will be very crazy.

Commander Luo Yuanfa had long heard that the little brigade commander of the Independent Brigade had done a good job in the previous stage of attacking the battalion leader, which gave him a little interest and confidence in Li Yong's speech. Commander Luo Yuanfa In an encouraging tone, he said: "Go on."

Li Yong: "In order to reduce casualties in urban fortification operations, our army's most traditional method is to use tunnel tactics, dig trenches directly in front of the enemy's city wall, and then use a large amount of explosives to blast the enemy's fortifications, just like As in the second attack on Yulin, our army's impact distance can be shortened, and the will of the defenders can be shocked with sudden explosions, but it can't work now. The field army's general attack order on Lanzhou has been issued, and the battle is about to start. We have not dug In the tunnels, there were no effective siege equipment, and we had to rush through under the rain of bullets. If we did this, a large number of casualties would be unavoidable."

After taking the positions outside Lanzhou, the Northwest Field Army ordered its troops to attack the city in order not to give the Ma's army in the city a chance to deploy their defenses calmly.

Master Chen Haihan pinched Li Yong's teeth with his big hand: "Damn it, you've been rambling for a long time, so hurry up and tell me if you have any brilliant ideas."

Li Yong smiled: "My opinion is that we use our independent brigade as the main attacking force. Everyone knows that our brigade's weapons and equipment are not ordinary. I hereby assure you that as long as our brigade goes there, we will be able to overcome the above difficulties. Open the southern gate of Lanzhou."

As soon as Li Yong finished speaking, in the conference room, "Wow, a guy became lively, and laughter kept coming and going. His grandma, it turned out that the reason why this little brigade commander walked around for a long time was to compete with our divisions for the main attack task. No, this is nothing to say.

The venue was so noisy that it was impossible to calm down. Although everyone knew that what Li Yong said was reasonable, they just couldn't get around this chapter and said that the troops supported by the headquarters could not be the main attack. This is too embarrassing. After the fight, how can we say that the task of our Sixth Army is to attack the southern gate of Lanzhou, but the main attacking force is the support troops transferred from the field army. This obviously means that we can't do it. If we continue to do this, our Sixth Army will still be useless .

Army Commander Luo Yuanfa finally won everyone's opinions and issued a compromise order, ordering the [-]th Division, [-]th Division and the Independent Brigade to attack the city at the same time in three attack areas. As the main attacking force, the [-]th Division, which suffered heavy casualties in the previous stage of the battle, acted together with the military headquarters as the second echelon and the army reserve.

Commander Luo Yuanfa moved his mind a little while making the above decision, and used the independent brigade to launch an attack in the middle. The [-]th and [-]th divisions were on the left and right sides of the independent brigade. It seemed that three troops attacked at the same time. But the focus is still on the independent brigade, because Commander Luo also thinks what Li Yong said makes sense.

At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, under the order of Boss Peng, the battle against the main urban area of ​​Lanzhou suddenly broke out. The First Field Army concentrated all the artillery fire it could concentrate, and carried out a devastating blow to the city defense fortifications of Lanzhou. The sound of artillery firing, shells tearing the air The whistling sound and the huge explosion after the shell hit the ground made people's ears rumble, so that when two people talked together, they had to shout at each other to hear clearly.What is the purpose of the officers and soldiers running away in the rain and starving during mobile transfer battles?For this day.

At the beginning of the Battle of Lanzhou, Ma Bufang and Ma Jiyuan's father and son plan was to use the Qingma Army to inflict heavy damage on the PLA in the battles outside Lanzhou, and then use the main city to hold on. When the PLA's attacking troops were weak, Hu Zongnan's Central Army, formerly Northwest The troops of the Military and Political Commissioner's Office and the Ma family army in Ningxia attacked together and wiped out the Northwest Communist Army under the city of Lanzhou, but what now?After the troops of the People's Liberation Army took down the outer defense line of Gaolan Mountain, they have launched a general attack on the main city of Lanzhou. Where did the troops planning to flank the Communist Army go?

Hu Zongnan, the planned Kuomintang central army, was being chased by his old classmate, General Zhou Shidi, the commander of the [-]th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, with his troops. The young horse soldiers are all first-year students of Whampoa, and they are all good students of President Jiang, but Commander Zhou is relentless in his actions, and he still obeys the old saying, "Students belong to classmates, steel swords against steel swords."

And it turns out that the troops of the Northwest Military and Political Chief's Office are also running into the depths of the Hexi Corridor under the leadership of Deputy Director Liu Ren. What is the life and death of Lanzhou City and Qingma Army?I don't know how Ma Bufang, the official director of the Northwest Military and Political Office, is feeling. The troops he dispatched and commanded in name cannot mobilize even a single soldier. However, he walked by himself and has nothing to do with others. When he first entered Lanzhou, did he think about now when he drove out the original Lanzhou garrison?Even thinking about it is too late.

There is also a unit that is relatively close to the Ma Jiajun in Ningxia. However, it is simply unrealistic to ask Ma Hongkui, an old fox, to abandon his hometown of Ningxia and support Lanzhou with all his strength. , and also used General Fu Zuoyi to repeatedly persuade him, even if this old guy can't be allowed to revolt, surrender or surrender, as long as he is undecided, it will be fine. At the critical moment, the Ningma Army troops in the Erma Group were 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 with the [-]th Division, [-]th Division and the Independent Brigade at the same time. shock.

The large army charged, the scene was very spectacular, but also very tragic. War is not a game. While the Northwest Field Army launched an attack, the Qingma Army firepower point that was not killed by the artillery fire was revived. Machine gun bullets flew out in clusters.

The Qingma Army is the mortal enemy of the People's Liberation Army. These people understand from the bottom up that once they are captured by the People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou City will not have their good fruit to eat, so the mentality of resistance is the same. Whether it is an officer or a soldier, it is very difficult to fight against the People's Liberation Army. Work hard.