Author: Zi Yu
After the Battle of Fumei, Hu Zongnan shrunk the Qinling Mountains, and Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui retreated to the Pingliang area. The situation in the northwest battlefield has undergone a fundamental reversal. In order to prevent too tight pressure and let Hu Zongnan enter Sichuan to add pressure to Erye's advance into Sichuan, Yiye decided to adjust the strategic policy of "tonging horses to fight Hu" to "pincing hu to fight horses", and a big chess game of decisive battle in Lanzhou began to plan a layout in Peng Zong's mind.
On July 19, General Peng held a meeting of cadres at and above the level of the First Wild Army in Baoji, Shaanxi Province, and issued an order to march to Lanzhou. As a result, the Lanzhou Campaign, a key battle involving the liberation of the Great Northwest, began to fall.
At this time, the chairman sent a telegram to warn General Manager Peng that "fighting horses" is a relatively serious battle, and we must be prepared to pay a relatively large price, and we must not be paralyzed. In accordance with the chairman's instructions, Mr. Peng began to further line up his troops and set about playing the big game of the Battle of Lanzhou.
Before playing this big game, Peng Zong also had a worry, that is, Ma Bufang abandoned Lanzhou and fled westward, and if Ma Bufang was allowed to enter the vast Xinjiang region, there would be endless troubles in the future. At this moment, the Jiang Group did Mr. Peng a big favor. At this time, Yan Xishan, who had fled from Shanxi and served as president of the Chiang Kai-shek Executive Yuan, called Hu Zongnan, Ma Bufang, and Ma Hongkui to the effect that he said, Dude, don't be discouraged, insist, the northwest is still ours, you come to Guangzhou together, I will calculate how to protect Lanzhou in the next step, how to fight.
Hu Zongnan and Erma Came to Guangzhou, and after consultation, these three people with ghost fetuses formulated a battle plan, but unexpectedly this battle plan became a declaration that Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui would end up claiming hegemony in the northwest. Ma Bufang believes that the only hope for the overall situation in the northwest is to fight a decisive battle with our army, and Lanzhou is the best place, not only the Nanshan Barrier, but also the natural danger of the Yellow River.
Ma Bufang angrily announced to the outside world that he would not only protect Lanzhou, but also go straight down to Xi'an. He was responsible for the war in the northwest to the end, and he vowed to personally supervise Nanshan and carry the coffin to the battlefield. This is also difficult enough for Ma Bufang, there is no culture at all, and I also know the allusion that Zuo Zongtang carried the coffin into Xinjiang. Unfortunately, it is also a coffin, Zuo Gong carries the righteousness, carries the responsibility, and Ma Bufang carries only air and cunning hypocrisy. Not to mention that he carried the coffin to supervise the battle, the entire Lanzhou campaign had never seen the shadow of this man, and the entire battle was commanded by his son Ma Jiyuan.
Ma Bufang
So, what did Ma Bufang do during the Battle of Lanzhou? It turned out that the "Northwest Pillar", who had vowed to carry a coffin to fight Peng to the death, sneaked back to his old nest of Xining on August 19, the day before the Lanzhou Campaign, to complete something more important to him than the Lanzhou Campaign: he spent a lot of money to hire Chennault's "Flying Tigers" 9 planes, and transported the plasters and embezzled looted goods he had looted for many years through Hong Kong Island and then to the Middle East.
We don't know how much of these possessions there are, but we only know that these possessions help Ma Bufang fight through many joints. For example, he once bribed Chiang Kai-shek's elders with 2,000 taels of gold to seek someone from Chiang to let him go. Not only that, in order to hide in Saudi Arabia, he also chartered 4 Eurasian company planes to transport more than 200 wives and concubines.
Returning to the truth, Peng Zong was very happy to learn that Ma Bufang was going to die in Lanzhou under the seduction of Yan Laoxi, saying that Ma Bufang was going to die in Lanzhou, which was great! Don't be afraid of him guarding, only afraid of him running. On August 20, Ichino launched an attack on Ma Bufang's troops on the outskirts of Lanzhou. The main task of this operation was: the 9 main regiments of the 4th Army, the 63rd Army, and the 65th Army seized the three main positions of Majiashan, Yingpanling and Shenjialing. However, these 9 regiments fought fiercely with the enemy for two days, but did not capture a single position, and paid a heavy price.
General Peng decisively informed the troops to suspend the fighting, and immediately sent a telegram to the chairman to report. On August 23, the chairman called back: "Ma Bufang is determined to defend Lanzhou, which is conducive to our army's annihilation of this army." In order to annihilate the enemy, it seems necessary to concentrate 3 corps to attack the battle of Lan. The meaning of this call back is very clear, in order to annihilate Ma Bufang, 9 regiments can't do it, and 3 corps must go up together. This is a tone that is rarely encountered in the operation of the chairman commanding the troops. Because Ma Bufang is one of the biggest stumbling blocks on the road to liberating the Great Northwest, and moreover, his hands are stained with the blood of countless Red Army soldiers of the Western Expedition, and he wants to get rid of it quickly from top to bottom.
Ma Jiajun data map
On August 24, General Peng telegraphed the headquarters of the Lanzhou Battle Plan, and was 70% or 80% sure of attacking Lanzhou City, determined to fight Lanzhou with 3 corps, and Wang Zhen's corps detoured from the upper reaches of Lanzhou to Lanbei. If Ma Bufang was not resolved and Ma Hongkui's reinforcements approached, he besieged Lanzhou with 4 armies and gathered 5 armies to fight Ma Hongkui. This is the tactic summed up by our army in the protracted war events -- encircling points and providing reinforcements. After reading the battle plan, the chairman hesitated: Is Peng always too eager and overconfident? The number of troops invested was also insufficient, and a general offensive was launched on the 25th, was the time also rushed?
Mr. Zhu said that since Lao Peng had made up his mind, it showed that he had this certainty, and he would not fight a battle that he was not sure of, and he should believe Lao Peng! Vice Chairman Zhou added: General Manager Zhu agrees with General Manager Peng's opinion, and I think that since there is a 70% or 80% certainty, it is not impossible to make a general attack on the 25th. After some discussion, the chairman also agreed with Mr. Peng's opinion.
At 6:30 a.m. on August 25, a field of artillery was fired, and the battle for the general attack on Lanzhou began. Mr. Peng was in command on the front line, and he saw from the telescope that the battle on the entire battlefield was extremely fierce. Shenjialing is one of the three major positions for Ma Bufang to defend Lanzhou, and it is also the "key" to open the gate of Lanzhou City. Ma Bufang's son Ma Jiyuan deployed the 190th Division of the 82nd Army of the Ma family army at Shenjialing and held a key position. Responsible for attacking Shenjialing was the 4th Army of Yiye, the main attack regiment was the 31st Regiment of the 11th Division of the 4th Army, and the 32nd Regiment and the 33rd Regiment assisted on both wings. The 31st Regiment, formerly known as the 5th Regiment of the 3rd Police Brigade, was an integral part of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, with 10 Red Army companies, which had resisted the pursuit of enemy cavalry, covered the safe transfer of General Peng and the general headquarters of the former enemy, and was commended.
At dawn on August 25, Wang Xueli passed through the traffic trench, came to the division command post, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked the political commissar for paper cigarettes. Political Commissar Shili said that it was also glorious to take Shen Jialing and go to see Marx, but Marx thought you were too young and still wanted to leave you to build the motherland. These words are also a consolation, war has always been the most ruthless, every soldier goes to the battlefield, it is nine deaths.
The general offensive was launched, and the enemy and we fought to the death in this place of Shenjialing. In order to relieve the pressure on the 31st Regiment, our 4th Army ordered the 28th regiment and the 29th regiment of the 12th Division to storm the Dogwa Mountain on the left flank of Shenjialing. Ma Jiyuan transferred about 10,000 reinforcements from other places to support Shenjialing's defense of the enemy.
Curiously, the enemy performed a ritual like a feudal sacrifice before each charge. They knelt on the ground and wiped their hands with the soil on the ground, then put the soil on their heads and bodies, and rubbed them carefully with their hands. I don't know what kind of ritual this is, but I know that after completing this set of rituals, the enemy will be naked, pin grenades around his waist, wield a dangling saber in his hand, and rush to the position with a scream, which is really maddening.
However, Ichino officers and soldiers crawled out of blood and fire, and these things were pediatrics. After the 31st Regiment took the Shenjialing position, it turned to the defensive and launched a tug-of-war with the enemy on Shenjialing. Until there were only more than 100 people left in the whole regiment, the vanguard of the 30th Regiment also entered the main position of Shenjialing.
Another battle, Wang Xueli led all the party members to rush into the counterattacking enemy group, the sound of the clash of bayonets in an instant, the sound of the soldiers fighting shook the valley, the enemy was once again driven off the position, just at this moment the enemy a shell suddenly arrived, exploded next to Wang Xueli, slapped large shrapnel through Wang Xueli's left waist, and a young regimental commander died heroically.
On August 26, 1949, Yiye occupied Lanzhou, and the citizens of Lanzhou welcomed the People's Liberation Army
At dusk on August 26, the sun set in the west, and the blood-red afterglow was connected with the red earth stained with the blood of the martyrs, and in an instant Lanzhou became a crimson world, and the decisive battle of Lanzhou ended in victory.
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