Chapter 184 Annihilation of the Ma Family Army II
After four days of preparation, the troops of the Ma family army have completed the deployment and transfer, and the entire 80,000 troops of Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui have gathered under the city of Qingyang, surrounding the entire city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the morning of March 27, Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui met together to discuss the tactics of attacking Qingyang, but the two sides were full of contradictions, and they couldn't pee in a pot at all, and finally decided to fight their own, with Qingma attacking the east and south gates, and Ningma attacking the west and north gates, and agreed that whoever attacked the city first could occupy Qingyang for three days.
With the urine nature of the Ma Jiajun, occupying it for three days is undoubtedly a trick of not sealing the knife for three days.
Not to mention, after Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui announced to the troops the order that the city could be broken without sealing the knife for three days, the extremely bloodthirsty Ma Jiajun shouted one after another, and their morale "swished" to the sky.
After handing over the battle command to Ma Yuanhai, Ma Bufang, who had always believed that a gentleman would not stand under the dangerous wall, returned to the Zhenyuan headquarters with his guards.
Before leaving, Ma Hongkui sarcastically mocked him for escaping, but Ma Bufang didn't care at all, what others said would not be missing, everything was false to him, and only saving his life was true.
At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th, the Ma Jiajun relied on the strength of the crowd, regardless of the master and slave, and launched a strong attack on Qingyang City from all sides. First of all, the infantry, composed of local security forces, carried ladders and attacked the city walls.
Chen Bojun and Li Yunlong looked at the siege troops of the Ma Jiajun army swarming from all directions, and they couldn't help but be a little frightened, seeing that the situation was gradually becoming critical, they couldn't care about leaving reserves, so they pushed all their troops up the city wall, and ordered all the fire points to fight fiercely without saving ammunition.
With the orders of the two division commanders, the Red officers and soldiers condescended, constantly shooting and throwing grenades at the dense enemy soldiers under the city, especially the heavy machine gunners constantly shaking their guns, scattering joy to harvest the enemy's lives.
Even though the casualties were very heavy, the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun still rushed forward without fear of death, and profoundly demonstrated to the Red officers and soldiers on the city wall what it means to follow one another.
The officers and soldiers of the Red Army are also well-informed, over the years the Central Army, the Jiangxi Army, the Hunan Army, the Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Northeast Army have all been encountered, but this time they are still extremely shocked, the bravery of the Ma Jiajun is simply inhuman, even in the face of the Red Army's blazing machine gun muzzle, they still have no fear to rush up, and they actually broke into the city and put a cloud ladder on the city wall.
After setting up the ladder, the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun immediately climbed up the ladder, and the Red Army soldiers kept poking their heads out and throwing grenades downward, without aiming or throwing hard, and throwing them under the city wall could kill a piece of the Ma Jiajun.
However, there were too many enemies, and they were afraid to attack the city with the tactics of crowds, and after the distance was shortened, the machine gunners who served as cover in the back immediately brought a large number of casualties to the Red Army soldiers on the city wall, so that the soldiers did not dare to show their heads easily, and if they were not careful, they would be swept by the enemy's machine guns.
Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more critical, Li Yunqiang, who was guarding the west gate, immediately ordered the elites of the blocking company to dispatch to deal with the enemy's machine gunners and defeat this big threat.
Soon the siege troops had no fire cover, and our soldiers no longer had to worry about the enemy's machine gun strafing, and they poked their heads out one after another to shoot and drop bombs, and immediately killed and wounded a large number of officers and soldiers of the Ma Jiajun.
Seeing that the ant-attached siege failed, Ma Yuanhai ordered the troops to withdraw from the formation, and then pushed out the eighteen mountain cannons that Ma Bufang had been reluctant to use, and notified the artillery battalion to open up the city wall with artillery, determined to open the way with mountain artillery and deal a fatal blow to the Red Army.
Ma Bufang's troops originally only had mortars and no mountain artillery, but Chang Kaishen had to give Ma Bufang some good things in order to make Ma Jiajun send troops to Qingyang, and these eighteen mountain cannons were blackmailed by Ma Bufang with great difficulty.
This time, the main force of Qingma poured out to attack Qingyang, which is related to whether Ma Bufang can become a veritable king of the northwest in the future, and he attaches great importance to this Qingyang offensive and defensive battle, so he brought the eighteen mountain cannons at the bottom of the box.
After firing a few shells, the Qingma artillery manipulated the cannon to correct Zhu Yuan, followed by a round of rumbling shelling, which immediately blew up more than a dozen unsuspecting Red Army soldiers on the city wall.
Li Yunqiang was almost hit by a cannonball, but he was thrown to the ground by his own guards and finally survived. But when he stood up, he saw that the guard who threw himself on him had been sacrificed, his lower body had been cut off, and his intestines had flowed to the ground.
Li Yunqiang was extremely sad and indignant, and tears fell from his big eyes, but in his grief, he still did not forget his mission, commanded the surviving soldiers to retreat to the second city wall, and then called the division headquarters to ask for artillery support.
Li Yunlong found through the telescope that the south gate guarded by his younger brother Li Yunqiang was crumbling, and he was very worried, but fortunately he received a call for help from his younger brother, so he put half of his heart down.
However, the south gate looked very dangerous, and it could be breached at any time, Li Yunlong couldn't hide it, and the enemy's artillery position had also been exposed, so he immediately made a decision and ordered the artillery battalion of the 1st Division to immediately remove its camouflage and resolutely destroy the enemy's mountain artillery.
The commander of the artillery battalion of the first division is nicknamed Sun Xiucai, and he looks like a nerd, but he is the cousin of Sun Youdao, the boss of the artillery of the Young Column, and his ability to handle artillery is not inferior even compared with his cousin Sun Youdao.
Seeing that Qingma's mountain artillery was raging and wreaking havoc, and our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Sun Xiucai, who was hiding in the artillery position, was already hungry and thirsty.
Before the start of the war, in order to knock out the artillery of the Ma Jiajun, Li Yunlong asked the artillery battalion that if the enemy did not move, I would not move, which meant that after the Ma Jiajun dispatched the artillery unit, the artillery of the artillery battalion could be pushed onto the battlefield and specially used to defeat the enemy's artillery. Now that the enemy has finally dispatched artillery, Sun Xiucai's artillery battalion no longer needs to wait, showing its cold fangs.
Ma Jiajun believed that the Red Army was all mud legs, and even if there was artillery, it was only mortars with a short firing range, and it was impossible to have mountain artillery, so their artillery positions were arranged extremely obviously, and there was no intention of concealing them at all, that is, they looked like bullying the Red Army without mountain artillery.
After Sun Xiucai received the division commander's order to open artillery, he did not need to visually inspect the standard at all, and manipulated a mountain cannon to hit an enemy cannon by his hand, and blasted the enemy's artillery and artillery into the sky.
Li Yunqiang seized this opportunity to lead the Red Army soldiers to take the lead with submachine guns, and bravely rushed towards the soldiers of the Ma family army who had climbed the city wall.
Under the leadership of the grief-stricken Li Yunqiang, a group of soldiers launched a counter-charge against the dense soldiers of the Ma family army with the fanatical momentum of avenging the blood and hatred of the sacrificed comrades, and soon drove the Ma family army off the city wall.
After the artillery battalion took out the enemy's mountain artillery position, it continued to exert its might, with 20 mountain artillery pieces and more than 60 mortars bursting out in a series of fires, specifically attacking the follow-up troops of the Ma Jiajun, causing the Ma Jiajun's originally extremely tight offensive formation to be cut in two, and completely became a fixed target of our army, and was wantonly harvested by our artillery and machine guns.
Ma Yuanhai saw that Qingyang was about to break the city, but unexpectedly, the artillery unit of the Red Army gave him a big "surprise" again, and actually dispatched the mountain artillery that he thought the Red Army would never have, and tore the mountain artillery position of Qingma to pieces.
Without the cover of artillery fire, how could the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun resist the artillery fire and machine guns of the Red Army with their human bodies! Ma Yuanhai saw that it was not a play, and immediately Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the soldiers of the Ma family army suddenly retreated like a tide as if they had been amnestied.