On the afternoon of March 20, Li Yunlong led the 1st Division of the Young Column to advance lightly and advance to Qingyang. At seven o'clock in the evening www.biquge.info Zhang Cheng and the political commissar briefly explained the four brigades left behind in the base area, and led the main force of the column to cross the Yellow River and rush to the southwest.

Since the road was all the territory of our army, and the air force of the Kuomintang did not have to worry about marching at night, the young column carried torches with great fanfare and hurried all the way.

In the dark night, a large army of more than 10,000 people marched with torches, and when looking down from the air, it seems that you can see a fire dragon winding towards the southwest, which is called spectacular.

Zhang Cheng was anxious at this time, worried that the Red Thirteenth Division would not know if it would be able to block the attack of the Ma Jiajun, and held Qingyang for more than seven days.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, after the troops arrived at Laojun Town, they buried the pot and cooked rice, and Zhang Cheng ordered the communications office to send a telegram to the Red 13th Division to inquire about the battle situation in Qingyang.

After contact, Chen Bojun, commander of the 13th Red Division, reported to Zhang Cheng: After investigation, Ma Bufang established a headquarters in Zhenyuan County, and his main force 100 Divisions and Qingma Cavalry under the leadership of Ma Yuanhai, the commander-in-chief of the infantry cavalry, had a total strength of about 50,000 troops to attack Qingyang.

Our 13th Division was determined to learn from Commander Zhang the tactics of attacking horse bandits on the grassland, set up a machine gun array on the city wall, held the city, and took advantage of the high walls of Qingyang City to kill and wound the enemy cavalry on a large scale, and after a large number of enemy cavalry were killed, the 38th Regiment ambushed in the valley outside the city launched a counterattack, and the internal and external attacks crushed the Ma Jiajun in one fell swoop.

When Zhang Cheng heard the first half of the telegram, he praised the tactics of the 13th Division, but after listening to the second half, he was suddenly taken aback and found that the division commander Chen Bojun was still the same as the Western Route Army in history, and he despised the Ma Jiajun Army too much.

Qingyang garrison 5,000, and Ma Jiajun has 50,000, using machine gun arrays to block the cavalry of Ma Jiajun's tactics is the opposite, but Chen Bojun Division Commander seems to have no experience in fighting with cavalry, and he actually dared to launch a counterattack against Ma Jiajun under the disparity in strength, in a vain attempt to defeat Ma Jiajun with the strength of one division, which is really too light for the enemy.

Division Commander Chen may not understand how strong the cavalry mobility is, thinking that the infantry of the Song army in history is invincible, but when facing Hu Cai, every time he wins first and then loses, because the Hu people have no way to attack the fortifications, they suffer heavy losses every time they attack the city of the Song Dynasty, but when the Song Dynasty army pursues out, Hu Cai teaches the Song army how to be a man in minutes.

Division Commander Chen's combat deployment is exactly the same as that of the Song army in history, although the modern combat method has entered the age of firearms, but the infantry is infantry, how can it fight with the four-legged cavalry in the field, if you rashly launch a counterattack, it will only plunge the 13th Division into the enemy's iron hooves, which is tantamount to sending the death move.

Moreover, the Qingma troops are based on blood relatives and have a particularly strong will to fight, and the posture of fighting without dying is completely under the Red Army, even if the 13th Division can take advantage of the chaos to kill and injure a large number of enemies at the beginning, when the Ma family army recovers, it is very likely to be trampled to pieces by the enemy's horse hooves.

Frightened, Zhang Cheng had no time to take into account Chen Bojun's identity as his old chief, and immediately ordered Division Commander Chen to withdraw the 38th Regiment to the city to hold on, and strictly follow the orders of the central government to stand for reinforcements, and repeatedly assured him that as long as he held on for seven days, Shaozong would definitely come in time to reinforce Qingyang.

In addition, Zhang Cheng told Commander Chen about Ma Jiajun's habitual tactics, Ma Jiajun's tactics were extremely simple and rude, one was to launch a cavalry group charge with crowd tactics to deter the other party;

The second is to use a part of the force to feign defeat and retreat to lure the opponent into pursuit, and then use the cavalry's mobility ability to detour from the flanks and fight back.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng solemnly warned Division Commander Chen that no matter how heavy the enemy's casualties were, he was not allowed to rush out of the city. In addition, you can also lay more mines on the enemy's attack route, so that the enemy has some scruples and cannot rest assured that the city will be attacked, so as to delay the enemy's attack and buy time for the help of the young column.

After Chen Bojun received Zhang Cheng's telegram, he felt a little uncomfortable, Zhang Cheng, who had always respected himself as the old chief, actually did not care about his own face at all, and forced himself to stick to and wait for help. However, out of the soldier's nature of obeying orders, Chen Bojun still strictly implemented Zhang Cheng's order, withdrew the 38th regiment to the city, and was determined to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Zhang Cheng remembered that our army had never fought with Ma Jiajun, and the reason why he was familiar with the strength of Ma Jiajun was also because of the crossing, so he issued an order to Li Yunlong, asking his troops not to attack rashly after arriving in Qingyang, and they must wait for the main force of the column to arrive before they can act.

At nine o'clock in the morning of March 21, Ma Yuanhai led the green horse cavalry to besiege Qingyang.

Seeing that the city was in sight, Ma Yuanhai did not wait for the infantry behind to arrive, and he didn't bother to test again, and after bombarding the Qingyang city wall with more than ten cannons, he immediately ordered 3,000 cavalry to storm the city gate and attack the city.

Seeing that the city of Qingyang was in sight, 3,000 cavalry immediately rode their horses, raised their sabers, and roared all the way to the city gate to launch a group charge.

People and horses in the high-speed gallop suddenly the obstacle was overturned, it is tantamount to a supercar accident in later generations, the casualties are really not too tragic, some cavalry was overturned and fell from the sky, the head hit the ground, the head was broken on the spot, even if some soldiers did not fall to death, they were trampled to death by the later cavalry.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of cavalry were killed by the tripwire and barbed wire arranged by our army, but a large number of dead men and horses covered the tripwire and barbed wire, and the Ma family army charging in the back row was extremely bloodthirsty, ignoring the dead and wounded at all, but became more crazy under the stimulation of blood, trampled over the corpses of comrades and horses, and continued to rush towards the city gate.

"Boom!"

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry had rushed to less than 150 meters of the city gate, but the ground mines laid by the 13th Division took effect, and they were caught off guard, and the cavalry who stepped on the mines were blown up on their backs, killing and wounding a wolf.

Ma Yuanhai was furious when he saw that the Red Army had inflicted heavy casualties on nearly 1,000 cavalry by using conspiracy and trickery, and immediately ordered a cavalry regiment to reinforce it, and continued to charge on the avenue of corpses and bones that the cavalry in front of him had walked out.

The tripping rope and barbed wire fence were covered with the corpses of people and horses, and the mine array was also waded out by a large number of dead comrades, the city gate was in sight, Ma Yuanhai saw that he was about to take down the red bandit city Qingyang in one fell swoop in just one day, and he was excited to send a telegram to Sima Bufang on the top to report to him.

However, at this time, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns stretched out from the city wall, and they didn't need to aim at all, and they shook and shot at the swarming Ma Jiajun, and the Ma Jiajun was blinded at once.

Then hundreds of soldiers of our army condescended, raised their hands, and suddenly countless grenades fell from the sky, immediately blowing up the crowded cavalry of the Ma family army into the sky.

Fortunately, the cavalry had outstanding mobility ability, and the cavalry team behind saw that the troops in front were killed and wounded, and knew that rushing forward was only to send them to death, so they hurriedly turned their horses' heads, turned around from the left and right sides, and fled back to their own positions.

Seeing that more than 2,000 cavalry under the city died outside the city gate, and the Red Army soldiers who walked out of the city gate did not hurry to pull the remaining live horses into the city, Ma Yuanhai, who wanted to cry without tears, put down the phone to report the victory in frustration, and his heart was cold.