"Chairman, please leave the task of defending the city to me! I will definitely block the attack of the red bandits and make Lanzhou City the Waterloo of the red bandits! Ma Xianwen saw that Ma Hongbin recognized his opinion, and hurriedly took the initiative to ask Yingdao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Very good, Brigade Commander Ma, I will entrust you with the responsibility of defending the city, and Brigade Commander Zhi Chengzhang will go and arrest the strong men in the city and distribute weapons for them to participate in the defense of the city."

Ma Hongbin saw that his subordinate brigade commander took the initiative to ask for battle, and Ma Xianwen was his wife and brother and could be fully trusted, so he entrusted him with an important task and made him the commander-in-chief of the Lanzhou garrison, responsible for defending the city.

"Yes, Chairman!" After Ma Xianwen and Zhichengzhang received the order, they took action one after another, one to strengthen the city defense and mobilize troops, and the other to make a big move to catch the strong men.

At the same time, on the main road from Xining to Lanzhou, a large army of tens of thousands of people was slowly and leisurely advancing, marching less than four or five miles in an hour.

"Report to the chairman, Ma Hongbin of Lanzhou sent an emergency telegram, saying that the red bandits have come to the city of Lanzhou and besieged the city on a large scale, and Lanzhou is in danger!"

Ma Bufang, who was originally a good swimmer, was also taken aback when he heard that Lanzhou was surrounded, and he asked anxiously: "How is it possible!" Didn't the red bandits just surround Yuzhong, why did they surround Lanzhou in a blink of an eye? What is this Ma Hongbin eating, he can't even stop the footsteps of the red bandits? ”

The correspondent replied in a hurry: "The subordinates don't know, they only know that Ma Hongbin asked us for help in a telegram, saying that 30,000 red bandits have surrounded Lanzhou, and if the chairman does not rescue again, Ma Hongbin will have to surrender the city." ”

When Ma Bufang heard Ma Hongbin's threatening words, he was relieved, and he said unhurriedly: "Hmph, if you want to threaten me, no way." Believe it or not, this Ma Hongbin definitely has the strength to hold Lanzhou for more than three days, and at this time, he wants us to speed up the pace of rescue, just hoping that we will join the battle as soon as possible, so as to consume our strength. Ignore him, we are still marching at the same pace as before. ”

"Yes!"

Just when the Qingma troops in Xining were still slowly swallowing the main road to Lanzhou, outside Lanzhou City, Zhang Cheng issued a general attack order to the whole army on Lanzhou City.

Suddenly, the 120 mountain guns of the whole army were concentrated and poured cannonballs as big as a sand bowl towards Lanzhou City, and under the cover of the mountain artillery, 200 artillery guns also advanced to a place 600 meters away from the Lanzhou city wall, and fired shells into the city.

Although the Ma Jiajun had been powerful in the northwest for decades, and all the forces that broke into the northwest were all driven out by them, their strength was based on cavalry troops, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the warlords in the hinterland.

Moreover, the northwest has always been barren, and the economic capacity of the Ma Jiajun is very weak, which also leads to the fact that their weapons cannot be updated in time, and the equipment is very backward.

The fierce and powerful artillery bombardment of the Red Army caused the Lanzhou city wall to suddenly fall into a sea of fire, and the soldiers of the Ma family army on the city wall suffered very heavy casualties, and Ma Xianwen, who boasted about Haikou before the war, was seriously injured in the first time, and only commanded the troops to get off the line of fire in less than two minutes.

At this time, looking down from the sky, the entire Lanzhou City was already filled with gunsmoke and was clouded.

The Ma Jiajun's war method in the northwest has always been to open a formation in the wilderness for cavalry duels, the soldiers defending the city have no concept of defending the city at all, and there is no way to talk about combat experience, in the fierce artillery fire of the Red Army, there are soldiers who are constantly blown off the city wall by shells, and the tragic situation is unbearable to witness.

"Boom!"

Seeing that Ma Jiajun was unable to make an effective counterattack against the Red Army at all, the Red Army immediately advanced the mortar to a place only 100 meters away from the city gate, and bombarded the city gate.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick ......"

As the city gate fell, thousands of Red Army cavalry, under the cover of mortar and heavy machine gun fire, rushed into the city gate with the sound of high and loud military trumpets.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

The Red Army soldiers who rushed to the front quickly entered Lanzhou City, and the panicked defenders did not expect the Red Army to break through the city gate so quickly, and they were quickly trampled to pieces by the iron hooves that swept over them before they could react.

Although the city gate has been breached, the Ma Jiajun in the city is not restrained, and the brave Ma Jiajun activates the bloodthirsty factor hidden in the body, brandishing a broadsword and rushing towards the cavalry of the Red Army. However, in the face of great strength, all dying struggles are in vain, only to increase the casualties.

The resistance of the Ma Jiajun did not last long, as more and more Red Army infantry also rushed into the city, the overall situation was decided, the more fierce the resistance, the faster the Ma Jiajun died, and the remaining Ma Jiajun soldiers surrendered to the Red Army more and more.

An hour and a half later, as the sound of guns in the city gradually subsided, Zhang Cheng led a group of cadres from the Shaozong into Lanzhou City, and this large city, which was one of the few in the entire northwest, fell into the control of the Red Army.

Entering the temporary headquarters in the city, Zhang Cheng and the generals sat down one by one, but Li Yunlong got up and reported to Zhang Cheng: "Commander, Lanzhou City has been completely controlled by our army, and Ma Hongbin, the puppet chairman of Gan Province, and other bandit leaders have also been captured by our army. ”

Zhang Cheng remembered that in history, Ma Hongbin actively built for the country after surrendering to the People's Liberation Army, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also became the vice governor of Gan Province, so he said to Li Yunlong: "Ma Hongbin has been operating in the northwest for many years and has a very great influence, and we must treat them well, which will play a great role in stabilizing our northwest in the future." ”

"Yes, Commander!" Li Yunlong replied loudly.

Li Yunlong sat down, and Feng Shaojie, the minister of logistics, stood up again and reported: "Commander, after our army took Lanzhou City, a total of 200 catties of gold, 3 million pieces of ocean, more than 5,000 war horses, and some grain and materials were found from the vault. ”

Feng Shaojie said and walked over and handed the seizure list in his hand to Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng glanced at it and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Okay!" The rest is nothing, these 5,000 war horses are a big gain, as long as more cavalry prisoners of the Ma Jiajun are mobilized to join our army, the cavalry units of our Red Army will be even stronger. ”

Zhang Cheng said this, everyone also knows that the northwest is the most important horse-producing area in our country, and after the Red Army enters the northwest, the cavalry units of the Red Army will definitely usher in explosive development in the future.

However, just as everyone was smiling at the rich list of seizures, a correspondent came to report that traces of Ma Bufang's troops had been found on the road from Xining to Lanzhou.

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Cheng jumped up with joy, he laughed three times and said: "There is a way in heaven that you don't go, and there is no way to break in hell!" ”