After the order for the general attack was issued, the 11th, 12th, 13th, 1st and 4th Divisions of the Red Seventh Army launched a centripetal attack on the enemy. The regimental artillery regiments and the artillery of the divisions also concentrated their artillery fire on the enemy's concentrations. Wherever there are many enemies, they will fight wherever they are, and after defeating large groups of enemies, they will fight small groups of enemies, and completely disrupt and disperse the enemy's structure.

At this time, whether it is a green horse or a Ningma, the troops have completely herded sheep. The soldiers, on horseback and on the run, were scurrying around, and did not dare to join a battalion or a company, otherwise they would attract hordes of shells. Not to mention sticking to it on the spot.

There are fewer and fewer people around Ma Yuanhai, and he is dragged by the stragglers for a while to the east, a moment to the west, a moment to the south, and a moment to the north, his brain has become straight, and he doesn't understand why the battle is like this.

At this time, the snipers of the sniper brigade were already showing their might.

Wang Tongsheng, the leader of the sniper brigade, took Liu Bin's third sniper squadron and launched a hunting competition.

Before the Battle of Tianshui began, the sniper brigade was divided into three, and Li Buffalo's first squadron was responsible for cooperating with Li Lingfeng and Wang Laohu's actions and went to Shanxi and Luoyang; Wang Shangwu's 2nd Squadron cooperated with the 2nd Division of the Independent Division in the Tongguan operation and the 3rd Division of the Independent River Defense Operation. Only three squadrons acted with the main forces.

Now they don't need to hide themselves too much, and under the cover of the main forces of the legion, no enemy can cause damage to them. As a result, the enemy officers on horseback became their targets.

Seeing a group of cavalry escorting a tall enemy officer rushing back and forth on the battlefield, Wang Tongsheng knew that this guy was the biggest target on the battlefield, and immediately ordered the third squadron to approach the target and resolutely defeat him.

Seeing that the distance was not too far, the cavalry was rushing in the direction of the sniper brigade, Wang Tongsheng decisively ordered and began to hunt freely.

After the Battle of Fujia, Liu Bin was promoted to the leader of the 3rd Squadron due to his outstanding performance on the battlefield. His original partner Li Xiaoshuai was bluntly transferred by Wang Tong to be Liu Yimin's guard. In Wang Tongsheng's words, even killing a hundred enemy officers is not as important as protecting the safety of the regiment commander.

Liu Bin's No. 3 Sniper Squadron now has three squads, with Yi Chengfeng, Wang Xiao, and Li Aojie serving as squad leaders respectively.

All three of them are old Red Army, and they are all old Red Army soldiers who have read books. Among the three, Yi Chengfeng has the highest level of education, Wang Xiao is also from a scholarly family, only this Li Aoming is in a civilian family in Kaifeng, Henan, since he was a child, he likes to learn to hunt with people, and he used the fox skin, pheasant, and hare he caught in exchange for tuition and finished middle school. This was rumored to be a good story in Kaifeng at that time.

Liu Bin's tactics are very simple, that is, first kill the guards around the target, isolate the target, and kill with one blow.

When a group of snipers stares at a target, it is naturally very lively. After Liu Bin gave the order, he grabbed his gun and knocked off the horse of a cavalryman next to the target. As soon as he made a move, Yi Chengfeng fired three shots in a row with "bang, bang, bang" and killed three cavalrymen. Then Wang Xiao and Li Aojie naturally refused to lag behind, this is simply a moving target, for these masters, it is too pediatric. The guns were fired, and with the sound of thumping shots, the group of cavalrymen kept falling off their horses.

The snipers of the three squads were shooting as if they were doing a show shooting, scrambling to shoot to see who could shoot more accurately and faster.

Ma Yuanhai has practiced marksmanship since he was a child, and is known for his outstanding marksmanship and strong martial arts in the Qingma Army. The guards around me were shot one after another, and most of them were shot in the head, killing them with one shot, and my mind suddenly cleared up: Damn, Lao Tzu was targeted by a master!

When people reach the moment of death, their first reaction is to protect themselves. Ma Yuanhai was no exception, he immediately bowed down, pulled out his pistol easily, and raised his hand to shoot forward. After the fight, he turned the horse's head and wanted to run behind.

He was fast, Liu Bin's gun was faster, and at the moment when Ma Yuanhai turned the horse's head, Liu Bin's gun rang out again, and the bullet hit Ma Yuanhai's back, bursting with a trace of blood. Then, Wang Xiao and Li Aojie hit Ma Yuanhai's war horse successively. Ma Yuanhai, the former enemy commander-in-chief of Qingma, fell to the ground with his men and horses in this way.

In large corps operations, firepower comes first, and the role of snipers is often overshadowed by cluster artillery fire and group charges. As soon as Ma Yuanhai was shot down from his horse, the cavalry regiment of the Red Seventh Army over there was killed, followed by the guard regiment led by Zhang Haitao, Li Zongrui, and Lu Maotian.

Hu Laohu instigated his war horse and led the cavalry regiment to form an arrow, which shot through the Qingma and Ningma stragglers. The light machine guns and submachine guns on the horses strafed on both sides, and the stragglers only hated the big targets of their horses and hid on both sides.

The cavalry regiment rushed to the front of the 13th Division, Hu Laohu only circled the war horse, pulled out the battle knife, and immediately said a bright sword forest behind him, Hu Laohu shouted: "Cavalry regiment, rush up for me, kill all the horse bandits!" After shouting, he brandished his war knife, drew an arc with the whole group, and once again entered the enemy group, chasing the figure of the enemy deserter, and killing all the way like cutting melons and vegetables.

The cavalry regiment was in front and the guard regiment was behind, rushing all the way over, forcibly dividing the remnants of Qingma and Ningma into two halves. The various units of the Red Seventh Army rushed up to divide the enemy.

The rout of the Nyingma forces was the first to surrender, and the soldiers threw down their guns and knives and knelt on the ground to wait to be captured. The soldiers and officers of the Qingma Army have also completely collapsed at this time, Ma Yuanhai does not know whether he is alive or dead, and those brigade commanders and regiment commanders are also completely ignorant at this time, the troops have no longer become troops, and there is no longer the fierce and vicious appearance of killing surnames in the past, it is purely a group of lambs to be slaughtered. Seeing the Ningma soldiers surrendering on their knees, many Qingma soldiers also squatted on the ground, and those who tried to resist stubbornly would eventually die under the swords and guns.

The battle was over, and the troops began to concentrate on prisoners and clean up the battlefield. Liu Yimin ordered all troops to gather their horses and prepare them for unified use. He also ordered Hu Di to urge all troops to quickly interrogate the prisoners to see if any first-class figures from Qingma and Ningma were arrested.

By noon, the battlefield was basically cleaned up, and a total of 70,000 people from the Qingma New Second Army, the Fifth Cavalry Division, the Security Regiment and the People's Regiment were wiped out, and 23,000 people from the Ningma Seventh Division were wiped out. 23,520 people were captured, 13,000 horses were captured, and the weight of guns and ammunition was lost.

Liu Yimin asked Luo Ronghuan to immediately report to the headquarters and ordered all the prisoners to be handed over to the custody of the Fourth Independent Division, and the other troops to rest and eat.

Hu Di reported that after interrogating the prisoners, Ma Bufang was not on the battlefield, but in Gangu. The commander of the Qingma battlefield was Ma Yuanhai, who was seriously wounded and captured. Ma Hongkui was on the battlefield, but he was not found among the captives.

Liu Yimin regretted it when he heard this, if he knew that Ma Bufang was in Gangu, he should have sent a cavalry regiment and a guard regiment to Gangu to capture him. Now that Ma Hongkui is gone, if these two horses run away, maybe there will be a resurgence in the future. Ma Bufang didn't say anything, he must have fled, but he is a warlord with an army, and without an army, it is not so easy for him to make a comeback, but this Ma Hongkui must not let him escape.

Liu Yimin immediately ordered the whole army to go out and carefully search the area around the battlefield, so that Ma Hongkui could not escape.

After giving the order, Liu Yimin also picked up a gun and took Li Xiaoshuai and Huang Wenhu to the battlefield to search.

Ma Hongkui led the commander of the guard battalion and three personal guards, disguised as a civilian, crawled in a bomb crater, and several corpses were stacked on his body, wanting to wait for the Red Army to clean up the battlefield before running.

Hearing that there was not much movement outside, the guard battalion commander quietly poked his head out, looked around, and saw that the large army had passed, and only the scattered small units of the Red Army were still carefully searching, so he told Ma Hongkui that he could run away after a while.

After a long time, there was basically no sound outside, and the guard battalion commander got up, saw that there was no one around, pulled up Ma Hongkui, and several people hurriedly went to the direction of the deep ditch under Zhongliang, as long as they entered the ditch, they would be safe.

When a few people were sneaking away, they heard that the battlefield was noisy again, and when they looked around, the Red Army troops had come up again. Ma Hongkui had a mirror in his heart, this must be the red bandit who knew that he was on the battlefield and came to search for the second time.

Seeing that it was only two miles away from the ditch, and after running for a while, you could go in, and a group of red bandits came down the avenue from the direction of Zhongliang, and the road into the ditch was blocked. Ma Hongkui complained in his heart, he couldn't run anymore, so he could only pretend to be dead again. He was the first to climb to the ground and rolled into the pile of dead people.

Coming down from the direction of Zhongliang were the cadres and guard troops of the corps headquarters led by Liu Yimin.

As soon as he heard that Ma Hongkui, chairman of Ningxia Province and commander of the Seventh Division, had slipped through the net on the battlefield, the corps commander ordered all the troops to go to the battlefield to search, Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Huang Su all took out their pistols, and took the cadres and soldiers out of the corps headquarters and went to the battlefield to search.

Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing also came up with small pistols with a few members of the art troupe. As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, looking at the tragic scene, several members of the art troupe immediately vomited, and the angry Zhao Xiaoman wanted to drive them back.

After several female soldiers finished vomiting, they hurriedly followed Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing with Liu Yimin to seriously inspect the battlefield. Other units expanded the search area, and the cavalry regiment divided into several routes and pursued in all directions.

Liu Yimin demanded that each body must be turned over and confirmed to be dead.

Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing searched and searched, and walked to the place where Ma Hongkui and a few people were lying down, and saw that several people were killed, Jingjing couldn't bear it, and said "poor people" in her mouth, so she wanted to put their bodies in place.

Zhao Xiaoman grabbed Jingjing, Jingjing looked down and took a closer look, why these dead people were still shaking, and immediately raised the pistol and drank: "Stand up!" ”

At this moment, Liu Yimin and the soldiers were all alarmed and surrounded them.

Ma Hongkui couldn't hide, so he stood up. Several guards also stood up and stood in front of Ma Hongkui.

When Liu Yimin saw it, he recognized Ma Hongkui, a mustache, and a fat man. smiled and said, "Chairman Ma, I've admired it for a long time!" ”

Ma Hongkui hung his head and said, "I want to see [***], Zhu De." ”

Liu Yimin smiled again: "Okay, let's go to Xi'an to see you!" ”

After the soldiers pressed Ma Hongkui down, Liu Yimin nodded to Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing: "Not bad!" The female head and the female editor-in-chief captured the provincial chairman, can they be on the headlines of the "Battle Banner Daily"! ”

Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing both had bright faces. Liu Yimin turned to Luo Ronghuan and said, "Political commissar, the troops should hurry up and eat, and we will rush back immediately." ”

At this time, at the crossing of the Yellow River on the line of Yichuan and Hancheng, the Jin Sui army was rushing to cross the Yellow River.

The 3rd Division and the Red Army of Northern Shaanxi, in accordance with the pre-war deployment and Liu Yimin's instructions, left one part at the first-line ferry crossing of Yichuan to block the sluggish enemy, and placed the main force at the first-line ferry of Longmen Town in Hancheng, determined to strike at the enemy when he crossed the river. After the enemy comes ashore, use the terrain to counterattack.

Crossing the river at Longmen was Yang Aiyuan's 34th Army. He appointed Yang Aiyuan, commander of the 34th Army, as the commander-in-chief of the attack on Shaanxi, and mobilized the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th armies, as well as Zhao Chengshou's cavalry team and Zhou Yu's artillery team, and the 100,000-strong army marched towards Shaanxi.

The Dusan Division had no mountain artillery or field artillery, the mortar bombardment of the ferry was not effective, and the covering artillery fire of the Jin Sui army was very strong, Zhang Hongtao and Liu Zhidan could not prevent the Jin Sui army from crossing the river, so they had to wait for the Jin Sui army to come ashore before counterattacking.

After the vanguard regiment of the 34th Army went ashore, it did not rush to attack and advance, but controlled the ferry, covered the follow-up troops, and crossed the Yellow River by boat.

This Yang Aiyuan is not only one of Yan Xishan's thirteen Taibao, but also one of Yan Xishan's most important people. In this attack on Shaanxi, the opinions within the Jin Sui army were not unified, and many people believed that the strength of the Jin Sui army had not been restored, and it was not suitable to make wedding clothes for others. But Yang Aiyuan strongly supported it, for no other reason, the Red Army in the hinterland of Shaanxi was empty. Besides, Yan Xishan was really moved by Chiang Kai-shek's conditions, joke, who doesn't want to be the premier! If you want to be, you have to pay the price.

Yang Aiyuan saw the old man's thoughts, and naturally advocated sending troops. In return for the favor, Yan Xishan appointed Yang Aiyuan as the commander-in-chief of the attack on Shaanxi.

In terms of qualifications, the commander-in-chief cannot fall on Yang Aiyuan, the commander of the 32nd Army Shang Zhen and the commander of the 33rd Army Xu Yongchang are older than Yang Aiyuan, however, during Yan Xishan's downfield, Yang Aiyuan's performance was unanimously recognized by the Jin Sui Army. At that time, Yan Xishan wrote a letter, explaining that Shang Zhen was in charge of politics, and Xu Yongchang and Yang Aiyuan were in charge of the military. In particular, Chiang Kai-shek gave him 900,000 yuan twice in order to buy Yang Aiyuan, and Yang Aiyuan saw that this money could not be asked, and if he asked for it, it would make the Jin Sui army fall apart, so he took out the 900,000 yuan publicly, distributed it evenly among the armies, and let the armies sign it. This smashed Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy and maintained the internal unity of the Jin Sui army. As a result, Yang Aiyuan rose to the rank of the second person in the Jin Sui army to Yan Xishan.

In this attack on Shaanxi, Yan Xishan and Yang Aiyuan agreed that if the Red Army was indeed empty, it would take Xi'an directly, and if the Red Army was strong, it would quickly retreat and stick to the Yellow River defense line, and the Jin Sui army would not suffer big losses.

After the Ma Jiajun launched an attack in Tianshui yesterday, Yan Xishan was not in a hurry to send troops. It wasn't until this morning, after the Tongguan front line started, that Yan Xishan ordered Yang Aiyuan to march quickly.

It is said that it is a rapid march, but there is no bridge on the Yellow River, so it can only be crossed by boat. Until noon, under the cover of powerful artillery fire, only a regiment passed. The Jinsui army in other directions did not make much progress, not because the Red Army had a strong interception force, but because the means of crossing the river were not good.

Yang Aiyuan is very calm, he is not in a hurry, it doesn't matter if he launches an attack later, just don't let the Red Army fight back. There are no bridges, and there are few boats, so if you encounter the main force of the red bandits, you won't be able to run. Therefore, he asked the troops crossing the river to build positions and guard the crossing, and wait for the large army to cross the river.

Yang Aiyuan's style really made Zhang Hongtao and Liu Zhidan helpless, the troops rushed up, the opposite bank was the enemy's powerful artillery fire, and the casualties were unbearable for the Dusan Third Division and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army, which were still tasked with blocking and pinning down the enemy and preventing them from occupying Xi'an. If it is disabled here, then the enemy will be unimpeded to enter Xi'an.

There was no choice but to watch the enemy cross the river and watch the enemy build fortifications. The two sides are at a stalemate on the front line of Longmen.

On the front line in northern Sichuan, [***] and Nie Rongzhen couldn't understand what the enemy wanted to do. The Central Army, Deng Xihou's 48th Army, and Pan Wenhui's South Sichuan Road Bandit Suppression Headquarters, the Third Route Army steadily advanced in unison, building positions on the Mianyang frontline, and from half past seven in the morning, they kept shelling the defensive positions of the Mianyang Red Ninth Army Corps, and also kept sending small forces to infiltrate and attack, and as soon as you hit him, he retracted. As soon as you stop, he starts to infiltrate and attack in multiple ways with small forces. Luo Binghui, He Changgong, and Guo Tianmin didn't know what to do.

According to [***]'s plan, if the enemy attacks on a large scale, he will abandon Mianyang, concentrate two legions and the Red Thirty-third Army, lure the enemy to go deeper, kill him all the way, and then take advantage of the victory to expand the results. The enemy's current situation makes [***] also very difficult, take the initiative to attack, that is to hit the stone. If you don't take the initiative to attack, the enemy will be huddled again, and it will be impossible to lure the enemy or divide the enemy, so you can only hide the main force and wait for the opportunity.

In addition to the troops assigned to the command of Pan Wenhui, the 21st Army of Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army was concentrated on the front line in eastern Sichuan, closely cooperating with Sun Zhen, Li Jiayu, Yang Sen and other units, relying on the Northeast Army, forming a thick defensive line. But they did not attack, honestly hid in the defensive positions, and only used artillery and were about to talk.

Peng Dehuai's surname is Zilie, and he discussed with Xu Xiangqian several times, wanting to attack it, tear a hole in the enemy's defense line, and annihilate a part of the enemy. However, after receiving the telegram from the headquarters informing Zhang Qun of the content of his protest, Peng Dehuai and Xu Xiangqian were not impulsive, but shrank their forces, preset their positions, and prepared to respond to the surprise attack of the 300,000 Central Army from Wuhan and Yichang at any time.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram, [***] personally wrote a press release entitled "The Great Victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Tianshui", which was handed over to the Xi'an People's Radio Station for broadcasting, and distributed to the whole country through the radio.

In the press release, it wrote: "From March 29 to 30, 1935, the Red Seventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army completely annihilated more than 90,000 people of the New Second Army of Qinghai Ma Bufang, the Fifth Cavalry Division of Ma Buqing, the main force of the Seventh Division of Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and the Qinghai Security Regiment and the People's League, and captured 23,520 people from Ma Hongkui, chairman of the political axe of Ningxia Province, and Ma Yuanhai, the former commander-in-chief of the Ma Jiajun in Qinghai.

At noon on 29 March, the Qinghai Ma Bufang clique and the Ningxia Ma Hongkui clique ignored the armistice order and did not hesitate to sabotage the peace talks and launched an attack on our Tianshui base area. Our garrison fought back and inflicted heavy losses on the invading enemy. At about five o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the enemy concentrated all his forces and artillery fire, and swooped down on Tianshui City, but was repulsed by our defenders. At seven o'clock in the morning, the main force of our Red Seventh Army arrived and launched a decisive battle with the enemy. After the commanders and fighters of the Red Army fought bravely, the enemy was compressed under Tianshui City, divided and surrounded, and the goal of total annihilation was achieved.

This Tianshui victory is another great victory of our army after the victory of Xiaoshuixikou in the Hunan Passage, the victory in the capture of Zunyi, the victory in Qingxi Town, the victory in Qingxi Town, the victory in Chengdu and the victory in Fujia. This victory once again proves that all those who dare to encircle and suppress the Red Army and dare to fight a civil war will not end well! This is true of Hu Zongnan, Ma Hongkui, Ma Yuanhai, and others such as Yan Xishan, Jiang Dingwen, Liu Xiang, Xue Yue, Deng Xihou, etc., who dare to attack the Red Army and dare to fight a civil war!

Now Yan Xishan was ready to move, obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders, concentrated 100,000 troops to attack Xi'an, and fought fiercely with the river defense troops of our workers' and peasants' Red Army on the front line of the Yellow River. Yan Xishan only saw the emptiness of Shaanxi, and forgot that his Shanxi was as empty. After the main force of our Red Army completed the Tianshui Campaign, it was about to return east under the starry night, and the future and fate of the 100,000 Jin Sui Army were worried.

The victory in Tianshui also proved once again that the heroic Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was invincible! We look forward to the great Red Army making new contributions to defeating the aggressors and striving for national liberation! ”

After writing the press release, [***] was in high spirits and ordered to inform the whole army that the Red Seventh Army had won a great victory in Tianshui, annihilating more than 90,000 enemies and capturing Ma Hongkui, chairman of Ningxia Province. The whole army was required to learn from the heroic Red Seventh Army Corps, carry forward the fearless revolutionary spirit of the Red Army, resolutely repel Chiang Kai-shek's civil war offensive, and defend the achievements of the revolution.

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the Red Seventh Army Corps, which had cleaned up the battlefield and completed the battlefield rest, held a meeting of cadres above the company level in Tianshui, Luo Ronghuan conveyed to the cadres [***] to the whole army, and Cai Zhong reported the results of the battle of Tianshui.

Finally, Liu Yimin made a passionate speech: "Comrades, in this battle of Tianshui, our Red 13th Division held on to Tianshui to lure the enemy, our only division rushed to the aid in time, our 11th Division, 12th Division, the Fourth Division and the troops directly under the corps acted quickly, and in just one day, the main force of the attacking Ma Jiajun was completely annihilated under Tianshui City. After this battle, whether it is Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army or other warlord troops, when they hear the name of our Red Seventh Army, they will definitely lose their souls and flee! Facts have proved that the Seventh Army of the Red Army is a force loyal to the party and the people, a force that can fight and dare to fight, and a force that is invincible and invincible! ”

After a pause and seeing that the cadres were all excited, Liu Yimin said again: "I know, the comrades are very tired. However, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 200,000 elites of the Central Army to storm Tongguan and fight fiercely with our second division, and Yan Xishan's 100,000 Jin Sui troops were rushing to cross the Yellow River. We can't rest. I ordered: The Red 11th Division, the Legion Artillery Regiment, the Heavy Machine Gun Regiment, the Engineer Regiment, and the Guard Regiment all rode on horseback, and the cavalry regiment took the lead and quickly returned to Xi'an. The 12th Division, the 13th Division, and the Only Division followed. The 4th Division stayed in Tianshui to deal with post-war matters. Comrades, I will lead you to defeat the Central Army, the Jin Sui Army. Do you have confidence? ”

The cadres shouted in unison, "Yes!" ”

Liu Yimin waved his hand: "The meeting is adjourned, and the troops will prepare for an hour, and they will leave on time at seven o'clock!" ”

(To be continued)