Chapter 197: The siege of the city is begging for a monthly pass

Outside Xining City, there was a burst of fire, and there were huge explosions everywhere, and the pillboxes and fortifications that Ma Jiajun hastily erected flew into the sky with a loud bang.

Angry projectiles wreaked havoc outside Xining, and the blockhouses made of blue bricks and plaster flew into the sky like tissue paper. In particular, the 203-caliber grenade collapsed with a bang after a single shot fell within 20 meters of the civil blockhouse, which could not even withstand the shock wave.

One by one, the defenders of the Ma family army shivered in the artillery holes or pillboxes, and the only thing they could do was pray to Allah to allow the shells to fall on the heads of others.

At this time, in an anti-artillery hole on the outskirts of the Ma Jiajun, more than a dozen soldiers were squatting in the corner trembling, such artillery fire may not be able to withstand even a veteran of battle, not to mention that they have never experienced it

And what about the noobs of the shelling?

A soldier moved to the side of the squad leader and shouted loudly into his ear: "Du Bantou, no, if we continue like this, even if we are not killed by artillery fire for a while, we will be killed by Chahar's soldiers, you have to find a way."

"Shut up, I'll figure it out later, now you still pray to Allah that you will survive," the squad leader named Du glared at him and shouted loudly, then squatted down and did not move.

In the outer defense line of Xining City, the depth of the three defense lines was five miles wide, and under the command of Wang Qinglong, nearly 200 artillery of the Fourth Artillery Division bombarded it for nearly an hour, and most of the barbed wire, trenches, and pillboxes were destroyed, and the remaining two or three cats and dogs were no longer enough to deal with.

Jiang Baili stood in the forward command headquarters and watched through the telescope as the bunkers, pillboxes and trenches on the periphery of Xining City were flattened by artillery fire one by one, and he couldn't help nodding secretly in his heart, and he was also surprised by the power of large-caliber howitzers.

Under the wrath of the 203-caliber howitzers, the men and animals within a radius of 50 meters, regardless of whether they were hit or not, were all killed by the shock wave in this range. Such a power can see that the surrounding generals are also secretly frightened, they think of the troops fighting with Lao Maozi in Siberia, and then compare with the troops they brought and can't help but sigh secretly, there is still no comparison, no wonder some troops are making trouble to go to Siberia, the Su Commander did not approve, it turned out that it was not that people did not let them go, but that they were not qualified.

The artillery fire raged for an hour, and when the artillery fire suddenly stopped at eight o'clock in the morning, people were surprised to find that the fortifications outside Xining had become unrecognizable. The originally dense bunker fortifications either flew into the sky or were razed to the ground, and almost all the trenches were blown up.

At this time, the soldiers of the Qinghai militia who had been covering their ears and counting their heartbeats and waiting desperately for death in the anti-artillery hole were surprised to find that the artillery fire that had been bombarding them had stopped.

At this time, a sharp whistle sounded on the position, and Squad Leader Du quickly stood up and shouted at the soldiers in the artillery hole one by one with his feet, and said sharply: "Big guys, get up quickly, go to the position, if you don't go out after a while, he will carry out military law."

Under the beating of the Du squad leader, more than a dozen soldiers were reluctant to grind out of the anti-artillery hole, and everyone was stunned outside. The trenches, which had been neatly organized, were now like fields pulled by hundreds of old oxen, and walking on them was like walking in a swamp, one high and one foot low, and from time to time one foot sank.

There are craters everywhere, the big ones are tens of meters wide, and the small ones are several meters. The potholes reminded me of what it would have been like if they had been here.

"Du Bantou, we, our fortifications are gone, what should we do?" A soldier asked, trembling.

"Fool, won't you be digging when the fortifications are gone?" squad leader Du glared fiercely at the guy who obviously didn't have enough brains.

"Oh," the soldier replied aggrievedly, and followed the group forward like an angry little daughter-in-law.

The more they walked, the more frightened they became, and almost all the dense pillboxes before the shelling were blown up, and even the few estimates that remained were useless. Along the way, they also saw some militia soldiers coming out of the anti-artillery holes, but everyone's expressions were as if they had lost their souls, and they walked on the battlefield like walking corpses.

Looking at the situation here, the squad leader surnamed Du had planned it in his heart even stronger. Led the brothers in the class to their original designated position, Squad Leader Du looked around, called all the brothers over and asked, "Brothers, do you want to live or die?"

"Of course I want to live, who is like death," some soldiers couldn't help but roll their eyes and said.

"Team leader, you say, what do you want us to do?" It's smarter.

Du Bantou looked around carefully and said, "Everyone listen to me, if there is a fight from that side in a while, the big guy can raise the muzzle of the gun, and when they come, we will surrender to them." The big guys are smart, but don't let Lianza see the signs, understand? ”

"Well, squad leader, I'll listen to you." Several soldiers looked at the squad leader and nodded vigorously.

"Yes, anyway, I didn't want to live this kind of day for a long time, so I went over there as soon as possible. I heard that the food over there is good and warm, and it is much better than ours here."

At that moment, there was a "whoosh" sound in the sky.

With a "boom", a mortar shell landed nearby, blowing up three soldiers who were setting up machine guns, and after the explosion, all three soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the Maxim machine gun was also knocked to the ground.

"He's coming," one soldier shouted in horror, pointing ahead.

There was a rumbling sound in the distance, and one after another steel beasts drove over, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointing ahead.

When the tank drove over, the militia soldiers, who had never seen a tank, completely collapsed, some of them lay on the ground motionless, and some turned around and ran back despite the reprimands of the officers around them.

"Bang bang bang" Du Bantou and the commander of their company took the money and fired three shots at the sky, and shouted loudly with a blue face: "You rabbit cubs, no one is allowed to run away, if anyone runs again, he will be killed, and I will go to the position." ”

Under the threat of the officers' pistols, the soldiers had to obediently return to the dilapidated positions and lie down, waiting for the nightmare to come.

Chahar's ground offensive finally began, and Wu Jilong's 2nd Panzer Division was still at the lead.

The city wall of Xining City is about ten miles long, and the hundreds of tanks of the Second Armored Division are like a large net that has been spread, showing that the bullying Ma Jiajun lacks anti-armor firepower, so they swaggered out a long snake formation to fully blossom.

Many of the militia soldiers collapsed under the approach of the tanks, and such invulnerable steel monsters seemed to them to be demons from hell, the punishment of Allah. As the tanks approached, more and more soldiers fled their positions, and even a few of them were shot by officers.

"Team leader, let's run too," a soldier said to squad leader Du secretly.

"Run a fart, we'll have to wait for them to come, we're in an uprising, you know? A few of you hurry up and hide with me" With the command of Squad Leader Du, more than a dozen soldiers went to a relatively hidden trench and hid.

Du Jingtao rushed to the direction of the city gate with his company, and several machine gun positions encountered on the road were easily solved by them with machine guns accompanied by tank guns.

Ren Ran took his battalion and followed Du Jingtao, and they were solved by the tank in front without even letting go of their guns a few times along the way, which made Liu Jun very unhappy, and led a platoon of soldiers to search around.

"Don't move" Suddenly a soldier's shout came from the side, and Liu Jun saw that it turned out to be several militia soldiers hiding in an abandoned trench who had been discovered.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, we surrender, no, we're a battlefield uprising," I saw a soldier who was clearly the leader say as he raised his hand.

"Sir, we can show you the way, you must be going into the city, right? We are familiar with the city, there are pillboxes there, and we know where there are machine gun fortifications. The soldier was anxious to prove his worth and hurriedly sold himself to Liu Jun.

"What's going on? A whole bunch of people are staying here? Don't have to work? At this time, Ren Ran walked over.

"Barracks, the soldiers of these famous regiments said they can show us the way, see if you can try it, after all, we will need them when we enter the city." Liu Jun walked to Ren Ran's side and whispered.

"Well, you can bring two, and send the rest to the regiment headquarters, maybe the regimental seat can be used." After thinking about it twice, Ren Ran nodded in agreement.

The periphery of Xining City was flat and suitable for the attack of armored forces, and under the fierce offensive of Wu Jilong's Second Armored Division, the three lines of defense held out for less than two hours before they completely fell into the hands of the 37th Group Army.

At this point, the periphery of Xining City had completely fallen into the hands of the 37th Group Army, and Jiang Baili, who was watching the battle outside, immediately ordered the troops to launch a full-scale attack. More than 40,000 people of the 10th, 11th, and 12th Infantry Divisions poured into Xining City.

But after entering Xining City, they found that the resistance inside Xining City was much more fierce than outside the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the 100th Cavalry Division who had been commanded by Ma Bufang personally for many years were stationed here. Although their weapons were not very advanced, their tactics of using makeshift pillboxes or taking time out of private houses to shoot cold guns caused heavy casualties to several troops entering the city.

Hearing the news of the large increase in casualties among the siege troops in the city, Jiang Baili, who was originally worried that the tanks entering the city would hurt innocent people, immediately ordered: "Send the tanks to arrest Ma Bufang to Lao Tzu"