Chapter 61: The Battle of Guangyuan
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At the end of the battle of Dingbian, Qingchuan's national defense army ran all the way and finally arrived in Guangyuan, but the Qingchuan national defense army that could retreat to Guangyuan was only about 1,000 people, and the strength of the national defense army in Guangyuan was the same as that of Qingchuan, which was 20,000 people, but the equipment was much stronger than Qingchuan, and there were ten tanks and a small number of mortars.
As early as the retreat of Qingchuan's Wehrmacht, a telegram was sent to Guangyuan's Wehrmacht, so Guangyuan's 20,000 Wehrmacht was ready, and 5,000 troops were specially sent to meet the retreating Qingchuan Wehrmacht.
The reinforcements from Hanzhong finally entered Sichuan, but Ma Anliang's army had already arrived near Guangyuan, so the reinforcements were still in a desperate hurry, and Jiang Fangzhen asked Guangyuan's national defense army to hold out for half a day, and the reinforcements would arrive after half a day.
As soon as Qingchuan's Wehrmacht entered the Wehrmacht camp in Guangyuan, they received the news that Ma Jiajun had arrived near Guangyuan, which made Qingchuan's Wehrmacht covered in a cold sweat, and they quickly went to rest, after all, it was no wonder that they were not tired after traveling for so long, and the rest depended on Guangyuan's comrades.
Ma Anliang saw that Qingchuan's national defense army had entered Guangyuan and had no regrets, he knew that Guangyuan's national defense army was only 20,000 troops, he was only worried that it would be as difficult as Qingchuan's national defense army, and when the other national defense forces arrived, it would be troublesome, and the firepower of the national defense force was too fierce for him to stand it.
After resting for more than an hour, Ma Anliang ordered the army to start attacking the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht was also waiting nervously, 100,000 troops attacked them and there were cavalry, which made the Wehrmacht also very difficult, but thinking that the Wehrmacht in Qingchuan could support the attack of more than 100,000 people for a day, then they would definitely be able to resist.
In view of the superior firepower of the Wehrmacht, Ma Anliang did not rush to send all the soldiers at first, he asked the artillery to constantly shell the positions of the Wehrmacht, and then let the soldiers take advantage of the artillery fire to rush up to attack the defensive line.
The sound of "boom" and "boom" artillery rang out continuously, and the shells fell one after another on the positions of the Wehrmacht, and some Wehrmacht soldiers were wounded by the explosion and the soldiers behind them were replaced.
The artillery of the Wehrmacht determined the position of the artillery of the Majiajun when the cannon of the Majiajun sounded, and then the artillery of the Wehrmacht opened in unison, and the mortars began to exert its power, and their shells fell one after another on the artillery positions of the Majiajun, and many of the artillery of the Majiajun were killed or scratched by shrapnel, and some of the cannons were hit and broke out with a shocking sound, and then a fire ignited. When Ma Anliang saw this, he immediately ordered the artillery to move their positions, but because they were using old-fashioned cannons, which were very heavy and difficult to move, many of them were exploded by Wehrmacht shells before they could be removed, and only dozens of mobile cannons supported by the Japanese were retained.
After the transfer, Ma Anliang immediately asked the remaining artillery to shoot back at the Wehrmacht's artillery, but unfortunately the Wehrmacht's artillery was very mobile, so the transfer was very fast, and Ma Anliang and they could only waste shells.
After knocking out some of the Ma Jiajun's artillery fire, the pressure of the Wehrmacht in the trenches plummeted, and they put more energy on the Ma Jiajun who rushed forward, and the machine gunners were even more crazy to sweep at the Ma Jiajun, the machine gunners were knocked down, and the machine gunners who were prepared behind made up for it, and the Ma Jiajun continued to fall, and the blood and stumps and legs were piled up on the ground.
After shelling the artillery of the Ma Jiajun, the Wehrmacht artillery began to shell the cavalry that had not attacked in the rear, and only after shelling the cavalry a few times, the cavalry retreated.
Seeing that the firepower was more fierce than that of the Qingchuan Defense Army, Ma Anliang began to order a retreat, and he lost more than 10,000 people in the first round, and the losses of the National Defense Force were very small, which made Ma Anliang very angry.
After just resting for more than ten minutes, Ma Anliang carried out a harassment war under his subordinates, attacking the Wehrmacht in batches so that they could not rest and dragged them down.
The second, third, and fourth attacks on the Wehrmacht were uninterrupted, and the Wehrmacht was indeed fatigued from successive attacks, and when Ma Anliang saw it, he thought it was the best time to attack, so he ordered all the cavalry to attack the Wehrmacht.
20,000 cavalry rushed towards the Wehrmacht's position, and the weary Wehrmacht saw the cavalry attack and tried desperately to block it, but their tired bodies made it impossible for them to block the highly mobile cavalry. Just when Ma Anliang thought that his cavalry was about to win, ten iron bumps rushed out of the camp of the Wehrmacht, and these iron bumps were tanks, and ten tanks kept rushing towards the cavalry.
The tanks went on a rampage towards the cavalry, crushed horses and the corpses of soldiers everywhere they passed, and ten tanks bravely challenged the 20,000 cavalry.
The cavalry in front looked at these tanks and were stunned, but they were all killed by the tank's machine gunners, and the cavalry behind saw it and ran to both sides, away from the tanks, but the tanks were much faster than the horses, and many of the cavalry were killed.
A large number of horsemen retreated to get away from these terrible things, but they soon saw that this thing spewed out cannonballs one after another, and then fell on the dense cavalry, and groups of cavalry were killed and wounded, and some of the surviving horses galloped in all directions after losing the control of their masters, and the battlefield was in chaos.
Some cavalrymen who grew up on horseback bravely attacked the tanks, I have to say that their marksmanship was good, several machine gunners were knocked down, and even two tanks turned around because the machine gunners were killed, but the marksmanship was very rare, the cavalry was still constantly slaughtered, and those tired Wehrmacht troops began to slowly follow behind the tanks to attack the cavalry.
Ma Liang looked at those tanks and gave the order to retreat unwillingly, this time the cavalry sneak attack was beyond his expectations, and he lost more than 5,000 cavalry, he didn't think that the rumors that the Wehrmacht had a terrifying iron box were true, and he really shouldn't be arrogant.
Less than thirteen thousand Wehrmacht troops rested in the camp very tired, so tired that the soldiers fell asleep directly at their posts.
Ma Anliang watched his army constantly urging to prepare for the next attack, he didn't believe that the iron box of the Wehrmacht had no shortcomings, so he wanted to attack again to find out the shortcomings.
Just when Ma Anliang was about to attack again, the reinforcements from Hanzhong finally arrived near Guangyuan, and the reinforcements went straight to the battlefield without stopping for a moment, but ran behind Ma Jiajun.
Ma Jiajun attacked the Wehrmacht's positions again, this time in an all-out attack, because Ma Anliang believed that the tanks were always limited, and dragged the tanks with cavalry while the infantry attacked the weary Wehrmacht again.
When Ma Jiajun attacked the Wehrmacht again, the effect was very significant, some of the Ma Jiajun had already made a gap, and the Wehrmacht was almost unable to hold on, Ma Anliang was a little comforted when he saw this, but he was destroyed by the Wehrmacht reinforcements behind him before he was happy.
More than 50,000 soldiers and more than 100 tanks of the Wehrmacht frantically plunged into Majiajun's army, and Guangyuan's Wehrmacht was greatly excited after seeing the reinforcements, and they also fought hard with Majiajun.
Ma Anliang was also shocked when he saw the Wehrmacht reinforcements behind him, why did the Wehrmacht run behind him, could it be a damn ambush, so what he was thinking about now was how to break the situation.
The Ma Jiajun who was flanked was not the opponent of the Wehrmacht at all, plus those tanks, the Majia Army was chased and beaten by the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht who attacked Guangyuan again and again was very tired, so a large number of Ma Jiajun could not hold on to surrender. And Ma Anliang continued to take his subordinates to Qingchuan, those cavalry were afraid when they saw the tanks, they also fled with Ma Anliang, and finally because the tank troops of the Wehrmacht did not pursue the fleeing Ma Jiajun because of the lack of fuel for a long journey, so Ma Anliang fled back to Gansu with less than 10,000 cavalry.
The Ma Jiajun on the battlefield were either captured or killed, and although reinforcements arrived, Guangyuan's Wehrmacht still suffered heavy losses in the previous and just battle, leaving less than 8,000 troops.
Guangyuan was saved, and Qingchuan's Wehrmacht mission was completed, so Qin Yu did not blame Jiang Fangzhen, Qingchuan's officers were restored to their original ranks, and the soldiers who died were all transported back and buried in the martyrs' cemetery, and their names were engraved on the monument.
After this battle, the Ma family army in the northwest was basically annihilated except for Ma Qi's army, and it would not be long before the Ma family army in the northwest could be solved, and Qin Yu ordered the remaining national defense forces to march to the northwest immediately after resting.