Chapter 60: The Battle of Dingbian

Just when Ma Anliang attacked Qingchuan in a big way, Ma Fuxiang finally knew that the cavalry he took to test the Wehrmacht was annihilated, and the cavalry who fled back told him about the situation of the Wehrmacht.

Ma Fuxiang only had less than 20,000 cavalry, thinking that the temptation of the vanguard cavalry was likely to have made the Wehrmacht have been on guard against the cavalry, and it was probably impossible to let the cavalry attack alone again, so he had to let the cavalry slow down and advance with the infantry.

Duan Qirui, who was in Dingbian, knew that Ma Fuxiang's army was coming soon after the test of the Northwest Cavalry, so he always told the soldiers not to relax and be ready to fight at any time.

Ma Fuxiang arrived at Dingbian after marching for two hours, and when he arrived at Dingbian, he took the army directly to attack the Wehrmacht without resting, and all the troops went to the field together, and the Wehrmacht in Dingbian was only less than 50,000 in the information he obtained, so he decided to carry out a large-scale concentrated charge to kill the Wehrmacht.

The Wehrmacht machine gunners in the trenches opened full fire on their heavy machine guns and kept firing at the Ma Jiajun soldiers, and other Wehrmacht soldiers were also holding guns and constantly firing at the enemy. The cavalry of the Ma Jiajun took advantage of the attack of the infantry to attack the Wehrmacht from the left and right flanks, and the artillery of the Ma Jiajun also began to shell to help their cavalry open the gap and enter.

The Wehrmacht on both flanks suddenly felt that their pressure had soared, and soon they couldn't bear it, and when they saw that it was the Northwest Cavalry who attacked and immediately contacted their commanders to ask for support, Duan Qirui immediately sent a tank force to deal with the cavalry.

The Northwest Cavalry, who was attacking frantically, suddenly saw the Wehrmacht soldiers in front of them scattering quickly on both sides, leaving a road in the middle that could allow two carriages to run in parallel, and there was a loud rumbling sound behind them, some soldiers stopped and looked at the middle road, and many cavalry still quickly rushed towards the middle road, and the Wehrmacht soldiers on both sides kept blocking them.

The Northwest cavalry who were rushing forward soon saw the iron boxes moving towards them quickly, they didn't know what this was, some of the Northwest cavalry were stunned, and some of them rushed towards the iron box after being curious, and the bullets hit the iron box with a banging sound and a little spark, which made those cavalry very surprised what these iron boxes were used for.

When those northwest cavalry rushed halfway, suddenly a piece of iron sheet was lifted on the iron box, two Wehrmacht soldiers got out of it, and shot at themselves with a machine gun in their hands, "suddenly" and "suddenly" two tongues of fire swept around, the northwest cavalry was constantly knocked down in panic, the horses were frightened and ran around, the pipe in front of the iron box spewed out shells one after another, and then fell into the Ma Jiajun in front of it and exploded, and many Ma Jiajun soldiers were blown to pieces.

The Northwest Cavalry behind wanted to stop and run back, but due to inertia, they did not rush to the front, and as a result, the front was knocked away, and the tanks drove directly towards the Northwest Cavalry no matter how much, and the Wehrmacht troops on both sides also began to move closer to the center. The northwest cavalry was attacked by the Wehrmacht on three sides, Ma Fuxiang saw it and immediately ordered the nearby Ma Jiajun to support the cavalry, and the nearby Ma Jiajun began to rush towards the central cavalry desperately, but soon they were dragged by the Wehrmacht, which made Ma Fuxiang very anxious.

Ma Fuxiang was shocked when he saw the iron box rampage on the battlefield now, he didn't believe it when he heard that the Wehrmacht had this kind of weapon, but now he finally saw it, no wonder the Wehrmacht would defeat the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army, it turned out that there was this murder weapon.

The Ma Jiajun in the middle line also fell in pieces under the intensive strafing of the Wehrmacht's machine guns, and some of the Ma Jiajun began to be afraid, and some were even retreating, and Ma Fuxiang, who saw this, now has only one thought: retreat quickly, otherwise there will be nothing.

Just when he ordered to retreat, the cavalry in the northwest had been almost annihilated by the Wehrmacht, only a small part escaped, and soon the tank troops combined with the Wehrmacht infantry began to attack the infantry of the Ma Jiajun, and the Ma Jiajun frantically wanted to stay away from the tanks every time the tank troops went, but they couldn't outrun the tanks, and in the end, many of them were shot to death by the tank's machine gunners, and some were crushed to death by the tanks.

After Ma Fuxiang gave the order to retreat, he began to prepare to leave, and his group of officers and soldiers retreated, and he was chased for five kilometers along the way before escaping the pursuit of the Wehrmacht.

This time, Ma Fuxiang's Ningxia army of 100,000 people only had less than 50,000 left, what a tragic word, Ma Fuxiang scolded himself along the way for really taking the wrong medicine and being deceived by the Japanese; The Wehrmacht also lost about 20,000 troops, and although it was victorious, the cost was also very large.

Ma Fuxiang now feels like returning to Ningxia to stay away from Dingbian, after this battle, he no longer has an advantage in troops, and the vitality of the Wehrmacht is very strong, and the iron box that can spray ammunition, he is not the opponent of the Wehrmacht at all.

The Wehrmacht's tanks stopped pursuing the Ma family army due to lack of fuel, while Duan Qirui was directing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, which was full of corpses, both human and horse.

A few hours later, the tank was fully fueled, the battlefield was basically cleared, and the soldiers were also rested, Duan Qirui directly ordered the whole army to go out to pursue the fleeing Ma Jiajun.

Although several hours have passed, Ma Jiajun has not returned to Ningxia after several hours of exhaustion because he was already very tired during the big war and kept running away, and his speed was very slow, and he had not returned to Ningxia after several hours. The officer of Ma Jiajun in No. 1 Middle School couldn't stand it anymore and asked Ma Fuxiang to stop and rest, and Ma Fuxiang himself stopped when he couldn't stand it, and rested for an hour before continuing to flee to Ningxia.

Duan Qirui first asked the tank troops to pursue and intercept the Ma Jiajun, and then asked the soldiers behind to destroy the Ma Jiajun, and the tank troops continued to chase in the direction of the Ma Jiajun along the way, and the lone Ma Jiajun was occasionally seen on the road.

After running wildly for an hour, the tank troops finally caught up with Ma Fuxiang's Ma Jiajun on the border between Ningxia and Shaanxi, and as soon as the tank troops saw Ma Jiajun, they began to attack them, and as soon as Ma Jiajun saw the tank troops catching up, they were in chaos, and some of them couldn't even run and were killed by the machine gunners on the tanks, and the tank troops formed a semicircle to surround the Ma Jiajun who were running around.

Not all the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun are in chaos, and more than half of the soldiers are not in chaos, those who are in chaos are basically new recruits, while the veterans are more calm, and some of the machine gunners with good marksmanship are aimed at fast-moving tanks, and occasionally they will also hit the machine gunners of the Chinese Defense Army.

Ma Fuxiang was now protected by a group of officers and guards, and they quickly wanted to rush forward, and they could rest assured if they returned to Ningxia, so they ran forward regardless of the life or death of the soldiers.

The tank troops are driving forward at a rapid pace, and a large number of Ma Jiajun will be killed everywhere they go, although some powerful sharpshooters knocked down some of the soldiers on the tank, but only a few of them were knocked down, so those Ma Jiajun who ran slowly basically surrendered in groups, and some even went crazy and shot everywhere to kill their comrades.

After waiting for more than an hour for the infantry of the Wehrmacht to arrive at the scene, the tank troops were still constantly pursuing the fleeing Ma Jiajun, and some were continuing to pursue the Ma Jiajun who fled to Ningxia. In the end, they returned for fear of insufficient fuel for the tank, which made Ma Fuxiang and others flee, but the army they fled back to Ningxia was less than 10,000, and the 100,000 army was gone in less than five days, which was a huge blow.

The battle ended in three days, the Wehrmacht won a complete victory, one of the three main forces of the Northwest Army had been resolved, and the first step in resolving the Northwest Army had been completed.