Chapter 60, The City Breaks
Seeing that the iron cavalry of the Ma Jiajun held high the saber and attacked the armored cavalry battalion in front and back, it was like a thunderbolt, like a fierce tiger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The Ma Jiajun, who rushed over with their heads, entered more than 200 meters, and all of them shouted "Allah! Again, urging the horse to accelerate.
Xia Xinsheng still stood upright on the roof of the car, looking around indifferently, as if he was watching a silent movie. The cavalry that accompanied the armored car was still inevitably in some commotion, and such psychological fluctuations in the encirclement could not be avoided. But definitely not the emotions that should appear. Under such a battle formation, the competition is who is more ruthless and who is more desperate. Only those who are ruthless enough to be ruthless to the enemy and to themselves are enough to leave unharmed on such a battlefield.
Xia Xinsheng held on to the railing of the carriage, stabilized his body and shouted: "The brave wins when they meet on the narrow road!" ā
The people who were guarding Xia Xinsheng were all the brothers who had come all the way, so they naturally knew what Xia Xinsheng was thinking, and they followed Xia Xinsheng to raise their arms and shout. For a time, the slogan of "the brave wins" soared into the sky.
Xia Xinsheng issued another command, and under the wave of the signal flag, all the armored cars collectively downshifted, frantically urged the accelerator, and roared towards Ma Jiajun with black smoke. The tacit understanding formed under the high-intensity training came into play. With the cavalry urging the formation of the war horses, the formation of the horses changed, protecting the two wings of the car.
It was too late, but it was too fast, and the two torrents collided only a few seconds later. The shouts of killing rang out. With the roar of the strange soldiers, they blocked the Ma Jiajun who came around and did not let the opponent get close to the armored car. Mortars and thunderbolts on the car were pouring shells one after another at the front. The machine guns on the roof of the car rattled loudly.
The dense charging formation of the Ma Jiajun only lasted for a few seconds before it was shattered by the powerful firepower. The machine gunner on the roof of the car also changed one stubble after another. Xia Xinsheng stood on the car that was guarded in the middle and repeatedly urged to accelerate, the signal soldier accelerated the charge did not stop, and was beaten down by the snatcher, and immediately another person came up, and the signal soldier finished fighting, not the signal soldier continued to go up. In the end, it doesn't matter if it makes the signal flag, anyway, it is a signal to accelerate the charge from beginning to end.
The thickness of the enemy's formation was not enough, and the powerful impact of armored vehicles became more and more prominent. More than 20 armored vehicles formed a huge triangular formation, and the horses of the Ma family cavalry were racing wildly. Armored vehicles weighing several tons plowed a flesh-and-blood road directly from the middle of the Ma family's army. In just over a minute, it completely penetrated the long cavalry formation of the Ma Jiajun, and without stopping, it slammed into the Yellow River Iron Bridge like a red flag meteor catching the moon.
The Men Bingyue Division, which was following behind the armored cavalry division, ignored the Ma Jiajun who was struggling to chase behind him, and protected the reconnaissance brigade with war horses in the middle, roaring along the gap opened by Xia Xinsheng. Like a long chainsaw, the gap is widened wider and wider. The Ma Jiajun who stopped the head could no longer play the slightest blocking role.
How did the Ma Jiajun, who was chasing behind him, urge the war horse under his crotch, it was difficult to reach the tail of the Men Bingyue Division in a short period of time. Even if he has the power to fight, he has nowhere to play, so he can only stare at the tail of the Red Army with hatred and hatred, and hit the war horse under the crotch with sadistic mortality.
At this time, Lanzhou City was so big, Ma Jiajun didn't understand local governance, and blindly asked for it, so that Lanzhou City, which was in such a good location, even shrank a lot more than before. The armored cavalry division drove at full speed along the road outside the city, and in just a few minutes passed the west gate.
When Xia Xinsheng was leading the troops to fight, Zeng Zhongsheng drove to the outside of Lanzhou City with a large army, and when he climbed the heights, Xia Xinsheng and his party were attacking the enemy army that was blocking, and the Ma Jiajun behind him pursued behind Xia Xinsheng unrelentingly. In the blink of an eye, the armored car broke through the formation of the Ma Jiajun by half.
Zeng Zhongsheng was very determined, and immediately called Guo Xipeng, and asked him to quickly attack directly behind the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun with the third division as a reserve, and entangle the Ma Jiajun to the death, so as to contain the pursuers behind Xia Xinsheng, so that he could have no worries. Second, it can block the enemy's south gate and harass the cavalry attacking the city, so that the large army can attack the city with peace of mind. Third, to attract part of the attention of the defenders in the city.
After Guo Xipeng set off quickly with the third division, Zeng Zhongsheng issued another order, with Xu Shiyou's fifth division, along the south bank of the Yellow River to the big iron bridge, the time is right to rush to the Yellow River iron bridge, the only way to cross the river, if there is no opportunity, to feint on the spot, to attract the attention of the defenders, involve their defensive arrangements, and at the same time protect the northern flank for the whole army.
Finally, let the remaining troops prepare for an immediate siege and directly focus the attack on the east gate of Lanzhou City. After the 23rd Division received the order, Zeng Zhongsheng was very satisfied with the speed of deployment. He knew that the "six tactical principles" adhered to by the Eighth Army Corps would play a very important role in bringing into play the combat strength of all commanders and fighters, but he did not expect that the 23rd Division, which also had no experience in attacking provincial capital-level cities, would deploy the entire division in just 10 minutes, and all kinds of total groups would be quickly established. All the political workers almost accompanied the movement of the troops, helping the team to transport all kinds of combat materials, while panting for breath and mobilizing the soldiers around them.
The defenders in Lanzhou City barely reacted, and the artillery fire of the 23rd Division spoke one after another. First of all, mountain artillery and mortars with a slightly longer range were used to bombard the city walls to disrupt the enemy's line of sight and provide cover for the further movement of the troops. Then the heavy machine gun crew pressed the city wall and fired. Pressed the defenders on the walls to the point that they couldn't lift their heads. Finally, the heavy firepower of the Red Star Column made a brilliant appearance, and more than a dozen flying thunder cannon teams composed of ten soldiers pushed the newly built, cast flying thunder cannon forward for a section, and fired round wooden cannonballs at the city gate. Without waiting for the shell to hit the ground, it was reloaded and fired.
The performance of the newly designed flying thunder cannon has been greatly improved, first of all, it can finally be aimed and the impact point of the projectile can be calculated, although the accuracy can only be guaranteed within the range of 20 meters. However, the huge killing radius brought by the huge charge of the Flying Thunder shell is still enough. Thirdly, the frequency of cleaning the chamber of the new gun has been significantly reduced, and the chamber of the gun, which was originally cleaned every shot, can now reach as many as three.
After the shells were prefabricated, the rate of fire also reached a rate of two rounds a minute. If you count the preloaded one, the gun can fire three shells in the first minute. This is very terrifying, around the small city gate, the city wall is only about 100 meters, dozens of flying thunder cannons have passed, and there is almost no one on the frontal position.
By the time the first thunderbolt of the main attack force landed, several demolition teams had already jumped out of the zero-hour fortifications and scattered in a triangular formation to rush towards the city gate. With the last thunderbolt falling to the ground, the first line of the city wall continued to sound violent explosions, and the city wall, which had been in disrepair for many years, was no longer overwhelmed and collapsed. The most surprising thing is that the demolition team miraculously completed the task of breaking the door intact.
At this time, Lanzhou City was like a beautiful woman who had been stripped naked, and Hongguo's was honest with the Red Army. A loud charge sounded, and the siege troops rushed into the city in several directions. (To be continued.) )