Chapter 163: Northwest chaos (12)

The First Flight Squadron reconnaissed the counties in Longxi and around Lanzhou on a large scale, and finally found the traces of bandits in the five towns, which made Wu Anping particularly happy. Not to mention the other four towns, it is particularly happy that the temporary residence of Ma Qining Navy was found between Tagazang Township in Hualong and the ancient country in Minhe.

The Ganliang army of Ma Lin and Ma Ting's Ganliang army were roughly scattered in Tawan, Zhantan, Qinqi, Heishan, Yaodian and other places between Didao, Yuzhong, Dingxi, Weiyuan; and Pei Dazun and Wu Tongren's Hesu army showed signs that it seemed that Lintan and Zhuoni in the Tibetan area of ​​Gannan were gathered. I wonder if they wanted to retreat or attack Longnan, enter Tianshui or Wudu to cause rebellion.

With this information, the plan to clear out the bandit army in the five towns can make more targeted adjustments.

After discussion by the General Staff Headquarters, Wu Anping re-developed a clearance plan.

Before dawn tomorrow, Xu Tianzuo's newly formed 13th Division must cross the Yellow River iron bridge, penetrate southwest, and rush to Guanting Town in Minhe; before dawn tomorrow, he ordered Sadus to exchange a battalion with the new soldiers, and temporarily stayed this battalion and the new soldiers to defend the city. He led the 1st regiment of the newly formed 12th Division across the Yellow River. Before dawn tomorrow, he must rushed to the Longzhi area of ​​Minhe; the 12th Division, the 13th Division cooperated with each other, and Lin'an Squadron assisted, and demanded that an attack be launched at dawn tomorrow and encirclement and annihilate the Ninghai Army.

The Dingxi, Yuzhong, Weiyuan, Longxi and Tongwei garrisons were ordered to incorporate new recruits, temporarily expand them into regiments, completely close the land traffic of the five counties, compress the blockade line inward, and find out several Ganliang troops from Ma Lin and Ma Tingyi and encircle and annihilate them.

The newly formed 14th Division, which was ordered to go north from Tianshui to enter the Tibetan area of ​​Gannan from Minxian, and drove Pei Jujun and Wu Tongren's Hesu army to the north. The garrison battalions of Hezheng, Guanghe, Kangle and Didao gathered into a regiment to go south and cooperated with the newly formed 14th Division to encircle and annihilate Hesu army. In order to prevent the troops from fleeing east, they entered Longxi to cause rebellion. The garrison battalions of Zhangxian, Wushan and Gangu temporarily gathered into a regiment to advance westward and established a blockade line from Huichuan, Weiyuan to Xijiang, Minxian.

All divisions should act day and night to overcome difficulties and strive to arrive at the pre-determined position as soon as possible, so as to eliminate the five-sided town troops as soon as possible, avenge the people, and calm down the panic in the local area.

Xu Tianzuo's troops were still far away from Lanzhou at this time and were naturally far away from the target location, but they should be able to arrive overnight. When the 13th Division set off, Wu Anping transferred 300 heavy-load trucks and hundreds of drivers to temporarily add the new division to achieve a fully mechanized marching. With such equipment, although the road conditions were not good, the soldiers could not help but be exhausted, but it was still basically reliable to get to the near the destination within the specified time.

The night of December 11 is a thrilling night in the northwest.

On the Gobi Desert and wasteland in southern Ningxia, the tanks and convoys of the 4th Division of Li Zhang and Yu Tiepeng's 3rd Division were covered with dazzling lights and were swept on the desolate and dark land. Along the still simple Lanxi Highway in Longyuan, the newly formed 13th Division led by Xu Tianzuo was like a long dragon. The light column pierced the darkness, and the engine roared, regardless of safety, and advanced westward wildly.

“Entertain, faster”

Xu Tianzuo, whose eyes were covered in blood, shouted and cursed to the convoy, like a madman.

"Cry--"

Some cars broke down, and some cars rushed out of the road. Some soldiers were injured in the impact and their heads were bleeding.

"Take me up and pull me up"

The young face was full of expectations and anxiety, and no one wanted to be behind.

At one o'clock in the second half of the night, Xu Tianzuo, who had a 20% reduction in personnel, arrived in Lanzhou. About 2,000 soldiers were unable to carry the vehicle due to vehicle problems and were thrown on the Lanxi Highway. Sadu had left Lanzhou at night and had reached the predetermined position. Although he had time to rest for a while, Xu Tianzuo knew that once he relaxed his spirit, even more irresistible fatigue would come immediately. He didn't even get out of the car, so he brought several guides and led his troops across the iron bridge and headed towards the southwest.

At 4 o'clock in the second half of the night, Xu Tianzuo placed a regiment in the horse camp, led by deputy division commander Xie Anming, and covered it between Gushan and Taga. At 5 o'clock in the second half of the night, Xu Tianzuo arrived at Guanting and Gangou area, and then turned south and west, and surrounded Taga.

At 6 o'clock, Xu Tianzuo, Sadus, and Xie Anming contacted each unit and learned that the positions of the fighter planes were only five or six miles away from the reconnaissance. Considering that the soldiers were exhausted, the three decided to launch an attack immediately and resolve the battle as soon as possible.

The sky was red, and the rumbling tanks and car engines shook the field. The journey of five or six miles was immediately reached. Several camps in Ning Navy started to make noise. The cars stopped, and the soldiers jumped down and continued to rush with the tanks. Signal flares came one after another, and the sound of rushing in the dark was like a tide. Scattered artillery bombardment began, and in the flash of artillery fire, teams of People's Liberation Army soldiers jumped forward with guns.

Ning Haijun was panicked and felt that there were enemies everywhere in the darkness, unable to distinguish between the east, south, west and north. He fired guns and cannons randomly in all directions, killing and injuring countless people. The People's Liberation Army had arranged several mortar positions and launched violent artillery bombardment at Ning Haijun. In an instant, the sky collapsed and the earth trembled, and the flames reflected half of the sky red. Countless enemy troops were blown away, blown away, and war horses neighed, whine, chaos and fear enveloped the mountains and wilderness.

Xu Tianzuo watched as the night attack began. The destruction, commotion, magnificent battle scenes, the flares of the tail flames, the dense roar of the tank engines, and the increasingly tight machine gun sounds, which made the PLA general, who was a swordsman and bandit, excited. New flames kept rising from the wilderness, spreading everywhere, burning more and more.

A temporary yurt of Ning Navy was ignited by artillery fire, burning like a cluster of bonfires, illuminating the darkness and panic around. The People's Liberation Army's mortar shells immediately bombarded here, and the oily fireballs splashed everywhere. Wherever they landed, howlings came from. The dead grass, horse materials, tents, and yurts were burning, forming a sea of ​​fire. In the sea of ​​fire, the panicked Ning Navy was running around like a headless fly, hiding everywhere, unable to avoid flames, unable to avoid guns and bullets, and fell to the ground and died one after another. No longer could see the usual ferociousness and cruelty.

"Youning Navy surrendered." Some soldiers came over happily to report.

Xu Tianzuo frowned: "This time we don't want to kill all the prisoners, and do it cleanly."

The soldier was stunned at first, then thought of something, gritted his teeth and turned around and ran away.

At the same time, some soldiers also brought a blood-faced prisoner to Sadus and reported: "Terminal Commander, this man is the cavalry battalion commander of Ning Haijun. He requested a ceasefire and surrendered. Please instruct me."

Before Sadushi spoke, the blood-stained prisoner's eyes lit up, and he pointed at him and shouted: "You are Ma Yingwu, Ma Yingwu of Dongxiang, right? I recognize you and I are also surnamed Ma in Dongxiang. Is it fast with you and the same clan as you. Let your subordinates cease the fire soon, and you will die if you are late. What are you doing? We are of the same clan."

"Bang--" With a gunshot, the prisoner fell down on his back, and his brain gushed out of his forehead.

Sadus put away his gun and slowly said in a deep voice: "The moment he escaped from Dongxiang, Ma Yingwu was already dead. I am Sadus, who is determined to take revenge on you soldiers and masters." He turned to the surprised warrior and said: "Some people are wearing human skins, but they are actually beasts. It doesn't matter to animals, but human-shaped animals are very scary. If you want to avoid harm, you have to eradicate them."

The soldiers understood and delivered this to each battalion, company, and platoon, causing bursts of shouts.

Needless to say, the outcome of Ning Haijun was over. The battle ended in more than two hours. After careful search, in Baijia Temple in Tagazang Township, soldiers from the Second Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the New Thirteenth Division found the body of the Xining garrison envoy and the commander of the Qingma Ma Qi. He was not very lucky. Although he was hiding in the house, when the shells collapsed, a beam fell on his head, almost crushed his head and neck directly into his chest, and the gods could not save him.

Xu Tianzuo spat: "It's cheaper for him." Then he ordered the material support regiment to clean up the battlefield. The other regiments immediately rested and made up for the sleepless sleep. Ma Qi's body still needs to be cleaned up. After all, this person's identity was there, and if it was buried quietly, something might happen. Furthermore, after the New Thirteenth Division rested, when the subordinates who were behind arrived, they would divide their troops into two groups and advance to Xining and Hexi Corridors. Ma Qi's body was at least enough to shock Qinghai.

The Sardhusus needed to return to Lanzhou, and then led his troops south to occupy Hezhou. So after cleaning the battlefield and burying the bodies, he said goodbye to Xu Tianzuo and led his troops to leave.

In this battle, 8,431 Ninghai Army was wiped out, and the killings were extremely tragic. After this battle, the Ninghai Army scattered in Qinghai was less than a thousand, and it was impossible to make any storms. However, it seems that there is still a gap between the total annihilation and the total annihilation. While the People's Liberation Army continued to move forward and detour westward, some people still fled the encirclement when they saw the opportunity.

This person is Ma Zhongying, deputy battalion commander of the 11th Battalion of the Ninghai Cavalry.

Ma Zhongying's father, Ma Bao, was Ma Qi's uncle brother, and the battalion commander of the 11th Cavalry Battalion. He stayed in Xining due to illness and had never come to the east. Ma Zhongying was just fifteen years old, but he was smart and courageous. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he hurriedly called his brother-in-law Ma Hushan, and his cousin Ma Yi, and informed Ma Teng, the battalion commander of the 14th Cavalry Battalion, Ma Gulibai, the squad leader Ma Qiyi, Ma Danba and other relatives and friends. While the People's Liberation Army's encirclement was not completely closed, he drilled out from the gap in Tagagongba and fled to Xining without stopping.

There is still a follow-up to Ma Zhongying's affairs, so I won't mention it here for now.

When Xu Tianzuo and Sadu attacked and destroyed the Ning Navy, the battlefield on the northern front was also revealed and reached its climax.

Li Zhang led the Fourth Division to rush at night. At dawn, he had already arrived at Zaozigou, west of Yingshui Bridge, and continued to advance eastward. He encountered Zheng Dazhang's troops in Shapotou. After half an hour of fierce fighting, the Fourth Division completely defeated this complete cavalry brigade in the southeast of the Tengger Desert. Zheng Dazhang fell off his horse due to injury and could not escape. He was surrounded by several tanks of the Fourth Division and was captured.

Li Zhang left a battalion to take care of the captives and seized supplies, and horses led the main force of the Fourth Division to advance frantically towards the Central Guard. Within half an hour, with the tank troops as the vanguard, the Fourth Division continuously broke through several defensive positions set up by the Northwest Army in Yingshui Bridge and Xiyuan, and approached the Xiguan of the Central Guard.

Song Zheyuan received a previous notice from Zheng Dazhang. Knowing that the crisis had arrived, he ordered the front-line command and the troops to evacuate the Central Guard immediately. They were already quick enough, but with their legs, they could not compare to the wheels of cars and tank tracks. They had just evacuated from the Central Guard in a hurry. In the Guanqiao area outside the North Pass, they were blocking the Second Regiment of the Fourth PLA Division that surrounded him. No matter how brave the soldiers were, they could not defeat the power of the steel machine. After hundreds of people were killed or injured, Song Zheyuan had no choice but to order the troops to return to the Central Guard and seal the city gate.

The People's Liberation Army did not do much for itself, and did not obstruct its retreat or took the opportunity to attack the city. Instead, it arranged positions outside the city in an orderly manner, completely blocked the four passes of the Central Guard, and surrounded Song Zheyuan and others in the city.

Seeing that the first goal was achieved, Li Zhang ordered all units to take a quick rest. An hour later, the Fourth Division left a main regiment to block the central defenders, and the remaining 6,000 officers and soldiers set off again, taking Dodge, Ford and other vehicles, carrying more than 30 tanks that did not fail, rushed north and heading straight to Yinchuan.

At this time, Yinchuan was in chaos.

The changes in the direction of the Central Guard had not yet reached Feng Yuxiang's headquarters, but Yu Tiepeng's Fourth Division rushed out of the Ciyao Castle before dawn, and after two hours of rapid advancement and rushing. After dawn, it suddenly appeared on Wu Zhong and the east side of Lingwu. It was also led by tanks, supplemented by heavy artillery bombardment, and several vanguard fighter jets assisted the battle. In just over half an hour, the units of the Third Division rushed in from the city gates that Wu Zhong and Lingwu broke, and began to clear the streets and forcibly surrender the defenders.

Wu Zhong and the Northwest Army stationed by Lingwu had only two thousand people. Yu Tiepeng only used two regiments and half of the tanks to attack the two places. The remaining troops gathered at Xiahongliutan opposite Yongning. The division's engineer battalion built a floating bridge. Under the cover of several vanguard fighter jets, he tried to find an opportunity to cross the Yellow River and advance to Yinchuan.

There are not many northwestern troops stationed in Yongning, and Yongning is still more than a dozen miles away from the west bank of the Yellow River. It is impossible for them to immediately discover the Third Division's crossing of the river, but it is not a matter of success to build a floating bridge on the Yellow River, which is more than 200 meters wide. Even if there is no interference for the time being, it will take some time.

During this period, news of the capture of Wuzhong and Lingwu reached, and Yu Tiepeng ordered a regiment to station two cities, block the access roads and guard the prisoners. The other regiment immediately dressed up and headed south to cooperate with other divisions of the People's Liberation Army to besiege the Northwest Army on the Eastern Front.

Feng Yuxiang received news of Wu Zhong and Lingwu's loss in Yinchuan, and immediately realized that Wu Anping's ambition was really great, so he wanted to swallow the entire Northwest Army in one go. He sent a telegram to the Central Guard and asked Song Zheyuan and the Northwest Army on the east and west banks of the Yellow River to immediately break off contact with the People's Liberation Army and retreat north immediately, but the signal here had not been connected, but the signal there had already been received.

"The Central Defense is surrounded" He looked at the telegram with only four words and felt a burst of cold air covering his body and mind. Only one night passed, the situation suddenly changed into this way. From any perspective, it was a bit incredible.

He knew that he had once again underestimated Wu Anping. He was not completely desperate, but he knew that even if Sun Lianzhong and Ji Hongchang's plan were really successful, it could only be used to exchange for a life path of the Northwest Army. However, even though the troops successfully escaped from the People's Liberation Army and retreated to Yinchuan, they were trapped in Ningxia, with unclear prospects, and the Northwest Army was not far from the day of disintegration...

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