Chapter 98: Soldiers Enter Lanzhou (4)
In the early morning of June 28, the front line of the dozens of miles long in Nanshan was extremely quiet, with gunshots coming from time to time. Tens of thousands of Gansu troops were relieved between the mountains and ridges, thinking that the People's Liberation Army might be in a powerless dilemma in front of the indestructible defense line of Nanshan. In Lanzhou City, Zhang Zhaoguan and Kong Fanjin knew about this situation, and could not help but be ecstatic, and they felt that the decision to fight to the death was particularly wise.
At 7 a.m., on the positions along Guchengling, Majiashan, Shenjialing, Gouwa Mountain, Yingpanling, Doujiashan and other lines, they were proudly boasting about their own combat achievements and fighting power, desperately belittling the People's Liberation Army's commanders and soldiers. When they turned their sights to the eastern sky, they suddenly found that some small black dots appeared faintly in the halo near the sun. The small black dots kept equal distances from each other, bathed in the rays of light and slowly moved, like ants everywhere.
"What is this?" a Gan army soldier asked in surprise.
Before someone could answer, they saw that the small black dots were rapidly growing above the sky. At this moment, tens of thousands of Gan soldiers heard a series of strange buzzing sounds like mosquitoes and flies flapping their wings.
The PLA soldiers in front of the Nanshan position also saw the black dots and heard the buzzing sound. Everyone looked up at the sky, letting their necks and eyes turn sore, and they would not let the black dots leave their sight. The soldiers' blood was boiling! Everyone knew that these black dots were the vanguard fighter of the Flight Detachment! This was the PLA's flying force!
The buzzing sound suddenly turned into a shrill scream, and in the sky, more than a dozen black dots quickly showed the hideous outline of the fighter plane.
The screams penetrated into my heart, and the Gansu army was either surprised or afraid, and looked around even more desperately. But at this moment, almost all the Gansu positions on the Nanshan Front were bombarded by the People's Liberation Army. The Gansu army had just raised their hearts, but the sound of artillery stopped. But this short-term shelling pointed out the direction for the Flying Detachment to bomb the Gansu artillery positions.
The Gan army was talking, and suddenly someone screamed: "Those iron birds are flying towards here!" All the Gan army looked up and saw the hideous iron birds suddenly scattering and piercing them to different directions on the ground. At the same time, the flames began to spit out on their wings. In addition to the screams, the harsh machine gun sound also reached the ground.
The Gansu soldiers were shocked and exclaimed. Some squatted down, some lying on the ground, some hiding into the trenches, and some hiding into the trenches. At the same time, the iron birds screamed, machine guns, and engines became louder and louder, deafening, almost shaking their eardrums. But the iron birds were obviously not interested in these Gansu soldiers, and the machine guns were not aimed at them, but just whistled past the sky. By the time these Gansu soldiers reacted, the iron birds had already pulled into the sky again, and some locations between the mountains were emitting huge fireworks.
"God! It's our cannons! They were all blown up by those iron birds!" Gan Jun, who knew, exclaimed, with a face as if he was earthy.
But just when all the Gansu army were depressed and desperate, the People's Liberation Army launched a larger-scale artillery bombardment. However, the shells did not fall from various positions, but flew rows to several simple mountain roads, covering them one by one into the smoke of artillery fire. The mines buried by the Gansu army were detonated by bomb chains, and the flames soared into the sky, and the gravel and sand cumulatively scattered, covering a crater and then blowing out another crater.
The Gan army was wondering when they saw dozens of strange chariots carrying thick cannon barrels rumble onto the highway. The Gan army responsible for guarding the highway was shocked. They lost their cannons and used light and heavy machine guns to block them wildly, but all kinds of bullets hit the chariots like raindrops, but they could not let these strange chariots stagnate for a moment.
Just as the Gansu defenders were staring at the stunned gaze, the chariots finally swayed across the two-kilometer-long bumpy potholes and marched onto the flat road behind. At this time, the engine sounded suddenly, and the chariots accelerated and rushed all the way, causing smoke and dust to rush towards the direction of Lanzhou Xiguan.
These strange tanks are of course the People's Liberation Army's tank troops. At this moment, the tank troops finally broke free from the limitations of the terrain and fully utilized their attack and assault capabilities, and moved forward and were unstoppable.
These tanks may be used to siege cities, but they are most suitable for blocking the road. The connection between the Nanshan Front and the ground of Lanzhou was cut off, and there were always several tanks cruising far away outside the city gates, monitoring the movements of the Gansu army.
The final moment of decisive battle has finally come!
At 9 a.m. on June 28, the People's Liberation Army launched a general attack on the Nanshan position of the Gansu Army. On the front line of dozens of miles of mountains and ridges, at the same time, various types of artillery clusters roared, the earth trembled, the flames soared into the sky, and the shouts of killing shocked the mountain city and the banks of the Yellow River. Faced with an unprecedented offensive, tens of thousands of Gansu troops could not help but tremble.
In front of the Shenjialing position, one of the three main positions on the Nanshan Front, Huang Rixin's regiment, who was responsible for the main offensive mission, first carried out a half-hour intensive artillery bombardment on Shenjialing. After making the Gansu army dizzy, the soldiers jumped out of the trenches and launched a charge towards the Gansu army's position under the guidance of a solemn military flag.
The intense charge sound resounded through the mountain peaks in the smoke of gunpowder, shaking the sky. The soldiers bravely climbed up the cliff, crossed the trench, and broke through the first line of defense in just over ten minutes, and inserted the battle flag into the Gansu army's position.
Afterwards, Huang Rixin organized several assault companies to launch charges again and again in the depths of the enemy and repeatedly competed on the positions. The enemy and us entangled together, killing the sky and the earth, and the stones and soil were broken and the soil flew. Driven by the sabers and short spears of the supervising team, the Gansu army divided into several groups in a fan-shaped formation three times, and rushed up one after another.
Liu Fusheng's army was Zhang Zhaoke's direct troops, feeding many outlaws with opium and silver dollars. Even if the corpses in front were piled up into mountains, the ones behind would step on the corpses of their accomplices and continue to rush upwards, like green-headed flies, destroying one group after another, driving away one group after another. The soldiers of the assault company picked up submachine guns and sweeping and killing them all the way, gradually approaching the second trench of the Gansu army.
The second trench was like a long snake, lying windingly on the artificial cliff in the middle of Shenjialing. The assault company crossed the outer trench and quickly broke into the enemy's second trench. The submachine gun fire tongue stretched and retracted, and grenades fell in line. The soldiers were not afraid of casualties, and they entered the bunker and joined the enemy's close forces, cleared the enemy's rear guard, and immediately returned to the trench and wiped out the counterattacking Gansu army in front of the position.
After Huang Rixin's regiment broke through the second trench, he continued to advance towards the main position of the Shenjialing Gansu Army. The Gansu army still fought and used the entire battalion and regiment to counterattack. The enemies all over the mountains and fields held guns, waved bayonets, and roared and rushed towards the assault company like a tide. The soldiers used rocket launchers to kill and injure enemy groups, sniper rifles to sniper enemy officers, attacked with rifles and light machine guns, and attacked melee with submachine guns. The more Gansu soldiers counterattacked, the more deaths, and bloody corpses were everywhere in the mountains and fields.
The troops assisting on the left were also fearless and rushed bravely. The sound of gunfire, grenade explosion, knife and gun collision and the shouts of the soldiers were mixed together, making the Gan army in the battle tremble and brave.
But the enemy was still unwilling to perish. Liu Fusheng transferred a large number of reinforcements from Gouwa Mountain to rush to Shenjialing. In order to make the Gansu soldiers work for him, under the instructions of Zhang Zhaoguan, Liu Fusheng brought boxes of opium and silver dollars, and sent them to the price of life, and summoned a large number of suicide squads.
The people in this world are despicable. The Gan soldiers, who were blinded by opium and silver dollars, were led by the suicide squad, were naked like beasts all over the mountains and rivers, carrying rifles, and grenades tied around their waists, and rushed upwards. The supervisor team followed behind, holding machine guns, and shouting to supervise the battle and cheering: "Brothers, go up! Those who rushed up will receive rewards! Those who retreated will be shot!"
The smoke of gunpowder rolled, the flames flashed, the shrapnel flew everywhere, the bullets roared, and the battle was extremely fierce.
But the PLA's will to fight is absolutely no worse than the pathological and excited Gansu army stimulated by opium and silver dollars. The soldiers continued, and all kinds of weapons were launched, suppressing the madness with iron fire, and using ammunition to eliminate the foolishness, and finally deeply penetrated the fear of death into the hearts of the enemy. After fierce battle, the core fortifications of the Shenjialing Gansu Army were finally conquered. Huang Rixin's regiment planted the black-bottomed red dragon military flag to the top of Shenjialing and fluttered in the wind.
From the charge at 9 a.m. to the capture of Shenjialing, the fierce battle lasted four hours. Huang Rixin's regiment killed and injured more than 5,400 enemies, and more than 300 casualties were also suffered. One of them was a company commander, and two platoon leaders died bravely in the battle.
In Yingpanling, the artillery group of the Fourth Division of the People's Liberation Army bombarded the Gansu positions from three sides east and south. For a moment, the entire Yingpanling collapsed and the ground was broken, and the flames soared into the sky, and thick smoke rolled. Hundreds of field artillery guns and mortars shot out countless shells, causing the enemy to be dizzy and could only enter the castle to avoid.
After the artillery positions were destroyed by the People's Liberation Army fighter jets, the Gansu Army had only a few small steel cannons left in the trenches and fortifications, but even these small steel cannons did not play any role at all, and were completely blown into pieces by the fierce artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army. Under the cover of powerful artillery fire, the soldiers of the Fourth Division launched a fierce charge and soon inserted the military flag to the forefront of the first fortification.
A bloody battle began. Gunshots, cannons and grenade explosions sounded. The soldiers who were responsible for blasting the cliffs did not make a sneak attack and blasted, and forced them to explode. Li Zhang transferred three heavy machine guns, and cooperated with thirty snipers and twenty rocket launchers to completely suppress the Gansu firepower on the cliffs. The soldiers responsible for blasting took the opportunity to place more than 20 explosive packs on the cliffs. After the fuse was pulled, there was only a few loud "boom boom" sounds, and the cliffs were blown out of several slopes. The soldiers rushed towards the hill along the gap, rushed into the Gansu position, and occupied the enemy's first line of defense.
The enemy defending in Yingpanling were all elites of the Longdong Army and Longnan Army. After retreating to the second line of defense, they still organized counterattacks in an attempt to regain their lost positions. The soldiers of the Fourth Division repelled five or six consecutive counterattacks of the enemy, and the positions were covered with Gansu corpses. After a brief preparation, the soldiers launched a rapid attack again and quickly occupied the second line of defense of the enemy.
At 11 a.m., the Fourth Division of the People's Liberation Army launched a general attack on the main position of Yingpanling.
Li Zhangxian used concentrated mortars and field artillery to bombard the enemy's positions with a cover-type bombardment. The shells were covered with whistling towards Yingpanling. Within a few minutes, the enemy's positions were filled with smoke and a sea of fire was ignited. Half an hour later, the artillery fire stopped, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division rushed to the enemy's positions like a tide. In a short while, three military flags were erected on the positions. The remaining Gansu army lost their will to resist, threw away their weapons and firearms in fear, raised their hands high, and kneeled down to surrender.
Yingpanling was finally occupied by the People's Liberation Army, and the Gansu army was defeated on the whole line. The Fourth Division took advantage of the victory to pursue the remaining enemies along the road, and tank troops cooperated to intercept them along the way. The Gansu army's defeated troops had no way to escape, like headless flies ramming everywhere, abandoning their weapons and surrendering. The Fourth Division gathered prisoners along the way, supported each other with the tank troops, and soon arrived directly under the city of Lanzhou.
At the same time, in order to capture the southeastern barrier of Lanzhou, Doujiashan, which is also the east gate of Lanzhou, it went straight to Lanzhou City along the Xilan Highway, causing the Gansu army to be attacked from both sides and cooperated to capture the main positions of Shenjialing, Yingpanling and other groups, at 9 a.m. on the 28th, the Fifth Division of the Anbingchao Division of the People's Liberation Army concentrated artillery and bombarded the Gansu army's positions on Doujiashan.
Various types of artillery roared and roared like thunder, pouring shells into the frontier positions of the Gansu Army. The explosion of the sky and the earth was deafening, and the smoke covered the sky. In just half an hour of artillery fire attack, the frontier positions of the Gansu Army were blown up in scattered, and most of the fortifications were destroyed, and the steep walls were shattered, and the two paths in front of the main position were opened. The First Regiment of the Fifth Division, who served as the main attack, was like a sharp knife, towards the Gansu Army's defense line. The soldiers all fought bravely and rushed forward, and the military flag led the shells away. The soldiers followed the military flag, and the castles were blown up one by one, and the firepower points were eliminated. The main attack regiment advanced rapidly, unstoppable.
The battle on the left wing was also in full swing. The soldiers of the Second Regiment of the Fifth Division held submachine guns and light machine guns to sweep the enemy east and west. After losing the artillery position, the Gansu army was no longer able to resist and retreated like a tide. In just over a dozen minutes, the frontier position of Doujiashan was stepped on by the soldiers of the Fifth Division. Inspired by this, the soldiers were even more motivated and continued to bravely attack and attack hard. Half an hour later, the military flag of the black-bottomed red dragon was inserted into the main position of the Gansu army's Doujiashan.
The main position of the Gan army's Doujiashan was broken through and its defense deployment was disrupted. Zhang Zhaoguan and Kong Fanjin, who were trapped in Lanzhou by the People's Liberation Army tank troops, were immediately panicked and ordered the Gan army to take back the lost position at all costs and protect Doujiashan from death.
The morale of the Gansu army has dispersed. Although under the threat of the superiors, they organized a group-style counterattack and three small-scale counterattacks, under the threat of fierce firepower of the People's Liberation Army, they almost left with a little touch. The slogans were shouted loudly and their faces were distorted. However, as soon as the submachine gun and machine gun of the Fifth Division fired, the counterattacks retreated like a tide.
The Fifth Division took advantage of the victory and occupied all the Doujiashan positions at 12 noon, clearing obstacles for the main force of the People's Liberation Army infantry to go straight to Lanzhou along the Lanxi Highway.
At the same time, after Zuo Chun'an's first division captured the Guchengling position at 10 o'clock, he launched a large-scale attack on the depths of the Gansu army, and at 12 o'clock he captured the enemy's Majiashan position.
Chapter completed!