In July 1949, after the bloody struggle of countless soldiers, the victory or defeat of the Liberation War was actually decided, and the Ma family army did not dare to invade Guanzhong again, but they retreated to longshan Pass, and they still had some forces in a vain attempt to continue to resist, which was naturally wishful thinking. Of course, the People's Liberation Army annihilated them in one fell swoop, which was really gratifying.
"Ma Jiajun", which was a local warlord who had caused the Western Route Army to suffer heavy losses, was mainly composed of Ma Bufang's Qinghai forces and Ma Hongkui's Ningxia forces, of which the strongest was Ma Bufang, commonly known as Qingma, and the Eighth Cavalry Brigade was one of the elite units, committing heinous crimes against the soldiers of the Western Route Army between 1936 and 1937, fighting against the Japanese cavalry during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and fighting with the Nishino Ii Column during the Liberation War, and Guo Peng, the commander of the 359th Brigade, was seriously wounded in the Battle of Heshui.
Coincidentally, in the Battle of Heshui, Wang Zhen, commander and political commissar of the Nishino Second Column, served as the commander of the Yiye First Corps two and a half years later, and commanded three armies to attack the Majia Army again from Longxian to Tianshui and Longxi via Guguan. When he met the enemy of the past, Wang Zhen secretly said in his heart, this battle must be fought well, and it must be fought fiercely. However, he was not carried away but calmly analyzed the battle situation, and after carefully studying the terrain and terrain and the deployment of ma jiajun, he smiled heartily and said victoriously: "This battle is easy to fight!" ”
Originally, the terrain of Guguan was in the shape of a "concave" shape, the north and south were mountains, and the terrain was complex, which was not suitable for cavalry combat at all, but the two cavalry brigade commanders sent by Ma Bufang insisted on setting up a defensive line in the Area of Guguan: two regiments were deployed on the small hills southeast of Guguan, and the small hilly ridge on the right was guarded by 2 regiments plus artillery units. Determined to win, they had no plans to retreat, so Wang Zhen concluded that if they failed, they would be completely annihilated.
They believe that the People's Liberation Army is still a soldier with only a few rounds of ammunition, completely underestimating the strength of our army, the artillery strength of the Nishino unit has been greatly enriched, the company and the battalion have independent mountain artillery, mortars, and advanced artillery collected by the anti-Japanese army, and the First Army and even each regiment have direct artillery companies, which is enough to raz the solid pass to the ground.
In order to reduce casualties, Wang Zhen directly slapped the table at the military meeting and ordered: Concentrate the artillery fire of the corps, up fiercely, and cooperate with the main attacking troops to take Guguan!
But when Ma Bufang was mentioned, the soldiers all hated it, over the years these bandits brutally killed too many heroes and athletes, the first army to the third army hoped to personally smash the door to the west, the commander of the second army was Guo Peng, he personally pleaded with Wang Zhen, although he knew the hatred of the old subordinates, but the first army, one division, two regiments, and three regiments were closer to Guguan, so in the end the second regiment and the third regiment attacked.
In the early morning of July 28, 1949, Commander Wang Zhen's signal bombs were launched, and more than 120 cannons that had been arranged were fired together, and the sky of Guguan was instantly illuminated, because the local people provided the enemy headquarters position in advance, and these shells directly hit the base area of the Majia Army with the hatred accumulated by the soldiers for many years.
The attack was then accompanied by the charge horn fighters, and soon the enemy army scattered and fled, but they still could not hide from the concentrated fire of the second mortar. In this battle, more than 10,000 enemy troops were annihilated, and the two major cavalry brigades of the Ma family army were destroyed.
Since then, the four armies of the Ma family army have died and fled, and almost all of them have collapsed. After 12 years, the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army have finally washed away the countless heroic souls of the Western Route Army.