History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Ma Jiajun, a warlord force that committed many crimes during the revolutionary war, had their hands stained with the blood of revolutionary volunteers. In 1936, Ma Jiajun committed countless crimes against the Red Army in the western expedition. During the Liberation War, the Majia bandit army stubbornly resisted and was eventually annihilated by the People's Liberation Army.
In 1949, the entire area north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had been liberated. Only in the southwest and northwest, there are still some Kuomintang reactionaries who are stubbornly resisting, and Ma Jiajun is one of the troops. During the revolutionary years, the Majia bandit army played a trick for the tiger and colluded with the Kuomintang reactionaries to endanger the revolutionary cause.
After the Battle of Fumei, the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi was liberated, opening the passage into the Great Northwest. The soldiers of the First Field Army, regardless of their hard work and wounds, also wanted to liberate the Great Northwest. The soldiers of Yiye were well aware of the brutality of the Majia bandit army, and in order to avenge the blood and sea of the sacrificial revolutionary soldiers, they were determined to annihilate the Majia bandit army.
Ma Bufang, a despicable warlord, tried in vain to block the People's Liberation Army under the city of Lanzhou. Before the war, Mr. Peng issued an order: "Only accept unconditional surrender, otherwise all will be annihilated and I will be beaten to death." For the sake of his own life, Ma Bufang ordered the Ma family bandit army to resist stubbornly, and eventually became his cannon fodder.
At that time, Lanzhou city was fortified and was a base camp of Ma Bufang, with strong fortifications. The north side of Lanzhou City is close to the Yellow River, and the east, west and south sides are surrounded by mountains, which is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, our army only surrounded Lanzhou City from three sides, and the Yellow River Iron Bridge on the north side was still under the control of the enemy.
In order to prevent the Majia bandit army from escaping, Mr. Peng ordered the Lanzhou Campaign to be launched in advance, launching an attack on Majiashan, Yingpanling, and Shenjialing. During the first two days of fighting, the enemy's fortifications were too strong, and our army did not achieve good results. General Manager Peng ordered that the offensive be suspended and redeployed.
By August 25, the Battle of Lanzhou had begun, and three regiments of the Sixty-third Army of our army had conquered Doujiashan in six hours. Five regiments of the Sixty-fifth Army of our army conquered GuchengLing in eleven hours. Five regiments of the Sixth Army of our army took ten hours to conquer Yingpanling.
Although most of the commanding heights on the outskirts of Lanzhou City were occupied, as long as Shenjialing was in the hands of the enemy, our army could not occupy Lanzhou. The battle of Shenjialing became the most important task in liberating Lanzhou, and the combat task of conquering Shenjialing was the responsibility of the Fourth Army.
At 6:00 a.m. on August 25, the People's Liberation Army launched an attack on Shenjialing, and the artillery units played a huge role. In the face of the strong fortifications on Shenjialing, grenades cannot be blown up, and machine guns cannot be penetrated. Before the attack, the artillery units of our army first carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment to destroy the enemy's fortifications.
Immediately after that, the infantry unit went up the mountain like a fierce tiger, rushed up, and fought the enemy one after another. By about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the high ground south of shenjialing had been occupied by our army, and at this time the balance of victory in the battle of Shenjialing had already tilted toward our army. The Ma family army tried to retake the southern highlands, but our army repelled the attack several times.
Instead of retaking the position of the Ma family army at Shenjialing, our army has captured more positions. In this way, a wave of artillery fire was first suppressed, followed by an infantry assault, and the Majia army on shenjialing fell into collapse and lost its fighting spirit. After five o'clock in the afternoon, the Ma family army no longer sent troops to Shen Jia Ling, and the Ma family bandit army on Shen Jia Ling could only do the battle of trapped beasts.
At about seven o'clock in the night, the enemy at Shenjialing was completely annihilated, and our army successfully occupied Shenjialing. After the battle of Shenjialing, according to the recollections of the Majia bandit army captured by our army, during the battle, the artillery of the People's Liberation Army never stopped. After the battle of Shenjialing, the main peak of Shenjialing was cut off by several meters, which shows the fierceness of our army's artillery fire.
Ma Ji, who was in Lanzhou City, had long wanted to abandon the troops on Shenjialing and was ready to flee. In fact, on the twenty-fifth day, just after dawn, the news of the fall of the outer positions of Lanzhou City came one after another, and Ma Jiyuan knew that he was bound to lose. Ning Ma did not come to support, where could Qingma resist the brave soldiers of Yiye?
By the afternoon of the twenty-fifth, Ma Jiyuan had escaped from Lanzhou, and the battle of Shenjialing was not over. The retreat of the green horses was completely devoid of rules, did not cover each other, and carried a heavy weight. The officials were reluctant to discard the gold and silver jewelry, and the soldiers did not forget to take the stolen chickens and ducks, and the people on the yellow river iron bridge hugged together, slowing down the progress of the retreat.
Ma Jiyuan, the commander of the Qin Long Corps, had already fled, and the so-called Ma Jia Army rear guard units ran faster than other units. Taking advantage of the victory, the People's Liberation Army pursued and annihilated tens of thousands of Majia bandits and captured tens of thousands of enemies. On August 26, the city of Lanzhou was completely liberated, and 100,000 citizens took to the streets to welcome the PLA soldiers.
They sang and danced, celebrated the liberation of Lanzhou City, thanked the People's Liberation Army, and finally drove the Majia bandit army out of Lanzhou. The Battle of Lanzhou was the most tragic urban battle on the way to liberate the Great Northwest. Under the attack of the heroic People's Liberation Army, under the condition that the people of Lanzhou actively passed on intelligence and led the way to the People's Liberation Army, they finally defeated the evil Qingma.
After the victory in the Battle of Lanzhou, our army immediately launched a battle to liberate Xining, and Ma Bufang fled in a daze. After Ma Bufang escaped, he died in a foreign land and tragically ended his life. The victory in the Battle of Lanzhou officially opened the door to the liberation of the Great Northwest and laid a solid foundation for the peaceful liberation of the Great Northwest.