In August 1949, the 11th Division of the 1st Army of the First Field of the People's Liberation Army was ordered by its superiors to launch an attack on the Shenjialing position of the enemy "Majia Army" on the outskirts of Lanzhou.
Shenjialing is known as the "lock key" of Lanzhou City, and getting this "lock key" is equivalent to opening the gate of Lanzhou.
At dawn on August 25, the general offensive begins! In an instant, ten thousand cannons fired in unison, shaking the heavens and the earth, countless fire dragons pounced on the enemy position, and the Shenjialing defended by the enemy army suddenly became a sea of fire.
The Thirty-first and Thirty-second Regiments of the Eleventh Division, which were the main attackers of Shenjialing, launched a brave attack from the front and left flank.
In order to cooperate with the eleventh division, the Tenth Division of the Fourth Army, under the command of division commander Liu Maogong (who became the founding major general in 1955), launched a fierce attack on the nearby Xiagouwa Mountain, and launched a fierce battle with the enemy.
At about 9:00 a.m., the Thirty-first Regiment of the Eleventh Division, led by its regimental commander Wang Xueli, rushed to the enemy's main position, and the Thirty-second Regiment simultaneously attacked from the flank.
The enemy army increased its troops to carry out a frenzied counterattack. The savage enemy, bare-chested, wearing only pants, wielding sabers, screaming and swooping in.
The two sides engaged in fierce white-knife combat on a gourd-shaped position of less than 2 square kilometers, and our army repelled 11 consecutive enemy attacks.
However, the enemy fought more and more, the Thirty-first Regiment suffered heavy casualties, and the reinforcements did not come up for a while, and they were in a very dangerous situation.
After Liu Mao, commander of the Tenth Division, seized the main position at Dogwa Mountain, he saw with a telescope on the hill that the eleventh division was in a very critical situation, and immediately called Gao Jinchun, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Fourth Army, and offered to send the troops of the Tenth Division in batches to reinforce the Eleventh Division.
Gao Jinchun listened and immediately said, "Good! That's it! ”
Liu Maogong first asked Li Yili, deputy commander of the Thirty Regiment, to take three battalions to reinforce the Eleventh Division, and told him that he must pay attention to tactics and not rush up, but should cooperate with each other one by one, and attack in batches one by one.
After Li Yi left, Liu Maogong saw that the enemy had come to reinforcements again, and decisively ordered all thirty regiments to be pulled up to support.
He summoned Wu Zisheng, the commander of the Thirty Regiment, to explain this task, and asked him to pay attention to the echelon configuration of the battle formation and strictly prevent him from rushing up and down.
Liu Maogong was still not at ease, and ordered the Twenty-ninth Regiment to withdraw a part of its troops and attack the flank of Shen jialing to reduce the pressure on the main attacking troops.
The three battalions of the reinforced Thirty Regiments ran over the mountains and over the mountains for more than ten miles, and joined the battle first.
At this time, the Thirty-first Regiment of the Eleventh Division, with nearly 2,000 soldiers, had suffered a bitter and bloody battle, and there were not many remaining personnel.
The leader of Wang Xueli saw that the thirty regiments had arrived. Shouting happily: "The legion of heroes is coming, and the end of the enemy has arrived!" ”
Because he knew that the Thirty Regiments were the old foundation of the Red Army, with sufficient soldiers and good equipment, they were awarded the title of "Hero Regiment" in the Battle of Fumei, and 1 battalion and 3 companies of them also won the honor of Hero Battalion and Company.
Immediately, the first and second battalions of the Thirty Regiments also rushed to arrive, and the positions that had been almost grasped by the defense suddenly became rock solid.
The enemy continued to counterattack frantically at battalion size, and under such circumstances, the reinforcements of the Tenth Division became the main force in this fierce battle.
Li Guobin, commander of the Eighth Company of the Third Battalion, threw more than 100 grenades at the enemy group in succession, blowing up the layers of enemies who had fallen in front of the position, and he also died heroically.
The bullets of the seven companies and seven squads were exhausted, and the warrior Xue Jin roared angrily: "Ask the enemy for bullets!" Then he bravely rushed to the enemy position and grabbed a box of bullets.
Xiao Shucang, commander of the third battalion, took a saber from the enemy in the white-knife battle and hacked 6 enemies to death in a row.
Wu Wenhua, a platoon commander of the mortar platoon, crouched at the forefront carrying an Eighty-Two mortar, without using a gun tray or bracket, and holding the cannon barrel with both hands to shoot at the enemy group.
When the barrel of the gun was hot, Wu Wenhua wrapped himself in clothes and continued to fire, and after firing more than 60 shells in a row, he muted many enemy machine guns and repelled the attacking enemy in groups.
When Liu Wenli, commander of the Seventh Company and the Seventh Squad, stormed the enemy position, he rushed to the side of the enemy bunker in the rain of bullets by the smoke of the shell explosion, stuffed the explosive package into the gun hole, and killed more than 30 enemies, and he himself sacrificed his precious life.
After the death of the platoon leader of the second platoon of the eighth company, Fu Yongjiang, the commander of the fourth squad, took the initiative to command the entire platoon to fight and crush the enemy's counterattack three times.
After Fu Yongjiang's death, Yang Guilin, deputy squad leader of the fifth squad, took over the command and repelled two more enemy attacks.
After Yang Guilin was seriously injured, the warrior Chen Guobin stepped forward.
After Chen Guobin was seriously wounded, Tian Youfu, a liberation fighter who had just joined the army for 40 days, led the remaining 6 fighters to fight fiercely with the enemy, and finally held their positions.
This battle was fought in a furious and famous military history! The officers and men of our army used this earth-shattering and weeping heroic spirit to fight with the ferocious Ma Jiajun to the death to annihilate 5 regiments of the enemy on Shenjialing, and to cast an iron wall of copper and iron that could not be broken or smashed with their flesh and blood!
At about 4 p.m., with the support of our artillery fire, the soldiers of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division and the 31st Regiment of the 11th Division bravely rushed to the enemy's core position.
At about 6 o'clock, our army captured Shenjialing in one fell swoop. The remnants of the enemy abandoned their positions and fled down the hill, and our army took advantage of the victory to pursue.
The hillside was full of killed enemies, and it was difficult to even insert their feet. The warriors stomped on the body of the mortal enemy and chased all the way to the front line of Hualinping.
Fearing that the lone army would pursue the enemy too far and suffer losses, the Ichino Command ordered the troops to withdraw to the Shenjialing Mountains, and the battle of Shenjialing, which was full of anger and intestines, ended in victory, and wrote a heavy stroke in the history of our army!
After the war, Liu Maogong, who offered to reinforce the Eleventh Division, was praised by the Fourth Army Headquarters and the Ichino Command, praising him for grasping the fighter plane in time at a critical moment of battle, taking the initiative to ask for reinforcements from friendly and neighboring troops, and commanding properly, leading the whole division to play a key role in conquering the Shenjialing position.