84 has withered

Scattered over Lanzhou, and the scorching and pungent smoke covered everything.

At dusk, the snow gradually became heavier. Ma Anliang was covered with snow powder from top to bottom, and still rode his horse back and forth in the position to encourage the officers and soldiers.

He was on the front line, and there was a condolence group composed of many brilliant Qing Dynasty officials. Sheng Yun spoke loudly in his position: "... If Seoul is occupied, what will we do? Please be sure to defend Lanzhou and repel the enemy!"

Chang Geng brought cigarettes, wine and other condolences. While sending things, he cried and said, "If you leave us, we will be homeless." Tears and snowflakes fell, which was really tearful.

Shenjialing defense line. Ma Jiajun's troops seized the time and hurriedly arranged the defense. The busiest was the health soldiers. The shelling of the Anxi Army brought terrible casualties to the Ma army. The heartbreaking howls and howls of help are different one after another, and the painful groans of the dying make these new recruits tremble.

"Hatch the time to build a defense."

Ma Anliang boarded Shenjialing to inspect the position in the smoke of gunfire. In the interval between the exciting battles, Anxi's counterattack will start at any time. Therefore, we must build a position as soon as possible and be ready to deal with the counterattack of the Anxi army.

The machine gunmen who hurriedly built crane guns piled up fortifications with sandbags and built chest walls. At the same time, they pressed the machine gun aiming line in the distance, as long as those Anxi troops appeared. He immediately opened fire and killed them with a fierce rain of machine guns.

"How is the mine preparation?"

Seeing his son Ma Tingxian rushing from the front position, Ma Anliang asked.

"Don't worry, it's all ready."

Ma Tingxian smiled and made a gesture to his father Ma Anliang.

Ma Anliang nodded and said, "Well, pay more attention here. Shenjialing's position is the most important. Once the bandit army breaks through, our belly will be under the bayonet of the bandit army."

Hearing this, Cui noon, who came to support Shen Jialing in the afternoon, couldn't help saying, "It can be supported during the day, but not at night."

Ma Anliang's face sank in an instant, and he said, "I know!"

The venous blood vessels in Cui Noon and Ma Tingxian's foreheads jumped, and it could be heard from the tone that Ma Anliang, whose eyes had always been above the top, had withered.

Ma An's conscience knows that in any case, it is necessary to continue to "add oil" to Shenjialing for the fate of the whole army.

Although Lu Hongtao's army is the Zhenwu Army, Zhang Xingzhi's army is the Zhuangkai Army, the Zhouwu Department is the Zhongwu Army, and Wu Bingxin's army is the Jianwei Army; Ma Fuxiang's army is the Zhaowu Army and Cui Zhong's army is the Xiaorui Army. However, from the actual situation, only the elite army can really be directed by arm within Ma Anliang's authority. He can no longer reinforce Shen Jialing.

Four of the six-step barracks of the elite army led by Ma Tingxian, Ma Anliang's son, were disabled in the morning, and the remaining two battalions were not easy in Gouwa Mountain. The elite of the elite army was the cavalry regiment, and this regiment and Cui Noon's Xiaorui Army's direct subordinate team, as well as the engineering battalion were also disabled in the afternoon; the two of the Xiaorui Army infantry One of the regiments, one of them is stuck to the small West Lake defense line connecting the Gouwa Mountain front line, and the other has reinforced Gouwa Mountain. Although there is no big loss, it is useless for this kind of troops to reinforce Shenjialing because of its few soldiers, lack of training and weak combat effectiveness. To guard Shenjialing, you have to guard Gouwa Mountain and the Little West Lake. Ma Anliang's strength is overstretched. The root cause of this is obviously that Ma Anliang did not have a strong campaign reserve team in the whole battle.

However, Ma Anliang has no troops to adjust, which does not mean that the whole Lanzhou Qing army has no troops to adjust.

There are still many elite soldiers in the hands of Ma Fuxiang on the north bank of the Yellow River. It is no problem to reinforce two or three thousand people to Shenjialing. However, no one dares to use it, and Ma Fuxiang doesn't want to support Ma Anliang.

In fact, Jing Bumu has also become the end of the crossbow at this moment. Even the elites of the supporting Ezhou Revolutionary Army have been consumed a lot, and there is only one regiment left in the four strong regiment. At the same time, the two regiments serving Gouwa Mountain also have a lot of consumption. Although Huang Yue's division is complete, the whole army was only recruited when the whole army was reorganized in Anding City. It's hard to say how powerful the local troops are.

However, Ma Anliang has received the news that various positions have been broken by the other side one after another, and he has already calculated how to withdraw from Lanzhou.

"Brothers, rush up!" Jing Bumu eagerly waved the command knife and jumped out of the trench, roaring hoarsely.

Two soldiers suddenly rushed out of the hidden crater. With the cover of machine gun fire, two grenades came out one after another and swayed into the machine gun position of the Ma family army. Boom! Boom! The two balls gushed out, and the red and black smoke was mixed with heat waves, and Ma Jiajun's machine gun no longer roared.

On the whole Shenjialing front, the commanders at all levels of the Anxi Army pressed forward one after another, commanding the supervision team, leading groups of troops to attack the positions occupied by the Ma family army under the cover of fierce fire.

The swirling fireworks are rolling freely between heaven and earth. The citizens of Lanzhou City stared at the dusk sky, and the colorful firelight in the distance. There is nothing more pathetic than this...

"My lord, we must leave Lanzhou!" When I returned to the headquarters of Lanzhou City, I immediately had an excited advice from my subordinates.

"No!" Ma Anliang knocked on the table and shouted angrily, "I swear to defend Lanzhou to the death!" I will never leave!"

How many days has he been the king of Lanzhou? He is unwilling!

A few minutes later, Ma Tingxian sent a report: Shen Jialing was in critical condition.

Now, Ma Anliang hurriedly put on the coat he had just taken off and said to them, "It seems that even if the Beiyang army goes out, we may not be able to defend Lanzhou City - far water can't quench our thirst."

The sky was slowly shrouded in darkness. On the streets of Lanzhou, the fleeing crowds poured out again. The impending sound of gunfire and the signal bombs in the night sky completely broke their last psychological defense. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the people who have fled are criticizing a layer of snow, and it is difficult to walk. People use the light of the flare to identify the road ahead.

Ma Anliang and his entourage packed up and took a carriage through the dark street to the only iron bridge of the Yellow River in the mouth of the river.

The governor's office, Chang Geng and Shengyun are burning top-secret documents. There are boxes and travel bags in a mess in the hall. Their loyal soldiers are destroying expensive decoding machines with thorium bombs, and several energetic officials in Qing Dynasty robes personally swung their sledgehammers to smash telephone switches.

Ma Anliang stood in the carriage and looked at the Yellow River Iron Bridge and the north bank. In the middle of the night of the heavy snow, the view was almost zero, but he could feel the crowd on the bridge and on the shore like a huge mobile body.

Originally, Ma Anliang ordered to block the iron bridge of the Yellow River, and the frozen ice surface of the Yellow River was blown up. He ordered to prevent people without special passes from getting on the bridge and crossing the river, but at this time, it could not be stopped, so there was a large crowd of vehicles and driving slowly.

There was almost a panic in the Yellow River Iron Bridge. Many fleeing officials walked very slowly, and most of them were delayed by the wives who insisted on taking away their wealth.

Lanzhou officials and their families are planning to escape in a panic.

Ma Anliang was worried that if the soldiers knew that their government had escaped, they would not fight. He was also worried that millions of people would block the Yellow River Bridge. God doesn't seem to like him very much. All his worries have happened.

Soon after the retreat began, it fell into chaos, and Ma Anliang's temporary withdrawal plan did not work at all.

The retreat seemed extremely chaotic. Ma Anliang was as greedy as the officials and wives who fled. He had to take away a grain and a bullet. So did the logistics department, and so did the soldiers. As a result, all the materials, all kinds of vehicles, large and small pieces, and animal casualties rushed to the Yellow River Iron Bridge, which immediately caused congestion on the narrow iron bridge. The road surface of the iron bridge can only barely allow three old-fashioned carriages to meet, which is conceivable.

"Forward!" With a sharp whistle, the Anxi soldiers with Hanyang rifles in their hands were as powerful as rainbows, shouting and launching an attack on the Ma family army. The protective light and heavy machine gun spilled on death. The spitting rain made the Ma soldiers on the flanks have nothing to hide. The flying 7.92mm bullets tore apart the human tissue and the muffled sound were mixed in the sad laughter of the injured.

The circled grenades flew one after another like hail, and the dense explosion made the return soldiers who had just counterattacked the Anxi Army Front become killed in a blink of an eye.

"Shoot..." The commander wielded the saber commanded the troops and fired at the Anxi soldiers on the flanks with heavy machine gun fire. Before an officer came to spit out the final ending clearly, the flying bullet hit his exposed and unprotected door. The whole head was stirred by a 7.92 mm bullet. The messy body hummed like a sawed tree, twitching its limbs and falling into a pool of blood.

"Kill..." Jing Bumu rushed to the front of the queue.

Two grenades swirled out and exploded in the line of returning soldiers. The waves and flames wrapped in flying fragments made several returning soldiers lie down. The air that had been warm in the smoke and war became more hot because of the mixing of human blood. From time to time, the flying bullets took the lives of the soldiers on both sides who fought desperately on this battlefield.

A long series of bullets shot into the head of a returning machine gunner who was shooting desperately with a crooked machine gun. Taking advantage of the slight pause in the firepower of the Ma family's machine gun, Jing Bumu rushed into the collapsed Ma family's front in Shenjialing with dozens of brothers behind him like tigers down the mountain. The grenade fell down like hail, and the machine gun in his hand roared in the exploding waves.

The bullets roared past the ear. From time to time, the soldiers around him fell to the ground without saying a word, flowing the last drop of blood. The ground was constantly beating with fire, and the Anxi soldiers who were attacking with fierce fire were constantly hit and fell to the ground by roaring bullets. There is madness everywhere.

"Dead and ascend to heaven... move forward!" A low-level officer of the Ma family army, whose eyes were already red in the bloody battle, pulled out his saber and jumped out. Although the returning officer who left the hidden charge was quickly pierced into a dead body in the bullet rain, more returning soldiers rushed out with bright sabres.

One after another return soldiers were beaten like beehives in the dense rain of the Anxi army. The bodies that fell from time to time did not seem to make these crazy return soldiers stop the almost suicidal charge.

"I can't hold it anymore!" Ma Tingxian closed his eyes and sighed.

"Withdraw!" Cui noon said excitedly.

"But my father ordered me to cover the retreat of the whole army?"

"We must leave a little bone and blood for ourselves. There is no need to accompany Changgeng and Shengyun to be martyred by the Qing court."

Ma Anliang's elite army was beaten into a battalion in the four battalions of Shenjialing, and the troops directly under the elite army have also fallen. If the remaining two battalions in Gouwa Mountain are lost because of covering the whole army, the elite army will be gone. This result is fatal to the reputation of the Ma family.

Ma Tingxian's face changed greatly and nodded slowly.