During the War of Liberation, the battle of Lanzhou was the most crucial and fierce decisive battle to liberate the northwest. The first field army liberated Lanzhou, paving the way for the liberation of the whole northwest. Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu, and the battle of Lanzhou took place 73 years ago in Nanshan and the whole city. At that time, the Kuomintang reactionaries who were entrenched here put the battlefield in Lanzhou because it was the seat of the Kuomintang northwest military and political chief office and the political and military center of the Kuomintang authorities in the northwest.

There are not only strong positions built by the Kuomintang during the Anti-Japanese War, but also two steep mountains, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, Shaanxi in the east, Xinjiang in the west, Sichuan and Chongqing in Nantong and Inner Mongolia in Ningxia in the north have always been battlegrounds for military strategists. Taking Lanzhou is equivalent to opening the door to the liberation of the northwest.

The key stage of the liberation of northwest China

The First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army fought a strategic decisive battle with the Kuomintang reactionaries in Lanzhou. This is the decisive battle to solve the northwest problem, and it is the largest and fiercest pursuit mobile warfare, urban tough battle and mountain positional warfare on the northwest battlefield. On August 20, the Lanzhou campaign entered the preparatory stage, and the two armies confronted each other and their respective deployments were completed. The first battle was at 2 1, and our army failed in the trial attack. After summing up the experience and lessons and making full preparations, the First Field Army launched a general attack on August 25th.

There were more than 20 tug-of-war games on the ancient city ridge, and rivers of blood flowed on the ground. The sixty-five army annihilated more than 2,600 defenders and occupied the main peak of Majiashan. After seven hours of bloody fighting, the sixty armed forces defeated the enemy for more than twenty times and smashed Doujiashan, the east gate of Lanzhou. The Sixth Army fought hard in Yingpanling, and the red flag fluctuated. Only 17 division casualties 1235. In the position of Shenjialing, where the Fourth Army fought fiercely, the top of the mountain was leveled to two meters, three regimental cadres died heroically, fought fiercely for 14 hours, charged 30 times, and finally inserted the red flag of victory in the main position.

In the early morning of 26th, the three armed forces broke into Lanzhou city to start street fighting, seized the Yellow River railway bridge, annihilated the garrison Baita Mountain, and planted a red flag in the north of Lanzhou at noon to declare the liberation of Lanzhou.