The beacon of youth

When the brothers met, everyone was happy for them. Ning Jinshan said to the second son Ning: "Second son, don't cry, this time it will be fine, you will join our team and become the Eighth Route Army, and join us in the revolution."

Speaking of this, Ning Jinshan looked back at Li Yong and Wang Chengde: "Company commander, instructor, I want the second son to join our spy company, do you think it's okay?" Li Yong and Wang Chengde glanced at each other, Wang Chengde pulled Ning Erzi to I said to myself: "Second son, are you willing to be an Eighth Route Army? It is dangerous to be an Eighth Router, and you have to be voluntary. The first one is not to be afraid of death. Now we are called the People's Liberation Army. If you are willing, our company will be yours from today on." Home, we are brothers, if you don’t want to, I will give you travel expenses to go home after the war.”

Li Jiangguo next to him didn't turn his head. He looked at the terrain and said, "Come with us. We are an army for the common people to conquer the world. They are different from their Kuomintang." Zhang Jinsong also said: "Second son, come to our line. As soon as our platoon moves out, there will be meat to eat, and after we finished speaking, we grinned and laughed." The long horse in the second platoon on one side glared at Zhang Jinsong and said, "Second son, don't listen to his nonsense, come to our second platoon, we No worse than them."

The second son Ning was very happy, and said to everyone: "Brothers, I always want to be the Eighth Route Army in my dreams. This time I will not leave. We are also the Eighth Route Army this time." Li Yong corrected and said: "Second son, Now we are called the People's Liberation Army." Ning Erzi immediately stood at attention and replied: "Report, sir, I am now the People's Liberation Army." Everyone laughed when they saw Ning Erzi's appearance, and the instructor Wang Chengde came over and said to Ning Erzi: "Second son, we are not in the People's Liberation Army The Xing KMT system does not call officers called comrades, but in our PLA, cadres and soldiers are all the same, they are equal.”

Ning Jinshan came over and pulled Ning Erzi, looking at his younger brother, Ning Jinshan smiled: "Second son, our army is a special agent company directly under the regiment headquarters, this is our company commander and instructor." Saluting Li Yong and Wang Chengde, Li Yong pulled Ning Jinshan over and said, "Jin Shan, you see that the second son is clever, and he is a good scout. What do you think of letting him go to the reconnaissance platoon?" Jin Shan immediately said: "Company Commander, I wanted to tell you just now that the second son has been very clever since he was a child, and Zhang Jinsong's team is the most suitable for him."

Li Yong saw that Ning Jinshan also agreed with Ning Erzi to go to the reconnaissance platoon, so he called Zhang Jinsong over and handed Ning Erzi to him. Of course, Zhang Jinsong was happy that there was another smart soldier under his command, so he said to Ning Erzi: "Second son, Our company has the idea of ​​attacking the enemy's ammunition depot. You have stayed in it and are familiar with the terrain. Let's see if there is a way to get in.

Ning Erzi thought for a while: "I can't get in anywhere else. If you want to get in, you have to find a way from this back mountain. If you want to get into the back mountain, you have to go over this cliff. Because of this big cliff, the 167th brigade didn't prepare any defenses. Strength, don’t even think about other places, birds can’t fly in.”

After Ning Erzi finished speaking, everyone kept silent and frowned, thinking of a way.Li Yong suddenly remembered a movie "Take Huashan Out of Wisdom" that he had watched before. There is a plot in the movie. Our army scouts encountered difficulties in carrying out their missions. The big cliff has completed the combat mission. The difficulties in this movie are similar to the difficulties encountered by the secret service company now.

Li Yong thought of this and said to everyone: "It would be great if someone can go up. As long as one person goes up with a rope, we can even go up. At this time, Li Yuming, who has been silent behind Li Yong and Wang Chengde, said: " Captain, I can try. "

Li Yong looked back at Li Yuming: "Yuming, this is not a joke. If you fall off a cliff tens of meters high, you will fall to your death." Li Yuming said, "Company commander, I know the danger, so we don't have to do it now." Is there any way, I used to climb mountains and cliffs at home before I was a soldier, but I have never climbed such a steep one, and I have to try it even if it is dangerous, I guess I can be [-] to [-]% sure."

Li Yong thought for a while and then asked: "What tools did you use to climb the cliff before?" Li Yuming replied: "Nothing, just carry a bag with empty hands." There are [-] to [-]% certainty, if you make him something like the fellow in "Taking Huashanli out of Wisdom", maybe Li Yuming can really go up there.

Thinking of this, Li Yong called all the soldiers to his side: "Everyone heard Yuming's words just now, so I can only let him try it. Before he goes out, I want to prepare some tools for him, and then I will tell him what I know. The style of the tool has been mentioned. In fact, an iron hook is tied in front of the wooden stick. If you encounter a place that is really impossible to climb, use the hook to hook a small stone tree that can be used, and then go up the hook.

Looking at the two hooks that everyone quickly made, Li Yong told Li Yuming how to use them, and observed the terrain and features on the cliff with him, paying attention to every stone and every small tree. After half an hour, Li Yuming Ming said it was ok, so I went.

Li Yong carefully checked the ropes and iron hooks tied to Li Yuming's body, and told: "Hold on firmly, step on firmly, don't rush to come one by one." Li Yuming replied: "Don't worry, company commander, I say there are six or seven The confidence of success is less, but now with the rope and the iron hook, the certainty is even greater.” After speaking, he stooped and walked carefully under the cover of trees.

Li Yuming got to the bottom of the cliff, looked at the terrain he had observed, and ran up a small tree. It seems that Li Yuming really has a lot of skills, and his movements are very coordinated. After a while, he has climbed very high. When I was walking, I felt that Li Yuming's figure was getting smaller and smaller, and everyone dared not make a sound. There were two places in the middle where Li Yuming used hooks to pass. He rested for a while when he was halfway up, and then he crawled vigorously. After climbing up, the whole process lasted more than 2 minutes. Seeing Li Yuming climbing up, Li Yong, Wang Chengde and the soldiers dared to take a breath and cheer each other softly.

After a while Li Yuming tied the rope and threw it down. Seeing the rope coming down, Zhang Jinsong walked up to Li Yong and Wang Chengde, saying that they were the reconnaissance communication platoon and they should go first. On the second one, Zhang Jinsong said that it was himself, and that the platoon leader should go up first when there is danger. Li Yong nodded and told him to bring up another rope. After going up, put down the second rope. Two ropes were tied around the waist, and the two of them pulled on it, so that it was easy to get on, and there was no danger. The soldiers were asked to prepare dry food and water and not come down after going up, and put on guard.

After Zhang Jinsong agreed, he took the soldiers in their platoon there. Because of the first rope, Zhang Jinsong climbed up without much effort. Put it in the stomach.

With two ropes to pull upwards, the soldiers went up faster. Li Yong told the other platoons of soldiers to come in the order of one, two, three, and four rows, and said to the instructor Wang Chengde: "I will take the soldiers up. You and the tiger lead the fifth platoon to meet them." Wang Chengde said at this time that he was a veteran, had been in the army longer than Li Yong, and had more experience than Li Yong, so he should lead the troops up, and Li Yong should take over.

Li Yong: "Old Wang, there is no time to argue now. I am the company commander. I have the final say on the on-site command, so let's do it."

Wang Chengde had no choice but to agree, and when Li Jiangguo's first row went up, a few more ropes were thrown down. Seeing that the soldiers were lying silently in the woods and bushes, Zhang Jinsong and the soldiers in his platoon were on guard a little further away. The second son called over, and when the second son Ning came over, the third and fourth rows also came up, and several platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders all lay down beside Li Yong.

Li Yong looked at Erzi Ning and said: "Second son, it's up to you now, you have to find a place not far from the ammunition depot, where it's not easy to be found by others, so we can start." The second son Ning agreed and led the way. After a while, he came to the back of a soil bag full of trees and said: "Company commander, the ammunition depot is in front of this soil bag. You can't go any further. The front is too dangerous and easy to be discovered."

Li Yong looked at the surrounding terrain and said to several platoon leaders: "Just do it here, take turns to rest in order, the reconnaissance platoon is on guard, and the first platoon will do it first, be careful not to make noise, and throw the new soil dug up on the cliff. Go down."

The leader of the platoon, Li Jiangguo, immediately led the platoon to start digging holes.Northern Shaanxi is an integral part of my country's Loess Plateau. Because the topography is dominated by loess and the vegetation is not good, after thousands of years of rainwater erosion, countless large fissures with a depth of more than hundreds of kilometers have been formed. How wide is it?If people on both sides of the ditch want to visit each other, they have to walk for a day.

During the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek’s Northwest Commander Hu Zongnan’s mechanized troops could not be deployed on the Northwest battlefield, and mobile warfare was far from being an opponent of the PLA. By the end of 49, more than 3 troops were wiped out by General Peng’s 2 people. Our Northwest Field Army has also grown from more than 2 people at the beginning to more than 3 tens of thousands later. The topography of northern Shaanxi also played a certain role in this, which will not be mentioned later.