The beacon of youth

Those who are not good at the meeting are not all old and rough, there are many educated soldiers on the front, the army is very poor, and most of the soldiers are children of poor families, but it does not mean that there are no educated in the army, some A considerable number of commanders are from regular military academies.

General Liu Zhidan, the founder of the northern Shaanxi base area, was a well-known Whampoa graduate. At that time, Whampoa graduates were great intellectuals.

These people were secretly surprised when they saw the model of Yulin city defense fortifications in the courtyard of the independent regiment headquarters. This little regiment leader made this kind of thing? It is not uncommon to be a regimental commander at the age of 19 in the army, but it depends on the era. There were many in the Red Army, and this also has something to do with the environment at that time.

But later on during the period of the Eighth Route Army, such a young regiment leader was rarely encountered, and later on during the Liberation War, there were basically none. I heard that the column newly promoted a 19-year-old regiment leader. These old revolutionaries are somewhat disapproving. Today During the meeting, after hearing Li Yong's explanation and the current fortification model, everyone agreed with the commander's decision. Yes, it is a piece of material.

The commander and the political commissar looked at the model with great interest, threw a biscuit into their mouths and said: "Isn't it good? When you come to your meeting for a meeting, you will not only have water to drink but also biscuits to eat. Don't bother to eat, but sit down and study this. Fortifications in Yulin

Food in the northwest battlefield has always been a big problem, and it is also a big problem that troubles the commanders of the troops. Most of the supplies of the troops have to be supported by Shanxi. Migrant workers lost batch after batch, but our ordinary people are good, no matter how much loss they have paid, they still insist on sending food.

In this way, the troops are still often hungry. It is common for the commanders and fighters to be hungry. Sometimes the troops can’t even guarantee two meals a day. They have to eat one meal to persevere. Tighten your belts, since we have us **, then God made us suffer, don't be a prostitute if you want to enjoy happiness.

Think about them, think about our old predecessors, think about the migrant workers who were killed by planes on the way, I don’t know if the current corrupt officials will blush, and now some people seem to be inferior when they mention migrant workers, Marshal Chen Yi said : "The victory of the Chinese revolution was pushed by the common people with small carts. Without the support of the common people, there is the victory of the Chinese revolution."

Mao Zedong also said: "The army advances, production grows an inch, and discipline is strengthened, and the revolution is invincible." The army fights in the front, the common people step up production in the rear, and they win by uniting up and down.

The commanders who came to the meeting were very happy to see the biscuits of the independent group on the table. Oh, let's fight the local tyrants to divide the fields today. The independent group is really rich.

At the beginning of the meeting, it was still Li Yong who spoke. Li Yong took out the plan summed up in more than a month and asked for instructions from the leaders. Li Yong mainly explained, and the leaders came to ask and add. These people are experts who have fought for many years. , From time to time, ask very critical and difficult questions.

In this way, it took a long time. The meeting lasted for two days, and the county chiefs did not leave. Even Commander Wang, the deputy political commissar, and the chief of staff lived in the courtyard of the independent regiment.

This made Li Yong and Wang Chengde very busy. What do these people do?They are all commanders at all levels of the army. If something happened to them, it would really kill the two brothers. Not only did Li Yuming's two guard platoons be used, but Ning Erzi, who was scouting Zhuo, and a platoon of soldiers were also used. They were all called.

The independent regiment's guards had to do a good job in security work and also prepared food and drink for the elders, but these people were all from the old Red Army and the old Eight Route Army, so they didn't pay much attention to food and drink, as long as they could eat enough.

But Li Yong and Wang Chengde couldn't think that way. They asked the cooking team to prepare meals in different ways, and even took out some canned food to entertain the elders.

In this way, these people are very beautiful. The independent regiment has sufficient funds. Sun Xiaoquanhou and He Cuihua, who carried the heavy battalion, often send some people to buy daily necessities nearby, so the living standard of the independent regiment may be the best in the entire field army. , All the commanders who came to the meeting shouted that it was the Chinese New Year.Some people may ask, what can these senior commanders not eat?How can you call it the same as Chinese New Year? Is the author talking nonsense?During the war years, the senior commanders and soldiers of the National Army had the same diet, especially the cadres of the Northwest Field Army, and other field armies may have better conditions because of their conditions.

After two days, these commanders are very familiar with Li Yong, Wang Chengde and the soldiers of the guard company, and they are also very satisfied with the hospitality of the independent regiment.

After the meeting, these people went around looking for soldiers from the guard company who were not on duty to play poker. This phenomenon, which seemed normal to Li Yong, Wang Chengde, and veterans of the Eighth Route Army, touched the communication platoon leader Li Jia a lot.

Li Jia is a very smart girl. She works in the headquarters of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang. She knows all about coming to the meeting.

The second column is one of the most capable main columns in the Northwest Field Army. These people are all military commanders above the brigade of the second column. It can be said that the backbone of the entire second column is here. These people are the core of the second column.

This is also a big cadre in the Kuomintang, but he has no status and messes with the soldiers. He is very serious during the meeting. After the meeting, he is no different from ordinary soldiers when he is with the soldiers. They eat and play together.

I can't see that the soldiers have any fear of these leaders. They had a great time playing together, regardless of what cadres and soldiers put stickers on each other's faces. Li Jia, who didn't quite understand this matter, quietly asked He Cuihua.

He Cuihua glared at her and said, "What's the matter? Our People's Liberation Army is like this. Officers and soldiers are equal no matter how big they are. I used to talk to Mr. Peng when I was a militia platoon leader at home. Have you eaten together?

Li Jia thought for a while without saying anything, and thought to herself: It seems that it is right to follow the People's Liberation Army. With such generals and soldiers, there is no reason not to win battles. Think about when I was in the 36th Division, in order to become an official The Kuomintang's days are not long for the messy things of fighting each other openly and secretly.

Two days later, a preliminary plan was basically formed. Of course, it is Li Yong and Li Ran who contributed the most. Li Yong finally made two more suggestions.

One is to try to eliminate the enemy's howitzers in the city before the attack. You can send people to sneak in, or let our underground organization in Yulin use radio and walkie-talkies to command our artillery groups outside the city. Strong, strive for the first salvo to silence the enemy's artillery group, which will greatly support our siege troops.

The second is that our troops cannot stop attacking regardless of the day or night. The last time we attacked Yulin, the troops attacked in the dark and withdrew to defend the air during the day. In this way, it took a lot of hard work and casualties at night to take the attack. The strongholds and positions that came down were again occupied by the enemy.

In this way, as long as we can't end the battle overnight, it is tantamount to doing nothing, and we have to start all over again the next day.

When Li Yong talked about the second point, even the commander nodded and said yes, but they asked one after another, what if the enemy's planes are not withdrawn during the day, what should we do?We don't have anti-aircraft weapons, why don't we wait to be bombed?

Li Yong explained to everyone: "The Kuomintang has an air force, but it is not as powerful as we imagined. Most of them are equipped with fighter jets, not bombers. The main mission of fighter jets is air combat rather than ground attack. Every one of them An aircraft has only one or two bombs, and then the airborne machine gun. The main attack method is to dive down from low altitude and then attack the ground target.

We do not have effective anti-air weapons yet, and this is a problem we must solve in the future. At this stage, we can only use our existing weapons and equipment for limited air defense.

This limited air defense is to use the light and heavy machine guns in our hands to shoot at the air. Our purpose of doing this is not to shoot down the enemy's planes, but to let the enemy's planes fly higher. 500 meters per year, the accuracy of ground attack is very low

The ground attack capability of fighter jets is very limited.Aircraft during World War II were not equipped with horizontal bombing devices, if they did not dare to dive down.It's about the effect of surface bombing at high altitude.

Seeing that all the leaders were listening very carefully, Li Yong went on to say; "The casualties caused by the plane at an altitude of 500 meters should be within our tolerance. , withdrew for air defense during the day, and re-attacked the next night with much smaller casualties

As soon as Li Yong finished speaking, all the chiefs suddenly realized and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out that this is the case. We have suffered a lot from this plane, so we will do it like this in the future."

The commander also said that he would report Li Yong's suggestion to the head of the headquarters. It would not be enough for one column to do this. It would only be effective if the entire attacking force came together.

After the meeting, Li Yong immediately became a celebrity in the second column. The brigade commanders and political commissars of several main brigades told Li Yong that if he didn't like to be the leader of this independent regiment, he could consider being a brigade commander there. The chief of staff, if he wants, they report to his superiors.

The chief of staff of the brigade is a deputy brigade, which is higher than the head of the current independent regiment. The chief of staff of the column also smiled and asked Li Yong if he would like to be the deputy chief of staff for the column headquarters.

Li Yong suddenly felt a little frightened, and hurriedly said to the leaders, thank you for being able to afford me. I have only just become the head of the regiment, and this is already big enough. No matter how big an official is, I really can't do it myself. .