The beacon of youth

The second echelon is the commando team of Cangtuan, to put it bluntly, it is the death squad.Xiegan, your town, used the fastest speed to clear the roadblocks, barbed wire, power grids and bunkers set up by the enemy outside the city, passed through the moat and then came to Yulin city, and used a large amount of explosives to blow down the city wall, opening a breakthrough for the follow-up attacking troops.

Li Yong looked at Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou: "The commandos are the death squads of our regiment, and they are the sharp knives of our whole regiment. Whether you can insert the sharp knife into the enemy's chest depends on your ability. I am not optimistic about other brother troops in Yulin's attack.

This is not because I am so proud, but because the fighters in our column, including the brother troops of the field army, have little experience in siege, and their use of explosives and firepower are far less intensive than our regiment.

Therefore, I can speak with humility here, regardless of how few of us there are.But our regiment is the unit most likely to open the breakthrough first. Do you two have the confidence to open the breakthrough and open the way for the entire army to attack? "

Li Jiangguo, the commander of the first battalion, and Ma Quanyou, the commander of the second battalion, stepped forward: "The regimental commander and the political commissar, both of us are members of the Communist Party and soldiers trained by the party for many years. The task entrusted to us by the party committee is to open the breakthrough at all costs. The soldiers sacrificed the squad leader, the squad leader sacrificed the platoon leader, and the platoon leader sacrificed us. If we don’t open the breakthrough, we will not come back to see you and the political commissar.”

At the beginning of the Liberation War, the army had very little experience in attacking big cities. The Northwest Field Army’s two attacks on Yulin ended in failure, and they paid a heavy price and blood. The first successful attack on a big city was North China When the field army liberated Shijiazhuang, it was called Shimen at that time, and Shijiazhuang was the later name.

Morale is what fights in war. Li Yong is very satisfied with the guarantee of Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou, and also believes that these two veterans who are young but have been tested by war can do it. He nodded and continued to announce the order:

"Taking Ma Changsheng's third battalion and Ning Jinshan's fourth battalion as the second attack echelon, the task is to follow behind the first echelon, and if the first echelon fails to open a breakthrough, it will advance instead of them and carry out the second assault.

If the first echelon opens a breakthrough, the second echelon must occupy and defend it. This is the time when the enemy counterattacks most fiercely, and the enemies in the city will be desperate because of the opened breakthrough.

At this time, our first echelon is likely to lose its combat effectiveness due to excessive casualties in the battle outside the city. Whether you can occupy and defend the breakthrough that our first echelon soldiers exchanged for their lives and blood depends on you. Yes, my regiment command post is with your second echelon. "

Ma Changsheng, commander of the third battalion, and Ning Jinshan, commander of the fourth battalion, also took a step forward and replied with a straight chest: "If the first echelon fails to complete the task, we will replace them for the second attack. If the first echelon opens a breakthrough, we will occupy and hold it , please rest assured the regiment party committee, as long as there is one person in our third battalion and fourth battalion, we will be able to complete the task."

Take Wang Huo's Fifth Battalion and Zhang Jinsong's Reconnaissance Battalion as the third attack echelon, led by political commissar Wang Chengde. The task is that you will launch the final attack if the first and second echelon attacks fail. The attack force of our entire regiment is Three waves, you are the last.

You are also the last assault force of our whole regiment. If the battle progresses smoothly, the first and second echelons successfully open the breakthrough, then the third echelon will go deep into the enemy, engage in street fighting with the enemy, and go straight to the headquarters of the enemy's 22nd Army , Destroy the enemy's command center, and create favorable conditions for the entire army to gather and annihilate the enemy in Yulin.

Our slogan was "Shoot into Yulin City. Shoot Regiment Commander Di Chi. I remember the slogan of our field army is to go into Yulin and capture Deng Chi alive. This time our regiment has changed?" The person who asked the question was Zhang Jinsong, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion.

Li Yong glared at him: "What are you capturing alive? What's the use of these Kuomintang officers? To waste food? I don't care what the other troops shout. The slogan of our regiment is to enter Yulin City and shoot Deng. From now on, the slogan of our regiment Shout out like that too. No matter what kind of enemy we are fighting with. Our slogan is to shoot the enemy's commander in chief."

Li Jiangguo, the commander of the first battalion, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, they are going to be shot. The commander is right. What's the use of keeping them? It's best to shoot them all. Li Yuming's guard company and Zhang Jinsong's are the easiest to do this job." The reconnaissance battalion is over, anyway, they are used to it, let them go if they have something to do." Zhang Jinsong kicked Li Jiangguo: "Jiangguo, I can't tell that you are an officer who really wants to shoot the enemy. Why do you want to kill the enemy? What do you mean by flattering for a long time?"

Li Yuming also muttered in a low voice: "I didn't mess with you. Why do you keep mentioning our police officers for such a job? It doesn't make any sense if you get used to it. I'm going to your first battalion. I'm not interested in such a job."

Whispering, he didn't dare to say that Li Jiangguo wanted to flatter the head of the regiment like Zhang Jinsong did.Li Jiangguo, the little devil who has fought for several years... Zuo Haobi, don't look at Ge Yuming as a leader...a leader of more than a hundred people, his majesty is a recruit.

After the order was announced, everyone got busy nervously. Only He Cuihua, the deputy battalion commander of the Heavy Lifting Battalion, was dissatisfied and kept asking why the heavy lifting battalion was not given a combat order?Their radiation battalion is also a combat force, and the guns in their hands are not burning sticks, they can kill people just the same.

The explanation given by Li Yong is: "Our regiment will give up all its strength and go all out in this battle. This is also the most dangerous battle since the formation of this army. If all three attack echelons of our regiment lose Yes, this shows that the whole battle is enough.

At this time, the main force of the regiment will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and it is useless for you to go up to Daozhong Battalion, you might as well stay.Less casualties, more seeds for the troops.If the attacking force goes well, your battalion will rush forward in addition to the remaining personnel. In particular, your heavy lifting battalion will also organize a commando team, led by you.

The task is to destroy the enemy's warehouse in Yulin City, and then occupy and defend the warehouse as soon as possible. When our regiment has moved enough food and supplies, it will be handed over to the main force. This is a bit selfish. So I'm not ashamed to say it in front of everyone.If you ask, I have no choice but to tell you. "

He Qianhua sighed: "Hey. You regiment leader and Communist Party member, let me tell you what's good about you. I won't report you because you work so hard to arrange the battle, but those leaders They seem to like you very much. I think the report may not have any effect. Even if I didn’t hear about this matter, I will definitely carry out your order seriously. I heard that the Heavy Lifting Battalion also set up a commando team, and He Cuihua was so happy to let herself lead the team, she trotted away.

It's a bit strange to let a girl lead the commando team. Sun Quanhou, the battalion commander of the Fuzhong Battalion, approached Li Yong and Wang Chengde and said, "Regimental Commander, my grandson is a man. I have fought countless times, and my combat experience is no less than this girl, if you let a woman be the captain of the commando, where will I put my face?"

Li Yong smiled and told Lao Sun not to worry, the task of carrying the heavy battalion is not to attack the city, but to follow the troops to rob the warehouse. He Cuihua is very suitable for this kind of work. If you don’t let her go, she will have to run there by herself. It's better to give her the task now.

Sun Quanhou had no choice but to think about it later, this is really the case. You said that if He Cuihua is not allowed to go, she will not be able to stay safely behind, and maybe it will delay other things.

Standing behind Li Yong, Sanniu and Xiaocheng couldn't help but curl their lips at He Cuihua who ran away after speaking, telling you to grab something, you can grab something, there is nothing wrong with grabbing something from the enemy.Other troops wanted to rob us and didn't stop them, so it's up to us when the time comes.

Finally, one night, the main force of the Northwest Field Army surrounded Yulin City. The gun fired.

Although Mo, the commander of the 22nd Army defending the enemy, was also panicked, he still had a little bit of self-restraint in his heart. While ordering the troops to defend closely, he asked Hu Zongnan, the top Northwest official of the Kuomintang, for help.

Hu Zhongnan, who received the telegram, was sitting in his executive office in Xi'an at this time. The Northwest King of the Kuomintang commanded the war in Xi'an, a thousand kilometers away from the front line. Move forward as far as possible to grasp the situation on the front line. The recent behavior is in stark contrast to the behavior of the front line attacking troops only a few hundred meters away.

Li Yong sometimes wondered, when Chiang Kai-shek, who was defeated and fled to Taiwan, knew that his student came to command the troops in this way, did he ever regret it?If another general is changed, will he still be in command like Hu Zongnan?

But at that time, it was too late to regret. His student had buried hundreds of thousands of his elite troops to the Northwest, where many ordinary soldiers of the Kuomintang fought bravely after being educated by the People's Army.Became a hero of the Republic, these are things for the time being.

Hu Zongnan, the Northwest King of the Kuomintang, kept encouraging Deng Chi with telegrams, and told him to persevere. The reinforcements from Yan’an had already arrived and were moving forward. Deng Mo must think of ways to defend Yulin City like last time, make new contributions to the party and the country, and set a model for suppressing the Communist Party in the Northwest. At that time, he will come to Yulin in person to award medals to the soldiers who have done meritorious service.

Yulin has been under the management of the 22nd Army of the Kuomintang for decades.The issue of defense has been fully taken into consideration. The family members and properties of the officers of the entire army are in Yulin City, and the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level have a desperate mentality.