The beacon of youth

The platoon leaders returned to their own platoons to organize troops to help Ning Jinshan's fourth platoon go down the cliff, and the reconnaissance platoon continued to be vigilant.

At this time, the battle in Panlong Town became more and more intense. The explosion of explosives continued, and the sound of grenade explosions was like fried beans. when.

Another hour or so later, the supplies on the cliff were basically put down. Except for the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon who were still guarding above, the soldiers of the other platoons had already descended to the bottom of the cliff by rope. For more than 3 meters, the soldiers carried weapons, ammunition and various supplies back and forth in a trot. Everyone, including Li Yong and Wang Chengde, was sweating profusely, but no one felt tired because they were so excited.

After carrying it twice, Li Yong suddenly remembered something. Our army's hard attack on Panlong will definitely cause heavy casualties. Historically, our army's battle in Panlong Town has indeed caused a lot of casualties, especially Jiyu, the main peak of Panlong Town. Mao, this is the commanding height of the entire Panlong Town, with powerful field fortifications built, and the troops who mainly attacked Jiyumao paid a high price.

Li Yong thought that since I came, I would do my part, and immediately went to the instructor Wang Chengde and said: "Old Wang, our main force will inevitably suffer heavy casualties if we attack from the front. Unexpected effect, as long as two battalions can go up and fight from the rear, it will cause huge psychological pressure on the enemy, maybe the battle will end early, and the casualties of our main force can be greatly reduced."

Wang Chengde said it was a good thing, what do you think?Li Yong: "I want Li Jiangguo to take a few soldiers to contact the main force. He used to be a member of the guard company of our regiment. Many leaders knew him. It is most suitable for him to go. If others go to the leader, they may not believe it. Besides, It doesn’t matter whether you can see or grow if you send someone else to go.”

Wang Chengde said that's the way to go, and immediately asked the soldiers to find Li Jiangguo. After handing over the task, Li Yong said to Li Jiangguo: "Be careful not to be accidentally injured by our army. If you meet the regiment leader and ask how many people we have now, you can tell the truth." , but we must not say what we seized, understand?" Li Jiangguo said with a smile: "I know, company commander, don't worry, I am a veteran soldier who has fought for several years, it is not so easy to hurt me, as for us If you and the instructor don’t talk about it, I won’t tell even my father.”

After Li Jiangguo left, Li Yong and Wang Chengde commanded the soldiers to move all their weapons and equipment into the cave. Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance platoon set up the secret post, and the other soldiers also went into the cave, and then blocked the entrance of the cave with branches. After sealing the entrance of the cave, the soldiers all sat down on the ground and did not move. The excitement after the task was over, and even Li Yong felt uncomfortable even after not resting for nearly 4 hours. Only the second row of long horses were surrounded by weapons and ammunition. Shouting: "It's rich, this time it's really rich." Wang Chengde told everyone not to go to bed immediately, and asked the cooking team to bring the prepared hay and spread it under their bodies.

It turned out that the soldiers in the cooking squad saw that other comrades were busy, but they had nothing to do, so under the command of Sun Quanhou, they went outside to get a lot of hay, and when the comrades came back, they put them under their bodies, so as not to catch cold when they were resting , I made a bale of hay, spread it out, and lay it up, and Li Yong felt that it was a comfortable place. He used to sleep in a hotel, but he was not comfortable now. Looking at the cave full of weapons and equipment, he thought: It seems that I have not worked in vain. It's done.

After thinking about it, I feel that there is still one problem that has not been solved. How can I get back this stuff full of holes?You can't keep it here, thinking of this, you called Wang Huo and Zhang Jinsong over, and first said to Zhang Jinsong: "You and Hu Hu can't rest yet. When Jiang Guo brings the main force up, your reconnaissance platoon will be in charge on the cliff." Support, but cannot participate in the battle, our soldiers have not fought before, and they will suffer losses if they rush to participate in a big battle, wait for the main force to go up and bring your platoon down."

After Zhang Jinsong agreed, he went out, and Li Yong said to the fifth platoon leader Wang Huhu: "Tiger, we have to find a way to get rid of things, we can't keep them here, the main force will withdraw soon after the battle is over, The enemy's reinforcements are rushing back. We need to get the things back before the enemy's reinforcements come back. You immediately take you out to the nearby villagers' homes to find carriages, try to find as many as possible, and say yes to the villagers. No money, but the carriages cannot be used in vain. Each carriage will be given a bag of millet. After finding the carriage, hide it. When the battle is over, we must find the carriage, or we can’t take it all by ourselves, and wait for the enemy. When our reinforcements arrive, we will be in vain."

Why did the fifth platoon go to look for the carriage Li Yong? There were considerations. First, the leader of the fifth platoon, King Tiger, was reassuring. Then, the fifth platoon did not participate in the digging, and his physical strength was better than that of other platoon fighters.Wang Huo also knew the seriousness of the problem, and immediately said: "I promise to complete the task." After speaking, he and the deputy platoon leader woke up the soldiers in the fifth platoon one by one, told them that there was a task to be dispatched immediately, and then walked along the path beside the cave entrance. The back mountain is gone.

Besides, Li Jiangguo led two soldiers around behind the main attacking force, reported his serial number to the guards, and asked the expert to report on important situations. The commanders actually knew most of them. It turned out that the place I was looking for was my brigade headquarters. The brigade commander Chen Xing was discussing issues with several commanders.

Brigadier Chen saw Li Jiangguo coming in and asked strangely: "Oh, isn't this Li Jiangguo from the Second Regiment? Why are you running around when you're not in your regiment?" Li Jiangguo hurriedly said: "Brigade Commander, I It is no longer in the guard company of our regiment headquarters. Our regiment has newly formed a special agent company. I was transferred to the special agent company. Our company climbed over the cliff on the back mountain of Panlong Town during training. Now there are still people in our company Standing on the cliff, the ropes are all ready."

After listening to Li Jiangguo's report, Brigadier Chen shouted: "Great, I am worried about the slow attack speed of the troops in front. This Li Kungang is not easy to deal with. He is a stubborn stubble with real skills." Li Jiangguo followed up. In other words, our company commander said the same thing.

Brigadier Chen asked curiously: "Your company commander also knows this Li Kungang?" Li Jiangguo said aside Li Yong's evaluation of Li Kungang, and Brigadier Chen said in surprise after hearing this: "Oh, your company commander is not simple. , you know a lot, you were transferred from that unit?"

Li Jiangguo couldn't help laughing when the brigade commander asked him this: "Our company commander was not transferred from other troops, but he ran out from the Kuomintang army. He ran into me halfway and was caught by me." came back.

Brigadier Chen was stunned after hearing this: "What is Zhao Jin up to? A Kuomintang deserter who just joined the army for a few days became a company commander?" Li Jiangguo immediately said: "Brigade Commander, I thought the same as you at first. , Later I figured it out, our regiment commander's decision was correct, our company commander is not an ordinary person, there are too many things in his stomach, and he guessed our action intention just a few days after arriving in the army, even our main force He also guessed it first when we hit Panlong Town this time, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to go to the back mountain for training."

After listening to Li Jiangguo's words, Brigadier Chen became even more strange to Li Yong, but now is not the time to study this issue, so he asked Li Jiangguo if there are fewer people in the back mountain?Li Jiangguo said: "Our company commander said that two battalions are enough, and we can't use more."

Brigadier Chen said yes, go to the brigade reserve immediately and take two battalions there. Remember to fire two red flares when the attack starts, and I will let the frontal troops cooperate with you.After Li Jiangguo saluted, he immediately went to the reserve team. Soldiers from the two battalions followed Li Jiangguo and walked around the back mountain of Panlong Town. When he arrived at the bottom of the cliff, Li Jiangguo saw company commander Li Yong and instructor Wang Chengde waiting for them. He said to the battalion commander who led the team: "This is our company commander and instructor." Then he said to Li Yong and Wang Chengde: "This is the battalion commander Liu of our brigade reserve team."

Li Yong and Wang Chengde rushed forward to salute. Commander Liu held their hands and said, "Comrades, please introduce the situation to me. I don't need to worry about the rest." The battalion commander introduced it again, and finally suggested: If you go up from here to attack the Jiyumao battle defended by the enemy, it will be difficult to fight, because it is the commanding height of Panlong Town, the highest place in Panlong Town, and defending the enemy is a reinforced battalion , Our attacking force is not dominant, but the enemy's headquarters is not in Jiyumao, Li Kungang's brigade headquarters is in a few yards not far from the back mountain, and one of his guard companies is responsible for defending, if we These two battalions went up to destroy his guard company, and it would be easy to capture Li Kungang alive. We can force him to order the recalcitrant troops to surrender.

After hearing what Li Yong said, Battalion Commander Liu said loudly: "Company Commander Li, that's great, I will do as you said, and go out." After speaking, he led the soldiers to climb the cliff. There were more than 7 soldiers in the two battalions. People, it took more than an hour to climb up. After 10 minutes, two red signal flares rose from the cliff, and then there were dense gunshots and grenade explosions. Li Yong asked Zhang Jinsong to bring down the soldiers in his platoon. Rest, don't worry about fighting.