The beacon of youth

The number of injuries in the troops continued to increase. Li Yong tried to make up his mind several times to take down the machine gun battalion, but finally gave up his decision.

Speaking of Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou, the firepower on the city wall was suppressed by Gao Xiang's artillery battalion and the machine gunners of the second echelon. The two assault battalions used all their strength to attack the bunkers on both sides.

Both of them are veterans, and they both know in their hearts that if the enemy's side fire is not eliminated, even if the breakthrough is opened, it will be useless. All the fighters who passed were knocked down.

The soldiers blasted one bunker after another, bit by bit, and finally broke a bloody path from the enemy's bunkers at dawn, and of course they paid a considerable price.

Li Yong did not ask Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou for the number of casualties of the soldiers. It was useless to ask. He could only grit his teeth and tell them that the next day would be dawn, and the enemy planes might come again. Make trouble, we have to cross the moat, hurry up to replenish the ammunition, and transfer the wounded.

He Cuihua, the deputy battalion commander of the Radiant Heavy Battalion, kept taking the soldiers of the Radiant Heavy Battalion to transport ammunition to the front line, and then brought back the wounded and the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers.

Hu Xiaolian's health team has never been so busy since its establishment. More and more soldiers died and were injured. The army has never suffered such heavy casualties since it became an army. remains.

Many of the soldiers who died and were injured were old soldiers whom Hu Xiaolian knew. Hu Xiaolian had been secretly weeping, leading the health team to bandage and rescue the wounded.

Seeing such a heavy casualty in the army, Hu Xiaolian wanted to cry out anxiously. She has been in the army for almost a year. She has fought a lot of battles from the special agent company that started with the Internet to the independent regiment now, but it is still the first time that such a large casualty has occurred. one time.

She kept asking the wounded about Li Yong's situation. Several wounded who were familiar with Hu Xiaojinliang told her that the regimental commander and political commissar were fine, but they were very annoyed, probably because of the heavy casualties of the troops.

Everyone knew that the independent regiment had encountered a hard nail this time, the battle was getting more and more difficult, the enemy would be more and more desperate, and the battle in the future would be more intense. Hu Xiaolian took a pot of water and some dry food and asked He Cuihua to give it to him. Li Yong took it up, now she has no time to argue with He Cuihua.

He Cuihua looked at the things in her hand, turned around and left without saying anything, and when she saw Li Yong at the frontier command post, she handed over the water and dry food, and shouted at Sanniu and Xiaocheng again:

"Sanniu and Xiaocheng, you two are fools, do you still have something to think about? No, go home and pick up the children, and you don't care if the leader hasn't eaten.

Sanniu and Cheng were scolded again and stared blankly. To be honest, the battle was so fierce that everyone was so anxious that they got angry. The two of them also forgot about the food and drink of the regiment leader. There is no way we can't remember it. , Cursed and scolded, but He Cuihua, who had finished yelling, said another sentence, which made the two of them very angry.

He Cuihua went on to say: "Little regiment leader, this is brought by Captain Hu of the health team, you will eat something.

Don't look at He Cuihua trying to compete with Hu Xiaolian everywhere, but whoever did it is whoever did it. He Cuihua would never say that the dry food that Hu Xiaolian brought to Li Yong was done by herself. This is a matter of character.

Xiao Cheng and San Niu thought, after a long time of trouble, you didn't remember it, and Hu Xiaolian brought it here, so why scold us?

He Cuihua, who delivered dry food to the head of the regiment, led the soldiers of the Radiant Heavy Battalion to rush up again against the ammunition. The independent regiment had a lot of automatic weapons, but correspondingly, it put a lot of pressure on the logistics, and the ammunition consumption was too high. .This is why the independent regiment has the capital to fight like this. Under the leadership of Li Yong, the fighters of the independent regiment are a bit like taking advantage of the thinking. The Northwest Laobalu really can't afford to fight. Laobalu, who can fight a battle with a dozen bullets, has seen a magazine for more than [-] times and then hugged it out. Before that, he would have loved it to death.

The girl He Cuihua has truly demonstrated her value up to now. She has organized the logistics work in a very orderly manner, and has not messed up her position because of the fierce battle. The battle was fierce, but I can't tell that this girl is different from before. Whatever it is, it's the same as before the battle started.

She is stronger than Hu Xiaolian and Li Jia in this regard, and she is also much better than some male soldiers. It may also have something to do with her experience at home. How can a militia platoon leader who has been beating little devils for several years panic when things happen?Good psychological quality is a necessary condition for a commander. From this point of view, He Cuihua has the inherent advantage to be a good commander.

The last time the Fuzhong Battalion sent up was a pontoon with wheels. Li Yong called up all the machine gunners of the second echelon, just to increase the firepower of the second battalion.Strive to break through Hucheng during the darkest period before dawn."

This moat was newly dug by the 22nd Army of the Kuomintang after the First Battle of Yulin in order to deal with the Northwest Field Army's tunnel operations. It can be more than [-] meters away from the city wall, more than six meters wide, and the water depth is about three meters. It can also circulate. I heard that it was an idea given by an old devil engineer who came to Yulin.

It has to be said that using the moat to deal with the tunnels still has a certain effect. There is no way to dig the tunnels under the city wall in the second battle of Yulin. It seems no big deal to cross such a river in peacetime, but on the battlefield this The moat will cause great trouble to the soldiers who attack and advance.

As long as the speed of the commando team slowed down, the casualties would increase exponentially. At the meeting before the war, everyone discussed several methods, and finally decided to use a pontoon bridge to solve this problem.

The specific method is to install wheels under the wooden planks, carry them by a group of soldiers, and push them into the moat. A simple pontoon bridge will be built. The boxes containing things and food can be taken apart, and they can also be coffins prepared by fellow villagers for the elderly, but they must be solid wood anyway.

In order to prepare for all this, He Cuihua put in a lot of effort. He was the deputy battalion commander of the heavy battalion, and he was the militia platoon leader before joining the army.He is an expert in doing all this, which also allows Li Yong to see the value of He Cuihua from another angle. Not to mention anything else, in terms of mobilizing fellow villagers, no one in the independent group can match He Cuihua.

The covering firepower of the independent regiment was suddenly strengthened after the arrival of the machine gunners of the second echelon. Li Yong stared closely at the front groups of soldiers, and saw that each group of soldiers was composed of six soldiers. Advance to the moat.

Now the city of Yulin is in flames, and the Kuomintang soldiers guarding the city wall, regardless of casualties, hide behind the crenels of the city wall and shoot and throw grenades desperately. The grenades thrown by some strong soldiers have already posed a threat to the advancing soldiers of our army.

The grenades under the city wall were raining down. The sound of the explosion made people feel dazed. The soldiers kept moving forward regardless of the casualties. They had no other thoughts in their minds at this moment. In the pontoon team of six people, if one person is injured or sacrificed, five people will carry it, and if two people die, four people will carry it.

The weight of the pontoon bridge is not too large and four people can carry it away. Using six people to carry it is to consider that someone who is injured or sacrificed during the battle can be replaced. If there are not enough four people, a few more people will rush up from behind to replace.In a word, even if we try our best to lift the pontoon bridge under the moat, a lot of commando soldiers lie down within a short distance of less than 100 meters, and the closer to the moat, the greater the casualties.

Our soldiers are very brave. Each group is led by Communists. They rush to the front, so the casualties are the most. These soldiers are the backbone of the independent regiment. Most of them are familiar with Li Yong. Li Yong praised them and scolded them during practice. Li Yong kept sweating while holding the binoculars, and even wiping them with his clothes didn't help. But now is not the time to feel sorry for the soldiers. The longer the delay, the greater the casualties.

With the continuous efforts of the soldiers, they finally rushed to the front of the moat. Several pontoon bridges were pushed into the moat, and several simple pontoon bridges were built. Then the city wall can be blasted. As long as the city wall is blasted and a breakthrough is opened, it is very promising. Once the breakthrough is opened, the stalemate of the entire battlefield will be reversed.

The soldiers of the commando also carried some explosive packs when they lifted the pontoon bridge, but at this moment, an accident happened. A few Kuomintang soldiers suddenly appeared from behind the crenels of the city wall, holding a strange weapon in their hands. Shoot at the pontoon.

In an instant, the pontoon bridge was enveloped in flames. Thick smoke billowed, not to mention the pontoon bridge, and even the water surface near the pontoon bridge was on fire. It was knocked down by our army's covering fire, but the pontoon bridge could no longer pass.

Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou yelled in the walkie-talkie: "Commander, what should we do? What kind of weapon is this? It also has a fire-breathing one, our commando team can't get through it."

Both Li Jiangguo and Ma Quanyou are veterans who have experienced many battles. If they were not in a hurry, they would not yell like that. Although they have fought for many years, they have never encountered such a situation. Flame-breathing weapons.

Li Yong had been observing the battle with a telescope. Of course he knew that it was a flamethrower. This was a very common weapon later, but it was a terrifying weapon in the Northwest battlefield in [-]s.