The beacon of youth

Li Yong told everyone that Li Kungang's guard company could not last long under the sudden attack of our army's two battalions. Now our task is to sleep.

At around 4 o'clock in the morning, the sound of gunfire and explosions gradually faded away, and after more than 20 minutes, there were only sporadic gunshots. Li Yong knew that our army's battle against Panlong Town was over, and now he was waiting for Wang Huo up.At about 9:[-] in the morning, soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon came in and reported: "Our army wiped out the enemy's [-]th Brigade in Panlong Town, and captured the brigade commander Li Kungang alive. The brigade commander Li Kungang was captured by the brigade reserve team that went up from us. Long said that if you have the opportunity, thank you very much.”

Li Yong asked Zhang Jinsong to send a few more people to meet Wang Huhu and his fifth platoon. At noon, Zhang Jinsong came in and told Li Yong that the fifth platoon had returned. Li Yong got up quickly and went outside to see that Wang Huhu and his soldiers brought many fellow villagers With many large carriages, Wang Huo walked up to Li Yong and reported loudly: "Report to the company commander, there are 24 carriages in total, and there are two fellows in each carriage, a total of 48 people."

Li Yong thumped Wang Huhu: "Tiger, I really have you, that's great." Then he ordered the troops to load the vehicles immediately, and the reconnaissance platoon was alert.

A total of 24 large carriages were loaded to the brim, and there were still many unloaded, so Li Yong had no choice but to let the soldiers fight, except of course the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon, who had other tasks. The folks are very strange, aren't the eight roads all poor, why are these eight roads not poor?

Under the strange eyes of the fellow villagers, the spy company was desperately walking northward under the leadership of the instructor Wang Chengde. Only Li Yong and 8 people from the company headquarters and Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance platoon stayed. This was after discussion between Li Yong and the instructor Wang Chengde It was decided, and Li Yong’s reason was that the army needs to be expanded. Although the people in northern Shaanxi are very conscious and support their army, but the land is sparsely populated, it is difficult to expand the army. The last time the spies recruited recruits was an example, but There are a lot of people in the Kuomintang army, and most of them are ordinary people who were captured. As long as they are captured and educated, they will be good soldiers.

Panlong Town is surrounded by mountains for dozens of miles. I don’t believe there are no fish that slip through the net. Li Kungang’s troops are a strengthened brigade with more than 7000 people. There is no need to catch dozens of him, which is a great harvest. Wang Chengde thought This is indeed the case, so I agreed with Li Yong's idea, but Wang Chengde was worried when he left, so he left the 8 veterans of the company headquarters for him and asked him to pay attention to safety.

Now there are 26 people in the reconnaissance platoon plus Ning Erzi who newly joined the army, plus Li Yong and 8 people from the company headquarters, a total of 35 people have all been replaced with submachine guns, each with 2 bullets, and 4 grenades, what about the soldiers? Needless to say, even Zhang Jinsong and the other veterans kept touching their bullet belts. Zhang Jinsong grinned and said: "Company commander, when we beat the little devils, the little devils said that we are Tubalu. People from the Kuomintang said that we are poor people, and if we meet again this time, let him know what a rich person is."

It stands to reason that Li Yong should be equipped with a shell gun, but this time the spy company seized a lot of weapons but not a small gun. Li Yong didn't care. He carried a brand new American submachine gun like the soldiers, but he didn't carry a grenade. , and hung a leather satchel in the place where the grenade was hung.

In this way, Li Yong and the soldiers kept messing around in the mountains dozens of miles around Panlong Town. Let alone Li Yongmeng was right this time, they captured two groups of stragglers in less than half a day. There were more than 3 people together, Li Yong asked the captives to put the gun with the firing pin on the back, and picked a more honest prisoner to lead the way to continue searching in the mountains. By the time it was getting dark, he had already caught more than 4 people. Li Yong was afraid that it would be dark and The deserters of the Kuomintang caused unnecessary conflicts and told everyone not to leave and camp in place.

Because the battle in Panlong Town was over, the soldiers were not afraid of exposing their targets and lit several piles of fires. They also asked the captives to light a big fire and warm up together. Li Yong asked the soldiers to send dry food and water to the captives. Fearful, he walked over and said to a prisoner sitting by the fire: Brother, give me a place.

After a day, the prisoners all knew that this young man in ordinary clothes was the company commander of the Eighth Route Army and the leader of this small unit, so they hurriedly made room for Li Yong. After sitting down, Li Yong looked at the prisoners and said loudly: "Brothers, Do you know the Eighth Route Army’s captive policy?” After waiting for a while, a few captives would reply sparsely: “Yes.” Li Yong shouted again: “Since you know, why are you still nervous? You can eat and drink as much as you want.”

After finishing speaking, he handed the water bottle in his hand to the captives beside him: "I'll give you two sips of water to see how you look like your mother? Didn't you pee your pants during the war?" The captives all laughed after listening to Li Yong's words, and the tense atmosphere No more, Li Yong continued: "To tell you the truth, you see, I am now the company commander of the Eighth Route Army. Two months ago, I was wearing the same clothes as you, and pointed to the prisoners beside me. , but my rank is not as high as yours, you are a corporal and I am a private."

The prisoners were very surprised after hearing Li Yong's words. One of the prisoners asked in a low voice, "Sir, were you arrested by the Eighth Route Army just like us?" Yes, my original name was Li Erdan, but I changed my name to Li Yong after joining the People's Liberation Army because I didn't like it."

When the prisoners heard that the company commander of the Eighth Route Army was a prisoner of the Communist Party like them two months ago, they all relaxed, and began to talk more, and another prisoner asked: "Sir, when did you come here?" of?"

Li Yong replied: "Before attacking Yan'an, I was injured and ran out of the field hospital. I was caught by our People's Liberation Army on the way. The guy who caught me was called Li Jiangguo, a platoon leader of our company. This kid He’s not here now, if he’s here to listen to me praising him like this, he’s not beautiful.”

The soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon laughed when they heard Li Yong's words. Everyone knew the history of the company commander. Li Yong continued: "But it's okay now. Now I am the company commander. He is the platoon leader and he must listen to me." , You didn't see Li Jiangguo's appearance when our commander just announced that I was the company commander, 120 people were unwilling, do you know how I dealt with him?Seeing that the prisoners were listening intently, he continued, "I transferred Li Jiangguo to the company headquarters as a correspondent for a month, and he has been honest since then."

This time, even the prisoners and the soldiers in the reconnaissance platoon laughed loudly, and the prisoners were completely relaxed.

Seeing the captive's relaxed mood, Li Yong asked, "Brothers, which one of you is poor?"When the prisoner heard Li Yong's question, he replied, "Sir, we are all poor people. Who will serve as a soldier from a rich family?"Li Yong asked again: Do you know why you are poor?After listening to Li Yong's words, the captives didn't make a sound because they didn't know how to answer. Li Yong went on to say: You may have this or that answer and idea, but what I want to tell you is,