The beacon of youth

Cuihua doesn't care about giving people feelings all day long.But all the girls are thinking about it, and they know it well. At this stage, it is a critical period for the troops to rest and reorganize, and it is also a golden period for logistics work. We must seize all the time to get the logistics supplies in place, otherwise it will be too late once the troops take action. The quality of logistics is directly related to the strength or weakness of the troops.

With the efforts of Sun Quanhou and He Shuhua, the independent regiment purchased a large amount of supplies and food, and also paid for the clothing factory to process a lot of cotton double-layer field tents. Withstood the toss.

This is also a no-brainer. Who told our field army to be poor? We all reach out to our superiors, and we can only do it after the superiors make up for it?Besides, if you don’t have any, it’s better to do it yourself for the benefits.

After nearly two months of rest, the overall strength of the Northwest Field Army has greatly improved. The quality of officers and soldiers, weapons and ammunition, and food supplies have all reached a new level, and their physical strength has also been restored. After entering, the total force has increased from more than 2 people when the Kuomintang attacked Yan'an in March [-] to more than [-] people.

In addition, the troops have won two major victories in a row recently, and seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and equipment.The situation of soldiers with only a few bullets has improved a lot, so their combat effectiveness has increased unprecedentedly.

And because of the big city of Yulin, it was already a dream for the Kuomintang troops of the Northwest King Hu Zongnan to eat up our army in the Northwest.

Of course, it is very difficult for our army to eat the Kuomintang troops. Although the strength of the Northwest Field Army has been greatly improved, it is still far inferior to the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan's troops. It is already a great progress to gain a firm foothold in the Northwest at this stage. up.

From the beginning of the Kuomintang's attack on Yan'an, Mao Zedong decided that the Ninth Detachment of the Central Committee led by him would not be able to resist the Yellow River, but would stay in northern Shaanxi to deal with the enemy. Knowing that my mother is still in northern Shaanxi, and I am still with them, it seems that after the liberation of Yulin, the situation of the Northwest Field Army and the Central Committee has improved to some extent, but it is not easy to sit back and relax.

In the entire Northwest battlefield, in addition to Hu Zongnan's Central Army, there are also local Kuomintang troops in Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu who are staring at our army.

Although these local warlords had conflicts with the central army and the government of the Kuomintang, and were wary and frictional with each other, they held the same political position. Therefore, a temporary and strange peaceful situation appeared on the Northwest battlefield. Hu Zongnan of the Kuomintang The Central Army, the Northwest Field Army of the Communist Party of China, and the local warlords in Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia have not made major moves for a period of time.

On this day, the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army held a meeting of cadres above the regiment. The requirement of the column was that the leaders of the units above the regiment should attend. Li Yong, Wang Chengde, and Fang Xin, the chief of staff of the independent regiment, attended the meeting together.

This chief of staff, Fang Xin, was also one of more than 20 veterans of the Independent Regiment Network when it started. He was the backbone of the Second Regiment of the Fourth Brigade. Bravely used as a combat staff officer, and also took out to train recruits.

All the recruits of the Independent Regiment were trained by the four of them. Later, after the army was promoted to the regiment, there were more positions that could be assigned. Li Yong and Wang Chengde assigned the four positions as a mediator, deputy head of the regiment, a deputy political commissar, and a political commissar. The director of the department, and finally Fang Xin, whom Li Yong believed to be very military-literate, hard-working and thoughtful, was appointed as the chief of staff of the independent regiment.

The chief of staff is a very important position in the establishment of the People's Liberation Army. Basically, he is the third in every army, that is to say, he is the number three person in the army and the commander in charge of operations in the army.

Everyone has seen the old movie Lin Haixueyuan.The code name of this small unit of our army is Squad [-]. Why is it called this code name?It is because the commander of this unit, Shao Jianpo, is the chief of staff of a regiment of the main force. His code name is [-], [-] is the regiment commander, and [-] is the political commissar.One more thing, the Northeast Field Army is the one with the largest number of troops, the best weapons and equipment, and the strongest combat effectiveness in the People's Liberation Army.The third person is the Chief of Staff Liu Yalou. Although there are several deputy commanders, deputy political commissars, directors of the political department, and commanders of the corps, etc., the third person can only be the chief of staff Liu Yalou. There is no doubt about this. The back and forth telegrams were also signed by Lin Luoliu.It's a bit too much, let's come back to this chapter.

Li Yong appreciates this old soldier named Fang Xin very much. He usually doesn’t talk much, but he is very assertive. He likes to use his brain to think about problems.

By the time Li Yong, Wang Chengde, and Fang Xin arrived, some people who had come to the meeting had already arrived, and the column headquarters, which was usually a bit deserted, suddenly became lively.

The guards and staff officers in the headquarters were busy moving stools and pouring water for the commanders at all levels who came to the meeting, and because these commanders usually have little time and opportunity to get together, they are all greeting each other at this time, which is a bit special. Familiar old comrades in arms are still fighting with each other.

Although these people are very serious on the battlefield full of artillery fire, they are captains who have experienced hundreds of battles, and they are middle and senior commanders of columns and field armies, but they are all only about 30 years old, and some are not even 30 years old. A real young man.

When some commanders saw Li Yong, Wang Chengde, and Fang Xin coming in, they shouted: "Everyone, take a look, the independent regiment is here. Now the independent regiment has really become a rich landlord. Our commander and The political commissar is really eccentric. More than 1000 militiamen were all given to them. You said that we people don’t eat bones, but we don’t even get some soup. The guys under my hand almost killed me because of this matter. The ears are gone, and they say that I am weak-headed and incompetent, that I can’t speak to the commander and the political commissar, and that no one will come.

Another catty.The commander took the words and said: "What wrong is not wronged, you boy is much better than me, I am stupid, I am a little anxious when I am teased by my subordinates, pick up the phone and call our commander, In the end, our commander scolded me on the phone, why do you say? I just wanted to recruit people, and I didn’t do anything else. If you say I’m wronged, I’m really wronged.”

As soon as the commander finished speaking, there was a lot of laughter at the scene, and another commander said: "You deserve it, you deserve it, this time you know what it means to hit the muzzle of a gun? .

Hearing the commander speak like this, someone asked strangely: "I said Lao Zhang, what do you mean? Is it a little gloating that you didn't get scolded next to you?".

The commander surnamed Zhang said triumphantly: "It is thanks to our political commissar to talk about this matter. I wanted to call our commander as soon as I heard about it. Why don't we have to get some soup?" Drink, why don't the more than 1000 militiamen give us any.

When our political commissar saw that I wanted to make a call, he immediately stopped me. He told me, Old Zhang, can you sit on your butt, little boy? I won’t do that. If you call now, the commander must have prepared all the words to scold you. Wait, if you want to ask, you have to let other troops ask first. Let’s have a look.

As soon as the leader Zhang finished speaking, the people in the room were in chaos. Someone laughed and said: "Damn it, you old Zhang didn't realize when you have so many eyes."

Listening to everyone's discussion, Li Yong also knew that the commander had gone too far in this matter, and it was normal for other brigade heads to have opinions, so he hurriedly spun around with Wang Chengde and Chief of Staff Fang Xin to accompany everyone with a smile.At this time, some commanders asked: "I said Commander Li, Political Commissar Wang, and Chief of Staff Fang Da, how many people are there in your independent regiment plus the newly added soldiers?"

Li Yong did not dare to say that his independent regiment now has more than 200 people. If he said it, he was afraid that they would be jealous. They would lose some of the fighters who were finally assigned to them. The column has the largest number of other regiments. of a referral.Not more than two thousand.

Li Yong and the others were afraid that telling the number of people would irritate the commanders at all levels even more. They just smiled and said that there were a little more than before. Our independent regiment was formed later. The larger number is also due to everyone's credit, thank you With the help of the elders, without the strong support of the elders, our independent group would not be able to make it this far.

When these commanders saw Li Yong yelling from left to right, they were embarrassed to ask further questions, why?Although Li Yong is young, he is also a regiment-level cadre like everyone else. He calls everyone a senior because he has low qualifications and respects everyone. It's not that his position is lower than yours.

But even though he didn't press hard to ask, wouldn't people count?These people were all from the old Red Army of the Eighth Route Army. They had fought for many years, and their melon seeds were sharp and sharp. After asking each other for research, the approximate number of independent regiments came out.

After counting the number of independent regiments, these commanders are a bit stupid. Hey, people are more popular than others. Without such partiality, there is really no way. I want to go to the commander for an argument, but I am afraid of being scolded. When I went out, I had no choice but to consider myself unlucky. These people are all old subordinates of Commander Wang. They have been through life and death together for many years, and they are very clear about their elders' temper.