The beacon of youth

The ten soldiers of the Kuomintang at the foot of the mountain pass have been cold and hungry for several days. They fought from Yan'an and Kong Cong had a good rest. Whether they were fighting or marching, they were exhausted to death. One of them was looking east and west, lying on the ground whenever there was a turmoil, and the Kuomintang officers in the team were so angry that they killed several soldiers lying on the ground one after another.

What does a soldier shout to his brothers who are as frightened as he is?He told the officers below to be tough, to be aggressive and domineering, saying that only in this way can the troops be managed well and the soldiers be obedient

"Fuck him with his banditry and arrogance. Since we don't treat us as human beings, it's better to sell them some steel. It's better to be the chief of Baluli. When things get messed up later, our brothers will break down a few ideas first. Be an official Let out this bad breath, and then go all the way."

"Okay, let's do this, watch carefully, wait for the cannon on the Eighth Road on the mountain to go off, let's take advantage of the chaos and find a few officials to start, and kill a few, and then Li Yong can really see these through the telescope. Look around The soldier carrying the walkie-talkie called over and told Gao Xiang to pay attention to the attack on the enemy commander.

Gao Xiang, who was fighting guerrilla warfare on the ground, also noticed this problem, and then the shells fell on the officer directing the attack as if he had eyes. After a burst of shell explosions, the regiment rushed to the front of the junior officer.Seeing that there was no one to supervise the battle, these soldiers were lying on the ground again and couldn't get up.

The head of the enemy's avant-garde regiment was angry and anxious, and hurried to the jeep of the division commander Yan Ming: "Report to the division, the communist army's artillery fire is too powerful, it seems that there are dozens of mortars firing, Brothers can't rush up.

The division commander Yan Ming ignored him, and observed the position on the mountain with a telescope. After observing for a while, he said to himself: "It's really strange. If you say it's a guerrilla, the guerrilla doesn't have so much heavy firepower. Some can also fight." Not so accurate, if you say it is the main force of the communist army, it is even more inexplicable. Where did the main force of the communist army emerge? After fighting for a while, I didn't see a few figures of the communist army. What does it mean that artillery fire is on us?.

The head of the avant-garde regiment listened to his teacher's words, and interjected: "Master, although the communist army's artillery fire is very powerful, I don't think it is the main force of the communist army, and it should be equipped with a certain number of small cannons." The guerrillas are harassing us, the purpose is to slow down the marching speed of our army and create opportunities for the main force of the communist army.

Yan Ming: "That's what I said, but if it's really a local guerrilla of the Communist Army, is the artillery organization of this guerrilla so powerful? Besides, when did the Communist Army use small cannons like this, and use a few shells as treasures When did the communist army become so generous?"

"What do you think the teacher should do? How about I organize the brothers to attack again?"

Yan Ming glared at the head of the regiment: "Come down and rest for your regiment. The most important thing for an army to fight is morale. If you are exhausted, what should you use to attack? Let the other regiments go up and pass on my orders. Send a battalion to fight. The communist army positions continued to attack, and the artillery was ordered to cover and shoot the communist army positions to cover the charge of the troops.

After the little officer left, Liu Kan snorted: "Your communist army has mortars, and I have large-caliber howitzers. Let's see which one of us is better? Can you be more afraid of you than firepower guns?".

Li Yong sent Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion out to deal with the enemy's artillery, but Yan Ming's reorganization No. 90 was the vanguard of the entire corps.The marching speed was much faster than that of other units, and by the time Zhang Jinsong and the others were divided into several teams and mixed in, the [-]th Division had already passed, so Yan Ming's artillery did not suffer any losses.

After a period of fuss, the enemy artillery began to prepare firepower for our army's position at Chakou. The main artillery was some [-] caliber howitzers and some mountain artillery, and sporadic [-] infantry artillery also participated in the attack.

The sound of large-caliber shells tearing the air hissed.The sky was full of birds chirping, and in a blink of an eye, hundreds of shells fell on the position, followed by a sea of ​​flames. The smoke and dust from the shells flew up dozens of meters high, and the entire position was covered in dust.

This was the most severe shelling the Independence Regiment had endured since its establishment, with shrapnel flying across.There are shell craters that have just been blasted everywhere on the position, and many trenches have been collapsed by shells. Fortunately, most of the soldiers of the independent regiment are on standby in the caves in the back mountain. Except for Gao Xiang's artillery battalion, the front is only A small number of observation posts were placed.

Even so, there were still casualties, not only Gao Xiang's artillery battalion suffered casualties, but several hidden observation posts were blown up." It can be seen that the artillery fire threatened the defense of the site, and Li Yong and Gao Xiang did not retreat to the cave in the back mountain. Go, the two of them hid in the artillery hole of the third line of defense guarded by Gao Xiang's battalion.

This is a bomb defense hole dug deep from the inner wall of the trench. When the trench was dug, Li Yong ordered that it must be able to withstand the direct attack of shells. Li Yong estimated that such a bomb defense hole would be fine if it was hit by one or two shells, but if there were too many, it would be fine. To put it bluntly, the two men and several soldiers sat in the cave with a small cannon and covered their heads with their overcoats. The soil on the cave wall fell down with the sound of the shells exploding.

This guy Gao Xiang covered his head with a coat and lit a cigarette. He took a deep puff and handed it to Li Yong. He lit another one himself: "Leader, Zhang Jinsong and those boys don't know what they are doing now. Your trick Can it work?"

Li Yong: "Whether it works or not, it depends on Zhang Jinsong and the others. I guess they will be very anxious when they hear that we are being shot. If they do a good job, we will suffer less, and if they do not do well, we will suffer more. It’s unrealistic to think that they won’t suffer any shells, and they are not immortals.”

Gao Xiang spit out the smoke rings and the foam that fell into his mouth, and said: "Commander, the feeling of being bombarded is not good, but our position this time is much stronger than before. It's not a big threat to us. I still remember that our second regiment suffered heavy losses when we were in Changgao Mountain because the position could not withstand the artillery bombardment. Now the old people in the regiment are less than five hundred. It's quite uncomfortable to think about it. "

Li Yong: "Yeah, it's too bad for the lack of firepower. After Chang Gaoshan fought, Lao Sun was crying secretly by himself. The elders in their 30s, the one who cried was sad, and I didn't persuade him. Cry, cry That's enough, it's even more uncomfortable if you hold it in." Gao Xiang: "Lao Sun has been a soldier for a long time, and it stands to reason that he has seen it a lot, but the casualties of our second regiment in the battle at Changgao Mountain were too great. He used to There are not many people left in the old company, and even their cooking class is almost gone, so it’s no wonder that Lao Sun is sad.”

After the bombardment, the infantry charged again. This Liu Kan was still the old routine. Seeing the enemy infantry rushing up, Li Yong ordered the troops to enter the position along several large communication trenches.

Some of these large traffic trenches have collapsed during the bombardment just now, but they can barely pass through. When the soldiers entered the position, they also allocated part of their troops to repair the fortifications that were just destroyed by the bombing. When Li Yong was repairing the fortifications, he asked the soldiers to build a few more individual bunkers.

This time it was Gao Xiang's mortar battalion that was used to deal with the enemy and attack. The number of mortars fired at the attacking enemy increased to twenty. The enemy fired uninterruptedly, and Gao Xiang kept shouting five quick shots and four quick shots in the walkie-talkie.

The soldiers are now open to foreign meat. Although the artillery shells were used in previous wars, they were not as bad as they are now. It is like shells that cost no money to build. Before departure, the ammunition capacity of each small cannon was [-]. Fa, this gave the soldiers of the artillery battalion a lot of confidence. If you were told to charge upwards, they would put shells on you to kill you, and see if your people's heads are stronger or our PLA's artillery shells are stronger.

Li Yong told Wang Huo and Wei Gang, who were on the two front lines of defense, not to worry, try to reduce casualties from the enemy's artillery fire and preserve their strength. It is not yet time to use them.

The 20 mortars worked for more than [-] minutes, and no one knew how many shells were fired. Anyway, this time was enjoyable. The shells of the [-] mortars fell from the sky like rain, and the troops attacked by the enemy I couldn't stand it any longer, and the enemy's officers and soldiers also wondered, why did the communist army still hit us with shells when we were all lying on the ground?Isn't it true that going back to the eight-way war just hit a few shots and then charge with a grenade?How come the eight roads here have been fighting for so long and still haven't seen a single person?Go to *** to supervise the team, run, and if you don't shoot, you will be killed by the shells here.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers couldn't resist turning around and ran away, Li Yong told the soldiers in the artillery battalion that it was okay. Although they had enough shells, they had to be sparing. The battle in the future would be more intense, and the enemy would not Glad to be stuck here.

After this attack was repulsed, the battlefield temporarily calmed down. Li Yong looked at the puffs of green smoke coming out of the enemy's troops at the foot of the mountain, and knew that the enemy was cooking, right? It's already noon , no matter who has to eat.

As the saying goes, people are iron and rice, and the ancestors are hungry for a meal. Now that everyone has cooked, we also eat. The whole morning passed like this. The task of the independent group is to stick to it for five days. Since you don’t come to attack That's not good, I'll just wait.

Yan Ming, commander of the No. 90 Division of Yamashita Reorganization, was talking to people on a walkie-talkie: "Commander Liu, it's not that I'm shrinking, it's because the Communist Army's artillery fire on the mountain is too powerful. My troops have attacked several times in a row, all within a few hundred They were bombed back outside the rice field. The brothers were frozen all night. They hadn’t eaten their breakfast. How can they fight now if they don’t let the soldiers eat? Yes, I understand. I will definitely launch a resolute attack in the afternoon and take down the communist army. position."

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