The beacon of youth

On Chakou Mountain, at the heavy machine gun position of the Independent Regiment, Battalion Commander Wei Gang is reporting the situation to Li Yong, the regimental commander standing beside him: "Regimental Commander, this anti-aircraft machine gun is too powerful to change to a flat shot. It is extremely powerful and has a long range. , can fight from the front to its second and third echelons, and it is still effective at more than 1000 meters. The mortar and heavy machine gun positions that the enemy arranged behind the attacking troops to cover are all called out by these guys. Get a few more anti-aircraft machine guns like this."

Li Yong: "Don't be too happy, the Kuomintang troops may not be equipped with such weapons, even if you beat Liu Kan to death, you may not be able to get it."

Wei Gang said confidently: "There must be. How many anti-aircraft machine guns can such a large corps have?"

"We don't have a single plane in the field army. Why do they bring anti-aircraft weapons? Besides, not only do we understand that the enemy is not a fool. Most of the Kuomintang officers are students who have graduated from majors. If they have anti-aircraft machine guns, they might have used them to deal with us long ago. .”

Hearing Li Yong's words, Wei Gang said a little dejectedly: "Commander, what should we do? Our battalion can't just have these treasures. You also said that after the battle is over, the heavy machine guns will be used." Return it to each infantry battalion, and we will stare at it when we fight in the future.”

Li Yong: "Don't worry, Liu Kan doesn't have any. It doesn't mean that other Kuomintang troops don't have them. Don't we often say that Chiang Kai-shek is a transport captain? The Kuomintang troops have a lot of good things, and they are all American products, from the enemy in the Northwest." There are still a few material storage bases, and we will look through them one by one, and I still don’t believe it, and we won’t be able to find enough anti-aircraft machine guns for your battalion.”

As soon as Li Yong finished speaking, Gao Xiang immediately asked a little excitedly: "Commander, what do you mean by saying that? Our field army won't attack anywhere again, right? Where did you hear the news from?"

Li Yong: "Don't think too much about it, what can't be done, we have to fight this battle well first, as long as Liu Kan is wiped out, the strength of the enemy's mobile troops on the Northwest battlefield will be greatly weakened, and the next It’s much easier to fight, but don’t ask me if our field army is going to make any big moves, I’m your regiment commander and not the commander, how would I know these things.”

That's right, but Li Yong thought to himself, is there anything my old man doesn't know? I know everything, but I dare not tell you. [

At this time, political commissar Wang Chengde came over with several guards and soldiers, and when he reached Li Yong, Wang Chengde sighed: "Dayong, Wang Huhu's Fifth Battalion suffered too many casualties. After entering, the casualties of the whole battalion exceeded half, what do you think should we do? Should we replace their battalion for a rest and let the second battalion or third battalion go up and replace them.”

Li Yong: "No, Lao Wang, I think the Fifth Battalion should not be moved. Our regiment has no more suitable troops than the Fifth Battalion, and no more suitable battalion commander than Wang Huhu. As for the casualties, we can increase them. As for the strength of the troops, let the tigers take all the remaining infantry platoons of the fourth battalion, and let Tiger Wang use them carefully, and must keep a little reserve in his hand."

At this time, the fifth battalion was rushing to repair the damaged guns and fortifications, and the sacrificed and injured soldiers were carried down one by one by the health team and the supply battalion.

Wang Huhu was very annoyed. The casualties of the troops made him very angry. When he fought Yulin, the fifth battalion did not have such a large number of casualties. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little bit unacceptable when he saw many familiar comrades injured or sacrificed. go down.

The heavy firepower of the machine gun battalion made the attacking Kuomintang soldiers suffer a lot. The situation on the ground stabilized a little, but the fighting did not stop. The Kuomintang troops at the foot of the mountain continued to attack, but the size of the attacking troops was much smaller. , basically a platoon of dozens of people attacked at the first level. To deal with such an attack, Wang Huo didn't even watch it.

At this time, He Cuihua, the deputy battalion commander of the supply battalion, came in from the outside, and He Cuihua, who came to the command post of Wanghuhuying, sighed and said, "Brother Tiger, how are you? The casualties are not small, right? Should I bring a few people?" Stay here to give you some strength?"

Wang Huohu knew He Cuihua's character very well, and knew that this girl was a little itchy after not fighting for a few days, but anyway, He Cuihua was a deputy battalion-level cadre of the independent regiment, so how could she just go to the front to fight?

Wang Huohu usually treats He Cuihua like a police officer, and likes to tell her some points that need attention: "Cuihua, stop making trouble, go back quickly, don't look at the small scale of the enemy's attack now, but from my experience They must be planning a big operation, you go back and replenish all the medicines we have consumed, as for whether you are allowed to fight is a matter for the regiment leader and the political commissar, you should go to them."

He Cuihua: "Don't worry, all the medicines have been brought here for you. I just feel that it's depressing for us to be beaten hard. The casualties are so heavy, which is a bit disturbing."

Wang Huo: "Cuihua, it's good if we can hold on. Didn't you see how many enemies there are at the bottom of the mountain? It's a whole large army. You go back and organize the people in your battalion and prepare for the battle. Maybe when the time comes, you will be able to fight." It's up to you."

He Cuihua took his soldiers back along the trenches, and when he went back, he snatched the rifle from a soldier and fired two shots at the bottom of the mountain. He Cuihua's actions made the soldiers feel ridiculous. , so enthusiastic about the battlefield is hard to understand.

Time passed little by little, and Liu Kan kept walking back and forth in his headquarters, mumbling why the plane hadn't arrived yet, didn't it be agreed to come at noon.

While he was walking around, an officer came in: "Senior, Peng Dehuai's main force of the communist army is getting closer and closer to us, and the 42nd Division of the rear guard is about to meet the enemy. The 42nd Division called us and asked us if they would persist When will it take and how long will it take to break through the communist army's positions."

Liu Kan: "Tell the 42nd Division that the plane sent to us by Xi'an Chief Hu will arrive soon. As soon as the plane arrives, we will launch an attack on the Communist Army's positions together in the air, so that the Communist Army knows what modern air-ground battle is. Fight for one battle to solve the problem, let them stick to their positions and block the main force of the Northwest Communist Army, as long as they can block for a long time, I will go to Commander Hu in Xi'an to ask for credit for them."

Liu Kan turned around and told the officer again: "Order the attacking troops to make all battle preparations, use all available artillery fire, use small-caliber artillery if there is no large-caliber artillery, what mountain artillery, field artillery and infantry artillery, including company-and-battalion-level mortars, in an effort to break through the communist defense line with the cooperation of aircraft.”[

In the position of the Chakou Independent Regiment, the regiment leader Li Yong, the political commissar Wang Chengde, and the chief of staff Fang Xin in the regiment command post are discussing the combat situation. The enemy who was beaten down by the machine gun battalion is a bit strange. It has been two or three hours. An efficient attack is just a harassing attack with some platoon and size troops.

This strange scale of attack has aroused the vigilance of Li Yong, the head of the regiment. The attack at the platoon level is obviously useless. The specific deployment of the operation is still unclear.

Just when Li Yong, Wang Chengde and others were guessing the enemy's intentions, a rumbling roar suddenly came from the distant sky, and gradually the roar became louder and louder. Just when Wang Chengde and others were a little at a loss, Li Yong was the last I realized it first, the plane, it was the plane of the Kuomintang.

Li Yong immediately used the walkie-talkie to order the troops to enter the air defense state, and most of them went into the air-raid shelter to hide and stand by. Watching the small black dots emerging from the sky one by one, Li Yong checked the status of the planes one by one in the binoculars. After checking the quantity, Li Yong's face changed a little.

There are more than 20 small black dots popping up from the sky. This is the first time Li Yong has seen so many planes. It seems that Commander Hu, who commanded his hundreds of thousands of troops in Xi'an, has also lost all his money. , and used all the planes that could be dispatched.

This is also the first time for Li Yong to encounter such a situation. In the past, the independent regiment could still deal with the enemy's several combat sorties with ground weapons, but what should we do if more than 20 planes come at once?Is it okay to rely on ground weapons?

Just as Li Yong's head was running at full speed, the artillery fire of the Kuomintang at the foot of the mountain rang out again. Although the number of large-caliber [-] grenades was small, a large number of [-] field artillery, [-] infantry artillery and unknown How many mortars are there.

Li Yong hurriedly ordered all the troops on the ground to enter the anti-aircraft tunnel, then gritted his teeth and ordered the machine gun battalion to also enter the anti-aircraft tunnel, leaving only a few anti-aircraft machine guns outside to deal with the enemy's planes. After thinking for a while, Li Yong said to Gao Xiang : "Put all your precious anti-aircraft machine guns into the hole, and there will be nothing left outside."

Gao Xiang was a little unconvinced: "Why is the leader? Our anti-aircraft machine gun is dedicated to shooting, why did you let us withdraw?"

Li Yong: "It's true that anti-aircraft machine guns are specialized, but it also depends on how many planes there are. Just a few of your machine guns can't deal with a large number of plane air strikes. They are now fighting air-ground combat. Let's just use these few How to deal with the baby machine gun? Maybe it was blown up by the artillery fire from the bottom of the mountain before it could compete with the plane."

Gao Xiang: "Then we are going to do it right now?" Li Yong: "There is no good way for now, so we can only be tough."

While the two were talking, the planes had already reached the top of the head, and one circled over. The pilot pushed the joystick and plunged the nose of the plane down. Two planes were used as a batch, screaming strangely and taking turns to dive and attack the ground. v! ~!