The beacon of youth

Chapter 246 Deterrence of the Battle of the West Mansion

Qishan, also known as Phoenix City, is not a big place, but it has a lot of history. There is a saying that the Phoenix falls on Qishan Mountain. "All originated here.

Qishan County, surrounded by cooking smoke, looked very peaceful from a distance. The soldiers of the security regiment defending the city were changing in the morning. The sleepy sentry said to the soldiers who came to change shifts: "Chickens don't bite, dogs don't bark!" , Nothing's wrong, I'm going to go back to sleep after staring at my eyes all night."

Just as he was about to be laid off and walked back, the replacing soldier pointed to the distance and shouted: "Hey, brother, look, what is that?"

The sentry looked in the direction of the replacement soldier's finger, and saw a lot of tubular things standing black and suddenly in the place outside the city where the eyes could see, and these strong tubes were arranged one after another, and they were discharged for a long time. far away.

The soldier standing guard blinked his eyes and took a closer look, and was a little dumbfounded at the time: "Is it mine? Isn't this a cannon? When did so many cannons appear outside the city?"

The sentry was a little trembling when he spoke: "What are you still doing in a daze? What's the use of looking at me? Go and call the company commander over." The replacement soldier scrambled and crawled to find the company commander.

Not long ago, the company commander also trotted over. The company commander still had a binoculars hanging on his chest. The company commander who was holding up the binoculars to observe couldn't help but feel nervous while watching. The soldier next to him asked anxiously: "The company commander Boss, do you see anything? Is it a cannon? Which army from ** has arrived? Haven’t we received any news yet?”

Company Commander: "According to your mother's news, the cannons are real, and there are too many to count, but the artillerymen next to them are all wearing gray uniforms. Tell me, are they the army of the Communist Party?"

The two soldiers were a little silly when they heard the company commander say that the soldiers on the opposite side were all wearing gray military uniforms. Have you never eaten fat pork or seen fat pigs running? Who doesn't know that the one in the gray uniform is the Eight Route Army?

"There are so many cannons, isn't that the big army from the Eighth Route? What should we do?"

Company Commander: "May I know what to do? I can know that the company commander is gone. Go and call the regiment commander and let the regiment decide what to do."

The head of the Qishan security regiment was having breakfast, the food was good, there was wine and meat, and he was still thinking about it while eating, who said that a small place is not good?I just feel that this small place is not bad, it tastes like a little emperor, if in a big place, I, the head of a small security team, can be considered a piece of shit?Needless to say I'm in Xi'an, even if I'm nothing in Baoji and Xianyang, it seems that our small place is better.

At this time, the bell rang, and the messenger said that there was an emergency call from the city defenders, and he quickly answered it. Hearing this, he couldn't eat any more food, so he took off his chopsticks and ran outside, shouting: "Give me Prepare the car and go to the city gate."

The speed of the jeep was very fast, and it was not too far away. The city gate arrived in a blink of an eye. The regimental leader trotted up to the city gate in three steps at a time. He took the telescope from the company commander and kept observing.

One minute passed, and the head of the regiment was the same as the company commander. He couldn't stop crying while watching. He didn't know if he was tired from going up the city wall, or he was frightened by something, and kept talking. Said: "It's broken, it's broken. This is really the arrival of a large force of the Eighth Route Army. What are the Communists doing here? There is nothing in my Qishan that the Communists can look up to."

At this moment, a loudspeaker yelled from the position outside the city: "Listen to the Kuomintang officers and soldiers on the opposite side, we are the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Northwest Field Army, and I order you to put down your weapons and surrender immediately. When you see our People's Liberation Army If you refuse to surrender, your city of Qishan will be bombarded, and you will be given half an hour to think about it, after which our People's Liberation Army will launch an attack."

The company commander guarding the city gate nervously asked the head of the security regiment: "Sir, the People's Liberation Army is going to flatten our Qishan Mountain, what should we do?"

The head of the regiment glared at the company commander: "Why are you panicking? Soldiers take it as their bounden duty to obey orders. Soldiers come to be generals, and they are covered by water and soil. What's so great about the Eighth Route Army? If he comes to attack us, we will defend. Hold on, your company must You must guard the city gate, and you are not allowed to retreat without my order, I will return to the regiment headquarters first."

The regimental commander who gave the order turned around and left. The company commander who asked the question patted his thigh regretfully: "I don't owe you a fucking debt. Why am I asking this? He ordered me to run or not."

It’s no wonder that the company commander regretted it. The lord of the regiment gave him an order to stick to it. If he didn’t keep it and ran away, his future would be lost. After so many years in the army, he finally got a company commander. It is said that the company commander is not big, but in this small place, his size is considered a person. Isn’t there a saying, it’s called: company commander, company commander, when the cannon fires, gold ten thousand taels.

But what is the difference between dying for the future and the Eighth Route Army and looking for death? The Eighth Route Army cannons are as dense as firewood sticks.

The company commander was thinking backwards and forwards, trying his best to find a way to get the best of both worlds, how can he keep his position as company commander and not be beaten to death.

In the end, it really made him think of a bad idea. The group leader asked me to defend the city. He might have gone there by himself. I am also a company commander after all, don’t I have more than a dozen squad leaders under him?Can Lao Tzu also order them.

Thinking of this, the company commander called all his squad and platoon leaders over: "The Eighth Route Army is here, and the regiment commander ordered us to stand firm, so we must live and die with the position, and resolutely defend Qishan. You are ready to fight. I will go back to the company headquarters first to discuss the battle plan with the head of the regiment."

The company commander guarding the city gate also left after giving orders to more than a dozen squad leaders. The soldiers of the security regiment may not look like they are good at fighting, but they are very sophisticated in human relationships. I know it well, don't talk about the bastard, and discuss the battle plan with the regiment leader, what can the regiment leader discuss with you?Maybe the head of the group has already run away, and wants the old men to take the place of the dead ghosts and go to hell.

Several soldiers discussed together, one asked: "The officer has run away, what should we do?" The other said: "My head is like a mess, I can't think of what to do?"

It has to be said that it is easy to do things with more people, more brains, and more methods. After more than ten minutes, we finally discussed a method. After a while, we will run away as soon as the Eighth Route Army attacks the city. , Qishan can go to other places to hang out if he can’t stay. Wherever he goes, it’s not enough to eat. It's done, there is one last way, hand in your guns and surrender.

At the end of the discussion, the majority still wanted to run with the regiment leader. They were used to serving as soldiers over the years, and they often bullied the common people. This time, they must let themselves be ordinary people because they must not be used to the hard life.

To be the Eighth Route Army is to think about it. The Eighth Route Army may not look good at fighting, but the discipline is too strict. They are not allowed to drink, they are not allowed to find women, they are not allowed to smoke opium, and they train all day.

During these discussions among the soldiers, the time stipulated by the independent regiment had arrived, and following Gao Xiang's command, the test-fired cannon of the standard gun was ejected.

Two 105 mm caliber shells exploded not too far from these soldiers with a "boom". Who is careless in the competition, our brothers don't do that.

After the test firing, the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment began to conduct artillery raids on the walls and fortifications of Qishan Mountain. They fired several rapid fires in a row, covering the entire Qishan Mountain in the smoke of artillery fire. The city walls, firepower points, and fortifications All the key positions that the independent regiment could scout before the war were blasted into the sky.

At the same time, Li Yong still followed the old method, and Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion launched an attack on Qishan under the cover of Wei Gang's armored vehicles.

The 105mm howitzer hits the depth, the small-caliber mortar deals with the firepower point, the 100nd infantry artillery and the [-]th field artillery were directly pushed to the forefront by the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, and they pushed closer and closer, until they were only more than [-] meters away from the city wall. Aim directly at the city walls and gates.

The direct artillery fire at close range is very shocking. After the cannon is ejected, it hits the target directly. It is very powerful. One can explode the city gate, but it is also very dangerous. The shrapnel from the explosion of the shell roars from the heads of the soldiers. Flying over, some shrapnel and broken stones hit the bullet-proof plate of the artillery with a "dang-dang" sound.

In the words of the soldiers, this is called putting bayonets on the cannons. The rifles of our PLA have bayonets, and the cannons also have bayonets. That is to say, if our PLA dares to do this, the Kuomintang troops follow the US military code of conduct, and they dare not even think about it.

From the start of the attack to the time when the reconnaissance battalion boarded the city wall of Qishan, the whole process took no more than half an hour. When he heard Li Jiangguo say that the enemy had already run out and fell into their pockets, Li Yong ordered the artillery fire to stop Shooting, the troops entered the city, or Wei Gang's armored car quickly advanced, following behind the fleeing enemy to prevent the enemy from coming back.

The Kuomintang security regiment that escaped from the city was still wiped out without any suspense by the three battalions that the independent regiment had ambushed in advance. Everyone beat Li Jiangguo to death for fear that political commissar Wang Chengde would trouble him, so this guy restrained himself a lot.

When the soldiers were all over the street to pull the spoils, Li Yong asked Li Jia, the communication platoon leader, to send a report to Commander Wang: Our troops conquered Qishan County this morning, and wiped out more than a thousand people from a security regiment. Checking is in progress, please ask our department for tasks.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde of the Second Vertical Independent Regiment

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