The beacon of youth

Chapter 7

Two platoons of fighters, more than 80 bang boys, each with one long and one short pair of guys, in addition to carrying a five-kilogram explosive bag on the back according to the requirements of the company commander. The voice of command came out through the cover of night.book friends whole~reason~provide

Under the eyes of Li Yong, Wang Chengde and others, the soldiers followed behind Li Yuming and quickly disappeared into the vast night.

According to the terrain reconnaissance in advance, it didn't take long for the soldiers of the two platoons to go around to a large bush on the back of Mount Lao. Looking at the dark mountain, Li Yuming gave the first order: "Everyone is there, stay where you are." Rest, no smoking, no exposure."

The soldiers could understand the company commander's order not to expose the target, but they didn't understand what it meant to let them rest where they were, so some soldiers asked in a low voice: "Company commander, this mountain is right under our noses, why should we rest?" Ah, you can catch the enemy when you go up, so you can do it quickly."

Li Yuming glared at the soldier: "You know what bullshit, and you still go up and do shit, what are we doing? We are here for a sneak attack. If you are like you, you know that you can call it a sneak attack if you don't care about it?"

It is also good to say that it is good to be with Li Yong often. These young people who knew nothing a year ago know tactics today, and this is especially true for Li Yuming. He has grown into an excellent grassroots commander.

The soldier who was scolded by Li Yuming smiled and asked again: "Understood, our company commander understands more, so when will we start doing it? There must be a time?"

While the soldier was questioning, he heard rumbling explosions coming from not far away from Yan'an. Shells flew from all directions like raindrops. The night sky was turned red, and the entire city of Yan'an seemed to be enveloped by the explosion.

Li Yuming looked at his watch, the hour hand pointed to [-]:[-] p.m., and the Northwest Field Army's general attack on Yan'an had begun. The troops withdrawn from Yan'an had returned more than a year ago, but it wasn't just the original people who came back. Those remaining veterans are basically commanders at all levels in the army.

Looking at the artillery fire all over the sky, the soldiers cheered in a low voice: "It's our cannon, it's our cannon, and we also have so many cannons. My good guy, it's really powerful. After such an explosion, the soldiers of the Kuomintang had to tear their pants down." Pee."

The few soldiers in the guard company were really right. The Kuomintang defenders guarding the south of Yan'an City almost didn't pee their pants, and they were all scared to death: "Oh, when will there be so many cannons on the Eighth Route?" How can we fight? I don’t think we’ll be killed by shells before Balu rushes up.”

In war, it is normal for anyone to be bombed, but the experience of the Eighth Route Army and the People’s Liberation Army is different from that of other troops. The masters who used to be bombarded now have their own artillery. This change is also a huge impact on the morale of the troops. Encouragement, which soldier does not want his troops to be strong?

At the foot of Mount Lao, at the headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Yong heard the violent explosion coming from the direction of Yan'an, and shouted into the microphone of the walkie-talkie: "Start."

The soldiers of the three infantry battalions, under the cover of explosions and darkness, moved towards the defensive position of the Laoshan Kuomintang bit by bit.

Originally, the Independent Regiment didn’t need to be so cautious when fighting. It would save a lot of trouble to use the artillery to aim at the enemy first, and then attack it, but now it can’t work. up.

The normal training of the Independence Regiment included field battle subjects, this time it was done with real swords and guns. Li Yong stood in the concealment dug by Xiaocheng's engineer company and kept looking in the direction of the attacking troops with binoculars. Wang Chengde, the political commissar standing beside him, could see the nervousness in the leader's heart. Why?Heitian, the telescope at that time did not have any infrared night vision function, so what can be seen by looking at it like this?Wang Chengde is a very careful commander, at this moment he smiled and asked, "Dayong, are you nervous?"

Knowing that Wang Chengde saw his inner activities, Li Yong couldn't help secretly admiring the old political workers of that era: "Yes, old Wang, the commander gave us the order to end the battle tonight, and we only have one night." Attack time, once our regiment fails to attack, it will have an impact on the entire campaign deployment, I am really worried."

Wang Chengde: "The deployment of the battle plan is in place, and all kinds of preparations are also complete. It is nothing special without artillery. Didn't we have no artillery in our wars before? We still beat the little devils and the Kuomintang. We must trust our soldiers. They will do wonders."

As if to verify Wang Chengde's words, just after he finished speaking, there was a dull explosion sound from the direction of Laoshan, followed by the sound of intensive shooting of various guns. Li Yong and Wang Chengde could hear this from the explosion sound just now. It was the sound of the independent regiment's five kilograms of explosives exploding, and the sound came from the right side of the attack direction. No need to ask, the fifth battalion led by He Cuihua, who was in charge of attacking from the right side, was the first to start the attack.

Almost at the same time as the fifth battalion started to attack, the third battalion on the left and the fourth battalion on the front also started to attack the top of the mountain, and the explosion of explosives rang out one after another.

The Laoshan garrison of the Kuomintang is not a coward. They all know the importance of this hilltop position, so the troops sent by He Ding are also very capable of fighting. At the beginning, they suffered a little loss because there were no independent regiment soldiers who were attacking. , and then immediately reacted.

The guns in the bunkers and trenches shoot down point by point, because the attack line is full of dead spots where you can avoid shooting. The bullets do not pose a great threat to the soldiers. The most annoying thing is the grenades that are constantly thrown out, densely packed It's everywhere, and Hei Tian can't see where it was thrown out. You can only know when it explodes nearby, but casualties are inevitable.

Fortunately, the attack teams of the Independent Regiment are very sparse. There is one combat team for every three fighters. Three combat teams deal with a bunker, and one group attacks two groups of cover. The casualties are still within the tolerable range. With the bullets and grenades bit by bit, they had to rely on explosives without artillery cover. A large number of explosive packs were prepared before the independent team battle, which really came in handy at this time.

The Fifth Battalion was placed in the attack position on the far right. This was a head-to-head battle in the mountains. The young commander He Cuihua did not dare to be sloppy at all. Direct command, support at any time.

Don't look at this girl who is very fiery when robbing missions. Once the battle starts, she must calm down. This is an essential quality for an excellent commander. He Cuihua, who has experienced many battles and tests, is fully qualified for this position and is an outstanding leader. commander.

The most cost-effective combat unit of the Independent Regiment is the first-level platoon. Each platoon has about 80 people and is fully equipped with weapons. It is a combat unit that can fight alone.

According to the training content, the soldiers spread out in a front trapezoid (the front trapezoid can facilitate the covering fire behind them and prevent accidental injury), and each combat team is arranged in a triangle row, and the three combat teams form a relatively large triangle row. Several large triangular rows form a platoon attacking team row. This is the standard platoon attacking method of the independent regiment, and it is also a method that has been practiced countless times.

The position of the platoon leader is at the back of the middle, and not too far away on both sides of him are the heavy machine gun and mortar positions that have been strengthened in the battalion.

Every time a firepower point was found, the soldiers quickly lay down, and then the two combat teams in charge of covering tried their best to suppress the enemy's firepower in the stronghold, and the attack team surrounded them from three sides, and used the explosive packs they carried to blow up the firepower point. One, if two are not enough, use all three. Three explosive packs are [-] kilograms of high explosives. From the beginning of the attack, there is no stronghold that cannot be dealt with by three explosive packs.

Behind each attack platoon there are several anti-aircraft machine guns strengthened by the regiment. The anti-aircraft machine guns are responsible for dealing with the enemy's crossfire, which poses the greatest threat to the attacking soldiers. Not idle, the large-caliber machine guns fired non-stop, and the unique, "thump, thump, thud" shooting sound mixed with the explosion of the explosive package was particularly clear.

The shooters of the anti-aircraft machine guns constantly moved their shooting positions forward. They moved a little as long as they cleared a little in front. He Cuihua gave them the order that as long as they found the enemy's firepower was fierce and our attack was suppressed, they would shoot hard. It is necessary to overwhelm the enemy from the perspective of firepower, destroy the arrogance of the enemy, and let the enemies in Laoshan see what the firepower of the People's Liberation Army is.

There can be more than 20 anti-aircraft machine guns assigned to the fifth battalion (Weigang's machine gun battalion has more than 60 anti-aircraft machine guns, most of which were seized from the reserve base in Baoji, and the three attack battalions are given one point on average. That is, each battalion has more than 20 guns. From this point of view, Hu Zongnan has done a great job, and it is not in vain that his principal was called the captain of the transportation brigade by the soldiers), plus the Maxim heavy machine guns in the battalion itself , He Cuihua spoke with confidence.

"Although we don't have heavy artillery cover, we can still suppress the firepower of your Kuomintang. Our independent regiment is not any other army. No one can match in terms of firepower."

He Cuihua deployed his five infantry platoons one by one, and the rest of the platoons followed closely behind as support forces. The attacking troops needed a lot of explosives, and the soldiers couldn't carry more, so the soldiers in these support platoons Everyone carried several of them.

From the very beginning of the attack, the Fifth Battalion used all its strength. He Cuihua did not leave any reserve team, and the whole battalion went together, even she and her own guard squad went to the front line.