The beacon of youth

Chapter 349 The Independent Brigade During Training

Li Yong stayed in the health team for a long time and didn't see Hu Xiaoling, whom he had been thinking about all the time. It was not until he came out of the health team that he was stopped by a shy girl named Hu Xiaoling outside the yard.

Hu Xiaoling's complexion was much better than the first few days. After coming to the army of the People's Liberation Army, everything felt very fresh. There was a feeling that the sky was blue and the water was clear. With brigade commander Li Yong and captain Hu Xiaolian Taking care of the life is very good, but just now I heard sister Xiaolian say that I will be the deputy captain of the health team, and I feel a little uneasy.

Anyway, I am also a prisoner who has just been captured. Will it affect the brigade commander to let a prisoner who has not been here for a few days be the deputy captain?Besides, I have always been a small nurse and have never been an official, so it's not good to be a nurse.

"Erdan, just now I heard Miss Xiaolian say that you want me to be the vice-captain of the health team. I really don't think well. Let me be a nurse. I will."

Hu Xiaoling was called Brigadier Li Yong like everyone else when there were people, but when there were only two of them, she was used to calling Li Yong's old name 'Er Dan'.

Of course Li Yong didn't care, but calling Erdan sounded very kind, and he also called Sister Lingling as shamelessly as before: "Sister Ling, what do you mean by being able to do it or not? No one is born to be good at everything. Don’t be afraid if you don’t know how to do things in the PLA, learn with your heart, and you’ll get used to it slowly. I’ve heard people say that you’ve done a good job recently, and you’ve helped your captain with a lot of work. That’s fine. Ask, Chairman Mao has a very good saying, 'There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as there is a heart', just do it." (Whether Chairman Mao said Li Yong is not sure, anyway, just persuade like this, as long as it works).

Hearing Li Yong's words of encouragement to Hu Xiaoling, she thought about it. Since Chairman Mao said it, it is naturally correct. If it is correct, it must be implemented. Soldiers are bound to obey orders. Let's do it as the vice captain of the health team. Will not go to school.

After solving the matter in the health team, Li Yong went for a walk around again, but he didn't do nothing. If there was any difficulty in the troops below, Li Yong would definitely solve it. During this period, Li Yong asked Fang Xin, the chief of staff, to grasp this After leaving a small part of the captured prisoners, all the rest were handed over to the column headquarters, and the small part left was enough to supplement the casualties of this battle.

Many people in the independent brigade did not understand Li Yong's decision. What happened to the brigade commander?Didn't all the prisoners captured by our independent brigade stay with us? Why did they hand them over to the superiors this time?

The happiest one was Li Jiangguo, the commander of the first battalion. This guy approached Li Yong and Wang Chengde and said that he was not afraid of having too many soldiers. The troops are all the troops with the strongest combat effectiveness. If there are more people, others will not say anything.

It was not only the first battalion commander Li Jiangguo who came to look for Li Yong and Wang Chengde's important people, but also He Cuihua, who couldn't handle anything. The most important thing is logistics. Since logistics is so important, why not hand over all the captured prisoners to their supply camp?

In fact, this is not He Cuihua's real idea, what logistics is not logistics, He Cuihua still can't understand so much, He Cuihua's idea is very simple, when the brigade is fighting, at most half of the baggage battalion can be drawn every time If the brigade recruits these captives into the supply battalion, when there are tough battles in the future, it will be able to bring in more personnel, and it will not be much less than a main force infantry battalion. This is what He Cuihua meant.

Political commissar Wang Chengde is not as agitated as Li Jiangguo and others. He has long believed that it is not right for the Independent Brigade to keep all the prisoners for themselves. The three major disciplines and the eight precautions of the PLA are iron-clad, and you cannot make trouble because of your individual troops. Specialized, later I heard that the Independent Brigade did this with the consent of Boss Peng and Commander Wang, but Wang Chengde was also surprised by Li Yong's decision. Did Dayong make another mistake?

Not to mention that Wang Chengde felt strange, even Commander Wang of the column called: "Dayong, why did you think of handing over all the prisoners? Give me an explanation and let me hear it."

Li Yong: "Commander, at the beginning we kept the prisoners because there were too few troops in the army, which was too far from the number of personnel that should be in the establishment. Now it's okay. We have more than 9000 people in one brigade, which is completely enough. Too much can't be done."

Commander Wang: "Has it met the requirements of the troops you originally expected?" Li Yong: "Report to the commander, the personnel are sufficient, but the weapons and equipment are still too far behind."

Commander Wang on the phone was silent for a while, and then said: "Since there are enough people, it's easy to handle. The People's Liberation Army has always been fighting with people first, and the human factor is the first. If you have time, you can go to the column headquarters. Come here, I will ask the logistics director to reveal all his family assets, you can take whatever you need, but I can’t help you if there is no one in the column, how about it? I am qualified to be a commander?”

Li Yong was very touched by Commander Wang's words. The fact that the Independent Brigade has come to where it is today is largely the result of Commander Wang's support, otherwise it would be impossible for Li Yong to do what he did.

The independent brigade of more than 9000 people has basically reached the size of the brigade-level unit that Li Yong envisioned when he established the army. There are five infantry battalions, one reconnaissance battalion, one heavy artillery battalion, and one air defense battalion mainly with high-shelf machine guns. A large supply battalion with the largest number of personnel, and a recruit supplementary battalion attached to the supply battalion, together with several companies directly under the brigade headquarters, Li Yong's first goal has basically been achieved. Such a brigade-level unit can completely Perform common tasks independently.

Then there is the problem of how to improve the weapons and equipment of the troops and the training. The training is easy to solve. Some people have food, so the training is not a problem. The weapons depend on the opportunity. If you want to capture them, you have to have them in the Kuomintang troops. The Kuomintang troops If there is no People's Liberation Army, no matter how capable you are, you will not be able to produce it.

In the second half of the Liberation War in [-], Chiang Kai-shek's government was already in danger, internal contradictions intensified, and the crisis of distrust was aggravating. There was no sense of trust between superiors and subordinates, between people, and between units. The most serious contradiction is the contradiction between the direct line and the non-direct line in the army.

The main reason for this contradiction is that Chiang Kai-shek was unable to deal with problems in a balanced manner, and could not stand up for justice from an objective standpoint. The increasingly tense front-line battles made the army exhausted. There are huge differences between troops.

The difference is not only reflected in the supply of materials. The KMT’s direct line troops were wiped out and rebuilt when they fought against the People’s Liberation Army. For example, the 36th Division was rebuilt after being wiped out in the Shajiadian Battle, but the non-direct line troops could be rebuilt. Without this kind of treatment, if the troops were almost beaten when fighting the People's Liberation Army, not only would Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government not provide supplies, but the designation of the troops would be cancelled.

Chiang Kai-shek did this very ruthlessly, including his brother-in-law, the Northeast Army of the young marshal Zhang Xueliang. After fighting the Red Army and being wiped out two divisions, the designation was still cancelled. A head-to-head decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army.

In stark contrast to these Kuomintang armies are the troops of the People's Liberation Army. There is no such thing as direct lineage or direct lineage in the army of the People's Liberation Army. No matter who develops the army, it is the party's army and must obey the absolute leadership of the party central committee. It is a very interesting phenomenon. In the Kuomintang army, there is a fierce dispute between the direct line and the non-direct line. Not only the officers are like this, but the soldiers also quarrel with each other. There are no such messy ideas anymore. The troops of the People's Liberation Army pay attention to the equality of officers and soldiers. No matter what they did before, they have to start all over again when they are in the troops of the People's Liberation Army.

Boss Peng once sent a telegram introducing the situation of the army to the central government. The specific telegram is: ,,,,,,,, After winter training, cadres have been filled, there are more than 4000 reserve cadres, and party members account for one-third of the army One of the strongest, the captured liberation soldiers accounted for 80.00% of the entire army, and the company accounted for a larger proportion. The vast majority of squad leaders were captured soldiers, and half of the platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders were captured soldiers. Some were captured liberation fighters.

From Boss Peng’s telegram, it can be seen that 80.00% of the Northwest Field Army are captured soldiers, but one-third of them are already party members, and their thinking has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao have arrived in Xibaipo, Hebei. The Central Committee attaches great importance to Mr. Peng’s telegram and knows the situation of the Northwest Field Army at that time. Although our army’s ideological and political weapons are powerful, an army with such a large proportion of prisoners is still It is worrying. In order to give strong support to the Northwest Field Army led by Boss Peng, the central government dispatched a large number of soldiers from North China composed of turned farmers to enrich the strength of the Northwest Field Army and change the composition of the army.

The land reform was completed in North China, and the enthusiasm of the common people was high. A large number of peasants who turned over and joined the army enthusiastically, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of soldiers in the army. The large number of peasants who joined the army gave the Party Central Committee more power to supplement the troops in the Northwest.

At that time, the central government was composed of five secretaries, among them Chairman Mao, Mr. Zhu, and Vice Chairman Zhou were in charge of combat operations, Mao Zedong was in charge of the urban labor movement, and Ren Bishi was in charge of rural land reform. It was precisely because of the great success of the land reform in the liberated areas at that time that the A large number of turned peasants joined the army, and only with a large number of turned peasants joined the army can the army develop greatly. Therefore, in the history of the People's Army, Ren Bishi has contributed a lot, although he is not in charge of combat.