The beacon of youth

Li Yong's pre-war mobilization made the soldiers happy. How important was the strategic turning point in the Northwest battlefield! !As long as the three armies of the Kuomintang are eaten up, Hu Zongnan's mobile force will be almost the same, and he will no longer have the capital to be arrogant everywhere.

The commanders of the Independent Brigade are excited. It has been more than two years. In order to wait until this day, the weak Northwest Field Army has been under tremendous pressure. In the northwest battlefield, in order to prevent Hu Zongnan from mobilizing troops to support other battlefields, only more than 2 troops kept moving around, staying up late, getting wet in the rain, running, and starving. How many warlike sacrifices were made! ! !Today, it's finally time for a decisive battle with the Kuomintang. These commanders and fighters have long since exploded with confidence. What about the 24th and 53rd divisions of the Kuomintang, so what if the two divisions are combined, just do it.

Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, stood up with a loud roar, and the irritable old Balu shouted: "Brigade Commander, our third battalion requests a surprise mission."

As soon as Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, stood up, the commanders of each battalion and company stood up: "Brigade commander, political commissar, we request a surprise mission."

He Cuihua, the trainer of the supply battalion, yelled even more loudly: "Our supply battalion can at least pull out more than 1000 people, and its strength is no less than that of your other battalions. We also require assault missions. Why should you take all the credit? unfair."

He Cuihua laughed everyone's yelling, everyone knew that this girl was crazy because she wanted to fight, but it was unreliable to let the supply army be a commando, no matter how much she yelled.

He Cuihua also knew that she was doing useless work. After shouting, she sat down beside the health captain Hu Xiaolian and did not speak, but the expression on her face had already told others how she felt at this time.

Hu Xiaolian patted her on the shoulder to express comfort. Of course, their health team could only watch the excitement on this occasion. Looking at Li Yong standing in front, Hu Xiaolian was also fascinated by her man. Qualified, she joined the army when the army was still a company, thinking about the experience of the past two years, it’s like watching a movie in her mind, hey, Dayong is getting more and more mature, and he is getting more and more masculine , Yes, it is masculine, just like he often said that he is feminine.

Li Yong hasn't gone to the health team to look for her for a while, and Hu Xiaolian's psychology is a bit swayed. In the independent brigade, she is recognized as the wife of the brigade commander. The old scouts like Sanniu and Xiaocheng were witnesses when she and Dayong were together, and they called her sister-in-law without any scruples in private, and she naturally agreed, but why did Dayong recently Less time to come to the health team?Is it because there are too many things?Or because there is a beautiful guard company commander by his side, he can't take care of himself?

In fact, women are narrow-minded. Don't look at Hu Xiaolian's serious look when persuading He Cuihua. In fact, her careful thoughts are no less than others, but she just doesn't say it out.

Everyone else was trying to grab some missions, but Jiang Tiexiong, the battalion commander of the tank battalion, and Li Yuming, the instructor, sat still and didn't call for any surprise missions. Jiang Tiexiong quietly stabbed Li Yuming: "Instructor, shall we ask for it too?" , otherwise this would be too ugly."

Jiang Tiexiong, the oldest soldier in the independent brigade, was not used to the PLA commanders rushing to take missions before the battle, but he also felt that everyone asked for it, and their tank battalion should also do something.

Li Yuming sat firmly and did not move: "Old Jiang, don't worry, don't look at their yelling, it's useless, with our tank battalion, other troops still want to grab assault missions? There are no doors, put a hundred Xin, from now on this task will be taken care of by us.”

Jiang Tiexiong thought about it too. Now that there are armored soldiers, how can we let the infantry take the lead? It seems that this job really belongs to their battalion.

Li Yong raised his hand to calm everyone down, and said to Gao Xiang: "Gao Xiang, our army commander and political commissar have handed over all the artillery fire of the entire army to our brigade, you, the artillery battalion commander, want to command the artillery fire of the entire army, are you okay?" confidence?"

Gao Xiang answered with a straight chest: "Report to the brigade commander, it's not like we haven't done this job before, as long as they can obey the command, I can do it."

There is a reason for Gao Xiang to say this. In terms of technical and tactical level, Gao Xiang did not say that he has long been a mature artillery commander, but in terms of qualifications, he is probably not as good as the commanders of other artillery units in the army. Gao Xiang, an old veteran of the Red Army who was born very early, although Gao Xiang has been in the army for a long time, but compared with others, he is still a little younger.

"The old men in our Second Army are no less enlightened than you. As long as you command properly, it's no problem to make them obey orders. You don't have to worry about this. The army commander and political commissar have already explained it." It was political commissar Wang Chengde who spoke.

Gao Xiang: "Since the army commander and political commissar guarantee, what should I be afraid of? I didn't say anything, I promise to complete the task."

Li Yong: "You kid, don't be too happy. Your artillery command post should not be too far away from the brigade headquarters. If there is a situation, let's communicate in time. Since you are going to fight the enemy, you must hit it hard."

After explaining to Gao Xiang, Li Yong turned around and shouted: "Jiang Tiexiong, Li Yuming, are you ready?"

Li Yuming stabbed Jiang Tiexiong: "How is it? I'm not wrong, here we come."

Li Yuming and Jiang Tiexiong stood up together, and Jiang Tiexiong imitated other PLA commanders and said: "The fuel is full, the engine is on, and the engine can be fired. You can rush away with one order."

Li Yong: "Okay, everyone will get ready as soon as they go back. The battle will start in 10 minutes. The tank battalion will be the first assault echelon, and the other battalions will follow up. The first and second battalions will be on the left, the third and fourth battalions will be on the right, and the fifth battalion will be on the right." The battalion, the reconnaissance battalion, the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion and the brigade headquarters work together to fight from the front and try to break through the enemy's defense line in one go."

After Li Yong's order, He Cuihua, the trainer of the supply camp, quit: "Brigadier, we have all the tasks, why don't we have anything to do with the supply camp? What are we doing? Can't we just sit around and watch the fun?"

Li Yong: "How can there be nothing to do? The task of your battalion is too important. After our brigade goes suddenly, your battalion will be responsible for pulling back all the eye-catching things in the attack area, and transporting the wounded and prisoners. The burden is not easy, carry it out."

The battle horses were about to start, and He Cuihua also knew that this was not the time to mess around. Although she was a little dissatisfied, the order must be carried out seriously, and she muttered to go back to her supply camp with battalion commander Sun Quanhou to make preparations.

Sun Quanhou let out a long sigh: "Girl, just save yourself, don't keep thinking about surprise missions, who will do things like cleaning the battlefield? Was the brigade commander's order wrong? That's right. , Didn’t you see, don’t mention our battalion, other battalions won’t be able to get any assault missions in the future, they have to be hired by the tank battalion.”

Sun Quanhou's words resonated as soon as he finished speaking, Li Jiangguoma, the commander of the first battalion, continued: "Yes, what Old Sun said is right, let's not fight for any assault missions in the future, just lay hands on it, hey, that's depressing."

Everyone laughed, and Wang Chengde in the room also laughed and shouted: "Li Jiangguo, don't talk strange things, it's a good thing to have tanks, but once you say it, it seems like nothing, hurry back and prepare. The brigade commander and I will not spare you if the troops don’t go away.”

Minutes are not much longer than peeing. Everyone trotted all the way back. Gao Xiang's heavy artillery battalion was the first to fire. More than 90 artillery pieces from the howitzer battalion fired first. Then all the artillery of the Second Army fired. The sky and the sky were overwhelming, and the positions of the Kuomintang defenders were filled with smoke.

The Battle of Fumei was a turning point in the battle of the Northwest Battlefield. In this battle, the People's Liberation Army not only had the upper hand in terms of personnel, but even the artillery fire was much fiercer than that of the Kuomintang's Central Army. In an exhilarating and surprising turn of events, the heavy artillery fire boosted the morale of the PLA troops, while the Kuomintang troops were terrified.

After preparing for the fierce artillery fire for 10 minutes, Li Yong ordered loudly on the phone: "Blow the charge, but the troops do not attack. After 5 minutes, the artillery fire will attack. Repeat it again, and the artillery fire will attack after 5 minutes."

The charge horn rang, and the harsh sound did not allow the troops of the People's Liberation Army to charge, but mobilized the Kuomintang defenders. These Kuomintang soldiers jumped out of the fortifications cursing: "What the hell, the Communist army is going to charge, look! Come on, my little life is enough, if I am not killed by the bomb, I will be beaten to death."

The other said: "Brother, can you say something nice, the second shift one trench away from us is over, none of the brothers survived, they were hit by a few shells from the communist army, and there were whole bodies I didn't stay, you and I are good."

The former soldier said: "Brother, the world is about to change. We used to fight with the Communist army. When did they not wait to be bombed? Now it's good. It's our turn. Retribution."

Hei Yaya's soldiers from the Kuomintang defenders' position got out. After entering the position, they didn't see the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army rushing, but what was waiting for them was the roaring shells.

Artillery commander Gao Xiang kept ordering: "Rapid fire, rapid fire, hit hard, target, infantry in the trench, charge No. [-], kill explosive grenade, prepare-release."

The bombardment within minutes blasted the Kuomintang soldiers who jumped out to fight back, leaving nowhere to hide. The dead bodies were strewn about, and the position was covered in flames.

After the second artillery fire was prepared, the People's Liberation Army's charge horn rang again, and the Kuomintang soldiers who were not killed were blasted out again by the officers.