The beacon of youth

Chapter 495: The Handy Head of Zhan Lanzhou

The independent brigade, whose mission was clarified, set off another upsurge in troop training. As a latecomer, Li Yong knew that period of history very well. The Battle of Lanzhou was a fortified battle combining mountains and cities, and he should not be careless.

Tough battle, tough battle, what is tough battle?That is to confront the enemy head-on. Li Yong has a little understanding of Lanzhou's city defense works. Although the Independent Brigade has a lot of artillery fire, the corresponding explosives for blasting are also indispensable. Li Yong ordered the troops to do a good job. A large amount of explosives must be prepared at the same time as various preparations. Some soldiers asked how much to prepare, and Li Yong answered clearly: "The more the better, five kilograms and ten kilograms of explosives, and the brackets for placing the explosives. They have to be checked in detail.”

The troops were about to attack Lanzhou, and Boss Peng personally called them back. The independent brigade was boiling, and the veterans had another chance to show off. For example, the first battalion commander, Li Jiangguo, bragged to the soldiers in his battalion: " Do you understand what is the main force and the trump card? Our independent brigade is such a unit. At critical moments, the chief thinks first, the unit that can solve big problems. This time, no one can give me the chain in Lanzhou. No one can do it well. Who do I deal with?"

Wushan, a small independent courtyard in the county town, the courtyard is surrounded by soldiers with serious expressions, antennas are erected on the roof of the courtyard, and people who look like cadres come in and out from the gate from time to time. One can tell at a glance that this must be a high-level command organization of the People's Liberation Army.

There are three main rooms in the courtyard, the middle room was vacated, a few tables were placed in the middle of the house, and a dozen phones on the table rang from time to time, and the surrounding walls were covered with various scales. A military map, an old soldier is standing in front of the map and watching it carefully. This old soldier is indeed not young, and his eyes are a little tired when looking at the map, so he called the guards and asked the little soldier to send it to him. Get a magnifying glass.

At this moment, a staff member came in to report: "Chief, the brigade commander and political commissar of the Independent Brigade have arrived."

The old soldier turned his head sharply: "Haha, is it? It's fast enough, let them in quickly."

The old soldier who turned around was none other than Mr. Peng, the supreme commander of the Northwest Field Army and the deputy commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army.

It turns out that this somewhat mysterious small courtyard is the highest command body of the Northwest Field Army, the headquarters of the First Field Army. Boss Peng and the heads of the field division command a large force of tens of thousands of people to fight in this small room.

I haven't seen Boss Peng for a while, and I feel that the old general has more wrinkles. Li Yong and Wang Chengde are standing straight in this small headquarters. Boss Peng circled around them a few times, Then he said in a steady voice: "Well, yes, the army has grown to more than 1 people, which is not a small force. The battle was fought very well in the previous stage. I commended you at the Yesi meeting. However, we must not be proud, we must not cock our tails, we still have a big battle to fight."

Li Yong and Wang Chengde stood straight and didn't dare to answer, just listened like that, it would be a lie to say that they were not nervous in front of Mr. I am too familiar with the commander, and Commander Jiawang usually likes to joke, so he is not very restrained, but he can't do it in front of Mr. Peng. Mr. Peng rarely praises people, and most of the cadres who listen to him in front of him Boss Peng has a calm personality and doesn't like to tease his subordinates, not to mention the two young people Li Yong and Wang Chengde. Among the senior generals of the People's Liberation Army, there are not many people who are not nervous when they contact Boss Peng. One, according to Boss Peng’s own recollection later, there were two guys who dared to blow their beards and stare at him, and slapped the table in a temper tantrum. One was Xu Shi of the East China Field Army, and the other was He Bingyan, the commander of the First Army of the Northwest Field Army. The two guys don't care about anything when they get angry, but Boss Peng also likes these two generals very much because they have a straightforward personality and can't talk around corners.

Boss Peng also seemed to see that the two were a little nervous. In order to ease the emotions of the two young subordinates, Boss Peng deliberately dragged Li Yong and Wang Cheng to a large-scale military map, pointed to a few points on it and said: "Why? In the same way, give me an old man with some ideas, if you have any ideas, just let me know, I have heard that Li Yong's brain is very useful."

Li Yong has a black line on his forehead, the battle of Lanzhou is about to start, and a large army of tens of 10 people is moving back and forth. In this case, give advice to Boss Peng in the headquarters of the field army! ! !The responsibility is too great.

Don't think that Li Yong came from time-traveling, even those who have time-traveled can't do it, and he doesn't dare to open his mouth to talk nonsense. To be a man, you must know how many bowls of dry rice you can eat. Li Yong was only a company-level cadre of a grassroots army in his previous life. Some of the big battle theories of the army are just paper, and the practical experience was gradually accumulated after the second regiment became a soldier. In terms of the actual control ability of the battlefield, it is far behind these old-timers who escaped death.

Boss Peng's words also attracted several chiefs in the room. These chiefs all looked at Li Yong and Wang Chengde with great interest. One chief said: "Hey, you two little guys, don't have any scruples. Just say what you need to say, can we old guys make you take some responsibility, hahaha."

Who is speaking?After a closer look, I recognized that the person who came to make fun of Li Yong and Wang Chengde was General Zhang Zongxun, the deputy commander of the field army.

Zhang Zongxun, a native of Weinan, Shaanxi Province, joined the regiment in 120, entered the Whampoa Military Academy in 35, and joined the party in the same year. After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, he served successively as a political officer of the Eighth Army Corps of the National Revolutionary Army and a company commander of the Red Army’s Second Front Army. After the Autumn Harvest Uprising at the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, he served as the division commander of the Red First Army in Jinggangshan, the commander of the [-]th Army, and the Long March in [-]. After arriving in Yan'an, he served as the director of the First Bureau of the Military Commission. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the commander of the [-]th Brigade of the [-]th Division of the Eighth Route Army. During the War of Liberation He served as the first deputy commander of the Northwest Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army. He was awarded the general's salary in [-].

Cows are not ordinary cows, why?Because Deputy Commander Zhang Zongxun was born as a student of Whampoa Military Academy. He was a classmate of the No. [-] Whampoa Class. He was a classmate of Liao Yaoxiang and Dai Li, the senior generals of the Kuomintang. Such a background took part in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. There is such a Whampoa graduate in the peasant uprising army of what strategy and tactics are. It is difficult for such a character not to be taken seriously, and there is no way not to be taken seriously.

The general participated in the revolution from the age of 16 until 25. He fought on the battlefield for 25 years without stopping. In the Northwest Field Army, Deputy Commander Liu Jingfan was originally the chairman of the border region government, and later came to the army to take charge of logistics work. Commander Zhang Zongxun was different. Deputy Commander Zhang was the deputy commander in charge of operations in the field army, and was also admired by later generations Li Yong. One of several characters.

Li Yong muttered to himself: "What old fellows, except for Boss Peng, are only about 40 years old. How dare you call yourself an old fellow at such a young age? Deputy Commander Zhang was born in 190, and he was only around 41 or [-] years old. It's only [-] years old."

However, the chief's few words really dispelled Li Yong's doubts. Who are Boss Peng and the people in the room?They are all people with a heart as big as the sea. In front of such people, what can you not let go of? Even if you say something wrong, what can the chief blame him for?

Thinking of this, Li Yong was completely relieved, picked up a red and blue pencil, pointed to the wall chart on the wall and said: "Since the chief asked me to say it, I will do my best. At present, in our northwest region, the most effective fighter in the Kuomintang army It is the Qingma Army guarding Lanzhou. If they want to eliminate this stubborn enemy, they must first break through Lanzhou City, and to break through Lanzhou's city defenses, they must first take down the natural barrier Gaolan Mountain outside the city. There is no other way to think about it. "

When Li Yong said this, several chiefs in the room nodded frequently, and Deputy Commander Zhang Zongxun told the little brigade commander in an encouraging tone: "Don't worry, keep talking."

"During the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang army spent several years building permanent reinforced concrete fortifications on Gaolan Mountain. Later, after Ma Bufang took over, he used an engineering regiment and thousands of migrant workers, and spent millions of oceans to make these The fortifications have been strengthened again, this is a hard bone, it is not easy to chew, if our army wants to take Gaolan Mountain, it will definitely pay a big price."

Including Boss Peng, several leaders in the room fell silent. After a while, Boss Peng said in his usual deep voice: "Where there is struggle, there will be sacrifices, and there will be a large number of cadres and soldiers in our army to watch!" Until the founding of New China, Comrade Li Yong, what else do you need to remind us?"

Li Yong knew that the intelligence system of our army was already very powerful at that time, and what he said must be within the grasp of the senior commanders of the field army. All he could do was to make the leaders pay more attention to it. There is no harm in the end, and finally Li Yong said: "The distance between Wushan County and Lanzhou is two hundred kilometers on the map, and this is only the number of kilometers on the map. If we want to attack Lanzhou, the actual marching distance of our army will definitely exceed three." Hundreds of kilometers, these hundreds of kilometers are sparsely populated no-man's land, there is basically no way to raise food along the way, our army's logistics transportation capacity is limited, and it will be very difficult to supply large troops and a large amount of ammunition and equipment needed for siege. be prepared."