The beacon of youth

() The order to disperse and break through made the bandits lose their ability to resist, and the red-eyed soldiers lost their opponents. This made Hu Qingshan and others very popular. They were angry at why the bandits didn't resist. Isn't the Seventh Cavalry Division very good!You have been fighting with us for more than a month, when did you become so useless.

Hu Qingshan was not the only one who had this idea, a charging soldier slammed the head of a bandit squatting on the ground with the butt of his gun, and cursed: "What the fuck, why? Don’t resist? Why don’t I let Lao Tzu knock you all out, stand up and fight Lao Tzu.”

The bandit who was hit was bloody, muttering incomprehensible words, howling and screaming, and he no longer had the viciousness when he shouted to be beaten and killed.

At this moment, there was a shout from the soldiers in front: "Our brigade commander is here."

No wonder the soldiers were angry. The two and a half platoons of the first battalion had already hated the bandits to the bone. The soldier who hit the bandits with the butt of his gun kicked them hard and cursed: "What the hell are you doing?" Bandits, our platoon leader asked you to kill them, let's see how our brigade commander will deal with you when he comes." ..

From the tone of this soldier, it can be heard that he is a soldier of the first platoon, and the leader of the first platoon is a veteran soldier drawn from the old [-]th Brigade, who died at the very beginning of the Yiwu Defense War.

Hearing that the brigade commander Li Yong was coming, the soldiers hurriedly stood in neat rows, and of course the front seats were reserved for Hu Qingshan, the deputy commander of the first battalion who was besieged, and Lao Yang, the deputy battalion commander of the supply battalion. The squad leader and the soldiers who have fought continuously for more than 40 days.

Li Yong walked over in great strides. For more than 40 days, the soldiers once again saw the brigade commander they were familiar with.

Li Yong is very familiar with the first battalion, and he is even more familiar with the soldiers of the first battalion. The commanders above the squad are all veterans who are familiar with him, and they are all veterans who got out of the same trench with him.They are very affectionate with each other.

Take a close look at the soldiers one by one, look at his precious soldiers one by one, look at their clothes, look at their faces, look at their wounds, and see how they are different from more than 40 days ago.

The soldiers felt that although the brigade commander had seen so many people, the brigade commander could remember each of them, and the brigade commander was very clear about each of their names.

The student soldiers in the back row were whispering: "Oh, this is the brigade commander of these veterans? Doesn't he look very old? I guess he is only a few years older than me. I thought he was a very old old revolutionary. Young, is it as great as they say? Several young girls are full of little stars in their eyes, so it turns out that the brigade commander of the Hero Brigade is such a young man."

Hu Qingshan and Lao Yang came forward to salute Li Yong.Although Lao Yang's qualifications are very old, he still has to salute Li Yong in public.No matter how powerful the qualifications are, it is a private matter.One to one? The brigade commander is still the brigade commander.

Li Yong moved the hands of the two of them down: "Don't talk about hard work, don't talk about grievances, as long as you are still alive, tell me now, how about the casualties of the troops?"

See brigade commander Li Yong asked about casualties.Hu Qingshan's eye circles were red, and this tough guy seemed unable to bear to touch this issue: "Brigade Commander, you criticized me and punished me. I didn't do my job well, and my comrades suffered a lot of casualties."

"I fought hard for more than 40 days with bandits dozens of times your size, and overcame many hardships. How could there be no casualties? Say, I have the mental capacity to bear it."

Hu Qingshan looked at the squad leader Lao Yang beside him: "Report to the brigade commander, 41 people were sacrificed, and more than 20 were seriously injured, not to mention the minor wounded, basically everyone was injured."

Although he said that he was mentally prepared, Li Yong still trembled in his heart. 41 soldiers sacrificed, all of them were veterans who followed him from the Northwest to Xinjiang, so they disappeared? ?Never see them again!Damn bandits, damn bandits.

41 soldiers were sacrificed, and there were more than 20 serious injuries. The casualties were indeed not small. In the later period of the Liberation War, the du li brigade had rarely encountered such a large number of casualties. Recently, the battle has been going smoothly. It is very rare to sacrifice a few soldiers, not to mention sixty or seventy people who were sacrificed and seriously injured. This is only the casualties of a battalion of besieged troops. Not counting, it's almost overwhelming.

"Come on, come back to Yiwu with me. I want to see my soldiers and inform the troops to gather in the direction of Yiwu County after the battle."

Everyone understood that Li Yong was talking about the sacrificed soldiers, and the brigade commander wanted to take one last look at them.

Since the du li brigade set out, they have been marching continuously for a long distance, and have fought hard with the bandits who besieged Yiwu. After the battle, the troops need to recover their strength. The nearby area is a sparsely populated Gobi area. The climate is harsh and there is no place for large troops to garrison The army has temporary equipment, but no matter how good the tent is, it is not as good as the house. Therefore, Yiwu County is the best place to stay. Li Yong plans to let the troops station in Yiwu for a period of time, while stabilizing the local situation. Take a good rest.

Cleaning up the battlefield and other follow-up tasks were handled by political commissar Wang Chengde and others with troops. Li Yong returned to Yiwu County with a large number of troops. Of course, this again refers to Hu Qingshan and the two soldiers from the first battalion. It was the first time for Li Yong, the brigade commander, to come to many rows of soldiers.

After the order was issued, brigade personnel such as the supply battalion and the high-speed machine gun battalion quickly moved towards the county seat, while the brigade commander Li Yong was the first to arrive at the place where the soldiers had previously stood firm.

The temperature in the Yiwu area is very low, and the snow has not completely melted. The remains of the sacrificed soldiers still maintain their original appearance. All the sacrificed soldiers are covered with white sheets. Looking at it from a distance, it is full of a large area. space.

Li Yong lifted the white cloth one by one, and looked at each corpse a few times. He wanted to take a good look at the appearance of the sacrificed soldiers and their familiar facial features, so as to remember them deeply in his heart.

Swinging their arms smoothly and wiping the dirt off their faces with their sleeves, Li Yong felt a tangled pain in his heart. The first and second platoons of the first battalion were the two most effective fighters in the whole battalion and even the whole brigade. The platoon is also the two oldest platoons. There are many veterans. Li Yong and most of them are familiar with each other. They often joke together when there are no combat missions. Brigadier Li Yong requested a combat mission, and there was no way to joke with Li Yong anymore, they had already left their lives on this cold and lonely land.

Li Yong didn't cry, how could the leader of the brigade cry so easily!It is said that a man bleeds but does not shed tears, but the tears can't be stopped no matter what. Like Li Jia and Li Yong, the guard company commanders beside him, they kept wiping their eyes with their cuffs. This beautiful girl saw Li Yong cry for the first time. It was the first time I saw the brigade commander being so vulnerable.

When the battle was fierce, no one thought about casualties, but once the battle was over, the remains of soldiers all over the ground were shocking.

Another familiar soldier appeared under the white cloth sheet. Li Yong was stunned for a moment, and couldn't believe his eyes. Isn't this a row of elders? This old soldier also died?

The reality is cruel, no matter whether Li Yong wants to think about it or not, a platoon leader is lying on the cold ground in front of his eyes.

The old Eighth Route Army from the [-]th Brigade (now the Fifth Division of the Second Army), there are not many in the entire du li brigade, not to mention in the du li brigade, including the entire field army. I expected them to lead soldiers and bring more soldiers, but now, this old soldier's body is icy cold, and the marks of multiple bullets piercing the front chest of his military uniform are still clearly visible, and the blood has already turned black.

what happened?A row of elders, Zhou, has very rich combat experience. Li Yong and him once discussed together. Lao Zhou said that as long as you pay attention, you can hear the trajectory of bullets and artillery shells from the sound, and you can effectively avoid danger if you do it properly. A veteran soldier is ten to a hundred times more sensitive to danger than a recruit on the battlefield. It is not easy for the enemy's bullets to hit him. Logically speaking, such a veteran soldier will not die easily.

"How did the platoon leader die?" Li Yong raised his head and asked.

Hu Qingshan on the side replied: "The leader of the platoon did not die on the battlefield, but was tricked out by the magistrate of Yiwu, Ai Baidula, who led people out, saying that there was a problem with the aqueduct built by the soldiers for the fellow villagers, and they would come back after going out. He didn’t come back either, the body was just found by us, Lao Zhou died very wronged.”

"Ai Baidula." Li Yong gritted his teeth and said these words, and then asked: "Hu Qingshan, do you know this guy?"

"Report to the brigade commander. He is the county magistrate appointed by our new government. After the troops stationed in Yiwu, I have dealt with him a lot. I can recognize his bones even if I peeled his skin."

"Very well, order the troops to gather all the captured prisoners. I want to see if the magistrate can escape from our grasp."

The military order fell like a mountain, and the brigade commander Li Yong ordered all the troops to gather the prisoners they had captured in Yiwu County. One after another, the captured bandit prisoners were brought over.

The soldiers used gun butts and bayonets to blast these habitual bandits over, cursing and beating them. Some of them were kicked to the ground when they walked a little slower, and then they were beaten very hard.

In the dictionary of the du li brigade, there is no such thing as a set of preferential treatment for prisoners, especially those who were captured were mostly members of the original Seventh Cavalry Division. With the food and salary of the People's Liberation Army, what did they do?They killed all the political workers sent by the old troops of the People's Liberation Army, so the soldiers hated them, a group of mutinous bandits.

Thanks for the votes old folks, bow down. (To be continued.)