The beacon of youth

Li Yong was hiding his mind from the commander, trying to make the independent brigade as good as possible. The so-called strategic support force is a bit exaggerated. With the strength of a brigade, there is no way to serve as a strategic reserve force.

After the liberation of the whole country, the Central Military Commission arranged the Thirteenth Army Corps (38th, 39th, and [-]th Army), the most combative of the several major field armies, in Henan. Support, this is the real national strategic reserve.

According to Li Yong, the role that the Independent Brigade should take on should be a quick reaction force. Even if it is not at the national level, it can be at the field army level. At the very least, it must become a quick reaction force at the corps level, so as to avoid being abolished. destiny.

To put it simply, if you want your superiors to feel that your army is still useful, for example, Commander Xu Guangda's Second Corps was directly named by the Military Commission as the Armored Forces Command, so there is no risk of being abolished.

Commander Wang exchanged glances with several chiefs, and then continued to ask: "What else, you kid, continue to talk, I want to hear it."

Li Yongxin said, there are more, but he dare not say, what to say?Said that the North and South Korean armies will start fighting soon?Said that Kim Il Sung went to Moscow to ask Stalin for aid before the war started?That North Korea did not notify China at all?The sudden outbreak of war caught China by surprise?Said that because of the outbreak of the Korean War, the U.S. Seventh Fleet entered the Taiwan Strait, making the plan to liberate Taiwan nowhere in sight?If the damn thing is said, the confidentiality committee will have to come to investigate immediately.

Since there are some things that cannot be said, we can only choose the explanations that can be said:

"Several leaders, it is not easy to form an army, especially an army like our independent brigade, which has a certain experimental nature. There is no company or regiment. A brigade-level combat force has ten battalions. It was unimaginable in the past. To be honest, without the support of the leaders here, our independent brigade would not be able to reach the present. The party committee of our brigade has considered the post-war problems. The short-term plan is to improve equipment and increase training. Especially increasing the size of engineers and logistics repair troops.”

A chief interjected: "Why do you need to increase the size of engineers and repair troops? According to my understanding, your independent brigade has an engineering company and a repair company, which are directly under the brigade headquarters. Both have a large establishment of more than 200 people. Isn't that enough?"

"Not enough. The engineer company and the repair company both have more than 200 people. It seems not small. But it is only set according to the size of our old army. Our brigade has too much technical equipment, and there are many heavy weapons, such as artillery and tanks. Such equipment has high requirements on bridges and roads. For example, we rushed to aid Yiwu this time. Engineers and repair troops have exerted great strength. Without a strong engineer and logistics repair force, sometimes it is really difficult to move forward. ah."

The heads of several corps are all veterans who have fought for many years. Li Yong can understand the truth after a little explanation.Commander Wang was also aroused by Li Yong:

"Now that you have a short-term plan, let me tell you about your long-term plan. I really want to see what stories you can come up with."

Li Yong smiled, thinking about long-term planning, it is called bragging for the time being, the development of the army depends on the overall strength of the country to a higher level, and the industrial strength of the country is not up to standard, so planning alone is useless, but now It may be useful to come out and brag:

"Reporting to several leaders, our brigade's long-term plan is to form a No. 11 battalion on the basis of the existing ten battalions, so as to achieve a balance between offense and defense."

Several chiefs looked at each other, my God, one brigade has ten battalions with more than 3000 people and is still not satisfied, and there is still a No. 11 battalion. What does this little Li Yong want to make the troops into?

When Li Yong said his words, not only Commander Wang and the other leaders were surprised, but also the people in the independent brigade were all eyes. Think about it, damn it, when will Dayong come up with a long-term plan? I haven't heard him mention it. Besides, he wants to form a No. 11 battalion?What kind of battalion is this No.11 battalion?

Everyone in the room stopped drinking, and they were all waiting for Li Yong's next words. Commander Wang also reminded him one after another:

"Hurry up, your No. 11 battalion is going to make something weird, won't it be an aircraft battalion?

Brigadier Li Da smiled: "The commander really guessed right. The No. 11 Battalion I want to form is a battalion mainly based on aircraft. powered helicopter."

Boom, the house is in chaos, this guy is shaking too much, and the Independent Brigade wants to set up an aircraft battalion?Whether it is true or not, the brigade commander is not talking nonsense, but he dare not talk nonsense to the commander.

The commander and several leaders of the helicopter mentioned by Li Yong knew about it, but the battalion and company commanders who came to eat from the independent brigade did not know about it. Not only had they never seen it, they had never even heard of it. What is an airplane?What's the use?

The first battalion commander, Li Jiangguo, sat at the same table with Li Yong. Lao Li scratched his head and asked:

"Brigade Commander, we have seen the plane of the little devil, and the small red-headed plane of the Kuomintang. We beat them down outside Yulin and Baoji City, but we have never seen the helicopter you mentioned. What good is the guy, besides, where are we going to capture it?"

Li Jiangguo is a kind of habitual psychology. The weapons and equipment of the troops are all captured. As long as the enemy has them, we can snatch them. I've seen the enemy on that road have such a thing. Besides, as long as it is an airplane, it is a thing that flies in the sky. How to snatch it from the sky? We are infantry and don't have wings.

People's ideas are different. What Li Jiangguo was thinking about was how to snatch it. He didn't care whether the independent aircraft brigade was useful or not. The girl shouted loudly:

"Brigade Commander, Brigadier Commander, somewhere the enemy has the plane you mentioned, let's hurry up and grab it. After I grab it, I will become the battalion commander of this plane battalion. I said it in front of the commander, you Don't regret it."

After Li Yong revealed the plan of the Aircraft Battalion, the people in the room were in full swing. Anyway, they said everything, and it was a mess. Several heads of the Corps headquarters were also shocked by Li Yong's plan. It's a lie, damn it, this little guy really wants to set up some kind of aircraft battalion, why does he always feel that this plan is not very reliable.

Commander Wang stretched out his hand and pressed down:

"Comrades, be quiet and let your brigade commander finish talking."

Li Yong thought about it, and the cowhide had already been blown out, so he continued. Brigadier Li then briefly told everyone what he knew about helicopters, and finally explained, everyone, don’t be surprised. It is a long-term plan, which cannot be realized for the time being, but it does not mean that it will not exist in the future. In the future, when the country develops, everything will be there.

Speaking of this, everyone including Commander Wang breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that what Li Yong said was just a plan, but it was somewhat scary.

Looking at the surprised expressions of the people in the room, Li Yong was a little bit proud, hum, we are talking about the armed helicopter battalion, you will understand after a long time, now let me talk about the immediate:

"Commander, let's not discuss the matter of this aircraft. I want to ask the Corps to send us some manpower. I want to expand the engineering and repair companies as soon as possible. If something happens, we can quickly pull it out."

The few commanders who came over with Commander Wang just wanted to say something. Their subconscious meaning was that after the war is over, the troops will soon face a major layoff, but your independent brigade still wants to expand?There are no doors.

But before they could make a statement, Commander Wang spoke first: "Okay, I will replenish you with enough personnel, not only for your personnel, but also for your equipment. If you want aircraft, I don't have anything that engineers and repair companies need. I can still get it, and I will give it to you."

A few commanders who came together wanted to say something, the commander waved his hand: "Let them toss hard, I want to see the effect, how many more people do you need?"

"Reporting to the commander, it is enough for us to have another 700 people. I plan to expand the engineering and repair companies of our brigade to the size of 500 people, plus certain technical equipment. After a period of training, we will ensure that our brigade A quick pull should be fine."

"Okay, I'll transfer you 600 people from your Second Army, what do you think?"

I heard that the commander is going to transfer 600 people from the Second Army to the Independent Brigade. Even Li Yong and Wang Chengde, the members of the Independent Brigade are jumping for joy, because the Second Army is the mother's family of the Independent Brigade, with many acquaintances and old comrades-in-arms Much, to know each other's tempers and temperaments, and it's a wonderful thing to do.

Everyone enjoyed the meal, and Commander Wang didn't mention much about the disarmament and downsizing of the army. On the way back, several leaders asked in a puzzled way:

"Commander, the higher-ups have already ordered the dismantling and reclamation of troops. Why do we need to add more manpower to the Independent Brigade?"

Commander Wang sighed: "After so many years of fighting, it is time for the country to recuperate, but many of our cadres and soldiers have become accustomed to life in the army. I am afraid that it is unbearable for them to be disarmed and returned to the fields. My opinion is , the Independent Brigade should not be moved for the time being, it would be a pity to cut them off, the additional manpower for them was transferred from the Second Army, and the total number of our corps has not increased, do you think this is okay?"

"The commander has made a decision. If we have anything else to say, let's do it." (praise) (to be continued...)