The beacon of youth

As soon as the chief of staff reported the situation, the entire conference room was in chaos, talking all kinds of things. Chen Haihan, the chief of staff of the Sixth Army, sighed and whispered to Wang Chengde in private:

"His grandma's was guessed correctly by that boy, Dayong. What's the matter with this guy? Even what he said after drinking is very accurate. Isn't this kid good at fortune-telling!!"

Wang Chengde smiled bitterly: "My chief of staff, you are our chief, and the chief doesn't like to talk like this."

Chief of Staff Chen Haihan snorted softly: "Don't talk nonsense, you guy. I just think there is something wrong with Dayong's head. Hmph, wait a minute and see how I deal with him."

Wang Chengde: "Old Chen, let me tell you the truth, Dayong has a lot of strange things. It has been like this since our brigade was a special agent company with only more than 20 people. Sometimes you really can't understand him. Why the judgment is so accurate, I have been with him for so many years and I still don’t understand, let alone you.”

Chief of Staff Chen and Political Commissar Wang Chengde felt that there was something wrong with his head. Brigadier Li Da sat in a corner behind his back and said nothing. Unlike him chatting casually with Wang Chengde and Chen Haihan after drinking in his brigade headquarters, the heads of everyone sitting here are better than the other.

It stands to reason that all the people in the room who came to the meeting were old seniors, and there were a lot of commanders at the military division level. Who could notice him as a junior, so it should be fine to keep a low profile.

This method should work well in other places. If a cat doesn't squeak in a crowd of people, it might be able to get away with it, but it's a pity.The place where the meeting was held was the headquarters of the First Corps, and Li Yong's old chief, Commander Wang, presided over the meeting. In the eyes of Commander Wang, it was too difficult for him to hide.

Sure enough, before everyone was arguing for a long time, Commander Wang shouted loudly: "Hey, where did that kid Li Yong go? Get out of here, Guo Peng, what's wrong with you, Commander?" That's right, you don't know that you lost a brigade commander?"

Commander Guo Peng of the Second Army replied hesitantly: "Well, Commander, Li Yong can't be lost, isn't he here?"

Commander Guo turned to one side, letting out Li Yong who was behind him.

With nothing to do, Brigadier Li Da had no choice but to answer: "Report to the commander. I'm here, and I'm coming out."

This happened in a very serious meeting place.It's kind of funny.

"Wow" dozens of people.The whole room roared with laughter. In front of a commander of dozens of divisions or more in a corps, Brigadier Li Da was really losing face, and Commander Wang also laughed loudly:

"Okay, I know I'm playing with my mind, and I can't hide it. Scroll down to the map for me, and you will preside over today's meeting."

What is this called! ! !We are just a small brigade commander with the lowest position and the youngest age.He's not the chief of staff of the army, let alone the chief of staff of the corps. The commander always likes to get himself out when he has nothing to do.

Commander Wang's behavior is familiar to everyone in the Second Army. When he was still in the Second Column, the Commander would often come to this meeting during meetings, but now Commander Wang is not the former Commander of the Second Column, but the entire Corps. Commander, why doesn't this old temper change?

The commander's order was to let himself go to the bottom of the map to preside over the meeting. The so-called presiding meeting was to ask Brigadier Li Da to analyze the situation of the Korean War, then go over there.

It's not good for Lao Ai to do something first, and Li Yong also knows this truth, but now he really can't refuse, so he has to bite the bullet.

"Please look at the leaders, this is Busan, the last stronghold of South Korea. It is in this place that the People's Army suffered a great loss, suffered heavy casualties, and was unable to attack for a long time. The distance between Busan and the 400th Parallel is more than 400 kilometers. , The people's army wants to withdraw to the side of the 10,000th parallel. The distance of more than [-] kilometers is a huge problem. What does it mean if the rear road is cut off? It means that the people's army's food, ammunition and fuel supplies are all interrupted. Troops, if there is no ammunition and no food, what will be waiting for them? They will be frantically strangled by the US ground and air forces. To put it bluntly, the main force of the People's Army will be lost in this battle, and they will try to recover It's not in the foreseeable future, and my personal opinion is that I don't have much hope for them."

The atmosphere in the venue was dull. In terms of experience on the battlefield, everyone here can be a teacher for Li Yong, but Brigadier Li has a lot of information.

A commander asked a question: "According to our report, the Korean People's Army has been broken into pieces and scattered to break through. Using such tactics, the US military has no way to wipe them all out. As long as the backbone force can return part of it, use It won't be long before the troops should be able to recover."

Li Yong shook his head: "I'm afraid this is not possible. North Korea is not China. North Korea is a long and narrow peninsula country. There is not much room for large troops to maneuver. Judging from the situation report, although the People's Army has been attacking fiercely in the past few months, it has There were also quite a lot of casualties. More than 30 people were added to the army. This shows that the people's army who attacked from the 30th parallel all the way to Busan suffered more than 10,000 casualties. It will be miserable if you go in, and it will be very difficult to add in the future, and the population of North Korea is less than 1000 million, and the war potential that can support consumption is limited."

"Li Yong, do you think this American grandma will cross the [-]th parallel? If the Americans are determined to cross the line and pursue it, it will be useless even if the People's Army runs back." It was Commander Wang who spoke.

"What the chief said is that even if part of the People's Army can run back, it will lose its combat effectiveness. As long as the US troops cross the border and pursue them, the People's Army will simply be unable to resist."

After what Li Yong said, everyone who came to the meeting could see that the crux of the problem was here. The People's Army must be defeated if it is defeated. The key is what to do after the defeat.

Li Yong is also depressed. For such a simple question, anyone who has a little understanding of that war in future generations will know what the US military will do next. It will definitely cross the [-]th parallel to pursue the Korean People’s Army, but he can’t say it directly. Find all kinds of excuses.

"The current situation is too favorable for the U.S. military and South Korea. It is very likely that the Korean People's Army will be wiped out in one go. It is difficult for people to give up such a good situation. My personal opinion is that the U.S. military will definitely attack across the line, and It’s going to keep getting stronger.”

The meeting room was dull again. After a while, a voice sounded:

"Damn it, according to what you say, where does the American grandma have to fight? If you continue to fight, we will be getting closer and closer to China."

Li Yong: "That's right. If there is no external force to contend with the Americans, North Korea will definitely be occupied by South Korea. No one can say where the US military will go. Maybe it will go to the Yalu River."

None of the people who came to the meeting were politicians, and they didn't know much about the so-called international environment, but they were all soldiers, soldiers who had fought for decades, and they were more sensitive to war than anyone else. I understand that once North Korea is completely occupied, it means that the opponent puts the bayonet under China's nose, and this cannot be tolerated anyway.

At this point, it became very clear. Li Yong raised his head and looked at Commander Wang: "Commander, on behalf of our brigade, I will ask my superiors for permission to fight abroad."

Boom, the meeting place is in chaos again, his grandma, why is this guy Li Yong asking to go abroad to fight, and it's not their turn to go abroad to fight, our corps is in the Northwest, and the war is in the Northeast, this It's too far away, and besides, there are plenty of troops in the Northeast. Why did the superiors transfer a troop from Xinjiang in the Northwest? There is no such possibility.

Why Li Yong is so anxious to ask for a fight is actually selfish. There is no war in Xinjiang, and there will be no war to fight for a long period of time that can be predicted. This makes the large corps face a very real problem. Nong Ken, don't think that the Independent Brigade is fine now, who knows what will happen in the future, Commander Wang can't always protect the Independent Brigade, what should I do if it is transferred?Therefore, the best way is to follow the 36 plan. As long as you can leave Xinjiang, the risk of troops being abolished will be reduced.

Commander Wang waved his hands to calm everyone down: "How to deal with the situation in North Korea is not something we can decide. Whether to send troops abroad to fight is a very sensitive issue. Li Yong, it is good to want to fight, but you don't have to go." foreign country."

kindness?What's the meaning?There was something in the words of the commander. Commander Wang looked at the commanders at all levels who came to the meeting: "Today I will announce another order. After the decision of the Field Army and the Party Committee of the Corps, our Corps will send a force to cooperate with the Second Field and Eighteenth Army to liberate Tibet. , The size of the troops is at the division level, you can see who is more suitable."

There is a battle to be fought, who doesn't want to go, it doesn't matter where he goes, as long as he can fight, this is what the commanders thought at the time. Li Yong hurriedly moved to Wang Chengde and whispered: "Old Wang, this is a good opportunity. We have to get it."

Li Yong and Wang Chengde had discussed the future of the army together a long time ago. Although Lao Wang is engaged in political work, he does ideological work for others all day long. In fact, he does not want the army to be transferred to work as a farmer.

With Wang Chengde's consent, the two people's opinions are unified, but it is not certain whether they can get the task.

There are three armies ([-]st, [-]nd, and [-]th) under the First Corps, plus an independent brigade and an independent cavalry division directly under the Corps (reorganized from two cavalry regiments). There are eleven units at the divisional brigade level. Which troops to send? go? ? (Thank you brethren for your support to Lao Ba, and bow to thank you, without your support, Lao Ba would not have been able to write [-] chapters) (To be continued...)