The beacon of youth

A few simple words made Li Jia, the beautiful guard company commander, full of praise. This is the first time Li Jia praised Li Yong in such a tone. It is not easy to mobilize Li Jia's emotions. She is a cultural person who has studied. It must be related, cultural people are interested in poetry and so on.

After reading a few words, Li Yong felt that his heart suddenly opened up. The snow-capped mountains and plateaus no longer made him feel afraid of difficulties, but filled with a desire to conquer. Brigadier Li laughed loudly: "This is not me. I wrote it, I was just feeling the scene."

"Who did it if you didn't do it? Without plateaus and snow-capped mountains, without marching with the troops, who would have such an artistic conception?"

Li Jia is not a country bumpkin who has never studied, and knows that although these few sentences are simple, they cannot be read casually.

Li Yong: "This is written by our Vice Chairman Zhou. It was written by Vice Chairman Zhou when the Red Army marched through the Great Snow Mountain. I just heard about it."

Vice Chairman Zhou?Li Jia was stunned. It was a legendary existence, a god-like person.

"How can you know the poem written by Vice Chairman Zhou?" Li Jia is a very smart girl, so it's not easy to fool her.

I forgot about this nonsense, yes, how did he, a young brigade commander, know about the poem written by Vice Chairman Zhou? Besides, he was not a brigade commander when he first arrived in northern Shaanxi, but It is a deserter from Hu Zongnan's army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a captured soldier.

Hehe, Brigadier Li Da coughed a few times in a hurry, and then explained in a random manner: "You came a bit late, and I don't understand some things. When Vice Chairman Zhou lived in Yan'an, we often went out for walks. There are many people in our brigade. I’ve seen them all before, if you don’t believe me, you can ask He Cuihua, this girl knows Vice Chairman Zhou. She also had dinner with Boss Peng, so I know this is of course nothing.”

Li Jia was a little suspicious of Li Yong's explanation. If you know Vice Chairman Zhou, you can know the poems he wrote when he was in the Red Army?Besides, I've never heard that Li Yong knew Vice Chairman Zhou before. Is it true or not?

Regardless of whether it was true or not, she couldn't go and confess to Vice Chairman Zhou. Although Li Yong's explanation was unreasonable, there was no way to prove it. Li Jia could only temporarily believe that it was true.

The troops moved forward all the way, pulling up a long queue on the snow-covered plateau, starting from early morning to noon.Not even a single figure was seen,

The speed of the convoy is not fast, and the traveling distance per hour is only twenty or thirty kilometers, but even so, the scene of half a day is at least more than 100 kilometers.No smoke could be seen where the convoy passed, which made everyone see the vastness and sparseness of the snow-covered plateau.

After a simple meal at noon, the troops continued to set off.When camping at night, it is conservatively estimated that the distance traveled by the convoy has exceeded 200 kilometers.

Walked all day.It is still a mechanized march, and it is only a journey of two to three hundred kilometers. This makes Li Yong, who is used to calculating the footsteps of troops with the speed of later generations, very helpless. The idea is very good, but the reality is cruel. Although the independent brigade has initially realized mechanized.But this road is too bad.

It's better to call the road. In fact, there are some places where you can't tell whether it is a road at all. The vanguard troops have to use maps and compass to determine the direction of progress. Xiaocheng's engineering company is the hardest unit in the whole brigade. The engineer company with more than 700 people is not small, but it still feels that there are not enough manpower. In order to let the tanks and heavy artillery of the follow-up troops pass smoothly, the company commander Xiaocheng and the instructor Zhou Daxing are busy not touching the ground. When starting from the Great Northwest, we considered various solutions to the difficulties encountered, and with enough equipment, the difficulties were very difficult, but we could overcome them.

Li Yong, the brigade commander, also played a certain role in showing favor to the local snakes. Out of gratitude to the independent brigade, the head of the group, Gesang Wangdui, specially selected a few people from his Ninth Infantry Regiment to serve as guides for the independent brigade before they set off. , to lead the way for the large troops entering Tibet.

It's like the rain just in time. The independent brigade has no shortage of personnel, equipment, or food. The only thing missing is the locals who are familiar with Tibetan areas. There are only two people who understand Tibetan in the tens of thousands of troops. , one of these two people is Zhou Daxing, the instructor of the engineering company, and the other is Suolang Pingcuo of the communication platoon, and these two people can only speak Tibetan, and none of them know the way. With the Ninth Regiment A few guides can ensure that the troops do not go or go wrong.

The health captain Hu Xiaolian led a medical team to stay in the engineering company to check and treat the unwell soldiers anytime and anywhere. This was also the opinion of the brigade commander Li Yong. They are the biggest in the brigade, so make sure they are healthy.

Both Xiaocheng and Hu Xiaolian were old people when the spy company started. Xiaocheng also knew about Li Yong and Hu Xiaolian. Xiaocheng even knew when Li Yong and Hu Xiaolian were going to get together. Hu Xiaolian brought the medical team here. Afterwards, Xiao Cheng called the captain in front of others, but behind his back he called his sister-in-law one by one.

Although everyone in the Independent Brigade knew that Hu Xiaolian was the wife-to-be of Li Yong, the brigade commander, there were not many people who could call or dare to call Hu Xiaolian's sister-in-law.

The setting sun is like blood, and there are a few clouds in the distant sky that are reflected red. After a day of running around, the troops camped, and piles of bonfires were lit by the soldiers. It is a snowy area that has been seldom inhabited since ancient times. The plateau was suddenly full of popularity.

The army’s food is very rich, not only enough staple food but also some meat. This is also an old tradition of the independent brigade. If you want the army to have combat effectiveness, you must provide food. Li Yong, who has learned the lessons of the Eighteenth Army, also let the baggage Before the battalion set off, they bought a large amount of milk tea in Qamdo, and tried to let the soldiers drink a large cup of hot milk tea every day.

The strong aroma of milk tea was blown by the wind, and the whole camp was full of fragrance. The troops who had experienced the hard war life were not picky about food, and they were already very dissatisfied with a full meal. Having a cup of hot milk tea after dinner is simply amazing. It is a fairy life.

Tents were set up one by one, some were self-made by the Independent Brigade and some were captured from the enemy. They were of various sizes and sizes. Although the styles were a bit more complicated, it was no problem to accommodate all the troops. Li Yong knew the hardships of the troops entering Tibet back then. In order to resist the low temperature on the plateau, the troops in the early stage had to dig underground cells to live in, and the humidity in the cellars was very heavy. Many soldiers suffered from arthritis and rheumatism and fell down. The root cause of a lifetime.

The benefits of a strong logistics force of the Independent Brigade are once again reflected. When marching, there is a car to save energy. When camping, the warm tent can dispel the chill of the soldiers. The fire in the middle of the tent is gurgling teapot, teapot The smell that wafts out of the mouth can't help but drool.

The well-fed and well-fed soldiers wandered around, the whole camp was full of laughter and chatter, some soldiers chatted indiscriminately together in groups of three or five, hey, isn’t it a big deal to go to Tibet? What is the difference between traveling in mountains and rivers?

There is nothing wrong with the soldiers looking at it this way, but as the leader of the brigade, Li Yong deeply knows that all this has not come easily. The independent brigade has a strong engineering unit, a strong repair company, and sufficient medicines and personnel. It is precisely because of these support teams that the independent brigade looks very comfortable during the arduous march.

As the old saying goes, people have immediate worries without long-term considerations. The independent brigade looks peaceful now, but not everything is perfect. Wang Chengde, the political commissar standing with Li Yong, is very careful. He saw the truth in Li Yong's face. A trace of worry.

"Dayong, the mission has been taken back, and our brigade has become the vanguard of the whole army. You see, our soldiers are well-stocked, our morale is high, and we have made a lot of contributions in Leiwuqi. What else can you worry about? Yes? I've decided to give you half a day off and go to see Hu Xiaolian when you have time. They are very busy these days. As of today, our brigade has not lost any non-combat personnel. A large part of the credit is due to the medical team. You Can you balance public and private matters even if you go there?"

Taking care of the brigade commander's private life, being a political commissar to this extent is considered a masterpiece, but Li Yong's thoughts are not on women at all, Li Da brigade commander smiled bitterly and said: "Old Wang, I don't care It’s not that I miss my wife, but I’m thinking about other issues.”

Wang Chengde: "Speak out and listen, if there are difficulties, we will find a solution together."

Li Yong: "Old Wang, everything is fine in our brigade now. This is because of our strong self-sufficiency, but our self-sufficiency is not endless. What will we do in ten days, 20 days, or one month? We Can we still reach our current level? Tibet is no different from the inland areas. In the inland areas we have many ways to go. We can rob if there are enemies, but we can spend money to buy them if there are no enemies. The logistics of the field army can also solve a large part for us. There is no hope, the Tibetan army is very small, and most of them have been eliminated by us. It is impossible to rob them. The land in Tibetan areas is barren and the people are very poor. You may not be able to buy any good things. The last one is to count on the supply from the superior? You are not unaware of the transportation capacity of our army. It is not easy to transport materials from the mainland to Qamdo. The existing transport capabilities of our field armies are difficult."

Wang Chengde immediately fell silent after Li Yong's words. It's not that he doesn't know the army's logistics and transportation capabilities. Wang Chengde, who was born in the old Eighth Road, may have a deeper understanding than Li Yong.

"This is indeed a big problem. Have you thought about a solution?" Wang Chengde asked in a low voice. (To be continued...)