The beacon of youth

With the reluctant but unavoidable support of the Kaxag government, it has been busy for more than 20 days, and the temperature is getting lower and lower. went in.

The feeling of having a home is different. The soldiers are very happy and friendly. Although the house is very simple, it is much better than living in a tent. At least you can lie on the kang that can light a fire and sleep.

Dragging his sore body, Li Yong lay down all of a sudden, his body was very warm, which was made by the guards imitating the houses of ordinary people in the north.

After being scalded by the heat, Li Yong felt that the sweat pores all over his body were relaxed. He couldn't tell how comfortable it was. He let out an unbearable groan from his throat, and Li Yong fell asleep suddenly. There is a saying in the army The catchphrase, drinking and eating meat is not as good as sleeping, which means that when people are extremely sleepy, sleeping is the best enjoyment.

Li Yong has been very busy recently. Although he has no combat missions, miscellaneous things are more tiring than fighting. When he is with the main force, his superiors worry about everything. The commander made up his mind that the brigade commander of his own independent brigade just had to fight the battle well, but now it’s not going to happen. The head of the [-]th Army has not yet arrived, and his brigade commander is the highest administrative officer of the People’s Liberation Army in Lhasa. For fear of implementing policies There was a deviation in the above, and the soldiers had to come over to ask for instructions on something big and fart, and Brigadier Li Da was so annoyed to death.

In fact, it was because Li Yong was not very used to such a job. If he was tired, political commissar Wang Chengde was even more tired than him. When Li Yong was really bored, he could still push the matter to Wang Chengde, and Wang Chengde had no one to shirk from.

Li Jia, the company commander of the guard who was by his side, sighed with distress, and covered Li Yong, who was already snoring, with a blanket. The longer he stayed with the brigade commander, the more he felt that the little brigadier The more secrets he has, it seems that there is nothing in the world that he does not know.There was no problem he couldn't solve.

After a long time, Li Jia knew the age of the brigade commander, he was only 22 years old, three years younger than himself, but the strange things in his stomach were like a sky full of stars, and three or five would appear from time to time.

Holding her chin, Li Jia stared blankly at Li Yong who was sleeping soundly. The 25-year-old girl is the most attractive golden age for a woman. If she was in her hometown, she should have married a long time ago.But now Li Jia dare not even think about getting married. Since joining the PLA, Li Jia has not been idle for a day, fighting from near Yan'an to Xinjiang, and from Xinjiang to Tibet.The strings in my head are tense all the time, so I can't even think about personal issues.

The troops of the People's Liberation Army are very good.Brigadier Li Yong is also very good.But Dayong is a little younger. Also, although he is not married yet, with the health captain Hu Xiaolian and He Cuihua, can others get in?Li Jia suddenly felt a little shameless, why did he think of this matter.Could it be that he wanted a man?Bah bah bah.

This morning, Li Jia walked in again with a telegram, the content of which was not much, and the main force of the Eighteenth Army was approaching Lhasa.

After more than 20 days of trekking.The Eighteenth Army was finally arriving. The army headquarters and the 52nd Division, the main force, were only tens of kilometers away from Lhasa. According to the marching speed of the troops, it would take less than a day to arrive.

After receiving the telegram, Li Yong and Wang Chengde immediately sent the reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong to lead a battalion of soldiers and a large number of vehicles out of Lhasa to meet them. They themselves were with Wang Chengde, the battalion commander Sun Quanhou of the supply battalion, the instructor He Cuihua and the deputy battalion. Elder Yang devoted himself to the intense preparations for the reception.

Both Li Yong and Wang Chengde understood that the [-]th Army had very few vehicles, and some of the limited vehicles were also used to carry supplies and ammunition. The soldiers basically marched on foot. One can imagine the difficulty of marching on two legs when the thin air is unfamiliar.

You don't need to ask, you can know that the army must be very difficult. As a team that entered Lhasa one step ahead, Li Yong must create a better environment for the main force as much as possible, and the problem of food and accommodation must be resolved.

It's easy to say, but things are not simple. The Eighteenth Army is not a small army, but a large army of tens of thousands of people. It is no joke to have tens of thousands of mouths to eat.

If there is a problem, we must use people to solve it. Otherwise, what would they do for the independent brigade to be the avant-garde? Li Yong and Wang Chengde ordered the troops to vacate all the best houses, even the house that they just lived in after they built it. Everything must be for the sake of the main force, and no selfishness is allowed.

It would be false to say that the soldiers had no opinion at all, but after the explanations of the commanders at all levels, everyone understood the painstaking efforts of the superiors. There is only one reason, because the brother troops are more difficult than themselves.

When the mind is clear, the work can be carried out easily, the smell of food can be blown far away against the wind, the room is cleaned, the water is boiled, and the kang is heated up, waiting for the comrades to come and live.

Political commissar Wang Chengde is very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers at all levels of the Independent Brigade. This political commissar who does not praise others easily explains to everyone everywhere: We are a team of the People's Liberation Army and a team of the people. If we compete for power and profit like the old army, How is that different from the Kuomintang army! !

Zhang Jinsong, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, drove forward in a hurry with a battalion of troops and a car dispatched temporarily by the brigade headquarters. This old soldier from the Eighth Route Army was as anxious as his brigade commander. Comrades on the march walked a little less.

Zhang Jinsong is a veteran of the Northwest Field Army, and the Northwest Field Army is a well-known guerrilla unit. Zhang Jinsong knows the difficulty of marching on two legs. The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army are also flesh and blood, and they will get tired. It can create opportunities for the brothers to wipe out the enemy. How many good comrades fell on the marching road, and they didn't have even a little food in their stomachs when they were dying.

It is precisely because of this experience that Zhang Jinsong led the convoy forward at full speed, and saw the [-]th Army on the march a few hours after setting off from Lhasa.

Fatigue and distress are written on the faces of the soldiers, their hair and beards have grown so long, and their clothes are covered with marks mixed with sweat and mud. Many soldiers are obviously walking and limping Gritting their teeth and marching, the commanders at all levels walked on two legs like their soldiers. Their horses had long been given up to the sick soldiers, including army commander Zhang Guohua and political commissar Tan Guansan. They were also marching on foot. Several sick and feverish soldiers were sitting in the small jeep of the People's Republic of China.

For more than 20 days, they marched at a speed of dozens of kilometers every day, and when the oxygen content was only half of the plain area, they had to carry all the weapons and ammunition on their backs. How difficult was it for the troops to overcome? ?One can imagine.

Zhang Jinsong had tears in his eyes. The comrades-in-arms of the [-]th Army were all good, and none of them was a coward. The soldiers of the [-]th Army also saw the convoy approaching from a distance. The troops cheered and stopped. They shouted loudly: "Hey, did you see that, the independent brigade came to pick us up in a car."

Led by several guard soldiers, Zhang Jinsong came to the military headquarters of the [-]th Army. The so-called military headquarters was just a temporary circle surrounded by a few cars full of soldiers. The heads of several military departments sat in several bullet boxes to rest.

Zhang Jinsong trotted up to several leaders and reported loudly: "Report, Zhang Jinsong, the reconnaissance battalion commander of the Independent Brigade, has been ordered to pick up the main force. Please give instructions from the leaders."

Commander Zhang Guohua with a big face laughed loudly: "Okay, I saw you from a long distance, and I told the political commissar that there is no fucking need to go for the last day's journey, we will all take the car."

Infected by the optimism of Commander Zhang Guohua, Zhang Jinsong also became excited, and he immediately reported the situation: "Commander, I have brought over 100 large trucks, which can transport three to four thousand people at a time. Let's see which troops get on the truck first. "

Zhang Jinsong brought a lot of cars, but compared with the troops of the Eighteenth Army, the number was still not enough, and he could only transport one regiment-sized troops at a time.

Commander Zhang Guohua waved his hand: "Seeing that we are about to reach the ground, let's not be in a hurry, and order the troops to rest where they are, and get on the train in an hour, and the [-]th regiment will be loaded first."

The army commander ordered to rest for an hour. What a wonderful hour it was. Some soldiers drank a few sips of water, some poured out the sand from their shoes, and some simply leaned on their backpacks and fell asleep, as if Fight for even a second to rest.

The troops were exhausted. Army Commander Zhang Guohua, Political Commissar Tan Guansan, and several military chiefs carefully checked the soldiers' situation one by one. They walked very lightly, for fear of waking up the sleeping soldiers. Don't say anything about footsteps at this time, even if they play a football game beside them, the fighters will not wake up.

An hour was up in a blink of an eye, and Commander Zhang Guohua became ruthless and told a guard beside him to blow the whistle for assembly.

The thing was strange, all the soldiers who were still snoring loudly just now woke up, and immediately stood in neat rows according to the units they belonged to, as if they were not the ones who fell asleep on the ground just now.

The soldiers were still joking with each other, saying that they saw a lot of delicious food in their dreams, and fought a battle while sleeping, and seized a lot of new equipment.

Army Commander Zhang Guohua and Political Commissar Tan Guansan were amused by the soldiers, and Army Commander Zhang Guohua scolded his soldiers loudly:

"Damn it, you guys have all developed your skills. You can still fight while you sleep, and you can also capture new weapons? Isn't this better than Lao Tzu's skills? Don't you guys all want to be army commanders? ? Let me tell you, I haven’t had enough of being an army commander, so don’t even think about it.” (To be continued..)