The beacon of youth

That night, the battle of the Northwest Field Army against Yulin started. From Shenmu and Fugu County in the east to Pineapple Fort where the Great Wall intersects the Wuding River in the west, they launched an attack across the board and attacked the enemy. After fierce fighting day and night, the enemy's peripheral armed forces were wiped out. Then advance all the way to the city of Yulin.

Then we carried out two day and night sieges of Yulin. Our army used the first column and the second column as the main attack force to carry out the Northwest Field Army's first attack on a big city. Each brigade used the power of earthwork and explosives to the maximum.

Before the war, each brigade dug a dark trench directly under the enemy's city wall, prepared to use explosives to blow down the city wall, and then carried out assaults on the six breakthroughs created by the explosion. As long as they could break through, it would be easy. The force was more than three times that of Yulin's defenders, and the street fighters had the upper hand. Under the expectant eyes of the soldiers, there were six muffled thunder-like explosions under the city wall of Yulin, and the dust rose dozens of meters high.

After the explosion, when the dust flying all over the sky fell, the soldiers were surprised to see that the Yulin City Wall, which was more than ten meters high and made of blue bricks and big stones, was intact, but a layer of skin was blown off on the outside, because we The army made a calculation error, and the blasting did not achieve the expected effect, and none of the six expected breakthroughs exploded.

The heroic soldiers of our army did not stop attacking because the city wall did not explode. Under the cover of limited firepower, they still attacked Yulin. Countless soldiers of the Northwest Field Army suddenly appeared on the road, carrying ladders, and rushed towards the city wall amidst shouts.

Since the city wall did not explode, we had to climb up with a ladder. The enemies on the city wall roared in horror, throwing oiled quilts, clothes, and other burning items from the city wall, some even All the barrels of gasoline were poured down, and the flames surrounded Yulin City.

The soldiers of the Northwest Field Army under the city were clearly seen under the reflection of the fire. The Kuomintang soldiers defending the city used various weapons to shoot desperately at the soldiers of our army under the city wall, and threw densely packed grenades from the city wall.

In the case that the breakthrough was not blown open, the defending side took advantage too much. The Kuomintang soldiers lay behind the gap in the city wall and threw groups of grenades without even looking at them, and then the grenades bloomed everywhere under the city wall.

The machine gunners and gunners of our army who were in charge of covering the attacking troops saw that the soldiers were hit by the enemy's firepower in pieces, and the ladders erected under the city were broken one by one by the enemy's grenades, and they paid a heavy price to attack under the city wall. The team members fell from the ladder one by one to die.

Seeing the heavy casualties of their comrades-in-arms, the eyes of these shooters were all red, and they desperately suppressed and shot the firepower on the enemy's wall. The barrels of the guns were all red, but the firepower was limited, and there was no way to effectively suppress the enemy's firepower .

The attack lasted until dawn and stopped. Li Yong saw the losses suffered by our army with binoculars and was very anxious. He ran to the regiment headquarters and asked to join the battle. However, regiment leader Zhao was very determined: "No, it's not time to use your troops yet." Now, your task now is to rest, understand? It is to rest, don't worry, there is time for you to use force."

Just after dawn, the enemy's heavy artillery group in the city began to bombard violently. The shells tore through the air and made shocking noises. Several small red-headed planes appeared in the sky and bombarded our army positions crazily. and strafing.

The appearance of aircraft was quite shocking to the soldiers of the Northwest Field Army. Although these aircraft were not professional bombers, at that time, for troops without anti-aircraft weapons, aircraft were invincible.

Veterans told new fighters that there are two most powerful moves of this aircraft, one is the rooster making rice, and the other is the hen laying eggs. The rooster making rice is to shoot the ground with a large-caliber cannon when the plane dives. Well, the hen lays eggs and then drops two bombs from under the belly when the plane pulls up after the strafing.

This is also the first time that Li Yong saw Kuomintang planes on the Northwest battlefield. Although there are not many of them, they are very deterrent. , Our army did not dare to attack Yulin during the day, mostly because of the aircraft.

Immediately, the site where the Northwest Field Army attacked was blown up beyond recognition. Most of the trenches were destroyed by artillery fire. Some soldiers were buried in the soil and did not crawl out. Under the cover of artillery fire, the 22nd Army in Yulin City began to counterattack.

The Kuomintang general Deng xx guarding Yulin is really not simple. He dared to go out of the city to counterattack under the siege of our army. This is not even possible for the so-called elite central army of the Kuomintang.

When the enemy's artillery was firing desperately, our soldiers couldn't lift their heads. Only a few observers were left in the trenches on the front line, and the other soldiers were hiding in the artillery holes. Climb, when the enemy's artillery fire stopped, the infantry had already climbed to a place only tens of meters away from our army's position.

The 22nd Army guarding Yulin is really difficult to deal with. Although it is a miscellaneous brand of the Kuomintang, it is indeed very effective. Our soldiers leaned out of the trenches after the enemy's artillery fire extended back and used their hands to attack the enemy dozens of meters away. various weapons and hurled rows of grenades.

All of a sudden, the grenades on the front line were like rain, and the sound of explosions became one piece. Some of the enemies rolled and crawled back, and some stuck to the ground tightly without even daring to lift their heads.

The front-line commanders of our army seized the opportunity to carry out a short counter-charge against the counterattacking enemy. Smoke, dust, shouts of soldiers, and bayonets gleaming with cold light wrapped around the enemy.

When the two armies meet, the brave wins. Although the soldiers of the Northwest Field Army have no weapons, ammunition, or food, their courage is unmatched. The enemy's attacking troops panicked and turned around and ran away. Can't stop their presence.

The enemy's counterattack was repulsed. The soldiers who made a short countercharge retreated and picked up weapons and ammunition from the enemy's corpse. Some soldiers even dragged the enemy's corpse into the trench when they retreated, After the bullet bags, the corpses were stacked on the edge of the trench.

Li Yong, Wang Chengde, and the platoon leaders of each platoon were watching the battle with binoculars in the bunker behind. Li Yong kept muttering: "They are all good, they are all good, the commander is good." Well, the fighters are good, with such good fighters we have nothing to fear? What kind of difficulties can’t we overcome?”

I got home at 07:30 last night, I only wrote so much, and uploaded it this morning.