Chapter 741: An Alternative Combat Meeting
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Li Yong's age surprised many people, and this was because Brigadier Li looked a few years older than his real age.
Looking at the green faces of the people in the Duli Brigade, the old-timers of the Eighteenth Army all had a feeling of being separated from the world, as if they had returned to the bloody era more than ten years ago.
Commander Zhang Guohua's voice sounded very appropriately again: "How is it?" It's stupid! I tell you that Brigade Commander Li Yong of the Duli Brigade is only 22 years old this year, and he is the brigade commander of Yiye and the brigade commander of the heroic brigade that Mr. Peng knows. ”
Speaking of Li Yong's age, not to mention the old-timers of the Eighteenth Army, these people from the Duli Brigade who came to the meeting suddenly remembered, isn't it, our brigade commander is only twenty-two years old.
Li Yong's behavior makes it easy for people who are in contact with him to ignore his real age, and today, including political commissar Wang Chengde, everyone once again remembers that the brigade commander, like He Cuihua, is only in his early twenties.
The war years trained people, and the iron-blooded career made these young people mature prematurely, and the young faces appeared with the fortitude and tenacity that they did not want to call their age.
At the signal of the army commander Zhang Guohua, a staff officer-like officer held a stack of materials in his hand and briefly recounted the process of marching and fighting all the way from the northwest of the Duli Brigade, which was basically the content of the report of the Duli Brigade to the military headquarters after each battle.
The contents of the Duli Brigade's report to the Eighteenth Army were not very detailed, and some of them even set up ambushes, such as attacking local Tusi and rich people in order to raise food, but this could not hide the Duli Brigade's battle history.
Political Commissar Tan Guansan also said at the moment when the staff officers closed the materials: "You have all heard that the Duli Brigade has taken no less road than ours, and the road conditions are no worse than ours, but why can the Duli Brigade arrive in advance and enter the battle in time?" You all know the situation of our army, in order to be able to raise enough food. The superiors postponed the start of the campaign backwards, and even so, the troops were often fighting on a hungry stomach, and the soldiers dug the ground and rats to satisfy their hunger, do you remember? ”
Political Commissar Tan's several questions made the people who came to the meeting of the Eighteenth Army silent, what happened in the troops was what they had personally experienced, how could they forget, even now, although the situation has improved, but there are still some soldiers suffering from night blindness, from this point of view. The combat effectiveness of the Eighteenth Army was already declining, especially the ability to fight at night.
In the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, no matter which field army it is in, night fighting is one of the troop's housekeeping skills, and the 18th Army is even more so. But what now? Many of the soldiers in the army who liked to fight at night suffered from night blindness, and their eyes were dark at night. Faced with this situation. Commanders at all levels are even more at a loss and can't think of it, they really respond to that sentence, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
Seeing that everyone was thinking about the problem, Commander Zhang Guohua said again: "Let me remind you one more point, the non-combat attrition of the Duli Brigade is very small, so small that it can be ignored. ”
Recently. The attrition of the Eighteenth Army is strict, of which the combat attrition is only a small part, and most of it is non-combat attrition, which illustrates a problem. It shows that the vast majority of the wounded and sick of the Eighteenth Army were on the list of the wounded and sick because of illness, and were not wounded or killed in battle.
"Comrades, arrogance is unacceptable, although we are the big brother troops, but there are many places that are not comparable to the rising star like the Duli Brigade, I have a mention, please ask Brigade Commander Li Yong of the Duli Brigade to introduce their experience to us, do you think about it?" It was the old and dignified Commissar Tan who spoke.
Speaking of this, the people who came to the meeting of the Eighteenth Army also changed their concepts, although it was very unpleasant to not fight but it was nothing, no matter what, the enemy was still eliminated, in the words of the political commissar, they were all troops of the People's Liberation Army, and it was not the same who fought.
A round of applause rang out, and the twenty-odd old qualifications were all using this way to prove their mood at this time, but this applause also forced Li Yong to stand up.
In terms of combat experience, Li Yong is not as good as these old-timers, and in terms of the ability to grasp the battlefield, Li Yong may not be an opponent, but when it comes to how to maintain and improve the continuous combat capability of the troops, Li Yong can still say one, two, three by virtue of his identity as a descendant.
From another point of view, it is not a bad thing to share his experience and lessons with others, Li Yong is no longer the fledgling stunned young man, in the previous meetings of the old second column and the first corps of the Northwest Field Army, Li Yong was often named by Commander Wang to speak, so such occasions are also used to, under the instruction of Commander Zhang and Political Commissar Tan, Li Yong told the story:
"Comrades, our brigade has been interspersed all the way, there are basically no non-combat actors, and it is not easy to do it under the conditions of scarcity of oxygen-deficient grain and vegetables on the plateau and the changeable climate and environment, what do you rely on? Relying on the strong logistical support capability of our brigade, each combat battalion of our brigade has a baggage platoon specially set up for supply, and the brigade has even more baggage battalions, just as our instructor He Cuihua said, our baggage battalion has nearly 3,000 men and horses, which is the largest battalion of our brigade, plus the baggage personnel in their respective battalions, the personnel responsible for logistics in the whole brigade exceed 4,000 people, the total strength of our brigade is more than 14,000 people, the actual combat soldiers are just in their early stages, and nearly one-third of the personnel are auxiliary personnel. Of course, this is not to say that they cannot fight, but to let them focus on supply, and it is precisely because of such logistical support capabilities that our brigade can make a little bit of success. ”
Brigade Commander Li's speech shocked the old-timers of the 18th Army, and what surprised them was not the size of the 14,000-strong Duli Brigade, but the proportion of logistics personnel in the 10,000-strong troops.
Even if they didn't object, Li Yong could guess what some people were thinking, and Brigadier Li told everyone a truth that was not complicated in simple language.
"This is like an artillery unit, although the more artillery pieces, the better, but there must be a considerable supply of shells that can be consumed in order to exert their due combat effectiveness, otherwise, the number of artillery is useless."
Seeing that everyone at the meeting was listening carefully, Li Yong went on to say:
"The sustained combat capability of a unit depends on its logistics, and attaching importance to logistics is more important than attaching importance to combat in a certain way, which is not an exaggeration, let's make a simple analogy, for example, in the Huaihai Campaign, the total strength of our Zhongye (Erye) and Huaye (Sanye) combined is 600,000, and the strength of the Kuomintang is 800,000, these 800,000 troops are not miscellaneous, but the elite combat force in the Kuomintang army, the enemy is aircraft, tanks, and artillery, and there are a large number of cars that can maneuver quickly. Although our Huaye and Zhongye have made great progress compared with before, they are still far behind the weapons and equipment of the Kuomintang army, but the final result is that we have won, why is there such a result? Of course, this was a victory won by our commanders and fighters in a heroic battle, but our logistical supply capacity was much better than that of the Kuomintang army, and this is also a reason that cannot be ignored; our total strength is 200,000 less than that of the enemy, but we have several million civilian workers supporting us, and such a force is not available to the Kuomintang army. ”
Everyone here is basically a witness to the Huaihai Campaign, hearing Li Yong talk about the Huaihai Campaign, he can't help but nod frequently, 600,000 victories over 800,000 are certainly the result of the front-line soldiers bravely killing the enemy, but on average, each soldier has four or five migrant workers in the rear to support is also a very important link, it can be said that these two points are indispensable, in addition, there is a detail of the Huaihai Campaign that most people do not know, General Li Da, the chief of staff of Erye, was deliberately taken down from the combat position by Chief Liu Deng before the campaign was launched, He was asked to specialize in logistics work, precisely because Chief of Staff Li Da led millions of migrant workers to provide tremendous support to the front line, so that the Huaihai Battle could be won smoothly, and this is a fact that no one can erase.
Chief of Staff Li Da has been by the side of Chief Liu Deng for many years, and has indirectly or directly commanded all the large and small battles in Nakano.
Dozens of participants at the meeting were all thinking carefully about Li Yong's speech, Commander Zhang Guohua and Political Commissar Tan Guansan had also achieved their goals, the two groups of people at the venue were also familiar with each other, and the old-timers and young commanders of the Duli Brigade were still smiling and exchanging their souvenirs.
Just now, the two groups of people who were like cross-eyed people sat together, and they didn't look at each other unpleasantly, and He Cuihua, who had a big temper, became fragrant and sweet this time, because they were exchanging souvenirs with each other, and the most strange gadgets in their hands were of course He Cuihua, the housekeeper of the Duli Brigade.
An old qualified commander of the 18th Army said with emotion: "Isn't it, at that time, we were eating white flour steamed buns and stewed meat, and what were the Kuomintang troops on the other side eating?" They ate their mother's moldy bread, which was airdropped on them by plane. ”
Another commander continued: "Moldy cakes? That was still good, on the Kuomintang position opposite our regiment, they couldn't even eat moldy cakes, and every time the plane was dropped, we used firepower to blockade the airdrop site, and in order to be able to shoot a bag of moldy cakes, they couldn't do it without paying a dozen lives, and later we didn't have to shout anything to hand over the guns and not kill them, and at night, as long as the steamed steamed buns were put on the table, the Kuomintang troops on the opposite side came and surrendered in rows and companies. ”。 )