It was already the second half of the night, and the guards urged several times to no avail, and a few roasted and browned potatoes were placed in a large porcelain bowl, and these roasted potatoes were the rations of the chiefs. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Mr. Peng and several chiefs in the headquarters of the Northwest Field Army have not slept yet, nor have they the heart to sleep, and there is no news from the 10th Brigade of the Fourth Column responsible for covering the retreat of the main force, and there is no news from more than 8,000 people in the entire brigade, who can sleep at this time.

"Damn, what the hell is going on? Ask Zhang Dazhi (commander of the fourth column) if there is any news. Mr. Peng rarely said a foul word.

A chief smiled bitterly: "Boss, it's useless to ask, Zhang Dazhi has scattered all his guard company and reconnaissance company, and there has been no news so far." ”

Time passed little by little in anxiety and waiting, and just when several chiefs were restless, a guard ran in from outside the door, and this guard didn't care to salute the chiefs, and shouted vigorously: "Chief, good news, the Tenth Brigade is back, Brigade Commander Gao and they are all back, not too far from the door." ”

The leaders who heard the news hurriedly walked out, but didn't they, there were many soldiers standing not too far in front of the headquarters, and Brigade Commander Gao was standing at the front of the team.

Several chiefs of the headquarters hurriedly asked the nearby guard units to settle the soldiers who had returned from the 10th Brigade, and then let Brigade Commander Gao to the headquarters.

After careful inquiry, it turned out that the radio station of the 10th Brigade had been damaged in the battle, and there was no time to repair it during the rapid march, so I felt all the way back, but I took the wrong road, and instead of finding the location of my fourth column, I came to the headquarters.

Brigade Commander Gao reported the battle to several leaders in detail, and finally said: "The cavalry of the Ma Jiajun is very fierce, and the strength of daring to fight is much stronger than that of Hu Zongnan's Central Army, but the disadvantage is that there is no heavy firepower, and the rifle on the back is not as effective as the saber in the hand. ”

After sending Brigade Commander Gao away, Mr. Peng frowned and said, "Several, let's just stop sleeping, study this Ma Jiajun who came from Qinghai, and find some way to deal with them." ”

As soon as Mr. Peng's words were finished, he saw the curtain lifted, and another person walked in from the outside, this person closed the door casually, took Mr. Peng's words and said: "Mr. Peng, I just turned around among the soldiers, they fought fiercely with the cavalry of the Ma family army for an afternoon, and the battle did not end until dark, and finally stabbed the enemy down with bayonets, and the troops suffered great casualties, and the preliminary figures have been counted." "Political Commissar Xi, who came in from outside, still has a note in his hand.

Political Commissar Xi Zhongxun handed the note to Mr. Peng: "Boss, the troops have suffered a lot of losses, the attrition is close to the 3,000 mark, and most of the rest of the soldiers are also injured. ”

Several chiefs took the note in Mr. Peng's hand and read it one by one, and one of the chiefs smashed his fist on the table after reading the note: "Boss, it's not okay to do this, this is purely fighting with the enemy, and we can't afford to fight such a battle." ”

Mr. Peng rubbed his eyes a little flowery, came to the map on the table with a small wax head in his hand, and said to himself: "Yes, we can't afford to fight with the enemy, and we don't have that habit, Commander Hu and Commander Ma have more than 400,000 together, and we only have more than 100,000, so we will fight for consumption." ”

Another chief put a note on the table and was looking at the map with Mr. Peng, and argued with a few people next to him: "The habit of our field army is to fight field battles with the enemy in motion, and the speed of movement warfare is the key, but most of this Ma family army are cavalry, and fighting sports warfare happens to be our nemesis." ”

The chief, who was arguing with him, said: "In a sports war, we don't have the speed of movement as the cavalry, and in positional warfare, we can't fight with the enemy, so you all talk about how to fight this battle." ”

Seeing a few people arguing, Mr. Peng, who was looking at the map, raised his head and smiled: "Don't think about things too complicated, the cavalry of the Ma family army is not as powerful as you think, today, by the way, it was yesterday, they beat us off guard, and only after giving full play to the advantages of the cavalry did they cause us certain losses, modern warfare is not a horse charge can solve the problem, what I am worried about is not how strong their combat effectiveness is, I am worried that these cavalry will bring great trouble to our logistics supply line." ”

As soon as Mr. Peng said this, several chiefs did not squeak again, the problem is indeed knocked to the key place, the field army is a large army of more than 100,000 people, and logistics and transportation basically rely on local militia and civilian workers.

Just when everyone was a little at a loss, at this time, a chief who had never spoken suddenly said: "There may not be no way." ”

Everyone looks back, heh, who? The person who said this was Liu Jingfan, deputy commander in charge of logistics of the field army, and Liu Deputy Commander.

Commander Liu was born in local work; he used to be chairman of the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region; he joined the field army after Hu Zongnan attacked Yan'an in March '47, and after he arrived in the field army, his main work was to be responsible for the logistical support of all the officers and men, and he was responsible for the messy work of the field army's more than 100,000 people, such as eating and dressing.

Because he is not a military cadre, Commander Liu basically did not intervene in these discussions on how to fight a war, and he said something very surprisingly today.

Seeing that Commander Liu was also interested in fighting, Mr. Peng also asked a little curiously: "Old Liu, I said that you are usually indifferent to these things, what happened today?" The sun came out of the northwest? If there is a good way, hurry up and talk about it, don't sell it to us. ”

Seeing that everyone was very interested in what he was talking about, Commander Liu laughed and said: "Boss, I am a layman in battle, but my head is not in vain, you just think about how fast the enemy's cavalry is, why don't you want to think that there are fast troops in our field army." ”

A chief suddenly patted his head: "Hey, Lao Liu's idea really has a door, doesn't our field army still have a cavalry division, just use them to deal with the enemy's cavalry, and cooperate with the local militia to protect our rear supply lines." ”

Before Mr. Peng and Commander Liu could say anything, another chief immediately poured cold water on him: No, our cavalry division has only been formed for a long time, and we haven't fought a few decent battles, and the soldiers have just learned to ride horses, there are only three or four thousand people in total, and it's okay to fight small battles, and it's not wise for them to go and have a hard encounter with the cavalry of the Ma family's army, maybe they will be exhausted in a few clicks.

Seeing that a few people were still arguing there, Commander Liu Jingfan laughed again: "Hey, what is good about a few of you, think about it again, there is not a light cavalry division in our field army that runs fast, and there is a unit that is not slower than them." ”

Who are these chiefs in the headquarters? The head is very smart, Commander Liu's eyes immediately lit up at this reminder, and several people looked at each other and said together: "Hahahaha, Lao Liu, there is really you, don't we have a king's beard." ”

Commander Liu: "Remembered?" I don't have anything to do when I think about it, you guys think about it. ”

Mr. Peng also smiled and said: "Don't look at Lao Liu, who usually doesn't like to participate in these messes of a few of us, people have goods in their stomachs, isn't it, at a critical time, did you remind everyone in one sentence, confidential officer, give me the second column." ”

A burst of telephone ringing woke up the staff officer on duty at the headquarters of the Second Column who was in a daze, and the officer on duty who was yawning answered the phone and ran away without listening to a few words, and answered loudly with the phone: "Yes, yes, chief, I will call our commander immediately." ”

It didn't take much effort, and Commander Wang Zhenwang of the second column, who was woken up, took over the microphone in the hand of the staff officer on duty in his overcoat: "It's Mr. Peng, what's the good thing about looking for me in the middle of the night?" You can't sleep at all, how are you going to march tomorrow morning? Don't fall out of the jeep when you doze off. ”

Commander Wang Zhen is one of the few junior commanders in the PLA who dares to joke with Mr. Peng, and Mr. Peng's evaluation of Commander Wang is: "Wang Huzi and I are like two Hunan mules, or mules with a big temper. ”

It can be seen from these words that Mr. Peng likes Commander Wang, a straightforward general: "Wang Huzi, don't give me a sloppy look, have you heard about the Tenth Brigade?" ”

Commander Wang: "Boss, how can I not know about such a big thing, I heard that they fought very fiercely and suffered a lot of casualties." ”

Mr. Peng: "It's not small, it's very strict, the casualties are almost three thousand, Gao Jinchun is also hanging flowers, I have something to say, let the brigade commander and political commissar headquarters of your independent brigade report tomorrow morning, I have a special task." ”

Early the next morning, several jeeps suddenly drove out from the winding mountain road, which were brand-new American-style jeeps, and Li Yong, the brigade commander of the Independent Brigade of the Second Column, sat in the back seat of a car, raised both feet and put them on the backrest in front of him, half-squinting his eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Yuming, the company commander of the guard company sitting in the co-pilot's seat, said without giving any face: "Brigade commander, look at your sitting elephant, you don't look like a senior leader at all, those who know say that you are our brigade commander, and those who don't know think it's just a company commander platoon commander or something, our Wang political commissar has never been the same as you when he sits in the car, and everyone sits there very seriously, very chiefly, like a senior commander of our People's Liberation Army, can't you usually learn more?"