Chapter 767: Difficult Logistics
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From the northwest to the southwest, from northern Shaanxi to Xinjiang, and then from Xinjiang to Tibet, the young PLA Independent Brigade fought thousands of miles and came to Shigatse in Houzang with gunsmoke, and found a foothold on the snowy plateau.
Finally settled down, with no war to fight for the time being, it is estimated that the Independent Brigade will be stationed here for quite a long time, will this be our home in the future? Many cadres and fighters have such thoughts in their minds.
There are hesitations and doubts in their hearts, and there are also thoughts about the future, the soldiers are not afraid of marching and fighting, and even in the face of death, they are not afraid of the future, but they are still a little dazed and frightened about the uncertainty of the future, they do not know what to do in the future, Tibet has also been liberated, is this our eternal destination???
Fortunately, there are brigade commanders and political commissars, everyone's feelings are quite stable, and with them, the soldiers have the backbone, and it is definitely right to listen to the superiors, and our brigade commander will definitely not let us suffer.
Over the years, the soldiers of the independent brigade have a certain degree of blind obedience, and they generally believe that the brigade commander is omnipotent, and there will definitely be a good way, although blind obedience is not a good thing, but at this stage it still has a certain effect on the stability of the troops.
The deterrent power of the large army entering by force is amazing, basically no one dares to make trouble and resist in the face of overwhelming strength, and there is no problem for the independent brigade to maintain local law and order in production and life, and the main difficulty is still in logistics, which is a matter of eating in the vernacular.
Logically speaking, the field army should be fully responsible for the supply of troops, and combat units such as independent brigades should only be responsible for fighting. However, under the conditions at that time, if we blindly relied on the logistical transportation capacity of the field army. Blindly waiting for foolishness will lead to irreparable losses.
Since the beginning of winter, the temperature in Tibetan areas has dropped rapidly, and after a period of time, a situation of heavy snow will form a situation in which the mountains will be closed, and at that time, the logistical supply of the field army will be even more worrisome. There was a convoy of more than 1,700 head of livestock, and after the arduous trek to the site, only 1.5 kilograms of salt and seven sacs of bread remained, and the rest of the supplies and livestock were lost along the way.
More than 1,700 head of livestock, a convoy that stretched for several kilometers, after arriving at the land, only three catties of salt and seven frozen hard state cakes remained, and the loss was unacceptable.
Commander Wang Zhen, who was far away in Xinjiang, once organized a transport convoy of more than 4,000 yaks. The scale of transporting more than 4,000 yaks for the troops entering Tibet is not small, but only a few hundred of them have arrived in the Tibetan area, and more than 90 percent of the livestock and materials have been lost on the snow-soaked road into Tibet, not counting the losses in the personnel of the transport troops.
The loss is overwhelming. Whether it is the commander of the rear or the officers and soldiers of the troops entering Tibet at the front, they all tremble in distress after learning the situation, because the troops of our People's Liberation Army have never suffered such a big loss, even when they fought bloody battles with little devils. So, under the conditions of the time. It is very dangerous to completely rely on the logistics of the field army to supply from the interior, and Li Yong, the brigade commander who knows these painful experiences, will certainly not make such a low-level mistake.
After studying, it was still necessary to think of a way based on itself, and the independent brigade prepared several sets of plans: First, organize small detachments to go to areas with abundant animal resources to hunt and replace part of the grain with meat. Second, to buy grain from the masses, the main object is to put it on those toasts, nobles, and chiefs. Third, the local monks are very powerful, and the family background of the monastery is very thick, which Li Yong was very clear about in later generations, so the monastery is the key object of raising food. Fourth, tap the potential internally and save as much as possible.
The difficulties are not small, but Li Yong believes that the Independent Brigade has gone through countless difficult tests, and the bloody storm has come through, and he is still afraid of this difficulty at the moment? Shigatse is rich in resources, whether it is animals, plants or minerals, it is a treasure land in the Greater Tibet region, as long as everyone works together, we will definitely be able to overcome difficulties.
The troops immediately put into construction, and at present, in addition to food, there is an urgent problem, that is, how to solve the accommodation of the troops.
The cold is coming, and the temperature in Shigatse at night drops rapidly, and it is certainly not possible for the troops to stay in tents for a long time, and solving the problem of housing has become the top priority at present.
With the efforts of local government officials, some houses were found for the troops, but these houses were only a drop in the bucket, and the troops coming to Shigatse were still too large, and the local vacant houses were limited, and it was impossible for all the troops to be stationed in them at once, and the cold night was a great threat to the soldiers' bodies.
If they didn't build it themselves, the tradition of the 359th Brigade and the 2nd Column made the soldiers immediately plunge into the craze of building houses, and it was impossible to sleep in the tents at night.
If you want to build barracks, you have to have materials, and where do they come from? After some investigation, Li Yong has a new understanding of the local plant resources.
Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion was active everywhere and finally brought back first-hand information: There are a large number of Himalayan fir trees, Himalayan spruce trees, as well as a large number of Tibetan larch, alpine pine and other rare varieties, and these trees are the top materials for building barracks.
Shigatse, Independent Brigade Headquarters, reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong grinned proudly: "Brigade commander, political commissar, really responded to that sentence, there is no endless road, come and see." ”
The eyes of the people in the room followed Zhang Jinsong's fingers to a large military map, and the proud reconnaissance battalion commander said a little sarcastically: "Hehe, our brigade commander is right, Shigatse is a treasure land, we have a large number of trees here, here, here, there are patches of primeval forest, we can't name it or anything, but it's definitely right to build a house, how about it?" Our reconnaissance battalion did a good job, right!! ”
In addition to Li Yong and Wang Chengde in the headquarters, Sanniu and Xiaocheng and others were also there, Sanniu pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "The battalion commander is really a sycophant, and he doesn't forget to pat his ass at any time." ”
Sanniu and Xiaocheng were born in the reconnaissance battalion, and later became guards for Li Yong, these two boys are soldiers trained by Zhang Jinsong, and it is customary to call Zhang Jinsong the battalion commander when they speak, but these two boys are very uninterested in Zhang Jinsong when he forgets to pat the brigade commander's ass.
To tell the truth, Li Yong is also a mess of the local plant resources, he only knows simple birch and larch and other ordinary varieties, and the rare species are also full of black, but these can not affect the decision of Brigade Commander Li, Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance camp must have rare varieties in the trees, and they are also the protection objects of the country in later generations, but now there is no protection, and the most critical thing is to solve the housing problem first.
It was too late to build a house with stones and bricks, Li Yong ordered the troops, all the wood, as much as they felled, since the forest was now ready, the military order was like a mountain, the powerful mechanization of the independent brigade once again increased the efficiency of the troops, and the vehicles pulling and transporting wood formed a long line.
The temperature at night had already dropped below freezing, and the frozen soil on the plateau was very difficult to excavate, or it could not be dug at all, all of which brought great trouble to the construction of the barracks of the troops.
While the troops were building, the Independent Brigade also sent a large number of teams to explain the PLA's ethnic and religious policies to the people around Shigatse and to dispel the concerns of the masses with real actions.
The Tibetan people under the serfdom system lived in a very difficult situation, they had to endure the exploitation of slave owners while fighting against nature, and the arrival of the independence brigade was like bringing a fresh breeze to the local people, a spring breeze that the Tibetan people had never seen.
The People's Liberation Army stipulates that the people have freedom of religious belief, but the slavery system must be abolished.
The soldiers do not know much about the general truth, but most of them are children of poor families, and they have a natural sense of closeness to the suffering masses in Tibetan areas, and they cannot see the common people being oppressed by others.
It's like the sky suddenly cleared up when the sky was covered by dark clouds, and the people in Tibetan areas suddenly felt that the sky had changed, and the fierce god-like leaders and their guards were no longer visible, and many people had seen it.
Every bit of effort made by the soldiers of the Independent Brigade condensed together and turned into a spring rain, watering the thirsty hearts of the slaves and babies.
The roof is made of wood, the walls are also made of wood, in order to protect against the cold, the soldiers also deliberately nailed a thick layer of horizontal boards on the outside of the wall, all of which have just been broken, and they can see a piece of white flowers from a distance.
Brigade Commander Li Yong's mind these days is only on two things, one is food and the other is the house, so that his wife-to-be Hu Xiaolian has no time to go to see it, and she is very busy.
Walking into the newly built houses of the soldiers, Li Yong felt the smell of entering the trenches, the walls made of logs were thick and thick, and the smell of wood in his nose was a fresh fragrance of wood.