On this night, the battle of the Northwest Field Army against Yulin began, starting from Shenmu and Fugu County in the east, and going to the pineapple fort where the Great Wall and the Wuding River intersect in the west.

Then two days and nights of siege was carried out on Yulin, and our army, with the first and second columns as the main forces of the attack, carried out the first offensive operation of the Northwest Field Army against a large city.

Before the war, each brigade dug a dark trench straight under the enemy's city wall, ready to blow down the city wall with explosives, and then assault on the six breakthroughs that were blown out, as long as it could break through, the total strength of the Northwest Field Army was more than three times that of the Yulin defenders, and the street fighters had the advantage, and in the expectant eyes of the soldiers, six huge explosions like muffled thunder sounded under the city wall of Yulin, and the dust rose dozens of meters high.

After the explosion, when the dust all fell from the sky, the soldiers were surprised to see that the Yulin city wall, which was more than ten meters high and made of blue bricks and large stones, was intact, but only a layer of skin was blown off the outside.

The heroic soldiers of our army did not stop attacking because the city wall did not blow up, and still attacked Yulin under the cover of limited firepower, and the sound of guns and cannons wrapped Yulin City like a violent wind, only to see that countless soldiers of the Northwest Field Army suddenly appeared on the open ground several hundred meters below Yulin City, carrying the ladder and rushing towards the city wall in the shout.

Since the city wall did not explode, it had to climb up with a ladder, and the enemies on the city wall shouted in horror, throwing down some burning items such as oil-stained quilts, clothes, and other burning items from the city wall, and some even poured barrels of gasoline, and this time the fire surrounded Yulin City.

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

In the absence of a breach, the defending side took advantage of the fact that the Kuomintang soldiers lay behind the gaps in the city wall and threw down groups of grenades without even looking, and then blossomed all over the city walls.

The machine gunners and gunners of our army, who were responsible for covering the attacking troops, saw that the soldiers were hit by enemy fire in patches, and the ladders erected under the city were blown off one by one by enemy grenades.

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

The attack continued until it was almost dawn when it stopped, Li Yong was anxious to see the losses suffered by our army with a telescope, and ran to the regiment headquarters to ask to join the battle, but Commander Zhao's determination was very firm: "No, it's not time to use you yet, your task now is to rest, understand?" It's rest, don't be in a hurry, there's a time for you to use force. ”

Just after dawn, the enemy's heavy artillery group in the city began a fierce bombardment, the shells tore the air and made a terrifying and strange scream, and several small red-headed planes appeared in the sky, frantically bombing and strafing our positions.

The appearance of the planes was quite shocking to the fighters of the Northwest Field Army, although these planes were not full-time bombers, and at that time, for troops without air defense weapons, the planes were invincible.

The veteran told the new soldier that this plane has two most powerful moves, one is the rooster and the other is the hen laying eggs, the rooster is the plane when it dives and uses a large-caliber cannon to strafe the ground, and a sweep is a large area, and the hen lays eggs when the plane is pulled up after strafing and drops two more bombs from under the stomach.

This was also the first time Li Yong saw Kuomintang planes on the Northwest Battlefield, although there were not many but they were very deterrent, and the Northwest Field Army had no effective way to deal with the enemy's planes, so it could only watch the enemy's planes stand up and be bombed, and most of the reasons why our army did not dare to attack Yulin during the day was because of the planes.

Suddenly, the starting point of the Northwest Field Army's attack was blown up beyond recognition, most of the trenches were destroyed by artillery fire, and some soldiers were buried in the soil and did not climb out.

This Kuomintang general Deng XX who guarded Yulin was really not simple, and he dared to go out of the city to counterattack under the heavy siege of our army, which even the Kuomintang Central Army, which was known as the elite, could not do it.

When the enemy's artillery was firing desperately, our soldiers could not raise their heads, only a few observers were left in the trenches on the first line, and the other soldiers were hiding in the anti-artillery holes, and the enemy's infantry took this opportunity to crawl forward on the ground, and when the enemy's artillery fire stopped, the infantry had already climbed to a place only a few tens of meters away from our position.

The 22nd Army, which was guarding Yulin, was really difficult to deal with, although it was a ragtag of the Kuomintang, but it was indeed very combative, and our soldiers leaned out of the trenches after the enemy's artillery fire extended backwards, and fired various weapons in their hands at the enemy dozens of meters away, and threw rows of grenades.

Suddenly, the grenades on the forward position were like rain, and the sound of explosions became one after another, and some of the enemy rolled and crawled back, and some stuck to the ground and did not even dare to raise their heads.

The front-line commanders of our troops seized the opportunity to make a short counter-charge against the counterattacking enemy, smoke, dust, shouts of soldiers, flashing bayonets swept towards the enemy.

Although the soldiers of the Northwest Field Army were not good at weapons, ammunition, or food, their courage was unmatched, and the enemy's attacking troops panicked, turned around and ran, and even the machine guns of the supervisory team behind them could not stop them.

The enemy's counterattack was repulsed, and the soldiers who carried out a short counter-charge picked weapons and ammunition from the enemy's corpses as they retreated, and some of the fighters dragged the enemy's corpses directly into the trenches when they retreated, and then stacked the corpses on the edge of the trenches after removing the bullet bags.

Li Yong, Wang Chengde and the platoon commanders of each platoon were all in the rear position bunkers to observe the battle with binoculars, Li Yong kept muttering: "It's all good, it's all good, the commander is good, the soldiers are good, what are we afraid of with such good soldiers?" What kind of difficulties can't be overcome? ”

It was half past seven when I got home last night, and I only wrote so much, and I passed it all on this morning.