After the meeting of the second column, the independent regiment entered into intense pre-battle preparations, and Li Yong asked the slightly wounded who had recovered to return to the team as soon as possible.

In this way, the total number of independent regiments exceeded 3,000 people, and the combat effectiveness rebounded, and Li Yong's heart was a little more stable.

Then Li Yong did something that people didn't understand very much, and asked Li Yuming and the old grandson of the baggage camp to go around to get thin steel plates.

The soldiers asked us what we wanted this thing for, but Li Yong didn't explain, just told Lao Sun and Li Yuming to get it, and how much could be brought back, whether it was to rob or buy.

Although the two of them don't understand very well, they must strictly implement the orders of the regiment commander Li Yong, and the people of the independent regiment are also used to these things.

As for the last time he went to the 358th Brigade of the first column to learn how to educate new soldiers, no one knows how the regiment commander knew Yu Qiuli, the political commissar, Wang Chengde also asked about this, Li Yong told him noncommittally, he didn't know him, he just heard about it, Wang Chengde could only be suspicious.

A few days of work passed in a blink of an eye, and I don't know what method Sun Quanhou and Li Yuming used, anyway, the two of them got back some thin steel plates of more than ten centimeters, although not much, but it will be enough, in the era of this kind of thing is a very scarce resource, you may not be able to sell it if you have money.

Li Yong didn't ask how the two of them got it back, Grand Master Li's point of view is that I, as the head of the regiment, gave the order, how to complete it is your business, everything makes the ** heart not exhaust me to death, does the head of the regiment have time to find Hu Xiaolian to stay for a while.

Recently, He Cuihua is still the same as before, busy with her feet not touching the ground, the fifth battalion commander Wang Laohu is seriously injured, and the instructor is also injured, so most of the work is on her alone, but Hu Xiaolian is much better, the soldiers with some injuries on her body are basically all fine, and her health team is much easier than before.

How smart Hu Xiaolian is, seeing Li Yong's anxious look, of course she understands Li Yong's thoughts, in fact, Hu Xiaolian also wants to be with her man, she is a very healthy young woman, and she likes this thing as much as Li Yong.

Is it just a woman, the expression is a little subtle, or maybe it's also because of the environment and conditions, there is no way to be too intimate with Li Yong, Dayong is a guy who can toss very much, every time she makes her look in a trance, I don't know the southeast and northwest, but I quite like this feeling.

Sometimes Hu Xiaolian wondered, where did this villain know such a thing, and how many tricks he would use, it was simply too much.

During this period, the entire Second Column was also prepared for war under the leadership of Li Yong, and the commanders at all levels were all human beings, and as long as they figured it out, they should pay close attention to implementation, prepare according to the most difficult time for the troops, prepare more before the war, and shed less blood during the war.

The attack of the field army also began after more than ten days of preparation, and Mr. Peng still used the usual method, using three and six columns to besiege the city, and using the first, second, and fourth columns, as well as the team directly under the field division to open a big pocket for Pei Changhui's corps, and all the men and horses of the entire field army took urgent action again after the battle of Yichuan.

Luochuan, located at the junction of northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong, is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, the plateau and the distant canopy are blended together, it appears very broad, and the surface is a crack-like ravine.

Our army attacked Luochuan, and this deep ravine was the first major obstacle, and the troop mobility and the initiation of the attack were very affected, and the physical consumption of the soldiers was also very large.

Some of the troops were so tired and out of breath that the commander had to let the soldiers rest for a while before attacking, or they couldn't run anymore, and how could you charge and send explosives upwards.

Hu Zongnan's defense of Luochuan was his famous ruthless man, Yang Yinhuan, the commander of the 61st Brigade, which had the strength of four regiments and was a reinforced brigade, and they advanced the outpost position to five to eight kilometers away from the main city, and used these natural ravines to build a large number of extremely strong field fortifications.

After the Northwest Field Army surrounded Luochuan with all five main columns, the Kuomintang officers and soldiers in the city panicked, and they all felt that this was over, the large force of the Eighth Route Army was coming, and we were not dead, only the brigade commander Yang Yinhuan did not care, and gritted his teeth to carry out the rearmament battle.

In this Yang Yinhuan words, isn't your People's Liberation Army very powerful? Aren't your Eighth Route Army capable of fighting? Then you can gnaw little by little, and see when you can gnaw under my Luochuan City, Lao Tzu is out of the way.

This guy has also established a four-level supervision system in the army, battalions and companies, and the higher-level supervision team can shoot the lower level mercilessly without asking for instructions.

He placed a heavy machine gun on the front gate tower, and told the officers and men of the sù unit that this is my position, and anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed without my orders.

Sure enough, the Kuomintang soldiers of the 61st Brigade frantically confronted our army under the threat and intimidation of this guy, and the avant-garde brigades of the 3rd and 6th columns had a fierce battle with the defenders on the periphery before they saw the city wall of Luochuan.

In order to deal with the enemy's large number of field fortifications, the fighters gave full play to the role of explosives, one pillbox, one pillbox, one trench after another.

Due to the restrictions of the terrain, the men and horses of the third and sixth columns could not intersperse or detour, so they could only work hard from the front.

However, the front is not conducive to the exertion of troops and firepower, and the most taboo thing to attack a position with strong defense is a frontal attack.

The Northwest Field Army captured a large number of weapons and ammunition in the battles of Yulin and Yichuan, and the days of having only a few bullets per soldier as before are long gone.

However, although the equipment of the troops has improved, and the artillery fire has become several times more fierce than before, the terrain defended by the 61st Brigade is very good, and the artillery fire of the field army poses little threat to the defending enemy.

After the artillery fire was prepared, the assault teams of the three and six columns of the avant-garde brigade began to charge, and against the concealed and low firing points, direct artillery fire should be the best choice, but it was precisely this point that was the weakness of the troops, and most of the troops could carry out some curved howitzers.

The fighters of the commando team were constantly knocked to the ground by ferocious fire, and the fighters behind continued to pick up explosives bags and rush over the corpses of their comrades.

In this way, little by little, the avant-garde brigades of the two columns fought for a whole day, and although some progress was made, the casualties of the troops were also very large.

In some cases, it took several demolition teams to solve the problem, and the corpses of the soldiers who died on the way were scattered everywhere, and some of the enemy's fortifications and strongholds were taken, but the cost was also too great.

The greater the casualties, the more anxious the troops became, and some grassroots commanders and soldiers rushed upwards regardless of the hesitation, but the more this happened, the greater the casualties.

Xu Guangda, commander of the Third Column, and Luo Yuanfa, commander of the Sixth Column, were both veteran Red Army commanders who had experienced a hundred battles.

But the progress of the battle was still not much, and the next day the two columns attacked again for a whole day, and it was still a stalemate of good and bad, and the troops paid the price but had no effect.

At this time, Noji's phone called, and Commander Xu Guangda, who picked up the phone, heard an angry voice coming from the microphone:

"What's going on? It's been two days since the troops attacked, why hasn't there been any progress yet, Xu Guangda and Luo Yuanfa, you two are okay, no, you can talk as soon as possible, pull down the training, and I will change to other troops. ”

The two commanders dared to say no, and they both said that they must persist in fighting, and they would also hurt the enemy, so that Hu Zongnan would send Pei Changhui to support.

Another two days passed, and the three and six columns continued to increase the intensity of their attacks, and the number of troops invested gradually increased, and there were some signs of loosening in the enemy's forward positions.

Some soldiers on the Kuomintang position were so flustered when they saw that they were already very close to the soldiers of the Northwest Field Army, put down their weapons, turned around and ran back.

At this time, the brigade commander of the 61st Brigade, Yang Yinhuan, showed a fierce side, this guy used a heavy machine gun mounted on the city gate building to face the soldiers who ran back, and it didn't matter whether you were an officer or a soldier, pulling the trigger was strafing.

The soldiers who ran back were knocked down in pieces, and this guy scolded while strafing with a machine gun: "***, I'll let you run, I'll let you run, run back and kill one by one, run back two and kill two, run back a few and kill a few, see if you still run." ”

At the meeting of the 61st Brigade of the Kuomintang in Luochuan City, Yang Yinhuan pulled his neck and yelled at his subordinates: "Listen to me, Luochuan is not Yichuan, and Lao Tzu is not Zhang Hanchu, if any of you are afraid of death and cower, I will kill you now." ”

Not to mention, Yang Yinhuan's ferocity really worked, the officers and soldiers of the 61st Brigade of the Kuomintang were shocked by this guy, since they would be killed by the brigade commander when they ran back, then simply don't run and fight with the communist army.

The 61 st Brigade of the Kuomintang once again showed its intention of stubborn resistance, and all the officers and men of the brigade went to the front-line positions, including the brigade commander.

From a certain point of view, Yang Yinhuan, who guarded Luochuan, was the same as Li Kungang, who guarded Panlong, and was a very capable character in the Kuomintang army, and he was indeed a ruthless person.

A whole week has passed, not only did Luochuan not take it down, but even the other three columns that were originally formulated to earn pockets for Pei Changhui's corps also waited in vain for a week, and the soldiers looked forward to the stars and the moon, waiting, waiting, hoping that the Kuomintang corps would come quickly, but the waiting corps could not even see a trace.