Hearing political commissar Wang Chengde ask about the seizure, Li Yuming, the instructor of the tank battalion, was annoyed for a while, because the soldiers of their battalion not only rushed faster than the reconnaissance battalion, but also basically did not capture anything, and nothing was recovered, and this battle was done in vain.

**The brigade is used to fighting, the troops from the Eighth Route Army all have glorious traditions, and if they don't get something back after the war, they always feel empty and unhappy, when they fight with the little devils, and they fight with the Kuomintang army, to put it bluntly, they are used to going out to grab it, and every time they want to get some benefits, not to mention Li Yong and the soldiers, even Wang Chengde, the political commissar who has always been very stable, now has this problem.

Seeing that Li Yuming didn't answer, Zhang Jinsong had no choice but to say: "Political commissar, the seizure is really nothing, we can't look down on some tattered equipment, and the only thing that is not bad can only be the war horse, and there are more than 100 horses that have not been killed or injured, and that's all." ”

Wang Chengde didn't expect any big gains, what could be captured in the war with the bandits, but there was no more, there was no less, some were better than nothing, and the war horse was not bad:

"The living stay, the dead and the wounded eat meat, improve their lives today at noon and evening, by the way, and one more question, how many prisoners have you captured?"

Listening to the political commissar ask about the captivity, Zhang Jinsong and Li Yuming were both excited, the two looked at each other, and thought to themselves, what about the prisoners, the brigade commander didn't say that he wanted to be captured, how dare we capture them, but we can't tell the political commissar directly, why can't we confess the brigade commander, and finally have to be explained by Zhang Jinsong:

"What, commissar, you say, these bandits are too stubborn. Resolutely not to surrender. It was useless for us to shout, we ran hard, and we kept resisting while running, and there was no way, so we had to destroy them all, hehe, there were no prisoners. ”

Who is Wang Chengde? He is an officer of the political department of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Column, and one of the oldest among all the veterans of the ** Brigade, he is very clear about the psychological activities of the soldiers, and he knows what is going on by looking at the expressions of Zhang Jinsong and Li Yuming. And his grandmother's stubbornness? Isn't this nonsense, but what else can I do if something happens, it is very likely that it was Dayong's order from that kid, and Wang Chengde, who had no choice, had no choice but to say that he would not take an example and leave.

A small battle on a small scale. It is a small episode on the way to the ** travel army, no one thinks this is a big deal, isn't it nothing to eliminate hundreds of bandits, and the **brigade of more than 13,000 people is no different from eating a melon seed, but what they didn't expect is that such a small battle with a big melon seed let the local people know what the PLA is.

These five or six hundred horse bandits were very famous in the local area, not only the common people were very afraid, but even the Kuomintang army in those years could not do anything about them, and the hundreds of people were all horse teams, and each person had an average of two horses. For such bandits, the mobility of the bandit suppression force is a little lower, and there is nothing they can do about them, but fortunately, they met the ** brigade, and their death time has come.

On the morning of that day, after the troops left Shanshan, they began to cross the Tianshan Mountains, and Li Yong told all battalions and companies to make preparations for crossing the mountains, overhaul their cars, tanks, artillery, and other equipment, and stressed that as long as we crossed the Tianshan Mountains. It is the endless northern foothills of the Great Plain, which is the real entry into the hinterland of Xinjiang.

The Tianshan Mountains traverse the central part of Xinjiang and are majestic, with steep mountain roads and cars spiraling up the cliffs.

At the foot of the mountain, everyone felt the hot and humid weather. Many fighters had their chests wide open and took off their hats to cool off. But the more you go up the mountain, the lower the temperature, when you are close to the top of the mountain, the cold wind blows, the cold straight goosebumps, the mountain and the mountain seem to be two worlds, the soldiers have said strange things, even Li Jiangguo and Zhang Jinsong and other old soldiers are no exception, some said: "What is this called, the mountain is hot enough, but the mountain is cold enough, always like this, Lao Tzu has to make a cold, what to do if the cold affects the combat effectiveness." ”

There are strange words everywhere, there are a lot of that battalion, and Wang Laohu, the commander of the fifth battalion, who has never been very talkative, said to the soldiers of their battalion at this time: "You are really in the blessing and do not know the blessing, you have a full stomach, you have cold-proof equipment on your body, and you don't need to consume your body in a car, do you know how many people our avant-garde 14th regiment sacrificed when they crossed Qilian Mountain?" There are more than 130 people, all of whom are frozen to death on the mountain, think about them, how can you be embarrassed to say strange things! ”

Wang Laohu's words were not much, but as soon as he said it, everyone was convinced, and the soldiers of the fifth battalion who said strange things suddenly drooped their heads, thinking about it, compared to the sacrificed comrades, marching in a car is simply a great blessing.

The car has been circling for more than three hours to reach the top of the mountain, the field of vision suddenly widened, the extreme vision, the line of sight is clear, the blue sky, white clouds, grassland, the boundless plain can not be seen at a glance.

The steppe is filled with flocks of sheep, horses, and cattle, and the shepherds drive these herds leisurely through the fertile meadows, and the herds against the snow-capped mountains and meadows are as if they were embroidered in the sun on colorful satin patterns - beautiful.

"It's beautiful, it's just like what is described in a fairy tale." Li Jia, who was sitting next to Li Yong, couldn't help but say.

"Of course it's beautiful, or there will always be foreign forces who want to divide our beautiful Xinjiang! However, as soon as our troops arrive, every dream of the enemy will become a laughing stock of history, and the enemy's ambitions will also be crushed by us. Brigadier Li replied confidently.

Li Yong didn't say much, he thought that he and the soldiers had this strength, the car circled down, and circled for several hours to the foot of the mountain, at this time there were more and more people on both sides of the road, people were wearing colorful clothes, wearing colorful small mao, the girls combed a dozen pigtails, and their mouths spoke the local minority language that Li Yong and the soldiers did not understand.

Fresh, curious, the soldiers of the ** brigade can't wait to have a few more eyes, and they can't see it when they look around, and they are all wandering in the Gobi no man's land for thousands of miles, and it is really a little uncomfortable to come out of this sudden out.

How could Li Yong, who was a man of two lifetimes, not understand the mood of the soldiers, they are all young men in their twenties, marching and fighting in the desert Gobi region for many days, and the rats they see may all be male, and they are indeed a little confused when they go to crowded places, especially when they see those beautiful girls, their eyes are about to fall to the ground.

Li Yong is also a young man, and he also wants to see beautiful girls, but as the commander of a brigade, he must lead by example, this truth is still understood, and because of the existence of Hu Xiaolian and Li Jia and others, Brigade Commander Li's immunity is also a little stronger than that of the soldiers, for this reason, Li Yong specially asked the guard company commander Li Jia to convey a very funny order: "The troops are about to enter the densely populated area, and we must strictly implement our army's "three disciplines and eight points of attention" Beautiful girls can watch, but they can't talk nonsense to others, You can't move your hands and feet, and the added point is that although a beautiful girl can look at it, she can't stare at it for a long time, which is rude. ”

The long order made the soldiers laugh non-stop, laughing and laughing, the soldiers were resolute in carrying out the order, and soon, a city appeared in front of the convoy, the streets were crisscrossed, the houses were one after another, and there were some beautiful small western-style buildings in the middle, Li Yong put down the binoculars in his hand, and knew that he and the **brigade had arrived at the destination of this trip, and the city in his sight was Dihua, the capital of Xinjiang.

"Dihua, we're here." Brigade Commander Li stood in the jeep and shouted a few words, but no matter how he shouted, he felt awkward, how good it was to call Urumqi, but Li Yong knew in his heart that changing the name of a city was only after 1954, and it was an order of the central government, and now he, the little brigade commander, could only pretend to be confused.

Just when Li Yong was still struggling with when to change Dihua to Urumqi, a convoy drove out of the city.

The two convoys driving on opposite sides were getting closer and closer, and after a few minutes they were approaching a distance of about fifty meters, and the two convoys stopped at close range, and several cadre-like people jumped out of the cars with a group of guards.

The leader is about 50 years old, wearing a new military uniform of the People's Liberation Army (the troops entering Xinjiang have all been redressed into the unified military uniform of the People's Liberation Army before departure, which is the same khaki military uniform of several major field armies, and the Xinjiang uprising troops have not yet completed the redressing, but the military uniforms of a small number of senior officers were airlifted by plane before the advance troops entered Xinjiang), and some senior officers have worn the uniforms of the People's Liberation Army, who is this?

No matter who it is, it should be their own people who can come out to greet them, Li Yong and Wang Chengde walked a few steps to greet them, and when they got closer, they saw this person first introduce themselves: "Comrade Dajun, hello, I am Tao Zhiyue, welcome to Dihua, you have worked hard all the way." ”

"Tao Zhiyue"? It was a Kuomintang general, but this was all in the past, the Kuomintang troops in Xinjiang were reorganized into the 22nd Corps of the People's Liberation Army after the uprising, and Tao Zhiyue was the commander of the Corps, the commander of the Corps appointed by the PLA Headquarters, a chief-level figure.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, when the title was conferred in 55 years, 57 generals were awarded, and Tao Zhiyue was one of them, this is a person who has made great contributions to the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde took a step forward, saluted and reported: "The ** Brigade of the Second Army of the First Field Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, brigade commander Li Yong and political commissar Wang Chengde have been ordered to come and ask the chief for instructions. ”

I know that the cadres of the People's Liberation Army are young, but when I saw Li Yong and Wang Chengde, I was still surprised by the people who took them out. A large army of more than 10,000 people let them take it?? Will it work? (To be continued......)

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