Chapter 316: The Courage of the Guard Company

Each of the three main brigades of the Second Column has an artillery battalion that has not been formed for a long time, and this time there are four artillery battalions with the artillery of the independent regiment, although they are all called artillery battalions, but the three artillery battalions are far worse than the artillery of the independent regiment. The full-text and ad-free novels are all on Aishang Novel Network biquge.info{Aishang Novel Network biquge.info}

The number of guns in each of the other three battalions was only about 20 guns, which was still the number of large-caliber guns of various types, and the artillery training program for operating the guns was even more incomparable with the artillery of the independent regiment.

But in any case, the artillery must be artillery, and the caliber is not at all much stronger than before, and it is considerable to concentrate the forces of the whole column together.

The artillery level of the newly formed battalions was still only at the level of being able to fire artillery, and it was not easy to mention the accuracy of shooting.

There is an old saying in the PLA called "bayonet on the artillery," in fact, there is no way to do it, the distance is not accurate, the ballistic coordinates are not calculated well, so I have to use the traditional desperate and melee spirit to push the curved howitzer to a close distance and fire directly, and fire directly at the target, this way of playing is very shocking, and the effect is also very good, but the casualties are too great, and sometimes the target and the attacking artillery are finished at the same time, That is, the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army dared to do this, and this was also an important reason why Commander Wang tried his best to hand over all the artillery of the entire column to Gao Xiang.

Gao Xiang, who learned about the situation, immediately sent his own artillery command group to several other battalions to command the battle, to put it bluntly, he took over their command and let the artillery of the independent regiment take over the command, not because he didn't believe in the fighters of other battalions, but because the big war was approaching, there was no time to train them carefully.

Artillery is the treasure of every combat unit, and these artillery pieces are also snatched back by the soldiers with great effort, so most of the commanders are old qualifications in various units, and the artillery command group sent out by Gao Xiang is not so particular, and a considerable number of personnel are still prisoners, here is the captain of the security regiment that Ning Erzi captured in the previous stage, this guy turned out to be an artillery professional, and such a professional level is also very rare among the soldiers of the independent regiment, and this time he was also sent out by Gao Xiang, However, he was not a captain of the Kuomintang, but an expert in the howitzer battalion of the Independent Regiment.

Don't look at the old qualifications of the commanders of the brother troops, but you have to be convinced, who makes you not good at the level, and the qualifications are useless when it comes to calling the real chapter.

The total number of artillery pieces in the four artillery battalions exceeded 120, and the posture alone was very shocking, and it was the first time in the history of the second column that so many artillery pieces could be assembled in a single column, not only in the history of the second column, but also in the history of the entire field army.

Rows of artillery were quietly arranged, the muzzles of the black holes pointed obliquely at the sky, and all kinds of shooting elements had been calibrated, just waiting for an order from the headquarters.

Gao Xiang, who had been waiting for an order by the telephone, pointed the watch hands on his wrist until eight o'clock in the evening, and finally heard Commander Wang's somewhat excited voice from the microphone: "Gao Xiang, let's start." ”

Gao Xiang, who received the order, shouted loudly: "Attention to all artillery, two cannons are test-fired." ”

The two benchmark guns of the independent regiment, which had been prepared for a long time, fired the shells out at the first time.

The battlefield has been seen countless times, counted countless times, and these two shells have undoubtedly hit the target that they want to bombard the most.

Looking at the shells that landed accurately, Gao Xiang shouted with a telescope in his hand: "Pay attention to all gun positions, all of them are there, the height is the same, the pitch is the same, each cannon is six, and the fire is urgent." ”

Each cannon has six, adding up to more than 700, so many shells can be fired out in about a minute, and after throwing more than 2,000 shells at three sixes in a row, Gao Xiang finally gave an order that could make the artillerymen take a breath: "Eight intermittent fire." ”

The concentrated fire of the artillery of the second column smashed the area to be attacked, and all the pieces were blown to pieces, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of shells were hit.

Gao Xiang commanded the artillery of the column to bombard the fighters back and forth with artillery fire on the area where the fighters were about to attack, over and over again, and the shells smashed over as if they didn't want money.

The Kuomintang defenders who were guarding the south of Yan'an suffered greatly, and the PLA's artillery fire surprised them at the beginning. I remember that a year ago they were still fighting for a few bullets and grenades, and the changes were too great.

At the same time as the artillery attack of the second column began, the independent regiment also began to act against the dangerous Laoshan at the same time, and when the battle plan was formulated, several combat battalions were fighting each other, and they all wanted to be the commandos attacking Laoshan at the critical moment of recovering Yan'an.

Of course, the happiest among these battalion commanders and instructors were Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third battalion, and He Cuihua, the commander of the fifth battalion, and each of them put forward a lot of reasons to explain that they were the most suitable troops.

Political commissar Wang Chengde had to let the regiment commander Li Yong decide, Li Yong has been listening to the discussions of these old soldiers, and later decided to use Ma Changsheng's three battalions, He Cuihua's five battalions to attack from both sides, and Ning Jinshan's four battalions to attack from the front, and the three battalions to go up together.

The 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, the Reconnaissance Battalion and the Baggage Battalion were used as reserves, and Wei Gang's machine gun battalion was split into three parts by Li Yong and assigned to the three infantry battalions of the main attack as the supporting firepower of their battalions.

Li Yong's appointment of the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, and the Reconnaissance Battalion as reserves was also motivated by various considerations; the 1st and 2nd Battalions were the two battalions with the strongest combat effectiveness in the independent regiment, and they also suffered the greatest casualties in the previous stage of the battle, especially in the Yulin Campaign, where the casualties of the two battalions were more than half, and letting these two battalions relax appropriately would also be conducive to their future combat effectiveness.

Needless to say, the reconnaissance battalion did not have the heavy weapons of the infantry battalion, and attacking mountainous fortifications was not their strong point, so the battalion commander Zhang Jinsong did not compete with these infantry battalions for any tasks, and the regiment commander and political commissar would not give them to them.

In the end, Li Yong put forward another plan, the most dangerous terrain of Laoshan is the back mountain, the back mountain has no way to attack, the force can not be deployed, but we can not let the enemy idle, we must send a force to Cha up, with a surprise attack on him, maybe it can also have an unexpected effect, at least for several main attack troops to involve the enemy's firepower and strength.

As soon as Li Yong's plan was proposed, someone stood up violently, who is it? Li Yuming, a veteran soldier of the independent regiment at the beginning of the regiment, a soldier of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and the company commander of the guard company: "Regiment commander, give this task to our company, and we will definitely complete the task." ”

This is the first time that Li Yuming has fought for the task at the meeting, the guard company, the main task is to protect the regiment headquarters and the regiment commander from losses, and there is basically no share for them in a big battle.

After Li Yuming finished speaking, the reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong also stood up: "Oh, I said Li Yuming, how did your guard company grab our task, such a job should be done by our reconnaissance battalion, regiment commander, leave this task to our battalion, and ensure that the task is completed." ”

Li Yong didn't say yes or no, just looked at Li Yuming and asked, "Why do you want to fight for this task?" What are you sure of? ”

"Regiment Commander, do you remember that we just set up a spy company to fight Panlong? Didn't I go up from the back mountain at that time? I have experience in mountain climbing, and our guards have been practicing mountain climbing for a while, except for three platoons, and we are sure to climb up from the cliff behind the mountain. ”

Li Yuming's guard company has three platoons, the first and second platoons are combat platoons, which are mainly responsible for the security tasks of the regimental headquarters, and the third platoon is the communication platoon in the regiment, which can be regarded as the core secret unit of the independent regiment.

Li Yong continued to ask quietly, "What other reasons are there?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Yuming was also a little embarrassed: "Regiment commander, our regiment has been established for so long, except for the first few times that our guard company was quite enjoyable, but in the later big battles, it didn't catch a single battle, it was all a bit of a fight, it's boring, our guard company also wants to make more meritorious contributions and make some contributions to the recovery of Yan'an." ”

Li Yuming said that there was laughter at the venue, and Zhang Jinsong also grinned and said: "I said what's the matter, it turned out that Li Yuming was red when he saw our meritorious service, okay, I won't fight with you this time." ”

Li Yong: "Are you sure to go up?" ”

Li Yuming: "Regiment leader, I was not idle when you and the political commissar observed the terrain, I looked at it, although the back mountain is quite steep, but it can't be compared with Panlong Town, we are sure to go up." ”

The two guard platoons, more than 80 people, all stood excitedly outside the gate of the regiment headquarters, and these people were all selected from various units in the regiment, and the vast majority of them were children of the border area like Li Yuming, and some of them were descendants of the old Red Army and Red Guards.

What kind of officers will bring out what kind of soldiers, in addition to ordinary combat skills, the training content of the soldiers of these two guard platoons is also practiced climbing the mountain with Li Yuming, who let our company commander do this well, this time it can be regarded as a crooked fight.

These soldiers were very familiar with the regimental commanders, and Li Yong could name almost everyone, and he knew most of their temperament and characteristics.

Li Yong, who was standing in front of the soldiers, did not shout any slogans, but said in a deep voice: "The task is very dangerous and difficult, I know that you are not afraid of death, show your courage, and let the enemy know what it means to be a soldier in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, come out." ”