Being persuaded by Li Yong like this, Brigade Commander Liu laughed and patted Li Yong's shoulder with his hand: "Dayong, you are right, look at the bear appearance of the Kuomintang troops, if you fight a few more battles, you will have everything, don't we have Chiang Kai-shek, the captain of the transport brigade, as the backing, the equipment will get better and better, this time we have gained a lot from our brigade in the 36th Division, how are you?" ”

Li Yong knew that Brigade Commander Liu was more easy-going and familiar with him, so he said happily: "Who am I, Li Yong?" Can the benefits be less? But there is one point, my troops have too many prisoners, and there are too few old soldiers, and after a while, we will educate you and ask you to review it. ”

Brigade Commander Liu didn't mind and said: "Dayong, what you said is almost the same in our entire Northwest Field Army, all the same, our three verticals are the same, the old soldiers are all treasures, one less casualty and one less, each of the veterans who have been tested by the Anti-Japanese War has a number in my heart, I have been with me for several years, some are almost ten years, one-third of them can be called by name, and the development of the army depends on these old soldiers."

You use veteran soldiers as seeds, put one or two in each squad, but it is really not possible to put two in a platoon, and then train for a period of time, do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers, and fight a few small battles first, and then they will be good troops. ”

Li Yong nodded: "That's the case, when we were in Longdong, we also asked the main force for a hundred old soldiers, but now we really can't open our mouths, and the situation of the main force is not much better than ours, most of them are new recruits and new liberation fighters." ”

To tell the truth, Li Yong admires Brigade Commander Liu very much, and he can call one-third of the veteran soldiers in his unit famous, which means that this brigade commander is with the soldiers all day long, and a brigade-level commander lives and trains with the soldiers all day long, how can this unit have no combat effectiveness.

Early the next morning, Li Yong led the team to bid farewell to the comrades of the Ninth Brigade, and returned to the station of his own troops near the headquarters of the Second Column.

Although he didn't meet Brigade Commander Liu much, Li Yong still had a very good impression of this big brother, his style was rigorous, his work was down-to-earth, and he was a very good senior commander of our army.

Seeing that Li Yong didn't come back for anything, and brought back a large number of prisoners, Wang Chengde's heart finally fell into his stomach. Li Yong happily asked everyone how the harvest was?

The first four platoon Chang Ning Jinshan and the second platoon Chang Ma were all there, but both of them were pushed aside by the third platoon Chang Ma Changsheng, this Ma Changsheng was an anxious man, and at this time he also grinned and said: "Battalion commander, the task you sent us to capture prisoners has been completed, but the instructor said that it was a bit too much, and there were too many prisoners." ”

Li Yong hurriedly asked how many were caught? Ma Changsheng, the commander of the third platoon, scratched his head and said sullenly: "We have picked up more than 4,000 prisoners according to the conditions you said, and there are more than 1,000 people over the age of 18 and under the age of 24. ”

Li Yong heard Ma Changsheng say that he also had a little numb scalp when he caught more than a thousand, and it was a good thing that there were many people, but this equipment, materials, and clothing had to be a big piece, and the equipment was okay, what should I do with this clothes? , Li Yong, the poor man of the column quilt factory, still remembers it vividly, and there are more and more troubles.

Wang Laohu, the commander of the fifth platoon, squeezed in from among Ma Quanyou and several of them: "You guys have finished reporting, it's my turn, battalion commander, according to the method you said, our platoon can find out that it can be seven or eight kilometers, and finally found the enemy's artillery position, and the artillery has disappeared, leaving only the artillery there."

Twelve brand-new American-style howitzers, all of which are written in foreign characters, I don't understand what is written at all, and each gun has a car responsible for towing, and they are all good cars that are not bad at all, or this Chiang Kai-shek is the captain of the transport brigade, it is really not wrong, this does not send us so many cannons. ”

Li Yong was overjoyed when he heard this, he knew very well that this was an American M101 howitzer, with a caliber of 105 mm, a firing rate of three to six rounds per minute, and a firing range of 10,670 meters.

He punched Wang Laohu is fist: "With your tiger, well done, we can form a large-caliber howitzer battalion in the future, Gao Xiang, where is Gao Xiang?" You don't thank the tiger either? ”

Wang Laohu didn't dodge either, and after taking a beat, he continued with a smile: "Battalion commander, don't be happy too early, I haven't finished speaking, the cannon is there, and the car that pulls the cannon is also there, but there are no shells, and there are few soldiers who can drive a car. ”

Li Yong also smiled and said: "It's okay, as long as there is a cannon, it's easy to do, let's find a way to do it later, as for the soldiers who don't know how to drive a car, it's even simpler, they won't learn, everyone will have to learn to drive a car in the future, it's not difficult, you can learn it in a few days." ”

At this time, Sun Quanhou squeezed in from behind, and said while squeezing: "This time it's my turn to report, you all go aside." ”

Everyone smiled and gave Lao Sun a place, Sun Quanhou took out a notebook and said: "Battalion commander, let's send it again this time, the Central Army of the Kuomintang is really rich, and I, who was born in a poor eight roads, have finally seen what it means to be rich." ”

Everyone laughed and asked him not to sell Guanzi, what did he say quickly, Lao Sun cleared his throat: "A total of 13 walkie-talkies, 29 60 mortars, 32 heavy machine guns, 124 light machine guns, more than 500 submachine guns, more than 2,000 rifles, various types of bullets, countless grenades, and finally a bit of a big guy, 12 American 105mm howitzers, 2 anti-aircraft machine guns, but unfortunately there is not a single large-caliber shell."

In addition, this 123rd Brigade also has a baggage battalion, which was also captured by us, a total of 14 large trucks, four of which are loaded with large gasoline barrels, which are full of gasoline, and the materials and ammunition on the rest of the vehicles are divided equally with our second regiment, our regiment commander said that they don't want to give us all the gasoline and cars, and the other seizures have not been counted. ”

Li Yong was very happy to hear that several cars pulling gasoline had been captured, counting the cars that pulled artillery, now there are a total of 26 large trucks and nine jeeps, of course it is convenient to have these cars, but gasoline is also a big problem, this time it can finally be used for a while, and in the future, we have to find a way to get more gasoline, without this thing the car is waste.

What I didn't expect was that there were still two anti-aircraft machine guns in the capture, which were all good things, and now what the troops lacked was anti-aircraft firepower, and it would be better if there were more anti-aircraft machine guns.

I thought about it again, if there are two anti-aircraft machine guns, it should be burning high incense, and the Northwest Field Army does not even have an airplane, not to mention the aircraft, and it is estimated that this is also brought out by the 36th Division, a rich and wealthy man, because of the high-level dual-use performance of this weapon.