Chapter 70: Raising Food
After listening to Li Yongxin's announcement, the 100 veterans who were coming back from the headquarters were completely shocked, and more than 800 people were all wearing the same steel helmets, leather shoes, backpacks, new military uniforms, and all automatic firepower.
Company commander Li Yong also told them that you can take the bullet casually, as long as you think you can carry it, so in addition to the 200 rounds of ammunition that the special service company is equipped with as standard, each veteran soldier also secretly took an extra 100 and issued it in the backpack.
Li Yong submitted his application for joining the party to the instructor on the evening after the reorganization of the spy company, this is Li Yong's second application, the first one was handed in the previous life, looking at the application in his hand Wang Chengde said: "Dayong, even if you don't hand it over, I have to remind you, you understand the party more than us, and you should have been a member of our party for a long time, and we will discuss your joining the party at the branch committee tonight." ”
At the discussion meeting that night, Li Yong's question of joining the party was expected by all, and no one raised questions, and Li Jiangguo, the platoon commander, said: "If our company commander is not a party member, who else is a party member, take me as an example, my understanding of the party is far worse than his." Li Jiangguo, who is joking, is very strict when he says this.
The next day, under the banner of the party unfolded by instructor Wang Chengde, Li Yong secretly decided in his heart that he would hand over his life to our party, because a person's life is only a few decades, and he will do a great job under the leadership of the party, and it will not be in vain for him to live again.
After the special service company rested for a period of time in the area of Zhenwudong, the troops set off to the north, this time it was determined to join the main force, the troops went all the way to the north, the sequence of marching was still the first, second, third, and fourth platoons, the company headquarters, the machine gun platoon, the artillery platoon, the baggage platoon, after Wang Laohu's five platoons were broken, the four squads of the reconnaissance platoon searched and advanced more than 300 meters around the troops, and Zhang Jinsong led the avant-garde squad to the front.
Li Yong's destination was Jingbian County, the easternmost part of the trilateral division, because Li Yong knew that the main forces of the Northwest Field Army were now fighting the enemy in the Yanchi and Anbian areas, and after recovering the trilateral division, they would march along the Great Wall to Yulin, and Jingbian was the place where the main force had to pass.
There is another reason, the spy company can bypass the Dali River when they go to Jingbian, otherwise it will be a troublesome thing for the spy company without the equipment to cross the river, and Li Yong did not ask the troops to march in a hurry, because the main force is infantry, and the speed of the march is much slower than that of the spy company marching on horseback, and there is no need to rush too quickly and make the troops too tired; after more than ten days of marching, the spy company finally came to Jingbian County at the foot of the Great Wall.
The trilateral sub-district is a part of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, is the northernmost sub-district, the densely populated places are Dingbian, Anbian and Jingbian, the three county towns are close to the Great Wall, from west to east are Dingbian, Anbian, Jingbian.
After arriving at Jingbian, a shadow on Li Yong's heart became heavier and heavier, and the intention of the Northwest Field Army, which had recovered Longdong and the trilateral divisions, to go east along the Great Wall was obvious, and the target of the attack was Yulin, an important town in the northern part of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region.
Yulin used to be called Yuyang, also known as Camel City. Although it is located in the plug, it is close to the Wuding River and the Yu River, so the terrain is open, the soil is fertile, the climate is mild, the products are abundant, and it is known as the small Beiping.
It is close to the Great Wall in the north, the Yellow River in the east, Wuyan in the south, and Ningxia in the northwest, located in the Jin, Shaanxi, Suining, and Ningxia to chong, from the Ming Dynasty to become one of the important military towns in the north of our country, the history books record: Yulin Mansion, Xi bow horse, good fighting, mixed soldiers and people, to pay for life, so Yulin is a military city from history.
This Yulin is known as the first fortress in the northwest, the city is strong, the main force of the defenders is the 22nd Army of the Kuomintang, this 22nd Army from 1918 with the northern Shaanxi town guard Jing Yuexiu into northern Shaanxi, from a battalion of several hundred people gradually expanded to a military personnel of more than 20,000, although it is a miscellaneous unit of the Kuomintang, but has lived in Yulin for more than 30 years, most of the officers and soldiers have families and property.
After the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, after our party established a base in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, most of the landlords and rich peasants were strung into Yulin, and this part of the people was even more dependent on Yulin and had extreme hatred, and Deng Baoshan, the actual master of the 22nd Army and Yulin, was not a simple person, and he was very good at holding on to the city.
At that time, because our army had no experience in attacking fortified cities in battles, had few firearms, and was short of food, the Northwest Field Army's attack on Yulin ended in failure, not only did it fail to achieve its own combat intentions, but also caused the troops to suffer heavy losses, which was also one of the defeats that the People's Liberation Army was always unwilling to mention in the history of warfare.
Li Yong, who is a descendant, knows these things very well, but he knows what the use is, he is just a small company commander, and the senior commander can't see it, let alone mention what to build, and now he can only do what he can do with his strength.
After arriving at Jingbian, Li Yong ordered the special agent company to send out all the rest of the personnel to raise food for the upcoming main force, except for the health team, the cooking squad, and the baggage platoon, and a part of the housekeepers.
The Northwest Field Army was the most arduous unit in the history of our army, but it was the most difficult before and after the Yulin Campaign, because the troops' combat effectiveness declined due to lack of food, and Li Yong knew that the main force was now very short of food, so he ordered the special service company not only to raise grain in the Jingbian area, but also to go far out of the Great Wall to the northern Suiyuan Province to carry out activities.
As long as it is edible, no matter what it is, buy it back, spend all the oceans captured by the spy company in several battles, and if you encounter the landlord's old wealth, you will start to rob it, this is also a way out of the way, the spy company only has a few thousand oceans, and the food gap of the main force is too great.
Because the spy company was full of horses, the team moved very quickly, and in a few days, it not only bought back a large amount of grain, but also got back a lot of cattle, sheep and livestock.
On this day, reconnaissance platoon commander Zhang Jinsong came back and reported: There is a big landowner named Liu Chengwan less than 200 miles north from the Great Wall, this big landlord not only has thousands of acres of grain fields, but also takes care of countless bodyguards, and not only ignores the notice of our army to buy grain, but also makes people threaten the surrounding people not to sell grain to our army, and his arrogance is very arrogant, and the local people are very afraid, so he came back to ask for instructions on what to do.
After listening to Zhang Jinsong's report, Li Yong thought to himself: If you are unlucky, let's take you to train for the reorganized spy company.
Let Li Yuming inform the troops to assemble, the baggage platoon and the cooking squad health team stay, and the rest of the company's main force set off as a team.
The people in the baggage platoon were a little unhappy when they saw that they had left them behind this time: "Why do we always stay, although we call the baggage platoon, but we are also a combat unit, and it cannot be the same as the cooking squad health team." ”
Li Yong saw that the soldiers of the replatoon were a little unhappy, so he smiled and said: "You are optimistic about your home, there is still a battle, let you go next time." ”