When the brothers saw each other, everyone was happy for them, and Ning Jinshan said to Ning Erzi: "Second son, don't cry, this time it's okay, you will join our team, and you will also be the Eighth Road, and you will do the revolution with us." ”

Speaking of this, Ning Jinshan looked back at Li Yong and Wang Chengde: "Company commander, instructor, I want the second son to join our spy company, do you think it's okay?" Li Yong and Wang Chengde glanced at each other, and Wang Chengde pulled Ning Erzi to his side and said, "Second son, are you willing to be the Eighth Road?" When the Eighth Road is very dangerous, it has to be voluntary, the first one can not be afraid of death, now we are called the People's Liberation Army, if you want, from today onwards we will be your home, we are brothers, if you don't want to, wait for the battle to send you the money home. ”

Li Jiangguo, who was next to him, didn't reply, and said while looking at the terrain: "Come with us, we are the troops that fight the world for the common people, which is different from their Kuomintang." Zhang Jinsong also followed and said: "Second son, come to our platoon, as soon as we platoon is dispatched, we will have meat to eat, and after speaking, he grinned and smiled." Ma Quanyou, the leader of the second platoon on the side, glared at Zhang Jinsong and said, "Second son, don't listen to his nonsense, come to our second platoon, our platoon is no worse than them." ”

Ning Erzi was so happy that he said to everyone: "Brothers, I want to be the Eighth Route Army in my dreams, this time I won't leave anything, we are also the Eighth Route Army this time." Li Yong corrected on the side and said: "Second son, now we are called the People's Liberation Army." Ning Erzi immediately replied: "Report to the chief, I am now the People's Liberation Army." Everyone smiled when they saw Ning Erzi's appearance, and instructor Wang Chengde came over and said to Ning Erzi: "Second son, our ** People's Liberation Army does not prosper the Kuomintang, and we don't call the commander comrade, in our People's Liberation Army, the cadres and fighters are the same, they are equal." ”

Ning Jinshan came over and pulled Ning Erzi, looking at his younger brother's appearance, Ning Jinshan's eyebrows and eyes were smiling: "Second son, our unit is a special service company directly under the regiment headquarters, and this is our company commander and instructor." Ning Erzi saluted Li Yong and Wang Chengde again, and Li Yong pulled Ning Jinshan over and said: "Jinshan, you see that this kid has a lot of cleverness and is a good material for a scout, how about letting him go to the reconnaissance platoon?" Ning Jinshan immediately said: "Company commander, I wanted to tell you just now, the second son, this kid has been very clever since he was a child, and it is the most suitable for Zhang Jinsong and their platoon." ”

As soon as Li Yong saw that Ning Jinshan also agreed with Ning Erzi to the reconnaissance platoon, he called Zhang Jinsong over and handed Ning Erzi over to him, Zhang Jinsong had another clever soldier under him, of course, he was happy, so he said to Ning Erzi: "Erzi, we even have the idea of attacking the enemy's ammunition depot, you have been in it, the terrain is familiar, see if there is any way to get in."

Ning Erzi thought for a while: "You can't get in anywhere else, if you want to get in, you have to think of a way from this back mountain, if you want to enter the back mountain, you have to cross this cliff, it's because of this big cliff that the 167 Brigade has not prepared any garrison forces, don't even think about it in other places, and birds can't fly in." ”

After Ning Erzi finished speaking, everyone didn't speak, frowning and trying to find a way. Li Yong suddenly remembered a movie "Outwitting Huashan" that he had watched before, there was a plot in the movie, our scouts encountered difficulties in performing their tasks, and with the help of a medicine picker in the mountains, they climbed over a big cliff and completed the combat mission.

Thinking of this, Li Yong said to everyone: "It would be nice if someone could go up, as long as one person goes up with a rope, we can even go up." At this time, Li Yuming, who had always followed Li Yong and Wang Chengde without speaking, said: "Company commander, I can try." ”

Li Yong glanced back at Li Yuming: "Yuming, this is not a joke, if you fall off a cliff dozens of meters high, you have to fall to your death." Li Yuming said: "Company commander, I know the danger, don't we have no other way now, I often climbed mountains at home before I became a soldier, and I also climbed the cliff, but I haven't climbed so steep, and I have to try the danger, I estimate that I can be six or seven percent sure." ”

Li Yong thought for a while and then asked, "What tools did you use to climb cliffs before?" Li Yuming replied: "You don't need anything, just carry a pocket empty-handed." Li Yong lowered his head and calculated in his heart, Li Yuming can be six or seven percent sure of his empty hands, if he is given some tools like the fellow in "Outwitting Huashan", maybe this Li Yuming can really go up.

Thinking of this, Li Yong called the soldiers to his side: "Everyone heard Yuming's words just now, so I can only let him try, before he sets off, I want to prepare some tools for him, and then I said the style of tools I know, in fact, it is to tie an iron hook in front of the wooden stick, and if you encounter a place that you can't climb over, use the hook to hook the stone tree that can be used, and then go up along the hook."

Looking at the two hooks that everyone made quickly, Li Yong told Li Yuming how to use it, and observed the terrain features that could be used on the cliff with him, paying attention to every stone and every small tree, and half an hour later Li Yuming said that it was okay, I went.

Li Yong carefully inspected the rope and iron hook that Li Yuming tied to his body, and advised: "Hold on to your hands firmly, step on your feet steadily, don't be in a hurry to come little by little." Li Yuming replied: "Don't worry, company commander, I said that if I am six or seven percent sure, it is a little less, and now with this rope and iron hook, it will be even greater." After saying that, he walked cautiously under the cover of the trees.

Li Yuming went to the bottom of the cliff to look at the observed terrain and ran up along a small tree, it seems that this Li Yuming really has two hits, hands and feet are very coordinated with movements, after a while, the work has climbed very high, when looking at the bottom, I feel that Li Yuming's figure is getting smaller and smaller, everyone does not dare to come out at all, there are two places in the middle Li Yuming is used a hook to pass, up to more than half of the time and rested for a while, and then climbed up in one go, the whole process can have more than 20 minutes, see Li Yuming climb up, At this time, Li Yong and Wang Chengde, as well as the soldiers, dared to take a breath and cheered each other quietly.

After a while, Li Yuming tied the rope and threw it down, Zhang Jinsong saw that the rope came down and walked to Li Yong and Wang Chengde, saying that they were reconnaissance and communication platoons should be on them first, Li Yong said yes, and asked who was the second one, Zhang Jinsong said that it was himself, and the platoon commander should go up first if there was a dangerous place, Li Yong nodded, and told him to bring another rope, and put down the second rope after going up, and the people below tied the second rope to the waist, and the two of them dragged it on it, so that it was very good and there was no danger, Let the soldiers prepare dry food and water and not come down after they go up, and put up a guard.

After Zhang Jinsong agreed, he took the soldiers of their platoon over, because with the first rope, Zhang Jinsong climbed up without much effort, and after Zhang Jinsong threw down the second rope, Li Yong's heart finally put it in his stomach.

With two ropes pulled up, the speed of the soldiers going up was also faster, Li Yong told the soldiers of the other platoons to come in the order of one, two, three, and four rows, and said to the instructor Wang Chengde: "I will take the soldiers up, and you and the tiger will take the five platoons to meet at the bottom." Wang Chengde said at this time that he was a veteran, he had been a soldier longer than Li Yong, and he had more experience than Li Yong, so he should lead the troops up, and Li Yong should take over.

Li Yong: "Lao Wang, there is no time to argue now, I am the company commander, and I have the final say in the on-site command, so I will do it." ”

Wang Chengde had no choice but to agree, and when Li Jiangguo's platoon all went up, a few ropes were thrown down, so that the speed of the troops went up faster, Li Yong followed the second platoon and climbed up, and when he got to the top, he saw that the soldiers were lying silently in the woods and bushes, a little farther away Zhang Jinsong and the soldiers of their platoon were on guard, Li Yong observed the terrain and asked a soldier next to him to call Ning Erzi, who was sentry with the reconnaissance platoon, over, and when Ning Erzi came over, the third and fourth platoons also came up, Several platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders all lay down beside Li Yong.

Li Yong looked at Ning Erzi and said, "Second son, it's up to you now, you have to find a place not far from the ammunition depot that is not easy to be discovered, so let's start." Ning Erzi agreed and led the way in front, and after a short time, he came to the back of a dirt bag overgrown with trees and said: "Company commander, the ammunition depot is in front of this dirt bag, you can't go any further, the front is too dangerous and easy to be discovered." ”

Li Yong looked at the surrounding terrain and said to several platoon commanders: "Let's do it here, take turns to rest in order, the reconnaissance platoon is on guard, and the first platoon is careful not to make a sound, and throw the newly dug soil under the cliff." ”

Li Jiangguo, the leader of the platoon, immediately led a platoon and began to dig soil and holes. Northern Shaanxi is a part of the Loess Plateau in China, because it is a loess based terrain and landform, and the vegetation is not good, after thousands of years of rain erosion, countless large cracks have been formed in depth of hundreds of kilometers or more, what is the width of this ditch? People on both sides of the ditch have to walk for a day if they want to visit each other.

At the end of the 49th year, more than 300,000 troops were wiped out by more than 20,000 people of General Peng Da, and our Northwest Field Army also developed from more than 20,000 people at the beginning to more than 300,000 later, among which the topography of northern Shaanxi also played a certain role.