Chapter Twenty-Six: Departure

After listening to Li Yong's battle plan and battlefield analysis, everyone, including Wang Chengde, was silent for a long time again, and the company commander had been with us all the time, where did he know so much about the situation? Why don't we know? The battle plan of the head of the headquarters has been analyzed by him again? Is this time it real? His previous predictions were very accurate, why was he so clear about the shape of the battlefield? Can tell fortunes? The last thing we ** people believe in is fortune-telling, but how to explain the behavior of the company commander?

The Kuomintang attack corps pressed from all directions, while our field army had just been established, and at that time there were only a few main brigades, adding up to more than 22,000 people, and when Hu Zongnan stormed Yan'an, there were only more than 5,000 teaching brigades to resolutely block the enemy, and this teaching brigade was the predecessor of the Sixth Army of our Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the Sixth Army was formed on the basis of this brigade.

How to use more than 20,000 people to deal with the enemy is not something that ordinary people dare to do, ** The evaluation of Mr. Peng is very pertinent, and there is no artificial exaggeration factor, who dares to cross the knife immediately, only I General Peng. This is a portrayal of the old marshal's life, not only during the Red Army's Long March, but also at any time, the old marshal did this, including the later Korean battlefield, at the critical moment, when the country and the nation were in danger, he dared to stand up, regardless of personal gains and losses.

As a later generation, Li Yong is of course very familiar with this history, but there is no way to explain it to the soldiers, so he has to let everyone ponder.

Just when everyone was thinking nonsense, Li Yong said again: "The troops will set off in two days, everyone will return all the things borrowed from the nearby villagers, and there is another task tonight, because we don't have enough personnel, weapons and equipment can't be used, and the rest of the equipment must find a hidden place to hide, that's why I want Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance platoon to find a cave in this area, this matter must be kept strictly secret, and the scope of knowledge is limited to these people here, do you understand?" ”

That night, Li Yong and Wang Chengde led more than 20 veterans under the cover of night, and transported the weapons, ammunition, and materials that could not be used to a large cave in several vehicles, and then blocked the entrance of the cave with stones and soil, and made some messy grass to cover it, and when they returned, they swept away the footprints and ruts when they came, and it was almost midnight after doing this.

The next day, Li Yong asked the troops to stop training, everyone hurriedly sorted out their belongings, made preparations for departure, carried as much dry food and ammunition as possible, and the standard equipment was 200 rounds of ammunition for each soldier, four grenades with wooden handles, two American-style melon-shaped grenades, and two grenades Li Yong asked the soldiers to hang on the vests outside the military uniforms, one on each side of the neck.

The soldiers looked at each other's grenades on both sides of their necks and felt a little funny, the company commander can really come up with strange ideas, but this is very convenient, and it is also easy to throw them out during the battle.

Five days of dry food {10 cornmeal flatbread}, a kettle, a military blanket and a mattress made of tarpaulin, a first-aid kit, and a field backpack.

After distributing the supplies, Sun Quanhou found Li Yong: "What should we do if we still have a lot of food and more than 100 tents left?" ”

Li Yong also knew that the soldiers of the baggage platoon were already carrying a lot of weight, and they could no longer carry these things, so after thinking about it, he said: "Do you think this will work, how about you exchange our remaining grain with our fellow villagers for donkeys?" We don't have money, so we will give more food at the market price, if we can exchange a few donkeys for a few donkeys, we can take away all the tents we have, anyway, we can't even come back for a while, but canned food can't be taken out to change, this thing can be put for a long time, and we can use it even when it is critical. ”

After listening to Li Yong's words, Sun Quanhou was very happy: "I'll go to the villagers to discuss, there is a reason why it is not okay to give more food." With that, he ran out.

When it was almost noon, Sun Quanhou came back with the soldiers of their platoon, and they returned ten donkeys, and Li Yong was also very happy, and it would be much easier to camp after having a tent.

It was another early morning, the sun had just leaked out of the mountain pass, the soldiers of the spy company had already assembled, the team of more than 400 people was quiet without a sound, the ten donkeys in the rearranged row also brought the halters, Li Yong and Wang Chengde stood in front of the team and did not speak, the two of them had a lot of emotion, and the spy company had developed from 26 people to the present in more than three months, who could have imagined it.

All the same color steel helmets, gray military uniforms, combat boots, grass-green field backpacks and bulletproof vests, brand-new weapons, and magazines full of bullets on the chest, seeing this, Li Yong himself is also a little proud, this equipment must be the boss in the ranks of our army in the northwest, not to mention our army, even Hu Zongnan's Kuomintang Central Army can't compare, everything is available, it depends on the future performance in the battle.

The marching sequence of the troops was one platoon, two platoons, three platoons, the company headquarters and the cooking squad of the health team, the baggage platoon, the machine gun platoon, the artillery platoon, and the fourth platoon, Wang Laohu's fifth platoon was still behind, the four squads of the reconnaissance platoon placed one on the front and rear of the team, one on the left and right sides of the team, and the company opened a distance of three to 500 meters to advance on guard, Zhang Jinsong led a squad to open the road 200 meters in front of the team, and the deputy platoon commander led a squad to break off about 300 meters behind Wang Laohu's fifth platoon.

Hu Xiaolian always followed Li Yong when he was marching, and asked Li Yong from time to time if he was tired, and the soldiers also saw that Hu Xiaolian was a little interesting to Li Yong, and felt funny about her actions, how can the company commander be a young man, and his body can not be as good as you as a woman.

However, if you talk about marching and walking, Li Yong may not be Hu Xiaolian's opponent, this Hu Xiaolian walks mountain roads all year round, and her legs and feet are very strong.

Li Yong was also a little embarrassed, but he also enjoyed Hu Xiaolian's greetings, the current Hu Xiaolian is not the little daughter-in-law of the former villager, wearing a military uniform, wearing a belt and a gun, and below is a pair of high-waisted suede combat boots.

At night, when the sun pressed down on the mountain, Li Yong asked the troops to camp in place, the cooking squad lit a fire to cook, and asked each platoon to send a few soldiers to the baggage platoon to lead the tent, Li Yong designed a simple and small field tent, each tent can sleep six people.

It didn't take much effort to set up more than 70 grass-green field tents, the soldiers were very excited about living in tents, and the poor eight roads used to camp with what they lived, and they lived in the open air without anything, not to mention the summer and autumn seasons, even in winter, they also camped outside, and now they feel much better in the tents, at least they are not afraid of wind and rain, and the soldiers joked with each other that our company commander may not be able to give birth to children, and the rest will be.

After dinner, it was dark, and Li Yong asked the platoon commander on duty to put two layers of sentry, and the outermost one had to leave the camp a few hundred meters away.