Chapter 758: Fatigue March
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With the reluctant but unavoidable support of the Kashag government, it has been busy for more than 20 days, and the temperature is getting lower and lower, and the independent brigade of more than 10,000 people has finally made the place where it is stationed look decent, and all the personnel have been stationed there.
The feeling of being at home is different, the soldiers are very happy, although the house is very simple, it is much better than living in a tent, at least you can sleep on an earthen kang that can light a fire.
Dragging his sore body, Li Yong lay down all of a sudden, and it was very hot under his body, which was made by the guards themselves by imitating the houses of the ordinary people in the north.
As soon as he was hot, Li Yong felt that the pores of his whole body were dilated, and he couldn't tell how comfortable he was, and he couldn't help but "shenyin" from his throat, Li Yong fell asleep all of a sudden, there is a popular saying in the army, it is better to drink wine and eat meat than to go to sleep, indicating that when people are extremely sleepy, only sleep is the best enjoyment.
Li Yong has been busy enough recently, although he has no combat mission, but miscellaneous things are simply more tiring than fighting, when he is with the main force, he has a superior commander to worry about, in the second column and the first corps, there is Commander Wang to take the idea of everything, and the brigade commander of his own independent brigade only needs to fight the battle well, but now it is not done, the head of the 18th Army has not yet arrived, and his brigade commander is the highest administrator of the People's Liberation Army in Lhasa, for fear of deviation in the implementation of policies. The soldiers have to come over for instructions when they have a big fart, and Brigade Commander Li is annoyed to death.
In fact, Li Yong is not very suitable for this kind of work, if you want to say tired, political commissar Wang Chengde is more tired than him, and Li Yong can push things on Wang Chengde when he is really annoyed. Wang Chengde has no one to shirk.
Li Jia, the commander of the guard company who was accompanying him, sighed a little distressedly, and covered Li Yong, who was already snoring, with a blanket. The longer he stayed with the brigade commander, the more he felt that the little brigade commander had more secrets, as if there was nothing in the world that he didn't know, and there was no problem he couldn't solve.
After a long time, of course Li Jia knew the age of the brigade commander, who was only twenty-two years old, three years younger than himself, but the strange things in his stomach were like a sky full of stars, and from time to time he would come to three or five.
Hold your chin. Li Jia looked at the sleeping Li Yong in a daze, a twenty-five-year-old girl, is the most attractive golden age for a woman, if she was in her hometown, she should have gotten married a long time ago, but now Li Jia didn't even dare to have the idea of marrying, until she entered the army of the People's Liberation Army, Li Jia has not been idle for a day. From the vicinity of Yan'an to Xinjiang, and from Xinjiang to Tibet, the strings in my head are tense all the time, where can I still think about personal problems.
The troops of the People's Liberation Army are very good, and the brigade commander Li Yong is also very good, but Dayong is a little younger. Also, although he is not married yet, with the health captain Hu Xiaolian and He Cuihua, can others still insert it? Li Jia suddenly felt a little shameless, why did she think of this matter. Could it be that I miss a man? Phew.
That morning, Li Jia walked in with another telegram. The content of the telegram was not much, and the main forces of the XVIII Army approached Lhasa.
After more than 20 days of arduous trekking, the 18th Army was finally about to arrive, and the military headquarters and the main force of the 52 nd Division were only a few dozen kilometers away from Lhasa, and according to the speed of the troops' march, they could arrive in less than a day.
Li Yong and Wang Chengde, who received the telegram, immediately sent reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong to Lhasa with a battalion of soldiers and a large number of vehicles to meet them, while they themselves threw themselves into the intense preparations for the reception together with Wang Chengde, the battalion commander Sun Quanhou, the instructor He Cuihua, and the deputy battalion commander Lao Yang.
Both Li Yong and Wang Chengde understood that the 18th Army had very few cars, and some of the limited vehicles were also used to pull supplies and ammunition, and the soldiers basically marched on foot, and in the thin air of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, when they were not familiar with the geography, environment, and thin air, the difficulty of marching on their legs can be imagined.
You don't need to ask to know that the troops must be very difficult, and as a team that entered Lhasa one step ahead of schedule, Li Yong must create a better environment for the main force as much as possible, and the problems of food and accommodation must be solved.
It's easy to say, but things are not simple, the Eighteenth Army is not a small team, it is a large army of tens of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of mouths to eat are not a joke.
Li Yong and Wang Chengde ordered the troops to vacate the best houses, even if they had just lived in the house after they built it, they had to vacate it, and they had to think about the main force and not have a little selfishness.
It would be false to say that the soldiers did not have any opinions at all, but after the explanations of the commanders at all levels, everyone also understood the painstaking efforts of the superiors, and there was only one reason, because the fraternal troops were even more difficult than themselves.
The work can be carried out when the mind is cleared, the smell of the food can drift out far away against the wind, the room is cleaned, the water is boiled, the kang is hot, and the comrades are waiting to come and stay.
Political Commissar Wang Chengde was very satisfied with the expressions of the soldiers at all levels of the Independent Brigade, and this political commissar who did not praise people explained to everyone everywhere he went: We are the ranks of the People's Liberation Army and the people, and if we also compete for power and profit with the old army, what is the difference between that and the Kuomintang army!!
Zhang Jinsong, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, drove forward in a hurry with a battalion of men and horses and a car temporarily transferred by the brigade headquarters.
Zhang Jinsong is a veteran of the Northwest Field Army, and the Northwest Field Army is a unit famous for fighting guerrillas, Zhang Jinsong knows the difficulty of marching on two legs, and the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army are also flesh and blood, and they will also be tired.
It was precisely because of this experience that Zhang Jinsong led the convoy forward at full speed, and a few hours after setting off from Lhasa, he saw the 18th Army on the march.
Fatigue and hardship were written on the faces of the soldiers, their hair and beards had grown long, and their clothes were full of marks of sweat and mud mixed together, and many soldiers were obviously on crutches and were limping and gritting their teeth, and the commanders at all levels walked on two legs like their soldiers, and their horses had long been given to the sick soldiers, including the army commander Zhang Guohua and the political commissar Tan Guansan, who were also marching on foot, and there were several sick and feverish soldiers sitting in their small jeeps.
For more than 20 days, marching on foot at a speed of dozens of kilometers every day, with only half the oxygen content in the plains, and carrying all the weapons and ammunition, how much difficulty did the troops have to overcome? It can well be imagined.
Zhang Jinsong had tears in his eyes, the comrades-in-arms of the Eighteenth Army were all good, there was no one who was bad, the soldiers of the Eighteenth Army also saw the convoy coming from a distance at once, the troops stopped cheering, and the soldiers shouted loudly: "Hey, do you see, it's the independent brigade car that came to pick us up." ”
Under the leadership of several guard soldiers, Zhang Jinsong came to the military headquarters of the 18th Army, and the so-called military headquarters was just a circle temporarily enclosed by a few cars full of soldiers, and the heads of several military departments such as army commander Zhang Guohua and political commissar Tan Guansan sat in a few bullet boxes to rest.
Zhang Jinsong trotted in front of several leaders and reported loudly: "Report, Zhang Jinsong, commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the Independent Brigade, has been ordered to pick up the main force, please give instructions from the chief." ”
Commander Zhang Guohua, who had a big face in the four directions, laughed: "Okay, I'll see you from afar, Lao Tzu also told the political commissar that the last day's journey won't have to fuck off, let's all take a car." ”
Infected by Commander Zhang Guohua's optimism, Zhang Jinsong also became excited, and he immediately reported the situation: "Chief, I brought over more than 100 large trucks, which can transport three or four thousand people at a time, you see which unit will take the car first." ”
Zhang Jinsong brought a lot of cars, but the number was still not enough compared with the troops of the 18th Army, and only one regiment-sized unit could be transported at a time.
Commander Zhang Guohua waved his hand: "Seeing that we are about to reach the ground, we will not be in a hurry, and order the troops to rest in place, and then get on the car in an hour, and ship the 154th Regiment first." ”
The commander ordered an hour of rest, what a wonderful hour, and some of the soldiers drank a few sips of water, some poured out the sand from their shoes, and some simply leaned back on their knapsacks and fell asleep, as if to fight for even a second to rest.
The troops were tired, Commander Zhang Guohua and Tan Guansan, political commissar and several heads of the military department carefully checked the situation of the soldiers one by one, they put their steps very lightly, for fear of waking up the sleeping soldiers, in fact, don't say anything about footsteps at this time, even if they play a football game next to them, the soldiers will not wake up.
An hour passed in a blink of an eye, and Commander Zhang Guohua was ruthless and told a guard beside him to blow the whistle for the assembly.
Things were strange, the soldiers who were still snoring just now all woke up at once, and immediately stood in neat rows according to the troops they belonged to, as if they were not the ones who fell asleep on the ground just now.
The soldiers were still joking with each other, saying that they had seen a lot of delicious things in their dreams, and they had also used their sleep to fight a battle and capture a lot of new equipment.
Commander Zhang Guohua and Political Commissar Tan Guansan were amused by the soldiers, and Commander Zhang Guohua scolded his soldiers loudly:
"Damn, you guys have all trained their skills, and they can still fight while they sleep, and they can capture new weapons? Isn't this more capable than Lao Tzu, don't you guys all want to be military commanders? Sue you, Lao Tzu is not enough as a military commander, don't even think about it. (To be continued)