Chapter 247: The Battle of Xifu Longhai Road

Commander Wang of the second column on the march laughed so hard that his beard trembled after receiving the telegram from the independent regiment: "My soldiers are good, good guys, I have taken two county towns in two days, what is a striker?" This is called the Forward Force. ”

After thinking about it, Commander Wang said again: "Inform the friendly neighbors of the four columns, let them speed up their advance, Qishan has been conquered by our army, strive to rush to Qishan tomorrow night, and camp in the city, two columns have tens of thousands of horses, it is not a good thing to live in the open air all the time." ”

Several leaders of the four columns who received the notice looked at each other, and one of the leaders said: "This Wang beard, with this independent regiment, he will go to the sky, see that this tone is too big, and we want to speed up our advance, and we will camp in Qishan tomorrow." ”

The other said: "Of course Wang Huzi should be happy, until now, his three main brigades have not fired a single shot, and it is all this independent regiment that plays the avant-garde to solve the problem, who is not happy if he has hole cards in his hand?" Did our four columns also borrow light? ”

Commander Wang, whose hat was crooked to the side, excitedly said to a confidential officer: "Send a report to the independent regiment." ”

After the confidential personnel took out their notebooks and pens to prepare for the record, Commander Wang shouted in a loud voice: Order, Li Yong and Wang Chengde of the Independent Regiment, after the battle of Qishan, turn around and go south, march sharply to attack and advance, and cut off the Longhai Railway, the strategic communication line of Baoji.

King of the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army

After cleaning up the battlefield, settling the wounded, and replenishing the ammunition and supplies, the independent regiment finished lunch at Qishan, and then set off quickly, turned around and headed south, and advanced at the speed of a mechanized march to attack by sea.

More than 200 large trucks, more than 40 artillery pieces, 60 or 70 jeeps, plus mules and horses carried by the baggage battalion, the whole regiment of more than 3,000 people marched south like a torrent of steel and smoke.

Commander Wang, who had given the order to the Independent Regiment, suddenly remembered another thing, and he was happy and gave the order, and he did not ask how the casualties of the Independent Regiment were, and whether they needed to be supplemented.

Another telegram was sent, and Li Yong, who received the telegram, asked Li Jia to call the commander back: Our department, the two county towns of Lianke, have less than 100 casualties, the personnel are neat, the ammunition is sufficient, and the combat effectiveness has not declined.

Li Jia, who was on the march, sent the telegram out in the jeep, and Commander Wang held the telegram and said to the chief beside him: "Look at it, two days and nights to conquer two county towns, annihilate two enemy security regiments, your own casualties are less than a hundred, you still say that I am eccentric, this time you know why I am eccentric, right?" This is the main force of our People's Liberation Army, which is invincible. ”

Not to mention Commander Wang, the independent regiment itself feels better, these two battles are just cool, even Li Yong has a little bit of the feeling of finding the old army in later generations, is this called a troop, maneuver speed and firepower are an important embodiment of a troop's combat effectiveness.

The independent regiment still took Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion as the forerunner, and the farthest that the reconnaissance battalion probed out was, of course, Ning Erzi's reconnaissance platoon, the reconnaissance battalion was several kilometers away from the main force of the regiment, and the first platoon was also a few kilometers away from the main force of its own battalion.

The reason why Li bravely did this was also because the troops had cars that could move quickly and were equipped with a large number of convenient communication tools, and once the forward troops encountered something, the support forces behind could arrive within a few minutes, otherwise it would be very dangerous to march like this.

According to Li Yong's idea, every standard infantry squad of the independent regiment should be equipped with a walkie-talkie, but unfortunately there are no conditions to do so at present.

The cadres and soldiers often persuaded Li Yong, saying that it was good that other troops could equip walkie-talkies up to the battalion level, and that it was simply unthinkable that every platoon could have a walkie-talkie like ours.

The platoon of the reconnaissance battalion stretched out at the front has one more figure on this march, who is it? It was the Kuomintang captain army official Shimin who was captured by Ning Erzi before the battle of Qishan.

Now Ning Erzi is sitting in the same jeep with him and driving forward, this guy is sitting in the car in a bit of a trance, he quietly pinched his thigh with his hand, and grinned in pain to believe that this qiē is true, he was still a captain officer of the Kuomintang the day before, and now he has become the Eighth Road, which has changed too much.

After Ning Erzi captured him, he reported to the regiment commander Li Yong, don't look at this prisoner as belonging to the Kuomintang local security regiment, but he went to a military academy and studied artillery, not to mention that such a character is in our People's Liberation Army, and it is rare on the Kuomintang side, so it would be a pity to let him go.

For this matter, Li Yong talked to this prisoner in a panic, told him about the current form of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and told him that the current Kuomintang only has an advantage in troops on the northwest battlefield, but it is losing and retreating in other battlefields.

In the end, I told him, you are a literate person, our People's Liberation Army needs talents like you, let's do it with the ** People's Liberation Army, and you will also be a hero when we conquer the world.

After Li Yong talked to him, Ning Erzi also talked to him once, and told him about his and the head of the regiment, Li Yong.

This guy didn't believe it when he heard about the origins of Li Yong and Ning Erzi, such two people came from the Kuomintang army? That's too much, isn't it?

Later, after some thought, I finally decided to follow the PLA, whether to die or live to give out more than 100 catties, I didn't have a good appearance in the Kuomintang troops, so I worked hard in the ** army, maybe I had a chance to get ahead.

The thought of this captured Fang Shimin is still only at the stage of wanting to get ahead, and it is still too far from the ideological state of Lao Balu, but this can only be slowly educated in the future.

Li Yong handed over this prisoner to Gao Xiang's artillery battalion and told him that this guy was a prisoner, but he was from a professional class studying artillery, and a good education could make a big difference.

Not to mention in the independent regiment, no one in the entire Northwest Field Army looked down on prisoners, because 80 percent of the soldiers and grassroots cadres in the unit were born as prisoners, and this proportion will be even greater as the troops continue to expand.

Gao Xiang arranged him in the battalion headquarters to be an artillery instructor for the soldiers, which can be regarded as giving full play to his strengths, which made Fang Shimin, who was captured, very moved, the People's Liberation Army is reasonable, and everything he does will convince you.

Because this captured Fang Shimin had been stationed in Qishan for a long time and was familiar with the geography of the area, Ning Erzi asked him to come over and lead the troops in front before leaving.

Fang Shimin, who was pondering, was interrupted by a shout from Ning Erzi: "Old Fang, what do you want?" What's wrong? Do you regret being an eight-way? ”

"Platoon commander, I don't regret it, since we are the eighth road, we will follow it sincerely, and we will not do the thing that is discouraged."

Ning Erzi: "Old Fang, don't always call the platoon commander without the platoon commander, I'm younger than you, you can call a brother or a second son in the future, it's still the same sentence, our brothers know each other for a while, you don't have any ideological burden, it's not a shame to be caught, our regiment commander is to let the first battalion commander arrest back, isn't it the same as being a regiment commander now, as long as you work hard in our People's Liberation Army, everyone is the same." ”

Time passed little by little, it was getting dark again, and the soldiers of the independent regiment did not know where to eat their dinner, and since the regiment commander and political commissar did not give an order, the troops continued to move forward.

Ning Erzi touched Fang Shimin beside him: "Old Fang, what is the place in front?" ”

"It's almost on the railway line, and not too far ahead is a station on the Huihai Railway."

"What station?" Fang Shimin: "Tent Station." ”

Jiangyi Town is a thousand-year-old town in Guanzhong area, belongs to the jurisdiction of Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, is located along the Longhai Railway, south of the largest tributary of the Yellow River - Wei River, north of the reckless ancient Zhou Yuan, to the north can be preserved as the Buddha relics of the Famen Temple (finger bone relics), to the south is the summer resort soup bath mouth and Taibai Mountain Forest Park.

The town is one of the three famous towns of Baoji City, (Gong Town, Baoji County, Qi Town, Meixian County, Fufeng Town) is famous for the Eastern Han Dynasty Confucian Ma Rong once set up a "Silk Tent" lecture in this place. Hence the name.

Ma Rong, a native of Fufeng, Shaanxi, a Confucian scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous scholar and a literary scholar, and a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Yuancongsun, has more than 400 students, and more than 50 people have been promoted to the house, among which Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi are among the leaders.

Lu Zhi was as famous as Mr. Shui Jing, a great military strategist, thinker, and columnist at that time, and Mr. Shui Jing was Zhuge Liang's elder figure.

Mr. Ma Rong was diligent and studious all his life, because he often sat in the tent to teach apprentices and lectures at that time, so later generations used this allusion as the honorific title of teacher or lecture.

It is rumored that once, a student violated the system, Mr. Ma Rong held the straw and beat angrily, the blood stained the straw, threw it to the ground, the straw was resurrected, blossomed and fruited, everyone thought it was strange, so this grass was called "the salary grass", so the allusion of "the salary of the tent" is still widely spread today.

The railway station was built in 1936, the station building is not large, composed of a steeple house made of blue bricks, Ning Erzi and his reconnaissance platoon have been touching only about 100 meters away from the station and stopped.

It was all dark at this time, and with the clear moonlight, the platoon commander Ning Erzi carefully observed with the telescope in his hand, and saw two shining steel rails extending to the invisible distance under the moonlight.

Why is this judgment made? The reason is also very simple, if there is no train through guò often, the rail will not shine, after a rain and snow, if there is no train through guò, it will not take a day to have a layer of red rust on the rail, and of course the red rust will not flash, this is the reason why Ning Erzi judged that there are often trains in this station, so it is not easy to be a good scout, and it is necessary to judge the truth of the matter from the subtleties.

When Ning Erzi was lying on the ground and observing carefully, he felt that the earth under his belly suddenly trembled, and then a long whistle whistle came from a distance, and a train drove over from a distance, (The movement of the steam locomotive is whirring, and the steam locomotive on the sea line was eliminated I don't know, the steam locomotive on the Beijing-Harbin trunk line was completely eliminated in 92)

The three headlights on the locomotive shine brightly and brightly for a long time, especially the top light, which flashes with cyan light, so bright that people can't open their eyes.