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The 14th Regiment was the vanguard of the entire Second Army, and because they were in a hurry, the soldiers simply brought some dry food, and before setting off, the army replenished some freshly obtained yak meat and soju.

That's all there is to it, the thinly clothed 14th Regiment set off, as if God was also deliberately testing this heroic unit, as soon as the soldiers arrived at the foot of the mountain, the sky that was still clear suddenly became cloudy, and then a torrential rain poured down.

The fighters of the 14th Regiment did not have raincoats, did not have any tools to shelter from the rain, what to do? Stop the troops and wait for the heavy rain to pass before leaving? The PLA troops did not have that rule, and had to climb to the top of the mountain in the heavy rain.

The terrain is getting higher and higher, and the peaks are getting steeper.

One thousand meters, two thousand meters, and so on to three thousand meters when the temperature drops significantly, what is more terrible, the clothes on the soldiers' bodies have long been wet by the heavy rain, this time they feel cold and uncomfortable, and then climb up, the temperature drops even more, the heavy rain turns into goose feathers and snow, the oxygen content in the air is getting lower and lower, and every step has to be gasping for breath.

The Qilian Mountains are white, the clothes soaked by the heavy rain are frozen like iron plates, and the only bit of heat on the body seems to be sucked away by it, and the crooked mountain road is covered with broken stones and ice and snow, and every step has to be snorted.

Low temperature, lack of oxygen, the soldiers' bodies have dropped badly, and the speed of marching has slowed down, as the main combat force of the field army and the corps, the second army has always been used throughout the whole process, and the big and small battles are continuous, since the battle of Fumei has not been well rested for two or three months, the shoes worn by the soldiers were soaked in the rain and quickly rotted, and the soles of the feet were first cracked one by one, and then swollen.

After several hours of climbing, the soldiers' bodies fell quickly, and their stomachs were even more empty than they could resist freezing, and when someone wanted to eat something, they found that the yak meat brought up the mountain in the morning was as jelly as ice, and they couldn't bite at all. Don't talk about biting, you can't even bite it, and it's a white mark in one bite.

When the troops climbed to 4,000 meters, it was completely a world of ice and snow, and they wanted to drink two sips of soju to keep out the cold. However, after a few sips of wine, I felt even more cold and biting, and it did not play a role in resisting the cold at all.

The mountains are getting higher and higher, the oxygen content is getting less and less, the temperature is getting lower and lower, the road is getting more and more difficult to walk, and the commander of the 14th Regiment is a soldier from the old Red Army who knows the horror of the Great Snow Mountain. Before the team went up the mountain, they told the soldiers that they must not fall, that they must not sleep or rest on the mountain, and that they must climb over even if they climb.

In order to lighten the load, all the unnecessary equipment was thrown down, but the weapons and ammunition on the body could not be discarded, and the fighters could not get up again when they fell.

The fourteenth regiment was prescribed before going up the mountain. The regiment commander walked to the front, and the political commissar walked to the rear, striving to take all the soldiers over the mountain without losing one. However, the gap between the desire and the reality is huge, and in the difficult march, there are constantly soldiers who have exhausted the last bit of body and fallen, falling silently.

It took a full 28 hours for the 14th Regiment of the Second Army's vanguard unit to finally cross the snow-covered snow-capped mountains.

The mountain came, and when the troops concentrated on counting the personnel, an unexpected number weighed heavily on the hearts of the commander and political commissar of the 14th Regiment. In the process of crossing the Qilian Mountains, more than 130 people of the 14th Regiment were frozen to death, and more than 100 people were unable to walk because their feet were frozen.

The news soon spread to the Second Army and the First Corps, and Commander Wang of the Corps was very distressed, because the Second Army was a unit led by Commander Wang. It is an old unit formed on the basis of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, especially the 5th Division, which is the original 359th Brigade, and several of the more than 130 cadres and soldiers who died are veterans that Commander Wang is very familiar with.

After crossing a snowy mountain and sacrificing more than 100 soldiers, it was no different from fighting a medium-sized battle, according to Commander Wang's words, these more than 100 soldiers were the backbone of the troops, and it was no problem to let each person be a company commander or battalion commander, the loss was too great.

In order to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops to the fullest, Commander Wang ordered to call Commander Guo Peng and Political Commissar Wang Enmao of the Second Army to rest and recuperate in situ after the Fifth Division crossed the Qilian Mountains, especially the 14th Regiment, not to give combat missions, but to buy more beef for the soldiers to stew and eat.

It stands to reason that the orders of the superiors should be strictly implemented, but this time the Fifth Division did not do so, and disobeyed the commander's order for the first time, and the troops launched an attack on Minle County as soon as they got off the mountain.

The overall deployment of Ye Si and the corps was that the Second Army quickly passed through the Guò Qilian Mountain Range, seized and destroyed the enemy by lightning speed, and although it was good to rest, then the enemy would run away, and the Second Army would lose its meaning when it had worked hard and paid a huge price to climb over the Great Snow Mountain.

There is a brigade of Kuomintang defenders in Minle County, and this brigade originally thought that the People's Liberation Army was still far away from them, and it was still early to take the Lanxin Highway by marching on foot.

Because of the experience and lessons of the 14th Regiment, coupled with the temporary increase in supplies to the troops of the ** Brigade, the losses of the rest of the troops of the Second Army were much smaller than those of the 14th Regiment.

The Fifth Division is the main division of the Second Army, and there are more than 10,000 people in the whole division, while the enemy is a brigade, and our army only has a slight advantage in terms of troops, and the art of war is cloudy, and the third is to encircle it, and it is unwise to use a slightly superior force to attack a county town with heavy troops, but the art of war is death, and people are alive, and if everything is done according to the art of war, this battle cannot be fought, and the command organs of the Fifth Division believe that our army's advantage lies in taking it by surprise and attacking it unprepared; as long as the command is done properly, regardless of the fact that the strength of the army is about the same as the enemy, it can still destroy the enemy.

The only heavy firepower that the troops could carry when crossing the snow-capped mountains was light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and heavy artillery could not cross the mountains under any circumstances.

The deployment before the battle was to attack from the left with the 13th Regiment, the 14th Regiment from the right, and the 15th Regiment to attack from behind the butt of the county seat of Minle.

The battle broke out suddenly, and several main regiments of the Fifth Division concentrated all their heavy firepower to suppress the enemy, and the light and heavy machine guns hit the city wall like a strong wind, and the mortar shells rained down on the city wall, although the mortar shells did not pose a big threat to the city wall, but it was enough to suppress the enemy's firepower.

Under the cover of fire, the assault team launched a charge, and the 14th Avant-garde Regiment, which was the first to arrive, overcame great difficulties and took the lead in the attack, and countless combat groups carried ** to pounce forward.

The 14th Regiment was a glorious unit, they did not have much food in their stomachs, the ice and snow had not dried on their soaked clothes, and the cloth shoes under their feet had long been worn out, but they fought with a fearless spirit, and the soldiers believed that the enemy was not their opponent, and that if they could rush forward, victory would be in hand.

The enemy on the city wall howled and cried, and the Kuomintang soldiers were frightened by the PLA soldiers who bravely charged, and they did not understand what it was to charge without shoes on their feet, bare-chested, holding ** bags, and why people could do this.

Three ten kilograms of big ** bags were stacked together, placed under the gate of the folk music city, as the fuse was ignited, a loud bang blew the city gate to pieces, it was the three soldiers of the 14th regiment who were the first to blow open the city gate, and at the moment when the city gate was blown open, the charge horn sounded.

The fighters rushed in through the bombed-open city gate like tigers descending from the mountains, engaging in street fighting, close combat, hand-to-hand combat with the Kuomintang defenders.

The Fifth Division, which was extremely good at fighting close combat, did not leave any chance for the Kuomintang defenders, and it only took more than two hours to end the battle, completely annihilating one enemy brigade, capturing more than 700 people below the enemy's brigade commander, and liberating Minle County under the Qilian Mountain.

Just when the Fifth Division crossed the Qilian Snow Mountain, the ** Brigade also moved, however, the ** Brigade did not climb the Snow Mountain with the main force of the army, but took the heavy equipment of the whole army, took the Lanxin Highway, and went straight to Zhangye.

This is because the ** brigade is different from several other divisions of the Second Army, the ** brigade has several hundred heavy equipment, trucks, tanks, heavy artillery, including a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., and it is impossible to carry these equipment across the Qilian Mountains, so the party committee of the Second Army decided to concentrate all the heavy equipment of the whole army, carry it by the ** brigade, make a detour to the Lanxin Highway, attack Zhangye, and return the equipment to the various units after meeting with the large army.

Before departure, the brigade commander Li Yong made a combat mobilization for the troops, and the combat mobilization of the brigade commander Li Da was refreshing, Li Yong, who was holding a big iron horn, shouted on a platform built with a wooden frame: "Comrades, the main force of the army is going to climb the snowy mountain, we are blessed, the superiors decided, because we have a car, so we can not climb the mountain, let's take the Lanxin Highway to Zhangye, everyone knows that our baggage battalion has shrunk by more than half now, and our ** brigade is now also poor, it is an authentic poor, The old grandson of the baggage battalion has to cry every night, but our ** brigade has not lived a poor life, not to mention others, I, who is not used to being a brigade commander, what should I do? I'm here to tell everyone, there is a way, the Kuomintang stationed in Zhangye is the Central Army, comrades, it is the Central Army!! It's not Ma Jiajun, since it's the Central Army, it's a big piece of fat, as long as Zhangye's Kuomintang Central Army is caught, our ** brigade will become a landlord again, comrades, do we have the confidence to eat fat? ”

The fighters laughed and replied to their brigade commander with a deafening shout: "Have faith, we have confidence to eat fat." ”(……)

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