Chapter 727: Immediate Response
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The artillery was not included in the combat deployment, the battalion commander Gao Xiang was very dissatisfied, and said that he couldn't figure out why he deployed the task like this, this kid also went to the brigade headquarters to find Li Yong and Wang Chengde, and said what is it, the consistent style of our Duli brigade is to use artillery fire to stun the enemy first, and then the infantry will attack, today I finally encountered a bigger battle, why did the two leaders not let their artillery open, where to find such a good opportunity in the future.
Gao Xiang has enough eyes, he thinks that maybe this is the only relatively big battle after the troops enter Tibet, and I don't know what year and month I have to wait until I want to fight a battle of this scale in the future, so I have to seize the opportunity to make a big contribution, which can be regarded as a bit selfish.
Li Yong didn't bother to explain to Gao Xiang that the battle plan had been finalized by him and political commissar Wang Chengde a long time ago, and of course the political commissar would do troublesome things like explanations.
Wang Chengde told Gao Xiang, I didn't say that I don't need you, but I don't need to use it as much as possible, why? The reason is also very simple, it is estimated that the head of the headquarters will not let the Duli Brigade withdraw lightly, even if all the enemies in Qamdo are eliminated in this area, they will have to enter Tibet with the main force of the Eighteenth Army, Qamdo is not just the gateway of Xizàng, a bit similar to Xinjiāng's Hami, once the troops enter the Great Xizàng, it will be difficult to come up again, Xizàng The land is barren, agriculture is backward, there is basically no industry, and the army that can be supported is limited, if the Duli Brigade is stationed, The necessary weapons, equipment, food, and ammunition had to be transported from the interior by the rear, and under the conditions at that time, it was difficult to transfer them from the interior, and this could not avoid affecting the future combat and training of the Duli brigade, especially the artillery, and it was even more difficult to transport large-caliber artillery shells, so it would have to live a hard life for a long time in the future. It was on the basis of the above considerations that brigade commander Li Yong and political commissar Wang Chengde decided not to use artillery as much as possible without the necessary circumstances.
Political Commissar Wang Chengde's explanation opened Gao Xiang's head, but this guy still has questions, is it true that our Duli Brigade can't take root in xizàng, you must know that xizàng is a place famous for poverty.
Wang Chengde told him that as for the question of whether to take root in Xizàng, it was not considered now, it was a matter decided by the head of the headquarters, and it was useless to think about it.
Gao Xiang went back, and the guy muttered as he walked: "It's over." is over, not only is there no hope for meritorious service, but also has to endure the hard days. ”
Gao Xiang thinks this way, and this is not his own idea, or rather. It is a very common meaning in the army, because everyone does not want to put down roots in the plateau. I think it's too hard.
It's not just Kazuno's troops who have this kind of thinking. After knowing the news that the troops were going to enter Tibet, there were more and more soldiers in the Eighteenth Army who said strange things, and later, this heroic unit that had experienced the eight-year War of Resistance and the Central Plains Breakthrough actually appeared deserters, and it was not one or two. There were a large number of deserters, and some squads only had one squad leader and deputy squad leader left, and one didn't pay attention, and the deputy squad leader ran away.
Desertion has become a common phenomenon among the troops entering Tibet. The company commanders and instructors of the grass-roots units turned their hair gray, and the commanders of the two companies did not sleep all night, watching in shifts, for fear that the soldiers would run out, but this was really not a good way, the soldiers were not afraid of death, nor were they afraid of fighting, or they had a sense of fear of living in the plateau area, and some said that the place was not for people at all, and they couldn't even breathe, and they didn't need to fight, and they could suffocate people to death if they held back. He was asked to be transferred from the 18th Army to work in the plains.
Commander Zhang Guohua and Political Commissar Tan Guansan were so angry that they jumped like thunder, Commander Zhang Guohua said that he wanted to tie up all these fleeing guys with a rope, and he would also tie them to Xizàng, and then the big brother Tan Guansan Political Commissar had a way, and Tan Political Commissar understood the psychology of the cadres and soldiers very well, and also came up with a very wonderful way.
The solution is that the army has newly issued a regulation, stipulating that only cadres and soldiers who have shown good performance in the recent period can go to Xizàng, and those who have a bad appearance can not go if they want to.
Whoever escapes is not good, at that time, the army regarded honor as more important than life, so those cadres and soldiers who fled slipped back, saying that they must march with the large army, saying that they should not be deserters.
The Eighteenth Army skillfully solved the problem of escape, although the Duli Brigade from the northwest did not find any soldiers to escape, but the thoughts in people's heads were beyond anyone's control, for example, Gao Xiang, the commander of the artillery battalion, was reluctant to march into the Great Xizàng.
More than 7,000 Tibetan troops, under the command of the chief governor Lalu, drove all the way to Wuqi, restricted by the special geographical environment, if you want to return to Lhasa, you must go here, there is no other way to go.
The more you walk, the more dangerous the terrain becomes, and when you get to the Uqi, there is nothing to go, and the avant-garde scout came back to report that it was only a few kilometers away from the Uqi, but at this moment, Lalu suddenly felt a palpitation, and he felt cold sweat all over his body, as if there was a pair of eyes watching him in the dark.
Frightened, Larue ordered his troops to halt their advance, and he had to think carefully about what to do next.
One of the guards came over and asked, "Sir, why stop, we still have a long way to go." ”
Lalu pointed to the terrain ahead with a horsewhip: "Damn, sir, I think this place is too dangerous, once it is occupied by the communist army, we will all be finished." ”
The cronies replied: "Master, the communist army is still chasing after us, how can there be a communist army in the front of the Wuqi, you are too cautious." ”
Lalu: "I have to guard against it, didn't I say that a communist army arrived in Yushu a few days ago, maybe they can go around here and give us a cold guard." ”
"Master, the communist army reached Yushu only a small army of two or three hundred people, even if it arrives here, it can't stop us, if the master can be trusted, I will take a few hundred people to explore the way, what do you think?"
Someone took the initiative to ask to explore the way, which was of course a good thing, and with little effort, a horse team of several hundred people was assembled, and after a few words, the Lalu head man pounced on the position held by the Duli brigade.
Li Yong arranged a pocket array in Liuqi, with the intention of putting all the thousands of people gathered by Lalu into it, and then annihilating them all in one fell swoop, but the cunning Lalu seemed to have noticed something outside the pocket, and hesitated to not be fooled, and used hundreds of people to come over to test.
Li Yong was in the position of the second battalion, which was also at the forefront of the entire pocket formation, and the battalion commander Ma Quanyou asked nervously: "Brigade commander, what should I do?" Do we fight or not? ”
It was a difficult thing to do, and LaRue was not fooled, and the guy ordered the team to stop advancing just as it was about to enter the pocket, and only a few hundred people came to test it.
This poses a big problem for the front-line troops of the Duli brigade, the enemy only comes over a few hundred people, open fire, the intentions of the troops will be exposed immediately, do not fire? The horse's hooves were about to hit their heads.
Li Yong's head was thinking at high speed, there is no fixed routine on the battlefield, anything can happen, and this is the time to test a commander's impromptu response.
Did it take a minute or ten minutes? Li Yong made a decision to order the 2nd Battalion, which was at the forefront, to prepare for battle and fight back the enemy's tentative troops, but could only fire with the size of two platoons.
Why only two platoons were used to open fire, Li Yong didn't say, and the soldiers didn't ask, including the battalion commander Ma Quanyou, everyone thought that the brigade commander would definitely be useful in doing this, and as for what it would be for, we would talk about it after the battle.
Each standard infantry platoon of the Duli brigade exceeded 100 people, and two platoons were more than 200 people, and the purpose of firing with two platoons was to create a false impression to the enemy, so that Lalu and others thought that the PLA guarding the class of Wuqi was only more than 200 people, which was also in line with the number of Yushu PLA in the enemy's intelligence.
Hundreds of war horses trotted and went straight to the position of the second battalion, led by the cronies of the chief manager Laru, this guy said a big thing, and now he has to go on it.
In fact, this guy is also gambling, betting that there is no PLA ambush in front, the chief manager Lalu once promised, as long as the table is good, after arriving in Lhasa, he will report to the regent Lord Dazha to promote the third rank, as the saying goes, wealth and wealth are in danger, as long as there is no PLA ahead, he will bet right, and he can leave a good impression on the head of Lalu.
Just as this guy was suffering from gains and losses, the horse team was getting closer and closer to the position of the second battalion, and the battalion commander Ma Quanyou came to the middle of the two platoon fighters who were assigned to open fire.
Seeing that the horse team running in front was less than 200 meters away from the front of the position, Ma Quanquan gave a calm order: "Listen to my order, put the enemy close before fighting, and do not fire without an order." ”
The trick of fighting cavalry is to fire at a distance, but this is all the old yellow calendar, Ma Quanyou doesn't want to beat the enemy away from a distance, that's not the style of our People's Liberation Army.
The war horse did not sprint, but trotted with small broken steps, and did not sprint because the soldiers of the Tibetan army did not find out that there was a situation in front of them, and of course they did not need to unfold.
The Tibetan soldiers on their horses got closer and closer to the soldiers, and saw that these guys were wearing all kinds of clothes, and the weapons in their hands were also strange, and some of them seemed to have no guns, but were holding a guy that the soldiers could not understand.
The look on the faces of the Tibetan soldiers was decadent, no one who was ordered to explore the road would be reluctant, was it used as cannon fodder, who could be willing, but if he didn't come, he couldn't do it, he could only hope that the Buddha would bless him and not be able to meet the People's Liberation Army.
The soldiers of the second battalion lying in the trench muttered quietly: "He's it, is this still a soldier?" If it weren't for the war, Lao Tzu would definitely think that they were all ordinary people, and they still wanted to fight against our brigade like this bear? (Lao Ba needs a few likes, please, in addition, Lao Ba has something to do, and he has to stop for a few days, there is really no way) (to be continued......)