Hearing the air-ground coordination, Huang Sheng was also stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted: This is an experiment with the 18th Group Army.

Xu Dehua, who was in charge of the army for the first time, was cautious from the beginning of the march, for fear that something would go wrong, but after five days of marching, the large army had just entered Shaanxi Province.

Although he knew that Xu Dehua had committed the taboo of marching too slowly, the armored staff team headed by Huang Sheng did not remind him, but just sat leisurely on the oversized command car every day and drank tea leisurely.

When he arrived in Yanzhou and prepared to replenish the troops, he found that most of the fuel for the logistics supply troops was left, Xu Dehua came back to his senses and realized that he had made a big mistake.

At this time, Xu Dehua realized that the real commander of the army is not so easy to do.

"There's nothing wrong with taking care of your gear." Huang Sheng looked at Xu Dehua, who admitted his mistakes like a child, and explained with a smile, "However, if you cherish it too much, it will be a waste." Do you know what our Commander Ma explained when I was the commander in charge of the armored division? ”

Without waiting for Xu Dehua to answer, Huang Sheng continued: "The entire armored division marched to the limit, and did not stop until the intact tanks of the whole division were not enough to use the method of dragging one to one. ”

As he spoke, Huang Sheng looked at Ma Chongshan next to him: "When you were training under Chongshan, the first lesson of the official operation was also an extreme march, right?" ”

Xu Dehua's brows furrowed even tighter.

Seeing that Xu Dehua's face was a little ugly, Huang Sheng stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "It is also the first time that we have formed a brigade-scale armored mixed unit, and we all cross the river by feeling the stones, so it doesn't matter if it is wrong or good, good or bad are experience." ”

After speaking, Huang Sheng handed Xu Dehua a detailed information of the supplementary personnel.

When he stopped and stationed at night, after carefully reading the information of the supplementary personnel, Xu Dehua silently handed the information to the chief of staff beside him.

After passing it around in the hands of the commander of the armored brigade, the information returned to Xu Dehua's hands.

Xu Dehua put the information on the small table and stood up: "I'll do a review." First of all, without careful investigation, I hastily gave the order to march; Second, I failed to change my status in time; Again, I'm overestimating the difficulty. ”

After the review, Xu Dehua smiled bitterly and patted the information in his hand: "It is said that there must be a teacher in the threesome, and everyone is waiting for us to come to the door to ask for advice, but we didn't go to ......"

"Brigadier, they're not the same as us......"

Xu Dehua looked at the chief of staff with a disgruntled face: "The chief officer implements a free-range system and rarely cares about the idle affairs below, and the middle and lower-level officers are very aggressive, right?" I think this is a good thing, especially for us, we will also expand in the future, where will the rest of the team leaders come from? Let's pick and choose? Not yet capable on! Where does the competence come from? Don't you all rely on yourself! ”

Saying that, Xu Dehua sighed: "It is true that officers and soldiers are equal, but there is still a division of labor in revolutionary work!" ”

"What we need to do now is not be ashamed to ask." Xu Dehua looked around, "Sitting in the command car, Division Commander Ma Chongshan, we are all familiar with it, and we have been stationed on the front line in Kashmir, so we won't talk about it." Huang Sheng, who was with Ma Chongshan, was also stationed on the Kashmir front line, and was also the commander of the first armored division of the 82nd Group Army, with experience in large-scale coordinated infantry and tank operations. ”

"For the rest," Xu Dehua patted the personnel information, "In terms of equipment, there are technicians from the original factory in the baggage troops; As for the battalion of the coordinated infantry, it turns out that all of them are subordinate to the Air Force, and they should have more experience in air defense than us. Still have questions? If not, then dismiss the meeting and go back and think about it yourself. ”

Seeing that the commanders in charge of the brigade had left the tent, Xu Dehua sighed: When the personnel were selected to go to Hotan for training, most of the backbones selected by the headquarters were with certain academic qualifications in order not to lose face; But the headquarters did not expect that intellectuals are not necessarily activists who learn knowledge; Moreover, during the training in Hetian, because of the tripartite mixing, there were some problems that were not solved, and some problems that were not exposed......

Looking at Xu Dehua, who obviously hadn't slept all night, Ma Chongshan smiled and teased: "What can make Brigade Commander Xu bother so much?" ”

"Old Ma, don't talk about the wind and cold," Xu Dehua angrily shook Ma Chongshan's hand away, "You give me a happy word, how can I get rid of the arrogance of these intellectuals?" ”

"The solution is very simple, a long and fast march!" Ma Chongshan smiled, "The big waves wash the sand, and the wild sand is blown to gold!" ”

Xu Dehua gritted his teeth: "Then what if I want to make the next fierce medicine?" ”

Ma Chongshan glared at Xu Dehua angrily: "Old Xu, do you want to use me as a gunman?" ”

Xu Dehua sighed: "Among the original batch of trainees, many of them were progressive students who had just arrived in the base area, and according to my meaning, a literate veteran would be enough, but ......."

Ma Chongshan looked at Huang Sheng.

Huang Sheng smiled: "This matter is simple, Commander Ma and his father are now at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and it is a matter of a telegram." ”

"Lao Huang, don't fool me!"

"How so? Major Yang, please send a telegram to No. 0, saying that the ideological work of the armored brigade is not in place and is not functioning smoothly. ”

"Yes!"

Xu Dehua would not have thought that his temporary intention would make a big wave at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army......

After throwing off the pot, Xu Dehua ordered: The whole brigade began to soar......

Three days later, the armored brigade crossed the middle section of the Tongpu Railway, which was controlled by the Eighth Route Army, and arrived at Liao County, where the front headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located.

As soon as they arrived in Liao County, the armored brigade received an order for urgent reorganization, and a large number of political cadres were urgently transferred to the armored brigade, so that the armored brigade really reached full strength.

In mid-May, the armored brigade crossed the Zhengtai Railway and moved north, attacking the independent mixed 4th Brigade of the Japanese troops stationed along the railway......

Huang Sheng put down the battle plan in his hand and looked at Xu Dehua with a nervous face: "Don't be too nervous, you just need to determine the general direction, and others will complete the rest." The plan is good, and there is an emergency disposal plan, which is much better than the first time I did. ”

Saying that, Huang Sheng handed the plan to Xu Dehua: "You can start." ”

Xu Dehua nodded, walked to the command platform, picked up the phone, took a deep breath, and ordered: "I order, according to the predetermined plan, the self-propelled howitzer company will attack the enemy's artillery position, and then the first and second battalions will attack the enemy's infantry position, and the battle will begin!" ”

As soon as Xu Dehua's words fell, the rumbling sound of artillery sounded around him, and one grenade after another drew a deadly arc, heading towards the target that had already been reconnoitred......

Ten seconds later, the first "thin-skinned grenade" grenade was detonated by a fuse inserted into the dirt, and after a loud bang, a series of explosions were followed - shells on the Japanese artillery positions were detonated......