Li Yunlong rushed to the headquarters of the Corps A in Xiamen, and met Director Liu of the Political Department of the Corps at the gate. He punched Li Yunlong in the chest and said: You are finally back, have you recovered from your injuries? The burning Li Yunlong didn't care about the noise, he was anxious to know the location of his troops. Director Liu told him that the Battle of Fuzhou and the Battle of Zhangxia had just ended, and the Battle of Kinmen was about to start. Li Yunlong's division had assembled at Lianhe Estuary to participate in the cross-sea landing.
Li Yunlong became anxious when he heard this, and turned his head away. Director Liu said: "It's useless to be anxious, you can't catch up. The battle will start tonight, you stay here tonight, and I will send a car to take you to Lianhekou tomorrow morning." Li Yunlong said, "Director Liu, I'm leaving now. Maybe this is the last battle, and my troops are still waiting for me to command." Director Liu said: "Your tone is not small, and the earth will not turn around without you? When you were injured, you learned from Xuzhou We fought all the way to Xiamen, and we fought well without your command, so don’t feel like someone special. Besides, I don’t have a car to send right now, the roads are not safe, and engineers are clearing mines overnight, so you have to leave tomorrow.” Li Yunlong had no choice but to stay.
He was very irritable that night, walking around like a caged animal, and later tossing and turning in bed. He himself couldn't figure out what was going on, just like a woman who had entered menopause, she would get angry at every turn, and she didn't like everything. For a while, he thought Xiao Chen didn't wash his feet, and the stench made him unable to sleep, and for a while, he cursed the weather, it's already fucking October, and it's still so hot. Xiao Chen wondered in his heart, what happened to the teacher today, did he suffer from some kind of illness?
On that night, the C Regiment under Li Yunlong's division and the two regiments of the brother division took a hundred and ten wooden sailboats collected temporarily, and braved the wind and waves and fierce artillery fire at Longkou, Guningtou and Huzhou on Kinmen Island respectively. Weixiang breaks through and lands. The Battle of Kinmen started, and the battle became intense from the very beginning. That night, Li Yunlong was awakened several times by Mengmeng.
The next day, when Li Yunlong arrived at the Lianhekou Divisional Headquarters, he found that the atmosphere in the headquarters was terribly tense. The combat staff were staring at the map, and the communications staff were calling hoarsely into the intercom, and everyone was ashen. The deputy division commander Yu Changjiang and the political commissar Lin Hao didn't bother to chat with him, and immediately reported to him the situation of the landing troops. Li Yunlong broke out in a cold sweat. He realized that the situation was extremely serious, and his main C regiment was in danger. few.
The danger comes from several aspects. This landing is divided into two echelons with a strength of nearly 20,000 troops. The first echelon has three regiments with more than 8,000 people. The terrible thing is that these three regiments are not an integral division, but belong to three divisions respectively. The three regiments that landed did not have a unified command organization, nor did they have a division commander. The wooden sailboats were all stranded on the beach and were blown up after dawn. The second echelon, which is ready to go, can only look at the sea and sigh because there is no boat to cross.
The greater danger comes from changes in the enemy's situation. There were more than 30,000 defenders on the island. After the battle started, more than 10,000 soldiers from the 12th Corps of the enemy landed in Kinmen, and the number of defenders on the island increased to more than 40,000. With such a failure in command and intelligence, the ending is self-evident. With a mere 8,000 people working across the sea to attack the 40,000 people who are waiting for work, the balance of the war suddenly tilted.
Li Yunlong observed the fierce battle of Kinmen Island with binoculars. Even though the sea was 10 kilometers away, the sound of fierce guns could still be heard clearly, and billowing smoke enveloped the island. The long-range artillery group of the A Corps is desperately providing fire support to the landing troops. This artillery group has only more than 80 American-made 105mm howitzers and 75mm mountain guns. At this time, the ratio of the strength of the enemy and ourselves was 5:1. The comparison of firepower is even more disparity. Under the attack of the aviation firepower of the Kuomintang army, almost all the ships in the coastal area of Fujian were blown up.
The second echelon with tens of thousands of people watched helplessly as the first echelon fought alone on the island and was helpless. Li Yunlong furiously slammed his palm on the pillar in the shelter , causing dust to fly up. He deeply realized that this invincible army that swept across the Chinese mainland had encountered a brand new task, which was called amphibious operations. Having soldiers without ships means having no soldiers. He threw away the binoculars, looked up to the sky and sighed, my C group, it's over.
A communications staff officer reported: Commander, the walkie-talkie received a call from Regiment C. He walked into the headquarters quickly, grabbed the microphone and shouted: "I am Li Yunlong, the commander. Who are you?" The other side shouted in surprise: "Master, you are back? I am Dong Dahai, the chief of staff of the C regiment." Ah." Li Yunlong suddenly remembered the guard company commander during the Huaihai Campaign, and when he woke up, he heard that it was Dong Dahai who led the soldiers to carry him to the hospital, and even slapped the assistant. This Lengtouqing is now competing to be the chief of staff of the regiment.
Dong Dahai reported on the walkie-talkie: "We landed at Longkou and developed in depth after landing. The troops fought well. We tore open a 4-kilometer hole in the enemy's defense line and broke through to a depth of 2.5 kilometers. Two regiments of the 19th Army of the enemy have been defeated. We were defeated, and now we have encountered more than 20 enemy tanks near Qionglin, causing heavy casualties. We lack anti-tank weapons and only have cluster grenades. Regimental Commander Xing is organizing bombing of tanks..." Li Yunlong asked: "Now all How many people are there in the regiment? Less than 400 people." Li Yunlong was silent ...
Dong Dahai's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Master, you are my old chief. I followed you when I was in the independent regiment in Northwest can make preparations. Is the second echelon unable to come?" Li Yunlong said with difficulty: "My good brother, I can't lie to you, all the ships have been blown up, and the second echelon cannot be reinforced. If you have any demands, just ask."
"Stop talking, I understand. Commander, Regiment C didn't embarrass you. There are mountains of enemy corpses in front of our position. They are no match for land battles. Regiment C is enough. Commander, there is only one regiment Xing and I Request, this is also the request of our entire regiment commanders and fighters. After our sacrifice, please the superiors not to revoke the designation of the C regiment, but to rebuild the C regiment. We hope that the rebuilt C regiment will avenge us. Teacher, please..." Li Yunlong's tears flowed Down, he choked out:
"Good brother, don't worry, I, Li Yunlong, guarantee with my head that I will definitely rebuild the C regiment." "Thank you, sir, the enemy has surrounded us again, I bid you farewell, our whole regiment bids farewell to you..." Gunshots sounded from the walkie-talkie Great work, then suddenly interrupted. Li Yunlong held up the microphone and stood still like a rock. Political commissar Lin Hao and deputy division commander Yu Changjiang took off their military caps and bowed their heads and stood motionless. The staff officers and signal soldiers in the command post all stood up. sobbing...
On October 26, 1949, Kinmen Island finally fell silent after two days and nights of fierce fighting. Li Yunlong stepped heavily on the beach and found that the beach was full of people. The tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the second echelon stood quietly in the wind and rain with weapons in their hands, staring at the Kinmen Island across the strait. Flowing quietly.
The commander-in-chief of this campaign, the deputy commander of Army B, was also standing on the beach surrounded by a group of staff officers and guards. Li Yunlong was very familiar with him when he was in the Red Army. Every time they met, they would always make a few jokes, but this time the two met without saying a word, but silently stretched out their hands and held tightly. The two men shed tears On the beach. Suddenly, there was a beast-like howl in the darkness, and a battalion commander of the L Regiment of the D Division howled and rushed towards the sea. So you left? How can I tell my mother when I go home..." The battalion commander is from Jiaodong, and his younger brother is the company commander of the C regiment. The two brothers fought with the army from Shandong to Fujian. All the officers and soldiers present were in tears.
Li Yunlong felt a sudden commotion on the beach, like rolling thunder approaching from far away, and in a blink of an eye, it merged into a huge, earth-shattering sound wave. This is the howling of tens of thousands of men in agony, like a group of wounded beasts... Li Yunlong pulled out his pistol and shouted: "All fire to the sky, mourning for the sacrificed comrades." Bang! boom! boom!
clatter! clatter! Da da da! ... Deafening gunshots rang out. Tens of thousands of rifles, machine guns, submachine guns, and pistols spewed flames into the air. Tracer bullets pierced the night sky like a string of meteors... The gunshots alarmed the Kinmen defenders. Dozens of searchlights Lighted up at the same time, a huge beam of light swept across the sea... In service, the three main regiments of the A Corps were completely wiped out on Kinmen Island.