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In the early morning, stepping on the night dew and facing the cold, the main force of the battle force of Ezhou's western expedition to Tibet marched to Changdu. The army marched all the way to the west.

The reconnaissance team went to the top of the snowy mountain. There was no way up the mountain. The officers and soldiers could only follow the footsteps of the yak. Every few steps they felt that the air became thinner and thinner, the headache, chest tightness, nausea and other reactions were aggravated, and their lips and faces were dark and purple. When you reach the snow line, it is actually a thick layer of glacier. You can only use picks to shaved ice to chisel the pit, use both hands and feet, and crawl with difficulty.

"Quick, pull me!"

Suddenly, a soldier accidentally slipped on his right foot and grabbed the protruding ice with his hands. The tension suddenly intensified.

"Hatch up! Hurry up!"

Three comrades-in-arms who were not far away quickly grabbed him, pulled him up together, and finally saved the danger.

The reconnaissance team successfully reached the top of the mountain. The captain who came back from studying in Germany fiddled with an instrument brought back from Germany, exhaled a white breath for a long time and said, "Damn it! 5,786 meters above sea level.

While other comrades-in-arms were busy with construction camouflage, target reconnaissance, guiding strikes and other courses, the cooks began to set up lunches, using the standard equipment of the troops entering Tibet: a small bottle of gasoline mixed with yak dung as fuel, using a magnifying glass to ignite white phosphorus to make a fire, boiled, stewed, stir-frying, and frying for nearly two hours. Finally, four dishes and one soup were made.

Just after lunch, the weather on the plateau was unpredictable. Just now, the sky was still clear. Suddenly, there was thick fog and clouds. The wind was strong, and the goose feathers and snow fell in an instant. In a short time, there was a vast expanse of white in front of them. In order to prevent dangerous situation, the officers and soldiers had to retreat.

Unexpectedly, it was more laborious to go down the mountain. The commander explored a section of the road in front of him and made sure that there was no danger before asking everyone to follow up the journey. It took a whole hour to go down to the foot of the mountain than to the top of the mountain.

Late at night, the temperature plummeted to minus 5 degrees Celsius, and the reconnaissance team was ready to set up the campground next to the canyon.

The night was dark and the wind was high, and the mountain road was rugged. When marching across the canyon on foot, everyone secretly sweated. Due to the control of lights, officers and soldiers can only use advanced low-light night vision devices to explore the road conditions and march quickly.

In this snowy plateau, although it is summer, the weather is extremely cold at night. When I walk through the valley, the cold wind and sand blow on my face, which is cold and painful.

Staying in the wilderness at night, wolves howling.

As soon as the soldier put on the sentry, he found the green light not far from the sentry position. Looking at the electric light, more than a dozen wolves squatted or stood and stared at it. Soldiers living in the city have never seen this scene, and they are timid.

"Cre down!" The captain, who was also born of a rich young master, said, "The wolf is afraid of the strong light."

The reconnaissance team is a technical force. The members are not non-commissioned officers who returned from abroad, but also graduated from the domestic surveying and mapping military school. Even if they are not a rich and noble family, they are also a well-off family.

Two powerful flashlight flashlights were found. After confronting each other for a while, the wolves really went away.

The captain took a breath and couldn't help wiping a cold sweat quietly.

In this battle of Changdu, the revolutionary army, with the strength of six regiments, organized operations on the north and south fronts, attacked with pincers, and used the main force on the northern front. The three regiments of the Third Division where the reconnaissance team is located and the military artillery battalion, the reconnaissance battalion, the engineering battalion, the artillery company and the Qinghai Yushu Cavalry Detachment temporarily assigned to the command of the Third Division are responsible for combat tasks on the northern front. The troops on the northern line of the Fourth Division are divided into three routes: the 154th Regiment on the right route, the Qinghai Cavalry Detachment, the Division Cavalry Reconnaissance Company and Artillery Company. The 154th Regiment and the Division Artillery Company carried out a large roundabout encirclement after crossing the river from Deng Ke, circled to Yushu and immediately followed the cavalry detachment, took the bag modestly, and went straight to Enda, cut off the enemy's retreat from Changdu to Lhasa, and blocked the enemy's reinforcements. The middle route is composed of the 155th Regiment, the 156th Regiment and the Military Artillery Company. As a frontal force attacking Changdu, the division command post is in the center. On the way forward, the unit was crossed by Deng Ke, who annihilated Songduo, Jiangxi Bridge and Guode respectively, and went straight to Changdu; the left route was composed of the military reconnaissance battalion, the engineering battalion and the artillery company. In order to confuse the enemy and cooperate with the battle in the middle, under the cover of artillery fire, the troops crossed the river from the front of Gangtope, annihilated the enemies of Tongpu and Jiangda and advanced to Changdu for three days, and detoured the south of Changdu with a force to annihilate the enemy who may flee south. The fifth division, which is adjacent to the left of the fourth division, crossed the river from Zhuba cage west of Batang. First, it annihilated the quiet enemy. Then, the main force went out to Bangda and Basu, and Duanchangdu guarded the enemy's way to escape to the south.

On the snowy plateau, there are four seasons in a day, ten miles of different days. Sometimes, it takes time to cross several rivers a day. After the wind, frost, snow and rain, and the scorching sun can cross a valley. They march for sixty or seventy miles every day, and sometimes even march 160 miles. The soldiers are exhausted.

This reconnaissance team from the middle road appeared Deng Ke, an important village stronghold about 300 miles northeast of Changdu, early the next morning.

Near noon, the sun came out and the clouds gradually dispersed. The sky in Tibet is like a washed blue. There are several stone houses in the village, and you can see a few Tibetan soldiers patrolling.

"Deng Ke is located next to the traffic road from Ganzi to Yushu. Mr. Lalu, the general manager of Changdu, asked the British foreigner to set up a... that, that... foreign thing called 'radio' here." The little horn that is the guide said.

This is the friendship of the living Buddha in the temple that they exchanged a bag of brown sugar.

"Our task is to destroy this radio station!"

The captain issued an order. Without any opening remarks, he came up and began to assign combat tasks.

As soon as the sun came out, he felt a little enthusiastic. He unbuttoned a few buttons and looked at them while walking with the soldiers. Standing on the hill, Deng Ke can have a panoramic view, and the antennas set up outside the stone house where the radio station is located can be clearly seen.

"Tell the troops to prepare for battle."

The captain waved his hand vigorously with his sleeves, signaling the brothers to immediately deploy and prepare for the battle.

"All of them are ready to fight."

The deputy captain whispered to the messenger behind him.

The brothers who were leaning against the stone with guns in their arms quickly got up and quickly entered the combat position. They pushed the bullets up, and piles of grenades were caught from the ammunition box.

"Follow me."

The captain went out with his waist. The soldiers touched it one by one.

The war developed extremely rapidly. The reconnaissance team captured Deng Ke in one fell swoop, destroyed a most advanced British radio station of the Tibetan army, and captured Solang Pingcuo.

......

The operator who fled back to Changdu crawled on the ground, reported to Lalu, the general manager of Changdu, and said, "I'm looking out of the window in the radio station... They have arrived here, there are..." He turned his eyes, "There are hundreds of people!"

"Hundreds of people!" Lalu asked in surprise.

"Yes, Mr. Lalu," the operator crawled lower: "They rushed into the yard of the radio station. I told Solang Pingcuo next to the radio station, but he continued to report and was arrested. They had already caught Sorandoji on the way. I hid in a food cabinet, and they never opened it. That night, I climbed out and ran away.

After listening to it, Lalu did not show any panic. After chanting and praying for a while, he said, "Order!"

"There it is."

"Muchadaiben, stationed near the Yushu border, about 5 days northeast of Chandu, immediately led his army back to Changdu. His army is very disciplined and focuses on appearance. It is an excellent elite force in the Tibetan army. It should be more than enough to deal with the Han army. Such an elite force launched a counterattack against the Han army in Yushu, rescued the news operator, recaptured the radio station, and dealt a heavy blow to the Han army's armament. When the Han army first arrived, it did not know the people of Kang District and was not familiar with the terrain. This is the best time to launch a sudden attack!"

However, the incident did not follow Laru's plan. The Kangba people in the Dunke area deceived Mucha Daiben and did not tell him the exact location of the revolutionary army, which caused heavy casualties in the ambush of the revolutionary army.

In the view of the general manager of Changdu, they won a tactical victory in the Battle of Deng Ke. In this battle, they repelled the tentative attack of the revolutionary army, which proved that the Tibetan army could compete with the revolutionary army.

And the revolutionary army doesn't think so.

Li Xiang frowned and saw the difficulty of attacking Changdu from this small sneak attack. He decided to launch an attack in advance to avoid long night dreams. Li wanted to call Zeng Gao and Li Xiping to the front, spread out the map, and asked directly, "What is the number of people in your front echelon and back ladder? When will you launch the general attack?"

Li Xiping said coolly: "For example, the Ya'an-Gan-Gan section of the highway can be opened to traffic by the end of August. 300 cars can be concentrated in the west of Luding. 5,000 yaks will be concentrated between Ganzi and Dege. The required winter clothes, dry food, fuel, etc. can be transported to Xinjin at the end of August, and 80 cars and carriages will be transported in September and October. If 0 million catties of grain and materials go to Ganzi, then the Battle of Changdu can be carried out in October.

Zeng Gao handed Li Xiang a report on the implementation of the Changdu Campaign prepared by the General Staff Department.

After seeing the report, Li Xiang asked: "Of course, it is very good to get to Changdu this year. The question is: (1) Can a long road from Ganzi to Changdu be built and opened to traffic with the speed of the army; (2) Can Changdu can build an airport and whether it is suitable for airdrop; (3) Is it enough for a division to attack Changdu, the Tibetan army It seems to have quite strong combat effectiveness, and you must be prepared to fight a few tough battles. Do you have enough estimates in this regard? After a pause, he turned his face and said to Zeng Gao, "We don't know about the above points. Can you be specific?"

Zeng Gao said: "The road to Changdu has yet to be surveyed and will not be built until next year; it is possible for aircraft to drop in Changdu, and there is no exact information on whether the airport can be built; for the combat effectiveness of the Tibetan army, we have made an evaluation based on the first military contact with the Tibetan army: we have fought a battle with two together with the enemy. A platoon destroys the enemy and a substitute. The Tibetan army has only 5,000 to 6,000 troops in the Changdu area, and the station is scattered, so it is not easy to support each other. Therefore, it is enough to use 4 regiments and 2 battalions of the Fourth Division, plus the cooperation of a few troops from Yushu and Chayu.