Li Yunlong is not afraid of carrying a big pot in the cooking class, but he is afraid of carrying a big pot for half a year.
The time was too long, and for a soldier who was born for the battlefield, it would drive him crazy.
He made a decision immediately: "I will be the deputy leader of Kong Jie..."
"Then don't stay here, let's go now..." The deputy commander smiled as soon as he got the answer he wanted, and immediately gave the order as if he was driving people away.
"After arriving at the Duer Regiment, we must unconditionally obey Comrade Kong Jie's arrangements."
"If you let me know that you are having troubles in the Duer Group, I won't mind transferring you back to the headquarters to take the blame for half a year."
Li Yunlong did have this idea in his mind. When he arrived at the Duer Regiment, he negotiated terms with Kong Jie as an old comrade, and tried to find a way for him to arrange a battalion for him to fight outside. He was not restricted by the regiment headquarters and could still lead troops to fight.
Unexpectedly, the leader saw through his thoughts before he even left the headquarters. He could only promise with an embarrassed look on his face: "Please don't worry, leader. I am the deputy commander, and Kong Erluzi is the leader. I will definitely not get into trouble with him."
"I will do whatever Kong Erluzi tells me to do, and I promise to obey orders."
"Then get lost..." the deputy commander waved his order after beating Li Yunlong.
"Kong Jie is in urgent need of help from his deputy. You, the deputy commander, must rush to the Yi Zhong Base to take up the post in the shortest possible time."
"Intelligence shows that the North China Front intends to mobilize heavy troops to sweep away the Yi Zhong base area. Okamura Neiji is under personal command. You must assist Kong Jie to fight this battle and defend the Yi Zhong base area."
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At the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front, Okamura Neiji slumped down on his chair, like a defeated rooster, in a very bad mood.
What a miscalculation.
I thought that with the guerrilla warfare at my side, the Baoding garrison would be invincible, but in the end, they ended up playing a big trick in front of Guandong, and once again lost their wives and troops.
He frowned, no one knew what he was thinking.
After half an hour, Okamura Neji stood up from his chair, picked up the telegram on the table again, and started browsing again.
Two minutes later, he walked towards the sand table and said to himself as he walked: "Kawasaki-kun is right, guerrilla warfare is the specialty of the Eighth Route Army. No matter how we copy it, we will never be able to defeat our opponent."
"Only by combining the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare with our advantages and developing our own set of tactics can we be surprised and defeat the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield."
The Chief of Staff also agreed with this view, but when he thought of the amount of ammunition consumed by the Baoding garrison to push back the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops, he couldn't help but shake his head and replied with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, Commander, the strategy proposed by Kawasaki-kun is indeed very good. "
"But too much ammunition was consumed, especially precious aerial bombs."
"There is a statistic here. The Baoding garrison bombed 14 possible targets with the cooperation of the aviation force. Three aircraft sorties were dispatched to smaller targets, and six aircraft sorties were dispatched to larger targets. A total of 62 aircraft sorties were dispatched."
"One plane carried six aerial bombs, and the 62 flights consumed a total of 372 aerial bombs."
"Not even 1,500 Eighth Route Army soldiers have been killed."
"On the frontal battlefield, even if we launch a large-scale sweep, we cannot consume so many aerial bombs, but we can kill several times more Eighth Route Army troops."
"Although the North China Front has a big business and abundant ammunition, it cannot afford such squandering."
"Especially for aerial bombs, at this consumption rate, the entire North China Front Army's aerial bomb reserve will be exhausted in ten days at most."
"Aviation bombs can only be supplied domestically. The number of domestically produced aerial bombs is limited. Most of the aerial bombs have to supplement the navy. Only a small number of aerial bombs have to supplement the army. Even fewer aerial bombs are assigned to the North China Front."
"If things continue like this, we will have to face the dilemma that the replenishment speed cannot keep up with the consumption speed."
"The aviation force is a huge advantage we have against the Eighth Route Army. If the aviation force loses its combat effectiveness because there are no aerial bombs, it will definitely have a huge negative impact on the war situation in North China."
"This is not to pour cold water on Your Majesty the Commander because of my humble position. No matter how rich the North China Front is, it cannot afford to fight such a war of attrition."
Okamura Neji's face turned ugly again, and his eyes towards the chief of staff also became unkind.
This deputy was so irritating that he finally thought of a move to boost the morale of the troops, but he rejected it before he even had a chance to speak.
We can only think of new ways to solve the dilemma faced by the Baoding garrison.
While thinking about it, he said: "The aviation force is only an auxiliary. If you want to truly defeat the Eighth Route Army, you still have to rely on the army."
"The next batch of recruits assigned to us in the country will be given priority to the Baoding garrison."
"But not directly to them."
"The new recruits need to be run-in to develop combat effectiveness. We don't have that long to give them a break-in. We must gather heavy troops to sweep the Yizhong base area as soon as possible, otherwise the overall strength of the Yizhong Eighth Route Army will become stronger and stronger."
The chief of staff didn't understand what Neji Okamura meant and asked directly: "What do you want, commander?"
"Send three thousand new soldiers to the Shanxi front line and replace them with a main force to reinforce Baoding."
"Send another 3,000 new troops to the Shandong front line, and replace them with a main force to reinforce Baoding."
"Three thousand of the remaining four thousand men will supplement the Peiping garrison, and the remaining one thousand men will supplement the Baoding garrison."
"Your Excellency, Commander, is wise..." The chief of staff was impressed by Okamura Neji's idea. While feeling emotional, he couldn't help but flatter him.
Okamura Neji shook his head: "This idea was first proposed by Kawasaki-kun."
"His original purpose of doing this was to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong as soon as possible, but his opponent was too cunning. He destroyed all the troops that Baoding had worked so hard to assemble with just one encirclement and reinforcements."
"As long as we don't make the same mistakes again, the final victory will definitely belong to us."
The chief of staff immediately stood up to support: "Goddess of luck cannot always patronize the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong. In addition, the new recruits have been transferred to the two main regiments in Baoding, and the Kwantung Army has reinforced one of our brigade. The imperial army participating in this sweep has a division."
"In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy will become vulnerable."
"We will definitely achieve final victory and defeat the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong."
Okamura Neiji gave the final order: "By the way, I want to tell Mr. Kawasaki that the troops participating in this big sweep come from different places, and only I can command them."
"Before the big sweep begins, I will personally go to Baoding City to take command."
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At the Duer Regiment Headquarters, Shen Quan was taking over work from Huang Yu.
Although Shen Quan was the chief of staff and Huang Yu's direct boss, in front of Huang Yu, Shen Quan did not dare to be too arrogant at all.
When he was in the Independent Regiment in the northwest of Shanxi Province, Huang Yu was known as Zhuge Liang in the regiment. When he arrived in the Independent Regiment, he not only continued to serve as the deputy chief of staff and advised the regiment commander, but also served as the military chief of the two armies.
It can be said that, regardless of rank, Huang Yu's true status in the Yizhong base is definitely second only to the regiment leader Kong Jie.
"Chief of Staff, our top priority now is to replenish the main force of the regiment and the three garrison regiments with new recruits so that they can return to full strength as soon as possible." Huang Yu took out a document to introduce.
"We don't need to take care of the three garrison regiments. The chief of staff only needs to find out the data. We need to recruit new soldiers ourselves if the regiment's main force is insufficient."
After reading the document, Shen Quan showed a dumbfounded expression and asked with surprise: "Xiao Huang, tell me the truth, how many people are there in the Yizhong base?"
"Are all these troops under our command?"
Huang Yu proudly replied: "After all the troops are fully established, the main force of the regiment will be expanded to 4,000 people, and the three garrison regiments will be expanded to 2,500 people each. As for the guerrilla brigade as far away as Peking, it should be expanded to 3,000 people." above."
"With the addition of other scattered troops in the base area, the total strength should exceed 15,000."
"These troops are all under the command of the Duer Regiment Headquarters."
"Regardless of the fact that our regiment commander is not of high rank, if you really want to count it out, many independent division commanders of our Eighth Route Army command less troops than he does."
"Hiss, hiss..." Shen Quan couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
When I was in the Northwestern Shanxi Independent Regiment, the number of troops growing to 10,000 was shocking enough.
When they arrived at the Yizhong base area, the regiment leader actually expanded the troops of a regiment to 15,000 people. This was too scary.
As the saying goes, the head of the regiment was killed in the northwestern Shanxi because the independent group was too strong and was severely attacked by the Japanese. Finally, he had to leave the northwestern Shanxi for various reasons.
Now that the regiment leader once again has an army of 15,000 men, is it possible that he will be resented by the little devils for being too strong, as he did in northwestern Shanxi before? He can't defeat the Duer Regiment on the surface, so he secretly resorts to dirty tricks? .
At this time, Shen Quan had completely integrated into the New Second Regiment and regarded himself as a member of the New Second Regiment. He couldn't help but remind him: "Xiao Huang, does the general headquarters know that there are so many troops in the Yi Zhong base?"
"certainly……"
Huang Yu replied bluntly: "Obviously, the three garrison regiments are all local troops, fighting on their own, and are not affiliated with the Duer Regiment."
In fact, all units in the wing must obey the command of the regimental commander. "
"If it weren't for the purpose of concealing its strength and preventing the Yi Zhong base from being too conspicuous and causing dissatisfaction in Chongqing, the Duer Regiment would have been expanded into the Duer Brigade or even a column."
"Don't worry, every garrison regiment established in the base area has been prepared by the headquarters and is only established after the headquarters agrees."
Chen Quan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "That's good..."
Huang Yu continued: "In addition to expanding the troops, training the troops, and improving the combat effectiveness of the troops, we also need to dig tunnels."
"There are many mountainous areas in northwestern Shanxi, and the base areas are full of battlefields for fighting against Japanese invaders."
"Most of the base areas in Yi Zhong are plains, and we rarely encounter natural battlefields for fighting Japanese enemies. Sometimes we can't even find a favorable terrain that can be used to block attacks, so we can only create our own."
"Hollow out the only way for the Japanese to attack us, and connect all the villages along the way with tunnels."
"We can't fight the Japanese on the ground, so we'll find a way to move our position underground."
"Use tunnels to sneak attack on the Japanese, quickly transfer troops, and ambush the Japanese..."
"Aside from the troops, tunnels are the second most important thing in the base area."
"The base area has always been handled by the group leader himself, but the base area is too big and there is only one person in charge of the group leader. He will definitely not be able to handle it. We also need to help."
"When you have the opportunity to take a look at the tunnel fortifications we have dug, you will know why we attach so much importance to tunnels."
