Kong Jie's words indeed surprised Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's understanding of Kong Jie's long-term vision and insightful military acumen was no longer limited to the honest yet brave Kong Er who was a few years ago.
Over the past year.
Even Li Yunlong, who had always had more trouble lifting a pen than going to the battlefield to kill Japanese soldiers, was stimulated by Kong Jie and began to take the initiative to learn cultural knowledge from Zhao Gang.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei value each other's opinions and analysis.
Li Yunlong, in particular, wanted to build the New Second Regiment into a rapid reaction force, and he also set his sights on becoming the commander of this rapid reaction force.
To be honest, it was Kong Jie who suggested it.
At that time, Kong Jie's insights and analysis on the Eighth Route Army's urgent need for such a rapid response force directly touched Li Yunlong's heart.
In addition, Kong Jie really supported Li Yunlong in building a rapid reaction force, and even Wang Shoucheng, the commander of the mechanized combat battalion, sent it to Li Yunlong.
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Because of this matter, although he was still careless on the surface, Li Yunlong kept the favor in his heart.
Or do you think that when Li Yunlong met Kong Jie recently, why did he call him "Kong Jie" so kindly?
Words like "Kong Er Lunzi" have not been heard from his mouth for a long time.
This man has a winning streak in his heart.
The respect of others often comes from personal abilities.
Do you think Li Yunlong, who has no fear of heaven or earth, is only afraid of the brigade commander?
In addition to the veteran brigade commander's seniority, the most important thing is that the brigade commander's military capabilities in all aspects are almost ridiculously strong, which makes Li Yunlong convinced.
As for Kong Jie's full support for Li Yunlong, one is indeed out of friendship with his old comrades.
The other one is all about strengthening the Eighth Route Army and fighting against the Japanese invaders.
As for the last reason: As the team grows, Kong Jie is now very busy and cannot focus on a certain combat field alone like Li Yunlong.
Therefore, this method of commanding quick reaction troops to fight is suitable for Li Yunlong, but not suitable for Kong Jie.
...Then, the three old comrades discussed how to use and develop the mechanized combat force that Li Yunlong was about to build into large-scale battles and even strategic directions in the future based on the direction proposed by Kong Jie.
As the discussion continued, Li Yunlong's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the excitement in his heart became more and more intense.
The grand military ideals and goals originally set around the rapid reaction force have become clearer and have a direction.
In the end, they discussed how to develop the Eighth Route Army's quick reaction force for nearly half an hour.
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei reached a consensus:
"This time, with the help of the brigade commander and the commanders of various regiments to visit the New Second Regiment, we are guided to hold a combat meeting to discuss the future mechanized combat force of the Eighth Route Army. It should be subversive!"
"Lao Li, do you have a brush, ink, and a large piece of white paper here?"
When talking about the excitement, Kong Jie couldn't help but ask.
Li Yunlong nodded.
Although he, Li Yunlong, has never had anything to do with practicing calligraphy with a brush.
But political commissar Zhao Gang has this hobby, so there is no shortage of these things.
After guard Huzi brought the news, Zhao Gang arrived personally with a brush, ink and a large piece of white paper.
Kong Jie asked Li Yunlong to spread out a piece of paper that was more than one meter long and thirty or forty centimeters wide.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, one on the left and one on the right, replaced the function of the ruler and flatly pressed the entire paper on the tabletop of a larger Eight Immortals table.
Zhao Gang looked curious, not knowing what these three old brothers were planning to do.
Kong Jie, who was holding the brush, stood facing the rice paper, then took a deep breath, got the momentum in place, directly glued the brush on, and dipped it in the ink that Zhao Gang had mixed and placed.
Immediately afterwards, he spread his legs, and the gesture he made was not the posture of charging up the enemy on the battlefield, but the momentum of holding a pen and writing madly. The tip of the pen was already dipped in ink, and he quickly wrote on the paper without stopping at all. The ground waved.
The whole process was smooth and smooth, until the last stroke of relief came out.
Kong Jie picked up his pen and stood up again.
A breath came out of his mouth: "It's done!"
The three pairs of eyes seemed to still be shocked by Kong Jie's momentum just now, and their eyes converged. They saw "Soldiers are a major event for the country" written on the white paper from right to left, and there were seven battles without any punctuation. Big ink letters.
Ding Wei was stunned for a moment, as if he had just recovered from the shock. Then, he spit out a line of words from his mouth: "Old Kong, your handwriting is really... not good!"
Li Yunlong: "Indeed!"
Zhao Gang was silent.
Kong Jie looked at the seven characters he said - thick, simple and unpretentious, powerful enough to penetrate the paper, and seemed to be mixed with the power of an iron-blooded general.
But regardless of the imposing manner, from a calligraphy point of view...it is indeed a bit difficult to use.
To put it another way, it’s like a primary school student who studied calligraphy for a few days and then painted a line of words heavily with a brush.
Of course, it’s generally okay!
After all, this is an army, and there are not many educated people. Only Kong Jie's handwriting has some calligraphy skills accumulated from his previous life.
His face trembling, Kong Jie smiled and cursed:
"What matters is the momentum and the meaning behind the words!"
He said without blushing or heart beating.
"Lao Li, this is my New Year's gift to you in advance. Hang it on the wall of your regiment. Every time I come over, I must see it!"
Li Yunlong: "..."
Ding Wei quickly came over: "Old Li, these are all old comrades in arms. This old Kong has kept a calligraphy treasure, and I must keep one too!"
Li Yunlong immediately scolded with a dark face: "Fuck you, Old Ding, you are probably not as good as me!"
As for Lao Kong...for the sake of helping him so much, he endured it!
As he said that, the four people in the room couldn't help laughing.
Then, the original three people, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang, plus the new Zhao Gang, the four of them thought together.
After the brigade commander and the captains of each regiment arrive, how can they use this visit to achieve the final purpose of their discussion.
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It's almost evening.
The brigade commander and his party finally arrived.
It was a coincidence that the brigade commander and his party had just arrived, and the cadres from the 385th Brigade had also arrived.
"Haha, fat man, you are late!"
The brigade commander had always been close to Brigadier Chen of the 385th Brigade. When he saw Brigadier Chen arriving, he greeted him with a smile.
Immediately afterwards, the brigade commander showed a side that Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and other regimental commanders rarely saw. He pulled Brigadier Chen and ran to his car, then patted the car body and laughed: "Fat man. , look, this is our special private car, it is probably no different from what Principal Jiang makes, how about it, is it impressive enough?"
In this regard, what else could Brigadier Chen say, he could only nod his head quite honestly.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie heard the voices of the brigade commander and others and rushed out to greet them.
Seeing a few people, the brigade commander smiled and said: "I knew that Kong Jie and Ding Wei must have come early in the morning, but once the three of you meet together, you will inevitably hold back some bad news. Could it be that you have held it back in advance? Are you okay?"
Li Yunlong, who was fearless, behaved like a good boy now: "Old brigade commander, look at what you said, where is it!"
Then, as the host, Li Yunlong naturally quickly greeted the brigade commander and regimental commanders to enter the room.
When the two brigade commanders and the political commissars of each regiment opened the curtain and entered the inner room, they looked inside. The surprise that appeared on their faces was the same as when Kong Jie and Ding Wei entered the room.
At this time, this room was even more showy than when Li Yunlong was inside.
The first is a large calligraphy on the wall: "Soldiers are the most important thing for the country."
The brigade commander suppressed a smile and recognized the words. They were written by Kong Jie.
Then there are military maps of different sizes all over the wall.
There is also a medium-sized military simulation sandbox built near the center of the room.
Next to the wall is a heated kang, with a small square table placed on it. On the left side of the small square table is a feather fan, and on the right side is a stack of books. Sweeping them from top to bottom, there are five or six books in total.
"On Protracted War", "Introduction to the Art of War", "Sun Tzu's Art of War"...
In some of these books, the titles can be seen from the sides of the books, and in some others, the titles cannot be seen at all, so I don’t know what the books are.
There are several left-hand command knives and a telescope hanging on the right side of the bed.
After a brief silence in the room.
It was the brigade commander who was the first to ask: "Li Yunlong, didn't I go to the wrong place?"
"Haha, how could that be possible?" Li Yunlong hurriedly walked out from the side, pretending to be humble and said: "I'm sorry, I really made everyone laugh. We, Lao Li, are studying during this time. This room I didn’t have time to clean up the military books, maps, etc. inside…”
"It's amazing. I remember when I asked you, Li Yunlong, to learn some culture, it was like killing you, but now you actually take the initiative to study the art of war?"
Brigadier Chen laughed, and then seemed to want to test Li Yunlong: "Li Yunlong, I want to ask you, what military books have you read recently?
What aspects of the art of war did you learn?
Do you have any experience reading? "
Brigadier Chen was also a veteran cadre of the Fourth Front Army, and was also the veteran leader of several old comrades such as Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
Seeing the old leader asking the question, Li Yunlong replied seriously:
"Old leader, we have read a lot of these military books during this period. We have read modern military techniques, and we have also learned a bit about some ancient military techniques.
Let’s talk about my reading experience..."
Li Yunlong paused, then almost smiled with a smile on his face: "Of course there are, such as the history of the Mongolian-Song war that I recently studied.
Speaking of this Mongolian army, he is indeed powerful.
But it was mainly because it was relatively strong in terms of offense. The Song Dynasty, which was facing the Mongols at that time, actually had a fairly good combat effectiveness, especially since they had many solid ancient city walls that were easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Logically speaking, they would not lose this battle so miserably.
As a result, the Song Dynasty lost the country and allowed the Mongols to establish the Yuan Dynasty.
I took a closer look at the reasons for this.
Later I discovered, why could Mongolia defeat the Song Dynasty? "
Li Yunlong's question is quite interesting.
As soon as these words came out, the curiosity of the cadres present was indeed aroused. Even the visit to the heavy artillery that everyone was looking forward to was temporarily postponed.
"It's interesting, keep talking!" the brigade commander urged.
Li Yunlong said: "The reason is very simple. The Mongolian troops have one of the strongest magic weapons, which is that their cavalry is extremely powerful.
Moreover, the Mongolian cavalry troops' combat tactics are quite bold.
What are people playing?
What is being played is a large-scale roundabout tactic.
No matter how strong the walls of the Song Dynasty are and there are many ravines and barriers, you are still passive after all, and naturally you can only be beaten.
As the old saying goes, the best defense is offense.
The Song Dynasty was forced to defend itself. No matter how many walls there were, there would always be areas that the walls could not defend and boundaries that could not be extended.
The Mongolian cavalry found these flaws and carried out bold and large-scale penetrations, even from the borders of the Song Dynasty, from Shanxi, from Shaanxi, from Sichuan, and even from Yunnan, inserting wherever they could.
How did it end?
As expected, the one on horseback, who was attacking, defeated the one who was forced to defend with two feet. "
As soon as Li Yunlong said this, those present at the meeting were all elite commanders of the Eighth Route Army. No one was a fool, and everyone's minds were spinning very fast.
Finally, Captain Wu smiled and said: "Old Li, there is something in your words!"
Li Yunlong said seriously: "Comrades, we Lao Li also want to ask here, why did you come to my new second regiment today?"
"Nonsense, of course I'm here to see the heavy artillery you captured, Lao Li!" the upright Commander Wu blurted out.
Li Yunlong still respected Captain Wu, not only because of Captain Wu's seniority and strong ability.
Another point is that the leader of the military regiment has experienced the Long March period, and there are few foreign revolutionary comrades-North Koreans.
For such a foreign revolutionary comrade who fought wholeheartedly for the Chinese nation, the entire Eighth Route Army naturally had no disrespect.
Li Yunlong smiled and replied: "Lao Wu, you are wrong, although the heavy artillery that Lao Li seized from the Japanese artillery testing site this time is indeed a treasure.
But when our comrades come here this time, we should actually see that our New Second Regiment has treasures that are dozens, or even hundreds of times, more precious than these heavy artillery! "
As soon as these words came out, the cadres were stunned.
The brigade commander laughed and scolded: "Li Yunlong, you kid, stop showing off and let go of your troubles!"
"yes!"
Li Yunlong responded, and then said solemnly: "Although these heavy artillery are precious, aren't our new second regiment's mechanized combat troops who can surprise the Japanese artillery testing ground and successfully capture these artillery are even more precious?
If these heavy artillery are placed in our headquarters artillery regiment, they may play a very important role in the future.
However, if the rapid reaction force created by our new Second Regiment develops rapidly, it will be able to play a military role in the northwest of Shanxi, in our Taihang base area, and even in the entire North China.
Isn't it more important than these heavy artillery? "
Two consecutive rhetorical questions changed the familiar image of Li Yunlong, who has a fiery temper and always likes to curse.
Instead, he asked all the cadres present.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yunlong seemed to be asking and answering himself:
"Comrades, in fact, we, Lao Li, said earlier that they took advantage of the cavalry to defeat the Mongols of the Song Dynasty. From another perspective, the confrontation between these two armies is not similar to the confrontation between the Japanese army and our Eighth Route Army. ?
Of course there is.
At present, the Japs occupy the main counties and towns. They have strong ancient city walls raised high, and they have superior air reinforcements, artillery superiority and mobility superiority.
And what about us?
Only these vast suburbs and mountainous areas serve as the basis of our base area, and we will then use these areas to fight guerrilla warfare against the Japs.
If we really talk about it, we have almost no advantage. At most, when the Japs launch a large-scale raids behind enemy lines, we can use the vast mountainous areas and have enough depth to fight guerrillas and deal with the Japs! "
Li Long's voice was extra serious: "Comrades, this is wrong.
Just like my previous analysis of the war between Mongolia and the Song Dynasty.
It's not like being beaten passively all the time.
The little devil has the advantage of city walls, equipment, mobility, and even aircraft reinforcements.
But we have very few advantages. Whether it is the guerrilla warfare in the mountainous areas or the strong support of our popular base, these are indeed fundamental, but they cannot quickly reverse the situation of the war on a large scale.
So we always need something.
What is needed?
It is precisely what we need to create our Eighth Route Army's biggest advantage against the Japanese army. "
"what is that?"
Li Yunlong said loudly: "Of course it is to build a rapid reaction force belonging to our Eighth Route Army, and then maximize the advantages of our Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare and mobility operations.
You can even use this quick reaction force, just like the Mongolian cavalry, to use large-scale penetration tactics to deal with the little devils who rely on solid city walls, deep trenches, and steel barriers to defend. "
"In this case, are we still worried that we will not be able to win the Anti-Japanese War?"
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