Zhao Gang, the new political commissar assigned to Li Yunlong by the brigade commander, had already arrived in the morning, before Zhang Dabiao returned with his assault company.
Seeing another fair-faced scholar coming, Li Yunlong didn't give Zhao Gang a good look.
Even during the afternoon combat meeting, Li Yunlong didn't want to inform him, but in the end he decided to forget it.
As long as the secret is kept from Zhao Gang.
As for saving face, Li Yunlong still has to do it. The two of them couldn't urinate in the same pot. As time goes by, the new political commissar will apply for transfer on his own.
Li Yunlong was most annoyed by these intellectuals, who couldn't fight, but could only do the same thing when they were talking.
In the past, Li Yunlong had the final say on everything in Xinyi Tuan. Now that there is an extra person in charge, Li Yunlong is certainly not happy.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Gang entered the outhouse of the regiment headquarters on time.
Seeing several battalion commanders looking at him curiously and Li Yunlong sitting in the main seat without speaking, Zhao Gang took the initiative to speak.
"Everyone is here. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhao Gang, the newly appointed political commissar of the new regiment."
The three battalion commanders Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu and Chen Dugu stood up one after another and raised their hands to salute Zhao Gang and introduce themselves.
After seeing that everyone knew each other, Li Yunlong said: "I called everyone here for a meeting today for three main reasons."
"First, the regiment plans to set up a heavy machine gun company directly under the regiment headquarters. Each battalion will select key personnel as machine gunners, and equip some militiamen and recruits as deputy shooters and ammunition handlers."
"The heavy machine gun company is equipped with 8 Maxims. For the remaining 8 Maxims, the first battalion is equipped with 2, and the second and third battalions are equipped with 3 each."
Li Yunlong had wanted to form a heavy machine gun company for a long time, but in order to face the Yamamoto special agent team, he had delayed it until now.
Although carrying a Maxim heavy machine gun to fight guerrillas seems a bit clumsy, the firepower of heavy machine guns, especially the Maxim heavy machine gun, is so overwhelming that the flaws cannot be concealed.
And as long as this business is completed and 100 foreign light machine guns are in place, Li Yunlong will be ready to equip each infantry squad of the new regiment with a light machine gun.
That firepower, tsk tsk...
Li Yunlong's mouth watered just thinking about it.
Zhao Gang suddenly asked in surprise: "Commander Li, where did you get the 16 Maxim heavy machine guns?"
Although he had just returned from the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Gang still knew the Eighth Route Army very well. There were not many Type 24 heavy machine guns in the entire 129th Division, let alone the Maxim heavy machine gun.
The new group had a total of 16 Maxims, which made Zhao Gang feel incredible.
When the three battalion commanders heard this, they looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to say a word.
Without Li Yunlong's order, none of them dared to leak Chen Feng's affairs, which was top secret in the Xinyi Regiment.
Only Li Yunlong and their three battalion commanders knew, and even the soldiers below didn't know what was going on.
"Well..." Li Yunlong said, "Political Commissar Zhao can be regarded as sponsored by a friend of mine."
"Oh?" Zhao Gang showed an interested look on his face, "Captain Li, I must recommend him if you have the opportunity. I want to thank him in person for supporting our Eighth Route Army in the war of resistance."
"We'll talk about this later." Li Yunlong quickly changed the subject, "The second thing is that our new regiment has recruited a lot of new recruits, more than 600 people in total. The ideological education and training of these recruits must be paid attention to. Get up, now that our new regiment has a political commissar, political commissar Zhao will be responsible for the ideological education work."
Zhao Gang said, "This is my responsibility. Don't worry, Captain Li. I will definitely do a good job in educating the recruits."
Li Yunlong nodded. Having a political commissar really made him feel more relaxed, and the training was in charge of the battalion commanders. He was like a hands-off shopkeeper.
But it's a pity that he and this group of intellectuals can't pee in the same pot.
Li Yunlong continued: "Thirdly, our New Regiment's grain reserves are about to run out, so I decided to borrow some grain from the Japanese traitors."
"This Japanese traitor is not our friend." Zhao Gang asked, "Will they lend us food?"
With Zhao Gang's shrewdness, it was impossible not to understand the meaning of Li Yunlong's words.
"Of course it is impossible for the Japanese traitors to take the initiative to lend us food." Li Yunlong said in a solemn tone: "Cut off the heads of the Japanese traitors, and they will naturally lend us food."
Zhao Gang then asked: "Where is Commander Li going to take action and when will he take action?"
Li Yunlong took out the combat map, spread it out on the table, pointed at the marked position and clicked twice.
The three battalion commanders were slightly excited. If the regiment commander wanted to attack the Huting stronghold, it must be related to the new business.
Zhao Gang was a little stunned: "Huting stronghold?"
Li Yunlong: "Political Commissar Zhao also knows about the Huting stronghold?"
Zhao Gang thought for a moment and then said.
"I heard from comrades in the headquarters that the Huting stronghold is a tough nut to crack. Our Eighth Route Army attacked it several times but failed to knock it down."
"If we really want to attack the Huting stronghold, we have to take into account the Japanese reinforcements that may arrive at any time. I'm afraid we will have to use the entire regiment's strength."
"My suggestion is to lure the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold out, so that they can lose the heavy firepower and defense of the stronghold, and then eat them in one fell swoop."
Li Yunlong is most annoyed by people dictating to him in the military field.
Zhao Gang just took office today and does not understand this situation yet.
Li Yunlong looked a little unhappy: "What Political Commissar Zhao said makes sense."
"However, Huting Stronghold is just a piece of meat next to my mouth. I can eat it whenever I want. It doesn't have to be so troublesome."
Seeing Li Yunlong's eyes, Zhao Gang knew that his words had aroused Li Yunlong's resentment, but he had already been mentally prepared for this. When he reported to the brigade headquarters, the brigade commander had talked to him about Li Yunlong's problem. He could fight but he could also cause trouble. The long term means to find a political commissar to take good care of him.
Seeing that something was wrong in the atmosphere, Zhang Dabiao said: "Political Commissar Zhao, you just arrived and you don't understand the situation. Our new regiment has a 75mm field gun, and there is no shortage of heavy firepower to attack the Huting stronghold."
"In this case..." Zhao Gang said, "I have no objection to Commander Li's battle plan."
Zhao Gang became more and more curious. This was a Maxim heavy machine gun and a field artillery. He didn't know how much wealth the new regiment had?
Li Yunlong: "Since Political Commissar Zhao has no objection, then the matter is settled. After the combat plan is formulated, Political Commissar Zhao will submit the combat plan to the brigade headquarters."
Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Okay, no problem."
Li Yunlong glanced at everyone: "Is there anything else?"
Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Yunlong said: "Since there is nothing else, let's break up the meeting."
Everyone stood up and prepared to walk out.
Suddenly, Li Yunlong said again: "You battalion commanders will stay for a while, and we will discuss the recruit training plan."
After hearing this, the three battalion commanders sat back on the bench.
After Zhao Gang left, Li Yunlong and the three battalion commanders began the real combat meeting of the new regiment.
