"Brigadier, I congratulate you on getting rich!"
The barrel of the gun shot by Li Yunlong jingled.
Wow... there was an uproar all around, the brigade commander's eyes were as bright as light bulbs, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth:
"There really are 12 mountain cannons!"
"Li Yunlong, you gave me a big surprise!"
"Don't talk about drinking. Even if you want to drink foreign wine, I will find a way to get it for you."
At the end of the sentence, the brigade commander couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The Eighth Route Army only has about a dozen mountain artillery pieces in total, all of which are in the artillery regiment directly under the headquarters. There are so few shells that each firing requires the approval of the head of the headquarters.
The 12 mountain guns in front of us have 2,400 rounds of artillery shells, and there are also 6,000 rounds of 37 and 47 mm caliber artillery shells!
These two types of small-caliber artillery shells should have been captured, while the mountain cannon and the 75mm artillery shells should have come from a mysterious patriotic person named Chen.
For the 386th Brigade and even the entire Eighth Route Army, this mountain artillery battalion can be said to be a timely help. It is definitely a strategic-level weapon.
It seems that labor and management are going to start an artillery regiment, haha...
Originally, there was only one artillery company directly under the brigade headquarters, but recently Li Yunlong handed over nearly 10 artillery mounts, so the brigade commander also assembled an artillery battalion.
In addition to this mountain artillery battalion, which has nearly 30 guns, it can barely be called an artillery regiment.
Deputy Brigadier Han, Chief of Staff Zhou, as well as Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa rushed over and looked around, as if they had seen gold ingots.
Deputy Brigadier Han and Chief of Staff Zhou touched the mountain cannon with joy.
As for Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and the others, they were almost crying.
Cheng Shifa quickly wiped his saliva: "Brigadier Commander, you have a mountain artillery battalion, and you can send out those Type 92 infantry cannons."
"Go away, if you want infantry artillery, you will find the enemy." The brigade commander's face darkened and he cursed, "Labor and management are going to start an artillery regiment."
Cheng Shifa didn't dare to speak. People like Li Yunlong, who was the second in command and the boss, were afraid of the brigade commander. Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa were even more afraid.
"Brigadier, congratulations on getting rich!" Ding Wei said with a smile, "For such a happy event, you have to treat me, right?"
"That's no problem!" the brigade commander laughed, "I can't handle labor. Xiao Wang, take my allowance and go to a fellow villager's house to buy a pig and let the cooking team kill it for meat."
"Yes, brigade commander!" Guard Xiao Wang straightened up, turned around and ran towards the brigade commander's house. Then he called the cooking team and quickly ran to a fellow villager's house to sell pigs.
"Haha..." Kong Jie said with a smile, "It seems that we are going to take advantage of Lao Li today."
The brigade commander patted the barrel, looked at the shells, turned to Deputy Brigadier Han and said, "Old Han, take the guard company and put these mountain cannons and shells into storage."
"Okay, no problem." Deputy Brigadier Han said, "Guard company, fire the cannon!"
The brigade commander looked at the crowd of onlookers again: "Everyone else has dispersed."
The onlookers dispersed in a hurry.
Li Yunlong and several regiment commanders followed the brigade commander to the brigade headquarters room.
Kong Jie asked: "Old Li, you handed over a mountain artillery battalion to the brigade headquarters, how many mountain artillery pieces do you have?"
"No, not even one. There is only one mountain artillery battalion in total." Li Yunlong denied, "All of them have been handed over to the brigade headquarters."
"We are all old comrades, who doesn't know who is who?" Ding Wei said, "Old Li, stop hiding it and tell us how many mountain cannons you have."
The brigade commander also asked out of curiosity: "Li Yunlong, tell me the truth, how many mountain cannons do you have left?"
"Hehe..." Commander Li Da grinned, "No more, no more, I only have one mountain artillery battalion with 2,400 rounds of artillery shells."
Bragging to old comrades was commonplace, but Li Yunlong did not dare to lie to the brigade commander's face.
"Oh my god, you still have a mountain artillery camp?" Kong Jie's tone changed, "How much money did you make this time?"
"The harm is just the equipment of two mountain artillery battalions and two basic ammunition, which is not worth mentioning."
Li Yunlong waved his hand. Although his words sounded indifferent, his expression was somewhat proud.
Wealth and honor do not return to their hometown, just like walking in brocade at night.
Having made a fortune and showing off in front of the brigade commander and old comrades, Li Yunlong felt secretly happy.
Captain Cheng Shifa had envy and sourness written directly on his face.
How come all the good things are his, Li Yunlong's?
Why don’t I, Old Cheng, have such luck?
"Oh my god, you still have a mountain artillery camp?" Kong Jie's eyes widened and he was stunned.
"Old Li, I haven't seen you in a while, how did you become a rich man?" Captain Zhang Xianyong was also shocked.
"It's time to fight against the local tyrants again." Ding Wei laughed and sounded surprised.
The brigade commander's face also showed deep surprise. He expected that Li Yunlong would definitely leave some mountain artillery for himself, but he did not expect that it would also be a mountain artillery battalion.
However, the brigade commander was embarrassed to attack Li Yunlong again.
Because Li Yunlong took the initiative to hand over a mountain artillery battalion and 8,400 rounds of artillery shells.
If Li Yunlong doesn't take the initiative to hand over these mountain cannons and shells today, the brigade commander will definitely call and congratulate him for getting rich when he finds out.
At that time, the brigade commander would leave at most one or two mountain artillery batteries to Li Yunlong.
Although Li Yunlong received the commendation this time, after all, Li Yunlong killed first and then reported. The brigade commander had reason to fight against the autumn wind. If Li Yunlong did not turn in the mountain cannon, the brigade commander threatened Li Yunlong and said that he would report it to the headquarters. Not only would the commendation of Commander Li be revoked, but Li Yunlong might also Hats off.
However, the brigade commander would definitely not actually report it, and Li Yunlong would only complain a few words, but in the end he would obediently hand over most of the mountain artillery.
The brigade commander looked at Li Yunlong and narrowed his eyes slightly. This guy has learned a lot...
"Old Li, you really turned an old hen into a duck in the blink of an eye." Cheng Shi said sourly.
"Go, go, go, why is an old hen turning into a duck?" Li Yunlong glared, "Old Li, we are flying up a branch and turning into a phoenix."
"Li Yunlong, if you have any requests, just make them quickly." The brigade commander knew Li Yunlong too well, and knew that he had no intention of returning empty-handed, otherwise he would definitely be escorted by Zhao Gang again this time.
"Brigadier, I'll tell you the truth."
"Currently our new group really has two difficulties that you need to solve."
Li Yunlong was not polite. After all, he took the initiative to hand over a mountain artillery battalion and 8,400 rounds of artillery shells. Is it not too much to ask for something?
Moreover, this is the brigade commander's initiative to help our new regiment solve difficulties.
Li Yunlong rubbed his hands: "The first difficulty is to ask the brigade commander to apply to the headquarters for an artillery battalion for our new regiment."
"That's no problem." The brigade commander nodded, "I can apply to the headquarters for you."
Last time the new regiment completely wiped out the Black Island Cavalry Regiment, the application for cavalry battalion establishment headquarters was quickly approved. This time it completely wiped out the Japanese tank regiment, and there should be no problem in applying for artillery battalion establishment.
"Old Li, your new regiment now has more than twenty cannons, right?" Cheng Shifa asked, "You applied for an artillery battalion. A dozen cannons are enough for one artillery battalion. I suggest you hand in the remaining dozen. Give it to Brigade Headquarters.”
Of course Li Yunlong knew what Cheng Shifa was thinking, and his abacus was rattling.
He hoped that after Li Yunlong handed over these cannons, the brigade commander's artillery regiment would not need so many. The 772nd Regiment was the main regiment, and the brigade commander would definitely equip them with the extra cannons first.
"I can release those mortars to increase the firepower at the battalion and company level."
"Who stipulates that a gun battalion can only have a dozen guns?"
"Is this what you, Cheng Shifa, stipulated?"
"If you have that ability, why don't you go to the Japanese and get a dozen cannons and hand them over to the brigade commander?"
Li Yunlong's mouth was like a machine gun.
Li Yunlong spoke quite politely today, giving face to the brigade commander and Chief of Staff Zhou, otherwise he would have to lash out at Cheng Shifa.
"Besides, the brigade commander didn't say anything. Why are you making fun of him? The brigade commander is still sitting there. You don't even take him seriously anymore?"
After saying that, Li Yunlong added another sentence, which can be said to be a sure blow.
As expected by Li Yunlong, the brigade commander, who wore glasses and looked elegant, easy-going, and even somewhat polite, raised his head and glanced at Cheng Shifa indifferently.
"How can that be possible?" Cheng Shifa suddenly trembled and sneered, but was immediately scolded by Li Yunlong and did not dare to say anything.
"What else?" asked the brigade commander.
"This is the second difficulty." Li Yunlong said, "I would like to ask the brigade commander to allocate 400 more recruits for our new regiment to teach."
"The main thing is that our new regiment is the heroic regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the main ace regiment."
"Look at the 358th Regiment, the main ace of the Jinsui Army, with a strength of 5,000 people. How much they lose will be replenished. They have enough guns, ammunition, and food."
"Look at our ace main force. There are less than 2,000 people. If we go out, it will be our Eighth Route Army's face."
"We also want to organize a reinforcement group to make our Eighth Route Army proud."
"I can take care of the ammunition, food and pay myself, but as for the soldiers, I hope the brigade commander can help solve the problem."
The brigade commander knew very well that this guy had no interest in pretending to be a prestige, and would only have ideas for things that were actually useful. Now that he had his own channels for weapons and ammunition, he had already guessed that someone was coming.
The brigade commander is also happy that the New Regiment will grow stronger. The more victories the New Regiment wins, the more assistance Li Yunlong will receive.
Cheng Shifa guessed that the brigade commander would not agree, because the brigade commander had already allocated more than 800 people to the new regiment, first the militia number 400 from the Taiyue Military Region, and then the recruit number 400 from the teaching regiment.
Li Yunlong came to ask for someone again, how could the brigade commander agree?
But the brigade commander's next words made Cheng Shifa dumbfounded.
"I will give you 400 people, but they are not recruits from the teaching regiment. We only have so many recruits in the 386th Brigade. I will give you militia number 400," the brigade commander said.
"Thank you, brigade commander, thank you brigade commander, brigade commander, I thank you." Li Yunlong smiled.
He also had the attitude of giving it a try, but he didn't expect the brigade commander to agree so simply.
"Brigadier, I can't figure it out, why do all the benefits belong to him, Li Yunlong?" Cheng Shifa was sour again. Which one, the 772nd Regiment or the New Regiment, is the main force of the 386th Brigade?
"You have to figure it out even if you can't figure it out." The brigade commander snorted, "If you still can't figure it out, then go back and think about it slowly!"
Next, the brigade commander used his own allowance to kill a pig and entertain several regiment commanders.
Of course, the main thing is to entertain Li Yunlong, and others will take advantage of it.
After eating and drinking, all the group leaders went back.
Early the next morning, Commander Liu heard that Li Yunlong had handed over 12 mountain cannons and more than 8,000 rounds of artillery shells to Chen Geng.
