Northwest Shanxi.
Zhaojiayu.
With only more than a month left before the Japanese sweep, the atmosphere in the base area in northern Shanxi has become increasingly tense, and the regiment headquarters is no exception.
At the headquarters of the New Regiment, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou are formulating an anti-mopping up plan.
"Report!"
A voice sounded outside the door.
Li Yunlong: "Come in!"
Li Changshun, who was carrying a sniper rifle, walked in quickly and gave a military salute: "Report, Li Changshun has returned from a reconnaissance mission!"
Li Yunlong patted Li Changshun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "How is it, Li Changshun, did the reconnaissance mission go well?"
"It went very well!" Li Changshun smiled slightly, "Captain, this mission is too simple. Why don't you send me to kill Iwamatsu Yoshio? This old devil's head is probably worth two tank battalions."
"See what you can do!"
The corner of Li Yunlong's mouth curled up: "Why don't you say go kill Okamura Neji and the little devil's locusts? If you want to kill these two old devils, let alone tanks, we already have planes and warships. "
"Stop talking nonsense." Zhao Gang asked: "Li Changshun, please report the detected situation quickly."
Li Chang said by the way: "Yes, political commissar, according to our reconnaissance, as expected by the regiment leader, the Japanese have no plans to rebuild the Xincheng Airport outside the north of Taiyuan City for the time being, but have increased the protection of the Wusu Airport outside the south of the city. "
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes and nodded: "It seems that the Japanese planes want to launch at Wusu Airport. When the sweep begins, they will take off from Wusu Airport to bomb us."
As the saying goes, strike first to gain strength and strike later to suffer disaster. Naturally, Li Yunlong could not just watch the soldiers being bombed by Japanese planes.
Then, Li Yunlong asked: "Have you found a place where you can bombard the Japanese airport?"
"Found it!" Li Changshun smiled again and spread out a portable map. "We have searched around Wusu Airport in the past few days and finally found a suitable location for bombarding Wusu Airport."
Later, Li Changshun pointed at the map and said: "To the northeast of Wusu Airport, there is Wujin Mountain. There are no villages for several miles around here. You can sneak there quietly at night. As long as you are careful, you will not be discovered."
Although since the Battle of Taiyuan, the Japanese have strengthened their defense around Taiyuan.
But Wujin Mountain is more than 13 kilometers away from Taiyuan City.
In addition, Wusu Airport is more than 10 kilometers away from Taiyuan.
Therefore, Wujin Mountain is not within the enemy's defense range.
However, in order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese, we need to take a long mountain road to reach Wujin Mountain.
Li Yunlong picked up the scale and measured it on the map. He was surprised to find that Wujin Mountain was only 7 kilometers away from Wusu Airport.
"Haha, the straight-line distance between Wujin Mountain and Wusu Airport is only 7 kilometers." Li Yunlong grinned and threw the scale and pencil on the map. "This is within the range of our 75mm mountain cannon."
Zhao Gang also nodded and said: "Although the 75mm mountain gun has a short effective range, it is relatively light and can be broken down for transportation, making it easy to maneuver."
Chief of Staff Wang also said: "Another point is that our regiment has many 75mm mountain guns. If we send some out, our artillery firepower will not be weakened too much."
"This matter should be done sooner rather than later." Xing Zhiguo also said, "If we wait for the Japanese to mobilize all their troops into Shanxi, it will not be easy to handle."
At present, the New Regiment has controlled most of the Beitongpu railways and roads.
The Japanese plan to transport supplies from the Zhengtai Highway and Pinghan Railway to Taiyuan and Datong, so they have no plans to recapture the Beitongpu Highway and Railway for the time being.
However... after the Japanese army mobilizes a large number of troops to Shanxi, it will definitely regain control of the North Tongpu Road, because the Japanese will go north along this road to attack the base area in northwestern Shanxi.
Li Yunlong looked thoughtful at first, and then nodded: "It is indeed necessary to act early. First, order the 1st Engineer Company to dig a hole. When the hole is dug, the artillery shells and mountain artillery can be transported there."
With cars helping to transport personnel, artillery shells and mountain artillery for nearly 100 kilometers, the efficiency of this project can be greatly improved.
As for Datong Airport, after Duan Peng returned, he personally took people to conduct reconnaissance and has not returned yet.
The Japanese planes will most likely launch at Datong and Wusu airports. By then, as long as the airports are bombarded from a long range and the airport runways and the Japanese planes are blown up, the pressure on the Eighth Route Army's battlefield will be greatly reduced and the chances of victory in counter-mopping operations will be increased.
After Li Changshun finished his report, he saluted several people and then turned and walked outside the regiment headquarters.
At the same time, Li Yunlong called the engineer battalion commander Huang Zhiqiang and assigned him tasks.
At the same time, arrangements were made for a car platoon from the car camp to be transported to a location about 27 kilometers away from Taiyuan.
The engineer company followed the path to Wujin Mountain overnight. The route of the path had been marked on the map by Li Changshun and others when they were conducting reconnaissance.
After fighting the 36th Division, the new regiment expanded again.
The guard company was expanded into a guard battalion, the engineer company was expanded into an engineer battalion, and the automobile team was also expanded into an automobile battalion.
The guard battalion and engineer battalion are not reinforced battalions, but ordinary battalions, with more than 400 people in each battalion.
There are probably more than 600 vehicles in a car regiment, and the 200 cars in a car camp are almost the same number of cars equipped by a car camp.
Each of the four main infantry battalions has been expanded by more than 1,000 men. The strength of each main infantry battalion has been greatly strengthened, reaching more than 2,000 men.
The more than 4,000 people who joined these four main infantry battalions were all elites selected from the training camps and various divisions.
Coupled with all the sophisticated weapons and equipment from major foreign manufacturers, sufficient training and actual combat ammunition, and first-class food, there will be no problem of a decrease in combat effectiveness due to an increase in the number of people.
Since the three regiments in northwestern Shanxi severely damaged the 36th Division and wiped out more than 10,000 enemy Japanese and puppet troops, the reputation of the New First Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment have completely spread in northwestern Shanxi.
The propaganda departments of each regiment did not have to go to the countryside to promote propaganda in person. The young and middle-aged people who joined the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese every day almost crossed the threshold of the recruitment office of each regiment.
There were even capable people who walked hundreds of kilometers to join the New Regiment to join the army and fight against the Japanese.
However, the Eighth Route Army strictly screened the young men who came to join the army. In addition to being physically and age-qualified, they also had to be introduced by acquaintances and fellow villagers to prevent Japanese spies from being mixed into the ranks.
The training camp and each division added troops from the militia, and each military division maintained more than 2,000 troops.
Although the combat effectiveness of the troops in each military division has declined, the troops in each division after a big battle are equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment.
Each division is drawn separately, and its combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the old main force of the Eighth Route Army.
The new regiment received 500 tons of American equipment, but this time Li Yunlong was not in a hurry to expand because it was too late.
In about a month, the recruits had too little training time, and this time the enemies were all elites. Sending them to fight would undoubtedly mean that the recruits would go to the battlefield with first-class weapons and equipment to die.
Subsequently, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Wang Dehou and Xing Zhiguo began to discuss and formulate an anti-mopping operation plan.
"Old Zhao!" Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang: "Think about it for a moment. If you were the Japanese commander of the Japanese army raiding our base this time, how would you choose to formulate a combat plan?"
Although Zhao Gang works as a political commissar, he has his own unique insights on military matters and is not just a white-faced scholar.
Zhao Gang looked thoughtful after hearing this, and then said: "If I were the commander of the Japs, I would defeat them one by one."
Li Yunlong then asked: "How to defeat them one by one?"
Zhao Gang pointed to the map and said: "Look, our New Regiment is in the middle of northwestern Shanxi, Kong Jie's Independent Regiment is in the north, and Ding Wei's New Second Regiment is in the south. The three base areas are closely connected. I will concentrate my superior forces to attack first. New Second Regiment and Independent Regiment.”
"Your method won't work." Li Yunlong said, "You concentrate your superior forces on one regiment first, and the other two regiments will run away. And the most you can do is cripple this one regiment, and you can't annihilate them all."
Zhao Gang thought about it carefully. With this strategy, the Japanese army was able to drive the three regiments out of northwest Shanxi, but it was unable to damage the vitality of the three regiments, and the Eighth Route Army could still take the people away.
Once the Japanese army leaves, the Eighth Route Army and the common people can come back again.
Zhao Gang asked back: "Then if you are the supreme commander of the Japs, how do you plan to fight this battle?"
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes: "Brother Chen gave us a piece of information when he was delivering the goods that day. The Japanese army assembled no less than five divisions to raid our base this time, and one of them was a Category A division. I have it in my hands." If there are five divisions, why are we trying to defeat them one by one? We can directly attack from the north, south and center at the same time, and push us all into the Yellow River from three directions."
"It's interesting." Chief of Staff Wang crossed his arms and asked, "Then how do you arrange your troops?"
"It's very simple." Li Yunlong said, "The two second-line divisions in the north will mop up and advance from north to south, the two divisions in the south will mop up and advance from south to north, and then the Class A division will drive us westward from the middle, using It won't be long before our troops and masses will be driven to the edge of the Yellow River."
Zhao Gang said in a surprised tone: "Use a Class A division to deal with our new group? Is it possible?"
"The devils don't know the true strength of our new group."
After a pause, Li Yunlong said in a disdainful tone: "This little devil thinks that the Class A Division is invincible and has no rivals on the Chinese battlefield. I guess the Japanese commander will definitely send the Class A Division to deal with us."
At present, Li Yunlong has three trump cards in his hand.
The first trump card is a bright card, that is, the heavy artillery battalion. Although the establishment is at the battalion level, its scale has exceeded the standards of the national army's heavy artillery regiment.
The second trump card is the configuration of 2 tank battalions, 64 medium tanks and light tanks. As long as they can kill the Japanese aircraft, with infantry-tank coordination and artillery-tank coordination, they can definitely go sideways.
Moreover, the medium tanks equipped by the new regiment can be regarded as heavy tanks on the Chinese battlefield, while the light tanks are called medium tanks.
The tanks are now in place, waiting for the tank crews to return after learning the ropes.
The third trump card is also the most powerful trump card. A support opportunity of 30 bombers and 10 fighter planes. If used properly, it is guaranteed to kill a Japanese wing.
With three trump cards in hand, Li Yunlong really wanted to have a head-on confrontation with the Japanese A-type division.
