Northwest Shanxi.
Dagu Town.
Chief of Staff Wang Dehou held a telegram in his hand and walked quickly into the outer room of the regiment headquarters.
Report to Li Yunlong: "Commander, there is an urgent call from the headquarters. The Japanese in Taiyuan are moving. The troops of three divisions are heading north."
Li Yunlong raised his head when he heard this, with sharp eyes, he took the telegram from Chief of Staff Wang and read it.
After reading the telegram, Li Yunlong sneered and said: "I have expected it. This old devil Okamura Neji is quite impatient."
The tens of thousands of troops from three divisions marching northward must not be able to hide from the Eighth Route Army's intelligence network.
As soon as the Japs were dispatched, the headquarters received the information and then passed it on to the new regiment.
"The main thing is the intelligence support from Boss Chen." Chief of Staff Wang also smiled: "Otherwise it would be difficult for us to guess the date of the Japanese army's operation."
"Also, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment have responded. The common people in their two defense areas are already gathering towards the Yellow River ferry. The common people will carry their belongings and cross the river in batches."
Li Yunlong nodded: "Without the Japanese planes, the people should be able to cross the river safely, but they must be allowed to speed up the crossing."
The New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment each had to face the attacks of two second-line divisions and were under great pressure.
We must risk our lives to keep the Japanese out of the base area and allow the people to cross the river smoothly.
Relatively speaking, the pressure on the new regiment was not great, and they only had to face the attack of a Class A division.
With the current strength of the new regiment, Li Yunlong is really not afraid of confronting a Class A division head-on.
What's more, this time the Japanese A-type division is the offensive side, and the new regiment is the defensive side. If the strength of both sides is about the same, then of course the defensive side has the advantage.
If the Japanese army sends a second-line division to attack the new regiment, if there are not more than two second-line divisions, they will not dare to get involved.
Li Yunlong added: "In addition, inform all battalion commanders to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting immediately."
"yes!"
Wang Dehou straightened up and turned around and walked out.
Li Yunlong opened the door curtain and walked into the inner room of the regiment headquarters. Chen Feng, wearing an Eighth Route Army uniform, was sitting on the Kang table cleaning his gun.
Li Yunlong smiled and said, "Brother Chen, our new regiment will hold a pre-war military meeting in the afternoon. You will also attend and give us some advice."
Chen Feng put his gun into his holster and said, "You can attend the meeting, but don't make any comments. I won't cause any trouble to your group."
He knew Li Yunlong very well, but Li Yunlong didn't know it.
How could a commander like Li Yunlong, who didn't like military democracy very much, listen to others' instructions?
Li Yunlong smiled and said: "Brother Chen, you are being humble. I will call you when the meeting starts."
Of course Li Yunlong didn't like it when others expressed different opinions, but Chen Feng was different. He really wanted to hear Chen Feng's opinion.
Of course, whether it will be adopted in the end is another matter.
Li Yunlong opened the door curtain and walked out. Chen Feng took out his pistol and continued to clean it.
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afternoon.
Twenty-two battalion commanders of the New Regiment gathered at the headquarters of the New Regiment in Dagu Town.
They are 4 main battalions, 7 divisional battalions, 3 artillery battalions, cavalry battalions, machine gun battalions, anti-aircraft gun battalions, tank battalions, guard battalions, engineer battalions, automobile battalions and transportation battalions.
This is almost all the troops of the new regiment.
There are a total of more than 24,000 men, five bases of ammunition, and battlefield airdrops that can be called at any time. It can be said that the troops are strong and the horses are strong, and the food, grass and ammunition are abundant.
If the village soldiers are included, there are more than 40,000 people in total. However, the militiamen generally do not participate in the fighting, but are responsible for logistics and organizing the evacuation of the people.
In addition to training, the militiamen also have to participate in farm work. Only soldiers who become the main force of the new regiment will be released from work.
Since the troops arrived in northwestern Shanxi, Li Yunlong did not let the new regiment break into pieces. Instead, he tried his best to change his guerrilla habits and adapt to frontal combat and large group combat with the Japanese army.
The troops have been fighting guerrilla warfare for so many years, and it takes a while to evolve into large-scale corps warfare.
However, after fighting several battles, the commanders and fighters of the new regiment became more and more accustomed to the rhythm of large corps operations.
After all, in a large-scale battle, thousands of Japs can be killed at one time, while in a small-scale ambush, one or two hundred Japs can be killed.
In the courtyard of the regiment headquarters, twenty-two battalion commanders were sitting on benches.
Li Yunlong sat opposite, with Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, and Chen Feng sitting next to him.
Several battalion commanders from the division didn't know Chen Feng yet, and they looked at Chen Feng with surprise on their faces.
Almost all the battalion commanders from southeast Shanxi knew Chen Feng, but the battalion commanders sent from the headquarters, such as Yao Shangwen and Yang Jiuping, had only heard of Chen Feng but had never seen him before.
Li Yunlong took a look at the crowd and said: "Some of you don't know the boss next to me yet. Let me introduce to you. This is Boss Chen who has been providing weapons and ammunition assistance to our new regiment. This time in the anti-mopping operation , Boss Chen comes to our new regiment as a military advisor!"
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Gang stood up and said, "Everyone warmly welcomes Consultant Chen!"
After finishing speaking, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang stood up and took the lead in applauding, and more than 20 battalion commanders also stood up and applauded.
Chen Feng stood up and bowed to the twenty-two battalion commanders.
After the applause, Li Yunlong said: "This time for our counter-mopping operation, Advisor Chen will provide us with wartime airdrops. In other words, this time we can open up for the counter-mopping operation!"
When the battalion commanders heard this, their eyes suddenly became fiery.
5 base ammunition can be replenished by airdrop at any time after shooting.
The battalion commander of the third division stood up and bowed his hands to Chen Feng and said: "Thank you very much, Consultant Chen. I, Yang Jiuping, have never fought such a rich battle in my eight lives!"
Upon seeing this, the other battalion commanders quickly stood up and thanked Chen Feng, who responded with a smile.
Li Yunlong said: "Don't be so damn pretty first. Consultant Chen will solve the problem of ammunition. With so much ammunition, if you still can't play well, I'm going to scold you!"
The battalion commanders were smiling, glowing, and confident.
The weapons and equipment are better than the Japs, the ammunition is more abundant than the Japs, and they are on the defensive side. If you can't defeat the Japs, you might as well go home and coax your children.
At this moment, Wang Dehou held a telegram in his hand and walked out of the communications team room with two combat staff officers.
Wang Dehou said: "The latest information from the headquarters is that the Japs from the two divisions gathered in Datong have also been dispatched."
Li Yunlong nodded solemnly: "All the Japs from the five divisions have been dispatched, and there are also 20,000 puppet troops, totaling more than 100,000 people!"
Li Yunlong secretly admired the strategic vision of the head of the headquarters. Fortunately, the headquarters also sent the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment to establish a base in northwestern Shanxi.
Otherwise, the new regiment alone would not be able to stop the attack of 5 divisions plus 20,000 puppet troops.
Although the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment cannot stop the attack of the four divisions, as long as they hold off the four divisions, they can buy time for the New First Regiment and the evacuated people.
The expressions of the battalion commanders also became a bit solemn.
"The Japanese have gathered a large number of troops and are coming with ferocity, but our new regiment is not to be frightened!"
Li Yunlong glanced at everyone, and his tone was domineering and harsh:
"This time, we have brother troops from the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment to share the pressure for us."
"The Japanese 21st and 35th Divisions will attack the New Second Regiment, the 23rd and 25th Divisions will attack the Independent Regiment, and our opponent is the Japanese 10th Division!"
Li Yunlong looked around and his tone became serious.
"I will assign combat tasks next."
"There are two main ways for the Japanese to attack the base area. One is from Dagu Town, and the other is from Lijia Town."
"Dagu Town is defended by the First and Second Battalions, and Lijia Town is defended by the Third and Fourth Battalions."
"There are also 9 small roads that can enter the base area. The first, second, and third battalions of the division guard three small roads respectively. The specific road division will be discussed with Chief of Staff Wang after the meeting."
The path is relatively dangerous, and a bunker has been built, so it can be said that one man can block it and no one can open it.
There is no problem at all for a divisional battalion to defend three lanes.
Now that roads have been built in the base area, the Japanese army has no choice but to use roads to transport heavy firepower into the base area. Therefore, the main direction of the Japanese attack will be in the direction of Dagu Town and Lijia Town.
As for the three county towns, they were abandoned directly. Most of the people in the county towns had moved away anyway, so they were just three empty cities.
After the Japanese troops had taken over the three county towns and withdrew, wouldn't it be nice for the new group to take back the county towns and earn a wave of equipment and food?
The battalion commanders took notes and took notes. Li Yunlong continued: "The combat materials used by the Japanese to raid our base areas are mainly stored in Datong and Taiyuan. This time the Japanese attack the base areas, they will definitely not bring so many materials at once." , so the Japanese logistics troops will definitely transport supplies along the highway to the front line."
"The sixth and seventh battalions of the division must jump to the outside line in advance. After the battle begins, they will attack the Japanese supply lines."
"Hehe, with luck, you two can still make a few fortunes."
Li Yunlong looked at the division's sixth and seventh battalion commanders and smiled, and the two battalion commanders also laughed.
The two battalion commanders were named Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang. They both graduated from the Anti-Japanese University and were assigned to the New Regiment by the headquarters. Both of them liked the atmosphere of the New Regiment very much.
"However, after you two battalions jump to the outside line, don't use the radio unless absolutely necessary."
"The little devil has a way to detect the location of the radio station. Even if he needs to use the radio station to contact the regiment headquarters, he will transfer immediately after sending the telegram."
"Yes!" Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang responded in unison.
As for the fourth and fifth battalions of the division, they were used as reserve teams by Li Yunlong.
After assigning combat tasks to other units, Commander Li chuckled: "In the Battle of Xinzhou, the Japanese planes were shot down by Advisor Chen's planes, so this anti-mopping operation does not require air defense. All our machine gun battalions are dispersed to various locations. Infantry battalion, I want the Japs in the Class A Division to have a taste of the 20mm machine gun."
Facing the Japs from the Type A Division, Li Yunlong decided to be ruthless and directly fired machine guns at the Japs infantry.
When the battalion commanders heard this, the corners of their mouths turned up and their eyes were stern.
The new regiment has a total of more than 300 20mm machine guns, plus five base numbers of 20mm artillery shells, as well as Boss Chen's airdrop supplies, which will definitely make the Japanese in the 10th Division drink a big pot.
Before the meeting ended, Zhao Gang told: "The 10th Division is one of the Japs' Class A divisions and permanent divisions. It has extremely strong combat effectiveness. We must not underestimate the enemy. We must do full pre-war mobilization after returning to the camp. and pre-war organizational work.”
