"Xue Yue in the south, Yunlong in the north? This sounds fresh."
Li Yunlong nodded first, then looked thoughtful and said:
"With General Xue's sea-fixing needle in the south, the Japanese won't be able to reach Chongqing for a while."
"However, General Xue has achieved such a great victory, we can't just sit there, we have to find a way to get some meat to eat."
"Old Li." Zhao Gang asked immediately, "Do you want to fight Taiyuan or Datong?"
Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong was a restless master. He was thinking about the Japanese all day long. He was eating and sleeping thinking about how to kill the Japanese and make a fortune.
Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou on the side also raised the corners of their mouths slightly.
Now, there are no Japs in northwestern Shanxi, and even the Japs in Ding Wei and Kong Jie's defense areas have been killed.
Li Yunlong wanted to make a fortune and fish for meat, so he had to go to Taiyuan or Datong.
With Li Yunlong's current net worth, he looked down on ordinary small fortunes. If he wanted to make a big fortune, he would have to go to Taiyuan or Datong.
"Don't worry about Datong and Taiyuan." Li Yunlong took out his radio and said with a smile, "We haven't entertained Boss Chen for a long time."
"Captain, you are a drunkard and don't care about drinking." Wang Dehou said with a smile.
"It's business, let's make a fortune together." Li Yunlong smiled noncommittally, and then turned on the radio. After adjusting the channel and wavelength, he put the microphone to his mouth in one hand and the receiver to his ear in the other.
"Hey, boss Li is calling boss Chen."
"Boss Li calls Boss Chen."
Not long after, Chen Feng's voice came from the receiver: "Boss Li, I'm Boss Chen, what's the matter?"
"It's nothing." Hearing Chen Feng's voice, Li Yunlong said hurriedly, "Brother, I have some wine at home, and I ask Boss Chen to appreciate it."
"Okay!" Chen Feng asked, "When?"
Hearing that Chen Feng agreed, Li Yunlong couldn't help but feel slightly happy: "Boss Chen, do you have time now?"
Chen Feng said: "I have time."
"Haha." Li Yunlong laughed in his unique voice, "Then I'll be waiting for Boss Chen."
After hanging up the call, Li Yunlong glanced at everyone with a happy expression and said: "Boss Chen really gave us Lao Li some face. He came as soon as I invited him. He will come to Dagu Town for the banquet later."
Everyone's faces also smiled slightly.
After a pause, Li Yunlong looked at Xing Zhiguo: "Deputy Captain Xing, please arrange for the cooking class to cook a big meal. I want to entertain Boss Chen."
As for the weapons and ammunition that Boss Chen gave to Xinyi Tuan, and asked Li Yunlong to call him daddy, Li Yunlong would be disrespecting those weapons and ammunition if he hesitated for even a second.
It's just that Boss Chen doesn't want anything, he just wants the New Regiment and the Eighth Route Army to kill the Japanese.
This is also one of the important reasons why Li Yunlong thinks about killing the Japanese all day long.
"In other words, if you can invite Boss Chen, the head of the group, I guess you can't even invite the head of the headquarters." Xing Zhiguo said with a smile.
With the identity of Boss Chen and the weapons and ammunition that aided the Eighth Route Army, let alone the new regiment, even if he went to the headquarters and YA, he would be a guest.
But Boss Chen doesn't like anyone, he only recognizes Li Yunlong.
This is actually equivalent to protecting Li Yunlong.
With the current strength of the new regiment and the level of equipment of the soldiers, not only people outside the Eighth Route Army are jealous, but many people within the Eighth Route Army are also eyeing this piece of fat.
Wherever there are people, there will be competition for interests.
But as long as Boss Chen is behind Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong will always be safe.
"Of course." The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth turned up slightly, "Boss Chen and I are half-brothers, haha."
Being recognized and firmly chosen by a big boss, Captain Li naturally felt secretly happy.
Soon, Xing Zhiguo asked the guards to pass the order to the cooking squad. The cooking squad leader understood very well and immediately began to greet the soldiers in the cooking squad to start killing pigs and sheep.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou were sitting around the kang table.
Xing Zhiguo said: "Captain, this time we earned 60 75mm mountain guns and 12 105mm howitzers. Can they be used to form two artillery battalions?"
Li Yunlong gave most of the artillery and cars captured to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
But Li Yunlong kept all the money he earned from doing business with Boss Chen.
"I have thought about this issue for a long time." Li Yunlong said: "Cannon is the god of war. If we want to dominate the battlefield in the future, we must pay attention to and use cannon on a large scale."
Not only the battalion school at the headquarters is conducting artillery training courses, but even the new regiment has already conducted artillery training courses.
This is also the main reason why Li Yunlong can quickly expand an artillery battalion when the artillery is in place.
Without excellent artillery, no matter how large-caliber or good a cannon you have, it will be nothing more than decoration.
Li Yunlong continued: "As the size of our regiment expands, the army's demand for artillery is also increasing."
"If the weapons and ammunition earned are used after the troop expansion is completed, then our new regiment is expected to have more than 20 infantry battalions, each with 2,000 men, and this number will increase in the future."
"But we currently only have four artillery battalions. During combat, there is no way to take care of all infantry battalions and provide artillery support to all infantry battalions."
"So, I decided to decentralize the 75mm mountain artillery to each infantry battalion."
"From now on, our regimental artillery battalions will only be equipped with cannons of 105 mm caliber and above."
At present, the infantry battalions of the New Regiment are equipped with artillery firepower that is not bad, including 60mm mortars, 82mm mortars, 20mm machine guns, and super bazookas.
In the past, the infantry battalions of the New Regiment basically relied on the artillery battalions to provide fire support when attacking fortified battles.
That was when there were few infantry battalions. In the future, there will be dozens or hundreds of infantry battalions. It is impossible to rely on artillery battalions to provide artillery support, right?
Unless the artillery battalion is dismantled.
In the future, Li Yunlong plans to imitate the headquarters and give the Japanese army a hundred-camp battle.
By then, these 100 battalions will be much stronger than the original 100 regiments in terms of strength, combat effectiveness, and equipment.
Zhao Gang asked: "How many mountain cannons do you plan to equip a battalion with?"
"How many?" Li Yunlong said angrily, "My plan is to add another mountain artillery battery to each infantry battalion, equipped with 12 75mm mountain guns."
Although the infantry battalions of the new regiment are battalion-level units, each battalion has a full strength of 2,000 people, and its troop strength has reached the regiment level, and it is a scale that can only be achieved by top main regiments.
Currently, each battalion has nine infantry companies and one artillery company. Each infantry company has three infantry platoons and one firepower platoon.
Li Yunlong is planning to add another mountain artillery company, and that infantry battalion will have 11 companies.
Xing Zhiguo said: "Captain, the infantry battalion has added an artillery company with 12 75mm mountain guns. Isn't the number of these mountain guns a little too much?"
"Where are you now?" Li Yunlong said, "Twelve mountain cannons are not many at all. When our new regiment numbered two to three thousand people, we already had dozens of mountain cannons."
Wang Dehou also analyzed: "By adding a mountain artillery company, the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion can indeed be qualitatively improved. Let alone a Japanese infantry brigade, even if it is a head-on attack on a Japanese infantry regiment, it is not a problem. But we also have to consider the logistical issues of each infantry battalion."
Li Yunlong said: "I have already considered this. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion, each infantry battalion will add a transportation support company, referred to as a transportation company, equipped with mules, horses and mule carts. It is mainly responsible for logistics support. From now on, each infantry battalion will add a transportation support company. All transport companies are equipped with automobiles, which means that the soldiers of the transport company are transformed into automobile soldiers."
Zhao Gang immediately smiled, his tone full of expectation: "By then, our new regiment will really be motorized."
When Li Yunlong said this, he was not trying to draw a cake like Okamura Neji, but he could really do it.
Currently, Xinyi Group has more than 300 trucks. When Boss Chen delivers the cars he earned last time, there will be more than 700 cars, exceeding the size of a car group.
At present, the new regiment has achieved semi-motorization. The so-called motorized infantry means infantry who use vehicles to maneuver and fight on foot.
Its characteristics are fast movement speed before the battle begins, adaptability to various terrain conditions, and flexibility, but there is no necessary cover during the battle, and the battle develops slowly.
Mechanized infantry is infantry mainly equipped with infantry fighting vehicles or armored personnel carriers.
Mechanized infantry is what Li Yunlong has in mind, and his ultimate goal is to build the new regiment into a mechanized infantry regiment.
Infantrymen go out in infantry fighting vehicles or armored vehicles.
During the battle, aircraft groups roared in the sky, heavy artillery on the ground supported them, and the infantry finally rushed to collect corn.
This kind of battle is in line with Li Yunlong's idea of a large army and deep battle.
Xing Zhiguo asked: "Each infantry battalion has 12 mountain cannons. Do we have enough mountain cannons?"
Li Yunlong calculated carefully: "We currently have 15 infantry battalions, including 4 main battalions and 11 divisional main battalions. When the expansion is completed, we will have at least 20 infantry battalions."
The battalion commanders and grassroots officers and soldiers sent by the headquarters have arrived. The first batch of recruits have been organized into four divisional main recruit battalions, and participated in the last battle to ambush the main force of the 1st Division.
"Even if we calculate it based on 20 infantry battalions," Xing Zhiguo said, "then we have to come up with at least 240 75mm mountain cannons to equip each infantry battalion, but our regiment's current 75mm mountain cannons only add up to 120."
This time, the new regiment earned 60 75mm mountain guns. The total number of 75mm mountain guns of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion was 60.
The 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion are equipped with 30 75mm mountain guns and 12 105mm howitzers.
Even if all the mountain artillery from the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion were used to equip the infantry battalion, it would only be half as good as 120 mountain artillery pieces.
And in this way, the firepower of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion was greatly weakened, and they really became artillery battalions.
What's more, it may be expanded to more than 20 infantry battalions.
Wang Dehou suddenly said: "Can you ask Boss Chen for an advance payment of 120 75mm mountain guns?"
Xing Zhiguo said: "I am afraid that the 120 mountain guns in advance are not enough... If the mountain guns of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion are used to equip the infantry battalions, the firepower of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion will be reduced by more than half."
Wang Dehou said: "In addition to the advance payment of 120 75mm mountain guns, we will also provide an advance payment of 60 105mm howitzers to Boss Chen?"
"You don't do business like this." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "You can ask Boss Chen to advance a little, but not too much. Otherwise, just ask Boss Chen to advance hundreds of thousands of weapons and equipment. In that case, our Eighth Route Army will have almost 100 Thousands of elite soldiers."
"What Lao Li said makes sense." Zhao Gang nodded, "We do want to expand and strengthen the team, but we are not in a hurry."
"Yes, we don't have that many artillery now."
Seeing that both Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang said this, Wang Dehou also understood the reason.
After a pause, Wang Dehou said again: "By the way, we have killed two more major generals this time. Commander, are you going to trade the two major generals for air support or B4 heavy howitzers?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo also looked at Li Yunlong.
"I plan to switch to air support." Li Yunlong said, "We currently have 24 B4 heavy howitzers, which is enough."
Li Yunlong has great expectations for the B4 heavy howitzer. When this thing appears on the battlefield, it will definitely bring big surprises to the Japanese army.
Zhao Gang said: "In addition, you can get a production line by killing a major general. This time we need a smokeless gunpowder production line and a bullet production line, right?"
Killing a major general can get you a manufacturing factory, but you can't get a complete arsenal.
However, killing a major general will give you an arsenal production line.
At present, the Eighth Route Army's arsenal and cement factory have been completed and put into operation. At present, the output is not large due to unskilled workers and raw materials.
Smokeless powder production line and bullet production line are more important, smokeless powder and bullets are the top priority.
"Okay." Li Yun nodded, "However, we don't have the technicians from the arsenal, so we have to find a way to poach people from Yan Laoxi."
Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal already had 7,000 employees before the July 7th Incident.
After the Japanese army invaded Shanxi, Yan Xishan wanted to transport factory equipment to the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, but until the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, only a small part of the machinery and equipment was transported.
However, most of the employees of the Taiyuan Arsenal were transported by Yan Xishan to Sichuan, Shaanxi, southwestern Shanxi and other regions to build a northwest manufacturing plant with a total of seven branches, more than 2,500 employees, and more than 700 pieces of equipment.
However, due to frequent bombings by the Japanese army and insufficient raw materials in the past few years, these branches were almost shut down.
After learning about these situations, Li Yunlong certainly wanted to recruit these employees.
"The best way is to exchange things with Yan Xishan." Xing Zhiguo said, "But apart from weapons and ammunition, we have nothing else of value."
"Use weapons and ammunition to exchange with Chief Yan." Zhao Gang said with his eyes full of thought, "I'm afraid Chief Yan will open his mouth wide. This person is very cunning."
"It is said that Yan Laoxi can dance on three eggs." Li Yunlong's eyes narrowed slightly and his tone was disdainful, "I just don't believe in this evil. That is to say, Yan Laoxi's Jinsui Army did not dare to mess with our new group. If he dares to mess with our new group, the two Jinsui Army will give him a bloody defeat!"
Li Yunlong is not exaggerating at all.
The 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division, originally known as the Steel Army, fought all the way from Pingxingguan to southern Shanxi, defeating more than thirty divisions of the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army.
The current strength of the new regiment has surpassed that of the original fifth division.
Even if it is a frontal attack and defense, it is easy for the new regiment to defeat the entire Jinsui Army.
(End of chapter)
