"Oh?" Zhao Gang pretended to be surprised, "Now that you have learned to use idioms, when did you, Mr. Li, become an intellectual?"
"Bullshit!" Li Yunlong said disdainfully, "It's not me, Li Chui. When I was in private school, my grades were among the best."
After a pause, Li Yunlong said in a helpless tone: "When I was a child in our village, my family was not the poorest. At least we still had two acres of land. When the year was good, it was no problem for the family to eat snacks to fill their stomachs. My father said that this Even if I die poor in my life, I still have to let me study. The whole family saves money and saves money so that I can study at a private school. Unfortunately, I only studied for three years before I caught up with the disaster years. I didn’t have enough to eat, but I could still afford to study. ? I only learned the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Surnames", and it's all thanks to you and Brother Chen, otherwise my mind, Li Yunlong, would still be full of mush. I, Li Yunlong, burned high incense in my last life, and I met such a great intellectual like you. It was only when I met a big boss like Brother Chen that I lived a prosperous life and learned cultural knowledge."
After listening to Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang nodded helplessly.
In China today, the vast majority of people do not have enough to eat. How many people can receive knowledge, culture and education?
Many recruits can't even write their own names, and they don't know what the character is when the pole falls over.
There are many ordinary people who cannot even recognize the numbers on banknotes.
In the Eighth Route Army, many literacy classes were set up, and some Eighth Route Army soldiers carried small blackboards when moving and fighting.
In the past, Li Yunlong still didn’t believe that the labor and management could still win the war if they were illiterate and had low educational levels?
Study, study shit!
Now that he has learned how to read and write with Zhao Gang, learned cultural knowledge, and studied the military theory books given by Boss Chen, Commander Li realizes that before he was just sitting in a well and watching the sky.
In the past few times, he fought a dozen small-scale battles and commanded tens of millions of people, which was enough to support the sky.
If you want to command tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops in combat, you really can't do it without something in your mind.
As for commanding millions of troops to fight, Li Yunlong couldn't even think about it before, but at least he can think about it now.
"Education is the foundation of a country. If young people are strong, the country will be strong."
As a top student at Yenching University, Zhao Gang has deep eyes and thinks further than Li Yunlong:
"I have decided that we will build schools in northwestern Shanxi and let our children go to school for free."
Every base area of the Eighth Route Army had a school, and the schools in the base areas were also one of the key targets of destruction by the Japanese army.
In this three-thirds of an acre of land in northwest Shanxi, Zhao Gang's words still carry a lot of weight.
Li Yunlong tapped his fingers on the kang table, his eyes revealed as he thought:
"Old Zhao, you want all the children in northwestern Shanxi to go to school. This is a great thing. I, Old Li, support it with both hands."
"But have you ever thought about it, this is not easy!"
"Have you counted how many children there are in northwestern Shanxi and how many teachers are needed? We don't even have that many teachers."
"In addition, we need teaching materials and a lot of books, which will require at least one more paper mill."
"..."
"Furthermore, you have to take care of the lives of the tens of thousands of our main members of the New Regiment, as well as the political and ideological education of tens of thousands of people. Can you be busy?"
Listening to Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang frowned deeper and deeper.
When setting up schools, especially during war years, it is difficult for every child to go to school.
But after Zhao Gang frowned, the expression on his face became more and more determined, and his eyes became more and more solid.
"I know this is difficult, but we have to get it done. It depends on people."
"Old Li, you should know that in the Japanese war zone, the Japanese army forced Chinese children to learn Japanese and learn Japanese culture."
"This is a different kind of butcher knife used by the Japanese army to invade China."
"The little devils have evil intentions. They want to start from childhood and turn our next generation into their slaves."
"Japanese imperialism's policy of subjugating China is divided into two aspects: material and spiritual. We cannot..."
After hearing what Zhao Gang said, Li Yunlong also realized the seriousness of the matter and said: "Okay, since you said it is so serious, then I will do as you say."
Li Yunlong's idea was to streamline the military and administration first, streamline personnel, reduce institutions, and focus on developing the military, and wait until the little devils are driven out of China to do the rest.
However, what Zhao Gang meant was that the construction of the army and the construction of education go hand in hand.
Zhao Gang had this idea in the past, but now that the Japanese have been driven out of northwestern Shanxi, and the base area in northwestern Shanxi has become more and more stable, the idea of setting up education cannot be left in Zhao Gang's mind.
"I can write the teaching materials myself."
Zhao Gang continued:
"As for teachers, those who used to teach in private schools can continue to be employed, and their salaries will be paid by our Eighth Route Army."
"You can also ask for help from the headquarters. After all, the headquarters has much more resources and connections than we do."
"The headquarters mobilized forces to recruit intellectuals from all over the country to teach in northwestern Shanxi."
Li Yunlong nodded: "That's true..."
After a pause, Zhao Gang added: "Also, we are running the North Shanxi Arsenal. Don't you want Yan Laoxi's group of technicians? In fact, you can also ask the headquarters to negotiate with Chief Yan."
"This is a good idea." Li Yunlong nodded, "Then apply to the headquarters, and the head of the headquarters will negotiate with Yan Laoxi."
Although Li Yunlong wants to set up an arsenal, there are currently only steel plants, smokeless gunpowder production lines and bullet production lines.
The steel plant has begun operation, and Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang have given full responsibility to Zhang Wanhe.
Due to various reasons such as raw materials and unskilled technical workers, the current output of steel plants is still very low.
If you have your own steel factory, you can make steel. Although you can't make fine steel such as gun steel yet, you have taken the first step.
"By the way." Zhao Gang said again, "Didn't you say last time that the sixth and seventh battalions of the division should also be organized into main battalions?"
Li Yunlong nodded and said: "Originally, this was my plan, but considering that I have to apply for deputy regiment level treatment, these two battalions will not be organized into the main battalion for the time being, and will be designated as the First Division Battalion and the Second Division Battalion."
Zhao Gang nodded: "Okay!"
Not long after, Wang Dehou and Xing Zhiguo returned to the regiment headquarters, and Li Yunlong discussed with them some issues about the reorganization and the application for deputy regimental level treatment for the main battalion commander.
Wang Dehou and Xing Zhiguo had no objections.
Immediately, Wang Dehou drafted an application telegram and sent it to the headquarters.
After reading it, the head of the headquarters agreed to Li Yunlong's request after careful consideration.
According to common sense, if six battalion commanders were to apply for treatment at the deputy regimental level at once, the head of the headquarters would not approve such a request.
However, the situation of the new regiment is quite special. The few people Li Yunlong applied for are enough to be the main regiment leaders based on their military merit.
Moreover, the main reason why Li Yunlong applied for them to be treated at the deputy regimental level was mainly to facilitate the command of the new regiment in the future.
That is to say, Li Yunlong himself is unwilling to be promoted. If Li Yunlong was willing to be promoted, he would have been at the division commander level and the top spot in the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region.
Although the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region has not yet been established in northwestern Shanxi, the actual leaders of northwestern Shanxi are Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.
certainly.
Although the battalion commanders under Li Yunlong now live the life of regimental commanders, they still wear the hat of battalion commander.
But Li Yunlong cannot always be the regiment leader. When the Anti-Japanese War is won in the future, with Li Yunlong's military exploits and the record of the New Regiment, the New Regiment will definitely be at the guest regiment level.
The battalion commanders under him are naturally rising with the tide.
The battalion commanders all understand this, which is one of the reasons why the New Regiment has won so many battles without any battalion commander raising objections.
After all, no one who can reach the level of battalion commander is a fool. On the other hand, battalion commanders do not fight for promotion and wealth.
…
Soon, the new group had completed the preliminary adaptation.
The infantry battalion now has 6 main battalions and 9 divisional infantry battalions, for a total of 15 infantry battalions.
Since the battle losses of each battalion have not been replenished, each infantry battalion has not reached the full strength of 2,000 men.
The transportation companies and mountain artillery companies that Li Yunlong assigned to each infantry battalion have not yet been completed.
In addition, more than 10,000 recruits are participating in recruit training at the training camp.
After a group of new recruits have been trained, priority will be given to replenishing them to each battalion so that each battalion reaches full strength. The transportation company and mountain artillery company will be equipped with each infantry battalion.
Of course, at the beginning, due to the insufficient number of mountain guns and artillery, each mountain gun company of the infantry battalion could not reach the number of 12 mountain guns.
As for how many mountain cannons can be equipped for each infantry battalion's mountain artillery company.
Just look at how many Japanese planes this wave can kill.
This time, Boss Chen was very sincere and would give 5 mountain cannons to every enemy plane he killed.
Five days later, Boss Chen sent Yan Shuangying to send the arrival time of the Japanese plane to Wusu Airport and the information of the Japanese flying team to the headquarters of the new regiment in Dagu Town.
"The Japanese Army's 32nd Flying Team, half of the 5th Flying Team, and 36 aircraft."
"Arrival time at Wusu Airport is around 3 pm on January 30."
In the inner room of the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong's eyes flashed as he closed the information on Japanese aircraft.
Among them, the 32nd Flying Team is a heavy bomber team, a full bomber team, while the 5th Flying Team is a fighter team, only half of the flying team, plus 3 reconnaissance aircraft and 3 bombers, a total of 36 aircraft airplane.
Li Yunlong carefully calculated and destroyed all the aircraft, which was 180 75mm mountain cannons.
Based on the calculation of 36 75mm mountain guns in an artillery regiment, it is enough for the Eighth Route Army to equip 5 artillery regiments!
If we kill these Japanese pilots again, it will be even more profitable!
How many Japanese pilots you can kill depends on your luck.
But Li Yunlong was ready to destroy all these Japanese planes.
so.
Li Yunlong planned to wait until the Japanese plane arrived at Taiyuan Wusu Airport to take action!
However, the defenses around Taiyuan are now much stronger than when Yoshio Shinozuka was the commander. It is not that easy to bombard the Japanese airport.
Li Yunlong's eyes dropped, and he narrowed his eyes as he stared at the map, revealing a hint of thought.
(End of chapter)
