"Yes, I will organize manual work on the ammunition depot and hangar as soon as possible." Xing Zhiguo responded crisply.
Today's new regiment is developing better and better, and Xing Zhiguo, as the deputy leader, is becoming more and more motivated.
Although Xing Zhiguo was only the deputy commander of the new regiment, he would not replace Xing Zhiguo even if he was given a division commander.
Now that the new regiment brings out a main battalion, it can easily defeat a division of the Chinese army, and it can also gain the upper hand in a head-on battle with an elite Japanese regiment.
A combined battalion coupled with an artillery battalion can fight head-on with a Japanese second-line division.
The entire new regiment can be dispatched to defeat the entire Jinsui Army now, and it is about to be equipped with aircraft. Xing Zhiguo is naturally very comfortable to be the deputy commander of such a regiment.
He was a little lucky. When the head of the headquarters asked him if he would like to be the deputy leader of the new regiment, he agreed without hesitation.
At that time, Xing Zhiguo was already the leader of the main regiment of the 386 Brigade.
When the equipment of the new regiment is put on the plane and it gains air supremacy in the battle, the combat effectiveness of the new regiment and even the Eighth Route Army will be qualitatively improved.
Therefore, Xing Zhiguo appears to be very active in repairing the airport's oil depot and ammunition depot.
Of course, Xing Zhiguo is also very capable.
Not only can he organize and dispatch manpower to carry out infrastructure construction, and make airports, highways, oil depots and ammunition depots work in an orderly manner, he can also assist Li Yunlong in the military and provide suggestions and ideas.
This is also related to the positive learning atmosphere of Xinyi Tuan. Li Yunlong's attitude is very clear. If he can't do his job well, get out and let the headquarters send people with more ability.
Xing Zhiguo is Li Yunlong's old comrade-in-arms. His tactical command ability and work ability are unparalleled, and he has won Li Yunlong's trust.
However, Xing Zhiguo himself is also very active in learning and has been making progress.
When Li Yunlong heard this, he nodded with great satisfaction, and then said: "While everyone is here, let's discuss the organization of the army."
"The current total strength of our regiment is about 40,000, of which 8,000 are new recruits and are training at the training camp."
"Previously, our infantry battalion had about 2,000 personnel. Each infantry battalion had 10 companies, including 9 infantry companies and 1 artillery company."
"Each infantry company has three infantry platoons and one firepower platoon."
"But after several major battles, the troops suffered a lot of attrition. Each infantry battalion actually only had more than 1,000 people."
"So, I plan to not expand new infantry battalions for the time being with these more than 8,000 new soldiers, but to use them to replenish the structure of each infantry battalion and expand the mountain artillery company and transportation support company."
Xing Zhiguo said: "In this way, each infantry battalion will have 12 companies."
Wang Dehou suggested: "Should we also create a joint company between the battalion and the company? Just like the joint battalion, the treatment of some company commanders with strong tactical command capabilities will be upgraded to the level of battalion deputy, and then in wartime, Let these company commanders, who are treated as battalion deputy level, command the battle."
Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "That's not necessary."
Zhao Gang thought for a while and said: "Although the structure of the infantry battalion is a bit bloated, it is within an acceptable range. The infantry battalion commander of our regiment either followed Lao Li and fought for it with swords and guns, or he went to the Anti-Japanese Army. An outstanding officer who has graduated from the academy is more than capable of serving as a regiment commander, and a battalion commander has no problem commanding 12 companies."
There is nothing that can be done about this. Li Yunlong will not be promoted, but the army must develop and grow.
The army can only adopt this structure.
In fact, in the original drama, in the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Yunlong's regiment had thousands of people, a total of eight battalions.
Based on the number of people, the average strength of each battalion is about 1,000.
Wang Dehou thought about it carefully and found no problem so far. The infantry battalion had one more mountain artillery company and one more transportation support company, which was not much different from before.
So Wang Dehou chose to reserve his opinion.
"In this case, each infantry battalion must have at least 2,500 troops."
Xing Zhiguo said:
"We currently have a total of 15 infantry battalions. 15 times 2,500, that is 37,500 people."
"Then our recruits are far from enough. We need at least 10,000 more recruits."
Zhao Gang nodded and said: "Yes, we have to expand a rocket launcher battalion and select outstanding artillerymen and soldiers from the whole regiment to form a rocket launcher battalion. The artillerymen and logistics personnel of this rocket launcher battalion will have at least 1,000 people."
The headquarters has called back and agreed to Li Yunlong's request to keep these rocket launchers in the new regiment.
Wait for the next batch of rocket launchers and rocket launchers to be handed over to the headquarters.
Li Yunlong looked thoughtful.
Originally, he wanted to expand a few more infantry battalions, but now it seems that this wave can only be expanded to 15 infantry battalions.
When the expansion is completed, the total strength of the 15 infantry battalions will be 37,500 people.
In addition, there are 4 artillery battalions, 2 cavalry battalions, transport battalions, automobile battalions, engineer battalions, 88 mm anti-aircraft gun battalions, 37 mm anti-aircraft gun battalions, 20 mm machine gun battalions, teaching battalions, guard battalions, sword squadrons, tank battalions and other units A total of more than 15,000 people.
When I brag to Kong Jie and Ding Wei someday, they will be shocked when I tell them that there are a total of 31 battalion-level units.
In addition, there is a logistics transportation team directly under the regiment headquarters, which is not included in the main force.
During wartime, there were tens of thousands of militiamen and civilians responsible for logistics support, transportation, and helping to carry the wounded.
Although a few less infantry battalions have been expanded, the overall strength of the army has been greatly strengthened.
Once these infantry battalions are reorganized, and each infantry battalion is taken out individually, its combat effectiveness will be no worse than the infantry regiment under the Japanese Army's Type A Division, and its firepower will be stronger.
Li Yunlong calculated carefully and found that the infantry and artillery were almost enough, but the number of cavalry and tanks was relatively small.
Next, the new regiment will have to vigorously develop cavalry and tank troops.
A Japanese A-type division with about 30,000 people has one cavalry regiment with more than 1,300 cavalry, while the new regiment with 50,000 people has only 2 cavalry battalions with 1,500 cavalry. Is this ridiculous?
The new regiment must have at least 3,000 cavalry.
There is also a new group of tanks, which must be at least 200. Otherwise, how can we fight a blitzkrieg?
However, you have to eat the meal one bite at a time and walk step by step. If you walk too fast, you may break your eggs.
In the future, there will be large-scale cavalry, and there will also be large-scale tanks.
Li Yunlong tapped the table lightly with his fingers and said: "Didn't we calculate last time? After equipping all 75mm mountain cannons to 15 infantry battalions, we still have more than 50 75mm mountain cannons left."
The New Regiment bombarded Wusu Airport, destroying 33 enemy aircraft and earning a total of 219 guns.
Among them, 165 are 75mm mountain guns and 54 are 105mm howitzers.
The new regiment has a total of 15 infantry battalions. Each infantry battalion is equipped with 12 mountain cannons, requiring a total of 180 mountain cannons.
In addition to the 165 75mm mountain guns earned from the last shelling of Wusu Airport, the new regiment also has more than 60 75mm mountain guns from the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion.
Then the total number of mountain guns in the new regiment is more than 230. If 180 are used to equip each infantry battalion, there will be more than 50 guns left.
After the 75mm mountain guns of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion were removed, these 54 105mm howitzers were added.
Then the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion will also complete the refit, each equipped with 36 identical 105mm howitzers, and the artillery firepower will be greatly enhanced.
Originally, Li Yunlong wanted to use these more than 50 75mm mountain guns to form a mountain gun battalion.
But it is obvious that the number of recruits and artillery trainees in the new regiment are far insufficient.
Although the headquarters also sent hundreds of artillerymen who had just graduated from the artillery school to the new regiment.
But Li Yunlong had just handed over 354 cannons to the headquarters, which was the number of cannons for 10 artillery regiments. There was also a shortage of artillery at the headquarters.
Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic for Li Yunlong to ask for artillery from the headquarters.
Zhao Gang said: "Then these more than 50 75mm mountain cannons..."
"Give these more than 50 75mm mountain guns to Ding Wei and Kong Jie." Li Yunlong thought for a moment and said, "Exchange them for ready-made recruits. I heard that they have been recruiting recently, and they have recruited 10,000 more each. New recruits, and most of them are about to leave the company."
When the New Regiment arrived in northwest Shanxi, there were only over 6,000 people. In just over half a year, the New Regiment has grown to nearly 50,000 people.
While in southeastern Shanxi, even with the help of Boss Chen, it took more than a year for the new group to grow from more than 1,000 people to more than 6,000 people.
The army was still developing rapidly away from the headquarters, Li Yunlong secretly sighed.
The New Regiment's territory is so large, covering three or four counties, with a total population of only 400,000. The New Regiment has recruited about 40,000 new soldiers.
The supply of young and middle-aged soldiers in the New Regiment's defense area has basically been exhausted. At most, a few thousand more men can be recruited. The remaining men can at best serve as militiamen and have to take care of production.
The total population of the independent regiment and the new second regiment in the defense area is more than 800,000, with sufficient troop resources, and they can recruit another 60,000 to 70,000 new soldiers.
"This is a newly trained recruit." Zhao Gang said, "Can Commander Ding and Commander Kong agree?"
"Don't worry." Li Yunlong said confidently: "Ding Wei and Kong Jie are both profitless guys. If we ask them for free, they will definitely not give us anything. But they will not hesitate to exchange cannons for it."
"Ok, deal."
Li Yunlong said: "Let's take 50 75mm mountain guns, give 25 to Ding Wei and Kong Jie each, and let them each give our regiment No. 3,000 trained recruits. We will recruit No. 5,000 recruits from the militia and that's it."
Ding Wei's new second regiment and Kong Jie's independent regiment are about to expand to 20,000 people.
The two regiments have enough mortars, but the number of 75mm mountain guns is too small. Each regiment only has about 40 75mm mountain guns.
With the addition of these 50 75mm mountain artillery pieces, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment can each expand an artillery battalion, each having two artillery regiment-sized mountain artillery battalions.
Seeing that Li Yunlong had made up his mind, everyone nodded in agreement without any opinions.
After such a meeting, everyone has a clearer understanding of the establishment and future combat effectiveness of the New Regiment, and the focus of the New Regiment's future work is also clearer.
(End of chapter)
