In the next half month, there was little fighting in North China.
The Northern Shanxi Iron Triangle is busy preparing its military and waiting for the counterattack.
The new regiment has almost been reorganized. The expansion of 15 infantry battalions has been completed. Each infantry battalion has more than 2,500 people and has 12 companies under its jurisdiction.
The new regiment has formed a new rocket launcher battalion, equipped with 16 Katyusha rocket launchers, but it is still in training and has not yet formed combat effectiveness.
The Sharp Sword Squadron is also stepping up training, and has absorbed a group of good talents including Ma Chengfeng, expanding its strength to 140 people.
When the Sharp Sword Squadron expands to more than 200 people, it will no longer be called the Sharp Sword Squadron, but the Sharp Sword Brigade.
Zhao Gang hurriedly walked into the regiment headquarters and found that Li Yunlong was not reading as usual, but lying on the table, working on the map on the table.
What is this bitch doing?
Zhao Gang walked over to Li Yunlong and took a look.
"Old Li, are you planning to attack Datong?"
Seeing a few arrows on the map, Zhao Gang immediately guessed what Li Yunlong wanted to do.
"Yes, I am planning to attack the 1st Division stationed in Datong."
Li Yunlong nodded, without hiding anything from Zhao Gang, and threw the triangle ruler and pencil onto the map.
Although Li Yunlong was born with a talent for reading pictures, his homework on the pictures was rather sloppy.
However, Li Yunlong's basic skills in working on the map are pretty good now, no worse than several combat staff officers at the regiment headquarters.
"In the past two months, our new regiment has expanded by more than 20,000 recruits!"
Li Yunlong said solemnly:
"The total strength has exceeded 50,000, and nearly half of the soldiers are new recruits. I am worried that the combat effectiveness of the army will be affected."
The New First Regiment recruited 16,000 recruits, and 9,000 new recruits were obtained from the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
With only about 3,000 new recruits left, the new regiment completed this wave of expansion.
The training camp is already recruiting new recruits. In two to three months at most, these 3,000 recruits will be trained and ready to go to the battlefield.
Zhao Gang nodded. As Li Yunlong's partner for two years, he instantly guessed Li Yunlong's purpose: "Old Li, do you want to attack the 1st Division to accumulate practical experience for new recruits?"
"That's right!" Li Yunlong said, "In addition to accumulating actual combat experience for new recruits, we can also earn weapons and ammunition. The 1st Division is very valuable to our new regiment!"
Li Yunlong has long coveted the 3 times the business of infantry and cavalry of the 1st Division.
Now the 1st Division has been crippled and its combat effectiveness is not strong, but the 1st Division is still a Category A division, and its infantry business is still three times as high.
Fighting against the 1st Division of Datong not only allows the new recruits to gain practical combat experience, but also makes a lot of money. No matter how you look at it, it is not a loss.
Li Yunlong's original plan was that the new regiment would not fight major battles in the past few months, while expanding its troops while waiting for the Japanese's mopping up in March and April or a major counterattack in June.
However, after Li Yunlong exchanged cannons for 9,000 recruits from Ding Wei and Kong Jie, the new regiment completed most of the expansion plan three months ahead of schedule.
This gives Li Yunlong more capital to cause trouble.
Li Yunlong continued his analysis: "Boss Chen estimates that the Japanese army will launch a large-scale raid on our Eighth Route Army from March to June."
"The North China Front does not dare to sweep away the Eighth Route Army in northwest and southeastern Shanxi, but it will sweep away the Eighth Route Army's brother units in other military regions."
"Although the fraternal forces in other military regions have strengthened their artillery firepower and have more ammunition than before, they are definitely no match for the Japanese army."
"If the Japanese are allowed to launch a large-scale raid, the brother military regions will inevitably suffer heavy losses."
Zhao Gang smiled slightly: "So, you deliberately asked Wang Dehou to send a letter to the compatriots across the country and the Japanese invaders, in order to attract the Japanese to attack our new regiment?"
As Zhao Gang expected, as soon as the telegram was sent out, it didn't take long for the whole country to be in an uproar.
Li Yunlong's fame and reputation even surpassed Xue Yue's.
After all, General Xue didn't kill so many Japanese generals.
On the other side of the Japanese army, Tian Locust was furious and had already made harsh words to destroy Li Yunlong and Xinyi Tuan at all costs.
"That's right!" Li Yunlong raised the corners of his mouth without any panic, "The more Japanese soldiers come to northwest Shanxi to attack us, the greater our fortune will be."
Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong, with a look of admiration in his eyes and expression.
No matter what Li Yunlong thought, his strategy of forcing the Japanese army to attack the new regiment in northwest Shanxi could be said to be quite clever.
This is a conspiracy, so the Japanese have to attack the new group.
Unless the Japanese even lose face, and the Japanese always take revenge for their anger, they can even give up their dignity for the sake of face. In order to avenge the 16 generals, there is a high probability that a large army will be sent to attack northwest Shanxi.
Li Yunlong, this kid, already has strategic thinking.
Zhao Gang sighed secretly.
Li Yunlong added: "After the victory over the 1st Division and the counter-mopping operations from March to June, it will be our Eighth Route Army's turn to counterattack..."
"When the time comes, hehe..."
Li Yunlong smiled with killing intent.
In addition to accumulating practical experience for new recruits, Li Yunlong also had to accumulate practical experience for the artillery of each infantry battalion.
The mountain artillery company under each infantry battalion is equipped with 12 mountain cannons, and each mountain cannon is equipped with an artillery squad. Since there are not many artillerymen with actual combat experience, in each artillery squad, only the squad leader and deputy squad leader have actual combat experience, and the rest of the artillery either They were new recruits, or cadets who had just graduated from artillery school.
In a word, actual combat is the best training. Learn to fight in battle.
Zhao Gang asked: "If we attack the 1st Division at this time, aren't you afraid of reinforcements from the Mongolian Army and the 1st Army?"
"What are you afraid of?" Li Yunlong was confident. "If you are afraid of this or that, why fight? You can just go home and hold your child."
"I'm not afraid of war." Zhao Gang explained, "Didn't you analyze it last time? If we attack the 26th Division stationed in Datong, all of North China will be reduced to a pot of porridge. This 1st Division is more valuable than the 26th Division. Much more, and then the entire Japanese army in North China will have to be reinforced."
Li Yunlong said: "At that time, I was really worried that the North China Front would be turned into a pot of porridge, but now that the main force of our three regiments in northwestern Shanxi has a total of 80,000 people and all American equipment, I am really not afraid that the entire North China Front will be turned into a pot of porridge. Once a pot of porridge is ready, we will definitely make a fortune!"
Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Okay, you, Chief of Staff Wang and Battalion Commander Zhang will formulate a battle plan as soon as possible to attack the 1st Division sooner rather than later."
At this moment, a telegraph soldier walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand.
The telegraph soldier gave a military salute and said: "Report to the regimental commander and political commissar that there is a call from the headquarters."
Zhao Gang took the telegram and read it. The telegraph soldier turned around and left quickly.
Zhao Gang read the telegram and said: "The head of the headquarters ordered us to go to Woniu Mountain in Xing County, the junction of Luliang Mountain and northwest Shanxi, in four days, and exchange 5,000 American infantry equipment with the Shanxi-Sui Army for skilled workers. As for 12 mountain guns and three A base number of shells will be issued from the headquarters."
Li Yunlong nodded. He had already prepared the American equipment for 5,000 people.
This is the spare weapons and ammunition for the new group, American equipment for exactly 5,000 people.
After the deal with Ding Wei and Kong Jie, Li Yunlong only had a few mountain cannons left as spare weapons, so the 12 mountain cannons were provided by the headquarters.
After all, the headquarters had just made a fortune, and these 12 mountain cannons were nothing to the headquarters.
Zhao Gang said worriedly: "Old Li, Yan Xishan doesn't know how to play any tricks, does he?"
"How dares Yan Laoxi?" Li Yunlong snorted coldly, "If he dares to play tricks, I will destroy his Jinsui Army without my own troops."
Although it is now the anti-Japanese national united front, Li Yunlong always guards against the national army.
Similarly, the national army is also on guard against the communist army, and both sides do not fully trust the other.
Today's New Regiment is really capable of destroying the Jinsui Army, not to mention the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, which can be commanded and dispatched by Li Yunlong at any time.
The 21st Brigade of the Japanese Fifth Division defeated more than 30 divisions of the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army.
At present, the Jinsui Army has only a dozen divisions and 70,000 to 80,000 troops.
The current new regiment is much more powerful than the entire fifth division. Isn't it easy to defeat the Jinsui Army?
Li Yunlong's troops were nominally under the command of Yan Xishan, but that was only in name.
At this moment, the telegraph soldier walked in with another telegram, saluted with a standard military salute and said:
"Report to the head of the regiment, political commissar, boss Chen in a secret message."
"Telegram me."
Li Yunlong's eyes flashed, he stood up from the bench, took the telegram from the telegraph soldier, and the telegraph soldier turned around and left quickly.
In Li Yunlong's case, Boss Chen's telegram is obviously more important than the headquarters' telegram.
After all, the telegram sent from the headquarters may be a robbery telegram, while the telegram from Boss Chen is most likely a telegram to make Li Yunlong rich.
"This Yan Laoxi is really fucking tricking us."
After reading the telegram sent by Boss Chen, Li Yunlong couldn't help but stare.
"Lao Li, what happened?"
Zhao Gang was suddenly shocked. Seeing Li Yunlong acting like this, he seemed to be serious about it.
"Old Zhao, see for yourself!"
Li Yunlong handed the telegram to Zhao Gang.
Zhao Gang picked up the telegram and read it. The contents of the telegram were clearly information about Yan Xishan's instructions to install military commanders and Japanese spies among the arsenal technicians.
Boss Chen even sent a telegram with a list of general agents and Japanese spies.
There are a total of 12 special agents and spies, including 6 military commanders and 6 Japanese spies each.
"This Yan Laoxi!"
Even the good-tempered Zhao Gang couldn't help but get a little angry when he saw this information.
Neither Li Yunlong nor Zhao Gang doubted the authenticity of the information sent by Boss Chen.
If it weren't for Boss Chen's information, these agents and spies would have sneaked into the North Shanxi Arsenal, and they would most likely have caused immeasurable losses to the arsenal!
After a pause, Zhao Gang sneered: "Yan Laoxi's trick of borrowing a knife to kill someone is quite clever."
Yan Xishan's own spies did not want to get involved. Even if the incident came to light later and military agents and Japanese spies were caught, they were not Yan Laoxi's people and had nothing to do with the Shanxi-Sui Army.
Because the military commander and the Japanese army did not want the Eighth Route Army in northwestern Shanxi to build an arsenal even more than Yan Xishan did.
"I will not offend others unless they offend me. If someone offends me, I will offend them."
Li Yunlong's body was filled with a chilling aura: "This time, we must teach Yan Laoxi a lesson!"
Zhao Gang said: "Old Li, don't be impulsive. Let's discuss this matter in the long term. If you don't do it right, Yan Laoxi will accuse you of undermining the United Front of the National War of Resistance. It's enough for you to drink a pot."
"Don't worry." Li Yunlong said with confidence, "I have a sense of propriety!"
(End of chapter)
