When they were in the New Regiment, Kong Jie and Ding Wei had seen the power of heavy howitzers.
Siege a city, build reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, and attack infantry. It is definitely a real killer weapon.
Of course, the premise is to have air supremacy. Without air supremacy, once such a big killer appears on the battlefield, even if there is anti-aircraft firepower, the Japanese aircraft will definitely use suicide attacks to deal with heavy howitzers. Because of this
Heavy howitzers pose too great a threat to enemy fortifications and infantry.
This time, brothers Ding Wei and Kong Jie each received four 150mm heavy howitzers and celebrated the New Year happily.
However, compared with Li Yunlong, he pales into insignificance.
This kid Li Yunlong quietly killed a lieutenant general and two major generals, and directly obtained 32 heavy howitzers!
Even if Li Yunlong handed over 16 heavy howitzers to the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the new regiment would still have 16 heavy howitzers left.
Including the previous 8, there are a total of 24 heavy howitzers.
Now the artillery firepower of the new regiment has steadily risen to a higher level.
"It's really hard to compare people to each other, and you have to throw away goods when comparing goods!" Kong Jie sighed with emotion. He didn't have any envy in his heart, but he didn't feel jealous.
Even if he met him, Kong Jie would definitely scold Li Yunlong for being an idiot for running such a big business all by himself.
But Kong Jie was sincerely happy. He was happy that his old comrade had made another big fortune, and he was happy that the strength of the Eighth Route Army had increased.
"Calculated this way, the new regiment and the headquarters each have 24 heavy howitzers, which is the size of two heavy howitzer regiments..."
Ding Wei sounded excited:
"These heavy howitzers can be used as the trump card and strategic weapons of our Eighth Route Army."
Kong Jie nodded and agreed happily: "Yes, the artillery firepower of our Eighth Route Army should now exceed that of the First Army and even the North China Front Army, but there is too little ammunition."
The Eighth Route Army now has almost 20 artillery regiments with an organic size of 75mm or above.
The artillery units under the New 1st Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment alone have six artillery formations equivalent to the size of an artillery regiment.
Although there is a 75mm artillery shell production line in southeastern Shanxi.
But there are no production lines for 105mm, 150mm and 203mm howitzer shells.
Moreover, the reserve of artillery shells with a caliber of 105 mm and above is only 3 base numbers, and each shot needs to be approved by the head of the headquarters.
If you want to obtain a steady stream of artillery shells, you can only hand over cannons above 105 mm to the command of Li Yunlong.
Ding Wei also said: "In addition to the small number of artillery shells, the reserves of bullets, grenades and explosives are not sufficient. It will still be some time before our Eighth Route Army fully counterattacks the Japanese in North China, but it should be soon."
If the Eighth Route Army launched a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese in North China, it would definitely be a large-scale battle.
Ding Wei and Kong Jie were deeply touched by the consumption of ammunition in large corps operations.
In the last anti-mopping operation, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment alone fired more than 6 million rounds of ammunition and 100,000 artillery shells.
And this was only half a month of fighting. Without the airdrop supplies provided by Boss Chen, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment would certainly not have been able to last for half a month under the fierce attack of the four Japanese divisions.
Even so, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment paid a heavy price in casualties.
Of course, the Japanese casualties were even greater.
If you want to counterattack the North China Front, regain North China, and gain a firm foothold when the Japanese army mobilizes heavy troops to counterattack, you must prepare huge amounts of combat materials.
"In addition to combat supplies," Kong Jie said, "there is another point. With the exception of the New Regiment, our troops mainly focus on guerrilla warfare and are not adapted to the way of large corps operations."
Ding Wei nodded and said: "Lao Kong, you are on to the point. It will take a relatively long time to transform from guerrilla warfare to large-scale corps warfare."
Although the heads of the headquarters have learned how to fight in large corps, it takes a process for the troops to transform from guerrilla warfare to fighting in large corps.
In this process, there may be victories and failures.
But the moment the Eighth Route Army truly adapts to large-scale operations, it will be the end of the little devils in North China!
"However, the little devil has been learning our tactics recently." Kong Jie sneered, "How dare a small group of troops penetrate into our base area to cause damage."
Ding Wei also snorted coldly: "You kid really doesn't know how to write the word death!"
Both of them received telegrams from Li Yunlong.
There was no detailed route or time for the Japs to infiltrate into the base area in the telegram. Both of them knew it, and it must be Boss Chen who had not obtained any specific information.
Otherwise, when the Japs infiltrate into the base area, they can just send troops to exterminate them, and Ding Wei doesn't have to make a trip.
The information given by Boss Chen was that the two advancing teams of the Japanese army were about to disguise themselves as the Eighth Route Army and enter the defense areas of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment to carry out assassinations and sabotage, destroying military-civilian relations.
The main targets of these two advancing teams are militiamen and ordinary people, and they also collect intelligence on the base area.
However, both Ding Wei and Kong Jie were very satisfied with the price of killing this group of devils.
This time the business was the same as the last time they attacked the county. The New First Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment were doing business in partnership. Ding Wei and Kong Jie took the big head, and Li Yunlong took the small head.
"Lao Kong, how are you going to deal with this infiltration of Japanese invaders?"
Good wine and good food were served. While eating and drinking, Ding Wei looked at Kong Jie and asked.
After a glass of wine and sitting on the kang connected to the kitchen, Ding Wei's chill and fatigue from the journey were instantly washed away.
Kong Jie ate a fried peanut, raised his head and took a sip of wine, with a stern look in his eyes: "It's very simple, close the door and beat the dog."
"Close the door and beat the dogs?" Ding Wei asked, "What do you mean, let the Japanese in and destroy them? I'm afraid these Japanese are disguised as the Eighth Route Army. It's not that easy to find, right?"
"Old Ding, aren't you just in a hurry and got confused?"
Kong Jie chuckled and said: "Although these devils are wearing our clothes, the weapons in their hands are very different from ours."
"Yes..." Ding Wei's eyes lit up slightly, "How could I forget this!"
Ding Wei and Kong Jie were both sure that in the last anti-mopping operation, the Japanese failed to seize a semi-automatic rifle from the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
During the counterattack of the New Regiment, the Japanese captured more than a dozen semi-automatic rifles.
There was nothing that could be done about it. During the counterattack of the New Regiment, the entire seventh company of the New Regiment was sacrificed.
Fortunately, the artillery of the new regiment fired at the Japanese position in time and plowed the Japanese position over and over again. Otherwise, the Japanese would have captured at least dozens of semi-automatic rifles.
There are 200 people in the Japanese advance team. These dozen semi-automatic rifles are definitely not enough for the Japanese.
Moreover, Kong Jie estimated that the Japanese would definitely not be willing to give the dozens of semi-automatic rifles they had finally captured to the Japanese advance team members.
After all, this semi-automatic rifle is also very advanced equipment among the Japanese.
Maybe the Japanese have sent these semi-automatic rifles to local arsenals to study and imitate them.
Kong Jie continued:
"Now that we know that the enemy's equipment is different from our main force, it's easy to handle."
"The Japanese advance team will definitely not dare to infiltrate from the main road, because there are many open and hidden sentinels on the main road."
"Then the enemy must have penetrated into our base along the path."
"During this period of time, we will place more open and hidden sentries on the paths."
"Once we find traces of the Japs, let's not make any noise first. Let the Japs in first, and then send troops to quietly block the Japs' retreat."
"Next, just send troops to encircle and suppress them."
"No matter how many people the Japanese infiltrate in, once they are discovered, there is no possibility of escape."
Intelligence showed that the Japanese were disguised as the main force of the Eighth Route Army and infiltrated into the base area.
Rather than pretending to be militiamen.
There is a big difference between the militia and the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
Although the main force of the Eighth Route Army was often stationed in villages and lived with the common people, they basically trained alone in a certain venue.
The militiamen are half civilians and half soldiers. They train when there is nothing to do, and they are busy with farm work when there is trouble.
Moreover, the militia and the main force are also very different in terms of equipment and wear.
Generally speaking, the main force is stronger than the militia in terms of combat effectiveness and the temperament of the troops.
Of course, there are also some powerful militia teams.
Ding Wei nodded sternly: "Okay, let's do it!"
After a pause, Ding Wei said again: "If I had known it was so easy, you could just send me a telegram, which would make my trip in vain, in this cold weather..."
The reason why Ding Wei came over to discuss with Kong Jie.
To be continued...