The boss is really here.

And they have all arrived at the 386th Brigade Department.

"Chen Gen, I congratulate you on getting rich, hahaha."

Accompanied by the hearty laughter, a burly figure walked into the brigade department.

The brigade commander staggered, but when he turned around, he had a smile on his face: "Oh, it's the boss? What wind has blown you?"

“Southeast wind.”

The boss smiled and said, "Your southeast wind is really timely."

"Because your 386th Brigade has restrained a large number of Japanese troops from Niangziguan to Yangquan sections and has strongly supported the brother troops on other sections of the road. As of this afternoon, we have successively removed nine large strongholds along Zhengtai Road. Now there are only four large strongholds left and are still fighting stubbornly, but it will be a matter of time before we get rid of them."

"Next, we can consider attacking Shouyang and Jingjing."

"When Ping Shouyang and Jingjing County are captured, the first phase of the war will end successfully."

What the boss said was not a cliché. The 386th Brigade's fierce attack between Niangzi Pass and Yangquan not only restrained a large number of Japanese troops, but also attracted the 9th Japanese Flying Team, making it impossible for other strongholds along Zhengtai Road to obtain air support, and thus effectively supported the combat operations of several brother brigades.

There are also Tongpu Road and Baijin Line.

This is what is often said that one move will lead to an enemy, and the whole thing will be alive.

On the other hand, the Japanese army stationed in Shanxi was not careful and they lost everything.

"That's great." said the brigade commander, "President, if you have any tasks, even if you have one, you will not have any questions about the next battle, whether it is the main attack or the blocking attack."

"I just knew you, Chen Gen, wouldn't let me down."

The boss smiled and said, "But the combat mission is exempted. Your 386th Brigade has been fighting for three days and nights in a row, especially when fighting Yangquan County in the early morning this morning, it consumes a lot. The soldiers must be tired, so you should rest well and take enough energy to fight your brigade."

"Yes." said the brigade commander, "promise a good rest."

"There's another thing." The boss never used any tricks and spoke directly, "I'm going to build an artillery regiment, but I still lack a few cannons. I just saw a lot of cannons on the sanitation yard outside, so I counted it casually. It seemed that there were 12 37mm rapid-fire cannons plus 12 92 infantry cannons, right?"

"Yes." The brigade commander tried hard to squeeze out his smile, "a total of 24 various artillery pieces were seized."

Originally, the 4th Brigade had an artillery team, which was under its jurisdiction, which was equipped with 4 field grenades with a diameter of 75mm and 8 75mm caliber mountain guns.

If this artillery team was still in Yangquan County, it would be much harder to fight.

However, the artillery team was also transferred to the central China battlefield with Takashima Brigade.

Therefore, the 386th Brigade only seized 12 92 infantry artillery from two corps forces.

And 12 37mm rapid-fire guns removed from the Type 95 light tank.

"A total of 24 cannons? It seems more than just?" the boss smiled. "I also heard that the Independent Regiment seized a Japanese armored train, and there were 2 105-caliber cannons and 2 75-caliber anti-aircraft cannons?"

"Yes, there are 4 doors left." The brigade commander was about to laugh, "but it has not been shipped back yet."

"It's okay if I haven't been shipped back. I will send someone to pick it up." The boss smiled and said, "I'll want these 4 guns, as well as the rapid-fire guns and 92 infantry guns outside, give me half of them."

The boss was so cruel that he immediately asked for 16 guns from the brigade commander!

The brigade commander was almost crying and whispered: "Boss, 16 artillery pieces are not enough to form an artillery regiment?"

The boss smiled and said, "There are 2 105-caliber howitzers and 8 infantry guns on the 385th Brigade. The other brigades have also seized 8 infantry guns. Together with the 16 of your 386th Brigade, it's almost done."

A Japanese artillery brigade is generally equipped with 12 body-barrel cannons, which is equivalent to a battalion.

Therefore, 34 cannons can barely be organized into three artillery battalions, which is one regiment.

Speaking of this, the boss said again: "By the way, Chen Gen, you won't have any objection, right?"

"I have any opinions, no opinions, no opinions at all." The brigade commander was so bitter that he was about to die of pain, but he still had to pretend to be a happy expression on his face.

The boss said again: "You boy said you have no objection, but you must be secretly scolding me in your heart, saying that I am not particular about doing things, whipping the fast bull, and robbing your 386th Brigade against your conscience. Isn't this wronging you?"

"I'm wronged, this is really wronged." said the brigade commander, "I definitely don't have this idea."

The boss said: "You know whether I have wronged you or not, but you, Chen Gen, must have wronged me. I am not robbing your 386th Brigade this time."

“The facts are exactly the opposite of what you think.”

"I'm robbing other brigades to supplement your 386th brigade."

The brigade commander was stunned for a moment and said, "Boss, I can't understand what you said. You clearly assigned 16 artillery pieces from our 386th Brigade, but why did it become a subsidy for our brigade?"

The boss said: "Do you really think that this artillery regiment was formed for me?"

The brigade commander said overjoyed: "Boss, what do you mean is to allocate this artillery regiment to our 386th Brigade?"

"To be more precise, it is allocated to the mobile column commanded by the direct headquarters!" said the boss, "I plan to use your 386th Brigade as the base, equip an artillery regiment, and form a mobile column!"

"Mobile Column?" The brigade commander was a little surprised, "Are you no longer a military district?"

"Yes, your brigade will no longer be with the Taihang Military Region." The boss said, "In the past two years, the general policy of our Eighth Route Army is to combine the integration into pieces and actively expand its strength."

"After two years of expansion, the results are also very significant."

"So I'm considering that it is necessary to reorganize a mobile corps, no longer limited to guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare, but to be brave enough to engage in larger-scale mobile warfare with the Japanese."

The current development of the Eighth Route Army is based on the local government and rooted in the people.

Let’s talk about the four regiments of the 386th Brigade, each with its own defense zone and its own logistics, and they are basically self-reliant.

That's why Li Yunlong and Cheng Shifa and others have such deep resentment towards the brigade commander's robbery. The superiors don't give supplies and keep robbing from below. How could they be the leader like this?

But the nature of the mobile column the boss is going to form now is completely different.

This mobile column no longer serves as the military region, and will no longer have their own defense zones, and the army's logistics will be unified. From then on, the supply department under the headquarters will be responsible. Of course, the battlefield seizure of the mobile column will no longer have autonomy. All of them must be handed over to the headquarters for unified allocation without any conditions.

Such a mobile column will not only improve its mobility, but also greatly improve its combat effectiveness, and will inevitably become a sharp sword in the hands of the head of the headquarters!

Once this sword is released, it will inevitably severely damage the Japanese army in Shanxi!

"I understand!" said the brigade commander solemnly, "Our 386th Brigade will never disappoint the head of the headquarters!"

The boss nodded and said, "Since your 386th Brigade is to be reorganized into a mobile column, some habits brought by local troops must be overcome, and the problems of logistical support must also be solved."

The habits of local troops are mainly parochialism, and they have to be exclusive if they have benefits.

The main problem of logistics support is that there are too many types of weapons and equipment.

If it is still a local army, there is no problem. Anyway, it is useless. If it is gone, throw it aside and wait until the bullets are seized from the Japanese next time and then take them out again.

But this cannot be done if it is adapted into a mobile column.

The ammunition supply of the mobile column must be distributed uniformly.

The boss said again: "The problem of logistics support is easy to solve. It is nothing more than to unify the equipment of each regiment and eliminate the unused old equipment. However, local habits are probably difficult to overcome, especially Li Yunlong, a stinky brat, who has more problems than lice on his head, and it is not so easy to change."

"You are right, boss." The brigade commander agreed deeply.

"But don't worry, boss, I will transform him."

The boss said: "Well, I'm still relieved to you Chen Gen."

After a pause, he said: "Travel Department will prepare a reorganization plan as soon as possible, with the right amount of weapons and equipment to ensure logistics support as the first priority. Don't just be greedy for too much or full."

"I understand." said the brigade commander, "we will make a plan as soon as possible."

"Okay, then I'll leave." After saying that, the boss got up and left.

"Hey, boss, don't hurry to leave." The brigade commander said hurriedly, "It's almost time to eat, go after dinner."

"If you don't eat, I won't stay for dinner this time," the boss waved his hand and said, "so that he won't fall into your routine again and deceive me into eating meat and drinking."

The brigade commander said: "Boss, if I weren't talking about you, what's wrong with eating some meat?"

The boss said: "It won't be like eating some meat. Who doesn't like eating meat? But the question is that if you are used to eating the meat here, you can't eat the sweet potatoes and potatoes at the headquarters when you go back. What should you do?"

The brigade commander stopped talking, the boss was so generous.

After seeing off the boss, the brigade commander called the chief of staff over: "Chief of staff, you heard it just now?"

"I heard it." The Chief of Staff was also beside him just now and nodded, "It is a great thing to form a mobile column. I believe that Li Yunlong and the others will definitely agree with it."

"I'm not talking about this." The brigade commander said in a deep voice, "I mean how our brigade should be reorganized."

"This is really not easy to deal with." said the Chief of Staff. "If you want to form a mobile column, you must first be regularized, and then the system and equipment of each subordinate regiment must be unified."

"As now, you have 17 companies in a group, I have 15 companies in a group, and there are 10 companies in a group, that's definitely not possible, it must be unified."

"We also have weapons and equipment, and we must be as unified as possible."

“Equipment with only a small amount of ammunition must be eliminated.”

"For example, grenade launchers, on average, less than one grenade launcher will be distributed to each grenade launcher, and it is difficult to capture it on the battlefield. What's the use of keeping these grenade launchers? It's just a waste of time to increase the load on the soldiers."

"That's the reason." said the brigade commander, "then you have to understand the family background of our brigade first."

The Chief of Staff said: "Brig Commander, what do you mean is to let Li Yunlong and others report their own family background? That's impossible. They will definitely not report it truthfully. At most, they will report it symbolically. Especially, Li Yunlong might even cry and be poor. Let our brigade headquarters in turn replenish some ammunition for their regiment."

The brigade commander nodded: "So you have to think of a solution."

"There's no way." The Chief of Staff shook his head like a rattle, "This is really impossible."

Brigade commander Mosa said with his chin: "If it really doesn't work, you can only force the order."

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To be continued...