Chapter 1,062 The Happy Lu Province Military Region!
"In addition, free up an airport in northwestern Shanxi and transport the American equipment in the warehouse to the independent brigade."
Li Yunlong issued the order again.
The independent brigade is all equipped with American equipment. Li Yunlong will give him as much equipment as Chu Yunfei expands his troops.
Of course, the expansion of the independent brigade must not be done in vain.
Like Chu Yunfei and the 129th Division, it is a feasible method to absorb elite veterans into independent brigade.
Li Yunlong's American equipment is sufficient.
You can give the independent brigade the American equipment that was eliminated by the new group.
Moreover, after the expansion of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, they will all be equipped with Type 5 and Type 6 equipment.
The eliminated American equipment can also be given to the independent brigade.
Although Chu Yunfei loves American equipment, in the future, the independent brigade will all switch to domestic equipment.
Because the domestic Type 56 equipment is not inferior to American equipment, and even has better performance than American equipment in all aspects.
That is to say, Li Yunlong's preparations for Type 5 and Type 6 are not enough now, so the independent brigade can only use American equipment to make the transition.
However, Li Yunlong has a lot of American equipment. Even if the independent brigade expands to 100,000, Li Yunlong can supply it.
After a pause, Li Yunlong continued: "Also, ask the headquarters to first support some company and platoon-level officers to the independent brigade, and then select some elite veterans from the veterans of the new regiment to serve as squad and platoon-level officers in the independent brigade."
Chu Yunfei has expanded his army to more than 10,000 people in such a short period of time, and is in urgent need of officers.
However, Li Yunlong kept a careful eye here.
The company, platoon and squad officers of the independent brigade are almost all from the headquarters and the new regiment.
If Chu Yunfei has any different intentions, he won't be able to take the independent brigade with him when the time comes.
After all, Li Yunlong's American-style equipment was not brought by strong winds, but by Eighth Route Army soldiers who sacrificed their lives for it.
If Chu Yunfei takes the expanded troops and American equipment and switches to Principal Chang, it will be a huge loss.
If that's the case, Li Yunlong must have brought a new group to eat Chu Yunfei and his independent brigade.
By replacing all grassroots officers with officers trained by the Eighth Route Army and Li Yunlong himself, we can nip problems in the bud.
Wang Dehou responded repeatedly, and at the same time recorded Li Yunlong's order, waiting for the unified telegram to be sent out later.
"What is the third telegram?"
Then, Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou and asked.
The address of the new arsenal will be determined by the headquarters and handed over to the people below to set up.
Li Yunlong's main task is to contact Boss Chen and be responsible for delivering the goods.
The general direction of the newly expanded officers of the new regiment has been determined, but it is mainly implemented by the staff.
Nowadays, for a stall as big as Xinyi Tuan, if Li Yunlong has to do everything by himself, Li Yunlong works twenty-four hours a day, and there is not enough time.
"It's a telegram from the Central Hebei Military Region Headquarters."
Wang Dehou said:
"The recruitment work is going smoothly at present. The first batch of 3,000 high-quality militiamen has loaded up from Shimen City and headed to Baoding for training."
"In addition, the first batch of high-quality militiamen from the Jinan Military Region have also been assembled and are preparing to walk to Shimen City and take the bus."
The Central Hebei Military Region is richer and has a larger population than the Southern Hebei Military Region, so it provides more high-quality soldiers.
Today, the Eighth Route Army occupies two major base areas, the Central Plains and the North China Plain, which are even connected into one area.
There is no need to worry about the number of troops. There is no problem in expanding the number of troops by several million within a few months.
But the number of soldiers is not large, but fine.
To expand the army by several million, firstly, there will not be so many weapons and ammunition, and secondly, there will not be so many officers.
Even if the troops are expanded by several million, the overall combat effectiveness of the troops will drop a lot.
Although it won't expand the number of troops by several million at once.
However, local governments have established militias in various places, and all young people of school age must join the militia as long as they have no physical problems.
In addition to farming, I have to participate in shooting and tactical training in my free time.
These militiamen are all reserve forces.
The teaching camp of the New Regiment has arrived in Baoding and is preparing to train new recruits near Baoding.
Some of the main troops of the new regiment were sent by Li Yunlong to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan and Chengde, and shelled the Japanese defense lines across the mountains.
On the one hand, it makes the devils miserable.
On the other hand, to prevent the Japanese from suddenly attacking North China.
However, most of the main force of the new regiment rested near Peiping.
Commander Li nodded with a satisfied expression: "Very good, speed up the exchange of officers with the brothers. Our army must expand faster. Boss Chen has given us information. The Japs may gather millions of troops.
Attack our Eighth Route Army in North China."
Li Yunlong based on the experience of the last expansion of the 8W main force, it takes about half a year for new recruits to form a certain combat effectiveness from expansion to training.
"yes."
Wang Dehou saluted solemnly, turned around and left quickly.
At the same time, in addition to building new arsenals and expanding troops, both the headquarters and the New Regiment issued orders to vigorously build airports.
Because the first batch of 500 pilot students from the Eighth Route Army Aviation School is about to graduate.
In addition, Li Yunlong earned 1,140 airplanes this time, more airplanes than pilots.
Also, every time Boss Chen’s strategic transport aircraft delivers goods, it also requires a large number of airports.
In addition to military industry and army construction, the Eighth Route Army's land reform policy was gradually carried out in the Central Plains, North China and Northern Shaanxi, and other Eighth Route Army base areas.
This time.
The Eighth Route Army wanted military industry, and the army and land reform blossomed.
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Lu Province.
Linyi.
On a huge flat land, thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers and ordinary people were busy building an airport.
In the midst of the bustling scene, neat and resonant singing came along with the wind:
"The autumn breeze is cool, the leaves are yellow, the soldiers are killing the enemy at the front, and I sew cotton clothes for the soldiers."
"Sewing my wishes and my hopes stitch by stitch, stitching my military uniforms and going to the front line, driving away the Japanese soldiers and driving away those wild wolves..."
Linyi is the headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
As the main force of the Japanese North China Front was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, the entire Shandong Province was liberated by the 115th Division.
After crossing the Yellow River eastward, the 115th Division fought in Shanxi, Northern Jiangsu and Shandong Province.
After the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army arrived here, they became like one family with the local people.
After the troops recaptured Shandong Province, the headquarters issued an order to build a large airport in Shandong Province.
These newly built large airports, in addition to receiving combat supplies allocated by the headquarters for the 115th Division, were mainly used as forward bases for future Eighth Route Army strategic bombers to take off and bomb the Japanese mainland.
In addition to Linyi, Jinan, Qingdao and other places are also building large airports.
The materials for building the airport are mainly provided by the headquarters. The cement factory and steel factory headquartered in Shanxi have already established a large production scale.
Cement and steel bars are transported by road and railway and are continuously sent to Shandong Province.
At the beginning, the Japanese aviation units on the peninsula did not give up and came to the peninsula of Shandong Province to carry out reconnaissance and bombing.
However, when the headquarters sent a flying group and three radar stations, all the Japanese aircraft on the Lu peninsula were shot down, and the Japanese aviation units no longer dared to conduct reconnaissance and bombing.
At this moment, an Eighth Route Army convoy drove slowly and stopped near the repaired runway of the airport.
Not far away, ordinary people and Eighth Route Army soldiers who were resting cast curious glances at the convoy.
"This is our teacher."
Some cadres recognized the acting division commander who jumped out of the back seat of the jeep.
This jeep is a Willys jeep. It was allocated by the headquarters to the division headquarters after the Eighth Route Army regained Shandong Province, but the number was not large.
Of course, this jeep came from the system and was first handed over to the headquarters by Li Yunlong, who then allocated it to each division.
The division commander had never ridden in such a comfortable car. He looked at the new jeep with a satisfied expression on his face.
Although the headquarters has been equipped with this jeep very early.
However, since there is a large Japanese war zone between Shandong Province and Shanxi, it is difficult to provide vehicles and equipment to the 115th Division.
But now all the major base areas of the North China Eighth Route Army are connected together.
"How much longer?"
The division commander asked the chief of staff beside him.
"Report to the division commander." The chief of staff looked at the watch on his hand, "There are still about 10 minutes until the agreed delivery time."
"The officers we are sending to the new regiment are ready?"
The teacher nodded and then asked again.
"It's ready. They are taking a bus from Linyi and will arrive in about 25 minutes."
the chief of staff replied.
At present, the 115th Division and the Shandong Provincial Column have been merged into the Shandong Provincial Military Region, serving as the acting division commander, military region commander and political commissar.
The Shandong Military Region has six secondary military regions under its jurisdiction: central Shandong, southern Shandong, Binhai, Jiaodong, Qinghe, and Hebei-Shandong border, with a total of 100,000 main troops.
However, due to poor equipment of the troops, supply was difficult.
There is still a lot of room for improvement in the combat effectiveness of the Shandong Military Region troops.
Especially the lack of firepower to attack tough targets.
When the New First Regiment, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment were fighting the main force of the Japanese in North China.
The troops of the Shandong Military Region were not idle and launched a major counterattack. However, due to the lack of heavy firepower, they still suffered a lot of casualties when they recaptured the town.
Fortunately, the main force of the Japs was transferred to Baoding, otherwise the casualties of the Lu Province Military Region troops would be unimaginable.
Therefore, after the New Regiment sent the telegram to the Shandong Military Region, the division commander was immediately willing to exchange officers for the New Regiment's heavy artillery and tanks.
Today is the day of trading, pay with one hand and deliver with the other.
Of course, the transaction between the New Regiment and the Lu Provincial Military Region was approved by the headquarters.
It can not only solve the problem of insufficient officers in the new regiment, but also solve the problem of heavy firepower in the Shandong Military Region. Why not?
About 6 minutes later, there were some "dah-dah" sounds in the sky.
The soldiers and civilians who were building a large airport stopped one after another and raised their heads to look at the sky curiously.
But because the distance is too far, we can only see some small black spots in the northwest sky.
The officers at the division headquarters raised their telescopes one after another and looked towards the northwest sky.
"Teacher, here we come!"
The chief of staff looked happy and said to the division commander.
The division commander smiled slightly, because through the telescope, he had already seen giant helicopters flying towards the airport.
As time went by, the fleet flew closer and closer.
Under each helicopter, tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery were hoisted.
"It's really a tank!"
"And artillery and armored vehicles!"
"There are quite a few!"
Beside the division commander, senior officers from the Shandong Military Region opened their eyes wide with surprise.
"Boooooooh!!"
Three red flares were fired into the sky, and a group of giant helicopters flew straight towards the airport.
Amidst the loud clicking sound, the propeller rotated at high speed, kicking up huge clouds of dust near the airport.
The loud helicopter placed tanks, armored vehicles, and cannons in an open space, and then flew to another open space and stopped.
The situation here stunned the engineers and civilians who were repairing the airport runway in the distance.
Is our team so rich now?
the other side.
Not long after, a muscular man jumped out of the helicopter and walked to the airport runway, surrounded by several officers and more than a dozen soldiers.
Zhang Dabiao's eyes were as sharp as ever, and he gave a military salute to the commander of the Lu Provincial Military Region:
"Chief, I am Zhang Dabiao, deputy commander of the new regiment. I have been ordered by my regimental commander to escort heavy weapons to our brother troops."
The division commander glanced at the heavy weapons with burning eyes and returned the gesture with a military salute.
Then, the division commander firmly grasped Zhang Dabiao's hands and shook them a few times, with an enthusiastic expression and tone: "Deputy Commander Zhang has worked hard all the way."
"It's not hard to come here by plane."
Seeing how enthusiastic the other party was, Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly:
"Chief, 36 105mm howitzers, 18 150mm howitzers, 2 203mm heavy howitzers, 24 tanks and 60 armored vehicles have been delivered."
"Three bases of ammunition, as well as artillery tractors, fuel, and parts for artillery, tanks and armored vehicles, will be transported by train from Peiping to Tianjin and then to Linyi tomorrow."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "In addition, our new regiment also provided some instructors for artillery, tanks and armored vehicles."
This time, Li Yunlong was very generous.
The reason is that the Lu Provincial Military Region not only gave the new regiment a large number of company and platoon-level officers, but also gave some battalion-level officers and four outstanding regiment-level officers, including Tiger General Liang Daya.
Although this was an order from the headquarters, Li Yunlong still acted generously.
These four regiment-level officers, after arriving in the new regiment, will command the heavy-armed synthetic battalion of the new regiment and serve as deputy commanders of the new regiment.
But he still received regimental-level treatment, and lived the life of an ace division commander.
Otherwise, company and platoon-level officers and a small number of battalion-level officers are not worth so many weapons.
"Captain Li is very considerate! Say hello to your commander for me."
The teacher smiled broadly:
"The 300 grassroots officers, 15 battalion-level officers and 4 regiment-level officers assigned to your regiment by the Lu Provincial Military Region will arrive soon."
Although the Lu Province Military Region has suffered a wave of blood, compared with those heavy equipment, the military region chiefs feel that they are very profitable!
With these big guys, the combat effectiveness of the Shandong Province Military Region, especially the combat effectiveness in critical battles, can be increased at least dozens of times!
Soon, the exchange officers arrived.
After the handover was completed, Zhang Dabiao took these officers on a giant helicopter and flew to Peiping.
Li Yunlong also spent some Japanese money to dispatch these giant helicopters to lift equipment and pick up officers. Otherwise, why would Boss Chen send giant helicopters to Li Yunlong?
The helicopter left and looked at the heavy artillery and tanks in the open space.
The military region chiefs were all smiling and felt like they were surrounded by deep happiness.
"Those two 203mm heavy howitzers will be the weapon of the military region in the future." The division commander gave the order with a smile on his face.