Chapter 156 The brigade commander has to invite me to drink!
The shipped gun parts and shell boxes almost filled the entire 1,000-square-meter grain drying field.
The soldiers of the new regiment, as well as the villagers who were watching, surrounded the grain drying field on three levels inside and three outside.
I heard that the regimental commander had brought back many cannons, and the lightly wounded soldiers who had just been lying at the regiment headquarters came over to join in the fun.
There was a wounded man who couldn't even walk. When he heard that the regiment leader had brought another cannon, he suddenly walked as fast as flying.
The health workers were stunned when they saw it. Medical miracle?
It's not like Li Yunlong asked the uninjured soldiers to pretend to be these, but it's not like what Li Yunlong said, there were so many injured that the fellow villagers couldn't even accommodate them in their homes.
In fact, he just wants to sell out miserably.
Artillery company commander Wang Chengzhu and the soldiers of the artillery company rushed over after receiving the order.
"Zilla!" Li Yunlong looked at Wang Chengzhu, pointed at the pile of parts and said, "Take your soldiers and assemble all these parts."
"This is?" Wang Chengzhu looked at the gun parts, his eyes widened.
The soldiers in the artillery battery behind him also looked over, their eyes lighting up quickly like light bulbs.
It can be seen from the parts that this is definitely a cannon, and it is very likely to be a high-end foreign product.
Artillery has no resistance to artillery.
Li Yunlong said: "This is the newly arrived American Ai Men 1 mountain gun with a caliber of 75 mm. There are 24 guns here in total. Can you see if you can assemble them all?"
"Gate 24!" Wang Chengzhu's eyes almost popped out when he heard this, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva wildly, "Captain, according to this, I am going to be the commander of the artillery regiment?"
My dear, 24 75mm caliber mountain guns!
These are the artillery of two mountain artillery battalions!
In addition to the original number of artillery battalions, there are three artillery battalions and one artillery regiment!
I have never thought in this life that our old Wang could still become the commander of the artillery regiment?
"What are you thinking about?" Li Yunlong glared at him and said with a smile, "Do you think these cannons are all yours? What a dream!"
"Even if you live the life of an artillery regiment commander for a day, that's fine."
Wang Chengzhu didn't care at all, instead he laughed happily.
"Don't be ridiculous." Li Yunlong said with a smile, "Hurry up and assemble these cannons with your soldiers. Later, the labor and management will take one to the back mountain to test its power."
"Captain, do you have an instruction manual?"
Wang Chengzhu's face straightened up, he rubbed his hands and was eager to try. He was also a little impatient.
Li Yunlong took out a stack of instructions from a small box and handed it to Wang Chengzhu: "It's still the same, one cannon and one instruction manual."
Wang Chengzhu took it and immediately distributed these instructions to the artillerymen.
Afterwards, Wang Chengzhu immediately opened the instruction manual and read it. The first few pages of the instruction manual taught artillerymen how to assemble this M1A1 75mm mountain gun.
After all, to be proficient in operating and using this mountain cannon, learning to assemble is only the most basic skill.
After only reading the process of assembling the mountain cannon once, Wang Chengzhu knew it by heart. This was his unique talent.
"First class, follow my orders!"
"The gun mount, the two gun wheels, and the cradle, move fast!"
Wang Chengzhu's rough voice roared.
Behind him, a dozen artillerymen from the first squadron of the artillery battery immediately ran to the parts pile and took out a gun mount and two gun wheels.
Under the command of Wang Chengzhu, the gun mount, gun wheel and cradle were quickly installed.
"Sight, breech block, and barrel!" Wang Chengzhu continued to shout with his loud voice, "Be careful, these things are valuable, don't drop them!"
As the core of the entire cannon, the barrel is forged from fine steel and is extremely hard, but Wang Chengzhu was still cautious.
The breech block is an important part of the artillery. During the firing process of the artillery, it plays an important role in locking the barrel, firing the shells and extracting the cartridge.
If the breech block fails, the entire cannon will lose its combat capability.
As for the sighting scope, it is the most easily damaged structure on the entire cannon. Whether you can hit the target with direct aim depends almost entirely on the scope. If you aim farther, you need to calculate the shooting parameters.
Most of the Eighth Route Army's battles involved close-range shooting, so optical gun scopes were used in most cases.
If the gun scope is damaged, he won't have anywhere to cry.
In the final step, several artillerymen worked together to lift the raised upper cover and place it on top of the gun barrel. By turning the bolt, the upper cover and the lower base tightly wrapped the gun barrel.
Since the artillerymen were not very skilled at the first assembly, the assembly took a full 10 minutes. This time will be greatly shortened after the soldiers become proficient.
A 75mm mountain cannon that looked a bit bloated, but looked like a steel beast, suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
Other soldiers in the artillery company were also busy assembling the mountain cannon, and there was a lot of noise.
"Is this good?"
Li Yunlong stepped forward and reached out to touch the dark and hard barrel. He felt a burning sensation. The barrel had been exposed to the sun for a long time and was a little hot.
"Can we start it? It won't explode, right?"
Li Yunlong's mouth was a little dry and he turned to look at Wang Chengzhu.
"That's absolutely impossible." Wang Chengzhu was very confident, "It's absolutely impossible to explode the barrel. If you don't believe it, commander, we can try it first."
Li Yunlong then said loudly: "Go and lead the mules, pull this cannon to the back mountain, and try firing two cannons."
An artilleryman quickly ran out of the crowd and went to the logistics transport team to fetch the mules.
This cannon weighs more than 1,300 kilograms and can be pushed away by a few soldiers, so a mule or a military horse can pull it away.
However, complex mountain roads can only be disassembled into artillery parts for mules to carry, and with the mules and horses transporting artillery shells, even if only one mountain artillery battalion is equipped, the logistics pressure will be great.
After a while, the soldiers brought a mule and put the 75mm mountain gun on the mule's shoulder with a thick rope.
"Let's go to the back mountain!"
Li Yunlong waved his hand, and the artillerymen led the mules, and the mules led the mountain artillery, and everyone followed them towards the back mountain.
Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, and Chen Dugu are all here, and the Lijian detachment also comes to join in the fun.
When they arrived at the back mountain, Li Yunlong pointed to a big tree on the top of the mountain 500 meters away and said to Wang Chengzhu: "Zhuzhu, that tree, fuck that tree!"
"Push the cannon here and secure the gun mount!" Wang Chengzhu shouted, "Move quickly!"
Several soldiers pushed the cannon to the position pointed by Wang Chengzhu, then built an artillery position and fixed the gun mount.
Wang Chengzhu looked at the instruction manual, then moved his eyes to the gun mount, and then quickly shook the handle. The gun barrel quickly lowered and the muzzle pointed at the target.
"Cannonball!"
An artilleryman took out the shells from the shell box. Wang Chengzhu opened the breech of the gun, took the shells and stuffed them into the barrel, and then closed the breech.
The movements are not sloppy at all and are completed in one go.
"Fire!" Li Yunlong ordered.
Wang Chengzhu held the cannon rope in his hand and gently pulled it back, and the cannon body shook violently.
Li Yunlong quickly raised his telescope and looked, and saw that the big tree collapsed under the bombardment, and a large plume of gunpowder smoke rose upward.
It looked more powerful than the 75mm Italian field gun, and Li Yunlong looked very satisfied.
Moreover, this 75mm mountain gun is lighter than the Italian field gun and is more suitable for mountain combat.
The officers above the company had binoculars to see more clearly, but the onlookers without binoculars only saw a puff of smoke.
"One more shot!" Wang Chengzhu shouted loudly.
"You loser, how valuable are cannonballs?" Li Yunlong said, "It's fun to shoot a cannon. Pull the cannon back to me."
"Commander, you have to speak according to your conscience." Wang Chengzhu said aggrievedly, "You just said you would fire two shots, and now you are firing one shot. How about another one?"
"Did I say this?" Li Yunlong asked.
"Captain, you did say this." Zhao Gang said with a smile, "Everyone has heard it."
Li Yunlong said: "Okay then, let's shoot one more time, but we can only shoot one more time."
"yes!"
Wang Chengzhu happily mobilized Zhu Yuan to find the target again.
When are artillerymen happiest?
That's when the cannon is fired and the sound is heard.
After testing the cannon, Li Yunlong asked the soldiers to pull the cannon back to Yangcun.
Li Yunlong and the soldiers of the new regiment are very satisfied with this new mountain cannon. If there are two words to describe it, it is - very fragrant.
What's even more exciting is that there are 24 mountain cannons. When fighting the Japanese, the two mountain artillery battalions will first wash the enemy with a wave of artillery fire. It's an incredible feeling.
After going to the back mountain to test the cannon, the soldiers of the artillery company were almost finished assembling the mountain cannon, leaving only the last few mountain cannons unassembled.
The 75mm mountain cannons are neatly placed on the grain drying ground in Yangcun, looking very spectacular.
Looking away from the mountain artillery, Zhao Gang said: "Old Li, our entire Eighth Route Army only has one artillery regiment. It is inappropriate for our infantry regiment to be equipped with one regiment of artillery."
"What's inappropriate?" Li Yunlong said, "I think it's very appropriate. Our new regiment is the ace of the Eighth Route Army. It makes sense for an ace regiment to equip an artillery regiment, right?"
"What's the use of telling me?" Zhao Gang said, "If you have the ability, why don't you tell the brigade commander about this?"
Li Yunlong remained silent. If he really said this in front of the brigade commander, the brigade commander wouldn't be able to whip him?
Zhao Gang said: "The brigade commander will probably know about our new regiment's storage of two mountain artillery battalions soon. My suggestion is that instead of being passively beaten by the brigade commander, it is better to take the initiative to hand over a mountain artillery battalion and take this opportunity to report to the superiors."
If you apply for an artillery battalion for our new regiment, your superiors won't refuse."
"Okay, then I will listen to you." Li Yunlong said, "Send it to a mountain artillery battalion at the brigade headquarters."
"That's right." Zhao Gang said with a smile, "I will let the transportation team of the Logistics Department prepare. I will handle the transportation of the mountain artillery battalion and the application for the artillery battalion establishment."
"It just so happens that I also have to submit a report on this battle to the brigade headquarters."
Li Yunlong said: "I handed over a mountain artillery battalion, and I was dismissed after just one artillery battalion?"
"Old Zhao, when you go to the brigade headquarters, you will definitely come back empty-handed. Let me go in person this time."
"A mountain artillery battalion has 12 mountain guns and 2,400 rounds of artillery shells. The brigade commander must treat me to a drink!"
"Okay, then you can go, I'm too lazy to run." Zhao Gang knew that this guy was so active and he must be showing off to the brigade commander.
At the 386th Brigade Headquarters.
Today the brigade commander called Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Zhang Xianyong to the brigade headquarters for a summary meeting.
Zhang Xianyong is the leader of the New Third Regiment. Like Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, they are both from the Fourth Front Army.
In this raid, units of the 129th Division destroyed more than 100 kilometers of railways.
Because the 386th Brigade was equipped with infantry artillery, more than 10 strongholds on the railway line of more than 30 kilometers from Quandian to Duanliu were eliminated.
In addition to the new regiment, the 386th Brigade has a total of 5 infantry guns, including 3 for the brigade commander's direct artillery battalion and 1 for each of the Ding Wei and Kong Jie regiments.
For the strongholds that were destroyed this time, infantry artillery was used to directly shoot the Japanese gun towers and bunkers. After knocking them down, they then charged to resolve the battle.
Cheng Shifa was jealous when he saw that Ding Wei's New Second Regiment and Kong Jie's Independent Regiment each had one infantry artillery piece. He wanted to ask the brigade commander to buy one for the 772nd Regiment, but he was scolded by the brigade commander.
After some summary and discussion, the brigade commander finally said:
"The Japanese army built the Baijin Railway because they wanted to use the superior force of modern equipment to continuously raid the base areas in southeastern Shanxi."
"If the Japanese army had not built the Baijin Railway, then the Japanese army's flexible movement deep into our hinterland and the distant support of logistical supplies would have become empty talk."
"Airplanes, armored vehicles, artillery, machine guns and all modern equipment have become dead things."
"Not to mention the mopping up of internal and external attacks in southeastern Shanxi."
"Our comrades must fully understand this. This is also the reason for attacking the Baijin Railway."
"If there is nothing else, then the meeting will be dismissed."
"By the way, each regiment must make a summary of the battle after returning. This attack on the Baijin Railway is just a small test. We will definitely have bigger battles in the future."
"Yes!" everyone responded in unison.
Afterwards, a few people got up and walked out. It was the rule when coming to the brigade headquarters to ignore the meal, and they didn't have the shamelessness to eat.
Ding Wei and Kong Jie stood shoulder to shoulder and talked about how useful the infantry gun in their regiment was.
Cheng Shifa and Zhang Xianyong were so upset in the back.
"Brigadier, Brigadier, I see you are here again."
As a few people were walking outside, Li Yunlong's loud voice spread throughout the brigade headquarters.
At this time, his transport team was still one kilometer away, but the road near the brigade headquarters was easy to walk, and it wouldn't take long to get there.
Ding Wei said: "Why does it sound like Li Yunlong's voice to me?"
Kong Jie said: "Who else can have such a loud voice if he is not a bitch like this?"
Ding Wei and Kong Jie looked happy and hurried out to greet them.
Li Yunlong turned over and dismounted. When he saw Ding Wei and Kong Jie coming out, he immediately smiled and said: "Haha...Old Ding and Lao Kong, are you there too?"
"Are you guys also here, Lao Cheng and Lao Zhang?"
When several old comrades meet, there is inevitably a chatter.
The brigade commander came out and coughed. Li Yunlong straightened up quickly: "Brigadier!"
"Come in and talk." The brigade commander said in a gentle tone and looked extremely satisfied.
Then he turned to the guard and said, "Xiao Wang, go and get the bag of Longjing that the division commander gave me. Take it out and soak it in it for Commander Li."
"yes!"
Xiao Wang quickly turned around and walked towards the brigade commander's room.
"Brigadier, I have to do it. How can I be so kind to the tea that the division commander gave you?" Li Yunlong was a little flattered and said quickly.
"Why not?" asked the brigade commander, "If you think it tastes good, take the tea back."
"Brigadier, just keep the Longjing tea and drink it. If you invite me to drink, I will reluctantly accept it."
Seeing that the brigade commander was so polite today, Li Yunlong became bolder again.
"You are such a fool, do you still want to push your limits?" the brigade commander laughed and scolded, "Since you are here at the brigade headquarters today, I will give you food and drink."
The eyes of Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa, the group leaders, almost dropped.
What kind of ecstasy soup did Li Yunlong pour into the brigade commander like this? Why did the brigade commander treat him so well?
They only had boiled water after arriving at the brigade headquarters for half a day, while Li Yunlong had enough food and wine as soon as he arrived.
"Brigadier, I also want to drink wine and eat meat." Ding Wei said.
"Yes, Brigadier." Cheng Shifa said, "Why does Li Yunlong drink wine and eat meat, while we drink cold drinks for free?"
Kong Jie and Zhou Xianyong did not dare to speak.
The brigade commander said: "Just because Li Yunlong led a new regiment to eat up the Japanese tank regiment, I don't ask much of you. As long as you can eat a Japanese army group, come to my place and enjoy the food and wine. I will cook for you myself."
If you can't pour the wine yourself, let alone the cold meat and wine, there will be nothing left."
"Kill the Japanese tank regiment?" Kong Jie asked quickly, "Old Li, is this true?"
Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa also looked incredulous.
"What a waste, a mere Japanese tank regiment is nothing to worry about. It's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning." Li Yunlong waved his hands, but he looked a little proud.
Several old comrades knew that Li Yunlong liked to brag, and he also liked to pretend to be indifferent when bragging.
However, since these words came from the mouth of the brigade commander, they must be true. After all, with the brigade commander's intelligence work so good, it is impossible to trick the brigade commander.
After realizing that this was true, the looks in Ding Wei and Kong Jie's eyes when they looked at Li Yunlong changed. They were awesome.
Li Yunlong said: "Brigade commander, I didn't ask you to treat me to a drink just because I killed the Japanese tank regiment."
"Isn't it because of this?" the brigade commander asked with an expression on his face, "Then what is your reason for?"
Li Yunlong said: "Because I came to the brigade headquarters today to give you a gift."
"what gift?"
With a smile, Li Yunlong said: "12 American 75mm mountain guns, 2400 rounds of 75mm shells, 3000 rounds of 37mm shells, and 3000 rounds of 47mm shells."
"My dear!" Cheng Shifa said in shock, "Li Yunlong, have you made a fortune?"
Kong Jie lost his voice and said, "Old Li, you are so generous!"
Ding Weitong shrank: "Oh my God, 1 mountain artillery battalion, 8,400 rounds of artillery shells!"
"Brigadier!" Zhou Xianyong also said, "Now you will make a fortune!"
"What about the cannons and shells you brought? You guys are not going to fire cannons here, are you?" The brigade commander had seen the big scene and was relatively calm, but his tone gradually became higher.
Because he knew that even though Li Yunlong was a lot of playboys, he would not joke about this kind of thing.
Maybe...he can really get a mountain artillery battalion.
The brigade commander had already analyzed the pattern. Every time the new regiment won a battle, Li Yunlong would receive a batch of assistance from the mysterious patriotic man named Chen.
This time, a Japanese tank regiment was completely wiped out, and the amount of assistance received was probably greater than ever before.
Deputy Brigadier Han and the Chief of Staff who were in the brigade headquarters room heard the sound and came out quickly.
At this time, several war horses neighed outside the door.
"Hahaha..." Li Yunlong smiled weakly, "My transport team has arrived. Brigadier, please take a look at your mountain artillery battalion."
Seeing Li Yunlong's invitation gesture, the brigade commander narrowed his eyes and walked out. Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Cheng Shifa, Zhang Xianyong, deputy brigade commander Han and the chief of staff quickly followed.
At this time, part of Li Yunlong's transportation had arrived. In addition to some military horses carrying ammunition boxes, 12 mules pulling 12 cannons lined up in the open space in front of the brigade headquarters.
Upon hearing this, all the cadres and soldiers at the brigade headquarters ran out to watch.
Li Yunlong patted the big, hard and dark gun barrel, grinned, and said in a proud tone: "Brigadier, is this worth buying me a drink?"
