"The brigade headquarters assigned us a combat mission?"
Xu Shansheng's eyes lit up slightly. Now the New Second Regiment is also equipped with a radio, and the brigade headquarters' combat missions are basically issued through the radio.
"Yes, but not quite."
Ding Wei handed the paper to Xu Shansheng, and Xu Shansheng picked up the telegram and read it.
"Oh My God!"
After Xu Shansheng read it, Tong Kong couldn't help but shrink slightly.
"With more than a dozen regiments, I'm afraid there must be 20,000 to 30,000 people. The head of the headquarters is going to do something big!"
The telegram stated that the Eighth Route Army headquarters decided to temporarily form a column, with Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa as detachment leaders, each commanding four infantry regiments.
The three of them were under the command of Li Yunlong. After the anti-mopping campaign was over, each unit returned to its own establishment.
The numbers of which regiments Ding Wei wanted to command had already been assigned. The telegram also asked Ding Wei to get in touch with the leader of the new regiment as soon as possible and follow his command.
Although there was no specific combat goal written in the telegram, both Ding Wei and Xu Shansheng knew that the next step was definitely not a small fight.
Ding Wei got off the kang and took out a map from the cabinet, removed the military chess pieces, and then spread out the map.
"Why Captain Li?" Xu Shansheng suddenly asked.
"This is not easy, because Li Yunlong has channels to reimburse weapons and ammunition." Ding Wei raised his head and glanced at Political Commissar Xu, and then stared at the map.
"That's true, otherwise Commander Li would be extremely rich."
"Furthermore, Commander Li is now at the brigade level, which is second only to the division commander and the head of the headquarters. There is no problem in commanding this small number of people to fight."
"But...Captain Li takes good care of you old comrades."
Xu Shansheng nodded first, with a somewhat envious tone. These people were all brothers from the same class, a life-and-death friendship.
Li Yunlong could give the position of temporary detachment leader to someone with more ability, but Li Yunlong gave it to three of them.
This is feeding war achievements into the mouths of Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa.
"This kid Li Yunlong, don't think he is very stingy."
Ding Wei said: "But once he gets rich, he will definitely miss his old comrades."
Li Yunlong could hand over a lot of the extra equipment from the new regiment to the brigade headquarters, but he still kept some and gave them to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
However, the relationship between Cheng Shifa and Li Yunlong was not that good, so Li Yunlong did not give him any equipment.
However, the 772nd Regiment is the main regiment after all, and many of the soldiers in the regiment are Red Army soldiers, so the brigade commander also allocated some good equipment to the 772nd Regiment.
"Our target this time must be a certain Japanese division."
Ding Wei narrowed his eyes and tapped his finger lightly on the map.
"Japanese division?"
Political Commissar Xu sounded incredulous: "You mean, the temporary column was formed just to fight a frontal battle with a Japanese division? That's probably not the case. We, the Eighth Route Army, don't have this kind of frontal battle with a Japanese division.
precedent."
"I dare to bet you." Ding Wei said with certainty, "It's the Japanese division. As for which division, I'm not sure yet. With such a huge formation, how can one brigade be enough for a kid like Li Yunlong?
"
…
"Okay, this noise is getting louder and louder."
Xiaoyizhuang, independent regiment headquarters.
Shortly after Ding Wei received the telegram, Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment, also received a top-secret telegram from the brigade headquarters.
After Kong Jie read the telegram, he slapped his hand on the Kang table, looking excited.
"Lao Kong, what's the big noise?"
Wang Yingcai, political commissar of the Independence League, walked in. Hearing Kong Jie's words, he asked with a smile.
Kong Jie was an honest man and got along well with everyone. After Li Wenying, the former political commissar of the Independence Regiment, died, the brigade commander later assigned him political commissar Wang Yingcai.
"Old Wang, see for yourself."
Kong Jie handed the telegram to Wang Yingcai, took two puffs of dry cigarette, and said in an excited tone: "This counter-mopping campaign is promising."
Wang Yingcai picked up the telegram and read it.
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Ma Tian Village, 772 Regiment Headquarters.
Not long after, Cheng Shifa also received an order from the brigade headquarters.
After reading the telegram, Cheng Shifa said in a sour tone: "How come all the good things belong to him, Li Yunlong?"
The sourness returned, but the order still had to be carried out. At that moment, Cheng Shifa picked up the phone and called Xinyi Tuan.
…
"This information is so important."
Headquarters.
The boss held the piece of information sent by Li Yunlong in his hand and sounded a little scared.
After Li Yunlong sent the information, he hurried back to Yangcun.
"Yes, the Japanese army did not follow common sense this time." The chief of staff nodded in agreement.
Both leaders knew that this information came from Chen Feng. According to Li Yunlong, the information provided by Chen Feng was not wrong so far.
This means that there is a high probability that this information is true. Even the underground party cannot obtain such important information.
The chief of staff drew several circles on the map with a red pencil.
Then he said: "According to the plan we made, once Li Yunlong takes action, the Japanese army will definitely rush to help frantically as soon as possible. In this case, the Japanese army will not be able to pull out a net to sweep away. Our people and troops can attack in batches from different directions."
Withdraw to the outside line, if the Japanese are waiting outside, there will definitely be a big problem."
The more than 3 million soldiers and civilians in the entire Taihang and Taiyue base areas must all be withdrawn to the outer lines.
After all, with the current strength of the base area, it can only deal with one Japanese division. The Japanese mopping up troops from the other three directions will certainly not be able to stop it.
As long as this counter-mopping operation can defeat the Japanese 37th Division and evacuate all soldiers and civilians to the outside, it will be considered a success.
"but…"
"Even Li Yunlong's channel was unable to obtain the Japanese army's detailed combat plan."
The chief of staff's tone was helpless, which made it even more difficult for the underground party to obtain the detailed raiding plan of the Japanese army.
Ever since the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, suspected that there was a mole around him, it was difficult to buy any information from the Japs even with gold.
In the past, some Japanese officers would leak some less important information in order to make extra money.
For example, which troops were being mopped up by the Japanese army, not even a single bit of information was leaked this time. The number of the Japanese mopping up troops was obtained by the headquarters based on the analysis of the movements of the Japanese army.
"This information is enough."
The boss said: "It seems that our anti-mopping up plan needs to be greatly adjusted."
"Then let's get started."
The chief of staff nodded and said, and the two leaders lay down in front of the map and began to revise the counter-mopping operation plan.
The boss and chief of staff knew very well that launching a major campaign would lead to even more crazy retaliation from the Japanese army.
But neither of the two chief ministers has struggled with this issue.
Because the Eighth Route Army was under greater pressure from the Japanese army, the pressure from other Chinese armies would be less.
This is a protracted war. If you kill one more Japanese, you will be closer to victory in the War of Resistance!
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Yangcun.
New Regiment Headquarters.
Li Yunlong only sleeps four or five hours a day.
The first thing I did when I woke up was to formulate a combat plan against the Japanese 37th Division Headquarters, and I didn't go to bed very late at night.
Although there was almost no rest time, Captain Li was full of energy.
While eating and sleeping, I was thinking about how to kill the Japanese 37th Division.
Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu and Xu Yonghai were all captured to serve as his temporary combat advisers.
The radio station was beeping, the phones were ringing, and everyone was too busy to touch the floor.
"Report!"
Huang Erhu's voice sounded outside the door.
"Come in!"
Li Yunlong took a notebook, wrote down a location, and said without looking back.
Huang Erhu brought someone in and said: "Report to the head of the group, the officer from the headquarters who sent the materials has arrived."
The visitor gave Li Yunlong a military salute: "Commander Li, this is the intelligence information of the Japanese 37th Division sent to me by the head of the headquarters."
"Thank you for your hard work." Li Yunlong responded with a military salute and said, "Put it there."
After Li Yunlong finished recording, he picked up the intelligence materials sent from the headquarters and read them.
This is the intelligence information about the Japanese 37th Division that Li Yunlong collected from the headquarters:
The 37th Division of the Japanese Army was a three-unit division organized in Kumamoto, Japan on February 7, 1939.
The division commander is Hirata Kenkichi, which has jurisdiction over the 225th Regiment, the 226th Regiment, the 227th Regiment, the 37th Mountain Artillery Regiment, the 37th Engineer Regiment, and the 37th Transport Regiment.
The intelligence information is quite detailed, including the names of the commanders of each regiment, as well as records of the battles fought by the Japanese 37th Division against China after entering China.
On April 1, 1939, the 37th Division was incorporated into the 1st Army of the North China Front and was stationed in the Yuncheng area of Shanxi Province.
The main target of the battle was the Central Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, which had a good record. The only major loss it suffered was when its 225th Regiment was killed by a new regiment led by Li Yunlong in Moshiwa, where more than 3,000 people were killed.
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After the second battalion commander Zheng Yu hung up the phone, he took a notebook to record, then turned around and said: "Commander, the number of people, weapons and ammunition of each regiment have been calculated."
"Show me, how much money do these guys have?"
Li Yunlong put down the intelligence materials of the 37th Division and took the notebook from Zheng Yu with great interest.
"Good guys, the New Second Regiment has 2,500 men, 26 heavy machine guns, 34 light machine guns, 13 infantry and field guns, more than 2,100 rifles, and 2 and a half bases of bullets and artillery shells."
"The independent regiment has 2,500 men, 23 heavy machine guns, 39 light machine guns, 12 infantry artillery and mountain field guns, more than 2,200 rifles, and 2 basic numbers of bullets and artillery shells."
"No. 2,300 members of the 772nd Regiment, heavy machine guns..."
"He's pretty damn rich."
Li Yunlong continued to look at the numbers, weapons and ammunition of the New Fourth Regiment and several other regiments.
The brigade's cavalry regiment, artillery regiment and howitzer regiment are well supplied with ammunition.
However, the number and wealth of several regiments of the 385th Brigade and the First Column are much worse than those of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment. Some regiments even have less than half the ammunition.
Li Yunlong frowned slightly, his eyes showing contemplation, and then said: "Second Battalion Commander, please remember this."
Zheng Yu held a notebook and pen in his hand and immediately started recording.
"The regiments of the 385th Brigade and the First Column of Death, each regiment will supplement 5 Maxims, 10 Czechs, 30 submachine guns, 8 60mm mortars, and 6 bazooka rocket launchers, to make up for the 2 base numbers.
Ammunition, each soldier must have at least 5 grenades."
"The 772nd Regiment will replenish 1 base amount of ammunition. In addition, the 772nd Regiment, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment will each replenish 50 submachine guns. The weapons and ammunition will be shipped from the regiment headquarters warehouse. Arrangements will be made as soon as possible."
Not all of these ammunition were provided by Li Yunlong. Today, the headquarters and brigade headquarters also shipped a lot of ammunition.
Of course, in order to win this battle, Li Yunlong also spent a lot of money and did not hesitate to use his family wealth.
Fortunately, Chen Feng sent a deposit of 200 tons of weapons and ammunition, and Li Yunlong now has a strong family background.
"Yes!" Zheng Yu straightened up, turned around with his notebook and walked out quickly.