"You want to apply to be transferred to the new regiment to be the logistics director?"
Looking at the respectful Zhang Wanhe in front of him, the chief sounded surprised.
The good logistics director of the 129th Division was not the right one, but he went to the northwest of Shanxi to become the logistics director of a regiment-level unit. Is there something wrong with his brain?
But the leader then thought and realized that the new regiment was not an ordinary regiment-level unit.
In terms of military strength, it is comparable to an army, and in terms of firepower, it is stronger than several armies combined.
Especially after this expansion, the new regiment's strength and firepower are even more terrifying.
"Yes, Chief."
After a pause, Zhang Wanhe said again: "Chief, I have already inquired. Currently, the New Regiment does not have the position of logistics director. There is only a transportation battalion commander. The logistics dispatch is mainly responsible for the political commissar Zhao Gang. The New Regiment is so...
How can such a big property survive without a logistics director?"
Minister Zhang knows Li Yunlong very well.
This guy is so generous and gives so many good things to the headquarters every time. He is so rich.
On the one hand, Zhang Wanhe really believed that the New Regiment needed a logistics minister.
On the other hand, Zhang Wanhe also has some selfish motives.
The New Regiment is really too rich, and will become even richer in the future. It is 100% certain that it will surpass the 129th Division.
Although the New Regiment was only a regiment-level unit, Zhang Wanhe did not regard the New Regiment as a regiment-level unit at all.
In the future, the new regiment may have tanks, aircraft and even warships. Wouldn't it be a pleasure to be the logistics minister of such an army?
Although he would have to obey that boy Li Yunlong's orders from now on, Zhang Wanhe didn't care.
As long as he can fight the Japanese better and help Li Yunlong eliminate more Japanese, Zhang Wanhe is willing to do anything.
Minister Zhang, who has participated in the revolution for more than ten years, has a high level of consciousness.
"Have you thought about it?"
The chief asked again.
The New Regiment really needs a logistics minister who is good at overall planning and providing life services to the New Regiment troops, especially since the New Regiment is about to expand.
The expanded new regiment will probably have 50,000 to 60,000 people including the main force and militia.
Zhao Gang had to take care of the food, drink, and diarrhea of so many people by himself. Moreover, Zhao Gang also had to organize and lead the political work of the army. Political and ideological work for tens of thousands of people was not that easy to do.
Zhang Wanhe's tone was decisive: "Chief, I have thought about it. I will apply to be transferred to the new regiment to be the logistics director."
"You go back first and I'll think about it." The chief nodded.
"yes!"
"Thank you, chief!"
Zhang Wanhe looked slightly happy.
The chief did not explicitly refuse and said he would think about it, which means that the matter is most likely to be done.
Afterwards, Zhang Wanhe walked out quickly.
…
Since Li Yunlong made a fortune in Datong, northern Shanxi, brothers Ding Wei and Kong Jie were also extremely greedy.
A clear-coded telegram made Li Yunlong famous again, and he was called a national hero.
Even Li Yunlong and Xue Yue are called Nan Xue Yue and Bei Yunlong by folk storytellers. With these two people, China will never be destroyed.
Therefore, Ding Wei and Kong Jie are not idle and are making preparations to attack the three counties in their respective defense zones.
At present, the county towns in Ding Wei and Kong Jie's defense zones do not have many troops. The largest Japanese army in a county town only has two squadrons, and the smallest Japanese army has one squadron plus some puppet troops.
Because the Japanese thought that they had destroyed all the food in the defense areas of the two regiments Ding Wei and Kong Jie in the north of Shanxi, and not even a grain of food was left.
Millions of people had no food to eat, and the Eighth Route Army also had to starve.
You can't even hold a gun, but you still attack the county town?
So after a period of time, when the base areas of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment are starved to death, the Japanese troops will set out from the county seat to raid.
In addition, Yamamoto Kazuki and Iwamatsu Yoshio are still planning to train the advance team to enter the defense area of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, disguised as the Eighth Route Army, and undermine the military-civilian relations in the base area.
However, the Japanese never expected it.
Ding Wei and Kong Jie exchanged all the Japanese who were killed by Ding Wei and Kong Jie into food, which not only solved the food problem of more than 1 million people.
It also made the military-civilian relationship between the common people and the Eighth Route Army more united.
The common people increasingly support the work of the Eighth Route Army, and they actively participate in tasks such as building roads and recruiting troops.
During this period, Kong Jie and Ding Wei were not idle either. They immediately started recruiting troops after returning to the base area.
In the anti-mopping operations, both the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment suffered more than half of their casualties, which was about 5,000 casualties.
Some of the slightly injured soldiers have recovered and returned to the team.
At present, the strength of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment has reached 7,000, but 2,000 of them are new soldiers and cannot go to the battlefield yet.
So when Ding Wei and Kong Jie sent a telegram.
Li Yunlong immediately sent two companies, each to the defense areas of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, to cooperate in attacking the county seat.
These two companies were just for show. Anyway, they were taking over the business in the county. Li Yunlong only had two 150mm howitzers.
And with the current combat effectiveness of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, it is not difficult to capture these county towns.
Northwest Shanxi.
More than 7,000 troops of the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, led by Kong Jie, went straight to the three counties in the defense area that were occupied by the Japanese.
Kong Jie's tactic was to use half of the infantry to surround the other two county towns, and then use half of the infantry and all the artillery to concentrate on attacking the other county town.
In order not to scare away the Japanese and puppet troops in the other two counties, they would suffer a heavy loss by then.
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Zuo County.
Kong Jie, who was hiding on a hilltop and holding a telescope, watched dozens of mule carts enter the county and squinted his eyes: "It's better to come early than to come by chance. Today is the day for the Japanese in the county to replenish supplies."
According to intelligence, there are 2 squadrons of Japs and 1 battalion of puppet troops stationed in this county, with a total strength of about 800 people.
Kong Jie is still very clear about this.
"Commander, give the order to attack..."
Next to him, the battalion commander Guan Dashan stared at the county town in the distance and couldn't help but lick his lips.
Guan Dashan, like Zhang Dabiao, is a guy who gets excited when he smells blood.
Seeing the transport team composed of Japanese and puppet troops, I could no longer suppress the murderous intention in my heart.
"Hey hey hey..."
"Don't worry, wait until the Japanese and puppet army's transport team enters the city before taking action. Anyway, they all belong to us."
With a smile, Kong Jie said in a cold tone:
"The Japanese don't understand me, Kong Jie, and dare to station troops in a county in a labor-controlled area. They simply don't know how to write the word "death."
"First let the artillery set up all the cannons, then the cavalry and infantry move around the county town to surround the county town with labor and capital."
The weapons and ammunition for the new regiment have been reimbursed and shipped.
In addition, as the people who crossed the Yellow River west to northern Shaanxi gradually returned to northwestern Shanxi, the transport planes arranged by Boss Chen also began to airdrop food at fixed locations.
The troops sent by the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment will receive it and then distribute it to the people.
As for the 100 machine guns given by Li Yunlong, Kong Jie and Ding Wei each exchanged some mortars, 2-heavy machine guns, machine guns, bazookas and other heavy weapons, greatly strengthening their strength.
The reason why Kong Jie dared to set up artillery to attack the county town in broad daylight was because the Japanese who bullied the North China Front Army did not have planes.
If the Japanese had planes, then Kong Jie would definitely attack at night.
When the Eighth Route Army cavalry and infantry appeared around the county town, the first reaction of the Japanese and puppet troops was not to run away but to quickly close the city gates.
As the troops of the Independent Regiment surrounded all four city gates of Zuoxian County.
A depression in the distance behind Kong Jie is the artillery position of the independent regiment's artillery battalion. All gun barrels with a caliber of 75 mm or above are raised high, and the muzzles of the guns are pointed in the direction of the county seat in the distance.
There were not many ordinary people in the county seat, so the artillery battalion of the New Regiment did not pull the artillery down to the county seat and aim directly at the city wall, but directly shelled from a long distance.
Although long-range shelling will waste a lot of shells due to accuracy issues.
But the artillery shells are reimbursed by Boss Chen, and long-range shelling can better protect the artillery and artillery.
Although the artillery models of the independent regiment are relatively mixed, there are American 75mm mountain cannons, Japanese 75mm mountain cannons, and German 105mm howitzers.
But the number is quite large, nearly 40 in total.
Exceeding the level of the Japanese artillery regiment.
If dozens of 60mm and 82mm mortars are added, the artillery firepower of the new regiment far exceeds the Japanese second-line divisions and is equivalent to the artillery firepower of the Japanese Army's ordinary Class A divisions.
If you are poor, you will strike with precision, if you are rich, you will be covered with firepower.
"The artillery is loaded!"
The artillery battalion commander reported to Kong Jie on the walkie-talkie.
Taking a deep breath, Kong Jie shouted loudly: "Fire!"
"fire!"
On the artillery position, the artillery battalion commander suddenly lowered his hand after receiving the order to fire.
The gunners struggled to pull the firing ropes in their hands.
"Everything..."
Accompanied by the dull and powerful sound of cannon fire, nearly 40 cannons fired almost at the same time. Fireworks bloomed from the muzzles, and strong winds merged into one, raising a large amount of smoke and dust.
About ten seconds later, a long scream roared from the south of the city, passed over the heads of the independent regiment soldiers, and landed like a mountain on the south gate wall of Zuoxian County and the defenses outside the city.
"Boom boom boom..."
In just a moment, the southern city wall of Zuoxian County was shrouded in smoke.
Kong Jie's siege tactics were different from Li Yunlong's.
Kong Jie likes to concentrate his firepower and superior troops to break through the enemy a little first, allowing the large army to attack the city.
He called this tactic siege three and attack one.
That is, the other three directions are sheep attacks or even no attacks, and only one direction is the main attack.
But Li Yunlong likes to be the main attack, and whichever battalion enters the city first will be the first.
"Keep going, don't stop!"
The artillerymen of the Independent Regiment, who have gone through the Taiyuan Battle and the counter-mopping up campaign in northwestern Shanxi, have long been reborn and have high quality.
Under the order of the artillery battalion commander, the gunner handed the shell to the loader, and the loader stuffed the prepared shell into the gun bore and then closed the gun breech.
In the smooth movements of the artillery, each cannon poured shells at the city wall occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops at the fastest firing rate of 5 rounds per minute.
Kong Jie used all the artillery in the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment to capture the county seat of Zuoxian in the shortest possible time.
After attacking Zuoxian County, he had to lead the main force to attack the other two counties.
After finishing the three county towns, I can quickly receive the 150mm howitzer.
When Kong Jie and Ding Wei saw the 150mm howitzer at Li Yunlong's place, their eyes lit up as if they had seen a beauty.