Chapter 722: Business and test firing of new weapons!
After the meeting, Chief of Staff Wang Dehou drafted three telegrams.
A telegram was sent to the headquarters, telling the head of the headquarters to prepare 400 ground crew members, as well as 50 radar trainees and 50 flight trainees.
The other two telegrams were similar and were sent to the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
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Southeast Shanxi.
Liao County.
Headquarters.
"Report to the chief, a new telegram!"
A telegraph operator held a telegram in his left hand and saluted the commander with his right hand.
"Give me."
The chief of staff took the telegram from the telegraph operator and read it. The telegraph operator turned around and left quickly.
"What did Li Yunlong say in the telegram?"
Seeing the chief of staff looking at the telegram, the chief asked with a look of expectation on his face.
Every time Li Yunlong sent a telegram, it was basically a good thing, which made the chief look forward to the new group of telegrams.
After reading the telegram, the chief of staff smiled slightly:
"Li Yunlong asked us to prepare 400 ground crew students, 50 radar students, and 50 flight students. When we are ready, we will call back to the new group. Then Li Yunlong will inform Boss Chen to arrange a transport plane to pick up the people at Yangcun Airport. This is
Get rid of part of Furu Hisao's business."
"Oh?" The chief's eyes lit up slightly, "I thought we wouldn't have the opportunity to send students to overseas military bases to study in the future, but here we are."
The chief of staff said: "It is a rare opportunity to send students to overseas military bases to study. We must seize it and send outstanding people."
"Well!" said the chief, "it seems we have to ask YA for support."
The chief of staff said: "It's time to build an airport over there in YA. After we have planes in the future, it will be much more convenient to travel."
"Another point."
The leader said: "Didn't Li Yunlong want to make money from the machinery and equipment for oil extraction? After the Yanchang Oilfield is developed and has production, we can use transport aircraft to transport part of our fuel supply."
The chief of staff nodded.
Currently, the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi has more than 600 vehicles, as well as 60 or 70 tanks and armored vehicles, and it will also be equipped with aircraft in the future.
In the future, the Eighth Route Army's demand for fuel will be relatively large.
Although Boss Chen provided some fuel, the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi does not have much fuel reserves. Currently, Boss Chen only reimburses the new regiment for fuel and replenishes as much as it needs.
The Eighth Route Army still needs stable logistical fuel supply channels.
"Okay, I'll send a telegram to YA right away," said the chief of staff.
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Northwest Shanxi.
New Second Regiment Headquarters.
"25 75mm American mountain guns in exchange for 3,000 recruits who have completed recruit training?"
After reading the telegram sent by Li Yunlong, Ding Wei fell into deep thought.
It seems that Li Yunlong has become rich again, and Ding Wei showed a trace of envy on his face.
Although now the New Second Regiment can do business in partnership with the New First Regiment, and most of the weapons and ammunition earned from the business belong to the New Second Regiment.
However, all the Japanese in the New Second Regiment's defense area were killed by Ding Wei. Even if Ding Wei wanted to do business, he couldn't do it.
The last time Li Yunlong ordered the invention code telegram, the New Second Regiment also received it and conveyed it to all the commanders and fighters of the regiment.
Ding Wei also personally called on the entire New Second Regiment to learn from the New First Regiment.
"Captain Li is really rich. He has 25 American 75mm mountain cannons at his disposal." Xu Shansheng, political commissar of the new second regiment, first sighed with emotion, and then asked Ding Wei, "Should we change it?"
Ding Wei's tone was decisive: "Change it. Recruit No. 3000 will be replaced with 25 mountain cannons. No fool will not do it."
The New Second Regiment is the same as the Independent Regiment. Basically all the mountain cannons in their hands come from the New First Regiment, and only a few mountain cannons were captured from the Japanese.
The business of mountain cannons can now be obtained only by destroying Japanese aircraft and destroying or capturing Japanese mountain cannons.
The Japs are equipped with few mountain artillery, and the Japs' aircraft are more difficult to destroy. Therefore, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment can hardly make money from the mountain artillery by just doing business on their own.
"But is the number 3000 recruits too many?" Xu Shansheng hesitated, "Our batch of recruits are all recruited from the militia. Their quality is very good. They can be deployed on the battlefield after only two months of training.
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Ding Wei said angrily: "If we run out of new recruits, we can recruit more. We have tens of thousands of young men and tens of thousands of militiamen in our defense area. Everyone is so enthusiastic about joining the army. Are you worried that there will be no new recruits?"
"I dare to bet you that Li Yunlong will also use 25 mountain cannons to exchange for the 3000th recruit from Kong Jie."
"If we don't agree, Kong Jie will definitely be willing to spend 6,000 new recruits in exchange for 50 75mm mountain cannons."
"Once these 25 mountain artillery pieces are in place, we can expand another mountain artillery battalion. By then, our regiment will have the mountain artillery firepower of two artillery regiments."
"Coupled with the mortars equipped by each battalion and the mortar battalion, the artillery firepower of our regiment is probably comparable to that of an artillery division."
Although the mountain artillery battalion is organized as a battalion, it is already the size of an artillery regiment.
Two mountain artillery regiments are equivalent to one mountain artillery brigade, plus a mortar battalion directly under the New Second Regiment. In fact, it is the size of the mortar regiment, plus the artillery firepower of the firepower companies under each infantry battalion.
The New Second Regiment has the artillery firepower equivalent to four artillery regiments.
When Xu Shansheng heard this, he took a deep breath, with surprise and expectation intertwined in his eyes.
The mountain artillery firepower of the two artillery regiments is comparable to that of an artillery division.
The artillery firepower of an infantry regiment is comparable to that of an artillery division.
Can you believe this?
Xu Shansheng said hurriedly: "Then you call Commander Li immediately and ask him to arrange for 25 75mm mountain guns to be pulled over by car. There is a highway between our base areas. It will take a few hours at most..."
"Old Xu, why are you more anxious than me?"
Ding Wei smiled slightly, then picked up paper and pen to write the telegram.
"Are you not in a hurry?" Xu Shansheng asked, "If you think about it this way, the artillery firepower of our regiment is comparable to that of an artillery division."
"After our new second regiment acquired 25 mountain artillery pieces, its artillery firepower is comparable to that of an artillery division. Then the artillery firepower of our new second regiment must be at least that of an artillery corps, right?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What is an artillery corps?" Ding Wei said in a disdainful tone.
Xu Shansheng said worriedly: "Old Ding, do you think the artillery firepower of our new second regiment is no worse than the artillery firepower of the artillery directly under the brigade headquarters? Do you think the brigade commander knows how to rob?"
"Robbery?" Ding Wei said, "We have nothing to say about the brigade commander robbing him. Let the brigade commander send his people to northwestern Shanxi to get the cannons. It is not that easy to transport dozens of mountain cannons from northwestern Shanxi to the Taiyue Military Region.
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Hearing what Ding Wei said, Xu Shansheng suddenly smiled again on his face, as long as he didn't get robbed by the brigade commander.
At this time, Ding Wei had already drafted the telegram. Xu Shansheng took the telegram to the next door communication room and asked the decoder to translate it into numbers, and the telegraph operator then sent it to the new group.
Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment, made the same choice as Ding Wei, and was also willing to exchange 3,000 recruits for 25 75mm mountain cannons, with each mountain cannon equipped with 3 basic shells.
When the Artillery Regiment directly under the Eighth Route Army Headquarters was established in 1938, there were only a dozen mountain cannons and four mortars, which was almost the number of mountain artillery in the entire Eighth Route Army at that time, and the number of artillery shells was even pitiful.
Compared with 3,000 new soldiers, 25 75mm American mountain guns and 3 base artillery shells are more important.
When the new soldiers are gone, they can still be recruited from the militia and ordinary people. If these 25 mountain cannons pass through this village, there will be no such store.
After receiving the telegrams from Ding Wei and Kong Jie, Li Yunlong arranged a car camp, dispatched more than 200 vehicles, divided the 3 base artillery shells and 50 mountain cannons in half, and moved them to the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment respectively.
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Independent Regiment, at the entrance of the recruit training camp.
More than 100 Jiefang trucks were loaded with recruits.
Each Jiefang truck carries 25 to 30 recruits.
These recruits have just completed their recruit training. Each recruit is wearing a neat new military uniform, just like a new uncle.
"Company Commander Zhang."
"3,000 new recruits, no more, no less, I will leave them all to you."
"Remember to tell your regiment leader when you go back that next time there are mountain artillery, you can always come to our independent regiment for new recruits..."
At the entrance of the training camp, Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment, spoke to Zhang Shitang, the commander of the 2nd company of the new second regiment's automobile battalion.
This deal is a great deal for Kong Jie.
At present, the Xinyi Regiment Automobile Battalion has more than 600 vehicles, which is equivalent to the size of an automobile regiment. It has 6 automobile companies, each of which is equipped with more than 100 vehicles.
Looking at the trucks, which were all Jiefang brand trucks, Kong Jie had a hint of envy in his eyes.
"Captain Kong, our commander also asked me to bring you a message."
Company Commander Zhang looked at the energetic and high-morale recruits, then looked at Kong Jie and smiled slightly.
"Li Yunlong also brought me a message?" Kong Jie was slightly startled, with a look of curiosity and expectation on his face, and asked with a smile, "What message did he bring me?"
Company Commander Zhang Shitang said: "Our regiment has recently put into storage a new type of weapon of mass destruction and will prepare for test firing tomorrow. Our regiment leader invites you to come to the new regiment to observe."
"Weapons of mass destruction..."
Kong Jie was suddenly startled, but quickly reacted.
This piece of shit…
I must have gotten some good weapons from Boss Chen, and I am ready to show them off to him and Ding Wei.
What’s cool about the new weapons?
I'm not going to look at it.
Kong Jie pursed his lips, but in the end the words "weapons of mass destruction" made Kong Jie's heart itch unbearably, and his curiosity took over. He turned to Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan and said: "Second Battalion Commander, prepare immediately
