Chapter 737: Claiming the North and Attacking the South!
Today's new group of food is very good. Even ordinary soldiers have at least one meal of meat every day.
The other two meals also had plenty of oil and water.
The soldiers of the new regiment who were more than half a year old were basically all strong and strong. Even in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, they were not inferior in strength at all. They even had advantages in height, arm length and body weight.
Although with the current firepower of the New Regiment, they will not engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese unless necessary.
Of course, hand-to-hand combat is still one of the important training subjects for soldiers.
This was also one of the reasons why Qian Bojun wanted to join the Communist Party before. The food in Xinyi Tuan was so good.
Only with good food can the warriors maintain a strong and strong body.
Half a year after the recruits join the army, their originally thin and thin bodies will almost change and become strong and muscular.
Especially after they went to the battlefield and killed the Japanese, the eyes of the soldiers were almost as bright as fire, with determination and murderous intent.
Zhaojiayu.
New Regiment Headquarters.
night.
Xing Zhiguo and Zhao Gang, who were out, returned to the regiment headquarters and had already had dinner.
Li Yunlong summoned everyone to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, Wang Dehou, and Zhang Dabiao sat on the bench, while several combat staff officers from the regiment watched and took minutes of the meeting.
"I decided not to fight the 1st Division!"
Li Yunlong looked at everyone, and his first sentence was shocking.
Before this, Li Yunlong had already decided to fight the 1st Division.
There is no other reason, because the strength of the 1st Division is not strong now, far lower than that of the New Regiment.
And the most important thing is that if you kill the 1st Division, you will definitely make a lot of money doing business with Boss Chen.
besides.
If the entire 1st Division could be eaten, it would be a huge morale blow to the entire Japanese Army.
After all, the 1st Division is the oldest division of the Japanese Army.
"No more fighting against the 1st Division? Why?" Zhao Gang asked.
As Li Yunlong's partner, Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong was not a man who acted out his own ideas and must have his own plan.
"To be precise, our new regiment will no longer fight the 1st Division." Li Yunlong said.
Hearing what Li Yunlong said, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, Wang Dehou and Zhang Dabiao were immediately confused, and several combat staff were even more confused.
After glancing at everyone, Li Yunlong calmly pointed at the map and said: "Our previous battle plan was for our new regiment to go north to attack the 1st Division stationed in Datong, and then the independent regiment and the new second regiment would move forward.
Go out to Tongpu Road in the north to block the reinforcements of the Japanese First Army in the south. At the same time, the main force of the 129th Division goes north to the Zhengtai Railway and approaches the First Army, so that the First Army does not dare to send out more troops and cooperate with us to attack the 1st Division."
"That's right!" Chief of Staff Wang Dehou nodded, "Our previous battle plan was like this."
However, this combat plan is just a general direction proposed by Li Yunlong. The general staff has not yet started working on the specific detailed combat plan and emergency preparedness.
Xing Zhiguo asked: "Commander, what is the current battle plan?"
As an old comrade of Li Yunlong, Xing Zhiguo knew Li Yunlong quite well.
There is only one reason why Li Yunlong gave up eating such a big fat piece of meat as the 1st Division, and that was that Li Yunlong had a bigger and fatter piece of meat around his mouth.
"The current battle plan..."
Li Yunlong glanced at Xing Zhiguo, continued to point at the map, and smiled:
"Let the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment go north, pretend to be our New Regiment, and attack the Japanese 1st Division in Datong."
"At this time, the main force of our 129th Division in southeastern Shanxi has already moved north to prepare to attack the Zhengtai Railway."
"The 37th Division stationed in Yangquan and the 33rd Division stationed in Shouyang on the Zhengtai Railway will definitely not dare to reinforce, and will form a defensive posture for the main force of our 129th Division."
"Our new regiment quietly went south to poke the 37th Division and the 33rd Division in the ass."
When everyone heard this, their eyes couldn't help but light up slightly.
"Isn't the 33rd Division in Zhongtiao Mountain? How come it came to the Zhengtai Railway?"
Xing Zhiguo asked in a confused tone, while Zhao Gang and Zhang Dabiao were also a little confused.
Wang Dehou said: "This is the information just received at noon. The Japanese army has abandoned Zhongtiao Mountain, the 33rd Division has just withdrawn from the Zhengtai Railway, and the division headquarters is stationed in Shouyang County."
Xing Zhiguo and others suddenly looked surprised.
Given the current situation, it was obviously a wise decision for the Japanese army to abandon Zhongtiao Mountain.
The reason why the Japanese army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain in the first place was that they wanted to use Zhongtiao Mountain as a springboard to cross the river and go south, to visit Longhai, and invade the Central Plains. They could also go north to connect with their main occupied areas in Shanxi, relieve their trusted allies, and improve the situation in the North China occupied area.
Security situation.
While the 33rd Division was stationed at Zhongtiao Mountain, under the order of Okamura Neiji, it crossed the Yellow River south in three routes to attack Zhengzhou.
Due to the empty defense of Zhengzhou, it was occupied by the Japanese army.
However, General Wei Lihuang believed that Zhengzhou was an important town in the Central Plains, so he mobilized troops to carry out a full-scale counterattack, and personally went to the front line to command. He recaptured Zhengzhou in one fell swoop and drove the Japanese army back to the north of the Yellow River.
In 1940, Wei Lihuang concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the Hebei-Cha War Zone. He deployed carefully and set up a backwater formation in Zhongtiao Mountain to protect the Yellow River and North China.
The Japanese army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain three times but failed to capture it.
Had it not been for the fact that before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Chiang Kai-shek had placed General Wei Lihuang under house arrest in Mount Emei, causing the 200,000 Central Army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain to fall into a leaderless situation, the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain would not have been such a disastrous defeat.
"Sacrificing the near for the far is an unconventional way of playing." Zhang Dabiao was the first to agree with Li Yunlong's decision and said, "But if you do the opposite, you may get unexpected results."
The rest of the people also nodded, obviously thinking that Li Yunlong's idea was good.
"Actually, we are not abandoning the near and seeking the far away. We are attacking the south from the north." Li Yunlong said: "At present, the total strength of the Japanese 1st Division is about 15,000, and the combined strength of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment is 30,000.
There are many, all beautiful weapons, enough to deal with the 1st Division."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "The attack on the 1st Division was to allow the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment to obtain wartime airdrop supplies and the opportunity to obtain reimbursed ammunition after the war.
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"I will apply to the headquarters to have the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment temporarily assigned to my command."
"So, although the attack on the 1st Division was fought by the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment, the actual command was mine. The New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment won the battle, so we can still make some business income."
Although the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment did business with the New First Regiment, Li Yunlong each made away with 4,500 recruits.
Since the second half of last year, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment have been recruiting troops.
The New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment originally planned to expand to 20,000 people, but after Li Yunlong gained new recruits, they have now expanded to 15,000 people.
After hearing Li Yunlong's analysis, everyone's eyes became brighter.
If the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region and the Southeastern Shanxi Military Region launch a major campaign at the same time, then fraternal units from other military regions of the Eighth Route Army will most likely be involved.
This is another major battle since the Hundred Regiments War.
Xing Zhiguo pointed to the map and asked two questions: "The key to attacking the 1st Division lies in two points. The first point is how the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment quietly raided the 1st Division in Datong.
Division, the current 1st Division is afraid of our new regiment, but just like mice are afraid of cats, there will definitely be many Japanese overt and covert sentinels, and even strongholds, on the roads and trails to Datong."
"The current 1st Division is a frightened bird. If there is any slight disturbance, it may escape from Datong."
Li Yunlong nodded. He had discussed these issues with Wang Dehou at noon.
And the Sword Squadron has been dispatched.
"Second point, even if the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment successfully raided and blocked the 1st Division in Datong, how can we make the 1st Division believe that it is our New Regiment attacking the 1st Division?"
"After all, the firepower of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment is still far behind that of our New Regiment."
In terms of military strength, the new regiment showed a strength of almost 30,000 men before.
It's just that that was 3 months ago. When the main force of the 1st Division was ambushed more than a month ago, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province was dispatched, a total of more than 50,000 people.
The Japanese army never imagined that in just over three months, the strength of the new regiment would have reached 50,000.
Although Li Yunlong has revealed the total strength of the new regiment to Chu Yunfei today.
But Li Yunlong knew that the people around Chu Yunfei should be reliable, otherwise Chu Yunfei's head would have been picked off by the Japanese, and Chu Yunfei would not tip off the Japanese.
Li Yunlong said: "I have already considered these two points clearly."
"As for the first point, I already discussed it with the chief of staff at noon, and currently have dispatched the Sword Squadron to find out the details of the 1st Division."
"As for the second point, the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment currently have 4 artillery battalions combined. I will transfer the 150 mm howitzer battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion of our regiment to the command of Ding Wei and Kong Jie."
"In this way, the troops attacking the 1st Division will have six artillery battalions."
"Hey, although our artillery division is organized at the battalion level, its scale is at the regiment level. Six artillery regiments can easily suppress the heavy artillery regiment of the 1st Division."
"The infantry weapons of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment are similar to those of our New First Regiment."
"If the tank battalion is also given command by Ding Wei and Kong Jie, the little devils will definitely think that it is our new regiment heading north to attack the 1st Division."
As for the cavalry battalion, Li Yunlong does not plan to give it to the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment this time.
The batch of soldiers and horses captured by Li Yunlong after killing the 1st Division Cavalry Regiment last time were given to the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment. Ding Wei and Kong Jie's respective cavalry battalions have reached the regiment level.
Moreover, in terms of equipment, the regimental cavalry battalion and the new second regiment cavalry battalion are the same as the new regiment, equipped with the same Yunlong knife and system-improved carbine.
The two cavalry battalions arrived in Datong ahead of the main force and blocked the Japanese from the 1st Division. When the main force arrived, the 1st Division was unable to escape.
"Okay, just follow this battle plan!" Zhao Gang nodded.
"Specific combat plans and emergency preparedness." Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou and said, "Your staff will make them as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Wang Dehou responded after taking the order.
Then, Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, is there any progress in the investigation of senior agents?"