Hearing Li Yunlong's invitation again, Chu Yunfei felt a little hesitant, but still said:
"Brother Yunlong, we all fight under the same army, belong to the same order of battle of the national army, and serve the country under the command of Chairman Chiang and Commander Yan."
"Everywhere we go, we fight against Japanese invaders, what do you think, Brother Yunlong?"
Although he said this, Chu Yunfei felt a little hesitant in his heart.
During this period, although Chu Yunfei was loyal to President Chang and believed that the Three People's Principles could save China, he was not willing to get involved in party disputes and only wanted democracy, independence and freedom.
However, the current Eighth Route Army is powerful, and it is only a matter of time before the Japanese army in Shanxi is eliminated.
His commander, Yan Xishan, was afraid that the Jinsui Army would be easily dispatched by the Eighth Route Army, so he was already organizing the Jinsui Army to retreat to Shaanxi.
At present, Shanxi's Eighth Route Army's main force and militiamen number more than four and a half million, with first-class equipment and abundant ammunition.
Although the Jinsui Army has more than a dozen divisions, its total strength is only about 70,000.
The entire Shanxi-Sui Army united together would probably not be able to defeat the Independent Regiment or the New Second Regiment.
Chu Yunfei really wanted to fight the Japanese.
Once the 358th Regiment retreats to Shaanxi, if the Eighth Route Army wins successive victories in North China, it will be difficult for Chu Yunfei to have a chance to fight the Japanese.
Li Yunlong caught the loophole in Chu Yunfei's words: "Haha... Since we fight against Japanese invaders everywhere, isn't it the same when Brother Chu comes to my place to fight against Japanese soldiers?"
Chu Yunfei then said: "Brother Yunlong, let me think about this matter."
If it were Li Yunlong, he would definitely say, Brother Chu, your position as deputy captain is reserved for my brothers. If I can't keep it, I will bring my brothers over to join you.
First, paint the cake for Chu Yunfei.
"Brother Chu, aren't you just trying to beat him up?"
Li Yunlong looked slightly solemn:
"Deliberately dragging brother down, and then get useless equipment from me?"
This is the third time that Li Yunlong has actively invited Chu Yunfei to join the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
It's also the last time.
It's not like the new group can't move without Chu Yunfei. If Chu Yunfei still refuses, Li Yunlong doesn't intend to force it anymore.
Zhuge Liang is not as difficult to invite as Chu Yunfei, right?
Chu Yunfei smiled slightly, neither confirming nor denying.
Even Sun Ming beside him didn't know what Chu Yunfei was thinking.
Sun Ming really wanted to join the Eighth Route Army and even join the New Regiment. He had a general impression of Commander Yan and Principal Chang.
Instead, I often came to the New Regiment with Chu Yunfei, and I felt very good about the Eighth Route Army and even the New Regiment.
This is what an army should look like. It has strong morale, well-equipped equipment, and will win if it dares to fight. The atmosphere between the grassroots troops and the grassroots soldiers of the national army is almost the same.
but.
After all, Sun Ming was Chu Yunfei's confidant and was only loyal to Chu Yunfei. He would follow Chu Yunfei wherever he went.
Next, Li Yunlong took Chu Yunfei to the Dagu Town shooting range and tried firing the Type 56 gun.
Chu Yunfei was a fast shooter and a sharpshooter. He quickly got started in shooting. After firing hundreds of bullets, he was full of praise for this Type 56 gun.
This Type 56 gun is indeed better than the Garand.
What's even more valuable is that the new regiment is equipped with semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns and light machine guns of the same caliber at the same time. The logistics pressure after unifying the caliber is greatly reduced.
Chu Yunfei naturally didn't believe Li Yunlong's words.
Could a gun with such good shooting accuracy, reliability and excellent manufacturing technology be independently developed by your Eighth Route Army?
The Eighth Route Army had a hard time building a bolt-action rifle.
What about the liar?
Soon, Chu Yunfei realized that this gun must have been given to him by the boss Chen behind Li Yunlong.
Thinking of this, Chu Yunfei felt envious again.
Although this Type 56 gun is not as exaggerated as what Li Yunlong said, the Japanese's 38 guns are not much better than a fire stick in front of this gun.
It was crushed in every aspect.
The war was imminent, and Li Yunlong was also very busy, so he sent Chu Yunfei tens of thousands of bullets from American firearms.
Originally, Chu Yunfei wanted to beg for more, but Li Yunlong dismissed him with one sentence: Brother Chu's 358th Regiment is in the rear and is not fighting the Japanese, so why does it need so many bullets?
Therefore, Chu Yunfei could only carry tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and returned to the 358th Regiment's headquarters.
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Northern Shaanxi.
Qiulin Town.
Second Theater Command.
"This Chu Yunfei, what does he want to do?"
Yan Xishan looked at the information in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and spoke in a cold tone.
The deputy commander-in-chief Yang Xingru and several close associates were trembling and did not dare to speak.
Yan Xishan was extremely suspicious and did not trust his subordinates. He kept a group of spies in the Jinsui Army to monitor his subordinates.
Fu Zuoyi was once one of Yan Xishan's Thirteen Taibao. It was because Yan Xishan was too suspicious of Fu Zuoyi that Fu Zuoyi left Yan Xishan.
During this time, Chu Yunfei often went to Xinyi Tuan to meet with Li Yunlong.
And a lot of weapons, equipment and ammunition were obtained from the New 1st Regiment for the 358th Regiment, and someone secretly reported this situation to Yan Xishan.
Some time ago, two or three regiments of the Jinsui Army changed their flags and joined the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army respectively.
These two regiments were relatively elite troops in the Jinsui Army. On the surface, they were loyal to Yan Xishan, but they suddenly defected to the Eighth Route Army.
Moreover, the entire regiment's troops and equipment defected to the Eighth Route Army.
Because of this matter, Yan Xishan also negotiated with the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. The Eighth Route Army Headquarters responded that it was indeed the case and it was a personal act of the local troops and had nothing to do with the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
The Eighth Route Headquarters had a conciliatory attitude, and Yan Xishan had no choice.
At present, Chu Yunfei has an ambiguous relationship with Li Yunlong, the leader of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which makes Yan Xishan have to suspect that Chu Yunfei is suspected of being a communist...
If Chu Yunfei himself voted for the Communists, the loss would not be big, but if the 358 regiment voted for the Communists, the losses would be huge!
Although the 358th Regiment is organized as a regiment, its strength reaches a brigade, and it is an elite unit of the Shanxi-Sui Army.
In the original drama, Chu Yunfei went to Principal Chang’s General Lu class to further his studies, but failed to take away the 358th regiment.
"Probably not?"
Yang Xingru’s tone was also unsure:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Chu Yunfei has been with the Commander for many years. After the Whampoa Military Academy, he worked as a trainee platoon leader to the current regimental commander, all of which were promoted by you, Commander."
"How is this impossible?" said a close staff officer of Yan Xishan, "Which of the two regiment leaders who surrendered to the Communist Party was not personally promoted by the commander? Or did he defect to the Eighth Route Army? Commander, we have to guard against this matter.
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"I don't think Chu Yunfei will betray. If Chu Yunfei defected to the Eighth Route Army, he would definitely do it secretly, not with such a big fanfare, and even bring American equipment back to the 358th Regiment." Another close staff member said.
"It's hard to say. As the saying goes, a good bird perches on a broken tree. Now that the Eighth Route Army is so powerful, Chu Yunfei will inevitably have different intentions." Another staff officer said.
"Stop arguing!" Yan Xishan slapped the table, looked at the communications staff officer, and said coldly, "Let Chu Yunfei come to Qiulin Town to see me."
"yes!"
The communications staff member straightened up.
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Li Yunlong didn't know it yet, but he had given Chu Yunfei a reinforced battalion of American equipment, which had already made Yan Xishan suspicious of Chu Yunfei.
However, he was not interested in knowing the internal affairs of the Jinsui Army. It was none of his business.
At this time, Li Yunlong's battle plan for attacking Taiyuan had basically been formulated.
At the same time, Li Yunlong also revealed to Boss Chen the Eighth Route Army's upcoming plan to attack Taiyuan.
Boss Chen also revealed to Li Yunlong that if Li Yunlong could lead his troops to eliminate the First Army and the Japanese in Taiyuan, the price of the business would be so great that Li Yunlong could not even imagine it.
After listening to this, Li Yunlong became very motivated.
As for the Jizhong Military Region, the Japanese raids on the Jizhong Military Region have become a mess.
Along with the flying regiment from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi, it joined in the bombing of the Japanese and puppet troops' mopping up troops, provided air support to the brothers' troops in the Central Hebei Military Region, and communicated to the Central Hebei Military Region information on the movements of the Japanese and puppet troops at any time.
As a result, the Japanese casualties suddenly increased.
Moreover, after knowing the movements of the Japanese and puppet troops, the Jizhong Military Region assembled troops many times to launch positional battles with the Japanese and puppet troops.
During the battle, we called for air support many times, fought several annihilation battles with air and ground cooperation, defeated the Japanese and puppet troops, and captured a lot of money.
When the Jizhong Military Region did not call for air support, the Eighth Route Army's planes would randomly search for Japanese and puppet troops to strafe and bomb, allowing the pilots to accumulate flight and actual combat experience, so that the Japanese and puppet troops would not dare to show their faces.
Peking.
Iron Lion Alley.
North China Front Army Headquarters.
"Your Excellency, Commander."
Deputy Chief of Staff Yusue Mizuki reported to Neji Okamura:
"This is the casualty situation reported by the frontline troops and the latest statistics calculated by the staff department. More than 8,000 Locust Army troops participated in the sweep. The 4th Cavalry Brigade suffered particularly heavy casualties. Almost all artillery units of the divisions participating in the sweep were
It was blown up by Eighth Route Army planes."
During this time, Okamura Neji didn't go anywhere and was at the headquarters every day.
Sometimes I even work in a bomb shelter.
At this time, the airport in the western suburbs of Peking had basically been repaired. Although the Kwantung Army borrowed several transport planes from Okamura Neiji, Okamura Neiji did not dare to fly to the battlefield to inspect.
"There are so many casualties?"
Okamura Neji stood up suddenly, his tone unbelievable.
The total number of mopping up troops was only over 50,000, including over 20,000 puppet troops and over 30,000 Japanese troops.
There were three Mojins who counted the casualties of the Japanese army, but not the casualties of the puppet troops. The puppet troops were just cannon fodder. No matter how many Japanese soldiers died, they would not feel the slightest disturbance in their hearts.
If the puppet troops are included, the total casualties of the Japanese and puppet troops participating in the mopping up troops must have exceeded 15,000.
"The casualties are too great." Tanabe Moritake on the side said with an ugly face, "Your Excellency, Commander, please order all the mopping up troops to stop attacking."
"The combat supplies carried by the mopping up troops are almost used up, and our logistics supplies can no longer keep up."
"The Eighth Route Army's planes blew up the railway and highway bridges, and the transport team was unable to transport combat supplies to Jizhong in a short period of time!"
Two days before the war began, Eighth Route Army planes bombed the Japanese supply and transportation team, causing the Japanese to suffer heavy material losses.
The Japanese responded quickly and quickly changed their strategy. The transport team changed to sleeping during the day and transporting at night.
However, the Eighth Route Army blew up the railway and highway bridges, and the Japanese transport team had no ability to fly combat materials to the Jizhong Military Region.
"idiot!"
"A bunch of trash..."
Okamura Neji cursed loudly and gave the order in a cold tone:
"Order the mopping up troops to retreat immediately!"
The mopping up troops have been mopping up for 10 days in total, and the combat supplies they carry are about to be used up. If they continue to attack.
I'm afraid it will soon be the Eighth Route Army's turn to mop up the Japanese and puppet troops.
No matter how unwilling he was, Okamura Neiji could only order a retreat at this time.
"Hi!"
Tanabe Shengwu suddenly lowered his head.
Youmo Jingsan, who was standing by the side, had a sad look on his face. This time, the generals from below to above suppressed them, insisting on mobilizing troops and supplies to raid the Jizhong Military Region.
It would be easy to say if the mopping up was successful, but the mopping up of the Eighth Route Army in the Central Hebei Military Region ended in failure.
Coupled with the accumulation of previous defeats, the general may be stripped of his title as commander of the North China Front by the base camp.