Next, the leader, Li Yunlong, and the chief of staff had some in-depth discussions on the strategic concept of the next Eighth Route Army offensive.
What he said before were some of Li Yunlong's thoughts on the Eighth Route Army's offensive strategy.
The battlefield situation is changing at any time. In the European battlefield, the Pacific battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield, the Allied forces, the German army, and the Japanese army are fighting.
No one can predict the future battlefield situation.
Whether the head of the headquarters will adopt Li Yunlong's suggestion or not, whether the head of YA agrees or not, has not yet been determined.
However, both the chief and the chief of staff saw that Li Yunlong indeed had strategic thinking.
Because now Li Yunlong can consider issues from an overall perspective.
He was thinking very long term. In the future, the Eighth Route Army would inevitably counterattack the Japanese mainland.
Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s just say that this time, Li Yunlong will let the Eighth Route Army’s war burn to the Japanese homeland.
After discussing with the head of the headquarters, Li Yunlong returned to the headquarters of the new regiment.
"Tiger!"
Li Yunlong said to Huang Erhu:
"Inform political commissar Zhao and Chief of Staff Wang to go to the regiment headquarters immediately for a meeting."
In the original drama, Huang Erhu died as soon as he appeared, holding a grenade and dying together with the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun.
However, with the help of Boss Chen's Italian artillery and 100 submachine guns, Huang Erhu did not need to use his body to blow up the Japanese machine gun positions, so he has been serving as Li Yunlong's bodyguard until now.
And Wei Dayong did not serve as Li Yunlong's guard, but first became the deputy captain of the Sharp Sword Squadron, and now he has become the sixth battalion commander of the main battalion of the new regiment.
Because of the appearance of Boss Chen, not only Li Yunlong's fate changed, but also the fate of almost everyone around him changed.
"yes."
Huang Erhu turned and left.
Not long after, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo returned to the regiment headquarters.
"Lao Li, is there something urgent?"
As soon as he walked into the regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang asked.
"It's nothing urgent." Li Yunlong said, "I'll call you two here and hold a party committee meeting."
The party committee of the New Regiment should have four people participating, but Deputy Head Xing is based in northwest Shanxi, so there are only three people participating at the moment.
Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou sat opposite Li Yunlong.
"The first thing."
"Headquarters agrees that we will expand our troops to 150,000!"
Li Yunlong smiled slightly and said.
As Li Yunlong expected, as soon as he finished speaking, the corners of Zhao Gang's and Wang Dehou's mouths turned up almost at the same time, and the smiles at the corners of their mouths were harder to suppress than Type 56 submachine guns.
Originally, the new group planned to expand to 100,000, but they did not expect to expand to an additional 50,000. What a surprise.
"Will the head of the headquarters allocate new soldiers to our new regiment?" Zhao Gang asked in an excited tone.
Expand by 100,000 at once. If the new group is allowed to expand on its own, it will definitely be able to complete the task.
The Eighth Route Army has regained such a large territory, and there are many young people who want to join the Eighth Route Army in fighting the Japanese.
However, many of them are ordinary people who have never touched a gun. It takes a long time to go from an ordinary person to a recruit and then to a qualified soldier.
Therefore, Zhao Gang guessed that the expansion of the New Regiment will definitely receive strong support from the headquarters.
"That's right!"
Li Yunlong nodded:
"The head of the headquarters gave us 80,000 new soldiers. Most of these recruits were adapted from guerrillas, county brigades, district brigades and militia. In addition, we were assigned battalion and company-level officers to support us in completing our expansion tasks."
When Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou heard this, they looked happy again.
Local troops such as guerrillas with combat experience are reorganized into new regiments. These new battalions can quickly form combat effectiveness.
"Great!" Zhao Gang said excitedly, "In this way, our troops will triple and our combat effectiveness will at least triple."
Wang Dehou said in an expectant tone: "The expanded new regiment will probably have incredible combat effectiveness. Our new regiment alone can defeat the entire Japanese North China Front alone!"
"The premise is that after the army is expanded, it must be able to form combat effectiveness."
Zhao Gang quickly regained his composure and asked:
"Old Li, to expand the army to 100,000 people, the weapons and equipment of the new barracks should not be too bad. Are the weapons and equipment of our regiment sufficient?"
"Of course it's enough."
Li Yunlong nodded and said:
"The head of the headquarters has already said that our New Regiment will keep half of the transaction price. The 20 Saber fighter jets and 4,500 horses and equipment will all belong to our New Regiment."
"After the expansion is completed, the firepower of our regiment will be increased by at least three times!"
In the past, when the troops were poor, there was no way to let them fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese.
Now the Japanese want to fight hand-to-hand with the new group, but there is no way.
Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou's eyes lit up slightly. Although they had expected it, they still looked happy when they heard the news.
Half of the price of this transaction is a huge fortune for the entire Eighth Route Army, and it is even greater wealth for the New Regiment.
Li Yunlong carefully calculated that the new regiment now has 15 infantry battalions, 5 cavalry battalions, 2 tank battalions, 1 guard battalion, 1 engineer battalion, 1 teaching battalion, 1 machine gun battalion, 2
Anti-aircraft artillery battalion, 1 special agent battalion, 7 artillery battalions, of which the artillery battalion includes 2 Katyusha rocket launcher battalions, 2 203mm howitzer battalions, 2 105mm howitzer battalions, and 1 150mm howitzer battalion.
There are 36 battalions in total. If this scale is expanded to three times, it will be 108 battalions.
Of course, although these 108 establishments are all at the battalion level, except for the guard battalion, basically every battalion has reached the regiment level, and many are even strengthened regiment level.
It looks like 108 battalions, but it is actually 108 regiments!
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of these 108 regiments will be quite terrifying, and they will be a force that makes the Japanese extremely afraid.
After Li Yunlong finished his mental arithmetic, a smile appeared on his face inadvertently.
Two words, rich.
Five words, so damn rich.
"What a pity..."
Li Yunlong said regretfully: "We don't have enough pilots. Otherwise, it would be more comfortable to expand a few more flying groups."
Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou both nodded. The current situation is that the Eighth Route Army has enough aircraft but not enough pilots.
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Headquarters.
"Report to the chief, there is a call from the Shancheng office."
A telegraph operator held a telegram in his hand, walked quickly into the operations hall, and saluted the commander and chief of staff with a military salute:
"The National Army wants to send an Air Force observation group over to exchange and learn experience in dealing with Japanese aircraft with our Air Force. This observation group is the 4th Brigade of the National Air Force."
Because the Eighth Route Army headquarters did not have direct contact with the top brass of the National Army.
so.
The top brass of the national army contacted the Eighth Route Army headquarters directly through the Shancheng Eighth Route Army office, bypassing the Second Theater Command.
As the Eighth Route Army grew bigger and stronger, Yan Xishan continued to disobey Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and the Second Theater Command could be said to exist in name only.
"Oh?" The chief's eyes lit up, "We were about to invite them, but we didn't expect that the national army would come on its own?"
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(I have a severe toothache today, so I will write a small note first and go to the drugstore to buy some medicine later.)