Chapter 409 The results are great!
At first, the commander and chief of staff were as happy as if they were celebrating the New Year when more than a dozen mountain artillery pieces from the Shanxi-Sui Army army were salvaged from the river.
At that time, each cannon only had about ten rounds.
The howitzers didn't even have a single shell, so the headquarters returned several howitzers to Yan Laoxi.
Every time the artillery fires a mountain artillery shell, it needs the personal approval of the commander.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army was really so poor that they had to tighten their belts to get by.
But now, 440 cannons have been obtained at one time. Calculated based on 3 base shells for each cannon, there are hundreds of thousands of cannon shells.
The sudden wealth made the chief lose his composure, and he couldn't help showing an expression of ecstasy on his face.
He was really ecstatic, his eyes almost popped out of his head, the corners of his mouth were grinning so high, and his expression was filled with a smile of joy.
At present, the Eighth Route Army has only more than 100 infantry regiments and more than a dozen artillery regiments. The ratio of artillery to infantry is almost one-tenth.
The Japanese, who were as powerful as the Japanese First Army, did not have so many cannons above 75 mm.
In addition to the current 2 artillery regiments of the headquarters artillery brigade, 1 artillery regiment of Li Yunlong's New Regiment, 2 artillery regiments directly under the 385th Brigade and 386th Brigade Headquarters, and 1 artillery regiment directly under the division headquarters.
Absolutely rich!
How many artillery regiments did the Japanese First Army have?
In terms of artillery fire, the Eighth Route Army had already crushed the Japanese First Army.
Of course, when these cannons are in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, they will not immediately become combat effective.
After all, artillery is not an infantryman in artillery. You can master it once you teach it, and it takes time to train.
However, the first batch of artillery cadets at the artillery school in YA is about to graduate. The 129th Division's battalion school has also added several artillery classes, and two batches of artillery cadets have successfully graduated.
The batch of Jin-style mountain guns that were eliminated, as well as a small number of American mountain guns, mortars, infantry guns, etc. were sent to YA to form an artillery school.
Although these artillery trainees are not enough to replenish 13 artillery regiments at once, with the old teaching the new, one will teach 10, 10 will teach 100, and 100 will teach 1,000. It won't be long before a large number of artillery talents will emerge.
After all, you managed to survive the hard days without cannons and cannonballs. Now that you have finally made a fortune, can you still survive?
The chief of staff added: "But...Li Yunlong also made a request."
"No matter what request he makes, he will always agree to it."
The chief said without any hesitation in his tone.
It can be said that Li Yunlong has contributed most of the credit for the Eighth Route Army to be able to make such a huge fortune.
If Li Yunlong hadn't been unwilling to be promoted, he would now be at least at the level of military division commander.
However, now that Li Yunlong has grown up to be able to take charge of his own business, the head of the headquarters is confident that he can lead his troops to develop in northwest Shanxi.
Anyway, it's just a regiment's establishment. The headquarters does not limit the number of people in the new regiment. How big the army can develop depends on Li Yunlong's own ability.
The chief of staff then said: "Li Yunlong said that Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie also contributed a lot to the capture of Taiyuan and the shooting down of enemy planes. Therefore, Li Yunlong requested that they be rewarded with a mountain cannon for every aircraft shot down. Ding
Wei led his troops to shoot down 31 Japanese aircraft, Kong Jie led his troops to shoot down 23 Japanese aircraft, and Cheng Shifa led his troops to shoot down 18 Japanese aircraft."
The commander thought for a while and then agreed: "That's no problem. Ding Wei's new second regiment and Kong Jie's independent regiment are each equipped with a cannon regiment. Our Eighth Route Army has two more ace regiments."
In the chief's view, as long as the rice is still in his own pot, these mountain cannons are the same to anyone.
Cheng Shifa's 772nd Regiment, with its 18 mountain artillery pieces, plus the captured and original cannons, could form up to 2 artillery battalions, which was not enough to constitute an artillery regiment, and it was still a little less interesting.
As for Li Yunlong's new regiment, it has already surpassed the category of ace regiments. In terms of combat effectiveness alone, it is more powerful than an entire army of the Central Army.
What's more, there were quite a lot of mountain artillery and howitzers this time, and the commander hadn't figured out how to divide them among them.
The headquarters will definitely add another directly-administered howitzer regiment and a mountain artillery regiment, as well as a 75mm mountain artillery brigade and a 105mm howitzer brigade.
In addition, some howitzers and mountain artillery should be left for Li Yunlong to support a mountain artillery regiment in other military regions.
After all, if one military region is strong, it is not strong. Only if all the Eighth Route Army military regions are strong, then it is truly strong.
When the Eighth Route Army in North China counterattacks the Japanese army in the future, it will be in full bloom.
However, it is not time to counterattack yet.
Then, the chief said: "In reply to Li Yunlong, the headquarters agreed to Comrade Li Yunlong's request and rewarded Ding Wei with 31 mountain cannons, Cheng Shifa with 18 mountain cannons, and Kong Jie with 23 mountain cannons. Among the remaining cannons, the New Regiment left 1 mountain cannon.
Battalion and 1 howitzer battalion, the rest of the artillery was handed over to the headquarters, 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2,000 tons of food, the radio station was handed over to the headquarters, and another 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 1,100 tons of food were left behind."
1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition is equivalent to equipment for 15,000 people.
And all of them are high-quality Japanese weapons and equipment.
The chief directly gave 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition to Li Yunlong, which was equivalent to giving Li Yunlong a large amount of start-up capital.
Starting a business in a new place, even if it is a place where brothers have started businesses, will definitely be difficult at the beginning.
"Okay!" The chief of staff quickly recorded the telegram sent to Li Yunlong.
The chief suddenly asked again: "By the way, did Li Yunlong mention the price of killing Yoshio Shinozuka in the telegram?"
The chief of staff shook his head: "No, I guess Li Yunlong hasn't met the other party yet. In the past, the price for killing a Japanese lieutenant general was determined only after Li Yunlong led his troops back to the base area."
"That's right." The chief nodded and said, "Li Yunlong is still in Taiyuan at the moment. Well, let's just reply to him like this."
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3rd Column Headquarters.
The decoder at the headquarters translated the code into a message and handed it to Chief of Staff Wang Dehou.
After reading it, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong: "Report to the commander-in-chief. The headquarters called back and ordered us to leave 1 howitzer battalion, 1 mountain artillery battalion, 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition, and 1,100 tons of grain. The remaining cannons, weapons and ammunition, grain and
The radio station is handed over to the headquarters."
After a pause, Wang Dehou suddenly smiled and said: "The head of the headquarters left us a lot of weapons, ammunition and food."
"Yes!" Zhao Gang also smiled, "1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition, that is, weapons and ammunition for 15,000 people. Lao Li, the head of the headquarters is quite good to you."
Li Yunlong said in a leisurely tone: "Of course, if the head of the headquarters is not nice to me, Old Li, who will be nice to him?"
"The head of the headquarters calculates his accounts better than anyone else. The stronger our new group is, the bigger the business will be, and the bigger the headquarters will be able to make a fortune."
"If you don't believe it, just watch it. Next time we attack Taiyuan, we won't need our brother troops at all. Our new regiment can defeat Taiyuan!"
After capturing Taiyuan this time, they will definitely have to withdraw, because with the current strength of the Eighth Route Army, they will definitely not be able to defend Taiyuan.
In the final analysis, there were three main reasons why Taiyuan was captured this time.
The first aspect is that the main force of the Japanese army was used to attack the Central Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, leaving Taiyuan City empty of troops.
The second aspect is that the Japanese army misjudged the strength of the Eighth Route Army. Yoshio Shinozuka did not know that the Eighth Route Army had expanded its main force by more than 30,000 troops.
The third reason is that due to proper tactics, the Japanese army in Taiyuan did not have much preparation.
However, the Japanese who attacked Zhongtiao Mountain, plus the Japanese 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 108th Division heading south, totaled more than 100,000 Japanese.
The Japs still have a lot of troops.
Although the Eighth Route Army has expanded its main force, which totals almost 100,000, and its weapons and equipment have also increased, there is still a gap between the quality of individual soldiers and the Japanese soldiers.
After all, most of the expanded main soldiers were newly recruited from the basic regiments and militia.
Now, if 100,000 Eighth Route Army troops fight against 100,000 Japanese soldiers, they may not be able to defeat the Japanese soldiers.
In addition, once the Japanese soldiers, weapons and ammunition are exhausted, they can still be removed from the mainland and the Kwantung Army.
As for the weapons and ammunition of the Eighth Route Army, except for the troops commanded by Li Yunlong, all the other brother troops were really exhausted.
The national army basically used hundreds of thousands to fight tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Japanese, and basically they always lost more than they won.
Of course, the tactics of the Eighth Route Army were basically not about confronting the Japanese head-on.
We must give full play to our own advantages and fight guerrillas against the Japanese.
In the past, if we had poor equipment, we would have the upper hand in fighting guerrillas against the Japanese. Now that we have good equipment, it will be no problem.
This time, the 1st and 2nd columns attacked two Japanese divisions head-on, mostly to assist Li Yunlong in attacking Taiyuan.
"I believe this." Zhao Gang nodded with a firm tone, "Perhaps when we attack Taiyuan next time, we will completely recover it instead of retreating after the attack like this."
Li Yunlong said: "Our attack on Taiyuan this time was not in vain. Although the old Japanese Yoshio Shinozuka destroyed both the arms warehouse and the grain depot before he died, the result of this battle was that two Japanese divisions were severely damaged compared to the last time.
The group is too big.”
Hundreds of machine guns, thousands of rifles, and millions of rounds of ammunition were seized.
In addition, equipment, raw materials and technical workers from the Taiyuan Arsenal were seized.
In addition, the share of business is also the majority.
In addition to the 2,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2,000 tons of food discussed in advance, and the long-term business profits from shooting down 110 Japanese planes.
As for the price of killing Yoshio Shinozuka, we will not know until we meet Mr. Chen in northwest Shanxi.
In addition, there were 3,000 Japanese killed by the Fourth Battalion, which was also a big deal.
Most of the Japanese planes went to Xincheng Airport and Yuncheng Airport. There were only a few Japanese planes staying at Taiyuan Xincheng and Wuxiang airports, and they took off when they saw something bad going on.
Although there is a slight regret, in general, this battle made Li Yunlong and the Eighth Route Army make a lot of money.
At present, the two main infantry battalions and the cavalry battalion of the new regiment, led by deputy commander Xing Zhiguo, have gone to reinforce the fourth battalion.
If you are lucky enough, you may be able to severely damage the Japanese 1st Cavalry Brigade, which is another big business.
After carefully calculating the results one by one, the smile on Li Yunlong's face grew stronger.
(End of chapter)
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