"Captain."

In a simple house in Beiping City.

Although there are many beautiful and grand houses in Peiping City, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang still maintained a hard and simple style and chose a relatively ordinary-looking house as the regiment headquarters.

The area around the regiment headquarters is filled with the top snipers of the new regiment, and even members of the Sword Brigade will be on duty around the regiment headquarters.

Everyone passing by the regiment headquarters will be targeted by several top snipers at the same time.

Of course, those who passed by basically didn't know that they had actually walked around the entrance of Yama Hall.

The Battle of North China has come to an end. The Japanese have only launched a new offensive in central China, but have made no further moves against the Eighth Route Army in North China. The settlement of the two transactions has been almost completed, and the rest and expansion of the troops are basically on track. Li Yunlong has

A rare little break.

At this time, Li Yunlong was lying on a chair, holding the intelligence information of "Battle of Stalingrad" in his hand, looking at it with relish.

This information was sent by Boss Chen from Yan Shuangying. It is very detailed.

Last month, the Battle of Stalingrad ended.

Judging from the number of casualties on both sides alone, this battle was the bloodiest battle in modern history. The casualties on both sides were estimated to be more than 2 million, making it a veritable meat grinder.

As a soldier, Li Yunlong was of course very interested in this war.

After Zhao Gang came back, he planned to show it to Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and others, and then discuss it.

Let's have a weapons deduction. Li Yunlong plays the German commander and Zhao Gang plays the Soviet commander to see if he can capture Stalingrad.

To the west and south of Stalingrad are the main grain, coal and oil producing areas of the Soviet Union.

If the German army occupied this area, the Soviet Union would lose important resources needed for the war.

But now, the German army has suffered its most serious defeat within the strategic scope, and the strategic pattern on the Eastern Front of Europe may have changed.

Suddenly, Wang Dehou walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand:

"Captain, the headquarters sent a telegram from Changsha."

"Our intimidation and threats against the Japanese have achieved very good results. After the Japanese officers and soldiers captured Changsha, they were strictly restrained by the headquarters and did not dare to massacre the city."

"Phenomena of burning, killing, looting and raping women rarely occur."

The Japanese army was resource-poor and often had insufficient logistical supplies during operations.

With the order and permission of the top Japanese military officials, the Japanese army carried out open robberies during the battle.

In addition to blatant acts of plunder, the inhumane Sanguang policy was also implemented. To the Japanese army, these were just routine operations.

But this time, under the threat of force from the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese did not dare to carry out the Three Guangs policy again.

Of course, after the intimidation and deterrence from the Eighth Route Army headquarters, Principal Chang also sent a telegram of intimidation and deterrence.

But it's of no use, the Japanese don't like Principal Chang at all.

If Principal Chang's intimidation had been effective, the 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Jinling would not have been massacred by the Japanese.

"good."

Li Yunlong's eyes lit up and he put down the intelligence materials in his hand.

Li Yunlong received a telegram from the headquarters, and the YA man also sent 30 strategic bombers to fly around the Japanese mainland.

On the one hand, it is to intimidate and threaten the Japanese.

This requires a lot of courage. Even Li Yunlong did not think of sending strategic bombers to the Japanese homeland to deter the Japanese.

Because once the Japanese are angered, they will probably be allowed to carry out massacres and revenge in the Changsha area.

However, the Japanese finally resorted to the rat weapon and did not dare to wield the butcher's knife.

On the other hand, it was to test the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower in Tokyo.

Not surprisingly, the anti-aircraft firepower deployed by the Japanese in Tokyo has been greatly enhanced, especially near the Japanese Locust Palace, where more anti-aircraft firepower has been enhanced, including many 150mm large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

This time, several strategic bombers were attacked by large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

But fortunately, the strategic bombers did not descend to drop bombs.

Therefore, although several strategic bombers were slightly damaged, fortunately there were no casualties.

"How many troops does our new regiment have now?"

Li Yunlong asked casually.

The war in Changsha has ended, and the Japanese will definitely not continue to attack.

The reason is very simple, because the Japanese have invested too much force in the national army in the southwest, and they will not be able to enter the mountain city for a while.

When the Eighth Route Army is ready, the Japanese Dispatch Army and the 11th Army will have hundreds of thousands of troops, and they will be attacked from both sides by the Eighth Route Army and the National Army.

When the logistical supplies are cut off, the Japanese's hundreds of thousands of troops will be in a situation where they are being made dumplings.

However, if the Japanese attack like this, it is impossible for the national army and the Japanese to jointly attack the Eighth Route Army.

Wang Dehou replied: "At present, our regiment has a total of 6 heavy-armed synthetic battalions, 2 heavy-armed tank battalions, 5 flying groups plus an independent fighter squadron, 14 independent heavy artillery battalions, 5 logistics support battalions, and 2 guard battalions.

, 3 engineer battalions, 3 air defense battalions, 8 cavalry battalions... In addition, 15 newly formed heavy-armed combined battalions are training."

"Ha ha…"

Li Yunlong's lips curled up.

Wang Dehou continued: "In addition, the independent brigade has also grown to more than 30,000 people. Now the main force of our new regiment has actually exceeded 300,000 people."

At the beginning, the new recruits of the new regiment were mainly responsible for the Central Hebei Military Region and the Southern Hebei Military Region.

However, because Li Yunlong gave some heavy equipment to the Central Hebei Military Region and the Southern Hebei Military Region, the number of soldiers given by these two military regions exceeded 100,000 by 20,000.

Since these were all outstanding soldiers, Li Yunlong naturally accepted them all.

These soldiers have undergone preliminary training and will then be expanded together with other units.

The Eighth Route Army has a tradition of leading the new with the old, and fully assists new recruits in learning and training.

On the battlefield, veterans would rather sacrifice themselves to block the guns of new recruits.

In this atmosphere, even if the veterans are diluted, the overall combat effectiveness of the new regiment will not be affected much.

In addition, all the officers from the new regiment who have traded with the brother units are in place.

Zhang Dabiao was fully responsible for this transaction, and Zhang Dabiao fulfilled his mission.

In addition, in Yu Province, due to the sincere invitation (seduce and temptation) of the Independent Brigade and the 129th Division, the National Army's 3rd Army lost more than half and withdrew from Zhengzhou in despair.

There is nothing that can be done for the national army. If they do not withdraw, most of the 3rd Army may be divided between the Independent Brigade and the 129th Division, and the organization will collapse.

Even if the military is strictly restrained, the National Army soldiers still have to follow the Eighth Route Army in the face of the Eighth Route Army's sincere invitation.

After being defeated again and again, the only way left is to escape.

Li Yunlong nodded, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.

Nowadays, most of the infantry, tanks and heavy artillery units of the new regiment have been transformed into heavy-armed combined battalions.

Each heavy-armed combined battalion has a strength of about 10,000 people and is commanded by a deputy regimental commander and a political commissar.

In this way, the pressure on Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang was greatly reduced during the battle.

In addition, the new regiment has now unified the caliber of artillery and formed an organic heavy artillery battalion, all equipped with 122mm howitzers and 152mm howitzers.

The 75mm Italian gun, 105mm howitzer and 150mm howitzer are a thing of the past.

Wang Dehou continued: "In addition, a total of 24,000 trucks and armored vehicles from the North China Campaign have been received. After half of them were handed over to the headquarters, our new regiment still had 12,000 vehicles left, which were given to the independent regiment.

After the second regiment has 1,000 armored vehicles and 1,000 vehicles each, our new regiment is left with 8,000 vehicles and armored vehicles. Adding the cars and armored vehicles previously equipped, our new regiment has basically achieved motorization."

After a pause, Wang Dehou asked: "Captain, I went to Taiyuan for a meeting some time ago. What do you think the staff at the headquarters called our new regiment?"

Li Yunlong had a look of curiosity on his face and asked, "What?"

Wang Dehou then said: "The staff officers at the headquarters call our new regiment the Li Zhao Army, and the 129th Division the Liu and Deng Army."

"Haha..." Li Yunlong immediately became happy, "Li Zhao Dajun is a good name, I like it very much."

After this expansion, the main force of the 129th Division is probably about 4,500,000 people. After all, it is a veteran main force, and it operates together with the headquarters, so it has a solid foundation.

Say that there is nothing wrong with Liu and Deng’s army.

Compared with the 129th Division, the New Regiment is not as powerful as the 129th Division, but it has stronger firepower than the 129th Division.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with calling the new regiment the Li Zhao Army.

Wang Dehou added: "Also, during this period, soldiers from the National Army continued to return to their hometowns to visit relatives, and then switched to our Eighth Route Army."

"oh?"

Li Yunlong's eyes lit up at first, then showed confusion, but the next moment, a look of surprise appeared on his face again.

Li Yunlong immediately asked: "Is it because of land reform?"

"That's right!"

Wang Dehou nodded, with an excited tone:
To be continued...