Chen Daliang grabbed Huang Yu's hands, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and asked with anticipation and nervousness: "Consultant Huang, are you telling the truth? There are really gunners among the prisoners that I need!"
Kong Jie suddenly interrupted: "Is it possible that Xiao Huang will lie to you again?"
"Don't forget, Xiao Huang got you the main weapon of the artillery battalion. He wants the artillery battalion to grow and develop more than anyone else!"
As soon as Chen Daliang heard this, he knew that this matter was very close, and he felt as if he had eaten candied fruit, with a smile on his face.
He grabbed Huang Yu's hands and couldn't bear to put them down. He said with a grateful face: "Thank you, Staff Huang, for your good idea... You are the benefactor of my artillery battalion and my lucky star, Chen Daliang... I will go to the prisoner camp to find someone now!"
"Wait a moment!" Huang Yu continued.
"After finding enough artillerymen in the prisoner camp, the artillery battalion cannot be formed into an army immediately!"
"You have too few veterans and cadres!"
"After recruiting people, we immediately gathered the gunners poached from the artillery battalions from each battalion, and reassigned the gunners to each battalion according to the principle of one veteran leading one recruit. In this way, we can bring out the full combat effectiveness of the new recruits and veterans, and let the artillery battalion
Form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"
"This is arranged!" Kong Jie interrupted again.
"Just do what Xiao Huang suggested...Go to the prisoner camp to find people now...I'll tell the chief of staff again: After the artillery goes to the prisoner camp to pick people, several main battalions can go to pick people!"
"Captain, don't forget Zhang Dashan from the cavalry company!" Huang Yu suddenly reminded.
"The cavalry company suffered more than half of its casualties in the Tu Tu Temple blockade, but there are still more than 140 horses. More than fifty soldiers need to be added to fully fill the cavalry company!"
"The main force of the regiment was fighting in the base area. Although they did not encounter the Japanese cavalry, they eliminated many Japanese cavalry scouts and horse-riding messengers. In addition to the mounts of Japanese and puppet army officers, there were still 120 scattered war horses captured.
Sixteen horses..."
"If all these war horses are equipped with cavalry units, the cavalry company will be fully capable of expanding the cavalry battalion!"
"I originally thought that cavalry would only die in front of heavy machine guns and tanks, and their role on the battlefield would become smaller and smaller!"
"During the battle at the Tutu Temple, I suddenly realized that I had thought wrong."
"On a local battlefield, as long as the conditions are right, a cavalry company is as useful as a main battalion, and can even determine the outcome of a battle!"
"When I led the assault battalion to intercept the Miyamoto Regiment head-on, if the cavalry company had not seized the Japanese artillery positions with lightning speed and forcibly raided the Japanese and puppet offensive positions under the cover of artillery fire, we would not have been able to defeat the Miyamoto Regiment.
team, and may be wiped out by them in the Earth Temple!"
"Afterwards, I deliberately reviewed the entire blocking battle. If the cavalry company was replaced by a main battalion, we would lose the surprise of attacking the artillery position, and the chance of winning would be reduced to 30 to 40 percent because the infantry attack speed is too slow!"
Kong Jie did not have Huang Yu's forward thinking and did not know that the cavalry force would soon be eliminated by the armored force.
In his eyes, the cavalry has always been an invincible existence, coming and going without a trace, and can be matched wherever they go.
Whether he was a regiment commander during the Red Army or a regiment commander in the Eighth Route Army, he always dreamed of having a cavalry unit.
Now that my dream has not only come true, it is also possible to expand the cavalry company into a cavalry battalion. Words cannot describe the joy I feel.
Staring at Huang Yu, he asked: "The main force of the regiment really captured more than a hundred war horses?"
Huang Yu answered firmly: "Even if there is no special cavalry unit, each infantry brigade of the Japanese army will be equipped with more than 20 horses for reconnaissance and external contact!"
"Including the mounts of officers above the squadron commander, an infantry brigade has at least thirty war horses."
"We killed more than 3,000 little Japs and seized over a hundred horses from them alone!"
"The puppet army commander and some battalion commanders are also equipped with war horses!"
"Dozens more horses were seized from them, adding up to exactly 126 horses!"
Kong Jie was so excited that he almost jumped up from the ground and ordered on the spot: "Since we have all the horses, what are you waiting for!"
"The regiment headquarters will try to find a way to get a few more horses together with the captured horses to replenish the cavalry company, and immediately expand the cavalry company into a cavalry battalion with three cavalry companies under its jurisdiction!"
"Ask Zhang Dashan to go to the prisoner camp immediately to select people..."
"After the artillerymen have finished selecting, he goes to select..."
"If the troops are not enough, just recruit new troops from the defense area!"
"There are many young people from Shaanxi and Gansu in northwestern Shanxi. Many of them can ride horses. Recruit them to the army and build a cavalry camp for me as soon as possible!"
After settling the two small episodes of the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion, Kong Jie quickly got back to business and turned his attention to the map in front of him: "Xiao Huang, according to our previous idea..."
"In the battle of Ping'an, our three regiments cooperated with each other and not only captured Ping'an County, but also severely damaged the Japanese and puppet reinforcements!"
"It must have been a huge shock to Yoshio Shinozuka, and he realized the powerful combat effectiveness of our three regiments working together."
"If he really decides to send troops to sweep northwestern Shanxi, he will definitely cut off the connections between the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment, and will not give us a chance to reinforce each other!"
"If the Japanese concentrate their forces to attack a certain regiment, the pressure on this regiment will be great!"
Huang Yu answered: "Captain, I think the raid that Yoshio Shinozuka is about to launch will be unprecedented, and the pressure faced by the independent group will also be unprecedented!"
"The just-concluded blocking war showed the Japanese army that without the support of heavy weapons, the two thousand Japanese puppet troops entering the base area will be a piece of fat in our mouths!"
"The Japanese and puppet troops who attacked us this time will not only not divide their troops easily, but will also carry a large number of heavy weapons..."
"A little carelessness will bring disaster to the independent group!"
“But it’s not all bad for us!”
"The Japanese and puppet troops have a large number of troops and carry a large number of heavy weapons. They can only enter our defense area by road."
"We can deploy defenses along the highway in advance, establish blocking positions, wait for work, and wait for the Japanese and puppet troops to arrive!"
Kong Jie's attention quickly focused on the three roads in the base area, and he analyzed while watching: "If Yoshio Shinozuka wants to attack us, he can only take these three roads..."
"I listen to you, arrange troops to establish defense lines on these three highways now!"
"One blocking position can kill a hundred Japanese and puppet troops...I will build seventy or eighty defense lines on three highways, and I can kill seven to eight thousand Japanese and puppet troops even with all my efforts..."
Huang Yu added: "We still need to strengthen the walls and clear the fields..."
"Empty all the villages within fifteen kilometers along the highway so that the Japanese can't find a grain of food, a well, or a local citizen!"
"Then the entire highway and all the surrounding villages were mined and arranged into a battlefield so that the Japanese and puppet troops would be attacked everywhere and they would not even be able to sleep well!"
"In the next two days, I will go to the Jinsui Army and try to buy back all the mines and grenades in their hands. I will cover the base area with mines and booby traps so that the Japanese and puppet troops can enter but cannot get out. All of them will be wiped out!"
Kong Jie was originally under a lot of pressure, but after listening to Huang Yu's analysis, he suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was much lighter.
My mind became more and more vivid, and I suddenly thought of a blocking battle I fought when ambushing the Japanese and puppet troops on the right. My eyes lit up and I said: "We will also build a large number of disposable machine gun bunkers on the defense line..."
"It doesn't have to be too strong, as long as it can resist ordinary mortars and grenade attacks!"
"The machine gunner hid inside, waited for the Japanese and puppet troops to approach, and suddenly opened fire, using powerful firepower to kill a large number of enemies!"
"We will retreat when the enemy retreats... leaving the empty bunker for the Japanese heavy artillery to blast..."
"One bunker can kill ten Japanese puppet troops, and three to four hundred bunkers can kill three to four thousand Japanese puppet troops!"
"Although it takes a lot of effort to build these bunkers and wastes a lot of logs and planks, it is better than letting the soldiers be attacked by grenades and mortars and lose their lives!"
The more Kong Jie talked, the happier he became. He thought for a moment and continued: "We also need to use the flying thunder cannon!"
"After the thunder cannon is fired, the two soldiers can carry it and walk away. It is especially easy to transfer..."
"When the Japanese and puppet troops attacked, the torpedo cannons specially selected places with large crowds to explode. One explosive pack from the torpedo cannon killed three or four Japanese and puppet troops. Hundreds of thousands of explosive packs were thrown out, and thousands more Japanese and puppet troops were killed.
We can’t fight anymore!”
"The base area has been producing black powder. With the black powder in stock, thousands of explosive packets can be produced in a few days, which will not affect the counter-mopping up."
Speaking of explosive packs, Huang Yu suddenly thought of another question in his mind.
Explosive packets can not only be launched with thunder cannons, but can also be buried in advance along the path that the Japanese and puppet troops must pass and detonated with wires.
If you bury explosives on the roads and campsites where the Japanese must pass, and then suddenly detonate them when the Japanese arrive there, no matter how powerful the Japanese are, they will be blown into pieces.
Speak this thought immediately.
Kong Jie was dumbfounded when he heard this. He gave Huang Yu a thumbs up and sighed: "You have a good idea!"
"I'll find a way to prepare two thousand kilograms of black powder for you, and then allocate an engineer company to you... It's up to you how many Japs you can blow up, I won't interfere!"
"Thank you for your trust, Commander!" Huang Yu immediately accepted the order.
At this moment, Kong Jie and Huang Yu were like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. They didn't take the Japanese and puppet troops' mopping up troops seriously, and wiped out all the enemies in a snap!
At the headquarters of the 386th Brigade, Chief of Staff Zhou suddenly walked into the headquarters, looking nervous, as if something big had happened.
When he saw his old partner, he reported with a serious face: "Brigadier Commander, our judgment and that of Kong Jie were both correct!"
"Yoshio Shinozuka, an old devil, really wants to take advantage of the fact that the Eighth Route Army in northwestern Shanxi has just experienced a big battle and has not had time to recover its strength, so as to mobilize heavy troops to sweep through northwestern Shanxi."
"The seven to eight thousand Japanese troops stationed in Taiyuan have begun distributing ammunition and making marching rations..."
"The two infantry brigades rushing to Taiyuan from southwestern Shanxi have been marching in concealment. Starting yesterday, they suddenly stopped hiding and marched to Taiyuan in a hurry. They will be able to enter Taiyuan City in one day!"
"I suspect these two brigades will also go to sweep northwestern Shanxi!"
"Yoshio Shinozuka also established an independent heavy mountain artillery brigade, a heavy mortar squadron, a field artillery brigade, and a mountain artillery brigade in Taiyuan!"
"These troops are also distributing ammunition and rushing to make dry food...and can be dispatched at any time!"
