Kong Jie's words really surprised Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's understanding of Kong Jie's long-term vision and insightful military acumen is no longer the same as that of the honest yet brave Kong Jie a few years ago.
Over the past year.
Even Li Yunlong, who had always had more trouble lifting a pen than going to the battlefield to kill Japanese soldiers, was stimulated by Kong Jie and began to take the initiative to learn cultural knowledge from Zhao Gang.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei value each other's opinions and analysis.
Especially Li Yunlong, who wants to build the New Second Regiment into a rapid reaction force, and also sets his goal to be the commander of this rapid reaction force.
To be honest, it was Kong Jie who suggested it.
At that time, Kong Jie's insights and analysis on the Eighth Route Army's urgent need for such a rapid reaction force directly touched Li Yunlong's heart.
In addition, Kong Jie really supported Li Yunlong in building a rapid reaction force, and even Wang Shoucheng, the commander of the mechanized combat battalion, sent it to Li Yunlong.
Because on the surface, although this matter is still careless, Li Yunlong still remembers the favor in his heart.
Or do you think that when Li Yunlong met Kong Jie recently, why did he call him so friendly?
I haven't heard words like "Kong Erluzi" from his mouth for a long time.
This man has a winning streak in his heart.
The respect of others often comes from personal abilities.
Why do you think Li Yunlong, who has no fear of heaven or earth, is only afraid of the brigade commander?
In addition to the veteran brigade commander's seniority, the most important thing is that the brigade commander's military capabilities in all aspects are almost ridiculously strong, which makes Li Yunlong convinced.
As for Kong Jie’s full support for Li Yunlong, it is indeed out of the friendship between old comrades.
The other is to work hard to strengthen the Eighth Route Army and fight against the Japanese invaders.
As for the last reason: as the team grows, Kong Jie is now very busy and cannot focus on a certain combat field alone like Li Yunlong.
Therefore, this method of commanding rapid reaction troops in combat is suitable for Li Yunlong, but not suitable for Kong Jie.
...Then, the three old comrades discussed how to use and develop the mechanized combat force that Li Yunlong was about to build into large-scale battles and even strategic directions in the future based on the direction proposed by Kong Jie.
As the discussion continued, Li Yunlong's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the excitement in his heart became more and more intense.
The grand military ideals and goals originally set around the rapid reaction force have become clearer and have a direction.
In the end, the discussion centered on how to develop the Eighth Route Army's rapid reaction force for nearly half an hour.
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei reached a consensus:
"This time, with the help of the brigade commander and the regiment commanders' opportunity to visit the New Second Regiment, the operational meeting held by everyone to discuss the future mechanized combat force of the Eighth Route Army should be subversive!"
"Old Li, do you have a brush, ink, and a large piece of white paper here?"
When talking about the excitement, Kong Jie couldn't help but ask.
Li Yunlong nodded.
Although Li Yunlong has never had anything to do with practicing calligraphy with a brush.
But political commissar Zhao Gang has this hobby, so there is no shortage of these things.
After guard Huzi brought the news, Zhao Gang arrived personally with a brush, ink and a large piece of white paper.
Kong Jie asked Li Yunlong to spread out a piece of paper that was more than one meter long and thirty or forty centimeters wide.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, one on the left and one on the right, replaced the function of the ruler and flatly pressed the entire paper on the desktop of a larger Eight Immortals table.
Zhao Gang looked curious, not knowing what these three old brothers were planning to do.
Kong Jie, who was holding the brush, stood facing the rice paper, then took a deep breath, got the momentum in place, directly glued the brush on, and dipped it in the ink that Zhao Gang had mixed and placed.
Immediately afterwards, he spread his legs, and his posture was not the posture of accumulating strength like going to the battlefield to kill the Japanese, but the momentum of holding a pen and writing madly. The tip of the pen was already dipped in ink, and he quickly wrote on the paper without stopping at all.
The ground waved.
The whole process went smoothly and smoothly until the last stroke of relief came out.
Kong Jie picked up his pen and stood up again.
A breath came out of his mouth: "It's done!"
The three pairs of eyes seemed to still be shocked by Kong Jie's momentum just now, and their gazes converged and saw "Soldiers are a major event for the country" written on the white paper from right to left, with no punctuation at all.
Big ink characters.
Ding Wei was stunned for a moment, as if he was recovering from the shock, and then he spit out a line of words from his mouth: "Old Kong, your handwriting is really... not good!"
Li Yunlong: "Indeed!"
Zhao Gang was silent.
Kong Jie looked at the seven characters he said - thick, simple and unpretentious, powerful enough to penetrate the paper, and seemed to be mixed with the power of an iron-blooded general.
Just to put aside all this momentum, from the perspective of calligraphy...it is indeed a bit difficult to use.
To put it another way, it’s like a primary school student who studied calligraphy for a few days and then painted a line of words heavily with a brush.
Of course, it’s generally okay!
After all, this is an army, and there are not many educated people. Only Kong Jie’s handwriting is based on some calligraphy skills accumulated from his previous life.
His face trembling, Kong Jie smiled and cursed:
"The important thing is the momentum and the meaning of the words!"
He said without blushing or heart beating.
"Lao Li, this is my New Year's gift to you in advance. Hang it on the wall of your regiment. Every time I come over, I must see it!"
Li Yunlong: "..."
Ding Wei quickly came over: "Old Li, these are all old comrades in arms. This old Kong has kept a calligraphy treasure, and I must keep one too!"
Li Yunlong immediately scolded with a dark face: "Fuck you, Old Ding, you're probably not as good as me!"
As for Lao Kong...for the sake of helping me so much, I endured it!
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As he said this, the four people in the room couldn't help laughing.
Then, the original three people, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Zhao Gang, plus the new Zhao Gang, the four of them thought together.
After the brigade commander and the group leaders arrive, how can we use this visit to achieve the final goal of the discussion?
……
It's almost evening.
The brigade commander and his party finally arrived.
It is a coincidence that the brigade commander and his party have just arrived, and the cadres from the 385th Brigade have also arrived.
"Haha, fat man, you're late!"
The brigade commander has always been close to Brigadier Chen of the 385th Brigade. When he saw Brigadier Chen arriving, he greeted him with a smile.
Immediately afterwards, the brigade commander showed a side that Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and other regimental commanders rarely saw. He pulled Brigadier Chen and ran to his car, then patted the car body and laughed: "Fat man.
, look, this is our special private car, it is probably no different from the one made by Principal Jiang, how about it, is it stylish enough?"
In this regard, what else could Brigadier Chen say, he could only nod his head quite honestly.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie heard the voices of the brigade commander and others and rushed out to greet them.
Seeing a few people, the brigade commander smiled and said: "I knew that Kong Jie and Ding Wei must have come early in the morning, but once the three of you meet together, you will inevitably hold back some bad news. Could it be that you have held it back in advance?
Are you okay?"
Li Yunlong, who was not afraid of anything, was as obedient as a good boy: "Old brigade commander, look at what you said!"
Then, as the host, Li Yunlong naturally quickly greeted the brigade commander and the group leaders to enter the room.
When the two brigade commanders and the political commissars of each regiment opened the curtain and entered the inner room, they looked inside and saw the same surprise on their faces as when Kong Jie and Ding Wei entered the room.
At this time, this room was even more showy than when Li Yunlong was inside.
The first is a large calligraphy on the wall: "The military is the most important thing for the country."
The brigade commander suppressed a smile and recognized the calligraphy. It was written by Kong Jie.
Next is a wall full of military maps of different sizes.
There is also a medium-sized military simulation sandbox built near the center of the room.
Next to the wall is a heated kang, with a small square table placed on it. On the left side of the small square table is a feather fan, and on the right side is a pile of books. Sweeping them from top to bottom, there are five or six books in total.
"On Protracted War", "Introduction to the Art of War", "Sun Tzu's Art of War"...
For some of these books, the titles can be seen from the sides of the books, and for a few others, the titles cannot be seen at all, so I don’t know what the books are.
Hanging on the right side of the bed are several command knives and a telescope.
After a brief silence in the room.
It was the brigade commander who was the first to ask: "Li Yunlong, didn't I go to the wrong place?"
"Haha, how can that be?" Li Yunlong hurriedly walked out from the side, pretending to be humble and said: "I'm sorry, I really made everyone laugh. We, Lao Li, are studying during this time. This room
I didn’t have time to clean up the military books, maps, etc. inside..."
"It's amazing. I remember asking you, Li Yunlong, to learn some culture as if it was killing you, but now you actually take the initiative to study the art of war?"
Brigadier Chen laughed, and then seemed to want to test Li Yunlong: "Li Yunlong, I would like to ask you, what military books have you read recently?
What aspects of the art of war did you learn?
Do you have any experience reading?"
Brigadier Chen was also a veteran cadre of the Fourth Front Army, and the veteran leader of several old comrades such as Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
Seeing the old leader asking the question, Li Yunlong replied seriously:
"Old leader, we have read a lot of these military books during this period. We have read modern military techniques, and we have also learned a bit about some ancient military techniques.
Let’s talk about my reading experience..."
Li Yunlong paused, then almost smiled with a smile on his face: "Of course there are, such as the history of the Mongolian-Song War that I recently studied.
As for the Mongolian troops, they are indeed powerful.
But it was mainly due to its strong offensive capabilities. The Song Dynasty, which was facing off against the Mongols at that time, actually had a fairly good combat effectiveness, especially since they had many solid ancient city walls that were easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Logically speaking, they should not lose this battle so miserably.
As a result, the Song Dynasty lost the country and allowed the Mongols to establish the Yuan Dynasty.
I studied the reasons carefully.
Later I discovered, why could Mongolia defeat the Song Dynasty?"
Li Yunlong’s question is quite interesting.
As soon as these words came out, the curiosity of the cadres present was aroused. Even the visit to the heavy artillery that everyone was looking forward to was temporarily postponed.
"It's interesting, keep talking!" the brigade commander urged.
Li Yunlong said: "The reason is very simple. This Mongolian army has one of the strongest magic weapons, that is, their cavalry is extremely powerful.
Moreover, the Mongolian cavalry troops’ combat tactics are quite bold.
What are people playing?
What we are playing is a large-scale roundabout tactic.
No matter how strong the walls of the Song Dynasty are and there are many ravines and barriers, you are still passive after all, and naturally you can only be beaten.
As the old saying goes, the best defense is offense.
The Song Dynasty was forced to defend itself. No matter how many city walls there were, there would always be areas that the walls could not defend and boundaries that could not be extended.
The Mongolian cavalry found these loopholes and carried out bold and large-scale penetrations, even making circuitous penetrations from the borders of the Song Dynasty, from Shanxi, from Shaanxi, from Sichuan, and even from Yunnan, inserting wherever they could. How did it end?
As expected, the one who mounted a horse and attacked was defeated by the one who was forced to defend with two feet."
As soon as Li Yunlong said this, those present at the meeting were all elite commanders of the Eighth Route Army. No one was a fool, and everyone's minds were spinning very fast.
Finally, Commander Wu said with a smile: "Old Li, there is something in your words!"
Li Yunlong said seriously: "Comrades, we Lao Li also want to ask here, why did you come to my new second regiment today?"
"Nonsense, of course I'm here to see your captured heavy artillery, Lao Li!" the upright Commander Wu blurted out.
Li Yunlong still respected Captain Wu, not only because of his seniority and ability.
Another point is that Commander Wu has experienced the Long March period, and there are few foreign revolutionary comrades - Koreans.
For such a foreign revolutionary comrade who fought wholeheartedly for the Chinese nation, the entire Eighth Route Army naturally has no disrespect.
Li Yunlong smiled and replied: "Lao Wu, you are wrong, although the heavy artillery that Lao Li seized from the Japanese artillery testing site this time is indeed a treasure.
But when our comrades come here this time, we should actually see that our New Second Regiment is a treasure dozens, or even hundreds of times more valuable than these heavy artillery!"
As soon as these words came out, the cadres were stunned.
The brigade commander laughed and scolded: "Li Yunlong, you kid, stop showing off and let go of your troubles!"
"Yes!"
Li Yunlong responded, and then said solemnly: "Although these heavy artillery are precious, aren't our new second regiment's mechanized combat troops who can surprise the Japanese artillery testing ground and successfully capture these artillery even more precious? p>
If these heavy artillery are placed in our headquarters artillery regiment, they may play a very important role in the future.
However, if the rapid reaction force created by our new Second Regiment develops rapidly, it will be able to play a huge military role in the future in northwestern Shanxi, in our Taihang base area, and even in the entire North China.
Isn’t it more important than these heavy artillery?”
Two consecutive rhetorical questions changed the familiar image of Li Yunlong, who has a hot temper and always likes to curse.
On the contrary, I asked all the cadres present.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yunlong seemed to be asking and answering himself:
"Comrades, in fact, we, Lao Li, said earlier that they took advantage of the cavalry to defeat the Mongols of the Song Dynasty. From another perspective, the confrontation between these two armies is not similar to the confrontation between the Japanese army and our Eighth Route Army.
?
Of course.
At present, the Japs occupy the main counties and towns. They have strong ancient city walls raised high, and they have superior air reinforcements, artillery superiority and mobility superiority.
And what about us?
Only these vast suburbs and mountainous areas serve as the basis of our base area, and then we will use these areas to fight guerrilla warfare against the Japs.
If we really talk about it, we have almost no advantage. At most, when the Japs launch a large-scale sweep behind enemy lines, we can use the vast mountainous area and have enough depth to fight guerrillas and deal with the Japs!"
Li Long's voice was extra serious: "Comrades, this is wrong.
Just like my previous analysis of the war between Mongolia and the Song Dynasty.
It's not like being beaten passively all the time.
The little devil has the advantage of city walls, equipment, mobility, and even aircraft reinforcements.
But we have very few advantages. Whether it is the guerrilla warfare in the mountainous areas or the strong support of our popular base, these are indeed fundamental, but they cannot quickly reverse the situation of the war on a large scale.
So we always need something.
What do you need?
It is precisely what we need to create our Eighth Route Army’s biggest advantage against the Japanese army.”
"What is that?"
Li Yunlong said loudly: "Of course it is to build a rapid reaction force belonging to our Eighth Route Army, and then maximize the advantages of our Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare and mobility operations.
Even using this quick reaction force, just like the Mongolian cavalry, you can use large-scale penetration tactics to deal with the little devils who rely on solid city walls, deep trenches, and steel barriers to defend."
"In this case, are we still worried that we will not be able to win the Anti-Japanese War?"