Chapter 417 Caliber is justice and range is truth!
Chapter 417 Caliber is justice, range is truth!
Lu Yingjun said on the high-power walkie-talkie that he hit the target, and then put down the walkie-talkie.
After stopping the firing, Zhang Dabiao used a low-power walkie-talkie to order a continuous attack.
Soon, a company of soldiers broke into the stronghold with submachine guns. No gunshots were fired, indicating that all the Japanese and puppet troops were killed.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, and all the commanders couldn't help but smile.
The power of destroying a Japanese stronghold with one shot is no joke. When the Japanese attack in the future, as long as it is used properly, the damage caused by a heavy artillery battalion to the Japanese and puppet troops will be immeasurable.
Although armor-piercing and high-explosive bombs were not used to hit the city wall, according to Li Yunlong's estimation, a city wall like the one in the county seat would be a little stronger than paper when faced with this 150mm heavy artillery.
Even a city wall like the one in Taiyuan can open a gap with just a few cannons.
If we had this 150mm heavy artillery when we attacked Taiyuan last time, we could blast dozens of holes in a city wall in one day.
With this 150mm heavy artillery, there is no city in Shanxi that the new regiment cannot attack.
Everyone's eyes were glaring, thinking that it would be great if the Japs would start raiding and attacking the new group now, so that the little Japs could experience the firepower of the 150mm heavy artillery.
Seeing the powerful destructive power produced by this heavy artillery, Li Yunlong breathed a long sigh of relief and felt comfortable all over.
At this time, Captain Li's phobia of insufficient firepower was finally mostly cured, but it was not cured yet.
In his opinion, if you want to kill more enemies and greatly reduce your own casualties in a war, you need to have more firepower if your strategies and tactics are correct.
The more firepower, the better.
Caliber is justice, range is truth!
For bombardment, it is best to use heavy artillery shells to wash the ground, for air support, carpet bombing with aerial bombs is required, and for air defense, the sky is filled with a rain of bullets and shells, leaving enemy aircraft with nowhere to hide.
In the future, this 150mm heavy artillery must be used to clear the ground with artillery shells for the Japanese army.
Although the number of heavy artillery is not enough now, there will definitely be enough in the future.
Captain Li's eyes were full of expectation.
Zhang Dabiao asked: "Captain, can we launch an attack on Dagu Town?"
Three infantry companies and an artillery company of the first battalion surrounded Dagu Town, but did not start an immediate attack.
Li Yunlong came back to his senses and said: "Immediately launch an attack on Dagu Town. After capturing Dagu Town, your first battalion will be stationed in Dagu Town to monitor the Japanese in the direction of Anhua County, and quickly tie up those with the regiment headquarters.
Telephone line to keep in touch with the Youth League."
Although Dagu Town is about ten kilometers away from Zhaojiayu Village, they are within the communication range of high-power walkie-talkies.
However, high-power walkie-talkies are always on, which consumes a lot of battery. Even if Boss Chen can reimburse the battery, he cannot waste it at will, so high-power walkie-talkies are mainly used during wartime.
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao picked up the low-power walkie-talkie and ordered.
Soon, some gunshots were heard from the direction of Dagu Town.
After ordering the first battalion to clean up and erase the craters and traces left by heavy artillery shelling, Li Yunlong led everyone back to Zhaojiayu before the battle in Dagu Town was over.
Although it was great to capture Dagu Town and kill the Japanese stronghold with one shot, the heavy artillery still needed to be kept secret.
There were only a few Japs and traitors left in Dagu Town, and they captured Dagu Town with the combat power of a battalion, basically holding the hand.
The location of Dagu Town is very important to the regiment headquarters, and it must be in the hands of the new regiment. If it is in the hands of the Japanese, who use Dagu Town as their base, they can reach Li Yunlong's regimental headquarters with just one surprise attack in the middle of the night.
Returning to Zhaojiayu Village, Li Yunlong received a telegram from the headquarters and copied to the brigade headquarters.
The New Regiment was changed to a force directly under the headquarters. From now on, the New Regiment will not be called the 386th Brigade New Regiment, but the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
After seeing the contents of the telegram, Li Yunlong still couldn't believe it and felt a little uncomfortable. He also asked the telegraph operator to send a telegram to the 386 Brigade and asked the brigade commander if he did not want the new regiment and Li Yunlong. He asked the brigade commander to tell the headquarters and let the new regiment go.
One regiment continued to win in the 386th Brigade.
Li Yunlong still hopes that the new regiment will continue to be affiliated with the 386th Brigade.
Because the brigade commander treated him well, the brigade commander took care of him when he made mistakes, and left some for him every time there was an autumn breeze. Even if Li Yunlong hid some weapons and ammunition behind his back, the brigade commander wouldn't say anything.
However, the brigade commander responded quickly and told him to carry out the order from the headquarters.
Seeing the brigade commander's reply, Li Yunlong knew that the matter was finalized.
I made up my mind to give the brigade commander a few heavy artillery pieces from the heavy artillery assigned to the new regiment from the headquarters next time when I do business and earn a lot of heavy artillery.
Now that the matter has come to this, Li Yunlong put away other thoughts, and now the only way is to develop and expand the new group.
Everything else is false.
While cracking melon seeds and peanuts, he took out the map and studied it.
The melon seeds and peanuts were sent by Uncle Zhang from Zhaojiayu Village. Li Yunlong ordered the guards to give Uncle Zhang some rice, white flour and canned meat to express his gratitude and pay rent.
The house at the regiment headquarters now belongs to Uncle Zhang. Uncle Zhang's son is a soldier of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and went to the Jizhong Military Region with the army.
At present, the territory assigned to the New Regiment by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters is mainly Ping'an, Anhua and Heyuan counties. In addition, Chu Yunfei's territory is in the Dagushan area of Anhua County.
But the new group has just arrived, and the new group has not yet had time to control and integrate these territories.
However, Li Yunlong already knew the general situation in the surrounding counties. In addition to the county seat, Dagushan and the town, almost every village had Eighth Route Army militia, and even guerrillas and district brigades.
A typical guerrilla zone.
Now we are just waiting for the 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition to arrive to arm these militias and guerrillas.
However, the number of existing guerrillas and militias is not enough, and troops must be recruited from young and strong ordinary people.
In order for these young and strong people to actively participate and recruit 15,000 people in a short period of time, in addition to publicity, we must also show results to speak for themselves.
Although the capture of Taiyuan and the killing of Yoshio Shinozuka was a very impressive achievement, many people in the mountains felt that the Eighth Route Army was bragging because they had never been to Taiyuan.
However, as long as the new regiment can capture a certain surrounding county, the people in several surrounding counties will know about it within a few days.
Zhao Gang walked in, and after Li Yunlong told him his plan to attack a certain county, Zhao Gang expressed his support.
With the current strength of the new regiment, it will not be difficult to attack the county seat.
"So Lao Li, which county are you planning to attack?" Zhao Gang asked.
"Anhua County is the closest to us." Li Yunlong clicked on Anhua County on the map with his finger.
"How about taking down all the surrounding Anhua, Heyuan and Ping'an counties?" Zhao Gang said with an expression on his face.
"If you want to do something, make some big noise." Zhao Gang said immediately, "There are not many Japs in these counties. Each county can only have one squadron of Japs at most, plus a large group of puppet troops."
"Now that Yoshio Shinozuka has been killed by us, the new commander of the First Army will definitely not arrive in Taiyuan so soon."
"At this time, the Japanese First Army must be leaderless."
"Although the First Army still has several divisions, I estimate that after the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, without a supply line, there will definitely not be much food and ammunition left."
"If we attack the county town here, the Japanese will definitely be unable to support us."
"Besides, we have to ask the people to help build the road. We can get the wages, but we have to take care of the food, right?"
"We still have to recruit 15,000 militiamen and new soldiers, but we don't have enough food. What will we do if we have no money or food? We can only go to the county town to rob the Japanese."
"Also, don't you want to make a name for yourself as a new regiment? Is this name loud enough to capture three county towns?"
What Zhao Gang said really touched Li Yunlong's heart, because that was what he planned.
He is a restless master. Now the Japanese and puppet troops in the county are empty. Waiting for the Japanese to increase their troops and then take over the county, it will not be that easy.
Li Yunlong slapped the table and said with a smile: "What a Zhao Gang. It seems that I won't be able to sit on my position as the leader of the ace group for much longer. Have you, kid, been thinking about this position for a long time?"
"Come on." Zhao Gang waved his hand and said, "This is actually what you think in your heart. I'm just saying what you think."
"The one who knows me is Zhao Gang." Li Yunlong nodded and smiled. When he first arrived, Li Yunlong also wanted to keep a low profile, but his strength did not allow it.
Once three county towns are conquered, with just a little more publicity, young men and women who sign up to join the army will definitely come in droves.
Li Yunlong added: "Moreover, Brother Chen should also be interested in the business in the three counties."
That's a county town. Although it's not as valuable as the provincial capital Taiyuan, the price of the three county towns combined won't be low.
"Then when do you plan to take action?" Zhao Gang asked.
"As soon as possible." Li Yunlong said, "We can take action after the Sharp Sword Squadron has figured out the enemy's defense situation in the three counties, formulated a combat plan, and negotiated business."
After confirming this matter, Li Yunlong said: "Our artillery battalion also needs to be expanded. At present, our artillery battalion has 12 150mm heavy guns, 10 105mm howitzers, and 41 75mm mountain guns. In addition, the headquarters has left
We have 12 105mm howitzers and 12 75mm mountain guns that are about to arrive. That is 12 150mm heavy guns, 24 105mm howitzers, and 53 75mm mountain guns. A total of 89 guns, so many guns in one artillery battalion.
It’s a little bloated.”
"Then how do you plan to expand?" Zhao Gang asked. This scale has exceeded one artillery brigade.
Currently, a standard artillery brigade has 2 artillery regiments with a total of 72 cannons. The new regiment has 17 more cannons than the standard artillery brigade.
Li Yunlong said: "Expand another artillery battalion and divide it into the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion. When there are more artillery, we will expand the 3rd Artillery Battalion and the 4th Artillery Battalion. Wang Chengzhu will be appointed as the commander of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the former deputy commander of the Artillery Battalion.
Liu Dazhuang is appointed as the commander of the 2nd Artillery Battalion."
Although there are artillery battalions, in fact, each artillery battalion has exceeded the size of an artillery regiment, and each artillery battalion must have more than 1,000 people to be successful.
Zhao Gang nodded in agreement, and then asked: "How do you plan to select the 300 tank soldiers who are arranged to be sent to Brother Chen's training base?"
Li Yunlong said: "There is no need to select, just send half of the cavalry battalion directly."
When Zhao Gang heard this, he immediately understood: "Do you want to transform the cavalry battalion into a tank battalion in the future?"
Li Yunlong nodded and said with certainty: "That's right!"
Cavalry is still a bit useless in modern warfare.
The destruction of the Black Island Cavalry Regiment is an example. Dozens or hundreds of light and heavy machine guns are placed on the battlefield, but no matter how many cavalry there are, it will be in vain.
However, in mountain warfare, cavalry also has advantages, such as its ability to maneuver quickly.
Therefore, before the new regiment's tank force has formed a large scale, Li Yunlong will still retain part of the cavalry even if he reorganizes the cavalry battalion into a tank battalion.
