Li Yunlong nodded first, then looked thoughtful and said:
"With General Xue's sea-fixing needle in the south, the Japanese won't be able to reach Chongqing for a while."
"However, General Xue has achieved such a great victory, we can't just sit there, we have to find ways to get some meat to eat."
"Old Li." Zhao Gang asked immediately, "Do you want to attack Taiyuan or Datong?"
Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong was a restless master. He was thinking about the Japanese all day long. He was eating and sleeping thinking about how to kill the Japanese and make a fortune.
Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou on the side also raised the corners of their mouths slightly.
Now, there are no Japs in northwestern Shanxi, and even the Japs in Ding Wei and Kong Jie's defense areas have been killed.
Li Yunlong wanted to make a fortune and fish for meat, so he either went to Taiyuan or Datong.
With Li Yunlong's current net worth, he looked down on ordinary small fortunes. If he wanted to make a big fortune, he would have to go to Taiyuan or Datong.
"Don't worry about Datong and Taiyuan." Li Yunlong took out his radio and said with a smile, "We haven't entertained Boss Chen for a long time."
"Captain, you are a drunkard and don't care about drinking." Wang Dehou said with a smile.
"It's business, let's make a fortune together." Li Yunlong smiled noncommittally, and then turned on the radio. After adjusting the channel and wavelength, he put the microphone to his mouth in one hand and the receiver to his ear in the other.
"Hey, boss Li is calling boss Chen."
"Boss Li calls Boss Chen."
Not long after, Chen Feng's voice came from the receiver: "Boss Li, I'm Boss Chen, what's the matter?"
"It's nothing." Hearing Chen Feng's voice, Li Yunlong said hurriedly, "Brother, I have some wine at my house, and I ask Boss Chen to appreciate it."
"Okay!" Chen Feng asked, "When?"
Hearing that Chen Feng agreed, Li Yunlong couldn't help but feel slightly happy: "Boss Chen, do you have time now?"
Chen Feng said: "I have time."
"Haha." Li Yunlong laughed with his unique voice, "Then I'll be waiting for Boss Chen."
After hanging up the call, Li Yunlong glanced at everyone with a happy expression and said: "Boss Chen really gave us Lao Li some face. He came as soon as I invited him. He will come to Dagu Town for the banquet later."
Everyone's faces also smiled slightly.
After a pause, Li Yunlong looked at Xing Zhiguo: "Deputy Captain Xing, please arrange for the cooking class to cook a big meal. I want to entertain Boss Chen."
As for the weapons and ammunition that Boss Chen gave to Xinyi Tuan, and asked Li Yunlong to call him daddy, any time Li Yunlong hesitated for a second would be a sign of disrespect for those weapons and ammunition.
It's just that Boss Chen doesn't want anything, he just wants the New Regiment and the Eighth Route Army to kill the Japanese.
This is also one of the important reasons why Li Yunlong thinks about killing the Japanese all day long.
"In other words, if you can invite Boss Chen as the head of the group, I guess you can't even invite the head of the headquarters." Xing Zhiguo said with a smile.
With the identity of Boss Chen and the weapons and ammunition that aided the Eighth Route Army, let alone the new regiment, even if they went to the headquarters and Y, they were still guests.
But Boss Chen doesn't like anyone, he only recognizes Li Yunlong.
This is actually equivalent to protecting Li Yunlong.
With the current strength of the new regiment and the equipment level of the soldiers, not only people outside the Eighth Route Army are jealous, but many people within the Eighth Route Army are also eyeing this piece of fat.
Wherever there are people, there will be competition for interests.
But as long as Boss Chen is behind Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong will always be safe.
"Of course." The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth turned up slightly, "Boss Chen and I are half-brothers, haha."
To be recognized and firmly chosen by a big boss, Captain Li naturally felt secretly happy.
Soon, Xing Zhiguo asked the guards to pass the order to the cooking squad. The cooking squad leader understood very well and immediately began to greet the soldiers in the cooking squad to start killing pigs and sheep.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou were sitting around the kang table.
Xing Zhiguo said: "Commander, the millimeter mountain guns and millimeter howitzers we earned this time can be used to form two artillery battalions."
Li Yunlong gave most of the captured artillery and cars to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
But Li Yunlong kept all the money he earned from doing business with Boss Chen.
"I have thought about this issue for a long time." Li Yunlong said: "Cannon is the god of war. If we want to dominate the battlefield in the future, we must pay attention to and use cannon on a large scale."
Not only is the battalion school at the headquarters conducting artillery training courses, but even the new regiment has already conducted artillery training courses.
This is also the main reason why Li Yunlong can quickly expand an artillery battalion when the artillery is in place.
If there are no excellent artillery, no matter how large the caliber or the best cannon you have, it will be nothing more than decoration.
Li Yunlong continued: "As the size of our regiment expands, the army's demand for artillery is also increasing."
"If we use the weapons and ammunition we earn after the troop expansion is completed, then our new regiment is expected to have multiple infantry battalions, with each infantry battalion numbering a thousand people. This number will increase in the future."
"But we currently only have one artillery battalion. During combat, there is no way to take care of all infantry battalions and provide artillery support to all infantry battalions."
"So, I decided to decentralize the millimeter mountain artillery to each infantry battalion."
"From now on, our regimental artillery battalions will only be equipped with cannons of millimeter caliber and above."
At present, the infantry battalions of the New Regiment are equipped with artillery firepower that is not bad, including millimeter mortars, millimeter mortars, millimeter machine guns, and super bazookas.
In the past, the infantry battalions of the New Regiment basically relied on the artillery battalions to provide fire support when attacking fortified battles.
That was when there were few infantry battalions. In the future, there will be dozens or hundreds of infantry battalions. It is impossible to rely on artillery battalions to provide artillery support.
Unless the artillery battalion is dismantled.
In the future, Li Yunlong plans to imitate the headquarters and give the Japanese army a hundred-camp battle.
By then, this battalion will be much stronger than the original regiment in terms of strength, combat effectiveness, and equipment.
Zhao Gang asked: "Then how many mountain cannons are you going to equip a battalion with?"
"A few," Li Yunlong said angrily, "My plan is to add a mountain artillery battery to each infantry battalion, equipped with a millimeter mountain gun."
Although the infantry battalion of the new regiment is a battalion-level unit, each battalion has a thousand people, and the strength of the battalion has reached the regiment level, and it is a scale that can only be achieved by top main regiments.
At present, each battalion has an infantry company and an artillery company, and each infantry company has an infantry platoon and a firepower platoon.
Li Yunlong is planning to add another mountain artillery company, and that infantry battalion will have one company under its jurisdiction.
Xing Zhiguo said: "Commander, the infantry battalion has added another artillery battery with millimeter mountain guns. Isn't the number of these mountain guns a little too much?"
"Where is this?" Li Yunlong said, "There are not many mountain cannons at all. When our new regiment numbered two to three thousand people, we already had dozens of mountain cannons."
Wang Dehou also analyzed: "By adding a mountain artillery company, the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion can indeed be qualitatively improved. Let alone a Japanese infantry brigade, even if it is a head-on confrontation with a Japanese infantry regiment, it is not a problem.
But we also have to consider the logistical issues of each infantry battalion."
Li Yunlong said: "I have already considered this. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion, each infantry battalion will add a transportation support company, referred to as a transportation company, equipped with mules, horses and mule carts. It will be mainly responsible for logistics support. From now on, each infantry battalion will add a transportation support company.
All transport companies are equipped with automobiles, which means that the soldiers of the transport company are transformed into automobile soldiers."
Zhao Gang immediately smiled, his tone full of expectation: "By then, our new regiment will have truly become motorized."
When Li Yunlong said this, he was not trying to draw a cake like Okamura Neji, but he could really do it.
Currently, the new group has multiple trucks. When Boss Chen delivers the cars he earned last time to his door, there will be multiple cars, exceeding the size of a car group.
At present, the new regiment has achieved semi-motorization. The so-called motorized infantry means infantry who ride on vehicles to maneuver and fight on foot.
It is characterized by fast movement speed before the battle begins, adaptability to various terrain conditions, and flexibility, but there is no necessary cover during the battle, and the battle develops slowly.
Mechanized infantry is infantry mainly equipped with infantry fighting vehicles or armored personnel carriers.
Mechanized infantry is what Li Yunlong has in mind, and his ultimate goal is to build the new regiment into a mechanized infantry regiment.
Infantrymen go out in infantry fighting vehicles or armored vehicles.
During the battle, aircraft groups roared in the sky, heavy artillery on the ground supported them, and the infantry finally rushed forward to harvest corn.
This kind of battle is in line with Li Yunlong's idea of a large army and deep battle.
Xing Zhiguo asked: "Do we have enough mountain cannons at the entrance of each infantry camp?"
Li Yunlong calculated carefully: "Our current infantry battalion is one, one main battalion, and one divisional main battalion. When the expansion is completed, we must have at least one infantry battalion."
The battalion commander and grassroots officers and soldiers sent by the headquarters have arrived. The first batch of recruits have been organized into a division's main recruit battalion and participated in the last battle to ambush the main force of the division.
"Even if we calculate it as an infantry battalion," Xing Zhiguo said, "then we have to at least equip each infantry battalion with several millimeter mountain cannons, but the total number of millimeter mountain cannons our regiment has now is not enough."
This time, the new regiment earned 100 mm mountain guns, and the total number of millimeter mountain guns from the artillery battalion and artillery battalion was 9 doors.
The artillery battalions and artillery battalions are equipped with 1mm mountain guns and 1mm howitzers.
Even if all the artillery battalions and mountain cannons from the artillery battalion were used to equip the infantry battalion, it would only be half as good as one more mountain cannon.
And in this way, the firepower of the artillery battalion and artillery battalion was greatly weakened, and it really became an artillery battalion.
What's more, it may not only be expanded to an infantry battalion.
Wang Dehou suddenly said: "Can you ask Boss Chen to advance a few millimeters of mountain artillery?"
Xing Zhiguo said: "I'm afraid that the advance support of the mountain cannon is not enough... If the artillery battalion and the mountain cannon of the artillery battalion are used to equip the infantry battalion, the firepower of the artillery battalion and the artillery battalion will be reduced by more than half."
Wang Dehou said: "In addition to pre-provisioning the 2-mm mountain cannon, we will also pre-deploy the 2-mm howitzer to Boss Chen."
"You don't have this way of doing business." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "You can ask Boss Chen to advance a little, but not too much. Otherwise, just ask Boss Chen to advance hundreds of thousands of weapons and equipment. In that case, our Eighth Route Army will have almost ten thousand people."
A good soldier."
"What Lao Li said makes sense." Zhao Gang nodded, "We do want to expand and strengthen our team, but we are not in a hurry."
"That's right, we don't have that many artillery now."
Seeing that both Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang said this, Wang Dehou also understood the reason.
After a pause, Wang Dehou said again: "By the way, we have killed two more major generals this time. Commander, are you going to trade the two major generals for air support or B heavy howitzers?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo also looked at Li Yunlong.
"I plan to switch to air support." Li Yunlong said, "We currently have a B heavy howitzer, which is enough."
Li Yunlong has great expectations for the B heavy howitzer. When this thing appears on the battlefield, it will definitely bring big surprises to the Japanese army.
Zhao Gang said: "In addition, you can get a production line by killing a major general. This time we need a smokeless gunpowder production line and a bullet production line."
If you kill a major general, you can get a manufacturing factory, but you cannot get a complete arsenal.
However, killing a major general will give you an arsenal production line.
At present, the Eighth Route Army's arsenal and cement factory have been completed and put into operation. Currently, the output is not large due to unskilled workers and raw materials.
Smokeless powder production line and bullet production line are more important, smokeless powder and bullets are the top priority.
"Okay." Li Yun nodded, "However, we don't have the technicians from the arsenal, so we have to find a way to poach people from Yan Laoxi."
Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal already had a thousand employees before the July 7th Incident.
After the Japanese army invaded Shanxi, Yan Xishan wanted to rush to transport factory equipment to the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, but until the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, only a small part of the machinery and equipment was transported.
However, most of the employees of the Taiyuan Arsenal were transported by Yan Xishan to Sichuan, Shaanxi, southwestern Shanxi and other regions, and a northwest manufacturing plant was built. There were seven branches in total, many employees, and many pieces of equipment.
However, due to frequent bombings by the Japanese army and insufficient raw materials in the past few years, these branches were almost shut down.
After learning about these situations, Li Yunlong certainly wanted to recruit these employees.
"The best way is to exchange things with Yan Xishan." Xing Zhiguo said, "But apart from weapons and ammunition, we have nothing else of value."
"Use weapons and ammunition to exchange with Chief Yan." Zhao Gang said with his eyes full of thought, "I'm afraid Chief Yan will open his mouth wide. This person is very cunning."
"It is said that Yan Laoxi can dance on three eggs." Li Yunlong's eyes narrowed slightly and his tone was disdainful, "I just don't believe in this evil, that is to say, Yan Laoxi's Jinsui Army did not dare to offend our new group.
If he dares to mess with our new regiment, the two Jinsui Army will give him a hard time!"
Li Yunlong is not exaggerating at all.
The Brigade of the Fifth Division, originally known as the Steel Army, fought all the way from Pingxingguan to southern Shanxi, defeating more than thirty divisions of the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army.
The current strength of the new regiment has surpassed that of the original fifth division.
Even in a frontal attack and defense, it is easy for the new regiment to defeat the entire Jinsui Army.
