The connection between Nanyang and the north is quite close. The other party often purchases steel, gunpowder, medicines, small processing equipment...
Li Mu knew that there was little money there, so he usually only charged the cost price. If there was a victory there, he would also send some ammunition there.
The relationship between the two parties has always been good.
This time, Li Mu revealed his intention. He heard that they were invited to fight the Japanese. The weapons, ammunition, food and wages were all taken care of by this side, and he was very interested.
After several days of communication, the two sides finally reached an agreement, and the 386th Brigade is expected to be sent to support them.
Is it the 386th Brigade in your imagination?
According to the brief information about the troops provided by the other party, Li Mu looked at the name of the brigade commander, and it turned out to be this elder!
I looked down again and saw two familiar names, Li Yunlong, the leader of the new regiment under the 368th Brigade, and Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment.
This is the Iron Triangle of Northwestern Shanxi - Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie are all sent here.
Unfortunately, Li Mu looked again and couldn't find Ding Wei's name. Why is there no Ding Wei in the famous North Shanxi Iron Triangle?
Li Mu thought for a while before he realized that it was too early and Ding Wei hadn't been transferred yet.
Today, the new regiment leader is still Li Yunlong. He was removed from the position of regiment leader after he violated discipline and was transferred to the quilt factory as the director.
Finally, he was transferred to the independent regiment as its leader.
After Li Yunlong was transferred from the New Regiment, Ding Weicai was transferred to the 386th Brigade and became the new commander of the New Regiment.
Today, the Northern Shanxi Iron Triangle has not yet been formed!
In the future, it may not be possible. As one of the front lines, eastern Henan has the heavy responsibility of guarding the hinterland of the Central Plains. It is surrounded by enemies on three sides. In the future, battles will inevitably be fought. At least there will be many more battles than in northwest Shanxi.
Now that they are here, with Li Mu continuously providing equipment and logistical support, the Japs will not leave until the fight is over. In the future, Ding Wei will be transferred here, and the three of them may form a new iron triangle.
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The 386th Brigade, although not a brigade, was reorganized from the 31st Red Army, and many of the regiments in it were downsized divisions.
Needless to say, the combat capability is complete, including cavalry, artillery, and engineers. The number of people is also larger than that of an ordinary brigade, with a total number of nearly 12,000 people.
Li Mu was also very generous. He directly mobilized 12,000 Mauser 98Ks and 3 million rounds of ammunition; 80 heavy machine guns; 700 light machine guns; 20 machine guns; 110 mortars.
There were tens of thousands of artillery shells, and all of them were sent over.
Coupled with some of the original heavy weapons of the 386th Brigade, the firepower can directly reach a new level.
They had just negotiated cooperation and sent a car to deliver equipment. Li Mu didn't waste any time and flew to Singapore again. There was only one month left before the Huayuankou incident, so he needed to make more preparations.
On the other side, far away at the foot of Huangshan Mountain, Xue Laohu looked in the direction of Xuzhou with some envy. The victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang was so dazzling, but he could not participate in it and could only stay here and wait for orders.
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little sad in my heart.
In 1924, at the age of twenty-seven, he became the major general chief of staff of the Eighth Division, the main force of the Cantonese army. However, he had great ambitions and was not satisfied with his status as an aide. He longed to personally command and go on the battlefield.
Realize your bold ideas one after another.
In order to realize his dream, he often even rushed to the forefront of the battle. From then on, no matter which battle order he was in, he was often the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and he never tired of it.
After the Battle of Songhu, Xue Laohu led his troops to withdraw to the border of Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the third theater of the former enemy.
After that, he successively established guerrilla base areas in the Huangshan Mountains and Tianmu Mountain, commanded the troops of the Third War Zone to advance behind enemy lines in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and launched guerrilla warfare against Beijing-Hangzhou, Shanghai-Hangzhou and other transportation lines and the Yangtze River waterway, which contained a large number of effective forces in Xiaobenzi, to a certain extent.
Reduced the pressure on the fifth theater.
Xue Huhu was not surprised by Taierzhuang's great victory. As the domestic troops retreated on the North China battlefield, the arrogant little soldier no longer had any military taboos. Any small unit would dare to run around at will, sometimes an infantry regiment
It dared to run hundreds of kilometers away from the main force. If it encountered a calm-minded hunter, this beast would definitely fall into the trap carefully designed by the hunter.
Xue Huhu felt that he was the hunter who could capture this kind of beast, although it would be difficult to achieve results like Taierzhuang.
He longed to have such an opportunity himself.
Fortunately, the opportunity he was waiting for came soon, and he was transferred to the first theater to take charge of the Lanfeng War. Excited, Xue Laohu quickly handed over the military affairs, headed north to Kaifeng, and rushed to the smoke-filled Central Plains.
The Battle of Lanfeng officially begins.
At this time, Li Mu had just arrived in Singapore.
Logistics and transportation were very important during wartime. Li Mu waved his hand and directly bought the three hundred Ford light trucks with a load capacity of 1.5 tons from Ford's Southeast Asian agents. They were not expensive at all. One vehicle cost US$1,200, and the total was only thirty-six dollars.
Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
Mercedes-Benz L 6500 heavy-duty trucks, with a load capacity of up to seven tons, the dealer has a total of 40 units at a cost of US$5,200 each, and all of them were bought by Li Mu.
In addition, thirty more radio stations were purchased; one hundred M2 heavy machine guns were purchased for US$1,580 each; and five hundred Czech-style light machine guns were purchased for US$220 each with two thousand rounds of machine gun ammunition.
; Browning pistols, each with one thousand rounds of ammunition, cost $70. Li Mu also purchased one thousand.
German-made Grw 34 medium-sized mortars, each equipped with 300 rounds of shells, cost US$1,100 each. One hundred and fifty units were purchased.
There are also 30 Sulothong ST-5 20mm cannons purchased.
It’s not that we don’t want to purchase more of these weapons and ammunition. Southeast Asia can currently mobilize only so many.
Li Mu placed another batch of arms orders before giving up.
Steel, explosives, gasoline, medicines... also purchased a large amount. Just as it happened, a batch of steam turbine generator sets he customized arrived. With the development of Nanyang, the previous thermal power plant was no longer enough. He customized a batch of steam turbine generators some time ago.
turbine generator units, and plans to build several more thermal power plants.
After purchasing so many materials, there is still about 25,000 cubic meters of space left.
Li Mu thought for a while, purchased another 18,000 tons of rice and 2,000 tons of sugar, and then hurried back to the country.
It just so happened that the 386th Brigade had received the equipment and was preparing to change equipment. After they got familiar with it for a few days, they would officially set off to join the security forces in central Henan and rush to the front line together.
Not only that, perhaps feeling Li Mu's boldness, news came from the north that the 386th Brigade was only the main force. In addition, the guerrillas from the four anti-Japanese base areas of Lunan, Eastern Henan, Yinan, and Northern Anhui... would also
Rush to the front line and join the battle together.
The combined number of these guerrillas is no less than that of the 386th Brigade. Because the firepower is too poor, direct fighting may not be possible. They are experts in using guerrilla tactics, harassing the marching troops, and attacking the baggage and logistics of the small troops.
Li Mu was naturally extremely welcoming.
He was not a stingy person either. He had planned to send another batch of gifts and immediately mobilized a batch of weapons and supplies.
Some time ago, he purchased a total of 40,000 Mauser 98k rods for the militia reserves, but they have not been distributed. They are only used by the militia for training and will be collected after use.
A few days ago, he dialed 12,000 shots, and there were still 28,000 shots left. Li Mu thought for a while, rounded up the round number, and dialed 10,000 shots again, and also dialed 2 million rounds of bullets.
This time they purchased a lot of new weapons. Li Mu thought about it for a moment and ordered fifty heavy machine guns, three hundred light machine guns, fifty mortars with eight thousand rounds of artillery shells, and twenty machine guns.
In addition, 500 Browning pistols and 300,000 rounds of pistol ammunition were also prepared.
These weapons can be distributed by the north.
In terms of military supplies, Li Mu prepared fifty tons of steel, thirty tons of explosives, one thousand barrels of gasoline, ten radio stations, and a batch of medicines.
There is also a 1,000-kilowatt steam turbine generator unit that generates 1,000 kilowatt hours per hour and 24,000 kilowatt hours per day. There is no shortage of coal in northern Shaanxi, but it lacks necessary power generation equipment. There are only a few power generation equipment with very small power in the north.
Oil-burning ones are very precious.
As for steam turbine generator sets, these large thermal power plants are expensive and there are no channels to buy them from overseas. Even if they are purchased, there are no channels to ship them in.
Sending this thing over will be of great use to the north. At least they will not be short of electricity in the future, and various small factories will not have to worry about electricity.
I heard that civilian supplies there are also very tight. It's hard to tell whether the soldiers can eat enough, let alone maintain nutrition.
Li Mu thought for a while and allocated another fifty tons of white sugar and fifty tons of dried fish. He also mobilized thirty tons of various flavors of non-staple food and compressed biscuits that had just been produced by the factory, and a large number of cans that had just been produced.
In view of the opponent's mechanization level and weak long-distance transportation capabilities, Li Mu plans to send them fifty light trucks and ten heavy trucks. There is no need to send them specially, just leave sixty trucks when sending the supplies.
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On the other side, Li Yunlong, the leader of the new regiment, looked at the boxes of weapons in front of him, piled up like a hill, and his mouth burst into laughter.
I opened a box and took a look. It was an original German Mauser 98k. I picked up a rod and took a look at it. I praised: "It is indeed an original German product!"
He held the gun in his hand and couldn't put it down and played with it for a while, then opened another box. The yellow box was filled with bullets, which almost made him blind.
He couldn't put it down and touched it, opened another box, and praised: "Original imported Czech light machine gun..."
He opened the boxes around him and counted them, his eyes brightened: "So many... In addition to engineers and cavalry, each infantry squad can fire one with this number. With this kind of firepower, Guofu's treasured German weapon master is probably also
that's all."
Another style box was opened next to the aisle, and his eyes became brighter.
"M2 heavy machine gun, the brigade headquarters heard that there are several heavy machine guns of this type. They used to be hidden away as treasures. I didn't expect that I, Lao Li, would be rich today."
Then, I walked to another pile of boxes, opened them and smiled crookedly.
"I have only heard of the German-made Grw 34 medium-sized mortar before. It is said that there is not much equipment in China. I didn't expect that I, Lao Li, would have one today and could form a mortar company."
I opened the boxes around me and looked around, and there were boxes and boxes of mortar shells.
At this time, Zhang Dabiao led a group of soldiers and walked in carrying several large boxes.
Li Yunlong asked curiously: "What kind of weapon is such a big box?"
Zhang Dabiao said: "Commander, I heard from people at the brigade headquarters that this is a machine gun. I heard it can not only hit tanks and armored vehicles, but it can also hit aircraft."
Li Yunlong stepped forward, opened the box, looked at the metallic luster in front of him, and touched it with admiration.
I couldn't help but laugh: "Our new group is really rich and prosperous this time!"
Now it is not two years later. The New Regiment has accumulated a lot of wealth by relying on seizures. Now, whether it is the New Regiment or the independent regiment, the weapons and equipment are quite backward, and even the rifles cannot be equipped with one manpower.
Suddenly, he changed from a hodgepodge made by all nations to a German weapon master comparable to the ace of Guofu's direct line. It's impossible to be unhappy.
Zhang Dabiao also opened his mouth and smiled broadly. This was the first time he had seen such sophisticated equipment and firepower.
Li Yunlong stayed in the warehouse for a long time before reluctantly coming out, asking Zhang Dabiao to lead people to distribute the weapons, and he couldn't wait to go to the nearby independent regiment to find Kong Jie.
The brigade headquarters sent so many weapons at once. It was the first time that Li Yunlong was so rich and generous, and he felt uncomfortable if he didn't show off.
He rushed to the Independent Regiment with his guards and saw that Kong Jie was leading people to distribute weapons to the soldiers. Li Yunlong was filled with words and was holding back his words.
After a while, he said: "Lao Kong, have you received it too?"
Kong Jie laughed and said: "Old Li, is this your first time to receive such a good weapon? I want to show you how to use it. I didn't expect that I have one here too."
"Let me tell you, not only our two regiments, but also the entire brigade are all dressed up."
Li Yunlong was a little stunned: "The brigade headquarters is too generous."
Kong Jie said: "I heard that someone invited us to go over to fight the Japanese. All these weapons are given away for free. They are responsible for all the ammunition, food, wages, and logistical supplies during the battle."
Li Yunlong was a little shocked. He was stunned for a long time and said: "Old Kong, this is a landlord and a wealthy man. He is too arrogant. When have we ever fought such a wealthy war?"
Kong Jie smiled and said: "Not only that, I heard that they also sent a large number of weapons, ammunition, and supplies."
"It is said that there are hundreds of Browning pistols, which we can all have in the future. They also gave us 60 trucks and a batch of radio stations...It is said that they also gave us a power plant."
"There is also food. More is given. It is said that there are fifty tons of sugar and fifty tons of dried fish..."
Li Yunlong's eyes lit up when he heard this.
"Fifty tons, that's 100,000 catties... This landowner is too rich. I, Old Li, have made up his mind about this devil. Wherever you want us to go, send a message so that the little devil can also see how powerful we, Old Li, are.
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Kong Jie burst out laughing.
"Old Li is right. We use such good equipment to show the little devils how powerful we are."
The two chatted for a while, and after leaving the independent group, Li Yunlong turned around and went to the brigade headquarters again. Since so many good things were sent to him, he didn't want to go back because he felt uncomfortable.