The advantage of Li Yunlong's request was that he successfully stabilized Yan Laoxi.
The reason is that Li Yunlong's request was just right. It was neither impossible nor easy for the Jinsui Army, so it was stuck in the middle...
Speaking of not being able to do it, the Jinsui Army still has more than 40,000 troops. If it is given 20,000 troops, it will still have combat effectiveness. Although its vitality is seriously damaged, the officers do not need to give it, right? Is the food still there? There is no loss of guns, ammunition and money, right?
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If you get Yuncheng again, use these to recruit an army. If you don't know for sure, you can make a comeback.
If he surrenders to the stubborn army... Yan Laoxi, the local emperor, will really become the commander of a certain war zone.
What's more, the 20,000 troops requested by Li Yunlong are said to be young and strong veterans, but why can't Yan Laoxi use the newly recruited soldiers as inferior ones? Is it possible that Li Yunlong can still ask them one by one?
But it's easy to say but not easy.
This is an era of war, and Yuncheng is not in Yan Laoxi's hands at this time. Where can we find these 20,000 people in a while?
So you have to prepare for a period of time, or at least train these newly recruited soldiers for a period of time, so that you can possibly deceive Li Yunlong.
According to Chu Yunfei's intention, he wanted to give up Yuncheng.
This is what he said to Yan Laoxi: "Commander, I am here in Yuncheng and I have discovered that the people seem to support the Eighth Route Army stationed in Yuncheng. If so..."
Chu Yunfei didn't make it too clear. What he meant was that if the people don't support the Jinsui Army, then what's the point of working so hard to bring Yuncheng back, and one day the Japanese invaders can easily defeat it?
But Yan Laoxi couldn't hear it. He replied without thinking: "What do the people matter? Of course they will support whoever is stationed in Yuncheng. When we station in Yuncheng, they will also have to listen to us, and they will not
Look who has the gun?"
When Yan Laoxi said this, Chu Yunfei didn't dare to say anything more.
The reason why Yan Laoxi thinks so is actually because his warlord mentality is deeply ingrained.
In the era of warlords' melee, there was basically no need to consider the hearts of the people, because everyone was the same, using money and military pay to recruit soldiers and horses. Whoever had money and guns could raise a team, and then use this
Form a team to control the people, plunder wealth and soldiers from the people, and make the snowball get bigger and bigger.
Yan Laoxi thought that the Eighth Route Army was just like this, that is, he regarded the Eighth Route Army as another warlord.
The problem is that the Eighth Route Army is not such a force.
The Eighth Route Army is a force organized by the people. It is a force that truly fights for the destiny and future of China. It is a force with strict military discipline and based on the interests of the people.
Therefore, for warlords like Yan Laoxi and even Zhanjun, what is really fatal is not the Eighth Route Army’s millet plus rifles, nor the Eighth Route Army’s spirit of not being afraid of sacrifices and difficulties, nor the Eighth Route Army’s combat effectiveness, but the relationship between the military and civilians of the Eighth Route Army.
Because the Eighth Route Army has the support of the people, Yan Laoxi at this time, whether he changes to Yuncheng or not, is actually destined to miss Yuncheng.
What's more, Yan Laoxi hasn't considered one thing: one day, if Yan Laoxi really hands over the 20,000 people he trained to the hands of the Eighth Route Army... will the officers and soldiers of Jinsui be chilled by this?
Some of the 20,000 people came to the Shanxi-Sui Army for Yan Laoxi, so Yan Laoxi "sold" them to the Eighth Route Army?
They are soldiers, human beings, warriors with dignity, and subordinates whom Yan Laoxi keeps saying live and die together, not items that can be bought and sold at will.
Yan Laoxi was able to sell 20,000 people today. Do you know if he can sell them too?
Therefore, this blow to the morale of the Jinsui Army was also fatal.
However, in the eyes of warlords, soldiers are actually just objects, food, wages and guns, or a number on an account book.
In addition, Yuncheng was very important to Yan Laoxi, so Yan Laoxi decided to comply with the Eighth Route Army's request... and help the Eighth Route Army recruit and train 20,000 people at that time.
After Wang Xuexin heard about the conditions Li Yunlong proposed to the Jinsui Army in exchange for Yuncheng, he roughly guessed that Li Yunlong was digging a hole again to make people jump.
The only way to avoid being cheated when dealing with this guy Li Yunlong is not to negotiate business with him.
Wang Xuexin has been a little busy recently. His troops were assigned to the east gate. This is because there are many auto repair factories in the east gate... These auto repair factories were founded by Yan Laoxi, who was originally opened by Yan Laoxi's brother-in-law.
, specially used to repair Jinsui Army's cars.
In this era, there were not many cars among civilians. If the military did not need them, these auto repair shops would have closed down long ago.
And the business that the army needs will naturally not fall into the hands of other people. If it is given to relatives, the money will not flow to outsiders.
However, these auto repair shops changed hands several times... they were robbed once by the Japanese and then beaten back by the Eighth Route Army. When the Eighth Route Army fought back, of course they handed over a batch of useful parts and so on, and then handed them over to the Jinsui Army.
, the Jinsui Army held it in their hands and was occupied by the Japanese again before it could warm it up. Now it was back in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, it had nothing to do with Yan Laoxi's brother-in-law.
The tank troops stayed here, on the one hand, for maintenance, and on the other hand, the T34 motorcycles were almost done and needed to replace their engines, so they were actively preparing on East Street.
Gangzi reported to Wang Xuexin: "Battal Commander, there are still 7 T34s ready for combat. Two are under repair and I don't know if they can be repaired. I heard that one has a transmission failure and has to wait for the parts to be shipped from Mao Xiong. T26 passed by
After the last battle, there are now only 31 vehicles left with combat effectiveness, and another 3 vehicles are under repair."
As he said this, Gangzi said with some worry: "Battalion Commander, if we continue to fight like this, we will definitely have fewer and fewer tanks!"
Wang Xuexin knew what Gangzi was worried about.
Although the Eighth Route Army tank troops fought beautifully in every battle, they achieved great results by destroying large numbers of Japanese tanks at a very small cost.
But if the tanks cannot be replenished, they are sitting on nothing. Now they can barely maintain their combat effectiveness. If there are fewer tanks, especially if the T34 cannot be assembled into a combat team, it will be difficult to put them into the battlefield and play their role.
Wang Xuexin wondered if he should talk to Andevich some other time and do business with Mao Xiong to replenish a batch of tanks.
At this time, Sun Erwei came up. He didn't know where he got an Eighth Route Army uniform and put it on. Then he stood in front of Wang Xuexin with some complacency and said, "Wang, does this uniform fit you?"
With a foreign figure, a high nose, and blue eyes, he looked a little out of place in the Eighth Route Army uniform. However, Wang Xuexin nodded and said, "Very good! How do you..."
Sun Erwei explained: "My previous dress was too conspicuous. I heard that the Japanese were looking for foreigners in the Eighth Route Army!"
Wang Xuexin said "Oh", the Japanese might be trying to cut off the Eighth Route Army's connection with Yingjiang and Mao Xiong.