Since the Eighth Division was retreating, Liu Lang's idea was not surprising. If he stayed in Luo Wenyu, he would definitely die, so he might as well take the initiative and jump out of the encirclement that the Japanese were about to form.
Even though Rehe outside the Great Wall is already the territory of the Japanese, everyone knows that the main force of nearly 70,000 Japanese troops on the southern, middle, northern and third roads of the Japanese is almost the largest force that the Kwantung Army can spare at present, and is used to garrison the entire
How many Japanese troops can there be in the entire Rehe area?
"Then let's do it like this. Our three regiments will join together and chase the Eighth Division's tail and beat the hell out of them. Then, we'll find a way back to the south of the Great Wall." Qi Guangyuan slapped the table.
It set the tone for the future of the two regiments of the 29th Army.
"However, an army cannot move without a general, and a snake cannot move without a head. Our three regiments need to have a leader to act together. Brother Liu, Brother Dong and I will take care of what is left of our two regiments.
The lives of more than 2,000 brothers have been entrusted to you, and everything will be at your discretion." Qi Guangyuan changed the topic and looked at Liu Lang with a sharp look.
This is different from just following the advice before. This is completely handing over command to Liu Lang. Even if Liu Lang wants the two regiments to carry out a fatal mission, they must obey military orders. This is in line with what Qi Guangyuan said about handing over orders.
It's no different.
However, Qi Guangyuan also played a little trick. Of the more than 2,000 brothers he mentioned, only 1,500 can still fight, and there are still hundreds more who were injured in the afternoon and evening battles. What he means is, do you want to lead
Our two regiments have no problem, but you must first arrange for the hundreds of wounded.
"Okay, then I'll go overboard once and go home. However, our three regiments are united. We must have a common name? I think so, we are neither called the independent regiment nor the 288th and 289th regiments to the outside world.
, let’s use a new name. Since we were united during the Great Wall War of Resistance, let’s call it the Great Wall Regiment. What do you think?” Liu Lang, a smart man, immediately understood the meaning of Qi Guangyuan’s words and smiled slightly.
, but this time he was not modest and accepted the baton handed over by Qi Guangyuan without hesitation.
This guy is not only good at fighting, but also understands people's hearts! Tang Yongming took a deep look at Liu Lang, and he was even more impressed.
Liu Lang cleverly used a common title to eliminate the concerns of the other school officials. Now the independent regiment was no longer leading the 288 and 289 regiments, but became a common group.
"Haha, Great Wall Regiment, well, Brother Liu is a good title. Before this battle is over, we will be called the Great Wall Regiment." Dong Shengtang clapped and laughed.
"Then I won't be pretentious, I give orders." Liu Lang saw that Dong Shengtang also expressed his stance, and quickly stepped into the leadership role.
Everyone stood in awe.
"Ling Qi and Dong serve as the commanders of the first and second battalions of the Great Wall Regiment respectively, Chi Dakui serves as the commander of the third battalion, Tang Yongming serves as the senior staff officer of the regiment headquarters, and Bai Yunyue serves as the logistics director of the regiment headquarters. The first battalion is composed of the former 288 regiment
The headquarters has 728 people. The second battalion consists of 702 people from the 289 regiment. The third battalion consists of 456 people from the former independent regiment excluding the artillery company. The original independent regiment artillery company is under the direct jurisdiction of the regiment. The original independent regiment special
The brigade is under the direct control of the regiment headquarters." Liu Lang ordered.
"At the same time, Chi Dakui's third battalion will send an additional machine gun platoon to each of the first and second battalions." Liu Lang thought for a while and added another order.
"Yes." Everyone accepted the order solemnly.
Since the troops are to be united, the establishment of only 2,000 people will naturally have to be reduced. It is normal for the regiment commander to become the battalion commander, and the battalion commander to become the company commander. There is nothing wrong with Liu Lang's order. There is no need to worry about what the officers have in mind.
, after the eight-day battle, a lot of officers had sacrificed their lives. The superiors were still worried that there were not enough officers, so they had to make surprise promotions from the sergeant squad leader!
"Captain Liu, I'm afraid Battalion Commander Chi doesn't have enough manpower. I don't think the support machine gun platoon will be needed!" Dong Shengtang is a real person. After all, his two battalions have 700 people, but Chi Dakui's third battalion
With just over 400 people, it was really embarrassing to have to support a 40-strong machine gun platoon.
As soon as he said the words, he saw Qi Guangyuan, Tang Yongming and his regimental deputy Bai Yunyue rolling their eyes at him, slightly startled, and then thought of the exaggerated cannon platoon supported by the independent regiment during the battle with the Japanese invaders in the past few days.
The firepower, if it were not for those machine guns that far exceeded the fire suppression of the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns, both of their regiments would not know how many more lives they would have to pay to fill the position.
When he thought of this, the good old man couldn't help but regret, was he stupid? But he had already said the words and it was hard to take them back. Leader Dong Da, who was far from being shameless but wanted to retort, could only be Da
For embarrassment.
It makes sense for Qi Guangyuan to be the first commander of the two regiments. At least he is much thicker-skinned. Seeing Dong Shengtang's embarrassment, Qi Guangyuan immediately laughed and continued: "Captain Liu is still interesting. He knows that our first battalion
The Second Battalion is in dire straits. Not to mention the heavy machine guns, there are only a few light machine guns now. I haven’t mentioned that we have to fix this machine gun platoon. Otherwise, we really have no confidence that we can defeat the Japs. However, what the old Dong said is true.
Logically speaking, we can't just take advantage of our brothers' troops. I think it's better to have our two battalions support two infantry platoons from Brother Chi to form a reinforced company. Brother Chi, what do you think?"
Chi Dakui was still in pain when Liu Lang waved his hand and sent out two machine gun platoons. Not counting the nearly 100 people, there were still 8 MG42 machine guns and six mortars!
But when he heard what Qi Guangyuan said, he was overjoyed. Although it was a slight loss to replace two machine gun platoons with one reinforced infantry company, for him who was short of soldiers, it was a timely help, so that he could form three companies.
A complete infantry battalion was formed. As for the heavy firepower that was lost, the independent regiment that was reduced to just this few people was really not in short supply.
Liu Lang saw that Qi Guangyuan was on the right path, so naturally he would not refuse, and was even happy to see the results. Although the three regiments were reorganized, the time was too short to immediately form a combat strength of one plus two equals three, especially the original regiment.
Although the soldiers of the two regiments of the 29th Army are very brave and have high combat effectiveness, their equipment is really unbearable to look at.
Each company only has two Czech-style ZB-26 light machine guns, which are most commonly equipped by the Chinese army, and each battalion only has one Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun. The whole regiment only has three guns in total. In this way, Luo Wenyu was basically defeated by the Japanese army in the first battle
The grenades were all blown up. The most powerful heavy firepower was the four old-fashioned infantry guns. As a result, they were not very powerful and were extremely heavy. It was impossible to move flexibly in mountainous operations like Luo Wenyu, and they were finally abandoned.
In the end, all the artillery support they needed came from the mountain artillery of the independent regiment's artillery company.
If Liu Lang couldn't find a way to support them with some heavy firepower, even if the 8th Division's morale was completely depleted, it wouldn't be something that they, with their thousands of men and their thousands of rifles, could shake down.
Of course, in addition to enhancing their combat effectiveness, there is another point that is more important. Liu Lang really likes this group of strong-willed soldiers. If he can get them into an independent regiment, he only needs to equip them with new equipment.
Then...the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment in the future will only be stronger than before the battle of Luo Wenyu.
Although poaching General Song like this is a bit shameless, Liu Lang believes that as long as the hoe is used well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down. Moreover, Liu Lang also has a powerful reason for self-hypnosis to forget about shamelessness.
Don't dig into people's corners.
Okay! This reason is so powerful that no one can match it.
Mutual integration is an excellent starting point, whether it is improving combat effectiveness or poaching General Song Zheyuan's corner.
"That's it. Please go back to your troops immediately and start preparations. Three hours after dawn, all combatants will leave Luo Wenyu with their supplies and head towards Chengde." Liu Lang continued.
"Also, Major Ji, when our army attacks tomorrow morning, we have given an order to electrify the whole country. On the evening of March 30, our Great Wall Regiment defeated the Japanese Eighth Division and completely annihilated the enemy's Eighth Artillery Regiment and Lushun Heavy Artillery Battalion 4,000
"People, the enemy invaders fled overnight. Our Great Wall Regiment is determined to completely wipe out this group of defeated troops. We will send troops to Luo Wenyu to pursue the enemy northward, vowing not to let those who invade our territory return. Liu, Qi, Dong"
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After saying it again and finding no one answered, Liu Lang realized that Ji Yanxue had already taken the seriously injured to Peiping. He shook his head and said to the female signal soldier who was in charge of the meeting minutes: "Then you will be responsible."
He completely didn't notice the stunned expressions of several school officials again.
Chief Liu, he has always behaved like this and there is no trace of an antelope hanging his horns. What is he going to do?