"Boss, there's something even scarier ahead~" the chief of staff added.
"The fourth item is weapons and ammunition, including 19 heavy mountain guns, 19 large-caliber howitzers, 18 mountain field guns and infantry guns combined, and 100 mortars!"
"These artillery pieces are enough for us to form a heavy mountain artillery regiment, a heavy howitzer regiment, a mountain field artillery regiment, and three mortar battalions!"
"The most important thing is artillery shells. Howitzers and large-caliber mountain guns have an average of 200 shells per gun. Mountain field guns and infantry guns also have 200 shells. Mortars have the most shells, with an average of 300 shells per gun!"
"In addition to artillery, there are also a large number of light weapons: 25,000 rifles, including the original 38-gai of the Japanese army, Jin-made rifles produced by the Jinsui Army themselves, and Chinese official rifles!"
"The total number of light and heavy machine guns is 300, and the total number of various types of ammunition is 6 million rounds~"
"These light weapons, plus the mortars and mountain artillery in front, are enough for us to form five divisions, and they are all main divisions with a total strength of 7,000 people!"
"Boss, this gift from Wang Ping is indeed big enough!"
After the entire coded message was translated, more than half an hour had passed unknowingly.
"Boss, it's clear. Part of the funds, weapons and ammunition, medicines and food that Comrade Wang Ping turned over were seized from the annihilation of the Japanese Kato Division, and part of them were obtained from Linfen City and the Shanxi-Sui Army!"
"Comrade Wang Ping reported how to deliver these things to the Eighth Route Army headquarters!"
After hesitating for two minutes, the boss unexpectedly made a decision: "You don't need him to send it over. I'll go to Xinyi Tuan to get these things myself!"
“Sending things to the headquarters and then distributing them to the headquarters not only takes time, but also consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. It’s not cost-effective!”
"Taiyue does not need the equipment of the five main divisions. The Taiyue Military Region has achieved the greatest results in this counter-mopping operation, and the gains must be huge."
"The Taihang base area suffered the greatest losses, but they were given 10,000 more guns some time ago, and this time they are given equipment for two divisions!"
"The base area in northwestern Shanxi suffered heavy casualties and few seizures. All the equipment of the remaining three divisions will be given to them!"
"We don't want other base areas. Shandong is too far away and we can't even send it to them!"
"The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area has its own arsenal, and the harvest from this anti-mopping up campaign is pretty good, so they don't want it either!"
"Two heavy artillery regiments, one for the Taihang base area and one for the northwest Shanxi base area!"
"Food and medicine will be distributed equally among the base areas of northwest Shanxi, Taihang, and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei based on the proportion of military strength!"
"Chief of Staff, please immediately send telegrams to several base areas and military divisions. "Assign one main regiment from the central Hebei base area, three regiments from the northwestern Shanxi base area, two regiments from Taihang, and one regiment from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region. While the Japanese are suffering heavy casualties,
, when you have the chance to regain your strength, immediately rush to the Linfen New Regiment’s station and transport the things that the New Regiment is going to hand over back to your base, the faster the better!”
"In addition, tell several base areas that I will personally go to the new regiment to share the equipment, ammunition and supplies equally!"
The chief of staff next to him asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Boss, there is no need for you to go there in person!"
"If you don't believe Comrade Wang Ping, you can let Commander Chen preside over this distribution!"
"If you go there in person, the commanders from several base areas will definitely go there too!"
"At that time, several senior commanders of our Eighth Route Army will gather in southwest Shanxi, which is Wang Ping's headquarters!"
The deputy commander-in-chief responded with certainty: "I just want these commanders to go to southwest Shanxi!"
"In this counter-mopping up, the new regiment has achieved the greatest results, there is no doubt about it!"
The chief of staff nodded and replied: "Yes, the new regiment's battle results exceed those of all our base areas... plus the Kato division they just killed, the battle results almost exceed the sum of the other base areas!"
The deputy commander nodded and affirmed: "This also shocked me!"
"The New Regiment was able to defeat a dissatisfied Japanese division and a full division in just a few months with its main force of more than 20,000 troops. There must be a reason for this!"
"This time when I go to Xinyi Tuan, I want to find out the reason!"
Not only me, the deputy commander-in-chief, but the commanders of other base areas must also figure out the reason and take it back to their own troops!"
"We must learn good things and promote them throughout the army!"
"If the combat effectiveness of all the main forces of the Eighth Route Army could catch up with the New Regiment, if nothing else, the little devils in North China would have been suppressed and beaten by our Eighth Route Army. How could it be like this time of counter-mopping up, where there was a little more confrontation?
It takes time to find a breakthrough on the battlefield!"
The chief of staff replied seriously: "Boss, this is what I want to know too!"
"The independent division in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area was also led by Wang Ping. Its combat effectiveness is stronger than other troops. In wars, it is a war of annihilation. The more captured, the greater the results!"
"Other troops are complaining. When they are short of guns and ammunition, only this independent division has enough ammunition, and there is extra ammunition to support other troops!"
He hesitated and continued his analysis: "Southwestern Shanxi is now the safest place in North China. If you go there, I won't worry about safety at all!"
"After the end of this anti-mopping up, we have not held a summary meeting. We just took this opportunity to hold a summary meeting in southwestern Shanxi to summarize this time's anti-mopping up!"
The deputy commander's eyes lit up and he replied: "I agree!"
"To add to this, the situation in southwestern Shanxi now has not only not eased, but has become more complicated than before!"
"The Japanese left, here comes the Jin-Sui Army!"
"Facing the Japanese, our approach is very simple, that is, fight. Kill them through various means and regain the land they occupied!"
"But the Jinsui Army is not good, they can't fight, they can't be driven away, but they come over to seize the territory and take the results of our hard work for themselves. We must find a way to break their conspiracy and defend the soldiers.
The base area wrested back from the Japanese with blood."
"This is a battle of wits and courage. Now the new regiment in southwest Shanxi has encountered it, and our other troops will definitely encounter it in the future!"
"I plan to use this opportunity to gather several commanders to southwest Shanxi to find ways together and try to summarize some experiences!"
"In addition, there is one last purpose for traveling to southwest Shanxi!"
"Those commanders took advantage of Wang Ping of the New Regiment, so they should be thanked in person!"
"It is certain that the new regiment will be expanded into a column in the future. Yan'an and our Eighth Route Army headquarters will definitely not have any objections. The only thing I am worried about is what the commanders and cadres under him will think!"
"Let them go to southwestern Shanxi this time to stop them from thinking!"
"Strive to unify our thinking at the meeting and let them support the superiors in expanding the new regiment into a column to build momentum for Wang Ping!"
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