At the headquarters of the garrison regiment, communications platoon leader Zhou Liang ran in with excitement: "Political commissar, the regiment leader has called with a telegram. It's good news!"
Hong Linfeng received the telegram and read: "The regiment commander ordered the Datong Independent Battalion to assemble immediately, make up for the shortage of troops and equipment within one day, return to Datong within two days, occupy two towns close to our base area, and prevent Jinsui from guarding Datong.
The army takes one step beyond the thunder pool."
"The political commissar and regimental leader have negotiated. These two towns are close to our base area and are easy to manage. Although there are only a few small coal mines, they can further expand production capacity and can fully meet the arsenal's demand for coal mines."
"If I remember correctly, there are many other minerals buried in these two towns and the other two towns controlled by the northern Shanxi base area, which are urgently needed by our arsenal."
"With them, the arsenal will definitely no longer have the problem of shortage of raw materials."
Wang Hong also had a happy face.
The arsenal is so important. If it can operate at full capacity and continuously produce weapons and ammunition, not only the garrison regiment will benefit, but other surrounding Eighth Route Army units will also benefit.
Immediately ordered: "Chief of Staff, although I have not experienced this negotiation, the regiment leader must have spent a lot of effort to snatch this piece of fat from the mouth of the Jinsui Army, so we must ensure that these two towns are completely under control
It’s in our hands.”
"The Datong Independent Battalion must be fully manned and well-equipped so that the Shanxi-Sui Army will be frightened when they see them and cannot think of attacking them."
Hong Linfeng immediately replied: "Political Commissar, I understand what you mean."
"We killed more than 5,000 Japanese puppet troops and captured a lot of good things in the no-man's land. I plan to use the equipment inside to replenish the Datong Independent Battalion as a priority and organize them into a strengthened battalion."
"All the shortages in the troops will be supplemented by the prisoners captured in our attack on no man's land."
"Ensure that the Datong Independent Battalion has three main companies, a cavalry company, a supply company trained according to main force standards, a recruit company, an artillery company, a guard platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, an engineer platoon, a communications squad, and a cook
The class is full of 1,000 people."
Wang Hong nodded and ordered: "That's it. Chief of Staff, you will be personally responsible. Tomorrow night, organize a car transport company to send them to the edge of the base area in batches, and then enter these two towns, rely on the favorable terrain to establish a defense line, and resolutely prevent the Jin from advancing.
The Sui army entered these two towns."
Hong Linfeng immediately replied: "Don't worry, political commissar, we are not even afraid of the Japanese, let alone the Jinsui Army. We will definitely be able to defend every inch of the base area."
Wang Hong continued to order: "We must also explain to Huang Sheng that we must not take the initiative to provoke a war."
"The Jinsui Army is our friendly army. Except for self-defense, we must not shoot at them with guns."
"But we can't let them bully her and treat her like a little daughter-in-law. It's up to them to decide how to deal with it."
"If nothing else goes wrong, the regiment leader will go to these two towns after finishing his business in Datong, and personally command the troops to defeat the Jinsui Army's idea of occupying these two towns, so he does not need to worry too much, and just talk to the regiment commander.
Just learn."
On the Eighth Route Army defense line not far from Pingshan Village, the 12th Regiment guarding the area was packing supplies and equipment in preparation for evacuation.
One kilometer away, at the Jinsui Army station, they were also packing supplies and preparing to enter Datong and take over the land that had been occupied by the Japanese for several years from the Eighth Route Army.
At eight o'clock in the evening, a regiment of the Eighth Route Army entered Pingshan Village and was on standby.
Chief of Staff Zhou and Li Hao are all here.
At the same time, the Jinsui Army Station also received a convoy, a total of 500 large vehicles, all loaded with pensions, weapons and ammunition compensated by the war zone to the Eighth Route Army.
At ten o'clock in the evening, convoys appeared one after another between the two armies, and a regiment of the Eighth Route Army also arrived.
Check a large cart and pull one away.
At the entrance of Pingshan Village, all large vehicles taken over by the army must pass through here.
A large car was parked on the side of the road, and the raincloth covering it had been lifted, revealing dozens of neat wooden boxes.
Chief of Staff Zhou and Li Hao stood nearby, all staring at the box.
A soldier held a dagger and pried open a box in a few clicks.
Hand grenades with dark wooden handles are neatly arranged inside.
Different from ordinary wooden handle grenades, each grenade in the box is covered with an iron shell.
After such a grenade explodes, it can produce twice as many fragments as an ordinary grenade, and the initial velocity of the fragments is also higher.
This means that its power is at least twice as powerful as the home-made grenades equipped by the Eighth Route Army.
"What a good thing!" Chief of Staff Zhou took out a grenade and looked at it twice before sighing.
"Many times the grenades made by ourselves in the base area explode in half and are thrown into a group of Japanese soldiers. Apart from making a louder sound, the damage to the Japanese soldiers is very limited."
"This grenade is different. If one of them hits a group of Japs, it will explode into a large area and kill all enemies within a five-meter radius."
Li Hao also likes this kind of grenade.
The grenades equipped by the Japanese army were also very powerful, but they were particularly inconvenient to use.
After unplugging the safety, you need to hit it hard to trigger the fuse and throw it out, which means that the grenade cannot be arranged as a booby trap like a grenade.
In addition, grenades do not have wooden handles. If the same soldier throws them, the grenades will definitely be thrown several meters further than the grenades.
A few meters of throwing distance on the battlefield can mean life or death, so soldiers also prefer hand grenades.
His eyes were shining and he said: "Chief, I just asked, this truck has one thousand grenades. The war zone has to compensate us for a total of 350,000 grenades, which adds up to 350 large trucks."
"The telegram sent to us by the headquarters said: Leave 100,000 grenades for us to distribute ourselves. I don't want more other weapons and ammunition. I will give you more grenades."
Chief of Staff Zhou replied without thinking: "Yes, I can give you all 100,000 grenades."
During the Great Unification War, the northern Shanxi base area had already taken advantage of enough. It was not easy to find something that Li Hao liked, and Chief of Staff Zhou would certainly not refuse it.
Followed the order: "This matter is settled. The headquarters agrees that all the 100,000 grenades we left behind belong to you. I will arrange for the troops to deliver the items to the two towns assigned to your garrison."
"Thank you, chief!" Li Hao was not polite and decisively accepted this gift.
After watching the large truck filled with grenades return to the convoy, Chief of Staff Zhou completely calmed down and said: "Commander Li, as long as we successfully get compensation, there should be no more trouble in this matter.
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"Not only did we seize a large amount of money, materials, weapons and ammunition from Datong City, but we also received so much compensation from the war zone, and even four towns were set aside from Datong for our control. It was so unexpected."
Li Hao didn't see it that way. He looked at the endless motorcade in front of him and reminded him seriously: "Chief, I don't think everyone can be happy too early."
"According to the Jinsui Army's previous proposal, the current transaction should be conducted in Datong."
"I was afraid that they would cheat and refuse to admit their mistakes after the troops entered Datong, so I changed the time and place of the transaction to here. We will get the compensation first, then withdraw the troops, and let the Jinsui Army enter Datong without giving them a chance to cheat."
"But one thing I am sure of is that the war zone will definitely not be willing to pay us so much compensation."
"The reason why we compromised was because we wanted to wait until we reach common ground."
"As long as the troops enter Datong, they won't have so many worries about what they do."
"And at that time, our troops were dispersed back to their respective defense areas, so we definitely didn't have many troops to defend them. If something went wrong again, their chances of winning would be greater.
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