"Commander."

"I'm afraid our plan to expand the independent regiment to 2,500 people will have to be slowed down first."

At the regiment headquarters, Zhang Dabiao walked in with a dilapidated folder and said to Li Yunlong with a wry smile.

"What's wrong?"

Li Yunlong frowned: "Did you encounter any problems?" ”

He looked at Zhang Dabiao with a puzzled face.

Weapons and ammunition are not a problem, and now the stock of two and a half thousand people in the regiment is quite sufficient.

The basic regiment can be expanded at will, without being limited by the number and size, this is the policy set from the beginning, as long as the supply of weapons and ammunition is sufficient, each regiment is at will, so the policy is not a problem.

Could it be personnel?

But didn't Kong Jie say that the people around him were enthusiastic about joining the army? Moreover, there are a large number of village protection squads and anti-Japanese self-defense forces in several villages in this vicinity, so will it not be long before these people are directly incorporated into the organization of unified training?

Zhang Dabiao handed the broken folder in his hand to Li Yunlong and explained:

"Enough weapons."

"Soldiers are not a problem, there is no need to recruit, there are more than 1,000 people in the villages around here who want to be incorporated into our independent regiment, and after returning from this attack on Yangquan, there are still a large number of people who want to join our independent regiment."

"The problem is, we don't have enough food for our group..."

At the end, Zhang Dabiao sighed fiercely.

"Grain?"

Li Yunlong paused, and his tone was even more puzzled: "What's the matter?" ”

It stands to reason that the Independent Regiment, as a basic regiment that has been established for nearly a year, has at least 1,000 militia troops around it, and the food in the regiment should not be enough to support even 2,500 people.

The lack of food in the Eighth Route Army has always existed.

But as a well-organized force, it is impossible to look at problems and not solve them.

The situation of the army's original lack of food has been gradually improving, such as clearing the wasteland, purchasing high-quality grain to grow grain, raising funds to buy grain, deliberately capturing the enemy's grain, and the support of the common people.

In particular, since the beginning of 38, a large number of basic regiments have been formed, which are responsible for consolidating the base areas, liaising with and forming anti-Japanese forces, and expanding grain cultivation in an organized manner, and grain output has increased by a large margin.

Although the troops are not well fed now, they are definitely not hungry.

For example, his new regiment not only formed a main force of more than 1,500 people, but also had 2,000 unemployed militia members in the surrounding areas, which not only could support themselves, but also handed over a large amount of grain to the brigade headquarters and division headquarters every year.

Could it be that Kong Er is so wasteful?

"Last year, Yang Village was swept by devils, and the independent regiment was forced to move at that time, and these devils destroyed a large number of fields near Yang Village, and this year's grain production has been greatly reduced, so..."

Zhang Dabiao sighed and explained.

"Little devil..."

Li Yunlong's eyes flashed sharply, but he didn't continue to say anything.

The little devils burned the grain and destroyed the fields, and wanted to use this to completely defeat the base areas, the old methods.

However, this move was seven inches in the middle, and the Eighth Route Army had no effective way to deal with it.

In order to prevent the devils from destroying the base areas, it is necessary to block the devils' troops from outside the base areas.

But in a frontal positional battle, even if a good positional cover is built, even if the strength is superior, it may be able to hold out in a short time, but after a long time, when the devil's reinforcements or heavy weapons arrive, there is absolutely no chance of winning.

Every time faced with the encirclement and suppression of the devils, the Eighth Route Army could only seek movement warfare, transfer the forces involved in the devils in large forces, look for opportunities to ambush the enemy's small forces or supply troops, drag down the enemy, consume their materials and supplies, and force the enemy to retreat.

But in this way, it is naturally easy for the devil to destroy the fields and burn the grain.

Li Yunlong paused and asked:

"How much troop consumption can our regiment's food support now?"

"About 1,500 people, we had better control the size of the regular army at 1,300 people."

Zhang Dabiao said: "Our regiment is organizing intensive training, and the food consumption is very large, and the previous assault company operations, I found that those big mules must usually give them a little good feed to eat, otherwise once the heavy load is on the march, it is easy to get tired." ”

"Big Mule..."

Li Yunlong nodded, and said to Zhang Dabiao with a smile: "Okay, let's expand the number to 1,300 people first, and you will be responsible for organizing and training." ”

There is a good subordinate who has the right taste and can do things, just issue a general order, and leave the rest to the subordinates to complete, which can save a lot of effort and be much easier.

This is also the main reason why he must bring Zhang Dabiao over.

Subsequently, Li Yunlong continued:

"As for the specific establishment, the people who have returned from your assault company will join some recruits to form a battalion in combination with the soldiers of the original second battalion, and the other two battalions will also be appropriately expanded, so that the number of people can be controlled well, and one veteran will lead one recruit, so that the combat effectiveness of the troops can be formed as soon as possible, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will not be reduced."

"Yes!"

Zhang Dabiao entered a military salute and left the officer.

"Food..."

"That's a big problem!"

After Zhang Dabiao left, Li Yunlong knocked his fingers on the table, took out the iron communicator with a big round button and a big red light given by Chen Fan in his pocket and put it on the table, lit a cigarette, and quietly thought about a solution to the food problem.

"Brother Chen Fan said that he could get some meat, but he couldn't solve the staple food problem for the time being, so he didn't have to think about asking him for help."

"Let's go buy food, we don't have any money!"

"Expanding the intensity of land reclamation and planting food is too slow, not to mention, and it will be destroyed by devils."

"The people in the neighborhood are not having a good time, so we can't just think about their support·····"

"Then, either go to the headquarters to get some, or, go to the devil or the second devil to get some ·····"

"Now if I go to the headquarters to ask for food, I'm afraid I'll be beaten·····"

"So..."

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong took out the atlas, spread it out on the table, looked at the marked devil-level two devil strongholds near Yang Village, squinted his eyes, and scanned them one by one...

In the dilapidated conference room of the quiet regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong's eyes gradually deepened with the smoke that was gradually burning in his hand·····

······

"Captain"

"This is the current amount of weapons and ammunition in our regiment."

Just as Li Yunlong was planning his food business, Wang Gensheng walked in.

"How do you count this? How did Zhang Dabiao count the grain? ”

Looking at Wang Gensheng who entered the door, Li Yunlong was a little surprised.

He asked Zhang Dabiao to count weapons and ammunition and Wang Gensheng to count food, how did these two people turn around?

"The food information was calculated by me, but it was taken by Zhang Dabiao, and he left it behind."

Wang Gensheng responded: "I was building a warehouse with a platoon of soldiers to store sugar, so I didn't have time to send it to you. ”

Hearing Sucrose, Li Yunlong suddenly thought of something.

"The brigade doesn't know we have sugar, right?"

He remembered that when the brigade headquarters came before, there was no mention of sugar, there was no sugar in Kong Jie's list, and when Staff Officer Mo left with the transport team, he did not mention sugar.

This gave him an idea.

Could it be ·····

Li Yunlong looked at Wang Gensheng.

"Hey, hey..."

Wang Gensheng touched his head and said with a smile: "I saw the brigade headquarters coming, so I temporarily put these sugars on the mountain outside, anyway, this package is waterproof, the weather has been sunny recently, and it is okay to put it outside, and I will transport it in when the brigade transportation team is gone." ”

After following Li Yunlong for a long time, he naturally learned something·····

"Haha·····"

Li Yunlong laughed: "Okay, you kid did a good job this time!" ”

Then, he continued: "These sugars, leave two tons for the regiment, and the other three tons are pulled to the yard, loaded into transport wagons, and I will take them to the headquarters. ”

"Yes."

Wan Gensheng nodded and continued: "Regiment Commander, you'd better go to the headquarters quilt factory to get some military uniforms, this time to expand the army, our military uniforms are not enough, and the eight hundred pieces you brought before are now only three hundred." ”

What kind of virtue is the head of his own regiment, Wang Gensheng knows it in his heart.

If you send this sugar to headquarters, you'll definitely get something back.

Free delivery?

When pigs fly.

"Good!"

Li Yunlong smiled: "Look at me to get one thousand five hundred pieces!" ”

"By the way, Commander, you won't have anything to do this time..."

Wang Gensheng asked with some concern.

Sending troops to attack the Devil's Army Station 500 miles away, and he also took two battalions to attack the north of Yangquan 200 miles to cover the retreat of the assault team, which was a serious violation of discipline.

Speaking of which, it is even more serious than the last time Cangyunling.

Although the results of this battle were remarkable, three tons of medicine, and hundreds of devils were annihilated, but their own losses were not small. The reduction of more than 100 men is not small for an independent regiment that actually has only 900 regular combat troops.

Besides, wasn't the result big enough last time? Frontal Sakata United, killed Sakata United, and finally did not remove him.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng is worried that his superiors will remove the regiment commander like last time?

"Hahaha..."

Li Yunlong grinned and said confidently: "It's okay this time." ”

"Really, there won't be any more accidents!"

Wang Gensheng expressed some disbelief.

You said the same thing after the last Cangyun Ling, but as a result, I went to the clothing factory to be the director...

"Haha, don't worry, I'm still the head of the independent regiment, this will definitely not change."

Maybe there will be a punishment later, but the position of the regiment commander is definitely kept.

Li Yunlong confirmed this in his heart.

Since the brigade headquarters has already collected weapons and ammunition, and there has been no order from the headquarters so far, Li Yunlong has basically concluded that his incident this time must have passed.

At most, it's just a warning after the fact.

Seeing that Wang Gensheng was still a little worried, Li Yunlong waved his hand and changed the topic

"After you've got the sugar thing done, I'll give you a mission."

Li Yunlong beckoned Wang Gensheng to come closer, pointed to the map on the table and continued: "Here, you take a few people to ······"