"Tuanza, this Eighth Route Army troops... It's weird! ”

Riding a white horse, Fang Ligong gently turned the reins of the horse, walked to the side of his own regiment leader, and whispered:

"We have come all the way, and almost all the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are wearing new cotton clothes, and the stitches must be the top cotton materials made by foreign large machinery, but the craftsmanship of this clothing is a little poor, and they are all sewn by hand sewing machines."

"Tyrannical creatures."

"I'm surprised, where did they get so much high-quality cotton fabric?"

As an adjutant staff officer of the 358th Regiment, a college graduate, and born in a wealthy family, Fang Ligong's vision is naturally not bad, and he easily recognized the top fabrics from the system, and he was a little red for a while.

Since there is no Taiyuan in Shanxi, the life of the Jin Suijun is not very good, the food and clothing have dropped several levels, this kind of top-level material imported from abroad for luxury goods, only officers can enjoy it, and it is a small amount.

After all, priority should be given to the import of military supplies.

But the Eighth Route Army...

It's outrageous.

Along the way, he saw several regiments of soldiers, including some militia armed men with spears, all of them were of the same fabric, counting them, it was thousands, and even he saw that some of the bitter peasants were issued with clothes of the same fabric.

It hurts him to see it.

This is top-notch material!

Although this material is wear-resistant and is a good material for making coats, it is also too ...

"yes."

"It's weird!"

Chu Yunfei looked around, looked at the dozens of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were accompanying him, especially the equipment in their hands, and snorted coldly: "Not only cotton clothes, but also weapons and equipment." ”

Fang Ligong nodded, he naturally noticed.

According to the information that has been circulating all along, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are scarce and of extremely poor quality, and the troops as a whole are mainly backward and inferior firearms, with no more than five rounds of ammunition per capita.

But now it seems that this rumor really can't be believed.

At least, you can't believe it all...

Backward inferior expired firearms, there is!

It is indeed the main equipment.

Hanyang made in the last century, with a history of decades of use, has changed from a rifled gun to a 'smoothbore gun' made in Hanyang, this kind of goods that should be retired, is one of its common equipment, and you can also see a lot of privately made inferior barge guns, broken guns during the First World War, and even some of the local troops who are called front-loading shotguns.

It's simply a weapons grocery store.

But to say that the weapons and equipment are very poor is not true.

At least, among the main regiments they saw...

Not only were there a large number of captured 38 big covers, crooked handles, these devil weapons and equipment, and even dozens of Czech machine guns in each regiment that made him blush.

These Czech-style, absolutely pure original imported goods, than the batch of goods imported by the government before the Anti-Japanese War are of a grade higher than the quality of the goods, and the condition is extremely new, presumably not long after leaving the factory.

In terms of quality, he pulled out the whole regiment of the 358th regiment, and he couldn't find a Czech style of the same grade. And others have dozens of regiments, all of which are of top quality, can this be called no good weapons?

More than thirty of them, plus some other devils' machine guns, for a regiment of more than 1,000 people, it is not a lot, and an average platoon of more than 20 people can have a little more.

As for the bullets, it is true that there are not many, but they are not so poor that they are five rounds per capita, and those machine gunners do not seem to have a lot of ammunition in reserve.

"So many good machine guns they got there?"

Some eyes blushed and glanced at the machine gunners of the company leading the team in front of him, and Fang Ligong's tone was full of envy.

As long as the tactics are appropriate, the morale of the soldiers is strong, and the command is strong, the old light machine guns in World War I can win the same battle against the troops equipped with the latest light machine guns, but on the battlefield, a regiment has dozens of good machine guns with high accuracy and few failures, which can take advantage of a lot of advantages, the casualties can be smaller, and the enemy's casualties can be larger.

"I don't know."

"It seems that they have their own weapons import channels, and I will have people check them when I go back."

Chu Yunfei held the horsewhip and looked back at the main regiment where he had just left, with a solemn expression: "Moreover, the situation of these troops is much better than we expected. ”

"Yes."

Fang Ligong knew what his group said:

"At the beginning, we speculated that if they expanded their strength by nearly ten times in just a few years, the quality of their soldiers would inevitably decline on a large scale, the supply of weapons and materials would be seriously insufficient, and the combat effectiveness of the troops would drop sharply, but now it seems that this situation exists, but it is far less serious than we imagined."

Before the two came, they made some predictions about this friendly army on the surface, but after seeing it, they were all overturned.

Along the way, the five main regiments were stationed, and more than 10 local armed forces saw the scale of about 8,000 people, which was not much, but the other side did not deliberately cover it up, and it was already possible to see many problems, although there were many, many deficiencies in this army, but the core of an army, weapons and equipment, the quality of soldiers, and the morale of the troops were far beyond their expectations.

"When the devil is driven away, I'm afraid it is..."

Fang Ligong's face was gloomy.

In his opinion, compared to the devil, this group of people cannot be despised at all, and even more serious than the devil, after all, the strength of this group of people is growing too fast. Moreover, there is also a mysterious source of imported weapons.

"Later, later, we are still allies, and we have a common enemy."

Chu Yunfei shook his head and did not continue the topic.

Then he smiled and said in a confident tone: "Although it is unexpected, it is still far from us, if the Eighth Route Army has this bit of weapons and equipment, then Chief Yan's expectations will be met soon." ”

The 358th Regiment is the top main regiment of the Jinsui Army, with a predetermined establishment of more than 5,000 people, and a new division in the future.

It is envisaged that a separate artillery battalion will be formed, equipped with seven 75-caliber mountain guns, but it has not yet arrived, there is something wrong with the channels for foreign purchases, and the United States has not completely loosened its mouth, but there are also two old mountain guns.

It is much stronger than this so-called main regiment.

He didn't believe that a soldier could resist the temptation of having a strong army under his command.

"Where is Li Yunlong, at best, it is the same equipment scale as the main force here."

Fang Ligong nodded in agreement: "The artillery that shelled Taiyuan Airport should have been borrowed from the superior troops, and I didn't see that their main regiment had a separate artillery unit all the way." ”

Not to mention anything else, an artillery company may be able to attract this Li Yunlong.

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"Yo, Brigadier Li, you have a lot of good things here."

Ding Wei looked at the fifty big mules that had been replenished, although there was saliva at the corner of his mouth, his tone was full of yin and yang.

This mule, he also has a new regiment, which was left by Li Yunlong, but after such a long time of fighting and consumption, there are less than ten left, and he knows how powerful these big mules are.

It is no exaggeration to say that if ten people can be equipped with one of these big mules, then the combat effectiveness of the troops can be directly doubled, or even more than.

This big mule, the mobility and load-bearing capacity are too strong, the battlefield adaptability is also strong, and the thief is easy to feed, which is very suitable for the Eighth Route Army troops who are short of materials, which makes him wonder if this thing was specially invented for their mountain guerrilla warfare.

"When the battle is over, this will be returned to labor and management."

Li Yunlong glared angrily.

When this business is completed, he will have more than 300 big mules, and the baggage of the army can reach the level of half a month's combat.

Don't say it's Ding Wei, even if it's ·····

However, Li Yunlong's tone trembled a little when he said this.

I don't know why, when he heard the title of 'Brigade Commander Li', especially the word brigade commander, he was covered with goosebumps, and even felt that his legs were a little weak, and the back of his neck was faintly cold.

"It's all brigade commanders, how many brothers do you want to support? Let the brothers rejoice? ”

Ding Wei said with a hippie smile.

"Get out, labor and management themselves are not enough."

Grand Master Li regretted it.

At the thought of being called a brigade commander, he felt that he didn't want to be a brigade commander in his life.

"Hahaha..."

Ding Wei laughed.

Li Yunlong, can he still know? How many things have happened before? It wasn't the brigade commander who took care of that time, especially the incident of the arson soldiers grabbing food during the Long March, if the brigade commander hadn't given him great mercy, I am afraid he would have been shot.

Still want to be a brigade commander?

Do you have the guts?

"When you leave, bring me a few bags of this fine grain, no problem."

Ding Wei walked to the big mule and horse, looked at the fine grain bag and canned meat on the horse's back, and his eyes lit up.

Delicious, who doesn't like it.

However, Ding Wei is very forced, as long as the grain is fine, he does not ask for canned meat. After all, this canned meat is much more expensive than fine grains. He wants it, and Li Yunlong will definitely not give it.

"Okay."

Li Yunlong directly agreed.

More than a hundred tons of fine grain are in the warehouse, and this little thing, he is not stingy.

Moreover, Ding Wei's battle, although it was a blockade, was not easy, the devil of a wing, including a brigade of the Fifth Division, and the two battalions of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, I am afraid that this time I will have to pay some price.

The great war was imminent, and all he could do was give the brothers something to eat.

"Then I'll take the troops to adapt to training for a few days first, and I'll be gone."

Ding Wei waved his hand and drove towards the mountains with two battalions.

There were still nine days before the Miyano Road arrived in Jiaoxian, and there was plenty of time, so Ding Wei decided to take the troops to adapt to training for a period of time, and the more fully prepared, the smaller the losses would be at that time.

"Okay."

Li Yunlong was a little pity.

He also thought about taking Ding Wei and that Chu Yunfei for a while.

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"Ahead is the Independent Regiment."

A veteran of the Eighth Route Army tightened the 38 cover on his back and pointed to Yang Village, which was faintly visible in the distance: "Let's wait here for a while, the people of the Independent Regiment should be coming to pick up." ”

"Okay."

Chu Yunfei bowed his head and looked in the direction of Yang Village in the distance.

As seen along the way, all the troops of the Eighth Route Army were directly stationed in the mountain village, and the whole was almost integrated into the village, as long as the opposing troops did not wear military uniforms to train, it was difficult for ordinary people to find out.

And Fang Ligong on the side just stared directly at the guns of these veterans of the Eighth Route Army.

Escorting them was a unit called the 773 Regiment, which was one of the few registered regiments on the national side and an elite regiment of the Eighth Route Army, well-equipped, well-trained, and with strong combat effectiveness.

Along the way, he only found out at this time that it seemed that there was also a problem with the 38 big covers they were carrying.

It seems that the gun craftsmanship is much better than that of the devil... But Fang Ligong was a little unsure, after all, he had not seen many devils, and he couldn't judge accurately, unlike the Czech style, where he could accurately judge the good or bad with one glance and one ear.

However, before he had time to continue observing, more than 30 cavalrymen came in the distance, all of them in gray military uniforms, still the kind of top-quality cotton fabric, coupled with the inferior craftsmanship of the hand, which made Fang Ligong's eyes jump straight away.

"Here is the head of Chu Yunfei Chu of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, this is his deputy official meritorious service."

The accompanying warriors introduced the cavalry from the independent regiment, reined in the reins, and turned back.

"Commander Chu, Adjutant Fang, please come to me, Commander they are waiting for you!"

The one who came to meet was a company commander of the cavalry battalion, who spoke politely.

Seeing that the person who came was a company commander, Fang Ligong was a little angry, they had a regiment commander, an adjutant, and their status was equal to that of the deputy regiment commander, so they sent a company commander to greet them, was it a bit excessive?

This is already the site of the Independence Regiment.

Shouldn't the head of the regiment or the commissar come?

However, his anger did not last long, and he found that the more than 30 cavalrymen, each with a 20-round shell gun on his waist, through the leaky grip in the wooden box, and the long magazine under the smooth metal mirror, he judged that this group of people were carrying the original German M1932 model.

That's twenty rounds of repeating shell guns.

A pistol with performance comparable to that of a submachine gun.

There are more than thirty of them, and this independent regiment is a little rich.

Fang Ligong's eyes narrowed.

This kind of gun is a good gun, very good with the mobility of cavalry, but the problem is very not cheap, more than fifty percent more expensive than ordinary shell guns, the government wanted to purchase large-scale, but also because of the price problem retreated, and finally only purchased a small part.

Also, those grenades around the waists of these people seem to be...

At this time, he saw the four large grenades with prefabricated shrapnel casings on the waist of the cavalry company.

All are original German-made M24 goods?

Also, those machine guns, which seem to be British Bren, are of the highest quality······

Fang Ligong's eyes froze.

It's British again, it's German again, and it's all original quality, where did the Eighth Route Army import this kind of thing? It looks like a lot.

"Then I'll let you lead the way."

Chu Yunfei spoke politely, not noticing the expression of the adjutant behind him.

He didn't feel angry when a company commander came to greet him, after all, although he was nominally a friendly army, the things he did on his own side were indeed a little unkind, and it was normal for others to treat them like this.

didn't shake his face directly, it's already very good.