Peiping.

Command of the North China Front.

Around noon.

The guards at the door, looking at the commander of the Qian First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka rushed into the headquarters in a hurry, but left the headquarters angrily after half an hour, his face full of anger and helplessness.

Squinted at the headquarters, and when he waited for the commander of Gangmura and the chief of staff of Lieutenant General Sanji Ojodo, the guards quickly withdrew their gaze and put on a posture of not squinting.

"This Yoshio Shinozuka ······"

In the headquarters, Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji snorted coldly:

"Hmph."

"In order to deal with a mere regimental-level unit of the Eighth Route Army, he even persuaded us to abandon some non-important communication lines and cities, mobilize more than 15,000 troops, and apply for reinforcements from a brigade from the Mongolian Army and the Kwantung Army to form a joint offensive force."

"It's ridiculous."

Thinking of Yoshio Shinozuka's proposal just now, Sanji Oshihiro was angry.

scolded a few words indignantly, but Sanji Oshido still felt puzzled and scolded again:

"In the last public security war, if it weren't for this idiot who privately mobilized more than 10,000 troops to attack Shou County, and was blocked by someone for a month without an inch, the situation in North China would definitely not be as erosive as it is now."

The newly promoted chief of staff blamed Yoshio Shinozuka for the failure of the last sweep.

"Shinozuka-kun is indeed too excited."

Okamura Ninji glanced meaningfully at his chief of staff.

As the commander of the North China Front, he knew very well that the extra 10,000 troops that came out to attack Shou County, including heavy artillery, were all mobilized by Yoshio Shinozuka himself, even if the First Army did not launch an attack on Shou County and was not obsessed with dealing with Li Yunlong, the size of the troops participating in the sweep would not change.

"As for that Li Yunlong and the Independent Regiment."

Oshirodo Sanji didn't notice Okamura Ninji's eyes, and he was still indignant: "A regiment-sized unit actually shelled Taiyuan Airport several times under the nose of the First Army, which is completely incompetent by Yoshio Shinozuka. ”

"Not long ago, Taiyuan Airport was shelled for the third time, also because of the loopholes in his original warning measures."

"It's damn it."

In order to shake off the pot, Yoshimoto Sadaichi arranged the reason for the third shelling of Taiyuan Airport on the head of Yoshio Shinozuka.

"Since Shinozuka-kun has left the commander's position, don't discuss this matter."

Gangmura Ningji shook his head and put the topic aside.

After Oshiroto Sanji left, Okamura Ninji sat alone in the headquarters and fell into deep thought.

As the superior of the First Army, the North China Front naturally did not pay attention to a regimental-level unit of the Eighth Route Army, and in his opinion, a regimental-level unit was not very destructive to the entire North China region, and what he needed to do was to formulate an overall strategy.

Therefore, Gangcun Ningji has never paid close attention to Li Yunlong and his independent regiment, and even the mysterious forces that provided weapons and materials for Li Yunlong have not paid too much attention.

Even if Chen Fan was mysterious and abnormal, the intelligence department of the entire empire did their best to investigate no clues.

The fact that the other side only provided supplies, weapons and ammunition to one regiment showed that its own strength was limited, or that the means of transportation were limited, otherwise it would have been able to provide supplies and weapons and ammunition to the entire guerrilla army, and only then would it pose a deadly threat to the North China Front.

It can be inferred from this that this incident has little impact on the overall situation, and there is nothing to be afraid of on the whole.

The development of the general situation is not something that a regiment of several thousand people can fight against.

This Li Yunlong only needs to be handed over to the next level of troops to deal with.

This was Okamura Ninji's previous thoughts, even if after the Battle of Shou County, the Independent Regiment showed amazing combat effectiveness, his thoughts did not change at all, but the words of Yoshio Shinozuka just now made him can't help but waver a little.

Li Yunlong built roads and greatly expanded his army in his so-called base areas, intending to establish a solid rear base area····· If left unchecked, the Independent Regiment would eventually develop to a strength comparable to that of an Imperial Division, or even a full-fledged Division A Division.

He didn't believe the latter words, thinking that Yoshio Shinozuka was too nervous.

How strong is a full-fledged Imperial Division A division? Gangmura Ninji knew very well that he had been the commander of the Second Division before.

But this success caused him to pay attention to Li Yunlong.

Recalling the situation in the last few years, he had to admit that although Chen Fan only provided weapons, ammunition, and supplies to Li Yunlong and his independent regiment, the rest of the guerrillas had also been somewhat strengthened.

For example, the grenadiers that appeared in large numbers in the partisans, the 82 mortars, and the greatly improved ammunition supply, as well as a small number of Type 92 infantry guns and shells, and those German grenades.

These things are not much overall, but they do have a rather troublesome effect on the situation.

For example, when the empire builds an artillery tower, it must be built according to the highest standards, and it can withstand the shelling of the Type 92 infantry guns, otherwise it will be destroyed as soon as it is repaired.

Although it is impossible for Li Yunlong to establish a solid rear base, whether it succeeds or not, the overall strength of the guerrillas will be strengthened, and public order in North China will also be affected.

"Someone."

Gangmura Ningji called a staff officer.

Although it was impossible to listen to Yoshio Shinozuka's advice, he still decided to give Yoshimoto some assistance to strengthen the First Army to better deal with Li Yunlong·····

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At the same time.

Zhao Jiayu.

Independent regimental headquarters.

Zhao Gang is busy every day, since the regiment began to build a base area, he has gradually become a manager, Li Da Commander is troublesome, saying that his culture is not good, so he let Zhao Gang do the deployment and management of the whole regiment's materials and personnel.

"Commissar."

A guard platoon soldier came to report: "More than 20 workers and masters have been sent by the logistics department, you see..."

"Arrange to go directly to the repair shop in the back."

Zhao Gang replied without raising his head.

After Zhang Wanhe learned that Boss Chen had left behind a technician, not to mention that the technology was super high, and that he was also teaching technology in a real way, he sent people to learn technology in waves, and Zhao Gang was also happy to see it, which was very beneficial to the future development of the army.

"Yes."

The guards platoon soldiers saluted and left.

Zhao Gang looked at the back of the guard platoon soldiers outside the door, and suddenly a thought came to him, now there are more than 150 people in the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters, and it is really a bit too much to call the platoon again, it is time to upgrade the guard company.

"Let's wait for Li Yunlong to come back."

Shaking his head, Zhao Gang planned to wait for Li Yunlong to come back, and then talk about it, military matters are mainly decided by Grand Master Li.

Zhao Gang continued to bury his head in things.

"Political Commissar Zhao."

After a while, another person ran in, judging by his clothes, this was a young cadre:

"There's something I want to report to you."

"What's the matter?"

Zhao Gang put down the pen in his hand, looked at this panting appearance, got up and poured a cup of tea.

"Those who signed up to participate in the road construction today..."

The young cadre was not polite, he was really thirsty, and after taking a sip of water, he said:

"There are some two devils here, and there are people who have worked for devils before."

"Among them, there are even people from the Ping'an County Devil Security Team, and these people have been arrested first for the time being."

"Look..."

"Have these people done anything unreasonable before?"

Zhao Gang asked.

The two devils and the puppet army will come to sign up to build the road, which Zhao Gang had already predicted.

The minimum daily minimum of six catties of fine grain, this salary is not low, and it must be very attractive to those puppet soldiers who are not high in status and live at the bottom, in the previous discussion with Li Yunlong, the two have already decided that as long as they are not the kind of traitors and puppet army who are extremely evil, they can take advantage of this to divide part of the puppet army.

After all, some people join the puppet army and become two devils, which is also forced by life. And part of it is because of the threat of devils. You can't just beat them all to death with a stick.

Only those hardcore traitors, those who take advantage of the devil to do bad things, need to be completely eliminated.

"Nope."

"I've asked the villagers in the neighborhood about this."

The tone of the person who came was very certain: "The few people who came this time are all people from the neighborhood before, just the most ordinary big-headed soldiers in the devil security team, and this time they secretly ran out of Ping'an County." ”

"Then stay, and the wages will be paid according to the regulations."

Zhao Gang nodded and said:

"These people told the guards to be more careful and not let them wreak havoc."

"Yes."

The visitor nodded, drank the tea in his hand, and left.

After another period of time, Chu Yun flew over.

"Captain Chu."

Zhao Gang took the initiative to greet him, smiled and said the scene:

"Are you still comfortable living in our independent group? Please bear with me if there is any inadequate hospitality. ”

Hearing Zhao Gang's words, Chu Yunfei couldn't help but jump out of the corners of his eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Zhao Gang's self-pity on the surface before, and secretly showing off left a lot of shadows on him, I am afraid that it will take a while to get rid of.

"Brother Zhao is polite."

Chu Yunfei returned the salute with a fist, and then quickly changed the topic:

"Chu came this time to ask Political Commissar Zhao a question."

Chu Yunfei used Zhao Gang's title.

"As long as I can answer, I know everything."

Zhao Gang also straightened his face.

"The strength of your regiment is indeed very strong, those weapons and equipment are very advanced, far surpassing my 358th regiment, and after a while, when the recruits are trained, their combat effectiveness can be comparable to that of a brigade or even more than a devil."

Chu Yunfei's tone was serious:

"But we all know very well that the First Army in Shanxi alone has more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and in the entire North China, there are still more than 100,000 Japanese troops stationed, and in terms of overall strength, we occupy an absolute disadvantage."

"This situation cannot be reversed by one or two troops."

"That's true."

Zhao Gang nodded in agreement.

"So, I want to ask..."

Chu Yunfei paused and raised his tone:

"What if the Japanese army mobilizes a full division and regiment to cooperate with aircraft and tanks to launch an attack on your regiment's base area?"

"I think that even after another half a year, your regiment will not be able to withstand the attack of a full-fledged Japanese division, a battle of this scale. The rest of the forces were not able to help. ”

"When the time comes, the roads and base areas that your regiment has worked so hard to build will become trophies for the Japanese army."

After visiting during the day, Chu Yunfei already knew that the independent regiment was not only building roads, but also organizing the reclamation of wasteland, building canals and reservoirs to divert and store water, as if planning to use Zhao Jiayu and dozens of kilometers around the vicinity as a stable base for operation and construction.

This made Chu Yunfei wonder all the time, with such a big price, the independent regiment would not be afraid of failure?

"The highway can enhance the combat effectiveness of the devils, but it can also enhance the combat effectiveness of our independent regiment, which is equal for both sides"

Zhao Gang smiled, his tone confident.

"Indeed."

Chu Yunfei nodded.

The independent regiment had cars, six mountain guns, a large number of 82 medium mortars, and many 120 medium mortars, and the road could greatly enhance the mobility of the artillery and increase the convenience of supply.

"Commander Chu should know that more than three months ago, our independent regiment blocked the attack of 10,000 Japanese troops carrying heavy artillery with the strength of one regiment in Shou County, and after paying 2,700 sacrifices, annihilated 4,400 little devils, and retreated to Zhaojiayu with the main force."

"More than two months have passed since the defense of Shou County, and our independent regiment has initially recovered its strength, and the scale of our regiment is still expanding, and its strength is still increasing."

At this point, Zhao Gang's tone suddenly became full of confidence and murder:

"Today, a large number of Japanese troops have been drawn to participate in the Pacific and Southeast Asian battles, and the rest of the troops are pinned down in the lines of communication and various cities, and it is impossible to organize enough troops to attack our base areas in a short period of time, and it will take at least four months to half a year."

"When the devils gather enough troops to attack our base area, then our independent regiment will inevitably become stronger, and the defensive positions in the base area will inevitably be completed, so how much price will the devils have to pay to drive the independent regiment away from here?"

"Commander Chu must know that there are two friendly troops on both wings of my independent map, and their strength is not much worse than that of my independent regiment."

"Hmph..."

At this point, Zhao Gang sneered:

"Even if the devil pays a huge price and occupies the current base of my independent regiment, so what?"

"Just change places and use them as bases, and continue to fight the devils."

Hearing this, Chu Yunfei suddenly froze.

He suddenly realized one thing, the independent regiment lost 2,700 people in the battle of Shou County, and in the subsequent retreat, half or more of them, however, this army did not collapse, but only took more than two months to fully recover.

Even, morale is still high.

It's nothing short of miraculous.

If you change to the 358th regiment, can you do it?

Can you reduce the number of people by half, not collapse or even maintain combat effectiveness? And to regain strength in more than two months?

No way.

More than half of the independent regiment was not a casualty, but a attrition.

The so-called attrition is either captured, or dead or missing.

His guard unit may be able to do it, but the entire regiment is never possible.

"Thank you Political Commissar Zhao for solving Chu's doubts."

Chu Yunfei's voice was much lower.

He suddenly realized that I am afraid, not only in terms of weapons and equipment, but even the officers, soldiers, and the entire army, the 358th Regiment is still far behind.

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Also at the same time.

Along the Zhengtai Railway.

Li Yunlong looked up at the sun hanging overhead, and then waved his hand:

"Let's go."

(End of chapter)