"What are you going to do?"

Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong.

After the merger and command of the three regiments and companies, the strength of the independent regiment increased greatly, and the fierce battles on the front line, the defense of the base areas, and the spread of the two flanks contained about half of the troops.

For example, capture an important county town and cut off an important line of communication.

But what exactly to do, how to do it, that's the question.

If Ping'an County is attacked in advance, it is necessary to use all forces to expose new heavy weapons such as 105 long-range howitzers and 160 mortars, which will lead to the vigilance of the devil cluster entrenched between Ping'an County, Pan County, Yu County and Niangziguan Railway Station.

According to intelligence, there are more than 25,000 devil recruits here, and the number is still increasing rapidly.

All the hope of completing the big business of tanks is here.

The general hospital, 10,000 tons of medicines, and the follow-up price code made Political Commissar Zhao very red.

At a time when the road from Gecun to Ping'an County had not yet been built and the combat effectiveness of the armored battalion had not yet taken shape, the independent regiment did not have enough appetite to eat more than 20,000 devils.

If you want to scare these devils away, it will be a big loss.

"Ping'an County can't move, and the 160 mortars and 105 howitzers can't be exposed for the time being, otherwise it will make the devils in Ping'an County vigilant, and it will be a bit more than worth the loss."

Li Yunlong opened a map of northwest Shanxi and pressed his finger on a point:

"I'm going to do something about it."

Zhao Gang looked at it with his eyes, and his tone was a little surprised:

"Heyuan County?"

His partner's decisions are always beyond everyone's expectations.

"Yes, Heyuan County."

Li Yunlong continued:

"Although Heyuan County does not pass through the Zhengtai Railway, there is also an important highway that leads directly to Taiyuan, and the terrain around the county is gentle, there are many rivers, the land is fertile, it is a famous grain producing area in the northwest of Shanxi, every year the devils are here to scavenge a large amount of grain, and there is a small iron mine, which is very important to the First Army."

"By occupying here, even if Yoshimoto does not step down, it will be almost the same, and it will also be able to greatly expand the base area and open up the passage for the common people to enter the base area."

The commissar nodded and asked:

"What is the strength of the devils in Heyuan County?"

He agreed to the plan to attack Heyuan County.

The occupation of Heyuan County is conducive to the development and construction of the base areas, the expansion of grain production in the base areas, and the expansion of the channels for the common people to enter the base areas.

With regard to expanding the amount of self-produced grain, there is no urgency, but it is urgent to strive for more ordinary people to enter the base areas.

In addition to the construction brigade, the base area has also organized more than 100,000 migrant workers to build together, open mines, repair roads, open up wasteland, etc., but on Boss Chen's side, there are more and more grain materials that have not yet been delivered, and the total amount has exceeded 350,000 tons.

In the case of very sufficient supplies.

The larger the population, the faster the construction of the base area, and the construction of water conservancy facilities such as aqueducts, which have recently begun to be vigorously constructed, are more cumbersome and require a lot of manpower than the construction of roads.

Li Yunlong continued:

"Heyuan County is twenty-seven kilometers away from Zuojiabao, where the new regiment is stationed, and there are continuous mountainous areas in the middle, and only two horse roads pass through, although we have not shown a trend of expanding to Heyuan County, but the little devils are also very vigilant, plus the other side of Heyuan County is the station of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, so the strength of Heyuan County is not weak."

"The devils stationed a gendarmerie brigade and a garrison brigade, totaling 1,500 people, and the commander was Ichiro Hirata, the captain of the gendarmerie brigade."

"But there are no heavy weapons, and the fortifications are ordinary."

"The ones who can quickly support Heyuan County are the Fu'an Devil Garrison, there is a wing over there, and there is Taiyuan, I estimate that Yoshimoto should send the Yoshino Wing to reinforce it."

"The devils in the rest of the place, hmph, when they come, I should be digging a grave for Ichiro Hirata."

If it was the period of the new regiment, even if the size of the troops exceeded 10,000, it would take at least four or five days for him to attack Heyuan County, and as the time went on, the variables would be great, but now, the troops had strong firepower and changeable tactics, and the battle would take two days at most from beginning to end.

"Fifteen hundred, reinforcements from two wings."

Zhao Gang nodded calmly.

This is equivalent to a half-full brigade, which can indeed be said to be powerful, but for today's independent regiment, there is nothing to fear. Not to mention the garrison brigade, as well as the military police brigade with similar combat effectiveness.

As for the reinforcements, they sent two companies of troops at random, plus the battalion's 120 mortar fire support, and after building a strong position, there was no problem in blocking it for a day or two.

"What are you going to do?"

Zhao Gang continued to ask.

A county town, with the city wall and fortification system, is not so easy to fight, of course, with the current strength of the independent regiment, it is not the slightest difficulty to storm Heyuan County, but Zhao Gang feels that Li Yunlong will definitely not attack.

"I sent a battalion of soldiers from a reconnaissance company to investigate, because of the gendarmerie system, the vigilance in Heyuan County is very lax, and it is easy to sneak in, and it is not difficult to enter with weapons."

Li Yunlong exhaled:

"It's October, the devils in Heyuan County should go out to clear the township, and I plan to take advantage of the little devils to go out and repeat the old tricks."

"Haha..."

Zhao Gang smiled and nodded.

The Independent Regiment once captured Shou County, and Li Yunlong meant to use the same tricks to occupy Shou County to deal with Heyuan County, and he laughed because of the idiom of repeating the old trick. Recently, Lao Li's cultural level has soared.

However, the level of swearing has also gone up damn high, and I don't know where I learned so many weird swearing.

"What if Yoshimoto doesn't step down after we occupy Heyuan County?"

Zhao Gang asked suddenly.

The capture of a county seat, and an important county seat, is indeed a major mistake for the devil, and the probability of Yoshimoto's resignation is very high.

After all, the Shanxi region is not only the base area of Zhao Jiayu, after the overall equipment of the troops, the base area in the center of the Taihang Mountain has become an iron bucket, and the devils cannot penetrate it at all, and these problems are all recorded on Yoshimoto's head.

But there is only a high probability that there is no guarantee of this.

"After this battle is over, the total number of kills should exceed 8,000, and the new large-caliber mountain cannon can be unlocked, so add fire to him, anyway, the devil plane has not come to bomb recently, and it is useless to keep Taiyuan Airport."

Li Yunlong snorted.

It has been a long time since the devils bombed the Zhao Jiayu base area, and according to the information transmitted back from the headquarters, the planes at Taiyuan Airport are still there, but the pilots have been transferred, and it seems that there has been no fuel and bomb replenishment for a long time.

"Haha..."

Zhao Gang laughed.

At this moment, a staff officer ran in from outside the door.

"Regimental commander, political commissar."

The staff officer reported:

"Just now, two devil reconnaissance planes were shot down by anti-aircraft guns in the low-altitude reconnaissance tank training camp, and the other escaped after patrolling at low altitude."

Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong immediately glanced at each other, their eyes full of surprise.

What do you want to do, little devil?

After the independent regiment showed a lot of anti-aircraft fire, the little devil aircraft has not had low-altitude reconnaissance for a long time, let alone low-altitude reconnaissance in the tank training camp in the key air defense area.

A guard company soldier walked in:

"Regiment commander, political commissar, we caught three devil spies who were secretly close to the tank training camp."

"It seems."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes:

"The little devil is eyeing our tanks, and I'm afraid that we will use the tanks to attack at night."

Tanks are offensive weapons, very passable, and can be climbed directly on ordinary hillsides.

The fourth line of the little devil's position is very close to the end of the road, and after such a fierce battle, the terrain between the road and the devil's position has been cleared of the firing boundary, and the tank can climb directly down the hillside, of course, the speed will be very slow, and it can only be used as a semi-fixed battery, and the mobility is greatly reduced.

But even so, with the help of tanks, the independent regiment could easily capture the outer positions of the fourth line of positions, and gain counterattack positions for the artillery, tank guns could easily destroy machine-gun bunkers, and thick armor could block machine-gun bullets.

Of course, the tank losses will be relatively large during the period, and in the night environment, it is easy to be blown up by the little devil's meat bomb charge.

"We have to find a way to reassure the little devils about our tanks."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes.

He didn't want his tanks to be wasted in the mountains in vain.

"It's easy."

Political Commissar Zhao said with a smile:

"Didn't we destroy twenty-five tanks during training? Just put it out and let the little devils know, the devils will definitely think that our lack of experience in using tanks has led to a large number of tank damage, so as to lower our vigilance. ”

Zhao Gang is very clear.

The training mode of the independent regiment is only this one, and there is no semicolon.

With Boss Chen's double reimbursement finale, as well as the master's technology, a large number of spare parts, and a large amount of fuel, the independent regiment dared to be so crazy, regardless of the loss of training, the consumption during the training was greater than the battle damage.

A total of 90 tank crews, in just two months of training, if you calculate the weight of parts, almost 90 vehicles will be scrapped, and one will be reimbursed for each crew.

And fuel.

Forty-five vehicle groups have completed 10,000 kilometers of training, and the rest are at least two or three thousand kilometers, with a total mileage of more than 600,000 kilometers.

This is something that no country can do, and military spending simply cannot afford it.

Neither can Europe and the United States.

Don't even think about it, little devils.

"And those soldiers who were injured in training, just let the devils know."

Zhao Gang added.

Tank training is accompanied by a certain degree of danger, and it is easy for tank soldiers to be injured when they overturn, not to mention the crazy training of the independent regiment, but fortunately, Boss Chen has done a very good job of protecting the tank at all.

"Good idea."

Li Yunlong was very satisfied.

······

"What are Li Yunlong and his group of dirt and eight roads going to do?"

In the headquarters of the Japanese army in Heian County, Yamamoto Kazuki frowned.

He found that the situation had developed in a way that he had not anticipated.

After the last counterattack by the locust army in Ping'an County, the Independent Regiment, as he expected, stopped building the road to Ping'an County and began to launch successive attacks in an attempt to occupy the front-line artillery positions.

But the counterattack was small, piecemeal, and far from a full-fledged sortie as he had speculated.

He was not sure about the follow-up intentions of the independent regiment for a while.

In addition, Li Yunlong also took the initiative to relax material control, sold a large number of important materials such as grain and sugar at low prices, purchased scrap steel, machinery and equipment, and recruited talents.

It made him even more confused, and he didn't know what the hell was going on with those Tubalu hiding in the mountains?

At present, tens of thousands of imperial troops are gathering in Ping'an County, Pan County, Yu County, and Niangziguan Railway Station area, although they are all new soldiers, but they should not be underestimated, is it possible that Li Yunlong still dares to concentrate his main forces on military production and economic construction?

If you can't guess what your opponent thinks, you can't respond to it, which makes Yamamoto, who is used to strategizing, very irritable.

Dirt Eight Road ······ Shinji Kosa glanced at Kazuki Yamamoto with slanted eyes.

If Li Yunlong's troops are Tubalu, then what is the imperial army of Ping'an County, which is half weaker in firepower?

"Li Yunlong should be looking for a way to break through the frontline position."

Shinji Kosa thought for a moment and said:

"In the previous battle, Li Yunlong's attack was blocked by the strong position in front of the fourth stronghold."

"They could not break through the forward positions to strengthen the mortar defense machine gun positions under the suppression of artillery fire, not long ago, they used the 92 infantry guns at night, but the front firing range and obstacles of the positions have been emptied, and the oversized infantry guns cannot maneuver to a suitable shelling position."

"Therefore, Li Yunlong has been carrying out small-scale attacks, testing our army's defensive positions, and studying countermeasures."

"As long as the fire support of the long-range cannon is not affected, our side will be invincible, but if Li Yunlong dispatches tanks at night to attack at any cost and uses siege mortars, then the fourth stronghold..."

At this point, Shinji Kosa paused and did not continue.

In the deduction of the two, once the independent regiment dispatched tank troops to storm and sent out the siege large-caliber mortars that had been hidden to destroy the thick semi-buried solid bunkers on the stronghold, then they really might not be able to hold it.

Tanks in front of the fourth stronghold can barely maneuver, and the advantage of long-range artillery fire at night will be weakened. With the help of tank cover, as well as firepower, the separate regiment was quite capable of breaking through the forward positions.

Of course, under the counterattack of the imperial army, the independent regiment suffered a lot of losses.

The problem is that once the forward positions of the fourth stronghold are lost, the positions of the long-range artillery units are within the range of the enemy's artillery fire, and if the artillery superiority is lost, the fourth position will inevitably fall.

Moreover, no one can guarantee whether that Chen Fan will provide Li Yunlong with long-range artillery, after all, all tanks are given, and long-range artillery is not as valuable as tanks.

But prepare to plan the attack in advance, because the material reserves, the transfer of troops, and the fastest need for a month of preparation, that is, in November, can not start, which is already the limit.

Just as the two of them were frowning, a staff officer from outside walked in and handed them a telegram.

"Yo Si."

After reading the telegram quickly, Yamamoto's brows suddenly relaxed, and he couldn't help but shout hello.

"The Separate Regiment is the fourth tank of the Germans?"

Kozo looked at the telegram, he frowned at first, and didn't understand how Tubalu got the No. 4 tank of his allies, but the follow-up content also made him can't help but shout hello, and even laughed:

"Completely destroyed more than twenty tanks? Quite a few armored soldiers who participated in the training were treated in hospitals? ”

Although it is not clear how many tanks Li Yunlong has, he did not fight, and in such a short period of time, he lost more than 20 tanks in just training, and a large number of training injuries occurred, indicating that the other side did not understand tank operation at all.

That Chen Fan should have only given the tank, but did not teach how to use it, but as a result, the group of dirt and eight roads made their own tinkering and all of them were broken.

"It's called Hanako with good equipment, and it's still called Hanako."

The corners of Yamamoto's mouth were hooked, and his tone was pleasant and full of mockery.

······

Just when Yamamoto was in a rare mood.

In the 772nd regiment, Cheng Shifa set off again with his troops.

"1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, Artillery Infantry Company, assemble!"

Raising his throat, Head Cheng held his head high this time and was full of spirit.

He was complacent, of course, for good reason.

As the first unit to be reequipped in the entire base area, the 772nd Regiment is currently the best-equipped unit except for the strange independent regiment.

The whole regiment has 2,000 people, a total of three infantry battalions, and is uniformly equipped with self-produced Mauser rifles, and the quality of the devil's 38 big cover is not bad at all, and even exceeds, after all, the little devils who have appeared recently, the quality of the gun seems to have deteriorated. The machine gun is equipped with a class, and it is also a unified Czech modification, which is better than the crooked handle of the devil and the crutch. Grenadier canisters were also widespread at the platoon level. At the battalion level, there are even three 60 mortars copied by the Taihang Mountain Arsenal.

Moreover, there was an artillery battery, armed with four 82 mortars, of the same model as the separate regiment, and each shell was equipped with half a base, that is, forty pieces. The most important thing is that the 82 mortars and shells are all produced by the Taihang Mountain Arsenal, and they are filled with potassium tung explosives, which are no worse than yellow explosives. However, due to the low production of fuses, the supply of artillery shells was relatively small.

There were also two 41 mountain guns, as well as 100 shells. It is said that these two mountain cannons are also self-produced, but the specific situation is not clear to Cheng Shifa.

"Call the battalion and company-level cadres to come over for a meeting."

Cheng Shifa called the three battalion commanders and began to assign tasks:

"Our target this time is the devil's railway."

The corners of his mouth raised, and Cheng Shifa's words were full of murderous aura:

"According to the intelligence, a train full of food supplies will pass through the railway in front of our base tomorrow night, and two other key regiments will also operate with us."

"This time, we first lay in ambush on a mountain ten kilometers away from the railway, and after the front-line reconnaissance fighters identified the devil train, we directly attacked."

At the end, Cheng Shifa squeezed his fist fiercely.

Onslaught·····

Storm.

A group of cadres at the battalion and company level only felt a tingling sensation rushing from their backs to their heads.

Before you know it, the troops are so strong that they can directly storm the heavily guarded railroad by devils!

"Let's go."

Cheng Shifa waved his hand and drove with the 772nd Regiment to the railway dozens of kilometers away.

Same.

At night.

The new regiment was stationed in Zuojiabao.

Under the personal leadership of Li Yunlong, seven infantry companies of the Independent Regiment, with a total strength of 4,200 troops, quietly gathered here, and at the same time, three temporarily formed artillery reinforcement companies and three transport companies also arrived together.

Each artillery company is armed with 120 mortars 8 guns, and each company has a transport company responsible for transporting shells.