Rise from the sword

Chapter 428 This is not worth it!
At night, Gibbon woke up slowly.

At that time, his face was pale, his pupils were dim, and there was no trace of blood on his lips.

Gibbon was born in 1887, and now he is nearly 60 years old. Naturally, his body and bones are not as good as before. This time he received a lot of bad news in succession, and he was so angry that he almost failed to carry it.

Seeing the commander wake up, a ghost military doctor breathed a sigh of relief after checking for a while:

"A few days of rest will be fine."

This sentence made Yamamoto, who had been waiting all this time, sigh quietly in his heart.

The reason why he waited here was not to worry about Yoshimoto's safety, in fact, Yamamoto wished Yoshimoto Sada would die, so maybe General Shinozuka would be able to come back.

After seeing the development of the situation during this period of time, as well as the information received recently from the independent regiment, Yamamoto became more and more sure that General Shinozuka's theory was correct.

Regardless of the cost, we must concentrate our efforts to eliminate Li Yunlong as soon as possible.

How long has it been since the large-scale security battle involving [-] troops ended?

Less than three months!

In the Battle of Shouxian County, the independent regiment, which had suffered heavy losses, had fully recovered in terms of strength, and even surpassed it. According to the information he had, Li Yunlong's independent regiment had a total strength of more than 6000 people including the recruits in training.

It is comparable to a full brigade in the empire.

And it's still expanding rapidly.

Looking at that posture, I am afraid that it is not the intention to expand the army to 1 before giving up.

In addition, from the losses of this bombing, it can be seen that Chen Fan has obviously stepped up his support to Li Yunlong, and the frequency of new weapons has increased, and the number of weapons has also increased.

According to the report of the returning pilot, he summed up some information.

The air defense force of the independent regiment is extremely strong. There are about one hundred large-caliber heavy machine guns, fifty 20-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and as many as twenty 40-caliber anti-aircraft guns. Add up, there are 170 anti-aircraft firepower points, which is more than expected. There are a hundred more.

No wonder the bomber fleet lost so much.

In just a few months, the air defense force has developed to such an extent. According to General Gibbon's plan, to wait for the arrival of the newly formed divisions in the country, first to clear the countryside on a large scale and destroy the stability of the Eighth Route Army's base areas, and then organize a reorganized division to deal with it. The Independence Regiment attacks.

The completion of this set of plans will take at least four to six months.

At that time, how powerful should the independent regiment, which is expanding its army wildly, be?

Yamamoto knew that Li Yunlong not only organized a large number of people to build roads, but also dug fortifications and bunkers frantically. He excavated layer by layer along the mountainous area where his base was located. Almost every mountain had solid civil engineering. position.

Back then, it took so long for the [-] troops to attack Shou County.

Then, half a year later, facing the multi-layered and deep bunker fortifications in the base area, and the strength of more than 1 troops, there are two surrounding regiments supporting them, with sufficient weapons and ammunition, and their light firepower is stronger than that of the imperial army, and their artillery is not inferior to that of the imperial army. The independent regiment, a full-staffed regiment of more than 2 people, I'm afraid it's not...

But Yamamoto knew that he was just an officer, and he was soft-spoken, so he could only suppress the doubts in his heart.

When the military doctor left, he said a few words to Yamamoto, who was in charge of intelligence:

"Your Excellency Yamamoto, General Yoshimoto is currently in good health and will recover in a few days, but the general is 56 years old after all. If there is any bad news in the near future, it is best to inform the general separately."

"Two or three times is okay, if there are too many, the general is afraid..."

The military doctor is also aware of the current situation. The guerrillas are jumping up and down, making all kinds of troubles. The law and order in the area occupied by the First Army is extremely bad. It may not be realistic to have no bad news for General Gibbon.

But fortunately, General Gibbon's situation is actually fine. After all, he is in a high position and his body is still strong. As long as he is not in such a state of urgency and heart attack, he will not have any major problems.

"I see."

Yamamoto nodded calmly, but under those eyes, there was emotion.

The strength of the independent regiment has recovered, and it is even stronger than before. Will Li Yunlong not make trouble?Impossible, and he is sure that next, Li Yunlong will definitely make bigger moves, which will be more destructive.

So······
Yamamoto looked at Yoshimoto Teiichi with a faint look.

Just when Yamamoto's eyes were flickering, Yoshimoto's face finally recovered a little rosy.

"Is there any other news?"

This was the first sentence Gibbon asked after recovering a bit.

Gibbon still cherishes his little life very much. The empire's hegemony has not yet been completed, and the First Army still has a lot of things to deal with, so he can't die yet.If there's any bad news, we'll have to wait and see.

"Nothing."

Gibbon breathed a sigh of relief at the staff officer's answer.

After sitting up, he took a breath, his face recovered a bit more blood, and then drank some water, heaved a long sigh of relief, Gibbon finally regained his strength, he walked to the headquarters, and said to Yamamoto who was following him arrive:
"Give me a summary of today's battle."

"Hi."

Yamamoto immediately handed Yoshimoto a folder, which was the incident report and details he had summarized.

Gibbon sat in the grand master's chair, spread the documents on the desk of the headquarters, and looked at them while thinking about countermeasures.

Li Yunlong did three things today.

The first piece.

Two 120 heavy mortars were used to bombard the Panxian barracks. During the half-hour shelling, hundreds of shells were fired, blowing up the Panxian garrison barracks, causing casualties of a small team, and damaging a lot of ordnance.

This matter is the least destructive. The ordnance of a squadron and the casualties of a small team are just a drizzle for the First Army.

But the problem is, according to previous experience, since Li Yunlong used it once, there will definitely be a second time. So, how should Li Yunlong deal with the next bombardment of the garrison camps in the empire's counties?

There are mules and horses with extremely high carrying capacity and mobility, which means that with the independent regiment as the center, the imperial army barracks and other facilities within 150 kilometers are under Li Yunlong's artillery fire.

Baga, so many shells from them!

At this point, Gibbon, who didn't think of a solution for a while, stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, he could only curse secretly in his heart.

Nearly [-] rounds of heavy mortar shells, calculated at [-] kilograms per shell, is nearly four tons.Just to bombard the camp of a county garrison brigade, not only him, but even General Gangcun couldn't bear it.

He didn't understand, even if someone provided the ammunition, but he didn't produce it himself, Li Yunlong was willing to waste it like this!
Afterwards, he turned over the information and looked at the information and intelligence of the next event.

Second thing.

The Independence Regiment dispatched six long-range mountain cannons to bombard the Niangziguan Railway Station of the Zhengtai Railway, causing the train station to shut down. The trains could not stop for two days. Even a locomotive under maintenance was damaged and some personnel were lost.

This incident is actually similar to the first one. They bombarded the Imperial Army facilities, but the cannons are different. The train station is a ten-kilometer mountain cannon, which is more difficult to defend against, and it fires more shells.
Then, he still didn't quite understand that although the railway station was an important facility of the empire, the simple bombardment did not actually cause much damage.The damaged station building can be repaired in two days, and it only takes half a day to resume traffic. As for the locomotive being repaired, it was an accident.The railway station has complete fortifications, so the loss of personnel is very small, and the garrison has almost no loss. Only a few maintenance workers and a railway mechanical engineer died.

What was Li Yunlong thinking about wasting nearly [-] shells for this?

However, if Li Yunlong came to bombard the station several times a month, it would be a very troublesome thing. If a train transporting goods stopped in the station during the bombardment, it would be a big trouble.

Seeing this, Gibbon stopped rubbing his forehead suddenly, then flashed sharply, and said to the staff at the side:

"Order all counties to garrison troops and move military camps to densely populated areas."

"Order, the newly arrived domestic brigade will go to the railway stations of the Zhengtai Railway to strengthen defenses. In addition, only the civilians will be recruited from all over the railway stations to widen the protective trenches along the Zhengtai Railway."

"I see whether Li Yunlong dares to continue the bombardment."

Gibbon's tone was gloomy.

"Greetings, General."

Yamamoto's eyes lit up slightly.

Recently, the most troublesome thing for them is Li Yunlong's theft of railroad tracks, which has the most serious impact on railway traffic.

For this reason, he went to the scene to investigate. According to the analysis of the cuts of the remaining rails, Li Yunlong should have a rail cutting device that can quickly cut the rails, which gave the independent group the ability to quickly carry the rails.

And the general's move is to recruit only the civilians to widen the protective trenches on both sides of the railway. Although it cannot prevent Li Yunlong from stealing the rails, the protective trenches several meters wide can cause trouble for transportation and buy time for the imperial army responsible for railway safety. loss.

Moreover, with the existence of a large number of civilians, Li Yunlong did not dare to bombard the train station casually, unless they could disregard the life and death of civilians. If this is the case, it would be a good thing for the First Army.

Yoshimoto also smiled, very satisfied with Yamamoto's compliment.

After that, he turned to the last sheet of the document and looked down.

The third thing.

Of the fifteen fighter planes that bombed the base of the Independence Regiment, only eight survived.

Li Yunlong once again exceeded his expectations.

The independent regiment under his command had strong air defense capabilities and more air defense weapons than he expected. Caught off guard, nearly half of the [-] bombers that went to bomb were lost, and seven pilots were also lost.

At this point, Gibbon frowned again, and stretched out his hand to rub his forehead. After a long time, he sighed deeply:

"Order the flight brigade to suspend the bombing of the independent regiment's garrison."

One hundred anti-aircraft heavy machine guns, fifty 20mm anti-aircraft guns, and twenty 40mm anti-aircraft guns. Such a dense anti-aircraft firepower means that every time the dive bomber bombs, it will suffer a lot of losses.

The independent regiment has moved all the granaries underground, and the ammunition depots are also in underground or cave-style buildings. The bombing effect is very small. Besides, there are no important bombing targets. If the anti-aircraft firepower is not strong, it is better to spend some bombs and fuel. Bombing its strongholds, causing panic and destroying buildings, and killing people is acceptable.

But now, it's not worth spending precious planes and bombers, and pilots for it.

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Zhao Jiayu, an independent group.

Under the oil lamp.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang sat at the table together.

"After the bombing this time, the little devil will definitely not continue to send planes to bomb our base, because it is not worth it."

Zhao Gang's tone was calm:

"Our independent regiment has no targets worthy of the devil's expense of planes and pilots to bomb."

"really."

Li Yunlong nodded and continued to look at Lao Zhao, waiting for him to reveal his plan.

This matter is not difficult to solve, even very simple.

Set up a target and a bait for the devils, so that the devils are reluctant to give up the bombing, such as building an outside material warehouse or even an armory. Although the independent regiment will suffer some losses in the face of the bombing, it will definitely make money in the end.

"However, if the devils are tempted by important targets such as granaries or warehouses, the devils will not be willing to come if the scale is small. If the scale is large, we will lose more."

Zhao Gang paused, with distressed expression on his face.

Although he made a profit in the first bombing, every time he thought of the hundreds of tons of grain that hadn't been burned, he felt distressed.

This made Li Yunlong's mouth twitch:

"I can't bear to let the child not be caught by the wolf!"

"I can't bear to use children's labor."

Zhao Gang snorted, then turned out a report from the Equipment Repair Institute, pointed to the report and said:

"To attract wolves, we can use sheep."

"sheep?"

Li Yunlong raised his eyebrows.

Apart from important material warehouses, does the independent regiment have any other targets that can attract devils?Repair shop?This thing is much more precious than supplies, or is he, Captain Li?

"The arsenal at the headquarters is expanding the production of Type [-] horse rifles, do you know that?"

Zhao Gang suddenly changed the subject.

"Zhang Wanhe told me that the current monthly output is [-] pieces, and in a few months, it can be increased to [-] pieces, and the quality is much higher than before. The rifling has been improved and the accuracy has been improved. Improve, hehehe, because of this, he even bought me a drink!"

Li Yunlong is naturally very clear, even a little proud in his tone.

The arsenal was able to expand the production of horse rifles, and their independent regiment took the lead. The machine tools they snatched from the devil army and the high-quality machinery and equipment provided by Brother Chen later were the fundamental reasons why the arsenal was able to mass-produce the Bayi-style horse rifles .

"So far, the biggest problem facing the arsenal is that the hardness of the striker is seriously insufficient, and it is often damaged after a short period of use."

Zhao Gang said:
"And this problem, our repair shop can easily solve it."

"correct."

Li Yunlong's eyes lit up:
"The master has already assembled a small electric furnace. Although it lacks additive elements, it can already produce a very small amount of high-quality steel. There are too few gun barrels. We have to wait for us to complete the new business. Brother Chen can add elements to us. But making small parts like firing pins is perfectly fine."

"But what does this have to do with the devils continuing to bomb our regiment?"

Li Yunlong then frowned:
"The repair shop is our lifeblood, and it cannot be put out for bombing by devils."

"Of course I know that."

Zhao Gang suddenly changed the subject again:
"One more thing. We still have an important problem. The production of explosives is seriously insufficient. The power of black powder is poor, and it is not suitable for filling grenades and bombs."

"We can't solve this for now."

Leader Li frowned:
"Brother Chen has restrictions on exchanging explosives, so it's not worth it."

Then Li Yunlong watched as Zhao Gang dug up the information about the new business. Since there was still a month and a half left, he also read the business requirements and the accompanying information, and planned to discuss with Zhang Dabiao and Wang Gensheng in a few days. Get this business done.

"In this intelligence document, Boss Chen gave a business deposit."

Zhao Gang took out a stack of papers.

"This is···"

Li Yunlong raised his eyebrows, took the information and read it.

In fact, at the beginning, there was a deposit for every business, but Brother Chen didn't talk about it later.

"Production material of potassium tung explosive!"

After taking a closer look, Li Yunlong exclaimed in surprise:
"Tung oil, salt water, lime... We can buy these raw materials ourselves, and there are quite a lot of them. Give Zhang Wanhe this information, and our problem of insufficient explosives will be solved."

"I've already sent a copy to the logistics department."

"But it's not that simple."

Zhao Gang poured cold water on:

"The arsenal does not have the equipment to produce this thing. It is estimated that it will take at least a year and a half to get the production line together. It may take two years before it can be produced."

Before Li Yunlong could speak, Zhao Gang continued:

"However, we can produce."

"Ok?"

Li Yunlong looked over in surprise.

"I showed it to the master."

Zhao Gang smiled:

"The master said that there are specific manufacturing processes and equipment requirements data in the information. He can use gasoline oil drums and some spare parts of ten-wheel military trucks, and make some tools and equipment by himself. It can be assembled in half a year. A production line with a daily output of five tons of explosives."

"However, this production line is patchwork after all, relatively scattered, requires a lot of space, requires a lot of manpower, and requires frequent maintenance, and must be maintained by the master."

The master was given by Brother Chen. Although he obeyed his request to do things, he would not leave the independent group.

"Then let's do it right away. We are short of everything, but there is no shortage of people. The construction team has too many people."

Li Yunlong instantly understood Zhao Gang's thoughts,
An explosives factory with an annual output of over [-] tons, and a gun parts factory, the little devil's eyes are red.

Moreover, the spare parts factory is small and not easy to bomb, and the explosives factory is scattered, as long as the important steps, finished products and important raw materials are put into the cave, and the rest are released for the devils to blow up.

If it blows up, repair it. It’s just building a house. It’s just stacking bricks. It’s such a simple matter!
"Hey hey..."

"With this explosives factory, there is no fear that the little devil planes will not come to bomb."

"It's just a pity that it will take half a year to assemble."

Li Yunlong clicked his tongue.

He can gather the raw materials for the production of this explosive within a month, and there are quite a lot of them. Tung oil, which is grown in many ordinary people's homes, is also very cheap. Salt, there are salt wells and salt fields in the base area, and there is even more lime.

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at the same time.

Unnamed mountain.

Ding···

"Destroy three devil barracks, destroy a squadron of ordnance. Price: Food... Supplies: Ten tons"

"Partially destroyed Niangziguan Railway Station, destroyed a steam traction locomotive, killed nine technical soldiers, one of whom was a senior railway engineer, and destroyed 70 meters of rails. Price: food...Supply quota: 150 tons."

"Also: A set of simple production equipment for potassium tung explosives is included as a gift."

(End of this chapter)