The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1455 Commander, I have a different opinion

"Xiao Huang...how many people are there in the regiment you just mentioned active in Jinzhou...tell me again?" Li Yunlong's voice suddenly sounded at the entrance of the command department.

"Commander...when did you come back..." Tang Lin was startled by Li Yunlong who suddenly appeared behind him, and asked with surprise on his face.

Li Yunlong answered readily: "You just entered the city, and I came back right after you..."

"You haven't answered my question yet..."

"How many people are there in the group now?"

"Originally, there were more than 2,000 people. After consuming more than one regiment of the Kwantung Army's Fujita Division, the total force was directly reduced to less than 1,500 people."

"But I am confident that I can expand the force back to 3,000 within a month."

"If the commander and the political commissar can support me with some cadres, I can set up a guerrilla zone in the Jinzhou mountain area and expand the troops to 4,000 people within a month."

Li Yunlong's eyes widened immediately, and he asked in disbelief: "How did you do that?"

"We don't have a base in Jinzhou, and it's difficult for the army to recruit new soldiers..."

"How can we expand the army without new recruits..."

"Could it be that you can turn beans into soldiers..."

Political Commissar Zhao Gang also showed a puzzled expression and reminded with a worried look on his face: "Xiao Huang..."

"Don't break discipline just to expand your army."

"Our Eighth Route Army is a team of ordinary people. Joining is entirely voluntary, and we don't conscript men."

Huang Yu knew that the two people had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "Commander, Political Commissar..."

"I am also an old revolutionary. I will definitely not make such a low-level mistake."

"Don't worry..."

"The new recruits that the First Regiment is currently recruiting are all volunteers who want to join our Eighth Route Army."

"There are three channels in total..."

"One is a captured soldier of the puppet Manchuria Army. After mobilization, many of them are willing to join our Eighth Route Army to fight the devils together."

"For those puppet Manchurian prisoners who were unwilling to join us, in order to protect those puppet Manchurian prisoners who joined us and prevent their families living in enemy-occupied areas from being destroyed by the Japanese and puppet troops, we sent them all to the reclamation camps for labor reform and helped us to reclaim wasteland in the mountains."

"One channel was some ordinary people who wanted to join us when we were fighting the Japanese outside the mountains."

"They basically have a deep blood feud with the Kwantung Army, and they have no relatives at home, so they have no worries about joining the Eighth Route Army."

"The third channel is the miners we captured when we captured all the mines under the Kwantung Army."

"Some of the absentees were prisoners from the interior, and some were ordinary people captured by the Kwantung Army in the local area."

"Many people would rather stay and join our Eighth Route Army than go home."

Li Yunlong laughed after hearing this, patted Huang Yu on the shoulder and replied: "You are really good..."

"You have quietly deployed so many troops to Jinzhou. No wonder a main division of the Kwantung Army was dragged to the Jinzhou battlefield by you."

"You did a good job. You didn't embarrass me, Li Yunlong."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Zhao Gang, and without being polite at all, he directly told him the reason why he rushed back to the headquarters: "Old Zhao..."

"I came back to ask you for troops."

"More than half of the troops we brought into Fuping have been killed or wounded, so they are unable to fight a major battle with the Kwantung Army." "After the Kwantung Army sent the Kono Division into Fuxin, they seemed to understand the Eighth Route Army's combat methods very well, and attacked our weak spots. They sent out troops to divide our range of activities into four parts, and then concentrated heavy troops to sweep one area after another."

"Fortunately, I was quick-witted and found a mountain with a dangerous terrain. I built a large number of tunnels and fortifications, fought a positional battle with the Japanese mopping-up troops, killed several thousand of them, and successfully crushed their mopping-up plan."

"Otherwise neither of you will be able to see me."

After suffering several defeats on the front lines, the Takano Division suddenly changed its tactics.

We changed the previous division of troops to encircle and suppress us into a focused encirclement and suppression.

As long as our troops are discovered in Fuxin, we will immediately dispatch heavy forces to encircle them. Once we find one, we will destroy it.

"Before, the Kwantung Army divided its forces to encircle and suppress us. As long as we choose the right battlefield, we can completely suppress the enemy with our absolute superiority in manpower and firepower in local battles."

"Now that the Kwantung Army is not divided into groups, their overall strength far exceeds ours. If any of our troops are exposed and targeted by them, they will surely die."

"I can only temporarily avoid the front line, withdraw the troops into the mountains and hide them, and then come back to mobilize the troops..."

"As long as you take two thousand men with you, I can set a trap for the Kwantung Army's Kono Division."

"Not to mention inflicting heavy damage to the entire Kono Division, it will definitely be no problem to wipe out their two thousand elite soldiers."

Zhao Gang didn't want to let Li Yunlong keep fighting outside.

After all, he was the commander of the Northward Detachment and should be responsible for all battles in all bases, not just the Fuxin battlefield.

He immediately put forward his own idea: "Lao Li..."

"I can give you two thousand people..."

"After this battle you must return to the base."

"From now on, you will never go to the front line in person without my consent..."

Li Yunlong is no longer the impulsive Li Yunlong he was a few years ago.

He had fought in several large-scale battles with more than 10,000 troops on the Yi Zhong battlefield. That was a real feeling of restraint, which was far more exciting than commanding a thousand or two thousand troops in the front line.

Now the total strength of the Northward Detachment has expanded to 10,000 people, and its overall strength is almost enough to surpass the troops he commanded in the Yi Zhong base. As long as there is an opportunity, he can fight a large-scale battle, which will be much more satisfying than the anti-mopping-up operation in Fuxin.

He nodded immediately: "I have no problem..."

"Wait until I lead the troops back to the Fuxin battlefield, severely damage the Kwantung Army's Takano Division, and completely trap them in Fuxin."

"I will immediately return to the base to coordinate the overall situation and will never go deep into the front line to command the battle without permission."

"But Xiao Huang must come back too."

"I have a dog-headed military advisor like you to help me..."

"Even if the Kwantung Army Headquarters gathers two or three main divisions to encircle and suppress our base, I, Li Yunlong, will not be afraid."

Facing the gazes of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang looking at him at the same time, Huang Yu was embarrassed, but he still shook his head firmly and replied: "Commander... Political Commissar..."

"I have a different opinion..."

"This time, we took the initiative to launch offensives in Jinzhou and Fuxin battlefields, directly delaying the two main divisions of the Kwantung Army that wanted to encircle and suppress the Chaoyang base. Not only did we successfully delay them in Jinzhou and Fuxin, but we also killed and injured a large number of their manpower through a series of battles, forcing the Kwantung Army to pay a huge price and suspend the encirclement and suppression of the Chaoyang base."

“I think this style of play is very worth promoting.”

"If we can establish a guerrilla zone in Jinzhou and Fuxin respectively and station an elite force there, when the base is attacked by the Kwantung Army again in the future, these two elite troops can launch an attack from the flank of the Kwantung Army and reduce the pressure on the base to counter the raid."