Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

After returning from the brigade headquarters, Li Jin eliminated Nakajima Imao as planned, which was considered revenge. Afterwards, the production of gas masks and the training of soldiers were carried out step by step.

More than half a month passed quickly.

At around 3:30 in the afternoon, Lu Changgong returned with the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion. After Li Jin learned the news, he immediately notified the other battalion commanders to come to the conference room for a meeting.

"Captain, after my summary, this is the topographic map over there." Lu Changgong took out a drawn map. The map was very large, with mountains, rivers, place names, and even villages marked in detail.

"Well, good job." Li Jin nodded. A large-scale operation requires a more detailed map. Even if they act as expected later, they can hand this map over to the leader and let other troops use it for combat.

"It's nothing, this is what I should do." Lu Changgong responded.

"Everyone, draw a copy of this map now. It will be used later." Li Jin said as he glanced at everyone. He stood up and pinned the map on the blackboard so that everyone could see it more clearly.

Xu Qingfeng also took out a thick stack of paper and distributed it to everyone. After they took the paper, they looked at the map while drawing on the paper with a pen.

Li Jin and Xu Qingfeng were also free, so they were also drawing. After more than half an hour, they had already drawn the map. As for the others, it was not so fast.

Li Jin took a look at the progress of everyone's painting. Many of them had only finished half of the painting, except Liu Changshun and Zhao Ming.

The two of them paint quite quickly and their memory is pretty good, but it will probably take them another half an hour to finish.

"Your memory needs to be improved." Li Jin couldn't help but say.

"Captain, it's not that we draw slowly, it's that you draw too fast. Besides, our memory is no match for yours." Liu Changshun said helplessly. Their drawing speed was actually not slow.

If it was a map of a smaller area, they would have finished drawing it long ago, but the map that Lu Changgong brought back was too large and very detailed.

Although their memory has been trained to be better than many people, how can they compare with Li Jin?

"Still talking back. You need to practice this more in the future." Li Jin said with a straight face.

Liu Changshun immediately shut up, not daring to say anything more, and continued to paint. Li Jin stopped disturbing everyone and left the meeting room with Xu Qingfeng, allowing them to work quietly.

"With this map, subsequent operations will be more secure." Xu Qingfeng said. If you are not familiar with the terrain, what's the point of fighting?

"Yes." Li Jin nodded and said, "The amount of training needs to be increased. This operation is very serious and covers a large area.
Only by improving their combat effectiveness can we cope with future dangers."

In fact, Yamamoto Ikki's special attack team is quite powerful. At the beginning, only dozens of people defeated the independent regiment led by Kong Jie. Later, they captured Li Yunlong's wife Xiuqin. Even the political commissar Zhao Gang was seriously injured. Therefore, Yamamoto's special attack team should not be underestimated.

"That's true. The secret troops specially trained by the Japanese must be strong." Xu Qingfeng nodded in agreement.

"The point is, I suspect the equipment of this unit is also relatively advanced, and they may use advanced submachine guns equipped by Germany.

If there are only a few dozen people, then we are not afraid, but if there are one or two thousand people, all with well-equipped weapons, then it is still a bit stressful for us, and the soldiers' shooting skills need to be improved faster. "Li Jin continued.

He was not sure whether all the Yamamoto Special Attack Team were equipped with submachine guns, so their soldiers needed to improve their shooting skills in a short period of time, and at least achieve an 80% hit rate within 200 meters, even with moving targets.

As for fixed targets, today's recruits can already do it easily, and the challenge is moving targets.

In terms of close combat, although the recruits did not have many opportunities to fight with the enemy, their usual training has enabled them to master the skills to kill the enemy as quickly as possible.

"In this case, the amount of bullets we'll consume per month might be around one million." Xu Qingfeng thought for a while and said.

Each new recruit consumes at least a few hundred rounds of bullets every month, so for more than 4,000 people that would be millions of rounds.

The amount of consumption is still very shocking. If they did not have an arsenal that could produce enough bullets, they really would not be able to withstand such a huge consumption.

Of course, most of the bullets were captured from the Japanese. They have captured a lot of bullets in the past two years.

"Well, I know, but they can only do this for this month. After this month, forget it." Li Jin said.

He was naturally aware of this. In the beginning, the amount of training and live-fire shooting was reduced because there were too many people.

Otherwise, with so many people, if they were all trained the same way as the veterans were trained, they would not be able to handle the supplies, no matter how much supplies there were.

That is to say, in the subsequent battles, the soldiers need to improve their shooting accuracy as quickly as possible. There is no way they can give the soldiers so much time to improve slowly. Only by increasing the amount can the soldiers improve their shooting skills in a short period of time.

"Then do as you say." Xu Qingfeng nodded. While the soldiers were improving their combat effectiveness, they were also improving their own survival rate on the battlefield.

"Speaking of which, the Japanese seem to be quite well behaved recently, and there hasn't been any major movement," said Li Jin.

"Captain, what big move do you want the Japanese to make? Their 20th Division was destroyed by us, and even the commander of the 16th Division was killed by us.

The Japs now are like frightened birds, and dare not make any other moves at all." Xu Qingfeng said with a smile.

After experiencing this incident, the Japanese were completely subdued and dared not do anything else. Now the Japanese who went there just hid in the county town, and only sent people to repair roads or build some blockhouses during the day.

This is obviously a preparation for the arrival of subsequent Japanese troops!
"That's right." Li Jin looked into the distance. The sun was setting and the fiery clouds covered half the sky. The scenery was as beautiful as a painting.

"The scenery of our China is really beautiful. Maybe it can become a tourist destination in the future." Li Jin couldn't help but sigh.

"A tourist attraction?! That's a bit far-fetched." Xu Qingfeng was stunned and said, it's not certain when the Japanese will be driven out, let alone building a tourist attraction.

Li Jin didn't say much. Only he knew that the Japanese would be driven out of China in a few years. When the two devastating weapons fell, everything would be over.

Speaking of which, he had discussed these things with his predecessor's father in Yan'an before. The current professors have also researched some things, but they lack a lot of experimental materials.

Therefore, Li Jin planned to exchange some good things from the system when he had the chance and give them to those professors for research. After all, only they had these things, and other countries would not dare to look down on them.

There is a saying that goes, when others suspect that you have such weapons of mass destruction, you'd better really have them! ………

At this time, in the meeting room of the new regiment.

"Old Li, this is our current bullet consumption. The entire regiment has used 200,000 rounds of bullets in the past half month." Zhao Gang handed a piece of data to Li Yunlong for review.

"What?! Damn, they used so many bullets?!" Li Yunlong's eyes widened immediately after hearing this.

Two hundred thousand rounds of bullets were used in just half a month. On average, each soldier used forty to fifty rounds of bullets, which means nearly a hundred rounds of bullets were used in a month.

"Didn't you say that you should double the number of soldiers' live-fire training to improve their marksmanship? Don't blame me." Zhao Gang said quickly when he saw that Li Yunlong was planning to put the blame on him.

"Damn, this consumption is indeed a bit high." Li Yunlong felt a pang of pain when he heard this. Even though he had become a wealthy landlord, he still felt that he could not afford to pay out so much of his family fortune at once. He was afraid of being poor.

"Why don't we just stop going on?!" Zhao Gang suggested.

"Of course we have to continue. It has come to this point, how can we reduce it any further?" Li Yunlong said. No matter how painful it was, he had to continue. After all, it was only for a short period of time.

"You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Besides, this is to improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, so that they can kill more enemies on the battlefield! At the same time, it increases the probability of survival!" Li Yunlong began to comfort himself. What he said was actually true.

"I'm glad you think so." Zhao Gang smiled. He knew that Li Yunlong would not give up halfway easily.

"Why didn't you stop me at that time?!" Li Yunlong changed the subject and blamed Zhao Gang again.

"Old Li, this is a bit unreasonable. Can you blame me for not stopping him? It was you who didn't give him a chance!" Zhao Gang retorted.

“This…” Li Yunlong was silent for a moment, as if this was the case.

"Alright, alright, tell them to keep a close eye on the soldiers' training. Consuming so many supplies doesn't mean they can be lazy." Li Yunlong had no choice but to give them instructions.

"I understand! Speaking of which, the consumption on Li Jin's side is probably even greater." Zhao Gang couldn't help but think of the situation on Li Jin's side and said.

"Need I say more? Of course. I estimate that their bullet consumption in a month may reach millions. It's scary just to hear it." Li Yunlong couldn't help but sigh.

If Li Jin had not captured a lot of bullets while fighting the Japanese, and if the arsenal had not produced a lot of them, such a huge consumption would really be unbearable.

"There should be some, but their consumption is also for the purpose of killing more Japanese devils, so it can't be said to be a waste." Zhao Gang said. The bullets consumed now can be brought back by Li Jin later.

"I don't know when the New 1st Regiment will become so wealthy. What do you think about asking Li Jin to move the arsenal to our side?" Li Yunlong suddenly said.

If the arsenal was his, wouldn't he be able to secretly get more bullets for training the soldiers?

"What are you thinking? Even if Li Jin agrees, the leader will not agree." Zhao Gang was a little amused after hearing this. He knew Li Yunlong's plan as soon as he heard it.

"Yeah, I'm wondering when Li Jin will be able to build more machine tools. By then, a regiment will be able to build an arsenal and make its own weapons and ammunition." Li Yunlong had a good idea.

"That will probably take a long time." Zhao Gang shook his head. What Li Yunlong said was impossible to achieve in a short period of time, but it might be possible in the future.

.........

Taiyuan, Japanese military camp.

Itakase Seishirō was looking through documents in his office, and in front of him was a Japanese brigade commander reporting to him.

"Division commander, our undercover agent in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army seems to have been exposed, and now we can't contact him at all." The Japanese brigade commander told the story.

"What?! We can't get in touch with him?!" Upon hearing this, Itahira Seishirō was shocked and looked up and asked again.

"Yes, I have contacted him many times, but still no response. Moreover, the undercover unit is nowhere to be seen.
I suspect that he was exposed and then arrested by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, so we can’t get in touch with him.” The Japanese brigade commander began to analyze that only if he was exposed and arrested would he not be away from the army for a long time.

"Is it possible that he really has something to do?!" Itagaki Seishirō still held on to a glimmer of hope, thinking that the other party had a mission.

"Division Commander, do you think it's possible? Even if he is on a mission or transferred, there should be news, but now there is nothing." The Japanese brigade commander said helplessly.

He also didn't want the other party to be exposed, but now all signs indicate that something really happened to the other party.

"Damn it! The person who I paid such a huge price to persuade to rebel was exposed like this, what on earth is going on?!" Itagaki Seishirō couldn't help but curse!

In order to get the other party to surrender, they spent a lot of money and promised various benefits before they got the other party to become their undercover agents.

But he didn't expect that he would be exposed so quickly. He was thinking that if the other party got promoted in the future and could lead more people to join them, they could directly inflict heavy damage on the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

"Division Commander, do you think it could be related to our last plan to encircle and suppress the Northeast Army? He got important intelligence and was discovered when he wanted to pass it on?!" The Japanese brigade commander couldn't help but speculate.

"What you said makes sense. If that's the case, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army may have noticed something, but they don't know who it is, so they can only keep a close eye on everyone." Itagaki Seishirō nodded and said.

At that time, he thought that things were stable and there was no need to send undercover agents, but he did not expect that things would turn out unexpectedly and cause irreversible consequences.

"That should be the case. It will be difficult to persuade him to defect in the future. It's really a pity." The Japanese brigade commander couldn't help but sigh. The person he had finally persuaded to defect was gone just like that.

The key point is that after this incident, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army may become more cautious, and may even deliberately investigate the people under them, so the difficulty of instigating rebellion will be even greater.

"Forget it, let's put this matter aside for now." Itahira Seishirō shook his head helplessly.

(End of this chapter)