Bright sword, I have a red police base car

At this time, the Red Alert Force was still preparing for the troop reinforcement operation in Shanghai.

Since most of the roads connecting Shanghai to North China were controlled by the Japanese army, it was not feasible to send reinforcements to Shanghai by land.

However, having only sea transportation routes is still very unsafe for the defenders of Shanghai.

In order to ensure smooth supply to Shanghai, the Red Alert Force plans to provide support to Shanghai through dual-line supply from sea and air.

After the Red Alert took over Shanghai and Jinshanwei, the port was available, but the Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai was destroyed in the air strike during the previous special forces battalion operation.

The engineering companies of the 6th Combined Battalion and the 2nd Marine Battalion were currently carrying out repair work at Hongqiao Airport so that they could carry out double-sided supply as soon as possible.

After withdrawing from Shanghai, the Japanese troops also began to order their troops to be on alert and on standby around Shanghai.

The Japanese's main idea was to cooperate with a brigade in the city to achieve a pincer attack from both inside and outside, making it easier for them to annihilate the Chinese troops inside Shanghai.

However, the plan could not change as quickly as before. While the Japanese Guards were redeploying around the previous city, a brigade in the city had already been defeated by the encirclement of the 6th Combined Battalion!
This is very uncomfortable!

I originally wanted to use this brigade to fish and make a center bloom, but I didn't expect that my bait would be eaten before I could make a move.

After this, the Japanese found that they were the ones being attacked from both inside and outside.
Looking back, weren't all my previous arrangements pure clowns? !
At the same time, as the Eighth Route Army troops began to return to the base, the deputy commander-in-chief also began to order these troops to build a base around their garrison.

After receiving the order, Kong Jie's Independent Regiment and Ding Wei's 28th Regiment began to advance towards their new base.

After all, the area under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army is now more than just a few acres of land.

As the Japanese were beaten to a pulp, the entire North China region, plus parts of Henan, Anhui and Zhejiang, have become the new base of the Eighth Route Army.

However, it is not enough to just conquer these territories. If such a large area is to be under the actual control of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army needs to govern and station troops here.

As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it.

Now is the most difficult time for the Eighth Route Army.

"Commander, I am from the 386th Brigade after all. Please be kind and give me a few more cadres! If we don't have cadres, a few veterans will do!"

At this time, Li Yunlong was begging the brigade commander at the brigade headquarters.

"Damn it, you want cadres and backbone veterans, and I fucking want them too! I tell you, Li Yunlong, if you have the ability, just train them yourself, don't fucking oppose me here!" said the brigade commander.

After the Eighth Route Army's base expanded, the Eighth Route Army soldiers suddenly found that they did not have enough people. Compared with the entire North China region, the number of the Eighth Route Army was indeed a little less.

Therefore, after re-entering the base area, the Eighth Route Army immediately began to expand its forces based on the existing troops.

Originally, the cadres of the Eighth Route Army thought that the subsequent conscription plan would still require them to send enough personnel to mobilize the people, but they did not expect that after arriving at the base, people from all over the country would enthusiastically sign up to join the army.

Some troops even met many young people who wanted to join the Eighth Route Army on their way to the base.

After the Eighth Route Army regiments entered the new base areas, the conscription task was completed very quickly. In some defense areas with larger populations, the Eighth Route Army even gradually raised the conscription standards and admitted the best candidates because of the large number of personnel.

The remaining patients will be incorporated into local county brigades, district squads and militia forces according to actual conditions.

So now the Eighth Route Army is in urgent need of grassroots backbones!

After Ding Wei and Kong Jie's troops entered Hebei, the number of troops increased rapidly, and the headquarters of the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Eighth Route Army also began to supply equipment to various troops.

Now that there are people, there must be equipment such as guns and military uniforms, right?
The county battalions, district squads, and militia of the Eighth Route Army could still use equipment captured from the Japanese army, but the main force of the Eighth Route Army could not.

With the support of the Red Alert Force, the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army have begun to carry out regularization and standardization.

The current Eighth Route Army is no longer the scattered and guerrilla army that did not even have logistics. As the main force, the main weapons of each regiment must still be unified military equipment.

After all, we now have unified logistical support, and the logistics of weapons and equipment should be as unified as possible.

Just as Ding Wei and Kong Jie began large-scale conscription, the real winner was in Zhaojiayu.

Unlike other areas, the actual location of Zhaojiayu is actually on the outskirts of the industrial zone of the Dagushan base. When the Red Alert was expanding the industrial zone, a large number of industrial factories were built in the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

And after the Henan disaster relief plan was implemented and tens of thousands of Henan people were resettled here, the population density here began to increase in an extremely exaggerated way.

The Red Alert did not ignore these people, and the surrounding factories began to recruit more of them and expand their production.

Those ordinary people who were unable to enter the factories were recruited for large-scale infrastructure construction.

The remaining elderly and weak were assigned to the villages in the Red Alert's agricultural zone, where they were given a few acres of land and lived their lives in peace.

The soldiers recruited by Li Yunlong's New Regiment were actually selected here.

Compared with the recruits from other regions, the soldiers here by Li Yunlong have all undergone a complete set of military training in their spare time in the production area of ​​the Red Alert Force, and all of them have experience in live-fire shooting.

However, the number of recruits for Li Yunlong's new regiment was limited. The Eighth Route Army did not recruit any relatively skilled technical workers from various production plants. All those who participated in the recruitment were odd jobs and workers responsible for engineering construction.

This will not only strengthen the construction of the troops, but also will not affect industrial production.

Looking at the troops he had just recruited, Li Yunlong was immediately overjoyed. However, although there were enough personnel, there was still a long lack of equipment and supplies, and military training was also a tiring thing.

And the most important point is that the Liangshan team that Li Yunlong planned to form finally began to be formed based on Wei Heshang, Duan Peng, Liu Sanpao, Lu Dachang and Han Quezi.

The first batch of people selected were soldiers like Wang Gensheng who were good at shooting and could throw grenades far. As for the rest, Li Yunlong decided to wait until the new troops had undergone intensive training before conducting a unified selection and holding a competition. While selecting good seedlings, it would also allow other soldiers to see the strength and treatment of the Liangshan team, increasing the training motivation of the new soldiers.

However, even if everything was arranged, the new regiment still faced a large gap in weapons and clothing.

Although these new recruits were equipped before recruitment, they were all standard weapons produced by the Red Alert Force.

But these were the equipment in the field, not the personal weapons of these militiamen. Even though Li Yunlong had tried to borrow equipment from these factories many times, he always got the reply of "no way".

What the hell do you want to borrow?

Can I return it after borrowing it?!

So Li Yunlong could only beg for money from others.

"Lao Zhang! Lao Zhang! Hehehehehehe, I'm here to see you!"

At this time, in the Eighth Route Army's Quartermaster Department near Wuxiang, Shanxi, Li Yunlong was swaggering towards Zhang Wanhe, the Minister of the Eighth Route Army's Quartermaster Department.

Seeing Li Yunlong's shameless look, Zhang Wanhe, who had just received a batch of weapons and equipment, immediately put away his smile.

If this bastard Li Yunlong knew there were so many equipments, he would have wanted to bite off a piece of meat.

"Humph! This is the first time I've seen someone come to visit empty-handed. There's no one in our Dabie Mountains who is so ignorant of etiquette!"

"Hey, hey, Lao Zhang, it's not that Lao Li is poor, so I came here to ask you, a rich man, to help me think of a solution!"

As soon as Zhang Wanhe heard Li Yunlong's words, he knew that what he had guessed was correct.

This bastard is just eyeing the equipment in his hands!
So Zhang Wanhe said to Li Yunlong: "I can't save you from the New 1st Regiment. All the troops are now replenishing various military supplies, funds, weapons and equipment for various troops. My logistics troops are now supporting you, so should we support other brother troops?"

After hearing what Zhang Wanhe said, Li Yunlong knew that he would not be able to get any equipment from Zhang Wanhe by using conventional tricks. Then Li Yunlong said directly: "I want 5,000 rifles, 500 light machine guns and 500 submachine guns, as well as the matching ammunition. Just tell me how to give them to me!"

Zhang Wanhe was stunned when he heard this and said, "Don't ask me for such a high price! Five thousand rifles, Li Yunlong, don't you think whether you are worth these five thousand rifles?"

"Your new regiment's quota this time is 400 rifles, 40 light machine guns, and 50 submachine guns. Take them if you want!"

Having said that, Zhang Wanhe turned around and was about to leave.

Since you won't talk properly, why don't I just not talk to you? !
Don’t ever talk to a bastard like Li Yunlong again, otherwise he’ll be so pissed off you to death!
Seeing Zhang Wanhe turning around to leave, Li Yunlong hurriedly chased after him and stuffed a pack of cigarettes into Zhang Wanhe's pocket.

"Lao Zhang! Lao Zhang! Our New 1st Regiment is different from other troops. Our regiment has achieved the most results in this battle. You have to get something good for our New 1st Regiment!"

"Well, let's put it this way! Recently, a new batch of grenades produced by the Logistics Support Corps arrived in Curry. If you want them, I'll give you a hundred boxes!"

One hundred boxes?!
Hearing this number, Li Yunlong was subconsciously stunned for a moment, then said: "What can a hundred boxes do? Give me another hundred boxes, a total of two hundred boxes!"

Although Li Yunlong knew that his troops did not have any shortage of grenades, he still followed the principle of "the thief does not leave empty-handed" and increased the bet again.

"Okay! Two hundred boxes is two hundred boxes, but I have a request!"

"you say!"

"Get me a Japanese command knife!"

"Hey! What the hell is this a big deal to me! Don't worry, even though I can't get a general, I can still get a lieutenant! Even if you want a Japanese girl, I'll get her for you!"

Zhang Wanhe said with a smile: "Fuck you Japanese bitch, why do I need that thing? Send it to me as soon as you get the command knife!"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong waved his hand and took his soldiers to fetch supplies.

At this time, Li Yunlong and Zhang Wanhe both thought they had made a fortune!
Li Yunlong thought that he had only used a command knife to exchange for 200 boxes of grenades, which was a really good deal. Zhang Wanhe thought he had made a profit because the deputy commander-in-chief issued an order that all regiments could apply for grenades if they applied for less than 1,000 boxes.

Some time ago, the Red Alert troops collected more than 200 million grenades while clearing out their inventory, 95% of which were transferred to the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army was even worried about the 200 million grenades!
In this situation, Zhang Wanhe was naturally willing to do this favor. If nothing else, at least he could get a command knife!
Before returning, Li Yunlong asked Zhang Wanhe if the clothing factory here had any military uniforms left. However, at this stage, there might be some weapons and equipment, but there were really no more military uniforms.

Now they can only wait for the logistics support regiment to have enough transportation capacity to transport military uniforms and other things to them.

After all, in the current situation, weapons, ammunition, food and medicine are much more important than bedding and the like.

Therefore, Li Yunlong had to lead his troops and his weapons and equipment back to Dazhaojiayu.

But on the way back, Li Yunlong was still thinking hard about how to obtain more weapons and equipment.

In the past, in addition to the Eighth Route Army's base in Shanxi, there were also a large number of Japanese-occupied areas. If the Eighth Route Army was short of food and clothing, they could attack the Japanese and if they were lucky, they would have everything.

But the situation is different now. Not to mention Shanxi, even in the whole North China, we can't steal a single hair from the Japanese, and they can't even rob the civilians.

When Li Yunlong arrived at Zhaojiayu, he saw what Political Commissar Zhao Gang and Xiuqin were talking about.

"Captain, you're back?!"

"Hey! Xiuqin? How come you have so much free time?"

"Captain, I saw that the comrades of our New First Regiment didn't even have a decent military uniform, so I took the women comrades from the Women's Rescue Association and coordinated a batch of military uniforms for our New First Regiment at the clothing factory!"

"Oh, Xiuqin, this is too much trouble for you, you should go back and have a good rest, we can take care of it here!"

"Captain, why are you thanking me? We are all family!"

As she spoke, Xiuqin's face was still blushing.

Zhao Gang also echoed, "Right, right, right! We are all family, it would be awkward to thank you! So, Xiuqin, I will notify the kitchen staff to prepare extra meals. The comrades from the Women's Association will be together with the regiment headquarters at noon today, let's have a meal together!"

"Okay!" (End of this chapter)