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Chapter 972: You kid still want to eat more and take more?

After Yang Yuanshan gave the order to the telegraph operator, he was about to go out to Jinchang County to take a look when he heard a loud roar coming from the foot of Yuwangling Mountain.

When I walked out of the command center, I saw that Kong Dacheng's tank company had returned.

He immediately walked down the mountain.

After a while, they met Kong Dacheng running towards them halfway up the mountain.

I asked him expectantly:
"Captain! Have you taken over Wutai County?

Do you want our tank company to rush over and take a look?"

Hearing this, Yang Yuanshan immediately understood why this guy was running so fast.

His fantasy was ruthlessly extinguished immediately:
"You kid still want to eat more?
You are so beautiful!

Wutai County has been captured by comrades from the Wutai District."

"Ah—so soon?"

Kong Dacheng was very unwilling.

"What's fast?

"Isn't it reasonable for me to have Chu Kun and his men fire thousands of shells at a faster speed against a battalion of Japanese soldiers?"

Yang Yuanshan rolled his eyes at him.

"Ok."

Kong Dacheng suddenly felt like an eggplant hit by frost.

Just now on the way back, he was yelling at his men that they wanted to continue going to Wutai County to eat meat, and urged the soldiers to speed up.

I didn't expect that it would be a waste of time now.

Yang Yuanshan didn't care how depressed he was and turned to ask about business.

"Dacheng, your tanks have been fighting continuously these days, can the engines still withstand it?"

Generally speaking, the engine life of the Chaffee tank is only 500 motor hours (engine running time). After that, it needs a major overhaul.

However, it is obviously impossible for today's special forces regiment to have the conditions to overhaul the engine, let alone have spare tank engines to replace.

So this means that once these tank engines reach the end of their design life, these tanks will be doomed and can only be used as fixed artillery positions.

"The M3 tank we used first seems to be dying, but the other eight Chaffee tanks should be able to hold out for a while."

When Kong Dacheng heard Yang Yuanshan asking about the tank engine, his face turned very ugly and he quickly answered.

After a period of trial and error, he and the soldiers in the company have basically been able to repair most of the common tank mechanical failures.

But they really can't repair the engine.

Moreover, there are no replacement parts for the wearing parts inside the engine!

The engine life of an M3 tank is usually only 200 to 300 motor hours. It is normal that it can no longer withstand the test after fighting for so long.

Yang Yuanshan understood very well.

But this is the only M3 left, so let it die. He no longer cares.

As long as those 8 Chaffee tanks can still fight, his tank company will still be a powerful armored force that can crush the Japanese!

So he nodded immediately:

“That’s fine.

As long as we can hold out until we return to Jinyang City, that will be enough."

Immediately arrange:

"Dacheng, take your men down to inspect and maintain the tanks.

Let’s try to make our tanks last longer.

For the next period of time, unless it is absolutely necessary, I may not let you fight."

At this time, he couldn't help but wonder: Should he take out the four Leopard tanks in his system warehouse and let Kong Dacheng and others learn how to operate them?

When the time comes, if we drive this thing to the city of Jinyang, I'm afraid the Japanese will be dumbfounded.

Kong Dacheng saw that Yang Yuanshan looked serious and knew that he was not joking, so he immediately nodded and agreed:
"Yes!"

Then he turned around and left, directing the soldiers to drive the tank into a woods, and began to inspect it in a sweat.

He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. He had originally come to Yang Yuanshan to ask for a fight, but he didn't expect it to have the opposite effect. He wouldn't be able to fight in the short term.

It's really a case of "stealing a chicken but losing the rice"!
……

After sending Kong Dacheng away, Yang Yuanshan brought several guards to Jinchang County and conducted an inspection.

He found that thanks to the hard work of the political workers led by Zhou Xianpei, some shops in the city had opened their doors that had been closed for many days and started doing business.

Although there are not many people on the streets, there are still a few people doing their job to make a living.

Moreover, when these people saw them, although they were still a little nervous, they did not turn around and run away. It seemed that they were no longer afraid of them in gray uniforms.

Yang Yuanshan was very satisfied with the results.

After capturing the city, stabilizing order and restoring normal production and life is a technical job!
……

After walking through two streets, Yang Yuanshan met two officers from the Political Department under Zhou Xianpei. They had set up a table on the street and were shouting loudly to recruit soldiers.

However, the effect of their shouting was very poor.

No one passing by stopped to listen to them preaching about joining the special forces regiment to fight the Japanese and fight the war to save the country.

Yang Yuanshan frowned and quickly walked over to ask:

"Xie Fei, Yin Kaihang, how many soldiers have you recruited?"

When the two saw Yang Yuanshan, they immediately looked very embarrassed and quickly replied:
"Captain, there is not one."

"what happened?

Weren’t the villagers willing to help us cook and stuff before?
Why is no one willing to join the army now?

Are the young people in this city so afraid of death?"

Yang Yuanshan was a little unhappy.

The Special Forces Regiment had suffered many casualties in the successive battles, and now that they had time to start the war work in this occupied county, it would be outrageous if they couldn’t get any new recruits.

You know, Jinchang County is not the Qixia Town where they have repeatedly plundered soldiers!
Logically speaking, there should be quite a few people who meet the recruitment requirements of their regiment.

The leader Xie Fei quickly replied:
"Captain, Jinchang County has been heavily guarded since it was occupied by the Japanese in 37.

Our local organization has never been established here, and the villagers don't trust us very much.

We had asked them to help with cooking before, and it was fine. They quietly took the food and went back to cook.

But now that we are recruiting people to serve as soldiers, they are worried that we will be liquidated by the Japanese if we retreat in the future.

A few years ago, when the Japanese invaders occupied this place, they reportedly massacred many families of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army."

"I see.

But we are short on time, and your work situation cannot be opened, so you can't waste time here.

So, you and Lao Zhou should work together to tell the folks in Xin County and Jinchang County that anyone who is willing to join the army will be given 10 yuan as resettlement fee and 20 kilograms of food!
If you are worried that the Japanese will come back to settle accounts with you, we can help them move to Qixia Town!

A big reward will always attract brave men. I don't believe that with such good treatment, no one would join the army!"

Yang Yuanshan is ready to spend money to solve the problem.

When Xie Fei and the others heard this condition, they frowned and quickly reminded:

"Captain, if this happens, a lot of the food we captured will be consumed!

Assuming we recruit one thousand new soldiers, we will have to consume 20,000 kilograms of food!

In addition, helping fellow villagers move to Qixia Town must have consumed a lot of time on the road."

“It’s okay, it was seized anyway.

It would be great if we could move all the people from these two counties back to the base!
If we retreat in the future and the Japanese come back, I'm afraid they won't even be able to eat a hot meal!"

Yang Yuanshan's attitude was firm.

Food, money and other things can all be obtained again, and he can rob the Japanese at any time.

However, population is the biggest potential for war and it is impossible to increase it in the short term.

What is limiting the development of his special forces regiment now is the young and strong personnel in the northwestern Shanxi base area, which are not enough to support their continued large-scale military expansion.

Now that the Xinkou area has been recovered, Yang Yuanshan will of course work hard to acquire human resources.

……

Seeing his firm attitude, Xie Fei and the others could only nod.

At the same time, they also breathed a sigh of relief.

Both of them knew that if they carried out their work according to Yang Yuanshan's instructions, it would be much easier!
……

After walking around Jinchang County, Yang Yuanshan didn't see anything new, so he led his men back to the temporary command post on Yuwang Ridge.

When Zhan Haishan saw him coming back, he hurried forward to report:
"Captain, Political Commissar Zhao hasn't received any intelligence about the Japanese 2nd Brigade yet.

So I just sent a telegram to the special operations company, ordering them to move forward thirty miles to set up a guard post.

Do you think this is appropriate?"

Yang Yuanshan looked at him appreciatively and nodded:

"No problem, you handled it well.

Anyway, the monks are restless, so let them go out on guard and treat it as training."

But after thinking for a few seconds, he arranged:
“Haishan, the monks didn’t bring much dry food with them.

You arrange for someone to deliver some dry food and clean water to them, and then order them to set up guard posts fifty miles ahead.

If you find the Japanese army approaching, report back immediately! "

"Okay. I'll go right away!"

……

Around 12 noon.

Yang Yuanshan received a telegram from Zhao Tietou's Fifth Battalion.

Report that they were in the mountains, blocking the remnants of the Japanese 9th Brigade head-on.

Except for more than 20 clever Japanese soldiers who scattered and hid in the mountains and forests to escape, the remaining more than 200 people were completely wiped out by them and the first company of the second battalion.

The leading colonel officer was also shot into a sieve by their heavy machine guns!
Hearing this good news, Yang Yuanshan was naturally very happy.

In this way, the Battle of Xinkou was completely over!

He immediately ordered the telegraph operator:

"Call Zhao Tietou back and have them disperse and hunt down these Japanese who have fled into the mountains in squads and platoons. Go to the villages in the mountains to develop militias and recruit new soldiers!
Clean out the traitors and bandits!
Since we have finally entered the mountains, we should do a solid job in building the base!

You can’t just come and leave, it’s like you haven’t been here.”

"Yes!"

……

As soon as the order to the Fifth Battalion was issued, He Yunfu hurried back and reported to Yang Yuanshan:
"Captain, we have finished cleaning up the battlefield.

The seized weapons and equipment were placed in an abandoned house in Xin County.

We counted the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and there were probably more than 1100 of them. In addition, there were several hundred bodies that were completely blown up by artillery shells and could not be counted.

"Great! What are your casualties?"

Yang Yuanshan didn't care about his subordinates reporting the number of enemies killed. Anyway, his system would give him extremely accurate statistics, even showing their military ranks.

“More than 80 people died, and less than 150 were seriously injured.

It was mainly caused by the stubborn resistance of the wounded Japanese soldiers.

These bastards are really good at shooting!

Even with his last breath, he can shoot and injure our soldiers."

He Yunfu couldn't help cursing.

The soldiers of the special forces regiment all knew Yang Yuanshan's attitude towards prisoners, so they never showed mercy on the battlefield.

But the Japanese soldiers would pretend to be dead, and they had no way of seeing their bodies, so they fired a volley of bullets at them first.

……

Yang Yuanshan was very satisfied after taking the Xinkou Pass and destroying at least one and a half battalions of the Japanese with only 200 casualties of his own.

He quickly patted He Yunfu on the shoulder and arranged:

"Send the wounded away quickly!

Then your Second Battalion will rest and recuperate on the Xinkou Pass while building fortifications and constructing bunkers in preparation to block the Japanese Second Brigade heading south.

When Lao Zhou recruits new soldiers, I will assign more to you."

"Yes!"

……

After sending He Yunfu away, Yang Yuanshan said to Han Yang and Zhan Haishan in a serious tone:
"Han Yang, Hai Shan, right now we have to wait for news from the Japanese 2nd Brigade. Our troops don't have any battles to fight for now.

But we can't sit idle. We have two important tasks to do right now. You two must each take on one."

Upon hearing this, Han Yang and Zhan Haishan asked without hesitation:

"Captain, tell me, what is the mission?"

“The first task is to compile a battle report. We need to report the battle in detail to our superiors.

Lao Zhou is too busy with work, and he didn't participate in the specific battle process, so we need one of you to sort out the general situation first, then discuss the revisions with Lao Zhou, and finally report it."

When Han Yang heard about this job, he shook his head like a rattle:
"Captain, let Lao Zhan do this job. My handwriting is ugly and I can't do it."

When Zhan Haishan didn't come, Yang Yuanshan would ask him to come every time to organize the battle reports, but he had had enough of it.

Seeing his avoidant look, Yang Yuanshan was a little speechless.

I could only look at Zhan Haishan.

Of course Zhan Haishan couldn't refuse, he nodded and agreed:
"Okay, I'll do it."

"Captain, what is the other mission?"

Han Yang asked a little nervously.

"The northwest of Xin County is also a mountainous area, and there should be many villages hidden there. It is also an area we have not been active in before.

I want you to take the soldiers of the guard battalion and disperse to this area to wipe out the bandits, traitors, and traitors, develop local militia, and recruit some soldiers back.

Now that we are here, whether we withdraw in the future or not, we must start building this base!"

Yang Yuanshan answered.

"Understood, I will ensure that the task is completed!

But Captain, can you give me a few days?"

Han Yang was a little happy.

He likes this job!
"If the Japanese come quickly, you only have one or two days at most.

If the Japs come slowly, you will have three days!"

Yang Yuanshan answered after thinking for a while.

"Captain, this time is too short, isn't it?

I’m afraid there won’t be much result!”

Han Yang smiled bitterly.

"I don't care, anyway, I've given you this task, and you must complete it beautifully!

Zhao Tietou's five battalions also undertake the same mission. I will see which of you can recruit more soldiers later."

Yang Yuanshan made a fuss.

Then, seeing that this unfortunate child was very pitiful, he immediately softened his heart and explained to him:
"Han Yang, the purpose of our attack this time is to support our comrades in Jizhong.

If this old devil Okamura Jining remains motionless and continues to sweep through central Hebei, then we must surround Jinyang City as soon as possible!

It's impossible to stop here and wait for the Japanese 2nd Brigade!

I can give you up to 3 days, which is already good!
do you understand? "

Hearing what he said, Han Yang's heart suddenly trembled, and he shouted:

"understand!"

Zhan Haishan quickly reminded:
"Captain, this area should be the defense zone of the 358th Brigade. We are going to recruit a lot of soldiers here. Should we say hello to them?"

"No need. Our special forces regiment's handling of the Japanese has long been known to everyone, and the 358th Brigade must also know everything.

Besides, aren’t we going to return all those equipments to the new 7th and 8th Regiments?

They have to give us some respect.”

Yang Yuanshan waved his hand.

He knew that even if someone reported him, Brigade Commander Zhang, as an old senior, would definitely not bother with him, a junior.

Besides, he still had the amulet of “the best group in the world”!

So scared!
……

(End of this chapter)