Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 264 Chapter 263, decide the direction.

On the second day after the battle with the Sakata Regiment, the surviving Second Battalion of the Sakata Regiment was still chasing the Independent Regiment, and the 772nd Regiment was still escorting the captured supplies towards Jinzhong. The guerrillas were already thinking about the next six months!
No one thought this was a bad idea. Instead, everyone expressed their own opinions, all hoping to help the guerrillas grow stronger! All the opinions boiled down to two points.

First point: Rapid troop growth mode! Continue to recruit new soldiers, train them, increase the strength of the militia, and firmly control the guerrillas' current base.

Second point: Elite mode! On the basis of the existing forces, continue to strengthen training, equipment level, mobility, and expand the range of the team's battles!
Li Yuexuan undoubtedly supports the elite soldier model, because this is the idea he proposed. He is not thinking about setting up special forces or something, he just wants to enhance the mobility and individual combat capabilities of small units based on the existing productivity!

"Everyone, look at the march of the Sakata Regiment we just wiped out! All of them took cars and could return to Ping'an County from Liao County in half a day. Moreover, they could carry all the baggage and supplies with them and immediately join the battle! Moreover, the Japanese's attack route also followed the railway and highway lines."

"What does this mean? This shows that if a team has strong mobility, then its combat range will be wider and its role will be greater. As for the specific effects, you are more experienced than me, so I won't go into details! Let me talk about semi-automatic operations, which is also related to the future direction of our guerrillas."

"The firing rate of a semi-automatic rifle is very fast, at least much faster than a bolt-action rifle! When the marksmanship is equal, a soldier with a semi-automatic rifle can easily fight against three soldiers with bolt-action rifles! In fact, it can even be as good as five soldiers with semi-automatic rifles! And if the soldiers with semi-automatic rifles have marksmanship like me, then they can play a greater role!"

"Of course, not everyone has my marksmanship, but with intensive training, it is not a problem to reach the marksmanship of Comrade Cai Xiaotian and Comrade Tian Chuan! So the cavalry platoon I proposed is such a unit! Pick out the 27 people with the best marksmanship in the whole team, form three squads, all equipped with semi-automatic rifles, no light machine guns! The remaining 3 people are the organization of the platoon."

"This platoon is more flexible! A platoon leader can lead six grenade throwers, or a group of mortars. As for the cavalry, a single soldier can fight on horseback, or a single person can ride two horses! We can select some of our horses to help the cavalry carry ammunition and supplies."

"In short, my ultimate goal is, first of all, that we have a team that can attack quickly and has strong attack power, so that we can respond to sudden enemy situations at any time! Secondly, all the infantry of our guerrillas are equipped with semi-automatic weapons, and then there are transport teams with livestock to help carry ammunition! In this way, when our entire team attacks, we can support the battles of each main regiment with powerful firepower at any time!"

"Our two mortar groups can bomb from a distance when they find valuable targets for the Japanese! They can retreat after the bombing without any delay. Then, we have cavalry protection and infantry blocking, and the ammunition can be replenished in time! This is my idea, give me some advice!" After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he saluted the comrades around him.

"Comrade Peregrine's idea is great. And it's not contradictory to our future development direction! Comrade Weiguo just said that we need to develop cavalry and recruit some soldiers who can ride horses. Can we do these things at the same time? So, let's decide? Recruit 300 new soldiers, train them, and form a cavalry team!" Zhao Danian made the final summary speech. "I have no objection!" Zhu Xingyu raised his hand to show his agreement. Then, everyone raised their hands to show their agreement with this development direction.

Well, the reason why the guerrillas were able to reach a consensus so quickly was actually because they had "money"! Although most of the seized wealth was handed over to the organization, the remaining supplies were enough to support a 500-man team until the end of the year! Add to that the food from the summer harvest and the autumn harvest, and the resources controlled by the guerrillas can feed a reinforced battalion without any problem!
If there is not so much food on hand, I am afraid no one would dare to ask for 300 new soldiers! Without money, you can't support so many soldiers! Why did the Eighth Route Army have to enter the Hebei Plain to develop? To establish large bases in southern Hebei, northern Henan and other places?
Except for these places, the control of the devils was very weak at the beginning. There were only a few bandits and the armed forces composed of local landlord militia and defeated soldiers. It was easy to take over those county towns. The other reason was that this large plain area had abundant rivers, large tracts of fertile land and a large population of people. This was a good place for soldiers and grain production, and a good place to develop the team.

Therefore, the Japanese later targeted this place during their May Day sweep, in order to destroy one of the foundations of the Eighth Route Army's development...

The guerrillas finished the meeting, and the next thing was to recruit new soldiers and prepare training materials according to the resolution! These things were not Li Yuexuan's business, so Li Yuexuan was free. Then, he took two mortar squads, squad 7 and the vanguard squad to Jigongling to check the situation of the devils.

After passing Mantou Mountain in the west, there is a fork in the road, but the fork leads to a main road heading east, bypassing the hill south of Liangjia Village, and continuing east through a valley to reach Qigeng Village.

Li Yuexuan naturally would not take the detour to the east, but instead went west to the place where the Japanese convoy was destroyed.

Dozens of the Japanese trucks in the convoy were attacked, the supplies on the trucks were taken away, and some usable items were also dismantled, especially the tool boxes and fuel tanks were emptied.

However, the trucks were not burned, and there were still resources to search for! Li Yuexuan came here, in addition to checking the situation of Jigongling, to continue searching for usable supplies on these trucks. After all, these days, a piece of iron is a good thing, and it can't be wasted!

There were also some new graves in the woods beside the convoy, where the Japanese drivers were buried. However, there were no jujube trees planted on the graves, which was a bit of a waste of resources.

(End of this chapter)