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Logically speaking, the independent regiment had enough equipment, after all, they had captured a lot of weapons after the victory in the battle a few months ago. In addition, in order to restore the combat effectiveness of the two regiments as quickly as possible, the headquarters did not take away many captured weapons, and only focused on the development of the two regiments.

In addition to these, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei also received support from the Liangjia Village Arsenal with 200 semi-automatic guns, 20 light machine guns, and 30 grenade launchers! So no matter how you calculate it, his independent regiment should not be short of weapons! But the independent regiment just lacks weapons...

Why? The reason is very simple. The weapons reserved by the headquarters and the division for the independent regiment are the number of weapons for a reorganized regiment, and they are reserved for a large regiment of 2500 people! However, with the continuous increase of new recruits, the quota of the independent regiment has long been overstaffed, and the number of people has long exceeded 5000. Even Li Yunlong is not sure how many troops he has.

Anyway, the rifles stored in the independent regiment’s warehouse had already been moved out! Not to mention rifles, shotguns, double-barreled shotguns, shotguns, and other weapons that could fire and kill the enemy were gone!

Even so, many new recruits still had no weapons, so they had to dig out the red tasseled spears and broadsword blades that were gathering dust in the warehouse and distribute them to the new recruits.

From the composition of weapons and the scale of conscription, it can be seen that Li Yunlong and Ding Wei still maintain the original style of winning by force advantage. Unlike the Beishan Detachment, they take the route of elite soldiers! So when the new recruits of the independent regiment saw the new recruits of the Beishan Detachment, they were full of envy! In their eyes, the new recruits of the Beishan Detachment are really armed to the extreme.

In terms of the weapons and equipment conditions of the Beishan Detachment, the recruits cannot be equipped with semi-automatic weapons before they have been through combat experience, mainly to save bullets. Therefore, the recruits of the Beishan Detachment only have an 80-type horse rifle with a bayonet, 8 rounds of ammunition, grenades, an engineer shovel or engineer pick, a tactical knife or a machete, a backpack, including quilts, water bottles, shoes, towels and other daily necessities.

Of course, the recruits also had a standardized food bag hanging diagonally on their chests, which contained 10 days of marching rations. The main ingredients of the marching rations were mixed fried noodles made from millet, corn, beans, peanuts, wheat and other grains, some Chinese medicine for replenishing qi such as astragalus powder, some meat floss, a proper amount of salt, and finally honey and drying to make it successful.

This kind of fried noodles, except that it needs water to condense into a ball when eating and is difficult to swallow, is fine. And at this time, there is no need to worry about the soldiers lacking vitamins due to lack of vegetable intake, because when marching and fighting outside, the logistics department will transport some vegetables with them.

Of course, this time the situation was special, and the new recruits did not bring any vegetables with them when they went out for combat training. However, along the way, the new recruits did not lack vegetables, because the veterans who led the team took them through the mountains and forests, picking all the edible wild vegetables they encountered along the way, which could be regarded as half a wilderness survival training.

Not far south of the giant city, in a small village clinging to the hillside, Zhang Dabiao waited for the Beishan detachment's team. The Beishan detachment had 248 people, led by Bai Dabao from the second brigade.

"Hello, Captain Zhang. We have received an order from the regiment headquarters, saying that we are coming here to assist you in the battle. This is the transfer order!" Bai Dabao took out the order of the independent regiment and handed it to Zhang Dabiao.

"Haha, good, good, welcome!" Zhang Dabiao finished reading the order and looked at the fully armed soldiers milling around with joy. After a while, he asked, "Captain Bai Dabao, are these all new recruits? Why are there so many familiar faces in the team?" "Those who look familiar are our veterans! Well, this operation is mainly to train the new recruits and give them combat experience. But we can't send the new recruits directly to the battlefield. They need veterans to lead them."

Bai Dabao and Zhang Dabiao were also acquaintances. They had known each other for several years and had fought together, so naturally they talked about everything. Of course, at that time, Bai Dabao was just an ordinary guerrilla fighter, but now he is the deputy captain of the second battalion (and concurrently the commander of the first company).

"Well, that's good, that's good! Come on, let's drive back and discuss how to find a fight for our comrades!" After looking at the soldiers, Zhang Dabiao took Bai Dabao to the conference room for a meeting.

"What's going on right now? We actually control the area around Jucheng... and currently, most of the Japanese troops in Jucheng are trapped inside the city. Only the river to the east and west is still under the control of the Japanese. The Japanese have built several artillery towers along the river, extending two kilometers to both sides, firmly blocking our passage to the north."

"Now that you're here, we won't do anything else but attack the enemy's artillery towers, then mobilize their reinforcements and beat them on the way! As long as we take down the artillery towers on both the east and west sides, the enemy will have no choice but to stay in the giant city and wait for rescue. And those rescue troops and the supplies they send will be our favorites! Okay, let me assign the tasks..."

In the conference room, Zhang Dabiao drew a battle plan on the map and assigned tasks to each company. Bai Dabao's task was to wait on the mountain ridge west of the city, and then block or ambush the Japanese reinforcements coming out of the giant city according to the battle situation. Anyway, whether it was attacking the Japanese artillery tower or the distance point, there had not been many changes, just a few tricks.

Half a day passed quickly, and it was dark. It was time to move at night! For the comrades of the Beishan Detachment who were not familiar with the terrain, it was really difficult to march at night. Zhang Dabiao also knew this, and specially arranged a company to follow and lead them.

It was already early November, and the Taihang Mountains were particularly cold at night. The night wind blew, and those who wore few clothes shivered with cold. Fortunately, the soldiers all had warm clothes on, so the cold wind did not blow through their clothes and take away their body temperature.

The total night journey was only 4 kilometers. Even though it was a mountain road, it didn't take us long to walk. We reached the preset ambush site from the starting point in less than an hour.

The ambush site was a mountain ridge that spanned more than 1000 meters from east to west, connected to the mountains in the south. Bai Dabao and his men chose a place that was sheltered from the wind to rest and sleep. Why was this so? Because the Japanese blocked the river to the north, the team that was going to attack the stronghold and take down the artillery tower had to go around the mountains on both sides of the east and west, and there was at least 20 miles of mountain roads to go, so they could only wait.

This is good. The team that Bai Dabao brought has 200 new recruits, so the first mission should be simpler. (End of this chapter)