Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 40 A big piece of fat meat!

Li Yunlong returned to the base with the soldiers who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army.

The first thing Li Yunlong did after returning to the base was to call the brigade commander.

On the phone, the brigade commander praised Li Yunlong highly.

If it weren't for the infantry guns and artillery shells provided by Li Yunlong, the Eighth Route Army would not have been able to destroy the Japanese airport so easily.

The credit for destroying the Japanese airport this time goes to the New 769st Regiment and the th Regiment each half.

However, in order to confuse the devils and conceal the Eighth Route Army's infantry artillery units.

The Eighth Route Army Headquarters announced that the 769th Regiment Commando sneaked into the Japanese airport at night. At the cost of more than 30 casualties, they used grenades to blow up 24 Japanese planes and killed and wounded more than 100 Japanese soldiers.

This doesn’t matter to Li Yunlong, as there is no substantial reward anyway.

In addition, the combat backbones sent by the brigade have also set off and will serve as squad leaders and other positions in the new regiment.

As for the more than 400 people Li Yunlong brought back, Li Yunlong did not plan to form a new battalion.

Instead, they were all dispersed and divided into three main battalions, led mainly by backbone personnel sent by the brigade headquarters.

Of course, Li Yunlong doesn't need to do these things himself, he can just leave them to Deputy Captain Zhong.

Deputy Head Zhong is also an old revolutionary and is very good at this kind of work.

After instructing Deputy Regiment Commander Zhong on the expansion, Li Yunlong called Zhang Dabiao and three battalion commanders. They locked themselves in a room and began to work out a combat plan and emergency plan for ambushing the Dike Detachment.

Since there was no chief of staff, Li Yunlong had to take the lead in making combat plans himself.

Because Zhang Dabiao was carrying out the reconnaissance mission with Li Yunlong, he was also called in to help make the combat plan.

Later, Deputy Head of the Group Zhong also joined in.

However, Li Yunlong did not like military democracy very much. He basically determined the combat ideas, and others enriched and improved the combat plans.

By the evening, a written ambush operation plan and emergency plan were freshly produced.

In fact, general ambush operations do not require any written plans; the commander can just verbally convey the orders.

The Eighth Route Army, from officers to soldiers, has rich experience in ambush combat.

But this time it is not a one-by-one action by the new regiment, and it must get the approval and support of the superiors, so there must be a complete combat plan and emergency plan.

At present, with the strength of the New 1st Regiment, it is unable to take over the fat piece of meat of the Dike Detachment.

The battle plan was submitted that evening.

Ding ding ding, ding ding ding——

Early the next morning, Li Yunlong was woken up by the ringing of the phone before he even got out of bed.

After a rare good night's sleep last night, Li Yunlong felt full of energy.

Li Yunlong grabbed the phone and said, "Hello, this is the New 1st Regiment!"

"Li Yunlong! It's me!"

A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone. Li Yunlong shuddered and his body involuntarily straightened up: "Brigade Commander!"

"Li Yunlong, the headquarters and division headquarters have approved your battle plan."

"Yes!"

"Headquarters chief has only one order: kill this son of a bitch Dike Detachment!"

"Yes!"

"Repeat the order to me!"

"Yes, kill the damned Dike Detachment!"

After saying that, Li Yunlong hung up the phone, full of energy.

After washing his face without even having breakfast, Li Yunlong took out the map and continued to study the battle plan and emergency plan to see if there were any loopholes.

"Report to the leader."

After a while, Deputy Head Zhong came in:
"The expansion has been completed. The backbone personnel sent by the brigade and the soldiers you brought back yesterday have all been arranged. Those who are injured and need treatment have also been sent to the field hospital at the division headquarters."

"Row!"

Captain Li nodded and told Deputy Captain Zhong the good news:

"The brigade commander just called and said that our combat mission has been approved by headquarters and division headquarters."

"Great!"

Deputy Head Zhong clenched his fist:
"Those who have just joined our new regiment are all veterans with good combat capabilities. They will not affect our combat effectiveness."

Although some of these newly joined soldiers are veterans who still need to be reformed in their thinking, but!

When it came to fighting the Japanese, none of these soldiers were cowards, and each of them hated the Japanese to the core.

Those who were unwilling to continue going to the battlefield to kill the Japanese and those who were die-hard supporters of the National Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were not able to recruit a new regiment.

Among this group of soldiers, there are several company and platoon leaders, as well as more than twenty squad leaders.

After ideological work, they will all become the backbone of the grassroots officers of the new regiment.

So after the expansion is completed, they can be directly pulled to the battlefield to fight the Japanese.

"very good!"

Li Yunlong nodded with satisfaction.

noon.

Two core regimental commanders of the Eighth Route Army entered the headquarters of the new regiment together.

It was Kong Jie and Ding Wei.

"Haha, Lao Li!"

"Haha... Lao Kong, Lao Ding!"

In the headquarters of the New 1st Regiment, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie saluted each other, and then the three brothers hugged each other tightly.

The three brothers had not seen each other for some time since crossing the Yellow River.

After the greetings, Kong Jie and Ding Wei didn't treat themselves as outsiders and sat down on the kang.

Kong Jie yelled, "Old Li, I heard you won a battle a few days ago, killing seven or eight hundred devils and seizing a lot of good stuff, right? Quickly bring out the canned Japanese beef and sake to treat Old Ding and me."

"Old Li, hurry up and get the cans out." Ding Wei put his gun aside and said impatiently, "I haven't eaten meat in more than half a month. I'm almost dying of greed."

Li Yunlong chuckled. "As for canned beef, we did capture some, but they were all left for the wounded. I didn't even get a box to try. As for the Japanese sake, I'm not ambushing a Japanese transport convoy. How can I get some Japanese sake for you two?"

Kong Jie immediately cursed: "What a fucking sting!"

"That's right!" Ding Wei said, "I've seen it a long time ago. You're a stingy person, not willing to spend a penny."

Since all the canned food was left for the wounded, Kong Jie and Ding Wei would not insist on taking it.

In fact, even if they seized canned food, they would usually not eat it and would leave the cans for the wounded.

Li Yunlong took out two packs of Lao Dao brand cigarettes and threw them on the table. Ding Wei's eyes lit up: "Lao Dao brand cigarettes?"

Li Yunlong chuckled and said, "Although we don't have any canned food or sake, we did seize quite a few cigarettes from the Japanese. We'll have plenty of cigarettes for today."

Ding Wei quickly lit one, and even Kong Jie, who usually smoked a pipe, took out one and put it in his mouth and lit it.

"It tastes good!" Ding Wei commented while puffing away smoke.

Soon the room was filled with smoke, and Li Yunlong also smoked a cigarette.

Li Yunlong asked, "How did you two end up in such a mess? You didn't even get a combat mission?"

Kong Jie said, "Stop talking now! The combat missions are all for the main regiment. There's no place for our basic regiment at all!"

"The situation with our New Third Regiment is the same," Ding Wei said. "In terms of weapons and equipment, our base regiment is inferior to the main force, but if you talk about fighting spirit, how is our base regiment inferior to the main force?"

When the Red Army was reorganized, the main force of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi had 8 people.

But Chiang Kai-shek was very cunning and only gave the Red Army three divisions with a total of about 3 people.

The remaining 4 Red Army soldiers were forced to return to their hometowns.

However, the headquarters came up with a solution. Since Chiang Kai-shek refused to give them a position, they would give themselves a position.

Many Red Army soldiers went to the front lines and behind enemy lines to participate in the War of Resistance in the form of basic regiments.

In the next two or three years, the number of Eighth Route Army Corps-level units will soon reach dozens.

However, the current basic regiment is second only to the main force regiment, and it contains many Red Army backbones and veterans.

"correct!"

Kong Jie suddenly said:

"Old Ding and I have received instructions from our superiors to cooperate with your New 1st Regiment in this battle. Old Li, what exactly is the combat mission?"

Ding Wei's gaze quickly focused on Li Yunlong's face.

"What mission?" Li Yunlong said with his eyes wide open. "I'll tell you this to shock you. This time, our three core regiments are joining forces to fight together and get a piece of the big fat meat!"

(End of this chapter)