Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Time flies, March passed in a flash, and it was February 1940.

This time point is exactly the day in the original drama when Li Yunlong led the New 1st Regiment to fight against the Sakata Regiment in Cangyunling in order to cover the field hospital and division headquarters.

However, Li Yunlong is now planning to attack Taiyuan.

As for Colonel Nobutsu Sakata?

The grass on the grave is already ten feet high.

These three months.

The Japanese troops of the North China Front Army increased their defenses everywhere.

The Eighth Route Army was making intensive preparations for the attack.

Li Yunlong from the Southeast Shanxi Headquarters alone flew twice.

After an in-depth analysis of the current situation and Li Yunlong's ideas, the headquarters plans to send a force to assist the Northwest Shanxi Military Region in attacking Taiyuan.

The main force of the 129th Division was to block the Japanese reinforcements of the North China Front Army in the eastern Shanxi region.

With the support of the headquarters and the main force of the 129th Division joining in the fight, Li Yunlong suddenly felt confident.

On the one hand, he prepared for war and stockpiled ammunition, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhang Dabiao to formulate a battle plan.

Inside the No. 2 air defense tower, the headquarters of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong watched as one Japanese reconnaissance plane was shot down and another one fled with injuries, and laughed out loud on the spot: "Haha, good fight!"

The Japanese reconnaissance plane thought that nothing would happen if it conducted reconnaissance and took photos of the county town and arsenal at an altitude of more than 3000 meters.

Little did they know that the new regiment's eight twin-mounted 8mm anti-aircraft guns had already become combat-ready.

Eight anti-aircraft guns launched cross-fire attacks on the two Japanese reconnaissance planes flying upright from different directions.

Clouds of smoke exploded around the Japanese reconnaissance planes, and in less than a minute, two Japanese reconnaissance planes were hit one after another.

Not long after, another Japanese reconnaissance plane also fell straight down, leaving a trail of smoke, like a kite with a broken string.

Then a ball of sparks flew across the hill.

Hearing the explosion, Li Yunlong quickly raised his binoculars to look over, a smile on his face: "Buy one, get one free! The Japs are really good. How many Japs reconnaissance planes have been shot down?"

A young staff officer beside him replied, "Commander, including the three we shot down last week, this is the fifth one we've shot down."

"Not bad." Li Yunlong nodded with satisfaction. "Five planes plus five pilots, we earned 5 planes."

The first batch of 300 flight cadets are about to graduate and return, and the Eighth Route Army is currently in dire need of aircraft.

Zhao Gang smiled faintly: "It seems that the Japanese have noticed something and are getting anxious, so they sent reconnaissance planes to our base regardless of the losses to find out the truth."

"Are you anxious now?" Li Yunlong snorted coldly. "It's too late. From the moment they entered Chinese soil with weapons, they had no hope of leaving China alive."

"Report."

Just then, a voice sounded outside the door.

"Come in."

An Eighth Route Army officer with a resolute look walked in quickly and saluted Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang: "Report to the regiment commander and political commissar, Ma Renxing is here to report!"

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang returned the salute.

"You've had a hard time along the way." Zhao Gang poured a bowl of cold boiled water and handed it to him, saying, "Have a drink first."

"Thank you, Political Commissar." Ma Renxing drank the cold boiled water in one gulp.

"How many men are there in the cavalry column now?" Li Yunlong asked. "How is their combat effectiveness?"

"Report to the commander," Ma Renxing replied immediately, "Our cavalry column has a total of six cavalry battalions, each with approximately 6 men, for a total strength of over 1000 men."

During this period, Ma Renxing had been recruiting and training troops in Wuyuan and Baotou.

The results were encouraging, and the cavalry column developed rapidly.

"Haha, that's right." Li Yunlong asked, "I heard your cavalry column is almost reaching Zhangjiakou. Is that true?"

It was Li Yunlong's order to let Ma Renxing lead the troops out to fight alone.

The regiment was responsible for providing weapons and ammunition. The fact that you were able to lead the troops was a testament to your skill. "Commander, your intelligence is incredibly well-informed," Ma Renxing nodded. "It's true. The Japanese sent a cavalry regiment to attack Guisui. They encountered our cavalry column, but they were defeated and we chased them all the way to Zhangjiakou."

"Since we didn't destroy many Japanese cavalry, we didn't report it to the regiment headquarters."

Zhao Gang criticized: "Even if we didn't destroy many Japanese cavalry, we must report it to the regiment headquarters and not let it happen again."

"Yes, Political Commissar," Ma Renxing said hurriedly, "I will definitely report to the regiment headquarters next time."

Li Yunlong didn't care. Instead, he liked this kind of commander: "Go and arrange for the troops to rest first. This time the troops will gather and there will be big moves."

Ma Renxing asked, "Captain, are we going to attack Taiyuan?"

"That's right." Li Yunlong nodded, "This time we have to recapture Taiyuan."

"Yes!" Ma Renxing's eyes lit up and he turned and left quickly.

Li Yunlong: "The cavalry column alone has over 6000 cavalrymen, and together with the cavalry battalions of the infantry columns, that's almost 1 cavalrymen."

"It's equivalent to two cavalry divisions." Zhao Gang nodded. He didn't know why Li Yunlong was so fond of cavalry, and he never asked.

However, even though the New 1st Regiment is now semi-motorized, Li Yunlong still has not given up on developing the cavalry unit. Now the scale of the New 1st Regiment's cavalry unit is already quite large.

Moreover, the cavalry units of the new regiment were equipped with all-type Type 81 cavalry swords, semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, bazookas and mortars.

Although they had no mountain artillery and howitzers, they were equipped with 120 heavy mortars, and their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of ordinary Japanese troops.

"Two cavalry divisions..."

Li Yunlong stared at the northwest direction of the national map and sneered twice.

"Old Li!"

"Old Li!"

Just then, two familiar voices sounded outside the door.

Not long after the words fell, Ding Wei and Kong Jie walked into the regiment headquarters together.

"Haha, Lao Ding, Lao Kong!"

"You two brought the team here from northern Shaanxi so quickly?"

Li Yunlong greeted him with a hearty laugh. The two sides saluted each other, then shook each other's hands a few times.

"How can it be so fast?" Ding Wei said, "The troops just crossed the Yellow River!"

Kong Jie said with a smile, "We call this 'the commander goes before the troops arrive. Old Li, guess how many troops our two regiments brought this time?"

"How many troops can you two lead?" Li Yunlong said nonchalantly, "More than 30,000 at most."

"Small, small-minded." Ding Wei said, "This time, Lao Kong and I brought more than 50,000 troops from northern Shaanxi."

"More than 50,000?" Li Yunlong asked, his eyes widening slightly. "Where did you two get so many people?"

Kong Jie laughed and said, "You kid don't think that Lao Ding and I are leading the troops to northern Shaanxi to protect the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, do you?"

Li Yunlong asked, "Then where did you go?"

Kong Jie then said, "You are the only one who can poach Yan Laoxi's girlfriend, so why can't we do the same?"

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang suddenly realized that these two guys were really not easy to deal with.

Li Yunlong thought about it. Now that Yan Laoxi had lost the territory in western Shanxi, Chiang Kai-shek was strangling the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army in terms of supply.

In addition, most of the officers and soldiers of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were from Shanxi Province, and they must want to fight the Japanese, so they could really dig some of them over.

"What a shame," Ding Wei said. "Old Yan Laoxi was quick to react, otherwise Lao Kong and I could have recruited more troops."

Li Yunlong asked, "Then guess how many troops my New First Regiment has now?"

Kong Jie said, "Your troops are no different from lice on a monk's head. It's obvious. The combined strength of the Northwest Shanxi base and the Central Shanxi base is only about thirty battalions, or more than fifty thousand men."

"I'll shock you when I tell you this." Li Yunlong held up five fingers on his right hand. "Now my New First Regiment has a total of fifty-six battalions, more than eighty thousand men!"

"More than fifty battalions, more than eighty thousand men!" Kong Jie's eyes widened. "Have you made a fortune again, kid?" (End of this chapter)