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Chapter 689 Worthy of Award!

After lunch and taking a short rest, the heads of the headquarters locked Li Yunlong in the conference room to discuss matters.

"Li Yunlong, tell the truth, how many troops does your new regiment have now?" asked the chief of staff.

Every once in a while, the troops below will report to their superiors about their establishment.

However, some units are relatively far away, and the Eighth Route Army's communication methods are backward, and the establishment of some units cannot be reported in time.

For example, in the Hundred Regiments War, according to the statistics at the end of the battle, there were actually 105 regiments of the Eighth Route Army participating in the battle.

The Xinyi Regiment is considered the fastest-growing unit in the history of the Eighth Route Army, and basically needs to be expanded every few months.

That is to say, the Xinyi Regiment often fights and often wins battles. Only by expanding in this way can it maintain its combat effectiveness. If other troops expand in this way, the average combat effectiveness of the troops will become very low.

"Veterans plus new recruits now total more than 4 people. When the next wave of expansion is completed, the main force should be close to 5 people."

Faced with the chief of staff's question, Li Yunlong answered truthfully:

"Our Xinyi regiment is still expanding the militia team. If the militia is added, there may be 8 to [-] people."

That is to say, the Xinyi Regiment has not been in Northwest Shanxi for a long time, and the militias it has developed are not too many.

Like the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the number of militiamen even exceeds the strength of the main force.

It is also relatively simple to develop the militia. A few obsolete rifles and dozens of bullets are issued to a village, even if a militia team of dozens or hundreds of people is pulled up.

However, Li Yunlong didn't want to develop this kind of militia team. He chose young and middle-aged people, and every two or three militiamen were equipped with a [-]-year-old cover to ensure that every militiaman had a gun and could shoot live ammunition at ordinary times.

Because the new regiment will expand its main force in the future, it will have to recruit from the militia.

The chief of staff and the chief, as well as the division commander and the brigade commander, all looked at each other with deep surprise in each other's eyes.

The development speed of Xinyituan is too fast, right?
In late May last year, the main force of the Japanese First Army attacked Zhongtiao Mountain. Li Yunlong led the main force of the 3 Eighth Route Army to attack Taiyuan northward. At that time, the Xinyi Regiment had only 7000 people.

In just over half a year, the new regiment has expanded nearly eight times, and it has also guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the expanded troops!
"Hey, I have successfully completed the task assigned to me by the head of the headquarters, right?"

With a smile, Li Yunlong asked.

In the original play, Audio-Technica had no choice but to go to the northwest of Shanxi. Faced with the siege of the devils, they had to go to the northwest of Shanxi.

But right now, the head of the headquarters sent Li Yunlong to take the New First Regiment, as well as the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment to Northwest Shanxi.

It is because of the development potential of Li Yunlong and the New First Regiment, that they brought along the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment by the way.

After the development and growth of the three regiments, they showed an angle with the main force of the 129th Division in Southeast Shanxi, threatening Taiyuan and Zhengtai Railway together.

"You didn't complete the task satisfactorily," said the chief.

Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment, thinking that this is not a successful completion of the task, so how can it be considered a successful completion of the task?
Immediately afterwards, the chief laughed again and said, "You have overfulfilled the task and deserve to be rewarded!"

The chief's expression was extremely satisfied. Even without relying on the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi, the strength of the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi is now fully capable of threatening the Little Devil's First Army.

Even, Shanxi Northwest Iron Triangle already has the strength to attack Taiyuan.

When the expansion of the new regiment is completed, the main force of the new regiment will be nearly 5, the independent regiment and the new second regiment will each have 2 people, and the total main force will be 9.

The same number of second-line divisions of the Japanese army are not opponents of the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi at all.

Only the same number of first-line divisions of the Japanese army, that is, using at least 3 Type A divisions, can have the strength to compete with the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi.

The Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle has good weapons and equipment and strong firepower. The strength of an army is mainly reflected in its strong firepower.

Li Yunlong smiled and said: "Chief, then our new regiment will expand to nearly 1 troops, and there is a shortage of grassroots officers..."

"No problem." The chief waved his hand, "I'll give you the best grassroots officers, many of whom are officers who graduated from the Anti-Japanese University. I'll give you as much as you want."

Now that the Eighth Route Army is developing rapidly, all major first-level military regions and second-level military regions lack officers who can lead troops at the grassroots level.

An experienced company and platoon-level officer is sent among the masses without a gun or a grain of food, and a company can be brought out within a month.

Many local units of the Eighth Route Army developed in this way.

But the head of the headquarters dispatched outstanding officers to the Xinyi regiment, and the heads of other military regions did not dare to say anything.

No way, who made Li Yunlong able to fight, and every time he handed over the weapons and ammunition to the headquarters, it was a big deal.

For the 5000 tons of combat materials handed in last time, and the weapons and ammunition equipment of 3 people handed in this time, the head of the headquarters has to meet all the conditions of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong was overjoyed, and quickly thanked: "Thank you, chief, thank you, chief."

"You're welcome." The chief of staff smiled. "This is what your new regiment deserves. The organization is very satisfied with your performance. How many junior officers does your regiment need?"

Li Yunlong was also polite, and directly asked the head of the headquarters for more than 300 grassroots officers.

Most of them are company and platoon level officers, and most of them are company and platoon level excellent officers who graduated from the Anti-Japanese University.

These officers were originally the best who were transferred from various units to study at the Anti-Japanese University, and they have rich combat experience and combat experience.

In the new regiment, Li Yunlong secretly thought that the new recruits could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. This trip back to the headquarters was not a loss.

Next, Li Yunlong mentioned to the head of the headquarters that Northwest Shanxi would set up schools to focus on education and build an arsenal.

Regarding these two things, Northwest Shanxi needs the support of the headquarters if they want to get started as soon as possible.

I want to ask the head of the headquarters whether he supports it or not?

The head of the headquarters must support it, and he still does his best to support it.

Running schools and focusing on education is a great thing that benefits the country and the people, and building an arsenal is even more necessary for a strong army.

After a little thought, the head of the headquarters agreed to Li Yunlong, sending intellectuals to be teachers in Northwest Shanxi, as well as additional technicians from the arsenal.

Due to the urgent shortage of technicians in the arsenal, the headquarters is also in short supply, so the headquarters will negotiate with Yan Xishan, the commander of the second war zone, to see if they can find a way to get the technicians in his hands from Yan Laoxi.

The meeting ends.

Li Yunlong proposed the most important counterattack plan proposal to the head of the headquarters.

About half a year later, after the Eighth Route Army has aircraft, it can launch a full-scale counterattack against the First Army in Shanxi.

Of course, once the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi went to war with the Japanese army, the whole of North China would be in a mess.

The head of the headquarters seriously considered Li Yunlong's suggestion and felt that the timing of the counterattack was not a big problem.

If we really want to fight, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army must start preparations from now on: stockpiling materials, gathering intelligence, actual combat and non-actual combat training, formulating combat plans, and so on.

According to Li Yunlong's plan, at that time, it is only necessary to close the gate of Shanxi, the Iron Triangle in the northwest of Shanxi and the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Shanxi, and then they can close the door to the Japanese First Army.

If the battle goes well, not even a devil in the First Army can escape from Shanxi!

(End of this chapter)