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Soon, Li Yunlong finished talking with Boss Chen, and waited for Chen Feng to come to the new regiment headquarters in Zhaojiayu.

"Boss Chen is on his way and will be there in about an hour."

Li Yunlong put down the radio, glanced at everyone and said.

Everyone smiled slightly, and their faces showed joy, just like old farmers who were about to have a good harvest. It was finally the time of year to harvest food.

Then, Li Yunlong looked at Xing Zhiguo and asked, "Has there been any change in the 1st Division recently?"

"Reporting head, no!"

Xing Zhiguo's tone was disdainful:
"After the 1st Division fled to Gaoyang County, its main force has been hiding in the county seat, but it has sent a lot of security forces and scouts in the direction of Datong."

"It is estimated that there will be a slight change, and the 1st Division will continue to escape eastward along Pingsui Road."

"The 1st Division is frightened by us." Wang Dehou's mouth curled up slightly, "It has become a frightened bird."

Xing Zhiguo continued: "After Datong was taken back by us, several counties around Datong have become our regiment's territory, and several counties north of Xinzhou have all been taken over."

"In this way, it includes Datong, Hengshan and Wutaishan areas, three counties in the northwest of Shanxi, and several counties in the north of Xinzhou."

"Our new regiment has a total of more than a dozen counties, with a total population of more than 200 million."

With the current strength of the Eighth Route Army in Northwestern Shanxi, after regaining Datong, there is no need to worry about the Japanese taking it back.

The main force of the Mongolian Army was wiped out, the 1st Division became a frightened bird, and its combat effectiveness was not as good as a half of its peak period. The North China Front Army had no choice but to give up Datong.

Although Datong was taken back twice by Xinyituan before, Li Yunlong gave up voluntarily. He didn't want to fight defensively with the devils. Li Yunlong liked to take the initiative to attack.

After the devils in Shanxi received reinforcements from the five divisions of the Japanese army, they expanded their territory.

Taking the Xinzhou Basin as the boundary, the north of the Xinzhou Basin is the territory of the Eighth Route Army, and the south of the Xinzhou Basin is the territory of the Japanese Army.

The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment also each gained some territories.

Moreover, some units of the Jinsui Army were attracted by Ding Wei and Kong Jie by some means.

Li Yunlong expressed satisfaction: "In this way, we will not be short of soldiers and human resources for the time being."

From the map, the area of ​​Xinyi Regiment almost catches up with that of the 129th Division in Southeast Shanxi.

However, northern Shanxi and northwestern Shanxi are vast and sparsely populated, and the new regiment has been in northwest Shanxi for less than a year.

Fortunately, every county has local units of the Eighth Route Army, and even the Eighth Route Army has a county government. Even when the devils occupied these counties, the county brigades, district squads, and guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army fought many battles with the devils.

Although they didn't achieve any decent results, these brother troops fighting behind enemy lines have very good combat experience themselves!

Due to the limitation of weapons and ammunition, the combat effectiveness of the county brigade, district squad and guerrillas is not strong.

However, the main force of the new regiment brought excellent American equipment, and their combat effectiveness was instantly improved several levels.

At present, the main force of the new regiment has been fully equipped with five or six-style guns.

The large amount of American equipment that was eliminated gave Chu Yunfei a strengthened battalion of equipment, and gave Ding Wei and Kong Jie 1 American equipment each.

There are about 3 American equipment left, and Li Yunlong plans to use these American equipment to recruit recruits.

In this way, after three to five months, the new regiment is conservatively estimated to be able to expand its troops by 3.

More importantly, the local government and local troops have laid a very good mass base!

After the troops from the teaching battalion and the divisional battalions were stationed in these counties, coupled with the reputation of the Xinyi Regiment and Li Yunlong, and the food of the Xinyi Regiment was insanely good, the enthusiasm of the masses to join the army was extremely enthusiastic.

When the national army recruits soldiers, they usually recruit strong men.

The Eighth Route Army's recruitment is entirely voluntary.

The combat effectiveness of the troops of both sides is naturally not at the same level.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there are many factors that affect the combat effectiveness of an army.

Afterwards, Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff, summarize the situation of the divisional battalions and teaching camps in each county as soon as possible, and then report to me."

At present, all the battalions in the division, except the second battalion in the division, will be picked up by Boss Chen's transport plane, and the rest of the battalions have been dispersed to station in various counties.

However, the main battalions and heavy weapon battalions are still in Northwest Shanxi.

If all the troops are dispersed, if the Japanese attack the base area in northwestern Shanxi, there will be big trouble.

The divisions and battalions in the counties are not scattered and developed like in the original play.

Instead, the divisional battalions are responsible for training and showing off their muscles, and then the new regiment's teaching battalion recruits recruits for unified training.

"Yes, Captain."

Wang Dehou straightened his body.

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang and asked, "Old Zhao, how is the bombing of the Taiyuan Japs by the flying brigade these days?"

"It's okay!"

Zhao Gang smiled slightly and responded:
"According to the report from the flying brigade, the devils had no defenses on the first day, and the devils suffered relatively heavy casualties."

"The devils gained experience in air defense in the next few days, and the casualties of the devils were much smaller."

"It's worth mentioning that the napalm provided by Boss Chen caused a lot of casualties to the devils."

"Currently, our flying brigade has zero casualties."

"Good job!"

With a satisfied expression, Li Yunlong took out a letter of commendation from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Gang:

"The head of the headquarters has agreed to award the new group's flying brigade collective first-class merit. You can find an opportunity to give it to the flying brigade."

Then Wang Dehou also took out a pennant from a sack.

The pennant reads the words "No. 18 Group Army Xinyi Regiment Flying Brigade First Class Merit" and so on.

Zhao Gang is the political commissar, so he has to do this kind of work.

Zhao Gang took a look at the letter of commendation, and saw that the letter of commendation read: The Flying Brigade of the New First Regiment was brave and decisive in the battle to kill Yoshimoto Teiichi and wipe out the air force of the North China Front Army. It performed outstandingly and achieved great results. The Political Department of the 18th Group Army decided to award the new first-class collective merit to the Flying Brigade of the [-]th Group Army...

"it is good!"

Zhao Gang nodded and smiled slightly.

He expected that the flying team would win first-class collective merit, and even have a chance to achieve first-class merit.

If this record is achieved by a certain person, it will definitely be a special merit, but if it is a group, there is a high probability that it will be a first-class merit.

"By the way, how are you going to fight this big counterattack?"

"Have you finalized the battle plan?"

After putting away the letter of commendation and the banner, Zhao Gang then looked at Li Yunlong and Wang Dehou, with a hint of expectation in his tone.

"This time, it's a serious counterattack. The main force of the 129th Division is fully deployed, and all other brothers in North China's military regions must cooperate in the battle."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze was fierce:

"The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment are still under my command. Let's attack the devils in Taiyuan from the north!"

This time, Li Yunlong only commanded the 129th Division in name, allowing the 129th Division to get the opportunity to airdrop supplies and ammunition reimbursement, and the actual command authority belonged to the division commander.

After the big battle last time, Li Yunlong also communicated with Boss Chen.

In view of the relatively large results of the Eighth Route Army last time, it was also agreed that Li Yunlong would command the troops of the 129th Division in name.

Because it is commanded in name, there are restrictions, and it can command at most one division's troops.

The main force of the 129th Division plus the total strength of the militia is 40 million. The establishment is a division. It is no problem to command the 129th Division.

But if you add other troops such as the Jizhong Military Region, it will not work.

If it is not commanding in name but actually commanding, Boss Chen will reimburse and arrange airdrops for no matter how many troops Li Yunlong commands, even if he is commanding millions of troops to fight.

Li Yunlong continued: "According to intelligence, the main force of the Japanese in Taiyuan is the 41st Division, the 24th Division, and the 28th and [-]th Divisions transferred from the Kwantung Army."

"Combined with some miscellaneous troops of the First Army, the total strength is about 7."

"In addition, there are the 11th Division transferred from the 40th Group Army and the 56th Division transferred from the Southern Army, stationed in Shouyang and Yangquan respectively."

The Pacific War is still in its infancy.

The little devil fought against the US military on the Pacific battlefield and gained some advantages.

He even won a big victory in Southeast Asia and made a fortune.

It just so happened that Li Yunlong sent a clear-coded telegram to kill 16 devil generals, which made the Japanese base camp feel extremely humiliated.

Tian Locust was even more furious, so he ordered Tojo Hideji to remove the elite troops and allocate combat supplies to eliminate Li Yunlong and his new regiment.

Neji Okamura has already made a plan to attack Li Yunlong and Xinyi Regiment in Northwest Shanxi.

However, the plan failed to catch up with the changes. Li Yunlong took the lead in launching a spring offensive against the Japanese army, wiping out the main force of the troops stationed in Mongolia, beating the already crippled 1st Division even further, and annihilating the 33rd and 37th Divisions.

Under such circumstances, Okamura Neiji naturally did not dare to attack northwest Shanxi again, but was prepared to vent his anger on the Central Hebei Military Region.

In fact, Neiji Okamura knew that it was best to vent his anger on the national army, and he could win a big battle with a small number of troops, but it was a pity that the national army was too far away from the North China Front Army, and it was simply out of reach.

Li Yunlong stared at the map and continued to analyze: "The total strength of the devils in Shanxi is about 10, and the puppet army does not exceed 5."

"Our main forces in Northwest Shanxi and Southeast Shanxi total more than 30. If militias are added, the total strength exceeds 50."

"It seems like that." Zhao Gang's eyes lit up, "Our Eighth Route Army has a huge advantage."

What Zhao Gang said has great advantages, which is very different from what Lao Jiang said about me.

Many of the militias, guerrillas, county brigades, and district squads of the Eighth Route Army now have good combat capabilities, and their equipment is similar to that of the Eighth Route Army's core regiments two years ago.

Regardless of its military strength, equipment and firepower, the Eighth Route Army crushed the Japanese and puppet troops in Shanxi in all aspects.

And also has air power.

Both Li Yunlong and the head of the headquarters are full of confidence in this major counterattack.

Even in the last battle to wipe out the 33rd Division and the 37th Division, the Eighth Route Army did not use all its strategic weapons.

And this big counterattack is a real bright sword, with all the cards in the hole.