Listening to Li Ziyuan's words, the corps commander kept nodding his head: "Your analysis and judgment still have a certain amount of truth." However, you only see the contradiction between the Central Army and the miscellaneous army, but you ignore a very important point. Indeed, my fellow countryman in Taiyuan City is now the first to preserve his strength. ”

"But one thing, he's clear. That is, no matter what kind of contradictions there are between the two armies, now they are all trapped in a lonely city, and they are all grasshoppers on a rope. His abacus is fine, but he still knows one thing, that is, the truth of cold lips and teeth. ”

"Your analysis cannot be said to be unreasonable. However, as a warlord who has been rolling among the warlords for decades, the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, which were far stronger than him, and the Sichuan Army, which far surpassed his in strength, have all been completely divided and disintegrated. It can be said that as the only big warlord who has mixed up with the current day during the Beiyang warlord period, his eyelids are not so narrow. ”

"Compared with the second horse in the northwest battlefield, and the Gui family in the south, whose ambition is greater than his strength, he has been able to survive until now without breaking his muscles and bones. It must be said that it has something to do with his fine calculations. He may be timid, but his eyelids are not shallow to that point. ”

"Suffice it to say, you're really gambling this time. But you're betting on how long his hesitation will last. and his petty family, how big his movements will be. Of course, these judgments of yours also play a role. At least, my fellow countryman was really hesitant to send reinforcements. ”

"Your style of play is a bit too risky, but you can defeat one of their half-American mechanics one-on-one in a single battle. It has not only gained combat experience in corps units and U.S. armament units. It also set a record for the whole army to destroy a half-American division of the Central Army with the strength of a brigade. ”

"I have already brought over a garrison brigade from Jinsui to take over your task of continuing the siege. You go down first and make up for it, and what is the next task will be when you finish it. I have already given an order to the Political Department of the Corps to transfer a group of liberation fighters to you first. Two more key regiments will be transferred from the Jinzhong Military Region and supplied to you together. Do you have any more requirements? ”

Regarding the commander's concern, Li Ziyuan shook his head and said: "I don't have any other requirements, I just hope that the chief can give us all the prisoners and captured weapons of this group of youth army." If you agree, I only need one of the two backbone regiments of the Jinzhong Military Region. Also, if I can transfer a batch of recruits from the party, I don't want any of the two basic regiments. ”

Li Ziyuan's request was not excessive, and after the commander pondered for a while, he smiled and said to the deputy commander and deputy political commissar beside him, as well as the commander and political commissar of Li Ziyuan's column: "It seems that the youngest brigade commander of our corps has an ordinary appetite, and he also wants to make his brigade a semi-American armed force. ”

"But in terms of his performance this time, it's not too much to ask. Units with strong combat effectiveness should be given priority to being equipped with sophisticated weapons. What do you think? Most of this batch of weapons and ammunition, as well as the captives, were allocated to them as a reward? ”

Hearing that the commander was actually a disguised promise, the column commander and political commissar who were Li Ziyuan's top boss were naturally happy to push the boat along the way. The commander smiled: "I think it's okay, since the formation of our column, their brigade has always been the number one main brigade of our column, and it is also a sharp knife in the hands of our column." ”

"It is said that good steel is used on the blade, and I think it can meet his requirements. In this way, it can also allow them to recover as soon as possible. But the other liberation fighters don't think about it anymore, now all the troops are not satisfied, can't they all come? This time, we have been replenished with 3,000 new soldiers from the old base area, and I think they can be given to them. ”

"During the Anti-Japanese War, he was good at training troops when he was in the old 129th Division and the Taihang Military Region, and the troops he brought out were definitely fist and sharp knife troops when they arrived in the column. It is not difficult to be the commander in charge of a unit and bring out a fighting group. But changing a few troops, they can bring out a group of troops who are screaming on the battlefield, which is not easy to do. ”

"The troops he brought out, whether it was the use of tactics, or the will to fight, including the fighting style, were absolutely first-class. Except for being a little wild, I don't say anything else. However, this field is also on the battlefield and the enemy's field, and the enforcement of mass discipline is still not ambiguous at all. ”

"I thought that these three thousand recruits were allocated to him, and with this boy's ability, there would be no big problem in coming out in three or two months. The backbone regiment of the Jinzhong Military Region was still combined with the regiment that was strengthened to him. Strive to restore the regiment to combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time. The regiment assigned to him also suffered nearly two-thirds of the casualties this time. ”

Regarding Li Ziyuan's superior's remarks, the corps commander laughed and did not say anything more. Just told Li Ziyuan to immediately sum up his experience and report the experience of this battle to the corps headquarters. At the same time, he told the chief of the Corps Operations Division around him, and after Li Ziyuan's experience was summed up, it was immediately distributed to all troops.

In addition, he told him that he must complete the reorganization of the troops and complete the training again in the shortest possible time. His sharp knife must not be curled for such a long time. After the main battlefield over there, it's time for a general offensive here. When the time comes, his brigade will also be used as the main force.

Regarding the requirements of the corps commander, Li Ziyuan naturally did not hesitate to ensure that they were completed. For Li Ziyuan at this time, when he got what he wanted, he could naturally agree to anything. Of course, in terms of his character, if he is not allowed to go on the general attack, it will be the most uncomfortable thing.

It's just that the superiors agreed to return, but Li Ziyuan is not so greedy. All those weapons and equipment were given to him, but he didn't really have to keep them all. With the exception of Thomson*, most of the rest of the weapons were left behind*, only *fifty were left.

The rest of the American-made light machine guns, along with ammunition, were also handed in. * Only fifty were left, and the rest were all turned over to the column. More than half of the captured anti-aircraft guns were also surrendered, and he only left six American-made anti-aircraft guns. However, several large-caliber machine guns dropped by the airdrop in the later period were left by him.

The reason is very simple, although there are a large number of beautiful equipment added there. But the entire Chinese battlefield is still dominated by 79 calibers. And in addition to the quality and *, he did not feel that there was anything more than the national armament of the American and light weapons. Although the American-made rifle itself is not equipped, it has been seen in other units.

Those American-made rifles were not what I saw in TV dramas decades later, and I didn't know until this era that they were called M type 1 semi-automatic rifles. It's the inventory of the United States during World War I, what M 1917 rifle, or what Chuntian rifle, and the Chinese official are the same bolt-action rifles.

And the * light machine gun cannot change the barrel, and the magazine capacity is the same as that of the domestic Czech type, twenty rounds. Compared with the Chinese-made Czech-made Browning light machine gun, which had been imported from Belgium before the war, it had almost no advantages except for better workmanship.

The non-universality of the ammunition caliber makes this only advantage almost dispensable. Those Browning water-cooled heavy machine guns are indeed much better in quality than the domestically made imitation 30-knot heavy machine guns. But in the Shanxi battlefield, which is short of water as a whole, it is not as good as the air-cooled Type 92 heavy machine gun imitated by the Jin Sui Army.

What he really liked, in addition to that batch*, was the thousands of medium-formal rifles, and half of the Czech-style light machine guns with a quality that surpassed the Jin-made light machine guns. There are also those purely American-made 60 guns,*, as well as 81-millimeter mortars and 107-millimeter chemical mortars.

After that batch of 79 rifles, his brigade was basically all 79 calibers. The original Jin-made and Japanese-made 65 rifles, as well as old guns such as Hanyang-made and Yuannian-style, can all be eliminated to achieve unity in caliber. The Czech light machine gun can also replace some of the crooked machine guns equipped with the troops.

This is what he values the most. Although for the People's Liberation Army, which is good at fighting white-knuckle warfare, the 38 type with a longer gun body is the most suitable. But the two calibers of the current weapons of the troops are indeed a bit too chaotic. Unifying the caliber of light weapons is what Li Ziyuan wants to do the most. Therefore, in the end, he should still hand it over.

After sending off the commanders who came to the summary meeting in person, as well as the heads of the line. Li Ziyuan couldn't bear the exhaustion of his body, and after organizing the troops to hand over to the troops who came to take over the defense, he withdrew to the second-line area to rest and stand by. As for the captured prisoners, according to the policy, after all the officers above the major rank were sent to the corps headquarters, the rest were handed over to Ma Yongcheng.

After barely supporting Liu Cui's house, Li Ziyuan didn't even get out of the car, and fell asleep in his American jeep. Looking at the tired chief, Xue Dongshan didn't dare to disturb him. After covering Li Ziyuan with a military coat, he stood guard by the car with the * he had just changed.

And under the leadership of the little brother who had just met, the baby who went out to play saw his father falling asleep in the car, and carefully raised his little finger to his brother. Children who grew up listening to the sound of gunfire in the army have many things imprinted in their minds from the day they began to remember.

After the last Jinzhong Battle, Li Ziyuan, who had not slept for a few days and nights, fell asleep on a horse when he went to pick up his daughter. This time, the superior distributed an American-made jeep to him from the trophies, and Li Ziyuan did not have to sleep on the horse. But the baby also knew that Dad must have not slept for a few days, so he was very sensible and didn't let the little brother make a sound.

At this time, whether it was Li Ziyuan, who was sleeping, or the baby who was very sensible and knew not to disturb his father's sleep, he didn't know that he was disturbed by the dense gunfire in the direction of Dongshan yesterday, and he didn't sleep all night Liu Cui, who was worried about Li Ziyuan. At the moment, he was leaning on the door, looking at the exhausted Li Ziyuan with a distressed face.

The expression on Liu Cui's face, Li Ziyuan, who fell into a deep sleep, did not see it. But He Sanliang, who was directing the retreat of the brigade headquarters, saw the expression on Liu Cui's face. He Sanliang looked at Liu Cui, and then looked at the baby who turned around and dragged Liu Cui's hand after seeing his father sleeping, and refused to let go, smiled meaningfully and turned away.

It's just that Li Ziyuan didn't sleep for long, although it was already early winter, but the chickens and dogs in the countryside didn't let the sleep last too long. After waking up, Li Ziyuan took a hot towel handed over by the guard and wiped his face, and suddenly felt refreshed.