When Yamamoto and Yoshio Shinozuka, two old devils, were plotting how to deal with the conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army.

Separate regiments.

After Chu Yunfei and other officers of the Jin Sui Army left on the front foot, the independent regiment ushered in two more things.

In the first case, news came from the direction of Yangquan that the merchant ship of the American merchant John had arrived in Shanxi half a day ago.

According to the plan, John's merchant ship should carry the second batch of arms promised Kong Jie.

As for the specific number, Kong Jie didn't know, but he had some expectations in his heart.

To this day, for Kong Jie, if the quantity of American equipment is not large, no matter how sophisticated it is, it cannot change the trend too much.

What is needed throughout the base area is the quantity of equipment and ammunition to expand to the entire army.

For the entire Eighth Route Army, it is better to have tens of thousands of more rifles than a few heavy artillery pieces in terms of equipment, and the role played is far greater than that of a few heavy artillery.

Not to mention, if the entire Taihang base area can have an extra 100,000 rifles, plus one or two million rounds of ammunition, can the little devil still have the courage to run behind the enemy to carry out a sweep?

Therefore, after the second batch of arms arrived, Kong Jie actually wanted to do a bigger business through the United States.

So when he sent someone to secretly receive the second batch of munitions brought by John's caravan, Kong Jie asked Shen Quan, who was in charge of leading the team, to bring a letter to John.

In the letter, Conte told John that he hoped to further expand his arms business with John.

The reason Kong Jie said very clearly:

"If our country wants to resist the Japanese invaders, we need guns, we don't need very good guns, even if it is a gun that you Americans have eliminated, as long as it can be used to kill the enemy, you send it over, and I will take it all."

"There are definitely not a few guns that you Americans have eliminated on the battlefield, rather than selling them as broken copper, John, if you want, you can transport them to my territory in China and sell them to me Kong Jie."

"This deal won't even end with the exit of your concession, it's a long-term and solid deal."

……

John was a clever businessman, and he could certainly see the potential for great commercial value in Kong Jie's words.

As for Kong Jie's true identity, Kong Jie didn't say anything, and John didn't ask much.

When an arms dealer sells arms, will he ask more about the identity of the other party?

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Quan and his entourage secretly transported the arms sent by John back to the headquarters of the Independent Regiment at night, and brought back a reply letter from John.

The reply was written in Chinese, which made Kong Jie breathe a long sigh of relief, or he would have to show his Chinese English.

In the letter, John expressed his willingness to continue the business cooperation with Kong Jie, including in the field of arms.

John also said that the next time he arrives with the caravan, he wants to meet with Kong Jie again to discuss the details of the follow-up cooperation.

Finally, John's words were a little urgent, "Xu, after the third batch of munitions arrives, I hope you can give me the last third of that design drawing." ”

……

What's the hurry?

Kong Jie is not in a hurry at all, there is no design drawing of this MP3 submachine gun, can you John send me the arms in such a hurry?

The third of the back design is the finishing part of the core.

Regiment headquarters.

Kong Jie is more concerned about this second batch of arms, and how many of these American veterans have sent.

Shen Quan's face was irrepressible excitement and ecstasy, and when he saw Kong Jie, he couldn't help but say:

"Commander, the old man from the United States has really sent a lot of equipment this time!"

"How many?" Kong Jie asked.

"There are more than 2,000 rifles, more than 20 heavy machine guns, 60 light machine guns, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 30 M2 60mm mortars, but there are fewer shells, only half a base shell for each gun, and some semi-automatic pistols and shotguns......"

Speaking of the specific quantity of this batch of munitions, Shenquan is a treasure, after all, the second battalion commander personally counted it.

"Gone?"

"It's gone!" Shenquan Road.

Kong Jie's face was not happy, "Compared to the amount that John promised me, it is still a lot less. ”

Shen Quan said: "Regiment commander, I also asked the American elder about this matter, and the American elder said that he was afraid that there would be an accident along the way and the Japanese army would detect it, so he controlled the number." ”

Kong Jie sneered, probably knowing what John's idea was in his heart.

After Shen Quan left, Kong Jie immediately wrote a second letter, and then called the person in charge of the intelligence department of the Independent Regiment and explained: "Send the letter to Tianjin and hand it over to Lao Zhou, and Lao Zhou knows how to do the rest." ”

"Yes!"

In the letter, Kong Jie explained that he was the representative businessmen Gao Qiang and Zhu Xuming who stayed in Tianjin, and the specific content was to ask the two not to rush to buy John's old American factories in China, and wait for specific notices from their side.

Kong Jie wanted to see how long John, a cunning American old, wanted to handle.

If you don't send me a large quantity of arms, I will never give you benefits easily.

When the situation becomes more and more dangerous, and the British and American concessions are about to be unable to be saved, I don't think you, John, are in a hurry.

When the time comes, you will treat the arms as a cabbage, and you will have to sell them to me.

In this regard, Kong Jie never took seriously the goodwill that the United States had shown on the surface.

Instead of believing in the character of American capitalists, you should believe that sows will go up trees!

……

After this matter is dealt with, it is the second thing.

Wang Anlai, the head of the enemy engineering department, came to the regiment headquarters to find Kong Jie and reported:

"Regiment Commander, there is one thing that I have to report to you personally, during this period of time, our base area has been engaged in cold gun and cold artillery movements everywhere, and the devil puppet army has suffered a lot of losses on the periphery of our base area."

"The devils set off several sweeps and retaliated, but they were all repelled by the tunnel warfare and guerrilla warfare we launched relying on various villages, as well as sparrow warfare."

"In addition, after the equipment of the militia units around us has been strengthened again, the combat effectiveness has been improved a lot. Sometimes, the devil's sweeping troops have not yet touched our base area, and they are cleaned up by our militia fighters. ”

"According to what you meant at the beginning, now some anti-Japanese brigades composed of militia around us have been pulled out, and the troops may not be enough, but this gimmick has been played."

Kong Jie said with a smile: "This is called pulling the tiger's skin and scaring the devils, and the appearance of the militia anti-Japanese brigade can confuse the judgment of the little devils even more, so that the devils can't figure out the strength of our base and can't see clearly." ”

Wang An smiled: "Who said it wasn't!" This has come and gone, and the little devil seems to have admitted it. ”

"In addition, according to the order given by you as the regiment commander, as long as the militia units around us get the materials for producing munitions, rails, and wires, they can be exchanged for equipment by our independent regiment."

"After the order was issued, how could our militia comrades still sit still? After three days and two ends, the devils repaired the railway, but as soon as they turned around, they were taken away by everyone, and hundreds of thousands of meters of wires were missing. ”

"Because of this, the little devils have to constantly spend manpower and material resources to rebuild the railroad tracks, build power lines, build roads, etc., and also have to spend manpower everywhere to strengthen patrols."

"The devil puppet army was also beaten by us to lose their temper, on the one hand, because of the sabotage on our side, they were held accountable by their superiors, and on the other hand, they were also afraid of being attacked by our cold guns and cold guns during the patrol."

"So just two days ago, a puppet army secretly passed the news to our Eighth Route Army through the people, according to the words of the puppet army, this time the fornication is still the meaning of some devil officers."

Kong Jie heard it with interest: "Oh, interesting, what tricks does this little devil want to play?" ”

Wang Andao: "Regiment commander, the puppet army said that the devil hopes that we can restrain the troops and stop destroying railways and wires."

In this way, if the devil's superiors don't come to accountability and don't send people to investigate, they can be at peace with both of us, and they won't invade our roots.

In addition, the little devil said that he hoped to cooperate with us in smuggling and make money. ”

"What? The little devil is looking for us to smuggle? Kong Jie was also quite surprised.

Wang An nodded, "Commander, I also wondered, so I came to report to you as soon as I received the news." ”

Kong Jie thought for a moment, but he could also understand the truth.

In recent years, the supplies of the devils have become more and more scarce, and there has even been a shortage of successors, and the life of the low-level devil officers and soldiers is not easy.

In addition, most of the people around the base area of the independent regiment are some devil puppet soldiers who maintain local law and order.

can calm things down, not only avoid the risk of being wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, but also engage in smuggling to make money, and by the way, you can hide from your superiors and avoid being held accountable, why not?

Thinking about it this way, this is the beginning of the Japanese army's defeat, and this news from the Japanese puppet army in secret may really be used.

"In this way, don't rush to give a clear answer to the little devil, first stabilize the devil and the puppet army, and tell them that it is not impossible to cooperate, but I don't trust them enough, I want to see their sincerity."

"Yes!" Wang An responded, and said with some hesitation: "Regiment leader, do we really want to cooperate with the devil puppet army?" ”

Kong Jie said: "There are many ways to eliminate devils, and military operations are actually just a strategy. ”

"Don't underestimate this simple cooperation at the moment, this is the flaw exposed by the Japanese puppet army, we may be able to use these cooperation to slowly corrode the security forces of the Japanese puppet army."

"Think about it, if one day the Japanese puppet army around our base area cooperates with our smuggling, and the small life is very comfortable, and it is full of food and warmth."

"At this time, if the Japanese army headquarters launches another war against our base area, it will cut off the financial route of these devils and puppet troops, so that they will not have a good life."

"The soldiers of the devil puppet army are also people, tell me, by this time, how much fighting spirit can they have to deal with us?"

Wang An suddenly realized when he heard this, and after secretly admiring it, he immediately responded: "Yes, head of the regiment, I understand what to do." ”

"Go ahead! Remember, the principle of doing this well, boiling frogs in warm water, and letting the devil puppet army slowly wear out the will to fight. ”

"Yes!"

After Wang An left, Kong Jie thought about it, although this matter was a good thing, it was easy to fall into the handle in nature.

So this matter has to be discussed with political commissar Li Wenjie, and let Li Wenjie make a report to his superiors, so that he can give our old Kong a black hat in the future, right?

After that, Kong Jie arranged for someone to inform Ye Min.

Let Ye Min take the commando team and give priority to selecting and retaining from the batch of American-style equipment sent by John.

Especially for the M2 60mm mortars sent by John, Kong Jie directly approved ten of them to the commandos.

for follow-up backup.

…………

…………

New 2nd Regiment.

Shi Kui, the head of the 117th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, finally found an opportunity to find Li Yunlong alone.

People are under the eaves, Shi Kui is not embarrassed to beat around the bush, and gets straight to the point: "Brother Yunlong......"

As a result, Li Yunlong didn't give face at all, although he had a smile on his face, his words were choking: "Captain Shi, you still call us Captain Li, I remember that we are not so close, right?" ”

Don't look at Li Yunlong, who usually smiles haha, but Lao Li is so angry!

A good man like Chu Yunfei called Brother Yunlong, he answered, and he didn't buy other people's accounts.

Shi Kui's face froze, a little embarrassed, but he was quickly pressed down again, after all, he was asking for someone.

“…… Commander Li, Ming people don't say secret words, brother, I came here this time to ask you to get back the equipment and people! ”

Li Yunlong pretended to be Hu Tu and said: "Captain Shi, we can't understand what you say, ask me for equipment and people, what does this mean?" ”

Shi Kui hurriedly said: "Squad Leader Li, don't pretend to be a lake, aren't all the more than 300 soldiers in my three battalions let you be taken back to the new second regiment?" Also, the equipment of my two battalions is now in your hands! ”

Li Yunlong said: "Captain Shi, don't spew blood, our old Li caught the traitor team of fornicating devils, when did you catch your Jin Suijun?" ”

Squee: "......"

How could he not see that this Li Yunlong was deliberately pretending to be a lake, and he ate cleanly with a wipe of his mouth, and he didn't want to admit it!

"Commander Li, it's too unkind for you to do this, I admit that my third battalion commander really deserves to die, he dared to surrender to the Japanese army, this kind of thing is what I hate the most."

"In this way, if Regiment Commander Li is willing, my three battalion commanders, you will shoot him for me, and clean up the portal, but my more than 300 brothers, as well as the equipment of two battalions, Commander Li, you are afraid that you will have to return it to me, or I will not be able to pay it to the top."

Li Yunlong seemed to react at this time, and his originally flat face showed a smile, and said: "Oh, Commander Shi, I understand, it turns out that the cowards of the more than 300 surrendered devils are the soldiers of your 117th Regiment?" ”

"Shi is ashamed!"

"Well, since it's Regiment Commander Shi's troops, in this way, I'll go back and put back the more than 300 captives, it's all done, right?

In addition, I will return your three battalion commanders to you, and it is up to Captain Shi to clean up the portal! Li Yunlong said.

Shi Kui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and replied: "Then thank you to Commander Li, Commander Li understands the righteousness, and Shi admires it." ”

Li Yunlong said with a smile: "What is the truth or not the righteousness, the key is that you put more than 300 mouths in my new second regiment, I still have to take care of the food, shoot the commander of the third battalion of your family, I still have to waste a bullet, this is a loss-making business, we Lao Li can't do it." ”

“……”

"Commander Li, then please send the equipment of my two battalions together when you return my brothers."

"What? What equipment? Li Yunlong said in surprise.

Shi Kui: "Commander Li, the equipment seized from my more than 300 brothers, as well as a battalion led by my deputy regiment commander later, don't you want to admit it?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "Oh, I remembered, but ...... I'm really sorry, Commander Shi, you also know that our Eighth Route Army has iron discipline, and with this capture, everything has to be credited. ”

"I've already handed over the equipment I got from you to the headquarters, so if you want it, you can do it.

You have to go back and report to Chief Yan first, explain the matter clearly, and then Chief Yan will personally come to our independent regiment to explain the situation.

After we have confirmed the situation, the equipment of these two battalions will be returned to you. ”

Squee: "............"

All of a sudden, I wanted to cry, just Chief Yan, who wanted to save face, could he condescend to your Eighth Route Army for the sake of the equipment of the two battalions, and come to your Eighth Route Army to ask for it?

Not to mention that the surrender of his third battalion to the devil is really embarrassing, if this is known to Chief Yan, it would be good not to punish him, how could he pull down his face and help with equipment?

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

Yes, this batch of equipment is considered a meat bun or a dog, or it will come back.

"Captain Shi, don't look at me like that! If you look at me like this, we can't help it, so why don't I make a report to our headquarters in advance, report this matter to your Chief Yan, and make it clear on both sides, and then follow the procedure again, and return the equipment to your 117th Regiment, how about it? ”

…… In the end, Shi Kui gritted his teeth in depression.

For Li Yunlong, a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, he has no way at all.

Looking at the back of the depressed and depressed departure, Li Yunlong patted his coat pocket happily, "Yes, this time the equipment of the two battalions in the pocket is in order." ”

……

Brigade headquarters.

As soon as Li Yunlong's side pulled the equipment of the two battalions back to the new second regiment, the brigade commander with great powers learned of the incident.

The political commissar was shocked when he heard this, "At this juncture, Li Yunlong, a bastard boy, can't make any more mistakes." ”

The brigade commander smiled and said, "After all, there were no casualties, which is a good thing." ”

"If you want to say that at this moment, Li Yunlong has grasped the empirical evidence of the collusion of the 117th Regiment to surrender to the Japanese, and took down this batch of equipment, he really has nothing to say about the Jin Sui Army."

The political commissar smiled: "That's right, Yan Laoxi can't afford to lose this person." ”

"The equipment of the two battalions, although the 117th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army is far less powerful than the 358th Regiment, the equipment of the two battalions is not a small number."

The brigade commander muttered to the sidelines.

The political commissar said happily: "Brigade commander, shouldn't you be worried about Li Yunlong's batch of equipment again?" ”

The brigade commander said with a straight face: "It's not that I'm worried about the equipment, I'm just thinking about it, but I haven't seen my old subordinates for some days, and I always ran to the independent regiment a few days ago. ”

The political commissar was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.

……

New 2nd Regiment.

Ding Wei, who has always been bold and careful, and has an outstanding vision, when some officers of the Jin Sui Army rushed to the new regiment to visit and exchange studies, Ding Wei did not have a lake at all.

On the morning of the next day, Ding Wei led a company of troops, and a group of officers of the Jin Sui Army watched the battle with the army.

This is an ambush war, to say that the officers of the Jin Sui Army rushed to come, Ding Wei has been planning for this for a long time, the collection of intelligence, and the planning to lure the Japanese army into being fooled, everything is ready only to owe Dongfeng.

On both sides of the operation, one was a company of the new regiment and the other was a transport squadron of the Japanese army.

When the battle began, Ding Wei handed over the command to Sun Zhenguo, the commander of the first battalion, and he took the officers of the Jin Sui Army to watch the battle from a distance with the help of binoculars.

What a beautiful battle of annihilation.

After the battle began, the fighters of the new second regiment burst out in an instant, which made the officers of the Jinsui Army look sideways.

In the end, the Japanese transport squadron was killed, and after cleaning up the battlefield, it took less than an hour to pull the supplies of the devil transport squadron back.

The accompanying officers of the Jin Sui Army were amazed for a long time.

Only then did they realize how amazing the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army like the New First Regiment would be if it did not lack sophisticated equipment and abundant ammunition.

Ding Wei didn't think about this: "The devil transport squadron is just an elite, and the firepower is not as strong as ours. ”

What else can the officers of the Jin Sui Army say about this?

The Japanese army, which seemed so strong to them that they almost dared not provoke, looked like mud in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, which once aroused their doubts about whether the Japanese army was strong.

Even the commander of the Jin Sui Army couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the little devil was really so down?

……

Three days later, on the Taiyuan Castle side, under the deployment of the old devil Yoshio Shinozuka, the Japanese army began to act.

The Japanese army's operational deployment this time is very clear, and it is a combination of odds.

Considering that the scale of the Eighth Route Army is getting bigger and bigger, Yoshio Shinozuka mobilized four brigades and more than 20,000 troops head-on, and divided his troops from the two flanks to the area where the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang base area was located in accordance with the fighting method of iron rolling and sweeping.

In addition, while attracting the attention of the Eighth Route Army on the frontal battlefield, Yamamoto led the special team to sneak attack the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army through the gaps in the battlefield and according to the established interspersed curve.

The strength of the four brigades and regiments deployed by the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield attacked from two fronts, and two of them went straight to the defense area of the Iron Triangle in the northwest of Shanxi......

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I owe it even more, and I sweat it......