When Li Yunlong returned to the garrison of the new regiment, he immediately arranged for the distribution of the captured weapons and equipment, and transferred 50 men from each battalion plus newly recruited recruits to form the fourth infantry battalion of the new regiment.

Wang Chengzhu and Sun Desheng were transferred out of the elite squad, and Wang Chengzhu was put in charge of forming the artillery company of the new regiment, and Sun Desheng was responsible for forming the cavalry company of the new regiment.

Because of the recent battles between the new regiment and the little devils, the new regiment once again has a high prestige among the nearby people, Zhao just sent the recruitment notice, and within a few days the soldiers were full, which is rare in other troops.

From then on, the new regiment had four infantry battalions, an artillery company, a cavalry company, a guard company, and a special operations squad of more than 50 people.

The total strength of the army reached more than 3,200 people, and it was not much compared with Chu Yunfei's 358 Regiment in terms of numbers and weapons and equipment.

After all, the 358th Regiment is the trump card unit in the Jin Sui Army, and it is still the main reinforcement regiment.

After recruiting people, Li Yunlong nervously began to train the soldiers.

A few days later, he didn't wait for the little devil's counterattack, but waited for Chu Yunfei's visit. Originally, Chu Yunfei was going to follow the leaders above to the headquarters, but when he passed by the new regiment station, he had to come over to take a look.

After all, Chu Yunfei has been friends with Li Yunlong for a long time, since the last battle of Cangyunling, Li Yunlong not only broke out of the encirclement from the front, but also killed Sakata Ichiro with mortars.

Chu Yunfei became interested in Li Yunlong, and had long wanted to come over and take a look to see what kind of army could defeat the elite of the devils, but he never found a chance.

This time, I happened to follow the commander to visit the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, so I took the initiative to mention it.

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"Tuanza, the troops of the Eighth Route Army...... It's weird! Fang Ligong rode a white horse and came to Chu Yunfei with a rope and whispered.

"Along the way, almost all the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army we saw were wearing new clothes and carrying brand-new 38 ......, which was not at all like the other Eighth Route Army teams. And when I passed by Yingkou just now, I faintly heard the sound of war horses, as if they were training cavalry, does this miscellaneous regiment of the Eighth Route Army also have cavalry troops? ”

"I'm curious, where did they get so many 38 big covers and war horses."

As an adjutant staff officer of the 258th Regiment, a university graduate, and born into a wealthy family, Fang Ligong's vision must be good.

Judging from the clothing, equipment and complexion of these soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, this is not like the Eighth Route Army at all.

Hearing Fang Ligong's words, Chu Yunfei looked around, looked at the dozens of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army accompanying him, especially the equipment in their hands, and snorted coldly and said: "But it's not just that, look at the dozens of people around, they are holding German-made submachine guns in their hands, and they don't even have this thing for us." ”

It is not uncommon for new clothes and the 38th big cover Chu Yunfei, but the submachine gun is different, this kind of equipment is not even equipped with a regular main regiment, how can a miscellaneous regiment of the Eighth Route Army be equipped, this is very unscientific.

Especially the cavalry unit that Fang Ligong just mentioned, although I don't know how many people and horses there are, but this is cavalry, and this branch of the army does not even have their 358th regiment.

Hearing Chu Yunfei's words, Fang Ligong nodded, of course he also noticed this.

However, according to the intelligence and information that has been circulating all along, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are scarce and of poor quality, and the troops as a whole are mainly backward and inferior firearms, with no more than five rounds of ammunition per capita.

But now it seems that this rumor is really not credible, at least not completely.

Backward and inferior firearms are, and indeed the main equipment.

Like the Hanyang made in the last century, there are decades of use history, has changed from a line lying gun to a smoothbore gun, this kind of retired goods is one of its main equipment, you can also see a lot of privately made barge guns, World War I damaged guns, and even some local troops are equipped with this front-loading shotgun.

But to say that the weapons and equipment are very poor, this sentence is not true, and this is not the case with the new regiment they saw before and now.

There are not only a large number of 38 big covers, but also dozens of light and heavy machine guns, and I heard Fang Ligong say just now that there seem to be cavalry troops, plus these dozens of submachine guns in front of me.

This kind of equipment strength, even compared with his 358 regiment, is not bad at all, and even slightly exceeds, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you will definitely not believe that Tubalu can have this kind of equipment strength.

"So much good gear they got there?" Fang Ligong looked at the gun on the waist of the machine gunner of the Eighth Route Army in front of him with some red eyes, and said with envy.

Battles at the regimental level cannot be resolved by how many crane guns are equipped. As long as the tactics are right, the soldiers are vigorous, and the commanders are strong, the old light machine guns before the First World War can defeat the troops equipped with the latest light machine guns.

However, on the battlefield, a regiment with dozens of good machine guns of good quality and few faults can take advantage of a lot of advantages, suffer fewer casualties, and inflict greater casualties on the enemy.

"I don't know."

"It seems that they have their own way, and I will have people check it out when I go back." Chu Yunfei held the horsewhip and looked back, and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "The situation of this regiment is much better than we predicted. ”

"yes." Fang Ligong knew what his regiment commander meant, and he must know that since the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Communist Party's troops have expanded dramatically, more than ten times more than before, and the weapons and ammunition transferred to them by the central government have not changed.

It stands to reason that the ranks of the Eighth Route Army will inevitably have a large-scale decline in the quality of soldiers, and the Ministry of Weapons, Ammunition and Materials will be seriously insufficient, but now it seems that this situation exists, but it is far less serious than they imagined.

Before the two came, they had already predicted Li Yunlong's new group, but after seeing it with their own eyes, the previous speculation was completely overturned.

Along the way, the two of them saw four infantry training grounds, and a cavalry training ground that they had never seen before.

The size of the force is roughly the same as his own 258 Regiment, and he also knows the ideological education of the Eighth Route Army.

Such a constant force, if it was common in the Eighth Route Army, would be terrible.

"Wait for the devil to be driven away...... Fear....... Fang Ligong's face was a little gloomy.

In his opinion, compared to the devils, this group of people should not be taken lightly at all, and if they don't pay attention, they will become a big trouble, after all, the strength of this group of people is growing too fast, and in the case of the same weapons and equipment, he feels that the national army is not necessarily their opponent.

But with his family background, it is definitely impossible to take refuge in the past, after all, he does not dare to agree with the proposition of the Eighth Route Army.

"We'll talk about that later, for now we're still allies, and we have a common enemy. They're strong, and it's not a good thing for us for the time being. Chu Yunfei shook his head and did not continue the topic, after staying for a while, he smiled and said: "Although it is unexpected, the overall strength is far from us, if the Eighth Route Army has this equipment, then Chief Yan's expectations will be met soon."

The 258th Regiment is a predetermined establishment of 3,500 men in addition to the regiment, and it can be changed into a division-level unit at any time in the future.

It was envisaged that a separate artillery battalion and three reinforced infantry battalions would be formed in the future, equipped with eight mountain guns with 75 commands, but not yet.

"Li Yunlong, at best, is the size of one of us plus the group, which is nothing to us."

Fang Ligong nodded slightly, although he was still a little worried in his heart, but since the head of the regiment said so, he couldn't refute it.

So the two rode horses and followed the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army towards the front.

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"In front of us is the new regiment station." A veteran of the Eighth Route Army tightened the 38-type rifle he was carrying behind him and pointed at the entrance of Zhengjiazhuang's village and said, "Now wait here for a while, our regiment commander will come out immediately." ”

"Okay." Chu Yunfei looked up at the entrance of the village and said.

As seen along the way, the garrisons of the Eighth Route Army are all in the mountain villages, and the whole is almost integrated into the village. As long as the opposing troops do not wear military uniforms and do not come out for training, it will be difficult for ordinary people to find out.

After a while, seven or eight people appeared at the entrance of the village in the distance, and all of them looked like eight roads in gray military uniforms.

"This is Chu Yunfei, the head of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, and this is his deputy official meritorious service." The accompanying soldiers introduced Zhao Gang and his party.

"Commander Chu, I am Zhao Gang, the political commissar of the new regiment, and I welcome you on behalf of the new regiment. Commander Li arranged an urgent matter, so let's come later, let's go to the regiment headquarters and sit down first. After Zhao Gang finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.

"Political Commissar Zhao is polite, military affairs are the first in special periods." Chu Yunfei smiled slightly, for this situation, Regiment Leader Chu had already prepared, with the things that the government had done before, it was not easy for the other party to agree to this exchange group.

Chu Yunfei dismounted and handed the horse rope in his hand to the guards on the side, during which Chu Yunfei looked around, from Zhao Gang and several soldiers around him and the sentry at the entrance of the village, and finally the entire Zhengjiazhuang.

From the outside, if you ignore the guard sentries and soldiers, Zhengjiazhuang is nothing abnormal, it is an ordinary, weak and pitiful village, and there are no military facilities in sight, not even a bunker, a ravine, or a machine-gun fortress.

But Chu Yunfei knew that it was not that the other party did not excavate and build, but that it was hidden, if the devil came to attack, then I am afraid that a large number of perfect bunker facilities would emerge here, and he was right, which did not surprise him.

"Commissar, then we're going to return to the team for training." Seeing Chu Yunfei and the two dismounting, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who led the way for Chu Yunfei saluted Zhao Gang and said.

"Okay, let's go." Zhao Gang nodded, and after speaking, he led Chu Yunfei and the two towards the regiment headquarters.

"Political Commissar Zhao, this time, Chu came with the purpose of learning and observing your group. Chu really admires the achievements of your regiment against the Japanese army, especially the battle in which Commander Li defeated the Bantian Wing, which shocked me very much, whether I can see the cavalry training of your regiment. Chu Yunfei said to Zhao Gang as he walked, just now Fang Ligong said that he heard the sound of seeing a war horse, so he wanted to bring it up and test it.

"Of course that's no problem, but it's almost noon now, let's go have a cup of tea and rest first, and there is also training in the afternoon, and Captain Chu can go to see it at any time."

Zhao Gang looked at Chu Yunfei and said, just look at it, there is nothing to hide anyway, and the strength can be put out in a dignified manner to dispel some other thoughts.

"Let's take a look at your regiment's training." Chu Yunfei's team was already impatient to watch the cavalry training of the new regiment.

So everyone turned their heads and walked towards the cavalry training ground.

In the open woods, nearly a hundred stake scarecrows were erected. The cavalry company of the new regiment was divided into platoons, and they sprinted against the scarecrows in turn, slashing with sabers, and interspersed with extremely fast stops and immediate shooting.

Company commander Sun Desheng rode on horseback, opened his voice, and guided the soldiers to train, without paying the slightest attention to the arrival of Zhao Gang and others.

More than a hundred war horses, which was the equipment of a whole cavalry company.

Chu Yunfei looked at the more than 100 people in front of him, and said with shock and envy in his weapons: "The strength of your regiment is really extraordinary, this cavalry company alone can suppress an infantry squadron of devils." ”

Chu Yunfei's words are completely true, a squadron of infantry is only about 160 people, which is about the same number as a cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army.

In terms of equipment, each person has a riding rifle and a saber, and some soldiers don't have a box written on their waists, so they definitely have an advantage in close combat. But there are still some disadvantages in long-range combat, after all, the infantry squadrons of the little devils are armed with light machine guns and grenadiers.

However, the mobility of the cavalry is not comparable to that of the infantry, and the cavalry has an absolute advantage in a real fight.

Chu Yunfei is really envious of this cavalry, although the 358th Regiment is a reinforced regiment, it is not capable of forming such an elite cavalry.

The most important thing is the lack of suitable war horses, thinking of this, Chu Yunfei's heart tightened, it seems that the task assigned by Chief Yan is not easy to complete.

Chu Yunfei was a little shaken in his plan to persuade Li Yunlong to defect to the Cheng National Army, with such an elite force, Li Yunlong was probably not so willing to leave.

"Ha, ha, ha." Zhao Gang smiled and walked in front of Chu Yunfei and said: "A good use of cavalry can determine the outcome of a battle, and we also spent the price of fighting well to form such a cavalry unit. ”

After watching the cavalry training, Zhao Gang took Chu Yunfei and his party back the same way, planning to go back to eat first.

Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong followed Zhao Gang towards the new regiment headquarters, looking around as they walked.

At this time, the two of them were on the flank of Zhengjiazhuang, and through the side view, they could finally see the complete fortifications of Zhengjiazhuang.

Trenches, bunkers, civil forts, dugouts, machine-gun forts, a well-developed system of field fortifications. Scattered and systematically distributed throughout Zhengjiazhuang.

Coupled with the cliffs dozens of meters high on its back, the entire new regiment presented a solid position that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"Surrounded by mountains on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it's really a good place." Chu Yunfei glanced at Zhao Gang and sighed softly.