Chapter 62: Recruiting the Bandits
Li Yunlong was able to come in Chu Yunfei's expectations, after all, the two sides were so close, and the movement just now was so big, but Li Yunlong's arrival in such a timely manner was still a bit unexpected by him.
"Could it be that there are spies planted by the Eighth Road on my side?" Chu Yunfei thought in his heart.
"There is our intelligence officer on the devil's side, and I sent back the news before that this kid Qian Bojun wanted to turn against the water, but there was no evidence for fear that Brother Chu would not believe it, so he didn't notify you." Li Yunlong arched his hand and said to Chu Yunfei.
Chu Yunfei didn't believe this set of rhetoric, presumably the reason why Li Yunlong didn't tell himself was because he wanted to see his own jokes.
So Chu Yunfei waved his hand and said, "This time, thanks to Brother Yunlong's righteous action, I won't say anything about thanks, and now I don't know if Brother Yunlong can agree?" ”
"What's the matter, Brother Chu just says it directly, just the relationship between the two of us, I will definitely help if I can help."
"Brother Yunlong, can you pick me up a fast horse, I will personally go to chase Qian Bojun to clean up the portal." Chu Yunfei gritted his teeth and said, he has always been angry about Qian Bojun's betrayal of himself to join the Japanese, after all, Qian Bojun has been with him for more than ten years, and he still has some feelings, otherwise it would be impossible to appoint him as the head of a regiment.
But this kid is so inauthentic, he actually colluded with the little devil behind his back, and he didn't know it, which made him a little unacceptable.
Hearing Chu Yunfei's words, Li Yunlong knew Chu Yunfei's character, and he had organized his own department in this matter, so he turned to Sun Desheng and said, "Go, bring a horse to Brigade Commander Chu." ”
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he said to Chu Yunfei: "Brother Chu, do you need me to send a few soldiers to follow you?" ”
"No, I can handle it myself." Chu Yunfei directly rejected Li Yunlong's kindness, turned over and chased in the direction where Qian Bojun left.
In his mind, it would be better to clean up the portal himself.
After Li Yunlong watched Chu Yunfei leave, he hurriedly asked the soldiers to disarm the soldiers of Qian Bojun's regiment, and then returned directly to his station with the equipment of a regiment.
The reason why he came to help Chu Yunfei was because he fell in love with the equipment of this regiment. Since the end of the last battle, the little devil has fully entered the situation of passive defense, and he has cowered in the city and does not even go out of the city gate.
It is no longer easy to snatch things from the devils, and at most in peacetime, they will strike at the logistics troops of the devils and seize some supplies, but as for weapons and equipment, it has not been captured on a large scale for a long time.
The weapons and equipment of more than 3,000 people in this regiment are equivalent to sending charcoal in the snow to Li Yunlong now.
More than eight months have passed since the merger of the New 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment, and the Independent Regiment, and in the past six months or so, the strength of the troops has increased from more than 40,000 at the peak to more than 50 million or 60 million at present.
The defense area has also expanded from the previous three counties to seven complete county seats, and also includes some vast rural areas in North China.
Although the strength of the army has increased a lot, Li Yunlong is not satisfied, after all, as a person who has come over, he knows that in less than a year, the devil will surrender, and then he will be fast and slow.
Those who are fast can accept the weapons, equipment and materials of devils on a large scale, and those who are slow can only watch others get rich and drool.
So during this time, Li Yunlong was doing his best to expand the troops, but because of insufficient weapons and equipment, most of the expansion was the militia.
The number of troops that Li Yunlong can use now is 56,000 people from 12 infantry regiments, and there are more than 20,000 militiamen.
Li Yunlong's aim was to expand the strength of the infantry army to more than 100,000 before the little devils surrendered.
In this way, he can take the lead and collect more devils' equipment and materials. After all, even if he might as well collect it, it would be cheaper for the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army.
When Li Yunlong returned to the garrison with the soldiers of the cavalry regiment, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and Kong Jie had been waiting in the command room for a long time.
Seeing that Li Yunlong came back safely, he immediately greeted him.
"I said Lao Li, how was the harvest this time?" Ding Wei squinted at the supplies that the soldiers had brought back in large bags and small bags, and asked Li Yunlong.
"Hehe, our Lao Li still has the reason to come back empty-handed, Lao Tzu has done him such a big favor Chu Yunfei, it's not too much to collect his weapons, equipment and supplies from a regiment, right?" Li Yunlong said with a grin.
It was really worth it to help Chu Yunfei quell the rebellion this time, and he gained the weapons and equipment of an entire regiment, and he didn't have much loss.
After all, Qian Bojun wanted to take refuge in the Japanese, but the soldiers in the trenches didn't think so, and the people who were willing to follow Qian Bojun all the way to the black were those cronies around him.
However, Qian Bojun and his cronies were dealing with Chu Yunfei at the regiment headquarters before, so Li Yunlong did not encounter fierce resistance when he led the cavalry regiment over.
It can be said that Li Yunlong just took the soldiers of the cavalry regiment out for a training camp, and brought back the weapons and equipment of a regiment without bloodshed.
Zhao Gang and the three of them on the side didn't know what to say when they heard Li Yunlong's words, thinking that this kid Li Yunlong was really black, and not only black, but his heart was still dirty.
Just such a little favor to collect the weapons and equipment of a regiment, you must know that although Chu Yunfei was promoted to brigade commander.
But there are only four regiments under his hands, which is equivalent to directly losing a quarter of his family base.
And this ratio is not chased and has to be mentioned, after all, Qian Bojun's regiment is the main regiment under Chu Yunfei, although the strength is not the strongest, but the strength will definitely be more than the other three regiments.
It's all cheap Li Yunlong now, Chu Yunfei will definitely not do it, and he thinks that there will be some in the future.
"Lao Li, you have collected all the weapons and equipment of a regiment of other people, isn't this appropriate?" Zhao Gang said with a frown.
Although it was their troops who took advantage of this matter, after all, they were in a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and he did not want to create contradictions between the two sides because of this matter.
After all, he didn't know that the little devil was going to surrender for more than half a year, and he didn't need them when the time came, as long as they contradicted the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, they would split.
But Li Yunlong couldn't tell him about it, and he couldn't explain what didn't happen.
So he could only stubbornly say: "Lao Zhao, I don't think what you said is right, it is a matter of course to work and get paid, Lao Tzu helped him Chu Yunfei so much, shouldn't he receive something from him." ”
"Lao Li, Chu Yunfei didn't let you help, you have a bit of a strong buying and selling." Kong Jie, who was on the side, heard Li Yunlong's remarks, and felt a little reluctant to go, so he opened his mouth and said two fair words.
"Yes, Lao Li, I think it's better to give it back to Brigade Commander Chu, I don't think it's worth it to mess up the relationship between the two sides for such a little thing. And last time we launched a general attack on the 21st Division of the Devil Kwantung Army, Commander Chu also helped, and this lover didn't let us pay it back. Hearing Kong Jie's words, Zhao Gang also opened his mouth to persuade him.
Although Li Yunlong didn't agree with the words of the two, but both of them said so, it would not be appropriate if he objected, so he thought about it and found an excuse and said: "Okay, the weapons and equipment I agreed to will be returned to him Chu Yunfei, but not now, why don't you let us use it for a few months, it just so happens that during this time, our troops will expand their strength, and there is still a part of the weapon shortage, so let us use this batch of equipment for a few months to train and train soldiers." ”
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he looked at Ding Wei on the side, and wanted Ding Wei to help him say a few words.
Originally, Ding Wei didn't want to get involved in this matter, although he was moved when he saw so many weapons and equipment, but his cheekiness was not as thick as Li Yunlong's, and he couldn't say such cheeky words.
But now that Li Yunlong looked at him, and he just borrowed it and didn't occupy it and didn't pay it back, Ding Wei said: "I think what Lao Li said is not bad, our troops are indeed facing the dilemma of insufficient weapons and equipment now, and it is not impossible to borrow the weapons in Chu Yunfei's hand, after all, we are not not not going to return it to him, but just borrowing it for a period of time, and it is a big deal that we will pay him this interest." ”
Although Ding Wei didn't know what medicine Li Yunlong was selling in his heart, he instinctively stood on Li Yunlong's side.
In fact, Ding Wei and Li Yunlong are the same kind of people in their hearts, they are the kind of people who only take advantage and do not suffer losses. Looking at so many good things, of course, I was not willing to return it like this.
Seeing that Ding Wei also agreed with Li Yunlong's approach, now the battlefield has formed a two-to-two situation, and no one can convince the other side for a while.
Zhao Gang said with a somewhat bad face: "What if Chu Yunfei comes here?" ”
Li Yunlong didn't care about Zhao Gang's words at all, and replied with a smile: "What else can I do, find a way to delay, it's just a few months, and it's over after two shirks, and Chu Yunfei's family has a big business, maybe people don't care about this equipment at all." ”
Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang was so angry that he thought that this was called a little equipment, and he didn't care, so how big his hand was Chu Yunfei.
But he knew that Li Yunlong was a leper dog, and reasoning didn't make sense at all, so he closed his mouth and didn't speak. Anyway, Chu Yunfei came and asked Li Yunlong to deal with it, so he didn't care.
After harvesting more than 3,000 weapons and equipment, Li Yunlong's troops entered into an intense expansion of troops.
And after Chu Yunfei chased and killed Qian Bojun, he returned to the station and was busy reporting Qian Bojun's rebellion to his superiors.
Because of the incident of Qian Bojun, he was also worried that other people in the army would also have Qian Bojun's thoughts, so after reporting to his superiors, he was busy with other military commanders in the army.
After everything was dealt with, there was time to pay attention to the situation of the first group, and after discovering that all the weapons and equipment in the group had been confiscated by Li Yunlong, he was angry and had a direct toothache.
He still knows Li Yunlong's personality, he is a typical person with the character of a rural landlord, and he can't enter the Pixiu family.
As long as something enters Li Yunlong's mouth, it will be difficult to come back, but no matter how difficult it is, he has to ask for it, after all, this is not a small amount of weapons and equipment for a regiment, and he can't stand it after being investigated by his superiors, and if he doesn't say it well, he will be demoted.
So Chu Yunfei came to Li Yunlong's headquarters with gifts that day, wanting to bring back the weapons and equipment of that regiment with Li Yunlong.
In front of Chu Yunfei, Li Yunlong agreed with a smile, and said that he would personally send him the weapons and equipment of this regiment back in a few days.
Chu Yunfei was a little skeptical of his judgment, thinking that Li Yunlong, the old boy, had changed his sex, otherwise how could he agree so happily, but he didn't think much about it, and happily went back.
But after Li Yunlong's series of operations, he understood that Li Yunlong was just playing with him, and he had no intention of returning the equipment.
He went to Li Yunlong's residence several times to look for it, but each time Li Yunlong found various reasons to shirk it.
Anyway, it just means one thing, it's not that he Li Yunlong wants to occupy these equipment, it's that he can't decide, and the angry Chu Yunfei wants to beat Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong's operation, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and Kong Jie next to him were stunned, thinking that this person could be so shameless, it was really an eye-opener.
But they didn't open their mouths to dismantle Li Yunlong, after all, this is the weapons and equipment of a regiment, and it is their own troops who take advantage, and it is he Li Yunlong who is responsible for it. Even if his reputation is affected by doing this kind of thing, it is also his Li Yunlong's reputation.
After returning several times in vain, Chu Yunfei also understood in his heart that the equipment would definitely not come back, and he couldn't make a big deal with Li Yunlong for this equipment, and even if he started, he wouldn't be able to take advantage of it.
After all, their brigade had just experienced the Qian Bojun rebellion, and had also lost the weapons and equipment of a regiment, so its strength had been somewhat affected.
And Li Yunlong's troops also had some cognition, knowing that he was not Li Yunlong's opponent at all now, so Chu Yunfei had to endure it.
As for the lack of equipment in the troops, they had to find various reasons to report to their superiors for supplementation, after all, this kind of thing is very normal in the Central Army and the Jinsui Army.
Some units even secretly sell the weapons and equipment in their own units, and then find reasons to ask their superiors for equipment replenishment.
Although Chu Yunfei had never done this kind of thing before, it was not that he didn't know anything about it.
Therefore, in the next four months or so, Chu Yunfei's troops slowly replenished and improved. Before Li Yunlong embezzled the equipment of one of his regiments, Chu Yunfei did not dwell on it anymore.
Li Yunlong was not idle during this time, not only sending troops to continue to expand the area of the base area in North China, but also carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction in the seven county towns that had already been occupied.
After more than four months of crackdown, there is no room for bandits and bandits to live in the occupied areas.
The previous bandits and bandits were either captured or killed by Li Yunlong's troops, and even the largest bandit in the occupied area, Heifeng Village, was also beaten down by Li Yulong's faction.
Unless the heinous bandits were shot dead by Li Yunfei, the old, weak, sick and disabled were put back by Li Yunlong, and the rest were absorbed by Li Yunlong.