Chapter 67: Race against time to expand the territory
"What's there to guess about this, you know, the U.S. military gave the devils two atomic bombs before, but they killed hundreds of thousands of them, and it wasn't a matter of a day or two to surrender?" Li Yunlong waved his hand and said.
"I said how Lao Li scattered his troops a few days ago, it turned out that he was waiting for this day." Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Ding Wei nodded and said thoughtfully.
Then he was happy again, after all, the surrender of the devil is a big deal, and the eight-year War of Resistance can finally end, for this war, the people in the country have sacrificed too much, and now they can finally live a peaceful life.
Li Yunlong saw that the expressions of several people were a little loose, so he spoke:
"Although the devil has surrendered, the war is not over, and we as soldiers cannot relax at all."
"Lao Li, what do you mean by this......." Kong Jie asked with a frown.
After all, this is a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and although some things are inconvenient to say, each of them understands them, but they just don't want to think about it.
After all, since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the common people in China have experienced decades of war, and everyone doesn't want to experience war, but some things don't happen if you don't want to.
"Lao Li is right, although we as soldiers should not care about politics, we still have to make necessary preparations." Zhao Gang nodded in agreement when he heard Li Yunlong's words.
"Lao Li, since you have already calculated that the Japanese army is going to surrender, how did you prepare?" Ding Wei looked at Li Yunlong and asked.
Li Yunlong took out the map and spread it on the table, then turned back to a few people and said:
"What is there to say about this, of course, it is to take advantage of the opportunity of the surrender of the Japanese army to make a windfall, with the geographical location of our defense area, if we want to get the maximum interest, as long as the weapons and equipment of the devils in the direction of Taiyuan and Beiping are collected, then we can at least get half of the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army in North China."
"According to the information transmitted from the front, Taiyuan, as the headquarters of the Japanese First Army, has a total of 32,000 troops, while Beiping, as the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China, may have more than 50,000 Japanese troops stationed."
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he took a sip of water and said: "I have sent troops to divide into two routes, all the way to Taiyuan and the other to Beiping, in order to take the lead when the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army do not react and come back, and to receive the weapons and equipment of the devils. ”
Hearing Li Yunlong's arrangement, Zhao Gang said with some emotion: "Lao Li, are you taking some risks?" After all, our defense area is not close to these two places, and Beiping has to say that especially Taiyuan, there are not only Japanese troops but also Jin Sui Army nearby, can Yan Laoxi see us eat such a big piece of fat in front of his eyes? ”
"What else can he do if he is reluctant, and I Li Yunlong will have to look at his eyes when I do things." Li Yunlong said with some disdain, anyway, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was destined to have cracks at the moment when the Japanese surrendered, and it was only a matter of time before the two sides turned against each other.
Before that, the first thing he has to do is to develop and expand his own strength. In this way, no matter what kind of difficulties you face in the future, you can face them calmly.
Just when Li Yunlong and the others were discussing at the headquarters, the troops sent by Li Yunlong to Taiyuan had already entered the city, and they were all wearing the clothes of the Jin Sui army, so the Japanese army did not find anything wrong.
The devils honestly stood in a row, and put all the weapons and equipment neatly stacked in a large open space.
It was the first time that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army had seen such a scene, and everyone was a little shocked in their hearts.
Zhang Dabiao took the list of weapons from the Japanese commander, and while arranging for the soldiers to count them, he arranged for the soldiers to load the counted weapons and equipment into the car.
In order to bring back all the weapons and equipment at one time, Zhang Dabiao and the others took most of the mules and horses in the garrison when they came back.
Zhang Dabiao looked at the equipment data on the list, and couldn't help but admire Li Yunlong in his heart.
You must know that this equipment is not a small amount, if you bring all this equipment back, it can easily arm a force of more than 30,000 people, or all equipped Japanese equipment.
Waiting for Zhang Dabiao and they loaded all the weapons and equipment into the car and went out of Taiyuan City, all the way non-stop in the direction of Ping'an County, which is very close to the territory of the Jin Sui Army, maybe when they can meet it, if he is empty-handed, he is not afraid,
But there are a lot of weapons and equipment in the troops, and if something goes wrong, then how can he go back and explain to the old commander.
Although Zhang Dabiao was frightened along the way, his luck was still good, the journey was very smooth, and he did not encounter any emergencies, even so, until he returned to Ping'an County two days later, Zhang Dabiao's heart was completely put down.
He finally lived up to Li Yunlong's expectations and brought back the weapons and equipment of the devils in the direction of Taiyuan safely.
Because he did not dare to slack off on the way with a large number of weapons and equipment, his spirit was tense, and after two days and two nights of marching, he fell down directly after returning to the station.
I didn't wake up until about three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and then came to the headquarters to report the situation to Li Yunlong and others.
"Da Biao, it's been hard along the way, hurry up and sit down, let's sit down and talk about something." Li Yunlong patted Zhang Dabiao's shoulder and said.
He was very satisfied with the results of Zhang Dabiao's operation, and brought back more than 30,000 weapons and equipment without spending a single soldier. After all, this was the most seized since he crossed over.
Although there has been no news from Beiping, there should be no mistakes.
"Column leader, this is a list of the weapons we have collected from Taiyuan this time, you can take a look." As he spoke, Zhang Dabiao took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it to Li Yunlong.
The main reason is that they have collected a lot of weapons and equipment this time, in addition to a lot of machinery and equipment, the Japanese army in order to solve the logistical pressure after the occupation of Taiyuan, so a lot of equipment in the Taiyuan Arsenal have been left to continue to let the workers produce, this is good, all cheaper Li Yunlong.
Although Taiyuan is a big city, it is a little far away from Li Yunlong's defense area, and there are still Jin Sui troops stationed around, so Li Yunlong did not think about occupying Taiyuan, but asked Zhang Dabiao to transport back weapons, equipment and machinery and equipment.
Li Yunlong took the notebook handed over by Zhang Dabiao and drooled while reading it.
Yes, this trip was really not in vain, more than 20,000 rifles were captured, in addition to more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 artillery pieces, more than 300 trucks, and more than 100 Japanese small beans.
In terms of machinery and equipment, most of them are machines that produce bullets, shells, and repair firearms, and most of the equipment that produces artillery and firearms is shipped to Tohoku.
This is not bad, anyway, something is better than nothing, as long as this batch of equipment is put into production, then the first column will be able to achieve self-sufficiency, after the capture of a large number of Japanese ordnance, there is no shortage of guns in the troops, what is lacking is consumables like bullets and shells.
In the past, the supply of weapons and ammunition in the Eighth Route Army completely relied on seizures, in addition to some border areas.
Before the Eighth Route Army was incorporated into the Kuomintang army, Lao Chiang never gave a single bullet or military salary in the middle and late periods, except for the early stage.
In order to resist Chiang's separatist policy, the ammunition of the Eighth Route Army was very scarce, and the weapons were seriously damaged because there was no place to repair them.
Therefore, after the Eighth Route Army advanced into Shanxi, it immediately set up a number of border manufacturing offices for the manufacture of ammunition and weapons maintenance.
The Border Fabrication Institute manufactures grenades, mines, explosives kits and other weapons. In particular, the production of grenades is the largest, and when overloaded, the daily production can reach tens of thousands, and they basically meet the operational supply needs of the Eighth Route Army.
The daily production of grenades in the border area can reach tens of thousands, but they are all inferior home-made grenades that explode two pieces at a time, and only two pieces of shrapnel fly out after they are exploded, while Japan's grenades are 46 pieces at a time.
Due to the long manufacturing time, the shortage of raw materials, and the fact that they are easy to be discovered by veterans of the Japanese army, the mines manufactured by the border area often manufacture some stone mines, because of its simple process, the lethality is not inferior to that of iron mines, and the manufacturing cost is also less.
The explosive packs manufactured by the Border Manufacturing Institute are real home-made bombs, which are only slightly less powerful than the Japanese mountain artillery, and are specially designed to blow up the tanks and turrets of the Japanese devils.
The border region does not manufacture all three things: one cannot make artillery, two cannot make machine guns, and three cannot build aircraft and tanks.
Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Ordnance Factory can make cannons and shells.
The Taihang Mountain Border District Arsenal imitated the German Type 79 rifle and created its own Type 54 rifle.
Before the Jin-Hebei-Henan base produced the 55-type and Bayi-type rifles, it also produced improved Zhongzheng from 1939 to 40 years.
It's normal to build a gun in the north, but accuracy and durability are a problem, and you can't use it with a few 10 rounds.
During the period of the Red Army, all base areas tried to get mechanical guns to make guns, and there were preservation exhibitions in Nanchang and Beijing.
At least at that time, there was indeed a rifle named after Mr. Zhu. During the anti-Japanese war, a town in East China was famous for its iron tools since modern times, and later attracted the attention of all parties because of the manufacture of guns. The New Fourth Army lacked light machines, and the authentic ZB26 gun was copied by blacksmiths.
Therefore, after obtaining this batch of equipment, Li Yunlong was completely able to establish a weapons repair shop comparable to that of a manufacturing institute in the border area.
So after reading this batch of lists, Li Yunlong immediately asked Zhao Gang to mobilize the people to build factories.
And Zhang Dabiao was sent out by Li Yunlong after returning to the garrison for a day of rest, and this time he directly divided the troops into pieces, scattered but in all directions, and grabbed territory with the Jin Sui Army of the Central Army.
The operation, which was caused by the surrender of the Japanese army, lasted for more than two months before it ended, and both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were desperately trying to expand their occupied areas. During this period, friction and even misfire will inevitably occur.
Li Yunlong's troops encountered several times, but basically his troops took advantage, once Sun Desheng went to a county town to collect Japanese equipment, but after he went, the Japanese army's equipment had been confiscated by the Jin Sui army, so Sun Desheng did not say a word and directly robbed, not only collected the Japanese army's weapons and equipment, but also collected the equipment of the Jin Sui army.
Since Li Yunlong's army had a lot of military uniforms of the Jin Sui Army, sometimes they themselves didn't know which unit they were encountering.
Therefore, Li Yunlong's troops were left and right in the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army, and they took advantage of it.
And the troops sent by Li Yunlong to Beiping to collect the devil's equipment also came with news three days after Zhang Dabiao completed his mission.
Although there were some twists and turns in the middle, the task was completed in the end, but this time it made Lao Jiang angry.
Originally, in order to rush for time, Lao Chiang asked the US military to help use US warships to directly transport the Central Army to Tianjing Port, in order to accept the surrender of the Japanese North China Command as soon as possible.
But I didn't expect an accident in the middle, and Li Yunlong gave me a quick start. Although the U.S. military had already put pressure on the Japanese army to surrender their weapons to the national army.
But who knew that Li Yunlong did not play his cards according to common sense, and directly sent the team headquarters to block the Central Army in the port of Tianjin, and was handed over as soon as he landed on the shore, and then all the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army changed into the clothes of the Central Army, and went directly to Beiping City to collect the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army.
Such a big movement directly alarmed the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
The head of the headquarters was overjoyed when he got the news, he was worried about the Eighth Route Army's advance into the northeast, after all, the northeast is the concentration of heavy industry in the country, and if they want to grasp the right to speak in the next period, they must take the heavy industry area of the northeast into their pockets.
Now it's okay, I'm sleepy, Li Yunlong sent a pillow.
So the headquarters directly issued an order to Li Yunlong, dividing his first column into two, and directly linking the troops in Beiping with the Shandong troops, and then quickly entered the northeast and sent Ding Wei Kongjie to command the troops.
The troops that remained in Shanxi were directly subsumed into the North China Field Army, with Li Yunlong as commander.
Although during the surrender of the Japanese army, Li Yunlong took a lot of advantage because of his fast movements, but if he was divided like this, he still suffered a lot of losses.
After all, there were more than 70,000 troops brought by Ding Wei and Kong Jie to the northeast, as well as a large number of captured weapons and equipment, and if the troops were stabilized and expanded, it would be easy to exceed 100,000 people.
Although there were only more than 50,000 troops in Shanxi and North China, the weapons and equipment collected were not small, especially when the base areas were expanded later, they occupied many county seats, not only expanded their territory, but also collected a lot of weapons and equipment, and captured a large number of puppet troops.
Although the combat effectiveness of these puppet troops was not very good, Li Yunlong still asked Zhao Gang to do some ideological work for them, except for the group of people who committed the most heinous crimes, the rest were absorbed by Li Yunlong.
Therefore, after the end of the land grabbing, although most of the troops were taken away by Ding Wei and Kong Jie, after two months of expansion, the strength still reached more than 100,000 people.
Not only that, Li Yunlong also has his own gun repair shop, which is capable of producing bullets, shells, mines, grenades, and other consumables.
The combat effectiveness of the troops is also a top-ranked existence in Huaye.