Li Yunlong, who returned to Zhaojiayu Village, called Xing Zhiguo and Zhao Gang to learn about the progress of the airport, grain depot, and highway.

Xing Zhiguo said: "The construction period of the airport is nearing the end, during which Boss Chen personally came to inspect and airdropped the camouflage lawn. ”

Zhaojiayucun Airport is larger than Yangcun Airport.

Under the busy work of Xing Zhiguo's engineering company, as well as thousands of militiamen and ordinary people, it lasted more than half a month, and the airport was finally repaired.

Li Yunlong looked satisfied, doing business with Brother Chen is open, and this after-sales service is also leveraged.

Zhao Gang continued: "One grain depot has been built, and a second is being built, each large grain depot can hold 500 tons of grain, and the small grain depot can hold 100 tons of grain each, and it is expected to build 5 large grain depots and 10 small grain depots. ”

"What about the road between the airport and the grain depot?" Li Yunlong asked, "When will it be repaired?" ”

"At least half a month." Zhao Gang said.

"Roads and airports need to be repaired as soon as possible." Li Yunlong said, "When the grain is put into storage, the stone in my heart can be regarded as the ground, and the 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition can be delivered to the door as soon as possible." ”

"That's right." Li Yunlong asked Zhao Gang, "Is the material given by Brother Chen enough?" ”

"Enough for now." Zhao Gang nodded and replied, "Not only did I give ash, but I also gave materials such as steel bars, and the materials for repairing the grain warehouse are very sufficient." ”

These materials were all discussed by Li Yunlong with Chen Feng before going out to engage in a side business, and they were taken on credit from Chen Feng.

These days, Chen Feng is constantly arranging airdrops, and Zhao Gang organizes people to build a grain warehouse with these materials.

During this period, ash and steel were strategic materials, and even the devils were in short supply.

Li Yunlong said: "Also, in the villages where we have troops stationed, we have to build air-raid shelters as soon as possible. ”

At present, the air-raid shelter of 12 heavy artillery pieces in the mountain shooting range behind Zhaojiayu Village has been repaired, and all the heavy artillery has been brought in.

But the man's bomb shelter has not yet been repaired.

However, the militia and the common people dug some tunnels in the village, but Li Yunlong saw that it was still difficult to carry the aerial bombs.

What Li Yunlong wants to build is the kind of tunnel that can withstand aerial bombs, and it needs to be built with cement and steel bars.

"Okay!" Zhao Gang nodded, "I will implement this matter as soon as possible, and organize militias and ordinary people in each village to build air-raid shelters." ”

Although the devil's aerial bomb is very precious, with the current level of threat to the devil, the new group is threatening.

If the devil is allowed to get the village where the headquarters of the new regiment and battalion is located, the devil will most likely directly dispatch fighters and bombers to wipe the village off the map.

At this time, the presence of bomb shelters is very important.

Li Yunlong said: "In addition, the work of recruiting troops can be carried out, and I will personally grasp this work." ”

At present, the name of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province has been completely launched.

The common people all know that the new Eighth Route Army is a team that can win battles.

At this time, we should strike while the iron is hot and carry out a recruitment campaign, otherwise we will have to do our work again as soon as the freshness of the people has passed.

Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou all looked happy.

The new group is finally about to usher in an expansion!

The expansion of the new regiment this time is different from the past.

In the past, there was a maximum of 2,000 people, although the expansion was a militia, but each expansion was not too much.

Of course, the number of troops is not too large and it is all relative.

In other units of the Eighth Route Army, many regiment-level troops did not even have 2,000 people, while the new regiment had as few as 1,000 people and as many as 2,000 people each time it was expanded.

This time, it is necessary to expand the number of 15,000 people at once.

The airfield is about to be repaired, so the weapons and ammunition are about to be in place, and the recruitment work can be started first.

Xing Zhi asked excitedly Chinese, "Commander, how do you plan to expand the group?" ”

With an increase of 15,000 men, the total strength of the new regiment exceeded 20,000.

Li Yunlong pointed to the map and said: "Our current territory is mainly concentrated in the three counties of Heyuan County, Anhua County and Ping'an County, and we have just laid down these three county seats, so that our territory is connected, so I plan to change the original county brigade into a new regiment training battalion, and the newly recruited 15,000-strong troops will be temporarily divided into seven divisions according to the territory, with more than 2,000 people in each division, so as to facilitate management." ”

Zhao Gang thought for a moment: "In this way, each division is at the regimental level, but to expand the strength of the seven regiments, in addition to the seven chief officers and instructors, a large number of company, platoon, and squad officers are also needed. ”

When he said regimental level, he was referring to the scale, not really to expand the regiment by seven.

Because the new regiment is at the regimental level, the expanded division naturally cannot be at the regimental level, and although the number of troops exceeds that of the regiment, the highest can only reach the battalion level.

"Company, platoon, and squad officers were drawn from the main battalions." Li Yunlong tapped his fingers on the kang table and said.

Li Yunlong had set up a county brigade before, that is, the instructors of the new regiment that was about to be established, so that the new regiment would continue to have talents.

The soldiers of the main battalion are all experienced in a hundred battles, and they can all be qualified to be squad leaders if they bring out any soldier and put him in the divisional troops.

The squad leader can be qualified as a platoon commander, the platoon commander can be qualified as a company commander, and the company commander can be qualified as a battalion commander.

Li Yunlong can be directly appointed at the company level and below, but the candidates for chief officers and instructors need to be reported to their superiors and approved by their superiors.

"Who are the divisional officers and instructors?" Xing Zhiguo asked.

Li Yunlong's eyes were dewed and he pondered: "The division chief and instructor... We select a few from our own troops, and the others can request support from headquarters. ”

After all, it is necessary to manage more than 2,000 people, and ordinary cadres are not good, and capable cadres are needed.

With the strength of the headquarters' support for the new regiment, coupled with the nine heavy guns and nine antiaircraft guns that Li Yunlong was about to hand over, the headquarters should not refuse.

Li Yunlong can give food and guns, but he needs these troops to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible to resist the upcoming devil revenge sweep.

However, the advantage of the new regiment is that the devil only knows that there is only one regiment in this area.

When the devils dispatched to eliminate the strength of a regiment and sweep the base area of the new regiment, more than 20,000 elites of the Eighth Route Army suddenly burst out of the territory of the new regiment.

It must have been a great scene.

……

Taiyuan.

Over Takejuku Airport.

An L2D transport plane emerged from the clouds, its nose sank down, and flew towards Wusu Airport.

Not long after, the L2D transport plane slowly stopped on the runway of Wushu Airport.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Kazuki Yamamoto and others, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

Several Devil Airport ground staff put a pair of ladders on the door of the plane.

The hatch clanged open, and a figure wearing the rank of lieutenant general appeared at the door of the transport plane.

He was Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, who succeeded Yoshio Shinozuka as commander of the First Army.

Iwamatsu Yoshio has a national character face, a delicate beard under his chin and nose, and his expression and eyes reveal the usual coldness of a high-ranking Japanese officer.

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However, this is only the appearance of Yoshio Iwamatsu.

In fact, he is very panicked now.

Originally, because of Yoshio Shinozuka's ineffective command, the Japanese First Army suffered heavy losses, and the base camp asked him to replace Yoshio Shinozuka as the commander of the First Army.

But Yoshio Shinozuka is unwilling to retire in shame, and wants to make a big wave before retiring.

You said that if you want to engage in it, you will engage in the Eighth Route Army, and go to engage in the Central Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, giving the Eighth Route Army the opportunity to attack Taiyuan.

The Eighth Route Army also took advantage of this opportunity to capture Taiyuan and killed the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka.

Because of this incident, the base camp was furious, and the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, was also implicated and ordered to retire, and it was Okamura Ninji, who had just been promoted to general, who succeeded Tada Jun as the commander of the North China Front.

After several conversations with Okamura Ninji in the Tieshi Hutong in Beiping, Iwamatsu Yoshio came to Taiyuan to take over the post of commander of the First Army.

"Your Excellency Commander, I am the commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Mongolian Army, Tadamichi Kuribayashi!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, I'm Captain Yamamoto Kazuki Yamamoto!"

As soon as Yoshio Iwamatsu's feet stepped on the ground, Kazuki Yamamoto and Tadamichi Kuribayashi stepped forward and introduced themselves.

Behind Iwamatsu Yoshio, a group of cronies and staff officers, including the chief of staff of the First Army, Mr. Hanaya Masa, also walked down from the plane with him.

"Kuribayashi-kun, Yamamoto-kun!"

Yoshio Iwamatsu nodded.

"Your Excellency, Commander, please return to the headquarters!"

Yamamoto Kazuki shook his hand and said, "Yamamoto's special team will provide you with protection throughout the process!" ”

"Yamamoto-kun, hard work!"

Iwamatsu Yoshio and a group of staff officers got into the car under the protection of Yamamoto's special forces, and then headed towards the inner city of Taiyuan.

Although most of the original headquarters was damaged in the battle, after the devil came to Taiyuan, the devil's headquarters was rebuilt.

Seeing that Yamamoto Kazuki was so enthusiastic, Kuribayashi Tadamichi was a little sideways, and in his impression Yamamoto Kazuki was not like a person who liked to tie up with his superiors.

However, Kuribayashi Tadamichi did not mean to be jealous of Yamamoto Kazuki, he and his 1st Cavalry Brigade were not originally subordinate to the 1st Army, and there was no need to curry favor with the new commander Iwamatsu Yoshio.

Yoshio Iwamatsu, who returned to the headquarters, asked Kazuki Yamamoto, "Yamamoto-kun, how many imperial army troops are there in Taiyuan now?" ”

"General!" Yamamoto Kazuki replied respectfully, "Now Taiyuan has the Yamamoto Special Forces, the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and a total of more than 5,700 imperial troops!" ”

"Nani? Taiyuan only has more than 5,700 imperial troops? ”

Iwamatsu Yoshio's face sank slightly, Taiyuan only had this little force, and he was very insecure.

You must know that some time ago, Yoshio Shinozuka was in Taiyuan, and the Japanese puppet army combined with more than 10,000 people, but Taiyuan was still defeated by the Eighth Road, and the commander of the First Army was killed.

Yoshio Iwamatsu doesn't want to follow in Yoshio Shinozuka's footsteps.

"Hey!" Yamamoto Kazuki stumbled.

After Yoshio Shinozuka was killed, before Yoshio Iwamatsu took office, the First Army was a plate of scattered sand.

Although there were still several divisions and regiments, they were all in Jinnan, and they had not received orders, and none of those divisions dared to leave their respective stations easily.

"Hua Gujun, immediately order the 41st Division, the 14th Brigade and the 18th Brigade of Jinnan to garrison in Taiyuan!"

Yoshio Iwamatsu ordered the chief of staff, Masashi Hanaya.

As soon as he arrived in Taiyuan to take office, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu suffered from a phobia of insufficient troops.