"Yes, ammunition depot and hangar, I will organize manual labor as soon as possible." Xing Zhiguo responded crisply.

Today's new regiment is developing better and better, and Xing Zhiguo, as the deputy head of the regiment, is also becoming more and more energetic.

Although Xing Zhiguo was only a deputy commander in the new regiment, he did not change Xing Zhiguo as a division commander.

Now the new regiment can take out a main battalion, and it can easily defeat a division of the national army, and it can also gain the upper hand in a head-on exchange with an elite wing of devils.

A synthetic battalion with an artillery battalion can fight head-on with a second-line division of devils.

The entire new regiment can defeat the current entire Jin Sui army, and it is about to be equipped on the plane, and Xing Zhiguo is naturally very comfortable to be the deputy commander of such a regiment.

He was a little glad that when the head of the headquarters asked him if he would like to be the deputy head of the new regiment, he agreed without hesitation.

At that time, Xing Zhiguo was already a regiment commander of the main force of the 386 Brigade.

When the new regiment is equipped with airplanes and wins air supremacy in battle, the combat effectiveness of the new regiment and even the Eighth Route Army will be qualitatively enhanced.

Therefore, Xing Zhiguo is very active in repairing the oil depot and ammunition depot at the airport.

Of course, Xing Zhiguo's ability is also very strong.

Not only can they organize and dispatch manpower to build infrastructure and make the work of airports, highways, oil depots, and ammunition depots in an orderly manner, but they can also assist Li Yunlong militarily and provide suggestions and ideas.

This is also related to the positive learning atmosphere of the new group, Li Yunlong's attitude is very clear, if you can't do a good job, you will get out, and let the headquarters send more capable people.

Xing Zhiguo is Li Yunlong's old comrade-in-arms, and his tactical command ability and work ability are not to be said, but he also has Li Yunlong's trust.

However, Xing Zhiguo himself is also very active in learning and has been improving.

When Li Yunlong heard this, he nodded with great satisfaction, and then said, "While everyone is here, let's discuss the establishment of the troops." ”

"The current total strength of our regiment is about 40,000, of which 8,000 are still recruits and are training in the training camp."

"Before, our infantry battalion was about 2,000 people, and each infantry battalion had 10 companies, including 9 infantry companies and 1 artillery company."

"Each infantry company has three infantry platoons and one fire platoon."

"But after several major battles, the troops were attritional, and each infantry battalion actually had just over 1,000 people."

"Therefore, I plan to not expand the new infantry battalion for the time being, but to supplement the formation of each infantry battalion, as well as to expand the mountain artillery company and the transportation support company."

Xing Zhiguo said: "In this way, each infantry battalion will have 12 companies under its jurisdiction. ”

Wang Dehou suggested: "Should we also build a joint company between the battalion and the company?" As with the joint battalion, the treatment of some company commanders with strong tactical command ability is raised to the rank of battalion deputy level, and then in wartime, the company commanders of these battalion deputy level are allowed to command the battle. ”

Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "There's no need for that." ”

Zhao Gang thought for a while and said: "Although the structure of the infantry battalion is a little bloated, within the acceptable range, the infantry battalion commander of our regiment is either following Lao Li and fighting with a knife and a gun, or an excellent officer who has graduated from Kang University, it is more than enough to be a regiment commander, and there is no problem for a battalion commander to command 12 companies." ”

There is no way to do this, Li Yunlong will not be promoted, but the army will develop and grow.

The army can only adopt this structure.

In fact, in the original play, in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Yunlong had several thousand people in one regiment, a full eight battalions.

In terms of numbers, the average strength of each battalion is about 1,000 men.

Wang Dehou thought about it carefully, and did not find any problems at present, the infantry battalion has an additional mountain artillery company and a transportation support company, which is not much different from before.

So Wang Dehou chose to reserve his opinion.

"In this way, the strength of each infantry battalion must be at least 2,500 people."

Xing Zhiguo says:

"We currently have a total of 15 infantry battalions, 15 times 2,500, that's 37,500 men."

"Then we don't have enough recruits, at least 10,000 more recruits are enough."

Zhao Gang nodded and said: "That's right, we have to expand a rocket artillery battalion, select excellent artillery and soldiers from the whole regiment to form a rocket artillery battalion, and the artillery of this rocket artillery battalion plus logistics personnel must be at least 1,000 people." ”

The headquarters had already called back and agreed to Li Yunlong's request to leave this batch of rocket artillery in the new regiment.

Wait for the next batch of rocket artillery and rocket artillery to be handed over to the headquarters.

Li Yunlong's eyes were contemplative.

Originally, he wanted to expand a few more infantry battalions, but now it seems that this wave can only be expanded to 15 infantry battalions.

By the time the expansion was completed, the total strength of the 15 infantry battalions would be 37,500.

In addition, there are more than 15,000 troops in four artillery battalions, two cavalry battalions, transport battalions, automobile battalions, engineer battalions, 88-mm anti-aircraft gun battalions, 37-mm anti-aircraft gun battalions, 20-mm machine gun battalions, training battalions, guard battalions, sword squadrons, and tank battalions.

When I bragged to Kong Jie and Ding Wei one day, I would scare them when I said that there were 31 battalion-level units.

In addition, there is also a logistics transport team directly under the regiment headquarters, which is not counted in the main force.

When it came to wartime, there were still tens of thousands of militiamen and civilians, responsible for logistics support and transportation and helping to carry the wounded.

Although a few infantry battalions have been expanded, the overall strength of the troops has been greatly strengthened.

Once these infantry battalions are reorganized and each infantry battalion is carried out individually, their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the infantry wing under the command of the Japanese army's A division, and their firepower is stronger.

Li Yunlong calculated carefully, the infantry and artillery were almost enough, but the number of cavalry and tanks was relatively small.

Next, the new regiment had to vigorously develop cavalry and tank troops.

A division of about 30,000 people in the Japanese army has more than 1,300 cavalry wings, while the new regiment has only 2 cavalry battalions and 1,500 cavalry with 50,000 people.

The cavalry of the new regiment must also have at least 3,000 cavalry.

There are also new regiments of tanks, and there must be at least 200 of them, otherwise what will you do for a blitzkrieg?

But the meal had to be eaten one bite at a time, and Ruth had to walk step by step, and it was easy to pull the eggs if she walked too fast.

In the future, there will be large-scale cavalry, and there will be large-scale tanks.

Li Yunlong tapped his fingers lightly on the table and said, "Didn't we calculate last time, after equipping all the 75mm mountain guns with 15 infantry battalions, we still have more than 50 75mm mountain guns left. ”

The new regiment shelled the Wusu airfield, destroying 33 enemy planes and earning a total of 219 guns.

Of these, 165 were 75-mm mountain guns and 54 were 105-mm howitzers.

The new regiment had a total of 15 infantry battalions, each armed with 12 mountain guns, and a total of 180 mountain guns were required.

In addition to the 165 75-mm mountain guns earned by the last shelling of the Wusu airfield, the new regiment also had more than 60 75-mm mountain guns from the 1st and 2nd Artillery Battalions.

Then the total number of mountain artillery guns of the new regiment is more than 230, and if 180 are taken out to equip the infantry battalions, then there are more than 50 left.

After the 75-mm mountain guns of the 1st and 2nd Artillery Battalions were removed, the 54 105-mm howitzers were replenished.

Then the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion will also complete the rearmament, each equipped with 36 105-mm howitzers, and the artillery firepower will be greatly strengthened.

Originally, Li Yunlong also wanted to use these more than 50 75-mm mountain guns to form a mountain artillery battalion.

But it became clear that the number of recruits and artillery cadets of the new regiment was significantly insufficient.

Although the headquarters also sent a few hundred artillerymen who had just graduated from the artillery school to the new regiment.

However, Li Yunlong had just handed over 354 cannons to the headquarters, which was the number of cannons of 10 artillery regiments, and the artillery at the headquarters was also in urgent need.

Therefore, Li Yunlong's desire to ask for artillery from the headquarters is obviously unrealistic.

Zhao Gang said: "Then these more than 50 75mm mountain guns..."

"These more than 50 75mm mountain guns were given to Ding Wei and Kong Jie." Li Yunlong thought for a while and said, "From the two of them for ready-made recruits, I heard that they have been recruiting troops recently, and they have recruited another 10,000 recruits each, and most of the recruits are about to leave the company." ”

When the new regiment arrived in the northwest of Shanxi, there were only more than 6,000 people, and in just over half a year, the new regiment has grown to almost 50,000 people.

In the southeast of Jinjin, even with the assistance of Boss Chen, the new group has grown from more than 1,000 people to more than 6,000 people in more than a year.

The troops are still far away from the headquarters and developing rapidly, Li Yunlong secretly sighed.

The territory of the new regiment is so large, the territory of three or four counties, the total population is only 400,000, and the new regiment has recruited about 40,000 recruits.

The source of young and middle-aged soldiers in the new regiment defense area has basically dried up, and at most a few thousand more people can be recruited, and the remaining men will be militiamen at most, and they will have to take care of production.

The total population of the independent regiment and the new second regiment is more than 800,000, and the supply of troops is sufficient, and another 60,000 or 70,000 new soldiers can be recruited.

"This is a new recruit who has just been trained." Zhao Gang said, "Can Head Ding and Head Kong agree?" ”

"Don't worry." Li Yunlong's tone was confident: "Ding Wei and Kong Jie are both unprofitable guys who can't afford to be early, we will definitely not give them if we ask for them for nothing, but they will definitely not hesitate to exchange the cannon." ”

"That's it."

Li Yunlong said: "Let's take 50 75mm mountain guns, give 25 to Ding Wei and Kong Jie each, and let them each give our regiment No. 3000 trained recruits, and let's recruit 5000 recruits from the militia." ”

Ding Wei's new Second Regiment and Kong Jie's Independent Regiment were about to expand to 20,000 people.

The number of mortars in these two regiments was sufficient, but the number of 75-mm mountain guns was too small, and the number of 75-mm mountain guns in each regiment was only about 40.

With the addition of these 50 75-mm mountain guns, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment can each be expanded into one more artillery battalion, each with two mountain artillery battalions the size of an artillery regiment.

Seeing that Li Yunlong had already made a decision, everyone nodded in agreement and had no opinions.

After such a meeting, everyone had a clearer understanding of the establishment of the new regiment and the level of combat effectiveness in the future, and the focus of the work of the new regiment in the future was also clearer.

(End of chapter)