The leaders suddenly looked in deep thought.

10 tens of thousands of steel helmets, battlefield airdrops, and post-war ammunition reimbursement opportunities, giving command to Li Yunlong?

And it has to be actual command.

The chief of staff looked at the division commander and asked, "Division commander, the main force going north this time is mainly your 129th Division, what do you think?" ”

The two brigade commanders can't be the masters of this matter, anyway, they also listen to the division commander.

Although the head of the headquarters can also make a decision, it is still necessary to seek the opinion of the division commander.

After all, the main thing is to let the division commander give up the command and hand it over to Li Yunlong for the time being.

"I listen to headquarters." The division commander said, "If the headquarters asks me to hand over the command, I will hand over the command." ”

The chief immediately criticized: "Don't kick the ball, just say whatever you want in your heart, the deputy chief of the general staff also said just now, our Eighth Route Army is a military democracy, and we can talk about our views." ”

"Then I'll tell you the truth."

The division commander pushed his glasses:

"I am in favor of letting Comrade Li Yunlong command this battle."

Not to mention anything else, these 10 tens of thousands of steel helmets, the division commander is very greedy.

Not to mention the opportunity for airdrop supplies and ammunition reimbursement.

Moreover, the division commander also temporarily relinquished the command of the 129th Division's participating troops, and after the battle was over, the troops returned to the command of the division commander after the troops got the steel helmets and ammunition.

What's more, the commander-in-chief of this battle should be the head of the headquarters.

After all, the current new regiment does not belong to the battle sequence of the 129th Division, and there must be a person who can command both the new regiment and the 129th Division.

The division commander also intends to hand over the command to Li Yunlong, so what else does he, the division commander, have to say?

"It's decided!"

"Then the commander-in-chief of this battle will be handed over to Comrade Li Yunlong to be responsible."

Seeing that the division commander had no opinion, the chief immediately made a decision, and his tone was categorical.

Then, the chief looked at Li Yunlong: "Li Yunlong, do you have the confidence to fight this battle?" ”

"Report to the chief." Li Yunlong first looked overjoyed, and then solemnly said, "If this battle is not brilliant, I Li Yunlong dare not guarantee anything else, I will definitely come to see you!" ”

"Haha!" The chief's casserole-sized fist hammered Li Yunlong's chest, "Good boy, ambitious." ”

After a pause, the chief said: "In this battle, I will personally be your chief of staff, division commander and deputy chief of general staff, and your operational staff officer." ”

Li Yunlong looked overjoyed, with these big chiefs to assist him, then he would be more confident to fight this battle!

Brigade Commander Chen smiled slightly: "Chief, now Li Yunlong is just a regiment commander, and it seems a little inappropriate for him to command our brigade commanders as a regiment commander, right?" ”

The deputy chief of general staff asked: "Although Li Yunlong is the regiment commander, he is treated at the brigade level, so what is inappropriate to command you brigade commanders?" ”

"Brigade-level treatment commanding a brigade commander, that's not appropriate either." Brigade Commander Chen said, "If Li Yunlong's treatment is raised to the deputy division level, it will be appropriate." ”

"Okay!" The chief nodded and said, "Then raise the treatment of Comrade Li Yunlong to the deputy division level." ”

Although the salary has been raised from the brigade level to the deputy division level, Li Yunlong's allowance has not increased much, but Li Yunlong's status in the Eighth Route Army has risen a lot.

In the current Eighth Route Army, there are not many people who can reach the deputy division level.

The chief had long wanted to raise Comrade Li Yunlong's treatment to the deputy division level, but he was just missing one opportunity, and this time Brigade Commander Chen proposed it, and the chief simply decided.

Li Yunlong looked at the brigade commander and cast a grateful look at him.

When the brigade commander spoke, Li Yunlong thought that the brigade commander did not agree with his command.

After all, the brigade commander was Li Yunlong's immediate boss at the beginning, but now he has to be commanded by Li Yunlong for an operation.

Unexpectedly, the brigade commander was retreating and helping Li Yunlong get treatment.

Li Yunlong sighed in his heart, Jiang is still old and spicy.

If it weren't for the head of the headquarters and the division commander, I'm afraid Li Yunlong would have been grateful on the spot, and come to say, thank you brigade commander, thank you brigade commander, I, Li Yunlong, kneel down for you.

After all, the brigade commander is the person Li Yunlong respects the most in his life.

The brigade commander nodded slightly to Li Yunlong like an elder, revealing a kind smile.

The deputy chief of the general staff glanced at everyone: "How to fight this battle, everyone can speak freely and put forward constructive suggestions." ”

Subsequently, the division commander, Li Yunlong, and the two brigade commanders gathered around and discussed the battle plan with the head of the headquarters and the deputy general staff officer.

The battle plan of such a large military operation is not like a small ambush of several hundred people, which cannot be clearly explained in a few words.

It is necessary to take into account the food, weapons and ammunition supply of more than 200,000 combat units during the operation, the concealment of the troops' marches, the offensive direction of each unit, and the detailed contingency plan to deal with unexpected situations.

It's a big project.

Li Yunlong had commanded a maximum of 50,000 men in the past, and it was in the last battle of the ambush of the 1st Division that the new 1st Regiment dispatched 30,000 men, and the Independent Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment each dispatched 10,000 men.

The first time he commanded more than 200,000 people to fight, Li Yunlong suddenly felt exhausted, under great pressure, and had too many problems to consider.

However, fortunately, with the help of the chief, division commander, and deputy chief of general staff, as well as Brigade Commander Chen, as well as the operational staff officers of the headquarters, the formulation of the battle plan could proceed smoothly.

The dozens of Colt pistols brought by Wang Dehou had an effect, and the operational staff officers of the headquarters spared no effort to use their mixed tactics.

Three days later, a near-perfect battle plan was released.

……

Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley.

Command of the North China Front.

Okamura Ninji was reading a briefing, and now the law and order in North China is getting worse and worse.

Everywhere, the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas were attacking the Japanese army's roads, railways, and strongholds, and every day locust armies were broken in the war of law and order.

In particular, the security in Shanxi has almost reached the level of erosion.

The entire Beitongpu Railway has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and with the withdrawal of the 33rd Division to the Zhengtai Railway, the Nantongpu Railway has almost fallen.

The Zhengtai Railway, which was damaged by a large-scale raid by the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army two months ago, has just been restored to traffic.

"Your Excellency, General."

Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake held the telegram in his hand, walked in quickly, and gave a military salute to Okamura Ninji:

"The base camp called back."

Moritake Tanabe was about to come to talk to Okamura Ninji about things, and met a communications staff officer with a telegram at the door.

After reading the telegram, Moritake Tanabe sent his communications staff officer and personally took the telegram to report to Okamura Ninji.

"Oh?"

Okamura Ninji hurriedly stood up and asked:

"The base camp decided to mobilize a few divisions and combat materials to give us the North China Front Army and attack the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army?"

Before.

Okamura Ninji sent a telegram to the base camp requesting the mobilization of seven divisions and 100,000 tons of war materiel.

There has been no reply from the Japanese base camp, and it finally replied today.

No matter how much war materials and troops the base camp gave, even if not even a single soldier and a ton of war materials were given, Okamura Ninji had to send troops to attack the new regiment in the northwest of Jin.

Of course, the more troops and more war materials are given, the better the chances of Okamura Ninji's victory.

Therefore, Okamura Ninji naturally hoped that the base camp would allocate more combat materials and troops to the North China Front.

"Report to Your Excellency."

Moritake Tanabe looked at the telegram in his hand:

"The base camp decided to mobilize 1 Class A division, 3 Class B divisions, and 60,000 tons of combat materials for our North China Front Army to attack the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi."

"Which divisions are they?"

Okamura Ninji nodded when he heard this, mobilizing 4 divisions and 60,000 tons of combat materials, which was expected by Okamura Ninji.

No surprises, no big surprises.

After the 33rd Division was transferred back to the Zhengtai Railway, Okamura Ninji decided to join the 14th Brigade and the 1st Cavalry Brigade stationed in Taiyuan into the attack on the northwest of Jin.

In this way, the troops used to attack the northwest of Shanxi have 7 divisions, 1 cavalry brigade and 1 infantry brigade, with more than 100,000 troops.

War materiel is also plentiful.

Tanabe Moritake replied: "The second-class division doesn't know for the time being, but the first-class division, the base camp has already informed that it is the 5th division. ”

After finishing speaking, Moritake Tanabe respectfully placed the telegram in his hand on the table with both hands.

"It's actually the 5th Division of the Steel Army?"

Okamura's eyes lit up slightly.

At this time, the 5th Division was subordinate to Yamashita Fumi's 25th Army and participated in the battles of Malaysia and Singapore in the Southeast Asian campaign.

However, in late February, the British forces in Singapore surrendered, and Singapore, the largest British military stronghold in the Far East, fell.

The 5th Division also had no battle plan for the time being, so the Japanese base camp was ready to order the 5th Division to rest and recuperate, and then transfer the 5th Division to North China to participate in the campaign to attack the northwest of Shanxi.

"It's the 5th Division of the Steel Army." Tanabe Mori Takemi, "Although the veterans of the 5th Division were elite and lost in the past few years of conquest, the 5th Division is still in the first echelon of combat effectiveness in the Locust Army, and at the end of the previous year, the 5th Division has been reorganized into three divisions and regiments, and the 9th Brigade and the 21st Brigade Headquarters have been abolished, but one of the first mechanized divisions of the Locust Army, the whole division still has 25,000 people, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the US and British troops were easily defeated in Southeast Asia..."

At that time, the 5th Division was the main force of the Japanese army attacking China, and the 21st Brigade under its command, under the leadership of the division commander Itagaki Seishiro, participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan and the Battle of Xinkou in Shanxi, and achieved remarkable results.

"Yo Xi!"

Okamura nodded with a satisfied expression.

I thought that the base camp had finally transferred a force capable of fighting well to the North China Front.

The previous 10th Division and the 1st Division, what are they?

Those two divisions boasted that they were the most combat-effective divisions in the Japanese army, but on the battlefield, they were vulnerable to the fierce offensive of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

After all, the 1st and 10th Divisions did not participate in much fighting, and spent most of their time training in Manchuria to defend against Soviet troops in the Far East.

And the 5th Division has been fighting, experiencing the baptism of blood and artillery fire.

After a pause, Okamura Ninji asked, "Tanabe-kun, do you estimate how long it will take for the Locust Army to complete the deployment of troops and materials?" ”

"Your Excellency, General." Tanabe Moritake thought for a while and said, "It's going to take at least a month and a half!" ”

"That is the middle of April, when the Locust Army will launch a devastating attack on the base area in the northwest of Jinxi of the Eighth Route Army!"

Okamura Ninji narrowed his eyes behind his round glasses, and his words were full of murderous energy. (End of chapter)