Soon, Li Yunlong finished talking to Boss Chen, waiting for Chen Feng to come to the new regimental headquarters in Zhaojiayu.

"Boss Chen is on his way here, and it will take about an hour to arrive."

Li Yunlong put down the radio intercom, glanced at everyone and said.

Everyone smiled slightly, and their faces showed joy, like an old farmer who was about to harvest a bumper harvest, and finally it was time to harvest grain in a year.

Afterwards, Li Yunlong looked at Xing Zhiguo and asked, "Has there been any change in the 1st Division recently?" ”

"Report to the head of the regiment, no!"

Xing Zhi disdainful Chinese:

"After the 1st Division fled to Gaoyang County, its main force has been retreating in the county seat, but it has sent a lot of alert troops and scouts in the direction of Datong."

"It is estimated that if there is a slight change, the 1st Division will continue to flee eastward along the Pingsui Road."

"The 1st Division is scared of us." The corners of Wang Dehou's mouth curled slightly, "I have become a frightened bird." ”

Xing Zhiguo continued: "After Datong was recovered by us, several counties around Datong became the territory of our regiment, as well as several counties north of Xinzhou, all of which were taken over. ”

"In this way, it includes the areas of Datong, Hengshan and Wutai Mountain, the three counties in the northwest of Shanxi, and several counties north of Xinzhou."

"Our new group has a total of more than a dozen counties, with a total population of more than 2 million."

With the current strength of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin, after recovering Datong, there is no need to worry about the devils taking it back.

The main force of the army stationed in Mongolia was wiped out, the 1st Division became a frightened bird, and its combat effectiveness was not as small as half of its peak, and the North China Front could only abandon Datong.

Although Datong has been recovered twice by the new regiment before, Li Yunlong took the initiative to give up, not wanting to fight a defensive battle with the devil, Li Yunlong likes to take the initiative to attack.

After the devils in Shanxi were reinforced by five divisions of the Japanese army, they swelled some territory.

It is bounded by the Xinzhou Basin, the territory of the Eighth Route Army to the north of the Xinzhou Basin, and the territory of the Japanese army to the south of the Xinzhou Basin.

The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment also received some territory each.

Moreover, some troops of the Jin Sui Army were attracted by Ding Wei and Kong Jie by some means.

Li Yunlong's expression was satisfied: "In this way, we will not lack troops and human resources for the time being." ”

Judging from the map, the territory area of the new regiment is almost catching up with the territory of the 129th Division in the southeast of Shanxi.

However, the northern and northwestern parts of Shanxi are vast and sparsely populated, and it has been less than a year since the new regiment arrived in the northwest of Shanxi.

But fortunately, there are local troops of the Eighth Route Army in every county, and even the Eighth Route Army and the county government, even when the devils occupied these county seats, the county brigades, district squads and guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army fought a lot of battles with the devils.

Although they didn't achieve any decent results, these brother units that fought behind enemy lines had very good combat experience!

Because of the restrictions on weapons and ammunition, the combat effectiveness of the county brigades, district squads, and guerrillas is not strong.

However, the main force of the new regiment brought sophisticated American-style equipment, and its combat effectiveness was instantly raised by several notches.

At present, the main force of the new regiment has been fully reequipped with five or six gun clans.

The large amount of American-style equipment that was eliminated gave Chu Yunfei the equipment to strengthen the battalion, and Ding Wei and Kong Jie 10,000 American-style equipment each.

There are still about 30,000 people of American-style equipment left, and Li Yunlong plans to use these American-style equipment to recruit new soldiers.

In this way, after three or five months, the new regiment can be conservatively estimated to be able to expand its force by 30,000 men.

More importantly, the local government and the local army have laid a very good mass foundation!

After the troops of the training battalion and the sub-district battalions were stationed in these county towns, coupled with the reputation of the new regiment and Li Yunlong, and the food of the new regiment was so good that it became perverted, the enthusiasm of the masses to join the army was extremely enthusiastic.

The recruitment of soldiers in the national army is generally to catch strong men.

The recruitment of troops by the Eighth Route Army was entirely voluntary.

Naturally, the combat effectiveness of the troops on both sides is not at the same level.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, there are many factors that affect the combat effectiveness of an army.

Afterwards, Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff, summarize the situation of the various battalions and training battalions in each county as soon as possible, and then report to me." ”

At present, all battalions in the sub-district, except for the second battalion of the sub-district, which was to be picked up by Boss Chen's transport plane, the rest of the battalions have been dispersed to various county towns and garrisoned.

However, the main battalions and the heavy weapons battalions are still in the northwest of Shanxi.

If all the troops are scattered, in case the devils sneak attack the base area in the northwest of Jin, it will be a big trouble.

The subdivisions and battalions in each county are not scattered as in the original play.

Instead, the divisional battalions were responsible for training and flexing their muscles, and then the training battalions of the new regiment recruited new recruits for unified training.

"Yes, Captain."

Wang Dehou straightened up.

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang and asked, "Old Zhao, how is the bombing of the Taiyuan devils by the flying brigade in the past few days?" ”

"It's okay!"

Zhao Gang smiled slightly and responded:

"According to the report of the flight team, the devils had no defense on the first day, and the casualties of the devils were relatively large."

"In the next few days, the devils have gained experience in air defense, and the casualties of the devils are much smaller."

"It is worth mentioning that the kind of napalm provided by Boss Chen has caused a lot of casualties to the devils."

"At present, our flight brigade has zero casualties."

"Well done!"

Li Yunlong's expression was satisfied, and he took out a letter of commendation from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Gang:

"The head of the headquarters has agreed to award the new regiment of the flying group a collective first-class merit, and you can find an opportunity to give it to the flying group."

Then Wang Dehou also took out a pennant from a sack.

The pennant bears the words "First Class Merit" of the Flying Brigade of the New First Regiment of the Eighteenth Group Army.

Zhao Gang is the political commissar, and he has to do this kind of work.

Zhao Gang took the letter of commendation and looked at it, only to see that the letter of commendation read: The new 1st Regiment Flying Brigade was brave and resolute in the operation of killing Yoshimoto Sadachi and completely annihilating the aviation unit of the North China Front, performed outstandingly, and achieved great results.

"Good!"

Zhao Gang nodded and smiled slightly.

He expected the flying team to win the collective first-class merit, and even had the opportunity to rush to the first port and other merits.

If this record is scored by someone, it will definitely be able to get a special merit, but if it is a collective, it is likely to be a first-class merit.

"By the way, how are you going to fight this big counteroffensive?"

"Have you finalized the battle plan?"

After putting away the letter of commendation and the pennant, Zhao Gang then looked at Li Yunlong and Wang Dehou, and his tone was full of expectation.

"This time, it is a major counteroffensive, the main force of the 129th Division is exhausted, and the troops of other fraternal military regions in North China must all cooperate in the operation."

Li Yunlong's eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze was fierce:

"The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment are still under my command, let's attack the devils in Taiyuan from the north!"

This time, Li Yunlong only nominally commanded the 129th Division, allowing the 129th Division to get the opportunity to airdrop supplies and ammunition reimbursement, and the actual command belonged to the division commander.

After the last big battle, Li Yunlong also communicated with Boss Chen.

In view of the relatively large results of the Eighth Route Army last time, it was also agreed that Li Yunlong would nominally command the troops of the 129th Division.

Since it is a nominal command, there is a limit, and there is a maximum command of one division of troops.

The main force of the 129th Division plus the militia has a total strength of 300,000 or 400,000, and the establishment is one division, so it is no problem to command the 129th Division.

But with the addition of other troops, such as the Jizhong Military Region, etc., it will not work.

If it is not a nominal command, but a de facto command, Li Yunlong commands as many troops as Boss Chen reimburses and arranges airdrop supplies, even if he commands millions of troops to fight.

Li Yunlong continued: "According to intelligence, the main forces of the devils currently in Taiyuan are the 41st Division, the Fifth Division, and the 24th and 28th Divisions transferred from the Kwantung Army. ”

"Together with some miscellaneous units of the First Army, the total strength is about 75,000 men."

"In addition, there are the 40th Division transferred from the 11th Group Army and the 56th Division transferred from the Southern Army, which are stationed in Shouyang and Yangquan respectively."

The Pacific War is still in its infancy.

The little devil fought the US military in the Pacific theater and gained some advantages.

even won a big victory in Southeast Asia and made a lot of windfalls.

It happened that Li Yunlong sent a clear telegram to kill 16 devil generals, which made the Japanese army base camp feel a great shame.

The locusts were even more furious, so they ordered Tojo Hideji to withdraw the elite troops and allocate war materials to eliminate Li Yunlong and his new regiment.

Okamura Ninji had already made a battle plan to attack Li Yunlong and the new 1st regiment in the northwest of Jin.

However, the plan did not catch up with the change, and Li Yunlong took the lead in launching a spring offensive against the Japanese army, eliminating the main force of the army stationed in Mongolia, beating the already crippled 1st Division even more crippled, and completely annihilating the 33rd Division and the 37th Division.

Under such circumstances, Okamura Ningji naturally did not dare to attack the northwest of Jinxi again, but was ready to take the Jizhong Military Region out of anger.

In fact, Okamura Ninji knew that it was best to take the national army out of anger, and he could win a big battle with a small number of troops, but it was a pity that the national army was too far away from the North China Front and could not reach it at all.

Li Yunlong stared at the map and continued to analyze: "The total strength of the devils in Shanxi is about 105,000, and the puppet army does not exceed 150,000. ”

"The total strength of our northwest and southeast Jin is more than 300,000, and if you add the militia, the total strength will exceed 500,000."

"So it sees." Zhao Gang's eyes lit up, "Our Eighth Route Army has a great advantage." ”

The advantages that Zhao Gang said are very big, which is very different from the advantages in Lao Jiang's mouth.

At present, many of the militia, guerrillas, county brigades, and district squads of the Eighth Route Army already have good combat effectiveness, and their equipment is similar to that of the basic regiment of the Eighth Route Army two years ago.

Whether it is troops, equipment and firepower, the Eighth Route Army is the Japanese army and puppet army that crushed Shanxi in all aspects.

And there is also air supremacy.

For this major counteroffensive, both Li Yunlong and the head of the headquarters are full of confidence.

Even in the last battle of the total annihilation of the 33rd Division and the 37th Division, the Eighth Route Army did not use all its strategic weapons.

And this time the big counterattack is a real bright sword, and the hole cards are out.