Next, the chief, Li Yunlong, and the chief of staff had some in-depth discussions on the strategic concept of the next offensive of the Eighth Route Army.

What he said before were Li Yunlong's thoughts on the offensive strategy of the Eighth Route Army.

The situation on the battlefield was changing at any time, and the European, Pacific, and Southeast Asian theaters were all fought by the Allies, the Germans, and the Japanese army.

No one can say for sure what will happen on the battlefield in the future.

Whether the head of the headquarters will adopt Li Yunlong's suggestion or not, the head of YA has not yet decided.

However, both the chief and the chief of staff saw that Li Yunlong had indeed possessed strategic thinking.

Because now that Li Yunlong is thinking about the problem, he can consider it from the perspective of the overall situation.

He thought about it very long-term, and in the future, the Eighth Route Army would inevitably counterattack the Japanese mainland.

Not to mention it far away, let's just say that this time, Li Yunlong will let the flames of the Eighth Route Army burn to the devil's homeland.

After discussing with the head of the headquarters, Li Yunlong returned to the regimental headquarters of the new regiment.

"Huzi!"

Li Yunlong said to Huang Erhu:

"Inform Political Commissar Zhao and Chief of Staff Wang to immediately go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting."

In the original play, Huang Erhu died as soon as he appeared on the stage, holding a grenade and dying with the devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun.

But with the Italian cannon and 100 submachine guns assisted by Boss Chen, Huang Erhu didn't have to bomb the devil's machine gun position with his body, so he has been serving as Li Yunlong's guard and has survived until now.

And Wei Dayong did not serve as Li Yunlong's guard, but first became the deputy captain of the Sword Squadron, and now he has become the sixth battalion commander of the main battalion of the new regiment.

Because of the appearance of Boss Chen, not only Li Yunlong's fate has changed, but even the fate of everyone around him has almost changed.

"Yes."

Huang Erhu turned to leave.

Not long after, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo returned to the regiment headquarters.

"Lao Li, is there anything urgent?"

As soon as he walked into the regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang asked.

"Nothing rushing." Li Yunlong said, "Call the two of you and open a party committee." ”

The party committee of the new regiment should have four people to participate, but Deputy Head Xing is sitting in the northwest of Shanxi, so there are only three people attending at the moment.

Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou sat opposite Li Yunlong.

"First thing."

"The headquarters agreed that we will expand the force to 150,000!"

Li Yunlong smiled at the corner of his mouth and said.

As Li Yunlong expected, as soon as his words fell, the corners of Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou's mouths were also upturned almost at the same time, and the smiles on the corners of their mouths were more difficult to suppress than the Type 56 submachine gun.

Originally, the new group was planned to be expanded to 100,000, but I didn't expect to expand to 50,000, which was really an unexpected surprise.

"The head of the headquarters wants to allocate new recruits to our new regiment, right?" Zhao Gang asked in an excited tone.

Expand the number of 100,000 at once, and if the new regiment is allowed to expand by itself, it will definitely be able to complete the task.

The Eighth Route Army has recovered such a large territory, and there are many young people who want to participate in the Eighth Route Army to fight devils.

However, many of them are ordinary people who have never touched a gun, and it takes a long time to go from a civilian to a recruit and then to a qualified soldier.

Therefore, Zhao Gang guessed that the expansion of the new regiment this time would inevitably receive the full support of the headquarters.

"That's right!"

Li Yunlong nodded:

"The head of the headquarters gave us 80,000 recruits, most of whom were reorganized from guerrillas, county brigades, district squads and militias, and also allocated battalion and company-level officers to us to support us in completing the expansion task."

When Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou heard this, their expressions were overjoyed.

Guerrilla units and other local units with combat experience will be reorganized into the new regiment, and these new battalions will be able to build up their combat effectiveness more quickly.

"Great!" Zhao Gang's tone was excited, "In this way, our troops will increase by three times, and the combat effectiveness will also increase by at least three times." ”

Wang Dehou said expectantly: "After the expansion of the new regiment, the combat effectiveness is probably incredible, just our new regiment can single-handedly challenge the entire North China Front of the Japanese army!" ”

"The premise is that after the expansion of the troops, they must be able to form combat effectiveness."

Zhao Gang's eyes quickly regained composure and asked:

"Lao Li, with an expansion of 100,000 troops, the weapons and equipment of the new barracks can't be too bad, is the weapons and equipment of our regiment enough?"

"Of course it's enough."

Li Yunlong nodded and said:

"The head of the headquarters has already said that half of the business price will be left in our new regiment, and all 20 Sabre fighters and 4,500 horses and equipment will belong to our new regiment."

"After the expansion is completed, the firepower of our regiment will be increased by at least three times!"

In the past, the troops were poor, and there was no way for the troops to fight with the devils.

Now the devil wants to fight with a new group of white-knuckles, and there is no door.

Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou's eyes lit up slightly, although they had expected it in their hearts, but when they heard the news, they were still overjoyed.

Half of the price of this business is considered a splash of wealth for the entire Eighth Route Army, and it is even more rich for the new group.

Li Yunlong carefully calculated, and now the new regiment has 15 infantry battalions, 5 cavalry battalions, 2 tank battalions, 1 guard battalion, 1 engineer battalion, 1 training battalion, 1 machine gun battalion, 2 anti-aircraft artillery battalions, 1 special service battalion, and 7 artillery battalions, of which the artillery battalions include 2 Katyusha rocket artillery battalions, 2 203-mm howitzer battalions, 2 105-mm howitzer battalions, and 1 150-mm howitzer battalion.

There are 36 battalions in total, and if it is further tripled according to this size, it will be 108 battalions.

Of course, although these 108 establishments are all battalion-level scales, except for the guard battalions, basically every battalion has reached the regimental level, and even many of them are reinforced regimental levels.

It looks like 108 battalions, but in fact it is 108 regiments!

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of these 108 regiments will be quite terrifying, and it will be a force that makes the devils feel extremely frightened.

Li Yunlong finished his mental calculation, and the smile on the corner of his mouth also surfaced inadvertently.

Two words, rich.

Five words, really fucking rich.

"It's a pity..."

Li Yunlong said with pity: "We don't have enough pilots, otherwise it would be comfortable to expand a few more flight groups." ”

Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou both nodded, the current situation is that the number of planes in the Eighth Route Army is enough, and the pilots are not enough.

……

Headquarters.

"Report to the chief, a call from the Yamashiro office."

A telegraph operator held a telegram in his hand, walked quickly into the war hall, and gave a military salute to the chief and chief of staff:

"The national army wants to send an air force observation group to come over and exchange experience with our air force units to learn from the experience of dealing with devil planes, and this observation group is the 4th brigade of the national air force."

Because the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not establish direct contact with the top level of the national army.

So.

Through the office of the Eighth Route Army in Shancheng, the high-ranking members of the National Army bypassed the Second Theater Command and directly contacted the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

As the Eighth Route Army became bigger and stronger, Yan Xishanyang disobeyed Yin and continuously disobeyed Lao Jiang's orders, and the Second Theater Command could be said to exist in name only.

"Oh?" The chief's eyes lit up, "We were about to invite them, but we didn't expect the national army to come by itself?" ”

……

(I have a terrible toothache today, so I'll go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine later.) ）

(End of chapter)