"What are you doing again?"

At the headquarters, the brigade commander, deputy general staff and deputy general general were a little surprised to see the panting brigade commander.

The headquarters combat meeting has just ended, why did you come to the headquarters again?

At present, the 386th Brigade is in charge of the Taiyue Military Region, and as the brigade commander, he has to deal with the affairs of the base areas as well as the affairs of the troops, and the work task is not easy.

If there is an emergency, you should also call it or report it to the correspondent.

"The pen dropped HQ?"

The Deputy General Staff made a reasonable assumption.

"Vice President."

"Deputy Chief of the General Staff."

The brigade commander doesn't talk nonsense either, straight to the point:

"After I returned to the team yesterday, I went to the grassroots troops for a round."

"I found that there is too much shortage of qualified grassroots military cadres in our troops, not only regiment commanders, battalion company and platoon cadres, and even squad leaders at the head of the army."

"In some main regiments, the gap has even reached half, which has seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the troops."

"You want to expand the size of the military training course?"

The Deputy General Staff immediately understood what the brigade commander meant.

The boss also looked at it and said:

"We've been noticing this problem for a long time."

"With the expansion of the size of the troops, there is a serious shortage of qualified grassroots military cadres, not to mention that in battle, battalion, company and platoon cadres are the most serious part of the sacrifice."

"However, the current situation in the troops and base areas really makes it impossible to increase the scale of training for grassroots officers."

As the boss and deputy boss who often walk around the front-line troops, he naturally discovered a serious shortage of officers and cadres at the grassroots level of his own troops.

Although cadres at the battalion, company, and platoon levels are the backbone of a unit, they truly represent the level of combat effectiveness, fighting style, style of conduct, and discipline of a unit.

It is the soul of an army.

However, it is not so easy to organize the training of officers and cadres of grass-roots battalions, companies, and platoons on a unified and large-scale scale.

Especially the current situation in the Eighth Route Army and the base areas.

In the best case, qualified military cadres of battalions, companies, and platoons should be composed of young combat backbones who are rich in combat experience and have a certain degree of cultural knowledge.

This is not lacking in the Eighth Route Army.

Although the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted for three years and sacrificed a lot, there were still many fighting backbones who came out of the Red Army period. Moreover, in the past three years, there has also been a steady stream of outstanding fighters who have been tempered and grown into combat backbones.

However, a qualified officer must not only be able to fight, but also be able to lead troops, and if you really want to talk about it, it is much more difficult to lead troops than to fight, and it is difficult to teach and learn in less than three months.

Short-term training has little effect.

however

Under the oppression of the devils, the size of the troops had to expand rapidly, and with this, the proportion of the backbone of the fighting force in the troops decreased, and the combat effectiveness of the troops declined.

The Eighth Route Army was already seriously short of equipment, and if a large number of combat backbones were to be transferred and grassroots officers were to be trained, it would inevitably lead to a significant drop in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Once the devil comes to sweep at this time, there may be a big problem.

Therefore, at present, we can only train officers and cadres at the grassroots level on a small scale.

Of course, there is another major reason: the troops are poor and do not have enough manpower and material resources to organize the training of officers, and the training courses for officers of several hundred or even thousands of people require a lot of manpower and material resources.

"It's not like you kid doesn't know about this situation."

After the boss finished speaking, he frowned, stared at the brigade commander and said:

"Say."

"Did you get something good?"

The Eighth Route Army lacked qualified battalion, company, and platoon officers and cadres, and they all knew about this problem when they pulled out a cadre at or above the battalion level, and they even knew that this problem was still getting worse.

But there is no way to solve it, there is no condition to solve it, and you can only take it slowly.

The boss's words not only made the deputy general staff look over, but even the division commander who was immersed in work also looked up.

The brigade commander said in the same tone:

"Recently, I got some weapons and ammunition."

After talking about weapons and ammunition lightly, the brigade commander changed the topic:

"I found out that the fiasco of the independent regiment in the battle of Yangcun was directly related to the lack of qualified battalion, company, and platoon officer cadres, so I wondered if I could organize an officer training course in the Taiyue Military Region."

"Although we can't solve the fundamental problem, if we can have one more qualified battalion, company and platoon military cadres, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be increased by one point."

Although the brigade commander is in charge of the Taiyue Military Region, such a thing as organizing officer training can only be accomplished with the support of the headquarters.

"A little?"

"I'm afraid it won't be less, right?"

Both the boss and the division commander keenly grasped the key points in the brigade commander's words.

A little bit of weapons and ammunition can give you the idea of organizing a training course for officers?

Fool whom?

"Just a little, just a little!"

The brigade commander sneered:

"Not much, just a little."

"Okay."

The boss nodded and said:

"I'll give you a batch of officers, and then send someone to organize an officer training course for you, and you will give me half of this ammunition?"

"Okay."

The brigade commander nodded happily, but thought in his heart.

When I went back, I sent the 300 Czech-style equipment to the main regiments, and then each regiment issued tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, and the rest was estimated to have a million rounds of ammunition.

The headquarters' ability to engage in weapons and ammunition is much better than that of the 386th Brigade.

As for Li Yunlong's next weapons and ammunition, let's see what they are.

···

Meanwhile.

At the headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Yunlong lay on the table, carefully pondering the two contracts that had just arrived in his hand, as well as the corresponding devil intelligence information.

One is a short-term cooperation - to completely annihilate a full number of devils B to strengthen the squadron.

The squadron is the basic tactical unit in the Devil's Army, equivalent to the infantry company on the side of the Eighth Route Army, but the scale is slightly larger, and the total strength is between 180 and 200 people when it is fully established.

According to the establishment table, there are 181 members of the second class squadron and 205 members of the first class squadron.

And the so-called reinforced squadron is a squadron of devils who have strengthened their firepower and can carry out combat missions alone.

This time, what needed to be dealt with in the contract was a squadron of devil infantry reinforced with two Type 92 heavy machine guns and one Type 97 mortar, with a total strength of 211 devils.

The time is ten days later.

The location is the highway between Yu County and Liao County.

"This business is also a hard bone."

Looking at the information of the devil strengthening squadron on the table, Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes.

Although the total strength of the Independent Regiment is now 1,800 people, it is only an empty shelf and has not yet formed combat effectiveness, in fact, the part of the Independent Regiment that currently has combat effectiveness is only about 800 people.

Taking into account the non-combat attrition and the need for veterans to train recruits, after ten days, the independent regiment could only dispatch a maximum of 600 men, which was about the size of a newly formed battalion.

The ratio of enemy and enemy forces is one to three.

The superiority in forces is not obvious.

In another hour, Brother Lu will be able to deliver all the weapons, equipment and ammunition.

When the time comes, the independent regiment will be able to surpass the devils in terms of firepower, and the firepower of the infantry squad will be twice that of the devils at a distance of 100 meters, and twice or even 2.5 times that of the devils within 100 meters.

There will also be ten mortars, although nominally nine are for the troops, and one is for spare, but it doesn't matter if all of them are equipped, Brother Lu will not care about this kind of detail, and there are many shells.

But the question is,

The separate regiment currently lacks qualified mortar gunners.

Wang Chengzhu went to training.

There are only two of the rest of the people he knows can call cannons, and they are not very skilled, and the accuracy of artillery is very low.

Even, qualified grenadiers, there is a serious shortage.

Grenadiers are notoriously demanding on the operator.

Even the group of combat backbones he brought with him from the new regiment were only three who could skillfully operate the grenadiers, and the independent regiment currently had 85 grenadiers.

Of course, it's absolutely no problem to win, but it's very difficult to wipe it out, but if you run away from a devil, you can only add one material to the list, and it will be a big loss.

"Fuck."

"Can't live this rich life anymore?"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but scold.

Suddenly rich, Grand Master Li discovered that not only weapons and equipment, but also the talents of the Eighth Route Army were seriously lacking.

"Ten days."

Thinking of the scheduled time for the ambush battle, Li Yunlong pondered for a moment in his heart:

"Just in time."

The weapons and equipment will be available today, although he has not applied for training ammunition, after all, he has not completely let go of his hands and feet for the first time to declare supplies. Now it seems that the decision is right, even if the training ammunition is added to the application form for supplies, it will be rejected by Brother Lu because of the lack of transportation force and the lack of warehouses.

But that's enough for now.

Ten days,

Selecting a few talented fighters from the separate regiment and spending some live ammunition on shooting training should be able to train enough mortar and grenadier operators.

It doesn't matter if the accuracy is almost there, then cover it with fire

Anyway, the target is a squadron of devil infantry, even if it is strengthened, it is only a squadron, it is not much stronger, and it does not consume much ammunition.

Ammunition Consumption··

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong suddenly slapped himself on the head and scolded again:

"Fuck me, isn't this going to be rich?"

At this time, Li Yunlong remembered that the ambush of the devil infantry squadron was cooperation.

The contract expressly stipulates that:

For cooperation missions with Lu Renjia, additional requests for weapons, ammunition, and materials can be applied, and the weapons and equipment allocated to the entire regiment of the Independent Regiment every month are not used for cooperation missions.

And it is also stipulated in the contract.

The place of delivery of weapons and ammunition in cooperation is limited to the station of the independent regiment, but the time of delivery and the quantity of each delivery are determined by Li Yunlong at his sole discretion.

"Isn't that easy!"

Grand Master Li suddenly smiled.

Ten days,

Counting the rush and setting up positions, he had seven days to train.

In seven days, choose good seedlings in the regiment, or go to other units to buy some good seedlings, and then apply for more live ammunition for training, not only can you initially train capable grenadiers and mortars, but even machine gunners can also be trained.

As long as the machine gunner is fed a lot of bullets, even if it is still insufficient in other aspects, the marksmanship can at least be trained, and if there are enough bullets, the mental quality can also be properly trained and trained.

Just as Li Yunlong rolled out the material application form and was about to do a big job, a regimental soldier walked in:

"Commander."

"Xu Huzhi of the Liaoxian County Brigade sent someone to see you."