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Chapter 157 The Brigadier Must Buy Me a Drink!
The shipped cannon parts and shell boxes almost filled the entire thousand-square-meter drying yard.

The soldiers of the new regiment, as well as the onlookers, surrounded the sun-drying field with three floors inside and three floors outside.

I heard that the regiment leader brought back a lot of cannons, and the slightly wounded soldiers who had just been lying in the regiment headquarters also came to join in the fun after hearing the news.

There was a wounded man who couldn't even walk, and when he heard that the regiment leader brought in another cannon, he walked like flying.

The hygienists are dumbfounded, a medical miracle?

It's not that Li Yunlong let the uninjured soldiers pretend to be, but it's not like what Li Yunlong said, there are so many wounded that the villagers' homes can't fit them.

In fact, he just wanted to sell it badly.

The artillery company commander Wang Chengzhu and the soldiers of the artillery company hurried over after receiving the order.

"Pillar!" Li Yunlong looked at Wang Chengzhu, pointed to the pile of parts and said, "Take your soldiers and assemble all these parts."

"This is?" Wang Chengzhu looked at the cannon parts, his eyes widened.

The soldiers of the artillery company behind him also looked over, their eyes lit up like light bulbs.

It can be seen from the parts that this is definitely a cannon, and it is very likely to be a high-end foreign product.

Cannons have no resistance to artillery.

Li Yunlong said: "This is the new American Aimen 1 mountain gun with a caliber of 75 mm. There are 24 guns in total here. Can you see if you can assemble them all?"

"24 gates!" Wang Chengzhu's eyes almost popped out when he heard this, and he couldn't help swallowing wildly, "Regimental Commander, according to this, I'm going to be the Commander of the Artillery Corps?"

My dear, 24 75mm caliber mountain guns!

These are the artillery of the two mountain artillery battalions!
In addition to the original number of artillery battalions, there are 3 artillery battalions and one artillery regiment!

I never thought in my life that our old Wang could still be the commander of the artillery regiment?
"What are you thinking, kid?" Li Yunlong glared at him, and said with a smile, "You think these cannons are all yours? Dreaming!"

"It's okay to live as a commander of the artillery regiment for a day."

Wang Chengzhu didn't care, instead he laughed happily.

"Don't be silly." Li Yunlong said with a smile, "Hurry up and assemble these cannons with your soldiers. Later, labor and management will pull one to the back mountain to test its power."

"Head, do you have an instruction manual?"

Wang Chengzhu's face straightened, he rubbed his hands eagerly, and he was a little impatient.

Li Yunlong took out a stack of manuals from a small box and handed them to Wang Chengzhu: "It's still the same, one manual for each cannon."

Wang Chengzhu took it and immediately sent these instructions to the artillerymen.

Afterwards, Wang Chengzhu immediately opened the instruction manual and looked at it. The first few pages of the instruction manual are how to teach the artillerymen to assemble this M1A1 75mm mountain cannon.

After all, to skillfully operate and use this mountain cannon, learning how to assemble it is only the most basic skill.

After only watching the process of assembling mountain cannons, Wang Chengzhu memorized it by heart. This is his unique talent.

"Class one, follow my orders!"

"The gun mount, two gun wheels, and the cradle, move fast!"

Wang Chengzhu's rough voice roared.

Behind him, a dozen or so artillerymen from the first squad of the artillery company immediately ran to the parts pile, and brought out a pair of gun mounts and two gun wheels.

Under Wang Chengzhu's command, the gun carriage, gun wheel and cradle were installed quickly.

"Sight, breech block, and gun barrel!" Wang Chengzhu continued to shout with his loud voice, "Be careful, these things are precious, don't drop them!"

As the core of the whole cannon, the barrel is forged with fine steel, which is extremely hard, but Wang Chengzhu is still cautious.

The breech block is an important part of the artillery, which plays an important role in locking the barrel, firing the shells and drawing out the cartridge during the firing of the artillery.

If the breech block fails, the entire cannon will be incapacitated.

As for the aiming gun mirror, it is the most easily damaged structure on the whole cannon. Whether the direct aim can hit the target is almost entirely dependent on the gun mirror. If it is farther away, the shooting parameters must be calculated.

Most of the battles of the Eighth Route Army were close-range shooting, so optical gunscopes were used in most cases.

If the gun mirror was damaged, he would have nowhere to cry.

In the final step, several artillerymen worked together to lift up and finally put the raised upper cover on the top of the gun barrel. By turning the bolts, the upper cover and the lower base tightly wrapped the gun barrel.

Due to the first assembly, the artillerymen were not very proficient, and it took a full 10 minutes to assemble. This time will be greatly shortened after the soldiers are proficient.

A 75mm mountain cannon that looks a bit bloated but looks like a steel beast suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

The other soldiers of the artillery company were also busy assembling the mountain artillery, and there was a lot of voices.

"Is that all right?"

Li Yunlong stepped forward, stretched out his hand to touch the dark and hard gun barrel, and then felt a scorching heat. The gun barrel was a little hot after being exposed to the sun for a long time.

"Can it be fired? It won't explode, right?"

Li Yunlong's mouth was dry, and he turned to look at Wang Chengzhu.

"That's absolutely impossible." Wang Chengzhu was very confident, "It's absolutely impossible to blow up the chest. If you don't believe it, leader, we can try it first."

Li Yunlong said loudly: "Go and lead the mules, pull this cannon to the back mountain, and try to shoot two cannons."

An artilleryman hurried out of the crowd and went to the logistics transport team to lead the mules.

This cannon weighs more than 1300 kilograms, and a few soldiers can push it away, so a mule or a military horse can pull it away.

However, the complicated mountain roads can only be disassembled into cannon parts and let the mules carry them on their backs. Coupled with the mules and horses for transporting shells, even if only one mountain cannon battalion is equipped, the logistical pressure will be great.

After a while, the soldier brought a mule and put the 75mm mountain gun on the mule's shoulder with a thick rope.

"Go, go to the back mountain!"

With a big wave of Li Yunlong's hand, the artillerymen led the mules, and the mules led the mountain cannons, and everyone followed them to the back mountain.

Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, and Chen Dugu were all there, and the Sword Squad also came to join in the fun.

When he arrived at the back mountain, Li Yunlong pointed to a big tree on the top of the mountain 500 meters away, and said to Wang Chengzhu: "Zhuzi, that tree, fuck it!"

"Push the cannon here and fix the cannon mount!" Wang Chengzhu shouted, "Move quickly!"

Several soldiers pushed the cannon to the position pointed by Wang Chengzhu, then built an artillery position and fixed the cannon mount.

Wang Chengzhu looked at the instruction manual, then moved his eyes to the front of the gun mount, and then quickly shook the handle, and the barrel quickly lowered, pointing the muzzle at the target.

"Cannonball!"

An artilleryman took out the shells from the shell box, Wang Chengzhu opened the breech block, took the shells and stuffed them into the barrel, and then closed the breech block.

The action is not sloppy at all, and it is done in one go.

"Fire!" Li Yunlong ordered.

Wang Chengzhu held the cannon rope in his hand, and gently pulled it back, and the cannon body shook violently.

Li Yunlong quickly raised his binoculars to look, only to see that big tree fell under the bombardment, and a large puff of gunpowder smoke rose upward.

It looked more powerful than that 75mm Italian field gun, and Li Yunlong looked very satisfied.

Moreover, this 75mm mountain gun is lighter than the Italian field gun and is more suitable for mountain operations.

Even the above-mentioned officers had binoculars to see clearly, but the onlookers without binoculars could only see a puff of gunpowder smoke rising.

"One more shot!" Wang Chengzhu shouted.

"You prodigal bastard, how expensive are the cannonballs?" Li Yunlong said, "It's really interesting to shoot a cannon, bring the cannon back to me."

"Regimental Commander, you have to speak with your conscience." Wang Chengzhu said aggrievedly, "You yourself just said to shoot two shots, and this is only one shot, so how about another one?"

"I said that?" Li Yunlong asked.

"Head, you did say that." Zhao Gang smiled, "You guys have heard it all."

Li Yunlong said: "Okay then, let's fire one more shot, but we can only fire one more shot."

"Yes!"

Wang Chengzhu happily mobilized and shot Zhu Yuan to find the target again.

When are artillerymen happiest?

That's when the shot is fired and the sound is heard.

After testing the cannon, Li Yunlong asked the soldiers to pull the cannon back to Yangcun.

Li Yunlong and the soldiers of Xinyi Regiment are very satisfied with this new type of mountain cannon. If there are two words to describe it, it would be—very fragrant.

What's even more exciting is that there are 24 mountain cannons. When fighting the devils, the two mountain cannon battalions will send a wave of artillery fire to the devils to wash the ground first.

After going back and forth to the back mountain to test the cannons, the soldiers of the artillery company almost finished assembling the mountain cannons, leaving only the last few mountain cannons unassembled.

A series of 75mm mountain cannons are neatly placed on the grain drying field in Yangcun, which looks very spectacular.

Looking away from the mountain cannon, Zhao Gang said: "Lao Li, our entire Eighth Route Army only has one artillery regiment, and our infantry regiment is not suitable to equip only one regiment of artillery."

"What's inappropriate?" Li Yunlong said, "I think it's very suitable. Our Xinyi Regiment is the trump card of the Eighth Route Army. It's reasonable for an ace regiment to be equipped with an artillery regiment?"

"What's the use of telling me?" Zhao Gang said, "If you have the ability, why don't you tell the brigade commander?"

Li Yunlong remained silent. If he really said this in front of the brigade commander, would the brigade commander not whip him?
Zhao Gang said: "The brigade commander will probably know about our new regiment's storage of two mountain artillery battalions soon. My suggestion is that instead of being passively beaten by the brigade commander, it is better to take the initiative to hand over a mountain artillery battalion and take this opportunity to report to the superiors. Apply for an artillery battalion for our new regiment, and the superiors should not refuse."

"Okay, then I will listen to you." Li Yunlong said, "Hand over to a mountain artillery battalion in the brigade."

"That's right." Zhao Gang smiled, "I'll let the transportation team of the logistics department prepare for it, and I will handle the transportation of the mountain artillery battalion and the application for the establishment of the artillery battalion."

"It just so happens that I have to submit a report on this battle to the brigade headquarters."

Li Yunlong said: "I handed in a mountain artillery battalion, and the establishment of an artillery battalion will send me away?"

"You old Zhao went to the brigade, and you must have come back empty-handed. This time, I will go in person."

"A mountain cannon battalion has 12 mountain cannons and 2400 shells. The brigade commander must buy me a drink!"

"Okay, then you go, I'm too lazy to run." Zhao Gang knew that he was so active, he must show off to the brigade commander.

In the 386 brigade department.

Today the brigade commander called Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Zhang Xianyong to the brigade headquarters for a summary meeting.

Zhang Xianyong is the head of the New Third Regiment. Like Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, they are all from the Fourth Front Army.

In this raid, the units of the 129th Division destroyed more than 100 kilometers of railways.

Because the 386 brigade was equipped with infantry artillery, more than a dozen strongholds on the more than 30-kilometer railway from Quandian to Duanliu were wiped out.

In addition to the new regiment, the 386th brigade has a total of 5 infantry artillery, of which the artillery battalion directly under the brigade commander is equipped with 3 artillery pieces, and the two regiments of Ding Wei and Kong Jie each have 1 artillery piece.

For the strongholds that were taken away this time, infantry artillery was used to shoot directly at the devil's gun towers and bunkers, knock them down, and then charge to resolve the battle.

Cheng Shifa was envious when he saw that Ding Wei's New Second Regiment and Kong Jie's Independent Regiment each had an infantry artillery. He wanted to ask the brigade commander to pull out one for the 1 regiment, but was scolded bloody by the brigade commander.

After some summarization and discussion, the brigade commander finally said:
"The Japanese army built the Baishan-Shanxi Railway in order to use the superior force of modern equipment to continuously sweep the base areas in southeastern Shanxi for a long time."

"If the Japanese army hadn't built the Baishan-Shanxi Railway, then the flexible movement of the Japanese army deep into our hinterland and the long-distance support of logistics and supplies would have become empty talk."

"Airplanes, armored vehicles, artillery, machine guns and all modern equipment become dead things."

"Let's not talk about sweeping up the attack from inside and outside Jindongnan."

"Our comrades must be fully aware of this. This is also the reason for breaking the Baijin Railway."

"If there is nothing else, the meeting will be dismissed."

"By the way, all the regiments must make a good summary of the battle after returning. This time the Baijin Railway Breakthrough is just a small test. We will definitely have bigger battles in the future."

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

Afterwards, the few people got up and walked out. Regardless of the rules of the meal when they came to the brigade, they didn't have the cheek to eat it.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie shoulder to shoulder and talked about how useful the infantry artillery in their regiment was.

Cheng Shifa and Zhang Xianyong were sore behind.

"Brigade Commander, Brigadier Commander, I see you coming again."

A few people were walking outside, and Li Yunlong's loud voice spread throughout the brigade.

At this time, his transport team was still one kilometer away, but the road near the brigade headquarters was easy to walk, and it wouldn't take long to get there.

Ding Wei said: "Why does it sound like Li Yunlong's voice to me?"

Kong Jie said, "Who else could have such a loud voice if it wasn't for this bastard?"

Ding Wei and Kong Jie looked happy and rushed out to welcome them.

Li Yunlong got off his horse and saw Ding Wei and Kong Jie coming out, he immediately smiled and said, "Haha... Lao Ding and Lao Kong are you there?"

"And Lao Cheng and Lao Zhang are you there?"

A few old comrades-in-arms met, and a chatter was inevitable.

The brigade commander came out and coughed, Li Yunlong straightened himself up quickly: "Brigade commander!"

"Come in and talk." The brigade commander spoke softly and looked extremely satisfied.

Then he turned his head and told the guards: "Xiao Wang, go and get the bag of Longjing that the teacher gave me, take it out and soak it for Captain Li."

"Yes!"

Xiao Wang quickly turned around and walked to the brigade commander's house.

"Brigade Commander, if you can't do it, how can I be kind enough to give you the tea?" Li Yunlong was flattered and said hastily.

"What can't you do?" said the brigade commander, "If you think it tastes good, you can take the tea back."

"Brigade Commander, you can save the Longjing tea. If you invite me to drink, then I will reluctantly accept it."

Seeing that the brigade commander was so polite today, Li Yunlong became more courageous.

"Do you still have to make an inch of your bastard?" The brigade commander laughed and scolded, "Okay, since you come to the brigade headquarters today, I will give you enough wine and meat."

Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa's eyeballs were about to drop.

What kind of ecstasy soup did Li Yunlong pour into the brigade commander, that the brigade commander treats him so well?

They only had boiled water for half a day when they came to the brigade, and Li Yunlong had enough wine and meat when he came.

"Brigade Commander, I also want to drink and eat meat." Ding Wei booed.

"Yes, Brigadier." Cheng Shifa said, "Why does Li Yunlong drink and eat meat, and we drink cold for nothing?"

Kong Jie and Zhang Xianyong did not dare to speak.

The brigade commander said: "Just because Li Yunlong led the new regiment to eat up the Japanese tank regiment, I don't have high demands on you, as long as you can eat up a Japanese army brigade, come to me and have enough wine and meat, and I will cook for you personally. If you can't pour the wine yourself, let alone the wine and meat, there is no need for nothing."

"Kill the Japanese tank unit?" Kong Jie asked hastily, "Old Li, is this true?"

Ding Wei and Cheng Shifa were also full of disbelief.

"Ham, the mere Japanese tank regiment is nothing to worry about, it's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning." Li Yunlong waved his hands, but his expression was a little smug.

Several old comrades-in-arms all know that Li Yunlong likes to brag, and he also likes to put on an expression of indifference when bragging.

However, if these words came from the brigadier's mouth, it must be true. After all, the brigade commander's intelligence work is so powerful, it is impossible to fool the brigade commander.

After realizing that this was the real story, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and the others looked at Li Yunlong differently, awesome.

Li Yunlong said: "Brigade Commander, I didn't ask you to buy me a drink because I killed the Japanese tank regiment."

"It's not because of this?" The brigade commander asked with a change of expression, "Then why are you?"

Li Yunlong said: "Because I came to the brigade headquarters today to give you a gift."

"what gift?"

嘿嘿一笑，李云龙道：“12门美式75毫米山炮，2400发75毫米炮弹，另外还有3000发37毫米炮弹，3000发47毫米炮弹。”

"My dear!" Cheng Shifa said in shock, "Li Yunlong, have you gotten rich?"

Kong Jie lost his voice, "Old Li, what a skill you are!"

Ding Wei's pupils shrank: "My God, 1 mountain artillery battalion, 8400 shells!"

"Brigade Commander!" Zhang Xianyong also said, "Now you are rich!"

"Then what about the cannons and shells you brought? You won't be firing cannons here, right?" The brigade commander was calm after seeing the big scene, but his tone gradually became higher.

Because he knew that although Li Yunlong was a lot of tricks, he would never joke about such things.

Maybe...he could really come up with a mountain cannon battalion.

The brigade commander has already analyzed the pattern. Every time the Xinyi regiment wins a battle, Li Yunlong will get a batch of aid from the mysterious patriotic surnamed Chen.

This time, a Japanese tank regiment was completely wiped out, and the amount of assistance received was probably more than ever before.

The Deputy Brigadier Commander Han and the Chief of Staff who were in the brigade headquarters also hurried out after hearing the sound.

At this time, several war horses neighed outside the door.

"Hahaha..." Li Yunlong smiled wearily, "My convoy has arrived, brigade commander, please take a look at your mountain artillery battalion."

Seeing Li Yunlong's invitation gesture, the brigade commander squinted his eyes and walked out. Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Cheng Shifa, Zhang Xianyong, deputy brigade commander Han and the chief of staff quickly followed.

At this time, part of Li Yunlong's transport had arrived. Except for some military horses carrying ammunition boxes, 12 mules pulled 12 cannons and lined up in the open space in front of the brigade headquarters.

Hearing this, all the cadres and soldiers of the brigade headquarter ran out to watch.

Li Yunlong patted the big, hard, black gun barrel, grinning at the corners of his mouth, and his tone was also triumphant: "Brigade Commander, is it worth it for you to buy me a drink?"

　There is a problem with the computer. This chapter is for today. It is a 5200-word chapter. I will take the computer for repair tomorrow morning. Sorry for the late update.

　　
　
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