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Chapter 162 Our old Li is now a real local rich man!
When Kong Jie and Ding Wei heard this, their eyes lit up.

"Get rich?" Kong Jie said, "Lao Li, is the sun coming out from the west today?"

Ding Wei also said: "In the past, when Lao Kong and I came to you, you only gave me some soup. Why do you want to make a fortune with us today?"

Li Yunlong said: "Don't be too happy for the two of you, including bringing you a fortune, and giving you a 75mm gun. Labor and management will give you such a heavy gift, and that is conditional."

"I knew, this guy is so kind all of a sudden, he must not be holding his fart!" Kong Jie looked at Ding Wei and said.

"That depends on what conditions you put forward. As long as it's not too much, I can try my best to meet it." Ding Wei said in a deep voice.

Li Yunlong smiled, and said, "It's not too much at all. Our old Li's condition is that when our three regiments have the opportunity to fight together in the future, your new second regiment and the independent regiment must accept our old Li's full command."

"Let us accept your command? Why?" Kong Jie's eyes widened. "Just because your head looks like a chamber pot?"

"That's right!" Ding Wei also said, "You still want to command the two of us and think you are the brigade commander? If you want to get rid of the brigade commander's addiction, recruit troops by yourself. It's not difficult to get thousands of guns from your aid channel. ? What is commanding us?”

Li Yunlong snorted and said, "To tell you the truth, labor and capital are going to open up their recruitment. Our new regiment has already surpassed 5000 people."

"I have food and weapons. I just need to raise my arms. People who want to join our new regiment can go to Taiyuan from here."

"Do you know why I don't recruit soldiers?"

"Why?" Kong Jie asked, he knew Li Yunlong's words were true, and now Li Yunlong's reputation is really great.

Ding Wei also had curiosity on his face, wouldn't he be a fool if he didn't expand if he had food and guns?

Li Yunlong said: "Do you still remember that last year and the year before last, our Eighth Route Army expanded too rapidly, and the veterans were diluted too much. Some basic regiments only had a backbone company of veterans, and the strength of the troops was expanded by more than ten times. Insufficient, but the combat effectiveness of the troops has declined precipitously. Some basic regiments only have two or three hundred guns, and each gun has less than 5 rounds of bullets, and it is difficult to even pull out a gun tower."

"That's why you don't recruit by yourself, but keep asking the brigade commander for recruits from the militia and the teaching regiment?" Ding Wei asked.

"That's right, blindly expanding the number of people is not a good thing. Improving the combat effectiveness of the troops is the key." Li Yunlong said.

"That makes sense." Kong Jie also nodded.

Weapons and equipment for winning battles are important, but strategies and tactics, the tactical command of commanders, and the combat literacy of soldiers cannot be ignored.

"It's far away." Li Yunlong asked, "How about it, do you two accept our old Li's command?"

"I don't accept it. You old Li wants to command us, but you are not qualified enough." Kong Jie said.

"I'm not qualified?" Li Yunlong glared, "When you old Kong joined the army as a rookie, our old Li was already a ten-month veteran. When you old man carried the old sleeve, what did I use? , It’s a speed machine, not to mention Cheng Xiazi, I was the one who taught him how to shoot a gun back then.”

"Yes, your old Li is qualified, but you are not the brigade commander." Ding Wei said, "If you were the brigade commander, we would have nothing to say, and we would definitely follow your command. Who told you not to be the brigade commander?"

"Yes, this is a matter of principle. Lao Ding and I will never compromise." Kong Jie also said, "Your Lao Li wants to command the two of us, but there is no way."

"I said Lao Ding and Lao Kong, you misunderstood, our Lao Li didn't mean that." Li Yunlong said hastily.

"Then what do you mean?" Kong Jie asked.

"I just want to be addicted to the brigade commander, how about this, can it be done once?" Li Yunlong said.

"Not once!" Ding Wei said, "This is a matter of principle."

"That's right!" Kong Jie also chimed in, "Thought that the brigade commander is addicted to expanding the army by himself, so what's the point of commanding the two of us?"

"Just this little bit of requirements and conditions can't be met? There is no free lunch in this world. If I can't meet my conditions, I won't take you to play with me. Fuck! Want to get rich? Be your mother's dream," Li Yunlong The bull's eyes widened, and his expression became serious.

"So, our 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery are gone?" Ding Wei asked.

"Old Li spit on a nail, the cannon will still give you two, but I didn't promise to give you two cannonballs..." Li Yunlong's tone was slightly cold, "My cannon and shells were not brought by the strong wind, so I gave you two for nothing. An infantry cannon is enough, if you want cannonballs, you have to agree to my conditions first.”

"It's so stupid!" Ding Wei scolded, "There are guns and no shells, what's the difference with smoke and no fire? What about the fucking old comrades, you have tens of thousands of shells in your warehouse, and if you give 200 shells I can’t bear it, I think you might as well call Richie Li, I think you’re more rich than a landlord.”

"Hey, hello rich man Li!" Kong Jie greeted Li Yunlong seriously.

"Look at you singing together." Li Yunlong said, "Those who don't know think you two are singing a big show?"

With a smile, Li Yunlong said again:

"Forget it, forget it, if our three regiments have the opportunity to fight together in the future, you two regiments have to cooperate with our new regiment to fight once."

"Is that okay?"

"Isn't this condition too much?"

"If you don't agree to this condition, then whoever comes from will take the cannon back to where you are, and don't take care of you two."

"This condition is not too much." Kong Jie nodded and looked at Ding Wei.

"Okay, if that's the case, then I have no problem." Ding Wei nodded.

"Then I'm fine." Kong Jie said.

Cooperate with one battle in exchange for a 75mm mountain cannon and a chance to make a fortune. It's bloody good, right?
"Then it's decided like this!" Li Yunlong nodded greatly and smiled happily.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie looked at each other, why did they feel like they had fallen into a pit?
Next, Li Yunlong discussed some details about getting rich with Kong Jie and Ding Wei.

After the new regiment has finished its rest, it will cut leeks for the devils' defense on the Yuliao Highway and Baijin Railway, and the seized points will be given to Ding Wei and Kong Jie, and the assistance will be given to Li Yunlong.

But Ding Wei and Kong Jie were not captured in vain, and they needed to send troops to help the new regiment.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie were naturally happy and agreed on the spot.

Li Yunlong asked the cooking team to prepare food and wine, and entertained the two with good wine and meat.

Then Li Yunlong took out his shotgun to show off, and Ding Wei and Kong Jie were envious of its enormous power.

This is the case with old comrades in arms. Just after a quarrel, they can wear a pair of pants again immediately.

In the end, Ding Wei and Kong Jie each took a 1mm gun and shells back.

Although the performance of Ding Wei's Italian gun is not as good as that of Kong Jie's, it has more shells than Kong Jie's, with more than 300 shells.

……

The brigade commander, deputy brigade commander Han, and chief of staff Zhou got the news that after Li Yunlong was robbed of 5 mountain cannons by the division commander, he assembled another mountain cannon battalion.

However, the brigade commander was not prepared to rob Li Yunlong either.

The reason is also very simple. Once he robs Li Yunlong of two mountain artillery companies, the division commander will definitely rob him of at least one mountain artillery company after he finds out.

And if he doesn't rob Li Yunlong, then Li Yunlong's mountain artillery battalion is the mountain artillery battalion of the 386th Brigade, and he can use it at any time.

Time flowed inadvertently, from mid-May to mid-June in 40 in the blink of an eye.

During this period, the Xinyi Regiment has changed a lot. First, the number of troops has expanded from more than 1700 to more than 2500.

After being robbed of 5 mountain cannons by the division commander, Li Yunlong approached the division commander to focus on company and platoon-level officers. The division commander asked him to be promoted from his own regiment. Li Yunlong retreated to the next best thing and asked the division commander to approve Li Yunlong to go to the units of the 385th brigade to select key elite fighters to recruit for the Sword Squad , the teacher agreed to come down, but each regiment can only let Li Yunlong choose 5 people at most.

眼下第385旅有3个主力团，分别是第13、第14和第769团。

Li Yunlong sent Lu Yingjun to pick 3 veterans from these 15 regiments, and 5 from the new regiment. Now Lu Yingjun has more than 50 soldiers under his command and expanded it into the Sword Squadron.

Of course, the Sword Squadron is still organized at the company level.

Then the artillery company was expanded into an artillery battalion, equipped with all 12 M1A1 American 75mm mountain guns.

The original 1 infantry gun and 15 mortars were issued to each battalion and expanded into a battery platoon directly under the battalion. In addition to the bazookas equipped by each battalion, the firepower at the battalion and company level was greatly enhanced.

However, Li Yunlong still felt that the firepower was not enough and had to be strengthened.

In addition, the guard platoon of the new regiment was also expanded into a guard company.

Now the company battalion directly under the new regiment has three main infantry battalions, cavalry battalion, artillery battalion, machine gun company, heavy machine gun company, guard company, and sword special squadron.

Including the Sharp Sword Special Unit, there are a total of 19 established companies. If you add the artillery platoons directly under each battalion except the artillery battalion, there are also 3 artillery companies, and the total number of companies exceeds 20 companies.

In the words of Li Yunlong, our old Li is now a real land rich man!
Next, Li Yunlong began to attack the Baijin Railway and the Yuliao Highway.

The devils transported cement and built 11 reinforced concrete strongholds on the Yuliao Highway. It would be very difficult to bombard them with infantry.

However, the Xinyi Regiment is not what it used to be. Equipped with 12 75mm mountain cannons, and with enough shells, these reinforced concrete strongholds are the coffins the devils built for themselves.

There is no suspense in the ending.

These ghost strongholds on the Yuliao Highway were wiped out by the new regiment within half a month, including the strongholds around Yushe County and Liaoxian County.

More than a dozen devil strongholds on the Baijin Railway were also swept away.

The Xinyi regiment wiped out more than 30 devil strongholds within a month, which is equivalent to the assistance of 90 cannons.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie also followed suit. In addition to the seized equipment, they each obtained 5 cannons and 5 bazookas from Li Yunlong.

Of course, the big heads belonged to Li Yunlong and his new group.

Just when Li Yunlong was thinking, it should be time to win the two counties of Yushe and Liao County.

The Eighth Route Army headquarters began a big move.

Li Yunlong was called to the headquarters for a meeting, but the meeting lasted for several days.

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(I wanted to fight the devil strongholds on the Baijin Railway and Yuliao Highway for a few more chapters, but after thinking about it, the things I wrote before are not much more refreshing, so I started the Hundred Regiments War directly.)
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