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Zhao Gang simply sat down on the kang.

Seeing the wine bowl and wine bottle on the table, his face darkened slightly, and he asked, "Did you steal a drink again?"

Li Yunlong denied it flatly: "No."

"Then why is there no drop of this bottle of Fenjiu?" Zhao Gang asked, "I saw a whole bottle a few days ago."

"Not really."

Li Yunlong said: "Half of the bottle was stolen by Hu Zi, and I rewarded the other half bottle to Lu Yingjun. This boy fought beautifully in the battle of Hanjia Village, so I have to show something, right?"

Sitting opposite to Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang did not smell the alcohol coming out of Li Yunlong's mouth, so he smiled and said, "You are very clear about rewards and punishments."

After a pause, Zhao Gang said again: "By the way, there is also the issue of expansion. Will the expansion be expanded after this battle?"

"I'm just going to discuss this with you." Li Yunlong said: "Since you mentioned this, let's discuss it."

"The county brigade passed through the battle of Dagouwan, and its combat effectiveness has also improved. It is also time to transfer soldiers from the county brigade to the main force."

The county brigade has not only fought the battle of Dagouwan, Chen Dugu often takes the county brigade out to do side jobs.

Ambush a transport convoy today, and build a stronghold tomorrow. There are no big battles, but there are many small battles.

After two more battles at Gongjiagou and Dagouwan, the soldiers of the county brigade improved both in terms of morale and combat effectiveness, and their combat effectiveness was already comparable to that of the other main regiments of the Eighth Route.

Of course, compared with the three main infantry battalions of the Xinyi Regiment, it was still far behind.

Almost all of these fighters are veterans with rich combat experience. In terms of fighting will and combat experience, although they are not as good as those who experienced the Long March when the Red Army was reorganized.

But the fighters of the new regiment are dozens of times better equipped than the old Red Army, so their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the original regiments.

If the 115th division in Pingxingguan had a new regiment with the current equipment, there is a high probability that it will kill one thousand enemies and lose two to three hundred records.

The Red Army soldiers and volunteer soldiers who have gone through the Long March are really the pinnacle of light infantry.

The Eighth Route Army didn't even need the same equipment and logistical support as the Japanese Army. As long as it had the same equipment and combat supplies as the National Army, the Eighth Route Army could beat the Japanese troops in North China to kneel down and call them Dad.

However, the cruel reality is that the supplies of the Eighth Route Army have never been abundant, and most of the battles are to fight the devils with bayonets after firing a few bullets.

There is no stable supply of ammunition, so the Eighth Route Army rarely fights tough battles, because it is easy to lose money in tough battles.

Seeing the popularity of the bayonet is also a helpless move. With the hand-to-hand combat with little devils, our army has basically never lost hand-to-hand combat, whether it is the War of Liberation or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Closer to home, Li Yunlong felt that it was time to expand his troops, and took advantage of this opportunity to expand the strength of the new regiment to more than [-].

Zhao Gang asked: "Old Li, do you plan to add another infantry battalion, or continue to add troops to the original three infantry battalions?"

"My thoughts are like this." Li Yunlong said, "Look at Chu Yunfei's 358-member 5000th Regiment, there are only 3 infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion is 2000 smaller."

"What I mean is that our infantry battalion implements a four-to-four system, and each infantry squad is increased to 20 people, so that each infantry battalion is fully staffed with 1280 infantry soldiers."

Zhao Gang asked, "Does that include the artillery battery under the infantry battalion?"

"Of course not." Li Yunlong said, "It only includes infantry, not artillery. Of course, the artillery companies under the jurisdiction of each infantry battalion remain the same. In other words, one infantry battalion has four infantry companies and one artillery company under its jurisdiction."

Zhao Gang said: "Then our infantry battalion has more than 1400 people, which is almost a regiment."

Zhao Gang's words are true. The regular infantry regiments have 1500 to 5000 people.

While the Eighth Route Army has a core group of about 1000 people, the local militia group has only 500 people.

Isn't an infantry battalion with more than 1400 people the strength of a regiment?
"Of course." Li Yunlong said confidently, "One of my infantry battalions has about the same number as a main force regiment, complete with mortars, heavy machine guns, machine guns, and bazookas, and sufficient ammunition. One battalion can at least hold up to three main regiments!"

"That's what you want to say." Zhao Gang said, "Our new regiment can at least hold up to ten main regiments?"

Li Yunlong nodded: "You guessed about the same."

Zhao Gang: "..."

After a pause, Zhao Gang said again: "No, you have 1400 soldiers in one infantry battalion, 4200 soldiers in three infantry battalions, and less than 5000 soldiers in our entire new regiment."

"Where did you get so many people to add three infantry battalions?"

"Even if you add all the soldiers of the county brigade to three infantry battalions, it's still not enough."

There are currently three infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion has three infantry companies plus an artillery company, with about 650 people.

There are 2000 people in the three infantry battalions plus more than 1700 people in the county brigade, and there are only 3700 people in total.

"Of course I know that." Li Yunlong said: "First take 1000 people from the county brigade, add three infantry battalions, and add more than 300 people to each battalion."

"In the case of the four-four system, there are 64 infantry squads in an infantry battalion, and each infantry squad has about 13 soldiers."

"The number of such an infantry battalion is about 1000 people, and the strength is equivalent to a basic regiment."

"In the future, soldiers added to the main infantry battalion from the county brigade will be stuffed into each infantry squad. When each squad is filled with 20 people, we will build a new infantry battalion."

"I have no objection." Zhao Gang said, "You are in charge of the military, you have the final say."

Regarding military matters, Zhao Gang trusted Commander Li Datuan very much. Unless it was a matter of principle, he would basically not contradict Li Yunlong.

As for the food issue, there is still a lot of food seized from Yangquan, Shouyang County and Gongjiagou, and the county brigades often go out to do side jobs and can be self-sufficient.

Now it will take at least three or four months for the new batch of food reserves to be eaten, and Zhao Gang doesn't need to worry too much about life.

Li Yunlong said: "Then it's decided. In the afternoon, the infantry battalion commanders will be called to confirm the new company commander, platoon leader and squad leader."

Zhao Gang asked: "After the county brigade took away the 1000 people, there are still more than 700 people left. We must add another 1000 people to Chen Dagu. Where are you going to find the 1000 people?"

"Don't worry, our old Li has a solution."

Leader Li put his hands into his sleeves, curled up into a ball, and Ge You lay on the kang, his tone quite confident.

With the current reputation of Xinyituan in Shanxi, as long as they raise their arms, countless aspiring young people want to join Xinyituan.

It's just that Li Yunlong doesn't want to recruit young men who have never touched a gun, and it's easy to be mixed in by enemy agents.

The safest and most efficient way is to recruit recruits from the teaching regiment. Of course, there are not many recruits in the teaching regiment, and the second is to recruit from the local militia.

Whether it is the recruits of the teaching regiment or the local militia, these young and strong people who join the Eighth Route Army are guaranteed by the people, and it is not easy for enemy agents to get in.

Zhao Gang asked, "What can you do?"

Commander Li Datuan said confidently: "If I hand in tens of thousands of cotton-padded clothes and tens of thousands of gas masks, the brigade commander will ask for thousands of militiamen, will the brigade commander refuse?"

"A thousand of them sent you away?" Zhao Gang said, "I think there are at least two thousand."

Li Yunlong laughed: "Old Zhao, you are more and more like the political commissar of our new regiment."

"Fart!" Zhao Gang snorted, "What is resemblance, Lao Capital is the political commissar of Xinyituan."

Li Yunlong happily said: "Look, look, you intellectuals can also swear, and our old Li can also swear, so our old Li is also an intellectual."

"Just rely on the little ink in your stomach." Zhao Gang said with a smile, "If you want to be an intellectual, you are still far away."

"You're right, our old Li also wants to be an intellectual."

Li Yunlong took out the military textbook and said, "I previewed what I'm going to learn today in the morning. Let's continue studying now."

Zhao Gang asked, "What did we learn yesterday?"

Li Yunlong looked thoughtful slightly, and opened his mouth to come: "We learned yesterday that in the combat theory of large corps, the counter-attack during defense, in the deep combat of large corps, breakthrough and pursuit are particularly critical, but the counter-attack during defense It's also important."

A look of surprise appeared on Zhao Gang's expression.

He was really surprised, this guy is like a mischievous student when he is not serious.

But once Leader Li gets serious, his learning ability is not inferior to that of Yenching University's top student.

You know, Zhao Gang was able to be admitted to Yenching University, and his learning ability was enough to kill most people in seconds.

Moreover, most of the people who were able to enter the university at that time had real talents and real learning.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang started to study again.

Learning makes people happy, and this learning is an afternoon.

After dinner, Li Yunlong ordered the three infantry battalion commanders to be called.

Immediately, Li Yunlong issued an order to the three battalion commanders to expand the main infantry battalion.

The battalion commanders naturally have no objections. Once the infantry battalion expands, although they are still battalion commanders, they will live the life of regimental commanders.

As it should be, Commander Li lived the life of a brigade commander, Brigadier Chen lived the life of an army commander, and Master Liu lived the life of an army commander.

Although there are only 386 regiments in the entire 7 brigade, one regiment of the new regiment can support three regiments. In addition, there are militiamen from the Taiyue Military Region, which add up to tens of thousands of people.

At present, the 386 brigade has been reorganized into the Taiyue column, and Chen Geng is also the commander of the 386 brigade and the commander of the column, but it is still called the 386 brigade to the outside world.

And the 129th Division is even better. The entire 129th Division has nearly 40 regiments in total. If you really want to calculate it, the total strength is only a lot more than a group army of the National Army.

Next, Li Yunlong and the battalion commanders determined the candidates for the company commander and platoon leader, and let the battalion commanders decide for themselves as for the squad leader.

After the matter was over, Li Yunlong sent them back, and Li Yunlong ordered Chen Daku to be called.

Then Li Yunlong told Chen Dugu about his plan to transfer 1000 soldiers from the county brigade to supplement the main infantry battalion.

Then the county brigade will be replenished with new militia, weapons and ammunition, and the regiment headquarters will replenish him as soon as possible.

Chen Dagu didn't have any objections either. Isn't the existence of the county brigade just to train recruits for the main infantry battalion?