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Chapter 408 The boss is ecstatic!
Soon, the "Xinhua Daily" of the Eighth Route Army published a news headline that the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of Li Yunlong captured Taiyuan and killed the commander of the First Army Yoshio Shinozuka.

All the bigwigs have expressed their opinions in the "Xinhua Daily".

Commander-in-Chief: "The Battle of Taiyuan was a great battle of national strategic significance. It strengthened the compatriots' confidence in victory, promoted the unity of the whole country, and made it difficult for the enemy to realize its conspiracy of threats and lures."

Deputy Commander: "This battle greatly enhanced the confidence of the people in North China in the resistance against Japan. It dealt a big blow to the Japanese invaders' surrender policy and the Eastern Munich conspiracy. It excited the people of the whole country. Send another strike, raising the prestige of the Eighth Route Army!"

Chief Wei Lihuang sent a congratulatory message: "The Zha stubborn enemy has successively increased its troops in an attempt to occupy Zhongtiao Mountain, and then marched into Shaanxi. Brother and others mobilized powerful troops to fight head-on and smash their conspiracy. I am deeply grateful that your ministry launched the Taiyuan Campaign. Not only to deal a fatal blow to the enemy, but also to encourage the spirit of the friendly army."

YA: "The Battle of Taiyuan is the most fruitful battle for our army in the Anti-Japanese War."

When they first heard the good news, many ordinary people still couldn't believe it.

Because since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there has never been such a great result, and there has never been a case of recovering the provincial capital.

However, as people from all walks of life and various media and newspapers issued congratulations to the Eighth Route Army, the common people rushed to tell each other, weeping with joy.

In Shuangqing City in the rear, progressive youth even organized a parade to celebrate the victory of the Eighth Route Army.

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"Lao Li, Lao Li."

In Taiyuan, Zhao Gang excitedly held a stack of telegrams and found Li Yunlong who was eating noodles in a restaurant.

Although Taiyuan has just been baptized by a war, it does not delay the business of Shanxi people.

In the words of the noodle shop owner, he fights his battles, and I do my business.

However, this shop was lucky, and the noodle shop was not bombed in the street fighting.

"Old Zhao, you came just in time, let's sit down and have something to eat together?"

Li Yunlong saw Zhao Gang walking in and said.

Zhao Gang sat down and looked at Li Yunlong who was opposite. He ate a mouthful of noodles with fried sauce and garlic, which was delicious.

This guy didn't sleep for three days and two nights, and he couldn't see the tired look on his face, but he was full of energy.

"I just ate some dry food."

Zhao Gang pushed the telegram in front of Li Yunlong, and said in an excited tone: "This is forwarded to us by the headquarters. It is a commendation telegram sent by Chairman of the Standing Committee and Chief Yan, as well as telegrams sent by other war zone chiefs and people from all walks of life. A congratulatory message."

Li Yunlong took the telegram over and looked it over, and said in a disdainful tone: "Old Chang and Yan Laoxi are really worthy of deduction. The only rewards are the rewards. It would be nice to give them a machine gun."

Zhao Gang smiled all over his face: "That's right, you, Old Li, don't care about these awards. You don't even bother to wear big red flowers when you receive awards from your superiors, that is, you are only interested if you have real benefits."

Li Yunlong asked: "The headquarters sent these telegrams? Didn't say how the arsenal will deal with it?"

Before that, Li Yunlong had already visited the Taiyuan Arsenal. Today's Taiyuan Arsenal is mainly a bullet factory and a steel factory, and there are also a few production lines for making guns, cannons, and grenades.

A lot of food and equipment and raw materials were transported away by the little devil.

But even so, the steel factory and the bullet factory are still good things for the Eighth Route Army.

With these two, you can make steel and produce bullets yourself.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of tons of raw materials for making weapons and ammunition.

Zhao Gang looked serious, took out a telegram and said: "The headquarters ordered us to transport the arsenal and raw materials back to the base area in southeast Shanxi by train along the Baijin Railway."

After Li Yunlong finished eating the noodles, he wiped his small mouth with his hands, and nodded, with no surprise on his face.

This batch of equipment and raw materials was either transported to the northwest of Shanxi or to the southeast of Shanxi, and they were all transported by train.

Now Northwest Shanxi is poor and white, and has nothing to do. Obviously, it does not have the conditions to build an arsenal, while Southeast Shanxi already has several branches of arsenals, and has also trained a group of skilled workers.

Right now, it is the most appropriate choice to transport this batch of arsenal equipment and raw materials to southeast Shanxi.

Moreover, at the beginning of the battle, the troops captured the Taiyuan Railway Station outside the city and seized several trains.

Whether it is transportation speed or transportation capacity, transportation by train is much higher than manpower and animal power.

Then, Li Yunlong said again: "Old Zhao, you can ask Chief of Staff Wang to send another telegram and ask the headquarters for instructions. This time, we shot down 110 Japanese planes, obtained 330 75 mountain guns, 110 105 howitzers, and captured Taiyuan to get business." How to distribute the 2000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2000 tons of food?"

In this ground-to-air battle, a total of 110 Japanese aircraft were shot down, all of which cast a shadow on the Devils Aviation.

For two days, no Devil fighter jets or bombers dared to come to Taiyuan, only occasionally one or two reconnaissance planes flew high above the sky.

Of course, what is more important is the generous assistance received by shooting down so many planes this time: 330 75 mountain guns, 110 105 howitzers, 550 radio stations and 1100 tons of food.

These cannons can be organized into almost 10 mountain artillery regiments and 3 howitzer regiments.

Properly rich and oily.

With so many cannons, Li Yunlong must not be able to eat it, and the headquarters may not be able to eat it.

After arranging for the equipment and raw materials of the arsenal to be transported back to the base area in southeast Shanxi this time, Li Yunlong will not return to southeast Shanxi, but will lead his troops to northwest Shanxi.

Please ask in advance.

Zhao Gang asked: "Didn't you agree to give Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei and Kong Jie some mountain cannons?"

"That's right." Li Yunlong said, "The 23 mountain cannons for Lao Kong, the 31 mountain cannons for Lao Ding, and the 18 mountain cannons for Lao Cheng must be explained to the head of the headquarters in the telegram. Also, about Xiao Zhong Yoshio’s lieutenant general commanded the saber, and I’m going to give it to the chief of staff, and you should also mention it in the telegram.”

Li Yunlongmenqing, the head of the headquarters will definitely give this face.

As long as the business channel between Li Yunlong and Chen Feng continues, these dozens of mountain cannons are nothing at all.

Mountain cannons and howitzers are enough for the Xinyi regiment at present. What Li Yunlong is really looking forward to is the reward for killing Yoshio Shinozuka.

Are there heavy guns of greater caliber?

"Okay, I'll have the telegraph operator send a telegram to headquarters."

Zhao Gang drew up a telegram himself, turned around and left quickly, and several guards armed with submachine guns and rifles hurriedly followed, protecting every step of the way.

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Headquarters.

"Report to the chief, the 3rd Taihang Column has an urgent call!"

The Eighth Route Army codecs handed the transferred telegram to the Chief of Staff.

The chief of staff hurriedly picked it up, and after reading it, a smile appeared on his face, and soon the smile was all over his face.

"What good did Li Yunlong do to you? Why are you smiling so happily?"

The boss raised his head and glanced at the chief of staff with a surprised tone.

The chief of staff smiled and said: "Li Yunlong did give me a favor, saying that he would give me Yoshio Shinozuka's general officer's sword, and I would give him a belt from the Frunze Military Academy, and he would give me back a Japanese military sword. With the command knife, this deal is really a bargain."

"No, no." The boss said, "Yoshio Shinozuka's command saber must be handed in."

This is the commanding saber of Yoshio Shinozuka, the Lieutenant General of the First Army of the Japanese Army, and the boss is very envious.

The chief of staff suddenly laughed and said: "If you want to hand it in, you have to hand it in to YA in the end. Do you think this saber will still be in the hands of the boss? This saber is left with me, and you can play it occasionally. Besides, Li Yunlong has already given you and the division commander the Japanese commander's sword, but he hasn't given me one yet."

"Well, my gentleman doesn't take what others like." The boss said enviously, although the one Li Yunlong gave him at the beginning was bestowed by the emperor, it was just an assistant official sword, which was far inferior to the general official sword.

"That's not the point. A lieutenant general commanding a saber is nothing."

The chief of staff grinned high, and asked again: "Boss, can you guess how many planes Li Yunlong led his troops to shoot down this time?"

"Ten, twenty?"

When the boss heard the words, his expression changed, and he tentatively guessed.

The chief of staff shook his head, and the boss said tentatively, "More than 30?"

The chief of staff still smiled and shook his head. The boss is always impatient, so he stopped guessing and asked, "How many planes did Li Yunlong shoot down?"

"More than 30 planes, petty." The chief of staff said excitedly, "Boss, this time, Li Yunlong led his troops to shoot down 110 Japanese planes!"

"What did you say?" The boss raised his voice suddenly, his tone was unbelievable, "Shot down 110 planes? Such a big achievement, Li Yunlong actually said it now?"

Although the battle of Taiyuan was in progress, Li Yunlong would order the staff to report the progress of the siege to the headquarters, but the results of the battle were not reported until after the battle.

Hearing this result, the boss couldn't sit still.

Devil Aircraft has always been showing off its might in the sky. Even before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Devil Airplane came to the Eighth Route Army base every day to conduct reconnaissance, and now it finally felt proud.

Shooting down 110 devil planes means killing at least 110 little devil pilots, enough for the little devil to feel bad for a long time!
"That's not the point either."

The chief of staff continued: "The point is, to kill these 110 Japanese planes, Li Yunlong will also receive 330 75-inch mountain guns, 110 105-inch howitzers, 3 base shells, 550 radio stations and 1100 tons of food assistance. There are 2000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2000 tons of food aid for the attack on Taiyuan, and Li Yunlong asked the headquarters how to distribute it."

Hearing the words, the boss thought about it carefully, as if he had heard Li Yunlong say that there was such a thing as a long-term business.

However, the boss did not remember the exact number of shooting down a plane and killing a pilot.

Anyway, Li Yunlong will take the initiative to hand over part of the money when he gets rich.

However, upon hearing such a huge number, the boss immediately opened his eyes wide and couldn't help short of breath:

"what did you just say?"

"330 75 mountain cannons, 110 105 mountain cannons?"

"Aren't these 10 mountain artillery regiments and 3 howitzer regiments?"

The chief of staff smiled, nodded and said, "That's right, there are 13 artillery regiments!"

Hearing the chief of staff's affirmative and affirmative answer, the boss couldn't help showing an ecstatic look on his face. Now the Eighth Route Army has really made a fortune!
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(Another chapter was owed due to an unexpected situation yesterday, and the owed chapter will be returned around the 10th.)
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