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Chapter 420 Battle Deployment!

The Sword Squadron spent three days.

Then they reconnaissance the details of the devils and puppet troops in the three counties where the new regiment is stationed.

Of course, Xinyituan had just arrived, and before Xinyituan had time to install informants in the county.

The Sword Squadron was able to obtain information so quickly mainly because of the help of comrades from the county party committee of the local government.

In every county town, there are underground party activities of the Eighth Route Army. The troops of the former 120th Division were placed in the county town. There are even members of the Eighth Route Army in the puppet army.

However, in order to ensure safety, the members of the Sword Squadron are very cautious.

Under Lu Yingjun's order, they all acted separately, and did not tell the local comrades about the upcoming attack on the county.

Three nights later, in the inner room of the regiment headquarters.

Lu Yingjun reported to Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, and Wang Dehou.

And Xing Zhiguo continued to direct the construction of the airport, so he did not participate in Lu Yingjun's report.

Lu Yingjun said: "Report to the head of the regiment, the political commissar, and the chief of staff, about Anhua. The defense situation of the three counties of Ping'an and Heyuan has been clarified."

"Tell me in detail."

Li Yunlong pointed his eyes at the map on the kang table.

"Yes!" Lu Yingjun pointed to the map and reported:

"Anhua and Ping'an counties have similar defensive forces. The defensive forces in these two counties and their surrounding areas are all a Japanese infantry squadron, a Japanese gendarmerie, and a puppet battalion. The strength is around 800."

"The devils guarding the county are basically the third-rate troops among the devils, and their combat effectiveness is not very good."

"The combat effectiveness of the puppet army is even weaker. It was formerly a unit of the former Kuomintang security regiment, and it is also a third-rate unit in the battle order of the national army."

Li Yunlong immediately showed disdain.

The new regiment didn't even know how much they had done with the devil's first-rate troops, let alone a mere third-rate garrison.

In addition, the Kuomintang security regiment is also called the army?

That is to say, the local militias of the Eighth Route Army were seriously short of weapons and ammunition, otherwise the local militias would have been able to clean up this group of puppet troops.

Of course, it is also third-rate, and the combat effectiveness of the third-rate devil troops and the third-rate national army troops is also very different.

In the absence of heavy weapons, it would be difficult for the Eighth Route Army to capture a well-fortified county town defended by third-rate devil troops and third-rate national army troops.

However, the new regiment happened to have heavy weapons for attacking, and they were quite powerful.

"Where's Heyuan County?" Li Yunlong nodded and asked.

Lu Yingjun replied: "Heyuan County has more defensive troops. There are 2 devil squadrons, 1 devil gendarmerie, and a brigade of the puppet army. There are more than 1200 people in total."

Li Yunlong nodded. The geographical location of Heyuan County is relatively important, so the devils have more defensive troops, which is expected.

Next, Lu Yingjun reported some details about the defense of the devils and puppet troops, and drew the city walls of each county town and the plan of the streets and alleys in the city.

"Have you got the list of traitors in the county?" Afterwards, Li Yunlong asked.

"I got it." Lu Yingjun nodded, and took out another stack of papers from his pocket, "The local guerrillas formed a team to eliminate traitors, and the list of traitors who harmed the people in the county is all on it."

"Good job!" Li Yunlong took a look, nodded with satisfaction, and handed the paper to Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang took it over and looked at it. Every piece of paper was filled with the names of the traitors in each county, and even the address was clearly written. After reading it, he carefully put it away.

Traitor the country and seek glory, serve as a running dog for the devil, and kill without mercy.

The money and food of the traitors will naturally have to be confiscated.

Then, Lu Yingjun took out several packs of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou respectively.

Zhao Gang immediately asked: "Lu Yingjun, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, have you learned to smoke?"

Lu Yingjun smiled slightly: "I don't smoke, I brought it for you."

He used to smoke a few occasionally, but since he became the captain of the Sword Squadron, he seldom smoked it.

"I don't smoke either." Zhao Gang said, "Give it to the head of the regiment and Chief of Staff Wang."

Li Yunlong and Wang Dehou's eyes lit up slightly, and they divided up the 6 boxes of cigarettes that Lu Yingjun took out in an instant.

Then Li Yunlong struck a match and lit one, took two puffs, and inhaled the smoke into his lungs. After a while, two puffs of smoke came out of his nose, and he tasted it carefully.

"The smell of this cigarette is not bad." Li Yunlong looked at Lu Yingjun and said, "Your pocket is like a small warehouse, is there anything else good?"

"Boss, your vision is really accurate."

Lu Yingjun grinned, took out two more bottles of wine from his pocket and put them on the table:

"The tobacco and wine are produced in the tobacco factory and winery in Heyuan County, and they taste pretty good."

Li Yunlong skillfully flicked the cigarette ash with his fingers, and squinted his eyes: "Is this tobacco factory and winery owned by the Chinese, or the devils?"

The base area is poor and white, so it's time to develop some sideline business.

In addition, agriculture must be developed as soon as possible, and field hospitals and gun repair shops must be established as soon as possible. In the future, high-end industries such as steel factories and arsenals will also be established.

Lu Yingjun had already guessed that Li Yunlong would be interested in the tobacco factory and winery, so he had already investigated clearly.

"It's managed by the Chinese, but it's under the devil's name. The tobacco factory and winery are the only ones with a radius of one or two hundred kilometers. With such a large profit, the devil will definitely not hand it over to others."

"That's all right." Li Yunlong said with a happy expression: "After Heyuan County is captured, the tobacco factory and winery will be moved back to the base area."

Then Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang gave a few words of encouragement, Lu Yingjun saluted the others, and left the regiment headquarters.

After Lu Yingjun left, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou began to formulate a battle plan overnight based on the information provided by Lu Yingjun.

Early the next morning.

The battalion commanders and company commanders of the Xinyi Regiment were urgently called to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.

Seeing this situation, all the battalion and company commanders guessed that there might be another war, and the smiles on their faces were the same as those of the New Year.

In the outhouse of the regiment headquarters, the door was closed.

Martial law is imposed within ten meters around the regiment headquarters, and no one is allowed to approach.

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou opened the curtain and walked out of the inner room of the regiment headquarters one after another.

Li Yunlong glanced at the crowd, and all the battalion and company commanders suddenly looked terrified, immediately put away the smiles on their faces, and stopped chatting.

"The Commander of the First Army, Shinozuka Yoshio, was killed by us."

"In addition, the regiment headquarters has received reliable information that Hayao Tada, the commander of the North China Front Army, will also be ordered to retire soon."

Li Yunlong glanced at the crowd, and then spoke.

Everyone knows that Yoshio Shinozuka was shot to death. After all, everyone has seen the corpse that was shaped like a jar and was beaten into a sieve.

However, Jun Tada was about to be ordered to retire by the Japanese army headquarters, but everyone didn't know that this was the latest news sent by Chen Feng.

Li Yunlong expected Tada Jun to step down, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

"Commander, is our target this time the old devil Tada Hayao?" Sun Desheng asked tentatively.

Except for a few main infantry battalion commanders, the other battalion and company commanders couldn't help their eyes glowing, but they shook their heads after careful consideration.

Li Yunlong glared at Sun Desheng angrily and said, "What are you thinking, kid? Tada Jun, do you calculate how far it is from us to Beiping? How long will it take to march? How many devils and puppet troops are there on the way?"

Sun Desheng lay on the map to study for a while, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he said resentfully: "The distance in a straight line is more than 400 kilometers. Excuse me."

Li Yunlong continued: "This is a good opportunity to recover the surrounding counties. Whether it is the Japanese First Army or the Japanese North China Front Army, they are all in a leaderless situation in a short period of time. If we attack the county, there will be no devils rushing to help. This is the condition of victory. Taking advantage of this opportunity, according to the instructions of the head of the headquarters, the party committee of the regiment unanimously decided that the new regiment will launch an attack on the nine counties occupied by the Japanese army in northwest Shanxi."

While speaking, Li Yunlong's fingers drew a circle on the territory of the new first regiment, the new second regiment and the independent regiment respectively.

Each circle encloses three counties, as if enclosing a territory.

"Shall we also fight the counties where the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment are located?" Zhang Dabiao asked.

"That's right, otherwise where would the nine counties come from?" Li Yunlong nodded and said, "I've already discussed it with Ding Wei and Kong Jie."

"Next, let the political commissar speak, and everyone applauds."

Everyone looked at political commissar Zhao Gang, and at the same time applauded.

Zhao Gang pressed his hand, and everyone stopped their applause and said, "Just now, Comrade Commander analyzed the battle situation and explained the conditions for our new regiment to win."

"I will mainly talk about why this battle is fought and how to fight it well."

"Why are you fighting this battle?"

"First of all, this is the instruction of the head of the headquarters. We also have the conditions for victory, and the battle situation is also in our favor."

"Secondly, the liberation of the nine counties in northwestern Shanxi is of great significance to the war of resistance in Shanxi, and even the war of resistance in the whole of China."

"Also, we are new here, we need to make a name for ourselves and liberate nine counties, so that the common people will look at our Eighth Route Army with admiration."

"Whether it's recruiting or other work in the future, it will be much easier to do."

“还有最后一个原因，我跟团长已经跟陈老板谈好了生意，每打下一座县城，就有100支新式冲锋枪的定金、2门150毫米榴弹炮、2门37毫米高射炮和200吨粮食。”

Zhao Gang put a little emphasis on the last sentence.

As soon as the last sentence came out, the eyes of the battalion and company commanders suddenly became hot.

Especially the two artillery battalion commanders Wang Chengzhu and Li Changsheng, their eyes were as bright as light bulbs.

Zhao Gang's political mobilization is very good, but for the battalion and company commanders, the 150mm heavy artillery is obviously more attractive.

After all, it was only a few days ago that everyone saw the terrifying power of the 150mm heavy artillery with their own eyes.

Lay down two 2mm heavy artillery in a county, and make a fortune!
Zhang Dabiao licked the corner of his mouth, thinking in his heart, why don't we just wipe out the counties occupied by devils in Northeast Shanxi, as well as Datong?
Next, Zhao Gang talked about how to fight this battle well.

On this point, Zhao Gang didn't say much, because the commanders and fighters here already have quite a lot of experience in fighting the county.

"Now, comrade commander, please deploy combat missions." Finally, Zhao Gang said, "Everyone applaud."

Zhao Gang took the lead in applauding, and everyone followed suit.

clap clap.

Li Yunlong had a serious expression and pressed his hand down, the applause stopped abruptly.

"Our combat mission in the first phase is to attack the three counties of Heyuan, Anhua and Ping'an."

"Our three counties are blooming at the same time this time."

"The devils and puppet troops in Anhua County and Ping'an County each have about 800 people, both of which are equipped with 300 devils and more than 500 puppet troops."

"The devils and puppet troops in Heyuan County have a total of more than 1200 people. There are almost 500 devils and more than 700 puppet troops."

"Now I am making the following combat deployments. The first and second battalions are under my command to attack Heyuan County. The third and fourth battalions are under the command of Political Commissar Zhao to attack Ping'an County. The county brigade and cavalry battalion are under the command of Chief of Staff Wang to attack Anhua County. .”

The lost troops of each main infantry battalion were replenished by the county brigade.

Although the strength of the main infantry battalion has been replenished, the strength of the county brigade has only had time to replenish more than 300 people.

Before the attack on Taiyuan, the county brigade had more than 2000 people, but now there are only more than 1300 people.

However, with the addition of more than 600 people in the cavalry battalion, there are enough 2000 troops.

In the original drama Ping An Battle, Li Yunlong had more than 8000 people in his hands, but only 5000 participated in the siege, and the other 3000 were sent to aid.

There is no need for reinforcements right now, and only two main infantry battalions with a total of more than 2 troops are attacking each county.

Although the number of people attacking each county is not as good as in the original play, both the individual firepower and artillery support are more than ten times stronger than the siege troops in the original play.

Li Yunlong continued: "The six artillery companies of the First Pao Battalion and the Second Pao Battalion will cooperate with the siege of the city with two artillery companies as a unit."

"The first company, second company, and third company of the heavy machine gun battalion and the machine artillery battalion cooperated to attack the three counties of Heyuan, Anhua, and Ping'an."

"The departure time is tomorrow evening, and the local militia and county brigade will organize manpower to provide us with logistical support."

"Are you clear about your mission?"

After finishing speaking, Li Yunlong's gaze swept over everyone's faces.

"It's clear!" Everyone shouted in unison.

"Then is there any problem?"

Li Yunlong nodded, very satisfied with the performance of these guys.

"Leader." Zhang Dabiao said, "I have a question."

"Say." Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao.

Zhang Dabiao then said: "If you want me to say, just wipe out all the counties occupied by devils in Northeast Shanxi, and take down Datong together. Datong is an important military town, and it should be worth at least 5 heavy artillery?"

Li Yunlong smiled and said: "Your appetite is really not small."

"You don't always teach us." Zhang Dabiao said, "In this war, you have to hug the grass and shoot the rabbit, and take advantage of the enemy's illness to kill the enemy. I learned this from you."

"Okay, the counties in Northeast Shanxi and Datong will not be considered for the time being." Li Yunlong said, "The nine counties in Northwest Shanxi are enough for us to work on, but what Da Biao said has some truth, Northeast Shanxi and Datong will sooner or later be our new A lump of belly meat."

"Disband if there is no other problem."

Immediately the battalion and company commanders took orders to disperse.

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(The body is still not recovering quickly. For the time being, update 4000 words a day, and resume 6000 words when the body recovers.)
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