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in the afternoon.

Li Yunlong returned to Zhaojiayu Village.

The first and second battalions, as well as the militiamen and civilian men all returned with full load.

Li Yunlong left a company to defend the county.

Li Yunlong knew very well that with the current strength of the Xinyi Regiment, there was no point in fighting the devils in an offensive and defensive battle in the county.

Guerrilla warfare and field warfare are the Eighth Route Army's forte, and there is no need to give up your own advantages.

When the devils next sweep, there is a high probability that they will abandon the county seat, but it is not entirely certain. It will depend on how the battle plan will be done when the time comes.

Taking the county as an issue may not necessarily inflict a large number of casualties on the devils.

Not long after Li Yunlong arrived in Zhaojiayu Village, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou came back with their teams and rich harvests, full of rewards.

This battle went much smoother than expected.

Li Yunlong couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In the regiment headquarters, Zhao Gang smiled all over his face: "This time the seizure was very rich. My siege troops had less than 200 casualties, annihilated 800 devils and puppet troops in Ping'an County, seized more than 20 catties of food, 10,000+ rounds of bullets, and guns. More than 400 sticks."

With ferocious firepower, coupled with the surprise attack at night, before the ghosts and puppet troops in the county got over it, the artillery shells fell on the city wall.

After the artillery shells blasted through the city wall with an absolute advantage in firepower, the mortar, infantry artillery, and machine gun fired another round, and the main attack direction of the troops was occupied on the city wall.

Since there is no headquarters, the devils and puppet troops do not have much courage to resist.

As soon as the main force entered the city, the puppet troops scattered from the gap in the city wall deliberately left by the Eighth Route Army.

Only two or three hundred devils were left to resist stubbornly, and they were quickly wiped out.

"In addition, 10,000+ catties of grain and some money were seized from the traitors."

Li Yunlong nodded and looked at Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff Wang, how about the harvest and casualties in Anhua County?"

"It's about the same as Political Commissar Zhao's capture of Ping'an County." Wang Dehou said, "casualties were about 200 people, more than 800 enemies were wiped out, more than 20 catties of grain were seized, 10,000+ rounds of bullets, and more than 400 guns."

When Li Yunlong summed it up, the casualties in the attack on Heyuan County were much smaller and the seizures were much more.

However, this was the result of the cooperation of the Sword Squadron. Without the cooperation of the Sword Squadron, the battle to attack Heyuan County would have been much more difficult.

Li Yunlong said expectantly: "Now we have nearly 100 million catties of grain extra, and road repairs can be put on the agenda."

When Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou heard the words, they immediately looked forward to it.

As long as the road is repaired, the car can run, and the heavy artillery of the new regiment can maneuver.

Zhao Gang asked: "Lao Li, how many roads do you plan to build?"

Li Yunlong thought for a while and said: "At least we must connect with the bases of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, otherwise it's meaningless."

Outside the base area, there are roads around the county seat. Although the devils are far from being motorized, the devils are equipped with a lot of cars.

It's just that the devil's car is too small, and the little devil's fuel and other resources are scarce, so the car equipped by the devil looks a bit tasteless.

Once the base of the New First Regiment, the base of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment are open to traffic.

In the future, we will be able to use cars to move quickly between these three bases.

It only takes a few hours by car to reach the defense area of ​​the New Second Regiment or the Independent Regiment.

If you have nothing to do, you can go to Lao Ding or Lao Kong to escape.

"Okay!" Zhao Gang nodded, expressing no objection.

"By the way, these seized grains can be temporarily stored in ordinary people's homes."

Chief of Staff Wang raised a new question: "After the airport is repaired, we still have to account for more than 1000 tons of grain. Have you figured out where to store it?"

This actually asked Li Yunlong.

In addition to the more than 1000 tons of grain, every time a county is captured, there are still 200 tons of grain harvested at a business price.

200 tons of grain, or 40 catties, was more than the capture of a county itself, and it was all rice, white flour, canned food and other fine grains and fresh meat.

These grains are mainly for combat soldiers, and the amount is too large to be placed in the homes of ordinary people.

Zhao Gang suddenly thought of a solution: "Can we build several large grain depots?"

"Grain depot?" Li Yunlong was taken aback.

"That's right, build a grain depot." Zhao Gang said, "Let's find a few canyon terrains, pour the ground, sides and top with reinforced concrete, store grain in them, and then repair the road to the grain depot. It is also convenient to distribute food to the troops, as long as the top is camouflaged, it will not be easy for the Devils to detect it."

"This is a way." Li Yunlong nodded and said.

When I was in Yangcun in the southeast of Shanxi Province, the food for the new batch was mainly hidden in a large cave in the back mountain of Yangcun, and waterproof measures were taken.

However, around Zhaojiayu Village, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang searched several hills, but they did not find a large cave like Yang Village.

The terrain in Northwest Shanxi is full of gullies, and there are quite a few canyons like Zhao Gang said.

"It's not enough to have a warehouse, you have to take measures such as moisture-proof and waterproof."

Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Old Zhao, Chief of Staff Wang and I are taking troops out to do side business these days. You should focus on this matter at home. As for the materials for building the warehouse, I will ask Brother Chen for credit."

The so-called sideline business is naturally to go to the defense area of ​​the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment to attack the county.

There is no need to worry about the materials for repairing the large warehouse. Anyway, he can ask Boss Chen for credit, and he will pay it back later.

"Okay, I'll take care of this matter myself." Zhao Gang took over the matter.

Li Yunlong instructed: "The warehouse is the foundation of our new regiment. Once it is repaired, it must contain our food, weapons and ammunition. Whether it is from site selection to construction, it must be kept secret."

"En." Zhao Gang nodded, his eyes revealing his thoughts, thinking about the most suitable place to build the warehouse.

At this time, Xiuqin, director of the Women's Rescue Association of Zhaojiayu Village, entered the door carrying a large basket of pancakes.

"Commander Li, Political Commissar Zhao, and Chief of Staff Wang."

As soon as she entered the door, Xiuqin saw the three of them sitting on the stools in the outer room of the regiment headquarters, and said with a smile, "You are all here, these are pancakes made by our comrades from the Women's Rescue Society, eat them while they are hot."

Zhao Gang got up quickly, took the basket from Xiuqin, and put it on the table.

Zhao Gang said to Xiuqin solemnly: "Comrade Xiuqin, on behalf of the cadres and soldiers of the whole regiment, I would like to express my gratitude to all the women in the Women's Rescue Association of Zhaojiayu Village. The pancakes you made are really helpful. We must kill more devils..."

Li Yunlong grabbed a piece of pancake and ate it, and said as he ate: "Okay, old Zhao, why are your clichés the same every time? Our expectations', isn't it? I say you intellectuals, it's just too sour."

Zhao Gang said with some embarrassment: "Old Li, do you really remember that I said the same thing every time?"

Li Yunlong said: "That's right, not a single word is bad, let alone local comrades, I'm tired of listening to them, can't you just speak plain words, sister Xiuqin, you women make pancakes, and our men make pancakes." Devil, don't be polite to anyone, the division of labor in the revolution is different, this is so close, isn't it, sister Xiuqin?"

Xiuqin said with a smile: "The head of the group still listens to what he says, we are all a family, so why not be polite."

Zhao Gang immediately ate the pancakes and said with a smile, "It seems that I, an intellectual, should integrate more with the workers and peasants."

……

After the Xinyi Regiment captured Ping'an, Heyuan, and Anhua counties, two days passed in a row, and the devils in the direction of Taiyuan and Datong were quiet.

After two days of rest, the county brigade guarded the house, and Li Yunlong and Chief of Staff Wang Dehou led the four main battalions, the cavalry battalion, the first artillery battalion, the machine artillery battalion, and the heavy machine gun battalion, to the defense area of ​​the second Ding Weixin regiment.

The defense area of ​​the new second regiment is more than 100 kilometers away from the defense area of ​​the new first regiment.

After two days of rapid march, Li Yunlong led his troops to finally arrive at the defense area of ​​the New Second Regiment.

In the regiment headquarters of the new second regiment.

Ding Wei asked the cooking class to prepare a table of good food and wine, and greeted Li Yunlong and Wang Dehou.

Three rounds of dishes, five flavors of wine.

Ding Wei asked: "Old Li, tell me the truth. Last time you beat Taiyuan to kill Yoshio Shinozuka, how much did you gain?"

"How much benefit?" Li Yunlong threw a peanut into his mouth, looked at Ding Wei and Xu Shansheng, the political commissar of the New Second Regiment, who were sitting opposite him, and emphasized his tone, "Say it to scare you!"

Seeing that Li Yunlong only ate but didn't talk, Ding Wei became anxious: "Are you talking?!"

Li Yunlong said: "I said yes, but this involves strategic weapons, you two have to keep it secret."

"You can't trust us?" Ding Wei said, "It's not the first day for Lao Xu and I to make a revolution, so of course we know the secrecy regulations."

Xu Shansheng also said: "Captain Li, don't worry, Lao Ding and I will never leak any secrets."

"Actually, it's nothing." Li Yunlong pretended to be indifferent, "That's 24 150mm howitzers, 12 were taken away by the head of the headquarters, and I kept 12 for myself."

Thinking of the 12 150mm heavy artillery in the regiment, Wang Dehou also smiled slightly.

Ding Wei and Xu Shansheng couldn't help but gasped, and even the chopsticks they used to hold the food suddenly stopped in the air.

"A 150mm howitzer?"

"12 doors? True or false?"

Hearing this, Ding Wei stared blankly at Li Yunlong, almost drooling with envy.

The New Second Regiment is now equipped with more than 30 75mm mountain field guns and two 2mm howitzers, which made Ding Wei crazy and dared to attack the county.

However, compared with the Xinyi Regiment, the gap appeared in an instant. Now the Xinyi Regiment is equipped with 12 150mm heavy artillery, which is a dimensionality reduction blow.

People are more dead than people, and goods are thrown away.

Before that, the Eighth Route Army didn't even have a 1mm gun, and even the National Army didn't have many of these.

"Can this be fake?" Li Yunlong laughed, "The power is not fake. A shell weighs more than 80 kilograms, and it can kill a small stronghold with one shot."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of envy on the faces of Ding Wei and Xu Shansheng became even worse.

150mm heavy gun, I really want one.

Ding Wei said: "Now your new regiment probably has more than 70 cannons above 75 mm. This is an artillery brigade, and there is also a heavy artillery battalion. It is really rich."

"More than 70 cannons?" Li Yunlong said, "I'm petty, and when I hit the county seat, there will be almost 75 cannons over 100 mm. Now, my old Li is a real rich man."

When Ding Wei heard the words, he immediately laughed and said, "It's time to beat the local tyrants again!"

Leader Li laughed, with a complacent look on his face: "Come, let's drink and drink."