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Chapter 534 The 2nd Battalion of the New Cavalry Regiment!
Southeast Shanxi.

Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

The boss is lying on the table, looking at the map with a magnifying glass.

The Japanese army gathered heavy troops to sweep Northwest Shanxi, using 3 divisions of the Kwantung Army and 2 divisions directly under the North China Front Army.

The troops of the Japanese First Army were not used, and the strength of the Japanese First Army should not be underestimated.

If the First Army sent another one or two divisions northward for reinforcements, then the three regiments of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi might not be able to hold it.

Therefore, the 129 main force of the 10th Division in Southeast Shanxi will go north, not to mention attacking Taiyuan and Yangquan, but at least form a confrontation with the First Army, so that the devils of the First Army will not dare to reinforce the devils attacking northwest Shanxi.

Also.

The head of the headquarters is still in active contact with Chief Wei Lihuang of Yu Province to see if the First War Zone can cross the Yellow River north and take the opportunity to regain Zhongtiao Mountain.

As for Yan Laoxi, the commander of the second war zone, and the Jinsui Army, there is no hope.

but.

The Eighth Route Army did not expect Yan Laoxi and the Jinsui Army to be of any help, as long as Yan Laoxi and his Jinsui Army did not engage in friction or stab their knives in the back.

The plan to go north has been preliminarily determined by the boss and the chief of staff. There are two main roads going north, one is Baijin Road, and the other is Heliao Highway.

Go north along Baijin Road to Qi County, go north to Fenhe Plain and Taiyuan, and attack Yangquan along Heliao Highway.

Right now, the plane of the Japanese North China Front Army has been killed by Boss Chen's plane.

Therefore, the main force of the 129th Division can march along the road swaggeringly, and the artillery units don't have to worry about being bombed by devil's planes.

As the 36th Division was severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.

日军第一军的部队，就只剩下第33师团、第37师团、第41师团、第14旅团和第18旅团，以及一些直属部队和伪军部队。

And now the main equipment of the 129th Division has come up. Although the ammunition is not abundant, it is enough to support 10 people to fight a big battle.

In particular, the firepower of the artillery unit has far surpassed that of the Japanese First Army. After all, the artillery of the First Army has less than 4 artillery regiments.

而129师却足足有10多个炮兵团，其中还2个105毫米榴弹炮团和1个150榴弹炮的重炮团。

105毫米炮弹和150毫米炮弹是2个多基数，由于75毫米山炮炮弹生产线的投产，75毫米山炮炮弹的储备则是超过了6个基数。

When neither side has air support and is fighting in the field, the main force of the 129th Division fights with the Japanese First Army. It is hard to say who will win.

of course.

This time, the Japanese First Army is on the defensive side. If the 129th Division attacks by force, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

"Report to the chief, a new telegram!"

While the boss was analyzing the situation of the enemy and the enemy in his mind, a telegraph soldier came to the boss with a telegram in his hand, and said with a military salute.

"Oh?"

The boss took the telegram from the telegraph soldier and read it, and the telegraph soldier turned and left.

The chief of staff, who was sorting out the loss reports of the various regiments of the Jizhong Military Region on the other desk, raised his head in surprise when he heard the telegram from the Xinyi regiment, and then walked quickly to the boss.

"Boss, what did Li Yunlong say in the telegram?"

The chief of staff asked in a tone of impatience.

"You care about that kid Li Yunlong?"

The boss smiled slightly, and handed the telegram to the chief of staff to read by himself.

"Cadres like Li Yunlong are the treasures of our Eighth Route Army. Can I not care about them?"

"If there are a few more Li Yunlongs, our Eighth Route Army will get rich."

The chief of staff took the telegram from the boss and read it.

The content of the telegram is that Okamura Ningji launched a raid on the base area in Northwest Shanxi according to the original plan.

"This must be the information given by Boss Chen."

The moment he read the telegram, the chief of staff guessed the source of this important information.

After a pause, the chief of staff said again: "Why do I feel a little familiar with this iron-rolling sweeping tactic?"

Although Li Yunlong and the Xinyi Regiment had their own intelligence network in Northwest Shanxi, they could not get information from the North China Front Army Command.

"It's good to be familiar with it." The boss snorted coldly, and said: "The last time that old devil Okamura assembled a 3-day puppet army to mop up the Jizhong Military Region, he used this iron-rolling tactic."

"Boss, when you said that, I remembered that last time the devils and puppet troops attacked the Jizhong Military Region, they used this tactic."

The chief of staff said with a look of fear: "Ningji Okamura's tactic is extremely vicious and vicious. If you want to crack this tactic, you can only jump to the periphery of the encirclement before the Japanese and puppet troops form an encirclement circle."

The chief of staff with superb tactical command ability can see the solution to the iron rolling sweep at a glance.

But the devils and puppet troops usually attack suddenly, and you won't be given too much time to react. By the time you react, you may already be surrounded.

The boss nodded: "Yes, this time the Japanese army raided the Jizhong Military Region. If Boss Chen hadn't provided timely information, the loss of the Jizhong Military Region might have been huge."

"That's right." The chief of staff said, "The battle reports of all regiments in the Jizhong Military Region have been calculated, and the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment suffered the most casualties."

In this anti-sweeping operation, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, facing the enemy's iron wall encirclement, insisted on relying on the strength of the wild wolf regiment, relying on the most primitive cavalry advance tactics, to kill a line from the iron wall of the Japanese army. The road of blood successfully completed the task of containing the enemy and transferring the masses.

However, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment also suffered unprecedented losses.

The boss narrowed his eyes and asked, "How many troops are left in the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment?"

"The original 1200 cavalry regiment." The chief of staff sighed, "There are only more than 400 horses left."

Cavalry is different from infantry. The strength of cavalry with 1200 horses is equivalent to that of a Chinese cavalry brigade or a cavalry regiment of the Japanese army.

The boss was very distressed. The Jizhong Cavalry Regiment actually lost two-thirds of the three raids.

The boss sighed: "There are only so few troops left, it is very difficult for the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment to stay in the Jizhong area."

After being swept up in this way, the Jizhong Military Region will only become more and more difficult. In addition, the cavalry regiment will not be supplemented by horses in the Jizhong Military Region, and the troops will only be beaten less and less until they are completely wiped out.

The chief of staff also understood this truth, and suggested: "How about letting the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment be reduced into a Dalian company and incorporated into the Southern Hebei Cavalry Regiment?"

"Southern Hebei Cavalry?"

The boss first looked thoughtful, and then said: "Then the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment might as well be reduced into a battalion and incorporated into a new regiment. In this battle of Xinzhou, the new regiment captured more than 300 army horses, which can be distributed to Ma Renxing. With 200 military horses, Li Yunlong has two cavalry battalions under his command, coupled with the equipment advantages of Yunlong knife and carbines, these two cavalry battalions can easily defeat a cavalry regiment of the Japanese army."

When the chief of staff heard this, his eyes lit up slightly:
"Why didn't I think of it, or the boss, you have a quick brain."

"More importantly, Li Yunlong has no shortage of food. As long as he keeps winning battles, he can fully feed so many soldiers and horses."

"Even if the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment is in the hands of Li Yunlong, it may be able to recreate the glory of the Wolf Cavalry."

In another time and space, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment was severely damaged in the May 1942th raid in [-].

The 1200-man cavalry regiment suffered two-thirds casualties, leaving only 400 troops. Later, the strategy shifted and was incorporated into the Southern Hebei Cavalry Regiment.

So far, the history of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment has come to an end.

In this time and space, because of the appearance of Boss Chen, Okamura Ningji used the Jizhong Military Region as a test area for his iron-rolling tactics in order to sweep Northwest Shanxi, causing the Jizhong Cavalry to be severely damaged half a year in advance.

This time since the cavalry was led by regiment commander Ma Renxing to join the Eighth Route Army, they have fought more than 60 times with the Japanese and puppet troops, and they have made great achievements.

"Only in the hands of Li Yunlong can the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment achieve greater glory."

Immediately afterwards, the chief of staff added another sentence.

So far, Li Yunlong has handed in more than 1000 military horses.

If all these soldiers and horses were to stay in the Xinyi Regiment, the Xinyi Regiment would probably be more than a cavalry brigade now.

After the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment joined the Xinyi Regiment, it will be a matter of time before it develops and restores its strength.

The boss's tone was firm: "Then it's decided. The Jizhong Cavalry Regiment will be downsized into a cavalry battalion and incorporated into a new regiment. .”

"Yeah!" The Chief of Staff nodded heavily, "However, after the anti-sweeping operation in Northwest Shanxi is over, the information given by Boss Chen said that the time for the Japanese army to attack Northwest Shanxi is just a few days away."

"Also, after all, Ma Renxing is the commander of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment. I wonder if he would like to be appointed as the commander of the new regiment's cavalry battalion?"

Although Ma Renxing is a party member and obeys the command in everything, this is a relegation after all, so I have to ask Ma Tuan Zhang for his opinion.

The boss nodded and said, "If Ma Renxing is unwilling, let him be the commander of an infantry regiment. The candidate for the second cavalry battalion of the new regiment can be the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry battalion of the new regiment."

"That's the only way to go," said the chief of staff.

Although it would be best for this wolf cavalry to continue to be led by regiment commander Ma Renxing, it also depends on whether he is willing or not.

……

Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley, North China Front Army Command.

Moritake Tanabe and Tadamichi Kuribayashi had already flown to Taiyuan, while Neiji Okamura continued to command remotely from Beiping.

The communications staff quickly walked into the commander's office and reported to Neiji Okamura: "Report to the commander, Commander Anan Yuji of the 11th Army has replied."

"Oh?" Neiji Okamura asked, "How many planes is Commander Anan willing to lend us?"

After all the planes of the 2nd Flying Division were killed, Neiji Okamura was severely criticized by the base camp. The base camp refused to allocate planes for him, so he borrowed planes from the Kwantung Army, the South China Front Army, and the Central China Front Army.

After all, Neiji Okamura knows very well that in modern warfare, the side with air support has an advantage.

So Okamura Ningji used his relationship to borrow planes and pilots from the other six front armies.

The Kwantung Army clearly rejected Ningji Okamura. As for the reason, Ningji Okamura is also very clear. On the one hand, the Kwantung Army’s aircraft have lost nearly 200 aircraft in North China. Killed, General Umezu Yoshijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, was extremely dissatisfied with the North China Front Army.

Several other commanders of the front army declined. It is because the loss rate of the air force of the North China Front Army is too high, almost [-]%.

Now only Anan Weiji, the commander of the 11th Army, has not responded.

The communication staff officer said: "A Nanwei Lieutenant General is willing to lend us two reconnaissance planes!"

Right now, Anan Weiji is gathering a large force of about 12 people to prepare for the second attack on Changsha. He has two flying regiments with a total of more than 2 planes, so he is very well-off.

idiot!

Hearing this, Okamura Ningji's face turned black, and sent the beggars to the two reconnaissance planes?

"The order!"

Neiji Okamura said with a dark face: "Three days later, various armies will attack the bandit area in Northwest Shanxi. Even without air support, the locust army will completely wipe out the Eight Routes in Northwest Shanxi!"

"Hi!"

The communications staff officer turned and left with a serious expression.

(End of this chapter)