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Chapter 679 Mechanized Infantry Regiment!

"Nan Xueyue, Bei Yunlong? These words sound fresh."

Li Yunlong nodded first, then looked thoughtful, and said:
"With General Xue's sea-fixing needle in the south, the devil probably won't be able to reach Chongqing for a while."

"However, General Xue won such a big victory, we can't sit still, we have to find a way to get some meat to eat."

"Old Li." Zhao Gang immediately asked, "Do you want to fight Taiyuan or Datong?"

Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong was a master who couldn't be idle. He was playing tricks on devils all day long. He was always thinking about how to kill devils and get rich while eating and sleeping.

The corners of Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou on the side also twitched slightly.

Now, there are no more devils in Northwest Shanxi, and even the devils in Ding Wei and Kong Jie's defense area have been killed.

Li Yunlong wanted to make a fortune and fish for meat, so he either went to Taiyuan or Datong.

Ordinary small fortunes, with Li Yunlong's current net worth, he doesn't like it. If he wants to make a fortune, he must only fight in Taiyuan or Datong.

"Don't worry about playing Datong and Taiyuan." Li Yunlong took out the radio, smiled and said, "We haven't entertained Boss Chen for a long time."

"Captain, you are a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking." Wang Dehou said with a smile.

"Business, let's make a fortune together." Li Yunlong smiled noncommittally, then turned on the radio, adjusted the channel and wavelength, put the microphone to his mouth with one hand, and put the receiver to his ear with the other.

"Hey, Boss Li is calling Boss Chen."

"Boss Li called Boss Chen."

Not long after, Chen Feng's voice came from the receiver: "Boss Li, I'm Boss Chen, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing." Hearing Chen Feng's voice, Li Yunlong hurriedly said, "Brother, I'll prepare a little wine at the house, and I ask Boss Chen to give it to you."

"Okay!" Chen Feng asked, "When?"

Hearing that Chen Feng agreed to come down, Li Yunlong couldn't help being slightly happy: "Does Boss Chen have time now?"

Chen Feng said: "I have time."

"Haha." Li Yunlong laughed in that characteristic voice, "Then I will wait for Boss Chen."

After hanging up the call, Li Yunlong glanced at everyone with a happy expression, and said, "Boss Chen really gave our old Li face, he will come as soon as I invite him, and he will come to Dagu Town for a banquet later."

Everyone's face is also a slight smile.

After a pause, Li Yunlong looked at Xing Zhiguo: "Deputy Head Xing, you arrange the cooking team to cook a big meal, and I want to entertain Boss Chen."

As for the weapons and ammunition that Boss Chen gave to Xinyituan, let Li Yunlong call him father. Li Yunlong hesitated for a second, it was disrespect for those weapons and ammunition.

It's just that Boss Chen doesn't plan anything, he just wants the Xinyituan and the Eighth Route Army to kill devils.

This is also one of the important reasons why Li Yunlong has been thinking about killing devils all day long.

"That is to say, you can hire Boss Chen, but I guess you can't even invite the head of the headquarters." Xing Zhiguo laughed.

As Boss Chen and the weapons and ammunition to aid the Eighth Route Army, let alone the Xinyi Regiment, even the headquarters and YA, they are also guests.

But Boss Chen doesn't like anyone, he only recognizes Li Yunlong.

This is actually equivalent to protecting Li Yunlong.

With the strength of the new regiment and the level of equipment of the soldiers, not only people outside the Eighth Route Army are jealous, but even many people inside the Eighth Route Army are staring at this piece of fat.

Where there are people, there is a conflict of interests.

But as long as Boss Chen is behind Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong will always be safe.

"Of course." The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth turned up slightly, "Boss Chen and I are half brothers, haha."

To be recognized and firmly chosen by a big boss, Li Datuan was naturally very happy in his heart.

Soon, Xing Zhiguo asked the guards to pass the order to the cooking squad. The cooking squad leader understood it very well, and immediately began to greet the soldiers in the cooking squad to start killing pigs and sheep.

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou sat around the kang table.

Xing Zhiguo said: "Commander, this time we earned 75 60mm mountain guns and 105 12mm howitzers. Will they be used to form two artillery battalions?"

Li Yunlong gave most of the captured artillery and cars to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

But Li Yunlong kept all the guns he earned from doing business with Boss Chen.

"I have thought about this question for a long time." Li Yunlong said: "Cannon is the god of war. If we want to dominate the battlefield in the future, we must pay attention to and use cannon on a large scale."

Not only the school attached to the headquarters is conducting artillery training courses, but even the Xinyi Regiment has already held artillery training courses.

This is also the main reason why Li Yunlong can quickly expand an artillery battalion with the cannons in place.

If there is no excellent artillery, even if you have a large-caliber and best cannon, it is just a decoration.

Li Yunlong continued: "With the expansion of our regiment, the army's demand for artillery is also increasing."

"If the weapons and ammunition earned are used to expand the troops, then our new regiment is expected to have more than 20 infantry battalions, with 2 soldiers in each infantry battalion, and this number will increase in the future."

"But we only have four artillery battalions right now. During combat, there is no way to take care of all the infantry battalions, and we cannot provide artillery support to all the infantry battalions."

"So, I decided to distribute the 75mm mountain artillery to each infantry battalion."

"From now on, our regiment belongs to the artillery battalion, and it will only be equipped with cannons with a caliber of 105 mm and above."

At present, the infantry battalions of the new regiment are not badly equipped with artillery firepower, including 60mm mortars, 82mm mortars, 20mm machine guns, and super bazooka.

In the past, the infantry battalions of the new regiment basically relied on the artillery battalion to provide fire support when they were fighting fortified positions.

That was when there were few infantry battalions. In the future, there will be dozens or hundreds of infantry battalions. It is impossible to rely on artillery battalions to provide artillery support, right?
Unless the artillery battalion is taken apart.

In the future, Li Yunlong planned to imitate the headquarters and give the Japanese army a battle of one hundred battalions.

At that time, the 100 battalions will be much stronger than the original 100 regiments in terms of strength, combat effectiveness and equipment.

Zhao Gang asked: "Then how many mountain cannons are you going to equip a battalion?"

"How many?" Li Yunlong said angrily, "My plan is to add another mountain artillery company to each infantry battalion, equipped with twelve 12mm mountain artillery."

Although the infantry battalion of the new regiment is a battalion-level unit, each full-stacked battalion has 2 people, and its strength has reached the regiment level, and it is only the size of a top main force regiment.

At present, each battalion has 9 infantry companies and one artillery company, and each infantry company has three infantry platoons and one firepower platoon.

Li Yunlong plans to add another mountain artillery company, and that infantry battalion will have 11 companies under its jurisdiction.

Xing Zhiguo said: "Regimental Commander, the infantry battalion will add another artillery company with 12 75mm mountain guns. Isn't the number of these mountain guns a little too much?"

"Where is this?" Li Yunlong said, "Twelve mountain cannons are not many at all. When our new regiment had two or three thousand people, there were already dozens of mountain cannons."

Wang Dehou also analyzed: "With the addition of a mountain artillery company, the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion can indeed be improved qualitatively. Let alone a Japanese infantry brigade, even a Japanese infantry regiment is no problem. But we also have to think about the logistics of the infantry battalions."

Li Yunlong said: "I have already considered this. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of each infantry battalion, each infantry battalion will add a transportation support company, referred to as the transportation company, equipped with mules, horses and mule carts. The transport company is equipped with cars, that is, the soldiers of the transport company are transformed into auto soldiers."

Zhao Gang smiled immediately, and his tone was full of anticipation: "By that time, our Xinyi regiment will really be motorized."

When Li Yunlong said this, he was not drawing cakes like Neiji Okamura, but that it could really be done.

At present, Xinyi Group has more than 300 trucks. When Boss Chen delivers the car he earned last time, there will be more than 700 cars, which exceeds the size of a car group.

Now the new regiment has achieved semi-motorization, the so-called motorized infantry, that is, the infantry maneuvers in vehicles and fights on foot.

It is characterized by fast movement before the battle begins, adapts to various terrain conditions, and is flexible. However, there is no necessary cover when fighting, and the battle develops slowly.

The mechanized infantry is the infantry mainly equipped with infantry fighting vehicles or armored personnel carriers.

The mechanized infantry is what Li Yunlong thinks in his heart, and his ultimate goal is to build the new regiment into a mechanized infantry regiment.

Infantry go out in infantry fighting vehicles or armored vehicles.

During the battle, the fleet roared in the sky, supported by heavy artillery on the ground, and the infantry finally rushed up to harvest the corn.

This kind of battle is in line with Li Yunlong's heart of a large army and a deep battle.

Xing Zhiguo asked: "Each infantry battalion has 12 mountain artillery pieces. Are our mountain artillery pieces enough?"

Li Yunlong calculated carefully: "We now have 15 infantry battalions, including 4 main battalions and 11 divisional main battalions. After the expansion is completed, we must have at least 20 infantry battalions."

The battalion commander and grassroots officers and soldiers sent by the headquarters have already arrived. The first batch of recruits has been organized into 4 divisional main recruit battalions, and participated in the last battle to ambush the main force of the 1st Division.

"Even if the calculation is based on 20 infantry battalions," Xing Zhiguo said, "then we have to take out at least 240 75mm mountain guns to equip each infantry battalion, but the current 75mm mountain guns in our regiment add up to only 120."

这一次新一团赚到的75毫米山炮是60门，炮1营和炮2营的75毫米山炮合计是60门。

炮1营和炮2营的配置都是30门75毫米山炮和12门105毫米榴弹炮。

Even if all the mountain cannons of Pao 1 Battalion and Pao 2 Battalion are used to equip the infantry battalion, it is only half of it, and there are still 120 mountain cannons.

And in this way, the firepower of the Artillery 1 Battalion and the Artillery 2 Battalion was greatly weakened, and they really became artillery battalions.

What's more, it may not be expanded to 20 infantry battalions.

Wang Dehou suddenly said: "Can I advance 120 75mm mountain guns to Boss Chen?"

邢志国说道：“预支120门山炮怕是不够…把炮1营和炮2营的山炮，拿去装备步兵营，炮1营和炮2营的火力就得减弱一大半。”

Wang Dehou said: "In addition to the advance payment of 120 75mm mountain guns, we will also advance payment to Boss Chen for 60 105mm howitzers?"

"Business is not done like you." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "You can ask Boss Chen to advance a little, but not too much. Thousands of elite soldiers."

"Old Li is right." Zhao Gang nodded, "We do want to expand and strengthen the team, but we are not in a hurry."

"Yes, we don't have that many artillery now."

Seeing what Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang said, Wang Dehou also understood the truth.

After a pause, Wang Dehou said again: "By the way, we killed two major generals again this time. Commander, are you going to replace the two major generals with air support, or B4 heavy howitzers?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo also looked at Li Yunlong.

"I plan to switch to air support." Li Yunlong said, "We currently have 24 B4 heavy howitzers, which are enough."

For the B4 heavy howitzer, Li Yunlong has great expectations for it. When this thing appears on the battlefield, it will definitely bring great surprises to the Japanese army.

Zhao Gang said: "In addition, if you kill a major general, you can get a production line. This time, we need a smokeless powder production line and a bullet production line, right?"

Kill a major general, you can get a manufacturing factory, but you can't get a complete arsenal.

But killing a major general can get an arsenal production line.

At present, the arsenal and cement factory of the Eighth Route Army have been completed and put into production. Due to unskilled workers and raw materials, the output is still not large.

Smokeless gunpowder production line and bullet production line are more important, smokeless gunpowder and bullets are the top priority.

"Yes." Li Yun nodded, "However, we don't have technicians from the arsenal, so we have to find a way to recruit people from Yan Laoxi."

Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal had 7 employees before the July [-]th Incident.

After the Japanese army invaded Shanxi, Yan Xishan wanted to rush to transport the factory equipment to the Sichuan-Shanxi area, but until the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, only a small part of the machinery and equipment was transported away.

However, most of the employees of the Taiyuan Arsenal were transported by Yan Xishan to Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Southwest Shanxi, and a Northwest Manufacturing Factory was built, with a total of seven branches, more than 2500 employees, and more than 700 pieces of equipment.

However, due to the frequent bombing by the Japanese army and the shortage of raw materials in the past few years, these branch factories were almost in a state of shutdown.

After learning about these situations, Li Yunlong of course wanted to bring these employees under his command.

"The best way is to exchange things with Yan Xishan." Xing Zhiguo said, "But we don't have any valuables except weapons and ammunition."

"Use weapons and ammunition to change people with Chief Yan." Zhao Gang looked thoughtful, and said, "I'm afraid that Chief Yan will make the lion open his mouth. This person is old and cunning."

"It is said that Yan Laoxi can dance on three eggs." Li Yunlong's eyes were slightly ruthless, and his tone was disdainful, "I just don't believe in this evil, that is, Yan Laoxi's Jinsui Army didn't dare to provoke our new group. If he dares to provoke our Xinyi regiment, the two Jinsui troops will also give him a shitty wipe!"

Li Yunlong was not exaggerating at all.

The 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division, known as the Steel Army, fought all the way from Pingxingguan to southern Shanxi, defeating more than [-] divisions of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army.

The current strength of the new regiment has surpassed that of the original Fifth Division.

Even if it is a frontal attack and defense, it is no problem for the Xinyi regiment to defeat the entire Jinsui army.

(End of this chapter)