My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 28 Recruitment
"Recruiting?"

At noon that day, Li Yunlong gathered Zhao Gang, Kong Jie, and Zhang Dabiao, held a small meeting at the independent regiment headquarters, and expressed his thoughts.

Continue to expand the size of the independent regiment to 800 people.

Since he decided to accept Zhao Gang as the political commissar of the Independent Regiment, Li Yunlong naturally did not engage in the idea that the political commissar is in charge of life and the regiment leader is in charge of military affairs. Instead, he would discuss anything with Zhao Gang.

"Now?"

"Aren't there five hundred prisoners of war coming soon?"

Zhao Gang was a little strange:
"In the Independent Regiment, there is a serious shortage of grassroots officers and cadres. It is already difficult to absorb these prisoners of war."

"If we continue to recruit troops, will we take too big a step?"

After the Battle of Yangcun, the total strength of the independent regiment was less than 800, although some wounded soldiers have recently returned to the regiment, as well as 120 combat backbones who came to support from the new regiment.

But the total number is only just 1000 people.

Tonight, more than 500 prisoners of war can arrive at Yangcun. With Li Yunlong's name, his ideological education, and white-flour buns, at least 400 soldiers can be brought in.

Recruiting troops now is somewhat inappropriate.

The main problem lies in the serious shortage of officers at the grassroots level.

Those prisoners of war in the Preserved Central Army, with a little training and ideological education, are good soldiers, but they are really not suitable to serve as officers.

"I've thought about it carefully, it's not a big problem!"

Li Yunlong is confident:
"I can solve the problem of grassroots military officers and cadres."

Aren't they just grassroots military officers and cadres?

At the army level, the army is seriously short of grassroots officers and cadres at the battalion, company and platoon level, even in the main regiment. After all, battalion, company and platoon cadres are the group with the greatest casualties in battles.

But supplying a group of 800 people is just a drizzle.

He has been thinking about the contract these days, and he has figured it out.

It seems that in order to avoid misunderstandings from his superiors, Brother Lu only cares about the consumption of ammunition and weapons during the cooperative mission. As for the weapons and ammunition provided to the independent regiment, after review and distribution, he almost completely ignores how to use them. How his superiors direct the independent regiment has no regard at all. in spite of.

I only wrote this, prohibiting intentional extravagance and waste, and complying with the normal usage habits of the troops, otherwise cooperation will be stopped.A sentence was added at the end to roughly report the consumption and use of weapons and ammunition every month, and the types of materials in the list can be added as appropriate.

Regardless of whether it is a main force regiment or a basic regiment, it is actually very common to exchange weapons and ammunition for officers. Back then, when he was in the new regiment, he used seized materials to exchange several company and platoon commanders from the brigade commander. .

After receiving the first batch of weapons and ammunition, he first wholesaled dozens of outstanding company and platoon leaders.

Take advantage of the low prices now!
"The lower-level officer cadres are resolved, however."

Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, but changed the topic:
"What about weapons and equipment?"

"What to do about the food problem?"

"The food, weapons and ammunition needed by 800 people are not a small amount. We have just sent out all the Czech and [-] bombs in the warehouse."

Zhang Dabiao and Kong Jie also looked at Li Yunlong.

Although it is speculated that Commander Li can continue to obtain weapons, ammunition, and food supplies, it is still a guess and has not been confirmed by himself.

"This is not a problem. I can get enough weapons, equipment, ammunition and food. You don't need to worry. We can all fight rich wars in the future."

Li Yunlong waved his hand.

"First build the framework of the independent regiment and train the troops well. Next, we still have big battles to fight."

After Li Yunlong personally acknowledged it, the three of them immediately smiled with satisfaction.

"This is simple. There are militiamen in several villages around Yangcun, so we can gather them right away."

Kong Jie patted his chest and sounded confident.

Yangcun is a base area, the army has a strong mass base, and every village has militiamen. It is easy to gather a few hundred people.

What limits the expansion of the Eighth Route Army has never been the source of troops, but food, weapons, and ammunition.

Especially food.

Even if you hold a machete and fight with the Japanese with bayonets, you still have to eat enough.

"Old Zhao."

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang:
"It will be hard for you next."

"The cultural training of so many soldiers cannot be left behind."

The contract with Lu Renjia clearly stated that as the cooperation deepens, the content of the cooperation will become increasingly difficult. He also suggested that Li Yunlong improve the combat capabilities of the independent regiment, as well as the cultural knowledge level of the soldiers to adapt to modern equipment.

The meaning is obvious,

In the future, although cooperation will become more and more difficult, more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles, tanks, and large-caliber artillery, will also appear on the list.

"no problem."

Zhao Gang nodded happily.

Political commissars are meant to do this.

"Lao Zhao and I organized the recruitment of new soldiers from prisoner-of-war camps."

Li Yunlong said to Kong Jie:

"Lao Kong, you and Sun Desheng mobilized manpower from the three battalions and organized the soldiers to conduct equestrian training."

"You want to form a cavalry battalion?"

Kong Jie was stunned and his eyes widened:
"Even if we can raise it, we don't have that many manpower!"

"And the superior..."

The cavalry is a good thing. It has high mobility on the battlefield and is very easy to use. Even if it cannot charge the enemy head-on, it can still have many benefits by flanking and outflanking.

But there are also downsides and troubles.

The feed requirements for military horses are not low, and the quality is also important. They are far less easy to feed than mules. Moreover, military horses require a large breeding space and sufficient auxiliary manpower.

Currently, there is only one cavalry battalion in the army, and the rest of the army, even the brigade headquarters, only has one cavalry company.

And, the brigade commander will let a regiment have a cavalry battalion?

"Why do you care so much?"

Li Yunlong glared and cursed:
"Execute orders honestly."

Of course Captain Li knew that raising a cavalry battalion had many benefits, but also many troubles.

Even if food may not be a problem for him, the application form has not been submitted yet, and it is still unclear whether Brother Lu will approve the feed, so this is only a possibility.

After all, theoretically speaking, there is no problem for an infantry regiment to be assigned to a cavalry battalion, but in closer inspection, it feels somewhat unreasonable.

His superiors would not let him set up a cavalry battalion.After all, this is the equipment he captured.

But it doesn't matter. He just needs to apply for supplies for the more than 300 military horses. After that, he can let the brigade commander take them away. By the way, he can also let the soldiers train their equestrian skills.

Even if Brother Lu doesn't approve the material application, he won't lose any money. He can just pass it on to the brigade commander.

"Row."

Anyway, Kong Jie is not the leader, and if it loses, it is not his property, so Captain Kong Da will not care about it.

"Captain, Captain Xu is here with the prisoners of war we rescued."

At the end of the meeting, the prisoners of war rescued by Li Yunlong from the prisoners of war in Liao County also arrived in Yangcun, and the four of them immediately started working separately.

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at the same time.

The brigade commander also came to the 772nd Regiment Headquarters.

"Did you get the Czech style and bullets from Li Yunlong?"

Facing the brigade commander's question, Cheng Shifa immediately widened his eyes and did not answer immediately.

He wanted to hide it.

After all, the business with Li Yunlong was so profitable that it was too easy to take advantage of others.

However, there was a brigade commander in front of him, and he directly asked if it was obtained from Li Yunlong, which meant that the brigade commander was already suspicious. It would be meaningless to continue to conceal it at this time.

It is indeed Li Yunlong!

Looking at Cheng Shifa's expression, the brigade commander knew the answer.

"What does he want from you?"

the brigade commander asked directly.

"He asked me to borrow [-] army horses, equipped with four Czech guns and [-] rounds of seven-nine-point bullets."

In the end, Cheng Shifa answered honestly.

"Four Czech-style guns, [-] rounds of seven-nine-point bullets, and exchanged them for twenty military horses. You got a big advantage from this deal!"

The brigadier tutted.

With Li Yunlong's Czech-style quality, one of them can withstand six enemy wars, and with [-] rounds of ammunition, it is definitely more than enough to exchange for [-] army horses.

"Borrowed."

Cheng Shifa emphasized:
"Later, Li Yunlong returned twenty army horses."

"what?"

"Has Li Yunlong returned all the army horses?"

The brigade commander was stunned and asked quickly:

"Czech style and bullets, does he want to go back?"

"No."

Cheng Shifa continued to answer honestly:
"Originally, it was said that four Czech-style horses, [-] rounds of ammunition, half would be a deposit and half would be rent, but when Li Yunlong returned the horses, he didn't even ask for a deposit."

"I offered to give him the military horses, but Li Yunlong refused to take them."

"So generous? It's evil!"

The brigade commander tutted.

But he did have a smile on his face.

Will Li Yunlong's nature change?

impossible.

So, the more evil this guy is, the richer this guy is.

"Let's go to the new group!"

After leaving the 772nd Regiment, the brigade commander did not go to the independent regiment, but went directly to the new regiment.

The brigade commander estimated that Ding Wei's 15 rounds of ammunition were obtained from Li Yunlong.

In fact, he also wanted to visit Liao Town.

However, Liao Town is too far away and is in an enemy-occupied area, so it may be dangerous to go there. However, Xingjia Village, where the New Regiment is based, is not far from the 772 Regiment's location, and we can get there soon.

We drove all the way to the new regiment at high speed and saw Ding Wei. The brigade commander also had the same question:
"Where did Li Yunlong get those bullets of yours?"

"Reporting to the chief, it was indeed obtained from Li Yunlong!"

Ding Wei rolled his eyes and admitted directly.

Although this business is very profitable and you can be lenient with others, you can't deceive your superiors, right? !

"What business did you make?"

The brigade commander continued to ask,

"Li Yunlong used 20 Czech guns and 120 rounds of ammunition, and asked me for [-] combat cadres. He could not choose company and platoon-level cadres, but only one company commander."

Ding Wei answered honestly.

"This business of yours is really profitable!"

The brigade commander sighed.

Because the troops are seriously lacking weapons and equipment, a strange situation has arisen - replacing people with weapons and equipment.

At present, the market price is five Czech tanks for one company commander.

The Czech style here is not the good imported original product produced by Li Yunlong, but the ordinary Jin-made or fruit-made Czech style, with slightly poor quality and non-uniform parts.

Li Yunlong's original high-quality Czech-style model, and if the spare parts are complete, one is as good as the other five.

An infantry squad composed of the backbone of combat, with a squad leader, just one Czech-made rifle, or five hundred rounds of ammunition.

Ding Wei's business is profitable.

"I guess..."

Before leaving the new regiment, the brigade commander thought of the prisoner-of-war camp in Liao County that was captured not long ago, and if he had something to say:

"The prisoner of war camp in Liao County is also very likely to be done by this guy Li Yunlong."

(End of this chapter)