My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 35 Is it true that labor and capital will never survive these days of prosperity? ! 
"Why are you here again?"

At the headquarters, the deputy general staff and deputy boss were a little surprised to see the panting brigade commander.

The headquarters combat meeting has just ended, why come to the headquarters again?

Nowadays, the [-]th Brigade is responsible for the Taiyue Military Region. As a brigade commander, he not only has to deal with affairs in the base area, but also in charge of army affairs. The task is not easy.

As for emergencies, they should be notified by phone or reported by a correspondent.

"Did the pen fall into the headquarters?"

The deputy general staff made a reasonable guess.

"Vice boss."

"Deputy Chief of Staff."

The brigade commander didn’t talk nonsense and got straight to the point:
"After I returned to the team yesterday, I went around the grassroots units."

"I found that there is a huge shortage of qualified grassroots military cadres in our army. Not only regimental leaders, but also battalion, company and platoon cadres, and even squad leaders at the top and bottom of the soldiers are severely lacking."

"In some main force groups, the gap has even reached half, which has seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the troops."

"Do you want to expand the size of military training classes?"

The deputy general staff immediately understood what the brigade commander meant.

The boss also looked over and said:

"We have noticed this problem very early."

"With the expansion of the army, there is a serious shortage of qualified grassroots military cadres, not to mention that in battles, battalion, company and platoon cadres are the most seriously sacrificed."

"But the current situation in the troops and base areas makes it really impossible to increase the scale of training for grassroots officers."

As the boss and deputy boss who often move around the front-line troops, naturally they have long discovered that there is a serious shortage of grassroots officers and cadres in their own troops.

Although cadres at the battalion, company, and platoon levels are the backbone of a unit, they truly represent the combat effectiveness level, fighting style, conduct style, and unit discipline of a unit.

It is the soul of an army.

However, it is not that easy to organize large-scale unified training for officers and cadres of grassroots battalions, companies, and platoons.

Especially the current situation in the Eighth Route Army and the base areas.

Qualified battalion, company, and platoon military cadres should, in the best case, be composed of young combat backbones who are rich in combat experience and have certain cultural knowledge.

The Eighth Route Army does not lack this.

Although the Anti-Japanese War lasted for three years and sacrificed a lot, there are still many fighting cadres who came out during the Red Army period.Moreover, in the past three years, a steady stream of outstanding soldiers have been trained and grown into the backbone of the battle.

But a qualified officer can not only fight, but also lead troops. To be honest, leading troops is much more difficult than fighting. It is difficult to teach and learn in three months.

Short-term training has almost no effect.

however,
Under the pressure of the Japanese, the army had to rapidly expand in size, followed by a reduction in the proportion of combat backbones in the army and a decline in the combat effectiveness of the army.

The Eighth Route Army is seriously lacking in equipment. If a large number of combat backbones are transferred and grassroots officer training is organized, the combat effectiveness of the army will be significantly reduced.

Once the Japanese attack at this time, big problems may arise.

Therefore, at present, only grassroots military officers and cadres can be trained on a small scale.

Of course, there is another main reason. The army is poor and does not have enough manpower and material resources to organize officer training. An officer training class with hundreds or thousands of people requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

"It's not like you don't know about this situation."

After the boss finished speaking, he frowned, stared at the brigade commander and said:

"Say."

"Did you get anything good?"

The Eighth Route Army lacks qualified officers and cadres in battalions, companies and platoons. Any cadre at or above the battalion level will know about this problem. They even know that this problem is getting worse.

But there is no way to solve it, and there is no condition to solve it, so we can only take it slowly.

The boss's words not only made the deputy general staff look over, but even the division commander who was immersed in his work also looked up.

The brigade commander said without changing his tone:
"I recently got some weapons and ammunition."

After talking about weapons and ammunition in an understatement, the brigade commander changed the subject:
"I found that the disastrous defeat of the Independent Regiment in the Yangcun battle was directly related to the lack of qualified battalion, company and platoon officer cadres, so I wondered if an officer training course could be organized in the Taiyue Military Region."

"Although it cannot solve the fundamental problem, if we can add one more qualified battalion, company, platoon military cadre, the combat effectiveness of the army will be improved by one point."

Although the brigade commander is responsible for the Taiyue Military Region, organizing officer training requires the support of the headquarters.

"a little?"

"I'm afraid it won't be less, right?"

Both the boss and the division commander keenly grasped the key points in the brigade commander's words.

A little bit of weapons and ammunition can give you the idea of ​​organizing an officer training class?
deceive who?
"Just a little, just a little!"

The brigade commander smiled:
"Not much, just a little."

"Row."

The boss nodded and said:

"I will give you a group of officers, and then send someone to organize an officer training class for you. Will you give me half of the ammunition you have?"

"Row."

The brigade commander nodded happily, but was thinking in his heart.

When we get back, we will distribute the 100 pieces of Czech-style equipment to the main regiments, and then each regiment will receive tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. The remaining ammunition is estimated to be [-] million rounds. This part will be divided into half of the squad headquarters and given to Li Yunlong by the way. To reward.

The headquarters' ability to produce weapons and ammunition is much better than that of the [-]th Brigade.

As for Li Yunlong’s next weapons and ammunition, let’s first look at what they are. ···
at the same time.

At the independent regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong was lying on the table, carefully considering the two contracts he had just received and the corresponding Japanese intelligence information.

One is a short-term cooperation - to annihilate a fully reinforced Japanese B-type squadron.

The squadron is the basic tactical unit in the Japanese Army, equivalent to the infantry company of the Eighth Route Army, but slightly larger in size. When fully established, the total strength is between 180-200 people.

According to the establishment table, there are 181 people in the B-class squadron and 205 people in the A-class squadron.

The so-called strengthened squadron refers to a Japanese squadron that has strengthened firepower and can independently perform combat missions.

This time, what needs to be dealt with in the contract is a Japanese infantry squadron that has been strengthened with two Type 211 heavy machine guns and a Type [-] mortar, with a total strength of [-] Japanese.

The time is ten days later.

The location is the highway between Yu County and Liao County.

"This deal is also a tough one."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes as he looked at the information on the Japs Strengthening Squadron on the table.

Although the current total strength of the independent regiment is 800, it is just an empty frame and has not yet formed combat effectiveness. In fact, the current combat effectiveness of the independent regiment is only about 800.

Taking into account non-combat attrition and the fact that new recruits training requires veteran leadership, the independent regiment can dispatch only [-] people at most after ten days, which is almost the size of a new battalion.

The enemy's strength ratio is one to three.

The strength advantage is not obvious.

In another hour, Brother Lu will be able to deliver all the weapons, equipment and ammunition.

By then, the independent regiment will be able to surpass the Japanese in terms of firepower. The infantry squad's firepower will be twice that of the Japanese from 100 meters away, and twice or even 100 times that of the Japanese within [-] meters.

There will also be ten mortars. Although nominally nine are equipped for the troops and one is spare, it doesn't matter if they are all equipped. Brother Lu won't care about such details, and there are plenty of artillery shells.

But the problem is,

The independent regiment currently lacks qualified mortar gunners.

Wang Chengzhu went to training.

There were only two people left that he knew how to summon cannons, and neither of them were very skilled, and their artillery firing accuracy was very low.

There is even a serious shortage of qualified grenade launchers.

Grenades are notoriously demanding on operators.

Even among the combat backbones he brought over from the New Regiment, only three were able to skillfully operate grenade launchers, and the Independent Regiment currently has 85 grenade launchers.

Of course, there is absolutely no problem in winning, but annihilating them all is very difficult. If a Japanese escapes, only one kind of material can be added to the list, which will be a huge loss.

"Damn it."

"Can't you survive this wealthy life?"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but curse.

Suddenly rich, Commander Li discovered that not only weapons and equipment, but also the Eighth Route Army's talents were seriously lacking.

"Ten days."

Thinking of the scheduled time for the ambush battle, Li Yunlong thought for a moment:

"In time."

Weapons and equipment can be obtained today. Although he has not applied for training ammunition, after all, it is the first time to declare supplies, and he has not completely let go.Now it seems that the decision was right. Even if training ammunition was added to the material application form, it would be rejected by Brother Lu due to lack of transportation capacity and insufficient warehouses.

But enough for now.

ten days,

Selecting some talented warriors from independent regiments and spending some live ammunition for shooting training should be able to train enough mortar operators and grenadier operators.

It doesn't matter if the accuracy is a little less, then use firepower to cover it

Anyway, the target is a Japanese infantry squadron. Even if it is strengthened, it is only a squadron. It is not much stronger and cannot consume much ammunition.

Consume ammunition··

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong suddenly slapped himself hard on the head and cursed again:
"Damn it, are you going to live a prosperous life?"

Only then did Li Yunlong remember that the ambush of the Japanese infantry squadron was a collaboration.

The contract expressly stipulates:
For cooperative missions with Lu Renjia, you can apply for additional weapons, ammunition and supplies. The weapons and equipment allocated to the entire independent regiment every month are not used for cooperative missions.

And it’s also stipulated in the contract.

The delivery location of weapons and ammunition in the cooperation is limited to the independent regiment station, but the delivery time and quantity of each delivery are decided by Li Yunlong at his sole discretion.

"Isn't this simple?"

Captain Li immediately smiled.

ten days,

Including traveling and setting up positions, he had seven days to train.

In seven days, you can select good recruits in the regiment, or buy some good recruits from other units, and apply for more live ammunition for training. Not only can you initially train usable grenadier and mortar operators, but even machine gunners. Can be trained.

As long as the machine gunner is fed more bullets, even if other aspects are still insufficient, at least his marksmanship can be trained, and if he has enough bullets, his mental quality can also be properly trained.

Just when Li Yunlong spread out the material application form and prepared for a big fight, a regiment soldier walked in:
"Captain."

"Xu Hu from the Liao County Brigade sent someone directly to see you."

(End of this chapter)