On the way to see the artillery, Brigadier Chen asked about the casualties of each unit and the treatment of wounded soldiers.

Li Yunlong answered truthfully. The 772nd Regiment suffered nearly 500 casualties, and the Independent Regiment, New First Regiment and Cavalry Regiment each suffered more than 200 casualties.

The seriously injured were sent to various hospitals and medical centers in Yangquan City for treatment. After the troops departed, soldiers were sent to send these seriously injured to the nearest base area for recuperation.

Wait until the injury is healed before returning to the team. The Taihang Mountain base area is more than 100 kilometers away from Yangquan. It is too difficult to send the seriously injured people back.

The brigade commander was still very satisfied with Li Yunlong's arrangements.

Not long after, Li Yunlong took Brigadier Chen to the location of the artillery camp of the Independent Regiment. Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei and Ma Renxing also followed.

Li Yunlong said: "Brigadier, this is my artillery battalion, you can take a look at it as you like."

After dinner, the soldiers in the artillery camp were cleaning the cannons and doing maintenance on them. When they saw the brigade commander arriving, they all stood up and saluted under the leadership of the artillery battalion commander.

After Brigadier Chen returned the salute, he was the first to see the three machine guns, and his eyes suddenly lit up. You could feel the heat in the brigade commander's eyes through the lenses of his glasses.

"Machine gun?" Brigadier Chen said: "This is a good thing. There are actually three of them. When I went to the Soviet Union to study, I saw this kind of high-end product in Big Brother, which is specially used for masturbation. Li Yunlong, you

Where did you get it?"

"Brigadier Commander, you know the goods." Li Yunlong said, "These three machine guns were airdropped by the Chief of Staff from a transport plane. These are the only three. If you think they are good, I will hand over all three!"

"Oh?" Brigadier Chen said in surprise, "Li Yunlong, your ideological consciousness has improved very quickly recently, and you actually took the initiative to hand it in?"

Li Yunlong said: "Brigadier, please don't praise me. This is what I should do. It is the discipline of our Eighth Route Army to seize and return it to the public."

According to what Li Yunlong did last time, as long as he takes the initiative to hand over some, the brigade commander will be embarrassed to reach out for other things.

This is called sacrificing the small and preserving the big.

However, Li Yunlong forgot that Cheng Shifa was also present.

Cheng Shifa exposed Li Yunlong on the spot: "Report to the brigade commander that Li Yunlong is lying. He also has three machine guns, which he has temporarily lent to our 772nd Regiment."

Li Yunlong was so angry that he almost went crazy on the spot.

There are bad people among the masses.

The bastard Cheng Shifa sold me again.

These days, I really don’t have to worry about a traitor in anything I do.

"Didn't you say there are only these three machine guns?" Brigadier Chen turned his head and said with a half-smile: "You have become more capable, and now you dare to lie to me?"

"Brigadier, don't get me wrong."

Li Yunlong quickly explained: "It is true that three machine guns were lent to Blind Cheng. However, Blind Cheng is not a good guy. He wants to default on the debt and refuse to repay it."

"I haven't thought about returning it," Cheng Shifa said, "I'll return it to you after the battle in Taiyuan."

"okay!"

Brigadier Chen said: "Stop arguing. After the attack on Taiyuan, the troops will be reorganized. You may all become brigade commanders by then. What does it look like to fight for these cannons?"

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up when they heard this.

Want to be a brigade commander?

After a pause, Brigadier Chen asked Li Yunlong again: "I see you have quite a few mountain artillery, field artillery and infantry artillery. Li Yunlong, tell me honestly, how many artillery pieces does your independent regiment have in total?"

Li Yunlong had no choice but to reply truthfully: "Report to the brigade commander, the independent regiment currently has 6 machine guns, 8 mountain guns, 4 field guns, 5 infantry guns, 16 mortars, and 2 rapid-fire guns. This is not special.

If all the 4 infantry guns and 4 mortars taken away from the battle camp are added up, the total is 49 guns."

Not only the brigade commander, but also Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Ma Renxing, their pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly when they heard this.

This bitch Li Yunlong is so damn rich!

Before the attack on Yangquan, the Independent Regiment brought more than 10 cannons and captured more than 10 cannons at Fengzhang Mountain. After the attack on Yangquan, they obtained 20 cannons. After the attack on the Yoshino Regiment, they obtained two more 37mm rapid-fire cannons.

It can be said that today's Li Yunlong cannot even be described as a local tycoon or a local rich man.

Brigadier Chen laughed and said: "Li Yunlong, I congratulate you on getting rich!"

49 guns, this is the number of guns in an artillery regiment.

When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army in 1937, the three divisions combined did not have that many artillery pieces.

The only heavy weapons available were a few Shan orogenic cannons that were salvaged from the river and abandoned by the Jin-Sui army when they retreated, with only a few shells.

Each mountain cannon shell fired must be personally approved by the head of the headquarters.

But now, the independent group actually has such powerful firepower, which is simply unimaginable.

Although this was captured by the Independent Regiment itself, in the final analysis, the Independent Regiment also belongs to the 358th Brigade, right?

"Brigadier, can you please stop congratulating me all the time?" Li Yunlong said with a sad face, "Congratulations to me, you will be in the autumn wind."

"You kid, don't be dissatisfied."

Brigadier Chen said: "Ask Ding Wei or Cheng Shifa, when did they not hand over all the things they seized? I have taken enough care of you, don't be ignorant of your blessings."

Li Yunlong could only secretly say, "Old Li, we all understand the truth, but you are always robbing us, so our independent group also needs to develop, right?"

"Forget it." Brigadier Chen waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this for now. What is your plan to attack Taiyuan this time?"

When it came to business, Li Yunlong straightened up and said: "Brigade commander, we are going to do this. I have sent a capable special forces to destroy the telephone lines along Zhengtai Road and check whether the railway is damaged. The troops will first go to Yangquan

Rest overnight, take a train west to Taiyuan tomorrow, and then launch the attack again!"

The current train speed is generally 30 kilometers per hour. If you drive faster, the speed can reach 40 kilometers per hour. The distance from Yangquan to Taiyuan is about 110 kilometers.

The forced march took more than a day, but it only took a few hours by train.

Brigadier Chen nodded first, and then said: "Soldiers are very fast. Let's set off tonight. When a large force appears at the gate of Taiyuan tomorrow morning, that old Japanese Yoshio Shinozuka will be surprised."

"By the way." Brigadier Chen said, "Where is the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army? Are they going to attack Taiyuan?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Yunlong said: "They are going too, the 358th Regiment is resting in the Shi Nao Mountain area."

Brigadier Chen asked Li Yunlong: "What's going on with the 358th Regiment?"

So Li Yunlong sent the 358th Regiment to Yangquan, and then took the initiative to participate in the battle and gave up the capture.

After defeating the Yoshino Alliance, Li Yunlong felt that he did not have enough troops to attack Taiyuan, so he took the initiative to invite Chu Yunfei to explain the attack on Taiyuan.

Brigadier Chen nodded after hearing this and immediately stopped asking any more questions.

After receiving Brigadier Chen's order, each regiment began to inspect ammunition, prepare dry food, and then headed to Yangquan Railway Station one by one.

The cavalry feeds the army horses with bean cakes and other concentrated feed seized from the horse farm. A distance of more than 100 kilometers is nothing to the army horses, but if they are forced to march more than 100 kilometers, the army horses must be fed with concentrated feed in time, otherwise the army horses will definitely lose weight.

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The Jinsui Army has more than 5,000 men, and the three infantry regiments of the Eighth Route Army have a total of more than 7,000 men. Excluding the more than 1,000 casualties, there are still more than 6,000 men.

There were only 4 trains for the remaining infantry, and each train had to transport 2,700 people.

However, the large amount of ammunition and food seized from Yangquan took up a lot of space.

Fortunately, more than 1,000 military horses were captured, and half of the soldiers of the new regiment marched with the cavalry regiment on horseback.

Although the soldiers were a little crowded in the carriage, they could barely fit in the seats.

The Wuyi County Brigade, Xiangyuan County Brigade and the guerrillas also helped the main force to complete the blockade at this time, and all achieved small gains.

Moreover, Li Yunlong also distributed some guns and ammunition to each of these troops from the seizures in Yangquan.

However, since the train could no longer accommodate any seats, these troops were asked to wait for the main force to leave and then send the seriously wounded of the main force to a nearby base area.

At the train station, Chu Yunfei saluted Brigadier Chen with a military salute: "Hello, senior, I have admired your name for a long time!"

"Hello, Commander Chu." Brigadier Chen returned the military salute with a puzzled look on his face.

Chu Yunfei explained: "I graduated from the fifth phase of Huangpu. When I was in the military academy, my senior's name was like thunder. He was the first of the three heroes of Huangpu. He once carried the chairman of the committee on his back and fought out of the hail of bullets. He is really a model for our generation to learn from.

, I am very lucky to see Chu today."

Chu Yunfei kept his posture very low.

Putting aside political differences, there are not many people in the Eighth Route Army who Chu Yunfei can admire, and Brigadier Chen is definitely one of them.

"Captain Chu, you're welcome!" Brigadier Chen said, "Not to mention the bravery of a good man, this time your 358th regiment and our Eighth Route Army are cooperating to attack Taiyuan. What's the clever move, Commander Chu?"

"Since Brigadier Chen is taking the exam, Chu will be embarrassed." Chu Yunfei said, "Sun Ming, bring me the map."

Sun Ming took out the map from the map bucket on the guard's back, then walked over and handed it to Chu Yunfei's hand.

Chu Yunfei spread out the map. The work on the entire map was meticulous, and the various lines and arrows were clearly layered.

"Everyone, please take a look."

Chu Yunfei looked at the map and said: "There are no less than a hundred strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway, which is more than 100 kilometers from Yangquan to Taiyuan, and it also has to pass through Shouyang Railway Station."

"If I were the commander of the Japanese army, after receiving information that tens of thousands of troops would take trains to attack Taiyuan."

"Then I will definitely order the railway bridges to be blown up, or simply plant a large amount of explosives on the railway and wait for the train to come."

"In order to prevent something like this from happening, the first thing we need to do is to interrupt communications."

"Send cavalry troops to destroy the telephone lines of the strongholds along the Zhengtai line in advance and cut off the telephone communication between the Japanese and puppet troops in the strongholds along the line and Taiyuan."

"Haha..." Li Yunlong laughed, "Captain Chu is pretty much what I thought. I have already sent an elite team to do this."

Chu Yunfei glanced at Li Yunlong, secretly moving quickly, and then said: "Secondly, send people to quickly occupy Shouyang Railway Station. As long as we do these two things, we can jump from Yangquan to Yangquan in just a few hours.
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