Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 89 You don’t want the brigade commander to know about it, right?

 Let us turn our attention back to the New Second Regiment.

 On the second day after the selection, the sun gradually rose, the roosters in the village crowed on time, and the soldiers struggled to get up.

Each squad leader began to roll call in the troop barracks, and the soldiers rubbed their sore shoulders and walked out of the dormitory to prepare for morning exercises.

 After half an hour of morning exercises, they need to go back to the dormitory to tidy up the housework. This is a point that Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang particularly emphasized. The two even specially arranged for the person in charge to check this matter.

After breakfast, Zhao Gang originally planned to take a platoon of soldiers to a nearby village to do propaganda work, but he was suddenly pulled away by Li Yunlong while he was still preparing his horses.

He didn't tell Zhao Gang what was going on, he just kept dragging him toward the regiment headquarters command post, like a thief trying to sell stolen goods.

Zhao Gang, who was confused, was still a little anxious at this time, but he knew that his captain would not mess around and must have something to discuss with him. He asked patiently:

“Lao Li, I made an appointment with two village chiefs this morning to talk about work. Do you have anything important to discuss with me? I’m a bit pressed for time, so please keep it short.”

In a blink of an eye, the two of them had entered the command post. Li Yunlong took out a map from the drawer and spread it flat on the table.

"Old Zhao, did you hear the news coming from the headquarters? We have to seize the last moment to train our troops."

Zhao Gang nodded. Although he had not yet received the official document from his superiors, he knew that the headquarters and various departments of the logistics department were making pre-war preparations.

Although the current situation has entered a stalemate stage, both sides are accumulating strength and may suddenly exert force at any time.

The Japs’ troop strength in North China has exceeded 440,000, which accounts for almost half of the total strength of the Japanese invaders, and even the number of puppet troops here has reached an unprecedented 150,000.

Due to the enemy's indirect sweeps, it was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to carry out work in North China, and the expansion speed of the base area was greatly affected.

Moreover, Tada Shun’s Sanguang policy was not only unscrupulous, but also severely damaged the mass base in the base area. This is something that the headquarters cannot tolerate.

Coupled with the continuous construction of railways, roads, and forts during the small days, each base area has been divided into blocks. They are not closely connected with each other and are easily attacked by enemy forces.

This is also the reason why Kong Jie encountered Sakata United head-on in the wild.

If the passive stalemate continues, it will be very detrimental to our army, and the Eighth Route Army will be cannibalized sooner or later.

 So the headquarters decided to launch a large-scale military operation and attack multiple enemy military locations at the same time to break the current bad situation.

It was originally planned to launch an all-army attack in April this year, but the captain of the transportation brigade fell ill again. This bald man was doing things that affected internal unity under the guise of fighting the war, so the vice president could only temporarily cancel the plan.

 It took more than twenty days for the Eighth Route Army to receive the supplies from the transport brigade captain. But because it took so long, the situation changed and the troops needed to be redeployed.

 Finally, the headquarters decided to start the operation before September this year, because once the autumn harvest begins, the soldiers will lose the important cover of Qingsha Zhang.

After Li Yunlong heard the news from the brigade commander, his first thought was how to improve the combat effectiveness of his comrades. In an operation of this scale, the Japanese counterattack was terrifying.

By then, their new second regiment would definitely follow the 386th Brigade in their operations. As the regiment leader, he couldn't bear to see his soldiers suffer heavy losses.

 So Commander Li was planning to find a suitable place for the recruits to see blood and accumulate some combat experience before the war.

After spending a brief day with Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong knew that his partner was not a pedantic person, and he decided to inform the other party of his thoughts.

This behavior also proved that in his heart, Zhao Gang was no longer an outsider, but a comrade who could discuss combat tasks without reservation. There is no need to deal with everything secretly like the previous political commissars.

Although he already has a rough framework for the action plan, he still hopes that the political commissar can find problems or make suggestions. The two of them can work together to find out and fill in the gaps to make the plan more complete.

  After all, before conducting a military operation, careful discussions are needed to ensure the scientific nature of the combat mission and enable the troops to achieve maximum gains with minimum consumption.

“Old Zhao, do you know this place called Wanjia Town? I’m going to let the soldiers in the regiment practice their skills here.”

"Let me give you an explanation. I have been studying this matter for a long time. When the New Regiment was dismissed, Ding Wei told me the information about Wanjia Town."

“When I was working in the logistics department, I also took the time to go there and inspect it personally.”

After Zhao Gang heard the place name, he immediately walked to the map and started analyzing it. In order to reassure his political commissar, Commander Li continued:

"You see, although Wanjia Town is close to Zhengtai Road, there are no Japanese troops stationed nearby. Even if they send a message for help, the Japanese soldiers will not be able to get there for a while."

“The enemy here is the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army. It was originally the security group of preserved fruits. Its combat effectiveness is average and not even second-rate.”

“This kind of neither superior nor inferior strength is very suitable for warriors to practice their skills, and it can also accumulate a wave of experience corresponding to the cavalry.”

Although the Second New Regiment is stationed more than 50 kilometers away from Wanjia Town, Li Yunlong's deployment of Japanese troops has obviously been studied, which fully demonstrates that the intelligence work is in place. Moreover, the security group is not considered a regular army. It is a local armed force at best.

It is mainly composed of unemployed vagrants and local hooligans. Most of the time, they can only bully the common people and barely maintain local security.

 Their strength is very likely to be inferior to that of powerful bandits, and their combat effectiveness will be even worse after becoming traitors. After all, the Japanese have never completely trusted the puppet army.

Looking at Li Yunlong talking, Zhao Gang nodded. Based on his experience, he has not found any flaws in the plan for the time being.

"I see that in addition to training your troops, Li Yunlong also has your eye on the military horses of Wanjia Town, right? The brigade commander is right, you don't even want to suffer losses in a war."

“It seems that you don’t intend to report this matter to the brigade headquarters. Aren’t you afraid that the brigade commander will throw you back to the logistics department?”

 Obviously Li Yunlong has considered this issue. He spread his hands and pretended to be an honest man, as if he had been greatly wronged.

“You, Mr. Zhao, are an intellectual. You can’t talk nonsense and accuse good people. The New Second Regiment was established not long ago, so we don’t have a radio station.”

“If I were in that condition, I would definitely communicate with my superiors, but I can’t.”

“But we are not random people. I will send someone to notify the brigade headquarters when the operation is over.”

 In fact, during this period, the headquarters provided greater independence and autonomy to the commanders and fighters of the major cadre regiments in order to facilitate their subjective initiative under special circumstances.

  But there are no clear written orders, most of them are oral agreements from superiors. Therefore, judging whether there is a violation of discipline is actually often judged based on the results.

Just like the new regiment period, it was because of the brigade commander's tacit approval that he was able to bring the troops up within one year.

Furthermore, Captain Li knew that the level of his new second regiment was simply not enough to support a cavalry battalion.

 There are so many soldiers in the regiment who need training, and food is already very tight. Horses are very precious creatures. They require concentrated feed. If you want to keep them well, they consume at least ten times as much as a warrior.

It is impossible for his regiment to maintain a battalion of horses and technical troops, unless the new second regiment **** up all the villages in the defense area. But if he dares to do this, the soldiers will kill him with black guns without the brigade commander taking action.

The reason why he didn't report it in advance was to get more benefits. He had already had experience in fighting with the brigade commander for so many years.

 Zhao Gang nodded, special treatment in special times. They are all children of father and mother, and he does not want the soldiers to fight hard for the first time on the battlefield.

Moreover, the brigade headquarters and the New Second Regiment have added cavalry, which will play a greater role in the subsequent operations. The two quickly reached an agreement on this matter.

 Seeing that the matter was solved so easily, Li Yunlong was in a good mood and told the detailed arrangements.

 The enemy's combat effectiveness is not strong. The only thing to worry about is the Japanese railway patrol. But in these small days, he didn't care about anything except the safety of the railway. Besides, Li Yunlong also figured out their patrol rules.

“I’m going to take a battalion to do this, march fifty kilometers, and launch an attack early tomorrow morning. If everything goes well, the battle can be over in an hour.”

“Old Zhao, just watch. You can see hundreds of horses early tomorrow morning.”

 The reason why Li Yunlong wanted to take action personally was not because he doubted Zhang Dabiao's command ability. Simply because I have been dealing with too many trivial matters in the New Second Regiment these days, and I want to go out and change my mind.

And with Zhao Gang staying at the regiment headquarters, even if the superiors pass on tasks, the new second regiment will not be without someone to command.

However, Li Yunlong took it for granted. Zhao Gang is also a practical person, and he also wanted to lead the team in this matter.

“Old Li, how can you leave the command post as the regiment leader? Leave this operation to me.”

“It is my duty as a political commissar to train the troops in a practical way and to have in-depth communication with the soldiers.”

“And since you have decided to notify the brigade headquarters, you can use your time to send out correspondents after we set off, so that we can save ourselves some trouble.”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong was a little unhappy. He didn't expect that Zhao Gang, a political commissar with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also wanted to cause trouble.

While he was still thinking about how to communicate with the other party, Zhao Gang had already seen through Li Yunlong's thoughts and launched his own ultimate move.

“Commander, you don’t want the brigade commander to know about your absence from duty, right?”

“I heard that you still owe Director Huang some things and a truck. How about I ask him to talk to you?”

Learning the strengths of the barbarians to control the barbarians, Zhao Gang showed his true face to Li Yunlong for the first time!

　　　No more today, see you tomorrow

 (End of this chapter)