The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

Chapter 472 Race against time to expand territory

Author: Star Traveler

Chapter 472 Race against time to expand territory

"What's there to guess about? You know, the US military used two atomic bombs against the Japanese, but they killed hundreds of thousands of them. Isn't surrender just a matter of a day or two?" Li Yunlong waved his hand and said.

"I asked why Lao Li dispersed his troops a few days ago. It turns out that he was waiting for this day." Ding Wei nodded and said thoughtfully after hearing Li Yunlong's words.

Then I became happy again. After all, the surrender of the Japanese was a big deal. The eight-year war of resistance was finally over. The people in the country had sacrificed too much for this war. Now we could finally live a peaceful life.

Li Yunlong saw that the expressions of several people were a little relaxed, so he said:

"Although the Japanese surrendered, the war is not over. As soldiers, we cannot relax even a little bit."

"Lao Li, what do you mean..." Kong Jie frowned and asked.

After all, this is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Although it is inconvenient to say some things, everyone understands them, but they just don't want to think about them.

After all, the people in China have experienced decades of war since the fall of the Qing Dynasty. No one wants to experience war anymore, but some things don't just happen if you don't want to.

"Old Li is right. Although we as soldiers should not care about politics, we still need to make necessary preparations." Zhao Gang nodded in agreement after hearing Li Yunlong's words.

"Old Li, since you had already predicted that the Japanese army was going to surrender, how did you prepare?" Ding Wei looked at Li Yunlong and asked.

Li Yunlong took out the map and laid it on the table, then turned back to several people and said:

"What's there to say? Of course I took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese surrender to make a fortune. Given the geographical location of our defense area, if we want to get the maximum interest, we only need to confiscate the Japanese weapons and equipment in the direction of Taiyuan and Beiping.

Then we can get at least half of the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army in North China."

"According to information coming back from the front line, Taiyuan, as the headquarters of the Japanese First Army, has a total of 32,000 troops, while Peiping, as the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China, may have more than 50,000 Japanese troops stationed there."

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he took a sip of water and continued: "I have dispatched troops in two groups, marching all the way to Taiyuan and all the way to Peiping, in order to seize the opportunity when the Central Army and the Jinsui Army do not respond and come back.

Receive weapons and equipment surrendered to the Japanese."

After hearing Li Yunlong's arrangement, Zhao Gang said with some emotion: "Old Li, are you taking some risks? After all, our defense area is not close to these two places, especially in Peiping and Taiyuan. Not only the Japanese army but also Jinsui are nearby.

As for Jun, can Yan Laoxi watch us eat such a big piece of fat in front of his eyes?"

"What can we do if he doesn't want to? I, Li Yunlong, have to look at his eyes when doing things." Li Yunlong said with some disdain. Anyway, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was destined to crack at the moment the Japanese army surrendered. It was only a matter of time before the two sides turned against each other.

Before that, the first thing he has to do is to develop and strengthen his own strength. This way, no matter what kind of difficulties he faces in the future, he can face them calmly.

While Li Yunlong and others were discussing at the headquarters, the troops sent by Li Yunlong to Taiyuan had already entered the city. They were all dressed in the uniforms of the Jinsui Army, so the Japanese army did not find anything wrong.

The Japs stood in a row and neatly stacked all their weapons and equipment in a large open space.

This was the first time for the Eighth Route Army soldiers to see such a scene, and everyone was a little shocked.

Zhang Dabiao took the weapons list from the Japanese commander and arranged for the soldiers to count them. He also arranged for the soldiers to load the weapons and equipment they had counted into the vehicle.

In order to bring back all the weapons and equipment at once, Zhang Dabiao and others took away most of the mules and horses in the camp when they came back.

Zhang Dabiao looked at the equipment data on the list and couldn't help but admire Li Yunlong.

You know, these equipments are not a small sum of money. If you bring all these equipments back, you can easily arm an army of more than 30,000 people, all equipped with Japanese-style equipment.

After Zhang Dabiao and the others loaded all their weapons and equipment on the vehicle and left Taiyuan City, they headed towards Ping'an County without stopping. Since this place is very close to the territory of the Jinsui Army, they might encounter it sometime.

He is not afraid if he is empty-handed,

But there are a lot of weapons and equipment in the army. If something goes wrong, how will he go back and explain to the old commander.

Although Zhang Dabiao was frightened along the way, he was still lucky. The journey went very smoothly and he did not encounter any unexpected situations. Even so, it was not until he returned to Ping'an County two days later that Zhang Dabiao felt completely at ease.

He finally lived up to Li Yunlong's expectations and brought back the Japanese weapons and equipment from Taiyuan safely.

Because he carried a large amount of weapons and equipment along the way, he did not dare to slack off at all, and his spirit was kept tense. After marching for two days and two nights, he collapsed immediately after returning to the station.

I slept until about three o'clock in the afternoon the next day before waking up, and then came to the headquarters to report the situation to Li Yunlong and others.

"Dabiao, you've worked hard along the way. Sit down quickly. Let's sit down and talk if anything happens." Li Yunlong patted Zhang Dabiao on the shoulder and said.

He was very satisfied with the result of Zhang Dabiao's operation. He brought back more than 30,000 weapons and equipment without spending a single soldier. Although it was as expected, he couldn't help but feel excited. After all, this was after he traveled through time.

, the most seized.

Although no news has been sent back from Peiping, it seems that nothing will go wrong.

"Captain, this is the list of weapons we collected from Taiyuan this time. Take a look." Zhang Dabiao took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it to Li Yunlong.

Mainly because they collected a lot of weapons and equipment this time. In addition, there were also a lot of machines and equipment. After the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, in order to solve the logistical pressure, they kept a lot of equipment in the Taiyuan Arsenal and continued to let workers produce it.

, now it’s better, everything is cheaper for Li Yunlong.

Although Taiyuan is a big city, it is a bit far away from Li Yunlong's defense area, and the Jinsui Army is still stationed around it. Therefore, Li Yunlong did not think about occupying Taiyuan, but asked Zhang Dabiao to transport all the weapons, equipment and machinery back.

Li Yunlong took the notebook handed over by Zhang Dabiao and drooled while reading it.

Yes, this trip was not in vain. More than 20,000 rifles were seized. In addition, there were more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 artillery pieces, more than 300 trucks, and more than 100 Japanese military vehicles.

Little bean sprouts.

As for machinery and equipment, most of them are machines for producing bullets, cannon shells, and repairing firearms. Most of the equipment for producing artillery and firearms was shipped to the Northeast.

This is not bad. Anyway, something is better than nothing. As long as this batch of equipment is put into production, the first column will be able to be self-sufficient. After seizing a large amount of Japanese ordnance, the army no longer lacks firearms. What is lacking is bullets.

Consumables such as cannonballs.

Previously, the supply of weapons and ammunition within the Eighth Route Army relied entirely on captured weapons, in addition to some made in border areas.

Before the Eighth Route Army was incorporated into the Kuomintang's army, Chiang Kai-shek never gave him a single bullet or military pay except in the early, middle and late stages.

In order to resist Chiang's separatist policy, the Eighth Route Army was in very short supply of ammunition, and its weapons had no place to repair, so they were seriously damaged.

Therefore, after the Eighth Route Army advanced into Shanxi, it immediately established many border manufacturing stations for the manufacture of ammunition and weapons maintenance.

The Border Manufacturing Institute mainly manufactures grenades, landmines, explosive packs and other weapons. In particular, grenades are produced the most. When overloaded, the daily production can reach tens of thousands. They basically meet the combat supply needs of the Eighth Route Army.

The daily production of hand grenades in border areas can reach tens of thousands, but they are all low-quality home-made grenades that explode into two fragments. After exploding, only two shrapnel fragments fly out, while Japanese grenades explode into 46 fragments.

The landmines manufactured by the Border Manufacturing Institute often took a long time to manufacture, were in short supply of raw materials, and were easily discovered by veterans of the Japanese army. The manufacturing institute often manufactured some stone mines because its process was simple, its lethality was no less than that of iron mines, and its manufacturing cost was also low.

few.

The explosive packs produced by the border area manufacturers are real home-made bombs, their power is only slightly less than that of Japanese mountain cannons, and they are specially used to explode Japanese tanks and gun towers.

The border area can't build all three, one can't build cannons, two can't build machine guns, and three can't build aircraft and tanks.

Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Ordnance Factory can manufacture cannons and artillery shells.

The Taihang Mountain Border Area Arsenal imitated the German Type 79 rifle to produce its own Type 54 rifle.

Before producing Type 55 and Type 81 rifles, the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan base area also produced improved Chinese-style rifles from 1939 to 1940.

It's normal to build a gun in the north, but accuracy and durability are issues. It can't be used after firing more than a dozen bullets.

During the Red Army period, all base areas tried their best to obtain machinery to make guns. There are preservation exhibitions in this area in Nanchang and Beijing.

At least there was indeed a rifle named after Mr. Zhu. During the Anti-Japanese War, a town in East China was famous for its ironware since modern times, and later attracted attention from all parties for its gun-making. The New Fourth Army lacked light machines, and the authentic ZB26 gun was made by a blacksmith

Counterfeit it.

Therefore, after obtaining this batch of equipment, Li Yunlong was able to establish a weapons repair shop comparable to the border manufacturing facility.

So after Li Yunlong read these lists, he immediately asked Zhao Gang to start mobilizing people to build factories.

After Zhang Dabiao and the others returned to their base and rested for a day, they were sent out again by Li Yunlong. This time, they directly broke the troops into pieces and dispersed them in all directions to compete with the Central Army's Shanxi-Sui Army for territory.

This operation caused by the surrender of the Japanese army lasted for more than two months before it ended. Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were fighting each other desperately to expand their occupied areas. During this period, frictions and even firefights were inevitable.

Li Yunlong's troops encountered them several times, but basically his troops took advantage. Once Sun Desheng went to a county to collect Japanese equipment, but after he went there, the Japanese equipment had been confiscated by the Jinsui Army, so Sun Desheng said nothing and directly

The looting started and not only the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were confiscated, but also the equipment of the Shanxi-Sui Army.

Since there were many military uniforms of the Jinsui Army in Li Yunlong's army, sometimes they themselves did not know which army they were encountering.

Therefore, Li Yunlong's troops had both sides of the Jin-Sui Army and the Central Army and took advantage of them.

The troops sent by Li Yunlong to Peiping to collect Japanese equipment also received news three days after Zhang Dabiao completed their mission.

Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the mission was completed in the end, but this time, Chiang Kai-shek was very angry.

Originally, Chiang Kai-shek sought the help of the US military to use US warships to directly transport the Central Army to Tianjing Port in order to gain time, so that he could accept the surrender of the Japanese North China Command as soon as possible.

But unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in the middle, and Li Yunlong was able to get there first. Although the US military had put pressure on the Japanese army before, they had no choice but to surrender their weapons to the Chinese army.

But who knew that Li Yunlong did not follow common sense and directly sent the team headquarters to block the Central Army at Tianjin Port. He was handed over his weapons as soon as he landed. Then all the Eighth Route Army soldiers dressed up in Central Army clothes and went directly to Beiping City to capture the Japanese troops.

weapons and equipment.

Such a big movement directly alarmed the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

The head of the headquarters was overjoyed after receiving the news. He was worried about the Eighth Route Army advancing into the Northeast. After all, the Northeast is the center of domestic heavy industry. If they want to have the right to speak in the next period, they must include this heavy industrial area in the Northeast.

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It was better now. I was dozing off, so Li Yunlong brought me a pillow.

So the headquarters directly issued an order to Li Yunlong to split his first column into two. The troops in Peiping were directly linked with the Shandong troops, and then quickly entered the Northeast and sent Ding Wei and Kong Jie to command the troops.

The troops remaining in Shanxi were directly incorporated into the North China Field Army, with Li Yunlong as commander.

Although Li Yunlong took advantage of his quick actions during the surrender of the Japanese army, he still suffered a lot if he was singled out like this.

After all, Ding Wei and Kong Jie brought more than 70,000 troops to the Northeast, as well as a large amount of captured weapons and equipment. If they stabilized and expanded their troops, it would be easy to exceed 100,000 troops.

Although there are only more than 50,000 troops in Shanxi and North China, the weapons and equipment collected are not small. Especially when the base area was later expanded, they occupied many county towns. Not only did the territory expand, but a lot of weapons and equipment were also confiscated.

Captured a large number of puppet soldiers.

Although the combat effectiveness of these puppet troops was not very good, Li Yunlong still asked Zhao Gang to do some ideological work for them. Except for the group of people who committed the most heinous crimes, Li Yunlong integrated the rest.

Therefore, after the land grab ended, although most of the troops were taken away by Ding Wei and Kong Jie, after two months of expansion, the number of troops still reached more than 100,000.

Not only that, Li Yunlong also has his own firearms repair shop, which can produce bullets, artillery shells, mines, grenades, and other consumables.

The combat effectiveness of the troops is also ranked high among Huaye.

(End of chapter)