Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

When Political Commissar Zhou heard Li Yunlong's explanation which was trying to cover up something, he immediately burst into laughter.

In fact, there are many versions of speculation about the actual number of people in the independent regiment. Some say it is three thousand, some say it is four thousand, and some even say it is eight thousand.

After all, the independent regiment won one victory after another during this period, especially in Hexian County, where it completely wiped out a field regiment and two garrison battalions of the Japanese army, a total of more than 5,000 people.

Even if these equipments were divided equally among the four regiments, Li Yunlong could at least mobilize a thousand troops with them, and they were well-trained, elite troops with complete weapons and ammunition.

It was even more amazing in You County, which was the logistics supply base of two divisions of the Japanese First Army. The weapons and ammunition inside must be countless.

Although most of it was handed over to the headquarters, given Li Yunlong's character, he would definitely add a portion to the independent regiment to expand the troops. This was also what the leaders of the headquarters had always tacitly agreed on. After all, if the water is too clear, there will be no fish.

If you calculate it this way, then what Li Yunlong said just now that the independent regiment has 5,000 troops should be reliable. Even if it does not have that many now, it is estimated that it will reach that number in a while.

However, today he is here to be the bad guy. Li Yunlong has worked hard to build up the strength of the independent regiment, and now he is asked to send a part of the team out. This is indeed a bit unfair.

But this is the only solution. A regiment of 5,000 people is already seriously overstaffed. Unless the independent regiment is sent out to open up a new base, there is no need for so many people to gather in one place in a short period of time.

Now that the war is imminent, it is only natural for the military district to form a new Second Regiment. Moreover, Kong Jie's personal military ability is also very outstanding, and it is a bit of a waste of talent to serve him as the deputy commander of the independent regiment.

After the New Second Regiment is on track, the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment can form a triangular defense formation. The three regiments will support each other and be able to resist an enemy force of 100,000.

"Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, I have something else to tell you two. I want to hear your opinions."

After that, he repeated the decision of the military district headquarters, especially the decision to transfer a main battalion from the independent regiment and form a new second regiment based on it.

Kong Jie must have been delighted after hearing this, as this had always been his long-cherished wish. After all, "it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix."

At present, the independent regiment has strong combat effectiveness, and staying in it can indeed save a lot of worries, but there is the regiment commander Li Yunlong in charge, and it is not the turn of deputy commander Kong Jie to make decisions on anything.

Now hearing that he was finally allowed to go out and form a new Second Regiment, Kong Jie was immediately extremely happy. Moreover, according to his superiors, he was also allowed to take a battalion from the Independent Regiment, which was an even greater surprise.

As the deputy commander, he knew very well the real combat strength of the independent regiment. Not to mention the three main battalions, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions, even the newly established 6th Battalion of the independent regiment now had more than 600 people.

The entire battalion had one mortar, three Type 92 heavy machine guns, one Maxim heavy machine gun, and a total of eighteen Czech and Type 99 light machine guns. In addition, there were twelve grenade launchers, eighteen submachine guns, and twelve Mauser pistols. The remaining soldiers were given rifles, the worst of which were Type 38 rifles. Of course, there were also twelve Mauser pistols.

As for ammunition, each soldier had about 150 rounds, which was basically aimed at the Japanese field troops.

After all, so many victories have been won during this period, and the weapons and equipment must have been replaced several times. Any good stuff will be sent to the Independent Regiment.

To be honest, this combat capability is enough to defeat the independent regiment he led before, and even exceeds most of the Eighth Route Army's core regiments.

If it has these combat capabilities, the new Second Regiment only needs to recruit some more people and win a few battles, and it will become a true main force regiment in just a few months.

Zhao Gang was the first to congratulate him: "Old Kong, congratulations, you finally made it. I think it won't be long before the Japanese will get a taste of the power of the New Second Regiment."

However, Li Yunlong still did not say anything and just kept his head down. Everyone thought that he was reluctant to leave the troops he had worked so hard to build. Political Commissar Wang wanted to persuade him.

Li Yunlong raised his head and said with a smile: "That's no problem. Lao Kong is my old comrade-in-arms. The independent regiment is also his starting point. He has made a great contribution to the development of the regiment to this day."

"Since we are going to form a new Second Regiment, we must prepare a generous gift. I have decided to transfer the Third and Sixth Battalions of the Independent Regiment and let Lao Kong take them away."

"Also, take out two Type 92 infantry guns and four mortars from the artillery company, so that the New Second Regiment will also have something useful to attack the Japanese artillery towers."

Hearing him say this, the three people present were stunned and showed expressions of disbelief.

Political Commissar Wang and Zhao Gang were surprised that Li Yunlong, who was always stingy, would be so generous this time.

Kong Jie's face was filled with emotion. He felt that he owed a huge favor to someone and he probably would never be able to repay it in his lifetime.

Although the Third Battalion of the Independent Regiment is not as amazing as the First and Second Battalions, one is good at attacking and the other is good at defending, it wins in terms of average combat power, and can be said to be capable of both offense and defense.

The entire battalion has 1,200 people, and their weapons and equipment are impeccable. Most of the soldiers are battlefield veterans who have won many battles, and they can be considered an elite force.

If we have to make an intuitive analogy for its combat effectiveness, it is that the Third Battalion can completely compete with an enemy field battalion. The combat effectiveness of the two is almost the same in terms of personnel quality and weapons and equipment.

The third battalion plus the sixth battalion has almost two thousand troops. Taking into account weapons and equipment, the strength of the new second regiment is almost catching up with Ding Wei's new first regiment, which also saves Kong Jie a lot of time.

In fact, Kong Jie did not have much confidence that he could improve the strength of the New Second Regiment from scratch. This was mainly because the Independent Regiment relied on the help of the special operations team led by Kong Hao and it was only by chance that he achieved this.

The New Second Regiment will not have such a good opportunity in the future. It will either rely on supplies allocated by superiors or seize supplies from the Japanese. During this process, the strength of the troops will increase very slowly.

Now he has two battalions of troops at his disposal. A squadron of Japanese devils are no longer taken seriously by the New Second Regiment. As long as they win more battles, the New Second Regiment will rise rapidly and become a powerful main force in the minds of the leaders.

"Very good, Li Yunlong, your overall view is really good. I will give you verbal praise again."

Political Commissar Wang did not expect that Li Yunlong would be so willing to give. He had also heard of the Third Battalion, which was very powerful and had combat effectiveness comparable to that of an ordinary infantry regiment.

The New Second Regiment now has two main battalions, plus an artillery company. With Kong Jie's ability, it won't be long before their military region will have an additional main regiment with strong combat effectiveness.

However, Li Yunlong then discussed the conditions:

"Commander, I have a condition, but I hope you can agree to it?"