Chapter 287 Can’t Hide? Then Beat Me Hard!
In fact, the boss doesn't necessarily have to mobilize troops to fight a large-scale battle with the Japanese.
Once the war begins, the strength of the Eighth Route Army will no longer be hidden, and the overall strength of the Eighth Route Army will be completely exposed to all forces.
Since ancient times, making a fortune in silence has been the right path. Those who overly show off their own strength will often attract a lot of attention.
The boss wanted to conceal the specific combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, continue to maintain the status quo, slowly expand the troops, and continue to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops.
After all, not all the units of the Eighth Route Army have such strong combat effectiveness and such luxurious weapons and equipment as the Vanguard Regiment, the New 1st Regiment, or the Independent Regiment.
Among all the current Eighth Route Army troops, some veteran main forces like the 771st Regiment and the 772nd Regiment can reach the level of the new 1st Regiment, or even the level of an independent regiment.
Basically, each military region can come up with one or two regimental-level combat units at the level of a new regiment.
Regimental combat units of this level are basically the ace main forces of each military region, and they are all capable of defeating an entire regiment of the Japanese invaders with a single regiment.
If we compare them based on the ratio of combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness of one soldier in this ace main force regiment is equivalent to that of Japanese devils.
It can be said that they are all treasures of each military region and sub-military region.
Even for a large military region like the Shangdang Military Region, if the situation in the Taihang Military Region is not taken into account, the Shangdang Military Region only has three ace main regiments that can reach this level.
As for whether there are any troops that have reached the level of the Vanguard Regiment, currently only the Vanguard Regiment in the entire Eighth Route Army can reach this level.
There is no way. The equipment organization of the Vanguard Regiment is really beyond the scope. The heavy weapons of one regiment are more than those of a smaller military region.
It’s ok that the Vanguard Group has a lot of equipment, but each piece of equipment is top-notch stuff.
If the brigade commander and the division commander had not argued for their rights, the Yi Zhong Military Region would have wanted to move the vanguard regiment to the Yi Zhong Military Region.
Of course, Qin Yangming had no idea that the Yi Zhong Military Region wanted to get him over there.
The division commander, brigade commander and others did not tell Qin Yangming about this.
The Yi Zhong Military Region did not go directly to Qin Yangming without going through the division commander and brigade commander.
Everyone knows that Qin Yangming would be very embarrassed when facing this kind of problem. He has flesh and blood on both sides, and there are elders on both sides. You ask Qin Yangming to make a choice.
Aren't you forcing the child to say who is better, dad or mom?
Therefore, the matter of mobilizing the vanguard regiment to the Yi Zhong Military Region was only discussed briefly during a small meeting.
It was because the leader of the vanguard regiment was Qin Yangming. If Qin Yangming were not too young and inexperienced, the Eighth Route Army leaders would have worried that promoting Qin Yangming too early would have led to a situation of flattery against Qin Yangming personally.
By then, it will affect Qin Yangming's character and lead to his destruction, and the consequences will be very serious.
Otherwise, given the equipment level and combat effectiveness of the Vanguard Regiment, it would have been expanded long ago, and it would have been impossible for it to remain a single regiment.
There was no way. Qin Yangming was promoted from a platoon leader to a regiment commander in just over a year. Although there were precedents for this, the speed of promotion was really too fast.
It hasn't even been a year since he became the team leader, and he's about to be promoted again... This speed is a bit too fast.
Everything is excessive or insufficient.
With such a fast speed, it is easy for Qin Yangming to become a target... Especially since Qin Yangming is a soldier of the Eighth Route Army... It is not just the Japs who dislike the Eighth Route Army and want to destroy it... A genius has emerged among the Eighth Route Army.
By then, I'm afraid that not only the Japanese will try every means to kill Qin Yangming, but some people will also try every means to destroy Qin Yangming.
In addition, there was no need for Qin Yangming to be promoted in order to win him over, so naturally, the higher-ups were trying to protect Qin Yangming and take other factors into consideration.
So Qin Yangming continued to serve as the leader of the vanguard group.
Although it is just a regiment, there are no restrictions on the organization of the vanguard regiment. Qin Yangming can make the vanguard regiment as big as he wants.
Therefore, it is precisely because of these reasons that Qin Yangming's vanguard regiment is completely unique in the entire Eighth Route Army.
Some of the newly formed Eighth Route Army-level troops can reach the level of old main regiments such as the 771st and 772nd Regiments of the 386th Brigade.
There are usually four to seven regiment-level units that reach this level in a military sub-district.
Troops at this level are the backbone of each military region. They are specially used to fight the Japanese in the field. When facing Japanese troops of the same size, they can fight them on equal terms and not be at a disadvantage.
Secondly, there are a large number of newly formed regimental-level units in various military regions that are similar to the New Second Regiment, but whose combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to that of the New Second Regiment.
These troops are relatively large in number and are responsible for carrying out various defensive tasks and cooperating with the main force in combat.
The main tasks were to defend the base, recruit soldiers, fight small-scale Japanese troops, fight blocking battles, or deal with puppet troops.
Perform missions of medium combat intensity.
Then there are the local troops in each base.
Including but not limited to local independent regiments, local county battalions, district squads and local basic militia forces.
Local troops have the largest number, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is difficult for them to fight tough battles, nor do they have the ability to fight tough battles or offensive battles. Their main combat missions are ambushes, destroying the Japanese's transportation lines, ambushing the Japanese's transport teams, and so on.
If the battle at Shangdang had not exposed part of the Eighth Route Army's strength, and the Japanese had already begun preparing to deal with the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army really needed to expand its territory.
The boss himself really doesn't want to engage in a large-scale battle with the Japanese.
The boss also wanted to wait until the combat effectiveness of the various units of the Eighth Route Army continued to improve, preferably until the strength of all the Eighth Route Army units could at least reach the level of the New Second Regiment, before fighting a major battle with the Japanese.
But time waits for no one, and the Japanese will not sit idly by and watch the Eighth Route Army continue to make fortunes in silence.
The Eighth Route Army has now become a major threat to the Japanese. As soon as the Yichang Campaign in the south is over, or even before the Yichang Campaign is over, the Japanese will launch a large-scale sweep against the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army's operations behind enemy lines in North China, Shanxi and other places have seriously interfered with the Japanese's operations on the front lines, and also seriously threatened the Japanese's occupation of North China.
The Japanese also knew that if the Eighth Route Army was allowed to continue to develop, the entire North China region would become its territory.
It was already impossible to gain any advantages or benefits on the southern battlefield.
If problems arise in North China again and North China is taken away by the Eighth Route Army, then there will be no need for the Japanese to continue fighting on the Chinese battlefield.
Not only did they fail to gain sufficient benefits, they also lost a lot of benefits. The Japanese navy would not miss such a good opportunity to continue to oppress the army.
At that time, the Japanese army will have no choice but to send troops to cooperate with the navy to go south to Southeast Asia, open up the Southeast Asian battlefield, and give up the interests of China.
Therefore, in this battle, even if the Eighth Route Army did not want to fight, the Japanese would definitely force the Eighth Route Army to fight.
If the Eighth Route Army retreated, the Japanese would take this opportunity to strengthen the blockade of the Eighth Route Army, completely split up the Eighth Route Army's bases, and then destroy them one by one.
Moreover, this time the Japanese will not stop fighting as they did in the past. They will definitely use their greatest force to eliminate all the Eighth Route Army troops in North China.
By that time, even if the Eighth Route Army was not completely wiped out by the Japanese, it would have to suffer a drastic setback, and all the strength accumulated over the years would have to be lost.
Moreover, since the Japanese launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army, someone would definitely not let go of such a good opportunity. He would definitely not mind cooperating with the Japanese and using them to eliminate this major threat to the Eighth Route Army!
Therefore, the Eighth Route Army must fight this battle, and fight hard, to let everyone see the strength of the Eighth Route Army and to make some people hide their little thoughts about the Eighth Route Army!
Moreover, in this battle, the Eighth Route Army not only had to fight, but also had to win. Otherwise, everything would be out of the question if they lost.
This is also the reason why the boss had such a strong objection to Brigade Commander Chen agreeing to Qin Yangming and others leading the troops to attack Ping'an County.
There are four regiments, two of which are ace main regiments, one is the main regiment with the most luxurious equipment, and one is an ordinary main regiment... These four regiments can be said to be the core main force of the Taihang Military Region.
As a result, Brigade Commander Chen sent these four regiments out so easily. If there were any problems with the four regiments, it would be a heavy loss for the Taihang Military Region...
There are a total of five ace main regiments, and all of a sudden, three of the most powerful ace main regiments had problems...which is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of the Taihang Military Region directly dropping by more than half.
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"Tell me, what's your other battle plan? What do you think?"
The boss drank tea and looked at Brigade Commander Chen, waiting for Brigade Commander Chen to tell him the second battle plan, wanting to see what the second battle plan was about.
Seeing that the boss asked him again about the second battle plan, Brigade Commander Chen, who was still in deep thought, spoke.
"Boss, this second battle plan is very risky... But I think this battle plan is very likely the real battle plan of Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong... But this battle plan is really too outrageous and too risky.
From a military perspective and a practical point of view, this battle plan is simply impossible to complete no matter how you look at it.
But I have a feeling that the more we think something is impossible to accomplish, the more likely Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong are to do it.
One often performs miracles, and the other often plays some tricks, always catching people off guard.
So the operational plan that we thought was impossible, unreasonable, and unachievable was actually very likely to be accomplished in the hands of these two people.”
Brigade Commander Chen knew how outrageous the combat plan he was about to talk about was and how low the possibility of completing it was.
In order to avoid the boss from getting angry, Brigade Commander Chen explained the situation to the boss in advance and told him that it was not the battle plan he had thought of, but a battle plan that was targeted at the thinking of Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong and was designed based on the thinking of Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming.
And there is a great possibility that that battle plan is the real battle plan that Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming are going to use!
The boss became interested immediately after listening to the brigade commander's words. He put the tea in his hand on the table, lit another cigarette, and looked at Brigade Commander Chen with interest.
"Oh? Tell me about it. I want to see how outrageous your second battle plan is. What kind of battle plan is impossible to complete..."
"Okay, Boss, let me tell you. I've already said it in advance. This battle plan is based on the personalities of Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong, and I've added some other things without any other unexpected situations..."
Brigade Commander Chen emphasized it again, took a lit cigarette from the boss and began to talk about the second battle plan he had come up with.
"Boss, if I were Li Yunlong, I would take out all the weapons in stock from the Vanguard Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New First Regiment before the battle.
Then all the light and heavy machine guns were added to the troops, and a part of them was given to the New Second Regiment, so that the combat effectiveness and firepower intensity of the New Second Regiment could reach the level of the Independent Regiment and the New First Regiment with the same number of people.
Finally, the New 1st Regiment or the New 2nd Regiment would go to Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, capture it, and use Xiaocaozhuang stronghold as the center to prepare to block the troops coming to support from Taigu, Taiyuan, Jinzhong and other areas via the highway.
The most likely thing is to let the New 1st Regiment go through. The New 2nd Regiment does not have that many people, and the area that needs to be blocked over there is a bit large, so the New 2nd Regiment does not have enough people.
However, no matter whether it is the New Second Regiment or the New First Regiment, they should go to the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold to carry out the blocking mission.
But there is one thing, I will draw out all the cavalry battalions from the Vanguard Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New 1st Regiment to form a small cavalry regiment to be used as a mobile force.
Because both the independent regiment and the vanguard regiment need to undertake offensive missions, cavalry is of little use for offensive missions.
Therefore, withdrawing it will not have much impact on the Vanguard Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
I would choose to reinforce this temporary cavalry regiment formed by three cavalry battalions to the force responsible for attacking the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold.
Li Yunlong and his men have now asked Ding Wei to lead the new regiment over.
The three main directions of Ping'an County, east...north...south, are all mountainous, with few open areas.
The west has a lot of open wilderness and various low hills. This kind of terrain is extremely suitable for cavalry to hide, and it can also maximize the combat effectiveness of cavalry. "
(End of this chapter)
