Chapter 20 Half a Year of Development (Thanks to Mistralsu for the reward) After half a year of development, both the New 1st Regiment and the Pioneer Battalion have The strength has been greatly improved. The new regiment has become a regiment with five battalions. The main force has a total strength of 5,000. This does not include the situation of the Pioneer Camp. The new regiment consists of four main battalions and one new recruit battalion modeled after Qin Yangming. The soldiers of the main battalion were armed with either the Type 38 rifle or the Type 65 rifle. The other battalions of the New 1st Regiment were not as luxurious as Qin Yangming's. Their standard configuration for an infantry squad is twelve men.

Three classes form a platoon. A platoon has one light machine gun. Including the platoon leader and deputy platoon leader, there are a total of forty people. A company has three platoons. A firepower squad equipped with three grenade launchers, In addition, there are cooking staff, health workers and other personnel. One hundred and forty people in total. However, not all companies in the battalion are configured like this. Each company of Zhang Dabiao's battalion had 200 men. They even each have their own heavy machine gun. He has six such companies. His battalion also had a machine gun platoon equipped with four 60mm mortars and three Type 92 heavy machine guns. The situation of the second and third battalions was similar, except that they did not have company-owned heavy machine guns and mortars. There was only one machine gun platoon consisting of three heavy machine guns and a grenade launcher. And each company only has five people. The fourth battalion formed later was arranged according to the standard three-three system, and there was only one heavy machine gun. But even so, the equipment of the 4th Battalion is comparable to that of the infantry battalions of other main regiments. As for the Fifth Battalion, it was simply a camp for new recruits. Used to replenish new soldiers for other battalions, The weapons and equipment were mainly Type 65 rifles and Hanyang rifles that were discarded by various battalions. There were only a few light machine guns. There were no heavy machine guns, but there were a few grenade launchers used for training.

Moreover, Zhang Dabiao got a Type 92 infantry gun from somewhere. Li Yunlong relied on the four 90mm mortars captured from the Japanese given to him by Qin Yangming. He forcibly formed an artillery company directly under the regiment. As for Qin Yangming, he spent 100,000 points to exchange for all the weapons required for the organization he set. Originally, when he saw that he still had 200,000 points, he thought that the weapons were not that expensive. But when he exchanged ammunition, he spent 200,000 points and barely prepared 200 shells for each gun. Only then did he understand why firing a single artillery shell required approval from the brigade commander or even the division commander. The shells are really expensive. Especially for those unfamiliar gunners, it often takes many shots to hit the target. Qin Yangming also asked the arsenal whether it could produce artillery shells. As a result, the outer shell of the hand-made shells produced by the arsenal broke before they were even fired. Not only is the quality poor, but the price is also twice as expensive as the system one. Finally, in order to improve his artillery experience, Qin Yangming had to use his brain and think about his previous life. When the country was poor, a device that used artillery to fire bullets was developed in order to save shells while training. Although he couldn't make such a device, the principle was similar. He directly exchanged them for several brand new Mosin-Nagant rifles, disassembled the rifle barrels and firing pins, and made a simple training device. You know what, the effect is quite good. At least within the effective range of the artillery, half of the ten shells can hit the target. Unfortunately, this method is only applicable to direct-fire artillery such as the Type 41 mountain gun or the Type 92 infantry gun. When Qin Yangming first trained mortar gunners, he planned to use grenade launchers instead. But considering that grenade launcher shells were not very cheap, he found a way to make mortar training shells. This is also thanks to the fact that the mortar shell casing is mainly made of cast iron. At the same time, the shells used for practice do not require a lot of propellant, so Qin Yangming directly asked a blacksmith to make a batch of large iron mortar shells according to his own requirements. As for the propellant, it is removed directly from the bullet. After submitting the two methods of using guns instead of cannons and training bullets, Qin Yangming received another praise. What made him happiest was that the person far away in Yan'an wrote him a letter to thank him for the penicillin he sent. Because most of the points were exchanged for ammunition for the troops, Qin Yangming only had 5,000 points left for emergencies. Looking at the urgent number of points, and thinking that the Japanese would organize a large-scale cleanup in about three months, he wanted to get points again. But now he can't enter the county town, or rather, he can't enter the county town normally from the city gate.

Because the Japanese soldiers in Linyuan County Arsenal had seen Qin Yangming. Due to time constraints at that time, Qin Yangming did not completely eradicate the problem. As a result, his identity information was leaked. There's no way. A guy like him, who is two meters tall and whose arms are thicker than other people's legs, has a very distinctive body shape. The Japs are not idiots. In order to prevent Qin Yangming from sneaking over the city wall and entering the city headquarters, the Japanese installed electric lights on the city wall. The entire city wall becomes extremely bright at night, and there is no way to enter the city by climbing over the wall. Moreover, the Japanese soldiers threatened that if he dared to enter the city and kill the Japanese soldiers again, they would kill the civilians. Qin Yangming was so angry that he led his men to capture six of the Japanese artillery towers in succession. All the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the six artillery towers were hung on the towers to warn the Japanese. If the Japanese dared to attack the civilians, he would chop off the heads of all the Japanese he encountered. After that, the Japanese devils from Linyuan County and Qin Yangming seemed to have reached some tacit understanding. As long as Qin Yangming does not assassinate the Japanese officers, they will not attack the civilians. Of course, the main reason was that the Japanese commander of Shiquan County put enough pressure on the Japanese in Linyuan County. After all, the six artillery towers that Qin Yangming controlled were all in Shiquan County. If Qin Yangming continues to act in this way, they will all be dismissed from their posts. As for using Linyuan County's method to threaten Qin Yangming. Oh, it hasn’t been found out yet who was responsible for the shelling of their Shiquan County headquarters. How could anyone dare to offend a ruthless man who broke into the county town alone and took down the county command center single-handedly? If such a ruthless person wants to enter the county town, there are many ways for him to do so. If this guy is pushed into a corner and comes to Shiquan County to deal with them, they won't be able to bear it. Especially the two guys who had just been promoted from lieutenant to major. These two people are the ones who put the greatest pressure on Linyuan County. For a moment, the entire Linyuan County seemed to have entered an era of peace. The Japanese dared not to bully the common people anymore. In order to prevent the artillery tower from being taken down by Qin Yangming again, The Japanese in Linyuan County directly evacuated all the Japanese and puppet troops in the artillery tower into the county town or important strongholds. Like a turtle, he no longer goes out. Even when delivering supplies, half of the materials had to be handed over first before they could reach their destination. If I wasn't afraid that the Japanese would get so hungry that they would rob the people, According to Li Yunlong's temper, he would not give anything to the Japanese.

Even the puppet troops no longer dared to act arrogantly. If the Japanese were a little more arrogant, they might be able to hide. If the puppet army is arrogant, haha, we are all locals, You are now going against the Eighth Route Army which is at its peak in Linyuan County. Aren't you looking for death? After half a year of development, Li Yunlong thought it was time to test the combat effectiveness of the troops. Of course, the most important reason is that the brigade headquarters has moved away to the 771st Regiment. At this moment, the New 1st Regiment was finally no longer under the supervision of the brigade headquarters, and Li Yunlong was like a tiger whose chains had been opened. Finally, there was nothing restraining him, and he could display his skills without restraint. Just one month after the brigade commander left, Li Yunlong turned his attention to Linyuan County. It’s not a certain stronghold in Linyuan County, but the county seat of Linyuan County! (End of this chapter)