Chapter 83 Combat Preparation (Vote Request) After Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming returned to the Independent Regiment, the Independent Regiment, which had been quiet for almost a week, began to operate again. Under Li Yunlong's arrangement, the entire independent regiment began to prepare for battle. The teams that were fighting bandits or training outside returned to their base to rest. After returning to the Vanguard Camp, Qin Yangming sat in the operations room and kept looking at the topographic map, wondering what method Li Yunlong would use to capture Qinghe County within three days. "If I were to take Qinghe County within three days, I would have to use powerful firepower to storm Qinghe County. Only in this way can I take Qinghe County within three days." Qin Yangming sat in the chair, his mind working rapidly, wondering how he would take Qinghe County if he were Li Yunlong and did not have so much heavy firepower. “If we want to take Qinghe County with the strength of the New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment, we must eliminate the cavalry units in Qinghe County and abolish the cavalry. Otherwise, relying on the mobility of the cavalry, no matter where we attack, Qinghe County will be able to quickly mobilize superior forces to gather and conduct targeted operations, or use the mobility of the cavalry to harass our supply lines. " "To destroy the cavalry... the easiest way is to kill the horses. Poison them?" "That's useless. The cavalry horses of Qinghe County are not in the same place, so poisoning them won't be very useful."
"Captain, what's the matter with you calling me here? By the way, Captain, now that the spring ploughing is over, do you think we should send some people to help the villagers nearby repair the canal?" While Qin Yangming was thinking, instructor Zhangye, who had received the news, walked into the operations room and asked Qin Yangming. Qin Yangming shook his head: "It's not possible at this time. Go and order the troops to prepare to march. We are going to fight. We can help the people build the canal after we come back." Listening to what Qin Yangming said, Zhangye was stunned for a moment, and then he stopped disturbing Qin Yangming's thoughts and went out to prepare for the troops to set out. Qin Yangming continued to look at the topographic map, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Captain, commander, you don't want to do this, do you?" Qin Yangming seemed to have thought of Li Yunlong's method of attacking Qinghe County. …… After the brigade commander consulted the headquarters and obtained the headquarters' consent, an order was delivered directly to Ding Wei by the communicator. "What's going on? Let me take the New 1st Regiment to the Independent Regiment’s base as quickly as possible, and then obey Li Yunlong’s orders?" "Did the brigade commander say what the operation was?" Ding Wei looked at the order in his hand and asked the communicator in confusion. The communicator shook his head and said, "Captain Ding, I don't know what action is being taken. You should hurry up and take the new regiment there." "Come here, notify all troops to return to their bases as quickly as possible. All troops must be back before dawn tomorrow!" "Political Commissar Zhong, please take care of the logistics." Zhong Zhicheng listened to Ding Wei's order and nodded: "Well, don't worry, Captain, leave the logistics to me." "Old Zhong, what do you think Li Yunlong wants to do?" "The brigade commander asked us to go there to follow Li Yunlong's orders. It's definitely not to watch Li Yunlong perform." "My goodness, my new regiment now has about 5,000 troops, plus the independent regiment, nearly 9,000 people, which is 10,000 if you round it up, almost the strength of a division." "What does Li Yunlong want to do?"
Zhong Zhicheng shook his head. “I don’t know what Captain Li wants to do. Even if we want to attack the county town, it will be easy with the strength of the independent regiment and the vanguard battalion. Moreover, the brigade commander also asked us to all obey Li Yunlong’s orders, this…” Ding Wei looked at what Zhong Zhicheng said and thought about the map on the table. "Could it be that Li Yunlong has become so bold that he wants to attack Taiyuan?" "Even if Captain Li wants to attack Taiyuan, he has to have the strength. With just our two regiments, we can probably attack the county town." "No matter what, when we get there, we'll naturally know what Li Yunlong is up to." …… Yangcun, the headquarters of the independent regiment. After Ding Wei hurriedly arrived at the headquarters of the independent regiment with the new regiment, he asked the political commissar to stay behind to take care of the troops and he quickly went to the headquarters of the independent regiment alone. Before Ding Wei entered the independent regiment headquarters, he saw a large number of soldiers carrying various supplies to the open space outside Yang Village. After letting several soldiers carrying ammunition boxes pass by, Ding Wei hurriedly found Li Yunlong. "Captain Ding, you're here, hurry up, we're waiting for you!" Qin Yangming, who had just finished arranging things and rushed over from the Vanguard Battalion, saw Ding Wei and hurriedly pulled Ding Wei towards the regiment headquarters. "Xiao Qin, what happened? Why is there such a big noise?" On the way, Ding Wei tried to get some information from Qin Yangming. But Qin Yangming did not answer Ding Wei's doubts: "Captain Ding, you will know when you arrive at the regiment headquarters. We are waiting for you." Qin Yangming pushed open the door of the regiment headquarters and two people walked in. At this moment in the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Kong Jie were all gathered around the Qinghe County sand table that Qin Yangming had hastily made. Hearing the sound of the door opening, several people in the room looked over. "Hahaha, Lao Ding, you're here, come on, let's have a meeting to discuss this." "No, Li Yunlong, what on earth are you going to do? The brigade commander hurriedly ordered me to bring the new regiment to listen to your orders. Where do you want to fight?" “You take a look at the intelligence first, and then we can discuss it. By the way, where is the roster of the new regiment? Let me see it." Li Yunlong handed a piece of information to Ding Wei, motioning Ding Wei to take a quick look at it, and Ding Wei also took out the prepared roster and handed it to Li Yunlong. Ding Wei took the information, took a rough look at it, then glanced at the map hanging on the other side, and finally turned his gaze to the sand table. "Good fellow, Li Yunlong, you want to attack Qinghe County? How did you convince the brigade commander to allow you to lead troops to attack Qinghe County?" After reading the intelligence, Ding Wei, who was very sensitive to some things, quickly understood the strategic value of Qinghe County, but at the same time he also realized how difficult it was to capture Qinghe County. "Can we take Qinghe County with just two regiments?"
After reading the roster, Li Yunlong listened to Ding Wei's question and said directly: "Our independent regiment plus the new regiment, the number of soldiers who can directly go to the battlefield has reached 8,000." "The garrison of Qinghe County is only 4,000 people. In terms of military strength, we have the upper hand." "The more than 3,000 defenders of Qinghe County are all puppet troops. I don't need to say much about the combat effectiveness of the puppet troops, right? Our combat effectiveness is far superior to that of the puppet troops." "In addition, we have enough heavy weapons and ammunition, but the puppet army does not have so much." Ding Wei listened to Li Yunlong's words and immediately retorted: "Li Yunlong, we are attacking the city, not defending it. The 4,000 soldiers defending the city do not include the troops in the stronghold." "And these puppet troops have a lot of horses. As long as we attack the defensive positions outside Qinghe County, the puppet troops and Japanese cavalry in the county can use the horses for mobile support." "Also, the puppet cavalry from Junggar can reach Qinghe County in one day at most. The land there is flat, so it would be impossible to set an ambush even if they wanted to." "Even if we take down the stronghold, the puppet troops in the outskirts of Qinghe County can quickly escape back to Qinghe County on horseback." Li Yunlong listened to Ding Wei constantly giving various reasons and raised his hand to interrupt him. "Stop, stop, stop, Ding Wei, I asked you to come here to fight the Japanese, not to tell me how powerful the puppet army and the Japanese are!" "Don't worry, I have a way to deal with the puppet army and the Japanese cavalry. I guarantee that they won't be able to move a single horse!" Qin Yangming listened to Li Yunlong's words, raised his head and looked at him deeply. As soon as Li Yunlong said this, Qin Yangming knew that he might have really guessed Li Yunlong's method. "Captain, you are really brave. If there were no changes, and if Qinghe County was not captured, I'm afraid the brigade commander would not be able to save you." (End of this chapter)