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The number of combat troops in the Kagel Combat Division has reached 70,000, and most of them have achieved mechanization and mules and horses.
The three divisions in western Henan have expanded from the original 25,000 to more than 40,000 now. With the large number of guns and ammunition produced by their arsenals, a large number of militia troops have also been organized.
These militia units are reserve units and can be supplemented by regular units for combat at any time.
Xia Yang's words to counterattack the Japanese army were also due to the expansion of the number of these troops and their own strength.
What he needs to do now is to integrate these forces and then cooperate to launch a certain degree of counterattack against the Japanese army.
As long as he can capture some territory, he can rely on those territories to develop further. Xia Yang is even confident that he will regain Shanxi in the next few years.
¡°Then I will send them a telegram immediately and ask them to formulate a battle plan!¡± Hao Shiwen said.
Xia Yang nodded and said: "Okay, I'll go and inform our troops in Taibai Mountain and Wutai Mountain that the war is about to start again!"
As he said this, a smile appeared on his lips.
At this time in Taibai Mountain, the initial batch of soldiers had basically completed their training. Under the leadership of veterans, they have grown rapidly.
After Xia Yang's order was issued, each unit began to enter a state of combat readiness.
Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first. The first thing they need to prepare is a large amount of food and grass.
Although the Eighth Route Army was very generous in saying that Xia Yang did not need to worry about the food and grass problem, they would definitely find a way to help them solve it.
But Xia Yang knew in his heart that everyone in the Eighth Route Army was so hungry that they were all skin and bones. He said that they were giving him food and grass, but he probably tightened his belt and provided the saved food to himself.
Fortunately, their food reserves are very sufficient. After enough dry food is distributed to each soldier, the transportation troops transport other food and grass to the front line.
In addition to some soldiers left behind, Xia Yang dispatched a lot of troops this time.
Ma Siyuan's troops from three brigades of the Second Division, plus Cai Heyuan's two artillery regiments, an air defense battalion, a sniper squadron, a guard battalion with strengthened combat numbers, two cavalry regiments, a transportation brigade, and a special reconnaissance squadron camp. All in their order of battle.
The total number of these troops is more than 20,000, which is equivalent to a division of the Japanese army.
But compared with the Japanese Army's Type A division, the combat effectiveness of this unit led by Xia Yang is definitely stronger than weaker.
The troops that went out this time also had a field medical team, which was equivalent to moving a field hospital directly to the front line.
This will allow their soldiers to receive timely treatment after being injured.
On August 8, outside the county seat of Laiyuan County, dozens of kilometers away from Taibai Mountain, troops of the independent regiment were gathering in the woods outside the city.
In order to attack Laiyuan County, Li Yunlong dispatched all the troops of the independent regiment. Including the mountain cannons that Xia Yang had replenished for himself before, they were all pulled over by him.
This was the first time he took the initiative to attack a county occupied by the Japanese army. Although he had attacked many Japanese strongholds before. However, the total number of people in the Japanese strongholds is only a few dozen, and the larger ones are more than a hundred people. The scale is still different from the Japanese troops stationed in the county.
The Takeda Brigade of the Japanese army is stationed in Laiyuan County, with a total strength of 1,000 people.
Including the puppet troops in the county, the Japanese army in Laiyuan County had more than 1,500 troops.
But at this moment, although Li Yunlong's troops have arrived here, they have no plans to attack yet.
Because he was waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, which were none other than Xia Yang's troops.
"Old Zhao, you said that every time we ask Commander Xia to help us, and we also take so much equipment from them, it doesn't make sense that our independent regiment doesn't give anyone a hint, right?" Li Yunlong held a telescope and looked into the distance. He said to Zhao Gang next to him in Laiyuan County.
Zhao Gang said: "Excuse me? Do you, Lao Li, also have times when you are embarrassed?"
Li Yunlong said: "You old Zhao, can you talk? Our old Li is also very thin-skinned, and he also knows how to be short-tongued and merciless.
Last time, Commander Xia gave us the equipment of an artillery battalion, and also brought the equipment seized from the Japs in front of us, so that we could choose first. you sayLao Li, can I not feel that I owe you something? "
"Then after you capture Laiyuan County, you give Commander Xia a Japanese girl as your wife. I think Commander Xia will be very grateful to you." Zhao Gang said half-jokingly.
But Li Yunlong took his joke seriously, and immediately answered: "Don't tell me, he is really good! I think Commander Xia is in his twenties, and he should be old enough to get married. Our old Li's The major life-long matter has not yet been resolved, so let me act as a matchmaker for Commander Xia."
"You're welcome, Commander Xia has a daughter-in-law. Does the head nurse you met when you went to the field hospital know about it?" Zhao Gang said.
"Head nurse? Are you talking about the head nurse who bandaged the soldiers' wounds and blood spurted onto their faces without blinking?" Li Yunlong asked.
Zhao Gang said: "Yes, I still listened to what Staff Officer Hao told me."
The two were discussing Xia Yang's life-long events, when the monk ran over and said: "Captain, Commander Xia and others are here with their people."
"Commander Xia came here in person?" Li Yunlong was a little surprised.
Because when he first borrowed troops from Xia Yang, he mainly wanted Xia Yang's rocket nest. This thing was used to hit the defensive positions outside the little devil's city wall, and the effect was definitely better than those 60-meter cannons.
But I didn¡¯t expect that Xia Yang would come over in person.
"Old Li, long time no see!" After meeting, Xia Yang came over and shook hands with Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong immediately hugged Xia Yang and said: "Commander Xia, I haven't seen you for more than a month, and I really miss you! What do you mean, not seeing you for a day, what?" (Remember this book) Website address: www.hlnovel.com