After hearing the commander's explanation, the chief of staff still looked confused and frowned and asked: "Sir, the attack ability of the six chariots is indeed very strong, and they can attack and retreat or defend. However, the National Salvation Army only dispatched cavalry battalions and mobile battalions, and they suddenly launched an attack while the Hedi Town stronghold was not equipped with anti-tank weapons, which took advantage of the situation where the Hedi Town stronghold was not equipped with anti-tank weapons, which took a big advantage."

"Now we know that the National Salvation Army dispatched combat chariot troops to attack our strongholds. As long as the military headquarters immediately sends anti-tank weapons to the front-line troops, no matter how many combat chariots the National Salvation Army dispatched, it will be destroyed by us."

"After this battle, the national-savior army's fighting style will definitely lose its effect. Could it be that they have spent so much effort, both concealing their eyes and dispatching chariots, and their real purpose is to capture the Hedi Town stronghold?"

"Although the location of the stronghold is well-developed, it is not as important as both sides must seize it. I can't figure it out!"

The commander also showed a helpless expression on his face, and then shook his head: "There is too little information in our hands for reference, and I can't tell whether the National Salvation Army raided the Hedi Town stronghold or had other plans."

"But your words just now reminded me: the National Salvation Army successfully raided the Hedi Town stronghold, which shows that it is an indisputable fact that the National Salvation Army has armored troops."

"In order to avoid the national rescue military raiding other strongholds with the same tactics, the military headquarters must immediately strengthen anti-tank weapons for them, and it is best for each infantry squadron to be equipped with two doors."

The Chief of Staff made an objection after a moment of thinking: "Sir, strengthening anti-tank weapons for front-line troops is indeed the best way to deal with combat vehicles."

"But in our troops, only the infantry corps of the main force are equipped with a rapid-fire gun squadron. Even if we take all the rapid-fire guns, the two infantry squadrons may not be able to be divided into one."

"The proportion of rapid-fire guns installed in local garrison troops is even lower. If the division is evenly divided, it would be nice if a garrison brigade can get one gun!"

The more the commander heard the more serious the expression, the more he looked, but soon thought of a second-hand solution: "If you don't have enough equipment, just focus on the front line. Chief of Staff, you immediately count the rapid-fire guns that the military department can draw, give priority to the troops on the side of the National Salvation Military Defense Zone. Be sure to ensure that each medium or above stronghold is equipped with two rapid-fire guns."

"I also heard that the anti-aircraft machine guns of the country-saving military used anti-aircraft machine guns to attack our chariot troops, and the effect was very good. We can also apply what we learned. If the military headquarters cannot collect enough rapid-fire cannons, we will use anti-aircraft machine guns to push them up."

"The Chinese army in Shanxi has almost no air force, and the anti-aircraft machine guns equipped by various units and airports have not been fired for a long time. Instead of leaving them in various units and airports as facades, it is better to strengthen the front-line troops to fight chariots."

"And anti-aircraft machine guns are powerful, and they are also a good choice to fight infantry!"

"As long as the military headquarters strengthens anti-tank weapons for the frontline troops as soon as possible, even if the National Salvation Army has made other plans to raid the Hedi Town stronghold this time, they will not be able to conquer our other strongholds!"

"The last order is for the intelligence department. From now on, they must send a special person to watch every unit of the National Salvation Army, and they cannot even let go of a single one."

"The National Salvation Army is too cunning. We often play tricks of replacing pillars and replacing princes with us. We must not make the same mistake again!"

The Hedi Town stronghold, under the attack of the commando, the castles surrounding the stronghold were destroyed one after another.

In just one hour, the gunfire on the battlefield stopped.

As soon as Zhou Cheng walked to the gate of the stronghold, he saw Chen Liwen running towards him with his injured arm. His expression was very excited, and he could not see the pain caused to him by the injury.

"Report to the regiment commander, the commando successfully completed the mission, not only took down the Japanese warehouse where the oil was stored, but also took down the ammunition depot at the stronghold!"

Zhou Cheng did not answer the conversation, his eyes directly locked on Chen Liwen's bandaged arm, and asked with a worried look: "Why are you wearing the lottery? Is it serious?"

A hint of gratitude flashed in Chen Liwen's eyes and he quickly replied: "Please rest assured that the regiment commander is not seriously injured. He was hit by a stone when he bombed the Japanese Burrow. It will be fine if he keeps it for a few days!"

Zhou Chengchang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. After going back, I will take a few more days to the training of the troops to temporarily hand over to the deputy battalion commander to recover the injury as soon as possible. The mobile battalion has a very powerful effect. Maybe I will join the war when I will participate. I don't want to have a bandage on my arm next time I see you.

Several battalion commanders and garrison captains under their command were either the old Red Army that the division headquarters reinforced their own, or the old men who grew up step by step within the National Salvation Army. Everyone is a treasure, and he will not bear to bear no matter who happens to the accident.

After saying that, he followed Chen Liwen to the stronghold and headed straight to the oil warehouse.

When he opened the warehouse gate, a scream rang in Zhou Cheng's ear: "Captain, we are rich!"

The spokesperson was Fang Deshan, the commander of the armored company, and when he walked into the warehouse, he looked lit up and shouted: "If you save some use, the fuel in it is enough for the chariot troops to use it for more than half a year!"

"There are also tank gun shells. Each time we seize very few, one less, and each tank gun is used. On average, there are less than ten left in each tank gun. There are at least 800 tank gun shells in this pile of ammunition. In the future, our tank guns can show their power on the battlefield again!"

Since entering the stronghold, Zhou Cheng’s smile never stopped.

After listening to Fang Deshan's analysis, the smile on his face became stronger. He immediately looked at Dong Fei, the battalion commander of the baggage battalion: "Bail Commander Dong, I will hand over the oil and ammunition in it to you. Be sure to not waste a bucket of oil, and send it back to the defense zone to hide!"

After saying that, he turned his attention to Chen Liwen again: "When the assault, were there great casualties in the army?"

Chen Liwen replied with a serious face: "The casualties of the commando team were a bit large. One company was directly beaten into a platoon. The casualties of other troops were fine. A total of 219 soldiers were killed, 51 were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. In addition, we also lost a tank and an armored vehicle."

"But we wiped out all the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold, wiped out 486 Japanese troops, 153 puppet troops, captured 168 puppet troops, and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition!"

Zhou Cheng nodded, obviously very satisfied with the result.

Not to mention that the armored troops in the warehouse used oil and supporting ammunition for half a year, it would be worth it to just kill more than 400 Japanese and a battalion of puppet troops, paying such a huge price.

After taking a look at the watch, I ordered: "It's three o'clock in the morning now. I'll clean the battlefield for an hour and a half, and evacuate Hedi Town on time at 4:30 in the morning."

"The cavalry battalions are all scattered. If there are no eyes, the Japanese who want to reinforce the place, if there are not many troops, they will eat them directly. If there are too many, they will find a way to hold them back and give the main force time to evacuate and fight.

The Japanese army headquarters in Taiyuan, until the news that the Hedi Town stronghold was attacked by the National Salvation Army, could not sleep and waited for news.

He is most worried that the National Salvation Army's raid on the Hedi Town stronghold is just a cover, and other unknown conspiracies.

At eight o'clock in the morning, when I saw the table of breakfast in front of me without any appetite, the intelligence officer came.

The commander suddenly became energetic, stared at the intelligence officer and asked: "Is there the latest news about the Hedi Town stronghold?"

"Sir, wise!" the intelligence officer quickly answered.

"Weizhi just got the news that the National Salvation Army attacking the Hedi Town stronghold has evacuated the battlefield and returned to the defense zone before dawn."

"There are all corpses in the stronghold, including bombed castles and ruins of artillery towers."

After hearing this, the Chief of Staff seemed a little disbelief and then asked: "It is confirmed that the National Salvation Army that raided the Hedi Town stronghold has withdrawn from the defense zone. They have no other purpose in launching this raid!"

The intelligence officer answered very affirmatively: "Our intelligence personnel witnessed the National Salvation Army returning to the defense zone with the spoils. Their cavalry and mobile battalions also left cleanly, and no one was left behind."

"And this mobile battalion is indeed similar to what we learned from other channels. Each person is equipped with a war horse, and all heavy weapons are transported by war horses, which looks similar to the cavalry unit!"

"Because they destroyed a tank and an armored vehicle by us during the raid, they only retreated four tanks, and the two destroyed tanks were directly dismantled into parts and transported back!"

The Chief of Staff finally believed it and looked at the commander's analysis: "If the chief has no error in this information, the National Salvation Army's raid on the Hedi Town stronghold should be just an ordinary military operation. Without other conspiracies, we can breathe a sigh of relief!"

The commander nodded: "I hope so!"

"But one thing must be arranged immediately."

"It has become an indisputable fact that the National Salvation Army has armored troops. In order to avoid other strongholds becoming the second Hedi Town stronghold, the military must immediately equip the front-line troops with anti-tank weapons, and configure them according to the standards we discussed last night. The faster the speed, the better!"

"Hayi!" The Chief of Staff quickly took the order.

In Yangquan, an unknown secret adaptation is underway in the forest.

In order to enable the armored troops to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, they will go to the battlefield as soon as possible.

As soon as Zhou Cheng came back with the oil, he rushed to the Armored Company's base without stopping and decided to strike while the iron was hot to expand the Armored Company into an Armored Battalion.

"Report to the regiment commander, because we lost a tank and an armored vehicle when we attacked the Hedi Town stronghold. The number of tanks seized by the Japanese raid troops in this counterattack was reduced from fifteen to thirteen. Add to the five tanks originally equipped by the armored company, a total of eighteen!" Looking at the tanks and armored vehicles arranged in two rows in the forest, Fang Deshan stared at Zhou Cheng and his eyes shone on the report as if he saw a bunch of gold ingots.

After being transferred to the Armored Company as the company commander by Zhou Cheng, he felt that the regiment commander would have the opportunity to add a few tanks to the Armored Company in the future and would be good to gather a full armored company. He never thought that the Armored Company would one day be expanded into an Armored Battalion.

Now this dream that I had never thought was about to come true, and Fang Deshan was awakened by laughter in his dreams for several consecutive nights.

At this moment when everyone is looking forward to, Zhou Cheng didn't say a word of nonsense, and spoke out the adaptation plan that he had already thought of in his mind.

"The eighteen chariots can form an armored battalion, with three armored assault companies under their jurisdiction, and each armored assault company is equipped with six combat vehicles!"

"The armored assault company is under the jurisdiction of two armored assault platoons and one artillery platoon. Each armored assault platoon is equipped with a tank and two armored vehicles. The platoon is sent with two mountain cannons. The tanks are usually dragged to march, and the armored vehicles help carry supporting shells."

"Each armored assault eliminates three tanks, and three squads of infantry must be formed to cooperate with the combat chariots on the battlefield to complement each other!"

"In addition, the armored battalion must also form a logistics support company to ensure that all tanks do not make any trouble on the battlefield, and also replenish them with oil and ammunition anytime and anywhere."

"I will give you eighteen chariots now. The supporting artillery will be sent to you tomorrow. For infantry commander Fang, you can go to the army to pick it up by yourself. The squad leader and soldiers of all the troops of the regiment will take it away no matter who you like!"

After Zhou Cheng issued the order to adapt, he returned to the command center.

As soon as he stepped into the command center, before he could take a breath, deputy commander Zheng Yunshan followed.

"Captain, I just found some news. I don't know if it's good or bad?"

Zhou Cheng became interested as soon as he heard this: "What news?"

"Didn't we take down the Hedi Town stronghold with tanks and armored vehicles a few days ago? In order to prevent our old tricks from happening again, the Japanese have specially strengthened anti-tank weapons for the front-line troops in the past few days."

"After statistics, each medium-sized stronghold around us has strengthened at least two rapid-fire guns and two anti-aircraft machine guns. The large strongholds are equipped with twice as fast-fire guns and anti-aircraft machine guns!"

"If we can find a way to get all the rapid-fire guns and anti-aircraft machine guns back, the air defense company can also take the opportunity to expand it into an air defense battalion, and add an anti-tank gun to each main battalion and garrison."

After hearing this, Zhou Cheng looked surprised, but he didn't expect that his small action would cause such a big reaction from the Japanese and puppet troops.

But things have happened, so I can only think more about the better.

As Zheng Yunshan analyzed, if all these rapid-fire cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns were taken for themselves, the overall air defense strength of the National Salvation Army would definitely increase exponentially.

The surprised expression on his face was immediately replaced by a smile, and he asked back to Zheng Yunshan's gaze: "This should be the good news you said!"

"The bad news is next. I really want to see how bad the news is?"

Zheng Yunshan quickly replied: "The bad news is that the Japanese army strengthened a large number of rapid-fire guns and anti-aircraft machine guns for the front-line troops. Because of the existence of these anti-tank weapons, we will definitely suffer heavy losses when we use tanks to assault the stronghold in the future!"

Zhou Cheng thought it was bad news, but after hearing it, a bitter smile flashed on his serious face, and then replied: "Deputy Commander Zheng, you underestimate our national rescue army too much."

"Since I already know that the Japanese and puppet troops around me are equipped with anti-tank weapons, I will definitely not let the chariot troops crash into their muzzles."

"The reason why the raid of the Hedi Town stronghold used chariots was to prevent the shelling from accidentally injuring oil."

"The other Japanese strongholds around are not stocked with oil. If we really want to attack, we will definitely choose to bombard the gun first!"

"No matter how powerful the rapid-fire gun and anti-aircraft machine gun are, they can only fight chariots, and their functions are very limited."

"In front of mountain artillery and heavy artillery, these two weapons are life-threatening to be bombed and there is no chance of resistance!"

Hearing this, Zheng Yunshan felt much more worried and asked quickly: "What are you going to do with this matter, Commander?"

Zhou Cheng really wanted to take those rapid-fire cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns for himself, especially those that can be used for air defense. With them, the National Salvation Army had the possibility of counterattacking when facing Japanese bombings.

But after thinking about it, let it go.

The troops suffered heavy losses in the anti-sweeping raid and were very tired. They had to carry out training immediately and could not withdraw their troops to launch a new battle.

Looking at Zheng Yunshan, he shook his head and replied: "Don't care about them for now. If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move. I will find a way to snatch those weapons after the troops recovered their strength!"
Chapter completed!