Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

In the battle of Wanjia Town, the Independent Regiment not only gained more than 290 warhorses but also seized more than 90 tons of various supplies, most of which was horse feed, enough for about a month's worth.

They also captured over 300 rifles and 3 machine guns, one of which was blown out of shape!

And more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition.

All in all, it was a huge gain.

If they were all to be transported back to Yang Village, climbing mountains and crossing rivers for over a hundred miles, it would be a huge burden. However, Ren Zhong had planned it out for them. Only about a hundred horses needed to be sent back to Yang Village. According to the Independent Regiment's financial capacity, they could only manage a cavalry company at most.

In this way, the horses would have to endure hardships along with the soldiers, lowering their living standards, mainly transitioning to grass feed.

Yang Village didn't have enough fine feed to keep the horses plump and strong.

The remaining nearly two hundred horses would be dispersed, in groups of ten or eight, to create logistics teams for the Independent Regiment's future branch arsenals.

The living standards of these horses would be even worse, mainly relying on local grass feed, barely managing to survive.

As for the selection of cavalry personnel, Ren Zhong shared a secret with Li Yunlong this time: concentrate the captured puppet army cavalrymen, first encourage them to expose and denounce each other, weed out the sly and rogue soldiers and those with blood debts on their hands, and execute the most heinous!

After a simple screening, more than 100 puppet army cavalrymen remained. Li Yunlong took them back to Yang Village. In the future, after Ren Zhong provided ideological reform, these people would form the foundation of the cavalry company.

Compared to the original timeline where Sun Desheng selected personnel from the Independent Regiment from scratch, Ren Zhong believed that they could form the cavalry company's combat power faster!

With the Independent Regiment having the sharp knife of a cavalry company, and in coordination with the Heiyuan base area that had been opened up in advance, Ren Zhong believed that the Independent Regiment could cope more easily with the upcoming mopping-up operation by the Japanese devils at the end of the year.

Zhang Dabiao led his team and parted ways with Li Yunlong, turning towards the mountain village, their target in Heiyuan.

After they left Wanjia Town, they dispersed the team again, splitting into a dozen or so groups at the squad and platoon level, so that the Japanese devils, who received the news and chased after them fiercely, had no idea which direction to pursue!

The Japanese devils, who could have formed a large squadron from several directions, returned to their nest after the commander drew his sword and raged in frustration.

The Battle of Wanjia Town, which shocked the Japanese devils' Quanyang Brigade, ended just like that.

In Yang Village, the brigade commander, who excitedly came to congratulate Li Yunlong on his fortune after receiving the battle report, didn't expect that Li Yunlong only brought back a company of cavalry!

After Ren Zhong witnessed this famous scene, it was the first time he saw the brigade commander get the short end of the stick!

"Boss Ren, you weren't very fair this time," the brigade commander said to Boss Ren, annoyed, after getting the short end of the stick with Li Yunlong, "My cavalry battalion is gone. In the upcoming battles, our brigade's long-distance raid and reinforcement capabilities will be lacking. Boss Ren, think about how to compensate."

The brigade commander said half seriously and half jokingly.

"Brigade commander, you can't blame me alone for this. Look at all these bottles and jars in our Yang Village. If we don't prepare some transportation capacity, what will we do if we need to move things later?" Ren Zhong had seen the brigade commander many times and knew that he was a very straightforward person, so he was not intimidated and explained with a smile.

"I can't conjure up a cavalry battalion for you, but if you want to increase the team's long-range raid and reinforcement capabilities, I can still think of a way."

"Oh? What's Boss Ren's idea?" The brigade commander originally just wanted to test the waters, but he didn't expect it to be promising, and his interest increased greatly.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just in terms of communication. Brigade commander, you know that I got a device for the Independent Regiment that can be used for talking. Now, my organization tells me that another batch of these devices has arrived. I want to improve communication capabilities. After forming a real-time call transmission network in the local theater through this communication device, the unit's mobilization response capability will be greatly accelerated! Compared to cavalry communicators, the issuance of an order is at least one or two hours faster!"

The brigade commander's eyes lit up.

The risk factor for communicators traveling on various battlefields was basically the same as that of assault teams.

"This time I can provide a hundred of them, at a hundred silver dollars each," Ren Zhong thought for a while. At this time, it was impossible to get a radio station for less than a thousand silver dollars, and the batteries were still bought separately, and the batteries were extremely expensive.

Although the communication distance of a hundred silver dollars' worth of handheld radios could not compare to the communication distance of a radio station, it was more convenient.

According to a 5-kilometer node, a 400-500 square kilometer battlefield, about 20 kilometers * 25 kilometers, could be covered by at most 20 handheld radios using the high-altitude communication method, and there would still be redundancy!

The hundred radios provided by Ren Zhong were enough to popularize communication to the company level in the 386th Brigade.

"That's great!" The brigade commander slapped his thigh excitedly when he heard this!

But soon the excitement disappeared.

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"A hundred of them, wouldn't that be ten thousand silver dollars?" The brigade commander's face immediately turned into a bitter gourd, and the speed of his change of expression was no less than that of Li Yunlong.

"Our brigade doesn't have that many silver dollars. Can we use calligraphy and paintings to offset the cost, like Zhang Wanhe?"

If you want money, we don't have it. But the brigade commander felt that he knew a lot of people, and he could probably get some even without spending money.

"Yes, as long as it's what you get, brigade commander, each piece will be counted as 2,000 silver dollars, and it can be any famous painter now." Ren Zhong readily agreed. He had made too much money from the calligraphy and paintings traded from Zhang Wanhe last time, and Ren Zhong was a little embarrassed. He took the opportunity of the brigade commander to lower the requirements and give the base area more supplies.

The base area couldn't afford silver dollars, but the base area seemed very capable of getting a batch of calligraphy and paintings by famous people.

"Ah, is that so? Boss Ren, then we'll buy some more of your penicillin, can we also use calligraphy and paintings to offset the cost?" The brigade commander's eyes lit up. Zhang Wanhe's penicillin intermediary business was booming, making the impoverished 386th Brigade headquarters a little envious.

"Of course, you can too," Ren Zhong said with a smile.

The brigade commander might make a fortune, but Ren Zhong was definitely not going to lose out.

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