In the domestic classic TV series "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong's independent regiment is a regular organization, with more than a thousand people, while Ding Wei's regiment has as many as three thousand people. Li Yunlong is still a protagonist in "Bright Sword", why hasn't Ding Wei eaten it yet? In fact, this is where "Bright Sword" is powerful, and Ding Wei's more than three thousand people are what they should be.
Ding Wei's 28th Regiment was absent in the history of the War of Resistance. In the Central Hebei region, the 27th and 29th regiments actually existed. If we look at how strongly these two regiments have expanded, we will know why Ding Wei can have more than three thousand people. In October 1937, after the Lü Zhengcao Uprising, the Jizhong region expanded rapidly. In just a few years, the entire Jizhong base area has expanded to dozens of counties. Henan Hebei has a large population, and it is quite easy to recruit soldiers. The Jizhong base area actually has more than 100,000 Eighth Route Army troops, and Ding Wei's regiment and three thousand people are really drizzle.
Li Yunlong was a unit under the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division. Li Yunlong's situation was different from Ding Wei's. In the "Bright Sword" TV series, Li Yunlong is active in the northwest region of Jin. Northwest Jin is no better than the Jizhong Plain, and it is not easy to recruit troops here. There is a lot of sand in the northwest of Jin, and the population is not much. Since ancient times, this has been a place where individuals are sparsely populated. One thousand people in the independent regiment is already good, and three thousand people should not be thought of.
Historically, although there were many troops in the central Hebei region, most of them were new recruits and had no combat effectiveness. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the shortcomings of the Eighth Route Army's blind recruitment soon became apparent. In order to streamline the military and simplify the administration, the Jin-Cha-Ji base area began to rectify the troops in 1939. This time, the troops in the base areas were reorganized into fourteen regiments. Each of the fourteen regiments also had as many as three thousand men. In 1942, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered its most difficult period. After Okamura became commander of the North China Front, he began a large-scale sweep. The environment continued to be sinister, and Ding Wei was transferred to a new regiment in the northwest of Jin.
There is a saying that soldiers are fine but not many. If a large number can be won, then the War of Resistance Against Japan will not be able to start. Therefore, when Ding Wei was transferred to the new group, He could spoil Ding Wei. The new regiment was the unit that Li Yunlong had built that year. This unit dealt a great blow to the Japanese army at Cangyun Ridge. Many of the new regiments were veterans of the war and had fought against the Japanese Sakata Wing. Li Yunlong attaches great importance to the collection of heavy weapons, so the new regiment has many decent heavy weapons.
As stated in "Bright Sword", Ding Wei's new regiment was in the anti-sweeping period, "a bright guy 3 court ninety-two heavy machine gun 5 crooked light machine guns, plus grenade launcher mortars, concentrated fire on the encirclement of the devils a point of fierce beating, instantly blinded the Japanese devils, within a day broke through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army." What exactly is this concept? A Japanese brigade had 6-8 heavy machine guns and a squadron had 6 light machine guns. The brigade and a regiment of the Eighth Route Army are similar in size. The new regiment immediately took out 3 heavy machine guns and 5 light machine guns, which even the Japanese could not resist. With such a backbone force, as long as there are troops and materials, expansion is not a problem. "Bright Sword" also truly depicts the growth of the Eighth Route Army. In the course of dealing with the Japanese army, our Eighth Route Army grew stronger and stronger, and by the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, it had more than one million troops. Li Yunlong and Ding Wei also changed from regimental commanders to division commanders.