After giving the workers a day of rest, David asked the workers to continue producing the ammunition that Li Lei had requested.

He knew Li Lei's troops very well.

From Li Lei's request for the production of Japanese-style ammunition and American-style ammunition, David can see that this is for his temporary production group.

Only his temporary regiment needed both types of ammunition.

American-style ammunition is not produced on this line at all, it is found in other arsenals. When the time comes, it will be enough to ship it directly.

At the same time, David was thinking about a problem.

Do you want to find a way to support Li Lei's group of planes and tanks?

Of course, David's idea was to find someone to sponsor, or to convince their government, to directly provide free aid.

You must know that Li Lei's troops are a strong fighting force.

The harder they fight the devils, the less pressure there will be on them in the Pacific.

The current war in the Pacific is not very rosy.

At present, their country is still providing assistance to the Eastern Theater, but the effect of the assistance is not very good.

The dollars in their state aid have not all been turned into weapons and supplies, but have gone into the pockets of many people.

is also supporting, it is better to support Li Lei.

If Li Lei is supported with 100 planes and 100 tanks, then his troops can completely defeat any Japanese division.

In the expeditionary force, David fully saw Li Lei's command ability and the combat effectiveness of his troops, and was deeply impressed.

Now the troops of their country, although they are beginning to win in the Pacific theater, but the price they pay is very large.

Their equipment was much better than that of the Japanese army, but they still paid a very large price.

If these troops were to be commanded by Li Lei, it would probably be a different story.

He suggested more than once that Li Lei should come over and command their troops, and in that case, the progress of the war might be much faster.

But his voice was too weak, and although there were people who supported him, there were very few people.

Most of the people were strongly opposed, feeling that it was too unreasonable to let Li Lei command their troops.

Don't their countries have decent generals?

David was furious at such remarks.

There are ways to reduce casualties, but you don't use them.

It's a joke on the lives of that soldier.

Ten days later, the Japanese-style ammunition produced by the David's arsenal and the American-style ammunition stored in other arsenals were loaded and shipped to the docks.

In the past few days, Li Lei has been studying how to lay down Datong.

For the annihilation of the Japanese First Army, it was not the same as the previous operations.

In most of the previous battles, the Japanese attacked, and they defended.

The current situation is that they want to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the Japanese army in the big town.

In this way, there needs to be a major change in the mode of warfare.

Heavy firepower is a must.

The total strength of the First Army of the Japanese Army was quite large, although the equipment was much weaker than that of the Japanese field troops.

But not to be underestimated.

According to reconnaissance, the First Army of the Japanese Army currently has 50 combat aircraft, 30 tanks, and a heavy artillery wing.

Other infantry guns are also standard.

This time the Japanese army was on the defensive, so the battle was not easy to fight.

The main goal of this operation was to kill and injure the living forces of the Japanese army on a large scale.

Li Lei's suggestion was to find a way to attract Japanese troops out of the town.

In terms of the current equipment of the Eighth Route Army, a field battle with the Japanese army is the most advantageous.

Now their advantage is that the Japanese First Army does not know the real strength of the Eighth Route Army at all.

I thought that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army was stuck in the past.

In this case, it will be possible to attract Japanese troops out of the town.

Li Lei's suggestion to the headquarters was to gather a part of the troops, not to use heavy firepower, and to launch an attack on the Japanese positions on the periphery of Datong.

What made the Japanese think that it was the main force of the Eighth Route Army that attacked them.

In this case, the Japanese army in Datong will definitely send a large force out of the city for reinforcements.

In order to encircle the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese troops in Datong will even be dispatched.

As long as the Japanese army left the city, it would be much easier to eliminate them.

Li Lei believed that the area of Guanyin Hall and Qifeng Mountain of Yanhua Temple on the outskirts of Datong was very suitable as the decisive battle site with the Japanese army in Datong.

As for the location for the troops to attack, Li Lei thought that Zuoyun, which was located west of Datong, was a very suitable place.

In order to fool the Japanese army, the 1st Regiment will not attack to the left for the time being.

His troops were all using American-style equipment, and if they attacked Zuoyun, the Japanese would immediately be able to detect the difference in their equipment.

Therefore, Li Lei suggested to the headquarters that Ding Wei's new regiment could launch an attack on Zuoyun.

On the one hand, the weapons used by Ding Wei's new regiment were basically Japanese-style equipment, which existed in large numbers in the Eighth Route Army and was very common, and would not arouse the suspicion of the Japanese army. On the other hand, Ding Wei's new regiment had enough troops to make the Japanese think that it was the main force of the Eighth Route Army that attacked them.

Moreover, Ding Wei's new regiment is fully capable of destroying Zuoyun's Japanese army and occupying Zuoyun.

At the same time as Ding Wei attacked Zuoyun's Japanese army, Li Lei's temporary regiment was ambushed in the area of Huayan Temple and Qifeng Mountain between Zuoyun and Datong.

As long as the Japanese troops in Datong left the city and eliminated them, it would not be a big problem.

In this way, the recovery of Datong is just around the corner.

As long as the living forces of the Japanese army are eliminated, even if the heavy firepower of the troops is insufficient, it will be much easier to defeat Datong.

After Datong was defeated, the ammunition transported by Chen Anping would almost be able to reach Shanxi.

When the time comes, he will temporarily take a regiment of aircraft and tank troops and advance directly to the south.

Annihilating the entire Japanese army is only a matter of time.

The headquarters quickly agreed to Li Lei's suggestion.

Since you want to fight, you have to fight well.

The brigade commander immediately gave Ding Wei an order to let Ding Wei's new regiment immediately attack Zuoyun.

At this time, Zuoyun probably had the strength of a brigade of the Japanese army, about 1,300 people.

The captain of the Japanese army was subordinate to the 15th Brigade of the First Army of the Japanese Army.

The captain of the Japanese army, whose name is Taio Inoshita.

At the moment, he was drinking leisurely.

As the commander of the Japanese army of Zuo Yun, Taio Inoshita's life was very comfortable.

He's used to these kinds of days.

What a calm!

Taio Inoshita took a sip of wine, and a pair of fox eyes spun around with the dancing Dongying woman in front of him.

There is also music ringing in my ears: "Aciba~Aciba~ I'm a big chicken~"

Taixiong Underground was listening to all his strength, and suddenly, a cannon shot sounded, which surprised him.

What's going on?

Taixiong Inoshita's body, which was still bent just now, straightened up suddenly.

Where to shoot?

The Dongying woman's face turned pale with fright, and she immediately picked up her kimono and ran down.

Taio Inoshita, who was disturbed, was very angry.

What kind of plane?

Cannon at this time?

It's insane.

He picked up his command knife and was about to go out, when he saw a devil running in a hurry: "Report to Your Excellency the Captain, we have been attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. ”

The main force?

After hearing the devil's report, Taixiong's anger immediately came up.

A slap knocked the devil away.

The devil only felt a pain in his face, and then a huge pain came, and it was as if he had been shot in the face.

The whole person fell to the ground involuntarily.

it!

Why hit me?

I'm just the one who came to tell the news!!

Taio said disdainfully: "Have you seen clearly?" Here, the main forces of the Eighth Route Army simply could not appear. It's been a long time since we've fought the main forces of the Eighth Route Army. How could they suddenly appear here!

At most, it was just a small force of the Eighth Route Army. Look at your panicked appearance, the face of the empire, you have been thrown in! ”

After Taixiong finished speaking, he strode out, he wanted to see which army appeared that dared to take the initiative to attack Zuo Yun?

It's too daring!

I didn't take it seriously at all!

Ding Wei was very flexible in fighting.

Although the equipment of his new regiment cannot be compared with Li Lei's temporary regiment, in Shanxi, his new regiment is also one of the most well-equipped.

His new regiment, which is now equipped with an artillery battalion, also has a mortar battery.

The equipment of the entire unit is basically all Japanese-style equipment.

With such equipment, Ding Wei couldn't think of it before.

Infantry artillery battalion!

Ten infantry guns, this is real heavy firepower.

There is also his own mortar company, and the firepower is not covered, and a round of shells hits it, and the fire is very violent.

Of course, compared with Li Lei's temporary group, his equipment is not enough at all.

Li Lei's temporary regiment alone has 30 American-style howitzers.

There are also infantry guns, anti-tank guns.

There are also two armored battalions.

The entire temporary regiment of tanks added up to almost two hundred.

As for the aircraft......

Ding Wei was embarrassed to say.

In this comparison, their own troops are like playing at home.

Zuoyun had a brigade of the Japanese army.

Although the army was only 1,300 people, Ding Wei did not dare to be careless.

On the whole, his new regiment was not much different from Zuo Yun's Japanese brigade.

The only advantage is the number of his troops.

Ding Wei's new regiment, after splitting into four battalions, the remaining six battalions added up to almost 5,000 people.

5,000 people fight 1,000 people, and it is no problem to win.

But this time it was his troops who took the initiative to attack, and the place where they attacked was Zuo Yun again, so Ding Wei didn't dare to be careless.

This was the first battle of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army attacking the Japanese First Army, and it had to be won.

Not only to win, but also to win beautifully.

In this way, the morale of the entire army can be boosted.

The Japanese army set up a lot of pillboxes and no man's land on the periphery of Zuoyun.

Many trees were also cut down by the Japanese and fenced with barbed wire.

In order to reduce the casualties of the troops, Ding Wei decided to bombard with infantry artillery first.

Let's blow up the Japanese pillboxes and artillery towers.