After Li Lei and the pilots he brought back, after arriving in Hanyang, under the leadership of Li Lei, they immediately flew to Tengchong in the plane.

Now these pilots have great respect for Li Lei.

In their eyes, Li Lei is completely a superhero.

After arriving in Hanyang, Li Lei told the colonel about his idea and borrowed his plane and pilot for a few days. Since their pilots are here, they can't just go back, right?

You can't go back until you defeat the Japanese army here. Otherwise, who will drive the bomber?

This surprised them so much that they couldn't laugh or cry.

I said why did Li Lei let their plane fly to Hanyang, it turned out that he had taken a fancy to my plane and pilot.

This is to prepare for the next southward war against Japan.

They thought for a moment and agreed to Li Lei's request.

The South Asian campaign is very important, and it is in their vital interest.

People's expeditionary forces have prepared 100,000 troops, and they should provide a few planes and a few pilots by themselves.

Otherwise, Li Lei should have said that we were stingy.

The navy happily agreed to Li Lei's decision.

And in order to support Li Lei's southward operation, he decided to send Li Lei another 50 planes.

As for pilots, it is entirely possible to recruit some pilots who have already been discharged.

Although they are a little younger, their flying skills, that is not to say.

The matter was quickly finalized.

Under the rush of the navy, dozens of volunteers were quickly found.

The most famous, is Chennault.

Dozens of pilots, led by Chennault, formed a flying group called the Flying Tigers.

They followed David and went to Tengchong together.

Because Wang Han was not with Li Lei, he went directly to Tengchong with David.

David was the staff officer of this operation, and by the time Li Lei and them arrived, David and they had already arrived.

Seeing Chennault and the fifty planes behind him, Li Lei's excited heart and trembling hands were almost speechless.

My air force is growing again.

There are bombers and fighters, and what is missing now is ammunition.

Without ammunition, bombers and fighters are of little use.

But don't worry, international aid is already in the border town.

Wan Town is an important material transfer point on the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

From here, the supplies of international aid were changed by train to car and transported into the country through the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

So a lot of weapons and equipment are hoarded here.

Completely sufficient for the use of the expeditionary forces.

All the troops of the expeditionary force have reached Tengchong.

There were three corps in the entire expeditionary force.

The Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, and the Sixty-sixth Army, the 36th Division under the direct jurisdiction of the Commander's Headquarters, and Li Lei's Temporary First Regiment.

Commander Luo is the deputy commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and the two have cooperated with Okamura Ningji before.

After Li Lei arrived, the expeditionary force immediately held a military meeting.

Many of the generals in this are his first contact.

In order to take the initiative to show weakness and prevent the Japanese army from finding out how many troops they had, Li Lei's unit number was adjusted. After the original new first regiment arrived in Tengchong, the unit number became a temporary first regiment.

Li Lei's temporary regiment has six battalions under its command.

However, the total number of troops has not decreased.

No one was taken lightly because it was a regiment.

They all knew that the combat effectiveness of Li Lei's troops was very terrifying.

Therefore, at this military meeting, many people wanted to see what Li Lei thought about this contest with the Japanese army.

Although they have all heard Li Lei's name, there are quite a few times.

Whether it is the tiger boy or others, they are full of praise for Li Lei.

But hearing is false, seeing is believing.

If Li Lei is indeed outstanding in command, then what he didn't say is that they are all fighting devils, and they must cooperate well. But if Li Lei is just a hairy boy who doesn't understand anything, then don't blame us for not listening to commands.

Moreover, don't look at their troops have arrived in Tengchong, ready to fight the Japanese at any time, but in reality, they don't even have an accurate map.

Everybody's worried.

Although Lao Duan of the staff committee got a map of Myanmar in 1/100,000, it was better than nothing. The actual effect is not huge.

If you want to help your troops the most, a 1 in a million map is the most suitable.

There is also equipment, although there is a lot of military equipment in Wan Town, but they can't get their hands on it at all.

Because that batch of equipment was foreign aid, it was not possible to allocate weapons specifically until that David arrived.

Without his nod, they would not have gotten foreign aid at all.

It made them very depressed.

Who that David was, they didn't know. Only the old Duan of the staff knows.

This old Duan met David when he was doing military exchanges.

It's not familiar.

Lao Duan's impression of David was that this foreign colonel was very arrogant and a China expert.

It's not easy to deal with him.

They wanted Lao Duan to tell David about it, and he would distribute the weapons first.

The expeditionary force I met this time has already been considered elite in China.

However, there is still a certain gap between the equipment and the level of the Japanese army.

Equipment like Li Lei's temporary regiment, that is an alternative existence, they can't even think of it.

Good guys, is that a regiment?

The firepower was fiercer than any of their armies.

More than a hundred tanks alone were equipped!

Just the number of tanks is enough for an armored division! Or the strongest kind of armored division.

They heard that the Y Army in front had an armored brigade, equipped with only fifty tanks.

And in order to allow the temporary regiment to participate in this battle, a lot of artillery was specially allocated above.

The current temporary regiment is one of the main forces of the entire expeditionary force.

Looking at their own weapons, although they are not very bad, whether it is the number of machine guns or the number of artillery, or the amount of ammunition stored, they are not comparable to the temporary regiment at all.

Their 200th Division and the newly formed 38th Division were truly elite troops.

However, the equipment is still not optimistic.

Everyone is looking at the warehouse in Watamachi.

There's a lot of good stuff out there.

I heard that there were 500 submachine guns alone.

There are also a lot of artillery and howitzers, and it seems that there are quite a few aerial bombs.

It's very exciting for them.

Does this mean that foreign aircraft are also going to participate in this operation?

The commander of the Fifth Army was a straight man, and he directly said that if Li Lei could persuade David to take out his weapons, he would be convinced.

The venue of the military meeting was in Tengchong.

Because for the time being, Army Y still does not agree to their expeditionary force entering their territory, so the headquarters can only be temporarily located here.

David has been waiting here for a long time.

Chennault behind him had never seen Li Lei, and was very curious: "David, I am very curious, judging from your behavior, you seem to have great respect for this Li Lei." ”

Chennault, of course, had heard of Li Lei, and now the newspapers in their country still have Li Lei's name everywhere.

But Chennault felt that what the newspaper said was a bit exaggerated.

Li Lei is just a young man, he looks ordinary, not as powerful as the newspaper says.

He is not interested in Li Lei.

David saw that Chennault was very disdainful of Li Lei, so he said to him: "Old Chen, I was like you at the beginning, and I thought Li Lei was nothing. But now I realize that I couldn't have been more wrong. You know why? ”

Chennault was stunned and shook his head.

He really didn't know.

What kind of man David was, he knew all too well.

No matter who this guy sees, he is neither humble nor arrogant, and even dares to contradict a few words.

It was really surprising that such a person would have such respect for a foreigner.

David said, "You know what? A few days ago, Li Lei had already judged the sneak attack of the Japanese army. It's a pity that we didn't care, so we let the Japanese army's group of kings and eight lambs succeed in the sneak attack.

He was a military genius, and I certainly respected such a person. ”

What the?

Chennault was immediately shocked by David's words.

As a retired pilot, it is simply impossible for him to have access to so many classified matters as David.

Such a person is indeed worthy of admiration.

Li Lei and Leif parked the bomber at Tengchong airfield, and then, with him, went to the headquarters.

Knowing that Li Lei was coming, everyone in the expeditionary force came out to greet him.

As soon as Li Lei's convoy arrived, many people were blindsided.

Behind Li Lei, why are there so many foreigners?