The combined strength of the new 1st and 2nd regiments alone amounted to almost 15,000 men.

When the troops were transferred, the brigade commander was laughed.

Isn't it true that the strength of your two regiments has been split?

Why is there so much more?

The speed of your development is a bit faster than I expected!

Who did you learn this from?

Who did you learn from?

Of course, I learned it from Li Lei!

As soon as the group came back from abroad, Ding Wei and Kong Jie were dumbfounded.

This temporary group of equipment simply made them unbelievable.

Good boy!

This is our troops?

Tanks, planes, artillery!

Everything made them greedy.

Eyes.

This is all Li Lei's own wow!

This kind of impact is unprecedented for Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

From that moment on, the two of them had their minds in mind.

Their goal is to turn their troops into a super regiment like Li Lei.

Some of the new regiments and the new second regiments were the same as the previous independent regiments, and the troops had a large number of troops.

was stimulated by the moment, and the energy of Ding Wei and Kong Jie came up again.

As soon as he Li Yunlong returned to Shanxi, he became the commander of the armored regiment.

Look at your own troops, it's still the same.

Just a few infantry guns, a dozen mortars. Compared with Li Yunlong's armored troops, it is much more cold and cold.

Originally, Ding Wei and Kong Jie felt very good about themselves.

The main force!

Do you think anyone can be the main force?

But looking at Li Yunlong again, running around with hundreds of tanks, this kind of gap is too big.

Ding Wei and Kong Jieke are both people who do not admit defeat.

Our troops are infantry regiments, and we can't get so many tanks.

But you can do cannons!

So Ding Wei and Kong Jie pondered every day to get artillery for the troops.

They send a message to their troops, no matter what kind of artillery, as long as they can get it.

It is resolute not to lose the position of the main regiment.

The regiments that were temporarily split were all the main forces.

The firepower, I really don't have to say.

If the new 1st and 2nd regiments do not work hard, it is really possible to fall from the position of the main force.

After a period of development, the new 1st and 2nd regiments, which originally had a large number of troops and were well equipped, became larger in scale than before.

In addition, some time ago, the new 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment received the Japanese-style weapons that were temporarily eliminated by the 1st Regiment, and the combat effectiveness has also risen to a great level.

Blinded the brigade commander.

In a trance, he seemed to see a shadow that was temporarily there.

In this battle with the Japanese army, the entire army, except for the temporary first regiment, the main forces below were the two regiments of Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

The combined strength of the two regiments was 15,000 men......

The brigade commander calculated that if he said this, his brigade alone would have almost 100,000 people!

accounted for more than half of the troops.

Good boys.

Under my command, there is almost the strength of an army group.

After the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army set out from Taiyuan, it went north by railway, passing through Xinkou and going straight to Ningwu.

Then from Ningwu, the railway changed to walk and advanced to Pinglu.

Next to Ning Wu is the Divine Pond.

Shenchi is located between Ningwu and Pinglu.

As long as the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army could be blocked in Shenchi, it would provide time for the Temporary First Regiment to annihilate the troops reinforced by the Japanese Army from Zhangjiakou.

The order given by the command to the troops in Shenchi was to block the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, and it was necessary to hold this division of the Japanese Army in Shenchi for seven days.

Seven days later, the troops immediately retreated to the Pinglu area, attracting the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army to the area of Guanshui Mountain, and with the advantage of the terrain, together with the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of Li Da, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army was annihilated.

The 23rd Division of the Japanese Army is a Class B division, with a total strength of about 22,000 people.

Although they were a little smaller in number than the Eighth Route Army troops in Shenchi, their equipment and individual quality were stronger than those of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, the command gave them the order to block rather than annihilate.

In order to facilitate command, the headquarters organized the 30,000 men in Shenchi into the first line of troops.

The troops at Yanmen Pass were organized into the Second Route Army.

The reserve was organized as the 3rd Route Army.

These are all temporary formations, and after the end of the campaign, each unit will be reorganized, and these temporary numbers will be revoked.

Li Lei's temporary regiment is still a temporary regiment.

In Shenchi, the command ordered to set up seven lines of defense.

Fortifications at all levels.

Of course, the troops cannot blindly defend passively.

Under favorable conditions, it is completely possible to take the initiative.

The command had only one request, no matter what method was used, it could only delay the Japanese army for seven days.

The same order was given by the headquarters of the troops at Yanmen Pass.

The main task of the troops at Yanmen Pass was to block the Japanese Seventh Division.

In this case, all the Japanese troops north of Yanmen Pass would be handed over to Li Lei's temporary regiment.

The Japanese army in Zhangjiakou marched into Shanxi in two ways.

Among them, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Otozo Lost in the Japanese Army.

The 9th Division of the Japanese Army, commanded by Japanese Lieutenant General Tomokatsu Matsumura.

The commanders of these two Japanese divisions were unusually arrogant.

Because they are all Class A divisions, they are naturally one head taller than the division commanders of other Japanese divisions.

These two divisions of the Japanese army have not experienced any major battles since they entered the war.

has been wandering around North China and has not gone south.

The biggest battle they participated in was the Battle of Xinkou in person.

After the end of the battle, he has been stationed in North China.

So the forces are relatively complete.

For Li Lei's troops, they didn't pay attention to it at all.

As the commander of the Japanese division, they even thought that Yoshio Suzuka's courage was really too small.

The First Army of the Japanese Army had two divisions, two brigades, and tens of thousands of Imperial Allied troops.

With so many troops, they were still afraid that they would not be able to defeat each other.

It's ridiculous.

Mysterious troops?

Hum!

It's just a ghost.

Under the powerful offensive of our imperial army, no unit is vulnerable.

As for talking about the deaths of Shojiro Iida and Ninji Okamura in Myanmar.

They selectively ignored it.

That's just their miscommand.

The 5th Division of the Japanese Army set off from the railway to Datong.

And now several battalions of the temporary regiment have reached Yanggao.

Li Lei looked at the map and felt that he should suddenly attack the Japanese army while they were on the railway.

If the Japanese army takes the train, the strength of their troops will be very concentrated.

With the use of aircraft bombing and shelling, the results achieved will be very good.

Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei also agreed.

As long as a section of the railway is removed, when the time comes, as soon as the Japanese train stops, the artillery can be fired immediately.

If Wang Han's plane is allowed to carry out the bombing, if the effect is good, just relying on these two points can cripple the Japanese Fifth Division.

Li Lei deduced the entire battle process, felt that there was no problem, and immediately gave an order.

"Order the 2nd and 3rd Battalions to spread out on both sides of the railway east of Yanggao, and prepare to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

The 7th and 8th Battalions, and their two armored battalions, were ordered to be mixed with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, and when the bombing was over, they immediately began shelling the Japanese troops.

The howitzer units were ordered to wait for the end of the bombardment by the planes and immediately shelled for an hour.

Ordered Wang Han's flying brigade to be ready to take off at any time, and wait for my order to launch an air attack on the Japanese army.

The artillery companies and platoons of various units launched artillery bombardments on the Japanese troops after the bombing was over. ”

At this time, the Fifth Division was clattering on several trains.

It's not fast.

The commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Otozo Yano, was humming a song leisurely in his box.

In front of it is a huge hot pot.

Inside is a red base.

Opposite sat his chief of staff.

A telegram is being read to him.

"The division commander, General Suzuka, told us that we must pay close attention to the railway line to prevent the troops from being attacked by surprise.

That mysterious army is still in Datong, but the possibility of them moving east cannot be ruled out. ”

Otozo Yano shook his head: "Chief of Staff, don't you think General Suzuka is too cautious?"

The troops of the Eighth Route Army, as far as I know, are good at guerrilla warfare, but this kind of large-scale operations.

They're not good at it.

Because their equipment is so poor.

Although General Suzuka said that this unit was equipped with planes and tanks, I did not agree with their combat effectiveness.

At the time of the Battle of Xinkou, our Fifth Division was fighting with the national army.

Their troops, likewise have airplanes and artillery.

But how?

It's not been easily annihilated.

Don't worry, Chief of Staff, this battle will not be too fierce.

To be honest, it didn't interest me at all. ”

Otozo Yano didn't care about Yoshio Suzuka's telegram at all.

Everyone is a lieutenant general of the empire, why are you the commander of the First Army, and I can only be the commander of the division?

Today, I'll let you Yoshio Suzuka take a look, my Fifth Division is heroic!

The other party's tens of thousands of troops scared you like this, it seems that you are really old.

Otozo Yano was about to take a break when he faintly heard the sound of an airplane.

Well?

Otozo Yano was stunned for a moment.

This sound sounds a bit like the voice of our Imperial Zero fighter jet!

Otozo Yano didn't pay much attention to it.

A devil hurriedly came over and reported: "Report to the division commander, the alert troops have found a large number of planes!" Looking at the plane, it looks like our Zero. ”

Otozo Yano nodded.

Yoshio Suzuka, why did you send the plane here?

Shouldn't their goal be in Datong?

The chief of staff of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army felt that something was wrong: "Division commander, according to General Suzuka's telegram, the other side also has aviation units. And the one used is the Zero fighter. ”

Nani?

Yano Otozo was stunned for a moment, then tilted his head and thought about it, as if it was such a thing.

"Order the troops, pay attention to air defense! If it's an enemy, fight back now! ”

Otozo Yano immediately gave the order.

However, he still had a little doubt in his heart.

I don't think it should be the other side's troops.

My Fifth Division, however, secretly marched towards Shanxi, and it was impossible for the opposing troops to know about it.

Moreover, the other party's troops are still in Datong.