According to the operational plan drawn up by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, as usual, it was customary to strike at the east and west, and divert the tiger from the mountain.

When the Japanese defenders of Datong went to Taiyuan for reinforcements and the defenders of Zhangjiakou went to Baoding for reinforcements, they also made a move on Datong and Zhangjiakou to deal a fatal blow to the Mongolian army, completely destroying their production base, and making the Mongolian army call Hanako when they returned.

In this way, the potential threat of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia to the development of the base area of the Eighth Route Army was completely solved.

On the side of the 35th Route Army.

After visiting the air battle in Licheng, as well as a series of Eighth Route Army base areas and various industrial facilities, Commander Fu decided to thoroughly integrate into the Eighth Route Army system, not only to let the Eighth Route Army team stationed in the 35th Army station, but also to send troops to the Yan'an Left-behind Corps in the western part of the Hetao area to prevent the Ma Jiajun who had fled far away from Ningxia from coming back and to isolate the connection with the Jiang Mansion.

In addition, he also secretly carried out internal mobilization, and those who did not want to do with the Eighth Route Army were controlled first, and sent out of the country after the end of the war.

The best thing is that he has also purchased assets in the rear area over the years, and this time he specially sent people to the rear area to contact various military leaders and important members of the party-state, and sold half of these assets to them in exchange for their special support.

He even complained to the chairman of the committee that the aviation strength of the Eighth Route Army had developed, and that the 35 th Army was gradually surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and needed air reinforcements.

At the same time, they watched their families and prevented them from defecting.

In addition, a batch of anti-aircraft fire is required to guard Baotou.

This one is asked for by the chairman, and the other side is also asked for Lao Yan.

This is a pro-mother and a little lady on both sides of the favor.

Le's Chief of Staff Chen called Commander Fu worthy of being from Shanxi, and he will do business in his womb!

After a wave of commotion, the smile on the corner of the deputy commander's mouth was almost to the root of his ears, and in the end, not only did he get two squadrons of P40 fighters, a squadron of B25 bombers, as well as relevant supporting personnel and equipment, but also two regiments of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers.

Lao Yan not only gave money, but also gave a group of trainers and aviation technicians.

After visiting the secret aviation base of the Eighth Route Army long ago, Commander Fu, who dreamed of aviation power, immediately ordered the establishment of a secret aviation base in Baotou.

Yan'an also secretly helped, sending La-5 fighters, P38 fighters, mosquito bombers, and a group of trainees to come in.

With the secret aviation base belonging to the 35th Route Army secretly built in Baotou, it will provide air fire support for the operations in the direction of Zhangjiakou, Datong and Taiyuan at any time after the siege of Taiyuan City begins, and take the little devils by surprise.

Anyway, after this war, Commander Fu knew that he and the Eighth Route Army were fighting together and were closely related, and it was estimated that he would not be able to hide it.

Then the assets were sold for supplies, and all the personnel were evacuated back, and when the chairman found out that he had been deceived, it was too late, and he still couldn't do anything with him on the surface, and even had to turn a blind eye for the sake of the stability of the overall situation.

It's amazing that I give some empty promises again.

This is the action of the 35th Route Army.

This was followed by the 386th Brigade Field Unit's attack on Baoding's operational plan.

After the meeting at the headquarters in Huangyadong, the 129th Division also held a meeting and asked the 386th Brigade to cross the Pinghan Line to the troops in the area of Jizhong ahead of schedule to be responsible for the offensive plan of Baoding and the counties along the railway.

The troops of the 385th Brigade to Cangzhou prepared to attack the area of Tianjin in eastern Hebei.

Ding Wei's troops cooperated with the southern Hebei troops to attack northern Henan first, and then directly penetrated southern Lunan to fight.

Li Yunlong's troops went to the southeast of Hebei to prepare to attack the devils from Jinan to Jiaodong.

Kong Jiebu served as a combat unit for the second attack on the Jiaodong area.

Then, the newly formed brigades also transferred elite units and incorporated them into these field clusters.

The main regiments of the rest of the army divisions took over the defense areas of these newly formed brigades and field clusters, and while defending the base areas, they put pressure on the devil garrisons in other Taihang areas to respond to the Taiyuan operation.

The main force of the troops attacking Taiyuan in the Luliang Mountain area was the 359th Brigade and the newly formed 32nd Division to form a field cluster, codenamed Jack Force, during which Commander Wang was the commander-in-chief of the enemy and Division Commander Yuan was the deputy commander-in-chief.

The main force of the troops attacking Datong in the Luliangshan area was the 358th Brigade and the northward detachment to form a field cluster, codenamed the Soldering Iron Force, with Brigade Commander Zhang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and the commander of the northward detachment as the deputy commander-in-chief.

The main force of the 35th Army went south to attack Zhangjiakou to form a field group, with Lao Fu as the commander-in-chief, and the guerrilla corps, the Yanbei detachment, and the Daqingshan base area troops fully cooperated, and the troops were codenamed Winter Wind.

The 129th Division was led by Staff Officer Zhou to attack Liaoxian and Shouyang, cut off the Zhengtai line, and mainly attacked the east of Taiyuan City, and the troops formed a field cluster in the east of the city, and the unit code was Crowbar.

The 386th Brigade of the 129th Division formed a field group of 771 and 772, and the main force was exhausted, attacking the Baoding area, completely destroying the defense of the devil's area, and by the way, attracting the troops from eastern Hebei, Beiping, and Zhangjiakou to go south, and the troops were codenamed Steel Nail.

Ding Wei's troops and part of the field troops in southern Hebei, part of the field troops in northern Henan, and the main force of Laopi were organized into field clusters, first fighting PY and then Jining, Lincheng, Zaozhuang, revitalizing the southern Lunan war situation, Liaocheng, and Dezhou were besieged by the remaining main forces in southern Hebei, and the troops were codenamed Tornado.

Li Yunlong's unit was composed of the main force of the headquarters, some of the main field forces of central Hebei, and some of the main regiments of the new brigade of the 129th Division, codenamed Typhoon.

The combat mission is to break through the Jiaoji line, enter the Jiaodong base area, completely disrupt the defense system of the devils in Luzhong and the Jiaodong area, and launch a fierce attack on the scattered devil garrisons with lightning speed.

The teacher explained: "As soon as the war starts, break through the defense line of the devil's northern Lubei, follow the Jiaoji line, fight wherever there are devils, don't care about the back road, don't care about the direction, just like the monkey running around in Jiaodong, completely destroying the original defense system of the devil."

Give full play to your advantage in disrupting the battle, this time I won't give you rules and regulations, if you can't finish it, I'll change people, if you stop for the sake of sesame mung bean things, let the devil react, and build a line of defense, you will come to me as a driver, don't lead the troops. ”

Li Yunlong immediately received the order, and blurted out the iconic words: "Please rest assured, teacher, if I can't complete the task, you will screw my head off and use it as a night pot!" ”

Kong Jie's main force was stationed in Jizhong, and some of the newly formed brigades of the 129th Division and some elite main regiments of the military region were assigned, and the troops were codenamed Hurricane and temporarily served as a general reserve.

When the combat mission was arranged at the meeting, generals such as Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Regiment Commander Cheng, and Regiment Commander Xu were unwilling to stay in the rear as a reserve, and they all wanted to rob the lord, especially Li Yunlong, who had the loudest voice.

In the end, Kong Jie said, since the comrades don't want to be a reserve, then let me do it!

As soon as this remark came out.

The leaders all sighed that Kong Jie's pattern was broad.

The old comrades-in-arms were even more emotionally aware of Lao Kong's reality, but they immediately shook their heads and threw away this idea, which is an illusion, all an illusion! Don't let this kid Lao Kong fool him!

As a matter of fact, the burden of the commander of this general reserve force really has to fall on Kong Jie.

When it comes to the ability to control the overall situation, there are really few commanders at the regimental or even brigade level who can compare with Kong Jie.

In addition, Kong Jie also served as the commander-in-chief of a secret aviation base and the acting commander of the Eighth Route Army's aviation headquarters.

After the start of the war, the various forces will be provided with air force reinforcements that will arrive at any time.

The specific process was that after the meeting held at the headquarters in Huangyadong, a special meeting on aviation operations was held, at which the new instructors of the Soviet Army, the US Air Force, and the British Air Force were first welcomed.

They brought more bombers and fighters, including three squadrons of Soviet-made Pei-2 bombers, three squadrons of Soviet-made La-5, two squadrons of American-made P38, two squadrons of American-made B25 bombers, three squadrons of American-made B17 bombers, and even the always stingy Great Britain gave two squadrons of Stirling bombers, and the Soviet Union gave two additional squadrons of Yak-3 fighters for trial.

In addition, the Eighth Route Army ordered three battalions of 203-mm heavy artillery units from the United States and the Soviet Union respectively, which were also quickly in place, and the allies even provided a batch of supplies, which could be regarded as support for the Eighth Route Army's autumn offensive.

There is a batch of light weapons, mortars, trucks, artillery shells, and an additional battalion of American-made M1-type 105 howitzers, three battalions of American-made M1-type 155-mm howitzers, a Soviet-made M20 152 howitzer battalion, a Soviet-made 1938-type 122 howitzer battalion, as well as supporting tractors and equipment, are also in place.

The conditions were very simple, requiring the Eighth Route Army to use these weapons under the supervision of Allied military observers and to use them in the war against Japan, and not to resell them or hoard them for non-use.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army found that Kong Jie had revealed some battle plans in advance, and that he had made such a big gain and given away so many supplies in vain, so of course it had to hold a welcome meeting for the new observers and pilots of the Allied forces.

In fact, everyone's stomach is like a mirror.

"The Soviet, American, and British operations have reached the most critical time, and they are eager to contain more Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield, and the last thing they lack is weapons and equipment, but they lack combat units that can give full play to the corresponding effects of these weapons and equipment.

They even wished that our Eighth Route Army could win a big victory and destroy the stability of the Japanese army's rear in North China in one fell swoop, which would affect the battlefields of all sides where they were located, and this would affect the battlefields of all sides where they were. ”

Kong Jie hit the nail on the head and pointed out the thoughts of the allied forces that reinforced the Eighth Route Army.

Otherwise, why didn't they continue to support Chiang's army as usual?

I probably know that some mud can't support the wall.

Subsequently, at a specially convened aviation operations meeting, the General Headquarters made a command decision to formally establish the Eighth Route Army Aviation Command.

Three squadrons of B17 and two squadrons of Lancaster formed a long-range strategic bomber unit, stationed at a newly built Hongqi airfield, except for take-off, all of which were maintained and maintained in the permanent hangar in the mountains, which was classified as top secret, and was directly under the jurisdiction of the Air Force Command, and the unit code name was Color Silkworm.

For the time being, this unit will carry out all night air raid missions and will not participate in daytime operations, mainly targeting high-value targets such as devil's airfield, large transportation bases, supply bases, and night camps for troops.

The first air force is organized into three P38 lightning fighters, three La-5 fighters, two Type 1 Falcon fighters, two Yak-3 fighter squadrons, one Type 2 Zhongxu fighter squadron, and two Zero fighter squadrons. two B25 bomber squadrons, one Type 1 Land Attack Squadron, one 96 Land Attack Squadron, two 97 Heavy Bomb Squadrons; There is also an auxiliary squadron of mosquito radar aircraft, a squadron of Type 97 reconnaissance aircraft, and a squadron of radar aircraft converted from seaplanes.

This air force made every effort to deal with operations in the direction of Taiyuan, mainly to seize air supremacy, and the unit was codenamed Heihufeng.

The Second Air Force was formed at the newly built Yangshan Yongbei Airport in the Luliangshan area.

The main constituent groups are two Type 99 dive bomber squadrons, two SBD dive bomber squadrons, three La-5 fighter squadrons, two Mosquito bomber squadrons, two 98 light explosive squadrons, two 97 light explosive squadrons, three 97 fighter squadrons (mainly used to hang rockets to attack the ground), one 97 heavy explosive squadron, one P38 squadron, and one Type 2 multi-seat ground attack aircraft squadron.

The unit is codenamed Bug, and it mainly conducts ground-air cooperation operations in the Taiyuan area.

The Third Air Force was established at the newly built Yongbei Yanta Airport in Yan'an, which was composed of old fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes.

It is also equipped with two squadrons of La-5 fighters, two squadrons of Mosquito night fighters, and two squadrons of P38, whose mission is to maintain the line of communication from Yan'an to Luliangshan, and the unit code name is Bee.

As far as the troops of the Eighth Route Army are concerned, the aviation unit that the officers and men have been looking forward to for a long time has been greatly boosted after its formal formation, and the enthusiasm and confidence of the officers and men in resisting Japan have all increased greatly.

As for the question of the selection of this commander of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Command.

Matters.

The final decision shall be concurrently held by the commander-in-chief or deputy commander-in-chief.

However, on the recommendation of the deputy commander-in-chief, it was finally decided that Kong Jie would temporarily assume the operational command of the aviation command.

In this regard, the soldiers had no objections, and even felt that the position of this commander could only be done by Lao Kong.

Even Li Yunlong didn't say a word, but said to Kong Jie with a sneer, when to arrange some tasks for himself as a deputy commander, it would be enjoyable.

The so-called building near the water gets the moon first, and Lao Li has never been ambiguous in this regard.

"Haha, Lao Kong, after you become the acting commander of our aviation headquarters, you can take care of your old comrades-in-arms, once my forward combat troops call for reinforcements, your air force firepower reinforcements will arrive in time!

Our Lao Li still wants to be scared in front of the little devil! ”

As for Li Yunlong's side, once he disrupts the devil's defense system in Jiaodong, he will immediately launch a large-scale attack on Luzhong, Lubei, and Jiaodong, completely destroying the foundation of the devil's rule in Shandong, and at the same time leaving part of the main force to assist the 385 Brigade in the battle against Jidong.

Due to the complete detachment from the operations on the Shanxi battlefield, the headquarters may only have the aviation unit in Kong Jie's hands to reinforce Li Yunlong's troops.

Kong Jie said with a smile that the aviation unit of our Eighth Route Army will definitely arrive at the battlefield in front of the devil's flying unit.

This time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army put the most powerful field group in Shandong, in order to completely destroy the ruling foundation of the devils in Shandong, let them scatter and station, sweep everywhere, and uproot them this time.

It is precisely this intention to send Li Yunlong over.

Let Li Yunlong, a fierce general who dares to fight and rush, completely disrupt the deployment of devils in Shandong.

Especially the little devils in Shandong, they are not very familiar with Li Yunlong's combat style, and they may fall in love with Li Yunlong's way.

(End of chapter)