In the military factory where they are stationed, Du Weize is working overtime to produce qualified steel, and in the past month, they have not made a good furnace of steel, either it is not hard enough, or it is too brittle, and it is easy to blow up if it is used on a bazooka.

For this reason, Du Weize was worried, and he had already made up his mind that he must refine his own qualified steel, and he couldn't rely on the little devil for everything.

The steel smelted by the little devil is really good, of course, it meets the conditions for making a 40 bazooka, but this is not what Du Weize wants, it is precisely because Du Weize has this strength that he has been staying in the steel mill, eating, drinking and being with the workers.

"Change the coke and send me the rest of the coal to the power plant!"

Although it was winter, the heat in the steelmaking furnace was several thousand degrees, and the room temperature was about to reach 50 degrees, and everyone was wearing half-sleeves and sweating like rain.

"Factory director, the output of coke in the Jingcheng mining area is not high, and what we consume can be produced quickly!"

"What's the matter, you still have these coke cubs? Mining is for use, do I still have to go to the little devil to ask for these resources? "There is no progress in steelmaking, and living in this environment all day long, even Du Weize, who is well-informed, has become more and more irritable.

The most important task now is to make steel that is qualified for your own family.

In the steel mill, dozens of big men work in shifts, only Du Weize, a weak scholar, has been sticking to it, and he can't give up halfway.

Du Weize knows very well that in addition to the material of the steel itself, the rest of steelmaking is related to the temperature, as long as the temperature can be reached, he does not believe that they can't make good steel.

"Factory director, you still go out to breathe, if you continue to boil like this, the steel will not be refined, and your body will collapse!" The leader of a workshop said to Du Weize.

"No, hurry up, when the steel is qualified, I don't need to supervise here, and then I will concentrate on building our bazooka!"

For Du Weize, the bazooka is a New Year's gift, he wants to build the bazooka before the New Year, according to his theory, the ammunition has been finalized, and the rest is to make a physical object to practice.

But Du Weize is dead-headed, he just doesn't want to use the steel of the little devil to build China's first bazooka, he wants to refine qualified steel himself and make China's first bazooka.

So he worked overtime with the workers in the steel mill day and night to make his own qualified steel.

With many practices, Du Weize has also made great progress in steelmaking, at least accumulated some experience.

Looking at the gradually cooling molten iron in front of him, Du Weize prayed in his heart, hoping that this time the steel would not be as brittle as last time, and that it would not be smashed into two with a hammer.

Good steel is to ensure that the strength, toughness and cold bending test and other indicators must be qualified, so as to ensure the quality of the steel, unlike Du Weize, the steel they made for the first time would rather not bend, which does not meet their needs at all.

Everyone looked at the freshly baked steel and muttered in their hearts, can it be done this time? They've failed many times, and if they don't work this time, they really don't have anything they can do.

Du Weize looked at the unconfident expressions on everyone's faces, and he felt uncomfortable, although he had theoretical knowledge, but after all, it was the first time in practice, and many failures also made him doubt whether the theory was correct.

After cooling the steel with water, Du Weize glanced at everyone again, and then ordered the test to begin.

The ability to manually test whether steel is qualified is limited, so they only test the hardness of steel and cold bending experiments!

Half an hour later, the workers began to applaud, they were applauding for themselves, and they should also be applauded for it, because the hardships of these days are known only to themselves.

"Wait a while to test it outdoors, there is no problem at room temperature now, if it is put to the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, we will also achieve the same effect!" Du Weize knew that the steel they made was used for the troops, and the troops had to fight around the clock, and the weather from minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius could be encountered, and they had to ensure that the steel could adapt to such temperatures.

Although they do not have a cold storage to create a high temperature of minus tens of degrees, but now it is winter in Taihang Mountain, and the outdoor temperature is still minus 11 or 2 degrees.

After the test just now, dozens of workers already have smiles on their faces, they are confident in their results, and they are confident that the steel they have smelted outdoors will also stand the test.

Sure enough, after receiving the positive results, dozens of workers began to cheer shirtless in the cold weather, they could no longer care about the cold, and the fruits of their labor were affirmed that was the greatest reward for them.

Their success does not only mean that they have succeeded, but also that the entire New 33rd Army and Taihang Mountain have taken their most solid step.

Du Weize didn't spread the news, although the news was exciting enough for them, but what Du Weize wanted was to transform steel into weapons, and to transform steel into combat effectiveness.

And the first weapon of Du Weize's experiment was the bazooka in his heart.

The structure of the 40 bazooka is not complicated, and the most important thing is the problem of the grenade, and the problem of the grenade has been solved by Du Weize. So the first bazooka began to be made in the arsenal.

Liao Fan, who was in Beitai Peak, was still thinking about his plan to go north to Taihang, and when he arrived in Suiyuan and Chahar areas, there were no mountains to provide shelter for them, and they were facing the elite cavalry and armored troops of the little devils.

The new 33rd Army was still dominated by infantry, and although they could build fortifications, they were sure how much they could in the face of the charge of the Japanese mechanized troops.

But the New 33rd Army must go north, because this is the best way out for the development of their New 33rd Army. Although Shanxi is rich in coal resources, as long as they succeed in going north, the little devils in Shanxi will become turtles in the urn.

The north side of the river is a plain, and there is no danger to defend from north to south, and if the Japanese army in the north wants to go south, it will be good to directly hit it hard, and there is no need for any strategy and tactics at all.

If you go south to Henan, it is also a good choice, but there is a Yellow River in Henan, and the problem of boats alone is enough to give Liao Fan a headache.

And the advantage of going north is obvious, because they have only one opponent, and that is the little devil. As for Fu Yisheng, Liao Fan has a lot of trust in his nominal boss, he is definitely a person who puts the overall situation first, and he will not embarrass the New 33rd Army.

After going north, there is no need to grab territory with the two parties, and there will be no conflict of interests, so there will be fewer natural political disputes, and Liao Fan can fight the little devil wholeheartedly.

"How's it going today?" After Liao Fan returned to Li Weimin's division, he asked Li Weimin.

"The intelligence officer has figured out that 2,300 cavalry of a wing of the Japanese army were transferred from the Suiyuan area to Xiangyang a few days ago, and their purpose is to come at us!" Li Weimin reported.

"Just a wing?" Liao Fan didn't believe that the little devil only arranged a wing of cavalry.

After fighting with the little devils for so long, the little devils in Shanxi should know the combat effectiveness of the New 33rd Army best, and now they have only arranged for the cavalry of a wing that knows the same as them to fight against their cavalry, which is obviously problematic.

"It has been determined, there is only one company of Japanese troops!" Li Weimin said affirmatively.

"The little devil is not a fool, let the scouts reconnoiter the towns and counties around Dingxiang, I don't believe that the little devil dares to take a wing of cavalry to fight us!"

The New 33rd Army had been fighting with the Japanese army in Shanxi for two years, and the Japanese commander in Shanxi had learned how to face the New 33rd Army even if he was a fool, and it was obviously impossible to arrange only more than 2,000 cavalry to deal with the cavalry regiment of the New 33rd Army.

Of course, the commander of the Japanese army was not a fool, and the cavalry wing was borrowed by him, and it was impossible to put them in a desperate situation, so the Japanese commander took out the strength of an armored brigade of the Japanese army from the city defense of Taiyuan, and squeezed out a wing of infantry from other areas, and arranged it in the county towns around Dingxiang, as long as the cavalry wing was passive, they immediately launched support.

However, Li Weimin only arranged scouts to reconnoiter the Japanese cavalry, and did not arrange scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding areas at all, and the strength of the Japanese troops in the surrounding towns and villages increased significantly.

Li Weimin realized his negligence and hurriedly ordered the scouts to reconnoiter the towns and villages within a hundred miles of Dingxiang, including the defense of the Japanese army in Xinzhou and Yuxian.

Just after the night, Li Weimin really got the news from the scouts that the strength of the Japanese troops in the surrounding area had increased, but because it was too scattered, it was impossible to determine how many Japanese troops there were.

"Li Weimin, don't care when you fight, don't despise our opponents, even if they are a group of hundreds of mountain bandits, they may bite off a piece of meat from you at any time!"

"I understand Brother Fan!"

"According to your original plan, is there anything wrong?"

"There's no problem, just wait for the little devil's cavalry to take the bait, even if it's only a cavalry brigade with the little devil!"

Although the situation on the battlefield has changed, judging by the current situation, Li Weimin does not plan to change the battle plan, after all, this battle is not dominated by cavalry, but seems to be dominated by the strength of one of his regiments.

"In that case, it's up to you next, but be careful with the Japanese armored forces!"

Li Weimin's choice of place for the Japanese cavalry was Lingjing Township, they had fought for the Japanese army in this place, and after the Japanese army's cars entered the winding mountain roads of Lingjing Township, they didn't even have the ability to turn around.

Yan Xingwang still led the cavalry to attack and harass the surrounding Japanese puppet army strongholds, their main purpose was not to raid, but to attract the attention of the Japanese cavalry and lead the Japanese cavalry into the encirclement.