Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

"Ishida-kun, don't I see such a simple truth? This time, the mission of my 14th Division is to sweep away the encirclement of the Chinese 389th Brigade."

"If we wait for the locust army to slowly search, how long will it take?" Itanishi Ichirō said slowly. "Besides, our 14th Division is not a reserve division like the 108th Division. The 389th Brigade was able to deal with the 108th Division because the 108th Division underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, giving the Chinese 389th Brigade an opportunity to exploit."

Itanishi Ichiro explained, and said with disdain: "I deliberately left the Chinese troops in front, so that they can lead us to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army and then fight a decisive battle. This way we can save energy."

"Besides, this time the Locust Army is attacking with a total of three divisions, which is considered to be giving enough face to the 389th Brigade. Even if we are besieged, how many troops can they mobilize to participate in the encirclement?"

"Since our 14th Division entered the Chinese battlefield, from south to north, what battle have we not participated in? What kind of ambush have we not encountered?"

"It's ridiculous that you think you can trap our regiment with just a few regiments." Itanishi Kazuyoshi said nonchalantly.

After hearing what the regiment commander said, Ishida Masao immediately felt relieved. After all, as a Type A division of the Japanese Army, the 14th Division was much better than other newly established divisions in terms of personnel quality and weapons and equipment. Even if it encountered an encirclement attack, it was not afraid at all.

In this way, the 59th Regiment of the Japanese Army was gradually led into the ambush position of the 89th and 86th Regiments with the tacit consent of both sides.

In the Wu'an area.

After the 28th Brigade of the Japanese Army marched to the Yetao area, the brigade commander Takashi Sakai began to order the 15th Regiment, led by the commander Morita Norimasa, to sweep from Yangyi to the northwest mountainous area and directly into Liao County.

He continued to march towards Shexian County with the 50th Infantry Regiment.

At this time, after discovering the Japanese army's intention to divide its troops, the commander of the 783rd Regiment, Cao Deqing, could not help but sigh that the 14th Division was worthy of being a Type A division and was extremely arrogant.

Even though they knew there was no air support and that they might be surrounded along the way, they still marched straight ahead, not taking the Chinese army seriously at all.

However, no matter how aggressive the 28th Brigade was, it remained vigilant along the way. Faced with harassment from a small group of troops sent by the 783rd Regiment, it ordered its scouts to expand the search range and drive away any small groups of Eighth Route Army soldiers it encountered.

In Pingding County, after the Japanese Army's 4th Independent Mixed Brigade set out from the county seat, it encountered troops from the 1st Battalion of the 80th Regiment of the 389th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army blocking the front. The 1st Battalion fought and retreated, successfully luring the Japanese troops to the vicinity of Zhanshang.

In the Northeast, it's different.

However, the 9th Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army located in Shijiazhuang and the 20th Regiment departing from Xingtai were different.

In Shijiazhuang, when the 9th Regiment of the 16th Division discovered the trace of the 1st Battalion of the 782nd Regiment in the east in the morning, the entire regiment turned around and rushed directly to the attack position of the 1st Battalion. The battalion commander Zhou Zian was very surprised.

At the same time, in order to prevent the 1st Battalion from escaping from its attack range, the 9th Regiment immediately ordered a cavalry squadron accompanying it to hold on to this Eighth Route Army unit and make sure to capture it in its entirety.

Zhou Zian saw that the Japanese army was so arrogant, but at present there was only his own battalion around, and the local regiment troops ambushing nearby did not dare to let them show up.

Seeing this, Zhou Zian immediately reported the news to Chen Zifeng, the commander of the 782nd Regiment. Chen Zifeng was very surprised when he received the news from the first battalion.

Originally, according to their idea, it would take a lot of effort to get this group of Japanese troops to follow the 1st Battalion to the Qiheng Village area, so they arranged the 121st Regiment of Zanhuang to accompany them nearby, pretending to be a large force of the Eighth Route Army, and lure the Japanese troops into the ambush circle.

After all, in this counter-mopping-up operation, the brigade's order was that the Japanese troops in other routes could be temporarily spared, but the 9th Regiment and the 20th Regiment in Xingtai were not to take any prisoners.