Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Thinking of this, he made a prompt decision and immediately organized the troops to evacuate from the south gate and evacuate along Anze to Linfen area. At the same time, he ordered the two regiments on the front line to evacuate towards Anze.

When Guan Yu led his troops to evacuate, the front-line command post of the 386th Brigade was in the distance.

The chief of staff looked at the Japanese troops retreating and asked Lao Chen with a puzzled look: "Brigade Commander, why did you let these little devils go? This guy is a major general. We can definitely stop them."

Old Chen looked at the Chief of Staff and explained, "Stopping them is no problem. The 389th Brigade alone is already famous enough for our Eighth Route Army. I don't want to add the 386th Brigade."

"The Japanese are very cunning. Didn't they see that Zeng Jiwen was holding back? He was afraid that the Japanese would go crazy and attack us. Our Eighth Route Army can't withstand it at the moment."

After saying that, he immediately organized troops to occupy Changzhi and deal with subsequent matters.

As the 27th Brigade began to evacuate Changzhi, the First Army Headquarters far away in Taiyuan also received news that Changzhi was under attack.

Not long after, Major General Guan Yu, commander of the 29th Brigade, sent another message, informing that the Eighth Route Army's firepower was fierce and that it had evacuated Changzhi and was evacuating along Anze to Linfen. At the same time, its two regiments would also evacuate to Linfen.

At the same time, we requested immediate reinforcements from the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade in Linfen.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Tateyo, Naosaburo Okabe did not have time to think and immediately ordered the Linfen Independent Mixed Brigade 3rd to reinforce Anze.

Looking at the current situation, Okabe Naosaburo realized that the nine-way summer mopping-up plan had completely failed, with heavy losses. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold the position of commander of the First Army for long.

On the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi, all Japanese troops were held back by the 389th Brigade.

The 20th Division on the western front received a telegram from the headquarters to evacuate. The commander of the 20th Division, Ushijima Sanetsugu, looked at the current situation and realized that with every step of withdrawal, the Locust Army would suffer heavy casualties.

Ushijima Sanetsu knew that if he did not evacuate quickly, his division would soon follow the 108th Division's rear. He then sent a telegram to the other two divisions, ordering them to concentrate their artillery fire to clear the way and withdraw to Jinzhong as soon as possible regardless of casualties.

In the Wuan direction, the two regiments of the 28th Brigade finally met in the Yetao area after a fierce exchange of fire with the Eighth Route Army, and then began to evacuate towards Wuan at all costs.

In Yangquan, after the New 1st Regiment occupied Yangquan, Zhong Zhicheng immediately led his men to raid the homes of the surrendered Japanese invaders in the city, and at the same time began to occupy and clean up the Japanese banks, hospitals and factories.

Afterwards, the people in the city and local militia were organized to move the supplies in Yangquan City, along with a large amount of raw materials such as steel, coal, and equipment and machinery stored in Yangquan City.

Eight hours later, after blowing up all the remaining items and the factory equipment and other materials expanded after the Japanese occupation, they directly evacuated Yangquan.

Afterwards, the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade, which had rushed from Jinzhong, and the 4th Brigade, which had returned to provide support, arrived late, looking hurried and dusty.

Looking at the dilapidated Yangquan, the commanders of the 4th and 5th brigades had dejected expressions on their faces. It was obvious that the supplies and equipment in Yangquan City had either been emptied out or blown up, and the people in the city had all fled with the Eighth Route Army, leaving only a few wealthy Japanese and overseas Chinese crying in front of the two men.

There was no other way, so the two had to report the news to Taiyuan, clean up the mess and wait for instructions.

When the commander of the First Army in Taiyuan, Naosaburo Okabe, received the specific situation in Yangquan, he was so angry that he overturned all the documents and objects on the table in front of him to the ground, cursing the 389th Brigade.

After calming down for a while, he told the guards beside him to tidy up, and walked into his room alone without saying a word.