Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

On the morning of the 22nd, at the headquarters of the 389th Brigade.

At this time, Zeng Jiwen, Wang Zhuo and the others were all exhaustedly lying in front of the table, checking the current situation.

As of this morning, the Japanese army has basically withdrawn from the base. The nine-way mopping-up operation in southeastern Shanxi was over before it even began. The 389th Brigade can be said to have won a great victory in this counter-mopping-up operation.

The Japanese army's nine-way sweep was vigorous in scale, but since the first day the Japanese army entered the base, the Japanese army's airport was completely destroyed by the surprise attack of the 389th Brigade that night, resulting in the Japanese army being led by the 389th Brigade the next day. In the end, they suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.

The entire operation lasted for three days in total. Under the planning of Zeng Jiwen and others, the Japanese army's sweep ended in a whimper. However, three days of high-intensity command of the overall situation and constant monitoring of battlefield dynamics were a bit exhausting for several people.

Zeng Jiwen couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know how anyone could have endured the three sleepless battles for several months in the original time and space. It had to be said that this was the biggest test of everyone's endurance, and this situation would probably last even longer in the future.

Furthermore, according to the information gathered by the troops below, the current situation of the 389th Brigade is not optimistic. The specific situation will only be known after the battle is truly over and further information is gathered.

But it was not time to rest yet. The Japanese army withdrew from the base. According to the previous combat plan, after the Japanese army withdrew from southeastern Shanxi, the next combat plan was to recapture the county towns in southeastern Shanxi.

At this time, the areas around Changzhi had been recaptured by the 386th Brigade. The next step would be to continue moving towards Jincheng, while also recapture Yangcheng, Qinshui, and Anze close to the west.

Subsequently, the brigade headquarters issued an order for each regiment to return to the garrison area and begin to recover their respective jurisdictions. At the same time, the main force regiment located in the western Hebei area began to assist the 386th Brigade in recovering the south along Pingshun, Lingchuan and other places.

Within half a month thereafter, the county towns occupied by the Japanese army in southeastern Shanxi began to become lively. Under the siege and attack of the various units of the 389th Brigade, the county towns in southeastern Shanxi began to be slowly recovered one by one.

When the Eighth Route Army began to recover southeastern Shanxi, Okabe Naosaburo, who was far away in Taiyuan, was also shocked.

According to the reports from the defenders of each county, there were basically two or three regiments in each county attacking the defenders. In addition to the main regiment of the 389th Brigade, there were also a large number of regiments that had not been discovered before by the intelligence department and were not included in the statistics of the intelligence department.

The weapon styles were also varied. The county defenders even saw a farmer on the city wall. He had a shoulder pole next to him and was carrying a Qing Dynasty musket, shooting at the locust army.

This is really out of line. When did these Chinese farmers carrying hoes dare to shoot at the locust army? Who gave them the courage?

Okabe Naosaburo was so angry that he really wanted to send troops immediately to destroy this group of Eighth Route Army.

However, at this time, Okabe Naosaburo looked around and found that he had no soldiers. Not only that, he also needed to request support from the North China Front Army to make up for the losses and troops of various troops in this battle.

Looking at the battle losses reported by the Japanese troops after they withdrew from various mopping-up operations, I suddenly felt a toothache. How can I make up for it?

There was no other way, so Okabe Naosaburo had to send the situation to the commander of the North China Front Army, Sugiyama Hajime, and ask him to send reinforcements.

Sugiyama Gen really didn't expect that the First Army would give him a big surprise shortly after he took office.

He thought that Okabe Naosaburo's position as the commander of the First Army was coming to an end, but he had no military support at the moment.

Ever since two regiments of the 16th Division were completely wiped out by the 389th Brigade in Jin, Sugiyama Gen immediately realized that something was wrong and immediately withdrew the 5th Division from the front line to defend. At this time, he had no troops to support the 1st Army.