Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Therefore, the four military divisions were immediately ordered to start counting personnel, weapons and equipment at the same time.

Afterwards, the two sent the statistics to the General Command and Zeng Jiwen's Tainan Military Region, saying that it was completely possible, and explained to both sides that they could try to formulate a combat plan first.

After all, at this time, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region had already made complete plans and contingency plans after discovering that the Japanese army was preparing to launch a large-scale sweep against it.

If we can really capture Shijiazhuang, then the troops below will definitely be able to survive this winter safely and won't have to be so tight on finances.

Thanks to the previous deployment and experience of Zeng Jiwen and others in the southeastern Shanxi region against the Japanese army's rural raids in county towns, after Zeng Jiwen reported to the general headquarters, it was distributed to other troops.

Over the past six months, various bases have achieved great results in response to the Japanese army's raids in the countryside, especially in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei area.

Since northern Shanxi and northern Hebei are connected, it has expanded from the early Beiyue area to the vast area under the jurisdiction of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei. Since the Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei region is also full of mountains, this undoubtedly gives it a lot of room for maneuver when facing small-scale raids by the Japanese army.

By digging deep tunnels to connect various villages and dangerous passes, and mobilizing the power of the people, they always dealt a heavy blow to the small Japanese troops that went to the countryside. Those who were lucky escaped back to the county town with heavy casualties, and those who were unlucky had their entire team surrendered.

As a result, the Japanese troops in North China now deeply detest raids in the countryside.

You never know where a burst of bullets might come from.

After seeing that the public security around him was also becoming unstable, Sugiyama Yuan immediately realized that this might be another situation like that in southeastern Shanxi. In order to prevent it from developing into the same situation as that in southeastern Shanxi.

Without waiting for the military forces in North China to be fully replenished, Sugiyama Gen immediately began to prepare to eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces in the occupied areas around him.

Sugiyama Gen thought that the anti-Japanese armed forces below must be eliminated immediately and cannot be allowed to develop. Once they become a force to be reckoned with, he would have to return to the reserve force.

At the same time, they learned from the failure of the nine-way siege in southeastern Shanxi and prepared to mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army armed forces in the area from Beiyue to Zhangjiakou.

At this moment, this force is still not strong, and must be nipped in the bud.

Therefore, under this situation, both sides began to make calculations.

On the Japanese side in North China, Sugiyama Gen considered that once heavy troops were mobilized to attack the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi would definitely not remain indifferent.

We will definitely send troops to support the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei.

If the Eighth Route Army troops in southeastern Shanxi were to be dispatched, there would only be a few places: Yangquan, Jinzhong and Taiyuan in Shanxi, and Shijiazhuang, Handan and Xingtai in Hebei.

Considering that the probability of the Eighth Route Army attacking Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang is not very high, the most likely places are Yangquan, Xingtai and Handan.

It is even very likely that these three places will be attacked from three directions by Zeng Jiwen's 389th Division.

After all, if they crossed Yangquan, they would reach the area being swept. The Eighth Route Army in the Wutai area could easily retreat into the southeastern Shanxi area through the Zhengtai Line. In this way, their plan to destroy the Eighth Route Army in the Beiyue area would fail.

Once Handan and Xingtai are attacked, the Pinghan Railway will be cut off. At this time, supplies from North China are also being transported to the south in a steady stream. If the war in the south is delayed, the headquarters will blame them, and they will not be able to bear the responsibility.

Therefore, Sugiyama Gen had to come up with a win-win solution, which was to eliminate the Eighth Route Army troops in the Beiyue area and organize the 389th Division to cut off the Pinghan Road and the Zhengtai Line.

Sugiyama Gen then convened a military meeting in North China, shared his plans and considerations with everyone, hoping to come up with a perfect solution to the current situation.