Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the same time, light machine guns were equipped to the squads, and each battalion also had a machine gun company equipped with six heavy machine guns and two 82mm mortars.

At the same time, the artillery company directly under the regiment also has 6 60mm mortars newly produced by the Taihang Army Factory.

The firepower of this regiment was almost catching up with their three regiments, and the three people's previous thoughts were immediately thrown out of their minds.

I was thinking about whether I should find an opportunity to transfer to the Tainan Military Region next time. I wonder if Commander Yang would beat them up if he found out.

After the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region entered the Seventh Division, the various regiments began to conduct hidden stationing training in the southwest Jingxing and central Hebei areas after being allocated weapons and equipment.

After all, there are nearly 20,000 people on this trip. Although the troops arrived in batches, the base has to bear a large number of troops, and the Seventh District can't cope with it after a long time.

On the 25th.

According to the news from the headquarters, all the Japanese troops in North China have now assembled in various places and are on standby, preparing to start the autumn sweep of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.

At the same time, the specific deployment of Japanese troops and their numbers in various places were also discovered.

In Hebei, the 110th Division had assembled in Dingxian, Wangdu and Baoding. At the same time, there were signs that it was preparing to attack border towns such as Wanxian, Quyang and Tangxian of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area.

In Yangquan, the newly formed 108th Division also began to assemble in Shijiazhuang. Two battalions of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, which had previously guarded Yangquan, had already headed north to Yu County.

At the same time, the 40th Brigade under the 20th Division, led by the brigade commander Yoshio Kamitsuki, with a gloomy look on his face, led the 79th and 80th Regiments to assemble in the Shijiazhuang area to take charge of security work.

五台一带，除了109师团第31旅团下的第69和107联队也分别在晋北的定襄和五台驻扎守卫之外，118旅团的第119联队和136联队同师团所属的骑、工、炮等兵种开始准备向晋北一带的北岳区开始扫荡(有说135的但是编制查到的是136)。

At the same time, the 26th Division of the Mongolian Garrison Corps also evacuated from northwestern Shanxi and assembled in Datong. The original garrison was guarded by five independent garrison battalions and cavalry groups of the Mongolian Garrison Corps. The Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2 assembled in the Zhangjiakou area.

In addition, the Fifth Division, which was responsible for defending the Tainan Military Region, was also moved to Xingtai to defend the Tainan Military Region.

As the Japanese army in North China began to gather heavy troops around Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei anti-mopping-up campaign also began.

According to the deployment of the General Command, the main purpose of this anti-mopping-up operation in the early stage was to lure the 110th Division in Hebei and the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade in Zhangjiakou into the Beiyue area, and rely on the terrain to lure the 108th Division to Guangling and Yingxian areas.

At the same time, the main force returned to support and established blocking positions in Lingqiu, Daixian and Fuping to prevent the Japanese army from returning to support Shijiazhuang.

In the early stages, the Tainan Military Region's combat goal was to take the initiative to attack, tie down several surrounding divisions, and ultimately create conditions for a surprise attack on Shijiazhuang.

On the 28th, news came from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region that the 139th Regiment of the 108th Brigade of the 110th Division in Dingxian, led by Regiment Commander Fumio Nagata, began to attack Quyang with two battalions.

The 140th Regiment, led by its commander Chohachiro Kobayashi, began sweeping from Baoding towards the suburbs of Shunping and Tang County.

The 163rd Regiment in Ding County also attacked Yi County under the leadership of its commander, Niimi Jiro.

On the morning of the 29th, Wangjiajing in the eastern part of Pingshun.

After receiving the news that the Japanese army in North China had begun a large-scale sweep of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, Zeng Jiwen and others began to mobilize troops to the combat area according to the previous plan.

Due to the large number of Japanese troops around the entire Tainan Military Region, this operation was roughly divided into four combat areas.

In the northwestern part of the Tainan Military Region, in the area of ​​Yangquan in Jinzhong, the 1st Column, the 393rd Brigade, and the 396th Brigade were used to contain the Japanese troops on the Taiyuan and Zhengtai lines, under the command of the 1st Column Commander Sun Yuqing.