Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

"Deputy Commander, let our brigade go!"

"Let the Second and Third Column take charge of the Japanese troops in their respective defense zones."

"Our 395th Brigade is responsible for the central Ci County area."

After hearing Cao Deqing's words, the other two nodded in agreement.

After all, Anyang and Handan are both within their respective jurisdictions.

It is indeed troublesome to ask them to exchange jurisdictions.

After hearing what they said, Wu Lin nodded.

"Then let's start our military district's first battle with your brigade!"

After saying that, he turned to the two men and continued, "Your troops can be dispatched after the 393rd Brigade has occupied Ci County. Each of you will send a regiment to cooperate with the 395th Brigade to block the reinforcements of the 14th Division."

"The 180th Artillery Regiment will cooperate with you this time."

Then, they began to discuss the specific combat operations for the attack on Ci County.

Since Ci County is relatively close to Handan and Anyang, there is only one squadron of Japanese troops stationed in Ci County. At the same time, a small team is stationed at the railway station outside the city.

Then there is the local security group in Ci County, which does nothing except cockfighting and dog roaming.

After discussion among several people, it was decided that the 760th Regiment would be responsible for this operation.

The guard company of the 760th Regiment was responsible for attacking the train station outside the city and attracting Japanese troops inside the city to reinforce.

Then, the other three battalions waited until the Japanese troops left the city and then directly surrounded this squadron.

The other two regiments, the 761st Regiment, took over the Jiangwucheng Railway Station in the south and cooperated with the 81st Regiment to block the reinforcements coming from Anyang.

The 762nd Regiment established blocking positions in the Gaoyu and Guanglu areas in the north to cooperate with the 82nd Regiment to block the reinforcements coming out of Handan.

At the same time, after Anyang's reinforcements left the city, the 122nd Regiment of the Second Column surrounded them from the rear and devoured Anyang's reinforcements.

In short, there is only one goal, which is to gradually transfer as many Japanese troops as possible out of Anyang City and then destroy them, creating conditions for encircling Anyang and luring the 14th Division to move south.

After the discussion, Wu Lin asked them to go back and start preparing for combat operations.

On the other side, the Xiaobai Township Command Center in the west of Taigu.

At this time, the commander of the 1st Column, Sun Yuqing, and the two brigade commanders of the 393rd Brigade and the 396th Brigade were discussing how to put pressure on the Japanese troops in Taiyuan so that they would not dare to send reinforcements.

At this time, the First Army in Taiyuan, except for the guard brigade in Taiyuan.

At this time, a brigade under the Japanese Army's 20th Division was stationed in Jinzhong, in addition to an independent mixed 5th Brigade.

The 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade is now distributed in Xiaoyi, Fenyang and Pingyao areas.

Not far away in Taigu, a battalion of the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade is stationed.

If these were the only troops we had, it would be fine.

However, now on the Zhengtai Line, the Japanese 108th Division has replaced Yangquan's Independent Mixed Brigade 4 and began patrolling on the Zhengtai Line.

Several people are now a little worried.

At this time, the three men had only nine regiments of troops under their command, but in addition to the mixed brigade in the south, the Japanese army also had nearly two divisions of Japanese troops.

How to contain these two divisions of Japanese troops became something that several people needed to consider.

Although the strength of the entire Japanese First Army has been greatly compressed, the Japanese troops in the Taiyuan area have basically not engaged in major battles with the Eighth Route Army troops in southeastern Shanxi, except for the 20th Division.

Logically speaking, as an old Type A division, the 20th Division's combat effectiveness is much stronger than other newly formed divisions.

But that's just how it happened.

Since the 389th Division entered Shanxi, several battles were fought against the two regiments under the 20th Division.

Moreover, taking advantage of the terrain, they turned two of their regiments into garrison regiments, whose combat effectiveness was even worse than some newly formed divisions of the Japanese army.

As a result, the brigade below has now been withdrawn to replace the front-line troops to garrison Shijiazhuang.