Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the other three city gates, bursts of gunfire were heard.

All of a sudden, the entire Pingding County was filled with the sound of gunfire, waking up the people in the city.

In less than two hours, the gunfire in the city slowly stopped.

The entire attack was completed perfectly.

At this time, Secretary Liu of the Pingding County Party Committee also rushed to Pingding County with the local group.

Following the successful raid and capture of Pingding by the 758th Regiment, Zhang Jing and Peng Zhufeng, after discussion, handed over the subsequent cleanup work to the local regiment.

After all, time was pressing at this time, and the local militia was the one most familiar with pacification. Secretary Liu was asked to lead the local militia to raid the Japanese shops, arrest the traitors and landlords in the city and execute them, and arrange for the people in the city to be evacuated.

After all, the entire Pingding will become a battlefield after dawn.

They then immediately replenished the captured equipment and weapons, went to the north gate to build defensive positions, and prepared to fight a battle with the Japanese reinforcements from Yangquan.

In Yangquan, the Japanese troops in the outposts outside Yangquan were also awakened by the sound of gunfire from the south when the 758th Regiment began to attack Yangquan.

The troops stationed on the periphery immediately sent a small team to conduct reconnaissance.

When the squad arrived outside the north gate, they were immediately ambushed by the Third Battalion.

After losing most of the Japanese troops, the captain of the squad immediately led his men to escape from the north gate, and then reported to Yangquan that Pingding had been captured by the Chinese army.

After receiving the report from the troops below, the new commander of the 108th Division in Yangquan, Motojiro Taniguchi, did not have time to think about it and immediately ordered the commander of the 117th Regiment, Yoshikazu Takashi, to lead two battalions to Pingding. He must recapture Pingding.

At the same time, to be on the safe side, a battalion under the 108th Field Artillery Regiment was sent with a total of 12 75mm field guns.

In addition, a machine gun squadron was temporarily formed to accompany the battalion, and was commanded by the regiment commander Gao Shujiayi.

He also told Gao Shujiayi that if the Chinese army was difficult to deal with, then he should defend on the spot and wait for support from the locust army in other places.

Gao Shujiayi nodded in agreement immediately, saying that he would definitely follow the division commander's words. If the battle did not go well, he would immediately defend on the spot and wait for other locust troops to come for support.

Then they began to gather their troops and advance towards the south.

If this conversation and action between the two men were heard by other Japanese troops, it would undoubtedly be a disgrace to the Imperial Japanese Army.

I'm afraid the two of them will be directly dismissed and transferred back to the reserve force in the country.

It’s no wonder that Taniguchi Motojiro thought so.

As the executioner who pioneered the invasion of China, it is unreasonable to say that Taniguchi Motojiro acted cowardly.

In the previous battlefield in Northeast China, Taniguchi Motojiro was the vanguard of the invasion of China, but as one of the few people who started the Japanese army's poison gas warfare, he committed heinous crimes on the Chinese battlefield.

The Japanese military headquarters reorganized the 108th Division this time because they saw Taniguchi Motojiro as a veteran general and wanted him to lead the newly formed 108th Division to restore its combat effectiveness and avenge the defeat.

After receiving the task of rebuilding the 108th Division, Taniguchi Motojiro immediately drew on the reserve forces of the 8th Division to begin reorganizing the 108th Division.

However, the change in the situation was beyond Taniguchi Motojiro's expectations.

The huge losses incurred in the Battle of Wuhan forced the Japanese army to withdraw troops to the south for reinforcements.

At this time, the domestic reserve forces were still undergoing emergency training, and the newly formed 108th Division happened to catch the eye of Ningji Okamura, who was commanding the Battle of Wuhan.

It happened that Taniguchi Motojiro and Okamura Neiji were classmates, so Taniguchi Motojiro mobilized the trained troops to the south in an organized manner to support the Battle of Wuhan.

Taniguchi Motojiro thought that there would be no major war in North China at present, so he could continue to recruit reservists and wait until the Wuhan war was over. It would be nothing more than retraining.