Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Obviously, Zeng Jiwen's 389th Division in the south did not stand idly by during the autumn mopping-up campaign launched by the Japanese army in North China, but began to support the Eighth Route Army in the north with some unknown strategy.

After observing the entire situation around southeastern Shanxi, Taniguchi Motojiro immediately judged that the 389th Division was likely to attack his own division.

After all, his own division had been destroyed once before. Based on this person's experience, it would be difficult to hide the situation of the reorganization of the division from Zeng Jiwen's eyes.

Moreover, his own division stationed on the Zhengtai Line could completely break the balance of the Zhengtai Line and support the Eighth Route Army in the north to retreat to southeastern Shanxi.

Thinking of this, Taniguchi Motojiro immediately sent his speculation to the commander of the First Army, Okabe Naosaburo, and at the same time asked him to send an independent mixed brigade to reinforce Yangquan.

Then he ordered the 132nd Regiment stationed in Shouyang to immediately go into a defensive posture, wait for reinforcements from Taiyuan, and then attack.

In the south, when Gao Shujiayi brought the remaining two battalions of the 117th Regiment, and the reinforced artillery battalion and machine gun squadron to the outside of Pingding North Gate.

From a distance, we could see through the telescope that the Chinese army on the opposite side had already built a defensive position outside the city, waiting for the locust army's attack.

As soon as Gao Shujia saw this scene, he immediately ordered the first battalion to begin preparing for battle, and the second battalion waited in the rear as a reserve.

He also ordered the artillery battalion and the regiment's artillery, totaling 20 guns, to begin building artillery positions and prepare to launch a tentative attack.

At the forward command post at the north gate, after seeing the arrival of the Japanese army, the regiment commander Zhang Jing and the political commissar Peng Zhufeng immediately commanded the first battalion to enter the defensive position.

At the same time, they entered the cat ear cave to prepare for the three-pronged defense against the Japanese army.

After watching the Japanese army preparing to build an artillery position through a telescope, Regiment Commander Zhang Jing turned to Political Commissar Peng Zhufeng and said.

"Old Peng, look, the Japs are starting to build artillery positions."

"Let the reconnaissance company give the Japanese artillery a hand."

After listening to this, Peng Zhufeng also nodded.

At present, the entire battalion is equipped with 40 rocket launchers. In addition to the squad level being able to use grenade launchers to attack the approaching Japanese troops, the battalion can also use 40 rocket launchers to attack the Japanese troops.

Bazookas can also be used to attack larger groups of Japanese troops.

At present, the regiment has received the new rocket launcher shells that were issued earlier. Compared with the previous shells, the killing radius of this batch of new shells is much higher than before.

And there are more than just shrapnel, there are also a large number of steel balls in the shells.

After one round of bombing, only a few Japanese soldiers would be able to stand up.

It is entirely possible to let the reconnaissance company, along with the artillery, do something quietly and then withdraw immediately.

After all, the Japanese had dug a small artillery position on a high ground not far from the north gate. They could have attacked and then immediately evacuated along the deep trenches.

Just do it.

So Zhang Jing immediately called the guard Xiao Huang and asked him to convey the order to the reconnaissance company commander Zhang Zishan, asking him to take 6 60mm mortars to wake up the Japanese artillery after they set up the artillery positions.

The guard was puzzled when he heard what the commander said, and then asked Zhang Jing with a puzzled look on his face.

"Captain, what is a surprise?"

After listening to this, Zhang Jing put down the telescope.

"Don't you understand what a surprise is?"

"What is a surprise?" Xiao Huang became even more confused for a moment.

Zhang Jing was instantly defeated by Xiao Huang's serious expression.

Then he turned around and said.

"Old Peng, tell him what a surprise is."

When Peng Zhufeng heard Zhang Jing's funny words, he explained to Xiao Huang with a smile.

"Xiao Huang, the surprise is for you to tell Captain Zhang to take six 60mm mortars and attack the Japanese artillery positions after they have set up theirs."