Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the same time, the local regiment followed the first battalion to launch a counterattack.

Half an hour later, the flare was launched into the sky.

Next to the ambush position of the 3rd Battalion on the flank of the 117th Regiment, the artillery company began firing artillery shells at the 117th Regiment.

Suddenly, the entire 117th Regiment's camp, which had just been settled, began to fall into chaos. At the same time, under the cover of the machine gun company, the 3rd Battalion began to attack the flank of the 117th Regiment.

The Japanese army was caught off guard by this sudden attack.

On the front, the first and second battalions also began to rush out of their positions and attack the Japanese army.

More than a thousand people from two battalions began to spread out in a line according to tactics and started to attack the Japanese front-line guard positions.

The local regiment also followed closely behind the two battalions, making a sound like a tidal wave.

At this time, the 117th Regiment, which was on guard in the front, was stunned when they saw the dense Chinese Eighth Route Army troops rushing towards them.

However, the attack horn was sounded from the flank soon after, and their own position was still being bombarded by the Chinese army's artillery.

In an instant, the entire 117th Regiment's defense camp was instantly stunned by the Eighth Route Army's offensive.

Especially at this time, there were a large number of wounded soldiers in the camp, and the Japanese troops who had withdrawn earlier had just calmed down, but were instantly excited by the sound of the Eighth Route Army's guns and artillery.

When the regiment commander Gao Shujia began to organize the machine gun squadron to intercept the Eighth Route Army's offensive forces, the machine gun position was quickly destroyed by a single shot from the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher.

Soon, the soldiers of the 758th Regiment attacked and entered the camp of the 117th Regiment.

Gao Shujia's expression changed drastically when he saw this scene. He didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi had such strange weapons.

At this time, he was afraid that he could not defend himself, so Gao Shujiayi immediately organized his troops to retreat.

As the 117th Regiment retreated, the 758th Regiment and local regiments in the rear kept chasing the 117th Regiment and refused to give up.

Gao Shujiayi immediately ordered his troops to abandon their baggage and weapons and evacuate quickly to Yangquan.

The 758th Regiment stopped only when the remaining Japanese troops of the 117th Regiment, led by Gao Shujiayi, hurriedly retreated to the vicinity of Yangquan's outer city.

He fired several more shells at the city wall with an 82mm mortar, and suddenly the entire outer city of Yangquan became tense.

When the commander of the 108th Division, Motojiro Taniguchi, heard the explosion outside the city, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

So he immediately took people to the city gate to see what was going on.

The 758th Regiment, after pursuing the 117th Regiment to Yangquan and firing several mortar shells, slowly and orderly began to evacuate towards Pingding.

When Taniguchi Motojiro arrived at the city gate, he saw a group of remnants of the 117th Regiment.

At this time, the entire 117th Regiment was chased by the 758th Regiment like a stray dog, with each of them empty-handed. Some Japanese soldiers even lost their helmets on the way to escape.

Most of the Japanese soldiers were slumped on the ground at this time, with an expression as if they had survived a disaster.

When Taniguchi Motojiro saw this scene, his blood suddenly filled his forehead and the corners of his mouth began to twitch constantly.

On the way here, Taniguchi Motojiro thought of the possibility that the 117th Regiment might be defeated by Zeng Jiwen's troops in the south and retreat to Yangquan. After all, the combat effectiveness of the 108th Division at this time was still inferior to that of the security forces.

The entire division was composed of newly recruited soldiers, and most of the previously trained reservists were drawn from the ranks to form the new division.

The reserve troops have almost been mobilized. Except for the non-commissioned officers drawn from other divisions as squad leaders, the rest of the 108th Division are recruited from the reserve forces.

Most of these reserve soldiers had only trained for four months. It would have been fine if they had been sent to the Chinese battlefield immediately after training, but as the war expanded, these reserve soldiers had not held guns for a long time.