Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At this time, the entire county town was guarded by a group of security teams.

After the second and third battalions fired a few shots at the city wall, the entire security regiment was frightened and fled in all directions.

Seeing this, the second and third battalions immediately seized the opportunity and attacked the city.

At the same time, Kenji Doihara, commander of the 14th Division in Handan, also received news that Ci County was under attack by the Eighth Route Army.

As for why it was not other anti-Japanese armed forces, the other forces in southern Hebei had already withdrawn to northern Henan, and the other so-called security militias were active in the central and northern Hebei areas.

At the same time, in the past few months, the 14th Division has also fought more than a dozen large and small battles with the troops under Zeng Jiwen's 389th Division.

According to intelligence, a large number of Eighth Route Army troops are now active throughout western Hebei.

Kenji Doihara also reported this news to the headquarters, but no one in the headquarters has taken it seriously.

I looked at Kenji Doihara speechlessly.

Having been engaged in intelligence work for so many years, Kenji Doihara knew very well that the masters in the base camp were now blinded by the great victory in front.

And now not only do they want to stir up trouble in the north, but those idiots in the navy are also getting ready to make a move.

But as a commander on the front line, he has been doing intelligence work for so many years.

Kenji Doihara saw very clearly that the material resources and armaments mobilized by the locust army in the current Wuhan battle had reached their limit.

If the locust army wants to encircle and suppress Zeng Jiwen's troops in southeastern Shanxi, it will have to wait until at least next spring.

And a lot of troops will be needed.

As a famous figure, Kenji Doihara had noticed this special Chinese general as early as when Zeng Jiwen was still in the Northern Expedition.

Later, after learning about the situation, Kenji Doihara developed a deep fear of him for some reason, believing that if this person was not eliminated, it would be a threat to the future strategy of the Locust Army.

However, due to internal disagreements in China, he could not find an opportunity, and then this person disappeared from the intelligence.

When he remembered this person again, it was last year's Battle of Xinkou when a battalion of locust soldiers was wiped out.

What happened next was beyond Kenji Doihara's expectations.

I thought that during the last sweep of southeastern Shanxi, I would be able to easily wipe out Zeng Jiwen's troops, but I didn't expect that the locust army would suffer a setback at the hands of Zeng Jiwen.

The two brigades sent out to participate in the encirclement and suppression also suffered heavy casualties.

This made Kenji Doihara feel regretful. He wondered why he hadn't secretly sent someone to infiltrate there and get rid of him.

In the past few months, when his own division began to replenish its troops and stationed in Xingtai and Anyang, he put out the bait, but the effect was not very great and the surrounding Eighth Route Army troops did not take the bait.

He sneaked into southeastern Shanxi and was almost caught.

He was chased all over the mountains by several Chinese farmers.

Kenji Doihara swore that he had never been so embarrassed in his old job in all these years.

But then, the fear of Zeng Jiwen increased again.

Since when did the locust army's intelligence personnel become so impenetrable on Chinese soil that neither water nor needle could penetrate?

Originally, Kenji Doihara wanted to wait until the 14th Division recovered its combat effectiveness before having some fun with Zeng Jiwen's troops in southern Hebei. He had not yet used his most important chess piece. He would wait until Zeng Jiwen's troops revealed a flaw, and then strike them with one blow to defeat Zeng Jiwen's troops in southern Hebei.

Then he led his troops into southeastern Shanxi.

However, no one expected that the commander of the North China Front Army, His Excellency Sugiyama Gen, would actually plan to sweep the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and even put it into action.

This immediately made Kenji Doihara feel something was wrong.