Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

After receiving the information, Wu Lin immediately passed it on to the commander of the Second Column, Zheng Lun, and the commander of the Third Column, Xia Wenkai.

At the same time, orders were issued that according to the previously formulated combat plan, the commander of the 3rd Column, Xia Wenkai, would command the 82nd Regiment and the 762nd Regiment of the 395th Brigade to block the regiment coming out of Handan at Gaoyu and Guanglu respectively, and the two artillery battalions of the 181st Artillery Regiment of the military region would provide fire support.

The commander of the Second Column, Zheng Lun, commanded the 81st and 761st Regiments, and an artillery battalion of the 181st Regiment to capture the Jiangwucheng Railway Station, surrounded the Japanese brigade from the front and back, and then defeated it.

If the Japanese troops in Anyang came out of the city to reinforce, the other two regiments of the Second Column would defeat the reinforcements.

Then the local troops in Anyang began to clear the strongholds around Anyang, clearing obstacles for attacking Anyang after eliminating the reinforcements of the Japanese army.

7 o'clock.

Inside the temporary command post in Shilipu Village behind Gao Yu and Guanglu.

At this time, the three regiments of the 3rd Column, the commander of the 762nd Regiment, and the commander of the 3rd Column, Xia Wenkai, the political commissar Chen Haisong, and the chief of staff Wang Bingnan were in the command center, discussing how to block the Japanese reinforcements coming out of Handan.

At this time, Chief of Staff Wang Bingnan stood in front of everyone and explained the current situation to everyone.

"According to intelligence, the Japanese reinforcements arriving from Handan belong to the 2nd Regiment of the 27th Brigade under the 14th Division, commanded by Sadazo Ishiguro."

"This regiment participated in a major sweep of the southeastern Shanxi base area in the middle of the year. We killed a thousand of their men, and the rest were wounded and fled hastily back to Linfen."

Political Commissar Chen Haisong looked a little solemn after hearing what the chief of staff said.

"This wing's combat effectiveness is not simple!"

"The last time Lao Liu and his men ambushed the Second Regiment, if it weren't for the terrain, the 84th Regiment might have been defeated in Wuxiang."

"When Lao Liu and his men ambushed the regiment, the Japanese soldiers were thrown into confusion and immediately reacted and launched a counterattack."

"This time in the plains is a test for us."

Su Daqing, the commander of the 762nd Regiment, nodded after listening to the words of the chief of staff and the political commissar.

"Political Commissar Chen and Chief of Staff Wang are right. The 14th Division is very powerful."

"When our regiment was blocking this division, the Japanese shot very accurately."

"The heavy machine gun position below was discovered and destroyed by the Japanese as soon as it opened fire."

"If we hadn't reacted quickly and set up multiple positions, and hadn't immediately moved away when we saw the Japanese preparing to fire at the heavy machine gun positions, I'm afraid all our heavy weapons would have been destroyed."

The commanders of the three regiments of the 3rd Column immediately paid attention after hearing Su Daqing's words.

The current commander of the 81st Regiment is not so bad. He had fought against the 9th Regiment of the 16th Division before. If this regiment of the 16th Division had not found it difficult to deploy on the road to Qiheng Village, the two regiments that participated in the siege would have also suffered.

You know, when the 9th Regiment was surrounded and annihilated, there was an artillery regiment in the rear that was constantly suppressing the 9th Regiment's positions with artillery fire.

However, even though the two regiments had the advantage in terrain and artillery fire, more than half of the soldiers in the two regiments were still killed or wounded.

It was at that time that the 81st Regiment realized that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Type A Regiment was much stronger than that of the previous Japs.

This was completely different from their previous ambushes on the Japanese troops in various local counties, including the 108th Division that they had previously surrounded and annihilated.

This group of Japanese devils are very strong in both marksmanship and combat reaction capabilities.

"Then even if the Second Regiment has not fully recovered its combat effectiveness, I'm afraid its combat effectiveness is not comparable to those small-time garrisons in the county before."

After listening to everyone's words, Xia Wenkai, commander of the Third Column, said.

"We can't fight this 2nd Regiment head-on, otherwise the troops will suffer heavy casualties," suggested Political Commissar Chen Haisong.

"Yes, but we can play to our strengths!" said Chief of Staff Wang Bingnan.

Then he continued to add.