Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Afterwards, Morita Norimasa began to order the second battalion to guard the four city walls, and the security corps assisted in transporting supplies to the locust army.

At the same time, the Third Battalion assembled in the city and was on standby, ready to support the Second Battalion at any time.

17:00, outside Anyang City.

At this time, in the Eighth Route Army's front-line command headquarters.

Commander Zheng Lun of the Second Column, Political Commissar Wu Huanxian, Chief of Staff Wang Yiming, and the four commanders of the 81st, 122nd, 123rd and 761st Regiments of the 395th Brigade were discussing in the command center how to capture Anyang.

In order to capture Anyang this time, they surrounded the entire Anyang city with a total of four regiments of nearly 9,000 people.

According to the previous plan, they needed to capture Anyang within eight hours and start building defensive positions.

At the same time, local armed forces such as the local militias of Linzhou and Anyang harassed and attacked Tangyin County in the southern part of Anyang, blocking a Japanese army battalion from Tangyin from heading north to reinforce.

Wang Yiming, the chief of staff of the Second Column, stood beside the map, pointed at Anyang's defense on the map and spoke to the person.

"Right now, there are less than two battalions of Japanese troops from the 14th Division stationed in Anyang, as well as a security group that previously surrendered to the Japanese army."

"These two battalions belong to the 15th Regiment of the 28th Brigade under the 14th Division, commanded by Morita Norimasa."

"At present, the Japanese soldiers of one battalion of this regiment have been eliminated in Jiangwu City. In addition, part of the second battalion that came to rescue this battalion has also been wiped out by us."

"Right now, there are still about 1,800 people in the city. Including this security group, the total number is 3,000."

After listening to the chief of staff's words, Zheng Lun and political commissar Wu Huanxian looked at several regimental commanders.

Suddenly, Zheng Lun said.

"Tell me, among your several regiments, who will take the lead?"

After hearing the commander's words, the commanders of several regiments began to compete with each other for the main attack mission.

"Commander Zheng, let our 761st Regiment take charge of the main attack!" Shen Shuqing, commander of the 761st Regiment, stood up and said to Zheng Lun, commander of the Second Column.

After hearing Shen Shuqing's words, Wang Huaide, the commander of the 81st Regiment, became unhappy.

He said to Shen Shuqing: "Hey, Old Shen, come on, your regiment was the main attacker of the Japanese battalion this morning, and ours was the only one who got a sip of the soup."

"You can't eat alone like this."

Hearing Wang Huaide's words, Ding Wei, the commander of the 122nd Regiment, stood up quickly.

"You two, how shameless are you? You've snatched all the combat missions away from us, while our 122nd Regiment hasn't even fought a single battle yet."

"You guys eat the meat, but leave some soup for Cheng Kang and me!"

After saying that, he saluted Zheng Lun and the other two.

"Commander! Commissar! Chief of Staff!"

"I, Ding Wei, have issued a military order to capture Anyang in five hours!"

Cheng Kang, the head of the 123rd Regiment, saw that Ding Wei had started to issue military orders, so he quickly stood up and said to Zheng Lun and the other two.

"Commander, I am also willing to issue a military order, as long as the 123rd Regiment takes the lead!"

Watching Ding Wei and Cheng Kang come out to grab the main attack mission.

Shen Shuqing and Wang Huaide suddenly became anxious and began to compete for the main attack task.

Then the four of them began to sabotage each other and expose each other's secrets.

All of a sudden, the entire command center became noisy.

Zheng Lun and the other two just watched the argument with a smile.

Zheng Lun coughed only after the argument had almost finished.

After hearing the commander's signal, several people looked at each other in dissatisfaction and stopped talking.

Political Commissar Wu Huanxian knew that he was needed to do the work of these regiment commanders at this time.

So, Wu Huanxian first said with a smile to Shen Shuqing, the commander of the 761st Regiment.

"Comrade Shuqing, your regiment was the main force in the encirclement and annihilation of one of the regiments this morning. You should at least let our three regiments take advantage of it."

After hearing what the political commissar said, Shen Shuqing immediately knew that the main attack mission might not be theirs. However, he couldn't help but argue with the political commissar, "Political Commissar Wu, you can't say that. Our regiment is taking the lead in the attack, but it's for the sake of our brother troops. We don't want them to suffer too many casualties."