Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

If the Japanese army comes to support again later, it will take at least a year for these two divisions to recover their strength.

Moreover, even after recovering their strength, the quality of these soldiers will not be as good as before.

In the Taiyuan direction, Sun Yuqing commanded the 1st Column, which made a great noise in Jiexiu and Xiaoyi areas.

Moreover, as the artillery regiment of the Taiyue Military Region followed the First Column in attacking the city, they have now captured Jiexiu and Xiaoyi, threatening Fenyang.

The 393rd Brigade also captured Pingyao and Qixian and was establishing blocking positions.

After receiving news that the Japanese troops in Taiyuan were under attack from the 389th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the south, Naosaburo Okabe immediately ordered the 3rd and 5th Independent Mixed Brigades in Jinzhong to reinforce to the south.

I'm afraid that they will soon engage in a firefight with the 393rd Brigade in the Qi County area.

The defense of Jinzhong was handed over to the 39th Brigade under the 20th Division.

Now, we just have to wait for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region to hold back the Japanese attacking forces.

Unlike what Zeng Jiwen and others thought, after learning that the Japanese army had made a huge misunderstanding, Commander Xu of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region immediately realized that there was a huge opportunity for battle. Not only could he lure the Japanese army deep into the base, but he could also seize the opportunity to find a huge opportunity for battle by taking advantage of the intelligence errors of the Japanese upper echelons.

Commander Xu looked at the military district map and saw the area where the Japanese troops were currently marching.

目前，应县和浑源一带第26师团的12、13联队正在周边开展大扫荡，第一军分区的25、26团和教导团特务团骑兵团等部队正在依托地形和日军的这两个联队交火。

The 4th, 5th and 19th Regiments, led by Commander Yang, broke out of the Japanese encirclement last night and have retreated to various bases in Wutai.

目前，手里的部队，还有第二军分区的30、32、33团，以及冀热察挺进军。第三军分区的第6、7、9、10、12团和游击军。

The eight regiments of the Fourth Military Sub-district are tying down the 110th Division.

At the same time, the 717th Regiment of the 120th Division came to support.

Now the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade of Zhangjiakou and its 3rd Independent Infantry Battalion have swept to Weixian, and the 4th Independent Infantry Battalion is already in Laiyuan.

Looking at the Laiwei Highway between Laiyuan and Weixian, Commander Xu had an idea.

This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

At present, all the Japanese troops have been tied down by the troops of various military sub-districts, and now only the Independent Mixed Brigade No. 2 remains. Since this mixed brigade currently has only two battalions deep in the base area, Xuanhua and Huailai have always been the area where the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Advance Army has been dealing with this brigade.

These two groups coming this time, no problem, eat them up!

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Laiwei Highway has been the external supply channel for the Japanese army in Laiyuan. During this year, it has gradually become a meat grinder where the three forces of the enemy, us and the diehards compete with each other and fight for life and death.

The Laiwei Highway was also constantly being seized, occupied, defended and lost.

In order to ensure the security of the occupied areas in the rear and the stable supply of the front-line combat troops, the Japanese army spent a lot of money to open up the Laiwei Highway, which was clearly aimed at the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

Originally, several people were considering attacking the Japanese army's baggage troops on this road, but now, they can feint an attack on the Japanese army's 4th Battalion in Laiyuan City, attract reinforcements from the 3rd Battalion of the mixed brigade in Weixian, and then completely destroy the Japanese army battalion in Weixian.

The few of them had also surveyed the terrain of the Laiyuan Highway before. The Laiwei Highway is a north-south highway, paved in the rugged valley between Lai and Wei counties.

Thanks to the early support from the Tainan Military Region, although the troops under the military region cannot compare with the brother troops in southeastern Shanxi, most of the soldiers in the main regiment are still able to have a weapon each.

Each person has dozens of rounds of ammunition.

One section of the highway passes through Mingpu Village. The hills on both sides of the road are called Feihu Valley. They are the kind of hills with wide waists and gentle slopes, which are very suitable for ambushing heavy troops and infantry charging down the mountain.