Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At that time, Commander Liu of the 717th Regiment even joked that the Japanese army might really move towards the northern hillside.

At that time, the entire command center burst into laughter.

Afterwards, Commander Xiao was overjoyed, as this was a pillow given to him when he felt sleepy.

We were worried that the casualties of our troops would increase if we engaged in a battle with the Japanese army, but we didn't expect that the Japanese army would actually move towards the bare hillside.

Isn't this just making you a sitting duck for the troops below?

Seeing this opportunity, Commander Xiao immediately ordered the front-line attacking troops to slow down the attack and drive the Japanese army towards the northern hillside.

When Junji Midorikawa led the remaining Japanese troops to retreat to the northern hillside, he was immediately shocked by the terrible terrain around him.

Because it was night, he could not observe the surrounding terrain well. Junji Midorikawa only relied on the firepower points on the battlefield to analyze the strength of the firepower on the entire battlefield. After determining that there were no Eighth Route Army troops stationed on the northern hillside, he quickly led his men to retreat to the hillside.

Looking at the hillside without any cover, Junji Midorikawa's face immediately changed. He finally understood why the Eighth Route Army did not set an ambush in this direction.

He immediately dispatched a squadron to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army in the front. At the same time, he immediately ordered the remaining troops to dig trenches. At the same time, he reported his situation to the commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade in Zhangjiakou, Hiroharu Tsuneoka, and requested tactical guidance.

However, it was already too late.

When the remaining troops of the Japanese Third Battalion retreated to the northern hillside, Commander Xiao immediately mobilized the light and heavy machine guns of the four regiments, temporarily formed a firepower network, and began to continuously shoot at the northern hillside.

Since there was no shelter on the northern hillside, the Japanese army could only defend on the spot.

As light and heavy machine guns continued to fire at the hillside, the Japanese squadron responsible for blocking the Eighth Route Army soon suffered heavy casualties.

In less than half an hour, there were less than two hundred people in the entire Third Battalion who could still fight.

At this time, Junji Midorikawa had also dug a temporary blocking position, but due to the gentle terrain of the hillside, the four regiments participating in the siege quickly attacked the Japanese front trenches under the cover of a firepower network composed of light and heavy firepower machine guns.

Then he detonated the grenade and threw it into the Japanese army's temporary defensive position.

Afterwards, soldiers from the four regiments swarmed forward, surrounded the less than two hundred Japanese troops in a position of less than one thousand square meters, and gradually eliminated them.

The 717th Regiment, led by Captain Liu, was the first to rush into the Japanese position. When Captain Liu found the person leading the team with two stars faintly framed by two bars on his epaulettes, he rushed forward and started fighting with him.

After chopping the Japanese soldier to the ground with a big knife, Captain Liu could see clearly that he was a lieutenant colonel.

I immediately realized that this must be the Japanese captain.

Then he smiled. This time, the 717th Regiment he led had a good chance to show off in supporting the brother troops in Jin-Cha-Ji.

When the remaining Japanese troops were gradually wiped out by the Eighth Route Army soldiers, Commander Xiao immediately ordered each unit to leave one company behind to clean up the battlefield, and then led three regiments to advance towards Laiyuan along the Laiyuan Highway.

At the same time, when Tsuchioka Kanji in Zhangjiakou learned that his Third Battalion was besieged by a large force of more than 10,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers, he immediately realized that something was wrong.

At this time, there were nearly 10,000 Eighth Route Army troops in Laiyuan. If the information reported by the Third Battalion was true, the number of Eighth Route Army troops appearing near Laiyuan this time would have reached more than 20,000.

At this time, there were other Eighth Route Army troops around to block the locust army. There were probably at least 50,000 to 60,000 Eighth Route Army troops in the entire Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.

Thinking of this, Tsuneoka Kanji's face changed drastically. Tsuneoka Kanji knew very well that this large-scale sweep might have serious flaws in the sweep plan designated by Commander Sugiyama Gen.