Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

"We must find it and destroy it! We can't let Zeng Jiwen's troops develop any further. If this continues, the North China Front will sooner or later be in big trouble."

Hearing Itagaki Seishirō's serious words, Doihara Kenji also responded solemnly, "Don't worry, Itagaki-kun!"

"Although it's difficult to develop intelligence on Zeng Jiwen's department in southeastern Shanxi, I believe we can definitely find out all of this man's secrets. One of my pawns has already infiltrated southern Hebei, and even in this situation, I haven't woken him up yet!"

"We just need to wait for the right opportunity to deliver a devastating blow to Zeng Jiwen's army!"

Itagaki Seishirō was a little surprised to hear what Kenji Doihara said.

Unexpectedly, Xian Erjun, who came from the intelligence industry, fell into the hands of Zeng Jiwen in his old profession.

Suddenly, their fear of Zeng Jiwen's troops deepened.

At the same time, after discussing for several days, the two always felt that there was something strange about the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei.

As the two of them observed the locust army's attack on the Eighth Route Army from the rear over the past few days, they discovered that there was always a very strange atmosphere.

The Eighth Route Army's resistance on the front line was tenacious and heroic.

The two have been fighting against the Chinese army for so many years, and every time the Chinese army encountered a heavy attack from the locust army, they would think of retreating.

Itagaki thought about how he had led a division to defeat hundreds of thousands of Shanxi defenders last year. He never expected that in less than a year, the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness would be so strong.

In just less than a year, the situation has developed to such an extent!

This made Itagaki dare not imagine what the situation in North China would be like if the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi was given another year to develop.

Moreover, the locust army's attack to the south this time is really strange.

Along the way, the Eighth Route Army resisted fiercely.

However, whenever the locust army attacked most fiercely, Zeng Jiwen's troops began to retreat, as if they were deliberately luring the locust army to advance southward.

Is there something in the north that the Eighth Route Army should be concerned about?

Itagaki Seishirō was puzzled.

Then he told his discovery to Kenji Doihara who was standing beside him.

After hearing what Itagaki Seishirō said, Kenji Doihara was also confused.

Immediately, the intuitive habits developed from years of intelligence work made Kenji Doihara realize that there must be something that the locust army was not aware of.

The locust army was being lured little by little by Zeng Jiwen's troops towards the direction planned by Zeng Jiwen.

Just as Itagaki Seishirō and Doihara Kenji were guessing.

In Zhangjiakou, after receiving a reply from Commander Jun Goromiya, Major General Kanji Tsuneoka, commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, immediately ordered his troops to prepare to move towards Lingqiu area.

But when setting off, he suddenly thought, what if his large team moved towards Lingqiu in a mighty manner.

It will definitely be known to the local Eighth Route Army forces.

If the Eighth Route Army had started to evacuate immediately after learning about this, their plan to encircle the main force of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei would have failed.

Thinking of this, Kanji Tsuneoka felt that he had to come up with a good solution.

It was necessary to make the Eighth Route Army think that the main force of the locust army had no intention of encircling Laiyuan, and at the same time, to move one of its own battalions towards Lingqiu without making any noise.

After much thought, Kanji Tsuneoka came up with a great idea.

That is to let the locust army disperse and move towards Lingqiu.

In this way, even if the local Eighth Route Army noticed that the locust army was moving towards Lingqiu, because of their small number of people, they would not attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army.

Thinking of this, Tsuneoka Kanji immediately decided to advance towards Lingqiu with two infantry companies, one artillery company and a part of the puppet army, totaling more than 800 people.