Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

The captain of the 12th Regiment looked pale.

Judging from the situation on the entire battlefield, the ambush took place when it was almost dark yesterday. Based on the previous ambush location of the Eighth Route Army, it was quickly determined that there were at least two thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers who ambushed General Tsuneoka Kanji.

The strength of an entire regiment immediately made the commander of the 12th Regiment break out in cold sweat.

As far as the Locust Army knows, there are more than ten regiments of the Eighth Route Army around them, and after the sweep, the Second Independent Mixed Brigade is probably crippled. Now the main force of the Eighth Route Army is gathered in Laiyuan. If the main force of the Eighth Route Army comes towards Lingqiu, can their regiment still escape?

Immediately, he ordered his own brigade to retreat towards Guangling, and at the same time ordered the two brigade in Lingqiu to immediately retreat to Hunyuan.

Then, while retreating, he reported the news of Tsuneoka Kanji's attack to the division commander, Goromiya Jun.

When Jun Hougong in Datong received the information from the 12th Regiment, he was a little confused.

What's going on? Isn't Tsuneoka Kanji planning to seek revenge on the Eighth Route Army? This...

Afterwards, when Jun Hougong saw the speculation of the captain of the 12th Regiment, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

Why are the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei becoming more and more numerous?

A few days ago, it was said that three regiments of the Eighth Route Army in the Beiyue District were wiped out, but then the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei appeared in Laiyuan.

Laiyuan already has seven main regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

Including the Eighth Route Army fighting the locust army in other places, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei has more than ten regiments.

Suddenly, Hou Gongjun thought of the previous battle between the First Army and the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi. At that time, Okabe Naozaburo estimated Zeng Jiwen's troops in southeastern Shanxi to be more than a dozen regiments. However, after the locust army failed to sweep the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi, the Eighth Route Army troops emerged one after another.

The Eighth Route Army of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei would not be like this.

For a moment, Hou Gong Chun also began to feel that the situation was not good.

If the Eighth Route Army still had troops hiding, and if their own troops went deep into the Beiyue area to conduct a sweep, would they be able to follow the First Army's rear?

Thinking of this, Hou Gongjun immediately ordered the front-line troops to begin evacuating to Datong for support.

As for Sugiyama Gen's autumn sweep, I'm sorry, although the Mongolian garrison is currently under the command of the North China Front Army, but now that things have come to this point, if we continue to let this idiot Gen give blind orders, my own Mongolian garrison will probably suffer heavy losses.

Noon on the 10th, Peking.

At this time, Sugiyama Gen was in the headquarters listening to reports from the locust armies below on the current situation of the autumn sweep in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei.

Suddenly, a telegram from the signalman disrupted Sugiyama Gen's thoughts.

When Chief of Staff Tomoyuki Yamashita hurriedly walked towards Sugiyama Motomu with a panicked look on his face, holding the telegram sent by Hou Gongjun to the North China Front Army, Sugiyama Moto's heart suddenly skipped a beat, wondering which mopping-up force had run into trouble again.

"Commander, we must stop the raid on the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei!" Yamashita Tomoyuki said to Sugiyama Gen with a serious face.

When Sugiyama Gen heard Yamashita Tomoyuki talking about withdrawing troops again, he did not scold him this time, but took the telegram with a little fear in his heart.

When Sugiyama Gen saw Hou Gongjun's report in the telegram, his face suddenly turned pale when he learned that the commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, Tsuneoka Kanji, was ambushed by a regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Eighth Route Army in the Shimenyu area of ​​the mountainous area behind Guangling City on his way to Lingqiu last night.

Then his breathing began to become rapid, and he held the telegram tightly with both hands.

When the people around saw their commander like this, they didn't dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing the commander and being chopped to death by the commander's sword.