Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

"The time has come!"

"Chief of Staff Tang! Send our unit's information to headquarters and Tainan. Tell them that our military region is preparing to begin the third phase of the combat plan and that they can take action!"

After hearing the division commander's order, Chief of Staff Tang immediately sent the message to the General Command and Tainan Military Region.

General Headquarters.

After receiving the news from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the deputy commander was quite surprised that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region had killed the commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, Hiroharu Tsuneoka.

I didn’t expect that there would be an unexpected surprise during this autumn’s anti-mopping-up campaign.

And in Tainan.

After Zeng Jiwen received the telegram from Jin-Cha-Ji, he immediately began to think about the current situation with Wang Zhuo and Zhou Shi.

Since the North China Front Army launched a large-scale mop-up operation against the troops in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, the troops on the front line have been fighting the Japanese army for half a month.

At present, the two independent mixed brigades of Taiyuan have engaged in fighting with the 1st Column and the 393rd Brigade in Jiexiu, Xiaoyi and other places.

At this time, the Fifth Division in southern Hebei had already attacked Anyang.

Wu Lin was commanding his troops to rely on Anyang to fight against the Japanese offensive forces.

As for the north.

Recently, the 395th Brigade has been confronting the 108th Division along the entire Zhengtai Line. Due to the 395th Brigade's continuous attacks on the Zhengtai Line, the 108th Division has now assembled its large forces in Yangquan and Shouyang.

He completely abandoned the entire Shota line and has been hiding in a large stronghold and has not come out.

Now, there is only one step left, and the Tainan Military Region will play the leading role in this step.

According to the previous plan, this time the 395th Brigade was to threaten the 108th Division on the Zhengtai Line and try to annihilate the 108th Division again. At the same time, three regiments and an independent detachment of the 7th Column in the northeast direction, together with the six regiments coming to support from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, did not show up.

Now the 108th Division is hiding in Yangquan and Shouyang.

In the battle to capture Pingding, the 117th Regiment of the 108th Division was defeated by the 395th Brigade.

At the same time, the 132nd Regiment stationed in Shouyang and the 105th Regiment along the line also suffered heavy losses.

Now, the only relatively intact unit in the entire 108th Division is the 52nd Regiment previously stationed in Jingxing.

According to the intelligence reported by the 395th Brigade over the past half month, except for the 52nd Regiment, the other two regiments are now in a state of organizational disarray.

At the same time, except for the initial period, the 20th Division of Taiyuan, and its 40th Brigade, led by Brigade Commander Yoshio Kamitsuki, went to Shijiazhuang for stationing, and the 39th Brigade is still in Jinzhong.

As the 52nd Regiment in Jingxing withdrew to Yangquan, the 79th Regiment under the 40th Brigade began to be stationed in Jingxing.

Now is the time to start planning the attack on Shijiazhuang.

At present, in Shijiazhuang, apart from a regiment of the 40th Brigade of the 20th Division and a mixed brigade of Japanese reserve troops that have not yet been organized, there is only one security brigade of the puppet army.

The total number of Japanese and puppet troops was less than 13,000.

On the afternoon of the 10th.

Based on the current battlefield situation, after discussion, Zeng Jiwen issued the first phase combat plan to capture Shijiazhuang.

Starting from the early morning of the 11th, the troops under the military region began to change their combat methods from luring the Japanese troops deep into their territory. Throughout the 11th and 12th, the main force of the troops began to detour to the rear of the Japanese army and began to prepare to block the Japanese army in sections on the way back for support.

In the early morning of the 13th, three regiments were dispatched to Jingxing to surround Jingxing and attract the Japanese troops in Shijiazhuang to come out of the city for reinforcements.

If the Japanese army goes out of the city to reinforce, the Japanese reinforcements will be destroyed on the way.

At the same time, a regiment was detached to prevent the Japanese troops of the 108th Division in Yangquan from reinforcing Jingxing.

After destroying the Japanese reinforcements, the three regiments surrounding Jingxing immediately launched an attack on the Japanese troops in Jingxing and annihilated them in Jingxing.

The 395th Brigade blocked possible reinforcements from the Japanese army in Jinzhong and Shouyang on the Zhengtai Line.

As for the remaining troops of the 110th Division in the north and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade in Yun County, they were handed over to the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to hold them back.

After Zeng Jiwen issued the order, the troops of the entire Tainan Military Region began to take action.

18 pm.

Anyang, southern Hebei.

In the command center in the city, when Wu Lin received the order from the military district headquarters, he immediately ordered the front-line troops to gradually withdraw from Anyang, and began to move in a roundabout way along the Taihang Mountains to the rear of the Japanese army.

The Fourth Military Division.

At this time, Xun Bai, commander of the Fourth Column, was looking at Handan City where the Japanese troops were stationed not far from Handan City. At the same time, he was holding a telegram he had just received from the military district headquarters.