Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Attacking the city would cause heavy casualties to the troops, so why not just let the Japanese leave the city on their own?

And this Jingxing Coal Mine is a good bait.

You know, if the Japanese army went to the Jingxing mining area, there would be too many places in the areas of Macao Ridge and Jiangou Village where they could ambush the Japanese reinforcements.

It is entirely possible to let a regiment surround the entire mining area, let the Japanese in the mining area ask for help from the county defenders, then eliminate the reinforcements in this area, and then take over the entire mining area.

In this way, there were only a few Japanese troops left in Jingxing County. Finally, they surrounded Jingxing and waited until other troops eliminated the reinforcements from Shijiazhuang. Then they could directly take Jingxing with the fire support of the artillery battalion.

After considering the entire combat plan, Commander Lu immediately assigned combat tasks to the three regimental commanders.

The 16th Regiment surrounded and attacked a large brigade of Japanese troops in the Jingxing mining area.

Then the 17th and 18th Regiments ambushed the Japanese reinforcements on their way out of Jingxing City.

According to Commander Lu's estimation, when the Japanese troops in the Jingxing mining area found themselves surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, the number of Japanese troops that Jingxing County could send to support them would not exceed one battalion, and at most a part of the puppet troops.

The other two regiments of more than 6,000 people ambushed more than 1,000 Japanese garrison troops. Together with the equipment that Deputy Commander Huang had replenished for his own troops when he came to Tainan, it was more than enough.

So, the three regiments immediately began to act according to the predetermined combat plan.

Early morning on the 13th.

The 16th Regiment launched an attack on the Jingxing mining area on time. Since there was a secret passage leading directly to the Jingxing mining area, the entire mission of the 16th Regiment was to launch a feint attack to encourage the Japanese troops in the mining area to ask Jingxing for help.

Sure enough, when the Jingxing mining area was attacked by the 16th Regiment, the captain of the 3rd Battalion of the 79th Regiment stationed in the Jingxing mining area, Daiki Koura, estimated that there were at least 3,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers surrounding the mining area. He immediately asked for help from Kenya Yamashita, the captain of the 79th Regiment in the county seat.

In Jingxing County, when Yamashita Qianye was awakened by the guards, he received the news that the Jingxing mining area was attacked by the Eighth Route Army.

According to Xiao Pu Dahui's report, the Eighth Route Army deployed at least 3,000 people to surround the Jingxing mining area.

This is basically the organization of a large group.

Soon, Yamashita Qian also determined that this must be a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't know which unit of Zeng Jiwen this unit belonged to.

Ever since he heard that the 117th Regiment of the 108th Division was defeated by a regiment of the Eighth Route Army under Zeng Jiwen in Pingding and had to flee back to Yangquan in a panic, Yamashita Ken had felt something was wrong.

Sure enough, as the 108th Division withdrew the regiment from Jingxing to defend Yangquan, its own regiment was sent to be stationed in Jingxing.

When I came to Jingxing, I was also unsure about what to do.

After all, he has a relatively clear idea of ​​what the 79th Regiment is like now.

Due to the complete destruction of the 79th Regiment, the entire regiment was reorganized with only new recruits. Although the quality of the soldiers was much better than that of the 108th Division, the locust troops of the entire division have gradually developed a fear of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi.

Zeng Jiwen's troops grew stronger by stepping on the corpses of the locust army of the 20th Division.

Before this, there were voices throughout the division calling for revenge against Zeng Jiwen’s 389th Division.

However, as the two regiments of the 16th Division were surrounded and annihilated by Zeng Jiwen's troops in the middle of the year, the other locust-sweeping armies also suffered heavy losses.

Some time ago, Zeng Jiwen's large force in southern Hebei caused the 14th Division to suffer another setback. Now the 14th Division is just an empty shell, resulting in the fact that the entire division no longer speaks of revenge against the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi.

As long as Zeng Jiwen's troops did not cause trouble for the 20th Division, the locust army would turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

However, as Yamashita Kenye was sent to Jingxing for garrison, he began to feel a little nervous.

After all, he had received information before that a large number of Eighth Route Army troops were active in Jingxing, often trapping the locust army in the county town and preventing them from leaving the city to conduct raids.

The 108th Division retreated to Yangquan, which clearly showed that Zeng Jiwen's troops were planning to attack the Zhengtai Line again.

And my own regiment has enough troops.

Kenya Yamashita has always been skeptical about whether he can hold Jingxing under the plan of the Eighth Route Army.

He was previously in the reserve force, but when he heard that the locust army on the front line was winning victory after victory on the Chinese battlefield, he applied to his superiors for transfer to the front battlefield. Coincidentally, the 79th Regiment was reorganized, and he became the commander of the 79th Regiment.

However, based on his own personal experience this year, Yamashita Kenya had already cursed those people in the domestic military in his heart.

This is totally wrong from what the newspaper said. Oh, not entirely right.

The locust army was winning victory after victory on the front battlefield, but these people did not mention that the locust army in Jin was almost defeated by Zeng Jiwen's troops in China and developed Zeng phobia.

When Ken'ya Yamashita first took office, he was disdainful and believed that the previous First Army Locust Army lacked the spirit of Bushido.

However, as he watched Zeng Jiwen's troops gradually grow stronger in the battles with the Locust Army over the past year, Yamashita Qian also had a premonition that this First Army would sooner or later become a quagmire, and it would be better to get out of it as soon as possible.

So when he was preparing to apply to his distant relative, Chief of Staff Yamashita, who was in the North China Front Army, to transfer him to another front, he did not expect that Commander Sugiyama Gen would launch a large-scale sweep of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and his brigade was ordered to stay in Shijiazhuang.

Yamashita Kenya immediately felt something was wrong, because Zeng Jiwen's troops were right next to them, and Zeng Jiwen could only stand by and watch.

Sure enough, as the 108th Division was attacked by Zeng Jiwen's troops, his own regiment was sent to Jingxing to replace the regiment of the 108th Division.

This already made Yamashita Kenya feel uneasy.

However, the calmness in the Jingxing area in recent days made Yamashita Kenye believe that Zeng Jiwen's troops were not paying attention to this area.

I didn't expect that just after I had recovered for a few days, something happened at the mining area.

After receiving the news from the Third Battalion, Yamashita Kenya was a little confused for a moment.

If I send troops out of the city to support the Third Battalion now, I am likely to be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

At present, a regiment of the Eighth Route Army has surrounded the mining area, and there may be Eighth Route Army soldiers lurking nearby on our side.

If we reinforce the mining area by ourselves, if we send too many troops, the defense of the county town will be left empty. Once other main forces of the Eighth Route Army besiege the city and capture Jingxing, it will be a lot of fun.

But if he doesn't send troops, his third battalion will be in danger.

Thinking of this, Yamashita Kenye thought for a long time, and finally, Yamashita Kenye came up with a solution.