Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Thinking of this, Yamashita Kenya began to urge the locust army in Shijiazhuang again, asking the signalman to send a telegram to ask where the reinforcements had arrived.

At one o'clock in the morning, Yamashita Qian sent a telegram to Shijiazhuang requesting support, and he left the city at three o'clock less than three hours later.

At two o'clock, the brigade commander had ordered two battalions of locust troops to leave the city and reinforce Jingxing.

It has been four hours since the locust army set out. The frontline troops reinforcing the locust army should have arrived in Jingxing. Why haven't they arrived yet?

Shijiazhuang is not far from Jingxing. It takes four hours, and even if the locust army takes a short walk, they should be there.

However, Yamashita Ken was afraid that he would never receive another telegram requesting reinforcements from the Japanese army.

As the two battalions of Japanese troops in Shijiazhuang left the city, Huang Hanjia and others in the Seventh District Command immediately discussed and deliberated and ordered the three regiment commanders of the Beiyue District to rush to Xia'an Village and Shang'an Village between Jingxing and Shijiazhuang to ambush the two Japanese battalions coming out of Shijiazhuang.

Under the cover of firepower from two artillery battalions, more than 9,000 soldiers from three regiments separated more than 2,000 Japanese troops from two battalions in the narrow strip of land between the two villages of Shangxia'an, and gradually completed the division, encirclement and annihilation.

At the same time that Yamashita Kenye retreated to the county town, the two Japanese reinforcement battalions were also wiped out.

At the same time, a battalion of the 109th Division, which set out from Yangquan, had just passed Niangzi Pass and was heading towards Nanyu Railway Station.

Near Nanyu Station, the 758th Regiment of the 395th Brigade, which was lying in ambush nearby, had already set up a net and was waiting.

When this battalion of the 108th Division arrived at Nanyu for rest, the 758th Regiment launched a surprise attack and the entire regiment surrounded Nanyu Station.

At the same time, relying on the terrain, the flying thunder cannons installed on the mountain easily dropped the explosive packs into the Japanese army's strongly defended fortifications, directly blowing up the Japanese army's newly built fortifications.

Since the entire Nanyu Station is not large, the First Battalion is stationed very densely in the station.

By the time the explosion subsided, there were not many Japanese soldiers left in the entire brigade who survived the explosion.

As the 758th Regiment launched its final attack under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire, the entire supporting Japanese brigade was quickly wiped out by the powerful firepower of the 758th Regiment.

The time goes back to 12 o'clock in the morning, outside Handan City.

At this time, the three regiments of the 4th Column had quietly moved from the Xingtai area to the vicinity of Handan, and a special operations squadron that had been lurking in the city also began to prepare to create chaos in the city.

At the same time, local groups around Handan also gathered and prepared early, and there were also many militia teams and donkey carts.

As for Wu'an, which is not far from Handan and close to the upper side of Taihang Mountain, the Japanese army has temporarily withdrawn from the area because it had previously been a base in southeastern Shanxi.

Previously, Kenji Doihara stationed an infantry battalion in Wuan as a bridgehead in the hope of tying down Zeng Jiwen's troops. However, due to the large number of Eighth Route Army armed forces active in the towns and villages around Wuan, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties every time they went to the countryside to sweep. In the end, the Japanese army simply did not go out of the city to sweep and just stayed in the county town.

Previously, the 14th Division in Handan always sent a reinforced infantry battalion to transport supplies to Wuan.

Now, with the war in southern Hebei, the Japanese army brigade in Wuan also began to withdraw and return to their base.

After learning the news, Wu Lin immediately ordered local troops to move into Wu'an.

According to the current situation, the Japanese army may not be able to attack Wuan for a long time. Instead, they have to guard against the Eighth Route Army eyeing Handan after it recaptures Wuan.

Currently, the entire Handan is guarded by only one battalion of Japanese troops plus a security regiment under the Public Security Army. This time, the Fourth Column dispatched three regiments, which can be regarded as giving face to the Japanese troops in the city.