Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

It can be said that Shan Shang Youjiu was lucky tonight. Normally, he should have been on duty at the headquarters tonight, but he was called to the home of the puppet army commander Meng Zhenghong to drink tonight.

When Yamagami Youjiu and Meng Zhenghong were drinking happily, the sudden explosion in the city instantly woke Yamagami Youjiu up.

Then the sound of gunfire outside the city began to tell Yamagami Youjiu that the Eighth Route Army was attacking Handan.

When Yamagami Yujiu was about to lead his men back to the headquarters, the explosion from the direction of the headquarters suddenly woke up Yamagami Yujiu's somewhat confused brain. He was afraid that the headquarters had been attacked.

The most urgent thing is to quickly send the news of the attack on Handan, otherwise I won’t be able to explain why I died.

So Yamashita Yuuku immediately led his men to the telegraph office controlled by the Japanese army in the city and sent the news of the attack on Handan to the North China Front Army Headquarters and the 14th Division and the 5th Division that were attacking Anyang.

However, what Yamashita Yuuku didn't know was that when he sent the news of the attack on Handan to the North China Front Army and the Japanese troops on the southern Hebei front, Xingtai was also attacked by the Eighth Route Army at the same time.

Two telegrams with almost identical messages were sent to these two places at the same time.

In front of Anyang City.

Looking at the locust army fighting with the Eighth Route Army outside the city, Kenji Doihara and Seishirō Itagaki frowned tightly.

With the locust army's continuous attacks in the past few days, I believe that it will not be long before the locust army will be able to take Anyang.

Since the 14th Division had almost become a hollow shell with only one regiment of locust troops left, the attacking force was basically composed of the 5th Division.

After leaving a regiment in Xingtai, the Fifth Division hurried south with three companies.

When in Handan, due to the urgent situation of the 14th Division, Itagaki Seishirō immediately left one regiment and took two regiments to Ci County to support the 14th Division.

When the two divisions joined forces and attacked southward, Itagaki Seishirō, feeling that he was short of troops, transferred the regiment from Handan over.

At the same time, a temporary security battalion was formed with the logistics troops of the two divisions and stationed in Handan.

After several days of continuous attacks by nearly 20,000 locust soldiers, they are now about to break through the Anyang city gate.

However, the entire locust army has suffered heavy casualties.

The only intact regiment of the 14th Division has now suffered more than half of its casualties, and the same is true for the three regiments brought by its own 5th Division.

However, the two believed that the casualties of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side were not much better.

Because in the past few days the two of them could fully feel that the firepower and resistance of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side had weakened.

However, the two were not sure whether the firepower of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side was really weakened due to casualties or other reasons. In fact, when Wu Lin fought with the 14th Division before, he dug a big hole for the 14th Division, resulting in the annihilation of the division's artillery regiment, and then the entire division's defense line was quickly broken by the Eighth Route Army.

Now seeing that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army has weakened, Kenji Doihara's face suddenly turned dark. The locust army will not fall into the same trap twice!

Suddenly, the signalman from the rear hurried up to the two men and handed them two telegrams sent from the defenders of Handan and Xingtai respectively.

Seeing the signalman's anxious look, the two of them felt a pang of anxiety in their hearts.

There must be some bad news!

The two of them took the telegram and began to read it.

The more they looked down, the gloomier the expressions of Kenji Doihara and Seishirō Itagaki became.

He held the telegram tightly in his hand, looking like he wanted to eat someone.

"idiot!"

"Damn Zeng Jiwen, he's making a fool of the locust army!"