Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Itagaki Seishirō looked furious.

This made Kenji Doihara look sideways. Although he was angry about the news that Handan and Xingtai were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, he was not angry enough to look like this.

After all, after looking at the telegram, Kenji Doihara finally understood why he had felt something was wrong during this period.

Zeng Jiwen has set his sights on Handan and Xingtai. It must be said that Zeng Jiwen is really brave. He is not afraid of the locust army's desperate and crazy revenge after they recover their strength.

But then he saw Itagaki Seishirō's crazy look, and he became confused again. What had Zeng Jiwen's troops done to make Itagaki so angry?

In fact, Kenji Doihara's guess was correct, but what Kenji Doihara didn't know was that after Kenji Doihara told Seishirō Itagaki his guesses and doubts, Seishirō Itagaki always had a familiar feeling in his heart.

But he couldn't put it into words specifically. These days, Itagaki Seishirō has been thinking about where this familiar feeling came from.

Now the answer is out.

The moment Itagaki Seishirō saw the telegram, he immediately remembered the same situation last year when he fought against a regiment under Zeng Jiwen's unit of the 389th Brigade.

At that time, he led two regiments and two artillery battalions, and fought with the regiment under Zeng Jiwen for almost a whole day. In the end, he did not expect that the equipment and weapons and equipment transported by the Locust Army on the Zhengtai Line were ambushed!

When he rushed to support in a hurry, he didn't expect that after working all night, he didn't get anything. As a result, his artillery battalion was ambushed by Zeng Jiwen's troops.

For the entire night, he had his Fifth Division and Twentieth Division running back and forth like walking a dog.

Now, when he saw that Handan and Xingtai were attacked by Zeng Jiwen's troops, Itagaki Seishirō immediately realized that this was another trick of Zeng Jiwen to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

I just said that I felt something was wrong along the way, and this time I was being led by Zeng Jiwen again.

Thinking of this, Itagaki Seishirō was so angry that his nose was crooked, and the composure he had always maintained was broken at this moment.

After venting for a while, Itagaki Seishirō told his discovery and speculation to Doihara Kenji who was standing beside him, and expressed his guess that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army troops on the front line had weakened in recent days and he was afraid that there would be heavy casualties. It was estimated that the main force had moved to the rear of him and others.

As for what will happen next, there is no need to guess. The locust army will be blocked by the Eighth Route Army again on its way back to provide support.

Kenji Doihara, who was standing by, was also a little surprised after hearing Itagaki's guess.

In this way, it makes sense.

It doesn't make sense at all if we send troops to southern Hebei to rescue Zeng Jiwen just because that idiot Yuan was trying to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei.

After all, he still believed that Zeng Jiwen had the ability to directly poke a hole in the entire Shota line.

However, contrary to Kenji Doihara's expectations, except for the previous exchange of fire between the 108th Division and a small part of Zeng Jiwen's troops, there was no movement on the entire Shotai Line. Instead, southern Hebei was constantly harassed by Zeng Jiwen's troops, who even went south to northern Henan and captured Anyang, causing the two divisions to pay a huge price in casualties.

Now that the case has been solved, Zeng Jiwen's targets are Handan and Xingtai.

All the previous troop movements were Zeng Jiwen's tricks. His real goal was Handan and Xingtai.

However, Handan and Xingtai were garrisoned by their two divisions respectively. If they wanted to capture these two cities, the best way would be to transfer their two divisions.