Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the same time, he immediately handed the telegram to Yamashita Tomoyuki, his expression began to become anxious, and he began to ask Yamashita Tomoyuki anxiously.

"Yamashita-kun, look at the message sent by Division Commander Doi. To what extent do you think his guess is true?"

Yamashita Tomoyuki was watching Commander Sugiyama Hajime's face from the side. Ever since the commander received the telegram, the expression on his face had been constantly changing, which immediately confused Yamashita Tomoyuki.

I had just calmed down for a while, but now I started to panic again, and then started asking myself questions for no apparent reason.

Feeling that something was wrong, Yamashita Tomoyuki immediately took the telegram from Sugiyama Gen and began to read it quickly.

After Yamashita Tomoyuki read the telegram sent by Kenji Doihara, he suddenly understood.

Most of the doubts I had over the past few days were immediately resolved.

But then, his expression turned serious.

The current situation is a bit tricky for the North China Front Army.

Especially if the guess of Division Commander Doi really came true, then the entire North China Front Army would probably become a joke in the end.

Especially now that the South is about to win, the North China Front Army's move at this time is like a slap in the face of the headquarters.

Thinking of this, Yamashita Tomoyuki felt that it was really necessary to follow the advice of Division Commander Kenji Doihara.

It turned out that the telegram sent by Kenji Doihara to the North China Front Army was mainly Zeng Jiwen's speculation about the locust army's combat objectives.

The view goes back to a few hours ago.

When Kenji Doihara learned that Xingtai and Handan were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and learned from Seishirō Itagaki how Zeng Jiwen's troops, when they were still the 389th Brigade, had fooled the 5th Division and the 20th Division, he immediately realized.

Zeng Jiwen’s target is definitely not Handan and Xingtai.

After all, as it was a plain area, Kenji Doihara saw clearly that even if Zeng Jiwen's troops really recaptured Handan and Xingtai, once the locust army came to support, the Eighth Route Army would still withdraw from the city after fighting with the locust army.

After all, no matter how powerful Zeng Jiwen's troops are, facing the possible heavy attack of the locust army, even if Zeng Jiwen has 100,000 troops, it is impossible for him to fight the locust army for one or two cities.

It is obvious that Zeng Jiwen is planning something.

When Kenji Doihara suddenly remembered that a large amount of military supplies of the locust army was stored in Handan City and Xingtai, his face suddenly changed.

But then, he ignored it and shook his head.

The 14th Division was fighting with Zeng Jiwen's troops in southern Hebei. The troops fighting against the locust army left a deep impression on Kenji Doihara.

If Zeng Jiwen only wanted to transport supplies to the south, he would not have gone to so much trouble to capture Anyang in northern Henan and tie down the Fifth Division in Xingtai at the same time.

At least from Kenji Doihara's observations during this period, Zeng Jiwen's troops in southeastern Shanxi were very strange. In addition to their firepower equipment being no less than that of the Locust Army, they even had heavy artillery of more than 100mm to fire at the Locust Army.

As for the equipment on the front line that was similar to the Locust Army's grenade launcher, it also caused a large number of casualties to the Locust Army.

If he simply wanted to steal the supplies from the locust army heading south, it would be unlikely. Various signs indicate that Zeng Jiwen has already established a certain military industry in southeastern Shanxi and has initially gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of lack of weapons and equipment.

It is a pity that the division's 105mm heavy artillery battalion is now in the south. If it had not been transferred south to support the Battle of Wuhan, Zeng Jiwen's troops would have had a chance to see what real heavy artillery is.