Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At six in the morning on October 13, outside Jingxing City.

At this time, the three regiments of the Eighth Route Army, which had already surrounded and annihilated the two battalions of Japanese reinforcements, had also arrived outside Jingxing County. Together with Commander Lu's three regiments, they surrounded Jingxing County tightly.

Without using any tricks, under the bombardment of 24 artillery pieces from two artillery battalions, a hole was soon made in the Jingxing city wall. Then six regiments of the Eighth Route Army broke into the city and wiped out the remaining Japanese soldiers of the 79th Regiment.

The whole time lasted less than an hour.

After eliminating the Japanese troops in Jingxing County, Commander Lu received an order from Huang Hanjia and began to move along Niangzi Pass with three regiments of troops. At the same time, a regiment of the 395th Brigade met them at Nanyu Station.

The three regiments from the First Division also immediately rushed back to Shijiazhuang, ready to participate in the battle to encircle Shijiazhuang at any time.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, in the command center on the mountain east of Shijiazhuang City.

Huang Hanjia, Wu Lin and everyone from District 7 are observing the situation in Shijiazhuang.

Starting from the morning, the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang began to impose martial law, and all the city gates were closed, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

When Huang Hanjia saw this situation, he immediately ordered the 86th Regiment to launch a surprise attack and occupy Zhengding.

The 87th and 89th Regiments cut off the Japanese army's retreat routes in Shijiazhuang from the east and south respectively.

At present, the three regiments of Beiyue District have arrived outside Shijiazhuang City and built forward positions, and are now waiting for Huang Hanjia's order to start the attack.

Originally, according to the idea of ​​Huang Hanjia, Liu Ming and others, they wanted to launch an attack on the Shijiazhuang troops at dawn, but a subsequent situation made them give up this idea. If the intelligence was true, then the Japanese troops in the city were probably standing on a powder keg at this time.

Previously, in order to better capture Shijiazhuang, the special operations brigade had been constantly disassembling various equipment and sneaking into the city in various ways. They marked the locations of important strongholds such as the Japanese barracks and transportation stations, and waited for the large forces outside the city to start attacking before they began to create chaos.

In order to successfully capture Shijiazhuang this time, in addition to one special operations battalion carrying out combat missions in other directions, two special operations battalions totaling 216 people, led by Zhou Weiguo, quietly sneaked into the city and hid in hidden strongholds everywhere.

After more than ten days of reconnaissance by more than 200 special operations team members, the soldiers of the special operations team had a clear understanding of all the Japanese military deployments in Shijiazhuang.

At the same time, all the bunkers built by the Japanese army and some artillery positions were marked and sent out of the city.

Now there is a detailed map of the Japanese army's firepower deployment on Huang Hanjia's desk in the headquarters.

At present, 72 artillery pieces of the two artillery regiments have been put in place.

Each artillery piece was basically assigned a firepower point target that needed to be attacked, and even the azimuth, wind direction, elevation angle and other positions had all been calculated. They were just waiting for Huang Hanjia's order to start focusing on the Japanese firepower points.

As long as these Japanese firepower points outside the city wall were eliminated, the Japanese troops in Shijiazhuang would be like a toothless tiger, and they could do whatever they wanted to them.

When Huang Hanjia was about to give the order to prepare for the attack, the soldiers of the special operations brigade lurking in Shijiazhuang sent intelligence. One of their soldiers, during a temporary reconnaissance, discovered a dilapidated passage under the Japanese barracks, and he could sneak into the Japanese barracks through the passage.

Moreover, the exit was in an abandoned stable not far behind a barracks dormitory. The Japanese army did not conduct a detailed inspection of the entire stable. Because it was rather dilapidated, the Japanese army did not repair the place, and it has been abandoned here ever since.