Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

In fact, what Shangyue Liangfu did not expect was that it was not that the First Army and the North China Front Army did not respond to Shangyue Liangfu, but that the First Army and the North China Front Army were now arguing with each other.

After Kenji Doihara discovered Zeng Jiwen's intention and reported it to the North China Front Army and the First Army, Naozaburo Okabe and the First Army Headquarters have been communicating with the North China Front Army Headquarters.

At this time, there were serious differences of opinion within the entire North China Front Army. Some supported the strategies proposed by Kenji Doihara and the other, while others opposed them.

The opposition was mainly concentrated in other divisions of the North China Front Army, while the generals of the divisions under the First Army all advocated adopting the crazy ideas of Kenji Doihara and the other two.

Anyway, the First Army has become like this. There is no construction without destruction. The military and industrial strength of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi must be eliminated and their base must be destroyed. Otherwise, if this continues, the First Army will not be able to defeat the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi.

The other divisions of the North China Front Army held the opposite attitude. Although your First Army suffered heavy losses, the other locust armies did not. The losses were due to the incompetence of your First Army, but you have to drag the entire North China Front Army to take the blame.

However, some generals supported the plans of Kenji Doihara and others.

This matter was really too big. If the Eighth Route Army really took Shijiazhuang, no one in the entire North China Front Army could afford such a loss, whether it was the supplies stored in Shijiazhuang for the North China Front Army or the subsequent impact after the capture.

At the same time, the news that the Eighth Route Army surrounded Shijiazhuang in the morning began to spread to all directions through intelligence personnel from various underground forces in Shijiazhuang.

Only Shijiazhuang was at the center of the vortex at this time. After the Eighth Route Army surrounded Shijiazhuang, there was an exchange of fire when they attacked a Japanese squadron in Zhengding. Now the Japanese and Eighth Route Army were confronting each other on the front line, as if it was the calm before the war.

October 13, 1:00 p.m., Tainan Military Region Headquarters.

At this time, Zeng Jiwen, Political Commissar Zhou Shi, and Chief of Staff Wang Zhuo were looking at the news summarized by all parties, and the entire command center was filled with a solemn atmosphere.

According to the previous plan, after they surrounded Shijiazhuang, it stands to reason that the Japanese troops should have returned to reinforce Shijiazhuang at all costs.

However, according to the current news from the front line, now, except for the Japanese troops in front of Anyang, they are already fighting with the three brigades commanded by Wu Lin and the Fourth Column commanded by Xun Bai on the way back to support.

There were no unusual movements by Japanese troops in Taiyuan or other areas of North China.

At present, the Japanese troops in these places have only strengthened their vigilance, and the fighting with the Eighth Route Army has stopped.

This strange situation was completely different from the Japanese army's reaction that they had discussed before.

Logically speaking, if the Japanese army learned that Shijiazhuang was surrounded, they would not have sent reinforcements immediately, or at least would not have been as indifferent as they are now.

For a moment, the three of them were a little confused about what the Japanese army was up to.

But one thing is certain. As generals with many years of experience in commanding troops, Zeng Jiwen and Wang Zhuo both realized that the Japanese army might be planning a big move.

Looking at the map, Wang Zhuo frowned tightly.

It doesn't make sense. The Japanese army is not moving at all. Even if you pretend to send a few people to support Shijiazhuang, they will not react like this.

Zeng Jiwen looked at the Japanese troops marked on the map, and suddenly turned his gaze to the Japanese troops around Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and at the same time, thought of the mobile forces in Sugiyama Gen's hands.

Suddenly I had a bad guess.

Could it be that this time we had really stepped on the tail of the Japanese army? Did the Japanese army really have a big move in mind?