Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

After all, the North China Military Region is under the jurisdiction of Shanxi and Hebei. What are you doing here, Old Xi Yan, staying in my territory?

At this time in the conference room, Zeng Jiwen was looking at the document Huang Hanjia gave him about the development of the troops.

Over the past six months, as the war intensified across China, the situation in North China became somewhat delicate.

A delicate balance began to form between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army.

On the contrary, in the areas of central Hebei and southwestern Shanxi, the Central Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were constantly engaged in small-scale battles with the Japanese army.

After the last loss, the Japanese army in North China has been replenished in large part.

In Jin, the First Army, which had suffered losses, replenished the losses of the 20th Division, the 109th Division and several mixed brigades under it.

In western Hebei, the 5th Division and the 14th Division, after more than half a year of rest, also retook Handan and Xingtai.

In addition, two divisions of the Central China Expeditionary Force marched north, opened up the Pinghan Line with the Japanese troops in North China, and reoccupied Shijiazhuang.

In the north, after the troops from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Northwest Shanxi evacuated, Tada Shun urgently asked the Kwantung Army for help and mobilized a division to occupy Datong and Zhangjiakou.

As for the troops of the Tainan Military Region, after more than half a year of replenishment, the losses suffered in the last Battle of Shijiazhuang have almost recovered.

At the same time, various military sub-districts also began to expand.

The military sub-districts were basically expanded from the original three regiments to four to five regiments.

At the same time, each regiment was expanded from the original 2,200 people to about 3,000 people.

Only the situation of a certain unit made Zeng Jiwen's mouth twitch.

Due to the previous friction between the Ji Zhong region and the south, after discussing the solution with Lu Zhonglin, Zeng Jiwen handed the matter over to Huang Hanjia.

The people in charge were Commander Lu of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth District and Li Yunlong of the First Column.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

Because there were 11 regiments when the original Fourth Division was reorganized.

Therefore, considering the balance of the military region, the division commander Xu in the north assigned the 27th and 29th regiments to the Third Military Sub-district of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei.

However, after the reduction in numbers and the casualties in the Battle of Shijiazhuang, the troops of the Fourth Division maintained a strength of nine regiments without adding any new ones.

Currently, Zeng Jiwen and Zhou Shi are gradually taking over the affairs of North China.

Therefore, Zeng Jiwen planned to establish the Hebei-Central Military Region with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth Division and the First Column.

It was planned to appoint Huang Hanjia as the commander of the Hebei-Central Military Region and Commander Lu as the deputy commander.

After the Ji-Central Military Region is on the right track, Commander Lu will take over the position of commander of the Ji-Central Military Region.

After all, as Zeng Jiwen's work gradually shifted to North China, the newly established North China Military Region needed Huang Hanjia as his deputy to help alleviate the situation.

But unexpectedly, after Huang Hanjia and Commander Lu had a conversation, Li Yunlong somehow heard it.

Feeling that he was short of troops, Li Yunlong pulled out eight regiments of troops from central Hebei.

All the numbers from 100 to 107 regiments were used.

If Huang Hanjia had not discovered it and considered that such expansion would lead to a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops, he would have immediately stopped it and severely punished Li Yunlong.

The new soldiers recruited by this kid were randomly assigned to local areas, and he was only allowed to expand to four regiments at present. Who knows what kind of trouble this kid will cause again.

At the same time, due to Zeng Jiwen's discussion with the north, part of the artillery assigned to each military sub-district has arrived, and the instructors brought by Blucher are now ready to begin training.

In addition, now that the Taihang Arsenal has begun producing standard weapons of the Type 56 family, the entire army's replacement plan is progressing steadily.

Up to now, the progress of equipment replacement has reached the point where each military division has completed the equipment replacement of one regiment.

Seeing this, Zeng Jiwen nodded.

According to this progress, the various weapons production lines supported by the north will also be able to start production next year.

By then, the entire North China Military Region’s troops will have undergone a complete transformation.