Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

That night, martial law was imposed in the entire Third District base area.

At the same time, troops from the Third District blocked Wu'an County.

A middle-aged doctor and an apprentice in his twenties were walking tiredly on their way back to the pharmacy in the middle of the night.

When passing by a house next to the pharmacy, the apprentice used the excuse of going to the bathroom and knocked on the door when he came back.

He slipped in a note and returned to the pharmacy.

After a while, sparse noises were heard from inside the house.

A man with a crew cut picked up the note that fell behind the door. After reading the content on it, he nodded to a middle-aged man about 1.6 meters tall not far away.

The middle-aged man then returned to the room and gently took out a wooden box from the secret compartment.

Then after taking out the contents and assembling them, it turned out to be a mobile radio station.

After sending the signal again, the middle-aged man put away the radio and hid it in the secret compartment again.

Handan, three o'clock in the morning.

At this time, Kenji Doihara was in the command center, looking at the distribution map of forces around Handan.

Suddenly, the intelligence chief, Kenya Satake, walked in.

"General!

Shadow telegraphed that Viper had succeeded."

Hearing what Kenya Satake said, Kenji Doihara's expression suddenly became excited.

But then he remembered something and asked worriedly.

"Is the information accurate?"

"Yes, our people have seen it firsthand. The Eighth Route Army in Wuan has now imposed martial law."

Satake Kenzai replied.

Hearing the answer he wanted, Kenji Doihara perked up.

"This time,

Let’s start with the 389th Division’s troops in southern Hebei!”

Kenji Doihara said this in a decisive tone.

Immediately looked at the communications soldier beside him.

"Tell Yamashita-kun that their division has sent out its vanguard troops and can now proceed.

Also, have Guan Yu and his brigade start marching towards Wuan now."

Upon receiving the news in Shahe, the 4th Division, led by Division Commander Yamashita Tomoyuki, immediately assembled its troops.

When the 27th Brigade of the 14th Division arrived in Wuan, it was prepared to start a sweep from Shahe towards Wuan in a southwest direction.

At the same time, the 61st Infantry Regiment of the Dispatch Division, led by Regiment Commander Terauchi Isamu, moved towards Wu'an as the vanguard.

In Kenji Doihara's plan, he wanted to eliminate the command center of the Eighth Route Army's Southern Hebei Division by planting spies in the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

Then send troops to quickly occupy Wuan, and then encircle the Eighth Route Army troops around Wuan together with the Fourth Division.

This method was thought up by Kenji Doihara after he read the battle report of Shijiazhuang during the last battle of Shijiazhuang.

In this way, if the 389th Division's troops in southern Hebei suffered a devastating blow.

At the same time, the surrounding divisions maintained their troop threat, so Zeng Jiwen's 389th Division could not move easily and support the National Army in Zhongtiao Mountain.

As Kenji Doihara's order was issued, the Japanese troops in Handan and Shahe began to move out.

Not far from Shahe.

At this time, a local independent regiment in Wuan County was lurking not far from Shahe and observing the situation of the Japanese army.

After a while, a young man with a crew cut appeared in front of the leader of the independent regiment.

"Brother Li, the Japanese soldiers in Shahe City have gathered. Now a regiment of Japanese soldiers has left the city."

The man said breathlessly to the man next to him.

"Why are you the only one left? It's so lively?"

"He's still watching the Japs. I'll come back and tell you when I see him."

Hearing this, the independent regiment leader Li Chishui narrowed his eyes and thought about it.

Then he turned around and looked at the people around him and said.

"This time our regiment is pretending to be the main force, so we definitely can't stop the Japanese regiment.

But we had to create the appearance that there were a lot of us and that we were fleeing in panic.

So, Chen Feng, take it easy later."

Then he turned to look at Political Commissar Zhang Liujin and said.

"Political Commissar, the civilians along the way have mostly evacuated."