Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

After reading the telegram, Yamashita Tomoyuki immediately stood up and spoke to the people around him.

"Order Terauchi Isamu to immediately prepare defenses in Zhaodian.

We must protect the Eighth Route Army’s marching pots.

Other units of the division, urgently assemble to support Terauchi's Yonglian Regiment at Zhaodian!"

The chief of staff heard the division commander's words and nodded excitedly.

He said he would send a telegram to Terauchi Isamu immediately.

Just as he was about to turn around, Yamashita Tomoyuki suddenly called him again.

"Wait!

Report the news that Terauchi Isamu seized the Eighth Route Army's marching pot to the Peking headquarters.

He then sent a telegram to Division Commander Kenji Doihara in Handan to explain the situation and asked the 27th Brigade to change the direction of attack and provide support to Zhaodian.

The aviation units of Handan and Shijiazhuang will immediately launch a carpet bombing operation on the area surrounding Zhaodian."

"Okay, I'll report immediately."

After the chief of staff finished speaking, he immediately rushed to the telegraph room and sent a telegram to the 14th Division and the North China Front Army.

Handan, 14th Division Headquarters.

Suddenly, the signalman rushed to Kenji Doihara's conference room.

"General~

There is important information!"

The signalman saluted and spoke urgently.

Kenji Doihara was checking the battle situation in the Yongfeng Mountain area at this time. When he heard the report from the signalman, he was a little surprised.

When he took the telegram and saw the content, he stood up immediately.

There was an incredible expression on his face.

"Nani~"

Then he immediately asked.

"Has it been verified?"

"General, we have confirmed several times that the vanguard troops of the Fourth Division did seize the 'Eighth Route Army Marching Pot' in Zhaodian, northeast of Wu'an!

The 4th Division has already rushed there urgently."

Upon hearing the news, Kenji Doihara was extremely excited.

Immediately said to the signalman.

"Order Brigade Commander Guan Yu to immediately halt the attack on the Eighth Route Army at Yongfeng Mountain and immediately change course to support the Fourth Division."

Kenji Doihara stood in the conference room and thought about it.

"Also, tell the aviation unit.

Even if all the planes were shot down by the Eighth Route Army, they would continue to bomb the Eighth Route Army troops in the northeast direction without interruption.

The remaining troops of the division must urgently assemble and immediately support the 4th Division! "

Beiping.

When Tada Shun was told by Kasahara Yukio who looked excited and anxious.

The 4th Division seized the "Eighth Route Army Marching Pot" in Zhaodian, southern Hebei.

At the same time, the 4th Division and the 14th Division had already fully supported Zhaodian.

I was also stunned by this huge surprise.

Tada Shun did not expect that Zeng Jiwen, the commander of the 389th Division of the Eighth Route Army who had caused him a headache, was captured alive by the locust army.

Tada Shun had no doubt that it was Zeng Jiwen who followed the code to define the meaning of the military pot.

Located in southern Hebei, Zeng Jiwen was the only qualified division-level cadre of the Eighth Route Army.

Other division-level units will not appear in southern Hebei.

Tada Shun was so excited that he couldn't express it in words.

Suddenly, Tada Shun thought of something else. What if they captured Zeng Jiwen, the commander of the 389th Division, alive?

Then the Eighth Route Army in western Hebei and southeastern Shanxi would probably go crazy.

Under the mad attack of the 389th Division, the 4th Division and the 14th Division in southern Hebei might not be able to stop them at all.

Therefore, Tada Shun had ordered the Japanese troops participating in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain on the front line to stop the attack and wait for new orders.

At the same time, the 32nd Division and the 35th Division each left a regiment in Xingtai and Shijiazhuang, and immediately moved south to support the two divisions.

The bomber formation at Baoding Airport immediately took off and bombed the Eighth Route Army troops around Zhaodian in southern Hebei.

Yongfeng Mountain. Following the order issued by Kenji Doihara, the 27th Brigade quickly withdrew from the Yongfeng Mountain front and headed towards Zhaodian in the northeast.

Kenji Doihara also led the remaining Japanese troops to reinforce Zhaodian.

5 p.m.

Wu Lin and others discovered the abnormality of the Japanese troops in Handan.

"What is Kenji Doihara up to?

We were about to let the 27th Brigade in if we held them back any longer, but they suddenly turned around."

When Wu Lin saw the direction the Japanese army turned around, he was also a little confused, and then he said to Wang Bingnan, the chief of staff of the Third Column.