Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the same time, in order to delay time, we immediately stopped at the scene to build a defensive formation and delay time.

As the Eighth Route Army attacked the riverbank, at the front, a platoon of the 80th Regiment quickly changed its combat formation from a straight line to a triangle formation under the various gestures and shouts of the platoon leader and squad leader.

At the same time, the front group began to suppress the Japanese army with firepower. The group behind the right side moved diagonally to the left front of the firepower group to shoot. The group behind the left side moved to the right front to strengthen the attack. The supplementary group provided full support and continuously advanced into the Japanese defense positions.

The Japanese army was quickly thrown into panic by this offensive and kept dodging backwards. The platoon leader quickly seized this opportunity and the entire platoon penetrated the Japanese defense position like a sharp sword.

Afterwards, with the attack of more soldiers from the 80th and 81st Regiments, this tiny hole was instantly enlarged and torn open. The entire Japanese defense began to be exploited by the soldiers, and the Japanese formation began to be continuously destroyed.

Soon, as various troops penetrated the Japanese defense line, they quickly divided the Japanese army into small pieces and then gradually eliminated them.

By 18:30, the gunshots in Xiangtangpu gradually died down.

Soon, after hastily cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers of the two regiments hurriedly retreated into the mountainous area. As soon as they entered the mountainous area, a formation of Japanese bombers began to come from the sky.

Hearing no sound below, they began low-altitude reconnaissance and found the battlefield in a mess. The angry Japanese pilots began to indiscriminately drop bombs on the nearby mountains and then returned.

Huang Hanjia hid in a natural cave in the nearby mountains. He felt relieved as he watched the planes flying away. The speed at which the Japanese army was divided and surrounded in this operation was beyond his expectations.

Originally, according to his plan, if he could not eliminate the Japanese army before dark, he would infiltrate and intersect with the Japanese troops, so that the Japanese planes would be cautious when seeing the battle situation on the scene. However, he did not expect the battle to move so quickly. After eliminating the Japanese army, he did not dare to be careless. He hurriedly cleaned up and evacuated early.

In the Yetao area, after the troops of the 389th Brigade began to fully enter the ambush positions, the main force of the Japanese 108th Division also advanced from the direction of Wuan.

When the 108th Division arrived at Yetao Town, the Japanese were annoyed by the constant barrage of shots from the 123rd Regiment from the moment they left the city. Finally, they simply had packhorses pull rollers along the road. The vanguard team conducted fire reconnaissance along both sides of the road.

Finally, the 123rd Regiment had no choice but to start shooting at the Japanese troops along the way. As a result, although the Japanese lost dozens of horses along the way, the entire journey was much faster, and they arrived in Yetao in just one hour.

However, there were still two or three hundred wounded soldiers accompanying them, which made the 108th Division Commander Shimomoto Kumamiya howl in anger. In the end, he had no choice but to send a small team to take these wounded soldiers back to Wu'an.

But on the way back, I don’t know if it’s safe or not.

After Xiayuan Xiong Mi led a large army to Yetao, he looked at the map and decided to let the troops go northwest to the Longhu Township between Dajing Village and Balaling, and go straight to Piandian along the mountain road. It would take less than an hour to reach Shexian County.

However, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi could also imagine that they were in the mountains and there must be Chinese troops blocking them, so he immediately sent a vanguard team to conduct fire reconnaissance.

Soon after, Xia Yuanxiong Mi and the 108th Division had just arrived at Longhu Township when the vanguard troops came back to report that there were Chinese troops on both sides of the mountain roads, and judging from their uniforms, they should be the Eighth Route Army.

After hearing this, Shimomoto Kumamiya felt relieved. He thought that since the firepower of Naozo Naozo was so fierce, the blocking troops would not have much combat effectiveness. So he directly ordered the 132nd Yamagata Regiment of the 25th Brigade to march directly towards the northwest road. As for the one to the west, Shimomoto Kumamiya did not think about it. The mountain road there was rugged. Once a large force entered, wouldn’t it be the wish of the Eighth Route Army?