Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At the same time, due to the tremendous power of the 107 rocket launcher in this battle, the backbone of the 108th Division was almost broken. Under the division and encirclement of the 389th Brigade, many Japanese soldiers began to charge with the determination to die, shouting "Long live their damn locusts" and engaged in a melee with the soldiers of the 389th Brigade.

Especially the artillery, engineers, supplies and most of the logistics troops in the rear, seeing the disastrous situation on the battlefield, they began to fight back with their pistols in hand, but because these troops were not equipped with weapons but only pistols, they were quickly wiped out by the Eighth Route Army soldiers.

When Zeng Jiwen received the battle report from the front, he saw that except for a few new recruits and prisoners who were scared to wet their pants, there were basically no prisoners in the entire battle.

At the same time, the overall casualties of the troops were somewhat beyond Zeng Jiwen's expectations. He thought that the casualties would be heavy, but he did not expect that they would be much less than expected.

After all, this was in early 38. The Japanese army at that time was used to being arrogant, and its combat effectiveness was not as strong as that of the old, weak and sick at the end. When surrender was impossible, the soldiers would suffer heavy casualties. When Commander Xu and his men ambushed at Pingxingguan, the injured baggage soldiers all shot at the Eighth Route Army.

The situation was somewhat different from what Zeng Jiwen had expected. The 108th Division was established last year by the Japanese Army using the reserve of the 8th Division. It mainly participated in some public security and protection work in North China and had never fought on the front line.

According to the timeline of the original time and space, the first battle of the 108th Division was to enter Changzhi at the beginning of the year, attack Linfen, and then participate in the nine-way siege of the southeastern Shanxi base, committing heinous crimes in Shanxi.

However, in this time and space, the first official war they fought after entering China was against Zeng Jiwen's 389th Brigade. Whether it was the 117th Regiment or the current blocking battle, the 389th Brigade left a deep impression on the people of the 108th Division. It seemed that the Chinese army was not vulnerable as other troops said.

Afterwards, under the saturation coverage attack of four Taihang Type 38 107 rocket launchers, the Japanese army of the 108th Division completely collapsed. Under the fierce offensive, some recruits and logistics were completely defeated.

Since it was a newly formed division after the outbreak of the war, and this was their first battle in Shanxi, the command centers at all levels were attacked by small groups of special forces members of the 389th Brigade and immediately fell into chaos.

Shortly afterwards, Li Jiayu of the 47th Army also sent a telegram, saying that they had completely encircled and annihilated the 52nd Regiment on the southern front, killing the regiment commander, Colonel Kiyozo Nakamura, and a lieutenant colonel and major.

He also said that the joint operations with the Eighth Route Army this time had yielded fruitful results, and that everyone would work together sincerely and unite to fight the war in the future.

At 20:00, in the command center, Zeng Jiwen, Wang Zhuo, Zhou Shi and others, together with the people who rushed over from Xiangtangpu and the regiment commanders who participated in this operation, began to summarize the specific gains and losses of this operation.

After Zhou Shi collected the spoils and losses reported by various regiments, he was so excited that he could not express it in words.

Afterwards, Zhou Shi began to read to everyone about the harvest in the Yetao area.

"Comrades, we have successfully completed the established combat objectives in this operation. We have made history and successfully wiped out the 108th Division!" Zhou Xi said excitedly in a loud voice.

Hearing this, everyone who had expected this couldn't help but get excited. Zhou Shi looked at everyone's excited expressions and continued reading.

"In this operation, our 389th Brigade killed the commander of the 108th Division, Kumamiya Shimomoto; the commander of the 25th Brigade, Naozo Nakano; the commander of the 117th Regiment, Nobujiro Kashizaki; the commander of the 132nd Regiment, Ebina Eiichi; and the commander of the 108th Cavalry Battalion, Koshiro Goto."

"Also, there were important Japanese military commanders, including the commander of the 104th Brigade, Tomichi Silou, the commander of the 105th Infantry Regiment, Kudo Jinxiao, the commander of the 108th Field Artillery Regiment, Sakai Ginzo, the commander of the 108th Engineer Regiment, Ejima Tsuneo, and the commander of the 108th Logistics Regiment, Chang Kasuya."

After hearing this, everyone around them was so excited that their eyes turned red. Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, how many years have passed? When has the Chinese army ever had such a great victory? Looking at the rows of epaulettes on the table, the excitement in their hearts was beyond words.