Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

At this time, in the base of the 389th Brigade, Zeng Jiwen was busy distributing the seized materials and various matters in preparation for the Japanese counterattack.

Zeng Jiwen began to distribute the spoils of this battle, including light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, to each regiment to replenish them. At the same time, he distributed two 82mm mortars to each regiment as the main firepower at the regimental level. The rifles were sent to the headquarters along with 100 million rounds of ammunition. The damaged ones were repaired in the military factory, and two to three thousand rifles could be quickly assembled and distributed to the guerrillas and militias in the local areas.

At the same time, 6 mountain guns were added to the mountain artillery regiment, and 13 intact field guns were sent to the headquarters. In this operation, the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun and the Type 11 37mm sniper gun that Zeng Jiwen had longed for were also captured. Although they were not as useful as the later improved models of the Japanese army, they could definitely be used to deal with the Japanese heavy firepower fortifications.

But when I thought about the fact that military factories were preparing to mass-produce rocket launchers, I suddenly felt that what I had been thinking about for a long time was no longer so attractive. Who would want this thing when they already have rocket launchers, which is so bulky?

We plan to send it to the headquarters immediately. The rocket launcher can only be supplied to other brother units after the production is increased. It will take some time before the rocket launcher is widely equipped to each regiment.

Moreover, this battle tested the three-three tactics previously proposed by Zeng Jiwen, and ordered each regiment to summarize the results as soon as possible so as to reduce casualties next time.

At headquarters, after receiving Zeng Jiwen's equipment, Old Chen shamelessly ran to headquarters and asked for most of the guns and artillery Zeng Jiwen had sent. This made the deputy commander immediately joke to the division commander, "Headquarters has now become your division's logistics department."

Afterwards, Zeng Jiwen discussed with Zhou Shi and others what to do with the prisoners. Since there were nearly a hundred captured Japanese soldiers, many of whom were logistics personnel, if they were simply instructed to educate them as before, the brigade would be completely overwhelmed. Furthermore, they were invaders, and as a militant, Zeng Jiwen could not simply vent his anger by shooting them directly. He wanted to kill them and destroy their hearts.

Zeng Jiwen thought about it for a long time, because as the battle with the Japanese army continued, although there were few now, there would be more later. Before, only a few could be sent to the headquarters, but it would be unrealistic to send more later. At the same time, there would not be so much food and people to watch over these beasts.

It was decided that from now on, for all captured prisoners, the battlefields their troops had previously passed through would be investigated, those who had committed crimes would be brought out for public trial, and the rest would be reformed by having them work in mining fields during the day, and at night they would be organized by political workers to receive education and have HS ideology explained to them.

Once the seeds of thought are planted, there will always be people who think more about it. Once people think more about it, there will be people who think about it. After thinking more, they will realize that since the Japanese army can let traitors act as second devils, Zeng Jiwen can also let the devils act as "locust soldiers."

After thinking of a solution, he told everyone about his method. Everyone immediately became interested. In the past, they had only heard of puppet troops doing this, but now they can do this. Moreover, we did not abuse the prisoners. We were conducting labor reform, which was also reasonable in the international arena.

Zeng Jiwen then made the decision to follow this approach in the future, and also suggested to the headquarters and his family that they should do the same in the future.

After dealing with the supplies and prisoners, Zeng Jiwen began to discuss the next steps with everyone. Although the complete annihilation of the 108th Division had led to the failure of the Japanese army's siege of southern Shanxi, the Japanese army would definitely not give up Changzhi. At the same time, although the defense of Changzhi was a success, on the west side, with Pu County being captured by the Japanese army, the Japanese army would soon march straight down to attack Yuncheng, and the situation would become even more critical.