Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

The 36th Division of the Japanese Army was affiliated with the combat sequence of the First Army of the Japanese Army stationed in Shanxi, and was the backbone of the First Army.

According to the Japanese army's division, it is divided into Type A combat divisions and Type B combat divisions.

Generally speaking, the sequence from 1 to 20 is a Type A combat division, which has the largest force, the best equipment, and the strongest overall combat effectiveness.

The second is the Type B combat division, which can actually be called the security army division.

However, the 36th Division is the strongest division among the several major divisions under the First Army, and its overall combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Type A combat divisions.

The entire division has more than enough troops.

These include two infantry brigades as well as an artillery regiment, a logistics regiment, an engineering regiment, an armored regiment, and so on.

This time, it was the 36st Infantry Brigade of the Japanese th Division plus an artillery regiment that was completely besieged in the base of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment and suffered heavy losses.

But in fact, this group of troops was less than half the strength of the 36th Division.

More than half of the 36th Division's troops were still intact.

Naturally, they became the main force to reinforce and rescue the First Infantry Brigade.

In the process of leading the main force of the division to advance towards the independent regiment base, Lieutenant General Wu Chuanwu's order was firm: "The First Infantry Brigade is an important part of my 36th Division, and I will never watch them perish.

This is not only a shame for the Imperial Army, but also a shame for our 36th Division.

This time, in order to avenge our previous defeat, we must not only rescue the besieged First Brigade, but also completely destroy the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment to restore the military might of our 36th Division."

to this end.

This old devil also made preparations in many aspects. On the one hand, he contacted the aviation command to ensure that he had air fire support at any time during the attack on the independent regiment's base.

On the other hand, he requested the First Army Command to obtain assistance from the 36th and 41st Divisions, which were also stationed in southern Shanxi.

It is not necessary to let the other two field divisions leave the front battlefield defense line where they were originally stationed and attack the independent regiment base.

——It was a bit of an exaggeration to use the three major field divisions of the Japanese army to deal with an independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese were absolutely unwilling to admit the strength of the Independent Regiment, and even more unwilling to admit that their overall strength had plummeted to such a level.

The Japs can't afford to lose this person.

Therefore, the 37th Division and the 41st Division, which were originally stationed in Yuncheng, Changzhi, and Linfen, advanced to the southern and eastern parts of the Eighth Route Army's Taihang Military Region in a covering manner, putting pressure on the Eighth Route Army and tying down the main force of the Eighth Route Army for the 36th Division's reinforcement operations.

This was exactly the battle goal that Kong Jie and the cadres of the Eighth Route Army's Front Command had planned to achieve.

——The Japanese army’s attention was all drawn to the First Brigade of the Japanese within the encirclement.

The Japanese reinforcements from all directions also all headed for the independent regiment's base.

The Japanese naturally had no energy to consider the issue of the military bases and industrial and mining industries around major county towns such as Shouyang, Yangquan, and Ping'an being looted by the Eighth Route Army.

When the main forces of the Japanese army were withdrawn to reinforce the 1st Brigade.

The original defense lines naturally had some inevitable loopholes and were short of manpower.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers quickly seized this flaw, broke through the weak points of the Japanese blockade, and transferred the large amount of military resources looted from the Japanese army in an orderly manner through hidden transportation channels to the base area...