Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

At this time, the Japanese army had been worried about the Eighth Route Army becoming stronger since the failure of the May 42st mopping-up operation against the Eighth Route Army in , and had been planning how to suppress or even eliminate the Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied areas of North China.

There is another thing worth mentioning, the previous commander of the Japanese North China Front Army was Hata Shunroku.

Due to the severe troubles caused by the Eighth Route Army in North China, the Japanese General Staff believed that the commander of the North China Front Army, Tada Shun, lacked command ability.

So just change the general.

The new commander of the North China Front Army, General Okamura Yasuji, was transferred.

The old Japanese Okamura is a senior Japanese officer who is well versed in Chinese culture and is known as a China expert. His methods are even more cruel and violent than those of Tada Shun.

After Okamura became the commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, in order to further suppress the Eighth Route Army troops in the North China region, he proposed the cruel Three Alls Policy.

That is, they used brutal means such as killing, burning and looting to completely destroy the popular base of the Eighth Route Army base.

The people suffered greatly.

Since the beginning of this year, the Japanese have burned down thousands of villages, large and small, outside the Eighth Route Army base.

It caused significant property losses to innocent civilians, as well as a considerable number of casualties.

The Japanese were completely out of their minds and had completely forgotten their original hypocrisy and so-called people-friendly policies.

The reason why the old devil Okamura used such cruel and fierce methods against the Eighth Route Army in North China was that

This is because the old devil is anxious to stabilize the situation in North China, and with the power of the new official, he wants to turn the tide and reverse the disadvantage of the Japanese army gradually becoming unable to make ends meet as the war between Japan and China continues.

At the subsequent military meeting, a southward strategy known as Operation Plan No. 1 was secretly formulated.

——Aimed to launch operations in Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and other regions to completely open up the transportation lines of the Chinese mainland and turn the tide of the Sino-Japanese war.

And it is at this critical juncture.

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and other three elite regiments of the Eighth Route Army took the lead in launching an offensive against the Japanese-occupied areas.

Today, the Northwest Shanxi Independent Field Detachment is well-equipped and has solid overall troop quality. In terms of combat effectiveness, it can almost be said to be the ceiling of the Eighth Route Army.

Especially the elite steel helmet soldiers with a very high coverage rate in the troops. They wear steel helmets, have neat uniforms, and have strong combat effectiveness. They are almost the existence that scares the Japanese devils.

When these three elite steel helmet troops suddenly appeared in the quasi-security areas of the Japanese army around Yangquan, Ping'an County and Shouyang, they launched a fierce offensive, directly defeating the Japanese army's outer defense zone and completely compressing the devils into the city defense fortifications.

The news spread quickly.

"The Eighth Route Army launched an offensive against the county area where law and order was maintained!"

And it's unstoppable.

The Japanese troops in Yangquan, Ping'an County and Shouyang were quickly defeated. They retreated behind the city defense fortifications and quickly requested reinforcements from the headquarters, sending out emergency calls.

Within one day, three cities were in danger.

This directly alarmed the old Japanese soldier Yoshio Shinozuka who was in charge of the Japanese First Army Headquarters in Shanxi.

Yoshio Shinozuka was quite surprised.

Originally, according to the order of Commander Okamura, the provinces in North China, especially Shanxi, Hebei and areas north of Henan, must maintain stable public order.

Yoshio Shinozuka also specially strengthened the defensive fortifications against the rapidly rising New 1st Regiment, New 2nd Regiment and Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

However, they never expected that these rampant Eighth Route Army would dare to change their normal behavior and take the initiative to launch a counterattack against the core occupied areas of the Imperial Army...