The heavily guarded North China Front Army Headquarters.
"General."
Communications staff officer Haruo Kitani held a telegram in his hand and quickly walked into the war room to report to Neji Okamura:
"The commander of the 40th Division, Lieutenant General Aoki, just sent a telegram. There is news from the First Army Headquarters, the Fifth Division and other units!"
Yumo Seizo, who was on duty for three days and three nights during the war, finally got a rest today.
Currently, Okamura Neiji is on duty at the War Operations Department.
Okamura Neiji looked slightly happy and asked urgently: "Have the First Army Headquarters and the Fifth Division arrived in Shouyang?"
Since receiving the telegram from the First Army Headquarters, the Fifth Division, and the 28th Division in the morning, they were broken into pieces and dispersed to break out of the encirclement.
No more telegrams were received from these troops.
Okamura Neiji looked forward to the radio stations of these troops and maintained radio silence.
Although Okamura Neiji wanted to kill Iwamatsu Yoshio, these troops were innocent, and the North China Front could no longer afford a heavy loss of troops.
After hearing Haruo Kitani's report, Okamura Neji thought that the First Army Headquarters and the Fifth Division had broken through to Shouyang County.
"No…"
Kitani Haruo lowered his head and answered:
"Major General Yamamoto Kazuki, deputy chief of staff of the First Army, and more than a dozen special agents arrived in Shouyang County. According to him, the First Army Headquarters, the Fifth Division and the 28th Division have been defeated. The Commander of the First Army
Lieutenant General Guan Yansong and Lieutenant General Matsui, commander of the Fifth Division, and others are missing!"
For a moment, Okamura Neji opened his eyes wide and froze on the spot.
The good news is that there is news from the First Army Headquarters, the Fifth Division and the 28th Division.
The bad news is that these troops have been defeated, and the whereabouts of several division leaders and commanders are all unknown, and there is a high probability that they are gone.
Although I had expected it, I still didn't recover for a long time after hearing the news.
A total of 30,000 elites of the main force of the Locust Army were defeated in one day under the siege of 100,000 main force of the Eighth Route Army.
Even the division commander and commander may not be able to break out of the encirclement.
Only one deputy chief of staff successfully broke through to Shouyang County.
Okamura Neji stared at the precise map on the wall and thought for a long time.
The officers of the Fifth Division, the 28th Division and the First Army Headquarters are all equipped with fine military horses.
Although the location of the ambush was 50 kilometers away from Shouyang County.
If these officers could successfully break through, they would definitely reach Shouyang County in almost a whole day.
If it hasn't arrived yet, the probability of arriving later will become smaller and smaller.
If for these officers, the 40th Division, the 56th Division, and the three divisions and two brigades surrounded by Niangziguan were added.
Then there will be blood loss.
Thinking of this, Okamura Neji raised his head: "Order the 40th Division to immediately turn into Yangquan and join the 56th Division. Be careful not to be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army on the way in!"
The Eighth Route Army was good at ambush warfare.
In the past, it was only a small-scale ambush battle, involving at most a few thousand people.
But now it has turned into a large-scale mass movement ambush and annihilation war involving more than 100,000 people.
If the 40th Division was also ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, the situation would be very dangerous.
"Hi."
After Neji Okamura finished speaking, Haruo Kiya closed the folder, turned around and left quickly.
In the operations hall, some combat staff officers were busy there.
Okamura Neji raised his eyes and stared at the map on the wall, his eyes gloomy and his face solemn.
In Taiyuan, Zhengtai Railway, and Niangziguan, the current situation of the locust army is very poor.
Judging from the current situation, it is inevitable that the Japanese troops in Taiyuan will be wiped out. Now it depends on whether the 40th Division, the 56th Division, the 21st Division and the 27th Division can rescue the 3 soldiers who were surrounded in Niangziguan.
1 division and 2 brigades.
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evening.
Taiyuan.
At this time, there were only four squadrons of Japs and thousands of puppet troops left in Taiyuan.
It seems that there are a lot of troops, and the thousands of puppet troops are just a piece of loose sand.
There is also a squadron of Japs and puppet troops from the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Independent Division stationed at Tianlong Mountain.
At this time, the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army had crossed the Japanese Taigu defense line and was attacking Tianlong Mountain.
Taiyuan Outer City.
A courtyard with three entrances and three exits is the headquarters of the 1st Division of the puppet army.
"Master's seat."
"The First Army Headquarters, the Fifth Division, and the 28th Division were completely wiped out by the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Zhaodong Township."
Zhong Yunhe, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Independent Division of the puppet army, walked into the division headquarters and said to Wang Zonglin, commander of the 1st Independent Division.
The original 1st Independent Division cooperated with the 37th Division in Changzhi, but most of it was wiped out by the troops commanded by Li Yunlong.
The current Independent 1st Division was reorganized after being wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. Its equipment and personnel quality are considered first-class among the puppet troops. Its main task is to assist the Japanese army in maintaining public security and defending Taiyuan.
Wang Zonglin was drinking tea, and when he saw Zhong Yunhe walking in and what he said, he couldn't help but look shocked.
He suddenly stood up with a look of horror on his face: "Second Brigade Commander, what did you say? The main force of the 30,000 locust army has been wiped out? Is this news true?"
Wang Zonglin was a serious student of the Baoding Military Academy. He followed Commander Yan to fight the Japanese. At that time, he was a battalion commander of the Shanxi-Sui Army.
He had fought against the Japanese on the battlefield and personally witnessed the terrifying combat power of the Japanese army.
later.
Wang Zonglin felt that there was no hope of fighting the Japanese, so he chose to accept the command of Wang's puppet government, rebelled and surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor.
But he never expected that the Eighth Route Army had suddenly emerged in the past two years and actually defeated the Japanese army in Shanxi.
At present, the main force of 30,000 Japanese troops was actually wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in one day.
Even if there were 30,000 pigs, it would be impossible for the Eighth Route Army to kill them all in one day, right?
Judging from this, how terrifying is the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army?
Wang Zonglin couldn't imagine it.
"Master, this news is true!"
Zhong Yunhe nodded:
"It was General Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, who personally told his humble position. There is no lie."
When Wang Zonglin heard this, he couldn't help being shocked: "Eighth Route Army Zhang Dabiao? Second Brigade Commander, you!?"
The Japanese army spent huge sums of money to put a bounty on the head of Li Yunlong, the leader of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
As Li Yunlong's number one general, Zhang Dabiao was naturally on the Japanese army's reward list.
"That's right, Commander!" Zhong Yunhe walked to the door and took a look. He found that the partition wall had no ears. He walked back and whispered to Wang Zonglin, "General Zhang said that as long as we abandon the dark side and surrender to the bright side, we will kill the Japanese in the city and rob Taiyuan City."
The arsenals and grain depots of the Japanese will be handed over to the Eighth Route Army. After we have done meritorious service, the Eighth Route Army can let our brothers live."
In the afternoon, Zhong Yunhe led hundreds of defeated puppet troops and fled into Taiyuan City.
Among the puppet troops, there were quite a few Eighth Route Army troops, including the Sharp Sword Squadron.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army was preparing to attack Taiyuan. The Japanese thought that one more person would give them more strength, so they put all the puppet troops into Taiyuan City without much thought.
It was certain that Taiyuan would be captured by the Eighth Route Army. In order to survive, Zhong Yunhe had no choice.
In fact, Wang Zonglin guessed Zhong Yunhe's purpose when he said that the main force of the Japanese army was defeated by the entire army on the Zhengtai Railway.
Wang Zonglin's expression suddenly hesitated: "But, there are still more than 1,000 locust troops...japans in Taiyuan City."
"Teacher, you are confused!"
Zhong Yunhe said anxiously:
"What are more than a thousand Japanese? Sixty to seventy thousand Japanese were killed by the Eighth Route Army."
"There are now hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops outside Taiyuan City, hundreds of heavy tanks, hundreds of heavy guns over 200 caliber, thousands of cannons of various calibers, and air support from hundreds of aircraft."
"These more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and our only division will be wiped out tomorrow at most."
"The Eighth Route Army just wanted to sacrifice fewer troops, so it gave us this opportunity."
Hearing what Zhong Yunhe said, Wang Zonglin's expression changed, his eyes suddenly opened wide, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The Eighth Route Army is actually so rich?
No wonder they were able to defeat the main force of 60,000 to 70,000 Japanese troops in such a short period of time.
Wang Zonglin asked: "If we kill the Japanese in Taiyuan City, can we join the Eighth Route Army?"
With the Eighth Route Army's wealth of weapons and equipment, Wang Zonglin was naturally salivating with envy.
"That's not possible." Zhong Yunhe shook his head, "The Eighth Route Army does not accept puppet troops, but those of us officers who have committed crimes can make meritorious service for their crimes. The division commander is already here, what do you care about doing that? Survival is the most important thing."
Wang Zonglin asked: "Can the Eighth Route Army really let our brothers live?"
In the past few years, puppet troops such as the Independent 1st Division and the Independent 2nd Division often followed the Japanese into the Eighth Route Army base areas to raid, killing people and setting fires, and committed all kinds of evil.
Wang Zonglin didn't believe that the Eighth Route Army could really let puppet soldiers like them survive.
Zhong Yunhe turned around and brought in a soldier wearing a puppet army uniform. This soldier pretending to be a soldier was none other than Duan Peng, the captain of the Lijian Squadron.
Duan Peng said that as long as Wang Zonglin and his Independent 2nd Division could make meritorious deeds, they would be exempted from death. However, after the deeds were accomplished, they would have to enter the Eighth Route Army's labor camp for reform.
If you resist to the end, there is only one way to die.
Knowing that the man in front of him was the squadron leader of the Sharp Sword Squadron, Wang Zonglin no longer had any doubts.
Among the famous names in the new group of sharp swords, Wang Zonglin is like thunder.
More than a year ago, the Sharp Sword Squadron sneaked into Taiyuan, killed dozens of First Army pilots, and then left Taiyuan in a Japs tank, blowing up a Japs airport on the way. Every Japs and puppet army in Taiyuan knows this.
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At that time, the new regiment Sword Squadron became famous in one battle.
The leader of the sharp sword squadron in front of him could easily take away Wang Zonglin's head.
At that moment, Wang Zonglin expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army and cooperate with the Eighth Route Army internally and externally to attack Taiyuan.
There are more than a thousand Japs in Taiyuan City, and the Du 1st Division is all tied together, so it is no match for these Japs.
The target of the Sword Squadron and the First Battalion and the First Company was not the Japanese in Taiyuan City, but the arms warehouses and grain depots in Taiyuan City.
Before the war began, the Japanese stockpiled more than 2 months of combat supplies and food in arms warehouses and grain depots in Taiyuan.
The fighting has only been going on for more than half a month now, and there are a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food stored in the warehouse.
Before leaving, the First Army Headquarters gave the Japanese a death order and immediately blew up the arsenal and burned down the grain depot when the city was breached.
Taking advantage of the darkness, a squadron of sharp swords dressed as puppet soldiers went straight to the arsenal, and a company of soldiers dressed as puppet soldiers headed straight to the grain depot under the leadership of a company commander.
