The Japanese First Army Headquarters near the north gate of Taiyuan is the most fiercely contested place between the two sides. The 139th Regiment of the Japanese 110th Division is responsible for defending here and an engineer brigade and garrison brigade assigned to them. The total strength reaches five
More than a thousand people.
Before this, Okamura Neji had already foreseen that this place would become the focus of competition between the two sides, so he spent a lot of energy to reinforce all the commanding heights here and deployed a large number of firepower points.
The one who attacked here was the temporary 49th Division of the Jinsui Army. From September 17th to the 20th, the two sides launched a fierce battle around this place.
The temporary 49th Division of the Jinsui Army conducted dozens of attacks on the train station, but each attack was repelled by the fierce firepower of the Japanese army. When the battle was at its fiercest, the Japanese army even tied the wounded with explosives to attack the attacking troops.
Carry out a counterattack.
By the 20th, the troops were still fully loaded before the attack. The temporary 49th Division, which had a strength of just over 10,000, had lost more than half of its troops. In a phone call to Yang Aiyuan, the division commander, Wei Yukun, even begged the Joint Chiefs of Staff Yang Aiyuan in tears for mercy.
The temporary 49th Division withdrew and rested.
After another fierce battle
On a street that had been bombed into ruins more than 500 meters away from the Japanese First Army headquarters, countless bodies of dead soldiers from both sides were scattered on the scattered battlefield. Occasionally, some injured soldiers could be heard wailing among the dead bodies.
, there were constant groans of pain coming from the pile of dead people.
"The first and second companies defended on the spot, and the third company immediately searched for the wounded and quickly sent the injured brothers from the Jinsui Army down."
Yan Xiaofu, the commander of the fifth battalion of Liantai Militia, who was holding a submachine gun, shouted loudly in front of the shocking battlefield. Looking at the only remaining soldiers of the Jinsui Army standing in the pile of corpses, even Yan Xiaofu could be regarded as a person who was killed in the sea of blood.
I couldn't help but feel frightened.
A sergeant of the Jinsui Army covered in blood stood up and looked at the corpses in front of him. He held his head and screamed in pain. When he found that he was stepping on an arm that had been blown away, tears could not stop flowing from his face.
Come down.
"Sir...sir...replace...the gun..." Intermittent moans came from the pile of corpses not far from him.
Following the sound, Yan Xiaofu walked to the pile of corpses, pushed aside a dead body, and saw a Jinsui Army soldier whose waist was blown off, and his white intestines were exposed and dragged out several meters away.
Seeing the miserable condition of the soldier, the Jinsui Army sergeant not far away who was covered in blood ran over and tried to pick him up. As soon as he picked him up, he heard the cry of pain from his comrade in arms.
"Brother... give it... give it to me..."
"Brother, give him two more painkiller injections! It's hopeless." Seeing this scene, a health soldier from the Liantai Militia came to him and reminded him kindly.
"Get away... the stretcher, hurry up and bring the stretcher, brother, I will take you home, send you back to your hometown, let's go home."
The red-eyed sergeant turned his head and shouted with murderous intent, holding his comrade tightly in his arms and crying.
In this era when Mandarin is not widely used, the Jinsui Army, like most domestic warlords' armies, is mostly composed of fellow villagers who speak the same hometown dialect. The family ties between their fellow villagers make it rare for them to abandon themselves on the battlefield.
Brotherly behavior.
When Yan Xiaofu heard the roar of the Jinsui Army sergeant, he sighed and said to the health soldier on the side: "Give him a stretcher and bandage his wounds by the way."
The hygienist rummaged through the medical kit he carried with him for a while before finding a small box, and took out a pain-relieving needle that looked like a small toothpaste tube. This disposable pain-relieving needle was actually a morphine shot, and every Liantai militia soldier had it.
Each first aid kit comes with one.
This analgesic injection is actually the "Siretex Morphine Hypodermic Syringe" produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb in the United States.
This thing is like a mini toothpaste tube.
There is 32 milligrams of morphine inside. The mouth of the tube is sealed, and a double-ended needle is installed in the front. During use, press the needle to break the seal, and then inject it subcutaneously. After the injection is completed, pin the syringe to the collar of the injured person to calculate the amount of morphine and prevent overdose.
Just when the health soldier was about to inject morphine into the wounded soldier, he discovered that the wounded soldier had stopped breathing at some point.
"ah……"
Looking at the soldier with a pale face and eyes closed, the sergeant finally couldn't help crying.
Looking at the sergeant who was crying uncontrollably, Yan Xiaofu comforted him: "Okay, brother, don't be sad. You guys have played well these days. The Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a special message to praise your division. And Chief Yang also said that you should go down and rest."
After that, they will give you priority to replenish soldiers and supplies.
Leave the next battle to us, and we will definitely avenge you!"
More than ten minutes later, Yan Xiaofu felt particularly complicated as he watched the soldiers of the temporary 49th Division supporting each other and retreating from the battlefield step by step.
The battle to regain Taiyuan has been going on for more than half a month. In order to compete for this most important city in Shanxi, both sides have invested more than 200,000 troops.
In the past half month, the coalition forces have suffered more than 30,000 casualties. Although the specific number of casualties of the Japanese army is not known, the coalition command estimates that it is definitely no less than them.
It can be said that this battle has become a meat grinder. Both sides have continuously invested their strength into the city, and the number of casualties every day is in the thousands.
With such huge casualties, not only Gao Hongming, Yang Aiyuan, Master Liu and others were so distressed that their eyelids jumped with pain, but even the Japanese could not bear it.
The Tokyo base camp directly transferred Okamura Neiji back to the mainland in the name of reporting on his duties, and the command was temporarily handed over to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, and the North China Front Chief of Staff Adachi Twenty-three.
But the two people who took over the command were not happy at all. In his opinion, the battle had now reached this point, and the base camp's move was obviously to make them take the blame.
As a result, Yoshimoto Teiichi and Adachi Twenty-san made a plan and directly played a trick on the new North China Front Commander Naosaburo Okabe who had just arrived in Peiping. In the past two days, they had done everything in detail, ranging from troop mobilization to big ones.
In terms of combat command, he always consults Naosaburo Okabe for instructions on everything.
Okabe Naosaburo was so angry that even though his teeth were filled with hatred, he couldn't get angry easily.
After all, on the surface, these two people are doing this to respect him as the commander. You can't get angry just because someone asks you for instructions, right?
As a result, in the midst of wrangling for instructions, the Japanese army's territory was getting smaller and smaller, and it looked like the entire Taiyuan would fall completely into the hands of the coalition forces.
However, when the coalition forces attacked the Japanese headquarters, they finally encountered crazy resistance from the Japanese army. The coalition forces fought for several days and failed to take down the headquarters. Instead, they lost many troops.
Finally, several big shots at the coalition command discussed and withdrew the temporary 49th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, and allowed the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division and the three infantry battalions of the Liantai Militia to launch the final general attack on the Japanese headquarters.