"Yes, division commander..." The two men replied at the same time, turned around and began to issue new combat missions to their troops.
Because the two brigades that participated in the ambush battle, with more than 10,000 soldiers, did not launch any charge. Therefore, the soldiers did not show much fatigue. After receiving the order, they immediately carried various weapons and ammunition and quickly
They assembled and drove towards their target. The whole process, from Liu Hua's order to the time when the entire Taiyuan City was once again surrounded by soldiers, took less than half an hour. It can be seen that at this time, the soldiers
After a victory, our morale is high.
At this time, when the ambush started a few miles outside Taiyuan City, the commander of the regiment who had climbed onto the city wall saw an elite Kwantung Army regiment in the city and was defeated by the Eighth Route Army in just half an hour.
Total annihilation. The whole face showed nothing but shock. Faced with the Eighth Route Army troops that were quickly surrounding Taiyuan City, there was no reaction at all.
"Your Excellency, Captain, now the entire Taiyuan has been surrounded by the Eighth Route Army. And if nothing else, Taiyuan Airport has also been occupied by the Eighth Route Army... Your Excellency, Captain, what should we do now?" Looking at the dumbfounded Captain beside him,
, a captain who was guarding the joint captain quickly reminded him.
"Baga, order all the soldiers of the garrison regiment to immediately enter the city fortifications, hold on to the city wall, and be sure to block the Eighth Route Army's attack, at least until dawn. I will enter the city immediately, sort out the thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers who have lost their commanders, and send a message to the city by the way.
The North China General Headquarters reports the situation we are facing now..." Hearing the reminder from the captain next to him, the wing commander immediately reacted and gave a loud order to the captain next to him.
"Hi, captain. I will definitely lead all the imperial soldiers in the garrison to guard the city wall until all the soldiers are killed..." the captain promised loudly.
After leaving the city wall, the commander first came to the station of the Kwantung Army brigade. Facing nearly 4,000 Kwantung Army soldiers in front of him, the commander had a headache. Finally, after calling out all the more than 20 squadron commanders, he finally
Among these squadron commanders, several squadron captains have been temporarily appointed. Of course, as for the position of wing captain, it is no surprise that, before receiving orders from superiors, only the guard wing captain can temporarily hold the post.
After solving the problem of the Kwantung Army commander, the wing commander quickly returned to the wing headquarters of the garrison. And immediately, he came to the report room of the wing headquarters, preparing to report to the North China Garrison Headquarters in Taiyuan.
The current situation in the city and requested to send troops for reinforcements...
"Dong dong dong..." There was a rapid knock on the door. He had just attended the cocktail party held by the Nanjing Puppet National Government and was lying on the bed without closing his eyes. Lieutenant General Tada Shun, the commander of North China, was hit by a burst of hurried knocks.
Awakened by a knock on the door.
"Baga..." Hearing the knock on the door, Tada Jun cursed fiercely in his heart. However, he did not dare to really curse it out. Because, in the hotel where he was resting, tonight
However, there were stationed several senior imperial military and political personnel who were invited to participate in the establishment of the puppet civil affairs in Nanjing. Under such an environment, Lieutenant General Tada Shun was still very self-aware and knew what position he should stand in.
"Baga, Takeda-kun, don't you know it's getting very late now, do I need to rest?" Opening the door, he saw standing at the door his adjutant, Commander Tada Shun, who had followed him to Nanjing.
The lieutenant general immediately returned to his usual arrogant attitude and said very dissatisfied.
"Hi, Commander. I have something very important that needs to be reported immediately... The chief of staff of the headquarters sent an urgent message. Please be sure to return to the headquarters as soon as possible to command the operation..." See
Seeing the obviously angry commander in front of him, Major Takeda quickly took out the telegram in his hand and replied in a low voice.
"Nani, rushed back to Peiping overnight. Did something happen in North China?" After hearing the answer from Major Takeda in front of him, Commander Tada Shun frowned, took the telegram from Major Takeda's hand with confusion on his face, and began to read it.
.You don’t know if you look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. After reading the entire contents of the telegram, Lieutenant General Tada Shun’s face immediately turned pale.
"Baga! The cunning Eighth Route Army, the cunning independent division, they really know how to pick their time...Takeda-kun, pack my luggage immediately, I want to go back to Peiping immediately, something big happened in North China..." There was a loud curse
Afterwards, Lieutenant General Tada Shun quickly recovered and gave a loud order to Major Takeda in front of him.
"Hi, Commander..." After receiving the order, Major Takeda immediately entered Tada Jun's room and began to pack various luggage and important documents. At the same time, Lieutenant General Tada Jun also changed his clothes as quickly as possible.
After putting on his military uniform, he began to say goodbye to his immediate superior, and asked his superior to immediately send a plane to take him back to Peiping.
However, just when Commander Tada Jun took a plane and returned to the North China Garrison Headquarters, several hours had passed. And within these few hours, the Independent Division had already launched an attack on Taiyuan City.
siege battle, and once again a huge gap was opened in the Taiyuan city wall.
"Division commander, all the troops are in place. Brigadier Shen has just called back. The first brigade has already returned to position and is ready to attack the city." Wang Benqing, commander of the third brigade who served as the temporary staff of the division commander Liu Hua, came to the holding
Liu Hua, who was observing every move on the Taiyuan city wall a few miles away with a telescope, reported loudly.
"Okay, order the heavy artillery regiment to bombard the Japanese troops' positions in the city according to the coordinates provided by the special operations brigade, killing and injuring their effective forces as much as possible. After five minutes, move the bombardment target to the northeast corner of the city wall. There is
A few months ago, it was destroyed by our artillery fire. It was just built by the little Japanese, and it was not particularly strong. All the mortars on the frontier were bombarding the city wall, killing as much as possible the effective Japanese forces on the wall.
Liu Hua nodded and ordered Wang Benqing.
"Yes, Commander..." As Wang Benqing turned and left, on the artillery position behind everyone, they immediately remembered a thundering roar. Then, above everyone's heads, they remembered a sharp sound.
Whistling sound. Dozens of heavy artillery shells, to the surprise of all the little Japanese, did not land on the top of the city. Instead, they directly crossed the city wall and landed in the middle of the huge military camp of the Japanese Kwantung Army Brigade.
"Boom, boom, boom..." A huge explosion, mixed with the screams of soldiers, sounded at the Japanese Kwantung Army station. Among the team of little Japs standing neatly on the training ground, waiting for the order to set off,
Immediately, dozens of bloody holes were blown out by the powerful heavy artillery shells.
As the smoke caused by the explosion of the artillery shells dissipated, a dozen large holes suddenly appeared in the dense formation. Among these large holes, with the impact point as the center, it was almost invisible within a radius of ten meters.
A living soldier. As for the large area ten meters away, there were wounded soldiers lying on the ground one after another, wailing constantly. Only the first round of firing from the heavy artillery regiment, in the dense formation of the Japanese army,
This resulted in the loss of at least one squadron of the elite Kwantung Army brigade.
"Bagheya Road, the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire, hurry up, disperse immediately, evacuate the military camp..." The newly appointed temporary captains looked at the corpses of the soldiers in front of them, and immediately turned to the surrounding
The soldier ordered loudly. As a result, more than 3,000 soldiers in the entire training ground immediately dispersed after receiving the order. Under the leadership of their respective squad leaders, they quickly fled towards the entrance of the military camp.
However, no matter how fast the little devil is, he can't be faster than the speed of the artillery shells. Just as the soldiers were running around the entire training ground and running towards the entrance of the military camp, the second round of artillery shells fired by the heavy artillery regiment flew again.
reached the top of their heads.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Another burst of dense explosions sounded. Although at this time, more than 3,000 little Japs had been scattered throughout the training ground. However, due to the expansion of the formation, the explosion fell on top of them.
The number of cannonballs has changed from ten cannonballs to more than twenty now. Even if the number of enemies killed by each cannonball is halved, the final total is not reduced at all. In the blink of an eye, less than
In one minute, the Japanese army lost almost half of the soldiers in the brigade.
However, this good thing did not last long. As the casualties of the Japanese army from shelling continued to increase, the Japanese army's retreat speed also continued to accelerate. After losing almost a brigade of nearly 4,000 little Japanese soldiers, the remaining soldiers
, almost all of them evacuated the military camp.
However, looking at the entire station at this time, in addition to the corpses of soldiers, there are more than 200 bomb craters with a depth of one meter above the station training ground.
"The artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army on Bageya Road is very powerful. Hurry up, each squadron commander will immediately count the casualties of his squadron and report to the wing commander immediately..." The temporary Japanese commander reacted from the shelling just now.
, and immediately issued orders to several squadron leaders to which he belonged.
"Report to the captain... Our military camp was bombarded by the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery, and the troops suffered heavy losses..." Soon, a temporary captain came with the casualty data just calculated, almost crying.
Arriving in front of the captain.
"Nani, the military camp has been shelled. Baga, the Eighth Route Army is so cunning. They actually bombarded our military camp. What is the casualty situation of the troops? How many combatable troops are left in the entire Kwantung Army now...
." After hearing the answer from the temporary captain in front of him, the commander was surprised and quickly asked the question he was most concerned about right now.
Because, just after I reported in detail what happened in Taiyuan tonight to the North China General Headquarters, I did not receive any reply. This means that before receiving a call back from the headquarters, I will have to
He faced the attack of tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops outside the city alone. If he wanted to stop the Eighth Route Army's attack, that was the only force he needed now. Especially when a field regiment had just been completely destroyed, he had to let the troops in his hands
The available soldiers are even more scarce.
"Hi, Your Excellency, Captain. In the shelling just now, we lost a total of 987 Imperial Army soldiers, 754 of whom were killed in action. The rest were all seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. Now our entire regiment has only 2967 soldiers left.
You can continue to fight." After hearing the commander's question, the captain in front of him lowered his head and replied.
"Baga, how could we lose so many soldiers? How could this happen..." The captain couldn't help but sigh. However, at this moment, something even more tragic was waiting for him.
"Ding, ring, ring..." A clear phone ring rang in the garrison headquarters, and a staff officer quickly picked up the phone. "Report to your Excellency, the commander of the wing, there is a call from the First Battalion. The west gate was bombarded by a large number of enemy artillery.
, the defending troops suffered heavy losses, please request support..." The combat staff officer who picked up the phone quickly covered the phone and said to the commander in the headquarters.
"Nani, isn't the First Battalion guarding the west gate? How could this be? Why is the west gate also being bombarded by the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery? Hurry up and give me the phone..." The commander was surprised and puzzled for a while, and took over the staff's hand.
phone number.
"Matsushita-kun, what happened to Ximen?" After receiving the call, the captain began to ask loudly.
"Hi, Your Excellency, Captain. At the west gate, we were attacked by at least 10,000 Eighth Route Army troops, and they had powerful artillery fire, including large-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, and at least one artillery regiment's artillery. Now I
A brigade of our brigade has lost two squadrons of troops after the recent shelling. Please ask your Excellency, the brigade commander, to send troops for reinforcements immediately. Otherwise, I can hold on for half an hour at most." came the brigade captain on the phone.
A voice that was almost begging. At the same time, the constant sound of shell explosions from the west gate was heard clearly by the commander on the phone.
"Baga, how could this happen? Where did the Eighth Route Army mobilize so many troops? How could they have so many large-caliber artillery? How could this happen..." After hearing the explosion from the microphone, the commander of the regiment said again
Once I was shocked, I muttered to myself.
"Your Excellency, Captain, the Eighth Route Army has begun to attack again. Please send troops for reinforcements immediately, otherwise the West Gate will be broken through by the Eighth Route Army..." Just after finishing speaking, there was a busy tone on the phone.
Obviously, there must be something wrong with the phone line.
"Baga. Yours, lead a brigade immediately to support Ximen and set off immediately, let's..." put down the phone. The captain had to face reality. He shouted loudly to the temporary brigade captain in front of him who was still waiting for orders.
commanded.
"Hi, Mr. Captain..."
In this way, under the continuous bombardment of the entire South Gate and West Gate of Taiyuan City by a large number of various artillery pieces, the number of casualties of the defending troops could be said to be like a straight line, constantly rising upwards. And the defending wing
Faced with such a situation, the commander of the regiment in the headquarters had a mountain artillery regiment with 36 heavy mountain artillery equipment, but he did not have an artilleryman in his hands. The final result was that the commander of the regiment who stayed at the company headquarters
, you can only implement the refueling tactic for the two city walls. If you lose a squadron on the front line, you will need to replenish a squadron yourself.
However, with such a speed of replenishment, in less than three hours of continuous bombardment, the reserve team of more than 3,000 people in the hands of the commander had been filled alive into two brigades of nearly 2,000 people. And his own
In hand, there are only four full squadrons left, which is the Kwantung Army with less than a thousand people in one brigade.
"Baga, the cunning Eighth Route Army has the ability to engage in a face-to-face decisive battle with the Imperial Japanese Army, using only artillery fire for constant bombardment. You are not a warrior..." Faced with the stretched troops in hand, after listening to two
Explosions continued to ring out from the city gate, and the captain cursed at the sky many times.
"Division Commander, I think it's almost done. According to the telegram sent by the city's internal warfare brigade, there are only about a thousand Japanese troops left at the Japanese Army Garrison Wing Headquarters. As for the remaining troops in Taiyuan City, there are only a few
Thousands of puppet troops with almost no combat effectiveness. However, the captain of the garrison regiment does not seem to trust the puppet troops very much. Although his own strength is already stretched thin, he still has no intention of letting the puppet troops go into battle." Looking at the still before him,
The city wall was caught in a sea of flames. Wang Benqing, the commander of the third brigade standing next to Liu Hua, came to Liu Hua with a telegram and reported loudly.
"Okay, in that case, let's take action. There are less than three hours left before dawn. We will strive to annihilate all the little Japs in Taiyuan City and occupy the entire Taiyuan within three hours. Brigadier Wang,
Now I order the special operations brigade in Taiyuan City to take action immediately. In addition to leaving the necessary troops to protect the captured heavy artillery and warehouses to prevent the Japanese army from jumping over the wall and carrying out sabotage, the remaining troops will attack the Japanese headquarters and heavy artillery regiment with all their strength.
Immediately turn the muzzle of the artillery and bombard the northeast corner of the city wall, opening a breakthrough for the soldiers in the northeast corner in the shortest possible time. The first armored regiment is ready to charge and prepare to open a breakthrough for the infantry. All the troops of the second and third brigades are in
After the first armored regiment opens the breach, it immediately enters the city, eliminates all the Japanese troops on the city wall and clears out the remaining enemies in the city. It also cooperates with the special operations brigade to eliminate all the remaining Japanese troops in the Japanese headquarters. The bombardment of the heavy artillery regiment will begin in five minutes." Liu
Hua nodded and ordered Wang Benqing beside him.
"Yes, division commander, I will go and issue combat orders to each unit." Wang Benqing replied loudly.