Yan Xishan's secret order soon arrived at the headquarters of the 358th Regiment.

At this time, Chu Yunfei had moved his regimental headquarters from the Sheji Altar outside the Xiaobei Gate to the school building of the Women's Normal University outside the Houzai Gate in the inner city.

The main forces of the 358th Regiment also gathered in the city.

As long as the independent regiment breaks through the Xihua Gate, and then detours along the city wall to open the Houzai Gate, Chu Yunfei will lead the main force of the 358th Regiment to attack the inner city from the Houzai Gate.

At this time, Chief Yan's secret order arrived.

"Tuanza." Fang Ligong handed over the secret order to Chu Yunfei.

After Chu Yunfei finished reading the telegram, a pair of thick eyebrows immediately frowned.

Fang Ligong said in a low voice: "Tuanzuo, I think the analysis of the Commander's Department is not unreasonable, the inner city of Taiyuan is not as good as the outer city, and the inner city is guarded by more than 1,000 devil soldiers, and there are hundreds of Japanese expatriates!" ”

"Therefore, even if the Eighth Route Army breaks through the Xihua Gate and enters the inner city, I am afraid that it will be difficult to end the battle in a short time."

"However, the Japanese troops in Zhengding, Datong, Baoding and even Beiping can be reinforced quickly, and the main force of the 1st Army may come back at any time, so the possibility of purging the Japanese army is actually very small."

"So it's necessary to put the main force outside the city."

"Otherwise, it's easy to be blocked in the city by devils."

Chu Yunfei frowned and said, "The analysis of the Chief's Department cannot be said to be unreasonable. ”

"But have you thought about it, Brother Meritorious Service, if our 358th Regiment withdraws out of the city at this time, what will the Eighth Route Army think of our Jin Sui Army? What will the Chinese people think of our Jin Sui Army? ”

"Say that my Jin Suijun is a coward who escaped from the battle?"

"I don't care what happens in the final battle of Taiyuan."

"Win or lose, since our 358th regiment has come, this field must be helped to the end! Therefore, if the main forces are withdrawn from the city, do not mention it again. ”

While he was talking, the guard came in and reported: "Tuanzao, Brigade Commander Chen of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has invited you to the Drum Tower for a meeting." ”

"Got it." Chu Yunfei agreed, and then said to the other party's meritorious service, "Brother meritorious service, I went to the drum tower in the past, and you should deal with anything in the regiment first." ”

Fang Ligong said: "Okay, you can go to the group." ”

Seeing Chu Yunfei's figure leave the regiment headquarters, Fang Ligong spread out his palms.

I saw that there was still a note in Fang Ligong's palm, but this was another secret order issued by the commander's department to the 358th regiment, but Fang Ligong did not intend to hand over this secret order to Chu Yunfei.

Because he knew that Chu Yunfei would not agree.

The secret order asked the 358th Regiment to raid the arsenal.

……

When Chu Yunfei arrived at the Drum Tower, the runway of Xihuamen Outer Street had been basically cleared.

The runway paving of Xihuamen Street is actually smaller than that of Hanximen Outer Street.

Because after the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, several main streets in the city were repaired on a large scale, so the road conditions of Xihuamen Street were very good and smooth.

Although there are pits, there are very few.

What the independent regiment had to do was to demolish the houses on both sides.

The amount of work to demolish the houses is not large, because the streets are all wooden and tiled houses, which will fall down as soon as they are pulled.

By five o'clock in the morning, when the Oriental Sky turned slightly white, hundreds of houses on both sides of Xihuamen Street had been demolished cleanly, and even the streets were cleaned.

Even the two Japanese attack planes used to attack Xihuamen were already parked in the streets.

Seeing a team of Eighth Route Army pushing carts and filling the fuel tanks of the attack planes with aviation kerosene, Chu Yunfei noticed that two aerial bombs had been hung under the belly of the attack planes.

Chu Yunfei walked into the hall of the drum tower and saw that Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie had already arrived.

"Brigadier Chen!" Chu Yunfei asked, "Is your army going to launch a general attack on the inner city of Taiyuan?" ”

"yes, it's going to be a general attack soon." The brigade commander nodded, and said, "Commander Chu, if your 358th Regiment is willing to participate in the final general attack, Houzaimun will be handed over to your 358th Regiment to be responsible!" But if ......"

Without waiting for the brigade commander to finish speaking, Chu Yunfei interrupted: "Brigade Commander Chen, Houzaimen will be handed over to our 358th regiment!" ”

Li Yunlong immediately smiled and said, "Brother Yunfei, I knew that you were a man, and you would never retreat from battle, haha." ”

"Brother Yunlong, it's over." Chu Yunfei smiled faintly, and then continued, "Chu is a soldier after all, and protecting his family and defending the country is just doing his duty. ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you."

The brigade commander nodded, and said to Li Yunlong: "Li Yunlong, after the Xihua Gate is blown up, your independent regiment should not rush to grab merit and go deep too early." ”

"The devil is not much more resolute than the puppet army, and the will to fight!"

"After breaking the gate, you must first attack from the city wall to the direction of Nanhua Gate and Houzaimun."

"First cooperate with the new 1st Regiment, the new 2nd Regiment and the 358th Regiment to open the city gates, and then the four regiments will launch a centripetal attack on the headquarters of the Japanese First Army from four directions at the same time!"

"Yes!" Li Yunlong replied loudly.

The brigade commander waved his hand and said, "Let's go back and prepare." ”

Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Chu Yunfei left separately.

Li Yunlong and the brigade commander climbed to the observation post on the top of the drum tower.

The observation post at the top of the drum tower has the widest field of view, and you can see the whole process of blasting the city gate.

Wang Yan was still in charge of the blasting this time, and after checking the runway for the last time, Wang Yan signaled Wei Dayong and the others to push the first Type 98 attack plane to the take-off position.

Wang Yan fine-tuned the course of the plane again.

The timer of more than ten seconds was quickly completed, and the timing controller installed in the cockpit immediately popped out, pushing the throttle of the attack aircraft to the end at once.

The Type 98 attack plane immediately roared, and then began to slide.

Everything went smoothly, and the Type 98 attack plane, loaded with more than 2 tons of kerosene and two 250-kilogram bombs, glided smoothly over the first 200 meters of the runway.

However, when entering the last 50 meters of the runway, an accident occurred.

I don't know if the front wheel ran over something, but the attack plane, which was originally aimed straight at Xihuamen, suddenly leaned to the right.

"!"

"Not good!"

"It's going to roll over!"

"How?"

An exclamation suddenly sounded up and down the drum tower.

Wang Yan was also a little confused, what is the situation?

In the midst of lightning and fire, the attack plane, which had accelerated to nearly 200 meters per second, landed on its left wing, and a spark belt was immediately sparked on the bluestone street.

Only half a second later, the left wing of the attack aircraft snapped off from it.

Then, the entire attack plane flipped to the right.

At this time, the entire attack plane was completely out of control, rolling, and sparks were sparked on Xihuamen Street.

But fortunately, by this time the speed of the attack aircraft was already very fast, reaching a high speed of almost 200 meters per second.

The speed is fast, the inertia is great! Although the attack plane has lost control, it is still under the action of inertia, grazing the bluestone street and crashing headlong into Xihua Gate!

In the blink of an eye, the Type 98 attack plane had already crashed into Xihuamen.

The next moment, a huge red light suddenly bloomed.

Wang Yan's hanging heart fell back into his stomach, and the Xihua Gate was broken!