At noon, the brigade of the Independent Regiment had already appeared on the west bank of the Fen River.

Seeing thousands of Eighth Route Army marching over, the puppet army guarding the old Jiaochang Bridge casually fired a few shots, then turned around and fled into Shuiximen.

Outside the west gate of Taiyuan is the Fen River.

The moats in the other three directions are also the water of the Fen River.

Three bridges were erected on the Fen River, and Yoshio Shinozuka did not give the order to blow up the bridges for some reason.

may have thought that the main force of the 386 Brigade would fight from Dongguan and Nanguan, and it was unknown if they wanted to keep the West Gate as a way out, so they did not order the bridge to be blown up.

Without much effort, the Separate Regiment captured all three bridges.

Immediately after that, the independent regiment quickly took control of all the buildings outside the Shuixi Gate and the Dry West Gate, and built fortifications.

Li Yunlong is already a commander who has been in a hundred battles, and you told him that he didn't understand the art of war before thinking about victory and defeat, but he still knew this truth when the troops arrived in a place.

Otherwise, as soon as the devils in the city counterattack, the troops will suffer losses if they do not gain a stable foothold.

Almost at the same time, Ding Wei's new regiment also blocked the big and small east gates.

Kong Jie's new second regiment blocked the Yingze Gate and Chengen Gate in Nanguan.

Only the small north gate of Beiguan still has a lock, and the remains of the gate are not blocked by troops.

There are only two considerations for this, one is the lack of troops, and the other is to force the devil to break through!

The brigade commander is a first-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he is one of the three heroes of Whampoa.

The brigade commander deliberately chose his brigade headquarters at the Taiping Temple outside the Shuixi Gate.

This made Li Yunlong miserable, because his regimental headquarters was also located in Taiping Temple.

The brigade commander did it on purpose, the Taiyuan Battle was too important, he was afraid that Li Yunlong would not listen to him, who let this guy have a history of disobedience on the battlefield many times?

"Brigade commander, you should go to Nanguan."

"The foundation of the new second regiment is relatively poor, and its combat effectiveness is also weak."

"If there is a brigade commander in charge, the combat effectiveness of the new second regiment will definitely be greatly improved!"

Li Yunlong chattered endlessly, the brigade commander was impatient, and said coldly: "Li Yunlong, you kid want to break me apart, and then let go of his hands and feet to act recklessly, right?" ”

"I'm telling you, there's no door!"

"In the Battle of Taiyuan, there is absolutely no room for mistakes!"

Li Yunlong said: "Brigade commander, the conscience of heaven and earth, how can I have such an idea." ”

"You have the kung fu to grind your teeth with me here, it's better to use your brain, how to smash the water west gate or the dry west gate as soon as possible! Anyway, I'm stacking words here, whoever of the three main regiments of you enters Taiyuan City first will be the first to do it! ”

Li Yunlong walked out of the main hall with a bitter face, and Zhao Gang and several battalion commanders immediately surrounded him.

Li Yunlong swept it away, didn't see Wang Yan, and said, "What about Counselor Wang?" And what about the cavalry battalions? ”

Zhao Gang replied with a sigh: "Lao Li, Staff Officer Wang has just sent Gensheng back to report that he has some new ideas, and he may return to the team later, and the cavalry battalion will be with him." ”

"Then forget it." Li Yunlong said in a deep voice, "Anyway, this is a tough battle, and neither the wolf tooth squad nor the cavalry battalion can go up!" Just let them rest at the new city airport. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong shouted again: "Pillar? Pillar?! ”

As soon as the words fell, the artillery battalion commander Yu Chengzhu hurriedly ran in: "It's coming, it's coming." ”

Li Yunlong asked: "Zhuzi, how did you do your affairs, have you found the weak point of the city wall?" ”

"Commander, I've found it." Yu Chengzhu said, "Just by Xihaizi, that section of the city wall is estimated to have been collapsed by Japanese heavy artillery during the Battle of Taiyuan, and it was obviously repaired later." ”

"But the rammed earth was not tamped and was a little loose."

"In my estimation, it will blow up in two hours!"

Li Yunlong shouted: "Then blow it up, don't save shells!" ”

"Yes!" Yu Chengzhu agreed, turned around and rushed away.

Li Yunlong's gaze turned to the four infantry battalion commanders, and the four battalion commanders immediately perked up.

Li Yunlong's gaze swept over Zhang Dabiao, Shen Quan, and Guan Dashan one by one, and finally fell on Wang Huaibao, and said in a deep voice: "Wang Huaibao, this time your 3rd battalion will take the lead in the main attack!" ”

When Guan Dashan heard this, his face immediately turned into a bitter gourd.

Wang Huaibao was excited, and finally it was Lao Tzu's turn to camp 3!

Li Yunlong said again: "But Wang Huaibao, you listen carefully to Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu has given you 3 battalions of opportunities, but if you can't take it......

Wang Huaibao immediately said: "Regiment leader, if you can't take it, you will shoot me!" ”

"Shoot you?" Li Yunlong said, "Shooting you is cheap for you!" If your 3rd battalion can't take it down, and Lao Tzu will be embarrassed in front of the brigade commander, Lao Tzu will cut off your dog's head as a night pot! ”

"Yes!" Wang Huaibao said proudly, "I can't take it, you cut off my head as a night pot!" ”

"Go get ready!" Li Yunlong said, "As soon as the cannon stops and the city wall collapses, you will charge the whole battalion, and you must take the city pass in the shortest possible time!" ”

"Yes!"

……

In addition to a military police squad of the Japanese army, there was also a reinforced battalion of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the puppet army.

The commander of this reinforced battalion was an old acquaintance of the independent regiment, Wan Yong, the quartermaster of the cavalry battalion originally stationed in Wanjia Town.

Relying on the money he got from Aunt Gou Zhengcai's wife, Wan Yong became the battalion commander as soon as he went to Wei Jie's office.

Watching the Eighth Route Army push one 37mm rapid-fire gun after another, as well as one 75mm mountain gun after another, to the opposite side of Xihaizi, Wan Yong was frightened.

When did the Eighth Route Army become so wide?

There are so many rapid-fire guns and mountain artillery?

That's a fart, you can't keep it at all!

Ge Fugui and several platoon commanders such as Pan Ren under him were also so frightened that their teeth chattered.

"Big brother, this battle can't be fought at all!" Pan Ren's eyes rolled wildly, and he whispered, "Otherwise, we will descend again, right?" ”

"Anyway, it's not the first time I've surrendered."

"Shut up." Ge Fugui said, "You don't want to die." ”

"Big brother." Pan Ren hurriedly said, "If you don't surrender, it's really a dead end, and if you surrender, you can save your life!" After all, the Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially, and they didn't kill us last time. ”

"Captive?" Ge Fugui said, "If you want to be a prisoner, you have to have a chance." ”

Speaking of this, Ge Fugui turned his head and glanced behind him very covertly.

Pan Ren followed and looked behind him, and saw more than a dozen devils standing behind them with a good bayonet on the 38 big cover, and also set up a light machine gun on top of the city tower.

This posture is obviously not to fight eight ways, but to monitor them.

Whenever something happens to them, they will definitely shoot at the first opportunity.

Pan Ren lowered his voice and said, "Big brother, why don't you kill them first?" ”

Ge Fugui hurriedly covered Pan Ren's mouth: "Second brother, are you crazy on a dog day?" ”