The defending positions of the Tiger Regiment.

When the devil soldiers completely lost the courage to continue fighting and began to scatter and flee, the Tiger Ben Regiment and the large troops of the 61st Army also rushed over one after another, just to join the pursuit team.

This time, Yang Chen did not stop them again, but let the soldiers under his command wantonly chase and kill.

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The picture pulls to the Japanese Joint Command.

Seishiro Itagaki, Bunzaburo Kawagishi, and Shigeyasu Suzuki looked proud, and after discussing the matter of destroying the Tiger Ben regiment, they continued to move their troops south to capture Taiyuan.

At that moment, a signal soldier suddenly burst in from the outside.

"Why are you so flustered?"

This is a signal corpsman under the command of the 5th Division, so Itagaki Seishiro's face sank and he questioned dissatisfiedly.

"Report ...... Report to Your Excellency General, Great ...... The big thing is not good, the front attack failed, and the vanguard troops were wiped out in the battle of Xinkou! ”

"Yaga! What do you say? ”

Itagaki Seishiro's face changed drastically, he got up and took three steps into two steps, came to the signal soldier, stretched out his big hand and grabbed his shirt and neck and questioned angrily.

"Will ...... Your Excellency, this is a message from the commander of the Kameda Brigade. ”

The devil signal soldier was so frightened that his legs trembled, trembled like chaff, slowly raised his right arm, and handed the message in his hand to Itagaki Seishiro.

"Humph!"

Itagaki Seishiro snorted coldly, took the message with his left hand, and pushed forward with his right hand.

The devil's signal soldier stood unsteadily, and sat at the door of the tent with a heavy butt.

"Yaga! How is this possible? ”

After Seishiro Itagaki saw the contents of the telegram, he looked dead.

This telegram was sent by Kameda Shoichi, the commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade under his command, and he was sure that Kameda Shoichi would not dare to joke with him about such a thing.

So the result......

It turned out that when Liang Chunpu led the army to arrive, Kameda Shoichi listened to the proposal of his adjutant and decisively chose to transfer.

In the end, seeing that the general trend had gone, he directly chose to retreat, which saved a dog's life.

At this time, Kawagishi Bunzaburo and Suzuki Shigeyasu also got up and came over.

After the two of them saw the content of the message, they also showed ugly expressions like dead fathers and mothers.

Soon, information came back one after another, but this time, it was all about the 20th Division.

The 40th Infantry Brigade led by Yamashita Fengwen was completely annihilated 30 miles north of Xinkou.

The 40th Infantry Brigade and the 79th Infantry Wing were completely annihilated at Langshan.

In this way, the 40th Infantry Brigade has been completely wiped out, plus the 39th Infantry Brigade that was completely annihilated in the South Huaihua area.

It is equivalent to two infantry brigades under the 20th Division, and all four infantry wings are scrapped; And the establishment of his 20th Division is equivalent to existing in name only.

"Poof! ——”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo couldn't bear such a blow for a while, and a mouthful of blood spurted out directly, and the person also fell backwards and withdrew.

Fortunately, Suzuki Shigeyasu reflected in time, and his eyes were quick and he held him up.

"Kawagishi-kun!"

"Kawagishi-kun!"

"Are you alright?"

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The picture is pulled back to Xinkou, the position of the Tiger Ben regiment.

At this time, the battle had been over for a long time, and the battlefield was almost cleaned.

However, whether it was the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment or the soldiers of the 61st Army, they all frowned and had a gloomy face, and there was no expression that a victor should have.

Because although this battle was won, the battle was extremely tragic.

The defenders of the Tiger Regiment, more than 1,500 people, by the end of the final battle, there were less than 200 people left, more than half of whom were seriously wounded.

Of the more than 1,500 people led by Yang Chen, after a series of fierce battles, there were less than 800 people left.

Taken together, the total strength of the Tiger Ben Regiment is less than 1,000, most of which are wounded, and in the short term, there is no strength to fight again.

Of course, this is without the use of special gold sore pills and special healing pills.

The casualties of the 61st Army were even worse than those of the Tiger Regiment.

The 72nd Division, which arrived in advance to support, was almost wiped out, and the rest of the divisions suffered heavy casualties when they ambushed the 40th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army.

Up to now, there are less than 1,000 people who can still breathe.

Yang Chen reported the situation and results of the battle to the theater command by telegram.

At this time, Yan Laoxi had already left Taiyuan ahead of schedule and moved to the area of Zhongtiao Mountain in southern Jinnan.

And before leaving, a military meeting was held, leaving Fu Yisheng, commander-in-chief of the 7th Army, to concurrently serve as the commander of the Taiyuan garrison, commanding the 211th Brigade, the 218th Brigade, the 1st Independent Brigade, and the 213th Brigade of the 35th Army.

The 3rd Regiment, the 8th Regiment, the 9th Regiment, and the 23rd Artillery Regiment were attached to the 21st Artillery Regiment, the 22nd Artillery Regiment, the 25th Artillery Regiment, and the Artillery Brigade (all under the command of Liu Yiheng, commander of the 22nd Artillery Regiment).

In addition, the 61st Army, which was withdrawn from Southern Huaihua, was also assigned to the command of Fu Yisheng and assumed the task of defending Taiyuan.

Take advantage of the existing position lines around Taiyuan to carry out field battles according to the city, so as to block the enemy's advance, eliminate its troops, and wait for the follow-up corps to arrive, and then carry out a counteroffensive and flank attack, and gather and annihilate it.

Fu Yisheng is not as fond of Yang Chen as Yan Laoxi, because Yang Chen's existence is very likely to threaten his position, and he seems to be regarded as a competitor.

Therefore, he only symbolically gave a verbal commendation to Yang Chen and the Tiger Bentuan.

Then the Tiger Ben Regiment and the 61st Army were withdrawn from Xinkou to Taiyuan.

At this time, the army of the Second Theater had completely withdrawn from the front line, so Fu Yisheng simply gave up Xinkou and planned to defend Taiyuan City and have a final decisive battle with the Japanese army.

Because the Tiger Ben Regiment successfully annihilated the Japanese vanguard troops, it bought enough time for the Taiyuan garrison.

In addition, Taiyuan is surrounded by mountains in the west, north and east, and there are still certain military fortifications that can be used.

Therefore, Fu Yisheng is still more optimistic about this battle.

At least hold off the enemy army for a while, it is not a problem.

At that time, with the follow-up corps, maybe it will really be able to carry out a counterattack on the invading enemy as expected by the general seat, and gather and annihilate it!

A day later, when he learned that Yang Chen had led the Tiger Ben Regiment under his command to arrive.

Fu Yisheng led a group of senior officers to personally arrive at the north gate of Taiyuan City to greet Yang Chen, a national hero who shocked the world.

Although Fu Yisheng didn't want to see Yang Chen in his heart, in order to avoid the verbal and written criticism of hundreds of millions of patriotic people, he still had to do this face project.

Not only to do it, but also to do it in a big way!

Because of this, he can also touch the light of Yang Chen and the Tiger Bentuan to improve his prestige, so why not?

Just imagine, with Yang Chen's prestige today, if Yan Laoxi or even Chairman Jiang were in Taiyuan, they would definitely go out of the city to greet them, let alone Fu Yisheng and others.

If they dare to stand on the leader's shelf, they don't make some face-saving actions to welcome the hero's return.

The spit of patriotic people from all walks of life across the country alone can drown them.

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