Chapter 524: The Decisive Battle Begins
Yang Chen: They came and went quickly, and by the time the devil army came over, they had already run away.
Therefore, even if the little devil wanted to pursue, it was too late, so he could only look in the direction of Taiyuan City, and the back of the cavalry battalion of the Tiger Ben Regiment gritted his teeth and scolded the Baga Ya Road.
"Nani?" Upon learning that an artillery position had been attacked by enemy troops at night, the commander of the Japanese Provisional Dispatch Army in Shanxi, Nishio Shouzoto, was furious.
"Your Excellency Commander, it is reported that it was not the artillery wing directly under the divisions and regiments that was attacked by the enemy at night, but the artillery team under an infantry wing of the 5th Division, so the losses of our army were actually not large."
Chief of Staff Suzuki hurriedly spoke out to convince him.
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, let these enemy soldiers be arrogant at this moment, tomorrow at dawn, it will be their death time!"
The commander of the 11th Brigade Regiment stationed in Tun, Suzuki Shigeyasu, also followed suit.
"When the city is broken tomorrow, I will wash Taiyuan City in blood!
After the city is broken, whether it is a soldier or a civilian, I will be killed all, and no one will be left!
I want to use the lives and blood of the Chinese to wash away the shame of my empire, and to comfort the heroic souls of the imperial soldiers who were shattered in this holy war! ”
"Haya!"
The devil officers straightened up and got up to receive the order.
Slaughtering cities, slaughtering villages, burning, killing, looting, and ruining Chinese women, these Oriental miscellaneous things are not less.
Far from forbidding this, the Japanese officers encouraged their subordinates to do so.
It is not only a reward for the officers and soldiers under his command, but also a recreational activity, so that their tense nerves can be occasionally relaxed.
Of course, there is one of the most important reasons, which is to keep these devil soldiers alive at all times, and to stimulate their thirst for bloodthirsty killing, and to forget the fear of war.
To put it simply, it is to cultivate these ghost soldiers into a group of war machines that have no feelings, are not afraid of life and death, and only know how to kill.
If it weren't for the fear of being condemned by international public opinion, causing public outrage, and worrying that the blind massacre would cause the Chinese military and people to resist to the death, I am afraid that the beastliness of the little devils would be even more cruel.
After a moment of silence, Nishio Shouzo commanded Suzuki again: "Chief of Staff, pass on the order, and all troops should be vigilant in case this incident happens again."
"Hay!"
Suzuki led the way with the handle of the saber in his hand, and hurriedly answered the way, then turned around and strode away.
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The night attack was completed, and when Yang Chen led the army back to Taiyuan City, it was already two o'clock in the morning.
After thinking about it, he gave Zhang Dali an order to command the artillery battalion to carry out artillery attacks on the Japanese positions.
The advanced reinforced 105mm howitzer has a range of six or seven thousand meters, and is fully capable of attacking Japanese positions.
A quick shot went down, although it didn't kill many devils, but it scared all the devils.
They woke up from their slumber, and one by one they entered a state of combat readiness as if they were facing a great enemy, thinking that the defenders of the city were going to attack them.
However, the little devil waited for a long time, but he did not see the defenders in the city attack, and even the artillery fire stopped.
Nishio Shouzo, Itagaki Seishiro, Kawagishi Fumizaburo, Suzuki Shumichi and other senior officers of the Japanese Army's Shanxi Temporary Dispatch Army had just laid down and fallen asleep, and they were all awakened.
After figuring out the situation, I couldn't help but be annoyed and angry.
Nishio Shouzo ordered with a gloomy face: "Order the artillery unit, immediately return fire!" Return the color to the Chinese defenders inside the city! The hateful Chinese defenders, this is deliberately harassing the imperial army and not allowing us to rest!
In that case, we can't cheapen them either!"
Seishiro Itagaki and the others nodded in agreement: "That's right, we must also use color to let these damn Chinese defenders know that our Imperial Japanese Army is not easy to mess with!"
Before Yang Chen launched the artillery attack, he had already expected that the devil would retaliate with artillery fire, so he had already strictly ordered the soldiers to take strict precautions, and at the same time told the resting soldiers not to worry and rest in peace.
Therefore, although the shelling of the devils was rapid, it actually did not cause much damage to the Tiger Ben regiment.
The devil's shelling had just ended, and the Tiger Regiment soon began to retaliate again.
The two sides come and go, and the fight is not lively.
After such a toss, the little devil was exhausted.
And on the side of the Tiger Bentuan, because they took the little devils to death, they knew that they didn't dare to attack at night, so they didn't take it too seriously at all.
Although the loud explosion greatly affects the quality of sleep, the situation is not too much better than the little devils who are always in a state of combat readiness.
The night went on like that.
In the early morning, it didn't take long for the sky to lighten.
Directly in the sky, there was a rapid and piercing roar of fighter engines.
"Devil air strike, hidden! Take cover! ”
As soon as nearly 100 devil fighters arrived in the sky over Taiyuan City, they launched a fierce air raid and bombing on it.
Heavy aerial bombs, like dumplings, smashed down from under the belly of the bomber, in free fall, carrying the sound of whirring wind, towards the ground of Taiyuan City.
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom! ——”
In the sound of explosions one after another, the sky-high flames and thick smoke almost shrouded the entire Taiyuan City.
In particular, several city gates and city walls in Taiyuan City have become the key targets of devil bombing.
There are many air defense fortifications built in Taiyuan City, and at this time, the defenders are basically hiding in bunkers, and the debris of soil and stone above their heads is constantly falling, and the ground under their feet is constantly shaking with the sound of explosions.
The strength of the Japanese bombing can be seen!
After being covered by carpet firepower, the already chaotic Taiyuan city was even more devastated, and most of the buildings were almost razed to the ground and turned into pieces of ruins.
Many sections of the city wall, which had been heavily bombarded, had collapsed.
Half an hour later, the Japanese air force seemed to be running out of bombs.
The intensity of the bombing began to gradually decrease.
At this time, the vigilant sentries who ventured to stay on the city wall to observe the enemy's situation soon found that a large number of armed devil infantry appeared outside the north gate of the city.
They were slowly approaching Taiyuan City in an offensive formation, under the cover of ground artillery fire.
When they were almost within the effective range of the light and heavy machine guns, the devil infantry quickly dispersed, and accelerated sharply in a skirmish formation, swarming towards the north gate all over the mountains.
The guards immediately fired warning shots and relayed the news over the intercom.
After Yang Chen, who personally guarded the north gate, got the news, he immediately led the second battalion, the third battalion and the rest of the brothers of the Tiger Ben Regiment to rush out of the air defense bunkers and rushed to the forward positions at the north gate.
Quickly relying on the ruined walls and city walls, as well as the ring fortifications that had been built outside the city long ago, they were ready for battle.
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ps! Lao Wu hung salt water for another afternoon and went home at five o'clock.
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