Yang Chen's eyes looked around: "Since there is no guarantee of victory, then I suggest that we evacuate the people in the city first, and then we can rest assured that we will fight to the death with the little devils in the city!" ”

After saying this, Yang Chen continued: "Japanese devils are all inhumane beasts! They have suffered so many big losses in succession at the hands of the lowly Tiger Bentuan, and they will definitely not give up!

In case, I'm talking about just in case, in case we can't hold Taiyuan City, as a soldier who sacrifices his life for the country, he will die if he dies!

However, it is hard to guarantee that the devil will not retaliate against my Taiyuan citizens, and if there is a massacre, then we will not be able to atone for our crimes. ”

Fu Yisheng frowned and said, "Head Yang, are you a little too alarmist?"

In a big city like Taiyuan, even if the Japanese army occupies it, how dare they brazenly massacre our civilians? Aren't you afraid of condemnation and accusations from all the countries of the world?

In addition, even if Captain Yang's worries are justified, do you know how many people there are in Taiyuan?"

"That's 200,000!

Now the strength of our army is basically sent to the front line to repair the fortifications, with the frontal attack of the anti-Japanese invaders, there is no extra manpower to evacuate and evacuate the people in the city! ”

Xu Guoren was angry when he heard this, no wonder these warlord leaders could not effectively resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, not only were they outdated and dull in their thinking, but they also did not care about the life and death of the people at all.

If you don't get the support of the people, you can win the battle, that's hell!

"Chief Fu, I have never heard of a humble position, from ancient times to the present, there is that country, that nation, will pin the life and death of its compatriots on the condemnation and accusation of other countries against hostile countries!

Not to mention, will the countries of the world you mentioned offend little Japan for the sake of China, and even if they will, then what? Will their denunciations and accusations be able to stop the devil's bullets and butcher's knives?"

Yang Chen was a little emotional, so he said this in a more impulsive tone.

Fu Yisheng is still a warlord leader with some ideological consciousness, otherwise he would not have led his troops to join our party in the future; When I heard it, I felt that it seemed to make some sense, so although I was a little dissatisfied with Yang Chen's harsh words just now, I didn't blame it.

On the contrary, there is a little more appreciation.

So he frowned and said: "What you said is very true, Commander Yang, but the most critical problem is that we really don't have the extra number of people to evacuate now." ”

"Sir Fu, you don't need to deliberately send a large army to guide the people to evacuate, you just need to post a notice to explain the benefits and stakes to the people in the city.

Then send a small number of police and gendarmes to maintain order, and let the people in the city evacuate themselves from the west and south. ”

"Hmm. OK! ”

Fu Yisheng nodded heavily and adopted Yang Chen's opinion.

……

Three days later, the citizens of Taiyuan were evacuated one after another.

There are only a part of the citizens who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, most of these are old Taiyuan people, and their ancestors have lived in Taiyuan City for generations.

Therefore, he didn't want to leave, and even shouted the slogan of vowing to live and die with Taiyuan.

Many Chinese have such feelings of family and country, and Yang Chen is deeply moved by their choice.

Since he was unwilling to leave, Yang Chen did not force it, so he distributed weapons to these citizens from his warehouse and taught them simple shooting techniques.

Originally, many defenders were demoralized because of the evacuation of a large number of Taiyuan citizens.

In the end, because of the left-behind citizens of this part, their morale was high, and at the same time, their belief in victory was strengthened!

These citizens are still like this, let alone these soldiers.

Under Fu Yisheng's planned promotion, propaganda and encouragement, the morale of the soldiers suddenly climbed to a peak.

The recruits of the Tiger Regiment are constantly training, because they know what kind of war they will face next.

Although none of them had ever been on the battlefield, they had all heard of the cruelty and horror of the little devils.

Especially in the past few days of joining the Tiger Mission, it has deepened their understanding of the little devil from the mouths of the veterans of the Tiger Mission.

Young people are fearless.

Therefore, the cruelty and horror of the little devils did not frighten them, but aroused their enthusiasm for training even more.

The ideological consciousness of these patriotic youths is extremely high, they hardly need to be mobilized, and their training is so diligent that even many veterans are ashamed of themselves.

Therefore, in just a few days, he basically mastered the techniques of shooting and stabbing.

With the addition of those college students with professional knowledge, the work of the field hospital has also become much smoother.

Everything is developing in the direction expected by Yang Chen.

However, it seems to be calm, but Yang Chen knows better than anyone that this is the last calm before the storm.

In fact, in history, the Battle of Xinkou and the Battle of Taiyuan were closely linked.

As soon as the Battle of Xinkou ended, the Japanese army pursued and covered the defeated army in the second theater along the Tongpu Line and the Zhengtai Line, and launched an attack on Taiyuan.

The Battle of Taiyuan began.

And now, with the arrival of Yang Chen's crossing, history has changed a little subtly.

Although Yang Chen failed to reverse the defeat in the second war zone and prevent the occurrence of the Taiyuan Defense Battle.

However, it was in Datong, Wutai County, Xinkou and other areas that a lot of damage was inflicted on the Japanese army.

As a result, although they took a large area of defense north and east of Taiyuan, they also paid a large number of casualties.

The existing forces were no longer enough to support them to continue waging the Taiyuan War.

As a last resort, we had to wait for the arrival of the large army before continuing the attack.

In this way, it is equivalent to buying a little time for Taiyuan

……

Xinkou.

The headquarters of the Shanxi Dispatch Army of the Japanese Army.

The commander of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, commander of the North China Front, appointed Terauchi Shouichi as the commander of the Shanxi Provisional Dispatch Army, and led the 4th Division, the 20th Division, and the 108th Division under his command to Shanxi, and cooperated with the 5th Division and the 11th Brigade to capture Shanxi as soon as possible, and then marched east and south to completely occupy the entire North China region.

At this time, the 5th Division, the 20th Division, and the 11th Brigade of the Garrison Mixed Brigade had been crippled, and there was no structure, but the actual combat effectiveness was not as good as one-fifth of what it was at full strength.

Among them, Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division was the most miserable, and the two infantry brigades under its command were almost wiped out as soon as they arrived in Shanxi, and they were all done by one person.

During this time, Kawagishi Bunzaburo ate tastelessly every day, slept poorly, and gritted his teeth in his dreams, wanting to eat Yang Chen and the tiger ball alive.

However, fortunately, there was a precedent for the First Army and the 14th Division, so that his 20th Division was not the disgraceful army that set a precedent.

At this time, the entire headquarters of the dispatch army was full, and all of them were officers at or above the rank of major general.

The only few officers of the big rank are the chiefs of staff of each division.

Among them, the commander of the 4th Division, Matsui Mei, the commander of the 5th Division, Seishiro Itagaki, the commander of the 20th Division, Kawagishi Fumizaburo, and the commanders of the 108th Division, Kanehara Matsujiro and Nishio Shouzo, although they both belong to the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, Nishio Shouzo, as the commander of the temporary dispatch army, has undoubtedly the highest status.

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