At about ten o'clock that night, Taiyuan, the headquarters of the 12th Army of the Island Army. Eighty-one? Chinese? ≈≥≠．≤８≈１≤Ｚ≤≥．＝Ｃ≈Ｏ≈Ｍ≠

A staff officer hurriedly walked to the headquarters with a telegram in his hand, and handed over the telegram with both hands in front of the commander, Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru, and said: "Report to the commander of the division, Pingyao is urgent!" ”

"Say, what's the matter?" Ushijima did not leave the combat sand table with his eyes, and raised his right hand with white gloves very chicly, although the whole line was fired, and the situation in the entire Shanxi was extremely unfavorable to them, but he still maintained a calm and relaxed general demeanor.

Dazuo's throat rolled twice, and he seemed to have the courage to say: "The 89th Division of the Pingyao Imperial Allied Army was on the verge of fighting against the water, and suddenly attacked the southern defense line of the Locust Army, which caught the Locust Army by surprise, and then the 1o3 division of the Jin Sui Army attacked, and the southern defense line of Pingyao may be difficult to ......."

"Nani?" Ushijima Mitsuru turned around and puffed out his eyes to look at Staff Officer Osa, pulled the telegram from his hand and hurriedly glanced at it, and a good telegram paper was immediately crumpled by him and smashed to the ground, and roared wildly: "Yaga Yalu, this stupid pig of Uehara Hideyoshi actually fell for the tricks of the army, and he died!" ”

The chief of staff on the side, Major General Masataka Kazuki, hurriedly picked up the paper ball on the ground, unfolded it in a panic, and after only a few glances, his hands began to tremble, and then he shouted miserably: "Pingyao is in danger, Ushijima-kun, hurry up and send troops for reinforcements, right?" ”

"Troop transfers? Where else do you think you can adjust? Ushijima gritted his teeth and said angrily.

"This ......"

The 12th Army of the Island Army has seven divisions, but two divisions are on the front line of Jincheng, Jiaozuo, and Xinxiang, two divisions are on the front line of Yonghe and Huoxian, one division is in Pingyao, and one division is transferred to the far end of Pinghan Road and Zhengtai Road.

As for the fact that there are several Imperial Association divisions, the island army does not dare to place high hopes on them at all, and the Chang Lieguang division in front of them is the most powerful proof of this.

Therefore, at the moment, Ushijima is really out of options.

Ushijima is worthy of being a well-known "fierce general" in the island army, even at this time, there is no chaos, after a little thought, he decisively ordered Huo Xian, Yonghe two divisions each to send a brigade to immediately rush to Pingyao, and strictly ordered Pingyao's Uehara Hideyoshi to gather troops at all costs to wait for reinforcements.

A brigade from each direction? It can be seen that Niu Daoman is already quite helpless, in fact, Huo Xian and Yonghe have also been fiercely attacked by the Jin Sui army at this moment, and their troops are already stretched.

However, the importance of Pingyao is related to the overall situation of the war, once Pingyao is lost, the gateway to Taiyuan is not to mention, and the entire Shanxi Twelfth Army will be divided into two camps immediately.

The two divisions in the direction of Jincheng and Jiaozuo will be left far behind, and the only way out for these two divisions will be to open up the Pinghan Railway and go back to Pingjin from Shijiazhuang.

And the three divisions of Huo County, Yonghe, and Pingyao, if they do not retreat in a hurry, they will immediately be divided and surrounded by the Jin Sui army, and it will be Huo County when they are brunt.

Therefore, Ushijima has actually reached the most critical moment of exhaustion.

But the sky is not beautiful, Ushijima Man's order came out less than half an hour, Pingyao's telegram arrived again, the catastrophic news came, the southern defense line was broken on the whole line, and the Jin Sui army attacked from multiple roads and points, and at the same time attacked the east and west sides, the attack was extremely fierce, the position of the 157th Division was completely disrupted, and it was impossible to clean up the mess, and the loss of Pingyao was inevitable.

Ushijima's face was like ashes, cold sweat flowed, and he could no longer be calm and calm, howling and scurrying like a wounded beast in the headquarters, only scaring a room of staff generals into silence.

It seems that tonight is the disaster day of Ushijima Man, and this side has not come to his senses, Okamura Ningji's telegram has arrived again, two hours ago, more than 10,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army attacked Dezhou, Dezhou has been lost, and a division and regiment reinforcements from Pingjin were forced to stop in Cangzhou, preparing to build the Pingjin defense line, and it was no longer possible to reach the front.

The telegram did not contain any requests, no further tactical guidance, and no mention of what the Twelfth Army should do, but Ushijima knew immediately that they had become Okamura's abandoned army.

, Xinzhou was occupied, Jinan's life hung by a thread, the Yellow River Railway Bridge was seized, and now the lifeline of Dezhou is blocked, and the entire island army in Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, and Henan has all been blocked, not to mention the Twelfth Army of Niu Daoman, the First Army and the Tenth Army have also been winged and cannot escape, even the Twelfth Army that has gone away from Yimeng Mountain is afraid that it will be difficult to escape, and the Locust Army has been defeated, and there is no possibility of turning the tables.

The entire four armies, the millions of troops, in just over a month, are gone, and the thought of it makes Ushijima shudder.

But he did not intend to give in, he firmly believed that all the difficulties in front of him were temporary, the locust army would definitely make a comeback, as long as Taiyuan was in hand, they could still wait until that day, and the island locust army was invincible.

Therefore, Niu Daoman immediately ordered the forces of Huoxian, Yonghe, and Pingyao to shrink and retreat, intending to build another defense line between Jiaocheng, Taigu, and Jinzhong to defend Taiyuan. At the same time, the two divisions in the direction of Jiaozuo and Jincheng were ordered to move closer to Taiyuan at all costs.

Yuncheng, **1st Theater Command.

Chen Chen and Wei Lihuang sat opposite each other and talked happily.

Although the troops of the First Theater did not make obvious progress, they successfully dragged down the two divisions of the Island Army and made great contributions to the offensive of the Jinsui Army in the front.

A staff officer hurriedly arrived, stood still in front of the two, and stepped forward and said: "Report, there is an urgent call from the second theater, they captured Pingyao an hour ago, the troops of Huoxian and Yonghe of the island army began to retreat urgently, and the Jin Sui army is launching a full-scale pursuit, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jiang judged that the island army of Jincheng and Jiaozuo will also retreat to Taiyuan or Shijiazhuang immediately, but no matter where they flee, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jiang ordered our troops to stick to them to the death, hit them hard, and be sure to annihilate them before they reach Taiyuan or Shijiazhuang." ”

Wei Lihuang immediately stood up from his seat and exclaimed, "So fast? It's only been less than three days, and the little devil has lost his armor and fled? ”

"Huh!" Chen Chen also stood up, waved his hand and said with a smile: "Junru (Wei Lihuangzi) brother, this is Jiang Haoran's power, he said that three days is three days, since he came back from the Nanshan battlefield, I have never doubted his every battle, I don't think you need to hesitate, immediately order the troops to step up the attack, right?" ”