Xinkou fell, Taiyuan was in danger, according to Yan Laoxi's plan of the city of the city, the troops retreated from Xinkou established a defensive position in the defense fortifications built on the first line of Huangzhai and Yangquwan north of Taiyuan, and the troops withdrawn from Niangziguan established a defensive position on the front line of Taiyuan Dongshan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unexpectedly, Sun Lianzhong's army, which could not be defeated, lost the position of Taiyuan Dongshan prematurely, so that the Japanese army on the East Road went straight to the flank of Taiyuan. The reinforcements sent by Chang Kaishen Pei Changhui Division just arrived at Yangqu Bay and retreated in a panic, and the troops retreating from Xinkou had time to enter the position in the future, and the Itagaki Division, which had lost the balance of the instructor, followed and chased it, so they retreated from the west bank of the Fen River to the south, and there were no Chinese troops near the Taiyuan Ring City, Yan Laoxi's battle plan was scrapped into a dead letter, and the field battle in Yicheng became a lonely battle.

When the generals of the Jin army were silent at the high-level military meeting on November 2, Fu Zuoyi stepped forward and asked for his life: "Abandoning the land is as glorious as defending the land, and I will defend Taiyuan City!" ”

However, in addition to the two brigades of Sun Lanfeng and Dong Qiwu, the main forces of the 35th Army under his jurisdiction, Fu Zuoyi also had two regiments of Yang Weiyuan from the former Li Fuying's department, three regiments of other troops and artillery units.

There are quite a few troops, but after two months of arduous fighting and serious attrition, the actual number of soldiers is only about 10,000, and Fu Zuoyi has some concerns about the use of other troops, and it is even more overstretched to deploy defenses in the surrounding Taiyuan city circle for dozens of miles.

On November 4, Wei Lihuang, who withdrew south from Xinkou, entered the city to persuade Fu Zuoyi to go south together, but Fu said: Defend the land and resist the war, the soldiers are responsible, the field army is there, of course Taiyuan must be defended, the field army is gone, and Taiyuan still has to be defended.

Although Wei Lihuang admired Fu Zuoyi's determination to defend the city, he led the 14th Group Army to retreat south after leaving a warrant for Fu Zuoyi to "retreat one after another".

After the deployment of the garrison troops, Fu Zuoyi ordered the city gate to be sealed, and he said at the officers' meeting: "Our defense of the city is like lying in a coffin, and we need to cover the lid." ”

However, his speech of vowing to live and die with Taiyuan did not arouse the fighting spirit of the Jin Sui army, but made some people who were greedy for life and afraid of death flee one after another before the closure of the city.

On November 5th, the Japanese army began to attack Taiyuan on a large scale, and the Taiyuan garrison of the military heart was only supported by Fu Zuoyi's descendants, and after paying a great price of casualties, Fu Zuoyi guarded the city hopelessly and issued an order to retreat on November 8, and Taiyuan was declared lost.

Fu Zuoyi collected the remnants and retreated to Fenyang to rest, and telegraphed to his superiors to give punishment, Yan Laoxi was ready to investigate his responsibility for the loss of Taiyuan, but because Wei Lihuang had issued him a warrant to "retreat one after another" and Chang Kaishen's opposition, he gave up.

A year later, due to the estrangement between him and Yan Laoxi over the loss of Taiyuan and his cooperation with the Workers' and Peasants' Party, Fu Zuoyi and Yan Laoxi parted ways. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

At ten o'clock in the morning of November 9th, Itagaki Seishiro led the Fifth Division into Taiyuan City with neat and powerful steps.

Seeing that this famous city in North China was conquered by his own troops, Itagaki Seishiro couldn't help but be proud, and boasted to Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the commander of the 20th Division, who was also a lieutenant general of the Japanese army: "Kawagishi-kun, more than a thousand years ago, Li Yuan started from Taiyuan, and then swept the world, establishing the world-famous Tang Empire, I think one day, our Great Japanese Empire can also achieve the same achievements as the Tang Empire." ”

Although Japan despises contemporary China and calls China China, it has great reverence for the Tang Dynasty in history, and most Japanese even believe that their country's culture is derived from the Tang Dynasty.

Kawagishi Bunzaburo said: "Hai, Itagaki Jun is very reasonable, but the military strength of my Imperial Japanese Army is much stronger than that of the Tang Dynasty, not only has an invincible army, but also a navy that dominates the entire Pacific Ocean. ”

"Yo Xi, Kawagishi-kun's ambition is really far beyond ordinary people, so let's work together for this unprecedented cause!" Hearing Kawagishi Bunzaburo's bold words, Seishiro Itagaki, who was already in his fifties, couldn't help but burn, and for a while, he gave birth to the heroic spirit of the old man and the ambition of a thousand miles.

"Report to Your Excellency, the commander of the Itagaki Division, more than a dozen wealthy gentry in Taiyuan City invited us to a banquet in the Huibin Building, saying that they welcomed the arrival of our Imperial Japanese Army and washed the dust for the Imperial Army." Just when the two old devils, Itagaki and Kawagishi, were bragging about the future, a Japanese liaison officer came to report.

"Hmph, the people of China are really soft bones that can't be supported by mud, our imperial army is about to plunder their property, ** their women, they don't want to resist, but grovel to us, it's really a bunch of cheap bones." Kawagishi Bunzaburo said disdainfully.

Itagaki Seishiro shook his head and said: "Kawagishi-kun, you're not right, our Great Japanese Empire is underpopulated, and if we want to rule China, which is rich in land and resources, it is inevitable that we can't do it, and it is very necessary to support a group of puppet slaves in China." I also hate these lowly minions who have no idea of home, but they are indispensable agents of the Empire's rule, and we still need to appease them. ”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo thought about it carefully, and felt that it was still Itagaki Seishiro who was reasonable, and couldn't help but admire: "Yo Xi, Itagaki-kun is worthy of being a China expert of our Great Japanese Empire, and I have such a wonderful strategy for ruling China, my big disdain!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro smiled confidently, shook his head and said: "No, no, no, Kawagishi-kun can praise the wrong person, the strategy of supporting the puppet agent is not my first initiative, it has long been in the history of China." For example, the Qing State established by the Houjin barbarians, their own population was not as good as one percent of the Ming people, but they supported the Ming people who surrendered to them on their knees, and then let the Ming people fight the Ming people, and finally unified China to establish the Qing State. ”

"It's about pinching, Itagaki-kun is very reasonable, my big suit, I must take Itagaki-kun as the horse's head." Kawagishi Fumizaburo said convincingly.

After that, under the leadership of Seishiro Itagaki and Bunzaburo Kawagishi, dozens of officers of the Japanese army rushed to the Huibin Building to accept the worship of the traitors and slaves in Taiyuan.

Compared with those wealthy gentry who are willing to be traitors and slaves, the civilians under the city of Taiyuan have suffered completely, and the soldiers of the Fifth Division, who have always been known as the beast army, broke into countless houses, robbed gold and silver, humiliated women, and slaughtered all over the house if they resisted at the slightest resistance.

On this day, the entire city of Taiyuan was in mourning.