Shigeru Suematsu cried wolf, and he only then knew that he had fallen for Nakajima Sadao, who betrayed him and his 114th Division for the sake of his 18th/division.

More than 10,000 soldiers of the 114th Division were all ruthlessly abandoned at this time, thinking of this, Matsu Shigeji couldn't help but feel sad and indignant, he struggled with all his might, but helplessly several soldiers of the army held him down, and he couldn't move. Finally, the soldiers found ropes and tied him up, and then he was taken to a firewood house and thrown in.

After solving Shigeji Suematsu, Sadao Nakajima said to the commander of the 56th Infantry Wing next to him, Shiro Fujiyama Nakasa: "Fujiyama-kun, you immediately tell the commander of the Ueno Brigade and let him lead the 23rd Brigade to attack north!" Break through the defense line of the Chinese people! Open the way out for the troops! ”

"Hay!" Fujiyama Shiro bowed his head suddenly.

Northwest of Taiyuan, Xiyan Town.

This place is less than a hundred kilometers away from Taiyuan City, Zhang Mingyu has rushed to Xiyan Town with the guard battalion, and easily controlled a company of the puppet emperor's alliance army stationed here.

More than 50 people were killed and wounded, and the rest were all disarmed and surrendered. Because the guard battalion had cut off the telephone line from Xiyan Town to Taiyuan, the Taiyuan army did not know that a unit had quietly touched the back of their buttocks at this time.

According to normal times, the devils will have special personnel responsible for calling each peripheral stronghold and artillery tower every day to inquire about the situation, but because the Jin Sui Army, the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army in Shanxi have launched counteroffensives one after another, the army is tired of dealing with them, and there is no time to take care of these peripheral strongholds and artillery towers.

At this time, only the Fifth Division and the Third Brigade of Reading Li were all in Shanxi, of which the Ninth Brigade of the Fifth Division was garrisoned in Taiyuan, and the surrounding areas were garrisoned by the Twentieth Brigade and the Twentieth Brigade in Shouyang and Jinzhong. The 3rd Brigade of Reading Force garrisoned Yangquan. The defense posture of the Yue army in the whole Shanxi is to take the Yue army as the main force, and the Imperial Association Army and some Han annihilation forces are outside, of course, there are some ghost soldiers in these puppet armies to supervise them to prevent them from surrendering to [***] or the Eighth Route Army.

Taiyuan Army Headquarters:

Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front Army, convened a meeting of officers at the rank of commander or above of the Fifth Division, and Terauchi Shouichi said with a stern expression: "According to reliable information, the Zhina Reading Army has already attacked Xinzhou, and is now fighting fiercely with the 18th and 114th Divisions. I believe that at this time, you will be able to create a miracle again and regain the majesty of the Gang army. ”

The new commander of the Fifth Division immediately stood up and said: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, according to the information I have received, we are not only facing the Zhina Reading Army this time, but the Second Theater of China in the Zhongtiao Mountains has launched a large-scale counteroffensive in southern Jinnan, and the Imperial Allied Army has lost its cities and territory one after another. In addition to the Zhina People's Political Axe Army, the Eighth Route Army led by [***] is also actively counterattacking, and most of the county towns and strongholds in Taihang, Luliang and other places have all been lost.

If the imperial army does not attack again, the whole of Shanxi will be out of control, and it will be difficult for our army to control the situation at that time. ”

"Hmm." Terauchi Shou nodded and said, "What Bi-kun said is not unreasonable, but you must know that all this is caused by the hateful Reading Army, and the Reading Army is the source of the trouble." In other words, as long as we eliminate the Reading Army, everything can be recovered. In addition, I have ordered the 16th Division and the 5th Brigade of Reading to set out for reinforcements, and now I need your troops to resist the offensive of Reading Li Army and hold Taiyuan for half a month! Tell me what your deployment is. ”

"Hay!" Scratching the people and suddenly bowing their heads, he immediately walked to the giant map hanging in the headquarters and said: "The deployment of our division is like this: the 9th Brigade and the 41st Wing of the Field Artillery Regiment are left in Taiyuan City. The 11th Infantry Wing and the 5th Cavalry Wing held the Xinkou to prevent the Shina Reading Army from moving south. The 21st Infantry Wing of the 21st Brigade Regiment garrisoned Jinyuan, Fenyang, Taigu and other counties. The 42nd Infantry Wing garrisoned Shouyang. ”

After talking about the deployment of the 5th Division, he pointed to Yangquan and said: "I think that the 3rd Brigade of Reading Power stationed in Yangquan should be immediately transferred to the south and cooperate with our department to block the Reading Army. The Imperial Allied Army on the periphery of our army was simply unable to stop the attack of the regular army in China, so I suggested that the 3rd Brigade should send two infantry brigades to immediately reinforce Fenyang, Pingyao County and other places to prevent the Jin Sui army from moving north. The rest of the main force went to Xinkou to reinforce our 11th Infantry Wing. ”

Terauchi Shouichi pondered for a while and said: "Scratch Bi-kun, I agree with your suggestion, but you have to promise to block the Shina Reading Army for half a month to gain time for the imperial army, and after half a month, I believe that the base camp will approve my proposal to expand the army to deal with the crisis on the battlefield of China." ”

"Hay! Commander rest assured! Swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor! Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live the Empire! "Scratching is more than making people agree.

"Hmm!" Terauchi Shou nodded and said, "Scratch Bijun, I'll leave it to you here, I'm going to return to Beiping now." ”

"Humble to the general!" Scratching the face of the person said sincerely.

"No need, you and the officers should discuss the military situation!" After saying that, Terauchi Shou strode out of the headquarters, and there was already a jeep waiting for a long time, he got into the jeep, and soon the jeep rushed towards the airport.

Shouichi Terauchi sat in the car and looked at Taiyuan City, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Taiyuan, I don't know if there is a chance to be here." "Terauchi Shouichi knew better than anyone else that at this time, he would not be able to resist the counterattack of the [***] team at this time, and the reinforcements of the 16th Division he said were actually just a pretense to encourage the morale of the Fifth Division.

This old guy knows better than anyone else that at this time, the decline of the army in North China, and several elite divisions and regiments previously drawn from the Central China Front Army and the Wuhan Front were completely annihilated by Zhang Mingyu one after another. The North China Front is now in name only. The 114th Division and the 18th Division were also surrounded by the Reading Army, and it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out.

And he simply didn't have the extra troops on hand to go to the rescue, so he gave orders to Sadao Nakajima and Shigeharu Suematsu, and the 114th and 18th divisions broke through on their own.

It is obviously unrealistic to rely on the Fifth Division, a newly expanded second-rate division, to block the Reading Army. Although he really wanted to shrink the 5th Division back to Beiping and stick to Pingjin, this was obviously impossible, not to mention whether the officers and men of the 5th Division were willing to give up Shanxi, and he couldn't say where the headquarters and base camp were.

Terauchi Shouichi knew that the base camp must have been discussing the punishment of him, and all he could do was how to hold on to Pingjin and prevent the Reading Army from attacking Guannai and keeping the four eastern provinces. Only in this way may the base camp's punishment against him be lighter. If even Pingjin is lost, then not only him, but the entire temple family will be implicated.

West Rock Town.

Li Gang was ordered by Zhang Mingyu to take a few soldiers to inquire about information and had already returned.

Inside the headquarters, Zhang Mingyu was looking at the map. Li Gang strode in and stood up and said: "Report to the military seat, I have already heard that there is only one squadron of devils stationed in Yangqu. ”

"What?" Zhang Mingyu asked with some disbelief: "Only one squadron?" You're not mistaken! Reliable messaging? ”

"Absolutely! The little devils stationed at least one infantry wing and one cavalry wing in Xinkou, so there weren't many devils in Yangqu. Li Gang replied.

"His grandmother, the little devil is really rampant enough! Yangqu is so important, so he only has one squadron. Liu Dalong, the commander of the second company, scolded and scolded.

"Junzuo, as Dalong said, Yangqu is the north gate of Taiyuan, and in such an important place, the little devil will not be stupid enough to put only one squadron. Could this be a conspiracy? Zhang Haisheng, the commander of the third company, said.

"Regardless of his conspiracy, take down the Yang Qu first!" Zhang Mingyu immediately decided.

"Junzuo, although the devils of a squadron are not to be worried, but we can't attack strongly, so that the devils in Xinkou will soon be able to get a letter to help, and the devils in Taiyuan will also be able to reinforce in time, so that not only will our whereabouts be leaked, but it is also very likely that the army will be attacked from both sides!" Li Gang hurriedly added.

"Hmm!" Zhang Mingyu nodded and said, "Go and select twenty brothers with excellent skills to act with me!" ”

"Yes!" Li Gang took the order and left.

In the north of Dingxiang City, more than 2,000 officers and men of the Second Regiment have entered the devil's position under the leadership of the commander of the second regiment, and are engaged in a fierce battle with the devils on the position.

Behind the Second Regiment, there are about two companies of engineer units that are rapidly filling in the anti-tank trenches dug by the army in an orderly manner, and as long as these anti-tank trenches are filled, the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored division will immediately be able to enter the battle, and the end of the devil will be at that time.

Xu Hu stood in front of a tank and kept urging the soldiers who were in charge of filling the ditch. The anti-tank ditch was halfway filled, and suddenly there was an earth-shattering sound of shouting and gunfire from inside Dingxiang City. Xu Hu knew that this could never be the other troops of the Reading Army, it must be a devil.

Xu Hu picked up the binoculars and saw that a large group of devil soldiers with samurai cloth wrapped around their heads with bayonets and rifles with bayonets poured out of the city in a steady stream, rushing towards the second regiment that was fighting with devils.

The 2nd Regiment, which had originally had the upper hand, had already reached the vicinity of the headquarters of the 115th Infantry Wing, and was suddenly counterattacked by a large group of devils, and the pressure suddenly increased greatly. But the second regiment was red-eyed in battle, and they all fought bravely and fought to the death without retreating.

Xu Hu knew that this situation would not last long, and at this time his armored division could not step forward to reinforce, let alone open artillery to give fire support to the second regiment, and the anxious Xu Hu immediately yelled at the guards beside him: "Sanlong, you go and report to Division Commander Lai immediately, just say that the little devil is counterattacking on a large scale, and the second regiment is almost unable to withstand it, so let him send reinforcements quickly!" Fast! Be sure to be fast! ”

"Yes!" Sanlong said yes, and immediately turned around quickly and ran towards the headquarters of the third division.

Seeing that there were more and more devils pouring out of the city, Xu Hu immediately said to all the officers and soldiers of the armored division: "Brothers, help fill in the soil immediately!" Fast! ”

(To be continued)