The direction that Xiaoshi pointed to was Dongshan, Dongshan in the eastern suburbs of Taiyuan, where it was the direction of the troops who had withdrawn from Niangzi Pass to defend. At this time, the sound of artillery in the direction of Dongshan rumbled, and the explosion of shells reflected the sky in red.

"Dongshan is fighting!" Qian Sixi's face was happy. As long as the defenders on the other side can hold the eastern suburbs too far, this battle will still be fought.

Gao Quan's face was always as calm as water, and now it was even more gloomy. The artillery fire on the east mountain is so dense, will it be the artillery fire of our army? The odds are slim to none! Since the beginning of the war, our army has never been stronger than the Japanese army in terms of artillery intensity, and if you want to surpass the devils, it will be after the War of Resistance against Japan has entered a stalemate stage. Now the devils are in the offensive stage with a fierce momentum, and our army's artillery fire cannot be compared with the devils at all. The artillery fire in Dongshan is so intensive, which can only show that the defenders in the eastern suburbs of Taiyuan are now under great pressure, and it is likely that they are about to be unable to bear it!

On the battlefield in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan, because Gao Quan's 256th Regiment took the lead in attacking the devils, the form on the battlefield was undergoing subtle changes. The elite units of the Central Army that withdrew from the Xinkou battlefield also launched a blockade one after another.

The combat effectiveness of ace units like the Ninth Army, the Fourteenth Army, and the Sixty-first Army is still quite strong. Due to the superior force control ability of the commanders, the troops that have been withdrawn are basically the main force. The troops arranged defensive positions in advance, although the positions were arranged in a hurry, and they finally had the capital to fight with the Japanese army. At the beginning, a large number of routs rushed at the scene, and the commanders of these units really did not know how to deal with them, neither to kill or wound a large number of routs, but also not to let these people pass by their positions. The army commanders and division commanders had no choice but to let the soldiers on the periphery of their positions shoot at the routs who tried to storm the position, and for fear of taking responsibility for this in the future, they lied that their troops were also in chaos, and those routs who were shot could be pushed to the point where the troops were out of control. The sound of gunfire on the position of the 256th Regiment made these battlefield veterans regain their spirits, organize their respective troops, and use the fortifications on the position that have only been built for a short time to launch a counterattack against the devils.

The troops in the northern suburbs still occupy the main force of these elite troops, and most of the troops that retreated were the troops of the Jinsui Army and the scattered troops of the incomplete Central Army. As soon as these troops rushed on the periphery, they were full of routs, as if the troops in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan had begun to rout! Even Wei Lihuang, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, was frightened.

In fact, like Gao Quan's Ninth Army, after the death of Commander Hao Mengling, the successor commander Guo Jiqiao is the chief of staff of the 14th Group Army of Commander-in-Chief Wei, and his own military literacy is extremely strong.

Chen Changjie, commander of the 61st Army, shined in the Battle of Taiyuan, from the bloody battle of Harrier Ditch and Tuanchengkou, the great victory of Pingxingguan, to the fierce battle of Nanhuaihua, he did not taste a defeat, repeatedly broke the stubborn enemy, and after this battle, won the reputation of "the general who resisted the daily victory". How could such a general, such a strong army, be disrupted by the rout?

Once these main forces begin to exert their might, it will become even more difficult for the Japanese to defeat the squadron in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan in one go.

The position of the 256th Regiment was, in the final analysis, a little bit outside. The troops stationed on the periphery of their positions were not the elite of the Central Army, and these troops were basically the main forces that were defeated at the beginning. By the time the defeated soldiers had all run about the same, Gao Quan's troops would basically become the right wing of the whole army.

The brigade that led the Japanese army to charge the most fiercely was also the elite of the Fifth Division, and at first it was only concerned with pursuing the routed troops, and was caught off guard by Gao Quan's troops. The attack was frustrated, and the devil who lost his troops was annoyed and angry, and immediately increased the intensity of the attack. Not only did the whole brigade go on the attack, but other units kept joining, and the 256th Regiment was a little unbearable.

The 256th Regiment now has more than 2,000 soldiers, all of whom were half-voluntarily and semi-forcibly "contained" by the tiger and wolf generals under Gao Quan's instructions. These people have a lot of combat experience, and when they were on the Xinkou front, they all fought against devils, so they were naturally unambiguous when they started fighting. But these people have one of the most fatal shortcomings, that is, they do not have a unified mind and have no sense of belonging to the 256th Regiment. The sense of belonging is a very idealistic thing, but this thing does exist. A soldier who does not have a sense of belonging will not fight to the death for this unit at a critical moment, that is, he will not even give up his life in order to listen to Gao Quan's orders. These problems, if they are nothing in normal times, but in the current situation, when it is time to fight for the life of the little devil, this defect of no sense of belonging is undoubtedly exposed.

In the face of more tanks and heavy artillery from the devils, deserters began to appear in the troops. Gao Quan was ruthless and gritted his teeth, and ordered Liu Qi to form a supervision team with a reconnaissance company, and after shooting dozens of deserters in one go, he finally stopped the trend of deserters.

The devil's attack was still fierce, and the position of the 256th Regiment was like a boat swaying in the wind and rain, as if it was in danger of capsizing at any time.

Guo Jiqiao, commander of the Ninth Army, has never forgotten his regiment on the periphery of the position. Speaking of which, he still admires Gao Quan a little. On the way back from Xinkou, he saw too many regimental and battalion-level troops that had broken up on their own because they had broken away from the brigade. And this regiment led by Gao Quan, which had also cut off contact with the main force of the army, actually rushed to the position in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan in a complete manner. He had seen the Japanese army's attack on the 256th Regiment for a long time, and he had always wanted to send troops to reinforce it, but first, he had just been ordered to fire and was integrating troops, and second, he was also under attack by the Japanese army here, and he had not freed his hand.

It was not until now that he saw that the 256th Regiment was about to be unable to support it, and once Gao Quan's regiment was defeated by the devils, the right flank of the entire northern suburbs of Taiyuan would be exposed to the Japanese army, and the situation on the entire battlefield might have to change because of this.

The high purity department is struggling to support. The strength of the Japanese attack on the 256th Regiment has increased from one brigade to one and a half brigades. Fifteen hundred Japanese troops launched wave after wave of attacks on the positions of the 256th Regiment, which now had less than 2,000 total troops. The heavy artillery of the devils, during the interval of the attack of the devil's infantry, was also ploughing the position of Gaoquan over and over again, and the number of casualties of our soldiers on the position rose sharply, and now it has reached the critical moment of life and death!

Is it keep? Or withdraw? These two thoughts flanked back and forth in Gao Quan's mind. Taiyuan is bound to be unbearable. Dongshan is definitely going to be lost, and if you carry it here, the only result is the annihilation of the whole army. But if he wants to retreat like this in the face of the devil's attack, he will not be reconciled.

Just when Gao Quan was fighting whether to defend or withdraw from heaven, and the 256th Regiment was in danger, reinforcements from a battalion discharged by Guo Jiqiao, the commander of the Ninth Army, came up.