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The position of the Eighth Route Army, seeing such a big movement on the opposite side, the soldiers knew that the artillery of the little devil must be finished, and the soldiers cheered one after another, and some soldiers even stood up, raised the weapons in their hands, raised their arms and shouted.

Even the two or three hundred fighters on the mortar positions who were hiding in the trenches, bending over, holding their heads in their hands to avoid the shelling of the little devils, also stood up straight and shouted with joy.

Zhang Yunfei saw that the morale of the soldiers was good, and gave the order to attack, and dozens of Type 92 infantry guns on the position of the Eighth Route Army first launched an attack on the position of the little devil two or three kilometers away, and the shells whistled one after another, flying towards the position of the little devil in the distance.

An explosion sounded in the position of the little devils, and the little devils were so beaten by the intensive artillery fire that they couldn't raise their heads, and they hid in the trenches one after another, even so, there were still few casualties among the little devils.

At the foot of the mountain, dozens of 60-millimeter mortars were only a few hundred meters away from the little devil's position, and when they saw that the Type 92 infantry guns on the artillery position had achieved good artillery results, everyone also opened fire one after another.

The artillery regiment in the distance saw that all the artillery was firing one after another, and without waiting for Zhang Yunfei's order, they couldn't wait to start shelling the little devil's position.

The shelling of 40 155-mm howitzers was very powerful, and the simple fortifications built by the little devils on the opposite side were simply vulnerable to a blow in front of these cannons, and as soon as the shells went down, a large crater with a diameter of several tens of meters was blown up, and the little devils in this range were either blown to pieces or were shocked to death, and the whole class and the whole class of the little devils died together.

Unfortunately, these 155-mm howitzers did not have many shells, and each gun fired less than ten shells before the few shells were gone.

Thirty minutes after the bombardment, Zhang Yunfei ordered the troops to prepare for an attack, and the trumpeters who received the order jumped out of the trenches one after another, sounded the trumpet of the charge, and the loud trumpet of the charge immediately spread throughout the entire position of the Eighth Route Army.

All the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army held their weapons one after another, shouted "rush", and rushed towards the position of the little devils, and at the same time, the artillery began to extend the shelling, and the scene of infantry and artillery coordination initially appeared......

On the mountain, the position of the little devils, under the 30 minutes of intensive shelling, the little devils have suffered more than 3,000 casualties, nearly half of which are due to the credit of 40 155-mm howitzers. Originally, there were only ** thousand little devils, but now there are more than 3,000 casualties, and the little devils, who are already inferior in numbers, are gradually showing a scene that they can't be held in front of nearly 30,000 Eighth Route Army.

Yoshio Otsuka saw the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were flooding in like a tide, all over the mountains, breaking through several lines of defense of the little devils in a row, and a large number of little devils were shot and killed, and his face suddenly turned like dirt.

It seems that today I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, Yoshio Otsuka thought of this, slowly picked up his katana, and prepared to seppuku.

The commander of the little devil brigade next to him quickly pressed Kozuka Yoshio's hands and pleaded loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, no." ”

Yoshio Kotsuka looked at the little devil brigade commander with a blank expression, resolutely raised his katana, and prepared to commit suicide by seppuku, the brigade commander saw his commander's actions, his eyes were full of sadness.

Suddenly, a shell from a Type 92 infantry cannon came with a whistling and landed exactly less than two meters behind Yoshio Kotsuka, and the violent explosion threw Yoshio Kotsuka, who had not reacted, several meters high, and then fell heavily seven or eight meters away.

The brigade commander of the little devil was also knocked to the ground by the explosion, and it took him a long time to get up, and the first thing he did when he got up was to stagger towards Yoshio Kozuka.

The commander of the Little Devil Brigade hugged Yoshio Kozuka, who was already dead, and shouted miserably: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Commander......"

Yoshio Kotsuka was already bleeding from seven holes, his back was blown to pieces, and he was lying motionless, seeing that Yoshio Kotsuka was dead, the commander of the little devil brigade was full of determination, gently put down Yoshio Kozuka's body, and tidied up his appearance a little, and then quickly ran to the nearby headquarters.

Entering the command headquarters, the commander of the little devil brigade said miserably to several little devil messengers who were sending reports: "Quickly send a report to His Excellency Ningji of Beiping Okamura, all the jade of the Taiyuan Imperial Army is broken, and His Excellency Yoshio Kozuka is also loyal to His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Several little devil communication soldiers who heard the order were also full of despair, their hands trembled, and they sent a report to Beiping Okamura Ningji in a panic.

Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Okamura Ningji grabbed the telegram with both hands, the joints of his fingers were slightly white, and after a while, Okamura Ningji calmed down a little, but he didn't expect that the tens of thousands of elites in Taiyuan were all shattered, and even the commander of the First Army was not spared.

"Send a report to the reinforced 16th and 10th Divisions, stop the reinforcements, and the troops will return to Baoding, North China for rest." Okamura Ninji saw that the general trend had gone, and said weakly to the chief of staff, Okabe Naosaburo.

"Yes, I'll go and deliver orders to the 16th and 10th Divisions." Naosaburo Okabe said loudly.

Naosaburo Okabe, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly stopped again, and suddenly thought of the defenders of Xinkou, so he said cautiously: "Your Excellency Commander, what about the two divisions of Xinkou?" ”

"Order them to split up." Okamura Ninji waved his hand weakly.

Listening to Okamura Ningji's words, Okabe Naosaburo was silent in his heart, breaking through separately, there was no army to respond, I don't know how many people can reach North China, Zhang Yunfei's troops are the division of tigers and wolves......

Eighth Route Army position

Zhang Yunfei and Division Commander Liu watched the troops' attack go smoothly, the battle was nearing the end, nearly 10,000 little devils had basically been eliminated, and a small number of little devils who broke through were also slaughtered by the mobile cavalry regiments on the periphery.

The two of them who were in a good mood began to talk and laugh, and Master Liu said with a smile on his face: "This time in the first battle of Taiyuan, I was impressed by you, tens of thousands of elite little devils were wiped out by us like this, I really can't believe it." ”

"Our troops also have a lot of casualties, I estimate that there are nearly 10,000 casualties, most of which are your troops." Zhang Yunfei said with emotion.

"It's nothing, for the sake of the War of Resistance and for the sake of the Chinese nation, it is inevitable that there will be sacrifices, and I am used to it."

"Well, but this time your 129th Division was originally here to help, I didn't think about causing such a big casualty, wait for the battlefield on the mountain to be cleaned, we don't want all the weapons and equipment of the little devils, and give them all to your division." Zhang Yunfei's grateful.

"Really, that's great, this battle almost knocked me out." Master Liu said in surprise.

"After the battle, in a few days I will ask the troops to send you thirty Type 92 infantry guns, 10,000 shells and 1 million rifle bullets."

After listening to Zhang Yunfei's words, Division Commander Liu was full of gratitude, for the development of the army in the future, in order to be able to better resist in the future, Division Commander Liu was not hypocritical, and smiled heartily.

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