Chapter Ninety-Six: Straight to Taiyuan

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Joint Command of the Eighth Route Army

Seeing that the troops attacked smoothly and had occupied the outer defense line of the little devil, Zhang Yunfei had a smile on his face, and even the division commander Liu next to him also praised again and again, he had not fought such a big battle for a long time, and the battle of the two armies plus 100,000 people was the biggest battle with the little devil since the Anti-Japanese War for the Eighth Route Army.

won the opening victory, but Zhang Yunfei was not carried away by the small victory, this time Zhang Yunfei prepared a big game of chess, and now it has just begun.

Seeing that the troops of the Eighth Route Army controlled the forward positions on the front and flank, Zhang Yunfei said to Division Commander Liu: "Brother, how about we play a big game of chess for the little devil?" ”

After listening to Zhang Yunfei's words, Master Liu also said with interest: "Oh, what kind of big chess does my brother want to play?" Let's hear and see if I can help you a little, brother. ”

Zhang Yunfei took Division Commander Liu to the huge military map, picked up a pencil on the table, pointed to the map, and said with a straight face: "At present, there are two divisions of little devils in Xinkou, and more than 40,000 people are suppressed by our superior forces in the Xinkou position within a range of dozens of square kilometers, and at present we have controlled the flank position of the little devils, and at present we can pass freely through the entire flank position, and my plan is that the fourth brigade of our 136th Division, the cavalry regiment, the second artillery regiment and your 129th Division have not participated in the battle for the time being, together from the flank of the Xinkou position, straight to Taiyuan. ”

After speaking, Zhang Yunfei drew a large circle on the location of Taiyuan on the map with a pencil, and looked at Master Liu with confidence, waiting for Master Liu's answer.

Listening to Zhang Yunfei's plan, Division Commander Liu suppressed the excitement and excitement in his heart, and said calmly: "This plan is good, but there is a certain adventure surname, as far as I know, the 14th Division of Taiyuan garrisoned by little devils, there are nearly 30,000 little devils, the Zhengtai Railway is currently controlled by the little devils, the little devils in North China can reach Taiyuan within two days along the Zhengtai Railway, if we can't eliminate the little devils in Taiyuan within two days, we will suffer from the enemy." ”

Zhang Yunfei smiled faintly and said: "Don't worry about this, I have already contacted Yan Laoxi, Yan Laoxi has dispatched tens of thousands of troops, and the task of the Jin Sui Army is to cut off the Zhengtai Road and block the reinforcements of the little devils, according to the time, the Jin Sui Army should have reached the Zhengtai Railway with 20,000 or 30,000 people."

The other part of the Jin Sui Army is 20,000 or 30,000, and it is currently fighting a fierce battle with the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 14th Division of the Little Devil in Pingyao, and at present, the strength of the Little Devil in Taiyuan is only one brigade plus some auxiliary troops, and the number should be only more than 10,000. ”

"Oh, even the Jin Sui army has been dispatched, if this is the case, this battle will be easy to fight, if the devils in Taiyuan can't get reinforcements, it won't be a turtle in the urn, okay, I'll play a big game with my brother today." Master Liu said heartily.

Since it was decided to attack Taiyuan, the two discussed for a long time in the command headquarters, and repeatedly deduced the war before issuing orders.

More than 30,000 people from the 4th Infantry Brigade, Cavalry Regiment, and 2nd Artillery Regiment of the 136th Division and the six infantry regiments of the 129th Division that had not participated in the battle were ordered to pass through the flank of the Xinkou position and attack Taiyuan directly.

As for the devils in the Xinkou position, they adopted a siege policy, and when they eliminated the little devils in Taiyuan and recovered Taiyuan, they would go back and clean up the little devils here......

Xinkou position, little devil headquarters.

The two division commanders of the little devil came to the front of the headquarters together, holding binoculars to observe the Eighth Route opposite, since the Eighth Route on the opposite side occupied the first line of defense, they began to build the fortifications of the first line of defense, and two hours had passed, and the Eighth Route on the opposite side did not attack.

The two division commanders have been fighting for more than ten or twenty years, and they have not encountered such a situation, according to common sense, the Eighth Route Army should take advantage of the victory to pursue and occupy the second line of defense, or even the third line of defense.

The two commanders of the little devil division with puzzled faces held up the binoculars and looked at them for a long time, but they didn't see a single name, and finally, the surname Suo ordered the troops to defend on the spot and pay close attention to the movements of the [***] team on the opposite side.

As soon as the two commanders of the little devil division, who were in a depressed mood, returned to the headquarters, they heard a familiar scream from the sky, and the artillery bombardment began again on the opposite Eighth Road.

In the face of the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Road, the little devil has no way at all, and the two divisions of the little devil have their own field artillery brigades, equipped with more than 30 70-mm Type 92 infantry guns, but this kind of small artillery, in the face of large-caliber howitzers, is not enough to see at all, as long as the cannon is fired, it will be knocked out by large-caliber howitzers, and the little devils simply wisely abandon these cannons.

In front of the large-caliber grenades of the Eighth Route Army, the little devils without heavy artillery were only bombed, and the commander of the little devil division looked at these whistling shells weakly, and thought to himself, I hope that there are not many Eighth Route shells on the opposite side, and they will stop after a while.

But apparently the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side did not have the consciousness to stop the shelling, the shelling has been going on, and the casualty number of the little devils has been rising......

In the position of the Eighth Route Army, Zhang Yunfei took advantage of the little devils to hide from the artillery bombardment in the fortifications and trenches, and rarely observed the situation in front.

The battle in the Xinkou position, Zhang Yunfei has been handed over to the deputy division commander Liu Dazhu to command, because he is not in a hurry to attack the Xinkou position, just besiege the little devils, and from time to time bombard the little devils with a few cannons, this kind of low-difficulty command, Liu Dazhu is fully competent, and does not need Zhang Yunfei's command.

The attack on Taiyuan is obviously a technical job, and Zhang Yunfei must personally command it. It took two or three hours for tens of thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army to quietly pass through the flank of the Xinkou position and go straight to Taiyuan, as the vanguard of the cavalry regiment with the strongest mobile surname.

Pingyao.

More than 30,000 Jin Sui troops and more than 10,000 little devils have been fighting fiercely for more than 10 hours, and from yesterday to this morning, there have been many casualties on both sides of the attack and defense.

The little ghost relied on his well-armed weapons and the quality of his individual soldiers far superior to that of the Jin Sui army, and he made several charges against the positions of the Jin Sui army, killing and wounding a large number of Jin Sui troops.

The Jin Sui army relied on the numerical advantage, and was fearless in the face of the little devil's charge, and beat the little devil's several charges back, and the little devil also left a corpse on the ground.

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