Lieutenant Colonel Liu Xin opened another telegram and said, "General, the 3rd Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade has entered Xin County. ”

"Huh?" Yue Weihan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and immediately strode to the edge of the simulated sand table, and Liu Yi, Gao Shuxun and others also surrounded him.

An operational staff officer picked up the command pole and explained to the sand table: "Headquarters, up to now, the 3rd Brigade of the Mixed Brigade of the Lunar Army has advanced to Xinxian County, and the main force of the Fourth Army has also advanced to the north of Yangqu, and within four hours, the main force of the Lunar Army will be able to launch a large-scale attack on the cavalry regiment, while the 9th Regiment and the Guard Regiment of the reinforced cavalry regiment are still 100 miles away, and it is impossible to arrive before dawn. ”

Everyone's expressions immediately became solemn, and the situation had become a dead end.

If the cavalry regiment is ordered to continue to defend to the death, it is likely to be the end of the total annihilation.

If the cavalry regiment was ordered to get out of the way, the main force of the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi would be able to retreat north across Muma in time, and it would be difficult to intercept them at that time.

Yue Weihan pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "What news is there from the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army?" ”

Gao Shuxun hurriedly said: "The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Group Armies of the Jin Sui Army have recovered more than ten county towns in the northwest of Jin, and their main forces are storming Laoxian and Shuoxian, preparing to cut off the road between Laoxian and Datong, and the main force of the 120th and 129th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army has also recovered more than a dozen county towns on the border of Shanxi and Hebei, and is now attacking Daixian, preparing to cut off the retreat channel in the direction of Pingxingguan. ”

According to the original plan, the 39th Group Army first dragged the Yue Army, then the Jin Sui Army cut off the retreat in the direction of Datong, and the Eighth Route Army cut off the retreat in the direction of Pingxingguan, and finally gathered and annihilated the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi on the way to the north.

After thinking about it, Yue Weihan suddenly said: "Order the cavalry regiment to withdraw from the battle!" ”

"Headquarters!" Gao Shuxun hurriedly said, "At this time, let the cavalry regiment withdraw from the battle, then the front is not in vain?" ”

Yue Weihan suddenly raised his hand to stop Gao Shuxun, and then said: "Then send a report to Yan Xishan in my own name, asking him to transfer a group army to fortify layer by layer on the way to the northward retreat of the Yue army, resist step by step, and then call on the army and people of Jin Province to resist in the name of the director of the Jin Sui Office, and drag the army into the vast sea of the people's war!" ”

After a pause, Yue Weihan said again: "The general attack on Shouyang was postponed, leaving the 2nd and 3rd regiments to monitor the Yue army, and the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th regiments immediately turned around and went north, followed the pursuit of the first army of the Yue army, and then sent a report to Zhongtiao Mountain, asking General Wei Lihuang to transfer the Third Army and the 98th Army to cooperate with the 39th Group Army to pursue and annihilate the Yue army!" ”

Yue Weihan's order was quickly conveyed, and the staff officers in the headquarters immediately became busy.

Immediately afterwards, the dense radio signals were distributed from Niangzi Pass in all directions, and were immediately received by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain, the Yellow River in western Shanxi and the depths of Taihang Mountain.

…………

Jin Xi, Liu Jiahui.

Yan Xishan took the telegram sent by Dong Qiwu, and was so happy that he didn't know what to do.

Half an hour ago, the 101st Division of the 302nd Division of the Jin Sui Army had just entered Taiyuan, and Taiyuan was finally recovered!

After one year and two months of falling to the enemy, Taiyuan finally returned to the arms of the Shanxi people, and finally returned to the hands of his old Yan.

"Yue Weihan, a young man, has a broad mind like the sea."

Although Taiyuan City cannot be compared with Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other big cities, it is also the provincial capital of Shanxi, and its prosperity is absolutely incomparable to small cities such as Shimen and Qinghe, and its taxes will be much richer!

However, Yue Weihan sold him a great favor to Yan someone!

Yue Weihan actually did not directly send troops to take over Taiyuan, but let the 101st Division enter Taiyuan!

"This young man is not simple!" Chief Yan shook his head and fell into deep thought again.

Chief Yan was pondering when the attendant adjutant, Colonel Xu Youde, suddenly walked in with a telegram.

After reading the telegram sent by Yue Weihan in his personal name, Chief Yan did not hesitate to say to Colonel Xu Youde: "Send a report to Yang Aiyuan, the Sixth Army will immediately give up the siege of Laoxian, turn around and go south to block the northward movement of the Yue Army, and tell Yang Aiyuan to drag the First Army of the Yue Army near Xinkou at all costs." ”

When he said the word Xinkou, Chief Yan looked a little hideous, with a gritted teeth.

This is also human nature, Xinkou is the sad place of Chief Yan, a year ago it was here, the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army's more than 30 main divisions lost to half of Sakagaki Seishiro's division, and then Taiyuan was also lost, and most of the belongings that Lao Yan had been operating for decades were cheaper, including the Taiyuan Arsenal.

Time and place have changed, and now that history has given Chief Yan a chance to get back on the field, he will naturally not be relentless.

If the battlefield of the decisive battle can be set at Xinkou, it will undoubtedly be of great symbolic significance, and in order to achieve this goal, Chief Yan even did not hesitate to sacrifice the entire Sixth Army!

"Yes." Xu Youde stood upright and immediately took the order.

"Hey, wait." Chief Yan suddenly beckoned Xu Youde back, and said in a deep voice, "Yue Weihan's words are still a little reasonable, in this way, you immediately issue an order to the whole of Shanxi in the name of someone in Russia, all my Shanxi people, regardless of the south and north of Jin, regardless of men, women and children, all have the duty of defending the land and resisting the war, and they should all be killed to serve the country!" ”

After saying this, Commander Yan said again: "Another order will be issued in the name of the Commander's Department, so that the New Army will immediately go to the front line with the first and second columns of the decisive death, and cooperate with the Sixth Army to block the Yue army." ”

The recruits of the Jin army were established with the help of [***], and at the beginning of the army, a large number of [***] members were arranged within each column to serve as the director of the political department, which led to the great reduction of Chief Yan's control over the new army, and this army became the armed force of [***], so unless it was just in case, Chief Yan was unwilling to transfer such an army to the battlefield.

However, at the critical juncture of recovering Taiyuan and Shanxi, Chief Yan can't take care of much.

After Commander Yan's order was issued, the new army quickly assembled in the first and second columns and marched to the front.

The military and civilians of Shanxi also acted quickly, enthusiastically cooperating with the Jin Sui army to attack the strongholds, artillery towers, and major county towns.

Even the bandit armies in the mountains of northern Shanxi also broke out with a rare enthusiasm for the war of resistance, and all the teams pulled out of the cottages and launched attacks on the strongholds and turrets along the Chuntai Highway of the Yue Army.

…………

Nakajo Mountain.

General Wei Lihuang put down the telegram in his hand, turned around and instructed the adjutant: "Immediately send a report to Gao Guizi, Tang Huaiyuan, and Wu Shimin, that the 17th Army, the 3rd Army, and the 98th Army are temporarily under the unified command of General Yue Weihan, and that if you refuse to obey General Yue Weihan's reprimand, you will be dealt with by military law!" ”

…………

Xinkou Town.

The morning of October 4 in the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938).

The main force of the 1st Army Corps (the 20th Division and the 16th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Formation) that went north along the Chuntai Highway finally met with the main force of the Yanagishita Brigade (the 3rd Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade) that was going south at Xinkou, but although the meeting was realized, the commander of the First Army Corps of the Japanese Army, Kiyoji Kazuki, was not happy at all.

The severity of the situation in Shanxi has completely exceeded the expectations of Kazuki Kiyoji!

After the 20th Division and the 16th Brigade of Reading Power Mixed Regiments withdrew northward, Taiyuan, Linfen, Pingyao, Taigu and other large and medium-sized cities in Jinzhong and Jinnan were quickly lost, and the puppet political axes and puppet armies that were hurriedly supported could not organize decent resistance at all, and almost overnight, the entire Jinzhong and Jinnan were lost.

In addition, the northern retreat of the 1st Army was also greatly threatened.

After Reading Power mixed the main force of the 3rd Brigade to the south, the defense of northern Jin suddenly became extremely empty.

Chuntai, Dachun and the strongholds and artillery towers along the Beitai Highway were attacked by the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army, the Eighth Route Army, the Shanxi militia group, and the bandit armed tide, and they lost six or seven out of ten overnight, leaving only a few large strongholds and several county towns such as Lao County and Dai County still under the control of the Yue Army, and may be captured by the Jin Sui Army at any time.

At this moment, the First Army Corps stationed in Shanxi was in a dilemma.

Continue north, the retreat channel is already in jeopardy, and it may be cut off by the [***] team at any time.

Let's go back to Taiyuan, Taiyuan has been occupied by the [***] team, if you can't quickly recapture the city, you will be annihilated by the swarming Chinese army under the city of Taiyuan.

Stick to your mouth? Thinking of this, Kazuki Kiyoji suddenly shivered excitedly.

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, paying attention to the way of benevolence and forgiveness, but in the will of the Chinese, there is also a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, the 5th Division of the army once gave the Chinese [***] team a huge shame in Xinkou, presumably the Chinese are also holding back enough to wash away the shame before Xinkou, right?

Xiangyue Qingji suddenly made a decision, and he must not stick to Xinkou!

However, where should you go if you don't keep your mouth? The First Corps seemed to have nowhere to go.

Aerial reconnaissance planes reported that more than 20 divisions of the Chinese [***] team is swarming towards Xinkou from all directions, including the Baoshan Division, which has repeatedly defeated the imperial army's advances, if the first army leaves Xinkou at this time, it is very likely to meet the middle [***] team in the field on a narrow road, with the strength of the two armies at this time, even if Sakagaki Jun is reborn, I am afraid it is impossible to lead the first army to achieve a great reversal in the field and defeat the 20 or so Chinese divisions that have swarmed!

In the indecision of Xiangyue Qingji, precious time passed quickly, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the middle [***] team finally completed the encirclement of Xinkou, so far, the first army of the army in Shanxi has been surrounded by more than 20 Chinese divisions, even if the modern army god of war Nogi Noshinori is reborn, it is impossible to reverse the overall situation.

(To be continued)