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Different from Zhang Yunfei's relaxation and leisure, the two or three thousand devils who were cowering in Shanyang County, looking at the tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops outside, felt that their end was coming, and they felt panicked.

Taro Asada hurriedly reported to the headquarters of the 46th Division that the county seat of Shanyang was surrounded by tens of thousands of well-armed troops of the Eighth Route Army, and that the Asada Wing was in danger and requested the support of the division.

After receiving a distress telegram from Taro Asada, the commander of the 46th Division did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly reported to the commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan, Kiyoshi Kazuki, asking for tactical guidance.

Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army of the Yue Army, Xiangyue Qingji, who received the telegram, had a solemn face, and Shanyang County was surrounded by tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army.

This group of Eighth Route Army will not be Zhang Yunfei's troops, if it is really Zhang Yunfei's troops, it will be troublesome, and the Asada United will be dangerous, and even the hope of breaking through is slim, Kazuki Qingji thought in his heart.

However, the number of the Eighth Route Army was tens of thousands, which did not match the number of Zhang Yunfei's troops, and the intelligence provided by the special high class of the North China Front Army showed that Zhang Yunfei's 136th Division only had about 10,000 people, and it was impossible to have tens of thousands.

Could it be that in just one or two months, Zhang Yunfei has expanded from more than 10,000 people to tens of thousands, this speed is too terrifying.

Kiyoji Kazuki walked around the office uneasily while thinking, and after more than ten minutes, Kiyoji Kazuki didn't come up with a clue.

It is better to report the situation to the North China Front and let the North China Front make a decision.

A radio wave from Kiyoshi Kazuki made the commander of the North China Front, Okamura Ningji, who had just taken office, have a big head for a while.

At present, the Battle of Wuhan is in full swing, with hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of [***] fighting fiercely on a front of thousands of kilometers.

At present, the vanguard troops have entered Hubei and Hunan, and with the troops winning one victory after another, Okamura Ninji, who has just taken office, is also proud and full of spirit.

But looking at the telegram of Kazuki Kiyoji, Okamura Ningji, who was in a good mood, immediately felt heavy, walked to the huge map, looked at it for a long time, and finally ordered the 34th Division, which was resting in Shijiazhuang, to assemble immediately, go to Taiyuan along Zhengtai Road, and stationed in Xinkou, and garrison Xinkou with the 46th Division.

The 34 th Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is also a second-class division that has just been formed to land in China this year, and has participated in several small-scale battles and is currently resting in Shijiazhuang.

Okamura Ningji's strategic intention was obvious, that is, to prepare to abandon the vast area north of Xinkou in Shanxi, and send heavy troops to defend Xinkou, the northern gateway of Taiyuan, to prevent the Eighth Route Army from moving south.

When the Battle of Wuhan was over, there were enough troops to go north from Xinkou to attack the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Some time ago, Zhang Yunfei's 136th Division, which had more than 10,000 troops, successively annihilated the Suzuki Brigade and the Fifth Division, which made the Yue Jun believe that Zhang Yunfei's troops could not be compared with the ordinary [***] or the Eighth Route Army, and the Yue Jun even believed that even the Central Army, which was Lao Chiang's descendant, was not as strong as Zhang Yunfei's troops.

Therefore, even if Xinkou was heavily guarded by two divisions, they did not dare to take the initiative to attack, but gave priority to defense......

The county seat of Shanyang

Night had fallen, and the warriors camped on the spot, except for a certain number of soldiers who were left as sentinels, most of the warriors soon fell asleep.

Zhang Yunfei was also in his tent, falling asleep soundly.

Unlike the Eighth Route Army, the little devils in the city can be said to have stayed awake all night, and most of the devils spend this sleepless night in anxiety and uneasiness.

The next morning, when most of the soldiers had just woken up, the positions of the artillery brigade were busy.

Yesterday afternoon, several infantry brigades were busy for a while, and the officers and men of the artillery brigade seemed to have nothing to do, and today, early in the morning, they finally received orders from the division commander.

The 40 heavy artillery pieces brought by the artillery brigade can finally be opened, and this morning, the division commander's order to the artillery brigade is to shell Shanyang County, and several places in Shanyang County will be the targets of the artillery brigade's shelling today.

These places are the barracks of the little devils, the headquarters and the city wall of Shanyang County, of which the city wall is the focus of the artillery bombardment, Zhang Yunfei's request is to ask the artillery brigade to collapse the city wall, so that the next infantry charge.

For the Asada United in Shanyang County, Zhang Yunfei has no reason to let go, at least there are more than 3,000 little devils, and they have been surrounded by their own troops, and they have become turtles in the urn.

According to Zhang Yunfei's surname, there is no reason to spit out the fat in his mouth.

At 6:50 a.m., not long after dawn, the soldiers of the artillery brigade were already in their places, and the muzzle of the black hole was also pointing at the county seat more than ten kilometers away.

Next to each gun, thick shells have already been arranged, and they can be fired just after waiting for the brigade commander to give an order.

Wang Daquan, the commander of the artillery brigade, looked at his pocket watch, it was seven o'clock in ten minutes, and the soldiers were also ready and were waiting for their orders.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Wang Daquan signaled the observation hot air balloon of the artillery brigade to take off, and the observer on the hot air balloon will observe the effect of the first round of shelling, and feedback the shelling situation to the gunners of the artillery brigade, and the gunners will then correct the shooting according to the situation, so as to improve the shelling effect.

Large-caliber howitzers are different from small-caliber artillery, which can observe the target that needs to be shelled through the artillery team mirror (telescope), because the firing range of small-caliber artillery is generally only a few kilometers, and it is completely possible to see the target situation that needs to be bombed through the artillery team mirror. Then, according to the effect of the shelling observed in the artillery mirror, the firing parameters were corrected.

On the other hand, the firing range of large-caliber howitzers reaches 20 or 30 kilometers, or even farther, and the shells fired often need to fly over mountains, hills, and buildings, making it difficult to see targets 20 or 30 kilometers away through the artillery mirrors.

Therefore, the usual practice is to use a hot air balloon, and the observer can use the telescope to see the target dozens of kilometers away.

Nearly eight o'clock, the observer gave feedback back to the distant target, including the distance tested, and the gunners of the artillery brigade revised the firing parameters again according to the observer's feedback.

In the first round, forty cannons fired at the same time, and the shells flew towards the target more than ten kilometers away with a scream, and after a while, the observers reported back the results of the shelling.

This shelling basically hit the target, but in order to strike more accurately, the gunners revised the shelling parameters again according to the feedback from the observers.

After correcting the parameters, Wang Daquan gave the order to shell for ten minutes, and forty cannons were to simultaneously shell the barracks, headquarters and city walls of Shanyang County.

According to the normal rate of fire of each gun, two rounds per minute, nearly 1,000 shells will be fired at Shanyang County within 10 minutes.

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