"Yes." Li Yansan happily accepted the order and left.

Qiao Youhua picked up the telephone that the signal soldiers had just set up and connected the command post of Zhao Youde, deputy commander of the Third Division.

"Hey, I'm Zhao Youde." Zhao Youde's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"I'm Qiao Youhua." Qiao Youhua said in a deep voice.

On the other end of the phone, Zhao Youde hurriedly straightened his chest and straightened his body, and said, "Commander, what are your instructions?" ”

Qiao Youhua said: "There is no instruction, I just want to remind you that the devil's reinforcements are likely to arrive at any time, I hope your third division and guard regiment must be fully prepared, and you must not let the devil's reinforcements arrive in Taiyuan and join the Japanese puppet army in the city." ”

Zhao Youde hurriedly stepped forward into the telephone and said, "Please rest assured, commander, we have rushed to repair the defensive positions, and the cavalry reconnaissance battalion of the guard regiment and the third infantry regiment of our department that attacked the airport have also been withdrawn."

We have made full preparations, and before Taiyuan is recovered, we will never let any devil soldiers pass through our position. ”

"Okay, my reminder, you can also convey it to Zheng Yunshan's guard regiment, so that they can also be vigilant." Qiao Youhua said.

"Yes!" Please rest assured, Commander, I will tell you. Zhao Youde replied abruptly.

After putting down the phone, Qiao Youhua breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the blocking troops were deployed to ensure that the Japanese reinforcements could not arrive before the main force captured Taiyuan, then he would be able to relax and make every effort to plan and command the battle to recover Taiyuan.

Tonight, we must first capture the devil's field defense position outside the city, and then surround the whole city, preparing for the annihilation of the enemy defending the city.

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In Pingshan County, the headquarters of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

After Guo Meng, the political commissar who stayed behind, received Qiao Youhua's telegram, he immediately gathered several logistics backbones under his command and arranged for them separately.

In addition to raising anti-aircraft machine guns and 75mm Krupp guns for the Dragon's Tooth Column, Guo Meng also sent a telegram to the tank regiment in the Cangzhou area, and ordered Liu Jianhua, commander of the tank armored brigade, to immediately send two tank companies to the south urgently.

After making this arrangement, Guo Meng sent a reply to Qiao Youhua, and then went to busy with other things, the base area now needs to supply more than 50,000 troops from the southern expedition to Shanxi, grain, grass and ammunition, and the daily consumption of each is a surprising number.

It is also necessary to maintain the normal operation of the arsenal in the base area, and everything is enough of a headache.

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Qiao Youhua had just eaten dinner when he received a call back from Guo Meng, and he was relieved to learn that the materials he requested were being prepared in an orderly manner.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, two divisions of the 108th and 109th divisions of the Japanese army, and two brigades, totaling more than 50,000 Japanese troops and more than 30,000 puppet troops, with a total strength of nearly 90,000 reinforcements, arrived at the outskirts of Taiyuan.

As soon as the Japanese arrived, they immediately launched a fierce attack on the blocking line that had just been built by the 3rd Division and the Guard Regiment of Longya.

The Japanese puppet army, which was anxious to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, even omitted a tentative attack, and directly threw in a field wing, and formed a huge artillery fire group with four artillery wings of two brigades and two divisions to provide cover for the infantry.

An unprecedented onslaught was launched.

For a time, south of the railway station, gunfire and artillery rang out. In view of the large number of Japanese troops and the fierce offensive, Qiao Youhua transferred the Scarface Division of the First Division out as a precaution.

Rush to the aid of the 3rd Division and the Guard Regiment to strengthen the strength of the blocking force.

At about eleven o'clock, on the blocking battlefield south of the railway station, the enemy's two attacks had been repelled by the third division of Longya, the guard regiment and other units.

In front of the position, the fire was filled with gunsmoke, the craters were dense, and the corpses of devils and puppet soldiers were everywhere, and even the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood.

The two fierce attacks of the devils ended in failure, and finally stopped the attack, and the commanders of several brigades, including the commanders of the 108th and 109th divisions, and the commander of the wing urgently held a military meeting to discuss countermeasures.

At the same time, Qiao Youhua was also arranging for a night attack on the Japanese army's field defensive positions outside Taiyuan City.

By half-past eleven, the attacking forces were ready.

After receiving the report, Qiao Youhua immediately called the artillery unit and ordered: "Immediately open fire, fire 200 rounds of poison gas shells, and then stop the shelling, and the infantry assault teams will quickly attack and seize the Japanese position." ”

The order was quickly conveyed, and due to the heavy losses of the artillery regiment in the daytime battles from enemy air raids, only one battalion remained in the size of the artillery fire.

However, the infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of each division still have some artillery units at the regimental and battalion levels, and Qiao Youhua ordered all the artillery units to be concentrated.

A new artillery regiment was formed with the rest of the original artillery regiment, but the scale of the artillery was not as good as that of the original artillery regiment, because most of the artillery units under the jurisdiction of many regiments and battalions were equipped with Type 92 infantry guns and 60mm mortars.

However, it is used to launch poison gas bombs, and it is at night, and it is enough to move the firing position forward as much as possible under the cover of night.

With Qiao Youhua's order, about eighty or ninety Type 92 infantry guns, Krupp artillery, mortars, of which mortars accounted for most of the number.

They all fired at the Japanese field defense positions in the darkness!

Tom tom ...... 俅俅俅俅...... Nearly 100 rounds of poison gas bombs rose into the air one after another, piercing the night sky and flying towards the Japanese position.

At this time, it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning, and most of the Japanese puppet troops in the Japanese position had already fallen asleep, and only a small number of sentries on duty had discovered the abnormality.

Some devil veterans found out the clues, and immediately screamed in shock and urgency: "Enemy attack!" Shelling! It's a gas bomb, damn it! ”

Anger to anger, the devils and the puppet army have all woken up from their sleep, but the speed of the cannonballs is only a blink of an eye.

Almost all the devils and puppet soldiers had just woken up, and the first batch of nearly 100 poison gas bombs fell with a roar.

Some experienced devils were the first to react, and immediately took out the gas masks that the logistics department had just equipped them with this evening and put them on.

And more devils and puppet soldiers in the depth of the position, they didn't know that it was a poison gas bomb that fell, and when the devil soldiers notified each other and reminded each other, the poison gas had already begun to permeate.

There were devils and puppet soldiers who were poisoned one after another, foaming at the mouth, and falling down with convulsions.

At this time, another round of poison gas bombardment came, and all of them fell in the Japanese position.

Soon, the poison gas bombs quickly diffused, enveloping almost the entire Japanese position.

As soon as the two rounds of shelling ended, and the artillery units were still preparing for the third round of shelling, nearly 10,000 Longya infantrymen, who had been waiting for a long time in front of the artillery positions, jumped out of the fortifications and bunkers one after another, roared and rushed forward, launching a surging charge against the Japanese positions.