Qiao Youhua was very happy after hearing this, and nodded: "Very good, the distance of five hundred meters is enough for us to make a detour through the troops." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to Zheng Yunshan and the others: "Immediately arrange troops to carry out a roundabout operation from the northeast of Shouyang, completely surround the entire Shouyang on all sides, and give the little devils an urn to catch turtles, so that no one escapes." ”

"Yes!" Zheng Yunshan and the others were ordered to leave impromptuly.

It didn't take long for tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to take action, and a large number of troops began to outflank Shouyang from the northeast of the city to the east and south of the city.

At the same time, the devils in the northwest of the city, because the position in the northeast had been lost, also gave up resistance and took the initiative to retreat into the city.

The attack force of the second division led by Zhou Dasheng took advantage of the situation to capture the position of the devils in the northwest of the city, but when they took advantage of the situation to pursue and tried to attack the city in one fell swoop, they were also strongly blocked by the devils and were forced to abandon this move.

However, it can be regarded as completing the initial goal of the campaign formulated by Qiao Youhua, so that the troops can quickly make a detour from the east and west of the city, in two directions, and completely surround the city of Shouyang County.

Half an hour later, more than 20,000 roundabout troops completed the roundabout and surrounded the entire Shouyang regiment.

After completing the encirclement, Qiao Youhua mobilized all the artillery at hand, concentrated fire outside the north gate, and began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese fortifications.

The cannon fire on the head of the city was continuous, the flames were everywhere, the smoke was billowing out, and from time to time there were devil soldiers who were hit by shell fragments, screaming and falling to the bottom of the city, and there were dead and wounded everywhere.

The fierce artillery bombardment lasted for more than an hour, directly knocking down a section of the city wall of the north gate, and then, Qiao Youhua and the guard regiment were the vanguard and launched a large-scale attack.

Other troops also launched a full-front onslaught on Shouyang from three other directions at the same time.

The first batch of officers and soldiers to fight exceeded 10,000 troops, and under the siege of the Dragon's Tooth Column on all sides, the defending Japanese troops were really exhausted to resist because of the lack of troops and the extinction of the rear road.

Soon, the north gate was broken through by the fierce dragon tooth troops, and the siege troops swarmed in from the gap in the collapsed section of the city wall, all the way to machine guns, submachine guns formed a powerful assault fire, like a bamboo, and soon attacked the city, occupying the north gate and a large section of the city wall.

More than 1,000 Japanese defenders at the North Gate were killed more than 60 percent in the fierce battle, and the rest of the city, seeing that the situation was not good, all withdrew to the city, relying on the houses and barricades in the city, trying to continue to resist stubbornly and delay time.

With the loss of the north gate, the Japanese troops at the east gate, west gate, and south gate were also defeated by the dragon's tooth siege troops, which had an absolute advantage in manpower and firepower.

They retreated into the city one after another.

The Dragon's Tooth Column took control of the four gates and city walls of Shouyang, and the battle was temporarily suspended, and Zheng Yunshan, the head of the Guard Regiment, who was originally responsible for commanding the guard regiment to take the lead in the main attack in front, suddenly rushed out of the city and returned to Qiao Youhua's temporary command post outside the city.

When the guards guarding outside the command post saw that it was Zheng Yunshan, they all stood up and saluted. Zheng Yunshan nodded and asked, "Is the commander inside?" ”

One of the guards replied respectfully, "Commander, the commander is inside." ”

Zheng Yunshan nodded his head and immediately walked into the command post, and sure enough, he saw Qiao Youhua looking at the map inside.

Probably hearing the sound of footsteps, Qiao Youhua immediately turned his head and asked, "Yunshan, you are not in the front command, why did you come back?" ”

In fact, as soon as Zheng Yunshan arrived outside the command post, Qiao Youhua had already heard his footsteps and the conversation with the guards.

Zheng Yunshan hurriedly saluted and replied, "Commander, I came to you to report something." ”

"Oh? What important things do you have to come back to report in person? Qiao Youhua was a little surprised, after all, now that the siege troops have won victory on all fronts, they have already controlled all the city gates and city walls of Shouyang, and the capture of the whole city is just around the corner, I really can't think of anything else that Zheng Yunshan needs funds to come back to report in person.

Zheng Yunshan said: "Commander, that's the case, now the devils in Shouyang County have been defeated by us, and they have shrunk to various streets and residential buildings in the city, and continue to resist stubbornly."

If we continue to attack the city from all sides, it is likely that the innocent people in the city will be injured because of the fierce fighting between the two sides.

With the shameless beating nature of the devil, once the army is defeated and in danger, it is also very likely to take the people in the city as prisoners and threaten our army! At any point, things can get a lot more troublesome.

So we have to find a way to avoid this from happening. ”

Qiao Youhua pondered for a while, looked up at Zheng Yunshan and asked, "Do you have any good solutions?" ”

Zheng Yunshan said bluntly: "Commander, for the sake of today, if you don't want to affect the people in the city, there is only one way, and that is to stop the attack, or stop the attack from all sides, and leave a way for the devils to escape, so that the devils feel that they still have a glimmer of life."

If there is a chance to live, the devil will not fight to the death with all his might, which is also beneficial to my siege troops.

And we, if we ambush an ambush force on the road outside the city where the devils must flee, and when they pass by, we will be able to wipe them all out and win a great victory. ”

After Qiao Youhua heard Zheng Yunshan's construction, he fell into deep thought, and after a while, he spoke: "Things are not as simple as you think, if we didn't besiege the city on all sides before, and do what you said, maybe it is possible to lure the devil out of the city."

And now, we have surrounded the county, and the devil must have made up his mind to fight us to the death. Now if we suddenly withdraw the siege and get out of the way, the devils will definitely be able to think that we are deliberately luring them out of the city, and most of them will not be fooled. ”

After Qiao Youhua's analysis, Zheng Yunshan felt that his plan was still not mature enough, and before he could speak, he heard Qiao Youhua say again: "However, after your reminder, I have also thought of a better way!" ”

Zheng Yunshan was curious when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What better way?" What's the solution? Please also ask the commander to make it clear. ”

Qiao Youhua said: "We now have plenty of troops at hand, and it is only a matter of time before we capture Shouyang and annihilate the Japanese army in the city, and there is no need to leave all 50,000 troops in Shouyang, a small place."

Therefore, I decided to leave three infantry regiments to continue to besiege the remnants of the enemy in Shouyang City, and the other 40,000 troops continued to move south, directly approaching Taiyuan. ”

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