The reason why Qiao Youhua besieged Taiyuan City but did not attack it was for two reasons, the first was to wait for the arrival of his own tank and armored reinforcements, and the second was to encircle the three and lack one, tempting the devils and the puppet army to escape out of the city, so as to destroy the enemy in the field battle.

And because the devils had already made up their minds to abandon Taiyuan, they did not launch an attack on the blocking line of the Dragon's Tooth Column once after the attack failed in the morning.

Approaching noon, the sun was shining and the temperature was rising sharply, Qiao Youhua was sitting in the temporary command post in the railway station, holding a bowl of cold white drinking, suddenly, Qiao Youhua stopped drinking water and put the water cup in his hand on the wooden table beside him.

Puzzled, he looked outside and muttered, "No, what's missing?" ”

Adjutant Li Yansan, who was staying on the side, walked over in confusion and asked, "Commander, what's wrong?" ”

Qiao Youhua didn't answer immediately, but walked out, and the guards guarding outside saw him come out, and hurriedly straightened up silently.

Qiao Youhua looked left and right, and finally crawled towards a turret next to the command post, the turret was intact as a whole, but the wooden entrance door had been pierced by bullets through many transparent holes.

The walls around the turret were also mostly blackened by gunsmoke. It is an abandoned artillery tower by the Japanese army, and bullet marks on the wall indicate that fierce battles took place here.

Because the devils were defeated later and gave up resistance in the turret, the whole place was able to be preserved as a whole.

Li Yansan watched Qiao Youhua kick open the fragile wooden turret door and walked in, although he didn't know why, he immediately followed.

Qiao Youhua went up three floors to the top of the three-story building with bullet marks on the outer wall, and from here he climbed up and looked at the south of the railway station, where was the blocking position of the Third Division, the Guard Regiment and other departments.

After watching it for a while, Qiao Youhua finally realized why he felt that something was missing. There were no gunshots, fierce gunfire, cannon fire, and shouts of killing from both warring sides.

Li Yansan still didn't know why, and asked, "Commander, what are we doing here?" ”

Qiao Youhua pointed to his own blocking position on the south side of the railway station and asked, "Yan San, don't you think the position in the south is too quiet and ambiguous?" ”

Li Yansan looked at it for a while, and still said, "What does the commander mean?" ”

"Gunshots, explosions, none of them! Now that Taiyuan City is surrounded by our army on three sides, and it is in danger, how can the reinforcements of the nearly 100,000-day puppet army coalition army not even launch a second attack from the morning to now? Isn't it strange that you don't lift it? Qiao Youhua said thoughtfully.

Hearing Qiao Youhua say this, Li Yansan's face was also full of sudden realization, "Oh, yes, Commander, you really said this, why didn't the little devil attack?" ”

Qiao Youhua didn't speak, but frowned and thought about it, the devil didn't move at all, this is very abnormal, thinking about it, Qiao Youhua thinks that there is only one possibility, that is, the devil may have to give up Taiyuan City!

Thinking of this, Qiao Youhua immediately made a decision, turned his head and instructed Li Yansan: "Yansan, you immediately go down and call the Third Division and the Guard Regiment, and order them to send me all the reconnaissance cavalry battalions and infantry scouts, closely monitor the movements of the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army opposite, and report to me in time if there is any trouble."

In addition, send me another telegram to my tank and armored troops, and order them to advance at full speed at all costs, and must rush to Taiyuan to meet us tonight before anyone else. ”、

As soon as Li Yansan wanted to leave, Qiao Youhua waved his hand and stopped him: "Also, immediately order the besieging troops to immediately launch a tentative attack on Taiyuan City, not to give the Japanese puppet army a chance to withdraw calmly, and to buy time for the arrival of our tank reinforcements." ”

"Yes!" After Li Yansan wrote them down one by one, he stood up and saluted, turned around and ran quickly downstairs.

Annihilated nearly 100,000 Japanese pseudo-reinforcements south of the railway station, Qiao Youhua understood that it was unrealistic to attack Taiyuan City with the existing forces in his hands

However, the nearly 20,000 Japanese puppet defenders in Taiyuan City, as well as a large number of devil expatriates, merchants and bullies, with a total number of at least 100,000 people, could not let them go down the way.

After receiving Qiao Youhua's order, the cavalry reconnaissance battalion of the guard regiment, the infantry reconnaissance company directly under the regiment of the third division, and other reconnaissance units were dispatched one after another to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese puppet army.

Outside the city of Taiyuan, the 2nd Division and the 1st Division each sent an infantry regiment to launch a tentative attack on Taiyuan City from the east gate and the south gate with the coordination of artillery.

The devils and puppet troops in Taiyuan City did receive an order to prepare to retreat and abandon Taiyuan, and most of them were preparing to retreat except for the necessary vigilance.

Most of these devils and the two devil defenders are dragging their families in Taiyuan City, and there are industries of various scales, so the amount of preparation for retreat is huge.

Throughout Taiyuan City, you can see all kinds of ox carts, carriages, and even automobiles full of goods and property, dragging large bags and small bags ready to evacuate Japanese expatriates and businessmen, most of the old and weak women and children in the city, these devils regard themselves as the masters in Taiyuan City, and forcibly occupy the houses, shops, and various industries outside the city that originally belonged to the Chinese.

Bullying men and women, not treating Chinese as people, wanton bullying has not been done, and now that the Chinese anti-Japanese armed soldiers are approaching the city, they think that a great disaster is coming, and naturally they are all like frightened birds, wanting to flee as much as possible.

The whole city was in chaos, and at this time, the dragon's tooth column outside the east gate and the south gate suddenly attacked, and the defenders were caught off guard.

If it weren't for the fact that the Dragon's Tooth Column was only a tentative attack and did not prepare sufficient siege equipment, it would probably break through the city fortifications of the Japanese puppet army and directly enter the city.

Rao was like this, and he also scared the devil commander in the city half to death, and hurriedly regrouped the troops who were packing their luggage and belongings to evacuate to strengthen their defense.

In this way, the preparation time for the devils' evacuation is even longer.

Outside the city, inside the joint headquarters of the Japanese reinforcements.

The commander of the 108th Division, Xiong Yamoto, and the commander of the 109th Division, Shigemu Yamaoka, were having lunch together.

The two of them got together in a hurry, let the cooking class fry a few side dishes, get two bottles of sake, and were planning to have a good drink.

The two old devils were eating and drinking with relish, and suddenly a communication soldier broke into the headquarters with a telegram in his hand, and stood up to salute the two of them: "Two generals, the Tuba Road besieging the city, suddenly launched an attack on the defense of Taiyuan City, and the defenders were forced to return to help, and the preparations for evacuation may not be completed before eight o'clock tonight." ”