"The commander, the guard regiment, the tank company, the cavalry battalion, and the two infantry regiments of the second division, as well as three kilometers away from the north gate and the west gate respectively, are ready to ambush, just wait for the devil to leave the city, and they can be wiped out in one fell swoop." Li Yansan walked into the headquarters of the railway station and reported to Qiao Youhua.

When General Zuo Quan heard this, he added: "It is also necessary to pay attention to one point, order the troops of the third division to closely monitor the movements of the enemy in the city, once they leave the city, the siege troops will immediately go out, seize the city defense, take the opportunity to recover the city of Taiyuan, and do not give the devils a chance to retreat into the city again!" ”

Qiao Youhua nodded, and Li Yansan immediately stepped forward and responded, "Yes." ”

Qiao Youhua took out a cigarette, handed it to Zuo Quan and said with a smile: "Chief, now that the arrangements are ready, we will sit firmly in Diaoyutai, and after dawn tomorrow, we should be able to move the headquarters to Taiyuan City." ”

"Hmm." General Zuo Quan took out a match and lit a cigarette himself, took a puff and spit out the smoke and said indifferently: "The current situation, two years ago, we didn't dare to imagine ah, I didn't expect that our Eighth Route Army would take the lead in blowing the horn of the counterattack, this qiē is thanks to your comrade Youhua, the brilliant results achieved in Hebei one after another, and the elimination of an astonishing number of Japanese invaders, there is a favorable situation today." ”

Qiao Youhua hurriedly and humbly said: "Chief, you are really a prize, the anti-Japanese situation can have today's situation, thanks to the 40,000 compatriots across the country, millions of soldiers and soldiers have gone forward and fought bloodily, it is definitely not Youhua's personal achievements, compared with it, Youhua is ashamed!" ”

"Haha, Comrade Youhua, you don't have to be too modest, if you want to talk about personal achievements, among the front-line soldiers in various places, you should be the first, I believe that in the future, the Party Central Committee, Chairman Mao and our Eighth Route Army Headquarters will give you meritorious awards." General Zuo Quan said with a smile.

Qiao Youhua didn't want any merit awards, but just hoped that after fighting the devil, he could grow old with the beloved woman around him and spend his life together.

Therefore, he hurriedly diverted the topic, turned to Li Yansan and said: "Yansan, go get me and the chief some boiling water, the ancients boiled wine and talked about heroes, today I will make tea with the chief of staff of the left and command the battle!" Sit and watch Taiyuan recover. ”

"Yes!" Li Yansan hurriedly saluted, turned around and left.

After nightfall, the devils in Taiyuan City, the puppet army, and the Japanese expatriate businessmen, mobilized again. Originally, the failure of the previous two breakouts had already made tens of thousands of devil expatriates in the city despair, and they were all shrouded in extreme sadness.

When they got the news that they were going to break through again, all the devil expatriates and businessmen were like hormones, and they instantly came to their senses.

Fully cooperate with the arrangements of the defenders, in fact, this is just a strong survival instinct to support them, when people are in a desperate situation, once there is a glimmer of hope, they will try their best regardless of a qiē.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, the sky was completely dark, and the night was thick and he couldn't see his five fingers, and the Japanese commander Ishihara Murao came to the north gate city wall, and a group of armed devil guards stood beside him to protect him.

Looking at the night outside with no fingers visible, Ishihara felt a little more at ease.

At this moment, there was a slightly hurried footsteps from the castle behind him, and the Ishihara villager looked back, and after a while, he saw a figure running up the city from the horse path.

It wasn't until he got close that Ishihara saw that the person who came was his right-hand man, Kobayashi Nakasa.

"Kobayashi-kun, how's the preparation?" Ishihara asked as soon as he opened his mouth.

The small forest Zhongzuo hurriedly stepped forward, suddenly stepped forward and saluted: "Your Excellency, the preparations have been completed, we can start acting." ”

"The Imperial Association has all been arranged?" Ishihara asked again with some unease.

"Yes, sir, please rest assured, I have selected a few backbone superintendents of the imperial army to accompany me, and I am not afraid that those idiots of the imperial army will not resolutely carry out the orders of the imperial army." Kobayashi Nakasa.

"Well, well, give the order to go down and start the evacuation operation immediately. Tell all the troops, after leaving the city, the speed must be fast. Ishihara instructed in a deep voice.

"Hay!" Kobayashi Nakasa bowed his head again, and then took the lead in running down the city and mobilizing his troops.

A few minutes later, thousands of Japanese troops who had quietly gathered on the inside of the north gate city wall quietly drove out of the north gate of Taiyuan one after another.

After several waves of troops left the city, Ishihara Village's husband Osa and Kobayashi Nakasa and others followed closely behind and went out of the north gate under the escort of a large number of guards.

The total strength of the Japanese army around Ishihara Murafu, at this time, was still more than 4,000 people, and it was divided into five infantry brigades.

More than 4,000 people have finished leaving the city one after another, and it has been more than 20 minutes, and this is still the reason why the devils are leaving the city at full speed.

Therefore, in the direction of the gate with more people, the devils began to quietly leave the city more than half an hour before the Ishihara village husband and them left the city.

Of course, it was a large number of Imperial Allied troops who walked in front to open the way, and the devil expatriates followed behind and fished out of the city.

Therefore, after the Ishihara villagers led the team out of the city, the puppet army and devils who were the first to leave the city outside the west gate had already walked at least five miles west of Taiyuan.

When designing this ambush plan, Qiao Youhua, Zuo Quan and others fully considered the possibility that the devils were likely to march separately and break through separately.

Therefore, we have also made arrangements for this.

The ambush force three kilometers outside the west gate consisted mainly of several infantry battalions of the guard regiment, plus two infantry regiments of the second division.

The reason is very simple, the West Gate is the most convenient and only way for the Japanese army to escape out of the city and in the direction of Xinzhou.

Even if there are devils who break through from the north gate, they will eventually have to return to the west gate, so there are the most ambush troops here.

And outside the north gate, you can't go far to the north, you will be blocked by the mountain, this distance is five kilometers, in order to prevent the devil from bypassing the west gate to ambush the battlefield.

Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan arranged the cavalry battalion of the guard regiment and the two tank companies on the road that the Japanese army had to pass outside the north gate (note that the reason why the tank company here only has five tanks is because there is only an establishment, but the equipment is not full, as mentioned in the previous chapter, because the arsenal was put into production not long ago.

Many high-tech arms are all organized, and their equipment is not yet full).

The first to discover the movements of the Japanese puppet army was naturally the closer Ximen ambush troops, and Liu Yidao and Zheng Yunshan were responsible for jointly commanding the Ximen ambush troops.

When the scout reported the information about the devil's exit from the city to the two of them, Scarface couldn't wait to ask, "Big brother, can we fight?" ”

Liu Yidao groaned and said to Zheng Yunshan: "Yunshan, what do you think?" ”

Zheng Yunshan asked the scout, "How many enemies are there outside the West Gate?" How many are now within range of our ambush positions? ”

"I can't see it clearly in the night, but there should be at least tens of thousands of people, and about 2,000 people have entered our ambush circle, but it doesn't look like a devil, more like a puppet army." Scout Road.

PS: Originally, I was going to do the third watch yesterday, and the second one was completed early, but when it was close to evening, Saburo's eldest son poured boiling water by himself, and it burned his belly, so big, and he hurriedly took it to the hospital, and it was delayed late at night, please forgive ......me. There's another chapter later.