The morale of the officers and men on the blocking position was greatly boosted, and when the devils and puppet soldiers entered their firing range, hundreds of German-style MG34 general-purpose machine guns on the entire position took the lead in firing one after another.

Hundreds of scorching and dazzling tongues of fire intertwined and erupted, forming a dense network of firepower, enveloping the Japanese puppet army attacking crowd.

Although the devil soldiers sensed the danger, they immediately bent down and lowered their heads, and accelerated the pace of the charge, but they still couldn't escape the dense rain of bullets like locusts, and like many Imperial Cooperative troops who reacted slowly, they were shot and fell down screaming.

However, more devils and puppet soldiers, as if they were not afraid of life and death, stepped over the corpses of their companions and continued to rush forward.

And there were devils and puppet heavy machine gunners, who began to take the opportunity to quickly set up the Type 92 heavy machine gun within the effective firing range, and began to shoot back, trying to suppress the machine gun fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column and provide fire support for their attacking troops.

And as the devils and the puppet army continued to rush forward, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and more and more dragon tooth riflemen and submachine gunners also opened fire one after another.

The firepower of the defenders soon reached its peak, and the real bullets rained down, and some grenadiers and mortars of the 3rd Division and the Guard Regiment also fired one after another, and although the cannonballs of small caliber fell and smashed into the dense crowd of devils and puppet soldiers.

It exploded violently, and it was also a large explode, and the lethality was exerted to the fullest, which was amazing.

Half an hour later, the casualties were as high as more than 1,000 people, and the commander of the devils had to order to stop the attack and withdraw the attacking troops.

"Bagaya Road, it's really hateful, our previous shelling doesn't seem to be able to effectively kill and injure the defenders of China, the effect is minimal!" Behind the Japanese position, Lieutenant General Kumaya Shimoto, commander of the 108th Division, who had been closely watching the progress of his attacking troops, lowered his binoculars.

Turning his head to Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, commander of the 109th Division beside him, he complained.

Lieutenant General Shigehou, whose face was also a little displeased, nodded and said, "It seems that this is the case, the cunning Shina man has built the fortifications so strongly, it is really hateful!" ”

While the commanders of the two Japanese divisions were talking, the 108th Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 25th Brigade of the 108th Division, which was responsible for personally commanding the attack just now, came to them with his head bowed with his face down.

At this time, Takagi Chiayi's face was full of black ash left behind after the smoke of the war, unkempt, and not wolf, which formed a sharp contrast with the high spirits before departure.

Before the offensive began this morning, Gao Shu Chiayi patted his chest to the commanders of the two divisions in high spirits and assured that he would definitely lead his troops to break through the first line of defense of the Dragon's Tooth Column and open a gap for the follow-up troops.

Now the attack failed, and his brigade commander, Major General Naozo Nakano, ordered the attack to be stopped and withdrawn because the casualties of his troops were too heavy.

The attack failed, and the brigade commander Nakano Naozo did not reprimand him in person, but just asked him to go to the back to find the division commander to plead guilty.

Therefore, as soon as he saw Lieutenant General Xiong Ya Xiayuan, Takagi Chiayoshi lowered his head and said after a symbolic salute: "Your Excellency, the commander of the division, you are incompetent, you failed to lead your troops to break through the defense line of the Chinese army just now, and you failed to fulfill the promise you need, please forgive me!" ”

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi was naturally unhappy, but he saw all the fierce battle just now, and he and Yamaoka Chonghou witnessed the powerful firepower of the defenders throughout the whole process, so he naturally understood that it was not his own attacking troops who were not brave, so he couldn't blame Gao Shu Chiayi.

After all, Gao Shu Chiayi is also a member of his 108th Division, and he can't really be punished because of the failure of this attack, so if he continues, how many wing commanders can he have to deal with? Who will help him command the troops?

You can't let a division commander wield a general's sword and personally lead the soldiers to charge into battle, right?

Therefore, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi just snorted coldly and turned his head and walked towards the temporary headquarters of the division.

Yamaoka Shigehou also sighed and stepped along.

Only the chief of staff of the 108th Division, Suzuki Toshiyuki Osa, came over and patted the shoulder of the commander of Gao Shu Chiayi and encouraged: "Gao Shujun, you don't have to blame yourself too much, the reason why your attack will fail is not entirely your responsibility.

The division commander will not really hold you accountable, so now go back and rectify your subordinates, wait for the order of the division headquarters, and then serve the empire and His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Although the two were equal in rank, Gao Shu Chiayi, who knew that he had escaped, still bowed his head sincerely and said, "Hai! ”

It wasn't until Chief of Staff Toshiyuki Suzuki left with the division headquarters that he raised his head, took a look, and then turned around and walked towards his wing.

After returning to their joint headquarters, Shimoto Kumaya and Yamaoka Shigehou and the others walked to the battle map angrily, glanced at the battle map with one hand, and then turned to Yamaoka Shigehou and asked: "Yamaoka-kun, the strength of the blocking force of the Shina Army is strong, and now we have no support from the aviation force.

There is no heavy artillery and other attacking forces, and it will be difficult to break through their defensive line. Speaking of this, Xia Yuan Xiong couldn't help but think of some heavy artillery and other heavy weapons that they had left in Jinnan and other original stations.

In order to get rid of the entanglement of the local guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army and other anti-Japanese forces, they rushed to Taiyuan as much as possible to reinforce them, including the puppet army, the 108th and 109th divisions and other units gave up a considerable part of the heavy weapons and a large number of baggage that were inconvenient to carry.

Therefore, it will only now be possible for the dragon's tooth column to defend the position fortifications to be helpless.

And the aviation unit originally stationed at the Taiyuan Wusu Military Airport was wiped out by the Dragon's Tooth Column, and it was difficult for the two old devils of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi and Yamaoka Chonghou.

For a moment, both of them were a little helpless.

At this moment, the chief of staff of the 109th Division, Ochiai Shikuro Osa, suddenly looked hurried and hurriedly walked in from outside.

Toshiyuki Suzuki, the careful chief of staff of the 108th Division, also found that he was holding a telegram in his hand.

When Yamaoka Shigehou saw his chief of staff coming, he looked in a hurry, and immediately asked, "Ochiai-kun, what's the matter with you?" ”

Ochiai Shikuro immediately stopped, stood up and saluted him and Shimoto Kumanya: "The two generals, Your Excellency the division commander, and the commander of the First Army, General Kazuki Seiji, have called. ”

Shimoto Kuami and Yamaoka Shigemu glanced at each other, and the latter hurriedly raised his hand and ordered, "Tell me quickly, what are the instructions of General Xiangyue Seiji?" How are they doing now? ”

Ochiai Shikuro said: "The general said in the telegram that he has led the army to withdraw to the Xinzhou area, and now he is basically safe. And ordered, from now on, the defenders in Taiyuan City will be under the joint command of the two of you. Whether Taiyuan is to fight or abandon is all decided by the two commanders. ”

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi and Yamaoka Shigehou couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this, they didn't expect that their top bosses had already gone to Xinzhou after such a night's work, and they also handed over the command of the defenders in Taiyuan City.