The Japanese puppet troops on the Japanese position were in extreme panic, and naturally they were powerless to resist the sudden onslaught of the infantry of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

The dragon tooth infantry assault troops, all the way, were like bamboos, and after solving some devil soldiers wearing gas masks and trying to resist with superior firepower, they easily rushed into the devil's position.

Just when the Longya Column quickly broke through the Japanese field position outside the south gate of Taiyuan, a Japanese army of about 100 people, escorting several military trucks, two motorcycles and a black Ford sedan, took advantage of the night to slowly drive out of the north gate and quickly withdraw in the direction of Xinzhou through the west gate.

Sitting in the Ford car, listening to the shouts and gunfire coming from outside the south gate, Kazuki Qingji, who had evacuated in a hurry, couldn't help frowning, and the chief of staff next to him, Hashimoto Group, looked back at the back of the car, and said with a solemn face: "Your Excellency General, it seems that it should be the Chinese army that is storming our position outside the city." ”

Xiangyue Qingsi snorted coldly and said: "Qiao Youhua is really cunning, he actually attacked overnight, if we are hesitating, maybe there will be no chance to evacuate Taiyuan." ”

Hashimoto also nodded approvingly, and was afraid for a while.

At that moment, two senior Japanese generals with more than 100 guards accelerated their advance and fled to the Xinzhou area.

Under the killing and wounding of poison gas bombs, the Japanese defense line in the south of the city, because of the heavy casualties of the Japanese puppet army stationed there, was caught off guard, and was broken through by the dragon's tooth column and gradually occupied.

The Dragon's Tooth Column quickly took control of all the field positions in the south of Taiyuan City, and the Japanese puppet army lost thousands of them, and the rest of the people all retreated to the city wall to garrison.

The Japanese commanders who stayed in the city also hurriedly mobilized anti-chemical warfare troops, carrying a large number of gas masks to support the front-line city defense troops, in case the dragon's tooth column used poison gas bombs again.

In fact, the devil is a bit too much, because the next attack of the Dragon Tooth Column will definitely not use poison gas bombs again, because they will take into account the safety of hundreds of thousands of people in Taiyuan City.

"Commander, the attacking troops have just descended from all enemy positions in the south of Taiyuan City, killed more than 1,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, and captured a batch of weapons and ammunition." Li Yansan came to the command post of the railway station and reported the results to Qiao Youhua.

Qiao Youhua asked, "Are there any casualties in our army?" ”

Li Yansan said: "Due to the super lethality of the poisonous gas bombs, the casualties of our attacking troops were very few, and only a few soldiers were sacrificed, and the other soldiers were all lightly injured and did not delay the incident. ”

Qiao Youhua nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Call the Third Division and the Guard Regiment to ask how the battle situation is on their side, and remind them that they must prevent the devils from using poison gas bombs. ”

In these two battles, our own side frequently used poison gas bombs, so we can't help but prevent the devil from returning the favor to the other side.

There is no doubt that the use of gas bombs, in the case of the enemy's unpreparedness, is huge, but as long as there is preparation, the mustard gas bombs of this era are not to be worried.

It didn't take long for Li Yansan to go and return, bringing the return of the Third Division and other units, and reported to Qiao Youhuayu: "Commander, our blocking force has just repelled another attack by the devils, and at least thousands of Japanese troops have been killed and wounded so far, and the blocking line is still as stable as Mount Tai.

Deputy Division Commander Zhao, please rest assured, Commander. ”

"Oh, by the way, I also received an urgent telegram from Liu Jianhua, the commander of the tank armored brigade, from Cangzhou, saying that he had secretly transferred five No. 4 tanks to form an armored group, and left the south overnight to help us, and they will travel day and night without stopping.

It is expected that we will be able to arrive in Taiyuan the morning after tomorrow and meet us. "The maximum speed of the No. 4 tank is as high as 50 or 60 kilometers per hour, and even if the average speed of 30 kilometers per hour is calculated, if it marches continuously 24 hours a day, day and night, this tank group can travel 720 kilometers in one day and one night.

If you remove the time to refuel twice along the way, and calculate it as one hour at a time, you can also travel for twenty hours, six hundred kilometers.

It is only six or seven hundred kilometers from Cangzhou to Taiyuan, so it is very promising that the tank group will arrive the morning after tomorrow. After all, this road is the base of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and there is no need to pass through the enemy-occupied area, and there is no need to worry about disturbing the enemy army for fear and being intercepted, and you can go as you want.

"Very good, with the reinforcement of the tank troops, the mobile strength in our hands will be greatly strengthened, and we can better annihilate the main force of the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi." Qiao Youhua nodded.

Then he ordered: "Since the blocking line is as stable as Mount Tai, then order the first division and the second division to control and stabilize the blockade line in the south of the city, and immediately outflank the east and west of Taiyuan City, surround Taiyuan on three sides, and then besiege but not attack, waiting for the arrival of our reinforcements and equipment." ”

"Yes." Li Yansan replied abruptly, and immediately turned around and took the order to leave.

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As the gunfire outside Taiyuan City stopped, the Devil's reinforcements learned that the Dragon's Tooth Column was not attacking Taiyuan City, so they also stopped attacking the Dragon's Tooth Column on the railway station's blocking line.

After all, although the Japanese reinforcements were numerous, they all came from a long journey, they were very tired, and they were repulsed by three consecutive attacks, and their morale was very low.

In addition, it was late at night, and the night was dark, so it was really not suitable to continue the attack.

As a result, both sides stopped their attacks in the second half of the night and rested until dawn the next day.

When the distant eastern sky, when a touch of fish belly white was just revealed, Qiao Youhua, who had eaten breakfast, was guarded by adjutant Li Yansan and a guard squad.

Quietly came from the railway station to the position of the 3rd Division of the blocking line to the south and made an inspection.

Last night, although there was no exchange of fire between the attacking and defending sides after the battle to capture the enemy's field fortifications south of the city, the troops of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Longya Column had already completed a roundabout outflanking of the east and west gates of Taiyuan, forming a situation of encirclement on the whole of Taiyuan on three sides.

Adopting the strategy of encircling but not attacking, the battle in Taiyuan City would not start for a while and a half, so Qiao Youhua came to the blocking position in the south to inspect and boost the morale of the army.

As for whether the Japanese puppet army in Taiyuan City would abandon the city from the north gate to break through, Liu Yidao and Zhou Dasheng both sent vigilance personnel to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese puppet army in the city.

Once the devil really breaks through from the north gate, then Qiao Youhua will know about it as soon as possible and respond to it.

In fact, if the devil really abandoned the city and fled, for Qiao Youhua, it would be unwanted, because in this way, if he wins without a fight, he will recover Taiyuan, the economic and political center of Shanxi, and will avoid unnecessary losses for the entire city and hundreds of thousands of compatriots in the city.

And as long as the devils are out of the city, it will be much easier to destroy them.