In the middle of the night, Yan Xishan and a group of senior officers of the Central Army of the Jin Sui Army were called, but no one from the Central Army faction or the Jin Sui Army faction dared to complain, and none of them were stupid if they were able to do their current position.

Seeing that all the people who could come came, Yan Laoxi got up and said, "I called you here so late because the battle situation in Datong has changed, so I asked you to come over to discuss countermeasures." ”

As soon as Yan Xishan's words fell, there was a quarrel in the conference room, and most of the officers thought that Datong had been lost, and it was not a wise decision to let Chen Feng's 222nd Division and the 61st Army of the former Li Fuying defend Datong, because these two armies were in the eyes of many people, how could they be the opponents of the Fifth Division, the division of the Japanese army, which had fought a hundred battles, and it was necessary to add a newly established army that would have to be stationed in Mongolia.

Seeing that the conference room had turned into a vegetable market, Yan Laoxi's face suddenly fell, and he said loudly: "What kind of system, for the sake of the generals, they will not be shocked and in danger, look at your appearance one by one, and you will not be afraid of being laughed at." ”

"Marshal, what happened, did the Japanese army capture Datong?" Yang Aiyuan, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Group Army, stood up and said, he knew very well that he would not be able to solve the matter without half an hour of being scolded by Yan Dashuai.

"That's right, I just received a telegram from the 61st Army, Chen Feng's kid launched a counterattack against the Japanese army this night, annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops, and recovered Zhangbei, Xinghe, Jining, Fengzhen, Tianzhen and other county seats, and the Japanese army was hit hard under Datong City one after another, and more than 30,000 people were killed and wounded from the beginning of the war to the present, so this kid thinks that the time has come to counterattack, and I hope that the Second War Zone can cooperate with them to carry out the most reluctant counterattack, and completely expel the little devil's power from Shanxi, I don't know what you think?" Yan Xishan Road.

"Brother Baichuan, is this news reliable? It is said that with the strength of the 61st Army, it is already a great luck to be able to hold Datong, how can it carry out a big counterattack in the encirclement of more than 100,000 Japanese troops, and also destroy more than 10,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, it can't be a conspiracy of little devils, right? Huang Shaohong, deputy commander of the Second World War Zone, said with a frown.

"Shaohong, now the news is still being verified, but this telegram is sent from the military headquarters of the 61st Army, it was sent by Chen Feng personally to the headquarters of the Second War Zone, I don't think there will be a fake, in addition, you know very little about Chen Feng, the commander, although he has not studied in a military school, but he is a good hand at leading troops to fight, and he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, he dared to fight the idea of sending a corps to Chahar with a regiment of soldiers, and the soldiers of a division can completely annihilate the Japanese army independently mixed into the second brigade, killing the Japanese lieutenant general Abe Norihide, and now he has an army. It's also possible to make a nice counterattack. Yan Xishan's nerves have been trained very tenaciously after two surprises, and he has no doubts about the achievements reported by Chen Feng at all, compared to the record of the second brigade of the total annihilation of the Japanese army, which killed Lieutenant General Abe Guixiu, recovering a few small county towns occupied by the Japanese army is nothing at all.

"If this is the case, then the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army and the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army are completely contained in the north of Jin by Chen Feng's department, and only the 20th Division and the 109th Division are left on the front lines of Jinzhong and Taiyuan, Xinkou and Niangziguan. Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second World War Zone, also spoke.

"Marshal, Deputy Commander Huang, Deputy Commander Wei, no matter whether it is dangerous or not, as long as the 61st Army really inflicts heavy damage on the Fifth Division and the troops stationed in Mongolia, then we must cooperate with them to counterattack, so that even if we cannot completely expel the Japanese army from Shanxi at the last stage, we can still maintain the strategic initiative. As long as the Japanese army cannot concentrate its forces to annihilate the 61st Army in a short period of time, then the 20th Division, the 109th Division, the 5th Division, and the 26th Division of the Japanese Army will always be in the midst of a two-sided attack by our army. Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, stood up and said.

"What Yisheng said makes sense, besides, the vanguard of the Japanese army has arrived at the periphery of Taiyuan, and this battle is imminent, and it is not at all that we can avoid it if we want to, and now it is not a question of whether to fight or not, but a question of who will fight who will fight first. The reason why the Japanese army has not launched an offensive for a long time is probably waiting for the Fifth Division, and now it is still very good for our army to launch a counterattack while the Fifth Division has not yet moved south. As far as the situation of the enemy and us is concerned, we have concentrated more than 20 divisions of five group armies plus six independent brigades in the Taiyuan direction, while the Japanese army has only two divisions. Yang Aiyuan, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Group Army, also got up and said.

Yan Xishan thought for a while and said: "In this case, we will cooperate with the 61st Army to fight a counterattack, but the scale cannot be too large, we must ensure the safety of Taiyuan." In this way, this time the 7th Army and the 14th Army will be the main attack, the 6th Army will stay in Taiyuan, and the 1st Corps and the 20th Corps will move in the direction of Taiyuan, ready to reinforce Taiyuan at any time. At the same time, the 120th Division of the 18th Group Army was ordered to launch an attack on Shuozhou and the surrounding counties and townships where the Japanese army was stationed, and cooperate with the second war zone to carry out a strategic counterattack. ”

Since Yan Xishan has decided to counterattack, the generals no longer oppose it, after all, the Battle of Taiyuan is imminent, and it doesn't matter if it's late or sooner, even if Chen Feng doesn't ask for cooperation now, the Japanese army will launch an attack on Taiyuan City in less than two days.

With the gradual issuance of the order of the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone, the Chinese troops stationed around Taiyuan began to move, and at the same time, Itagaki Seishiro and others, who had worked hard all night, received even worse news before they had time to rest - Kulun, where the headquarters of the Mongolian army was located, was attacked by the Chinese army, the city was broken, the defenders were completely annihilated, and the commander of the Mongolian army, Lieutenant General Lian Zhaopan, was captured alive.

This news gave a hard blow to the Japanese army on the Datong front, the headquarters of the Mongolian army was attacked, and the commander was captured, which made the 26th Division, the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 4th Brigade of the Cavalry embarrassed.

After receiving the telegram from the North China Front, Itagaki Seishiro urgently ordered all troops to withdraw from the battle and wait for the order of the base camp, while strictly guarding against a counterattack by the Chinese army.

On the morning of the 26th, the Japanese troops on the Datong front urgently retreated 15 kilometers, and the 26th Division, which had just engaged the 200th Brigade, the 223rd Brigade, and the Duqi Brigade of the 61st Army, and the Yamashita Brigade, all withdrew from the battle in a very short period of time and withdrew in the direction of Datong County.

On the same day, the Chinese army on the Taiyuan front carried out a large-scale counterattack, and the two sides entered a white-hot situation at the beginning, and under the fierce attack of more than 80,000 troops of the two Chinese army groups, the two divisions of the Japanese army felt the pressure.

Then the 120th Division of the 18th Group Army led by the Communist Party also sent troops to the northwest of Shanxi to attack Shuozhou and the surrounding counties and townships where the 1st Division of the Japanese Fifth Division was stationed.

The most important thing is that on the morning of the 26th, Chen Feng's 200, 224, and Duqi Brigades, as well as the guard regiment directly under the military headquarters, and other troops drove to Datong, and the 223 Brigade also sent troops to Yanggao County, coming in the direction of Datong.

After consulting the base camp side, General Terauchi Shouichi urgently ordered the troops on the Datong front to immediately switch to the defensive, and the main force to withdraw to Huairen to avoid the main force of the Shina army.

At the same time, the 20th Division of the Taiyuan Front was urgently ordered to retreat, temporarily abandon the attack on Taiyuan, and transfer the 108th Division to reinforce the front line of Xinkou Niangziguan.

On November 27, the base camp sent instructions to rebuild the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia, with the commander of the 26th Division, **Chun, as the headquarters, and the troops on the Datong front immediately withdrew to Zhangjiakou through Hunyuan, Lingqiu, and Wei counties.

On November 28, the Japanese Fifth Division withdrew from Huairen and Yingxian and re-encamped in Dai County, while on the same day, the 20th Division also withdrew from the periphery of Taiyuan and withdrew to Xinkou after paying a certain price.

The Japanese army's mobilization of more than 100,000 troops to besiege Datong this time seemed to many people to be a bit anticlimactic, but it caused great repercussions within the Japanese army and the Chinese army. Especially within the Japanese army, in the telegram sent by the North China Front to the base camp, the danger level of Chen Feng and the 61st Army was directly changed to the strategic level, and it was suggested that the base camp treat Chen Feng and Chen Feng's army as a strategic group army.

At least the Second World War Zone Commander's Department and the Nationalist Government's Ministry of Military Affairs have a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of Chen Feng's department, especially when the Second War Zone Commander's Department learned that Chen Feng's department had annihilated and wounded more than 40,000 Japanese puppet troops, and had also successfully destroyed the Japanese army headquarters in Mongolia, captured the Japanese lieutenant general Lian Zhaopan alive, and directly appointed Chen Feng as the director of the Suinan Administration and the commander of Datong City Defense, in charge of the military and political power of 12 counties in a city in southern Suinan and Jinbei. At the same time, the 61st Army was rewarded with 300,000 oceans, a number of weapons and equipment, and asked the Nationalist Government for merit for the 61st Army.