"Boom-"

"Boom—"

"Bang-"

Suddenly mixed with such an abrupt sound in the almost ear-filled sound of shells, Yoshio Shinozuka immediately looked in the direction from which the sound came, only to see a kettle that had been shaken to the ground, and an embarrassed and slightly frightened staff officer stood next to the kettle.

"What are you doing on the ground? Pick it up. Yoshio Shinozuka frowned and reprimanded.

"Hey!" The staff officer breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly picked up the kettle and put it on the table, and then with a few other companions, gathered around the map on the table, pretending to discuss the battle in front of them.

"The cannon fire has stopped."

Hirata Masashi was standing next to Yoshio Shinozuka, and he also saw this scene, he didn't say anything, but was a little surprised by the "peace" that Yoshio Shinozuka had just shown. Yoshio Shinozuka has been losing his temper lately, and if anyone in the command department makes a small mistake, he will inevitably be reprimanded. Just like last time, a staff officer was slapped twice by him because he couldn't hold back a sneeze, and as a result, his eardrum was perforated...... So now those staff officers are a little afraid of this commander. As the deputy chief of staff who succeeded Muto Akira, Hirata Masashi once persuaded him, but it was useless, and he even ate himself, so he simply shut up.

"The cannonade has stopped, and the Chinese attack is coming soon......" Yoshio Shinozuka sighed as well.

The Chinese want to recover Shanxi!

Originally, everyone thought it was a joke. That's right, the Chinese have an armored corps in Inner Mongolia, but this corps has not formed combat effectiveness at all, and the most important thing is that the Chinese lack follow-up spare parts, so the large-scale armored weapons have basically become decorations. Moreover, according to the estimation of the base camp. The Chinese should not have been generous enough to send this corps to the battlefield as soon as they took over it. This is not in line with the habits of the Chinese. What's more, the cost of an armored corps attack is far higher than that of ordinary troops, and the Chinese government will certainly not be willing to do so. And apart from this just good-looking armored corps, how much strength can the Chinese use to recover Shanxi? Although the strength of the Great Japanese Empire is now concentrated in Southeast Asia, the strength of the North China Front has not been greatly affected by this.

Therefore, although they did not take it lightly, their North China Front did not take this battle too seriously. Especially when they heard that the Chinese army was only Hu Zongnan's 34th Group Army, and the rest of the troops like Fu Zuoyi, Yan Xishan, and Wei Lihuang did not move, they were even more relaxed. In their view, this was another political trick played by Chiang Kai-shek, not a real desire to fight them.

But it turns out that empiricism kills people.

Hu Zongnan, the so-called "first Whampoa student" who was hit hard by Yoshio Shinozuka and Jun Tada last time. Finally showed a little bit of a ability to match his name.。 There was no use of positional warfare, no reconnaissance, and they directly used the strength of two divisions as the vanguard, advancing almost at full speed, and caught them by surprise. Within two days. Broke through their three county towns and dozens of strongholds.

And after that. Succeeded Yoshio Shinozuka as commander of the 1st Army. Tanabe Shengwu, who was in charge of guarding Shanxi, was furious and personally led his troops to attack, vowing to give Hu Zongnan another unforgettable lesson. And Hu Zongnan also seemed to be a little frightened after receiving the news that Tanabe Shengwu personally attacked, and immediately stopped the attack and put on a defensive formation.

Moritake Tanabe was fooled.

The two armies lined up. As soon as the battle began, in less than two hours, nearly a thousand tons of shells were smashed into the Japanese positions!

Moritake Tanabe was directly stunned.

The Chinese are very "provincial" in fighting wars. can use mountain artillery, never cannon; Can use mortars. Never use mountain cannons; If you can use a grenade or a cannon without conscience, you will never use a mortar; And if you can use people, you basically don't need a cannon ...... In the eyes of the Chinese, human life is not valuable, but shells are valuable. I am afraid that the lives of one regiment are not enough for them to fire two shells from a few mountain guns. Even the "rich" Central Army basically thinks like this. Therefore, Tanabe Moritake did not consider that he would be bombarded by Hu Zongnan on a large scale, but made a lot of camouflage on his position to prevent the bombing of the Chinese Air Force.

But Hu Zongnan just put on such a "just day" style of play, and it was precisely in this way that Tanabe Shengwu's position was only set up for a long time before Hu Zongnan broke through. The Japanese 1st Army, which had a brilliant record, retreated in a panic, and Hu Zongnan led his troops to chase after him. At the same time, the Chinese Air Force, which has not been visible on the battlefield, has finally appeared. Two airborne regiments blocked the path of Tanabe Moritake's main forces, and with the assistance of Air Force fighters and bombers, they held on. A day later, Hu Zongnan also chased after him, and without saying hello, he came up with another fierce shelling.

According to calculations, Hu Zongnan should have consumed at least 2,000 tons of artillery shells before reaching Taiyuan.

But it's worth the huge cost. Tanabe Moritake and the 1st Army led by him were beaten dizzy under such a fierce attack, and they were not at all as "chic" as the Japanese army had fought against the Nationalist Army in previous years. On the contrary, they seem to have fallen out with the former national army, although their performance is far from that bad, but with the death of Tanabe Jinwu and the successive defeats of the troops, who will care if they fought hard or not?

Not long after Yoshio Shinozuka took over Tadajun's position, he found that the situation in Shanxi was critical, and he couldn't take care of much, so he hurriedly gathered the troops he could gather and drove to Shanxi.

However, the morale of the Japanese army was low, especially the fighting style in the south of Hu Zong, which was simply "completely new", the shells seemed to be free of money, and most of the cannons used were cannons with a caliber of more than 100CM, which were hugely powerful, and the Japanese army was greatly puzzled by the fact that they could not use their hands and feet, including Yoshio Shinozuka. However, Hu Zongnan can live a long time, but Yoshio Shinozuka must persevere. Although Japan has gone all out to attack Southeast Asia and has achieved a huge advantage, they are not yet able to convert Southeast Asia's resources into military power. Moreover, first to fight Siberia and then to Southeast Asia, the materials that Japan can draw out are already pitiful, and Yoshio Shinozuka must "save"!

If it was before, the savings would be saved, and it was a big deal to compete with the Chinese army for the courage, marksmanship, and combat experience of the soldiers. Anyway, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army far exceeded that of the Chinese soldiers, and they were not afraid of winning with one to ten. But now it's different, the Chinese army doesn't face them anymore, and they don't play crowd tactics, they play with "materials" and "weapons"! Just like when the Anti-Japanese War first broke out, the Japanese army played against the national army.

Yoshio Shinozuka has retreated even after a battle, and now he can only defend Taiyuan. And outside the city, it was Hu Zongnan's entire 34th Group Army! He was surrounded by the rival he had once looked down upon.

"Niang Xipi—"

Outside the city of Taiyuan, a Zhejiang Fenghua curse with a Shaanxi flavor came out from the former enemy headquarters of the 34th Group Army. However, no one would mistake this for Lao Jiang, because everyone present knew that it was Hu Zongnan's voice.

"The Japanese army is exhausted. There is no combat effectiveness, give Lao Tzu another three days, Taiyuan City will definitely be able to take it, and Lao Tzu will be able to capture Shinozuka Yoshio and Hirata Masaki alive. Now let me stop, what do you mean? ”

"Didn't you already say it? The central government has a holistic approach. Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army, sat on the side and crumpled the military hat in his hand depressedly. Angrily threw it on the table.

"Think holistically. Consider the whole picture...... So have they thought about the situation we are facing? Once the offensive was stopped, it was possible for the Japanese to reorganize themselves into an effective defense. Hu Zongnan looked angry, "As long as Taiyuan can be captured, Yoshio Shinozuka will be captured alive, and the recovery of Shanxi will be just around the corner." What could be more important now? ”

"From the beginning of the war to the present, more than 3,000 tons of shells alone have been consumed. If we can't take Taiyuan, how can we explain to the party-state fathers? Fan Hanjie, the commander of the 27th Army, was also indignant. He and Song Xilian were the main forces in this attack on Taiyuan, and Song Xilian was born. Not to mention that Hu Zongnan is a classmate, he is also the deputy commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army, a close confidant of Lao Jiang, and he used to fight the Japanese army with one-on-one troops in Fujin Mountain, and he played a majestic role, and his credit is also impressive. But he can't, he was mixed with the 19th Route Army before, the 19th Route Army carried out a coup d'état in Fujian against Chiang, although he was "anyway" in time, and thus received the attention of Lao Jiang, but this foundation is not clean after all, and it is very necessary to take a credit to stabilize his own foundation. Moreover, when a general sees a big victory ahead, but is suddenly dragged alive, who can stand this feeling?

"I think there's people who are jealous." Ding Delong, the commander of the First Army, suddenly slapped the table, "After counting the many previous wars, how can a single war recover a province like ours?" Such a great achievement, some people are red-eyed! ”

"Send a report to the principal!" Hu Zongnan gritted his teeth. As the commander of the first army of the Huangpu lineage, Ding Delong, the guy who graduated with the first place in the fourth phase of the Huangpu family, still has a lot of weight in his speech. And by Ding Delong's reminder, he immediately thought of one person: Chen Cheng! Chen Cixiu! It must be the guy who always goes against him, and he is afraid that he will be rewarded for his meritorious service and further strengthen his weight in the heart of the chairman, so he gave him a demon moth at this time.

"Yes, send a report to the principal!" Song Xilian also shouted on the side: "Let's just say that, Principal Mengjian: The soldiers of our department fought bloody battles and had high morale, and now the enemy is about to be defeated." Once the offensive is stopped, the enemy will have a chance to breathe......"

"There's no way to give the enemy a chance to breathe! Shoushan, Yinguo, I know that you are very unhappy now, but even if you are not angry, you have to slow down the offensive for me first. ”

Song Xilian hurriedly pondered the words of the telegram. This is very particular, even if they are angry and angry, they must not appear such a sentence as saying that the chairman is deceived by villains, because that is in itself an insult to Chiang Kai-shek. How can a leader be blinded by villains? But while he was muttering the telegram, a man suddenly broke into their headquarters.

"Chief Zhang?"

Seeing the comer, Hu Zongnan, Song Xilian and others were all stunned, and hurriedly stood up and took two steps forward. Zhang Zhizhong is the director of Lao Jiang's chamberlain, how could he suddenly come to Shanxi?

"I heard that you are attacking in a hurry, and Yoshio Shinozuka is almost powerless to fight back, and the chairman is very relieved. But it is precisely because of this that I am afraid that you will ignore the instructions of the central government, so I have to come. Zhang Zhizhong was not polite to this group of people, not only because he was the chief attendant of Lao Jiang and his status was higher than these people, but also because he was the captain of the Whampoa Military Academy and could be regarded as the teacher of Hu Zongnan and others, "Let me tell you the truth, the fight against Shanxi is not just to recover Shanxi, this matter is very important, and it also involves our strategic layout in Southeast Asia...... The chairman of the committee gave a strict order before I came, and none of you should disobey the military order. If there is a violation, it will not be spared! ”

"But Chief Zhang, we can capture Yoshio Shinozuka alive right away......" Ding Delong said angrily.

"How old is Yoshio Shinozuka, is he worth hundreds of millions of dollars in aid?"

"?......" (To be continued......