After the Japanese army captured Shouyang, Yuxian County, 100,000 troops divided into three routes, one route from Yuxian to Yangqu, the northern gateway of Taiyuan. All the way is from Shouyang to the west, directly attacking Taiyuan. The last road was from Shouyang to the south and attacked Jinzhong. The 100,000-strong army was menacing, and for a time the Shanxi Plateau was covered with war clouds.

The Japanese moved quickly and attacked sharply. Although the Second Theater also mobilized a large army to block the attack, the effect was minimal, and in just two days, Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Army suffered more than half of the casualties, and Jinzhong and Yangqu were lost.

After the Japanese army captured Jinzhong and Yangqu, they immediately divided their troops to attack Qingxu all the way, and then surrounded Taiyuan with three armies. Yan Xishan hurriedly transferred his first guard general, Fu Zuoyi, back to Taiyuan to serve as the commander of the Taiyuan garrison, responsible for the operational command of the defense of Taiyuan, while he himself urgently withdrew to Luliang with a large number of officers from the headquarters of the Second War Zone and the logistics of the organs, just in case.

Due to the extremely strict secrecy measures taken by the Japanese army, there was no news in the Second World War Zone in advance, and in addition, a large number of special forces of the Japanese army participated in the war, and the headquarters of many divisions and brigades in the Second War Zone were continuously attacked by the Japanese army in a short period of time, losing a large number of middle and senior officers, and were defeated by the Japanese army for a time.

Knowing that he was unable to deal with the 100,000 Japanese troops armed to the teeth by himself in the Second War Zone, Yan Laoxi asked for help from the Wuhan camp on the one hand, and sent a report to Chen Feng's headquarters on the other, asking the Eighth War Zone to come to the aid as soon as possible.

After receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the Second War Zone asking for help, the Wuhan camp immediately sent a telegram to Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second War Zone, to ask for details, and learned that the situation was indeed critical, and the Japanese army could launch an attack on Taiyuan City at any time. If there are no reinforcements, the Japanese army will soon capture most of Jinzhong, and the second war zone is likely to be cut off.

However, Lao Chiang was also anxious during this time, the Japanese army in central China was pressing forward step by step, and the second battle of Wuhan was about to break out, and all the troops in the ninth and fifth theaters were transferred to the vicinity of Wuhan to deal with the possible attack of the Japanese army at any time.

The troops of the First Theater also had to deal with the 12th Army of the North China Front, and the defenders on the Lanfeng front line were frequently harassed by the Japanese army, and according to the inference of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, the Japanese army was likely to launch an attack on the First Theater at the same time as the Battle of Wuhan. Then from the south of Henan to flank Wuhan. Therefore, the troops of the 1st theater of operations could not be mobilized either.

Originally, Sun Weiru's Shaanxi army was a good choice, but unfortunately in the last war, the Fourth Army had been devastated by the Japanese army, especially the 47th Army under his command was almost wiped out, and it did not recover at all in less than half a year. Now it's hopeless.

Think about it. Lao Chiang still felt that the Eighth War Zone, which was close at hand, was the only force that could reinforce the Second War Zone. Moreover, the Eighth Theater has an extra defensive line connected to the Japanese army, and there are no less than 200,000 troops on both sides facing each other on the front line, as long as the Eighth Theater launches a hearty attack on the Japanese troops in northern Hebei and the Pingjin area. The Japanese army will definitely withdraw its troops.

Even if Chen Feng's subordinate sent a partial division from Datong south to reinforce the Xinkou front, the Japanese army attacking Taiyuan did not dare to be too rampant, and could buy a certain amount of time for the mobilization of troops in the second war zone. Therefore, Lao Chiang personally sent a report to the Eighth Theater, ordering the Eighth Theater to immediately send powerful troops south to reinforce the Second Theater, and at the same time ordered the 52nd Group Army stationed in Zhangjiakou to move to the Pingjin area and make a posture of attacking at any time to contain the Japanese army.

After receiving Lao Jiang's telegram, Chen Feng frowned and thought about it for a long time, he now had a big plan in his heart that was about to be implemented, and he really didn't have extra troops to fight on multiple fronts. But no reinforcements will definitely not work, not to mention Lao Chiang's order, the fact that the war zone is closely connected with his defense area alone must be paid attention to by Chen Feng, once the Jin Sui army is completely defeated, then his rear defense line will be exposed to the guns of the Japanese, and the Japanese mechanized troops will soon hit the northwest of Jin from Xinkou Ningwu Pass, and then it is likely to directly attack Helinger, Qingshuihe County, and even Guisui.

At this time, Chen Feng really has a deep understanding of Hou Shi's classic words, he is not afraid of god-like enemies, but afraid of pig-like teammates. It was easy for him to take advantage of the good opportunity of the Japanese army and the Soviet and Mongolian armies to fight to the death at Nomenkan, and in one fell swoop to penetrate deep into the eastern grasslands and even the northeast region. I didn't expect the friendly troops around me to be so weak, and the three or four hundred thousand troops were defeated by the Japanese army of 100,000 people, what the fuck is this.

He was a little dumbfounded by the fact that the more than 300,000 troops in the Second War Zone could not hold a single Taiyuan, especially the fact that many headquarters in the Second War Zone were continuously attacked by the Japanese special combat team, and 8 generals and 42 officers died in less than four days, which is a shame.

In a phone call to his father-in-law, Yan Laoxi, Chen Feng even scolded "Could it be that those commanders in the Second War Zone have paste in their heads", which made Yan Xishan very faceless.

At this point, it was useless for Chen Feng to be angry, but did he really want to miss this opportunity? The result of the Battle of Nomenkan was very clear to him, the Japanese army was simply scum in front of the coalition army composed of steel monsters of the Soviet-Mongolian army, and the losses were extremely serious. If his troops take this opportunity to infiltrate the eastern steppes, the small scum of the puppet Mongol army alone will not be able to resist at all, and it will not be long before his troops can reach the northeast.

This is crucial for the development of the Eighth Theater of Operations, on the one hand, it can expand the territory and enhance the influence of the troops, especially the status of the troops in the hearts of the Mongol tribes. The second is that the strategy in the eastern region has suddenly taken the initiative, and the troops in the north and the troops on the eastern Hebei front line will form a flanking attack on the Japanese puppet army on the Chifeng, Tongliao, and Chengde lines, and if they are properly planned, they can even completely annihilate tens of thousands of Japanese puppet troops in this area.

But now that this thing is out of the file, he is really entangled. After analyzing and thinking for a whole night, Chen Feng still decided that the troops would continue to advance eastward, and the reinforcements would still be reinforced, even if all the troops in the rear were evacuated.

On May 28, Chen Feng, in the name of the commander of the theater, ordered that the eighth theater immediately enter a wartime state. A total of 150,000 troops marching eastward, consisting of the 1st Division of the 49th Group Army, the Mongolian National Salvation Army, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Special Task Brigades, and the Mountain Artillery Brigade, immediately moved closer to Xilinhot and were ready to advance to the eastern steppe at any time.

The 52nd Group Army on the Eastern Front also immediately mobilized and actively mobilized troops to the Xuanhua front line, preparing to launch a feint attack on the Japanese puppet army in the Beijing-Tianjin area. The 40th Army on the southern front transferred one division and one brigade to form a southward force to reinforce Taiyuan.

At this point, the Eighth Theater had only less than two divisions stationed in such a long inner defense line from Xinghe to Bayannur, and once the defense line of the 40th Army and the 52nd Group Army was broken by the Japanese army, the consequences would be unimaginable, and this could be described as a challenge to Chen Feng, who had always been very cautious in using troops.

However, to Chen Feng's dismay, before his reinforcements could depart, the defenders of Taiyuan collapsed. Due to the urgency of time, Fu Zuoyi's elite troops, the 35th Army, did not have time to transfer from Luliang to Taiyuan, and after Fu Zuoyi took office as the commander of the garrison, he found that he only had less than 7 regiments under his command, and it was only one and a half divisions when it was fully completed, while the troops besieging the city outside were more than 50,000 people, and there were also a large number of technical arms, such as heavy artillery and tank troops.

In just two days, the troops in Taiyuan City suffered one-third of the casualties, most of the city defense facilities were destroyed, and more importantly, because Taiyuan City was not subdued for a long time, there were still many traitors in the city who had done things for the Japanese army and had not been screened out, but now they began to move, it was really internal and external troubles, and the situation was extremely bad.

On the night of the 28th, the Japanese army parachuted a large group of paratroopers into the city of Taiyuan, and at the same time tens of thousands of troops outside the city also launched a general attack on the city of Taiyuan, although after a night of hard fighting, the defenders finally repelled the Japanese army, and most of the Japanese troops who landed into the city were annihilated, but there were still some lurking in the city, and some of them relied on the favorable terrain to fight fiercely with the defending troops.

In such a situation, Yan Laoxi knew that there was nothing to do, and if he continued to defend it, it would only increase casualties, and he would probably put Fu Zuoyi, a general, into it. Anyway, the defenders have done their best, and they can't hold it and can't bury it for Taiyuan City, so Yan Xishan still gave the order to break through the siege. Less than half a year after the city of Taiyuan was recaptured by the Chinese army, it was again captured by the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, it did not stop attacking, but the North China Front continued to increase troops in the direction of Taiyuan, and the 32nd Division directly under the Front Army drove to Yangquan through Shimen.

At the same time, the 20th Division of the First Army moved south from Qingxu, and the front of the troops was directed at Taigu and Pingyao, while the Fourth Division and the 3rd and 4th Brigades were rushed to the Xinkou line with the cooperation of tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft and artillery, and the 108th Division of the Japanese Army set off from Taiyuan and attacked all the way to the west, and the troops were directed at Luliang.

With the cooperation of the intelligence units and the special combat team, the Japanese army acted quickly and decisively, and the tactics were rationally applied. The 20th Division went down to Taigu, Qixian, and Pingyao, and the troops pointed directly at Yushe and Wuxiang. And the troops in the north are also progressing smoothly, and the cities of Xinkou, Jingle, and Dingxiang have fallen continuously, and the attack is like a bamboo, which is extremely strong. For a time, the World War II zone was stormy, and the situation deteriorated rapidly.

The war reports in the second war zone came one after another, and Chen Feng couldn't sit still, how could the Japanese army become so powerful all of a sudden. Although the combat effectiveness of the Jin Sui army is not strong, it is not muddy, and the soldiers have never been timid in defending the land and defending the country, because this is their Shanxi, their home, and the Japanese army has failed to eliminate them many times in Shanxi. But why did he lose so quickly and so miserably this time, which made Chen Feng quite puzzled! (To be continued......)