The Japanese commander on the Datong front line wanted to expand the results of the battle, break through the defense line of the Jin army in one fell swoop, and the troops were under the city of Datong, so that the battle in the northeast of Jin could be over, but helplessly, it was dark, the artillery lost its target, and if it attacked at night, the superior artillery fire would not be able to exert its power, and the two armies would be in a state of short-range contact, and they might also accidentally injure their own people.

Therefore, he ordered the troops that had occupied the position of the Jin army, defended on the spot, stabilized the breakthrough point, held a military meeting overnight, adjusted the deployment, the tenacity and combat strength of the Jin army, he was quite surprised, the offensive was only two days, and more than 30,000 people had been killed and wounded, more than five times more than expected before the war.

Like all the senior generals of the Japanese army, he has great contempt for the local Chinese troops, except for the independent division of the devil Tang Qiuli, which makes them frightened, all the squadrons are not in their eyes, not to mention that they are still the troops of a local warlord, but the result of the battle made him extremely annoyed, and he was furious at the commanders of several divisions who organized the attack.

Suddenly, a violent shelling came, startling him, and the Chinese still dared to launch a counter-assault at night? Not immeasurable, he ordered the whole front to launch an attack at night, giving the heaviest blow to the people of China, and the Datong front, which had been silent for a while, began bloody fighting again at night.

The Japanese soldiers who occupied the two positions, after a day of fierce fighting, were sleepy and tired, coupled with camping in the wilderness, the swishing north wind, blowing through the cotton clothes, and the cold like freezing all over their bodies, all the Japanese soldiers shrank their heads into the collar of their coats, bent over and hunched their backs, like boiled prawns.

When cursing the ghost weather of China, the shells smashed over the head, and under the light of the explosion, countless soldiers rushed up like a tide, and this burst of artillery bombardment caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese army, and then, the native soldiers of the Jin army rushed into the position and fought with the Japanese soldiers.

The boundless dark night, only the cold stars twinkling in the sky, indifferently watching the tragic fighting, although the Japanese soldiers are brave and good at fighting, but they can't resist the momentum of the Jin soldiers, not to mention, the strength is more than double theirs, the Japanese soldiers are gradually submerged in the flow of Jin soldiers.

The battle lasted until dawn, and the Japanese troops of the two wings of the rushing position were all wiped out, and the 81st and 35th divisions of the Jin Army also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the Japanese troops who launched attacks in other directions at night did not take advantage, and the positions were full of corpses of soldiers on both sides.

The battle took place in the position of the Jin army, his wounded soldiers were treated, the wounded soldiers of the Japanese army, can only resign themselves to fate, two days of fierce fighting, Zhao Chengshou's troops, casualties have been close to 50,000 people, many divisions have been disabled, he had to ask for help from Chief Yan, "Chief Yan, the battle on the front line of Datong is fierce, the Japanese army relied on its fierce artillery fire, causing severe casualties to our defenders, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers is unprecedentedly fierce." ”

"The commander of the 83rd Division under the division was killed, and the rest of the officers at all levels, the number of casualties was quite large, although it was temporarily promoted, it was also a drop in the bucket, yesterday, with the cutting-edge 81st Division and the 35th Division, recaptured the lost position, after a bloody battle all night, more than half of the casualties of the two divisions, the Japanese offensive is unabated, if there is no backup army, the battle situation is in danger, Cheng Shou is afraid that he will have the trust of the commander, only a death to repay the commander's kindness, but the situation of the three Jin Dynasty is festering, and the crime of the scarf is also earnest, cut!"

Receiving Zhao Chengshou's urgent telegram for help, Yan Xishan was taken aback, just two days ago, he had already disabled several of my main divisions, the Japanese were serious this time, Tang Qiuli's words came true, he took a fancy to my Shanxi piece of fat, and wanted to swallow it in one bite, this is that Wei, Shanxi is the family foundation that my old man has worked hard to build, and if he loses Shanxi, what is my Yan Xishan?

Yan Xishan grabbed the phone and ordered the six divisions guarding around Taiyuan, as well as the four heavy artillery regiments, to urgently go to the front line of Datong, and at the same time, let his senior staff go to the front command headquarters to assist Zhao Chengsui and defend Datong, and asked him to bring his own handwritten letter to Zhao Chengshou to guard the north gate of Taiyuan.

With the arrival of the Jin army reinforcements, Zhao Chengshou kept using the new troops to launch a counter-assault, with the addition of the heavy artillery regiment, the artillery also fought a draw with the Japanese artillery in the artillery battle, reducing the pressure on the Japanese artillery, and the advantages of the superiority of the troops appeared, and the Jin army troops attacked more and defended less.

In particular, the six divisions that arrived later were equipped with infantry defense guns produced by the Taiyuan Arsenal (a kind of overweight pursuit artillery used by infantry for defense), this guy is a Shanxi original, stubby and short barrel, with a firing range of no more than 800 meters, but what frightened the Japanese army was its shells, which were like a small number of grenades, and exploded a large area, and the attacking army was drowned in the smoke and dust of the explosion, with heavy casualties.

With the continuous flow of the main division of the Jin army, to the front line of Datong, the Japanese offensive momentum was finally contained, lost its sharpness, and gradually became a tired division, and the Jin army under the strict supervision of Yan Xishan, fought to the death and did not retreat, desperately attacked, officers at all levels are very clear, this time the old man is serious, take out his family background and the Japanese desperately, that does not have long eyes, at this time to play with the eyes of the heart, that is looking for death, the old man can not rub the sand in his eyes.

The Japanese troops in the direction of Datong, could not resist the attack of the Jin army, retreated to Huai'an, Zhangjiakou in Hebei, the Datong War ended, this battle, the Jin army invested 23 divisions, more than 380,000 people, almost about 90 percent of our Jin army troops at that time, 25 officers such as division commanders and brigade commanders and regiment commanders were killed in battle, and more than 70,000 soldiers were killed or wounded.

400,000 Japanese troops, under the personal command of the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, Xiangyue Qingji, were determined to win against Shijiazhuang, relying on their superior forces, to launch a comprehensive attack, and fierce battles broke out on the whole line in the vicinity of Shijiazhuang, including Tang, Xinle, Zhengding, Yecheng, Luancheng, and Zhaoxian.

Xiangyue Qingji this time with a heart of revenge, personally commanded the troops, the devil Tang Qiuli made him suffer a lot, lost face, this time, several armies attacked separately, the other troops of the independent division, were contained in several fronts, all fell into a bitter battle, unable to come to the aid of the doppelganger, a good opportunity to carry a rare opportunity, the reason why he chose this direction to personally command, is precisely because he can directly fight with Tang Qiuli's independent division, whether it is annihilation or defeat, as long as this branch of the devil is hit hard, it is out of his heart.

The southern front troops failed to attack the Songhu area, and he and Prince Zairen, chief of the general staff of the base camp, had already received the news, but they did not change their original operational deployment, and still attacked according to the original plan, which was a strategy formulated by the army before the war against China.

For the strategy of going south and attacking the Songhu area, rendezvous and the strategy of Nanjing, he and Zairen's hearts are the same, and they are not so enthusiastic, they are all tricks made up by the guys in the navy, and the rendezvous plan is in vain, but there is a trace of schadenfreude in his heart, in his and Zairen's opinion, according to the army's style of play, first take Shanxi in North China, and then go south, is the best strategy.

On the battlefield outside Shijiazhuang, Tang Qiuli left the command post and resisted the crazy attack of the Japanese army separately, for such a situation, Tang Qiuli had already expected, and there were strong fortifications built everywhere, but he was not prepared to hold on for a long time, Shijiazhuang and the North China Plain region would have to give up sooner or later, but it was not time now.

The evacuation of the citizens of Shijiazhuang, and the city wall Qingye has not been finally completed, just like Baoding, left to the Japanese, is still an empty city, before withdrawing into the Taihang Mountains, to give the Japanese army heavy dà killing, this is the established strategy, in view of Liu Tiehan's eastward command troops, to resist more than double their own Japanese army, the strength is obviously insufficient, and that Han Fuyu, can not be counted on at all.

Behind Shandong, there is the area south of the Yangtze River, the capital Nanjing, and Shanghai, all in that direction, so the Shandong battlefield can only fight to the death and not retreat, guarding the north gate of the heart area for the old man, this is Tang Qiuli's extremely reluctant way of fighting, and the Japanese army fights hard, even if it wins, it will pay great casualties, and every soldier of the independent division is worth more than the life of the little devil.

Therefore, he left the troops of six brigades from the front line, led by Chief of Staff Li Honggang, rushed to the Shandong front line to reinforce Liu Tiehan, and he was going to enter the mountains anyway, and there were too many troops, which would affect mobility, and he only left half of his men and more than 80,000 people, and in the face of 400,000 Japanese troops, the pressure could be imagined, although Deputy Division Commander Feng Jiwu and Chief of Staff Li Honggang did not agree to do so, they still firmly carried out the division commander's order.

Under the extreme pressure in his own direction, he not only sent six brigades of more than 80,000 reinforcements to Liu Tiehan, but also ordered Tang Qiusheng's troops, who were assembling in the Songhu area and preparing to return north, to rush directly to the Shandong battlefield and command the Shandong campaign together with Liu Tiehan and Feng Jiwu.

The Shandong Front Command Headquarters is composed of three people, and the troops of all walks of life are under unified command, and the command can make its own decisions in all battles, and there is only one request, to send the Japanese troops who invaded Shandong back to Hebei, and if the conditions are ripe, they can be annihilated on the spot, and he has reason to ask for this, Liu Tiehan's Dongzhi troops, Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps, plus the six brigades sent by the independent division, and the independent division troops concentrated on the Shandong front line have reached 350,000 people, exceeding the strength of the Japanese army attacking Shandong, and counting the firepower that exceeds the Japanese army several times, it is entirely possible to fight a war of annihilation, at least to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army.

The independent division troops that took away half of the troops, the blocking firepower was significantly weakened, which made the Japanese army, who had suffered for a few days, very pleasantly surprised, and also made Xiangyue Qingji's tightly locked brows stretch a lot, in his opinion, under the full attack of the superior forces of the imperial army, Tang Qiuli showed a sign of inadequacy, Shijiazhuang, an important town in southern Hebei, is like a ripe fruit, which will fall down if you touch it lightly.