The night was like ink, and the main force of the northwest column of Shanxi Province was nearly 30,000 people moving south along the Tongpu Highway.

During the day, because of the fear of bombing and dive strafing by devil bombers, the marching columns had to go in a zigzag pattern, but at night, they no longer had any scruples, and they marched in a straight line.

"Commander!" Amid the sound of horses' hooves, a communications soldier rode up to the brigade commander and his party.

When the brigade commander and Wang Ye heard the shouting, they stopped and waited for the signal troops to catch up.

After a while, the signal corps caught up with the brigade commander and reported with a breath: "Commander, I just received a report from the headquarters that there are four devil army trains that have passed Zhengding and are going to Taiyuan along Zhengtai Road for reinforcements. ”

"Damn." The brigade commander's face fell, and he said hatefully, "The devil reacts quite quickly. ”

Wang Ye said: "There must be at least one wing in a military column, and four trips are a division, and it has already passed Zhengding, and it will arrive in Taiyuan in one night at most, which is earlier than us." ”

After a pause, he said, "Brigade Commander, it's not much fun for us to go to Taiyuan again." ”

The brigade commander sighed and said helplessly: "Then go back, we can only help Liang Gang here, and any more will be beyond our ability." ”

Wang Ye was still a little unbearable.

In any case, Liang Gang is an admirable soldier.

At that moment, Wang Ye said: "Brigade commander, why don't you let me take the wolf warrior brigade to Datong." ”

"What do you want to do?" The brigade commander instantly became alert and said, "Xiao Wang, I warn you, don't mess around, the Wolf Warrior Brigade is the trump card of our Northwest Column of Jin, and it is a strategic-level armed force, you can't use such a strategic-level armed force to save people." ”

"Brigade commander, don't worry, I won't mess around."

Wang Ye said solemnly: "I will not directly participate in the battle. ”

The brigade commander frowned and said, "Then you tell me, how do you plan to save people?" ”

Wang Ye thought for a moment and said: "I remember that Datong is surrounded by mountains, we will find a relatively hidden ravine to lurk, and then keep in touch with the 94th Brigade through the radio, and in the end, when Liang Gang decides to lead his troops to break through, I will point him out a breakthrough direction, and then meet them in the mountains." ”

Hearing this, the brigade commander breathed a sigh of relief: "You didn't lie to me? ”

"Nope." Wang Ye shook his head and said, "I don't dare to fool anyone, brigade commander." ”

"Okay, I approved it." The brigade commander nodded, and then said, "But there are too few people in your wolf warrior brigade, so I asked Sun Desheng to lead the cavalry regiment to Datong with you to save people." ”

"Brigadier, no." Wang Ye hurriedly said, "The goal of the cavalry regiment is too big. ”

The brigade commander thought about it for a while, and then said: "Then bring another cavalry company, this is all right?" ”

"A cavalry company should be fine." Wang Ye nodded happily, "Just let the dog's cavalry company go with us." ”

After receiving the order, Fan Guanenough quickly rushed over with the cavalry company, and heard that he was going to carry out a rescue mission with Wang Ye and the wolf brigade, Fan Guanenough was simply overjoyed.

……

Datong North Gate Tower.

Seeing the dazzling red light blooming on the wilderness outside the city, the corners of Liang Gang's mouth also bloomed with a cruel smile, this meeting gift, presumably the devil will like it very much.

Liang Jun said with a smile: "We have arranged more than 50 bombing points on both sides of the highway in the north of the city, and the distance is mostly between five kilometers and seven kilometers, because according to the general law, the artillery of the devils will definitely move along the road, and after arriving outside Datong City, they will definitely build artillery positions along the road." ”

"Then, combined with the range of the artillery, a distance of five to seven kilometers was selected to arrange the bombing point."

Speaking of this, he smiled and said, "I didn't expect us to make the right bet, hahaha." ”

Liang Gang smiled slightly, and said to Liang Jun: "Liang Jun, this ticket is well done, the loss of the devil artillery is estimated to be not small, not to mention that you have also killed more than ten cannons, and it is estimated that it can be stopped tonight." ”

Liang Jun smiled.

……

The devil's army stationed in Mongolia suffered a lot of losses this time.

In his eagerness to attack, Nishihara Kazusei ordered several artillery wings to deploy on the spot by relying on the road, so that there was not even a safe distance between the artillery positions and the artillery positions.

More than sixty cannons were almost next to each other.

It's like in film and television dramas, lined up in a neat vertical row.

Originally, according to the order, the distance between the artillery positions had to be widened.

But this time several artillery wings of the Mongolian army did not seriously carry it out.

Anyway, the national army does not have the support of the air force, and the artillery firepower of the national army is negligible, and it is in the city, and it is at night, so the devil artillery has no scruples at all.

As a result, there was no air strike, but an underground blow!

No one expected that the Chinese would actually lay out dozens of bombing points under the ground on both sides of the road!

The odious Chinese planted at least hundreds of kilograms of explosives at each bombing point, and dozens of explosive points are tens of thousands of kilograms of explosives, and tens of thousands of kilograms of yellow explosives were used up in just one ambush, which is really ruthless!

But the lethal effect is also a bargain, and the devil's army in Mongolia was bombed miserably.

More than a dozen field artillery, mountain artillery, or rapid-fire guns were blown up, and even the commander of the 3rd Tank Division, Nishihara Kazuse, was blown into dozens of pieces of minced meat.

After the explosion, when Shibayama Kaneshiro and Satake Katsuji rushed closer, they just saw a section of Nishihara Kazusaku's body fall from the sky, and then Nishihara Kazusaku's head fell again, and landed on top of the body with a loud click.

Death is not blind, the old devil is really dead and blind.

"Yaga Yaru!" Shibayama Kaneshiro was shocked and angry, and immediately said to Satake Katsuji, "Satake-kun, order all wings and all cavalry divisions of the Mongolian army to immediately retreat five kilometers to camp and send sappers to carry out a carpet survey of the area three to seven kilometers outside the north gate of Datong to see if the Chinese army has not planted more mines!" ”

"Hello!" Katsuji Satake.

……

In Beiping, the war room of the headquarters of the North China Front.

Seizo Arisue pointed to the map and said to Okamura Ningji: "Your Excellency, the attack group of the Mongolian army has broken through the resistance of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and advanced to the northern suburbs of Datong......

As he spoke, a communications staff officer suddenly walked in.

However, when I read the telegram handed over by the communications staff officer, there was a stupid Sue Seizo.

Okamura Ninji frowned and asked, "There is a last gentleman, is there something wrong with the Mongolian army?" ”

"Hello." "Your Excellency, when the attack group of the Mongolian army was preparing to bombard Datong City, it was attacked by mines planted by the central military of China, eleven artillery positions were destroyed, more than two hundred artillery soldiers were martyred, and eleven artillery pieces of various types were blown up, in addition to that, ......"

Speaking of this, Yusue Jingsan paused, as if he didn't dare to say anything further.

Okamura Ninji asked in a deep voice, "What else?" Say! ”

"Hello." Yousujing san shook his head again, and said, "Nishihara-kun was also unfortunately martyred." ”

"What? Nishihara-kun was also martyred? Okamura Ninji was also stunned when he heard this, how did this battle be fought, it hadn't even started in earnest, and the commander actually died first?

The entire battle hall fell into a deathly silence.

This is really a disadvantage, does it indicate that you will lose the battle?

After a long time, Okamura Ninji breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a dark face: "Order, Shibayama-kun will take over the command of the attack cluster of the Mongolian army, and then let the 1st Division continue to speed up." ”

"Hello!" There are three times of the last essence.

……

In Chongqing, the official residence of Huangshan.

The battle hall on the first floor was star-studded, and almost all the senior generals of the party-state were gathered, and almost all the senior staff members of the attendant room were also present.

The radio stations of the Sui Army and the 94th Brigade of the Central Army are also uninterrupted 24 hours a day.

There was constantly the latest news from the Suijun Army or the 94th Brigade of the Central Army back to the Huangshan Residence, and then Tang Zong would take the two operational staff officers of the Third Group to work on the sand table and feed back the changes to the sand table.

……

On the first night, Tang Zong and two staff officers advanced the war games of the Mongolian army to attack the cluster to the north of Datong City, but after a while, they pushed back five kilometers.

In the face of the puzzlement of Chang Kaishen and other senior generals, Tang Zong explained: "The 94th Brigade of the Independent Brigade, using the 20,000 catties of yellow explosives captured and stored in advance, arranged 50 explosion points on both sides of the highway north of Datong City that could be used as artillery positions by the Japanese. ”

"The focus of the Japanese search is on highways,"

"The search for the fields on both sides of the road is not very careful."

"As a result, the blasting was successful, and the Japanese army was severely damaged in one fell swoop."

"The Japanese may have been worried about being ambushed again, so they took the initiative to retreat five kilometers."

After a pause, Tang Zong said again: "It is estimated that the Japanese army will not attack again tonight." ”

Hearing this, Chang Kaishen and a group of senior generals breathed a sigh of relief.

……

The next day, Tang Zong and his two combat staff officers once again advanced the war games of the Mongolian army to the outside of Datong City, and all the chariot war games, artillery war games, and infantry war games were all launched.

And it is spread out at the same time in the west gate and north gate.

This means that the troops stationed in Mongolia have launched an attack from the north gate and the west gate at the same time.

Seeing this, the hearts of Chang Kaishen and the senior generals immediately hung up, and the offensive cluster of the Mongolian army finally began to attack Datong City, can the 94th Brigade stand the test?

The communication between the Huangshan Mansion and the 94th Brigade has always been unimpeded.

Therefore, the latest battle reports are constantly coming back from the 94th Brigade.

Chang Kaishen and the senior generals were able to see the latest battle situation in Datong from the sand table.

On the sand table, Tang Zong and the two staff officers pushed the Japanese army's war games forward, took them back, pushed them back again, pushed them back again, took them back again, and kept repeating and repeating.

There was no gunpowder smoke on the sand table, but Chang Kaishen and a group of senior generals seemed to be able to see that the officers and men of the 94th Independent Brigade were fighting bloody battles with the Japanese invaders in the streets and alleys of Datong City, and the Japanese infantry, under the guidance of tanks, under the cover of artillery and even aircraft, launched attacks again and again, but were pushed back again and again by the officers and men of the 94th Independent Brigade.

During this period, I don't know how many white-knuckle fights broke out, and I don't know how many officers and soldiers launched suicide bombings against Japanese tanks with explosive bags.

In the evening, Tang Zong and two staff officers pushed the Japanese war games back to the north and west gates for the ninth time, which meant that the ninth offensive of the Mongolian army had been disintegrated.

In other words, Datong has not yet been lost.

……

Before dawn on the third day, Chang Kaishen had already gotten up.

And he didn't bother to wash up after getting up, so he went straight to the battle hall.

Before this, Chang Kaishen had to go to the trail by the Jialing River every day to take a walk, taking the opportunity to sort out his thoughts in order to lead the overall situation of the national war of resistance, but now it is all canceled.

Chang Kaishen's first sentence after entering the door: "Naijian, how was the battle last night?" ”

Tang Zong, who had not slept all night, stared at his red eyes and replied in a deep voice: "In the first half of last night and the second half of the night, the troops stationed in Mongolia launched two attacks each, but they were all repelled by the 94th Brigade. ”

"Good, good!" Chang Kaishen let out a long sigh of relief.

As time went on, the high-ranking generals came again.

The troops stationed in Mongolia also began the third day of the offensive, attacking repeatedly.

Tang Zong and the two staff officers of the third group moved the wargames back and forth again.

In the evening, the war games of the Mongolian troops were pushed back to the city gate.

……

On the morning of the fourth day, when Chang Kaishen walked into the battle hall, he didn't see Tang Zong.

On duty was a deputy leader of the third group, who immediately briefed Chang Kaishen on the battle situation last night, and although the Mongolian army launched several night attacks, they failed to succeed.

However, there is a worrying new development.

Although the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was active in Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei, tried its best to block the attack, and exhausted all kinds of means such as sabotage, laying mines, firing cold guns, and even frontal blocking, it still failed to stop the advance of the 1st Division.

In the second half of last night, the 1st Division still advanced outside Datong City.

And as soon as he arrived in Datong, he launched an attack from the east gate.

Therefore, on the fourth day, the Japanese army began to attack from three directions at the same time, the Mongolian troops attacked from the north gate and the west gate, and the newly arrived 1st Division attacked from the east gate, and the south gate was empty.

The little devil also knows the art of war, this is the three queyi.

The South Gate was deliberately left in order to force the 94th Brigade to break through from the South Gate.

Seeing this, Chang Kaishen and the other senior generals began to be very worried, what were they worried about? Of course, he was worried that Liang Gang would not be able to withstand the pressure and would escape from the south gate of Datong with the remnants of the 94th Brigade.

Liang Gang and the principal officers of the 94th Brigade were all veterans of the Central Military Academy's Teaching Corps.

The Central Military Academy Teaching Corps has a very disgraceful past, they fled in the Battle of Songhu, they fled in the Battle of Nanjing, and they still fled in the Battle of Lanfeng, with bad deeds, so that Chang Kaishen revoked the number of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps in anger and incorporated the remnants into the 46th Division.

This time, will Liang Gang and them run away again?

For a whole day, the hearts of Chang Kaishen and the senior generals were hanging.

Fortunately, the situation that worried them the most did not appear after all, until the evening, the 94th Brigade was still nailed to Datong City, and Liang Gang once again expressed their determination to the chamber and the national government headquarters through the radio. Unless all the members of the 94th Brigade are killed, Datong will be there!

However, Chang Kaishen is still not at ease, and the senior generals are still not at ease.

Therefore, this night, Chang Kaishen and a group of senior generals did not leave, and they all stayed in the battle hall of Yunxiu Tower, as if they wanted to give support to the officers and men of the 94th Brigade in the air.

On this night, the Japanese launched the craziest night attack.

In just one night, the Mongolian garrison and the 1st Division launched thirteen night attacks.

But by dawn, the war games between the Mongolian army and the 1st Division were still pushed back to the city gate by Tang Zong and the two staff officers.

……

On the fifth day, Okamura Ninji's nose was about to be crooked.

It's been five days, it's been five days and five nights, and the offensive cluster of the Mongolian army plus the 1st Division, nearly 100,000 troops, including a chariot division and a heavy division, can't deal with a brigade in the national military district!

"Yaga!" Okamura Ninji said hatefully, "What are Nanataichiro and Mitsuo Nakasawa doing?" ”

There were more than a dozen staff officers present who were silent, and no one dared to touch their heads at this time.

They could understand Okamura's anxiety, because the longer the battle of Datong dragged on, the more time the Sui army would be able to prepare, and the less likely it would be that the Mongol army would capture Wuyuan and even Hetao.

And once the intention to seize the Hetao failed, the effect of the Northwest Jin Campaign would be greatly reduced.

When the time comes, let alone the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi, maybe it will not be able to do heavy damage.

"Command!" Okamura Ningji gritted his teeth and said, "Before dawn tomorrow, we must take Datong!" ”

"Hello!" There are three times when the last essence is paused, and then he enters the communications section to convey the order to the front.

……

On the sixth day, although Chang Kaishen went back to his room to sleep last night, he didn't sleep much all night.

So early in the morning of the sixth day, when Chang Kaishen came to the battle hall again, his eyes were red.

Not only Chang Kaishen, but also more than a dozen senior generals and senior officials of the party-state present were also red-eyed, obviously, the continuous stay up late had exhausted them, but no matter how tired they were, they still had to stay up.

Walking into the battle hall and seeing the sand table for the first time, Chang Kaishen's heart was inexplicably tight.

Because the war games between the Mongolian army and the 1st Army were not pushed back to the vicinity of the city gate by Tang Zong and the operational staff officers of the three groups before dawn as they had done in the previous five days.

This time, the Japanese army actually gained a foothold in Datong City.

The control area of the 94th Brigade is only a small piece.

Including the central part of the Datong city and the southern part of the city, only about a quarter of the area remains.

Everyone knows what this means, which means that the mobile strength of the 94th Brigade has been exhausted, and it is no longer able to launch a counter-assault against the Japanese army, and then it can really only grit its teeth and defend it.

Chang Kaishen's eyes turned to Chen Bui and asked, "Yan Ji, has the ash of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningqing arrived in Wuyuan?" ”

"It's only partial." Chen Bui replied, "Most of them are still on the way, and I'm afraid it will take at least two or three days to reach Wuyuan." ”

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