Faced with the crisis of being completely besieged, Iwamatsu Yoshio couldn't sit still, he personally spoke to Okamura, and said in the call: "Your Excellency Commander, you can look at the photos of the pilot's high-altitude reconnaissance, and then look at the advance fortifications dug by the Eighth Route Army outside the city to the outer city of Taiyuan, and then listen to the sound of artillery, the shells of the Eighth Route Army have even fallen on my headquarters, and my urban defense headquarters in the center of the city is about to become a front line."

In particular, the heavy artillery units deployed by the Eighth Route Army on the high ground west of the city even covered most of the urban area with the range of their heavy artillery.

The entire Taiyuan City was also completely besieged, and the west, south, and north of the city were completely cut off by the Eighth Route Army, and the reinforcements were all blocked by them.

The enemy forces were menacing, and the momentum of the offensive was becoming more and more aggressive day by day.

Your Excellency the General thinks that even so, is it just a feint attack on the Eighth Route? ”

On the other side of the phone, Okamura was silent.

He has not given up paying attention to the situation around Taiyuan City, and the crisis of the situation in which the headquarters of the First Army is in is indeed very urgent, as Iwamatsu Yoshio said.

All these trends are indicative of this.

If the Eighth Route Army was ruthless in attacking Taiyuan City, it might not be impossible.

At this time, in the Mengxi area, the Daqingshan Troops of the Eighth Route Army, the Yanbei Detachment, and the Beijin Detachment were fighting with the 35th Route Army, the Japanese army in the Mengxi area, and the troops mainly based on the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army, and the devils could not draw more troops at all.

Not to mention the Taihang region, around the Iron Triangle region, the battles of all parties in the Huangyadong area are a mess.

It was only then that the old devil Okamura suddenly realized the problem of his greed.

It is also the aviation base of the Eighth Route Army, the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, plus the large oil field in Mengxi, and the military station of the Eighth Route Army in the Jizhong Military Region......

If this continues, I am afraid that we will not be able to do enough to do it, and even the operational plan that was originally formulated to clean up on May Day and destroy the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region will come to naught.

Okamura, who suddenly woke up, fell into hesitation, and the strong unwillingness made him fall into a struggle.

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But no matter how unwilling Okamura was, the situation was rapidly evolving for the Japanese army, which was gradually becoming inferior.

The crisis in Taiyuan City, the old nest of the First Army, cannot sit idly by.

Okamura could only stubbornly transfer troops and send troops to reinforce Taiyuan to relieve the crisis of Taiyuan City being besieged by the Eighth Route Army.

Soon, a battle plan to reinforce Taiyuan City, and at the same time unite the defensive forces of the First Army of Taiyuan City, flank the north and south, and destroy the Eighth Route Army besieging Taiyuan City in one fell swoop.

According to the order of the old devil Okamura.

The reinforcements of the Japanese army along the Tongpu line to the north were the Harada Division and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade.

At the same time, the Linfen defenders sent a brigade to converge, and the Yuncheng Zhongtiao Mountain defense line sent a division to reinforce.

In the past 42 years, the offensive of the devils is still at a high momentum, especially in the Pacific theater and the Southeast Asian theater, the Japanese army can be said to be victorious one after another, and the US army and Southeast Asian countries are screaming.

In such a situation, Okamura served as the supreme commander of the North China Front.

Naturally, it is impossible for him to be in the situation when the situation on the battlefields of other parties is good, but he is in the rear of North China, which should have been the easiest battlefield, and then he will fight any embarrassing results.

Therefore, even if he did his best, he would still have to achieve the expected effect of this operation in North China and show the military might of the Great Japanese Empire.

In order to achieve this effect, the old devil Okamura specially telegraphed Lieutenant General Harada, and when he was fighting, he increased political propaganda.

Harada invited reporters from the three major newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Yomiuri Shimbun, to conduct battlefield interviews.

In an interview, Harada said proudly: "My imperial army has been clearing the Eighth Route Army in the ravine.

It's just that the Eighth Route is really cunning, and it doesn't dare to fight our imperial army head-on at all, and has been fleeing in the mountains, and it can't be on the stage.

Now that the Eighth Route Army itself came out of the ravine, it dared to besiege Taiyuan City without knowing whether it was alive or dead, what is this like? It's like a duck wading on its own on the chopping board, waiting for you to slaughter it, and it's a godsend.

In this battle, our Harada Division, with the assistance of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, defeated the besieging troops of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

At the same time, our army will cooperate with the southbound detachment of Iinuma Shou from the north of the city (the 26th Division of Datong poured out, and this Iinuma Shou Division can only send one brigade and temporarily accompany the two remaining troops of the First Army) to form a huge encirclement and annihilate the living forces of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

Completely change the battlefield situation in Shanxi! ”

The ghost reporters all listened in high spirits, and one by one they opened their mouths, shouting Long live the Empire.

Harada then invited reporters to follow his headquarters, watching the trucks, armored vehicles, tanks, cavalry, and infantry of the Imperial Army's mobile units march mightily towards the siege of the Eighth Route Army.

That's really arrogant, unbelievable!

When they arrived at the front, these reporters were invited by Harada to the front-line headquarters to watch the offensive launched by the elite units of the Japanese army.

After the deployment of the Harada Division, after several waves of air raids, the tanks covered the infantry, and under the barrage of artillery, advanced towards the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army.

Harada also introduced the reporters with great interest to the Okita death squad that he had specially built.

Harada said triumphantly, "Fellow reporters, these are the most elite lieutenants of our division, the military cao, and the warriors voluntarily formed a death squad, and when they are put into the battlefield at a critical moment, they will easily tear open the defense line of the Eighth Route Army like a hot knife cutting butter, and completely wipe out these Eight Routes, leaving no one behind."

Under his command, the main force of Harada's division launched a fierce and sharp offensive all the way, breaking through the three lines of defense set by the Eighth Route Army one after another.

At this moment, Harada was even more proud, and the last doubts and apprehensions in his heart were all eliminated, and he even ridiculed in his heart that the so-called Shanxi Tuba Road was nothing more than that.

It seems that the strength of this first army is really not very good.

His Excellency Iwamatsu Yoshio's troops were so overwhelmed that the troops of the Eighth Route Army were able to besiege his Taiyuan City, and I really don't know how he commanded this battle.

Pity this old devil for being stupid and blind.

In fact, the 120th Division troops built a defensive line along the way for the Japanese army to reinforce Taiyuan City, and built five roads in one go.

Among them, only the last lane is the core position.

As for the front four lines of defense, they are all used to consume time.

Slowing down the pace of the Japanese reinforcements, and at the same time showing the enemy's weakness, is to let the little devils exert their swelling hearts to the extreme under the overwhelming attack.

When the devil takes it lightly, the troops are again full of energy, and then decline, and then exhausted.

The elite troops of the Eighth Route Army of the 120th Division will let the little devils deeply experience the lesson of blood in the last line of defense.

"Cao Di's polemic, the wisdom that our ancients had thousands of years ago, this time we will also teach the little devil a lesson!"

Wait until the devil's forces are concentrated on the last line of defense, and then suddenly launch a full-scale counteroffensive.

"Gather all the artillery of our military region, and put it into the operation of this last line of defense, don't leave any family foundation, it's a big deal, this year will not pass, and you must not let the little devils have a good time!"

At this time, the Japanese reinforcements continued to converge in a state of overwhelming strength.

As the Linfen reinforcements arrived at the front line and converged with the Harada Division, the peak of the devil's army reached its peak.

Lieutenant General Harada, the old devil, listened to his subordinates' report on the strength of the combined forces under his command, which he commanded as the supreme military commander, and his mouth was about to smile crookedly for a while.

Okay!

According to the strength of the combined army under his Harada's command this time, he is almost catching up with His Excellency the Commander of the First Army.

At this time, the good news ahead came again.

"Your Excellency Division Commander, our vanguard has once again broken through the fourth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route is now fleeing to the fifth line of defense!"

"Roar!"

Harada was overjoyed, and he gathered the reporters together and announced loudly:

"After dawn tomorrow, I will launch a general attack in an all-out way, gentlemen reporters, I think that tomorrow morning, no later than ten o'clock, I can invite you to Taiyuan City for tea, and at the same time share the joy of our army breaking the main force of the Eighth Route Army and winning a complete victory!"

At this point, Harada, who did not take the Eighth Route Army to heart at all, issued an order to concentrate his forces to advance to the Fifth Blocking Line of the Eighth Route Army outside Taiyuan City.

At this time, it was getting late, and the Japanese army temporarily camped outside the fifth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army.

Wait for the next day's dawn to launch a full-scale offensive.

It was only then that the command of the 120 Division finally gave the order to launch a full-scale counteroffensive.

Under the earth-shattering shock.

The 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army concentrated all the elite units hidden under the fifth line of fortifications, and assembled almost all the artillery units of the Northwest Military District.

All thrown into the battlefield and launched a full-scale counteroffensive at night.

After the battle began.

Artillery fire rang out.

The sky was full of splendor, and a large number of shells dragging the tail of smoke streaked through the air, almost illuminating the night sky as if it were day, and smashed wildly towards the camp of the Japanese coalition army.

This scene came so suddenly, the Japanese army probably never dreamed that in the case of their own strength being the most powerful and the way like a bamboo, the Eighth Route Army was almost powerless to fight back, and could only retreat one after another.

These damn eight roads even dared to launch a counteroffensive on such a scale.

The surging artillery fire shook the sky.

Even Harada, the old devil who temporarily commanded the camp in the rear, felt this sudden shock in shock and anger.

At this time, the Japanese puppet army, after days of fighting, attacked and trekked all the way, and when they were exhausted, they were repairing in the camp, some of them were cooking together, and some were sleeping and resting.

The decisive battle began suddenly.

All of a sudden, the strong artillery fire of the main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army completely caught the little devil off guard.

The bombing caused chaos in the camp of the Japanese Combined Army.

In fact, the quality of the Japanese combined forces with Harada Divisions as the main force is uneven, with relatively elite field divisions such as the Harada Division, as well as some security forces that can only be regarded as second-rate combat effectiveness.

Under the fierce artillery fire, the Japanese directly bombed the battalion.

For a whole night, the Combine army scattered and fled, let alone counterattacked, and did not even dare to return to the camp.

Under the complete collapse and disintegration of the combined army, although the Harada division was an elite morale, it was inevitably affected, and under the cover of night, almost all directions were the shouts of the Eighth Route Army.

There were also small units of the Eighth Route Army, one after another, which had infiltrated the Japanese camp at some point, and also took the opportunity to blow up some of the devil's baggage and artillery.

The whole camp was ablaze and soon became one.

Harada's whole brain was buzzing, and the original momentum was like a bamboo, devastating, as if victory was just around the corner.

Who could have known that in the blink of an eye, the situation could be reversed in such an exaggerated way.

In desperation, Harada had no time to turn the tide of the battle, so he had to hurriedly give the order to retreat.

The battle continued to be fought until the next day, the sky was completely bright, and the combined army of the Japanese army, which had been massively converging to reinforce Taiyuan City, was almost torn apart.

On the outer line of the fifth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, within a few kilometers, the corpses of the Japanese puppet army scattered on the side of the road can even be piled up into mountains.

At the same time.

The 120th Division's specially built secret combat unit, with the coordination of mobile artillery units, successfully attacked the Japanese army's Mingbao airfield.

In addition, the Ushijima Manchu Group and the Guancun Sixth Division launched a general attack, and the Taiyuan side received less and less air reinforcements, after all, there were basically no airfields in Shanxi, and the flight teams had to be drawn from North China or East China, so they could only be used in the main attack direction first.

After dawn the next day, he was also preparing to use air firepower reinforcements to launch another attack on the Eighth Route Army, in order to save face from the old devil Harada.

The other side.

In the city of Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese army in Shanxi.

Originally, just yesterday, I heard that under the order of His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Okamura, a large number of troops had gathered outside Taiyuan City, and the offensive was like a bamboo, and the line that could immediately break through the line of the Eighth Route Army's defense line was in front of me.

Iwamatsu is so happy in his heart! The crisis in Taiyuan can finally be resolved.

At night, Yan Song, who had not been able to close his eyes for several days, still wanted to sleep well.

As a result, in the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of battle coming from outside the city.

The news came in a hurry.

The Eighth Route Army took advantage of the night to sneak attack the Combined Army.

In this regard, Iwamatsu originally hoped that the Eighth Route would be self-defeating, and maybe it would be wiped out by the combined forces.

As a result, as soon as dawn came, it was learned that the Coalition Army had been completely defeated by the Eighth Route Army in the night battle, and was now fleeing and evacuating in all directions.

Iwamatsu was stunned.

This counterattack was like the last straw that overwhelmed Iwamatsu's heart.

What Okamura said about holding on and waiting for help, what kind of attack from the north to the south, and destroying the siege troops of the Eighth Route Army are all nonsense......