At this point, Lieutenant General Iwamatsu finally realized that it was better to rely on himself than to ask for others, and that Commander Okamura and any joint reinforcements were unreliable.

At present, it is imperative to relieve the crisis in Taiyuan City.

Thinking of this, Iwamatsu directly spoke to Tsuchihashi, the commander of the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong, and asked Tsuchihashi to pull the brothers and ignore Okamura, who had his brain in water.

"According to the command of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, if we continue to fight like this, I am afraid that my first army and your twelfth army will all be folded into it!"

Shandong and Shanxi are already close to each other, and the First Army of Shanxi and the Twelfth Army stationed in Shandong are often communicating with each other and supporting each other.

In particular, the First Army and the Twelfth Army underwent a large-scale change of defense at Okamura's special request.

The detachment of the troops under their own control gave both Iwamatsu and Tsuchihashi a sense of crisis.

In particular, the May 1 sweep against the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region in North China was not as smooth as expected.

Tuqiao, who had been paying attention to the Shanxi battlefield, kept receiving news that the troops of the 12th Army who fought against the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area of Shanxi suffered heavy casualties.

This naturally fueled Tsuchihashi's dissatisfaction with the commander-in-chief Okamura Ninji's command.

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At this time, the tide of battle continued to evolve.

In terms of the first team, Kong Jie used another plan, he first sent a force to feint to attack Yangquan first, attracting the first part of the Tanaka Brigade scattered in Jingcheng, as well as the first part of Pingding County in the south of Yangquan, and the Japanese puppet army troops deployed on both sides of the Yangquan Zhengtai Line.

The Japanese army was really fooled and returned to Yangquan.

The tactics commonly used by the Eighth Route Army to change their homes, the little devils are now on guard.

After Kong Jie's plan succeeded.

Ding Wei's mobile troops immediately seized the opportunity, attacked according to the original plan, and directly cut off the Shouyang section of the Zhengtai Line Railway, and then interspersed with Liao County to cut off the back road of the devils.

After Tanaka mixed brigade gathered in Yangquan.

Kong Jie asked Shen Quan to contact Niangziguan's old friends Xiguan Defenders, Xixiang Squadron, and Dongguan Defenders Jiangteng Squadron, all of whom were descendants of the rebel clan in the Southwest War, and were ostracized.

These little brothers of the empire have long been infiltrated by the various means of coercion and temptation by the Eighth Route Army.

In this battle, they also received a war report, this Sixth Division is in danger, if they are finished, the upper echelons are angry and strictly investigated, and they usually help the Eighth Route Army to transfer materials, open roads, and collect benefits.

Maybe he will become a backstabber.

After all, during the winter offensive, they helped maintain Shen Quan's logistics line and material transportation line to Hebei.

As a result, Shouyang's 4th Brigade went to reinforce Taiyuan on the front foot, and Shouyang on the back foot was surrounded and cut off the railway line.

The Tanaka Mobile Brigade was again attracted to Yangquan County.

Jing Cheng was attacked by Kong Jie again by using the strategy of attacking the east and the west.

At this point, reinforcements from all aspects of the Sixth Division could not come for the time being.

In addition to harvesting a large amount of supplies, the troops also cut off the nearest passage for the devil reinforcements in the SJZ area to enter Yangquan in the west under the arrangement of Kong Jie.

To cover the mobile troops interspersed with Xiyang, attack the rear of the southbound detachment of the 6th Division, and at the same time instigate the siege of the headquarters of the 6th Division by the brother troops.

At this time, the commander of the Tanaka Brigade was very depressed.

The troops were concentrated in Yangquan, but there were Ding Wei's interspersed troops in Pingding County in the south, the 4th Mixed Brigade of Shouyang in the west was absent, there were holes in the defensive line, Jingcheng was lost in the east, and the 6th Division was besieged in the north.

I didn't know if I accidentally got into it.

But Major General Tanaka is also very skilled, and he is in the same vein as the escaped general Ishikawa.

He hurriedly contacted the Yangquan Iron Triangle trio, and conspired with Kawashima and Qian Dekai to pretend to rescue the Sixth Division first, and then secretly go west to Shouyang, what are you doing? Save Taiyuan!

Not long ago, the rescue coalition army of Yan Song, an old devil, was defeated by the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army's Xishan Artillery Group and Dongshan Running Group began to continuously shell the inner city, and the underground party in the city began to sabotage.

Yoshio Iwamatsu, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, was already sick and rushed to the doctor.

He could only call all the mobile troops in Shanxi to ask for help in person, and promised Tanaka that as long as he attacked to the west and joined the 4th Brigade and the Iinuma Shou Southward Detachment to relieve Taiyuan City, he would be promoted to be a major general.

In addition, Kawashima and others said that our Yangquan defenders can converge with your remaining troops, continue to feint, and cover your westward advance, and we will definitely succeed.

Leave that arrogant Sixth Division alone.

The county officials are not as good as the current management!

Tanaka weighed the pros and cons, and pondered, I am the agent of the First Army, and I am not a brigade directly under the Sixth Division, so why should I save him?

Isn't he a warrior and pride of the imperial army? To hell with that pride!

So Tanaka made up his mind, and according to the advice given by Kawashima and others, he led the troops, withdrew directly, and advanced in the direction of Taiyuan.

Of course, on the surface, a small number of troops were left to fool the Sixth Division, indicating that our Tanaka Brigade was still fighting on your back!

In this way, the original direction of the back of the Sixth Division was temporarily wide open.

On the other side, Tuqiao, the commander of the 12th Army, also secretly conveyed communications to the headquarters of the divisions, regiments, brigades and regiments of the 12th Army that entered the Shanxi battlefield at the request of Yan Song.

What for?

Withdraw from the base area of the Eighth Route Army in the quagmire Taihang area, reinforce in the direction of Taiyuan, and rescue the headquarters of the First Army.

After the order was issued, the troops of the 12th Army, which had been operating in the Taihang area, quickly withdrew, and the headquarters at all levels did not greet the headquarters of the 6th Division at all.

At this time.

The headquarters of the Guancun Division was evacuated from the base area of the detachment and walked for several days, but because of radio interference, as well as the joint strikes of the pursuit troops, ambush troops, and interspersed troops of the Eighth Route Army, the troops suffered great losses and were forced to abandon a lot of heavy weapons and mechanized vehicles.

In particular, the Eighth Route Army carried out a large-scale sabotage attack, destroyed the roads, and blocked the attacks along the way, and the Japanese transport truck units were forced to abandon the trucks, leaving fuel for tanks and armored vehicles, and continued to retreat in embarrassment.

The heavy artillery wing had also run out of shells, and was caught up by the armored units of the Eighth Route Army, and after the assault, basically all of them were discarded.

In addition, what made Lieutenant General Guan Cun a little angry.

He led the Sixth Division to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army under pressure, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and they also gritted their steel teeth and went to their stomachs.

Fortunately, Commander Okamura did not immediately transfer reserves from other battlefields to his Sixth Division, nor did he provide more air reinforcements.

On the contrary, because his Sixth Division successfully contained the elite main force of the Eighth Route Army's Iron Triangle, he directly ordered the Sixth Division to slow down on the retreat road and continue to contain the elite troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Only the transport aircraft troops were left airdropped.

The medium and heavy bomber units were transferred to the Ushijima Manchu Group, which broke through the first line of defense in the Huangyadong area of the Eighth Route Army.

Only some light bomber and fighter support was provided to the 6th Division.

Okamura said in the communication, "Sekimura-kun, please hold on, you have received supplies from several advance camps on the way to retreat, which is fully enough for the food consumption of the troops."

Your division will continue to contain the troops of the Eighth Route Army, and when the Huangyadong area is successful, the Ushijima Manchu Division will advance on the whole line and reinforce your division. ”

In this regard, Guan Cun believed it at first.

Until a few days later, I received the message.

The Ushijima Manchu Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, his southward detachment, and the Xiangyuan Field Troops were jointly attacked by the 229th Main Brigade of the 385th and 386th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army and other troops in the Huangyadong area.

Not to mention the destruction of the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army according to the plan, it is also in a hurry to ask for help now, so anxious that it is like a headless fly, scurrying around in the mountains of Huangyadong!

Guan Cun, who learned the news, was like a mourner for a while, and he didn't even have the confidence to stick to it and wait for help.

The commander of the Yamashita Brigade under him said to Guan Cun, "General, we can't sit still any longer, the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army is getting stronger and stronger.

Over the past few days, I've become more and more aware that something is wrong.

First, Shouyang's Fourth Mixed Brigade went to Taiyuan, and then the Tanaka Brigade fought against the Eighth Route Army, but it has not been able to make any progress.

Some of the battle sequences that originally belonged to the 12th Army seemed to have disappeared, and we couldn't even get in touch with their communications department.

I suspect something must have happened here.

Taiyuan is in crisis again, and a large number of reinforcements are rushing to Taiyuan, and there are no extra troops to reinforce our Sixth Division.

If we continue to fight like this, general, I'm afraid our division will be fighting alone.

At present, our southbound detachment is surrounded by Li Yunlong's division of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain road from Licheng to Xiyang, and Jingcheng is also defeated by Kong Jie's division of the Eighth Route Army.

The defenders of Zhangjiakou did not even dare to go out.

The main force of Datong went to the EEDS basin to play a triumphant song all the way, and I am afraid that it will follow in our footsteps.

Now, if we die here, the Sixth Division will be completely annihilated.

Your Excellency General, since the founding of our Sixth Division, we have been the vanguard all the way and have never flinched in defending Kumamoto in the Southwest War, attacking the Jiaozhou Peninsula in the First Sino-Japanese War, participating in the Battle of Shahe in the Russo-Japanese War, and then in the Battle of Songhu, the Siege of Nanjing, and the Battle of Wuhan.

We don't want to be so aggrieved in retreating, being divided and surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, we are willing to defend the honor of the division with our lives, and we will build fortifications in this mountain and fight to the end with the so-called elite independent first detachment of the Eighth Route Army, so that they know that the elite of the Imperial Army is not in vain, even if the whole army is annihilated, we will pull them together.

But before the battle to the death, we implore the general to break through the encirclement, and our armored corps, the remaining troops in the forward, and the baggage troops, will launch a round-robin charge during the day at any cost to paralyze the Eighth Route Army.

In the evening, please ask the 4th Brigade to stay in the Nishino Wing Captain 1 and the general's guard brigade to take the opportunity to break through! ”

Guan Cun was still hesitating.

Suddenly, a group of officers wearing victory turbans outside the command tent rushed into the headquarters, and one of them said to Guan Cun: "Your Excellency General, we have done everything we should do, and the fault is not on the general, I implore the general to break through the siege and find reinforcements to fight back."

If we are still alive, we are willing to continue to follow the general on the battlefield.

If we die in battle, please help us take care of our family and take a look at the cherry blossoms in our hometown on our behalf!

If the military luck lasts for a long time, the imperial army will win! ”

"The martial arts will last forever, and the imperial army will win!"

The devil officers shouted together.

Major General Yamashita saluted, "Please take care, General!" Gentlemen, let's sing a farewell song to the general! ”

One of the captains said, "Let's sing the king's generation, right?" ”

The chief of staff said: "We, the bears, will never give in, will never be afraid of difficulties, we will fight this time for ourselves, for the honor of the Kumamoto division, we sing our own military songs!" ”

"General, please give me the command knife and military uniform! I will command the remaining troops for you and paralyze the judgment of the Eighth Route Army, please prepare as soon as possible! ”

Sekimura finally let out a long sigh, he did not disappoint the kindness of the officers, and decided to lead the team to break through.

At this point, this once invincible Japanese lieutenant general was already full of loneliness and humiliation at this time.

In this battle, his Sixth Division can be said to have suffered a crushing defeat in the hands of the Eighth Route Army's Iron Triangle.

Even just the first independent detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin Dynasty beat his Sixth Division, which had almost no power to parry.

Under the wolf-like Eighth Route Army troops biting and attacking all the way.

When the old devil Guan Cun raised his eyes and looked around, the headquarters of his Sixth Division had even been damaged by more than half.

There is simply no capital to continue a large-scale decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese 6th Division was in a very bad situation.

A detachment of the 6th Independent Regiment cooperated with the chariot troops, coordinated with the New 1st Brigade, and the New 10th Brigade continued to besiege the remnants of the Japanese army.

The commanders Lao Yang, Lao Wei, and Lao Fan, who came from Jinchaji, confronted the elite field troops of the devils for the first time, and while feeling the pressure, it was difficult to suppress their excitement.

At this time, the Sixth Division was already like a lost dog under the repeated blows of the main force of a detachment.

Lao Yang and the others chose the most secure way of playing, and they could completely consume this devil to death for him.

The reinforcements of the Jin-Cha-Ji brothers were even more excited, and the soldiers had large-scale artillery support for the first time, and it was all kinds of howitzers made in the United States.

Japanese heavy artillery, armored vehicles, tanks, that's everything.

And the fortifications were strong and there was plenty of ammunition.

The battle was hearty, and the fraternal troops were so addicted that they opened their eyes.

With God's help, this devil received the coarse grain from the advance camp, and it has not rained for three consecutive days, and the devil is suppressed in the mountains, and there is no water source.

"Damn, even the wind blowing by God is towards us, the materials airdropped by the devils, hehe, they floated to our position under the eyes of the little devils, and they were directly picked up by us in vain!"

In the headquarters, speaking of this, Li Yunlong was stunned and even his mouth was about to laugh.

Kong Jie said with a smile: "This is God who wants to help destroy the little devils, it can be seen that those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help, and the ancients did not deceive us!" ”

And that's not all.

The fat of the Sixth Division is too big, and this iron triangle eats meat, and other troops naturally want to follow suit.

New reinforcements are constantly being gathered, and the various lines of defense, encircled, intercepted, divided, are constantly improving.

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei have even planned whether this battle can be completely ended with the effect of completely annihilating the Japanese Sixth Division Group Army.

Unfortunately, there was still a bit of an accident.

Who would have thought that Guan Cun, an old devil, could be so decisive when evacuating, and even survived with a broken arm.

The devil's movements were even more rapid, taking advantage of the night to launch a breakthrough, and then attacking the east and west, taking the sudden counterattack of the main force of the division as an attraction, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army who were stunned to block the attack were taken by surprise.

As a result, the little devil broke through partially.

After learning the news, Kong Jie didn't care much, after all, it was a field division of the Japanese army, the battlefield situation was changing rapidly, and there were too many factors to consider, even if you took into account all the human factors, then there were unexpected factors!

If you want to completely annihilate the Japanese field divisions, you need not only strong strength, but also luck against the sky.

Li Yunlong, who was unwilling, scolded angrily, "Damn, it's all to blame for the brother's troops, and the troops' adaptability is too poor."

If this is replaced by our Iron Triangle Army, can the little devils run? ”