At the beginning of November 1937, the Japanese army gathered tens of thousands of elite troops to the city of Taiyuan.

The Japanese captured Taiyuan in only three days.

During the War of Liberation, Yan Laoxi built thousands of large and small reinforced concrete permanent fortifications inside and outside the city of Taiyuan.

The People's Liberation Army gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, Peng Shuai and Xu Shuai successively served as commanders-in-chief, and it took half a year to liberate Taiyuan City.

Yan Laoxi fought with the Japanese and fled all the way, but he fought with the People's Liberation Army but was very tough and did not surrender.

Of course, the current defense of Taiyuan is not as perverted as the Liberation War.

But after all, Taiyuan is where the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army is located, and it is not so easy to capture it.

Under the leadership of Li Yunlong, after more than two hours of rapid marching, the troops were still about 13 kilometers away from Taiyuan City.

The sky was dark, and only the overlapping figures of the soldiers were seen in a hurry, Li Yunlong raised his watch and looked at it, there was still about an hour before dawn.

After 3 kilometers ahead, you will reach a range of 10 kilometers outside the city of Taiyuan.

The main roads and small roads within 10 kilometers outside Taiyuan City are equipped with a lot of devil turrets and stronghold fortifications.

A high-powered walkie-talkie carried by a guard soldier sizzled.

Chief of Staff Wang Dehou picked it up:

"Hey, this is the general headquarters of the 3rd Column of Taihang."

"What? Found a devil's position ahead? How many devils are there? ”

"Okay, I'll report to the commander-in-chief immediately!"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dehou ran to Li Yunlong and saluted: "Report to the regiment commander, the sword squadron reports, the Japanese position was found near Xiaodian Town, 3 kilometers ahead, the sword squadron grabbed its tongue and asked that there were about 2,000 devils and more than 3,000 puppet soldiers, and they just received an order to build fortifications in Xiaodian Town last night." ”

"Map!" Li Yunlong shouted.

An operational staff officer hurriedly took the map to Li Yunlong and spread it out, and by the light of a flashlight, Li Yunlong looked at the map.

"Little shop?"

Li Yunlong quickly found the location of Xiaodian Town on the map.

Zhao Gang leaned over and took a look: "Lao Li, could it be that the whereabouts of our column have been exposed?" ”

Li Yunlong's eyes narrowed, and he shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be, it should be the devil who guessed that there might be a Eighth Route Army unit going north to threaten Taiyuan, and temporarily sent troops over to build a defensive line." ”

Xing Zhiguo suggested: "Do we want to cross the Fen River eastward, bypass Xiaodian Town, and directly attack Taiyuan City?" ”

"Detour?" Li Yunlong snorted, "That's not our old Li's style, this devil and the puppet army actually dare to go out of the city, it's just a divine assist!" ”

Wang Dehou asked, "Commander, what do you mean?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "Think about it, these 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet troops, if they fight with us in the city and fight these 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet troops, how many soldiers will we have to lose?" ”

Zhao Gang said: "It is conservatively estimated that at least 3,000 soldiers must be killed and injured to kill these 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet soldiers." ”

"Lao Zhao is right!"

"At least 3,000 soldiers must be killed or wounded to kill 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet soldiers!"

"In the street battle in the city, we can't give full play to the advantage of artillery fire, but the field battle..."

He laughed strangely, and then Li Yunlong said to Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff, use the walkie-talkie to inform the battalion commanders of the new regiment and the commanders of the howitzer regiment to come here for a meeting immediately." ”

"Yes!" Wang Dehou hurriedly ordered two combat staff officers to take out walkie-talkies to convey orders.

Li Yunlong said again: "Let the signal corps send a telegram to ask where the 1st Column is." ”

If the 1st Column led by the brigade commander had not yet reached the Zhengtai Railway, Li Yunlong would not have been able to launch an attack immediately.

Otherwise, the 2nd Guards Division would abandon the Zhengtai Railway and take the train to reinforce Taiyuan, and it would be troublesome.

Although Li Yunlong was not afraid of the 2nd Guards Division, after a field battle with the 2nd Guards Division, the 3rd Column estimated that it would not have a chance to attack the city.

Therefore, Li Yunlong's side will wait for the brigade commander to cut off the Zhengtai Railway communication line before he can expose and attack the city.

As soon as the order was given, the coder hurried forward and handed a telegram to Wang Dehou.

After reading it, Wang Dehou said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, this is a telegram from the 1st Column, the main force of the 1st Column has arrived near Yangquan, and the 2nd Guards Division has exchanged fire, and a section of railway track has been destroyed, and the 2nd Guards Division of the Japanese Army has been unable to reinforce Taiyuan." ”

"Haha, that's great."

Grand Master Li was immediately overjoyed.

After a while, the battalion commanders of the new regiment and the commander of the howitzer regiment at the headquarters, Wen Ting, arrived.

"It's all here, I'll make a long story short."

Li Yunlong glanced at everyone, pointed to the map and said: "In the area of Xiaodian Town, 3 kilometers ahead, 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet troops have already built a defensive line. ”

"What are these 2,000 devils and 3,000 puppet soldiers doing?"

"It's delivering food to us."

"The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th battalions served as the main attack, and the county brigade served as the reserve."

"The artillery battalion and the howitzer regiment have set up all the artillery, let's beat the devils in a daze, and after breaking down the devils' defense line, the sky is almost bright."

"The cavalry battalion rushed up to harvest corn again, and none of these devils and puppet soldiers could be put back in Taiyuan City."

"Yes!" The crowd shouted in unison.

Li Yunlong was very busy and did not mobilize the commanders and fighters of the new regiment before the war, because there were too many soldiers in the new regiment, and there were more than 8,000 people.

Therefore, the order to do the pre-war mobilization was given to the battalion commanders and the commanders of the directly subordinate companies.

With Li Yunlong's order issued, the troops quickly moved into action.

Li Yunlong looked at the map again, and Wusu Airport was about 10 kilometers northeast of Xiaodian Town.

Subsequently, Li Yunlong gave Kong Jie another order to lead the 2nd Attack Group to take Wusu Airport.

The 2nd Attack Group led by Kong Jie attacked the East Gate, and after taking the Wusu Airport, it was just in time to attack and advance to the north to attack the east wall of Taiyuan.

……

To the south of Taiyuan City, 500 meters away from the Japanese position.

Several members of the Sword Squadron were lying quietly on the ground, looking ahead with binoculars, and the devil puppet army was digging trenches and foxholes with torches.

The fire dragon pulled out by the torch stretches eastward from the banks of the Fen River to several kilometers away.

The devil guard posts scattered farther away have been quietly killed by the special forces of the Sword Squadron.

But further on, there is a danger of being discovered by devils.

There was still half an hour before dawn.

More than 1,000 people from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th battalions of the new 1st Regiment and a company rushed to the devil's defense line.

After approaching the devil's position at a distance of 500 meters, more than 1,000 people directly dispersed and launched a group charge towards the devil's position.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

A puppet army guard immediately discovered the eight roads without the slightest cover, screamed in horror and fired a shot at the same time.

There was not the slightest shelter in front of the position of Yima Pingchuan, but this was at night, and the devil puppet army could not judge the number of the Eighth Route Army at all.

"Hugh Hugh Hugh..."

The mortars of the Eighth Route Army were the first to fire, and the shells streaked through the striking orange-red trajectory in the night sky, falling on the devil's position and exploding around it.

With the loud shouts of killing, more than 1,000 new regiment fighters who were tentatively attacking launched a group charge towards the position of the devil's puppet army, and soon approached a distance of 400 meters from the position of the devil's puppet army.

"Yaga, enemy attack!"

"Fire flares and fight back with all fire!"

After a short period of panic, the devil commander Takahashi Tsuro calmly gave the order with his left eyes.

Commander Shinozuka is really like a god, and sure enough, there are eight routes north to try to attack Taiyuan, but when he meets my Takahashi Surero, it is considered eight routes unlucky.

This road is not working!

Hugh Hugh Hugh!

Several flares flew into the air, illuminating several kilometers of the vicinity as if it were daylight.

On the defense line of several kilometers, the devil puppet army was under mortar shells, more than a hundred machine guns fired at the same time, and dense bullets poured over.

"Artillery fire readiness!"

Takahashi Sarrou's expression was cold and resolute, and he shouted loudly.

However, as soon as his words fell, the attacking Eight Routes seemed to be frightened by the sudden ferocious firepower, and they retreated back in a hurry, and the Eight Ways attack came and went faster.

By the time another round of flares was raised, there was no longer a single eight-way in the telescope's field of vision.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Takahashi's mouth.

That's it?

The combat power of the Eight Roads does not seem to be as strong as the legend, hmph, vulnerable.

Takahashi Sureo said: "Quickly inform Kasai Zhongzuo that the Eighth Route Army has launched a fierce attack on our position, with more than 3,000 troops, and the Eighth Route has been repulsed. ”

"Hey!" The telephone soldier behind him hurriedly picked up the phone and shook the handle.

However, within 5 minutes, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky.

Takahashi looked up, and a frightened expression appeared on his face, and the sky was covered with dense orange-red ballistics.

Takahashi, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is sure that this is definitely not a cannonball that dozens of cannons can fire.

"Yaga, anti-artillery!" Takahashi shouted, jumping into the foxhole next to him.

At the moment when Takahashi Tsuro jumped in, the first round of shells had already fallen on the position of the devil puppet army.

The first attack of the infantry of the battalions of the new regiment was only a tentative attack, and the members of the sword squadron had already transmitted the shooting elements from the position of the devil's fire point to the positions of the artillery groups in the rear through high-power walkie-talkies.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The dense explosion exploded in the devil's position, accompanied by fireballs and gunsmoke, and shrapnel and shock waves swept across the entire devil's puppet army position.

The power of the 60-mm mortar is average, but the power of the 75-mm mountain gun and the 105 howitzer is not a joke with the devil puppet army.

Before the devil puppet army could recover from the first round of artillery explosions, the second round of shelling had already arrived.

Boom boom...

Explosive fireballs and gunpowder smoke once again enveloped the entire Devil puppet army position.

Dense shells rained down, washing the ground back and forth on several kilometers of positions, and the landing point of the shells in the dark night was extremely accurate, indicating that the quality of the Eighth Route Artillery was extremely high.

Takahashi Tsuro, who had worked as an artilleryman, was sure that at least 1,500 shells fell on the positions every minute.

Such intensive shelling, among which there are also quite a few large-caliber artillery ......

Thinking of this, Takahashi Surero's face suddenly became extremely solemn, it was really the main force of the Eighth Road coming!