Taiyuan Inner City.

The headquarters of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army.

With the constant and cold passage of time.

The dense gunfire of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army was getting closer and closer to the inner city, and there were more and more lost streets on the sand table.

Yoshio Shinozuka was panicked, and his heart became more and more irritable.

Continue to fight like this, if reinforcements do not come again, the inner city of Taiyuan and the headquarters will also have to be captured by the Eighth Road.

"Kasai-kun, ask the 3rd Brigade from your communications department if you have eliminated the Eighth Road?"

Communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai just walked in, and Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice.

"Report to the General!"

With a telegram in his hand, Toshimatsu Kasai walked up to Yoshio Shinozuka with an ugly face: "Major Commander Miyazaki of the 3rd Brigade called and said that he still hasn't been able to destroy Hachiro!"

"Nani?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked in an unkind tone, "Didn't I order the aviation to be dispatched to reinforce the 3rd Brigade, did the aviation not listen to the order, or did your communications department not convey the order?"

Toshimatsu Kasai replied, "The Ministry of Communications has conveyed an order, and the air force has also carried out the mission, bombing the positions of the Eighth Route Army on the forward and anti-slope of Baozi Mountain."

Yoshio Shinozuka asked, "Then why hasn't the 3rd Brigade captured the position of the Eighth Road?"

Toshimatsu Kasai bowed his head: "According to Major General Miyazaki's message, the artillery shells hitting the Eighth Route Position and the aerial bombs dropped by the Aviation Corps do not seem to have the effect of killing and injuring the Eighth Route Infantry, which led to the failure of the 3rd Brigade to capture the Eighth Route Army position."

"Yaga Ya Road!" Yoshio Shinozuka roared angrily: "Immediately telegraph the 3rd Brigade to break through the position of the Eighth Route Army at all costs, and I will see the 3rd Brigade in Taiyuan when it gets dark tonight!"

"Hey!" Toshimatsu Kasai bowed his head, turned around and walked briskly towards the communication room next door.

Soon, Major General Masao Miyazaki, commander of the 3rd Brigade, received a telegram from Yoshio Shinozuka.

Seeing this order, Miyazaki Masao knew that Taiyuan and the First Army Headquarters had reached a critical moment of life and death.

So far, there have been four waves of charge attacks, the infantry has suffered more than 1,800 casualties, and nearly half of the shells carried by the artillery brigade have been consumed.

Masao Miyazaki really didn't want to fight, and the Eighth Route Army was like a nail, firmly staring at Baozi Mountain.

Almost 2 infantry battalions and a squadron of chariots were put in, and the soldiers did not even touch the threshold of the forward position of the 8th Road.

Not only did he not move, but he also shattered half of his teeth.

But an order is an order, and there is no room for bargaining and hesitation.

Three more infantry squadrons were immediately ordered to attack.

However, this time Miyazaki Masao changed his tactics and ordered the artillery to open fire on the Eighth Route position when the soldiers attacked.

Before, it was the artillery that rushed after the infantry rushed, and the infantry rushed after the artillery bombardment.

This time it was the artillery that was bombarding and the infantry rushing.

In the continuous smoke of artillery fire, the soldiers drilled out of the tunnel with weapons, withstood the air waves that collided at any time, the deafening roar in their ears, braved the wanton sweeping gravel, sand and shrapnel, and used the weapons in their hands to shoot at the devils.

The devils braved the rain of bullets and artillery fire from the Eighth Road, as well as their own artillery fire, and stormed the Eighth Route position.

Light and heavy machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and automatic rifles operated, and the dense fire continued to rain down on the onrushing devils like a rain of bullets.

Both sides are playing with their lives.

Halfway through the attack of this wave of devils, the fifteenth company that had just come up suffered more than 100 casualties under the artillery fire of the devils, and the intensity of the fire was almost halved.

Just when the devil was about to break into the position, the 16th Company drilled out of the tunnel to reinforce, and the firepower instantly increased by more than 1 times.

Under the dense rainpower of fire, the 5th wave of the devil's attack was repulsed, and more than 600 devils in 3 squadrons fled back with less than 100 people.

The front of the position was already covered with dense corpses of devils.

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In the field of vision of the artillery team, seeing that the attack failed again, and most of the attacking troops suffered casualties, Major General Miyazaki Masao drew his command saber with a brush, and he was so angry that he swung his knife and slashed indiscriminately.

……

"Report to the commander-in-chief, telegraph from the 4th Battalion!"

At the headquarters of the column, Wang Dehou took the telegram from the decoder, and after reading it, he reported to Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong was studying the map with a magnifying glass, and when he heard this, he asked without raising his head, "What did Chen Dagu say?"

At present, more than 12,000 troops have entered the city to fight with devils.

The new regiment sent in more than 3,000 people, including more than 1,000 people from the 3rd battalion and more than 1,000 people from the county brigade, and the other three attack groups also sent in 2 regiments each.

Fight with the devil in the outer city of Taiyuan street by street and house by house.

The attacking troops caught a devil's tongue and learned that it was the Yoshino Wing of the Japanese Army who was fighting in the streets with the Eighth Route Army.

More than 12,000 people fought against a wing of the Japanese army, which was a great advantage.

At present, the battle is going well, and it is expected that the street fighting in the outer city will be over before dark.

As long as there are no devil reinforcements coming, the inner city will be broken tonight, and the entire Taiyuan will be defeated before noon tomorrow at most.

And the devil plane that I was looking forward to today has not appeared, which makes Li Yunlong a little regretful.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the air defense units, which were supplemented with machine guns, did not decrease in the slightest, but the devil's plane did not come, which made Li Yunlong lose an opportunity to make a fortune.

Wang Dehou said: "Battalion Commander Chen reported that the 4th Battalion has killed more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers in the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army."

Li Yunlong raised his head when he heard this, his eyes widened, and his tone was surprised: "What are you talking about? More than 2,000 devils were killed, how many casualties did the 4 battalions suffer?"

The expressions of Xing Zhiguo, Zhao Gang and others in the headquarters were also very surprised.

"The casualties of the 4th battalion are okay." Wang Dehou said, "There were more than 180 casualties, and the specific single-digit casualty data was not reported by Battalion Commander Chen."

"With a casualty ratio of more than ten to one, this kid Chen Dagu fought well!"

Throwing the magnifying glass on the table, Li Yunlong's expression was extremely satisfied.

This casualty ratio has been led by Li Yunlong many times.

There was even an even more exaggerated casualty ratio of 3600:0, which no one believed.

However, the fourth battalion fought a positional battle with the devils this time, and put on a posture to confront the elite of most of the Japanese army.

Although the 4th Battalion has the advantage of the terrain, the individual weapons are better than those of the devils, and the weapons and ammunition are sufficient, but the 3rd Brigade has a mountain artillery brigade, which poses a great threat to the fighters in the position.

The devil and the fourth battalion suffered three to one casualties Li Yunlong thought it was very good, but he didn't expect it to be more than ten to one, but it gave Li Yunlong a big surprise.

"The Fourth Battalion did a good job this time." Zhao Gang nodded and said, "The 3rd Brigade, which has suffered more than 2,000 casualties, will not be able to make any waves even if it reaches Taiyuan."

Li Yunlong said: "Call back to the 4th Battalion, affirm its performance, and order it to continue to block the 3rd Brigade, and if you need ammunition replenishment, you can send a telegram to the headquarters at any time."

"Yes!" Wang Dehou straightened up, drafted a telegram, and asked the telegrapher to send it to the Fourth Battalion immediately.

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Masao Miyazaki, who had lost his mind, ordered the artillery to fire poison gas bombs at the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Masao Miyazaki has always disliked the use of gas bombs.

He believed that the use of poison gas bombs by soldiers was an act of cowardice, and that soldiers should use the spirit of bushido to defeat the enemy.

But this time, Miyazaki Masao had to use poison gas bombs, he couldn't get to Taiyuan, and so many soldiers were killed and wounded, even if he was not ordered to apologize for his crimes after this battle, he would at least be dismissed.

As one poison gas bomb after another exploded on the position of the Eighth Route Army, the entire position was soon enveloped by poison gas.

2 full squadrons and 100 remnants of the capital, a total of more than 500 devil soldiers, wearing gas masks, rushed towards the position of the Eighth Route Army from the attack position.

Just when the devils were about to break into the position of the Eighth Route Army.

Eight roads in a gas mask

The army suddenly appeared one after another, racked up their guns, and shot at the devils.

Under intensive fire, the devils fell in pieces...

The 6th Japanese attack failed, and the devils suffered more than 400 casualties.

When the news reached the headquarters of the 358th Regiment, Chu Yunfei was so shocked that he doubted his life, and the number of devils killed was almost 2,500.

He was filled with emotion, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened at the thought of one day meeting such a unit on the battlefield.

The Japanese attack continued until dark, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the 3rd Brigade was never able to cross Baozi Mountain.

In the several attacks in the rear, the Japanese army used the tactics of artillery bombardment and infantry rushing.

This led to the casualties of the four battalions, which eventually killed more than 400 casualties and killed more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers.

The artillery of the 3rd Brigade ran out of shells, and they were no longer able to attack, so they retreated to the city of New State.

Chen Otani's plan to take advantage of the night attack and kill or capture Major General Masao Miyazaki alive also failed to materialize.

When the news that the 3rd Brigade was repulsed by a battalion of the Eighth Route Army reached the headquarters of the First Army, the angry Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka drew his lieutenant general's sword and cut into pieces the Taiyuan sand table that the combat staff officers in front of him had spent a lot of effort to build, thinking to himself that if Miyazaki Masao was in front of him, he would definitely cut off the opponent's head.

Most of the brigades and regiments, and an artillery brigade, could not even defeat a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

It's rubbish, it's a shame for the Imperial Army!

At this time, it had been dark for more than two hours, the Eighth Route Army had occupied the outer city of Taiyuan, the Yoshino Wing was completely annihilated, and the Eighth Route Artillery was using mountain artillery and howitzers to bombard the inner city of Taiyuan.

The Eighth Route Army pulled mountain artillery and howitzers into the streets, and under the cover of mortars and infantry guns, aimed at the walls of the inner city and fired directly.

The roaring sound of artillery seemed to be close at hand, and the explosion of each howitzer shell made the fortified building of the headquarters shake slightly.

Yoshio Shinozuka closed his eyes in pain, a dull pain in his chest, and he couldn't spit out his stuffy breath there.

Perhaps, if you don't covet honorable retirement and stay honestly until the day you retire in disgrace, maybe all this will not happen.

However, it is too late to say anything.

In the past few days, even Principal Chang, who is far away in Shuangqing City, has been paying attention to the battle situation in Taiyuan.

Principal Chang received information that the Eighth Route Army had occupied the outer city of Taiyuan and was storming the inner city, and Principal Chang was shocked.

The Central Army in the Zhongtiao Mountain Battlefield was defeated in successive battles under the command of Minister He, but the Eighth Route Army attacked Taiyuan under the leadership of Li Yunlong, and marched all the way.

He stared at the map and was very unconvinced, Niang Xipi, what is going on with this Yoshio Shinozuka? What are the little devils doing?

The little devil is so fierce against the Central Army of the labor-management lineage, but he is vulnerable in front of the Eighth Road?