Peiping.

The heavily guarded North China Front Headquarters.

"General."

Communications staff officer Osamu Kitani held a telegram in his hand, and walked quickly into the war hall to report to Okamura Ninji:

"Just now, the commander of the 40th Division, Lieutenant General Aoki, sent a telegram that there is news from the headquarters of the First Army and the Fifth Division!"

Seizo Yusue, who had been on duty for three days and three nights during the war, finally got a rest today.

It is now on wartime duty in the War Hall by Okamura Ninji.

Okamura Ningji looked slightly happy, and asked in a hurried tone: "The headquarters of the First Army and the Fifth Division have arrived in Shouyang?" ”

Since the morning telegram received from the headquarters of the First Army, the 5th Division, and the 28th Division to break through the encirclement.

No more telegrams were received from these troops.

Okamura Ninji was expecting the radio stations of these troops, and they all kept the radio silent.

Although Okamura Ninji really wanted to kill Iwamatsu Yoshio, these troops were innocent, and the North China Front could no longer afford to lose large troops.

Hearing Osamu Kitani's report, Okamura Ninji thought that the headquarters of the First Army and the Fifth Division had broken through to Shouyang County.

"Nope..."

Osamu Kitani bowed his head and replied:

"Major General Yamamoto Kazuki, deputy chief of staff of the First Army, and more than a dozen members of the special forces arrived in Shouyang County, according to him, the headquarters of the First Army, the Fifth Division and the 28th Division have been defeated, and the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Iwamatsu, commander of the First Army, and Lieutenant General Matsui, commander of the Fifth Division, and others are unknown!"

For a moment, Okamura Ninji's eyes widened and he froze in place.

The good news is that there is news from the headquarters of the First Army, the 5th Division and the 28th Division.

The bad news is that these troops have been defeated, and several division commanders and commanders are all missing, most likely gone.

Although I had expected it in my heart, I still didn't come back to my senses for a long time when I heard the news.

The main force of 30,000 locust army was defeated in one day under the siege of the main force of 100,000 Eighth Route Army.

Even the division commanders and commanders may not have been able to break out of the encirclement.

Only one deputy chief of staff managed to break through to the county seat of Shouyang.

Okamura stared at the precise map on the wall for a long time.

The officers of the 5th Division, the 28th Division, and the headquarters of the 1st Army were all equipped with fine military horses.

Although the location of the ambush is 50 kilometers from the county seat of Shouyang.

If these officers can successfully break through, they will definitely be in Shouyang County for almost the entire daytime.

This time has not yet arrived, and the probability of being able to arrive later will become smaller and smaller.

If for the sake of these officers, the 40th Division, the 56th Division, and the three divisions and two brigades that were surrounded by Niangziguan were put in.

Then the blood is lost.

Thinking of this, Okamura Ninji raised his head: "Order the 40th Division to immediately transfer to Yangquan and join the 56th Division, and be careful not to be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army on the way in!" ”

The Eighth Route Army excelled in ambush warfare.

In the past, it was only a small-scale ambush war, at most an ambush of a few thousand people.

But now it has turned into a large-scale large-scale ambush annihilation war of more than 100,000 people.

If the 40th Division was also ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, it would be in a very dangerous situation.

"Hey."

After Okamura finished speaking, Osamu Kitani closed the folder, turned around and walked away quickly.

In the War Hall, some operational staff officers were busy there.

Okamura Ninji raised his gaze and stared at the map on the wall, his eyes gloomy and his face solemn.

Taiyuan, Zhengtai Railway, Niangziguan, the current situation of the locust army is very poor.

Judging from the current situation, the annihilation of the Japanese army in Taiyuan is inevitable, and now it depends on whether the 40th Division, the 56th Division, and the 21st Division and the 27th Division can rescue the 3 divisions and 2 brigades that were surrounded at Niangzi Pass.

……

Evening.

Taiyuan.

At this time in Taiyuan, there were only four squadrons of devils and thousands of puppet troops left.

It seems that there are a lot of troops, and thousands of puppet troops are just a plate of scattered sand.

In addition, there is a squadron of devils, as well as the puppet army of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division, stationed in Tianlong Mountain.

At this time, the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army had crossed the Japanese Taigu defense line and was storming Tianlong Mountain.

Taiyuan Outer City.

A courtyard with three entrances and three exits, the headquarters of the 1st Division of the Puppet Army.

"Master's seat."

"The headquarters of the First Army, the Fifth Division, and the 28th Division were completely annihilated by the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Zhaodongxiang."

Zhong Yunhe, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Independent Division of the puppet army, walked into the division headquarters and said to Wang Zonglin, the commander of the 1st Independent Division.

The original 1st Division cooperated with the 37th Division in Changzhi, and was mostly wiped out by the troops commanded by Li Yunlong.

The current 1st Division was reorganized after being wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and its equipment and soldier quality were first-class among the puppet army, and its main task was to assist the Japanese army in maintaining law and order and defending Taiyuan.

Wang Zonglin was drinking tea when he saw Zhong Yunhe walking in and couldn't help but look shocked when he saw what he said.

He stood up suddenly, his face full of horror: "Second Brigade Commander, what did you say?" The main force of the 30,000 locust army was wiped out? Is this news true? ”

Wang Zonglin was a student of the Baoding Military Academy, and he fought the Japanese with Chief Yan, and he was still a battalion commander in the Jin Sui Army at that time.

He fought the Japanese on the battlefield and personally saw the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

Afterward.

Wang Zonglin felt that there was no hope of fighting the Japanese, so he chose to accept the command of Wang's puppet government, defected to the enemy and became a traitor.

But he never expected that in the past two years, the Eighth Route Army had sprung up and beaten the Japanese army to the ground in Shanxi.

At present, the 30,000 main forces of the Japanese army were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in one day.

Even if it is 30,000 pigs, it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army to kill them in one day, right?

Looking at it this way, how terrifying is the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army?

Wang Zonglin didn't dare to imagine.

"Division Commander, this news is true!"

Zhong Yunhe nodded:

"It was General Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, who personally said it to his humble position, and there will be no falsehood."

When Wang Zonglin heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Zhang Dabiao of the Eighth Route Army? Second Brigade Commander, you!? ”

The Japanese army spent a huge amount of money to reward the head of Li Yunlong, the commander of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Zhang Dabiao, as Li Yunlong's number one general, is naturally on the Japanese army's bounty list.

"That's right, Commander!" Zhong Yunhe walked to the door and looked at it, and found that the partition wall had no ears, so he walked back and whispered to Wang Zonglin, "General Zhang said, as long as we abandon the darkness and turn to the light, kill the devils in the city, rob the arsenal and grain depot of the devils in Taiyuan City, and hand them over to the Eighth Route Army, after making meritorious contributions, the Eighth Route Army can let our brothers live." ”

In the afternoon, Zhong Yunhe fled into Taiyuan City with hundreds of defeated troops of the puppet army.

In the puppet army, there are a lot of Eighth Route Army, among which is the sword squadron.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army was preparing to attack Taiyuan, and the devil thought that there would be one more person and more strength, so he put these puppet troops into Taiyuan City without thinking too much.

It was a sure thing that Taiyuan was captured by the Eighth Route Army, and in order to survive, Zhong Yunhe had no choice.

In fact, when it was said that the main force of the Japanese army was captured by the whole army on the Zhengtai Railway, Wang Zonglin guessed Zhong Yunhe's purpose.

Wang Zonglin's expression suddenly hesitated: "However, there are more than 1,000 locust troops in this Taiyuan City... Devil. ”

"Commander, you are confused!"

Zhong Yunhe said urgently:

"What are more than a thousand devils? Sixty or seventy thousand devils were killed by the Eighth Route Army. ”

"Now there are hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army, hundreds of heavy tanks, hundreds of heavy artillery pieces of more than 200 calibers, thousands of cannons of various calibers, and air support from hundreds of aircraft."

"These more than 1,000 devils and our 1st division will be wiped out tomorrow at most."

"The Eighth Route Army just wants to sacrifice fewer troops to give us this opportunity."

Hearing Zhong Yunhe say this, Wang Zonglin's expression changed, his eyes widened suddenly, and he couldn't help but gasp in his mouth.

The Eighth Route Army is so rich?

No wonder it was able to defeat the main force of 60,000 or 70,000 Japanese troops in such a short period of time.

Wang Zonglin asked: "If we kill the devils in Taiyuan City, can we join the Eighth Route Army?" ”

With such rich weapons and equipment in the Eighth Route Army, Wang Zonglin was naturally drooling.

"That's not going to work." Zhong Yunhe shook his head, "The Eighth Route Army does not accept puppet troops, but we officers who have committed crimes can make meritorious contributions, and the division commanders are at this time, so what do they do, life matters." ”

Wang Zonglin asked, "Can the Eighth Route Army really let our brothers live?" ”

In the past few years, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the puppet army followed the devils into the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil.

Wang Zonglin didn't believe that the Eighth Route Army could really let these puppet soldiers live.

Zhong Yunhe turned around and brought in a soldier wearing a puppet army uniform, this pretending to be a soldier was none other than Duan Peng, the leader of the sword squadron.

Duan Peng said that as long as Wang Zonglin and the 2nd Division under his command can make meritorious contributions, they can be exempted from death, but after the matter is completed, they will enter the labor camp of the Eighth Route Army for reform.

If you resist to the end, there is only one way out.

Knowing that the person in front of him was the squadron leader of the Sword Squadron, Wang Zonglin no longer had any doubts.

The name of the new group of swords, Wang Zonglin is like thunder.

More than a year ago, the Sword Squadron infiltrated into Taiyuan, and after killing dozens of pilots of the First Army, it drove the devil tank out of Taiyuan, and by the way, it blew up the devil's airfield halfway, and every devil and puppet army in Taiyuan knew it.

On that occasion, a new squadron of swords became famous.

The sword squadron leader in front of him took his Wang Zonglin's head, which was as easy as a snap.

At that moment, Wang Zonglin expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, and attack Taiyuan.

There are still more than 1,000 devils in Taiyuan City, and the 1st Division is all tied together, and they are not the opponents of these devils.

The target of the sword squadron and the first battalion and one company is not the devils in Taiyuan City, but the ammunition warehouses and grain depots in Taiyuan City.

Before the start of the war, the devils hoarded war materials and food for more than two months in the arms warehouses and grain depots in Taiyuan.

It has only been more than half a month since the fighting, and a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food are hoarded in the warehouse.

Before leaving, the headquarters of the First Army gave the devil a death order, and when the city was broken, it immediately blew up the arsenal and burned the grain depot.

Taking advantage of the night, the sword squadron disguised as a puppet army went straight to the arsenal, and a company of soldiers dressed as a puppet army went straight to the grain depot under the leadership of a company commander. (End of chapter)