The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Faced with the crisis of being completely besieged, Yoshio Iwamatsu couldn't sit still. He personally called Okamura and said in the phone call: "Your Excellency Commander, you can look at the photos of the pilot's high-altitude reconnaissance, and look at the Eighth Route Army outside the city. The forward fortifications dug to the outer city of Taiyuan, and listening to the sound of the artillery, the artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army have even landed on my headquarters, and my city defense headquarters in the city center is almost becoming the front line.

Especially the heavy artillery unit deployed by the Eighth Route Army on the high ground in the west of the city. The range of their heavy artillery even covered more than half of the urban area.

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

The enemy army is coming fiercely, and the momentum of attack is getting more and more radical day by day.

Your Excellency the General, do you think that even so, it was just a feint from the Eight Routes? "

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

He has never given up on the situation around Taiyuan City. The crisis of the First Army Command is indeed as urgent as Yoshio Iwamatsu said.

The trend of all this is also indisputable.

If the Eighth Route Army were determined to attack Taiyuan City, it might not be impossible.

At this time, in the west of Mengxi, the Eighth Route Army's Daqingshan Troop, the Yanbei Detachment, and the North Advance Detachment were confronting the 35th Route Army, the Japanese army that had been stationed in the west of Mengxi, and the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army. Send out more troops.

Not to mention the Taihang area. Around the Iron Triangle area, the battles in the Huangyadong area are a mess.

It wasn't until this moment 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 western Mengxi, the Eighth Route Army military station in the Jizhong Military Region...

If things go on like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it. Even the original plan to clean up the May [-]st and destroy the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region may come to naught.

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

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

The crisis in Taiyuan City, the home of the First Army, cannot be ignored.

Okamura could only bite the bullet and mobilize 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 was formulated to reinforce Taiyuan City and at the same time unite with the defensive forces of the First Army of Taiyuan City, attack from north to south, and destroy the Eighth Route Army that was besieging Taiyuan City in one fell swoop.

Follow the orders of the old devil Okamura.

The reinforcements that the Japanese army marched northward along the Tongpu Line were the Harada Division and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade. Then they came to the Nanguan outside Taiyuan city.

At the same time, the Linfen defenders dispatched a brigade to join them, and the Yuncheng Zhongtiaoshan defense line dispatched a division to reinforce.

The reinforcements of the Japanese army came with great momentum this time. Over the past 42 years, the devils’ offensive is still at a relatively high momentum, especially in the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields. The Japanese army can be said to be victorious. The country is screaming.

Under such circumstances, Okamura served as the supreme commander of the North China Front Army.

Naturally, it is impossible for him to make any embarrassing results when the situation in other battlefields is good, but he is in the rear of North China, which should be the easiest battlefield.

Therefore, even if he tried his best, he still had to achieve the expected effect of this North China operation and display the military might of the Great Japanese Empire.

In order to achieve this effect, the old devil Okamura specially electrified Lieutenant General Harada to increase political propaganda while he was fighting.

Harada invited all the reporters from the devil's Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun to conduct field interviews.

When being interviewed, Harada said proudly: "Our imperial army has been clearing out the Eighth Route Army in the valley.

It's just that the Eighth Route Army is so cunning that they dare not fight our imperial army head-on.

Now that the Eighth Route Army came out of the valley by itself, they dared to besiege Taiyuan City without knowing their lives. What is this like?It's like a duck wading itself to the chopping block, waiting for you to slaughter it, it's a godsend.

In this campaign, our Harada Division, with the assistance of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, will defeat the siege troops of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

At the same time, our army will go south with the Iinuma Guard detachment from the north of the city (the 26th Division of Datong came out in full force, and the Iinuma Guard Division can only send one brigade, temporarily attached to the two left-behind troops of the First Army), They cooperated to form a huge encirclement circle and wiped out the effective forces of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

Completely change the battlefield situation in Shanxi! "

The ghost reporters were all excited to hear it, and one by one they opened their mouths, shouting long live the empire.

Harada then invited the reporter to follow his headquarters, watching the trucks, armored vehicles, tanks, cavalry, and infantry of the Imperial Army's mobile troops marching mightily towards the besieging troops of the Eighth Route Army.

That's really heroic and arrogant!
When they arrived at the front line, at the invitation of Harada, these reporters went to the front-line headquarters to watch the offensive launched by the elite Japanese troops.

After several waves of air strikes, the deployed Harada Division, with tanks covering the infantry, marched towards the Eighth Route Army's blocking position under the barrage of artillery.

Harada also introduced his specially created Okita Death Squad to reporters with great interest.

Harada said triumphantly, "Reporters, these are our division's most elite lieutenants, sergeants, and warriors voluntarily formed a death squad. When they enter the battlefield at a critical moment, they will cut butter like hot knives. Easily tear through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army, and completely wipe out these Eighth Route Army, leaving no one behind.

And the facts seem to be as Harada said, this arrogant old devil does have a few tricks. Under his command, the main force of the Harada Division launched a fierce and sharp offensive. Three lines of defense.

This time, Harada was even more proud. All the last doubts and apprehensions in his heart were eliminated. He even sneered in his heart that the so-called Tuba Road in Shanxi was nothing more than that.

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

His Excellency Yoshio Iwamatsu's army was too weak. Just like this, the mere Eighth Route Army troops were able to besiege his Taiyuan City. I really don't know how he commanded this battle.

Poor old devil is stupid and blind.

In fact, the 120th Division troops built five lines of defense in one go along the way the Japanese army reinforced Taiyuan City.

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

As for the first four lines of defense, all of them are used to consume time.

Slowing down the pace of the Japanese army's reinforcements, and at the same time showing the enemy a little weakness, is to let the little devil play his inflated heart to the extreme under the overwhelming attack.

When the devils took it lightly, the army was full of energy, then declined again, and when it was exhausted three times.

The elite troops of the Eighth Route Army of the 120th Division will let the little devil deeply experience what is called a blood lesson on the last line of defense.

"Cao GUI's argument, our ancients have wisdom thousands of years ago, this time we will teach the little devil a lesson!"

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

"Gather all the artillery in our military region and put it into the last line of defense. Don't leave any money behind. At worst, this year will be over. We must not let the little devil have a good time!"

At this time, the reinforcements of the Japanese army continued to gather forces in the overwhelming situation.

As the Linfen reinforcements arrived at the front line and joined the Harada Division, the devil's soldiers peaked at their peak.

The old devil, Lieutenant General Harada, listened to the report of his subordinates in a state of melancholy and smugness, and his mouth was almost crooked when he was commanded by himself as the supreme military commander.

Ok!

According to the strength of the joint army commanded by Harada this time, he is almost catching up with the Commander of the First Army.

At this time, the good news ahead came again.

"Your Excellency, division commander, our vanguard troops have once again broken through the fourth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army is currently fleeing towards the fifth line of defense!"

"Yangxi!"

Harada was immediately overjoyed. He called the reporters together and announced loudly:

"After dawn tomorrow, I will launch a full-scale attack. Gentlemen, I think that tomorrow morning, no later than ten o'clock at the latest, I can invite everyone to have tea in Taiyuan City, and at the same time share our army's victory over the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The joy of victory!"

At this point, Harada, who did not take the Eighth Route Army seriously at all, issued an order to concentrate his forces to advance to the Eighth Route Army's fifth blocking line of defense outside Taiyuan City.

It was getting late at this time, and the Japanese army temporarily set up camp outside the fifth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army.

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

Until then, the 120th Division headquarters finally issued an order to launch a full-scale counteroffensive.

Shi Potian was shocked.

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

All were thrown into the battlefield, and a full-scale counterattack was launched at night.

After the battle started.

Cannon fire blares.

The sky was full of splendor, and a large number of artillery shells dragging their smoke tails across the air, almost illuminating the night sky as if it were day, and smashed down towards the camp where the Japanese coalition army was located.

This scene came so suddenly that the Japanese army probably never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army had almost no power to fight back when their own troops were the most powerful, and they could only retreat steadily.

These damn Eight Routes dared to launch such a large-scale counterattack.

The raging artillery fire almost shook the world.

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

At this time, the Japanese and puppet troops, after days of fighting and trekking all the way, were exhausted, resting in the camp, some cooking together, and some sleeping and resting.

The decisive battle began suddenly.

All of a sudden, the powerful artillery fire from the main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army completely caught the little devil by surprise.

The explosion caused chaos in the Japanese joint military camp.

This time, the quality of the Japanese Allied Forces, which is dominated by the Harada Division, is actually uneven. There are relatively elite field divisions like the Harada Division, and there are also some security forces that can only be regarded as second-rate combat effectiveness. .

Under the fierce artillery raid, the Japanese army directly bombed the battalion.

For a whole night, the coalition forces fled in all directions, not to mention counterattacking, and they dared not even return to the camp.

With the coalition army completely disintegrated, even though the morale of the Harada Division was elite, it was inevitably affected. In addition, under the shroud of night, the Eighth Route Army was almost shouting and killing in all directions.

In addition, one after another small units of the Eighth Route Army had infiltrated into the Japanese camp without knowing when, and even took the opportunity to blow up some of the devil's luggage and artillery.

The entire camp was full of flames, and soon became one.

Harada's whole mind was buzzing, the original momentum was like a broken bamboo, shattered, as if victory was just around the corner.

Who would have known that the situation would undergo such an exaggerated reversal in the blink of an eye.

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

The battle continued until the next day, when the sky was completely brightened, and the coalition army that had been assembled by the Japanese army to reinforce Taiyuan City was beaten to pieces.

Outside the fifth line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, within a few kilometers, the corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers scattered on the roadside could even pile up into mountains.

Also at the same time.

The secret combat unit specially built by the 120th Division successfully attacked the Japanese Mingbao Airport with the cooperation of the Mobile Artillery Unit.

Coupled with the general offensive launched by the Niu Daoman Group and the Sixth Division of Guancun, Taiyuan has received less and less air reinforcements. After all, there are basically no airports in Shanxi, and the flight teams have to be transferred from North China or East China. Used in the main attack direction.

After dawn the next day, the old devil Harada, who was planning to attack the Eighth Route Army again with the help of aerial firepower reinforcements in an attempt to save face, could only look at the ocean and sigh.

the other side.

In Taiyuan City, the Japanese Army was stationed at the Shanxi First Army Headquarters.

Originally, yesterday, I heard that under the order of His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Okamura, a large number of troops had gathered outside Taiyuan City.

Yan Song was so happy!The crisis in Taiyuan was finally resolved.

At night, Yan Song, who hadn't 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 fighting from outside the city.

The news came in haste.

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

In this regard, Yansong originally hoped that the Eight Routes would kill themselves, and maybe they would be wiped out by the coalition forces.

As a result, it was known at dawn that the United Army was completely collapsed by the Eighth Route Army in the night battle, and it is currently fleeing and evacuating.

Yan Song was dumbfounded.

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

What Okamura said about standing still and waiting for help, about attacking from the north and the south, and destroying the Eighth Route Army's besieging troops are all fucking lies...