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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 681 Taiyuan City Destroyed (3)

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    Chapter 681 Taiyuan City is destroyed (3)

    The dim light of dawn penetrated the darkness of the night and descended on the Jinzhong Plain. Zuo Siyu took a deep breath of the crisp air full of gunpowder smoke, pointed the telescope at the original 25th Division position occupied by the Japanese army, and personally trained the Second  It was no longer possible for the 1st Brigade and Regiment to safely evacuate from the Taigu battlefield. They fought fiercely all night with a Japanese regiment that was tentatively attacking, killing and wounding more than a thousand Japanese soldiers and injuring more than 200 of their own brethren. The 1st Regiment did not receive the order.  Under such circumstances, he was responsible for covering the retreat of all Jin troops on the Taigu battlefield.

    If the regiment evacuates at this moment, the Japanese army will chase them to Taiyuan City. Even if a Japanese soldier passes through the defensive position, the news of the Jin army's withdrawal will be known to the Japanese commander Okamura Neiji. Therefore, the regiment's resolute blockade last night  , which actually bought the Taiyuan garrison a precious night of preparation time. Zhao Chengshou's Seventh Army rushed to the outskirts of Taiyuan. However, it was far away and its foothold was not stable. It was attacked by a heavy Japanese army group. Sooner or later, the entire line collapsed.  thing.

    Zuo Siyu didn't know the key role his decision played on the entire battlefield. Looking around, all friendly forces had evacuated, leaving only a single group of troops surrounded by powerful enemies.  The soldiers all understood the situation they faced. They were bitten by the Japs. The two sides were entangled and couldn't escape. With Taiyuan City behind them, they couldn't retreat.

    Zuo Siyu ordered the second and third battalion commanders to check the troops' ammunition and prepare for the next Japanese attack. The first battalion commander was shot six times in the battle last night. He didn't even have time to say a word. Zuo Siyu watched helplessly.  Looking at him, he breathed his last breath in his arms without even tears. The commander of the first battalion was his biological brother, who was brought to the army by him. How to explain to his old mother?  He didn't dare to think that Zuo Siyu himself had no intention of returning to Taiyuan City alive.

    The sun had just revealed its dawn, a scream broke the silence, and countless artillery shells fell from the sky. "The shelling will be hidden immediately." Zuo Siyu shouted loudly. This time the Japanese army's shelling was more violent than the previous ones. The explosion stirred up countless earth pillars and positions.  Shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the thick soil layer in the hidden part withstood several large-caliber artillery shells. The falling soil covered the map spread out on the shell box. From the scope and fierceness of the Japanese shelling, he  To this extent, it can be judged that the Japanese have not yet discovered that the Jin army has evacuated their positions.

    Such a violent and large-scale bombardment shows the determination of the Japs to break through the position today, and it will not allow the Japs to achieve their goals comfortably. If the regiment delays the Japanese attack for one more hour, Taiyuan will be able to make more preparations, Zuo Siyu  Jade ordered the messenger to convey his order. After the Japanese artillery bombardment stopped, the whole regiment quickly opened the skirmish line and tried to increase the width of the blocking front, creating the illusion that one regiment was trying to exert the momentum of a division.

    Fortunately, the personal training brigade is the direct descendant of Yan Xishan, and its equipment level is far higher than other troops of the Jin army. The proportion of light and heavy machine guns is much higher. After the casualties of most of the troops, the remaining more than 800 people have almost one man per man and sufficient ammunition.  , this was enough for the little devil to drink a pot, and the suffocating bombardment lasted for a full two hours before gradually stopping.

    Okamura Neiji was not very satisfied with the results of the battle in the past few days. According to his plan, the troops would have arrived at Taiyuan City a few days ago. Unexpectedly, it would turn into a stalemate in Taigu. Judging from the experience of Wuxiang  , he almost suspected that he was not facing Yan Xishan's Jin army. The defenders fought extremely tenaciously and fiercely, with powerful firepower. With more than 200,000 troops, they attacked for many days and paid a price of nearly 10,000 people, but they could not tear them apart.  Opening the garrison's position made him very angry. Taiyuan and even Shanxi were not his ultimate goal.

    If he struggled with the defenders in Taigu for too long, it would affect the smooth implementation of the follow-up plan, and the fight in the Jinzhong direction was not smooth. For this reason, he removed the two division commanders from their posts, and removed the two division commanders who were sharp and blunt.  The troops were replaced by new divisions. The order he gave to his subordinates was that the Chinese garrison position in Taigu must be captured before 8 o'clock this morning. Of course, Okamura Neiji provided sufficient artillery support to the attacking troops.

    Groups of Japanese soldiers appeared in the field of vision of a group of soldiers. After several days of non-stop fighting, the soldiers' nerves had become numb. In their eyes, there were only khaki figures running and shouting. It was these figures that took away the  Having lost the lives of his comrades, Zuo Siyu saw in pain that more than a hundred brothers had been killed in the shelling just now, and they would never be able to open their eyes.

    Under the strict orders of Okamura Neiji, the Japanese frontline commander deployed two divisions at the same time. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers launched a crazy group charge towards a front that was only a few kilometers wide. On a position as desolate as a desert  , suddenly burst out like a shower of shooting, tongues of fire, dense bullets, fiercely fired at the Japanese soldiers.

    Like a speeding train, it suddenly hit a cliff, bursting out countless sparks. The momentum of the Japanese army's charge was immediately checked. The Japanese frontline commander could hardly believe his eyes, and continued toAfter a few days, the Chinese army on the opposite side still had such fierce firepower. Is this a Jin army?  Why are they so different from the Jin army in Wuxiang?

    The wave of the first charge of the Japanese army hit the hard rock, shattered into pieces, and retreated like a tide. The corpses of at least several thousand Japanese soldiers were spread out in front of a group of positions, followed by more violent shelling, shelling, and charges.  , was repulsed, and then again, the casualties of the group gradually increased, and the firepower of the counterattack became increasingly thin.

    At about ten o'clock in the morning, there were less than a hundred people in the regiment with minor and serious casualties who could hold a gun. Zuo Siyu understood that the last moment had come.  The crippled brother held off tens of thousands of Japs for more than five hours, leaving thousands of Japs behind. It was worth it. The thick layer of bullet casings under his feet showed the intensity of the battle. Through the smoke-filled battlefield, the Japs¡¯  The figure becomes clearer and clearer.

    Zuo Siyu gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun, watching the little Jaap convulsing and falling under the bullet. He laughed happily, and the violently shaking barrel sent the bullet into the little Jaap's body. A shell fell, and the smoke  As it rose up, orange-red flames exploded, and the body of Zuo Siyu, the colonel of the First Regiment of the Personal Training Brigade, turned into a flying giant and soared into the sky of Sanjin.

    At 11 o'clock, the last burst of gunfire subsided, and the Taigu battlefield, which had been fought for several days, fell silent. Okamura Neiji stepped on the craters everywhere, passed through the corpses, and stared at the battlefield where the smoke had not cleared for a long time.  I couldn't believe it. After searching the entire battlefield, there were only hundreds of corpses of Chinese soldiers. A military flag with half of its corner burned by artillery fire was still planted on the battlefield. "Personally train the second brigade and one regiment," these big words stimulated Gang.  Neji Murura's eyes.

    After several days of fierce fighting and the sacrifice of nearly 10,000 soldiers, Okamura Neiji got the result he wanted, but there was no ecstasy of victory. On a small Taigu battlefield, hundreds of assassins unexpectedly  After holding back tens of thousands of Japanese Imperial Army for one night and half a day, Okamura Neiji had a new evaluation of the Jin army's combat effectiveness, and had a vague premonition that the plan to occupy Shanxi was not as smooth as imagined.

    Zhao Chengshou, the commander of Taiyuan city defense, was busy arranging for the troops to be withdrawn from Taigu and Jinzhong. He and Jinzhong garrison Sun Chu were old acquaintances, and they were impressed by his ability to hold on in Jinzhong for many days and resist more than 80,000 troops with a disadvantageous force.  The Japanese army admired him very much and invited him to be their deputy commander. All the troops were withdrawn, and Zhao Chengshou added more than 30,000 troops.

    The Japanese should have appeared around Taiyuan. Japanese troops were only found in the southeast. The sound of gunfire in the direction of Taigu did not stop all night. Which troops did not withdraw?  Zhao Chengshou ordered to contact the Japanese as soon as possible. When it was nearly noon, the officer who went to contact brought back a message that he personally trained the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade without withdrawing from the position and started a fierce battle with the Japanese army. In the end, the entire regiment, starting from the regimental commander Zuo Siyu,  More than 3,400 people were killed in action.

    Zhao Chengshou understood that the direction of Taigu was the key area for the main force of the Japanese army to attack. Okamura Neiji personally commanded, and Zuo Siyu used a regiment of troops to block the Japanese army overnight and for half a day, covering the smooth retreat of the Taigu garrison. No wonder the Japanese army did not appear in Taiyuan.  The southern part of the country, good job, he doesn't have too much sadness. Next, it's time for him to fight the little devil.

    On May 9, the two Japanese armies met at the foot of Taiyuan City. According to the order of Okamura Neiji, the Japanese army immediately launched an attack on Taiyuan from the south and southeast directions without any respite. The battle to defend Taiyuan officially began.  , that day, Taiyuan's peripheral defense line was fiercely fought across the board. Both sides invested a large number of troops. The battle became fierce as soon as it began. The fierce fighting continued throughout the day, but Taiyuan's peripheral defense line did not lose an inch of ground.

    However, the situation became increasingly unfavorable for the Jin army. The Japanese army besieged Taiyuan with nearly 300,000 troops. The main force of the Taiyuan defenders was Zhao Chengshou's 7th Army. Together with other troops, the number was only about 230,000. The Japanese army  The ferocious artillery fire caused great casualties to the defenders. On the 9th alone, the Jin army suffered more than 13,000 casualties.

    On May 10, the battle became more intense. The Japanese army broke through the Jin army's Taiyuan outer defense line many times. Zhao Chengshou organized a death squad to recapture the lost positions. The two sides fought repeatedly and the corpses were piled up. At night, the Jin army launched a counterattack against the Japanese army and pushed back the front line.  After pushing five kilometers and raising the sun, the Japanese army recaptured it with heavy troops.

    On May 17, after nine days of fierce fighting, all the outer defense lines of Taiyuan were lost, and the defenders withdrew into the city to hold on. The Japanese army then launched a fierce attack on the Taiyuan city defense. In view of the heavy casualties of the troops, and some Japanese troops detoured to the west and north of Taiyuan, it seemed that  There was a tendency to encircle Taiyuan. In order to avoid the fate of being encircled and annihilated, Zhao Chengshou sent a telegram to Yan Xishan to allow the defenders to abandon Taiyuan and move into the northwest region of Shanxi.

    Yan Xishan called back and agreed to Zhao Chengshou's request. The best policy was to preserve his strength. At night, before the Japanese army's encirclement was completely closed, the Taiyuan defenders withdrew from the north gate. Zhao Chengshou and his men bid farewell to Taiyuan, which they had held for nine days, with tears in their eyes.  break through partAfter being intercepted by the encircling troops of the Jin army, they transferred their troops to the northwest area of ??Shanxi and joined Yan Xishan.

    On the morning of May 18, the Japanese army entered Taiyuan City, which had no resistance. The sun flag was raised in the streets and alleys of Taiyuan. The nine-day defense battle of Taiyuan ended and Taiyuan fell.

    (To be continued)
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