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    On the Japanese side, within just a few minutes, they shot down six anti-Union aircraft in a row. Their morale obviously rose sharply. They even ignored Yang Jicai's counterattack and had tanks to cover it, and started a confrontation with the counterattack troops, putting on a display.  The deputy made great efforts to penetrate directly into the city of Taiyuan and cut off the Tongpu Railway.

    Although all six trains of trucks carrying equipment were parked in the north of Taiyuan City, and the Japanese army in the east of the city could not observe it, after Yang Jicai gave up the front-line position in Xishan, the Japanese army had clearly understood that once the battle was lost, the Anti-Alliance's retreat route could only be  To the north.

    Affected by the war situation in Hexi, the appetite of the 32nd Division has obviously increased at this time. It has made it clear that it will eat up all the Anti-Union and 18th Army troops around Taiyuan City. Its follow-up troops will brave the resistance of the Anti-Union.  Artillery fire, regardless of the number of casualties, desperately reinforced the scissor bay.

    It is actually not difficult to understand that the Thirty-second Division was so desperate. After learning that the First Army headquarters was trapped in Taiyuan City, the furious headquarters ordered Okamura Neiji to either rescue the First Army or rescue the First Army.  Either he, Okamura Neiji, packs his bags and gets out of his position as commander of the North China Front.

    Okamura Neiji, who originally wanted to take advantage of the strong fortifications in Taiyuan City and take advantage of the fact that most of the Shanxi Communist Army was concentrated inside and outside Taiyuan City, mobilize troops to deal with the Communist Army here first, could only change his tactics and change the original situation.  The combat policy of steady advancement and encirclement on all sides urged the 32nd Division to rescue the commander of the First Army from the sea of ????fire at all costs.

    As the most complete division currently on the battlefield in Shanxi, Lieutenant General Tetsuzo Ide has been under tremendous pressure since the division entered Shanxi. Telegrams urging development from the North China Front Army and the First Army were sent almost every hour.  Lieutenant General Tetsuzo Ide, who was forced to go to his room, had no choice but to push down when the Shotai Railway was completely blocked and could not go to the front line to personally command. When his superiors urged him, he forced Major General Yasuada Ishida.  .

    Major General Ishida Yasutada, commander of the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, has received an order from the division commander, Lieutenant General Tetsuzo Ide, to break through the outskirts of Taiyuan within 24 hours at all costs.  The defense line entered Taiyuan City and rescued the First Army Headquarters from the dire siege.

    Major General Ishida Yasutada, who was forced to smoke by Lieutenant General Ide Tetsuzo, had no choice but to make a dangerous move. He ignored the troops of the Southern Hebei Military Region and the Taihang Military Region behind him who had cut off his supply line.  Before the Yaotou front line is captured, a brigade of troops will be mobilized and all artillery cover will be strengthened to forcibly penetrate the Jianziwan front line.

    After the success of the adventure, and after discovering the true situation of the empty communist troops around Taiyuan City, Major General Ishida Yasutada still dared to hesitate and put two of the 210 Regiment of Colonel Renhua Toyoyoshi behind to block the troops of the Southern Hebei Military Region.  The entire brigade was mobilized back and prepared to join the front line at Shear Bay.

    Strive to rush directly to Taiyuan City, cut off the retreat route and communication of the communist army in the south of Taiyuan City, and rescue the Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadaichi who has been complaining all day long from the dire straits, and save the division commander who is in charge of harvesting deer.  , was driven crazy by the commander of the North China Front Army.

    Looking at the telescope, the follow-up Japanese troops desperately reinforced Shearer Bay regardless of artillery fire interception, while his own troops on the front line fell into a bitter battle as soon as the counterattack started. Yang Jicai frowned, and the Japanese troops in the east of the city had now opened up.  The desperate posture, but the troops at hand.

    Although an artillery company has been concentrated to implement fire interception at all costs, coupled with fire support from the flanks of Niutuozhai, it is difficult to completely prevent the Japanese reinforcements. The troops launching a counterattack from the front fell into a bitter battle, and the two companies on the flanks made little progress.  Unusually slow.

    At the same time, the Japanese offensive became more and more fierce on the two wings of Niutuo Village and Naoma. More than half of the outer positions of Niutuo Village had been lost. A Japanese squadron had reached a distance of 500 meters in front of the core position of Niutuo Village. In the end,  The defenders, who had already mobilized some reserves, were no longer able to counterattack this Japanese army.

    Facing the increasingly unfavorable situation, Yang Jicai gritted his teeth and directly called the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth Division who was commanding at Niutuo Village, asking him to immediately abandon Niutuo Village and organize troops to move along the ridge.  To block the attack, the limited troops cannot be consumed entirely on Niutuo Village.

    After receiving a call from Yang Jicai, the commander of the fourth Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei division, who actually knew that there was no need to defend Niutuo Village at the moment, did not hesitate at all. After blowing up all the fortification groups, he organized troops to alternate cover and moved along the mountain ridge.  Pursuing the Japanese troops behind them layer by layer, their ultimate goal was the line of Crouching Tiger Mountain in the northeast corner of Taiyuan City.

    At the same time, Yang Jicai also began to shrink his troops in the direction of Naoma, organizing troops to cover alternately, gradually shrinking towards the Haojiagou line. On the southern front, he abandoned the Shuangta Temple and the Lao Laoba camp, and withdrew all troops to Taiyuan Nanguan.  Yang Jicai this isThey are ready to sell iron, shrink all their forces to the last line of defense around Taiyuan City, and have begun to prepare for the worst.

    As the entire line began to shrink its troops, Yang Jicai's counterattack force on the front of Jianzi Bay did not dare to decrease at all. The gains and losses on the Jianzi Bay front line were now not only related to the safety of the Tongpu Railway, but also related to it.  Can the troops on the southern front be withdrawn when necessary?

    Jianziwan, a small village between the Taiyuan Basin and Dongshan, is not very large in terms of population or size. At this time, it does not know that it has become the focus of the entire Taiyuan battlefield and even the Shanxi battlefield because of its location.  .

    Although the troops invested by both sides were only at the battalion level, this battalion-level battle was related to the life and death of both sides. Under the cover of tanks, the counterattack troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance broke into the scissors in the first wave of the offensive.  In Wan Village, due to insufficient follow-up troop investment, the opened breakthrough was quickly blocked by the Japanese troops on both wings, and resistance could only be organized on the spot.

    One of the three tanks that cooperated in the battle was destroyed at the entrance of the village. The remaining two tanks followed Yang Jicai's order and did not break out alone. Instead, they stayed in the village to cooperate with the encircled troops and persisted in the village with their own firepower.  A platoon in the village created a havoc in the village.

    The company commander commanded the troops and fought bravely in the village. With the back road cut off, those who refused to advance and retreated instead used their own superiority in individual firepower to fight against the Japanese army under the cover of two tanks.  An offensive battle broke out and the Japanese defense system in the village was thrown into chaos.

    The company commander's actions in the village attracted most of the Japanese troops and launched an uninterrupted siege. However, facing such a favorable situation, Yang Jicai was unable to mobilize his troops to use fighter planes to retake the front line of Shear Bay in one go.  He can no longer mobilize even a platoon of troops.

    However, although the troops on the ground were already stretched thin, Yang Jicai took advantage of the artillery firepower. The two temporarily modified long-range howitzers, after determining the approximate location of the Japanese heavy artillery position, fired several rapid fire  Going down, the two 105 howitzers of the Japanese army quickly died out.

    It's just that under the high-intensity firing of these two artillery guns, the gun mounts, which were not of very good quality, were shaken to pieces and turned into a pile of useless scrap metal. The only good thing is that the gun mounts fell apart.  , but the barrel is not too damaged. It can be used reluctantly after being installed back on its own gun mount.

    But even if the two 105 heavy artillery pieces are suppressed, it does not mean that the current tense situation can be fundamentally relieved. It only reduces the threats to other directions. On the contrary, after destroying the two howitzers, the Japanese army will  More artillery fire was diverted to the front line of Shear Bay. Only the field artillery, according to Yang Jicai's judgment, invested two squadrons.

    The mountain artillery battery that suppressed the depth of the Japanese army, under the overwhelming Japanese artillery fire, was simply unable to complete the task assigned by its superiors to suppress the depth of the Japanese army and blockade the Japanese reinforcements. On the contrary, because of its maximum range of six thousand meters, it was unable to complete the task of suppressing the Japanese army in depth.  Heavy losses were suffered during the artillery battle.

    Three of the company's four Type 41 mountain guns were blown up during the artillery battle, and the infantry artillery company, even with the help of mortars on the flanks, was unable to resist the Japanese army's deep artillery fire. All the firepower at this moment,  They all fell on the cannon company of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    This undoubtedly makes the artillery company, which is responsible for most of the fire suppression tasks at this moment, seem a bit in a hurry. However, even though it has an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, the artillery company still relies on its high rate of fire and large range to survive in artillery battles.  Not falling behind, especially the extremely high muzzle velocity, made the Japanese artillery in front of them almost impossible to guard against.

    The entire Jianzi Bay front line was razed to the ground by artillery fire from both sides. However, the artillery fire from both sides obviously avoided one location, the Tongpu Railway. The Japanese artillery that had advanced to the east of Jianzi Bay concentrated its firepower on the east.  The anti-alliance artillery on the city wall used forced fire suppression, but not a single shell fell on the Tongpu Railway.

    Yang Jicai needs to temporarily retain the Tongpu Railway in order to evacuate when necessary. However, the Japanese army does not destroy the Tongpu Railway. It is obvious that they intend to continue to use the Tongpu Railway to transport materials, equipment and personnel northward after this battle is over. Therefore,  The artillery shells on both sides deliberately avoided the Tongpu Railway. Although the target of this railway was so obvious, not a single artillery shell fell on the Tongpu line during this battle.

    Although the Tongpu Railway has never been destroyed, it does not mean that Yang Jicai's pressure has been relieved in the slightest. The advantages of artillery cannot solve the dilemma on the ground. With the counterattack being unable to make progress, knowing the worst  Yang Jicai, who had reached the critical situation, secretly issued an order to Su Yingqi in the south of the city to prepare for evacuation, and contacted the Shanxi-Chahar-HebeiAfter receiving a call from the division commander, arrangements were made for a general retreat.

    In fact, everyone knows at this moment that if the Jianziwan front line cannot be recaptured, not only the Dongshan front line will be difficult to defend, but the entire Taiyuan City will no longer be able to hold it under attack from both inside and outside, not even in the last twenty-four hours.  The question of whether they can persevere is whether the Anti-League and customs forces around Taiyuan City can escape.

    The situation was extremely tense, and all the troops had begun to prepare for the worst. The commander of the Eighth Division in the north of the city, who was responsible for ensuring the troops' final retreat, after receiving the enemy report, secretly told the director of the Political Department of the Eighth Division, who was responsible for the final dismantling, that  Once the front lines of Wohu Mountain, Haojiagou and Jianziwan were broken through by the Japanese army, the dismantling work would be stopped immediately and all dismantled and undisassembled equipment would be blown up.

    The commander and political commissar of the Eighth Division is now ready to really burn the boat. Based on the idea that if I can't get it, you can't get it, if the situation deteriorates sharply and several trains are in danger of being unable to evacuate,  Under the circumstances, he simply ordered that when it was really impossible to carry these behemoths away, all the equipment and the trains were blown up. Not a rivet or a steel plate was left for the Japanese.
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