Yoshio Iwamatsu was confused, but Wang Ye was very clear-headed, capturing the thief and capturing the king!

As soon as they came down from the attic, before even the troops had completed their assembly, Wang Ye and Sun Desheng immediately divided the troops and rushed towards their respective targets.

Wang Ye led the Wolf Warrior Squadron and a Strengthening Company, with the goal of controlling Houzaimen, and at the same time, he carried out a beheading battle against the Japanese First Army Command in Shanxi, destroying the First Army's command system.

Sun Desheng led the other two strengthening companies, with the goal of controlling Gongjimen.

This is a cruel war, you never know what will happen on the battlefield.

Wang Ye almost calculated everything, and the Japanese army's reaction was almost exactly the same as his expectations, but he never expected that Yoshio Iwamatsu would actually take Masashi Kaya and a group of senior officers from the headquarters to the head of Gongjimen. So at this moment, Wang Ye didn't know that Yoshio Iwamatsu was not in the headquarters.

Wang Ye also did not expect that Yoshio Iwamatsu brought a guard infantry squadron.

According to Wang Ye's estimate, after discovering that the main force of the Eighth Route Army has returned, the Japanese army will most likely deploy its main force on the outer city walls, and all defenses are set outside. Once it is attacked from the city, the situation will become extremely passive, and the forces in the city will be extremely empty, so the Wolf Warrior Squadron will likely easily complete the beheading of the Japanese First Army Command in Shanxi...

However, after the battle began, Wang Ye found that the situation was not the case at all.

Wang Ye only expected that half of the time, the Japanese army's defense in the inner city of Taiyuan was indeed empty. When Wang Ye led the Wolf Warrior Squadron and the Third Battalion Company to attack Houzaimen, he found that Houzaimen had only a dozen Japanese and only one infantry squadron.

Before the Third Battalion's First Company took action, the sniper team of the Wolf Warrior Squadron had already killed the Japanese detachment, and the Type 96 light machine gun set behind the ring barricade failed to even open fire.

Without any effort, the Third Battalion and One Company seized the Houzai Gate of Taiyuan inner city.

"Company Commander Zhang! Leave a reinforced platoon to guard the rear slaughter gate!" Wang Ye said to Zhang Qi, the company commander of the third battalion, the first company of the third battalion, "Remember, this reinforced platoon must be nailed to the rear slaughter gate as firmly as a nail until the main force enters the inner city!"

"Yes!" Zhang Qi sternly said, "Headed to the Houzai Gate like a nail until the main force enters the city."

Wang Ye waved the shell gun in his hand again and said sternly: "Everyone else is following me."

"Yes!" Wei Dayong and other team members followed Wang Ye and rushed forward quickly.

...

On the other side, Sun Desheng was in trouble.

At the beginning, it was actually quite smooth. Two reinforcement companies lurking separately, more than 30 squads, most of the troops quickly completed the assembly and followed Sun Desheng to the north.

According to Wang Ye's idea, most of the Japanese troops in the city were in the outer city walls at this time, and the defense in the city should be very empty. Moreover, the defense of the Japanese army was set outside. It was difficult to respond in time in the face of sudden attacks from the city. Therefore, the two reinforced companies of Sun Desheng could easily reach Gongjimen and occupy the city wall fortifications.

However, after only rushing forward for more than 500 meters, and was still 400 meters away from Gongji Gate, he was blocked.

The Japanese army set up at least six Type 96 light machine guns on the roofs of the houses on both sides of the street in front. The dense cross-fire power locked the entire street, and the soldiers who rushed to the front caught off guard and fell into a pool of blood.

Fortunately, Sun Desheng reacted quickly, and he hid on the side of the street, and the soldiers following him were also hidden.

"Battery Commander!" a soldier said loudly, "Didn't you say there are no Japanese in the city? Where did this group of Japanese come from?"

"Damn, ask me? Who the hell do I ask?" Sun Desheng cursed with a dark face, and then said, "Second Company, go round by the Baoen Temple on the left and attack the wings of the Japanese."

However, as soon as the words were finished, a voice came over.

"Captain Sun, I can't get through, there are also Japanese devils in Bao'en Temple."

"Damn it, what's going on?" Sun Desheng's brows frowned.

At this time, gunfire and explosions outside Gongji Gate gradually became dense, which means that the main force had attacked outside Gongji Gate again and was fighting fiercely with the Japanese.

"Bail Commander Sun, what should I do?" the second company commander asked with a dark face.

"If we cannot take down the Gongji Gate as soon as possible and open the passage, the main force will suffer huge casualties!"

"Damn it." Sun Desheng felt dry mouth and cold sweat from beans oozing out of his forehead. In the years he was in the army, he had never been under such great pressure.

When he was a cavalry company commander, he had to do one thing, which was to take a company of cavalry and rush hard, and just use a sabre to cut off the heads of the Japanese puppet army.

But now, he has to face a difficult choice.

This was originally the work that the team leader should have done, and no matter how bad it is, it should have been done by Wang Ye, but now he has to do it.

If time is enough, you can also send a communicator to the inner city to ask Wang Ye. However, the military situation is urgent now. When he sends a communicator to the inner city to find Wang Ye, the daylily will be cold.

There is no choice but to make the decision on it yourself.

"Damn Lao Wang, if I fail to complete the task this time, I will never finish it with you!"

Sun Desheng cursed and said, "Transfer my orders and leave a platoon to entangle the Japanese in front. The other platoons immediately follow me to Xiaodongmen and follow me to Xiaodongmen!"

"Let's go, go to Xiaodongmen!"

The soldiers quickly turned.

...

After spending the first few minutes, Yoshio Iwamatsu and Hanaya finally calmed down.

The inner city must not be able to go back, because at this time the Eighth Route Army had seized Houzaimen and entered the inner city. Maybe they had already reached the First Army Command.

So why do you go back to the inner city?

Go back and give heads to the Eighth Route Army?

But leaving or not leaving is a problem.

Takumi Suwon also believes that he should evacuate early, the sooner the better.

"Commander, the inner city of Taiyuan has been lost, and it is unclear how many Eighth Route Army lurking in the outer city are not clear. It is meaningless to continue to stick to it in this situation." After saying this, Takuya Suwara said again, "So my opinion is to concentrate all the troops that can be summoned as soon as possible to break through from the Xiaodongmen direction..."

However, before he finished speaking, dense gunshots suddenly sounded in the direction of Xiaodongmen.

"It's broken, Xiaodongmen can't get out." Takuya Mizuhara said with a dark face.

"Your Excellency Commander, now you can only break through from the direction of Hanximen from the long distance!"

At this time, Jiro Sakuma, Yasushi Inoue, Masao Inamori, etc., no longer dared to refute.

Only Hanagu Masato said: "Mr. Suwon, I just saw it very clearly. There were only seven or eight hundred people lurking in the city, and the troops were divided into two groups, all the way to seize the inner city and capture Gongjimen."

He paused and said, "Don't worry about the Eighth Route Army that went to the inner city, but the Eighth Route Army in front of him only had 400 or 500 people. As long as we gather enough troops as soon as possible, we will have a chance to annihilate the Eighth Route Army first, and then turn around and eat the Eighth Route Army in the inner city."

"Time." Takuya Suwabata shook his head, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, we have no time."

"No, we have time." Hanaya Masato, "With Noda brigade and Matsumoto brigade guarding the outer city wall, even if the main force of the Eighth Route Army attacks with all its might, he will not be able to break through the defense line within two hours."

He paused and said, "But with these precious two hours, it is enough for us to mobilize troops to eat the Eighth Route Army lurking in the city. This way, the situation in Taiyuan is still possible."

To put it bluntly, Hua Gu was unwilling to give up Taiyuan just like that.

"Commander, make a decision quickly." Takumi Mizuhara didn't argue with Masato Hana, and his eyes turned to Yoshio Iwamatsu. Whether to give up Taiyuan, the decision could only be made by Yoshio Iwamatsu, the commander.

Yoshio Iwamatsu suddenly fell into a huge struggle, but on the one hand, he was really unwilling to give up.

Taiyuan is the headquarters of the First Army. It not only concerns the appearance of the First Army, but also hoards a large amount of supplies. Once he is forced to give up Taiyuan, he will be the last one.

But on the other hand, if Taiyuan is not given up, it may be completely wiped out.

Once the First Army Command is completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, the loss will be even heavier than losing Taiyuan. In addition to personnel losses, the military and political impact will be immeasurable. This will definitely cause fatal damage to the confidence and morale of the entire Japanese invaders, and in turn will greatly encourage the confidence and morale of the Chinese army.

This can be seen as long as you are not a political idiot, and Yoshio Iwamatsu is also very clear about it.

Seeing that Yoshio Iwamatsu was still hesitating, Takumi Mizuhara was anxious and stomped his feet and said, "Commander, you must make a decision as soon as possible!"

Yoshio Iwamatsu was still a little unwilling to accept it.

After swallowing his saliva, Yoshio Iwanmatsu said, "Muwahara, do you really have no chance?"

Takuya Suwahara could only analyze one by one, "Commander, you should be very clear that after the cruel street battles in the past day and night, the Imperial Army had suffered more than a thousand casualties."

"There are less than three thousand imperial troops in Taiyuan City."

"Among them, Noda Brigade and Matsumoto Brigade have about two thousand people, and they still maintain a complete system, but at this moment, these two infantry brigades are scattered on various fortifications in the outer city."

"There are eight squadrons in two brigades, and one squadron guards the city gate."

"At this time, these eight infantry squadrons must have been entangled by the main force of the Eighth Route Army and could not be withdrawn at all."

"That means that the commander can mobilize a total of less than a thousand troops at this time, and the most elite guard squadron is here."

"There are about seven hundred remaining imperial troops."

"Three hundred of them are military police, and I have ordered them to gather here."

"But the combat effectiveness of the military police is obviously not enough to compare with the infantry, and the commander should be clear about this."

"The last four hundred people left are the commanders, staff members and medical staff of the headquarters. And at this moment, these personnel are probably almost wiped out by the Eighth Route Army that broke into the inner city just now."

After pausing, Takuya Mizuhara said again: "So, does the Commander think there is still a chance to turn the tables? Can you still count on the thousands of remnants of the Seventh Division of the Imperial Army?"

After listening to Takuya Su's analysis, Yoshio Iwamatsu's face collapsed.

Not only Yoshio Iwamatsu, Masao Hanaya, Yasushi Inoue, Jiro Sakuma and others' faces also collapsed, and they had no chance at all.

"Damn it!" Yoshio Iwamatsu finally made a decision.

He paused and said, "Order, break through immediately from the direction of Hanximen."

...

Taiyuan inner city.

Wang Ye was leading the Third Battalion's First Company and the Wolf Warrior Squadron, and was rushing forward along Houzaimen Street.

The inner city of Taiyuan was even more empty than Wang Ye expected. He rushed into the inner city from Houzaimen to the old city hall, which was the headquarters of the Japanese army stationed in Shanxi, and had never suffered resistance.

Obviously, the Japanese army had transferred most of the troops to guard the outer city walls.
To be continued...