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Unlike Zhang Yunfei's relaxed and leisurely, the two or three thousand Japanese huddled in Shanyang County, looking at the Eighth Route Army troops outside, I felt that my doomsday was coming soon and I felt anxious all day long.

Taro Asada hurriedly reported to the 46th Division Division, saying that Shanyang County was surrounded by tens of thousands of well-weaponed Eighth Route Army troops, and the Asada United team was in danger and asked for support from the division.

After receiving a telegram from Taro Asada, the commander of the 46th Division did not dare to be careless and hurriedly reported to the commander of the Japanese First Army of Taiyuan, Kiyoshi Kazuki, and requested tactical guidance.

Taiyuan, the first Japanese army headquarters, Xiangyue Qingsi, who received the telegram, looked solemn, and Shanyang County was actually surrounded by tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army.

This group of Eighth Route Army will not be Zhang Yunfei's troops. If it is really Zhang Yunfei's troops, it will be troublesome. Asada United team will be dangerous, and even the hope of breaking through is slim, Kasuki Kiyoshi thought to himself.

However, the number of the Eighth Route Army is tens of thousands, which does not match the number of Zhang Yunfei's troops. The information provided by the Special High School of the North China Front Army shows that Zhang Yunfei's 136th Division only has about 10,000 people, and it is impossible for tens of thousands to have.

It took only one or two months to expand Zhang Yunfei from more than 10,000 to tens of thousands of people? This speed is too terrifying.

As she thought about it, Xiangyue Qingsi walked around the office uneasyly. After more than ten minutes, Xiangyue Qingsi didn't come up with any clues.

Let’s report the situation to the North China Front Army and let the North China Front Army decide.

A radio wave from Katsuki Kiyoshi made Okamura Yasuji, who had just taken office as the commander of the North China Front Army, exacerbated.

At present, the Wuhan Battle is in full swing, with hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops and millions of them launching a fierce battle on the front thousands of kilometers.

The Japanese army advanced smoothly with aircraft and cannons. At present, the vanguard troops have entered Hubei and Hunan. As the troops have won successive victories, Okamura Yasuji, who had just taken office, was also proud and full of energy.

But looking at the telegram from Kazuki Kiyoshi, Okamura Nishi, who was in a good mood, was in a heavy mood immediately. He walked to the huge map and looked for a long time. Finally, he ordered the 34th Division in Shijiazhuang to rest and recuperate immediately, and immediately gathered along the Zhengtai Road to Taiyuan, and entered Xinkou, and stationed in Xinkou with the 46th Division.

The 34th Division of the Japanese Army was also a Class B Division that had just formed a landing in China for combat this year. It has participated in several small-scale battles and is currently resting in Shijiazhuang.

Okamura Yasuji's strategic intention was very obvious, which was to abandon the vast area north of Xinkou, Shanxi, and send heavy troops to defend the northern division of Xinkou, Taiyuan, to prevent the Eighth Route Army from moving south.

When the Wuhan Battle ended, with enough troops, we went north from Xinkou to attack the Eighth Route Army troops.

Some time ago, Zhang Yunfei's 136th Division, with more than 10,000 people, successively wiped out the Suzuki Brigade and the Fifth Division, making the Japanese army believe that Zhang Yunfei's troops cannot be compared with ordinary ** or Eighth Route Army. The Japanese army even believed that even Chiang Kai-shek's direct Central Army was not as strong as Zhang Yunfei's troops.

Therefore, even if there are two divisions in Xinkou who are heavily guarded, they dare not take the initiative to attack, but instead focus on defense.

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Shanyang County Town

The night had already fallen, and the soldiers camped on the spot. Except for leaving a certain number of soldiers as sentinels, most of the soldiers soon fell asleep.

Zhang Yunfei was also in his tent, dreaming soundly.

Unlike the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese in the city can be said to have not been asleep all night, and most Japanese spent this sleepless night in anxiety and uneasiness.

Early the next morning, when most of the soldiers had just woken up, the positions of the artillery brigade were busy.

Yesterday afternoon, several infantry brigades were busy for a while, and the officers and soldiers of the artillery brigade seemed to be idle. Today, I finally received the order from the division commander early in the morning.

The forty heavy artillery brought by the Artillery Brigade can finally be opened. This morning, the division commander ordered the Artillery Brigade to bombard Shanyang County and several places in Shanyang County, which will become the targets of the Artillery Brigade's artillery bombardment today.

These places are the Japanese military camps, command centers and the city walls of Shanyang County, among which the city walls are the focus of artillery attacks. Zhang Yunfei's request was to have the artillery brigade collapse the city walls, and in the future, the infantry charges.

Zhang Yunfei had no reason to let go of the Asada United team in Shanyang County. At least more than 3,000 Japanese devils, and they were surrounded by their own troops and had become turtles in a jar.

According to Zhang Yunfei's personality, there is no reason to spit out the fat meat in his mouth.

At 6:50 in the morning, not long after dawn, the soldiers of the artillery brigade had already taken their place, and the black muzzle pointed to the county town more than ten kilometers away.

Next to each cannon, there were already thick shells, and the brigade commander could fire the cannon.

Artillery Brigade Commander Wang Daquan looked at his pocket watch. It was seven o'clock in the morning before ten minutes. The soldiers were ready and were waiting for their orders.

Seeing that the time was almost over, Wang Daquan signaled the Artillery Brigade to observe the hot air balloon to take off. The observers on the hot air balloon will observe the effect of the first round of artillery bombing and feedback the shelling situation to the gunners of the artillery brigade. The gunner then corrects the shooting elements according to the situation to improve the shelling effect.

Large caliber howitzers are different from small caliber artillery. Small caliber artillery can observe targets that need to be bombed through the artillery mirror (teleoscope). Because the range of small caliber artillery is generally only a few kilometers, and the targets that need to be bombed can be seen through the artillery mirror. Then, based on the shelling effect observed by the artillery mirror, the firing parameters are corrected.

The range of large-caliber howitzers can reach twenty or thirty kilometers, or even further. The shells fired often need to fly over mountains, hills and buildings, so it is difficult to see the targets twenty or thirty kilometers away through the artillery mirror.

Therefore, the usual practice is to use hot air balloons, and observers ride hot air balloons to rise to a height of several hundred meters. The so-called standing high means seeing far. At a height of several hundred meters, observers can use telescopes to see the situation of targets dozens of kilometers away.

At nearly eight o'clock, the observer feedbacked the situation of the distant target, including the distance tested. The gunners of the artillery brigade corrected the shooting parameters again based on the situation reported by the observer.

In the first round, forty cannons fired at the same time, and the shells flew towards a target more than ten kilometers away with a scream. After a while, the observer reported the results of the shelling.

This shelling basically hit the target, but in order to strike more accurately, the gunners again corrected the shelling parameters based on the feedback from the observers.

After correcting the parameters, Wang Daquan issued an order to shell the Japanese army camp, command center and Shanyang County city wall at the same time.

According to the normal fire rate of each gun, two rounds per minute, nearly a thousand shells will be fired at Shanyang County within ten minutes.
Chapter completed!