Chapter 99: The City of Taiyuan is Broken
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Pingyao.
The command center of the First Infantry Brigade, the major general brigade commander of the Japanese devils was holding a telescope and watching the battlefield one or two thousand meters away.
The battle has been going on for so long, and the Japanese have not taken advantage of it. The frontier positions have changed hands repeatedly, and the offense and defense are extremely fierce, and both sides are red in their eyes.
Just as the Japanese brigade commander was holding a telescope and carefully observing the situation of the frontline positions, the Japanese brigade chief of staff hurriedly ran over and shouted loudly a few meters away: "Brigade commander, Taiyuan is urgently telegrammed, Commander Yoshio Kozuka ordered our troops to return to Taiyuan quickly."
The commander of the Japanese Brigade took the telegram several times with disbelief, and then said to the Japanese Chief of Staff with helplessness: "Order the troops to assemble and march back to Taiyuan."
Opposite, the Jinsui Army Command.
Several senior officers from the Jinsui Army sat at the big table at the command center, looking at the map on the table, frowning. The battle lasted for so long, and the troops suffered several thousand casualties, but they still did not break through the Japanese defense line.
Although the little ghost was a little smaller, he relied on his excellent weapons and well-trained skills to compete with nearly 30,000 Jinsui Army. The battle was deadlocked for a while. Several senior officers of the Jinsui Army discussed it several times, but did not come up with a good combat plan.
At this moment, a regiment commander of the Jinsui Army ran into the command center excitedly without even shouting a report. As soon as he entered the command center, he shouted happily: "Military seat, division seat, the Japanese opposite has retreated."
"Oh", several senior officers from the Shanxi Sui Army walked out of the command center with disbelief and came to the front of the command center. They picked up their telescopes and looked at the Japanese positions opposite.
I saw that the Japanese on the opposite side were fighting and retreating. Further away, some Japanese were packing up tents, ammunition and other supplies. Some cars had started, and some Japanese climbed onto the cars one after another. A few cars had already driven north along the road. The Japanese who had not had time to climb onto the cars also ran and followed the cars and headed north.
On the frontier battlefield, when the Japanese retreated, they didn't even have time to take away their corpses. The corpses, guns and ammunition were scattered all over the ground in chaos.
"Haha, the Japanese have really retreated." A senior officer of the Shanxi Sui Army laughed happily.
Contrary to the joy of the Jinsui Army, the Japanese brigade commander sat in the car with a depressed and unwilling look on his face. Today's battle can be said to be the most failed battle for the Japanese brigade commander. This time, not only did he not break through the defense line of the Jinsui Army, but the troops suffered more than 5,000 casualties.
Although the casualties of the Jinsui Army may be more than 5,000, as pride and arrogant, as Japanese devils, seeing that the casualties of the Chinese team were comparable to their own troops, they thought it was a defeat.
Taiyuan, the Eighth Route Army position.
The shelling has been ongoing for almost two hours. The strong Taiyuan city wall has already appeared one by one, dozens of meters long. These gaps are caused by the collapse of the city wall after the shelling.
Looking at the sky, it was getting late and the sun was about to set. Zhang Yunfei began to command his troops to approach Taiyuan City. As the vanguard, an infantry regiment of the 136th Division and an infantry regiment of the 129th Division, he stood up and approached Taiyuan City.
The remaining Japanese devils on the city wall saw that the Eighth Route Army was approaching, so they raised their guns and leaned against the broken city wall, and were condescending to shoot the attacking Eighth Route Army.
This time, Chu Tianming, deputy brigade commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, led the team to attack. Under the leadership of the brigade commander Chu, everyone lined up in combat formations and approached the Japanese.
When the soldiers were two or three hundred meters away from the city wall, the Japanese on the city wall began to fire, and several soldiers who could not dodge were immediately shot and died.
"Lying down, fighting back." Chu Tianming shouted. After shouting, he immediately lay down skillfully, then picked up the AK-47 rifle in his hand and shot at a machine gun point on the wall. It may be that he was using the AK-47 rifle for the first time, and his head was a bit deviated. The Japanese machine gunner was just shot on the shoulder.
The Japanese on the city wall also found Chu Tianming lying on the ground and shooting. They immediately turned the gun head and fired at Chu Tianming. Chu Tianming on the ground also responded quickly. Seeing the Japanese's gun's gun pointing at him, they immediately rolled on the spot. The Japanese machine gun bullets were a meter or two away, stirring up a piece of dust.
Avoiding the Japanese's shooting, Chu Tianming immediately picked up the AK-47 rifle in his hand and shot it at the Japanese's machine gun. This time, several bullets hit the Japanese's machine gunner. The Japanese machine gunner immediately paused, vomiting blood and foaming at the mouth, and his whole body fell from the high city wall like a broken burlap bag.
After solving the machine gun point of the Japanese devil, Chu Tianming began to look for the next target. After all, he graduated from Huangpu. His military qualities are really not a pity. In just a few minutes, several Japanese devils were eliminated.
The battle of siege was going on fiercely, and the Japanese were condescending, causing a lot of casualties to the attacking Eighth Route Army. If they continue to fight like this, it would be a loss.
"Mortars, mortars, concentrate all the mortars for me and blast the Japanese on the city walls hard." Chu Tianming shouted loudly.
Immediately, several soldiers around him began to set up mortars. Under the skillful operation of the soldiers, four 60 mm cannons were set up after running for a while.
"Fire the gun", several shells fell accurately on the city wall. Several Japanese machine gun points were blown away from blood and flesh. The bodies of several Japanese Japanese were lifted off the high city wall by the explosion.
Seeing that the mortars worked, the other soldiers also set up mortars. In less than a few minutes, two or thirty sixty-mm mortars were all set up. One round of shells flew to the city hundreds of meters away, making explosions.
Zhang Yunfei, who was watching the battle from a distance, applauded repeatedly when he saw this scene. Unexpectedly, Chu Tianming's battlefield command ability was really good, and he immediately destroyed the Japanese's firepower.
"Comrades, hurry up."
Hundreds and thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers climbed up from the ground one after another. With the cover of the firepower of the mortars, the soldiers rushed towards the gap in the city wall while shooting.
The remaining Japanese soldiers on the city wall set up guns to shoot at the charge of the Eighth Route Army regardless of the bombing of the mortars. However, the number of people in the Eighth Route Army was too large, and the only few machine guns of the Japanese were not effective at all.
Some machine guns were even taken care of by the soldiers' ten AK-47 rifles, and their firepower suddenly became weaker.
When Zhang Yunfei saw that the soldiers finally broke through the city wall and rushed into the city, he felt much better. He was worried that the siege would take one or two days, but so far, it only took a few hours before the soldiers rushed into the city.
It seems that the weapons are excellent and they have a great advantage in combat. If there are no heavy artillery and so many automatic rifles, it would be difficult to break through the city defense of Taiyuan City.
Now that the city wall has been broken, it will not take long for a large number of soldiers to rush into the city, and the next step is a cruel street battle.
Chapter completed!