At this time, the brigade commander had moved his brigade headquarters to Gulou.

With such a big disturbance in the inner city, it is impossible not to disturb the brigade commander of Gulou.

The brigade commander rushed out of the drum tower immediately and looked up and saw the mushroom clouds soaring upwards in the inner city.

"What's the situation?" said the brigade commander, "Did the Japanese bomber throw bombs with such a big mushroom cloud?"

"I didn't hear the roar of the plane engine just now." A staff officer from the brigade shook his head and said, "Is it true that the arsenal in the inner city was blown up by the Japanese?"

"No, what are the Japanese doing to bomb their arsenal?"

"It's hard to say that the city can't be defended anymore, why do you still have an arsenal?"

"What I said is right. If I really can't defend the city, I will blow up the arsenal."

While he was talking, a communication soldier from the new regiment rushed over: "Brig Commander, the arsenal in Donghuamen exploded! It was the Japanese who exploded it himself!"

"It's really an arsenal!" The brigade commander's face changed slightly.

He asked again: "Is your new group's losses a lot?"

The communications soldier replied: "Fortunately, due to the timely retreat, there were few casualties."

"It's good that there is no big problem." The brigade commander breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and continued, "The Japanese were forced to detonate even the arsenal. It seems that they are at a loss and they are almost unable to hold on!"

While speaking, the brigade commander raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

I saw the hour hand pointing at 2:00 pm, at least 5 hours before the evening!

The brigade commander said loudly again: "Send communications officers to notify the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment have 358th Regiment, so that they can work harder and strive to capture the Japanese headquarters before 2:30 pm and eliminate the remaining enemies in the city!"

Brothers from various base areas are blocking the Japanese reinforcements on multiple battlefields.

The sooner they resolve the battle, the sooner they evacuate, the less losses the brothers will suffer.

...

Xihua Gate, ruins of the city tower.

Li Yunlong has moved his regiment headquarters here.

At this moment, Li Yunlong was cursing at Mushroom Clouds that were rising from the direction of Donghua Gate.

"Damn, such a big explosion, it's probably because of the arsenal that exploded, and this time I've lost a lot."

"Yoshino Shinozuka is abominable enough! Lao Ding will probably suffer a big loss this time!"

"Yes." Zhao Gangshen said with consent, "Yoshino Shinozuka is really hard to deal with! This is a life-threatening way to fight together!"

While speaking, the correspondent from the brigade department ran over.

"Captain Li!" the correspondent shouted, "The Brigade Commander ordered your independent regiment to step up the attack, strive to capture the Japanese headquarters within half an hour and eliminate the remaining enemies in the city!"

"I understand!" Li Yunlong responded.

Then I picked up the ghost-headed knife and walked out the door.

"Old Li, where are you going?" Zhao Gang was anxious again when he saw it.

"Old Zhao, don't stop me." Li Yunlong said, "You also heard the order from the brigade commander just now!"

After a pause, Li Yunlong showed his fierceness again and said, "This time I must kill Yoshino Shinozuka alive!"

"No!" Zhao Gang said anxiously, "You are the regiment commander, not the commando leader, you have to stay in the command position! Is there any Staff Wang in front of you? Are you not worried about Staff Wang?"

But Zhao Gang was unable to stop Li Yunlong in the end.

...

Japanese Army Headquarters, second floor combat room.

Yoshio Shinozuka sat upright on the chair with his hands leaning on his saber with a lonely face, not knowing what he was thinking.

But Nozawa Kio hid behind the window and looked down through the broken window. It was clear that teams of Eighth Route Army were advancing from the ruins and alleys.

These Eighth Route Army soldiers are obviously veterans.

While they are moving forward quickly, they are also very careful to protect themselves.

The use of concealment such as ruins, broken walls and abandoned furniture on the streets has reached its peak. In short, it is rarely completely exposed to the guns of the Japanese army.

Therefore, although the headquarters guards opened fire violently, they had few results.

On the contrary, the Eighth Route Army's cover firepower was very strong, especially the two Eighth Route Army snipers hiding on the rooftop of Industrial Bank in the west. Almost every time they fired, they would shoot an imperial soldier.

Half of the guards in the headquarters died at the guns of the two snipers.

In a blink of an eye, the Eighth Route Army had approached the headquarters, and Nozawa Kio could no longer help it. He immediately raised his pistol, pulled the bolt and fired continuously.

The accuracy of the Southern Fourteen Pistol is actually OK.

Nozawa's shooting skills were also good. With a gunshot, an Eighth Route Army fell to the ground.

However, when Nozawa Kio fired the second shot, another Eighth Route Army soldier next to him made a timely evasion, and rushed forward and hid behind a pile of ruins.

The next moment, the Eighth Route Army's firepower was poured out.

Two heavy machine guns mounted on the roof of the house in front opened fire at the same time, and dense bullets instantly poured in through the window.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun has extremely strong penetration power. In a blink of an eye, the bullets had already penetrated the cement wall. Nozawa Kio was knocked into a sieve before he could even scream.

Nozawa Kio fell back straight.

After falling to the ground, his face was facing Yoshio Shinozuka.

When Yoshio Shinozuka looked down, he saw that Nozawa Kio's face had lost a trace of anger and his eyes became empty.

With a sigh, Yoshio Shinozuka squatted down and gently stroked Nozawa's face with his hands wearing white gloves. Nozawa's empty eyes finally closed.

Yoshio Shinozuka got up again and walked into the telecommunications class.

The telecommunications department radio operators are still sticking to their posts.

Seeing Yoshio Shinozuka coming in, several radio operators stood up and bowed their heads to greet them.

Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand to signal them to sit down, and said to one of the radio operators: "Kun Kitajima, please record the last farewell message to the North China Front Command."

"Hayi!" The radio operator named Kitajima looked miserable and took out the telegraph.

At this time, gunfire sounded on the first floor of the headquarters, accompanied by screams.

It is obvious that the Eighth Route Army had advanced to the ground floor of the First Army Headquarters building.

Several radio operators suddenly became panicked, but Yoshio Shinozuka was as calm as ever.

After walking a few steps behind his hands, Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice: "Front Command: After a day and night of fierce fighting, the inner city of Taiyuan's outer city was broken one after another."

"The Eighth Route Army has broken into our headquarters now."

"The headquarters guards, staff and staff are making the final resistance."

While recording the message, Kitajima turned his head to look out at the war room from time to time.

Suddenly, a loud explosion sounded in the war room.

Immediately afterwards, there were dense gunfire, accompanied by screams from the staff and the roar of the Chinese.

Kitajima doesn't understand Chinese, but he can guess the general meaning, probably because he wants them to put down his weapons.

It is impossible to put down your weapons. There are only imperial soldiers who died in battle and no surrendered warriors! Kitajima took out the Southern Fourteen Pistol from the drawer while recording the telegram.
Chapter completed!