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Chapter 405 Capture the Outer City!

The inner city of Taiyuan.

Japanese First Army Command.

With the constant and relentless passage of time.

The intensive gunfire of the battle between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army was getting closer and closer to the inner city, and more and more streets were lost on the sand table.

Shinozuka Yoshio panicked, and his heart became more and more irritable.

Continue to fight like this, if the reinforcements do not come again, the inner city of Taiyuan and the headquarters will also be captured by the Eighth Route Army.

"Kasai-kun, your communications department will ask the 3rd Brigade whether to eliminate the Eighth Route?"

Toshimatsu Kasai, the communications staff officer, just walked in, and Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice.

"Report to General!"

Holding a telegram in his hand, Toshimatsu Kasai walked up to Yoshio Shinozuka, with a grim expression on his face: "Master Miyazaki of the 3rd Brigade called and said that the Eight Routes still hadn't been eliminated!"

"Nani?"

Shinozuka Yoshio asked in a bad tone: "Didn't I order the aviation to reinforce the 3rd Brigade? Did the aviation not obey the order, or did your communications department not convey the order?"

Kasai Toshimatsu replied: "The Ministry of Communications has conveyed the order, and the air force has also carried out the mission, bombing the Eighth Route Army positions on the front slope and reverse slope of Baozi Mountain."

Shinozuka Yoshio asked: "Then why didn't the 3rd Brigade take down the positions of the Eighth Route?"

Kasai Toshimatsu bowed his head: "According to the telegram from Major General Miyazaki, the artillery shells fired by the artillery on the Eighth Route's positions and the aerial bombs dropped by the Aviation Corps did not seem to have any effect on killing the Eighth Route infantry, which resulted in the failure of the 3rd Brigade to attack. Go down to the Eighth Route Army position."

"Baga! Road!" Yoshio Shinozuka roared angrily, "Immediately ordered the 3rd Brigade to break through the Eighth Route Army's position at all costs. I will see the 3rd Brigade in Taiyuan tonight when it gets dark!"

"Hi!" Kasai Toshimatsu stood at attention and lowered his head, turned around and walked quickly to the communication room next door.

Soon, Major General Masao Miyazaki, head of the 3rd Brigade, received a telegram from Yoshio Shinozuka.

Seeing this order, Masao Miyazaki knew that Taiyuan and the Headquarters of the First Army had reached a critical moment of life and death.

Up to now, there have been a total of 4 waves of assault attacks, the infantry has suffered more than 1800 casualties, and nearly half of the shells carried by the artillery brigade have been consumed.

Masao Miyazaki really didn't want to fight anymore. The Eighth Route Army was like a nail, keeping a firm eye on Baozi Mountain.

Almost 2 infantry brigades and a tank squadron entered, and the soldiers didn't even touch the threshold of the forward position of the Eighth Route.

Not only could he not chew, but half of his teeth were broken.

But an order is an order, and Masao Miyazaki has no room for bargaining and hesitation.

Immediately ordered three infantry squadrons to attack.

However, this time Masao Miyazaki changed his tactics and ordered the artillery to fire at the eight-way position when the soldiers attacked.

Before, the artillery rushed after the infantry, and the infantry rushed after the artillery.

This time, the artillery bombarded while the infantry charged.

In the endless smoke of gunfire, the soldiers came out of the tunnel with their weapons in hand. Facing the air waves that hit them at any time, the deafening roar in their ears, and the wanton sweeping gravel, sand and shrapnel, they fucked the guns in their hands. The weapon fired at the devils, the machine gunner was knocked down by shrapnel, and the deputy shooter immediately stepped up.

The devils attacked the Eighth Route's position against the bullet rain, artillery fire, and their own artillery fire.

Light and heavy machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and automatic rifles were operating, and the dense firepower was like a rain of bullets, continuously pouring towards the devils who rushed up.

Both sides are desperate.

This wave of devils' attack was halfway through, and the No.15 company that had just come up suffered more than 100 casualties under the devil's artillery fire, and the firepower was almost reduced by half.

Just when the devils were about to break into the position, Company No. 16 came out of the tunnel for reinforcements, and the firepower was more than doubled in an instant.

Under the dense firepower like rain, the devils' fifth wave of attacks was repelled, and more than 5 devils in three squadrons escaped back with less than 3 people.

The front of the position was already covered with densely packed corpses of devils.

In the field of vision of the artillery team, seeing that the attack failed again, and most of the attacking troops suffered casualties, Major General Masao Miyazaki quickly drew out his command saber, and he was so angry that he slashed wildly with it.

……

"Report to the commander-in-chief, telegram from the Fourth Battalion!"

At the column headquarters, Wang Dehou took the telegram from the codecs, and reported it to Li Yunlong after reading it.

Li Yunlong was studying the map with a magnifying glass, and asked without raising his head when he heard this, "What did Chen Dagu say?"

At present, more than 1 troops have entered the city to fight street fighting with the devils.

新一团派进去3000多人，分别是3营1000余人和县大队1000余人，另外3个攻击集团也各派进去2个团。

Start a street-by-house battle with the devils in the outer city of Taiyuan.

The attacking troops caught a devil's tongue and learned that it was the Yoshino Regiment of the Japanese Army that was fighting the Eighth Route Army in the street.

More than 1 people fought against a Japanese regiment, which had a great advantage.

The current fighting situation is going well, and it is expected that the street fighting in the outer city will end before dark.

As long as no devil reinforcements arrive, the inner city can be captured tonight, and the entire Taiyuan can be captured before noon tomorrow at the most.

However, the ghost plane that was expected today has never appeared, which made Li Yunlong a little regretful.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the air defense force supplemented with machine guns did not decrease at all, but the devil's planes stopped coming, which made Li Yunlong lose a chance to make a fortune.

Wang Dehou then said: "Chen Battalion Commander reported that the 4th Battalion has killed more than 3 Japanese soldiers from the 2000rd Brigade of the Japanese Army."

Li Yunlong raised his head when he heard the words, his eyes widened, and his tone was surprised: "What did you say? More than 2000 devils were killed, how many casualties were there in the 4th Battalion?"

The expressions of Xing Zhiguo, Zhao Gang and others in the headquarters were also very surprised.

"The casualties of the 4th Battalion are not bad." Wang Dehou said, "There were more than 180 casualties, and the specific casualties in single digits were not reported by Battalion Commander Chen."

"The casualty ratio is more than ten to one, this kid Chen Dugu fought well!"

Throwing the magnifying glass on the table, Li Yunlong's expression was extremely satisfied.

Li Yunlong led his troops to fight this casualty ratio many times.

Even an even more exaggerated 3600:0 casualty ratio was played, which no one believed.

However, this time the Fourth Battalion was fighting the devils in a positional battle, and they put up a stance to confront half of the elite brigades of the Japanese army head-on.

Although the 3th Battalion had the advantage of the terrain, and individual weapons were better than those of the devils, with sufficient weapons and ammunition, the [-]rd Brigade had a mountain artillery brigade, which was a great threat to the soldiers in the field.

Li Yunlong thought it was pretty good that the casualties between the devil and the Fourth Battalion were three to one, but unexpectedly it was more than ten to one, which gave Li Yunlong a big surprise.

"The Fourth Battalion played really well this time." Zhao Gang nodded and said, "Even if the 2000rd Brigade, which suffered more than 3 casualties, arrived in Taiyuan, it would not be able to make waves."

Li Yunlong said: "Call back the Fourth Battalion, affirm its performance, and order it to continue to block the 3rd Brigade. If you need ammunition replenishment, you can send a telegram to the headquarters at any time."

"Yes!" Wang Dehou straightened his body and drew up a telegram for the telegraph operator to send to Siying immediately.

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Masao Miyazaki, who lost his mind, ordered the artillery to fire gas bombs at the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Masao Miyazaki has always disliked the use of gas bombs.

He believes that the use of gas bombs by soldiers is a cowardly act, and soldiers should defeat the enemy with the spirit of Bushido.

But this time, Masao Miyazaki had to use poison gas bombs and could not reach Taiyuan. So many soldiers were killed and injured.

As poison gas bombs exploded on the Eighth Route Army's position, the entire position was soon enveloped in poison gas.

2 full squadrons and 100 remnant soldiers, a total of more than 500 devil soldiers wearing gas masks, rushed towards the Eighth Route Army position from the attack position.

Just when the devils were about to break into the Eighth Route Army positions.

The Eighth Route Army wearing gas masks suddenly appeared one after another, raised their guns, and shot at the devils.

Under the intensive firepower, the devils fell in pieces...

The Japanese army's sixth attack failed, and the devils suffered more than 6 casualties.

When the news reached the headquarters of the 358th Regiment, Chu Yunfei was so shocked that he doubted his life. The number of devils killed was almost 2500.

He was filled with emotions, and he couldn't help but secretly startled when he thought of meeting such an army on the battlefield one day.

The Japanese attack continued until dark, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. The 3rd Brigade never took a step across Baozi Mountain.

In the next few attacks, the Japanese army used the tactics of bombarding with artillery and charging with infantry.

This led to a lot of casualties in the fourth battalion. In the end, the fourth battalion suffered more than 4 casualties and killed more than 400 Japanese soldiers.

The artillery shells carried by the artillerymen of the 3rd Brigade were all exhausted, and they were no longer able to attack, so they retreated back to the city of Xinzhou.

Chen Dagu wanted to take advantage of the night to launch a night attack, but his plan to kill or capture Masao Miyazaki alive failed to materialize.

The news that the 3rd Brigade was repulsed by a battalion of the Eighth Route Army reached the headquarters of the First Army. The angry Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka drew out the Lieutenant General's sword and chopped the Taiyuan sand table built by the combat staff with great effort in front of him into pieces. I thought, if Masao Miyazaki was in front of him, he would definitely cut off the opponent's head.

Most of the brigade and regiment, and an artillery brigade, can't even beat a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

What a waste, what a disgrace to the Imperial Army!

At this time, it had been dark for more than 2 hours. The Eighth Route Army had already occupied the outer city of Taiyuan.

The Eighth Route Army pulled the mountain artillery and howitzers to the street, and under the cover of mortars and infantry artillery, aimed directly at the walls of the inner city.

The sound of rumbling artillery seemed to be very close at hand, and the explosion of every howitzer shell made the solid building of the headquarters shake slightly.

Yoshio Shinozuka closed his eyes in pain, his chest was aching, and he couldn't get out his breath.

Perhaps, if you don't covet an honorable retirement and stay honestly until the day when you retire in shame, perhaps all this will not happen.

However, it is too late to say anything now.

In the past few days, even Principal Chang, who is far away in Shuangqing City, has been paying attention to the battle situation in Taiyuan.

Principal Chang received information that the Eighth Route Army had occupied the outer city of Taiyuan and was storming the inner city. Principal Chang was shocked.

Under the command of Minister He, the Central Army on the Zhongtiaoshan battlefield was defeated in a row, but the Eighth Route Army attacked Taiyuan under the leadership of Li Yunlong, advancing triumphantly all the way.

He stared at the map very unconvinced, Niang Xipi, what is going on with Yoshio Shinozuka?What is the little devil doing?
The little devil's direct descendant of the central army, who fights labor and management, is so fierce, but it is vulnerable to the Eight Route Army?
(End of this chapter)