In the end, after much consideration, Terauchi gave up his plan to take back Taiyuan in the short term, and ordered the westward-moving troops to choose an opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield to avoid causing heavier losses.
As for the Taierzhuang return force, given that the two regiments of the Second Division were completely wiped out in the Battle of Taiyuan, resulting in a sharp reduction in the number of troops and strength of the division, the Botian detachment was directly transferred to the Second Division on the spot. , crossing over the First Army and directly under the command of the North China Front.
In this way, the two-day battle against Taiyuan finally came to an end with the Japanese army withdrawing from Taiyuan and actively shrinking the defense line.
After the war, a group of officers from the Eighteenth Army gathered at the enemy headquarters in Daxia Bay. The deputy commander-in-chief was smiling and organizing everyone to summarize the battle.
Among them, the deputy commander of the 129th Division, who has been organizing battles in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei for a long time, was the first to speak:
"In this battle, our army deployed a total of 129th Division, 115th Division and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, with a total of 22 regiments and more than 31,000 men, to recover Dingbian and Wutai counties. Covering 7,300 square kilometers of land, more than 4,300 Japanese and puppet soldiers were killed, and countless guns and ammunition were seized!
What's even more rare is that as the Japanese troops retreated, many base areas of our unit were connected together unknowingly. The largest one extended to Pianguan in the west, Wutai in the east, Taiyuan in the south, and Chahar in the north! The population of the jurisdiction is as high as 870,000! "
Hearing this, everyone was delighted.
"It seems that our judgment on the strength of the Chinese Defense Force is still conservative!"
The deputy commander smiled and sighed suddenly in his heart.
At the beginning of the battle, everyone in the country, including the deputy commander-in-chief, had a negative view on the Chinese Defense Force's recovery of Taiyuan. They believed that it was nothing but moths to challenge the high-walled and heavily-guarded capital of Sanjin with only five hundred flesh and blood bodies. To put out the fire, the mantis acts as a chariot.
Even though as the battle progressed, the general public gradually realized that the scale and combat effectiveness of the Chinese Defense Forces were not what they used to be. However, compared with the large formation of hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Taierzhuang in the Fifth Theater, they still looked more petty.
But it happened that he was so petty that he wiped out the 113,000 troops stationed in the provincial capital of the Second Division with more than 4,000 troops, and then restored Taiyuan, the Dragon City that had been occupied for more than half a year, back to the hands of the Chinese people.
On the other hand, in the fifth theater that attracted the attention of the whole world, more than 200,000 troops fought from the beginning of the year to May, but they still failed to eliminate the 40,000 Japanese troops in Central China!
Comparing the two, the verdict is drawn!
Ever since, Li Yunfeng and his Chinese Defense Forces, who had become famous in Shanxi since the Battle of Xindian, once again made great progress and achieved the status of gods in the First World War by regaining Taiyuan!
【May 24th】
The seventh day of the war
In front of a flat land thirty miles outside Taiyuan City
Officers above the battalion level of the Chinese Defense Forces, all officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion and the Fifth Company; the 18th Group Army, mainly represented by the Chief of Staff of the former enemy headquarters in Daxia Bay and the Deputy Commander of the 129th Division; Chu Xichun, Chief of Staff of the World War II District Commander's Department The Shanxi-Sui Army represented; the Central Army represented by Lu Tianyun, the commander of the 114th Division of Tang Enbo Corps; the Sichuan Army represented by the commander of the 133rd Division of the 20th Army; representatives of the Shaanxi Army, Northwest Army, Northeastern Army, Yunnan Army, and Guangdong Army; and Taiyuan City One hundred thousand ordinary people and a handful of Westerners gathered.
In full view of the public, a memorial ceremony for the martyrs and a ceremonial meeting in Beijing were held, imitating the previous post-war ceremony in Xindian!
Compared with the heavy emotions of regret and sorrow when more than 300 soldiers of the defense army were buried, the moment a corpse mountain made of more than 8,200 Japanese corpses was revealed in front of us, the original mourning mood quickly transformed into a joyful one. Surging!
On a piece of flat land that is 70 meters long and 40 meters wide, thousands of livestock are stacked together. The scene can only be described as towering into the clouds.
For this reason, on the day Li Yunfeng entered the city, he ordered Zhang Dabiao to prepare thousands of kilograms of lime to spread on the animals to prevent them from rotting due to the heat! Even through the work-for-relief method, the young, old and young in the city were organized to help the defense forces move the bodies together.
Only then did we have such a unique and great scene now.
"If the Central Army had the backbone and strength of the National Defense Force, I don't think His Excellency the Head of State would reach that agreement with the Japanese!"
On the viewing platform, a white-skinned foreigner with a high nose and blue eyes said sadly to a friend beside him.
"That's what God is like! He doesn't know that the weak China still has such a powerful national defense force like the National Defense Force! They actually defeated the Japanese army with less and more! If it weren't for this mountain of corpses right in front of me, I would be I will never believe that the Central Military News Agency reported that the Chinese Defense Forces Xindian wiped out the Bantian Regiment is a fact!"
"Would you like to report these situations to General Falkenhausen? Maybe there will be a turn for the better in that matter!"
"Of course! That damn guy Taudman has officially notified the Chinese government three days ago to withdraw the advisory group. The general is now worried that he has no excuse to delay the time! The appearance of the Chinese Defense Force may bring us a turn for the better. Maybe even directly to the head of state!”
Since there were more than twenty foreign representatives on the stage at that time, their private whispers did not attract the attention of most people.
After all, these people standing on the stage wearing military uniforms or suits did not come out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Suddenly a Beijing view appeared in front of their eyes. They might be surprised, but they would never stare at it for a long time like ordinary people.
At that time, their attention was all on Li Yunfeng, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Defense Forces, and they were looking for an opportunity to get up and talk to him.
Lu Tianyun, the commander of the 114th Division of the Central Army, and the commander of the 386th Brigade, who is "the commander" of Mr. Li Yunfeng, are bound to assume the responsibility of the media.
"Commander-in-Chief Li, this is Mr. Chris, the U.S. Counselor in China!"
When they were young, Li Yunfeng, the brigade commander, and Lu Tianyun walked side by side to a foreigner with blue eyes and blond hair, while Li Yunlong followed the three of them like a follower.
"Dear Commander-in-Chief Lee! It's a great honor to meet you! On behalf of the American people, I would like to express my most sincere greetings and look forward to establishing friendship with you..."
