At 8 o'clock in the evening on September 3, the main force of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army suddenly came out from Luliang Mountain and attacked Loufan.
At this time, only about one squadron of troops was left to garrison on the front lines of Loufan and Gujiao. Facing the attack of tens of thousands of people from the 358th Brigade, they simply could not hold out for long.
In response, Yoshio Shinozuka had no choice but to let the Loufan garrison defend, and urgently dispatched two squadrons from Taiyuan to Gujiao to strengthen the defense there.
Gujiao is the western gateway to Taiyuan. If Gujiao is lost, Taiyuan will be really in danger.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the main force of the 36th Division in the direction of Hanxinling also launched an attack on the defense line of the Taiyue Column.
Both sides received death orders. One side had to hold on at all costs, while the other side had to break through within the specified time, so the fight here was extremely fierce.
Although the Taiyue Column occupies a geographical advantage, Commander Chen only has one artillery battalion in hand. Although he led people to Liu Yu to pull the artillery at that time, it was impossible for all 100 of them to fall on him.
But everyone knows that although Liu Shuai was annoyed by General Chen, he still cherished him and gave him 18 75mm field guns and 8 120mm heavy mortars. In addition, General Chen originally had 8 Type 92 infantry cannons, which were captured by the field brigades of the 108th Division when he attacked Jingzhuang and Yu hometown.
Ordinarily, this configuration is not weak, but opposite is an entire artillery regiment of the 36th Division, with a total of 12 75mm field guns and 36 Type 41 mountain guns, so General Chen still suffers a bit.
Fortunately, the 36th Division was badly beaten by Liu Shuai last time. Now it has less than 12,000 total troops. Of the three main regiments, two are still in a semi-disabled state. They can't defend as well as an iron bucket. In the same position of the Taiyue Column, the commander of the 36th Division, Wu Jinnan, could only do nothing.
Ushijima of the 20th Division to the south was actually even more miserable. Those Tobali who were usually as timid as mice were now as ferocious as wolves.
When the 20th Division walked from Yuncheng to Wenxi, they walked through landmines and cold shots. The loss of personnel was not much, but more than 40 of the more than 300 vehicles in the entire division had been blown up. If this situation continued, all the cars in his hand would be scrapped before reaching Linfen.
The most disgusting thing is that the Eighth Route Army ripped up the rails on the Tongpu Railway in front, and not in a whole section, but at intervals of more than ten meters. The heavy artillery of the First Field Heavy Artillery Brigade all need to be removed by rail. For transportation, they just moved forward while building railways.
Now Shinozuka Yoshio asked them to arrive at Yuci within 3 days. It was like a Bagaya deer! The distance from Yuncheng to Yuci is nearly 400 kilometers, and we have to pass Hanxinling in the middle. How can we get there in 3 days?
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Taiyuan is in crisis. As the newly appointed commander of the North China Front Army, Tada Shun is of course very concerned about it. However, the North China Plain is now also full of wars. Almost all strongholds in central Hebei, southern Hebei and other places have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Even the plains have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The Han Railway has been paralyzed.
If the Kwantung Army had not fallen into the big pit of Nomenkan, it could directly provide strong support to the First Army now. But now the Kwantung Army is not only unable to leave, but even the 14th and 5th Divisions originally deployed in the Central Plains, Shandong and other areas have been transferred to the Nomenkan area, intending to fight the Soviets to the death.
For this reason, he called Tokyo and suggested that the base camp stop the conflict with the Soviet Union and dispatch troops to support the Shanxi First Army.
The Nomonkan conflict was originally a political war waged by the brilliant minds of Konoe Fumimaro, with the purpose of gaining appeasement from Britain, the United States and other countries.
The Japanese government uses this conflict to tell the capitalist powers: We are anti-Bolsheviks, the red regime is our common enemy, and we are attacking China to prevent Bolshevism from spreading in Asia, so we are all friends. , don’t object to us conquering China...
At worst, they just didn't expect to be so badly beaten by Zhukov.
After receiving Tada Shun's report, the Konoe cabinet also realized the seriousness of the matter.
In fact, they no longer want to fight the Soviets at this time, and the new round of offensive that the Kwantung Army originally wanted to launch today has been blocked by them.
You can just say it was a coincidence. Just when the other side was planning to cease the war, a fight started here. In order to end the negotiations as soon as possible, Japan will definitely have to pay more price.
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Look at Liu Yu again.
Now he also feels like rushing to the shelves. Originally, he just wanted to defeat the 37th Division, increase the number of annihilated Japanese to 10,000, and achieve the system's achievement of killing 10,000 people. Who knew that Yoshio Shinozuka was going crazy? , want to play with his life.
This is like playing as a jungler, and you just want to catch the opponent's underdeveloped jungler. Although you have beaten the opponent's jungler to low health, the opponent's mid laner mage drags you to the position of the river crab. You fight hard, making it impossible for you to kill the jungler on the other side with low health, and then the whole team on the opposite side surrounds you, looking like they want to kill you.
After one day of fighting, the goal of killing ten thousand people had been achieved, but the battle was not over yet, so the system did not perform settlement.
As long as Liu Yu withdraws from the battle now, he will be rewarded in an hour.
But he can no longer withdraw. As soon as he withdraws here, the Japanese 41st Division and the 37th Division can immediately reinforce the other two directions. Jinzhong is a large flat land, and the Japanese reinforcements are not as slow as in the mountainous areas. If they march at full speed You can reach Hanxinling in the south in one day.
Isn't this cheating on teammates?
When the time comes, the Japanese 36th Division will hold back the 386th Brigade, preventing them from quickly escaping, and then the remaining two divisions will surround them...
Oh, if he really does this, let alone the deputy commander-in-chief, his third uncle will kill him personally!
The situation Liu Yu is facing now cannot be solved in a short time by the 37th Division. They occupy part of the hills at the junction of Yuci and Shouyang, and because of the long-term confrontation with Tang Tianji and the others, the Japanese defensive positions here The repairs are very complete, and the 366th Brigade can only attack one hilltop after another. It has been fighting for a day now, but there is no big progress.
Liu Yu was a little anxious. He was looking at the battle map and smoking, and he scratched several hairs off.
Next to him, Peng Xuefeng, who temporarily replaced Wang Zhitao as chief of staff, was also smoking a cigarette and staring at the battle map, hoping to find a way to break the situation.
After a long time, Liu Yu rubbed his brows and sighed: "If I had known better, I would have vented my anger with the deputy commander in advance. You said that this matter has caused trouble, and now it is really difficult to get off the horse!"
Peng Xuefeng nodded and said: "If it was a guerrilla war, several brother troops could last at least more than a month, but now it is a positional blocking war. With their equipment and ammunition reserves, they can fight for up to three days! In other words, we must fight in 3 days We will eat up the 37th Division within a few days! But judging from the current situation, not to mention 3 days, 6 days is enough! In order to hold up our artillery, the 37th Division has built a lot of mountain fortifications on the defense line in the past few months. Today There were only two squadrons stationed on the two hills we knocked down, but they caused us nearly a battalion of casualties!"
Liu Yu nodded and said: "So, we must come up with a way to break the situation as soon as possible, otherwise we will really be in trouble. Otherwise, if we put the two guard regiments up, even if we risk our lives, we still have to give up the 37th Division." Chew it down!"
Peng Xuefeng shook his head repeatedly and said: "If we fight like this, how many people will die? It took nearly a year to save the wealth. Are you willing to reimburse it all in one battle?"
"Then what do you think we should do?" Liu Yu's expression was already a little annoyed, "My original intention was to consume as much of the Japs' vitality as possible. Who knows why Shinozuka Yoshio was so crazy? When there was such a big fight, I just came out with one 3 Ah, he’s so aggressive! Now I can’t even fight or retreat!”
Peng Xuefeng listened to Liu Yu's complaints and smiled, but said nothing. He was still staring at the map, but he did not stare at the 37th Division as hard as before, but moved his eyes elsewhere.
When Liu Yu saw Peng Xuefeng ignoring him, he was immediately discouraged. He took out a cigarette again, lit it, and smoked silently.
Suddenly, Peng Xuefeng's eyes lit up, he looked up at Liu Yu and said, "I thought of a way to break the situation!"
"What method?" Liu Yu asked quickly.
Peng Xuefeng smiled and said, "You want to consume the Japanese army's vitality, right?"
"Yes!" Liu Yu nodded.
Peng Xuefeng continued: "Then why do we have to attack the 37th Division? They have permanent fortifications over there, and they are all on reverse slopes. Our artillery has no way to attack them. There are not many heavy-weight aerial bombs in stock, so there is no point in throwing them all. It must be effective. Even if the tanks drive up the hill, they can't do anything to the Japanese inside. Look at the 41st Division. Now that Wusu has been captured by us and the Shitai Highway is completely open, why not let the 366th Brigade keep an eye on the 37th Division? , and then let the armored battalion lead the second and third guard regiments to bypass the Wusu line and directly attack Taiyuan City! There is a ring of city walls over there, no permanent fortifications, and they are all flat. As long as it can pose a substantial threat to Taiyuan , I don’t believe that the 41st Division will not turn around!”
"The Japs thought you were going to attack Taiyuan, which is why they made such a big fuss. Why don't you just take advantage of the emptiness in Taiyuan City to hit him with an arrow! If the 41st Division climbs out of the trenches and turns around to come back for reinforcements, hehe, Tang Tianji He has been defending against Japanese attacks today, and he feels very unhappy..."
After listening to Lao Peng's words, Liu Yu quickly looked at the map, looked at it, and laughed.
"Lao Peng! It's true that I spent so much equipment to buy you! After the war, I'm going to get drunk with you!"
"Definitely!" Lao Peng's face was full of disgust, "Put him down, he's still drunk, so you can go find Lao Song, I don't like this!"
"Hey hey hey..." Liu Yu was silly and happy.
After the fun, he immediately ordered Gao Jingting and Brother Yunlong to take two reserve guard regiments, board a car, attack the defensive position of Yingzemen in Taiyuan City, and stab the 41st Division in the ass!
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The three guard regiments in Liu Yu's hands are not as large as the main regiments. The main reason is that they lack artillery and there are no machine gun companies under each battalion. Other equipment is similar, with each regiment having about 1,800 people.
Their usual tasks are similar to those of later generations of armed police. They mainly maintain law and order in the base area, fight bandits, and help Xu Liqing catch spies when necessary.
September 4th at 1am.
On the road from Shouyang to Taiyuan, Gao Jingting and Yunlong were squeezed into the front passenger seat of the truck, their faces full of excitement.
At the combat meeting the day before yesterday, they felt like they had found a treasure after hearing the blitzkrieg strategy proposed by Liu Yu.
Although Liu Yu spoke very generally and was very unfamiliar with the application of this tactic when actually commanding, with their war IQ, they immediately realized the power of this tactic.
They feel like they were born for this tactic.
At the same time, they also had a feeling of admiration for Liu Yu. It was hard to say how Liu Yu would fare in battle, but because of his ability to recognize people, they praised him.
"Lao Gao, we have to fight this battle well. If the chain is lost, the newly formed armored brigade may not have anything to do with us." Brother Yunlong said in a loud voice in the car.
The car engine was so loud that he had to raise his voice.
Gao Jingting rolled his eyes at him: "Do I need your reminder?"
As he said that, he looked at the T-26 tank in front of him, with only one headlight visible in the smoke and dust. His eyes were even more intense than when he looked at his wife.
I heard that these are just light tanks used by Liu Yu for training. In the future, when the armored brigade is officially formed, there will be larger heavy tanks with thicker barrels!
