After Liu Shuai's reply was sent to Tada Shun, that guy was so angry with Tada Shun that he threatened to kill all the Eighth Route Army and our party members without leaving any one behind.
But by 11:20 noon, he couldn't jump anymore.
Because Yuanping was breached.
As early as 10:30 in the morning, Brother Kong Jie led the 2nd Armored Brigade to Nanguo Village southeast of Yuanping. After discussing on the phone with Commander Song Shilun of the New 6th Division, he directly launched a general attack on Yuanping.
Lao Kong found a place with shallow water, drove his tank across the Hutuo River, and then the whole brigade rushed at full speed towards the south gate of Yuanping City.
In just half an hour, the 2nd Armored Brigade broke through the defense line of the 3rd independent mixed brigade on the periphery of Yuanping and hit Yuanping City directly.
On the plains, armored troops are so pissed off!
Yuesheng Huzhi's help is miserable. Although the Japanese have temporarily supplemented combat defense artillery for the field troops in North China, his 3rd mixed brigade is a garrison unit and has not yet taken its turn.
So far, he only has 2 PAK37 anti-aircraft guns in his hands.
The key point is that this thing can't penetrate the Eighth Route Army tanks at a distance of 100 meters. Are you saying it's annoying or not?
With the addition of 40 T34s and 80 T26s, Yuanping's city defense was like a decoration.
At that city gate, the T34's 75-caliber tank gun was gone in one shot.
By 11:20, Koshiki Toranosuke and more than 400 people from his 3rd Independent Brigade had been surrounded within a radius of less than 300 meters in the center of the city.
As for the other troops, after the Second Armored Brigade penetrated the position, they were divided and surrounded by the troops commanded by General Song. They could not retreat and could only wait to die or surrender.
Looking at Xinkou again, the 14th Division is even worse.
Kita Seiichi was already angrily scolding Tada Shun.
If you say you want to negotiate, then you negotiate, and the price is as high as 25,800,000 yuan. Now Liu Yu’s eight-gallon artillery shells seem to be free of charge. The heavy artillery blasted all the way from the front, and the city gate buildings in Xinkou have been destroyed. It collapsed.
The current situation of the 14th Division is very similar to that of the Eighth Route Army back then. There are no artillery in hand, only some mortars and combat artillery, and there are no airplanes in the sky.
And what about the Eighth Route Army?
First bombers and heavy artillery cleared the ground, then tanks crushed...
This is like riding a horse!
It’s not that planes have never come to Peiping Airport, but the 20 or so planes that came were all beaten down by the Eighth Route Army’s fighter jets.
Kita Seiichi saw it in Xinkou City and it was true. The Eighth Route Army planes, far away from each other, suddenly jumped behind the Imperial Army fighter planes. The pilot might be short-sighted, so he had to Fire close to the tail fin! That speed is visually close to twice that of the Nakajima fighter!
After receiving an almost pleading telegram from Kita Seiichi, Tada Shun finally came to his senses.
Yoshiko Kawashima was previously worried that the 3rd Brigade would not be able to hold out for three days, and that the 14th Division would not be able to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements. It had only been half a day, and they were already preparing to send a farewell telegram!
At the same time, a telegram from Private Tojo at the base camp was also given to him.
. . . . . .
Peiping is still the same alley and the same headquarters.
After reading the telegram in his hand, Jun Tada looked incomprehensible, seeming to be relaxed or lamenting.
In the telegram, Tojo Hideki asked him to lower his profile and negotiate with the Eighth Route Army. Tojo believed that since the current Eighth Route Army was invincible, he should avoid its edge for the time being and retain the two elite divisions of the Imperial Army for future use. After the imperial army has conquered Southeast Asia and obtained enough resources, it can then consolidate its forces and overwhelm the entire China! Moreover, the Eighth Route Army was so powerful. Some people were more worried than us and gave up the Xinding Basin to the Eighth Route Army, Datong to the Shanxi-Sui Army, and then gave up the land in northern Henan to the Central Army. Then we only need to gather heavy troops in Zhangjiakou, Laiyuan, Shimen and other places to block the main outlet of the Eighth Route Army, and do our best to clean up the rear, and wait and see the internal fighting!
After reading the telegram, Tada Shun thought that Private Tojo still had some brains, but when did the imperial army need to use this "two peach and three soldier" trick?
Putting aside the telegram, Tada Shun walked to the window and looked out at the alley.
After pondering for a while, he turned to look at Yukio Kasahara, who had been waiting there, and said, "Call Liu Mingzhao and tell him that we can give up all of Shanxi!"
"Hi!"
. . . . . .
At the same time, Shiling Pass.
Liu Yu has returned to Guancheng Village.
At this moment he was cursing into the phone.
"Tell me those two bastards Zhou Zhikai and Gao Youxin. The next time they dare to fight with bayonets, they will be put in solitary confinement for a month!"
On the other end of the phone, Liu Zhesheng responded repeatedly, not daring to talk back.
As soon as Kita Cheng saw the person who was close to the butt of the Japanese aircraft and firing the cannon, it was Gao Youxin. Zhou Zhikai was even more ruthless. When he saw the Japanese aircraft group, he directly turned on the horsepower to the maximum, broke away from the formation and rushed in.
Gao Youxin was scolded because the distance was too close and the debris produced after the enemy plane exploded might hurt him, so he was scolded.
Needless to say, Zhou Zhikai.
Liu Yu then teased Liu Zhesheng a few more times and asked him to manage his group of people well before hanging up the phone.
"Everyone needs to be taken care of. I wonder how I will die in the future?"
Liu Yu was still angry, so he blurted out such a complaint.
Next to him, Lao Song looked at him with an incomprehensible look: "Can you tell fortunes?"
Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red and his heart stopped beating: "Does it matter? With just a few of them, I can guess with my toes how they will die in the future!"
"I believe you, you are so evil!" Lao Song replied in Sichuan dialect.
Liu Yu quickly changed the subject: "I think it's almost done. Let the artillery brigade move forward and use cannons to blast down the Xinkou city wall! Don't hide the 107 fire from each regiment's artillery camp. Take it out and let it go around Xinkou. The little devil has a taste of the baptism of steel and fire! Then the infantry will press on, and it’s time to break into Xinkou City!"
The order was quickly conveyed to the front.
Behind the regiments of the New 1st Division and the New 2nd Division, the artillery battalion positions.
Because of its range, the 107th Fire was not equipped with artillery brigades or division-level artillery regiments, but was equipped with regiment-level artillery battalions.
The main artillery battalions of the Shanxi-Hebei Border Military Region now have artillery battalions. Each battalion has 12 75mm field guns, 12 120mm heavy mortars, and 6 107 guns.
Following Liu Yu's order, the artillery battalions of each regiment, which had been aiming long ago, opened fire one after another!
If it were at night, the devils would definitely see an unusually brilliant meteor shower.
Six main regiments, with 36 guns and 107 guns, fired 5 rounds of artillery shells at the Japanese position, and 2,160 rounds of artillery shells were fired in less than 10 minutes.
As for the 72 75 field guns in total, their reloading speed was faster than that of the 107 guns, basically maintaining a speed of 2 rounds per minute. The number was twice that of the latter, but they only fired a total of 1,440 rounds in 10 minutes.
This is because the artillerymen who operate 107 fire are not skilled enough, otherwise they can be more powerful.
The Japs deployed on the periphery of the 14th Division had already suffered heavy casualties, but they were suddenly attacked like this again.
The remaining Japs couldn't hold it anymore. They thought the Eighth Route Army had assembled hundreds of heavy artillery to hit them.
The commander of the 59th Japanese Infantry Regiment in charge of the south of Xinkou directly ordered a retreat and withdrew to Xinkou City with less than 1,000 remaining people.
Speaking of which, although the soldiers of several other Japanese permanent divisions are also very tenacious, they are far behind compared to the 2nd and 6th divisions.
These two divisions were formed in Sendai and Kumamoto. Let's put it this way, Sendai and Kumamoto in Japan are the places where they have the most unruly people. The soldiers recruited here are really brave and not afraid of death.
But the ones from other places are almost meaningless, especially the soldiers from Osaka (who should all understand).
To be honest, the Japanese from Utsunomiya (name of the place) in the 14th Division have been able to carry them so far. It’s already pretty good.
Look at the New First Division again.
After the artillery fire stopped, Jiang Fengchun, the commander of the 732nd Regiment, was gathering his troops to launch an attack. There was an unobstructed view of the flat land in front of him, and a regiment could fully deploy.
Just when he was about to give the order, he suddenly heard that the Japanese on the opposite position had withdrawn.
Lao Jiangtou was so depressed that he had been resting since morning. He originally thought he could have a good fight with the Japanese, but in the end, the Japanese gave up.
The 732nd Regiment advanced steadily and soon completely occupied the position left by the Japanese.
After entering, the soldiers of the 732nd Regiment discovered that the Japanese had imitated us and the trenches were full of cat-ear holes.
Just when the 732nd regiment advanced to only 1 kilometer away from the south gate of Xinkou, the superiors ordered a ceasefire.
Tada Shun sought negotiations with sincere words, and said that he had dispatched Major General Yukio Kasahara, Chief of Staff of the North China Front, to fly to Changzhi, hoping that both sides on the Xinkou front line could cease fire, and that the Japanese side would ensure that there would be no redundant actions.
