Chapter 689: Killing Two Birds with One Stone

The two wings must be fought for, Liu Chundao certainly understands this truth, judging from the current situation, it is difficult for the Japanese army to encircle Datong from the periphery of Datong, they will definitely find a way to make progress from the city, and it is a very stupid choice to break through in the middle to fight in the city, because the salient is easy to be surrounded, and the Japanese army will definitely deploy the main forces in the city on the two wings of Datong, which is why Liu Chundao failed when he first arranged the operation.

Both sides wanted to break through from both wings, and the final result was that both sides were deadlocked on both wings, and Liu Chundao was completely helpless.

"It's not a question of whether you lead the team or not, but the Japanese army has made careful deployments on both flanks!"

Before thinking of a good way, Liu Chundao didn't want the soldiers to waste their lives in vain, and the Japanese army was not a vegetarian after all.

"Division Commander, if we don't arrange a night attack tonight, let's at least test it first!" A staff officer suggested.

During the battle a few days ago, the Japanese army launched a night attack on them, often a little devil holding an explosive bag at night, under the cover of other little devils, jumped directly into the house where the Chinese soldiers were sticking, and then pulled the explosive * bag, and a little devil was able to replace four or five soldiers under Liu Chundao.

Liu Chundao felt that the night attack was the most suitable for the current situation, and the night attack of the new 33rd Army was also a master, and they couldn't lose the position in front of the little devils, so of course they had to launch a night attack tonight.

Just when Liu Chundao led his troops to fight with the little devils in Datong, a regiment sent by Zhao Caizhu finally arrived at the city of Taiyuan after three days and two nights of marching.

For the soldiers of the New 33rd Army, they were all peasants, and the largest city they had ever seen was Yangquan, and now they were shocked to see the majestic Taiyuan standing in place, and they couldn't believe that such a majestic city could exist.

"What a high city wall, this city wall should be a few feet higher than the city wall of Yangquan, right?"

"It is said that not only is the city wall high, but even the thickness is several times that of Yangquan, how can we get in?"

Soldiers, they thought that the city of Yangquan was already the strongest, but the city wall of Taiyuan now seemed to be comparable to some of the big mountains in the Taihang Mountains, and the height was a little frightening. With such thick walls, how could a regiment of their troops be able to enter the city?

The head of the regiment who led the team also muttered in his heart that he was not standing in the telescope, and he muttered in his heart, they came in a hurry, and the best thing in his hand was the mortar, and the mortar of such a thick city wall was probably scratching.

"Build fortifications in situ and wait for orders!"

When they were in Yangquan, the order that the regiment commander received from Zhao Caizhu was within his ability, because they did not have accurate information to prove that Yangquan was an empty city, so they had to find out the situation before they could do anything to Yangquan.

In the binoculars, the head of the regiment did see that there was not even a little devil standing guard at the gate of Taiyuan City, but this was also the most uneasy thing for him, the little devil would not deliberately set up an empty city plan for him, and then ambush the troops in the city, and then block them in the city when they entered the city.

The regiment commander didn't dare to take the soldiers of more than 2,000 soldiers under his command to make a bet, after all, they came to Taiyuan this time to gamble on luck, and if they lost the bet, the troops would not lose anything.

The commander of the little devil heard that the Chinese army had reached the city of Taiyuan and was preparing fortifications outside the city of Taiyuan, and he had no intention of attacking at all.

"Your Excellency, Commander, what should we do?"

"Wait and see, we can't move!" The commander of the little devil is very calm at this time, and now whoever moves first will lose the opportunity, and they must be patient.

The regimental commander outside Taiyuan City did not blindly let the troops attack, because Taiyuan City now seemed to have no city defense at all, but experience told him that it was certainly unusual for a huge city to be so quiet.

The scouts have already been arranged, and no matter whether the empty city plan sung by the little devil is true or not, there will be news soon.

In Yangquan, after Zhao Caizhu finished the post-war work, he ordered the soldiers to send Hu Guoshan back to Taihang Mountain to recuperate, Hu Guoshan's injuries were not serious, but he lost too much blood, which caused a lack of energy and needed to recuperate.

Yangquan was attacked into the city by the Japanese army, causing a large number of casualties among the people, the city was wailing all over the field, it was not a good place to cultivate at all, in order to recover Hu Guoshan's health as soon as possible, Taihang Mountain was of course the best place to go.

In the Taihang Mountain station, Liao Fan woke up from sleep, but with Fu Hongyu by his side, he took good care of Liao Fan, and his injuries gradually improved.

"I'm not busy here today, going out to bask in the sun with you is also good for your injury!" Fu Hongyu said after changing Liao Fan's medicine.

"Still don't go out, the news that I woke up still needs to be kept secret, it's not good to appear in their field of vision!"

For the sake of prudence, Liao Fan decided to hide the news that he had woken up, after all, all forces were staring at him, and it would be beneficial for the New 33rd Army to lie dormant for a while.

Fu Hongyu didn't force Liao Fan, although she didn't know what Liao Fan was planning in her heart, as long as Liao Fan could do well, it didn't matter what she did.

"Hongyu, you go and call my brother and Chief of Staff Li, I've been asleep for so long, it's time to find out about the affairs of the army!" Liao Fan woke up and still remembered the things in the army, after all, he was a soldier and the commander of the new 33rd Army.

Fu Hongyu glanced at Liao Fan resentfully, this is not the first time that Liao Fan has asked him to call Liao Jundong and Li Lingfei over, almost every time he wakes up, Liao Fan will say this, but due to Liao Fan's physical condition, Fu Hongyu did not agree.

"Okay, I'll call you when I'm done changing his medicine! But I'm going to give you a limit of two hours! ”

Liao Fan smiled at Fu Hongyu, thanking her for being able to understand him, and then he looked at Lu Liming, who was still lying on the hospital bed and did not wake up, he couldn't be happy, it can be said that Lu Liming became like this because of him, and at this time he really hoped that Lu Liming would wake up immediately.

"I'll tell you a bad news, a wounded person was transferred from the hospital this morning." After thinking about it, Fu Hongyu decided to tell Liao Fan about Hu Guoshan's transfer back to the resident hospital.

"The wounded? Who? Liao Fan looked at Fu Hongyu curiously, because there was fighting on the front line, and a group of wounded people had to be transferred back to the hospital every day, just to reduce the burden on the front-line medical staff.

"It's Master Hu, I'm injured and I've lost too much blood, but it's not life-threatening!"

"Lao Hu is also injured? It seems that the fighting at the front is not going well! ”

When Liao Fan heard the news that Hu Guoshan was also injured, he knew that the battle on the battlefield was definitely not very good, otherwise Hu Guoshan would have to go to the front line to fight hard, and now he urgently needed to understand the combat situation of various troops.

In fact, Fu Hongyu also said the news of Huang Changsheng's disappearance, but she didn't tell Liao Fan and Kang Xin the news, I'm afraid these two people can't bear this bad news in a short time, Fu Hongyu has been holding it in her heart, and she doesn't know who to discuss.

"Alright, I'll go and deliver the order to our Grand Commander!"

Fu Hongyu was helpless and left the ward with the medicine. In order to keep it secret, there were only a few people in Liao Fan's ward, and there were double posts outside the door, so no one could enter without an order.

Liao Jundong and Li Lingfei came to the ward together, and now the main task of the two of them is to coordinate the troops in the command headquarters, in case there is no time to react to the change, and the Hu Guoshan Division on the Western Front does not need them to worry, what worries them is the two directions of Datong and Jingcheng.

The two of them were in the ward for about an hour to tell Liao Fan everything that happened on the front line, and of course, under Fu Hongyu's special explanation, the two of them deliberately hid the news about Huang Changsheng.

Now that Datong City has been in ruins, and the original arsenal has also become the control area of the little devils, there is no way to find Huang Changsheng's traces anymore, and he can only wait until the battle is over to think of other ways.

"What about Huang Changsheng?"

However, what the two of them didn't expect was that as soon as their words fell, Liao Fan asked about Huang Changsheng. In fact, Liao Fan was just curious, now he has heard the news of all the troops, and the only thing he has not heard is the news of the special operations brigade, which makes Liao Fan have to be curious, the battle has been fought like this, why there is no news from the special operations brigade.

Liao Jundong and Li Lingfei glanced at each other, not knowing how to say anything about Huang Changsheng.

In the end, Liao Jundong made up his mind and decided to hide Liao Fan's news about Huang Changsheng first, and then tell Liao Fan when everything was stable.

"Changsheng is in Datong, isn't Li Weimin sick? Changsheng is helping Liu Chundao arrange Datong's troops! Liao Jundong casually made up a reason to fool the past.

"The battle has been fought like this, what is he Huang Changsheng still doing in Datong, he has forgotten all about the combat methods of the special operations brigade, he still wants to be lazy?" Liao Fan was very dissatisfied with the special operations brigade's approach, and the special operations brigade was indeed able to do it with one as ten, but it was really a waste of resources to place them in Datong.

"Brother Fan, you can't blame Brigade Commander Huang for this incident, after all, this battle happened too suddenly, and Division Commander Li also fell ill suddenly, and everyone was caught off guard!" Li Lingfei also hurriedly said.

"When he comes back, I must pack him up and tell Huang Changsheng that the soldiers of the special operations brigade infiltrate behind enemy lines in small groups, and since the Japanese army is concentrated in Datong, the Great Wall defense line must be empty, since he wants to fight a defensive war so much, let him take the Great Wall defense line and hold him, otherwise he will come to see him!"

The new 33rd Army has no troops to send, and the only active chess in Liao Fan's hands is the special operations brigade, and now while the Japanese army is moving south to Datong, the Great Wall defense line is empty, as long as they arrange for the elite troops to infiltrate the front line of the Great Wall, not only can they cut off the logistics supply of the Japanese army, but also recover the front line of the Great Wall, which is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.