Five minutes later, the heavy artillery regiment behind the muzzle was turned around. The muzzles of 36 guns of various types were all aimed at the target they were about to bombard, the northeast corner of the city wall. At the same time, all the gunners were already in position, just waiting for the regiment commander Chen Guangrong to give the order to open fire. As the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, Chen Guangrong, his eyes were staring at the watch on his arm motionlessly, waiting for the time to attack.

Finally, as the second hand slowly moved towards the 12 position, a smile appeared on the corner of the regiment commander Chen Guangrong's mouth, and without any hesitation, he shouted loudly to several artillery staff officers waiting for orders around him: "Open the cannon"

Immediately, the roar of the commander of a company of battalions sounded on the artillery position, and at the same time, 36 artillery pieces, at the same time, also let out a roar that shook the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom" An earth-shattering roar sounded, and 36 shells, propelled by a huge driving force, flew out of the shells. At the same time, the entire artillery position was also illuminated by the flames generated by the firing of the artillery. However, the fighters did not have time to watch the results of their shelling.

As the shells were unloaded, a gunner immediately ran to the back of the gun, pulled the running bolt, and cleared the steaming shells out of the chamber. At the same time, another shell weighing more than a dozen kilograms was pushed into the chamber by the gunner. Closing the running bolt, once again ready to open fire

As a roar sounded from the artillery position, a shell from a heavy howitzer must have flown to the northeast corner of the city wall with a loud whistling sound. At this time, the entire northeast corner of the city wall was completely covered by artillery fire. With the sound of a huge explosion, the city wall, which had just been repaired for a short time, had slowly appeared to loosen under the continuous bombardment of dozens of heavy artillery.

Finally, when dozens of heavy artillery pieces rained down almost 300 shells on the city walls. With a loud roar, a section of the city wall with a length of more than ten meters finally collapsed completely because it could not withstand the continuous explosion of shells. A gap with a width of more than ten meters appeared in front of the soldiers.

"The heavy artillery regiment carried out extended fire, the first armored regiment immediately attacked, and the second and third brigades followed up and began to attack" Seeing the city wall that had been blown up, division commander Liu Hua breathed a sigh of relief and ordered loudly.

"Yes, division commander" With the answer of the two brigade commanders, the heavy guns of the artillery position immediately turned their muzzles and began to extend to both sides of the city wall. At the same time, the roar of the engines sounded at the same time, the roar of the engines sounded from the armored regiment of nine tanks, which had already moved to a distance of less than a kilometer from the city walls.

Nine tanks, with a loud roar, lined up in a neat offensive formation. While spraying a dense rain of bullets towards the breakthrough in front of him, he moved forward. The two brigades of nearly 10,000 infantry followed closely behind the tanks and rushed towards the breakthrough of the city wall.

Looking at the Eighth Route Army and tanks attacking the breakthrough in a daze outside the city, although there were still nearly a thousand defenders on the city wall at this time. However, on both sides of the breakthrough, heavy artillery shells, mortar shells continued to fall like raindrops. All the soldiers on the walls were terrified. Because, in the midst of this dense artillery fire, they killed as many people as they rushed in.

"Baga immediately asked the wing captain for support, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce, if there is no artillery support, there are still ten minutes at most, and the city wall will be broken through 0" The captain guarding the city wall, looking at the Eighth Route Army that was getting closer and closer, was looking at the dense artillery fire in front of him, although he was also very anxious, but there was no way, the only thing he could do was to ask the company headquarters for help.

However, what he didn't expect was that just when the heavy artillery regiment outside the city concentrated its fire and shelled the northeast corner of the city wall. The special operations brigade, which received an order to attack the command of the enemy's wing, except for leaving a squadron to defend the warehouses, arsenals, repair shops, etc., which it occupied. The remaining two squadrons, under the leadership of Captain Liu Xiaogang, rushed towards their wing headquarters from all over Taiyuan City like kittens smelling fish. Even many comrades of the underground party who had been informed of the situation took their weapons and rushed to the headquarters of the Chinese army wing, and in less than 10 minutes, the entire headquarters of the Chinese army wing was completely surrounded by the special operations brigade and all kinds of underground party forces in the city. However, in the face of the surrounding special operations brigades, the commander of the army wing, who only had one brigade left, did not blindly order the troops to launch a charge to eliminate these armed forces.

Because he knew that he was surrounded by the famous special operations brigade of the Reading Force. For such a unit, it is not a brigade of imperial troops in their own hands that can be solved. And if you want to live longer, the only thing you can do is to hold on, relying on the strong fortifications of the wing headquarters.

"Report to the captain, the enemy headquarters is completely surrounded by us, and a little devil can't escape. It's just that the enemy, with the fortifications around the headquarters, intends to hold out. If we had attacked, the casualties of the soldiers would have been very heavy. After surrounding the headquarters of the entire army wing, Wang Hong, the leader of the first squadron, came to the front of the captain Liu Xiaogang and reported loudly.

"Hehe, who said I was going to make a strong attack. Captain Wang, you send a squad from your squadron to the mountain artillery wing of the Yue army immediately, transfer a few mountain artillery pieces for me, and fire a few cannons at his headquarters. I see if these little devils want to die in their own turtle shells, or rush out to fight us. Liu Xiaogang replied with a smile on his face.

"Yes, captain, I understand, you can rest assured, I promise to drive out all the little devils in the command headquarters of the enemy wing." After listening to the captain's order, Wang Hong immediately reacted.

"Okay, let's go. Captain Meng, after the shelling later, the little devil will definitely rush out. When the time comes, let the soldiers not show mercy to me, and we will destroy as many little devils rush out. Clear? Looking at Wang Hong, who was leaving, Liu Xiaogang looked at Captain Meng Jie next to him.

"Captain, don't worry, around the headquarters of the army wing, there are still 500 of our team members, enough for more than a thousand little devils in the headquarters to drink a pot. When the time comes, I promise that I will not let go of any of them. Meng Jie replied with a confident face.

A few miles away, the first squad of the special operations brigade took less than ten minutes to get there. Rushing to the position of the mountain artillery wing of the Yue Army, Wang Hong didn't say a word, and immediately ordered the soldiers to start turning the muzzle. Soon, all three heavy mountain guns were aimed at the wing headquarters of the Japanese army.

"You don't need to do a test shot, you can fire right away. Our mission is to scare the little devils out, and it doesn't matter if they don't shoot accurately. After the preparations, Wang Hong gave the order to open fire to the soldiers standing behind the three heavy mountain guns.

"Boom, boom, boom" Three huge roars rang out, and three shells, with a sharp whistling sound, flew towards the headquarters of the wing of the army. However, except for one of the three shells, which fell into the headquarters of the little devil's wing, the remaining two shells all landed in the huge camp of the garrison wing, making three huge explosions.

Still, it was enough to fall into one shell. Hear the loud explosion in the headquarters compound and feel the huge air wave generated by the explosion of the cannonballs. The Wing Commander, who had already made up his mind to defend the wing headquarters, immediately turned pale with a pale face. Because, at this time, he thought of the scene of the General Headquarters that had been shelled a few hours earlier.

"Baga, the enemy has heavy artillery support, hurry up, rush out at once, and mix with the squadron [***] outside," thought of the officers who were all buried in the rubble. The wing captain couldn't help but be afraid for a while, he didn't want to be a big Zuo wing captain and be buried in the ruins without even seeing the shadow of the enemy.

"Hi, Your Excellency Wing Commander" saw an incomplete corpse in the middle of the courtyard, centered on the impact point, within a radius of ten meters. The Kwantung Army soldiers, who received the order to charge, did not hesitate and immediately replied. In the same way, they didn't want to be blown up for nothing, without even killing a single enemy.

"Kill and give" Immediately, the entire wing headquarters sounded with the sound of little devils shouting to kill. At the same time, the door of the wing headquarters, which had just been closed, was immediately opened. Dozens of little devils rushed out of the headquarters in a swarm and rushed towards the special operations brigade dozens of meters away.

However, the wishes of these little devils did not come true. Just as they shouted slogans and rushed out of the headquarters, they were greeted by a dense rain of bullets composed of several light and heavy machine guns. "Ah Baga" A soldier's scream immediately sounded at the door of the army headquarters.

However, the little devil who had already decided to rush out and fight to the death with the special operations team outside did not flinch in the face of the dense firepower network at the door. Instead, shouting slogans, they swooped down on the dense network of fire one after another. Gradually, nearly 100 corpses were piled up at the entrance of the army headquarters.

"Baga, the enemy is very cunning, and at the entrance of the headquarters, a large number of light and heavy machine guns are arranged. Order, blow up the wall, everyone rush out together, disperse the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, hurry up" Looking at the Kwantung Army soldiers who were constantly falling in pools of blood in front of him, the wing commander immediately changed his tactics and ordered loudly.

"Boom, boom, boom" several loud explosions sounded. The courtyard wall, which was still high just now, immediately appeared several gaps in the sound of several explosions. At the same time, hundreds of little devils, along the gap that had been blown up, swarmed towards the position of the special operations team.

However, the fighters did not have a large number of heavy machine guns in their hands. However, there were quite a few light machine guns. As a breakthrough exploded, at least two light machine guns immediately came to reinforce it, and used an impermeable firepower network to block the exit of the little devil.

As time passed, almost every minute passed, and nearly 100 little devils died at the guns of the special combat soldiers. However, in the face of such terrible casualties, there was still no little devil who retreated, and they all continued to charge without hesitation. Finally, after ten minutes, the gunfire of the entire headquarters finally stopped, and the battlefield slowly fell silent.

However, at this time, nearly 100 corpses lay down in almost every place at several breakthroughs of the army and at the entrance of the headquarters. Look at the machine gunners guarding the position, next to each machine gun, there are piles of bullet casings, constantly steaming.

In this way, nearly 1,000 little devils in the command headquarters of the army wing were completely slaughtered by the special operations brigade in this way, and there was not a single one left, including the wing commander. As for the special operations brigade, it only paid the price of less than a hundred casualties among the stray bullets and grenades fired by the little devils.

At the end of the battle in the city, the armored regiment, which had already launched an attack, rushed to the opening of the city wall, so to speak, with the support of heavy artillery fire from the heavy artillery regiment.

With a puff of black smoke coming out of the back of the tank, the three tanks at the front charged. Together along the ruins, rushed to the breach. Immediately, three tanks, like strong movable bunkers, stood there, killing and injuring all the little devils who dared to approach the breakthrough.

Seeing that the first armored regiment had successfully occupied the breach, the nearly 10,000 infantry who followed closely behind the armored regiment immediately poured into the city of Taiyuan and the city wall like a flood that broke the embankment. At this moment, the heavy artillery regiment that served as cover also stopped firing. On the entire battlefield, in addition to the shouts of the fighters, there was the sound of light and heavy machine guns, rifle fire, and grenade explosions.

Facing the Eighth Route Army, which had several times its own strength and several times its own firepower density. The nearly 1,000 little devils who were still sticking to the city wall were crushed at the touch of a touch under the fierce attack of the soldiers. And the soldiers followed closely behind the little devil's rout, constantly using fierce fire to kill and injure the little devil's vital force.

Even in the process of pursuit, when encountering the resistance of a small group of troops, the soldiers were under the cover of mortars, and in the shortest possible time, they eliminated the little devils in front of them and continued to charge. In this way, one after another, following behind the rout of the little devil, quickly penetrated straight into the entire Taiyuan City.

However, because the Taiyuan command has been completely destroyed by the special operations brigade. These little devils, after losing their unified command, can be said to be running around in Taiyuan City. In the end, under the blow of the absolute superiority of the reading division, the defeated troops were still wiped out by the soldiers in the shortest possible time.

The little devil was completely wiped out, and as for the thousands of puppet troops in the city, they were surrounded by the heavy troops of the Reading Division, plus after losing their commander. Except for a few puppet army commanders who were determined to be Han annihilation, who were killed by the soldiers, the remaining thousands of people put down their weapons one after another and became prisoners of the soldiers.

As a result, the entire Taiyuan became, including Taiyuan Airport. After a night of fierce fighting among the warriors, it was finally recovered by the Reading Force once again. As the sun rose the next day, the gunfire in the entire Taiyuan city finally stopped. When the people in Taiyuan City opened the door, they were no longer greeted by fierce little devils, but the soldiers of the Reading Force.

"Report to the division commander, the entire Taiyuan City is now completely controlled by my reading division. All the soldiers were killed. At the same time, 4,653 puppet soldiers and 456 civilians were captured. Received two military munitions warehouses, three material warehouses, and one repair station in Taiyuan City. At the same time, a large amount of weapons and ammunition was seized, including all the equipment and ammunition of a mountain artillery wing of the Japanese army. As for the remaining weapons, they are being counted. Just when the division commander Liu Hua was once again standing on the city wall of Taiyuan and admiring this ancient city, Chief of Staff Li Qing came to Liu Hua with a smile on his face and reported excitedly.

"Okay, order the cavalry regiment to be on guard within fifty miles of Taiyuan, and report any enemy situation immediately. The guard brigade immediately entered the city to maintain order in Taiyuan City. At the same time, the subordinate column immediately replenished enough ammunition and rested to prepare for the next big battle. Liu Hua ordered affirmatively.

In his eyes, after the battle last night, he knew the true combat effectiveness of the various units in his hands. plus nearly 10,000 elite little devils who were wiped out in Taiyuan City. Liu Hua suddenly wanted to change his initial battle plan. It is no longer as simple as just occupying Taiyuan City, but the entire Shanxi Province.

Because, at this time, in the entire Shanxi, in addition to the more than 10,000 little devils in Taiyuan, there was only one elite Kwantung Army brigade left in the entire western Shanxi region, less than 10,000 people. As for the rest of the troops, although amounted to a full thirty thousand men. However, those troops were garrison troops and could not be an opponent of their own direct columns at all.

At the same time, if the whole of Shanxi is occupied by itself. Then, he has enough strength to recruit troops and hoard grain and grass in a general manner. The entire Shanxi Province will be built into an iron-clad base area, and become the rear of its own reading division and even the entire Eighth Route Army. In this way, when the time is ripe, he can concentrate his forces and march into the northeast without any worries.

"Division commander, there is still a big battle to be fought. According to the telegram from Gao Yuan of the Second Division, an elite brigade of the reinforcement unit of the Chinese army is still nearly 100 miles west of Taiyuan. There is no threat to us at all. At the same time, if you let these little devils know that Taiyuan has been occupied by our army. I believe that the little devils of this brigade will definitely retreat in a hurry, afraid of falling into our encirclement. Chief of Staff Li Qing, after listening to Liu Hua's words, asked with a puzzled face.

(To be continued)