Qiao Youhua, Zhao Youde, Zhao Tiezhu, Zheng Yunshan, and the commanders of several artillery brigades all gathered next to a military truck at this moment, and a combat map was laid on the ground, and there was also a topographic map hand-drawn on the ground by scouts who were familiar with the terrain of Niangzi Pass.

The scout was from the cavalry reconnaissance battalion, originally a local of Jingcheng County, before joining the army to join the Dragon's Tooth Column, his family was a businessman, and he followed his father to Niangziguan more than once, so he was familiar with the terrain of Niangzi Pass.

Because of the topographical map of Niangzi Pass, the scout was able to join the pre-war impromptu meeting.

As a map guide, Qiao Youhua and others pointed to the simple topographic map they drew and said: "Niangzi Pass is now the existing Guancheng is mainly left over from the Ming Dynasty, the Guancheng is divided into Shangguan and Xiaguan, and the east is Shangguan, engraved with the banner of "Niangzi Pass"; The west is the lower pass, there is an attic, the title is "Tang Pingyang Princess Garrison", and the door book is "Qin Jin shield".

The east gate of Guancheng is the general brick coupon city gate, and the title is "Zhili Niangzi Pass", and there is a platform battlement; The south gate is a limestone masonry coupon, with the title "Gyeonggi Domain", and a "Sujiang Building" is built on it. The stone pillar is engraved with two famous couplets: "Xiongguan one hundred and two who is the most, to the road three thousand and this name"; "The ancient military tower at the head of the building, the green mountains outside the city and the river". On the southeast side of the city, there is only a 45-degree stone slope road leading to Guò before the gate.

If we want to attack, we can only attack from the direction of the east gate, which is a narrow terrain with cliffs on both sides of the road, and high mountains and mountains, which are very easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There is no possibility of a roundabout surprise attack at all, only a frontal assault. As long as we capture the east gate and capture the city, we can go south from the south gate, approach Shouyang, and then attack Taiyuan! ”

Qiao Youhua nodded after hearing this: "Since this is the case, then the guard regiment will serve as the main attack on the east gate, and the infantry and artillery regiments of the third division will serve as the reserve."

However, your artillery battalion needs to be in one place with the artillery regiment directly under the column, and cover the Japanese positions at Niangziguan with the most powerful artillery fire to cover the officers and men of the guard regiment. ”

Zheng Yunshan, Ma Yunlong, Zhao Youde and others all nodded when they heard this, and then they got up and took their orders.

Guard regiments, artillery regiments and other combat units began to quickly assemble and prepare, and the battle of the offensive was imminent.

The Dragon's Tooth Column marched south from Jingcheng Pass, menacing, and forced Niangzi Pass, and the Japanese army naturally could not be ignorant, except that the Japanese defenders in Niangzi Pass strengthened their vigilance and defense.

The headquarters of the First Army under the jurisdiction of the North China Front Army stationed in Taiyuan, Shanxi, also made the following arrangements at the first time: 1,000 Japanese troops and 2,000 puppet troops were stationed in Yangquan County, all of which went north to Niangzi Pass to strengthen the strength of the defenders of Niangzi Pass, so that the total strength of the Japanese puppet army in Niangzi Pass reached more than 5,000 people.

There were 2,000 Japanese troops and more than 3,000 puppet soldiers.

He also urgently ordered more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops stationed in Shouyang County, south of Yangquan, to urgently go north along the Zhengtai Line to help Niangzi Pass.

In addition to the above deployment of contingencies, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army originally planned to transfer the garrison in Taiyuan City to urgently move north to resist the Dragon's Tooth Column that suddenly moved south.

However, due to the fact that the troops of the Eighth Route Army in various parts of Shanxi suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and launched various attacks on the areas controlled by the Japanese puppet army in various places.

In order to stabilize the overall situation in Shanxi, the First Army had to dispel the idea of transferring troops to the north again, and instead transferred the Japanese puppet army in Taiyuan to the south, and ordered Jinzhong, Jinxi and other places to sweep away the Tuba Road that was swarming and constantly attacking its own.

However, the leaders of the devils of the First Army immediately sent an urgent telegram for help to the headquarters of the Front Army far away in Beiping.

He reported the intention of the Longya Column to move south and enter Niangzi Pass in an attempt to infiltrate Shanxi, and asked the Front Army Headquarters to mobilize troops from the front line in Hebei and other places to exert pressure on the Longya Column in order to indirectly support the Japanese army in Shanxi.

On the castle on the east gate of Niangzi Guan, more than 1,500 Japanese troops and more than 1,000 puppet troops have gathered, and the strength of the army is amazing.

The devil and the puppet army knew that once the East Gate was lost, Niangzi Pass would be dangerous, so they gathered their main combat forces at the East Gate for defense.

The remaining more than 500 devils and more than 2,000 puppet troops, in addition to more than 1,000 puppet troops who stayed in the pass as reserves, the other 1,500 puppet troops were stationed at the south gate, strengthening various fortifications in an intense and orderly manner. Just in case.

The commander of the Japanese army in Niangziguan was a Dazuo officer named Miao Mu Linqing, a fierce general of the Japanese field unit, who had been ordered to transfer to Niangziguan for half a year.

Ever since the capture of the Longya Column in Jingcheng Pass and Jingcheng County, he has been aware of the danger and has been strictly ordering his subordinates to strengthen their defenses.

Now that the Dragon's Tooth Corps is really moving south, he immediately took his adjutant and guards to the East Gate Castle to inspect and supervise the battle.

Walking on the crowded castle wall, looking at the soldiers of the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied Army who were full of loaded guns and ammunition everywhere, and the soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army, Miao Mu Linqing, who had a black face on the surface, was very satisfied, and came to the back of the sandbag fortification of a lookout, and a Japanese second lieutenant officer hurriedly saluted him.

Miao Mu Lin Qing took the observation telescope from his hand, and while looking out of the gate, he asked, "How is it, is there any movement in the Zhina people?" ”

The devil lieutenant hurriedly replied: "Sir, because the terrain blocks our view, we can't see the movement of the Zhina people, and the gate has been blocked, so we have no way of knowing what the enemy is preparing, but the humble post has been closely monitored, as long as the Zhina people attack, they will definitely warn as soon as possible!" ”

After looking at the telescope for a long time, he didn't see anything, Miao Mu Linqing put down the telescope, nodded, and just wanted to encourage his subordinates, when suddenly, a sharp and piercing whistling sound suddenly came from the direction outside the gate.

At 1.5 kilometers away, the Longya Column was set up on an artillery position on a mountain road, and nearly 100 artillery pieces of various calibers opened fire one after another, letting out bursts of angry roars.

In the sky, hundreds of cannonballs dragged a long tail flame, emitting a piercing whistling sound like a screeching sound, and flew towards Niangzi Pass like a cloud.

Miao Mu Linqing raised his head suddenly, and his subordinates around him were all taken aback, and the former directly exclaimed: "Baga, it's an artillery attack, dodge immediately, prevent artillery!" ”

After saying that, the old devil cunningly went directly into the sandbag fortification in front of him, and followed his adjutant, the guards, and the devil's second lieutenant also fell on the spot.

Most of the devils on the head of the city heard the sound of cannons, and quickly looked for cover on the spot and lay down, only the more than 1,000 puppet soldiers, because of their own reasons, reacted a beat slower, and waited for them to follow the Japanese princes beside them to lie down.

The first round of hundreds of shells has already rained down.

Boom Boom Boom Boom! A deafening explosion suddenly sounded, followed by a shaking mountain, and thick smoke and flames rose into the air, covering the entire Niangzi Pass.

Although in the first round of shelling, many shells fell outside the city, but still caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese puppet army on the city, just after the explosion, the city fell on the head of the Japanese puppet army wounded, all of them were carried by the blast wave of shrapnel, rubble knocked down.

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