Among the divided Japanese troops, Chen Hanzhang handed over the two pieces with the largest number of troops to the air force. He concentrated his tanks to cover the infantry and launched a simultaneous attack on the remaining three divided Japanese troops. As for the rest, about two and a half squadrons trapped in the southern camp, as well as most of the Japanese troops armed with expatriates, he directly ordered a one-two-two rocket artillery company to come and cover it with fire.

Of course, if he knew that there was a regimental headquarters of the 69th Division among the two and a half squadrons of Japanese troops, he would definitely not be so generous. In fact, at present, the 69th Division is in a group situation with no fortifications and no bunkers, and it is at an opportunity to give full play to the role of rocket artillery.

However, considering the difficulty of replenishing rockets, Chen Hanzhang has always been very cautious in the use of rocket artillery in this operation. After all, with this weapon, one salvo is forty rockets. A high rate of fire and intensive firepower mean a high consumption of ammunition.

And this roundabout interspersed operation, when the lines of communication are not opened, replenishment is not an easy thing. Therefore, until he thinks that the best moment, Chen Hanzhang will not use rocket artillery. But for now, in order to speed up the process of fighting and reduce the number of casualties, so as to prepare for the next battle, which may be even more brutal, Chen Hanzhang has nothing to worry about.

On the surface, Chen Hanzhang is somewhat careless about the battle situation in Datong. But in fact, the focus of his eyes has always been on the Datong battlefield. Mu Changqiu is now short of troops, although he has broken through the outer defense line and city walls of Datong, but he is also under the siege of the Japanese army in the surrounding Yingxian, Huairen, and Zuoyun, and he seems to be a little left and right.

Although these Japanese puppet troops who came to reinforce at the first time, the combined strength was only one and a half brigades. But coupled with the Japanese defenders in Datong City and the surrounding areas, it brought considerable trouble to Mu Changqiu. The entire territory of Datong is crisscrossed by mountains, and it is not clear how many mountain roads can be connected with the surrounding Japanese military strongholds, not to mention Mu Changqiu, who came from afar, even the guerrillas who are active in the local area.

Mu Changqiu only had two infantry regiments in his hands, plus a cavalry brigade. In the face of the six Japanese infantry brigades that could not be held in Datong City, as well as one and a half brigades on the periphery, and the Japanese army that was also increasing at the same time, it seemed that the strength was somewhat insufficient. Although he can take advantage of the strong mobility of the troops in his hands, he can adopt the method of mobile defense and concentrating firepower and troops to solve problems one by one.

But the forces in his hands were not enough to deal with all the enemy forces. The two infantry regiments, facing the six infantry brigades of the Japanese army that had strong fortifications to rely on, were actually at a disadvantage in terms of strength. It's just that the tank troops placed outside Datong by the Anti-Japanese Federation made the Japanese troops in the city dare not go out of the city to counterattack.

However, large-scale counterattacks did not appear, and the continuous tactical counterattacks never stopped. The troops that broke through the city walls were almost driven out by the Japanese counterattacks in the city several times due to the lack of follow-up troops. If it weren't for the tanks on both sides of the breach, the Japanese troops who launched a counter-attack on both sides of the breakthrough would have been suppressed by artillery fire, and the breakthrough would have been lost long ago.

And what gave Mu Changqiu a headache was not only the lack of troops, but also the problem that gave him the most headache was the shortage of food. When Mu Changqiu entered Datong, tens of thousands of miners were rescued from the major coal mines around Datong. In the Xinzhou kiln mine in the southwest of Datong City alone, tens of thousands of miners were rescued.

These miners are under the reckless, man-for-coal mining method adopted by the Japanese pseudo-Japanese side. Most of the devastated bodies are extremely weak and in dire need of nutritional supplements. But Mu Changqiu, not to mention solving these people's physical problems, is barely making these people make a living, which is difficult to do.

Although the activities were carried out in the Jinsui local area of Zuoyun, a part of millet and sorghum were mobilized to solve the urgent need. But Zuoyun, who is already the poorest in Shanxi Province, can raise enough food to feed so many people? In desperation, Mu Changqiu could only send Chen Hanzhang a telegram a day.

The reason why Chen Hanzhang was anxious to solve the 69th Division was not just Mu Changqiu's telegram asking for help. In Chen Hanzhang's view, if the battle situation in Datong is stalemate for a long time, it will also contain a large number of troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation, which will affect the development of the next battle plan of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

In the face of the changes in the enemy situation and the development of the situation around Datong, taking advantage of the opportunity of the 69th Division to retreat south from the city on its own, regardless of means and losses, to solve this lonely enemy force hanging in Suinan in the shortest possible time has become Chen Hanzhang's only choice now, and it is also the best way to solve the problem. Not to mention rocket artillery, even if there is a poisonous gas bomb in his hand, I am afraid that Chen Hanzhang will use it without hesitation.

As for the enemy's troops, which are exposed to the bare plains without any fortifications, and are compressed and quite dense, after a salvo of 160 rounds from a 122 rocket artillery company, I am afraid that there will not even be slag left. Chen Hanzhang didn't have time to gnaw one by one, and directly mobilized a rocket artillery company to fire a salvo for the Japanese army that was lonely in the southern camp.

As a matter of fact, when this rocket artillery company finished firing a salvo, the entire regimental headquarters of the 69th Division, including the two and a half squadrons of the covering division, more than 100 armed expatriates, together with the high-power radio station of the division headquarters and the high-ranking officers of the division and regiment headquarters, were completely wiped out, and there was nothing left. All that was left of everyone in the encirclement was a pile of stumps and severed arms.

It's just that Chen Hanzhang, who only wants to save trouble, if he knew that the regimental headquarters of the 69th Division was also among the Japanese troops in Nanying, it is unknown whether he would still do it. However, although Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei was sent to the west by a dense rain of rockets along with his division headquarters, it was much more comfortable to die than for his subordinates to be burned alive or crushed to death by tanks.

After the two largest Japanese strongholds, which had been divided into the two largest strongholds of Dashanjian and Beifang, were refilled with oil bombs, the attacking aircraft group that came again used high-explosive bombs to drive out of the village that was trying to make a final resistance, and then dropped napalm bombs, and swept away with air-to-ground rockets and airborne machine guns.

All the villages in this line, the people have long been relocated. Whether it is the use of artillery fire or air strikes, the Anti-United Nations naturally will not have any scruples. How to reduce his own casualties and how to speed up the progress of the battle is Chen Hanzhang's consideration at this moment.

When all the combat aircraft participating in the war were evacuated. Within these two large encirclements, less than half of the Japanese troops in the nearly three infantry brigades were able to stand up. The remnants of the Japanese army were immediately surrounded by two cavalry battalions of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade plus a 1st mechanized infantry battalion and two infantry battalions, which were easily dealt with with saber and machine gun fire.

The Japanese troops who tried to break through were either hacked to death by sabers, or hit by tank, machine gun and artillery fire. The Japanese troops, who were trapped at the top of the mountain, relied on their large number of troops, ignored the bombing and strafing of the planes in the sky, and forcibly broke through to the west of the Pingsui Railway. Before they could put up a battle formation, they were swept up by the mechanized infantry battalion of the 1st armored division, plus two tank companies, and a cavalry battalion, and the battle was all resolved within three hours

As for the remaining two encirclements, under the cover of the artillery and flat-firing self-propelled antiaircraft guns of the divisions and regiments, as well as the antiaircraft machine guns of the battalions and regiments, the tanks and cavalry, together with a large number of infantry, all ended the battle in half a day like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

At 7 a.m. on 10 April, after 16 hours of fierce fighting, the main force of the 69th Division, which the Japanese army had put into the Suinan Battlefield, had been erased from the Japanese army's operational sequence as a formed division. Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei, along with most of his men, was wiped out.

After settling the 69th Division, Chen Hanzhang left Yi Liangpin to command a tank battalion, two battalions of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and an infantry regiment to hold the line from Jining to Fengzhen. and cooperated with the Independent Regiment of the Saibei Military Subdivision of the Jinsui Military Region, which has been active on the front line of Liangcheng, Fengzhen, and Jining, and was responsible for clearing and suppressing the remnants of the Japanese army.

He commanded the rest of the troops to make a 180-degree turn from the line of Deshengkou and Zhenchuankou to the line of the Outer Great Wall, and joined the Datong battlefield. And Yi Liangpin, who led the army into Jining, also quickly transferred a train from Zhuo Zishan to load a large amount of food and ammunition that the Japanese army had hoarded in Jining City, and quickly went south behind Chen Hanzhang to support Mu Changqiu, who was in urgent need of food support on the Datong battlefield and was almost about to stop.

The troops who entered the outer Great Wall from the victory pass went south along the Yuyu River and passed through Gushan to the north of Datong. The troops under the command of Chen Hanzhang, who entered the Outer Great Wall through the Zhenchuan Pass, joined up with the reinforcements drawn from the advance army on the front line of Julebao after crossing Cailiang Mountain, and launched a defensive posture along the north bank of Baishan Mountain and Sanggan River.

At the same time that Chen Hanzhang cleanly solved the 69th Division, and the whole army crossed the Great Wall and went south to join the Datong battlefield. Wang Minggui's department, which set out from Kangbao to reinforce the Datong battlefield, ignored the enemy of Zhixing and Taolin in the starry night, and went south at full speed through Chahanbo and Xin'anzhuang. After Jining handed over the supplies to Chen Hanzhang to Yi Liangpin, he did not stop, and the whole army entered the territory of Youyu through the mouth of the tiger.

Although there was some hesitation, when Wang Minggui passed through the territory of Liangcheng, he still divided part of his forces under the cover of artillery and captured the only Liangcheng in the whole of Suinan that was still in the hands of the Japanese army. Annihilated the two Japanese squadrons defending Liangcheng, as well as some of the 69th Divisions and some stragglers scattered here, in order to ensure the safety behind them.

However, although a battle was fought in Liangcheng, it did not delay the marching speed of Wang Minggui's main force. The troops, all transported by trucks, used the roads built by the Japanese themselves to move extremely fast. It took only thirty-six hours from Kangbao for his troops to rush into the mouth of the tiger with tanks as the lead.

Look at the infantry carried by the trucks under the cover of the tanks, and the heavy artillery towed on the trucks. The Japanese puppet army that served as the garrison of the tiger's mouth dared to block it, and directly gave up the road of killing the tiger's mouth, which has been a military important place between the northwest of Jin and Suinan since ancient times. Even Youyu County, which was crawling with a roll, did not dare to return, and directly dragged his family and retreated to Zuoyun along the mountain road under the guidance of the puppet army.

After entering the mouth of the tiger, in order to cover the action of Yang Jicai, who was preparing to enter the front line of the Great Wall at the mouth of Tunhukou, Wang Minggui did not immediately seize the line from Zuoyun to Huairen with the whole army, and outflanked the northern section of the Tongpu Railway. And with the strength of one division, it swept the area west of Datong and west of Huairen.

A division of troops was dispatched to the south to seize Pinglu, and with the cooperation of the local armed forces of the Jinsui Military Region, they seized Hongtao Mountain, putting on a posture of approaching Shuoxian and Shanyin and cutting off the Tongpu Railway. And on the front line of Hongtao Mountain, he encountered the Japanese Left Detachment of the Japanese Army reinforcing the 69th Division. And then around the Hongtao Mountains, a fierce battle was launched.

A large number of anti-union suddenly appeared on the front line of Pinglu and Huairen, attracting all the attention of Okamura Ningji. Tianzhen and Yanggao east of Datong, the two county towns were lost at the same time, and the news that a large number of anti-coalition troops appeared east of Datong made him willing or not, he could only throw all the troops that could be mobilized to the periphery of the Datong battlefield. At this time, Taiyuan, together with the surrounding Japanese troops, was less than four infantry squadrons.

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