This time, in the words of the deputy commander of the Eighth Division, who was in charge of the front work, the Eighth Division was bleeding heavily, and it was thoroughly cleared and dealt with. Under the circumstance that the ammunition handed over by Yang Jicai was not yet in place, he took out the only ammunition in stock, and issued it not only to his own troops, but also to the troops of the Jinchaji Fourth Division.

This regiment of the Jin-Cha-Ji 4th Division consumed a lot of ammunition because of the continuous anti-sweeping operations. Now there are only five rounds of ammunition per person on average, all heavy machine guns have been discarded, and there is only one light machine gun per company. Without replenishment of ammunition, this small regiment of only five companies simply had no way to fight. Distress is distress, but in this matter, the Eighth Division does not dare to be too self-centered.

It's just a pity that there are a lot of troops, but the family background of the Eighth Division is really limited. The inventory has been carefully and cleanly, but the amount of ammunition that can be put together is really small. Despite the efforts to raise them, each soldier could only guarantee 20 rounds of ammunition when it was necessary to ensure that the counties and districts participating in the war were armed with ammunition. Nearly half of them are reloaded ammunition manufactured by the Jinsui Arsenal itself.

The troops of the Eighth Division of Jinsui are secretly competing with themselves, and Yang Jicai naturally doesn't know about it at this moment. At this time, Yang Jicai commanded his roundabout detachment and brought the mobility of tanks and automobiles to the highest extreme. Taking advantage of the relatively good road conditions of this highway, at the fastest speed, along the highway to the direction of Taiyuan.

Faced with the anti-union roundabout interspersed detachment that ran all the way and barely stopped. The Japanese puppet army strongholds along the highway were caught off guard by the Jinsui local armed forces, and even if they had the heart, they were unable to carry out anything, even if it was a pretentious interception.

Of course, in the interspersed process, Yang Jicai will not turn a blind eye to the large-scale sabotage battles launched by the local armed forces in Jinsui along the way. When they saw a strong stronghold that the local armed forces were really unable to capture, they would also send a tank to directly shoot shells into the firing holes with a 40-millimeter gun on their vehicles, so as to cleanly assist the local armed forces in solving the problem.

Or self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that served as long-range cover along the way, and arrived at a shell, so that the Japanese fire point directly shut up. Although he could only intersperse along the highway this time, his roundabout interspersed actions, at least before arriving at Gujiao, did not encounter much trouble brought by the Japanese puppet army along the way.

Even if there were a few local armed forces, the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold that had not been taken care of for a while wanted to resist, but when they saw so many tanks, they immediately shrank back. The Japanese are brave, but they are not stupid. What are you kidding, so many tanks, you don't have anything to poke into a hornet's nest yourself.

The smooth journey along the way made the commander of the Eighth Division very proud. This area is basically his territory. The detour interspersed with the detachment's actions was so smooth, which could not but be said to make his face very bright. The only thing that is a little embarrassing is that when entering the front line from Hujiazhuang to Loufu, there was a skirmish between the roundabout troops and the local local armed forces.

The local squadrons and key militias that were ordered to act as guards along the route did not know that such a large force of mechanized troops was operating in such a large force. In the minds of this local armed force, tanks and cars, that is the equipment of the little devils.

After receiving instructions from the county party committee, hearing that there are tanks and cars in their own jurisdictions, in the hearts of the armed forces in these places, then it must be that the little devils have come out to sweep again. In addition, the communicator of the county party committee, when he found them, he was only panting, and he did not convey the order clearly.

The secretary of the district party committee, who led the team, was ordered to uproot the telephone poles and cut off the enemy's wired communications, but they did not forget to plant more than a dozen mines on the highway in accordance with the habit of the anti-sweeping campaign. The troops were also ready for battle, and even the only Jin-made light machine gun, which had only a hundred rounds of ammunition, was erected.

As for the other Hanyang-made and Jin-made rifles, let alone one single. Even the county's armed counter-sweep is a necessary weapon of mass destruction, a pine cannon, has been erected. These tanks can't be hit, and there is no problem in hitting the infantry in the rear.

Although in the hands of the secretary of the second district party committee of Jingle County, who was in charge of the command, there were only half of the binoculars left, dozens of tanks rushed towards him, and the trucks full of infantry could not be seen at a glance. But the secretary of the district party committee did not hesitate or retreat.

In his opinion, the order of the superior must ensure the safety of this road, so he must complete the order even if it is exhausted. Although he couldn't understand how so many tanks and trucks full of infantry could rush out of the depth of the base area at once, for this local cadre who did not carry out the order, the order of the higher authorities was a qiē.

The secretary of the district party committee, who had been active in the enemy-occupied area and had suffered heavy losses from the Japanese tank mechanized units during the counter-sweep, had never thought that these tanks and trucks were his own. In his mind, there were a large number of tanks and trucks, so it must be a little devil.

Except for the cloth caps and a small number of captured little devil steel helmets, most of the Eighth Route Army did not have steel helmets, let alone tanks and trucks. Although the steel helmets worn by the troops were a little different from those worn by the Japanese army, they were very similar to the steel helmets worn by the Central Army back then.

Tanks and trucks are also different from the tanks used by the Japanese army to sweep and dispatch in the past. The tank is much bigger than the little devil's bean tank. The guys in the hands of the infantry are also different from those used by the devils. But such a bold army must be a devil on the battlefield in Shanxi. Except for the devils, there is no other army that is still so foreign.

Not to mention the Eighth Route Army, which could not afford poor military uniforms, did not have such magnanimity, even the wealthy Jin Sui Army did not have the magnanimity of a steel helmet per person, let alone so many tanks and trucks. Although he knew that he still had these troops of his own, he might all die here because of this battle. But the secretary of the district party committee still decided to fight this battle.

Fortunately, the mines made in these areas were filled with black powder, and because of the lack of high explosives, the power had little effect on the Crusader tanks. When a dozen or so mines were rushed by a platoon of tanks in the striker at high speed, they exploded one after another, but the tanks did not cause any casualties except for a slight vibration.

Even his platoon guns and pine cannons did not cause any losses in the face of the extremely rapid reaction of the Resistance League. On the contrary, the squadron of this district, together with the basic battalion of the 8th Division, which came to meet them, was pressed to death in a ditch on the side of the road by the tank's extremely rapid response of the tank's on-board machine guns.

If it weren't for Yang Jicai's reluctance to waste artillery shells, he sternly ordered that the use of artillery would be strictly forbidden unless it was intercepted by fire from a Japanese stronghold. It is estimated that after a single artillery fire, the squadron of this district will not die on the battlefield, but will fall on the muzzle of its own people's guns.

Fortunately, Yang Jicai reacted quickly, and heard something wrong from the explosion of the mine and the gunshot, and hurriedly ordered to stop the attack. And let the people of the 8th Division contact with the military number, so that this small unit was relieved of danger. However, after the misunderstanding was resolved, the result was very bad, and the local armed forces seriously injured three people and slightly injured fifteen people in these few minutes of gunfighting.

If it weren't for Yang Jicai's quick response, stopping the troops' attack and using artillery fire, it would not have been a matter of casualties. This misunderstanding was very embarrassing to the commander of the 8th Division, and he was also surprised by the speed of the anti-coalition forces when they were attacked.

Before the first mine exploded, the troops on the other side with the follow-up tanks and trucks had all disembarked and immediately formed a battle formation. All weapons were loaded at the same time. The machine guns were already pointing at suspicious locations in the mountains on both sides for the first time.

The vanguard tank immediately rushed through the minefield at high speed, turned the turret to prepare for battle, and simultaneously opened fire on suspicious targets on the highway with its vehicle-mounted machine guns in the manner of 135 to the east and 246 to the west. The tanks were driven down the road at the same time, forming a temporary line of defense along the perimeter of the convoy.

As soon as the platoon guns on the hillside rang out, the anti-coalition troops on this side had already outflanked them in a fan shape. The fire of the tanks was also all directed at the place where the guns were fired. In less than three minutes, all the guns had been removed from the tractor and quickly prepared for fire. Artillery observers have even reported the shooting of the yuan.

Even mortars and large-caliber machine guns are all combat-ready. Such a reaction speed, if it weren't for his own reaction, it would not be slow, although it was an encounter, not counting the gap in weapons, but his squadrons in those districts might not last ten minutes.

And his own troops, although they are not slow to react, are always slow in their movements. Looking at the reaction speed of the anti-coalition participating troops, the commander of the 8th Division, who felt that he had lost face, already planned to train his troops well after the end of this battle.

There was no time to delay here, let alone pay attention to Yang Jicai, who was thinking so much about the commander next to him, but stopped the commander from wanting to reprimand the secretary of the district party committee. A military doctor was left behind to treat the wounded and then lead the team onwards. As for this misunderstanding, I'll wait until the battle is over to explain.

The troops led by Yang Jicai were not intercepted because the Japanese puppet army along the highway east of Loufu had withdrawn to Taiyuan. Even after the Japanese army withdrew, he stayed in Gujiao, and after seeing so many tanks and artillery, he surrendered cleanly without firing a shot, and even drove out of the city, and the neat platoon of puppet troops, he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

Instead, he commanded the troops to gallop all the way along the highway in the direction of Taiyuan, and at 2 p.m. on 15 April, the whole army arrived at the line of Baijiazhuang on the outskirts of Taiyuan. From Baijiazhuang, the smoke from the northwest steelmaking plant outside Taiyuan City has been clearly visible.

After arriving in Baijiazhuang, Yang Jicai did not take any rest and continued to forcibly penetrate the city of Taiyuan. Under the noses of the stunned Japanese defenders, the infantry forced to cross the Fenhe Bridge with tanks cover, and left the backbone battalion of the 8th Division to control the Fenhe Bridge.

With a tank company carrying one of its own companies, with the cooperation of the two basic battalions of Jinsui, it went straight to the northwest steel mill and industrial zone in the northwest corner of Taiyuan outside the city. And he commanded the main force of the roundabout troops, ignoring the puppet army of Taiyuan Wohu Mountain and Niu Huozhai Village, and went straight to Yinghui Gate in the northeast corner of Taiyuan.

The rest of the troops of the Jinsui Military Region reinforced a regiment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division, under the unified command of the commander and chief of staff of the Eighth Division of the Jinsui Military Region, and forcibly attacked and advanced in the southwest direction along the Fen River, preparing to seize the line of the western mountain of Taiyuan in order to ensure the retreat route of the whole army when necessary.

When the roundabout troops commanded by Yang Jicai arrived, Taiyuan City, which had been calm since the fall, and dense gunfire sounded around it. Abandoned Gujiao, Jinyuan, Qingyuan and other counties on the periphery of Taiyuan, all the Japanese troops who retreated back to the city, relying on the city wall and the surrounding fortifications to resist desperately.

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