On the Japanese side, in just a few minutes, they shot down six anti-United Nations planes in a row, and their morale was obviously greatly boosted. Even despite the fact that Yang Jicai's counterattack was covered by tanks, he started an attack with the counterattacking troops. put on a posture of going straight to the city of Taiyuan and cutting off the Tongpu railway.

Although all the six wagons carrying equipment were parked in the north of Taiyuan City, the Japanese troops in the east of the city could not observe them. However, after Yang Jicai gave up the front-line position in Xishan, the Japanese army had clearly determined that once the battle was lost, the retreat route of the Anti-Japanese Union could only be to the north.

Affected by the battle situation in Hexi, the appetite of the 32nd Division at this time has obviously increased significantly, and it is clear that it wants to eat all the troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the 18th Group Army around Taiyuan City in one bite. Its follow-up troops braved the blocking artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese Union, regardless of the casualty figures, and desperately reinforced.

The 32nd Division is so desperate, in fact, it is not difficult to understand. After learning the news that the headquarters of the First Army was trapped in Taiyuan City, the angry base camp ordered Okamura Ningji to either rescue the First Army Battalion, or he Okamura Ningji packed up his luggage and got out of his position as the commander of the North China Front.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the strong fortifications of Taiyuan City, and take advantage of the fact that most of the Shanxi Communist Army was concentrated inside and outside Taiyuan City, and mobilize troops to solve Okamura Ningci of the Communist Army here in one go, so he could only change his tactics. Changing the original operational policy of steadily advancing and encircling on all sides, the 32nd Division was urged to rescue the commander of the First Army from the sea of fire at any cost.

As the most complete division on the battlefield in Shanxi, Lieutenant General Ide Tiezang has been under tremendous pressure since the division entered Shanxi. The telegrams of the North China Front and the First Army urging the exhibition were almost an hour. Lieutenant General Ide Tiezo, who was forced to go to the house quickly, could only push down when the Zhengtai Railway had been completely blocked and could not go to the front line to personally command. When his boss urged him, he forced Major General Ishida to be safe.

Major General Ishida Yasutada, commander of the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, who was in charge of command, had already received an order from the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ide Tetsuzo, that within 24 hours, at any cost, he must break through the outer defense line of Taiyuan and enter the city of Taiyuan to rescue the headquarters of the First Army from the dire encirclement.

Major General Ishida Yasuada, who was forced by Lieutenant General Iate Tetsuzo to smoke in his seven orifices, had no choice but to make a dangerous move. Ignoring the troops of the Southern Hebei Military Region and the Taihang Military Region, which had already cut off his supply line behind the buttocks, they mobilized a large brigade of troops and strengthened all the artillery cover to forcibly penetrate the front line of Jianziwan before the first line of Niuhuozhai and Xiaoyaotou was taken.

After the success of the adventure, after discovering the true situation of the emptiness of the communist army around Taiyuan City, Major General Ishida Hotada dared to hesitate. The two brigades of the 210th Wing of Lianhua Fengji Dazuo, which was blocking the troops of the Southern Hebei Military Region behind the buttocks, were all transferred back and prepared to be put into the front line of Scissors Bay.

Strive to rush directly to the city of Taiyuan in one go, and cut off the retreat and contact of the communist army in the south of Taiyuan City. and rescued the bitter Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto from the dire situation. The commander of the province's own division, who was in charge of the deer, was driven crazy by the commander of the North China Front.

Looking at the binoculars, the follow-up forces of the Japanese army desperately reinforce Scissors Bay despite the artillery fire. And his troops on the front line fell into a bitter battle as soon as the counterattack started, Yang Jicai frowned. The Japanese army in the east of the city has now opened a desperate posture, but the strength of their own troops?

Although an artillery company had been concentrated to carry out fire interception at any cost, coupled with the flank fire support of Niuhuozhai, it was difficult to completely prevent the Japanese reinforcements. The troops that launched a frontal counterattack were in a bitter battle, and the two companies on the flanks were making unusually slow progress.

At the same time, on the flanks of Niuhuo Village and Naoma, the Japanese offensive became more and more fierce. More than half of the outer positions of the Niucamel Village have been lost, and a squadron of the Japanese army has reached a distance of 500 meters in front of the core position of the Niucamel Village. And the defenders, whose last reserves had been transferred, were no longer able to push back this Japanese force.

Faced with an increasingly unfavorable shape, Yang Jicai gritted his teeth and directly called the commander of the Jinchaji Fourth Division, who was commanding in Niuhuo Village. Let him immediately abandon the cattle and camel village and organize troops to block the attack layer by layer along the ridge. The limited troops cannot be consumed on the cattle and camel villages.

After receiving Yang Jicai's call, he actually knew that the current Niuhuo Village had no need to defend the commander of the Jinchaji Fourth Division, and he did not hesitate at all. After blowing up all the fortifications, organize the troops to cover alternately and pursue the Japanese troops behind them along the mountain beams. Their ultimate goal is the line of Wohu Mountain in the northeast corner of Taiyuan City.

At the same time, Yang Jicai also began to shrink his forces in the direction of Naoma. Organize troops to cover alternately, and shrink to the front line of Haojiagou one by one. The southern line abandoned the Shuangta Temple and the veteran barracks, and withdrew all the troops to Taiyuan Nanguan. Yang Jicai is preparing to smash the pot and sell iron, shrinking all his forces to the last line of defense around Taiyuan City, and has already begun to plan for the worst.

Under the situation that the whole front began to shrink its forces, Yang Jicai's counterattack on the front of Jianzi Bay did not dare to decline in the slightest. At present, the gains and losses of the first line of Jianziwan are not only related to the safety of the Tongpu Railway, but even to whether or not the troops on the southern front can be withdrawn when necessary.

Jianziwan, a small village between the Taiyuan Basin and Dongshan, is not large in terms of population or scale. At this time, I didn't know that because of my location, I had become the focus of the entire Taiyuan battlefield and even the Shanxi battlefield.

Although the troops invested by both sides are only at the battalion level. But it is this battalion-level battle that is related to the survival of both sides. The troops who put in a counterattack by the Anti-United Nations, under the cover of tanks, although the first wave of the offensive broke into the village of Jianziwan. However, under the situation of insufficient follow-up troops, the open breakthrough was quickly re-blocked by the Japanese troops on both flanks, and they could only organize resistance on the spot.

Of the three tanks that cooperated in the battle, one was destroyed at the entrance of the village. The remaining two tanks did not break through alone according to Yang Jicai's order, but left the village to cooperate with the encircled troops to hold out in the village. With his own firepower, he cooperated with a platoon in the village to make trouble in the village.

The company commander commanded the troops and fought quite bravely in the village. Under the circumstance that the rear road was cut off, instead of advancing and retreating, they used their own individual firepower superiority and under the cover of two tanks to start an offensive battle with the Japanese army. The Japanese defense system in the village was rushed into a mess.

The actions of this company commander in the village attracted most of the Japanese troops, and they besieged it without interruption. But in the face of such a favorable shape, Yang Jicai was unable to mobilize troops at the moment to use the fighter planes to recapture the first line of Jianzi Bay in one go. At this moment, even if he is a platoon of troops, he can no longer be withdrawn.

However, although the troops on the ground are already stretched, Yang Jicai has taken advantage of the artillery firepower. After determining the general location of the Japanese heavy artillery position, the two long-range howitzers he temporarily modified were fired rapidly, and the two 105 howitzers of the Japanese army quickly died down.

It's just that under the high-intensity firing, the gun mount, which was not of very good quality, was shaken and scattered, and became a pile of useless scrap metal. The only fortunate thing was that the gun carriage fell apart, but the barrel was not too damaged. Installed back on your own gun mount, you can barely use it.

However, even if these two 105 heavy guns are suppressed, it does not mean that the current tension can be fundamentally alleviated, but only the threat to other directions can be reduced. On the contrary, after destroying these two howitzers, the Japanese turned more artillery fire to the line of Scissors Bay. Only the field artillery, according to Yang Jicai's judgment, put two squadrons into it.

The mountain artillery company that suppressed the depth of the Japanese army, under the blow of the overwhelming artillery fire of the Japanese army, was simply unable to complete the task of suppressing the depth of the Japanese army and blocking the reinforcements of the Japanese army as explained by the superiors. On the contrary, because of the maximum range of 6,000 meters, he suffered heavy losses in the artillery battle.

The company's four 41-type mountain guns were blown up in the artillery battle, and three of them were blown up. And that infantry artillery company, even with the mortars on the flanks, was powerless for the Japanese artillery fire in depth. At this moment, all the firepower was pressed on the cannon company of the Anti-United Nations.

This undoubtedly made the artillery company, which was responsible for most of the fire suppression tasks at the moment, seem to be a little in a hurry. However, even though the troops occupied an absolute disadvantage, the artillery company still relied on its high rate of fire and large range to still not fall behind in the artillery battle. In particular, the extremely high muzzle velocity made the Japanese artillery in front of him almost defenseless.

The entire line of Scissors Bay was razed to the ground by the artillery fire of the enemy and us. But the artillery fire on both sides apparently avoided a single location, the Tongpu Railway. The Japanese artillery, which had advanced to the east of Jiaozi Bay, concentrated its fire on the anti-union artillery on the eastern city wall and forcibly suppressed it, but not a single shell fell on the Tongpu railway.

Yang Jicai needed to keep the Tongpu railway for the time being so that he could evacuate if necessary. However, the Japanese army did not destroy the Tongpu Railway, and obviously planned to continue to use the Tongpu Railway to transport materials, equipment and personnel to the north after the end of this battle. Therefore, the shells on both sides deliberately avoided the Tongpu railway. Despite the obvious goal of the railway, not a single shell landed on the Tongpu line during the battle.

Although the Tongpu Railway has never been destroyed, it does not mean that Yang Jicai's pressure has been reduced in the slightest. The superiority of artillery will not solve the dilemma on the ground. Under the condition that the counterattack could not make progress for a long time, Yang Jicai, who knew that the worst had come, secretly gave Su Yingqi in the south of the city an order to prepare for evacuation. He also had to make a phone call to the commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division, and began to make arrangements for the general retreat.

In fact, everyone knows at this moment that if the first line of Scissors Bay cannot be taken back, not only the first line of Dongshan will be difficult to defend. Moreover, the entire Taiyuan City was under internal and external attacks, and it was impossible to defend it at all. It's not even a question of whether they can hold out in the last 24 hours, it's a question of whether the anti-Japanese alliance and the troops in the area around Taiyuan City can get out.

The unusually tense nature of the shape shì made all the troops already start to prepare for the worst. The commander of the 8th Division, who was in charge of supporting the final retreat of the troops in the north of the city, secretly told the director of the 8th Division's political department, who was in charge of the final dismantling, after receiving a report on the enemy's situation. Once the first line of Wohu Mountain, Haojiagou, and Jianziwan was broken through by the Japanese army, the dismantling work was immediately stopped, and all the dismantled and undismantled equipment was blown up.

The commander and political commissar of the Eighth Division is ready to really break the cauldron at this moment. He thought that if I couldn't get it, you wouldn't think about it. In the case of a sharp deterioration of the shape, several trains are in danger of not being able to evacuate. Directly ordered to blow up all the equipment and the train when it was really impossible to carry these behemoths away. Not a single rivet, a steel plate is not left for the Japanese either.