A large number of unidentified troops, armed with a large number of tanks and trucks, rushed across the Fenhe Bridge and forcibly interspersed with the industrial zone northeast of Taiyuan City. Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was in the headquarters of the First Army, trembled slightly in his heart and hurried to the northeast city wall.

Originally, when he heard the word tank, he already had a certain judgment in his heart. After only observing the outside for five minutes, he accurately judged that the army that rushed out of Guanshui Mountain was not the Eighth Route Army, let alone the Jin Sui Army or the Central Army, but his old opponent in the northeast, the Anti-Union Army.

Outside the city, under the cover of tanks, with standard anti-union tactics, using a large number of small-caliber direct aim firepower to eliminate his peripheral fortification group troops. Lieutenant General Yoshimoto was stunned as he listened to the sound of a typical three-shot automatic rifle, the dull explosion of recoilless shells and rocket launchers, and the dull explosion when colliding with a pillbox.

Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto can swear that the two types of firearms, which will fire behind the buttocks as soon as they are fired, and the lethality of the fortification group at close range is almost 100% direct-aim firearms, and they are definitely the so-called bazookas and recoilless guns equipped with anti-joint equipment. In addition to the standard anti-union tactics and all steel helmets, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who is already quite familiar with the anti-United Nations, thinks that he will never admit his mistake.

Despite the German-made steel helmets worn on the heads of these troops, it is easy to mistake them for the Central Army of China, which was once equipped with a large number of German-made steel helmets. But in terms of weapons, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had a lot of dealings with the Anti-Japanese Union in the Kwantung Army, thought that he would never make a mistake in judgment.

And less than half an hour after the battle really started, they rushed to the anti-coalition forces under the city of Yinghuimen. It made Yoshimoto Sadachi gasp. Hell, aren't they fighting on the same front in northern Jin? How did they bypass the northern front and emerge from the west bank of the Fen River?

This Datong fortification group, although the density and number are sufficient. However, most of these fortification groups were built to prevent the counteroffensive of the second theater of war in China. Because of the difference in the opponent's firepower, its fortification process cannot be compared with the fortification groups and fortified areas built by the Kwantung Army in Manchuria.

These fortification groups are not prepared for these anti-union forces armed to the teeth at all. In addition to the lack of troops in their own hands, how can this battle be fought? With such a big Taiyuan City, how can you defend it by relying on the troops you have at hand now? The key is that when the imperial army attacked Taiyuan before, the city wall that was beaten very dilapidated has not been repaired so far.

In fact, Yoshimoto Sadachi's reaction was quite fast. As early as after receiving the report that Jingle and Lanxian had lost contact, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who already felt that something was wrong, ordered martial law in Taiyuan City and prepared for battle. Most of the outlying strongholds were abandoned by him. The defenders who have been brought back will hold the walls with all their might.

Just before the troops commanded by Yang Jicai arrived at the Baijiazhuang line, he even withdrew the defenders of Dongshan and Xishan to Taiyuan City, as well as focusing on the Niuhuzhai and Wohu Mountain in the northeast, and the Shuangta Temple and Dayingpan stronghold on the south side of Taiyuan. In order to concentrate forces and defend Taiyuan City with all their might.

But no matter how quick he reacted, the forces he could mobilize were really limited. Most of the original defenders around Taiyuan have been transferred north by the front army to reinforce the Datong battlefield. Even if he had transferred all the Japanese troops from Gujiao, Qingyuan, and Jinyuan back to the city in advance, in addition to the puppet army, the Japanese army in the entire Taiyuan City was only four and a half infantry squadrons, plus the Taiyuan Military Police Squadron and the Japanese Mine Police.

Although there were a lot of puppet troops in Taiyuan City, the main force of the Xingya Yellow Army was 3,000 people, and the puppet Shanxi suppressed a division of the Communist Army of 2,000 people. Coupled with the railway garrison and the Taiyuan garrison regiment, the total number of people is nearly 10,000. Moreover, the equipment is relatively sophisticated, and all of them are Shanxi Zao infantry machine guns manufactured by the Japanese army when they fought with the Jin Sui army.

It's just that although these puppet troops are strictly controlled by the Japanese army in the name of advisers, and some of the officers of the puppet army are even directly served by Cao Chang, who was sent by the Japanese army. But Yoshimoto was well aware that these forces were not reliable. In the northeastern battlefield, the puppet Manchu army trained by the Kwantung Army once the battle situation was lost, there was a large-scale mutiny.

The credibility of these imperial armies in Shanxi can only be lower in Yoshimoto's eyes, and it will definitely not be higher. On the contrary, it was the plainclothes team formed by the traitors of the Eighth Route Army, because the reliability of the problem of the back road was still stronger. As for the strong men who were brought in, it's just three words.

When fighting a tailwind battle and having Japanese troops behind them to supervise the battle, these puppet troops can still rely on pillboxes to barely resist. If the war is unfavorable, there is a high probability that there will be a large-scale backlash. Therefore, although the anti-Japanese alliance did not have many troops, Yoshimoto did not dare to rely on the puppet army to defend the city.

And this Sadaichi also knows very well that he relies on these guys to defend the city. Even if it looks like there is a surplus of troops to resist the United Nations now, it is difficult to hold it. Therefore, after the loss of contact with Cuba, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who felt more and more that something was wrong, immediately sent a report to the North China Front for help. and carried out a general mobilization of the expatriates in the city, arming thousands of expatriates.

Even the technicians and managers sent to Taiyuan by various Japanese trading companies that relied on the support of the Japanese army to forcibly annex the major industrial and mining enterprises in Taiyuan to manage the factories were temporarily recruited by him and sent to the city wall to serve as defense. As for the factory, it doesn't matter if it's temporarily shut down for a few days.

However, Yoshimoto Sadachi did not expect that at present, the first division of the Shanxi Communist Army and one and a half squadrons of the Japanese army in the two key points of the northeast of Taiyuan were ignored and went straight to the Yinghui Gate after bypassing the northern city wall. As soon as the cannon sounded at Yinghui Gate, he immediately understood that the idea of the Anti-Japanese Union was to attack the city directly.

As for the combat effectiveness of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who fought with it many times during his tenure as chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and suffered repeated defeats, was very clear. I know that although the Taiyuan city wall is tall, it is difficult to hold it. Just let him withdraw without a fight, as the commander of the First Army, this is almost impossible. Even if it was symbolic resistance, he had to carry it out.

Coming down from the city walls, Yoshimoto Sadachi immediately sent a second telegram to the North China Front requesting reinforcements. And sent a telegram to the independent 4th Mixed Brigade stationed in Yangquan, asking them to reinforce Taiyuan at any cost. As for this independent mixed Fourth Brigade, the troops of the Taihang Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, which are now besieged from all sides, have been divided into dozens of pieces from Yuci to Niangziguan, and they are asking him for help.

Anyway, the current Zhengtai Railway has been paralyzed. In the destruction, it is not bad to go there. If the dignified headquarters of the First Army is taken away by others and the first provincial capital of the North China Front Army is lost, then this fun will be too great. It is estimated that if he can't do it well, he will become the first army commander to die on the battlefield of China.

At the same time, the telegram ordered Lieutenant General Qing Shui, commander of the 41st Division, who was still fighting with the troops of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, that a wing must arrive in Taiyuan within 10 hours. As for the order of the Front Army to order the 41st Division to immediately go north to participate in the Taiyuan Battlefield Battle, it is no longer something that Yoshimoto Sadachi can consider at this moment.

In fact, although Lieutenant General Yoshimoto had a keen sense of smell, he obviously made a big mistake when he was deployed. If he hadn't transferred all the Japanese squadrons stationed in Gujiao back in advance, leaving only the pseudo-Cuban traffic police garrison brigade stationed there, he might have known about this roundabout action of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Knowing that the credibility of these imperial alliance armies was not high, Yoshimoto Sadachi still handed over several county towns outside Taiyuan to these puppet armies. He really thought that a few advisers, without the Japanese army behind him, could really control these puppet troops firmly in their hands under the unfavorable situation of the war? Without the dog-beating stick in his hand, these dogs raised by the Japanese army would not be so honest and obedient.

Because after receiving the report that Jingle and Lanxian had lost contact, he didn't expect that it would be the Anti-Japanese Union in the north, and Yoshimoto Sadachi, who went straight to Taiyuan in the northwest of Jin, remembered the large-scale so-called 100-regiment battle in North China conducted by the 18th Group Army the year before last.

Lanxian lost contact with Jingle, he thought that the troops of the Jinsui Military Region of the Eighteenth Group Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province, in order to cooperate with the anti-union on the Datong battlefield in the north, repeated the action the year before last, in order to contain the Japanese army and disperse the forces of the First Army, so that it could not fully reinforce the Datong battlefield. In his opinion, those puppet troops faced the dilapidated Tuba Road, relying on the fortification group under the supervision of Japanese advisers, there was no problem in holding the county seat and strongholds.

As a result, he didn't expect that it was not the dirt road in his eyes at all. The puppet army under his command had long been frightened when they saw the mechanized troops that were rampaging all the way. Some tied up Japanese advisers as a welcome gift. Some simply killed them directly, and came to a battlefield anyway. Not only did it not work, but it also guided Yoshimoto Sadachi's judgment on a certain course.

Even if he was in Gujiao and Baijiazhuang, leaving only a small team of troops, he would not wait until the anti-United Nations troops had rushed across the Fenhe Bridge to find out, at least there would still be time to blow up the Fenhe Bridge. If he can blow up the Fenhe Bridge before Yang Jicai's troops arrive, then Yang Jicai will at least stay on the west bank of the Fenhe River for a considerable period of time.

At present, the Fen River is deep enough for Yang Jicai, who lacks equipment to cross the river, has a headache for a while. In this matter, the troops of the 8th Division are unlikely to be of much help. After all, under the noses of the Japanese army, it was impossible to transport the equipment for building the bridge to the banks of the Fen River. Even if Yang Jicai's department carried a company of engineers, he still had the necessary equipment in the Baijiazhuang coal mine.

But it was not so easy to build a temporary bridge large enough to pass through the tanks under the fire of the Japanese army's western wall. What's more, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was moving too fast, had already received all the ferries to the east bank of the river. It's just that Yoshimoto Sadachi was in a hurry to shrink his forces to guard against Taiyuan and the Tongpu Railway, but he left a gap.

He thought that with the deployment of two squads on the Fenhe Bridge, he would be able to face those dirt roads with the support of the Taiyuan City fire behind him, and there would be no problem in holding the bridge. The Fenhe Bridge, which connects Taiyuan with the mountainous area of western Shanxi, is located in a very advantageous geographical location. It can directly rely on the fire support of the fortification group in the west of the city, and the bridgehead itself is also built with a strong fortification group.

Unexpectedly, before his two squads could fire their machine guns, they were crushed by the fire of the tanks rushing at high speed and the flat-firing self-propelled anti-aircraft guns covering behind them. His fortifications were beaten into a hornet's nest by the tank's 40-millimeter guns firing at close range.

Some Japanese fortifications were even crushed by this tank of nearly 20 tons. The Japanese troops inside, together with their fortifications, were covered by fire from the western city wall, on which he had high hopes, and were hit by the double 23 anti-aircraft guns on their own anti-aircraft guns, and they could not even lift their heads.

The battle for the Fenhe Bridge ended so quickly that there was no time left for the Japanese to plant the explosives. The entire Fenhe Bridge, in less than ten minutes, was intact, and even a steel nail fell into Yang Jicai's hands. The most important passage was opened for his next move.

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