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At this time, the strongholds outside Taiyuan City had basically been abandoned by Okamura Neiji, which allowed the armored troops to occupy Taiyuan City with almost no effort.
Even the highway from Taiyuan City to southern Shanxi was occupied by their armored forces.
Hundreds of thousands of troops have already surrounded the entire Taiyuan City.
After surrounding Taiyuan City, Xia Yang was not in a hurry to attack.
His troops have been fighting continuously for nearly a month and need a certain degree of rest and recuperation.
And from a time point of view, launching a fierce attack on Taiyuan City after three to five days will also be an invisible pressure on the psychology of the defenders in Taiyuan City.
It was as if a knife was placed on their necks. None of them knew when the knife would slit their throats.
They live in fear all the time.
This is a kind of psychological pressure. Although it usually does not show up, it is indeed a huge torture to the human spirit.
Okamura Neji stood on the top of the city, looking at the enemy's flags flying all over the field outside the city.
He knew that he was in a truly desperate situation.
North China seems to have strategically given up on Shanxi. Especially after hearing how huge their losses were.
If troops are transferred from the southern Shanxi area, they will collapse faster in Shanxi.
Because at this time, the southern Shanxi region was also caught in a bitter fight.
Although the combat effectiveness of the national army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain is not very good, they can still contain the strength of the two Japanese divisions.
The remaining Japanese troops were attacked in turn by He Changxing, Wei Xing, and Qiu Guoping's troops, and they were already unable to hold on.
"General, the enemy has blocked our passage to southern Shanxi. More than five thousand people are blocked on the road there." A Japanese army staff officer ran over and informed Okamura of the latest enemy movements. Neji.
Okamura Neiji said: "I understand. Order all troops to retreat to Taiyuan City. Without my order, no one is allowed to attack without permission. Anyone who disobeys the order will be shot on the spot."
"yes!!"
He has completely given up on peripheral defense.
In the face of the torrent of enemy armor, if their infantry does not have both fortifications and barracks, they will simply go head-to-head with these armored units.
Xia Yang is determined to win Taiyuan City. What he wants is not only such a city, but also various industrial facilities in the city.
There are countless coals under the strata of Shanxi. Coal is the driving force of industrial development.
In Taiyuan City at this time, the Japanese established many factories in the two years they occupied Taiyuan. Among them are coal power plants and some steel plants.
Xia Yang has already made a plan. Once Taiyuan City is captured, he will build a relatively complete industrial production system in the entire Shanxi region.
Under this production system, they can not only obtain a complete weapons production and manufacturing assembly line, but also greatly change the lives of local people.
This is a piece of fat meat. After taking down the city of Taiyuan, southern Shanxi is also in the bag. When the time comes, his troops can even covet the northern Henan region.
As long as the time is right, it is only a matter of time before we break out of Shanxi and regain the large areas of lost land in North China.
When he thought of this, Xia Yang couldn't help but feel his heart surge.
At this time in Taiyuan City, the people vaguely heard the news from outside.
Although the city is blocked, they all know that this time their Chinese army may really come to rescue them.
This caused the entire people of Taiyuan City to maintain a tacit silence.
In order to prevent anyone from sneaking in, the Japanese army conducted door-to-door searches throughout Taiyuan City. As long as a suspicious person was found, they would shoot and kill them without any interrogation at all.
This method of search was bloody and terrifying. In just two days, nearly a thousand people died under the gunfire of the Japanese army.
In the early morning of the third day, the soldiers from both sides, who had been confronting each other for two full days, finally ended their silence.
In the early morning, the Japanese troops stationed on the walls of Taiyuan City looked at the black line in the distance and knew that the enemy troops, which had been dormant for two full days, were about to launch an attack on them.
Although the black line is still several kilometers away from the city wall where they are stationed,?. But it already gives people a very strong sense of oppression.
This feeling made them subconsciously tighten their nerves, and then shouted: "The enemy is preparing to attack, go and inform the general immediately."
They were shouting, and a sharp whistling sound came from far away, and they were close to them in the blink of an eye.
Hearing that roar, the Japanese troops on the city wall knew that the enemy had begun to shell them.
They immediately lay down behind the battlements and hid themselves.
Xia Yang's howitzer regiment began to bombard the walls of Taiyuan City.
Hundreds of large-caliber artillery pieces, as well as hundreds of mountain cannons and field artillery pieces, simultaneously launched a fierce bombardment on the walls of Taiyuan City.
Those 155-caliber howitzers deliberately used armor-piercing projectiles when bombarding, so as to cause maximum damage to the city wall.
The city wall of Taiyuan City is high and thick. Under the first round of artillery bombardment, the entire city wall did not suffer much damage.
But then, the second and third rounds of bombardment followed.
Under the fierce bombardment, the entire city wall of Taiyuan City began to shake, as if it might collapse at any time.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers on the city wall had realized that something was wrong. The battlements were no longer able to protect them, and they all began to retreat beneath the walls.
Under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire, Xia Yang's armored troops and infantry troops had begun to take advantage of the cover of artillery fire to approach the wall of Taiyuan City.
Okamura Neiji was on top of a church in Taiyuan City, looking at the city wall shrouded in artillery fire. His face became more solemn.
This further strengthened his idea that if he really couldn't hold on, he would choose to break out of the encirclement and withdraw from Taiyuan City, or even have his troops withdraw from Shanxi and enter the northern Henan region.
¡°Boom!!!¡±
A loud noise was heard, and the walls of Taiyuan City collapsed.
The shells that struck the city successfully shattered the masonry into pieces, causing the wall to collapse.
Seeing this scene, the Japanese troops stationed at the city gate immediately panicked.
Because this part can be destroyed by cannonballs, it means that other parts of the city wall can also be destroyed.
When the walls on their side are blown down to a width of several hundred meters, these walls will lose their original function. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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