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Chapter 1,533: The Army Arrives in Taiyuan (please vote for me)

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    Li Guoyao saw the current enemy situation very clearly. The Japanese army did not want to lose the Shanxi battlefield, but also wanted to continue to expand the occupied area and attack Shaanxi and other places. Now they had to withdraw their troops from the Henan battlefield, and they must be extremely unwilling to do so.

    In addition, the Lingbao operation did not achieve the planned results, and it can be said that it left a mess. In this case, the situation on the entire battlefield is still relatively favorable for the national army.

    Therefore, Li Guoyao ordered the main force of his department not to care about the Japanese army returning to Shanxi to aid, and to go all out to capture Taiyuan City.

    Following Li Guoyao's order, the frontline National Army troops once again increased their offensive intensity.

    On the Yuanping front line, after three days of bloody battles, the Chinese army finally defeated the defenders in front of them and occupied Yuanping town.

    After occupying Naoxian and Yuanping, the Central Route Army immediately went south, preparing to capture Xinkou in one fell swoop to support the battle in the direction of Taiyuan.

    On June 8, the troops of the Central Route Army of the Ninth Army gathered near Yuanping.

    Xie Baojun organized You Keyong's first brigade into the right wing, and the second brigade and artillery regiment into the left wing, and began to attack the Xinkou position on the 9th.

    However, due to the Wutai Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain blocking the two flanks, the Chinese army could only adopt the strategy of breaking through in the middle and launch a fierce attack on the Nan Huaihua position stationed by the Japanese army and the Yanzhuang position of the left wing corps.

    The battle started at six o'clock in the morning on the 9th, and by about 10 o'clock, the fortifications along the river in Nanhuaihua were destroyed, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

    The Ninth Army took the opportunity to cross the river and break through the Nanhuaihua position.

    Unwilling to fail, the Japanese army immediately dispatched two brigades of elite troops for reinforcements. In addition, more than 4,000 puppet troops from the Shanxi Communist Suppression Army also entered the battle to join forces to attack the intruding National Army troops.

    The fierce fighting lasted all day long, and the Ninth Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in each department, but failed to conquer the southeastern highlands of southern Huaihua.

    However, the troops attacking Yanzhuang made a breakthrough. By dusk, the troops had broken through the defenders' forward positions and wiped out more than 2,000 enemies.

    However, that night, the Japanese army organized troops to launch a counterattack against the Jiujiu Army in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the national army troops that broke into the front line.

    At two o'clock in the morning, after the counterattack began, the 63rd Division, the main force of the Japanese army, used five brigades, plus a large number of artillery and tanks to coordinate operations to counterattack the Chinese army in Gongjiazhuang, north of Huaihua in the south.

    Xie Baojun was caught off guard because he did not expect that the Japanese army would dare to counterattack. At 7 a.m., Gongjiazhuang was captured by the Japanese army. The defenders suffered heavy casualties. A regiment commander and four battalion commanders of the 194th Division were killed.

    After receiving the news from the front line, Xie Baojun was furious and immediately ordered Yu Keyong's troops to counterattack at all costs and strive to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army.

    Subsequently, You Keyong's headquarters concentrated an artillery regiment and the technical arms of an air defense regiment, and then transferred 6 battalions of the main infantry from the main force of the headquarters, all of which went into battle to counterattack from Xiangwangzhuang to Gongjiazhuang.  .

    The Japanese army is also extremely tenacious, because behind them is Xinkou. Once the position is recaptured by the Chinese army again, Xinkou will not be protected.

    The troops on the Nationalist side also received death orders. The battle for Taiyuan was in full swing. If they could capture Xinkou before Japanese reinforcements arrived, they would be able to block the Japanese reinforcements mobilized from the Hebei battlefield.

    The battle is extremely fierce.

    During the battle, You Keyong personally went to the front line to command the battle, but was bombed by Japanese fighter planes. In the chaos, an aerial bomb exploded near him.

    Although the guards protected him in time, Youkeyong was still seriously injured and had to withdraw from the position.

    Xie Baojun then moved his headquarters from Yuanping Town to the front-line position and personally directed the battle.

    When the Chinese army counterattacked the Japanese army near Nan Huaihua, the Japanese army also increased its troops to counterattack towards Nan Huaihua. The fighting was very fierce.

    After a day of fierce fighting, the Nanhuaihua position was occupied by the Japanese army again.

    After a day of fierce fighting, the right-wing regiment suppressed the Japanese troops from the east bank of the Hutuo River to the foot of Lingshan Mountain on the 10th; the left-wing regiment captured the old training village at dawn and encountered Japanese reinforcements who counterattacked and fought fiercely all day long, leading to a confrontation.

    When the fighting in the direction of Xinkou was at its fiercest, the West Route Army also began its attack on Taiyuan City.

    After the troops captured Gujiao during the day on the 8th, Jiang Feng did not order the troops to continue marching eastward.

    Firstly, after days of marching and fighting, everyone was very tired and in urgent need of rest.

    Secondly, the front line of the headquarters is relatively long. From Kelan to Gujiao, the distance is a full 200 kilometers. This is a test for the army's supplies and ammunition supply, so if you want to attack Taiyuan City, you have to wait for the follow-up.  The troops are coming.

    More importantHowever, Li Guoyao's command did not have air superiority and would inevitably be intercepted by Japanese aviation during the day, so the attack could only be carried out at night.

    Even so, throughout the day on the 8th, the Japanese army dispatched 7 fighter planes totaling more than 200 sorties to Gujiao to bomb Gujiao City.

    Of course, the purpose of the Japanese army was not just to prevent the Chinese army from marching to Taiyuan, but mainly to find traces of the Chinese armored forces and then completely destroy them.

    Therefore, on the 8th, the small town of Gujiao was bombarded by the Japanese army. In less than a day, hundreds of tons of aerial bombs were dropped on this small town, and the entire city was bombed into a mess.

    However, the little Japanese didn't get it, and the Chinese air defense force was not a freeloader. The two sides fought 7 consecutive ground-to-air battles. In the end, a total of 13 Japanese fighter planes were shot down and 8 were damaged. The losses were indescribable.  Not small.

    Of course, the losses on the national army's side were also extremely heavy. One-third of the weapons and equipment of the air defense regiment were destroyed, and more than 400 soldiers were lost, accounting for more than a quarter of the total strength.

    After the sun went down, the Japanese fighter planes returned home. Under Jiang Feng's order, the main force of the national army on the west route immediately assembled outside Gujiao City, and then headed eastward, approaching Taiyuan.

    Gujiao is only 40 kilometers away from Taiyuan, and the road is all downhill. Whether it is cavalry or infantry, the marching speed is very fast.

    Especially the chariot troops arrived outside Taiyuan City in less than an hour.

    The reason why it was so smooth was not only that the traffic conditions on this line were good, but more importantly, the Japanese army also knew that the terrain of this line was high in the west and low in the east, and there was no way to block it. Therefore, after discussion, Major General Shangang Martial Arts and others decided to attack Taiyuan City in Taiyuan City.  Defend the city externally by relying on city fortifications.

    Without the enemy to cause trouble or blockage, Jiang Feng and others were naturally very fast.

    At nine o'clock in the evening, all the cavalry units of the national army arrived outside Taiyuan City, and then under Jiang Feng's order, the siege began.

    Taiyuan is the provincial capital of Shanxi. It is located at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin. The Tongpu Railway and the Zhengtai Railway intersect here. It is the political, military, economic and cultural center of the province. It is also one of the important industrial bases in North China and has been a strategic military location since ancient times.  .

    After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army listed Shanxi as the focus of the North China campaign and wanted to attack Shanxi Province along the Pingsui, Pinghan, and Zhengtai Railways. To this end, Yan Xishan actively organized the Taiyuan Battle in an attempt to protect the provincial capital Taiyuan.

    Based on the need to "defend the homeland and resist the war," they even accepted Yan'an's proposal for a "joint anti-Japanese war" and eventually took the lead in establishing the anti-Japanese national united front in Jin Province. Based on this, three combat divisions of the Eighth Route Army were able to go to the Shanxi anti-Japanese front line one after another.

    At the same time, Yan repeatedly requested the central government to quickly dispatch capable Chinese troops to assist Shanxi in resisting the Japanese. In order to avert the crisis, the Nationalist Government focused on ensuring the key areas of Shanxi and decided to use troops exclusively on the Pinghan-Han line. Chiang personally ordered Wei Lihuang to lead the army.  Commanding four and a half divisions, they concentrated from Shijiazhuang to the north of Taiyuan overnight.  In addition, Gao Guizi's 17th Army, Liu Maoen's 15th Army and other troops successively supported the Shanxi Anti-Japanese War.

    But the Japanese army was too powerful. China and Japan fought fiercely in Shanxi for several months, and finally ended with the Japanese army capturing Taiyuan City.

    However, six years have passed, and now another war is about to start outside Taiyuan City. However, the situation between the enemy and ourselves has changed fundamentally. The originally arrogant Japanese army has become the defensive side, while the Chinese army has become the offensive side. In fact,  It's sad.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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