"Reporting to the commander, the troops of the 37th Division and the 33rd Division outside the city have been crushed by the Empire. Lieutenant General Adachi Twenty-three and Lieutenant General Sakurai Shosan request urgent tactical guidance..."
In the operations hall, the communications staff officer of the First Army reported to the commander Yoshio Iwamatsu in a hurried tone.
These two divisions sent a telegram requesting urgent tactical guidance every hour.
Although the communications staff officer was only a staff officer, he had little to do with the defeat of the 37th Division and the 33rd Division.
But there were nearly 30,000 Locust Army soldiers. If they were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, the communications staff would also be very sad.
Several combat officers on the side were also a little stunned after hearing this. The Eighth Route Army's offensive and strength were much stronger than imagined.
Hanatani Masaru and Yamamoto Kazuki looked ugly.
Iwamatsu Yoshio's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
The locust troops outside the cities of Yangquan and Shouyang were surrounded by more than 100,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army, and it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out.
However, Iwamatsu Yoshio and others did not expect that the locust army outside Yangquan and Shouyang cities would be wiped out so quickly by the Eighth Route Army.
It will take time for the 33rd Division and the 37th Division to send telegrams.
This means that during breakfast time in the morning, the troops of the 37th Division and the 33rd Division outside the city had already been wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
That’s more than 10,000 locust troops!
Even if there were more than 10,000 pigs, the Eighth Route Army would not kill them all so quickly, right?
The two elite divisions of the Japanese First Army were so bullied by the Eighth Route Army.
Yoshio Iwamatsu was angry and aggrieved, but there was nothing he could do.
Even reinforcements did not dare to be sent to reinforce the 33rd and 37th Divisions.
Reinforcements would have to be useful if at least one division was sent there, but after the 41st Division was sent there, Taiyuan was left empty.
The main force of the 60,000 Eighth Route Army on the Taigu defense line will definitely take advantage of Taiyuan's lack of troops to attack Taiyuan.
However, what frightened Yoshio Iwamatsu even more was that once the 33rd Division and the 37th Division were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, the Shotai Railway would also fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.
Then Taiyuan would become an isolated city, and the remaining strength of the First Army would not be able to defend Taiyuan no matter what.
"This move of the Eighth Route Army is really powerful."
Yoshio Iwamatsu praised the Eighth Route Army, but his expression was gritted teeth, with ferocity and murderous intent on his face.
"Your Majesty Commander, what's wrong?"
Hanatani was standing behind Yoshio Iwamatsu and asked in confusion without seeing Yoshio Iwamatsu's expression.
The 33rd Division and the 37th Division were almost wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. Your Excellency, the Commander, is still praising the Eighth Route Army. Could it be that Your Excellency, the Commander, was frightened by the Eighth Route Army?
However, Yamamoto Kazuki's expression changed, as if he had thought of something.
Yoshio Iwamatsu said through gritted teeth.
"The Eighth Route Army's strategic goal from the beginning was definitely to eliminate the 33rd and 37th Divisions, and deliberately released intelligence about massing heavy troops to attack Taiyuan, so as to attract all the attention of the Locust Army to Taiyuan."
"Then, 40,000 troops and a large-scale artillery force were dispatched north to attack the 1st Division stationed in Datong."
"Let the Locust Army mistakenly believe that the Eighth Route Army's real strategic target is the 1st Division, attracting the North China Front Army to send troops for reinforcements."
"Then the main force of the new regiment quietly went south from Wutai Mountain and Beitahang area, and together with the main force of the 129th Division of the Southeast Shanxi Eighth Route Army, they ate up the 33rd Division and the 37th Division in one go."
"This set of combat plans is simply perfect, a chain of tricks, a plan within a plan."
As an opponent of the Eighth Route Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu wanted to chop off the heads of all the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
But he had to admit that the Eighth Route Army's strategic plan this time was indeed brilliant.
The real strategic goals of the Eighth Route Army were not predicted at all.
Yamamoto Kazuki did predict it, but he didn't fully predict it.
Yamamoto predicted that the Eighth Route Army would attack Taiyuan and eliminate the headquarters of the First Army. He did not expect that the Eighth Route Army's strategic targets were the 33rd Division and the 37th Division.
In fact, this is not to blame Yamamoto. Yamamoto was not very clear about the strategy implemented by the Eighth Route Army.
The strategy of the Eighth Route Army is generally to encircle the cities from the countryside.
Even during the Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army first liberated other cities in Shanxi and then concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Taiyuan.
If you want to attack Taiyuan, you must first deal with the Japanese troops around Taiyuan so that you don't have to worry about anything later.
Hua Guzheng said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, Commander, once the 33rd Division and the 37th Division are eliminated, Taiyuan and our First Army Headquarters will be in a dangerous situation."
"The First Army will not be in danger for the time being." Yamamoto Kazuki said solemnly, "When the Eighth Route Army has eliminated the 33rd Division and the 37th Division, reinforcements from the North China Front should arrive, and the Eighth Route Army should not forcefully attack Taiyuan. This way
It will cause a lot of casualties to the Eighth Route Army. But next time, the Eighth Route Army is very likely to attack Taiyuan, and we must prepare early to strengthen Taiyuan's defense."
Yoshio Iwamatsu glanced at Yamamoto Kazuki expressionlessly.
Next time?
Once the 33rd Division and the 37th Division were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, I, as the commander of the First Army, would never be able to take advantage of them.
Either he had to have his belly opened to apologize, or he would be stripped of his hat as commander of the First Army.
Yoshio Iwamatsu sighed: "Let's pass this level first and then talk about it."
He built Taiyuan like an iron barrel, with abundant troops and combat supplies, and solid defenses. In addition to thickened reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers, there were also many reverse slopes and tunnel fortifications.
Although the Eighth Route Army has more troops and stronger firepower, it is only a matter of time before Taiyuan is captured by the Eighth Route Army.
But Taiyuan could definitely cause tens of thousands of casualties to the Eighth Route Army.
However, the Eighth Route Army was not fooled, but prioritized the 33rd and 37th Divisions.
Hua Guzheng asked: "Your Excellency, Commander, since the strategic target of the Eighth Route Army is the Japanese 33rd Division and 37th Division, do you order the 14th Brigade and the 18th Brigade to transfer to Taiyuan?"
"No need!" Iwamatsu Yoshio waved his hand and said, "The artillery shells carried by the Eighth Route Army have been exhausted, and the Eighth Route Army's strategic target is the 33rd Division and the 37th Division, and will not attack the Taigu Defense Line again."
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Hua Gu was suddenly lowering his head.
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at noon.
Above the Taigu defense line.
A flying formation of eight fighter jets and bombers dispatched by the Japanese North China Front roared over.
The Eighth Route Army used a dense fire net composed of heavy machine guns, machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, forcing the Japanese planes not to dare to enter the dive position.
The Japanese pilot looked at the ground and saw the dense camouflage nets on the Eighth Route Army artillery positions, and could only sigh helplessly.
The order the Japanese pilots received was to destroy the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions.
But this firepower, let alone destroying it, is difficult to even get close to. With the dense air defense fire network of the Eighth Route Army, aircraft will be shot down once they get close.
As for suicide attacks by planes, it has not yet reached that point, and the North China Front Army Headquarters has not issued such an order.
Seeing that there was not much fuel left, the Japanese pilot was about to return to Peiping Airport.
suddenly.
One of the Japanese pilots discovered that a dense group of aircraft appeared in the northeastern sky.
"Captain, a large-scale aircraft was discovered in the northeast."
The Japanese pilot immediately used the radio to call the captain leading the formation.
"Koike-kun, is it the 1st Flying Division of the Kwantung Army who has come to reinforce us?"
Another Japanese pilot asked in a confused tone.
The Japanese captain Tetsuo Fukaya took a look with his binoculars, but did not see the plaster flag on the plane, and could not tell what type of plane it was. Suddenly his face changed drastically: "It's an enemy plane, please disperse immediately and break out!"
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However, Taro Koike looked at the group of aircraft with his telescope and found that they were all large transport aircraft, so he increased the throttle and flew towards the group of aircraft regardless.
Tetsuo Fukaya was about to pull the joystick to fly when he saw Taro Koike flying a Nakajima fighter jet directly towards the eastern group of aircraft. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Koike-kun, what are you going to do? Come back quickly!"
"Captain, the opponents are all transport aircraft, there is no need to be afraid, we can win!"
Taro Koike called on the radio with murderous intent.
"idiot!"
"Fight!"
Breathing out a deep breath, Tetsuo Fukaya pushed the joystick and followed Taro Koike towards the swarms of transport planes.
Several fighter jets nearby followed closely.
However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Before the Japanese aircraft could approach the transport aircraft, more than a dozen Saber jet fighters without propellers suddenly flew out from behind the transport aircraft and came to fight the Japanese aircraft.
After only two or three rounds of fighting, the Japanese's flight formation of eight fighter jets and bombers were all shot down.
The plane was blasted by a large-caliber cannon, and the pilot was shattered into pieces, falling to the ground in a flurry.
then.
Hundreds of large transport planes flew towards the Eighth Route Army's position.
At the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the division commander put down the telescope in his hand and smiled broadly.
Although the division commander had seen Boss Chen's transport planes and fighter jets several times at Yangcun Airport, this was the first time the division commander had seen Boss Chen's fighter jets fighting.
I have to say that the scene where Boss Chen’s fighter jet shot down the Japanese plane was picturesque.
The casualty ratio of 0 to 8 made the division commander's eyes look more and more full of expectations for this fighter jet.
Li Yunlong has already earned 16 of these Saber fighter jets, and they are waiting for delivery in June.
The chief of staff sounded happy: "Boss Chen's plane arrived early rather than by chance. Just as the Japanese plane was about to take off, Boss Chen's plane arrived. This Japanese plane also overestimated its capabilities. Don't you have any points for combat effectiveness? Japanese
What are you going to do with Boss Chen’s plane?”
After a pause, the chief of staff added: "Unfortunately, the Japanese aircraft shot down by Boss Chen's fighter jets are not included in the business, otherwise we would have obtained 24 75mm mountain cannons."
As the chief of staff of the 129th Division, he naturally knows some of the rules and prices of Li Yunlong's business with Boss Chen.
"It doesn't matter." The division commander pushed up his glasses and smiled, "It's just 24 mountain cannons."
As the transport plane lowered its altitude and flew over the heads of the Eighth Route Army, dense airdrops of supplies fell in the direction of the Eighth Route Army.
Pieces of airdropped supplies almost covered the entire blue sky.