my bright sword career

With the recovery of Xinkou and Niangziguan, the gates of Taiyuan were suddenly opened, and more than [-] troops surrounded Taiyuan in just a few days.

Before the army besieged the city, the people in Taiyuan City rushed to run out. After all, everyone knew that once a war broke out, the bullets would not have eyes, and staying in the city would be a dead end.

What puzzled many people was that the Japanese army in the city originally wanted to stop the large-scale escape of the people in Taiyuan City, but then Neiji Okamura personally issued an order to let them go.

Except for those old people who have nowhere to go and those who are hard to leave their homeland in the huge city of Taiyuan, everyone else has almost run away.

"Commander, is Gao Hongming's telegram true?" Yoshio Iwamatsu, commander of the First Army, asked unwillingly looking at Neji Okamura who was silent.

"I don't know." Facing Yoshio Iwamatsu who rushed into his office, Neiji Okamura did not care about his rudeness, but replied calmly.

Yoshio Yanmatsu said again: "Then why do you still allow those Chinese people to leave Taiyuan City? If we have these people in our hands, it is also a very good bargaining chip. At least it can force the Chinese people not to use heavy artillery to attack the city."

"Because I dare not gamble." Okamura Neji threw the telegram on the table.

"Gao Hongming has already said in the telegram that if we dare to use the people in Taiyuan City as bargaining chips in the war, he will send long-range bombers to bomb Tokyo, Daban and even Sasebo!

Yan Song-kun, even if the possibility is only half, but do you dare to bet? "

Yoshio Iwamatsu fell silent.

"Okay Iwamatsu-kun, I know you are very unwilling." Okamura Neiji's expression became serious: "But it concerns the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, and we can't be careless even if there is only the slightest possibility, do you understand?"

"Hi!"

Seeing that Neji Okamura even moved out with the emperor, if Yoshio Iwamatsu dared to beep again, Neji Okamura could even directly order him to be dismissed from his post, and send a report to the base camp to send him to a military court.

"Hi, I understand." Yoshio Iwamatsu shuddered and quickly bowed to Ningji Okamura.

Okamura Neiji's expression suddenly became fierce: "Go, you go to the periphery to supervise the battle in person, we can only win this battle and not lose!"

"Hi!"

Before the coalition forces arrived, tens of thousands of troops from the 110th and 115th Divisions of the Japanese Army who were in charge of defending Taiyuan City had already built fortifications everywhere in Taiyuan City, and hundreds of blockhouses and semi-permanent fortifications were built around the periphery.

Not only that, Neiji Okamura even ordered the construction of fortifications and reinforcements in various parts of the city, assuming that even if the outer positions cannot be defended, he will fight street battles with the coalition forces to the end.

In order to discuss how to attack Taiyuan, the command group composed of Gao Hongming, Yang Aiyuan, Sun Chu, Commander Liu, and Political Commissar Ping had been discussing for several days, but still failed to discuss a feasible method.

"Snapped!"

Sun Chu patted the table angrily, "What on earth does Okamura Ningji want to do? Repair bastards? Even the city has built so many bunkers. Is this planning to live and die with Taiyuan?"

"Ningji Okamura is probably impatient."

Sun Chu looked at the sand table in front of him and sighed softly.

This sand table is based on hundreds of photos taken by reconnaissance planes, and it is made bit by bit according to the scale.

In order to make this sand table, more than a dozen combat staff members in the staff department worked hard for several days in a row to complete it. It is said that after the sand table was completed, all the more than ten staff members were exhausted.

"No matter how difficult it is, we must fight." Gao Hongming's tone was very firm, "It is true that the Japanese are riding a tiger, but why are we not like this?
Now people all over the country are watching us, those people in Chongqing are watching us, even Americans who are thousands of miles away are watching us?

If we do not fight well or even lose this battle, the confidence that the people have finally built up may be severely damaged.

Chairman Chiang, who is far away in Chongqing, has even more excuses to intervene in Shanxi affairs. Once the news reaches the United States, the American government and people will lose confidence in the Chinese War of Resistance, which will be very detrimental to our subsequent military aid.

So we have to fight this battle even if we pay a high price, and we have to fight well! "

Yang Aiyuan was silent for a while: "Brother Gao, what you said is right. We really can't afford to lose this battle. If we lose, I'm afraid the good situation that Shanxi has worked so hard to achieve will be for naught."

Sun Chuzhou sighed: "But we have seen that now Taiyuan City has been built by the Japanese into a fortress, and the price we need to pay to capture him is too high. We will die if we just take the outer positions how many people?"

Everyone was silent, Okamura Ningji withdrew the 110th and 115th divisions and the original garrison troops to Taiyuan City. Now there are at least [-] to [-] Japanese troops in Taiyuan.

Under normal circumstances, the price to be paid to take this city is unimaginable.

Gao Hongming pondered for a moment: "It's difficult to fight, but you have to fight. Didn't Neiji Okamura build hundreds of bunkers to try to stop us? Then let's use heavy artillery to crack these turtle shells!"

On an artillery position six kilometers away from the outskirts of Taiyuan City, more than a dozen B4 203mm howitzers stood quietly on the position.

Behind the artillery, three soldiers pushed a trolley to the back of the B4 howitzer, and then the two artillerymen standing next to the artillery pushed the shells on the trolley into the guide groove, and then the four gunners picked up the trolley. The rod combined the warhead of the 150kg concrete penetrator to propel the shell into the bore.

Then a gunner pushed the 3.8-kilogram gunpowder pack into the barrel, and the gunner on the side closed the bolt after all this was done.

In view of the fact that the shell of the B4 is too heavy, most people can't move it at all, so this artillery has two feeding methods.

One is to use a small crane arranged in the artillery fat, and the other is the way that artillerymen are using now.

The gunner checked the firing range for the last time, and then he waved his hand, and the gunner behind immediately pulled the matchlock.

"boom!"

There was only a loud bang, and the 15-ton cannon seemed to be kicked by a giant. The whole cannon shook violently and bounced back before returning to its position.

As the artillery was fired, the entire artillery position was shrouded in thick smoke and dust.

But the gunners couldn't care less about these anymore, and an observer who was holding up a telescope to observe happily shouted.

"Hitted... hit... the devil's bunker was hit!"

"What, did you hit it?"

A group of gunners flocked to the observer's place, and some ran to a gun observation post not far away, grabbed the observation telescope and looked at it.