Operation staff officer An Teng Shangzhi looked panicked and paused: "Report to the commander, it's not clear yet!"

"idiot!"

Yoshio Shinozuka scolded him angrily with a dark face, which made the combat staff tremble all over.

"Immediately order the city gates to be closed!" Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Find out what happened and who was firing the cannons?"

"Hi!" An Teng Shangzhi paused, turned around and left.

Arriving at the commander's office, Yoshio Shinozuka was restless.

The roar of cannons outside the city did not stop, but became more rapid.

And the sound of cannons was not coming from one direction, but from all directions.

Apparently the fighting outside the city was fierce.

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned, what on earth is going on?

Is there a Chinese army coming?

Or is there a rebellion by the Imperial Alliance Army?

About 10 minutes later, communications department staff officer Rukichi Kasutani walked in with a hurried look and paused.

"Your Majesty Commander, something bad is going on!"

Shinozuka Yoshio was still calm and asked: "What happened?"

"Call the strongholds outside the city to report!" Ryukichi Kasutani replied, "They were all violently attacked by the Chinese Army more than 20 minutes ago. The Chinese Army carried heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and field artillery. Xiaodian Town in the south of the city

and Shuangta Temple have been occupied by the Chinese Army. Large numbers of Chinese Army were found in the east, west and north of the city. It is roughly estimated that the Chinese Army has no less than 10,000 troops!"

"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly changed his color and asked with a glare, "Which unit of the China Army is it, the Central Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army or the Eighth Route Army?"

"There is the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army." Kegu Liuji said, "They all wear standard military uniforms. They should be the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army!"

"This is impossible……"

Yoshio Shinozuka didn't believe it at all and murmured to himself: "The Jinsui Army in Luliang Mountain didn't make any movement, and it's even more impossible for the Eighth Route Army to pass through the Imperial Army and Imperial Association Army's defense zone of more than 100 kilometers quietly, and we didn't get any information.

arrive!"

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Rukichi Kasutani said, "Whether you believe it or not, this has become a fact. The Chinese army has already arrived at the city!"

Shinozuka Yoshio's expression was uncertain. Could this tens of thousands of Chinese troops be heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals?

Came down from heaven?

Suddenly Yoshio Shinozuka's expression changed.

It has to be said that this old devil reacted very quickly and quickly thought of the loss of contact with the entire Chengtai West Line railway base last night.

If all the telephone lines in the strongholds along the line were cut short, the defenders and railway patrol teams in the strongholds along the line would mistakenly think that the train passing by last night was a Japanese military column.

Not only were the stronghold defenders unable to contact Taiyuan, they were also unable to communicate with each other.

Then it is entirely possible that the Chinese army took a train and marched from Yangquan to the city overnight.

Too careless!

Although this cruel fact was somewhat unbelievable, it had already happened and he couldn't help but believe it.

No matter how the Chinese army came, the most important thing at the moment is to find countermeasures to solve the siege of Taiyuan.

Yoshio Shinozuka picked up the Lieutenant General's command sword on the knife rest: "Go to the city wall!"

Rukichi Kasutani paused: "Hi!"

Surrounded by a team of elite guards, Yoshio Shinozuka drove to the south wall.

At this time, the sky was just dawning, and a hint of fish belly white appeared on the horizon.

After boarding the Nanmen Gate Tower, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't wait to pick up his telescope and look into the distance.

The Eighth Route Army was heavily shelling a small stronghold kilometers away from the city wall.

Masonry turrets and bunkers could not withstand the devastation of mountain artillery and field artillery.

It didn't take long for it to crumble under the bombardment.

The violent explosion blew up the entire tower, causing heavy losses to the defending Japanese and Imperial Army troops.

Then the Eighth Route Army flooded the small stronghold in an instant like a tide.

Not only Yoshio Shinozuka, but also other senior Japanese military officers did not think of it at all.

With dozens of surrounding counties under the firm control of the Japanese army, Chinese troops would suddenly appear under Taiyuan City.

Although there were dozens of strongholds, large and small, outside the city, they were completely unprepared, and no trench defenses were even dug outside the city wall.

Even after more than half an hour of fighting outside the city, the Japanese troops on the city wall just closed the city gates in a hurry and did not take emergency countermeasures at all, such as firing at the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

Outside the city, Li Yunlong couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction on his face when he saw that the Independent Regiment had captured another stronghold.

Cannon is indeed the king of war, this is not true at all.

If there are no mountain artillery and field artillery, if you want to capture the stronghold in front of you by blasting, you can't do it without paying the price of 200 soldier casualties.

Although it was possible to capture the outer strongholds of Taiyuan with artillery superiority, mountain artillery and field artillery could not blast through Taiyuan's city walls.

It would be great if our Eighth Route Army had large-caliber heavy artillery.

With this idea in mind, Li Yunlong took a telescope and looked in the direction of the city wall.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunlong's expression immediately changed, and he quickly increased the magnification of the telescope with his right hand.

Taking a closer look, there seemed to be a group of Japanese military officers standing under the tower on the city wall.

Li Yunlong immediately called Yao Shangwu, pointed at the city wall and said: "Yao Shangwu, it seems that there is a Japanese officer standing there, do you see it?"

Yao Shangwu looked through the gun scope and saw more clearly. There were indeed several Japanese officers half-exposure from behind the crenel, as if they were observing with binoculars.

"Captain, I saw it!"

"How about it?" Li Yunlong asked, "Can you fuck his mother a few times?"

Yao Shangwu nodded: "Captain, no problem!"

Immediately, Yao Shangwu shouted loudly: "4 94-type mountain cannons are ready!"

The artillerymen of the artillery battalion received the order and began to prepare. The artillerymen moved the shell boxes and the artillerymen squatted behind the mountain artillery.

Yao Shangwu loudly announced the parameters: "Distance 3150, elevation 36, left 5!"

Four mountain cannons were lined up in a row, more than ten meters apart. The gun positions were set up behind the bunkers. The tops of the mountain cannons were covered with a mesh, leaving only the barrels exposed.

According to the parameters reported by the battalion commander, the gunner quickly shook the handle and pointed the shooting elements of the muzzle in the direction of the tower.

"Load the Type 94 grenade!"

Immediately, the gunner took out the Type 94 grenade from the shell box, the artilleryman took one and stuffed it into the gun barrel, and then closed the gate.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There are more than ten types of shells for the Type 94 Mountain Cannon, including armor-piercing shells, smoke screen grenades, grenades, illumination bombs and poison gas bombs. Each shell weighs 5

Kilograms and above.

The shells used to attack the towers and bunkers were almost all armor-piercing projectiles. This time, grenades were used to blast the towers, and TNT explosives were used.

After the capture of Yangquan, a large number of artillery shells were captured, enough to support the independent regiment in several battles.

Then the gunners of each gun loudly announced that they had been loaded.

"Two salvos, let go!"

After receiving the order, the artilleryman gently pulled back the match rope, and four TNT howitzer shells instantly rushed out of the barrel and soared into the sky.

Before the shell could hit the ground, the gunner behind him picked up another shell and stuffed it into the barrel.

On the city wall, Yoshio Shinozuka, who had been observing for a while, was about to leave and hold a military meeting, but suddenly he heard the scream of artillery shells piercing the air.

"Commander, be careful!"

Shinozuka Yoshio's personal guard captain Nakayama Sadake reacted very quickly. He pinned Shinozuka Yoshio under him immediately and protected the commander with his body.

Boom boom boom...

Then a series of violent explosions were heard in the ears of the Japs.

Two of the four shells hit the city wall, one shell flew over the city head and fell into the city, and only one hit the tower on the city wall.

Yoshio Shinozuka first felt like his whole brain was going to explode, and at the same time, the city wall seemed to be shaking.

Then several more shells exploded violently.

The gravel and rubble above his head crashed down, and then he heard Zhongshan Zadawu grunting on top of him. It was obvious that he had been hit.

After the bombardment, the faces of the Japanese soldiers changed drastically, and they dug out Shinozuka Yoshio and Nakayama Sadake from a pile of rubble and wood debris.

Rukichi Kasutani hurriedly asked: "Commander, are you okay?"

Shinozuka Yoshio did not answer, but quickly shook his personal guard captain and shouted eagerly: "Nakayama-kun! Nakayama-kun!"

After shouting for several times, there was no response. Yoshio Shinozuka saw that his hands were covered with scarlet blood.
To be continued...