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At the Eighth Route Army position, when they saw such a big movement on the opposite side, the soldiers knew that the Japanese artillery must be over. The soldiers cheered one after another, and some soldiers even stood up, holding up their weapons, raising their arms and shouting.

Even the two or three hundred soldiers on the mortar positions who were hiding in the trenches, bent over, hugged their heads with their hands to avoid the Japanese shelling, stood up straight and shouted with joy.

Seeing that the soldiers were in good morale, Zhang Yunfei issued an order to attack. Dozens of Type 92 infantry cannons on the Eighth Route Army's position first launched an attack on the Japanese positions two or three kilometers away. One after another, the shells roared and flew to the Japanese positions in the distance.

Explosions rang out on the Japanese's positions. The Japanese were so shocked by the dense shelling that they could not raise their heads and hid in the trenches. Even so, there were still a few Japanese casualties.

At the foot of the mountain, dozens of sixty-mm mortars were only a few hundred meters away from the Japanese position. Seeing that the Type 92 infantry cannons on the artillery positions achieved good shelling effects, everyone also fired fire.

The artillery regiment in the distance saw all the cannons firing one after another. Before receiving Zhang Yunfei's order, they couldn't wait to start shelling the Japanese positions.

The power of forty 155 mm howitzers were bombarded was amazing. The simple fortifications built by the Japanese opposite were simply vulnerable in front of these cannons. When the shells went down, a large pit with a diameter of dozens of meters was blown up. The Japanese within this range were either blown up or were shocked to death. The Japanese had died together.

Unfortunately, these 155mm howitzers don’t have many shells. Each cannon fires less than ten shells, and they will have all the only shells.

Thirty minutes after the shelling, Zhang Yunfei ordered the troops to prepare for an attack. The trumpeters who received the order jumped out of the trenches and blew the charge. The loud charge immediately spread throughout the Eighth Route Army positions.

All the Eighth Route Army soldiers held their weapons and shouted "Roar" and rushed towards the Japanese positions. At the same time, the artillery began to extend the artillery bombardment, and the scene of infantry and artillery coordination began to appear.

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On the mountain, the Japanese devils' positions, under the intensive artillery bombardment in these 30 minutes, the Japanese devils suffered more than 3,000 casualties, nearly half of which were the credit of forty 155 mm howitzers. Originally, the Japanese devils had only a thousand casualties, but now they had more than 3,000 casualties. The Japanese devils, who were already at a disadvantage, were gradually unstoppable in front of nearly 30,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers.

Yoshio Kozuka saw the tide coming, the Eighth Route Army soldiers all over the mountains and fields, breaking through several defense lines of the Japanese in succession. A large number of Japanese invaders were shot and killed, and his face suddenly turned pale.

It seems that today I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. When Yoshio Kozuka thought of this, he slowly picked up his samurai sword and prepared to septate.

The commander of the Japanese Brigade next to him, pressed Yoshio Kozuka's hands quickly and begged loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, no."

Yoshio Kozuka looked at the Japanese brigade commander with a blank expression, firmly raised his samurai sword, and prepared to commit suicide by separating himself. The brigade commander saw his commander's actions and his eyes were filled with sadness.

Suddenly, a 92-type infantry cannon shell came with a roar and landed accurately less than two meters behind Yoshio Kozuka. The violent explosion threw Yoshio Kozuka, who had not reacted, up several meters high, and then fell heavily to seven or eight meters away.

The Japanese brigade commander was also overturned to the ground by Yu Zhaoji who had exploded. It took him a long time to get up. The first thing he did when he got up was to stagger towards Yoshio Kozuka.

The commander of the Japanese Brigade held the dead Yoshio Kozuka and shouted tragically: "Commander, Commander, Commander, Commander..."

Yoshio Kozuka was bleeding from seven orifices, his back was blown to pieces, and he lay motionless. Seeing that Yoshio Kozuka was dead, the Japanese brigade commander was determined, and gently put down Yoshio Kozuka's body, tidied up his remains slightly, and then quickly ran to the nearby command center.

Entering the command center, the commander of the Japanese Brigade said miserably to several Japanese correspondents who were sending the news: "Send a report to Mr. Okamura, the entire Taiyuan Imperial Army is broken, and Mr. Yoshio Kozuka will also be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor."

Several Japanese correspondents who heard the order were also full of despair, their hands trembled, and they sent a report to Okamura Yasuji, a panic.

Beiping, North China Front Command.

Okamura Nishi grabbed the telegram with both hands, and the joints of his fingers turned slightly white. After a while, Okamura Nishi calmed down a little. Unexpectedly, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Taiyuan were all broken, and even the commander of the First Army was not spared.

"Send a report to the reinforcements of the 16th Division and the 10th Division, stop the reinforcements and retreat to Baoding, North China for rest." Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Okamura Yasuji was helpless to attack Chief of Staff Naosaburo Okabe.

"Yes, I'll send orders to the 16th Division and the 10th Division." Naosaburo Okabe said loudly.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Naosaburo Okabe suddenly stopped again, suddenly thought of Xinkou's defenders, so he said carefully: "Commander, what should I do with the two divisions in Xinkou?"

"Order them to break through separately." Okamura Yanji waved his hand weakly.

After hearing Okamura Yanji's words, Naosaburo Okabe was silent and broke through separately. Without troops to support him, I wonder how many people could reach North China. Zhang Yunfei's troops were a tiger and wolf army.

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Eighth Route Army Position

Zhang Yunfei and Commander Liu watched the troops attack smoothly and the battle was almost over. Nearly 10,000 Japanese devils had basically been eliminated, and a few Japanese who broke through were also killed by the mobile cavalry regiments on the periphery.

The two in a good mood began to chat and laugh. Commander Liu said with a smile on his face: "I was impressed by you in this battle of Taiyuan. Tens of thousands of Japanese elite soldiers were destroyed by us. I can't believe it."

"Our troops have many casualties. I guess there will be nearly 10,000 casualties, most of which are your troops." Zhang Yunfei said with emotion.

"It's nothing. It's inevitable to sacrifice for the sake of the War of Resistance and the Chinese nation. I'm used to it."

"Well, but this time your 129th Division was originally here to help, but I didn't expect to cause such a large casualty. After cleaning the battlefield on the mountain, we will not want all the weapons and equipment of the Japanese. I will give them all to your division." Zhang Yunfei said gratefully.

"Really, that's great. This battle almost made me poor." Commander Liu said in surprise.

"After the battle is over, I will ask the troops to give you thirty Type 92 infantry cannons, ten thousand shells and one million rifle bullets in a few days."

After hearing Zhang Yunfei's words, Commander Liu was full of gratitude. For the future development of the troops and to better fight against Japan in the future, Commander Liu was not pretentious and accepted it generously.


Chapter completed!