Yamazaki United had more than 3,000 people, and they were all eliminated in one day.

After receiving the news, Yoshio Shinozuka was furious. Although he was the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, he could not be self-determinate in such a big situation. After ordering the entire city of Taiyuan to be martial law, he immediately reported to Okamura Yasuji, the highest commander of the North China Front Army, by phone.

Okamura Yasuji scolded him on the phone and ordered him to take back Xinkou immediately.

After putting down the phone, Yoshio Shinozuka's face was as deep as water.

As the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka naturally understood the importance of Xinkou, which would be taken back even if he died. If Xinkou was not taken back, Taiyuan would not be able to live in peace, and the Tongpu Railway would be cut off from it. It would be like a thorn in the throat and it would be uneasy day and night.

However, it is hard to cook without rice, and he has no soldiers under his command that he can mobilize.

The First Army stationed in Shanxi is under the jurisdiction of the First Division, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 10th Infantry Brigade, the 14th Infantry Brigade, and the 5th Independent Guard, with a total of more than 80,000 people. It is actually not a small number, but there is a situation here.

After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, the Kwantung Army occupied the three eastern provinces overnight. The Northeast Army, known as the most elite in Kwantung, did not resist at all, which made the Japanese Army's Army think that the Chinese army is vulnerable and soon attacked from Peking, Shandong and Shanghai.

The battle situation was as expected by the Japanese Army. The Chinese army could not resist the Japanese attack at all. They were defeated again and again on the battlefield, and the successive falls of Peking, Tianjin, Shandong and Shanghai made the Japanese army's ambitions expand, and they clamored to destroy China within three months. On the battlefield, there were often cases of a Japanese army chasing the two or three divisions of the Central Army fighting behind, which made the Japanese army even more arrogant.

As the front line is lengthened, the weakness of the Japanese army's insufficient military strength is exposed. The captured cities must send troops to garrison, and the railway transporting soldiers, weapons and supplies must be patrolled and protected by soldiers. The more places it occupied, the longer the front line is stretched, the Japanese army's troops will be constantly divided, and the fewer and fewer troops can be put into the battlefield.

Because of this, the Japanese army supported the puppet government and asked the puppet army traitors to help defend the city, but they believed it and still sent Japanese troops to supervise it. At the same time, they continued to recruit soldiers from the country and sent them to the Chinese battlefield by train for several months. So many cities that were defeated had no soldiers to defend, so how could they care about the countryside? Therefore, the Eighth Route Army had room for activities and accelerated their growth. The great man even proposed the strategic policy of surrounding the city in the countryside.

Shanxi not only produces coal, but also has a rich variety of resources. In order to transport coal and other resources, Shanxi built many railways, such as the Tongpu Railway and the Zhengding Railway. In the war years, these were important facilities that required troops to be protected. With railways, it can quickly and continuously transport soldiers and weapons to the front line, and the importance is self-evident.

This is the case for Yoshio Shizuka. The division is going to protect the Zhengding Railway. The 5th Independent Guard must protect cities such as Taiyuan. The 3rd Brigade and the 10th Brigade must fight against the Central Army's Jinsui Army. The 14th Brigade must deal with the Eighth Route Army... There are a lot of 80,000 people, but after this division, Yoshio Shizuka must become the commander of the barely-powered commander.

The Ita United team that had attacked Dai Prefecture before was affiliated with the division. It was a team that had finally been pulled back from the front line and was suddenly destroyed. Yoshio Shinozuka hated the iron-blooded powerful army that suddenly emerged.

If you don’t do it, why don’t you go over to defend the city and fight? You won’t do your job properly!

A corps was killed. For such a big thing, the information about the Iron-blooded Power Army had already been sent to Yoshio Shinozuka, and he threw the teacup on the spot. But he had no soldiers in his hands, so he could only remember it in his heart and deal with this group of bandits in the future.

Unexpectedly, this group of bandits occupied Dai County and continued to occupy Harahira Prefecture and Xinkou, and killed Yamazaki United. Yoshio Shinozuka really couldn't bear it.

The 5th Independent Guard gathered in an emergency, Shinozuka Yoshio personally gave a speech, and the guard captain Colonel Nagashima made a statement on the spot that he would definitely eliminate the bandits who occupied Xinkou.

That's right, Yoshio Shinozuka did not tell the truth, only said that the Yamazaki Regiment was besieged by the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army and exited Xinkou. Now Xinkou is occupied by a group of bandits from Heiyun Village and ordered them to eliminate it.

The so-called security forces are actually the local security forces of the original National Government. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, some local security forces continued to fight against Japan as the army retreated, but some became defeated soldiers. Later, they were incorporated by the Japanese army and controlled by unified control, and became traitor armed forces. The combat effectiveness of the security forces was stronger than that of ordinary puppet troops. The weapons they used were Japanese equipment like the Japanese army, which were trained by Japanese instructors, and the backbone commanders at all levels were all served by the Japanese army.

In order to separate from the North China Public Security Military Region, the guards wore black uniforms, which the people called black dog skins. Their mission was mainly to assist the Japanese army in maintaining public security in the city. When they were saodang, they were leading the way and other big battlefields, because the Japanese army did not trust or trust the combat effectiveness of the guards at all.

Yoshio Shinozuka sent out the security team without any help, and he had to coax them to attack Xinkou. If the Ita United and Yamazaki United were both killed by the Iron Blood Power Army, I am afraid that the people from Taiyuan City would be able to run away.

Before the speech, all the Japanese officers in the security brigade received separate speeches. They knew the truth and screamed one by one. The opportunity to serve the emperor finally came.

Changdao Kuan led a 5,000-man guard team out of Taiyuan City and rushed to Xinkou to kill. The scouts sent by Lin Qiang saw that no other Japanese troops were following him, so he quickly came back to report the news.

Although Taiyuan City was occupied by the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Central Army had its own intelligence agencies, underground agencies, military commander General Central Command, and the news that the police force left the city was quickly conveyed to Taiyuan City.

After Li Yunlong led the Independent Regiment to take over Yuanping County, he reported to the Eighth Route Army General. It was also the boss's personal instructions to leave Zhang Dabiao's first battalion, saying that he wanted to find a way to unite Lin Qiang's anti-Japanese armed forces. After receiving the information sent back by the Taiyuan underground party, the boss immediately ordered the New Second Regiment to move closer to Xinkou and support Lin Qiang at any time.

The Second World War II Command also received information that the Central Army is now confronting the 3rd and 10th brigades of the Japanese, and the situation is not good, so Yan Xishan gave the order to the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army. Chu Yunfei thought about it and sent his capable general Qian Bojun out. Chu Yunfei didn't know yet, but he believed that Qian Bojun had secretly surrendered to the Japanese army and was preparing to take the reinforcement battalion away.

Yang Zhihua rushed to Xinkou with twenty mountain cannons and built artillery positions outside the city in Taiyuan.

That's right, Lin Qiang planned to put the battlefield outside Xinkou City, not in the city, he wanted to fight a positional battle!
Chapter completed!