In the blink of an eye, a day has passed.

Liao County, southeast of Shanxi, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Looking at the full map of Shanxi, the boss smiled and said, "My God, the northwest of Shanxi is fighting, the southeast of Shanxi is fighting, the Taiyue Mountains are fighting, and even the Taitai Road is fighting, and the whole Shanxi is fighting again."

"Yes." said the Deputy Chief of Staff, "it's a battle that is catching up with the Hundred Regiments."

The boss said: "How are the blocking and attacks between Taiyue Military Region and Taihang Military Region?"

The Deputy Chief of Staff pointed to the map and said, "At present, the troops of our Taihang Military Region and Taiyue Military Region are relying on the Baijin Line and Shuangqin Highway to launch layers of blocking the Japanese troops heading north to reinforce."

"After a day of fierce fighting, the Japanese army only advanced less than ten kilometers."

"From the current situation, if the Japanese army does not increase its reinforcements,"

"It is impossible to break through the blocking positions of our Taiyue Military Region and Taihang Military Region."

Speaking of this, the Deputy Chief of Staff smiled and said, "Now, the weapons, equipment, technical and tactical levels of our Taiyue Military Region and the regiments under the Taihang Military Region are incomparable to those two years ago."

Two years ago, the Eighth Route Army had just undergone large-scale expansion and its combat effectiveness fell to the bottom.

However, after two years of battlefield training and a lot of weapons and equipment seized, the combat effectiveness of each unit has gradually improved.

"You can't be careless either."

The boss slapped the table and said, "Tele to Taiyue Military Region and Taihang Military Region to stop the enemy's reinforcements at all costs. In any case, the reinforcements of the 36th and 37th Divisions cannot be allowed to reach northwest Shanxi!"

He paused and said, "I will send a telegram to the Northwest Column of Jin to let go! No matter how many days they fight, there will be no Japanese reinforcements from the southeast of Jin and the north of Taiyue Mountain."

...

Northwest Shanxi.

On this day, the Northwest Shanxi Column did not launch a major offensive.

Only the Second Detachment invested a small number of troops and launched several small-scale attacks from the Chengdong District of Ping'an County, but was soon repelled by the Japanese army.

Later, the Japanese counterattack was also repelled by the Eighth Route Army.

After noon, the two sides tacitly chose to truce.

It has been five years since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War to this day. The Japanese army's military qualities have been declining and their fighting will have also declined. The Japanese army's offensiveness is no longer as strong as it was at the beginning.

After realizing that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side was not easy to mess with, the Japanese in Ping'an County were so at ease that they chose to live in vain.

Anyway, as long as the reinforcements arrive, the Eighth Route Army will withdraw its own troops. Since that's the case, why bother to fight? Isn't it good to live? After all, my wife and children are still waiting for them to go back to reunite in their hometown.

By the way, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 37 years, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers in permanent divisions were all active-duty soldiers or reserve soldiers. To put it bluntly, they were young people who had never been married, so they were not afraid of death. As long as the officers incited them for a few words, they could charge without hesitation with bayonets.

But now, the Japanese divisions are filled with a large number of reserves, that is, soldiers in the village.

Most of these soldiers in the village are already married and have wives and even children in their hometowns, so their fighting will is much weaker than that of young people in active and reserve services.

The 69th Division added a large number of soldiers in the village.

However, the truce of the Eighth Route Army is different from the truce of the Japanese.

The Japanese truce were just for peace and security, while the Eighth Route Army's truce was just to avoid the daytime and just to avoid the Japanese's aviation forces.

After the Japanese recaptured Taiyuan, they repaired Xincheng Airport and Wusu Airport.

Shibata Nobuichi's 9th Flying Team returned to Taiyuan, so it can provide air firepower support to the 69th Division of the Japanese Army at any time.

The 9th Flying Team's attack team and fighter planes are really here.

At this time, the participating troops on the Zhanggezhuang battlefield had already cleaned up the battlefield and moved, but the participating troops on the Ping'an County battlefield had no way to transfer them. They could not hand over the occupied blocks to the Japanese, right? After all, the Second Detachment paid a considerable price to occupy these blocks in the county.

So they can only be bombed by the Japanese planes.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Second Detachment were hiding in private buildings, and the Japanese planes could only bomb randomly and did not dare to throw sulfur bombs and poisonous gas bombs, so the killing effect was limited.

After a few waves, the Japanese plane stopped coming.

After all, the Japanese gasoline cannot be supplied openly.

Just after six o'clock in the afternoon, it gradually became darker.

Kong Jie walked out of the shelter accompanied by Guan Dashan.

I saw a row of horse teams driving on the highway, with at least a thousand horses, and it took several kilometers to pull out the team.

Guan Dashan immediately said happily: "Commander, it's the artillery regiment! The artillery regiment is here to support us! Now it's stable, and I will definitely be able to take over Ping'an County tonight."

"You can't be careless either." Kong Jie said in a deep voice.

"Lao Guan, you will personally lead a group tonight!"

"Anyway, we must clear the Japanese in Ping'an County before dawn tomorrow!"

After a pause, Kong Jie said again: "You can't let Li Yunlong and Ding Wei watch our Second Detachment joke."

Ding Wei was able to completely wipe out the Japanese who came to support within two hours, and the casualties he had paid were very small, which made Kong Jie feel a little uncomfortable.

Although the offensive of their second detachment was also very fierce, they continuously broke through the outer defense line and city walls and fortifications of Ping'an County in a short period of time, and even occupied a small part of the city's blocks, but the price was quite high. In less than two hours of battle, nearly a thousand casualties were killed and killed!

Guan Dashan knew Kong Jie's thoughts very well.

Guan Dashan said at the moment: "Commander, don't worry, you will definitely take it before dawn!"

After saying that, Guan Dashan turned around and left in a hurry, while Kong Jie strode towards Cao Sanlian.

"Old Cao, oh, you're here." Kong Jie said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"It's not because of the Japanese plane." Cao Sanlian said helplessly, "Or he would have come long ago."

"But it's not too late to come here now," said Kong Jie. "I'll ask your brothers from the artillery regiment tonight."

"Don't worry, old Confucius." Cao San patted his chest and said, "What's the relationship between you and me? As long as you guys speak, our artillery regiment will help you break Ping'an County into scum."

"I'll be spared if I'm going to be a scumbag. There are so many people in the city."

Kong Jie waved his hand and said, "You just need to help us kill the barricades on the streets and the strongholds that were transformed and reinforced by the Japanese at all intersections."

"This is even more OK." Cao Sanlian said, "It's just a piece of cake."

After saying this, Cao Sanlian shouted again: "Tell me my order and prepare to assemble it."

The horse teams that were driving along the highway stopped and began to unload the parts of the mountain cannon.

...

Ping'an County, the 291st Infantry Regiment Command.

Utada Kiro was already anxious to become an ant on the hot pan.

The Eighth Route Army had already pushed the beautiful M1A1 type 75mm mountain cannon into the city and launched direct close-up shots at the barricades built by the Japanese army on the streets.

Not only the circular barricade, but even the strongholds are under threat.

The Japanese army has occupied Ping'an County for more than five years, and have made a lot of deployments, especially in the past year, with the gradual growth of the Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi, the Japanese army realized that the Eighth Route Army would launch a large-scale counterattack sooner or later, so they made defensive deployments in Ping'an County in advance.

The main thing is to seize the relatively solid houses at various street intersections.

Then these houses were renovated and reinforced and built into strongholds.

These strongholds are usually equipped with a team of infantry and a machine gun.

With dozens of such strongholds scattered at various street intersections, Utada Kiro still has some confidence in street fighting, but the premise is that the Eighth Route Army cannot dispatch artillery troops.

But reality is so cruel.

The more you are afraid of, the more you come.

Utada Kiro was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would use artillery.

As a result, the Eighth Route Army really pushed mountain cannons into the city as flat-fired cannons.

"Report that the No. 3 circular stack on Dongmen Street has been destroyed!"

"Report that the No. 6 Circular Barrier on North Gate Heng Street has been destroyed!"

"Report that the stronghold at the entrance of Cangcao Street was destroyed, and the Eighth Route Army had broken into Cangcao Street!"

As the Eighth Route Army mobilized a large number of artillery troops to participate in the battle, the situation in Ping'an County suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. The defense system built by the Japanese army based on streets and alleys and various street corners was simply vulnerable.

"Baga!" Utada Kiro gritted his teeth and said, "Order all the barricades that the infantry brigades immediately gave up, retreat into the houses on both sides of the street, and fight the Eighth Route Army in a house-to-house battle!"

"Hayi!" Several messengers immediately left.

Utada Kiro turned his gaze back to the communication captain.

"Mori-kun!" Utada Kiro said with a dark face, "Call the division headquarters again and request emergency reinforcements! In four hours, if the reinforcements from the division headquarters still cannot reach Heian County within four hours, then the 291st Infantry Regiment of Utada Kiro can only sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor."

"Hayi." The communication captain bowed heavily.

Then, I shot and sent the telegram at a very fast speed.

...

Heyuan County, Column Headquarters.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the brigade commander and his team finally had time to have a meal.

The brigade commander stared at a bowl of braised pork and a large bowl of white rice in front of him and asked, "Li Yunlong, what's going on?"
To be continued...