Devil's Army

The Yangmingbao Air Force's air raid on the Japanese army was the easiest time for the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the Japanese artillery stopped firing, the bombers stopped laying eggs, and the infantry stopped attacking.

Some Eighth Route Army soldiers even stood in the trenches and watched the Japanese troops dodging air raids.

At this time, the Japanese troops in Henan also sent reinforcements from Anyang City via Changzhi City to Jinzhong City.

The Second Brigade accelerated its attack on Jinzhong City to prevent the Japanese troops in Henan from reinforcing Taiyuan City from Jinzhong City.

At the same time, the Second Brigade Commander arranged for the Fourth Regiment to bypass the Japanese and puppet army strongholds and rush to the mountainous forest area of ​​Qinyuan County to deploy defenses, blocking the Japanese army in Henan from entering Jinzhong City through Changzhi City.

At around 3:00 p.m., the Japanese army in Henan advanced straight into the mountainous forest area of ​​Qinyuan County under the cover of four tanks.

The rocket soldiers of the Second Brigade, who had been lying in ambush here, launched a surprise attack on the Japanese tanks and trucks.

The four Japanese tanks and several trucks in front caught fire and exploded almost at the same time.

The Japanese army's advance was blocked by the wreckage of tanks and trucks, and fell into a brief chaos.

After the tank soldiers of the Fourth Regiment successfully ambushed the Japanese tanks, they immediately fired fiercely at the Japanese troops on the road.

Fierce gunfire and explosions were heard on both sides of the mountain roads in Qinyuan County.

The Japanese troops in Henan were unable to organize their forces to break through the positions of the Fourth Regiment and had to retreat temporarily.

Half an hour later, the Japanese artillery, having recovered, launched a fierce bombardment on the positions of the Fourth Regiment.

After the artillery bombardment, the Japanese infantry began to attack the positions of the Fourth Regiment.

The Japanese army's initial attack was fierce, putting the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment under great pressure, but they did not call for air support.

They knew that the small amount of air force in Yangmingbao had to support the friendly forces attacking Taiyuan and the Eighth Route Army fighting for reinforcements in Luliang City, and there was simply not enough to go around.

The Japanese army in Henan launched two consecutive large-scale attacks, both of which were blocked by the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment.

It was already dark, and the Japanese were not good at night fighting. The commander had no choice but to increase defenses and wait until tomorrow to make plans.

When the 714th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army in Luliang City arrived, the 715th and 716th Regiments, with the support of the First Army Air Force, blocked the Japanese army's multiple attacks.

The next morning, the Japanese troops in Luliang and Henan launched another attack on the positions of the Eighth Route Army and the Second Brigade.

Soon, the Japanese army discovered that the reinforcements from the Devil Force Air Force came more frequently and stayed longer.

This made it more difficult for them to break through the positions of the Eighth Route Army and the Second Brigade. But they had no choice, as the fierce fighting in Taiyuan was still going on, and they had to rush over to reinforce.

Under the city of Taiyuan, the remains of the fallen soldiers of the army lay there quietly for fear of being attacked.

There were also many Japanese soldiers' bodies lying under the city wall. The bodies of soldiers from both armies seemed to tell the cruelty of this battle.

The First Army's air force was already bombing the fortifications on the city wall that the Japanese had built overnight.

In November 1937, it took the Japanese army four days to capture Taiyuan. However, the Japanese army stationed in Taiyuan was far inferior to the Nanjing government army in terms of firepower and quality of troops.

So Gray Wolf gave an order to a brigade commander, asking him to capture Taiyuan within a week.

A section of the city wall on the left side of the east gate of Taiyuan City was bombed in succession by two aerial bombs from the First Army Air Force and began to crumble.

The 2nd Brigade's mortar artillery happened to fire a shell at this part of the wall.

The city wall collapsed with a loud bang, and the soldiers of the Second Brigade shouted and rushed into Taiyuan City from the collapsed wall.

The Second Brigade Commander looked at the collapsed city wall happily, thinking that he could capture Taiyuan in two days, but reality slapped him in the face.