Devil's Army

Just when the commander of the Second Brigade thought they could soon attack Taiyuan City, several puppet soldiers, under the coercion of the Japanese army, and several Japanese soldiers rushed towards the soldiers of the Second Brigade under the city wall with grenades and explosive packs.

In a series of explosions, the soldiers of the Second Brigade who had rushed to the city wall died together with these Japanese and puppet troops.

The Japanese and puppet troops behind had rebuilt the collapsed city wall and set up two machine guns, which were fiercely firing at the attacking soldiers of the Second Brigade.

The Third Brigade's attack from Xinzhou City was not going smoothly either, and the two sides were still in a stalemate.

In order to successfully capture Taiyuan and then recapture the entire Shanxi Province, Gray Wolf personally rushed to Shijiazhuang to take charge.

The Japanese attack in Henan was extremely fierce, with wave after wave of attacks on the blocking forces of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade almost continuously.

Although the Japanese troops in Luliang suffered heavy casualties from multiple bombings by their air force, they did not stop the attack.

Gray Wolf ordered the tank units of the Second Front Army of the First Army to move south to support the Second Brigade in Jinzhong City and the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Luliang City.

In the evening, the First Army's tank units arrived in Jinzhong City and Luliang City respectively.

The next morning, shortly after the Japanese troops in Henan and Luliang launched an attack on the positions of the Second Brigade and the Eighth Route Army, they heard the rumbling sound of tank engines.

The Japanese commander sensed something was amiss. Their tanks had already been destroyed by the Devil's aviation and rocket forces. Could it be that their superiors had sent in more tanks so quickly? Had he not received the news?

Before they could recover, the tanks of the First Army appeared in front of the Japanese troops in Henan and Luliang and launched a fierce attack.

The fierce firepower of the tanks made it impossible for the Japanese troops in Henan and Luliang, whose morale was already low, to resist and they finally retreated.

Seeing the Japanese army retreat, the soldiers of the Second Brigade and the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army launched a counterattack.

Commander Hata Shunroku's plan to reinforce Taiyuan from Luliang and Henan failed.

The Japanese troops in Taiyuan City have become an isolated force.

Unwilling to accept defeat, Commander Hata Shunroku secretly arranged for a bomber to drop supplies on the Japanese army in Taiyuan that evening. However, before the bomber reached Taiyuan, it was shot down by fighter planes of the Devil Forces.

Since the Japanese army took the risk of sending bombers to replenish supplies for the Taiyuan defenders, it means that the Japanese army's material reserves in Taiyuan should not be very sufficient.

After discussing with the commanders of the second and third brigades, they decided to attack Taiyuan City at night.

Shortly after the Japanese bomber carrying supplies was shot down, fierce gunfire was heard again to the east and south of Taiyuan City.

The Japanese army in Taiyuan, which had been fighting fiercely for two days, had to fight again.

Although there were no air raids by the Devil Force's aviation at night, the Devil Force's artillery was no pushover, dropping shells one after another on the Japanese city walls.

In reality, the Japanese troops in Taiyuan were short on artillery shells because their two artillery positions to the east and south had been destroyed by the Devil Force's aviation, but other ammunition and supplies were still plentiful. However, the Japanese troops in Lüliang City and Henan Province were blocked from reinforcing them, which dealt a heavy blow to their morale.

Under the cover of artillery, rocket troops blew down the east gate of Taiyuan.

The city wall built on the left side of Taiyuan's east gate during the day was also collapsed by rocket soldiers.

Soldiers of the Second Brigade began to rush into Taiyuan City through the city gates and collapsed city walls, engaging in close combat with the Japanese and puppet troops on the city walls.

As more and more soldiers from the Second Brigade poured into the east gate of Taiyuan, the Japanese troops in Taiyuan were defeated and began to retreat deep into the country.