Zhang Yunfei, who received the telegram, immediately sent a message to the cavalry regiment that was maneuvering on the periphery, asking the cavalry regiment to pay attention to the Japanese who escaped from the city. However, since it was night, Zhang Yunfei himself did not know whether he could intercept Yoshio Kozuka and others who escaped, which depends largely on luck.

A few hours later, the night gradually faded, and the fish belly turned white in the east. Zhang Yunfei did not sleep all night, but still looked energetic. Although Commander Liu, who was next to him, took a nap in the command center in the middle of the night, he could still see the lack of sleep in his eyes. In order to refresh himself, Commander Liu took out his own cigarette, lit one, and started smoking beautifully. Before smoking, he also signaled Zhang Yunfei whether to use one, but Zhang Yunfei, who was a special forces soldier, did not smoke.

Commander Liu slowly finished smoking the cigarette, and it was getting brighter. Zhang Yunfei and Commander Liu walked out of the command center, held the telescope and observed the Taiyuan City ahead.

The current Taiyuan City has just been baptized by artillery fire, and there are ruins everywhere. There are also several places in the city with black smoke, but the gunshots in the city have been much less. The Japanese in the city have basically been cleared out, and there are only a few places with residual Japanese in it, but the number of people is not large.

Seeing that the battle was basically over, Zhang Yunfei immediately ordered the kitchen team to prepare a hot breakfast and send it to the city for the soldiers to eat. Now the soldiers have not slept overnight and have not eaten for more than ten hours.

Zhang Yunfei wanted the soldiers to have enough food as soon as possible, because the First Japanese Infantry Brigade, who went north from Pingyao to support Taiyuan, according to the frontier observation post, it was less than two hours away from here.

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Shouyang, the position of the Jinsui Army.

The fierce battle had been going on for one night, and the 60,000 Jinsui Army had already joined forces and fought fiercely with more than 20,000 people from the 10th Division of the Japanese.

With the advantage of geographical advantage and number of personnel, the Jinsui Army successfully blocked more than 20,000 Japanese devils. The Japanese devils paid the price of thousands of casualties and only advanced one or two kilometers.

On both sides of the hillside where the Jinsui Army was located were large pits with a diameter of several meters. These were bombed by artillery shells fired by the Japanese mountain artillery corps. A large part of the Jinsui Army died under the bombing of the Japanese artillery shells. Fortunately, the position was still in the hands of the Jinsui Army.

Under the hillside, a large number of Japanese corpses were lying everywhere. It was dark at night and it was still impossible to see them. Now it was dawn, so I could see clearly that many of these Japanese corpses were killed by grenades thrown from the hillside, which seemed terrible.

On the high side of the hillside, the two commanders of the Jinsui Army were also full of solemnity. One night of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Japanese seemed to have received a death order, eager to break through the defense line of the Jinsui Army, and launched repeated attacks without fear of death.

At this time, a major staff officer from the Shanxi Sui Army quickly walked to the two commanders with a folder and reported: "Commander Yan's telegram, Zhang Yunfei's troops have captured Taiyuan City, and now the remaining enemies in Taiyuan City have been basically eliminated."

"Okay, this Zhang Yunfei is really amazing. He restored Taiyuan City in one night." One of the commanders of the Jinsui Army said with emotion.

"In addition, Commander Yan also ordered us to send an army to Taiyuan to receive the Japanese equipment." The major staff officer said again.

The 10th Division Command of the Japanese opposite.

The Japanese division commander Ryosuke Isotani had just received an urgent telegram from North China. The message said that Taiyuan City had been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and Yoshio Kozuka led hundreds of people to the command center to withdraw from Taiyuan City and are currently heading south to prepare to meet with the First Brigade.

In the telegram, the commander of the North China Front Army, Okamura Yasuji, said that he had ordered the First Infantry Brigade to march eastward and prepare to cross the vast Taihang Mountains and return to North China. The 10th Division, together with the 16th Division, who was about to arrive, broke through the defense line of the Jinsui Army within eight hours at all costs, advanced westward to meet the First Infantry Brigade, and then returned to North China together.

The 10th Regiment, which did not take any advantage, began to organize troops to attack under the command of the division commander Aosuke Isotani. Not long after, the 16th Japanese Division, who followed up, launched a crazy attack on the Jinsui Army positions with the 10th Division.

Several senior commanders of the Jinsui Army who were watching the battle at the command center on the mountain looked stern when they saw the Japanese starting attack like crazy. A Jinsui Army commander shouted in an anxious voice: "Military, let's let go of the intersection. If this continues, the brothers will suffer too much casualties."

Two commanders of the Jinsui Army, one of whom had a sinister face and said nothing, the other immediately said sternly: "Stop talking to me, stopping the Japanese reinforcements was a death order for Commander Yan to give me. We must block the Japanese here for forty-eight hours."

Seeing the stern face of his commander, the division commander had to sigh, return to the command center, pick up the phone to notify his troops, and stop the Japanese from advancing at all costs.

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At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Eighth Route Army Command.

Zhang Yunfei and Commander Liu were waiting for news ahead in the command center. The Japanese Infantry Brigade had not arrived yet, and there was no news from the front-line observation post responsible for monitoring the movements of the Japanese Infantry Brigade in front.

Just as everyone was waiting anxiously, the latest news finally came from the front that the Japanese Infantry Brigade had changed the direction of the march and did not come to Taiyuan, but changed the direction and went east.

No, the Japanese are ready to leave.

Zhang Yunfei hurriedly walked to the map of the command center, took a pencil and started drawing on the map, drawing the route that the Japanese might have escaped.

Seeing the route drawn by Zhang Yunfei, Commander Liu immediately said: "It seems that the little kid is preparing to hike through the Taihang Mountains. According to the route drawn by my brother, the Japanese are the first to enter the defense zone of Xie Baoguo, the ** regiment."

"Oh, that's great. Can Xie Baoguo's ** regiment block the Japanese devils for three hours? In just three hours, we can catch up with the Japanese devils."

"Okay, I'll send an order to the ** regiment immediately." After that, Commander Liu walked towards the communication room of the command headquarters. Several radio stations in the communication room were busy, and there were ticking news everywhere.

Since Zhang Yunfei led Xie Baoguo to ambush Xiangyue Qingsi on Zhengtai Road last time, the current regiment can be said to be strong. With the weapons and ammunition seized last time, the troops have grown to three or four thousand people, and each battalion is also equipped with enviable radio stations.

Seeing that Commander Liu went to the communication room in person, Zhang Yunfei immediately said to a correspondent next to him: "Hurry up and send a report to the cavalry regiment, stop searching for Yoshio Kozuka, immediately gather the troops and chase the First Japanese Infantry Brigade who was fleeing east."

Zhang Yunfei believed that as long as the first brigade of the little ghost's sub-infantry brigade was eliminated, there would be no more large Japanese troops near Taiyuan, and Yoshio Kozuka would be found sooner or later, so the most urgent task at present is to quickly intercept and eliminate the first brigade of the little Japanese infantry brigade that fled eastward.
Chapter completed!