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Not far from this slope is the city wall of Yanmen Pass.
The south city wall is not as strong as the north city wall. After all, the fortress of Yanmen Pass was originally built to resist the northern nomads from going south.
So the defense in the north is strong, but the city wall in the south was built more symbolically.
The height of the city wall here is less than ten meters, and they can climb it using a ladder.
In addition, the city gate here is not an iron gate, but a huge wooden gate. Using heavy machine gun fire, the wooden door can be riddled with holes.
By bombarding it with a rocket nest, you can directly penetrate the wooden door.
Morita Muyi also knew that the defense of the South City Gate would be the focus of this defensive battle.
The defensive forces that need to be dispatched to the North City Gate do not need to be too many. As long as a regiment is properly commanded, it is enough to block the enemy's large-scale attack.
But the South City Gate does not have as strong a defense as the North City Gate. They can only use more troops to complete the defense there.
After taking down the hillside position, the small-caliber mountain artillery carried by Li Yunlong's independent regiment and Bai Mingxuan's 189th Brigade, as well as several rocket nest systems, mortars, etc., were deployed below the slope. .
From this position, they can complete the direct bombardment of Yanmen Pass by adjusting the shooting angle.
By then, Yanmen Pass will have to withstand not only artillery fire from the north, but also artillery fire from the south.
Under fire from both sides at the same time, the Japanese troops in Yanmen Pass will soon understand what purgatory on earth is.
The intensive sound of gunfire at Yanmen Pass lasted until ten o'clock in the evening, when the sun completely set, and then it came to an end.
The Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, while the Fourth Army and Eighth Route Army suffered considerable casualties.
It¡¯s just that the troops led by Li Yunlong and Bai Mingxuan have been able to directly attack the south wall of Yanmen Pass. This is tantamount to putting a long knife behind Morita Muyi¡¯s back.
The blade of the long knife was now pressed against his vest. If he was not careful, the long knife would pierce his heart.
When the battle at Yanmen Pass was in full swing, the Japanese troops led by Takeda Junpei had also arrived to the north of Xinzhou.
On the road from Xinzhou City to Yuanping County, several Japanese military strongholds have been cleared. Even the highway pavement has been blasted with large and small potholes.
As for the pits, many mines have been laid. As long as the Japanese army wanted to fill in these potholes to facilitate the advancement of cars and motorcycles behind them, they might be killed or injured.
If you use engineers, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive. At the same time, many of these landmines are still expected landmines. The mine detection equipment of this era cannot detect these plastic landmines at all.
All this is to slow down the march of the Japanese army to the greatest extent.
What Ding Wei has done is more than that.
He also dispatched many troops, broken them into parts, and then carried out raids between Xinzhou and Taiyuan, and between Xinzhou and Yuanping County.
This kind of harassment can be against the Japanese transport troops, the Japanese defense line outside Xinzhou, or even the Taiyuan City defense line.
As long as it can affect the Japanese army's operations to the greatest extent, slow down their offensive rhythm, and mess up their mentality, then it can be carried out.
Takeda Junpei's tens of thousands of troops completed the assembly with high efficiency.
They set off from Xinzhou and attacked Yuanping County along the highway.
They only need to go a few dozen kilometers forward to reach Yuanping County smoothly.
Originally, Takeda Junpei thought that the enemy would build a large number of defense lines at highway strongholds along the way to block their attack step by step.
But now it seems that he thought wrong, because the enemy wants to delay their attack, and there are other ways.
That means destroying the road to the point where even horse-drawn carriages cannot travel.
It is said that before the soldiers and horses are moved, food and grass go first.
If they want to attack Yuanping County, the supply troops must arrive in that area first. But their supplies mainly relied on horse-drawn carriages and truck transportation.
These modes of transportation all require roads, and no matter how bad they are, there are slightly better roads.
But now these roads have been completely destroyed.
?? Takeda Junpei used a telescope to watch it spread to the horizon.Potholes have almost turned the originally neat road into a dirt road after heavy rain.
"Order the engineering troops to immediately start filling these potholes. At the same time, let the scout troops find other roads leading to Yuanping County." Takeda Junpei said.
"yes!!"
The Japanese engineering troops began to dispatch.
It is said to be an engineering unit, but in fact there are many other infantry units. After all, not only engineers can do the work of filling holes, but infantry can also do it.
Their soldiers swarmed towards the damaged and disfigured highway, and were about to start filling in the potholes. A violent explosion directly enveloped the dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed over first in gunpowder smoke.
Screams came one after another, and many Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces by landmines and other explosives buried below. Others had their legs or arms blown off, and were wailing in pain on the ground.
This is a series of minefields, with dozens of mines buried under the road.
But those mines in front will not be triggered. The few landmines that can actually be triggered are all in the front.
This will ensure that more Japanese troops rush into the mine array, thereby killing and injuring these Japanese troops to the greatest extent possible.
The sudden explosion forced Takeda Junpei to order the mine-detecting engineers to move forward and begin clearing the mines that might be buried under the highway.
Their engineering troops formed a line, with more than a dozen engineers using metal detectors in front, moving slowly along the highway and on both sides of the highway.
But they advanced less than a few dozen meters when a plastic landmine detonated.
¡°Boom!!¡±
The Japanese engineer's right leg was directly blown off.
This kind of mine is not very powerful, but it is also the most insidious.
Not only is it difficult to detect, but it will not kill a person directly, but will blow off a leg.
If it is killed directly, the Japanese army will only lose one combat effectiveness. But if a leg is broken, at least one Japanese soldier will be needed to take care of him, which is equivalent to the loss of two combat effectiveness.
¡°And this kind of wounded soldiers is also a burden for the country Japan.
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