Before the July 7th Incident, Shanxi's industry was one of the most developed regions in mainland China. Its industrial scale was second only to that of Southern Manchuria before the September 18th Incident. Moreover, its industrial base has always been dominated by heavy industry. At the same time, it also competed with Japanese capital. Compared with South Manchuria, which accounts for a large part, the entire industry in Shanxi is entirely owned by the Chinese.
There are hundreds of factories around and within Taiyuan City alone. Large-scale heavy industrial enterprises such as Northwest Steel Plant, Northwest Locomotive Factory, Taiyuan Arsenal, Northwest Yucai Steel Machinery Factory, Northwest Chemical Plant, etc. are located around Taiyuan City. Northwest Power Plant, Northwest Woolen Mill, Northwest Cement Factory and other large factories and mines.
The entire northern suburbs of Taiyuan are densely covered with factories, and there are huge factory chimneys everywhere. Its industrial scale is definitely first-rate in the country. Even compared to Shanghai, which mainly focuses on light textiles and building materials, in addition to the shipbuilding industry, in The complete set of heavy industry industries is also slightly inferior.
Before the September 18th Incident, the Taiyuan Arsenal, together with the Shenyang Arsenal and the Hanyang Arsenal, were known as the three largest arsenals in the country. Its heavy weapons production capacity was even higher than that of the Hanyang Arsenal. The Jinsui Army relied on these arsenals to not only equip itself with equipment that ranked among the warlords in the country. First, there is even room for large-scale external sales.
The Taiyuan Arsenal can produce more than 4 million rounds of bullets in just one month. The monthly output of artillery once reached a maximum of 35 pieces, ranking first among all the arsenals in Guanzhong except Shenyang Arsenal. Although the quality depends on the raw materials and workmanship. In terms of quality, it also seems a bit inferior. But after all, under the circumstances of limited financial resources, the problem of whether or not was solved first.
In addition, relying on a large number of private enterprises built by Shanxi merchants who are said to be the richest in the world and have strong private capital, before the Anti-Japanese War, Shanxi was actually the most industrially developed province in the country except the Northeast, especially heavy industry. , it is definitely ranked among the best in the country.
Although during the Japanese occupation, a large number of machinery and equipment in the Japanese-occupied areas of Taiyuan and Shanxi were plundered to Japan and Northeast China. Several factories that originally produced weapons and equipment were basically evacuated. The military manufacturing capacity of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, In fact, it started from the Taiyuan Arsenal machinery and equipment captured by Japanese troops and transported to the Northeast as reserves. However, the scale of the remaining industry is still very objective.
The total number of equipment that needs to be demolished in the Northwest Machinery Plant and Machinery Repair Shop alone reaches more than 540. The scale and tonnage of the equipment in the Northwest Steel Plant and Chemical Plant are even greater. Not to mention dismantling, it is Transportation is a headache.
The train problem is now easy to solve. When the Anti-Japanese Alliance captured Taiyuan Railway Station, they captured six freight trains alone and more than 170 freight trains. After the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway was interrupted, the trains trapped in Shanxi were Almost all of them are concentrated in several surrounding stations such as Taiyuan City and Yangquan.
After capturing Taiyuan Railway Station, the train trapped in Taiyuan fell into the hands of Yang Jicai. The number of wagons in his hand was enough to transport all these machines and equipment. However, the availability of transportation means does not mean that this problem has been completely solved. From Taiyuan to Most of Datong's Beitong-Pu Railway is still in the hands of the Japanese army.
Looking at the equipment that needed to be dismantled statistically, Yang Jicai was overwhelmed. Although the orders from his superiors were only to dismantle equipment from the Northwest Steel Plant, Northwest Machinery Plant, and Northwest Chemical Plant, both old and new. The overall number was in the factories in Taiyuan City. Among them, it is not the most.
But the amount of usable equipment that has been sorted out now is far more than I originally judged. It also exceeds the amount given to me by the Enemy Industry Department of the Jinsui Military Region. Not counting anything else, these equipment alone have been disassembled and shipped. Three
To hell with the time. Three days to complete the demolition of the Northwest Machinery Factory is already pretty good.
As for the number of workers who are willing to leave, it is actually less than the number originally planned. Leaving the place where they grew up and wandering around during this war-torn period is obviously difficult for a large number of workers who already have families to support and need to support their families.
Very reluctantly. Although life in occupied areas is more difficult, at least the security is better.
Although the little devils who plundered those factory equipment were a little more ferocious and the salary they were given was a little low, they were still more miserable than before. It was better to be in a base area where they had to worry about the Japanese raids all day long. So it was not surprising that the Enemy Industry Department of the Jinsui Military Region
It is judged that the number of workers willing to leave is not as high as originally expected.
Moreover, when they heard that they were going to the Northeast, many workers themselves also gave up. Although people in Shanxi did not have the habit of traveling to Guandong, people in northern Shanxi always had the habit of taking the west exit. In the eyes of local Shanxi people, they would not be able to survive.
Only talented people can do it. In the eyes of Shanxi people, this is a very shameful thing.
Some of them had already agreed to leave, but under the pressure of their family members, they also backed down. But this was not a big problem for Yang Jicai. Northwest Steel Plant, Northwest Machinery Plant, Northwest Chemical Plant, these superiors
If he can mobilize these workers from the factories he calls for, he will have completed the task.
As for those workers in the iron factory, cigarette factory, match factory, woolen mill, and paper mill, if they were willing to leave, he would naturally be happy. If he didn't want to leave, Yang Jicai would not force him. However, the previous mobilization of the Enemy Industry Department of the Jinsui Military Region was still
Very impressive. Even though the number of workers willing to leave was lower than originally expected, there were still more than 20,000 workers willing to evacuate. But compared to the number of workers mobilized, the real headaches for him were those from the three factories named by his superiors.
Disassembly and installation of equipment.
According to their own plan, all the dismantled equipment will be transported by railway. The Japanese and puppet troops who use the stations along the North Tongpu Railway will not think that they will be bold, regardless of the fact that most of the routes of the North Tongpu Railway are still in their hands.
Adopt the mentality of forcibly passing through the railway, and the opportunity that Datong Railway Station has been controlled by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Take advantage of the North Tongpu Railway and use trains to forcefully pass through various Japanese strongholds along the line at maximum speed.
But this kind of railway transportation can only be done once, and I want to do it the second time. The Japanese army is on guard. As long as a section of the railway is removed, they will be trapped on the railway line with no choice. The Datong battlefield has now become the entire North China Front of the Japanese army.
Everyone is paying attention. If he is trapped along the railway, the further north he goes, the more dangerous he will be.
What makes Yang Jicai even more troublesome is that not only Taiyuan's 20,000 workers, tens of thousands of family members, but also doubled the number of prisoners of war have to evacuate. After the Anti-Japanese Alliance invaded the city, the only remaining Japanese and puppet establishment in Taiyuan City is
Taiyuan Normal School, Taiyuan Women's Normal School, Taiyuan Industrial Vocational School, Taiyuan Commercial Xinmin School, Taiyuan Junior Agricultural Vocational School.
As well as the Litongxu Medical College just established by the Japanese and puppets, more than 200 newly recruited students and Chinese teachers. In addition to the puppet provincial Taiyuan Middle School and Taiyuan No. 2 Middle School in Taiyuan City, there are thousands of teachers and students.
The noisy ones must retreat together. Not to mention going to the Northeast, even if they go to desolate places, they have to go.
Yang Jicai, who had no way to decide whether to take these students with him, could only ask his superiors for instructions. But after receiving Yang Jicai's request for instructions, Yang Zhen wrote a big stroke on his brother's report and directly asked him to transfer all the students in Taiyuan City.
The people should take away as much as possible. Looking at the instructions from the headquarters, Yang Jicai felt even more pressured.
With so many people, coupled with a large amount of machinery and equipment, it would be difficult to evacuate in three days or thirty days. The current situation of the base area was not unknown to him. The insufficient population has become the biggest difficulty in the development and growth of the base area.
.But what should he do with so many students? The surrounding areas of Taiyuan are still enemy-occupied areas.
After several discussions with the commander of the Eighth Division, the two people worked together to divide the work. It was decided that except for the workers and prisoners of war who stayed to dismantle the factory, the remaining evacuated workers and students, together with all their families, would first gather 150 trucks.
Carry out rush transportation to the location of Gujiao 8th Division Headquarters.
As for equipment disassembly, we will first focus on dismantling a total of 894 pieces of equipment in the Northwest Machinery Factory, Northwest Machinery Repair Shop, Northwest Chemical Plant, and Automobile Repair Shop. These equipment are relatively light and can be disassembled very quickly. As for the
For the equipment in the northwest steelmaking plant, all the workers, plus some prisoners of war, were gathered to dismantle the accessories of the blast furnace and the relatively lighter electric furnace.
Especially the German-made 1.5-ton electric arc furnace that was requested by the headquarters from the original Yucai Steelmaking Machinery Factory and merged into the Northwest Steelmaking Plant. It was the only remaining blast furnace after the Yucai Steelmaking Machinery Factory was completely plundered by the Japanese army.
As well as the 40-ton open-hearth furnace, power generation equipment, 650 medium-sized rolling steel, 5,000-horsepower electric motors, and seven blast furnaces.
The entire personnel evacuation, equipment disassembly and shipment, and personnel evacuation issues are handled by the Eighth Division. The Eighth Division has been active around Taiyuan, and all the enemy situations here are under their control. It is better for them to handle this
appropriate.
Yang Jicai is responsible for commanding the entire operations around Taiyuan, especially preparing for combat with Japanese reinforcements and weakening the remaining Japanese forces in Taiyuan City as much as possible. All troops in Taiyuan City are under the unified command of Yang Jicai. As for the enemy situation along Beitongpu Road
, the Jinsui Military Region will be responsible for finding out in the shortest possible time.
In fact, it doesn’t take much effort for the Jinsui Military Region to figure out the enemy situation on this line. The entire enemy situation on the Beitong-Puzhou Railway is in the head of the Intelligence Department of the Jinsui Military Region. What needs to be figured out is that after the start of the Datong direction, the Beitong-Pu Railway
Some changes in the enemy situation along the route.
Considering that it is still unclear how long the Taiyue troops can hold off the Japanese troops, Yang Jicai deployed two companies, plus two battalions from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth Division, to strengthen two cannons and quickly seize the two companies south of Taiyuan.
A defense line was established in the south of Taiyuan City along the Pagoda Temple, Old Military Camp, and Di Village lines.
Yang Jicai handed over a large amount of weapons and equipment seized at Taiyuan Station and Wusu Airport to the Shanxi-Suiyuan and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops. As for the large amount of gasoline and other materials seized, except for keeping them as backup, Yang Jicai also
The same is shipped to Gujiao.
In order to enhance the relatively weak firepower of the internal troops, Yang Jicai specially sent people to dismantle all the machine guns from the broken planes that the Japanese army left at Wusu Airport, and handed them over to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Fourth Division troops. He only needed