If the 32nd Division really only attacks along the Dongshan line, then the pressure on the troops around Taiyuan City will not be too great. But once it penetrates behind it and seizes Zhoujiashan, Huangzhai, Yangzhai, etc.
In a straight line, all the troops around Taiyuan City will be truly surrounded.
Once the Beitong-Pu Railway is cut off, let alone the dismantled equipment, it will no longer be able to be transported out. Even when the Japanese army is surrounded on all sides and there are enemy troops inside, all participating troops will be wiped out.
This is the most deadly danger under Taiyuan City.
Rather than doing this, it is better to abandon the Xishan line, which is currently very unfavorable and can no longer be defended. Concentrate all forces to defend key points in the north and around Taiyuan City, as well as key points along the Tongpu Railway. Once the fighter planes are in an extremely unfavorable situation, or
The goal is to complete all disassembly tasks, concentrate all troops and take trains to break out of the encirclement under air cover, and then make plans based on the situation.
It's just that his decision was unanimously opposed by the participating troops in the Jinsui and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei military regions. Moving the Xishan line out of the way and blowing up the Fenhe Bridge completely cut off the retreat route of the participating troops around Taiyuan City. Once
If the battle fails, the troops around Taiyuan City will be made dumplings by the Japanese army.
Faced with the equipment and personnel who had rushed to Gujiao to personally command the evacuation to the base area, the acting commander of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region and the commander of the eighth division, who came to the base area thoroughly, were followed by the commander of the fourth division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region and the political commissar.
, these people are firmly opposed.
Even the two commanders of the Eighth Division of Shanxi-Suiyuan and the Fourth Division of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei believe that the personnel have basically been evacuated, the relocation of materials and some machinery and equipment has been roughly completed, and the rest is irrelevant. There is no need for the troops to continue to persist here.
, and requires the entire army to evacuate immediately, and all equipment that has not been dismantled should be blown up.
Under the current situation where the Japanese army has been encircled from three sides, the top priority is to protect the troops from being eaten by the Japanese army. The two commanders agreed that it is time to evacuate. The troops should take advantage of the opportunity that the Japanese army in Hexi has not yet encircled.
Immediately retreat to Hexi and blow up the Fenhe River Bridge to prevent the Japanese troops in Hedong from pursuing.
Yang Jicai, who did not have time to explain too much to them, pointed to the map and said: "Blowing up the Fenhe Bridge does not mean that our army's retreat route has been completely cut off. As long as no large Japanese troops appear in key points around the Beitong-Pu Railway for a day, then
Our retreat has not been cut off."
"At present, Kaihua, Zhaojiashan, Nanyan Town, and Baijiazhuang lines in Xishan have been lost one after another, and the Japanese troops in Hexi have penetrated into the depth of our army's overall defense. Our troops in Hexi have actually been compressed to Fenhe River
The overall situation in the river valley area is already at a serious disadvantage."
"Our army in Hexi currently only controls the commanding heights, only the line of Ximingshan. If Ximingshan is lost and the Japanese army attacks from a high position, our troops in Hexi will be completely defeated by the Japanese army. At present, the entire Xishan defense zone is actually undefendable.
Necessity.”
"Instead of using up the troops in such a desperate fight, it is better to abandon the West Mountain front line, withdraw all troops to the east bank of the Fen River, blow up the Fen River Bridge. Use the Fen River as a barrier and hold on to the east bank of Fen as much as possible.
The river has now been cultivated and the water is deep enough to prevent the Japanese army from crossing."
"The most critical thing is that even if the remaining equipment is disassembled, the size of these equipment cannot be evacuated by road. In other words, the only way we can evacuate now is by railway. In this way, we will continue to control Xishan
There is no longer any need.”
"What we need to pay attention to now is not the highway leading to the deep northwest of Shanxi, but the main attention should be on the north. The troops we have now, in addition to the original participating troops, include the four troops from Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei who came later.
There are two small regiments in the subdivision, and the Taiping Independent Battalion in the Taihang Second Division, even if we add our original troops in Hedong, it is difficult to compete with a regular Japanese division."
"Instead of deploying dispersedly and being eaten one by one by the Japanese army, it is better to concentrate our troops and hold on to various key points in Hedong with all our strength to ensure that the dismantling of this industry is completed and our retreat route behind us. Once the Beitong-Pu Railway is cut off, all our efforts will be in vain
All in vain.”
"Now the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Second Division have seized Shiling Pass along the mountainous area south of Xiaowutai. As long as our army withdraws the troops in Xishan to Guanmao Mountain, we can join forces with the Second Division troops around the Shiling Pass line.
Build a line of defense. As long as Shiling Pass is in our hands, we can guarantee our army's retreat on the Taiyuan battlefield."
"As long as we are in Taiyuan, the Japanese army will not be able to mobilize troops to march westward to pursue the personnel and materials I have withdrawn to northwest Shanxi. Once we complete the dismantling and dismantling, and the entire army takes turns to cover, we can take the train and get off south of Huangzhai
, using the mountainous areas to withdraw to our army’s base area in northwestern Shanxi.”
"Not only have all the equipment in the chemical plant been dismantled, we have also completed the disassembly of dozens of remaining equipment in the locomotive plant. Even in the current steelmaking plant, only a few of the largest blast furnaces have not yet been completed.
Disassembly. I have discussed with several technicians responsible for disassembly. It will take up to five days to complete all disassembly tasks. In other words, within these five days, we must persevere even if we grit our teeth."
After that, Yang Jicai handed over a telegram from the Anti-League Headquarters to everyone present and said: "Commanders, I have to say something here. The ultimate goal of all the machinery and equipment here is not the Northeast, but
Northern Shaanxi and Suinan are separated from the Shanxi-Sui Military Region by a river."
"In other words, all the workers and equipment we rushed out of Taiyuan this time will be used to form our own military industry in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the Baotou area north of the Great Wall of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region. All its products will be
We will support the Jinsui, Taihang and Taiyue military regions in their operations."
"Indeed, the Northeast has our own military manufacturing capabilities, which can provide a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition to the customs forces. However, these ammunition have to be transported all the way from the Northeast, which not only consumes a lot of time and energy, but also wastes a lot of resources.
.”
"During last year's anti-mopping operations, if the Kanai troops could get sufficient ammunition supply, then I think the outcome of last year's anti-mopping operations would never be like this. Northeast China provided a lot of artillery to the Kanai troops, but the number of shells
But it’s never been able to meet the needs.”
"As a result of last year's anti-mopping operations, most of the artillery in each military region failed to play its due role. Of course, there are certain reasons for the training and tactics of our troops. But this is not the main reason. The main reason is ammunition.
The issue of supply. Whether it is tactical application or training, the root cause is whether there is sufficient ammunition."
"If the ammunition is sufficient, we can train a qualified artillery force. If the ammunition is sufficient, we can use our tactics freely. If the customs troops, except for a small number of seizures, rely entirely on the supply of ammunition from the Northeast,
Not only is the transportation volume difficult to meet demand, but it is also difficult for the Northeast to afford it in the long run while still meeting its own needs."
"It is also considering that the long distance to transport ammunition from Northeast to Shanxi not only consumes too much material, but also often affects the development of the war situation due to untimely transportation. We believe that the best way to solve the current predicament of the troops within the customs is
, which is to strengthen the self-sufficiency of ammunition of the troops within the customs."
"At least half of the ammunition needs for daily operations in Taihang, Taiyue, Jinsui, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, etc., close to northern Shaanxi, can be met by providing at least part of the needs in the Northeast and relying on part of the seizures."
.Or we can provide real explosives for various base areas in the customs to manufacture ammunition."
"So the Anti-League Headquarters took into account the changes in the enemy situation on the battlefield in Shanxi, the current industrial base in Taiyuan, and the relatively stable environment in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. It decided to use the attention of the entire Japanese First Army in Shanxi.
Attract opportunities from the same battlefield, seize Taiyuan to seize machinery and equipment, and forcibly mobilize the remaining workers of the Taiyuan Arsenal to northern Shaanxi."
"After this batch of machinery, equipment and workers are rushed to northern Shaanxi, a number of military industrial enterprises will be built in the shortest possible time relying on the coal and iron resources of northern Shaanxi. In order to solve the acute shortage of ammunition for our military troops in the pass and change our military industry production
It mainly relies on manual work. Due to the lack of standard explosives, grenades can only be loaded with low-power black powder."
"As for the operation to rescue prisoners of war, it can only be said to be a side operation. The real purpose of this operation in Taiyuan is actually the industrial equipment in Taiyuan City and a large number of skilled workers. Leaders, this is related to your work in Taiyuan.
Will we be able to obtain sufficient ammunition for future battles?"
"Can you leaders really accept that our current situation of only having five bullets per gun and a grenade that is thrown can only explode into two pieces and cannot kill anyone? Or would you rather wait for the ammunition to come thousands of miles from the northeast?
You've come all this way and are launching a battle?"
"All the leaders are senior cadres of our army. They should know that the war situation is changing rapidly. The Japanese army will raid our base areas at any time. On the battlefield, we cannot expect to transport enough troops from thousands of kilometers away.
Ammunition meets the needs of so many troops in the pass."
"I know that all the leaders are very dissatisfied with many of our policies during this operation. They think that we have adopted some coercive measures in mobilizing the masses to assist and evacuating some workers, which violates mass discipline. But I only have one sentence,
Now we don’t have much time to fight for it slowly. We don’t even have time to mobilize little by little.”
"If we create a bad impression temporarily, we can find ways to make up for it and improve it later. But once we delay it, what awaits us will be disaster. In a word, time waits for no one, and the war situation waits for no one. We are now
Everything we do should be focused on achieving our ultimate goal.”
"For the future development of the troops within the customs, and for the sake of our absence, the lack of enough artillery shells has prevented the troops from exerting their attack capabilities. Due to the lack of ammunition, the combat plan can only be scrapped halfway, and the troops have to pay a lot more during the battle that should have been avoided.
sacrifice. I hope the leaders can overcome it and persist for a few more days."
"Although with the development and changes of the war situation, our army has increased its strength on the battlefield of Taiyuan. We now have a lot of troops, and it can be said that we have concentrated the backbone of several major military regions. However, compared with our army in North China and Northeast China,
Compared with the total number, our troops can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean. Even my tank battalion is only a very small part of the total number of tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance."
"With these machines and equipment, we can permanently and partially change the current situation of our army being short of guns and ammunition in a short period of time. Even if we use up all of them in this battle, other troops will still be able to carry out the invasion.
Even if they are driven out of China, the whole of China can still be liberated."