Meng Xiang would never think that relying on just one Taiping Bank would be able to meet the financial needs of the territory.

The change of financial intelligence makes it easy to slow down the regulation of planning, and this beat needs to be filled by more flexible financial institutions. Meng Xiang also planned to support several private financial institutions, while Taiping Bank moved closer to the functions of the central bank. Dadetong's credibility and connections also enabled him to quickly complete the transformation into the banking industry. All that's missing is an opportunity, a fund.

Meng Xiang gave them a chance, and with a large amount of money in his hand, he allocated a part of it, and there was a revival of Dadetong. Not long after, Detong Bank in Shanxi was established.

The vanguard army's method of buying bones allowed those Shanxi rich owners who held gold ingots in their hands to see more opportunities. Meng Xiang also intends to support Jin Shang. Although the Jin merchants had a bad reputation in some historical periods, their centuries of precipitation made them have a keen sense of finance and other trades. Meng Xiang needs them to jump on the world stage in the future to fight against the Jews and other financial predators. Talent doesn't have to be used for one's own use, but as long as it's bad for the opponent.

In order to deal with the various forces around him, he also needs to win over these rich landowners, but he does not have to obey them in everything. Meng Xiang, who has an army of millions, is not afraid of them tossing at all. If it weren't for the fear that they would toss behind their backs, causing Shanxi to be unpeaceful for a long time and greatly hurting his vitality, Meng Xiang didn't mind raising the butcher's knife.

Now, Meng Xiang has just drawn out new rules, which belong to the rules of the vanguard army. The rearrangement of many of the old rules of institutional interests will inevitably lead to local turmoil and pain. Those who go along prosper, and those who go against it die. A lot of times it's as simple as that.

Although Taiyuan has not yet started, the counties around Taiyuan have already begun to clean up.

"Why haven't they come to attack Taiyuan yet?" The commander of the 109th Division, Lieutenant General Anan Weiji, sat there with a bitter frown, motionless.

Although the vanguard army surrounded Taiyuan, he was not too worried about fighting to the death. Despite the explosion and bombardment, there was still a large amount of ammunition accumulated in Taiyuan City, and there was no need to support other armies, and only the main force of the 109th Division could last for several months. At that time, fortunately, he kept a hand and left some of the ammunition in the city, and the vanguard army did not wreak havoc because of the people around him.

There is also a lot of stock in Taiyuan City, although this time, when the vanguard army attacked, there was no new grain, but as long as there was grain in the city, they would eat. It is not theirs to starve the people, but to blame the vanguard army for besieging the city.

The devils in the city have also prepared fortifications in various areas, just waiting for the vanguard army to rush in and fight to the death. The base camp personally sent an order, asking 109 to defend Taiyuan and fight a street battle with the vanguard army to see if they could resist the offensive of the vanguard army in the future. He said that his next step was to take a defensive position, and he needed to use the city to do a good job of defense, and the 109th Division was used as a test subject.

Anan Weiji also knows and is willing to do so. It's just that the left and right are waiting, and the vanguard army just doesn't come.

"The military department asked us to hold for three months, but the vanguard army has not come to attack, why is that?" He thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't understand it, so he couldn't help but ask the chief of staff, Kuramo Zhouzang.

"According to reliable sources, the vanguard army should be ready to attack Taiyuan." Cangmao Zhouzang also thought about it for a long time, and he didn't dare to be sure, so he could only say that the news from the military department was comprehensively judged.

"It can't be that you're worried about the people of China, right?" Anan said to himself, "That's not right. This time, the military department wanted to examine our ability to fight in the streets with the vanguard army, and we did not use the people of China as a shield. As he spoke, he unconsciously felt a little embarrassed in his heart.

In the just-concluded Central Plains War, thousands of people died without eyes in guns and cannons. These were the helplessness of the war, and the vanguard army gave a certain pension. But some of these devils also used the people as shields, but they were caught by the vanguard army and solved a group of overseas Chinese. Even the casualties of the people caused by the construction of fortifications, the vanguard army also used overseas Chinese to fill in the number with a tooth for a tooth. Only a few pieces of news remained: Some overseas Chinese volunteer laborers were wounded by stink bombs left behind by the Chinese army when they were cleaning up the battlefield, and unfortunately died, and sacrificed their lives for the friendship between China and China.

These news made me furious, how could there be so many deaths from stink bombs. But the vanguard army has long said it very clearly, but beyond the way of normal means, the vanguard army will inevitably return the favor with a tooth for a tooth. Labor for the Chinese is a normal means of warfare, but it is not normal to injure people. It is even more abnormal to use the people as shields.

Meng Xiang actually wanted to have a hearty slaughter of Yu Ben. But the reality at this time does not allow it. The devil is in control of the occupied area, so many people, if a killing starts, the damage will not be simply counted by the thousands. Even Meng Xiang's bombing of the mainland was enough to stop. Let me understand the ability of the vanguard army in the future, so that I will not do too many excessive things.

The vanguard army is no better than the Americans, and it has no worries and can bomb as much as it wants. Therefore, at this time, the vanguard army could only draw a certain bottom line to ensure the safety of the people.

He said that he was also afraid of the vanguard army's bombing of their homeland, and now he could not stop it, so he could only refrain from doing something excessive until these problems were solved. Coupled with the personal safety of tens of thousands of overseas Chinese in the hands of the vanguard army, the number of times this [***] has harmed the people is much less.

Although Taiyuan was besieged, he did not take the people to martyr the city. In addition to the fact that some international people led by the spies of the vanguard army often supervise on the side, plus the base camp intends to obtain relatively complete combat information, so this time, I am very honest.

The wing flag of the 109th Division and the relevant materials and seed personnel have been transferred, and the rest are to be defended. Although I planned to keep it for half a year at first, I thought about it for a long time, and I still kept a low profile to keep it for three months.

"It's okay to hold on for three months." Anan Weiji said with a little unconfidence in his heart. The vanguard army attacked the city all the way, and few were able to resist them. Although this time, a staff officer sent by the military department directly blocked almost all the loopholes in the defense of the city that he could think of, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

"No matter, the water will cover it. It's just that why haven't they come yet? "Anan only a few pairs of vanguard troops look through the autumn water.

But over there, Meng Xiang was still unhurried. Because Taiyuan City was surrounded by vanguard troops in the north, east, and south at this time, only the west side was replaced by Yan Xishan's team.

However, Yan Xishan was in a hurry, in addition to the team that played soy sauce at the beginning, he continued to dispatch troops and sent a large group of men and horses in Luliang Mountain to the city of Taiyuan, but he was guarding in the west but did not attack.

Taiyuan City is well defended, and if the vanguard army can directly use artillery to knock it open and attack it directly. But if it was just Yan Xishan's team attacking it, it would have suffered heavy losses.

Meng Xiang was also a little unbearable in his heart, but if this old Yan wanted to attack, he could only be ruthless and wait to see Lao Yan make a move. Lao Yan was waiting for the vanguard army to attack, picking up ready-made ones in the back. After all, this Taiyuan is the territory of Yan Xishan, and at this time, he participated in the siege of the city and recovered the lost land.

In other places, he wanted to receive it in time, but there were vanguard troops still stationed, and they couldn't help it. If it was the guest army in the past, Yan Xishan still had a lot of ways to deal with it, but now after the vanguard army sacrificed the magic weapon of the subsistence allowance policy, the people supported it one after another, and even many people in the Jin army began to run away. And how can this drive them away?

The vanguard army adopted a set of popular election methods, occupied the territory, counted the registered personnel, and began to vote to elect its own county and township heads. The vanguard army took the opportunity to launch its own personnel to engage in subsistence allowance, and this move directly compared to others. In addition, the people nominated by the vanguard army are mainly locals, and they are not afraid of xenophobic ideological interference, so they rightfully occupy those territories.

In the long run, I am afraid that the whole of Shanxi will be occupied. Yan Xishan had no choice but to strike in advance, so as not to have a violent conflict with the vanguard army. Yan Xishan knew very well in his heart that he couldn't defeat the vanguard army, so how could he win the vanguard army? If it weren't for the hat that he couldn't fight the civil war and unite with the outside world at this time, I was afraid that he would have been wiped out a long time ago. If you don't make a move at this time, you won't have a chance in the future.

But only the Jin army may not be able to capture Taiyuan even if it has huge losses, which makes Yan Xishan hesitate, which makes it a stalemate now.

However, the vanguard army was not idle, and seeing that Taiyuan City was not suitable for attack for the time being, Meng Xiang turned his target to other places. There are still some places in Jinzhong and Jinnan that are in the hands of devils. While steadily occupying the territory, the vanguard army sent the New First Army and the New Eighth Army to slowly encroach on the surrounding devil territory and slowly press south.

This style of play is the simplest, which is to attack hard.

Heavy artillery, tanks, and the vanguard army also spared no ammunition. This kind of consumable ammunition is no problem with the support of bases in the north and east. On the other hand, the devil's heavy artillery has not much ammunition, and that little light weapon can't break through the armor of the tank.

In the face of absolute strength, the devil can't resist it, if it weren't for the vanguard army needing to digest the territory, I'm afraid that it will be taken down in one go.

Others are looking at it hot, and they also want to take the opportunity to lay some ground, but how can the devils who have formed a group be so easy to deal with? It turned out that the devils were short of manpower, and there were only the size of small squadrons scattered in various counties, but now 100,000 devils are crowded in the Jinnan area, and each county is the size of a brigade or even a wing, plus the geographical advantage of defending the county, it is naturally not so easy to gnaw.

The devil was like cannon fodder under the guns of the vanguard army, but in the face of other armies, whether it was the Central Army, the Jin Army, or other teams with even less adequate equipment, they still had the upper hand. It also allowed them to regain a bit of self-confidence.

However, this kind of talk did not last long, and the vanguard army still moved south little by little.

After a month, the statistics of more than 30,000 casualties made Itagaki Seishiro frown. The New First Army of the Vanguard Army had already attacked Hongdong County and approached Linfen, while the New Eighth Army in the east had also joined forces with Pang Bingxun's 40th Army.

"They're using us as whetstones!" Seishiro Itagaki sighed in his heart. In addition to implementing subsistence allowances everywhere they went, the vanguard army also constantly recruited new recruits into the army, and then a group of recruits from the new barracks were trained on the front-line battlefield. After withstanding the test of such a fierce battle, and with the strong firepower support of the vanguard army, a group of recruits grew up.

"Can't go on like this! Let them conquer the land little by little, and the morale of the soldiers will collapse. He said decisively. Whoever loses a battle every day will be shaken in his heart after a long time. This is also one of the reasons why Pharmacist Tang gave Meng Xiang this idea. It crushed the morale of the Yue army, and made them even more uncomfortable than defeating them directly.

"Telegraph to the military department, we want to break through!"

"Breakout?" Some people in the country still don't know much about the situation at this time, but they just feel that they still have a large area of land in Jinnan in their hands, so is it too early to break through at this time?

"Food is easy to solve, but our weapons and ammunition are getting scarce and scarce." Seishiro Itagaki replied directly. The ammunition left over from the past, coupled with the scattered production of military machinery, may be able to support it for a while, but it will definitely not last long. If it's a big war, I'm afraid it won't last long.

"Agree to break out!" Instructions from the base camp soon arrived, and even without them, Seishiro Itagaki refused to sit still. But with this instruction, at least a lot of trouble and culpability have been reduced.

"At this time, half of the Central Plains is also in the vanguard, and it is difficult to break through, so let's break through there?" The commander of the Mongolian Corps, Lieutenant General Hasunuma, was second only to Itagaki Seishiro at this time, but there were only more than 6,000 people left in the Mongolian army at this time, and it has not been replenished. He was guarding Linfen, watching the vanguard army attack step by step, but there was no way.

"You're from over there, and we're going to break through from that side this time!" Seishiro Itagaki said resolutely. The north, south, and east can't break through, and only the west still has a glimmer of life.

"We'll go west first, and then we'll go north and south. Get supplies on the spot. Itagaki Seishiro looked at the map in front of him, looked at the areas in southern Jin, and couldn't help but say decisively: "A strong man should break his wrist, search these areas again, and then give them to the Central Army and the Jin Army." ”

This time, the army looted exceptionally cleanly, and some people who usually didn't plan to do it also looted all the gold and silver treasures, and got out all those gold and silver treasures.

"It's inconvenient to march with these things!" Seishiro Itagaki looked at the many belongings looted, and although his eyes were hot, it was also a trouble to carry a large pile of things. But the devils have red eyes for snatching property, and there is no reason to let go. But more of the big ones were the ones that belonged to the empire in the custody of Seishiro Itagaki.

"I put some of my belongings in place and found a safe place to put them away. Bring only some light gold and silver goods on the road! Seishiro Itagaki ordered.

The devil found a cave near Jishan, placed hundreds of boxes of belongings, and the team that led the team then shot the 100 Chinese men who helped carry them with machine guns. Then more than a dozen devils in those squads also committed suicide, and no one knew about it except for a leading Shaozo and a staff officer. This secret, including Seishiro Itagaki, is known to only five people.

And three dogs, of course.

The spies planted by the Vanguard learned a little bit about it, and hundreds of cloned dogs roamed around looking for opportunities. Finally caught up with the devil's treasure team and witnessed everything. Although they couldn't describe what happened in detail, it was no problem to get there with the Vanguard searchers.

Not at this point, though.

The devils withdrew suddenly, and no one could have imagined that they would abandon those territories and choose to break through directly. However, under the guidance of the puppet army, the devil had a tacit understanding with the Central Army and the Jin Army, one evacuated and the other received. also made the way, so that the devil quickly arrived at the Yellow River and prepared to cross the river into Shaanxi.

In addition to those killed by the vanguard army, plus the 109th Division that was besieged, Itagaki Seishiro also led more than 50,000 devils, and such a large-scale operation could not be hidden. However, the Central Army and the Jin Army wanted to grab territory, which naturally blocked the pace of the vanguard army's pursuit. At this time, the sudden action of the army made them half a step behind, and when they gathered personnel to prepare to take over the county seat, they found that those puppet armies had already turned into the ranks of the Central Army and the Jin Army.

Although the treatment of the vanguard army is good, the foundation of some puppet troops is not clean, and it is better to defect to the Central Army and the Jin Army to clear their foundations and get promoted and make a fortune by the way. With the suppression of these leading puppet army leaders, those county towns will naturally become the Central Army and the Jin Army.

The Jin army attacked directly and quickly from the vicinity of Ji County and took over Linfen and the surrounding counties and cities. The Central Army also moved quickly, directly occupying Yuncheng and those county towns to the south from Zhongtiao Mountain. The news of the vanguard army is not slow, Meng Xiang has the intelligence of the devil every day, and when he heard it, he immediately dared to parachute into Jincheng in front of the central army, plus the support of the guerrillas in the city, as well as the ardent hope of the people, only to occupy the city and open up the communication channel between Shanxi and Henan.

However, several counties west of Jincheng were occupied by the central army, and it was impossible to pursue the devils for the time being.

The vanguard army crossed, who was relieved to let them pass? Although the Central Army and the Jin Army occupied part of the territory, because of the urgency of time, there were not many personnel, and they did not dare to let the vanguard army pass.

The Central Army and the Jin Army wished that it would be better for the devils to leave Shanxi early and enter Shaanxi. Except for Hu Zongnan, who guarded Xi'an and did not let them pass, other places were left to their actions.

The devil chose to cross the Yellow River from Hejin, and the army of more than 50,000 people pressed it, and it was not easy to resist. Coupled with the release of water from the Central Army and the Jin Army, they crossed the river smoothly.

It was impossible for Meng Xiang to pretend not to be silent, so he sent a telegram asking if the Red Party needed support.

At this time, there is a meeting going on to discuss it.

"Fifty thousand devils are coming, we can't stop it!" One person said, this is very realistic, 50,000 devils is not a squadron, a brigade, a whole equivalent to the strength of two divisions. Moreover, among these evacuated troops, although the number is not complete and the artillery is small, it is also a team that has always been unable to be easily resisted.

"Shall they be allowed to spread wild on our base?" One said angrily.

"This is all the idea of the Central Army and the Vanguard Army to borrow a knife to kill people." One said angrily.

"I'm afraid it's not the idea of the vanguard army this time, they also chased the devil's tail and wiped out thousands of people, but the Central Army and the Jin Army gave the green light all the way, allowing the devil to cross the Yellow River easily!" One person has a good feeling about the vanguard army, after all, the vanguard army has made many people live a good life. Although it is not entirely in line with their philosophy, it is always right to be good to the people.

"The Vanguard Army and the Central Army are both the same hill. We can't destroy myself, but we let them cross the river to consume our strength! ”

"The vanguard army is still very careful in fighting devils, if only we had their equipment!" One envied the equipment of the vanguard army. He is not the only one who is envious, even the Central Army and the ranks of other warlords are envious, and even Yue himself is envious.

"The vanguard army is not only well equipped, they are brave in battle, and their tactics are also very good, which should not be underestimated." Most people think that the vanguard army defeated Yue himself with its equipment, and ignore other aspects. Just like the U.S. military in later generations, everyone thinks that the Americans can't do anything other than equipment, but in fact, the tactical use of the U.S. military and the arrangement of the military system are first-class, but their dazzling equipment just obscures people's sight.

Similarly, at this time, many people thought that if they lost such good equipment, the vanguard army might not have much combat effectiveness. But they all ignore the leading role of the clones, and they also ignore the three-month recruit training in the boot camp.

Because they have infiltrated the vanguard army more, they know best.

"Let's not talk about the vanguard army first, now that the army is coming from the east, how should we deal with it?" One of them brought the topic to the point.

Everyone talked about it for a while, and then their eyes looked at a tall figure who was smoking a cigarette and was silent.

"Put!" After a long time, he said, "I said that this time I am trying to break the predicament in Shanxi, they entered Shaanxi, and there was a central army in the south to block it, and a vanguard army in the north to block it, I am afraid they will go west." We're struggling with supplies here, and they won't stay for long. Organize the people, clear the wilderness, seize the time to evacuate, and let them pass! We follow behind them, kill a few devils when we have a chance, and wait for an opportunity if we don't have a chance. ”

He had the final word. Although there was the intervention of Soviet and Russian commissioners, militarily, he still had the final say.

"What about the vanguard army's request to enter the base area?" Someone asked.

"It's easy to please God, it's hard to send God! Tell them we can handle it ourselves! The great man flicked the ashes of his Victory cigarette and said thoughtfully.