If this 32nd Division really only attacked along the Dongshan line, then the pressure on the troops around Taiyuan City would not be too great. But once it penetrates behind him and seizes the line of Zhoujiashan, Huangzhai and Yangqu, all the troops around Taiyuan City will really fall into the encirclement.

At that time, once the Beitongpu Railway is cut off, not to mention the dismantled equipment, it will no longer be able to be transported. Even when the Japanese army is surrounded on all sides and there are enemy troops inside. All the troops participating in the war are in danger of being wiped out under the city of Taiyuan, which is the most deadly.

Rather than this, it is better to give up the front line of Xishan, which is currently quite unfavorable and can no longer be firmly held. Concentrate all your forces to hold all the points in the north and around Taiyuan City, as well as all points along the Tongpu Railway. Once the fighter is in an extremely unfavorable situation, or has completed all the dismantling tasks, concentrate all the troops to force a breakthrough under the cover of the air by train, and then plan again according to the situation.

It's just that his decision was unanimously opposed by the participating troops of the Jinsui and Jinchaji military regions. Getting out of the way of the Xishan line and blowing up the Fenhe Bridge is equivalent to completely cutting off the retreat of the troops participating in the battle around Taiyuan City. Once the battle is lost, the troops around Taiyuan City will be dumplings by the Japanese army.

In the face of the resolute opposition of the acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region, the commander of the Eighth Division, and the commander and political commissar of the Fourth Jin-Chahar-Hebei Division, who had already rushed to Gujiao to personally command the equipment and personnel withdrawn to the base area, and to the commander and political commissar of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Fourth Division, who had already arrived in the base area.

Even the two commanders of the Jinsui Eighth Division and the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division believed that the personnel had basically been evacuated, and the relocation of materials and some machinery and equipment had been roughly completed, and the rest were irrelevant. There is no longer any need for the troops to continue to hold out here, but they demand that the entire army be withdrawn immediately, and all the equipment that has not been dismantled will be blown up.

At present, the Japanese army has come up from three sides, and the top priority is to protect the troops from being eaten by the Japanese army. Both commanders agreed that it was time to evacuate. The troops should take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army in Hexi has not yet been encircled, immediately withdraw to Hexi and blow up the Fenhe Bridge to prevent the Japanese army in Hedong from pursuing.

Yang Jicai, who didn't 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 has been completely cut off, as long as the key points around the Beitongpu Railway do not appear in a large Japanese army for a day, then our retreat has not been cut off." ”

"At present, the Kaihua, Zhaojiashan, Nanyan Town, and Baijiazhuang fronts in Xishan have been lost one after another, and the Japanese army in Hexi has broken through the overall defense depth of our army. Our troops in Hexi have actually been compressed into the Fen River valley, and the overall situation is already at a serious disadvantage. ”

"At present, our army in Hexi only controls the commanding heights, and there is only one line of Ximing Mountain. If the West Famous Mountain is lost and the Japanese army condescends to rush forward, our troops in Hexi will be completely defeated by the Japanese army. At present, there is no need to defend the entire Xishan defensive zone. ”

"Instead of fighting so hard to consume the troops, it is better to abandon the Xishan line, withdraw all the troops to the east bank of the Fen River, and blow up the Fen River Bridge. With the Fen River as a barrier, stick to the east bank as much as possible. The Fen River is now civilized, and the water is deep enough to prevent the Japanese from wading. ”

"The most important thing is that even if the remaining equipment is disassembled, according to the size of the equipment, it will not be possible to retreat by road. In other words, the only retreat we can take at the moment is through the Guò railway. In this way, there is no longer any need for us to continue to control the West Mountain. ”

"Now we need to pay attention not to the road to the northwest of Shanxi, but to focus on the north. The forces in our hands now are in addition to the original forces that participated in the war. Including the two small regiments of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division, which arrived later, and the Pingding Independent Battalion of the Taihang Second Division, even if we added our original troops in Hedong, it was difficult to compete with a regular division of the Japanese army. ”

"Instead of scattered deployment and being eaten by the Japanese army one by one, it is better to concentrate the troops and make every effort to hold on to all the key points in Hedong to ensure the completion of this industrial dismantling and the retreat behind us. Once the North Dongpu railway is cut off, all our efforts will be in vain. ”

"And now the troops of the Jinchaji Second Division have seized Shiling Pass along the mountainous area on the southern edge of Xiaowutai. As long as our army withdraws the troops located in Xishan to Guanmaoshan, it can build a defensive line around the first line of Shiling Pass with the troops of the 2nd Division. As long as Shiling Pass is in our hands, then we can guarantee the retreat of our army on the Taiyuan battlefield. ”

"As long as we are in Taiyuan, the Japanese army will not be able to draw troops to the west to pursue the personnel and materials that I have withdrawn to the northwest of Shanxi. After we complete the demolition and dismantling, and the whole army takes alternate cover, we can take the train to get off the train south of Huangzhai and use the mountains to withdraw to our army's base area in the northwest of Shanxi. ”

"At present, not only has the equipment of the chemical plant been completely dismantled, but we have also completed the dismantling of dozens of remaining equipment of the locomotive plant. Even in today's steel mills, only a few of the largest blast furnaces have yet to be disassembled. I discussed with a few technicians in charge of the dismantling that it would take up to five days to complete the entire dismantling task. In other words, within these five days, we must persevere even if we are gritting our teeth. ”

After that, Yang Jicai handed over a telegram from the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Federation to everyone present before saying: "Leaders, I have to say a word here. The ultimate goal of all the machinery and equipment here is not the northeast, but northern Shaanxi and southern Suinan, which are separated by a river from the Jinsui Military Region. ”

"That is to say, all the workers and equipment we rushed out of Taiyuan this time will form our own military industry in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and the Baotou area north of the Great Wall of the Jinsui Military Region. All its products will support the operations of the Jinsui, Taihang, and Taiyue Military Regions. ”

"It is true that the Northeast has our own military manufacturing capacity, which can provide a large number of weapons and equipment as well as ammunition to the troops in the Guannai. However, these munitions are transported from the northeast for thousands of miles, which not only consumes a lot of time and energy, but also wastes a lot of resources. ”

"In last year's anti-sweeping operation, if the troops in the Kannai could have received sufficient ammunition supply, then I don't think the outcome of last year's anti-sweeping operation would definitely not be like this. Tohoku provided a lot of artillery to the Kannai troops, but the number of shells was never enough. ”

"Most of the artillery units of various military regions failed to play their due role in last year's anti-sweeping operations. Of course, there are certain reasons for the training and tactics of our troops. But this is not the main one, the main reason is the problem of ammunition supply. Whether it is tactical use or training, the root lies in whether the ammunition is sufficient. ”

"If there is enough ammunition, we can train a qualified artillery corps at all. If there is enough ammunition, we can use our tactics freely. If, apart from a small amount of capture, the troops in the Guannai rely entirely on the supply of ammunition from the Northeast, it will not only be difficult to meet the needs of the Northeast, but it will also be difficult for the Northeast to afford it in the long run while meeting its own needs. ”

"It is also considering that the transportation of ammunition from the northeast to Shanxi is too long, not only the consumption of materials is too large, but also often because the transportation is not timely, which affects the development of the war situation. We believe that the best way to resolve the current predicament of the Kannai troops is to strengthen their own ammunition self-sufficiency. ”

"At least under the condition that we can provide part of the needs in the northeast and rely on our own partial capture, we can meet the needs of at least half of the ammunition needed for daily operations in the various base areas near northern Shaanxi, such as Taihang, Taiyue, Jinsui, Jinchaji, etc. in Guannei. Or it can provide real explosives for the production of ammunition in various bases in the customs. ”

Therefore, the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Federation has taken into account the changes in the enemy situation in the Shanxi battlefield, as well as the current industrial base of Taiyuan, and the relatively stable environment in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area. It was decided to take advantage of the attention of the entire Shanxi Japanese First Army, which was attracted by the opportunity of the Datong battlefield in Jinbei, to seize Taiyuan and seize the equipment, and to force the remaining workers of the Taiyuan Arsenal to go to northern Shaanxi. ”

"After this batch of equipment and workers are rushed to northern Shaanxi, they will rely on the coal and iron resources of northern Shaanxi to build a number of military enterprises in the shortest possible time. In order to solve the extreme shortage of ammunition for our troops in the Guannai in the vicinity, and to change the current situation in which our military production 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 described as an incidental operation. The real purpose of this operation in Taiyuan is actually the industrial equipment in Taiyuan City, as well as a large number of skilled workers. Ladies and gentlemen, this has a bearing on whether or not you will be able to obtain sufficient ammunition in future operations. ”

"Can you really accept that our current situation of only five bullets in one gun and one grenade can only explode into two pieces when thrown can not kill people continue? Or would you rather wait for the ammunition to come from thousands of miles to the northeast and launch an operation? ”

"All of you are senior cadres of our army, and you should know that the situation of the war is changing rapidly. The Japanese army's sweep of our base areas will be carried out at any time. On the battlefield, we cannot expect to travel thousands of miles to transport enough ammunition from thousands of kilometers away to meet the needs of so many troops in the Guannai. ”

"I know that the leaders are very unhappy with many of the policies in our operation. It is believed that we have adopted some coercive measures in mobilizing the masses to assist and to evacuate some of the workers, which is a violation of mass discipline. But I only have one sentence, we don't have much time to fight slowly. There is no time to go a little bit of mobilization. ”

"If it creates a bad impression for the time being, we can find ways to make up for it and improve it in the future. But if we delay, then what awaits us will be doomed. In a word, time waits for no one, and the battle situation waits for no one. Everything we do now should be focused on accomplishing our ultimate goal. ”

"For the sake of the future development of the troops in the Kannai, and for the sake of our absence, the troops' ability to attack fortifications has never been brought into play because of the lack of sufficient artillery shells. Because of the lack of ammunition, the battle plan had to be abandoned halfway, and the troops had to pay many more sacrifices in the course of the battle that should have been avoided. I hope that the heads will be able to overcome it a little longer and hold out for a few more days. ”

"And although with the development and change of the war situation, our army has increased some troops on the battlefield of Taiyuan, and the troops in our hands now can be regarded as a lot, which can be said to be a concentration of the backbone of several major military regions. However, compared with the total number of our troops in North China and Northeast China, our troops can only be regarded as a drop in the ocean. Even my tank battalion is only a very small fraction of the total number of tanks in the Anti-Japanese Union. ”

"With these machines and equipment, we can permanently and partially change the current situation of our army lacking guns and ammunition in the past in a short period of time. Even if we were to defeat all of them in this battle, the rest of the troops would still be able to drive the invaders out of China and liberate all of China. ”