Chapter Seventy-Two: Divine Soldiers Descend from Heaven
This book finally has the first deacon, thank you for the book ^_^ friend dancing the three armies again
Not long ago, more than 8,000 commanders and fighters of the newly formed elite mountain brigade of the elite army had already avoided the enemy's interception on the main road under the command of Fang Yongle, chief of staff of the corps, and relied on their vigorous skills and some special equipment specially made by Hu Weidong for him to successfully cross the Zhongtiao Mountain Range, which can be called a natural danger in the eyes of ordinary people, and suddenly killed under the city of Taiyuan. forced Yan Xishan to send troops north from Taiyuan to fill the gap, making Taiyuan at this time unprecedentedly empty. What's even worse is that hundreds of special combat personnel sent by Hu Weidong to lurk in Taiyuan City a few months ago also suddenly attacked Yan Xishan's heart, Taiyuan Arsenal
Because guns were not banned during the Republic of China, shell guns were extremely common, and the special combat soldiers scattered into Taiyuan City, so they did not attract the attention of the defenders at all. But when they suddenly invaded and took control of the arsenal with the cooperation of the underground party, the city was empty of thousands of troops and police, and for a time they could not help these plainclothes with only pistols. It turned out that Yan Xishan was extremely protective of his arsenal, and the officers and men of the Jin Sui army were afraid of accidentally destroying the machinery and equipment of the arsenal, or even detonating the ammunition or chemical raw materials stored in the arsenal, so they basically did not dare to fire at the enemy, and even the use of heavy machine guns was strictly restricted, but the special combat personnel did not have this scruples, and they even directly pushed out cannons from the warehouse to unscrupulously bombard the Jin Sui army attacking the arsenal. What's more, even without the use of artillery, the excellent marksmanship and skill of the special combat personnel and the strong firepower of 20 rounds at close range are enough to fight against 10 times the enemy in the street battle
"This battle can't be fought, in just half a day, the casualties exceeded 1,000, and the red bandits even arrogantly bombarded our soldiers with the cannons in the arsenal! Please allow us to participate in the artillery! Zhou Di, the artillery commander who was trusted by Yan Xishan, pleaded.
"No, there are so many explosives and artillery grenades in the arsenal that have not had time to be transported, and this cannon will not all explode when it goes off?" , Yan Xishan refused.
"Even if it blows up, it can't be left to the red bandits!" , Zhou Yu said urgently.
"I can't bear it, old man! This is all the hard work of more than five years, how can it be destroyed in our own hands? Yan Xishan clenched his fists with a bitter face and screamed violently on his thighs.
Yan Xishan's hesitation caused the Taiyuan defenders to suffer greater losses, and when the 8,000 elites of the mountain brigade appeared under the city of Taiyuan like divine soldiers, Yan Xishan was too late to change his mind and blow up the arsenal, so he had to leave Taiyuan City, which he had invested a lot of effort in these years, and fled to western Jinxi under the desperate protection of his subordinates. "Feeling
At present, there are a large number of Red Army entrenched in northern and southern Jin, and Shanxi is next to Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, the base camp of the Red Army, no matter how you look at it, it is a dead land, but Yan Xishan has his own reasons for choosing this, and it is naturally safer to go to Hebei, but once he leaves Shanxi, the scattered subordinates and local militia groups have no backbone, and they will soon be scattered. Although the west of Jin is surrounded on all sides, Yan Xishan has been operating for many years after all, and there is a lot of food and ammunition in reserve, as long as he relies on the terrain to defend it, the Red Army will not be so easy to eat him, and although Lao Jiang wants to eliminate local warlords, but Shanxi Chihua is what he does not want to see, so the Central Army will definitely enter Jin as soon as possible to rescue, and the Red Army will withdraw from Taiyuan and other big cities sooner or later, and Shanxi will still be his Yan Xishan's at that time. Of course, the premise is that Yan Xishan wants to hold the western part of Jin, and try to collect the Jin Sui army and local militia groups that were scattered by the Red Army as much as possible, and with a sufficient number of troops, Lao Jiang and Xue Yue, the two unreliable guys, will not dare to fall into the ground...,
At this time, the Red 15th Army in southern Jin has also begun to defend as an offensive, and in more than ten days, dozens of strongholds of the Jin Sui Army have been uprooted, killing and wounding more than 2,000 enemy soldiers, this speed can not be said to be slow, but if you want to completely break through the defense line of Zhongtiao Mountain, it is impossible to do it in less than half a year, and the consumption of ammunition, especially artillery shells, is even more unbearable for the Red 15th Army, but when the news of the loss of Taiyuan reached Jinnan, not to mention the ordinary soldiers of the Jin Sui Army, even their main general Yang Aiyuan did not have the heart to continue to hold on, After several days of fierce fighting, the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Red 15th Army successfully broke through the solid Zhongtiao Mountain defense line and entered the fertile and fertile Yuncheng Basin, while the 70,000 or 80,000 Jin Sui troops retreated to the west of Jin and joined Yan Xishan under Yang Aiyuan's great strength, but due to the battle damage and the escape along the way, Yang Aiyuan's division was less than 30,000 horses when the two armies met, and this was the result of Hu Weidong letting him go and not beating the water dogs
Hu Weidong did this because he believed that even if the Red Army had greatly increased its strength because of its own appearance, it would still be able to seize Taiyuan and other big cities, and Zuihou still had to gain a foothold in the mountains first, and with the existence of Yan Xishan, the local emperor, it would be difficult for the Central Army to control Shanxi even if it entered Jin, and this situation of multiple shili checking and balancing each other was more beneficial to the current Red Army, and at the same time, it was also conducive to the formation of an anti-Japanese national united front as soon as possible. In addition, since Taiyuan City had to give up sooner or later, it was imperative to transfer the factory equipment and goods and materials in the city as soon as possible, and Hu Weidong naturally refused to waste too much time in order to capture a few more prisoners.
Although Yan Xishan is definitely not a good person, it is undeniable that his achievements in the process of China's industrialization during the Republic of China are among the best, especially in heavy industry, and the Taiyuan Arsenal is the largest arsenal in the Guannai (with the largest variety of products, the most complete supporting industries, and the lowest dependence on foreign countries. )。 In addition, the wealth of the Jin merchants is famous in the sea, so the harvest of the Red 15th Army after the capture of Taiyuan can be imagined. What particularly pleased Hu Weidong was that although Shanxi's industrial and mining industries were relatively developed, they were basically bureaucratic capital, and the Jin merchants were mainly engaged in money lending and pawnbrokers, which did more harm than good in today's China, and were designated by the Red Party as a landlord economy (those who opened pawnshops and money shops in the class division were all designated as landlords and were big landlords), and the Red Eighth Army could have confiscated them directly without worrying about violating discipline