In order to ensure the safe retreat of the whole army, Yang Jicai specially talked with the commanders of the two military divisions of Jinsui and Jinchaji before retreating. Yang Jicai, who was short of time, directly told them that as long as the troops strictly followed their retreat plans, he guaranteed that not a single wounded person would be lost and all the troops and all the dismantled equipment would be taken out safely.

But as long as one unit does not obey orders and does not act on its own in accordance with the plan and time, it is likely that this retreat will not be able to evacuate safely from the whole army. At that time, not to mention the dismantled industrial equipment, even these troops currently concentrated inside and outside Taiyuan City are likely to be wiped out under this Taiyuan City.

Faced with the grim situation in the surrounding area, more and more Japanese puppet troops. The two commanders, who knew that the surrounding area was very dangerous, did not hesitate at all, and did not hesitate to say at the meeting that they would strictly follow the battle plan formulated by Yang Jicai. No one haggled over this matter.

At this moment, he has already received his old superior, the political commissar of the Advance Army, and the deputy commander-in-chief, who is now acting as the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and the boss who has been transferred must give the commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division a lot of orders to cover the breakthrough of the anti-coalition forces. At the meeting, he took the initiative to lead the troops of his own division and serve as the last cover.

The commander's excuse was very strong, and his troops had been operating in the area east of Tongpu Road and west of Taihang Mountain. Moreover, the territory north of Wutai Mountain, east of Tongpu Road, and west of Zhengtai Road are all under the jurisdiction of the four sub-districts of Jinchaji. The mountains and rivers here, the grass and trees are all familiar to themselves. Since you are on the last cover mission, you can also take advantage of your familiarity with the terrain and evacuate safely after completing the mission.

At this moment, the two commanders knew very well in their hearts that at this time it was not a question of who had the final say, but how to bring these troops out safely and transport out the big guys who had been dismantled. Although the young man's plan is a bit risky, it is also the only option that can be chosen at the moment.

Regarding the initiative of the commander of the Jinchaji Second Division, Yang Jicai did not agree. He handed over the burden of covering the retreat of the general retreat to Su Yingqi. However, he also asked the Jin-Cha-Ji Second Division to leave a regiment that was most familiar with the terrain and enemy situation to cooperate with Su Yingqi's retreat.

Considering the poor communication capability of the fraternal units in the Kannai, the troops below the regiment hardly had any means of radio communication other than wired telephones. When the army is there, the problem is still not big. But now the large forces are withdrawing one after another, and all wired communication lines are being dismantled. Without direct radio communication, there will be a problem of delayed evacuation.

Yang Jicai equipped each participating battalion with a walkie-talkie from the communication equipment he accompanied him. Anyway, his troops have almost run out, and most of the walkie-talkies that were originally equipped to the company level are now no longer used by the troops. Yang Jicai simply strengthened these walkie-talkies, together with the synchronous operators, to the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji and Jinsui Military Regions who participated in the war, so as to ensure smooth communication and communication in wartime.

In order to be able to withdraw all the troops participating in the battle safely. After deploying all the plans and waiting for the air cover to arrive, Yang Jicai did not retreat but advanced. Concentrate already limited forces and take tactical counterattacks at key locations. In the south of the city, the anti-coalition forces concentrated the troops of the last reinforced company, and under the cover of three tanks, they took the lead in launching a counterattack on the whole line of the Japanese army that had occupied the first line of the Shuangta Temple.

According to Yang Jicai's plan, the unit used a feint to attract all the attention of the Japanese troops in the south of the city. After the rest of the troops had boarded the train, they retreated northeast along the Tongpu railway under the cover of tanks. To the first line of Jiaoziwan, after converging with the first section of the Anti-Japanese Union there, the two divisions were unified under the command of Su Yingqi and withdrew to the first line of Wohu Mountain to replace the troops of the Jinchaji Fourth Division as the defense.

At the same time, the main forces of the Jinsui Eighth Division in the south of the city and the west of the city planted a large number of mines along the east bank of the Fen River, and entered the city directly from the south and west gates of Taiyuan City. Evacuate directly along the city to the far gate of the town in the city, where a train with a fire is already waiting for them.

In the east of the city, the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division, on the front line of Dongshan, the main force alternately covered the retreat to the front line of Wohu Mountain, and boarded the train west of Wohu Mountain. The first took advantage of the familiar terrain and stuck to the front line of Crouching Tiger Mountain. After Su Yingqi's troops arrived, they withdrew from the eastern foot of Crouching Tiger Mountain and withdrew from the battlefield in the direction of Zhangzitou.

Yang Jicai made extremely strict regulations on the retreat time of all the participating units and the location of the train. Even the time to abandon the various positions, as well as the time required for the halfway march, were strictly regulated. In order to ensure that all units could strictly abide by the retreat plan, Yang Jicai distributed all the hundreds of watches seized from the Taiyuan Japanese trading house to all cadres above the company level of the troops participating in the battle.

The counterattack on the first line of the Shuangtasi on the southern front started, and the other troops in the south and west of the city began to gradually shrink their positions according to Yang Jicai's plan, adopting a posture of alternate cover, and quickly withdrawing to the city at the same time. Under Yang Jicai's order, the only remaining half of the battalion of the Anti-Japanese Union on the front line of Jianziwan in the east of the city was under the cooperation of two companies of the Eighth Division of the Jinsui Military Region. Under the cover of all artillery fire, once again launched a counterattack on the front line of Scissors Bay.

Their main task now was to draw the attention of the enemy forces in front of them, to buy time for the troops to withdraw from the first line of the Twin Towers Temple in the south of the city, and to cover the withdrawal of troops from other directions. After joining up with the troops evacuated from the first line of the Shuangta Temple, they will take the tanks as the lead and carry out a general retreat along the Tongpu line to the line of Wohu Mountain.

Although a lot of price was paid in the battle for Scissors Bay, and in the end it was not able to completely recapture the first line of Scissors Bay, but under Yang Jicai's counterattack almost at all costs, the offensive of the Japanese 32nd Division on the Tongpu Railway was finally contained, ensuring that the Tongpu Railway was not cut off by the Japanese army temporarily.

Although the first line of Jiaoziwan was not recaptured, Yang Jicai used the middle zone along the entire Jianziwan and Tongpu Railway, and the line of Wohu Mountain in the north and Haojiagou in the south to reconnect into a line of defense. Although it was in a disadvantageous area of the plain in terms of terrain, with the support of artillery fire on the city wall behind it, it was able to barely compete with the Japanese army.

Obviously, the Japanese army did not want to cause too much damage to the Tongpu Railway, the main supply route of the Japanese army in northern Jin, during the Great War in Northern Shanxi. Although the artillery fire of the Japanese army in depth was quite fierce. From the first line of Scissors Bay to Dongguan in Taiyuan, it was almost flattened by Japanese artillery fire. The troops could only rely on the craters left by the Japanese army, and struggled to block the offensive of the 32nd Division when there was basically no depth.

However, the Tongpu Railway did not receive a single shell from the Japanese army. Seeing that the Japanese army actually had such a tacit understanding, Yang Jicai gradually reduced the strength of the counterattack. As long as the Japanese offensive was stopped and their infantry did not pose a threat to the Tongpu Railway, he did not have to recapture the line of Jianzi Bay.

But before it was, and now the front line of Scissors Bay is crucial to whether the troops in the south of the city can be safely evacuated. The first line of Scissors Bay is now the pivot point of the entire retreat route, if it does not attract the attention of the Japanese army. In the case of the troops on the front line of Haojiagou, with only one battalion left, the last covering force is likely to be cut off by the Japanese army.

So after hesitating again and again, after the general retreat began, Yang Jicai suddenly increased his counterattack on the front line of Scissors Bay. His order to the first-line troops in Jianziwan was very simple, that is, to intercept the Japanese troops on the first line of Jianziwan before joining forces on the first line of Shuangtasi. At the same time, the troops on the front line of Haojiagou were ordered to resist the attack of the 32nd Division at any cost.

Yang Jicai knew very well that his actions were impossible for the Japanese army not to perceive. The 41st Division in the south of the city did not have many troops, and apart from the casualties during this period, the offensive had actually gradually eased. So for the 41st Division in the south of the city, he was actually not very worried.

However, the 32nd Division in the east of the city was the greatest threat to the entire retreat. Without attracting the attention of the 32nd Division, it would be difficult for the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji 4th Division in other directions to safely and completely break away from the Japanese army. As for a battalion of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division on the Haojiagou front, he could only temporarily take command of this battalion when it was temporarily impossible to evacuate.

Even with air cover, the troops in the Guannai have no experience in ground-to-air combat. In this night air raid operation, it is impossible for the pilot to clearly distinguish the ground target. If the Guannai brother troops were to take on this task of covering the final retreat, not to mention whether they could safely break away from the Japanese army, it would be difficult to be injured by mistake.

It was precisely with this excuse that Yang Jicai finally persuaded the two divisional commanders, Jin Sui and Jin Chaji, who rushed to serve as the last cover after receiving the boss's order. The task of the final general retreat was handed over to Su Yingqi. In fact, Yang Jicai was also very distressed by such a decision.

A reinforced regiment of troops, for so many days there are only so few troops left. Now in this situation, the slightest negligence may make it extremely unlikely that the remaining troops of the regiment will be safely withdrawn. But for Yang Jicai at this moment, he has no choice.

The order he gave to Su Yingqi's headquarters, which served as the last cover, and the battalion of the Jinchaji Fourth Division on the Haojiagou line, was to wait for all the trains loaded with troops and equipment to pass through the Xiangyang line. Taking advantage of the high speed of the Crusader tanks, the division broke away from contact with the Japanese under air cover, and converged with the main forces on the front line of Shiling Pass. And before all the troops crossed the Xiangyang line, even if the department was completely wiped out, it was not allowed to retreat a step.

Despite the fact that a general retreat of the whole army had begun, the troops acting as cover had also begun to counterattack the intended targets. But Yang Jicai did not rush to act, but according to the plan, all the trains were formed in two columns, and a locomotive was hung in front and behind. The two trains were grouped in a group, and the order was taken every 15 minutes to evacuate northward.

Although before the general retreat began, the two trains that were the first echelon had already moved north to the Queen's Garden line, in order to free up the place where the trains stopped, and the follow-up troops pedaled. At the same time, reduce the retreat plan because all the trains are too concentrated, and guide zhì yourself. At the same time, it also avoids the possible losses caused by the Japanese army breaking through in depth once that direction is broken through.

But the distance traveled by these two trains, and where they stopped. Before the other troops pedaled, they were strictly controlled, and they could only drive at the speed that Yang Jicai painstakingly calculated. When all the troops have finished pedaling, the two trains will start to move at maximum speed according to the plan.

Before the retreat began, Yang Jicai's reconnaissance troops had been secretly deployed along both sides of the entire retreat route, controlling various crossings and marshalling stations, and cooperating with the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Second Division, which had already been in place, to cover the strongholds along the way south of Guò Shiling Pass. Yang Jicai only has one sentence, as long as the railway is not damaged and the fork is not moved, all trains are not allowed to stop.