As the headquarters of the First Army, Taiyuan City is not only a factory, but also a logistics base for the entire Japanese army stationed in Shanxi. This time, most of Taiyuan City was taken, and the seized materials were piled up. In the major military warehouses in Taiyuan City, the quantity of steel, oil, military uniforms, weapons, ammunition, and military food is very huge.

In a Japanese warehouse at the Taiyuan Railway Station alone, tens of thousands of boxes of canned beef, more than 10,000 boxes of precious canned fruits, more than 200,000 bags of white flour and rice, and hundreds of thousands of bags of cotton were seized. At Wusu Airport to the southeast, hundreds of barrels of aviation fuel were seized. The gasoline seized in the warehouse of the Japanese army in Dongshan was more than 20,000 barrels.

Yang Jicai didn't care about these materials except for gasoline, they were all blown up, and compared with the tasks to be completed, no one would say that he was a fee. However, the Jinsui Eighth Division refused to let go, and resolutely transported all these materials back to the base area.

The Jinsui base area, which itself is located in a barren mountainous area with relatively scarce products, coupled with the brutal and continuous sweep of the Japanese army last year, so many materials can greatly alleviate the current situation that the people in the entire base area have been exhausted to the extreme. At the very least, this amount of food and materials can alleviate the burden on the base areas for a considerable period of time. Let the people in the base area be able to take a good breath.

In desperation, Yang Jicai distributed weapons and ammunition as much as possible. Steel, oilseeds, cotton, grain and other materials were transferred to the base areas. Canned food was provided with four a day for each cadre and soldier, and two a day for prisoners of war who were not on combat duty, in order to provide for their recovery.

All the troops participating in the battle, except for ten compressed biscuits and six cans of food as reserves, were distributed to each of them. During the Taiyuan War, three meals a day were stewed with canned meat with potatoes, radishes, and cabbage, or simply stewed frozen meat and dried vegetables in the cold storage of the Japanese army in a large pot, and the staple food was rice and white noodles. For the first time, all the troops who participated in the battle received raincoats and gas masks.

So much so that many cadres and soldiers of the Guannai troops who participated in the war recalled decades later that the period of fighting in Taiyuan City was the best time for them to eat in the entire Anti-Japanese War, and it was also the only period when food was openly supplied. The rescued prisoners of war also recovered quickly in a short period of time.

Even so, such a large batch of materials cannot be fully digested in the short term. The amount was too large to take away, and Yang Jicai ignored the resolute opposition of the commander of the Eighth Division. With the exception of gas masks, the rest of the supplies were loaded with explosives and ready to be blown up during the evacuation.

In order to be able to ship as many supplies as possible before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the troops in and around Taiyuan City were all operational. The industrial area in the north of the city is in full swing to dismantle the equipment. The people of the city were mobilized as much as possible to transport supplies outward.

Under the difficult circumstances of mobilization, they even resorted to the method of using force to force each other. Of course, the banknotes withdrawn directly from the pseudo-Shanxi Bank were paid afterwards. The 200 trucks brought by Yang Jicai, together with the 110 Japanese trucks captured in Taiyuan, were almost non-stop transporting materials and personnel to Gujiao.

The driver doesn't have to worry, all the scouts in the participating troops can drive. This allows for rotational driving with the driver to achieve maximum transport volume. Moreover, the gasoline seized in Taiyuan City will not be used up even if these trucks are scrapped. It's just that no matter how many means of transportation there are, it takes a lot of time to transport these things away plus a large number of people.

After all, the Japanese army would not wait for Yang Jicai to stop and do all the work, and then evacuate smoothly. At the same time that Yang Jicai was making every effort to rush to transport materials and personnel, under the constant urging of Yoshimoto Sadaichi, the 41st Division of the Japanese Army adopted various means, and even released a large amount of poison gas, and one of them finally got rid of the entanglement of the Taiyue Military Region and arrived at the Jinyuan front line on 18 April.

In the face of Yoshimoto Sadachi's urging telegram almost every hour, the 237th Wing of the 41st Division, which arrived in Jinyuan, strengthened the four squadrons of the 239th Wing, and immediately concentrated the main force to attack Taiyuan without waiting for a break.

Under the command of Major General Okumura Baner, commander of the 41st Corps, the troops launched an attack south of Taiyuan along both banks of the Fen River and the Tongpu Railway in two routes. In the early morning of 19 April, the two armies first made contact at Xiaodian, Dicun, and Mingqian Township. On the west bank of the Fen River, the two armies also fought fiercely along the west mountain of Taiyuan.

The 41st Division of the Japanese Army, which was urged by Yoshimoto Sadachi, was on fire and the offensive was extremely fierce. Coming up, under the cover of artillery fire, launched a group charge. On the front line of Xiaodian, Dicun, and Mingqian Town, more than 700 shells from the 92nd Infantry Cannon fell within an hour. And borrowing the wind, in the middle of the battle constantly released a large amount of poison gas.

The entire defensive position in the south of Taiyuan City, all the fortifications, were almost blown to the ground by Japanese artillery fire. The Japanese army was formed in squadrons, and under the cover of poison gas and artillery shells, launched a group charge in turn. If it weren't for the use of a large number of gas masks captured in Taiyuan City, under the Japanese poison gas offensive, I am afraid that the entire southern position of the city would not be able to hold even a day.

And in Taiyuan City, the Japanese troops trapped in a position of less than 700 square meters around the headquarters of the First Army also seemed to have returned the sun. And the few puppet troops left in the city also played their lives under the supervision of the Japanese army after learning that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived.

Since the battle in Taiyuan City began, the lower-level puppet officers and soldiers did not care, and surrendered everywhere. But those high-level puppet army, especially the high-level leaders of the Shanxi Suppression ** and Xingya Yellow Army, know very well that the people below can surrender, but they must not surrender.

In particular, Cai Xiongfei, the commander of the Xingya Yellow Army, who led his troops to surrender to the enemy under the post of deputy division commander of the 19th Army of the Jin Sui Army, knew that whether it was the Central Army, the Jin Sui Army or the Eighth Route Army, he would not end well. No matter who it is, it will be difficult to save your life. What's more, it was the Eighth Route Army that fought in person, and he couldn't surrender himself.

Over the years, he has cooperated with the Japanese army to sweep the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, and the blood debt he owes is not a lump sum or two. On the list of several major military regions of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, they are all listed as hardcore traitors who must be killed. If he fell into the hands of these dirt roads, he was afraid of the consequences.

In order to save his life, he commanded his hardcore troops to resist desperately, and even publicly shot dozens of officers and soldiers who wanted to surrender. Facing this part of the puppet army struggling to death, Yang Jicai didn't want his troops to lose too much, so he didn't care too much. He even consciously made a hole and asked him to withdraw to the headquarters of the First Army.

However, after learning that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived in the south of Taiyuan, the puppet army took the lead in launching a counterattack. Trying to show the Japanese army behind him in front of the most senior commander in Shanxi, he drove the Anti-Japanese Union and the Eighth Route Army out of the city. The shameless behavior of these puppet soldiers made Yang Jicai very annoyed.

Gritting his teeth, Yang Jicai still decided to beat these bastards first. He blocked the connection between the puppet army that rushed out and the follow-up Japanese army with firepower, and concentrated the strength of one battalion to outflank the puppet army with more than 1,000 troops. He knew that under the condition that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, the remaining Japanese puppet army would not let himself live without defeating this group of rising birds.

As for the strength of the puppet army in front of him surpassing him, Yang Jicai didn't care at all. In his opinion, one of his battalions had no problem defeating an infantry brigade of the Kwantung Army face to face, let alone facing a thousand puppet troops? Since these puppet soldiers are not afraid of death, it is just right to use them to deter other Japanese puppet soldiers in the city, so that they can stay honestly during this time and bother themselves less.

And the civilians around the area where the Japanese army was entrenched have long been mobilized to leave. Each of them was also compensated by 10,000 counterfeit coins seized from the Taiyuan Bank. So Yang Jicai invested artillery at the beginning of the battle. Without the concerns of the people's safety, he would not have any hesitation.

In the face of the swarming puppet army, the two 76-mm cannons of the Anti-Japanese Union accurately smashed the heads of these puppet soldiers with the first round of counterattack artillery fire. The troops in charge of the two plagiarisms, together with a tank company and an infantry company that attacked head-on, took the street as the dividing line, and the first fierce offensive under the cover of several flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns would completely crush the counterattack of the puppet army. And in the subsequent counterattack, the puppet army in front of him was divided.

Under the situation of being attacked from three sides, this puppet army, which was already lacking in confidence and launched a counterattack under the pressure of the high-level, was defeated within an hour despite having an advantage in troops. If it weren't for the fact that Yang Jicai didn't want to cause too many casualties, the troops who launched a counterattack would even directly rush into the Japanese position.

Some of the puppet soldiers who retreated to a few houses and tried to resist stubbornly were simply knocked down by Yang Jicai with tanks, crushing these hardcore traitors and a small number of Japanese soldiers who participated in the battle to death. Or mobilize artillery, fire artillery at close range, and send these guys who want to see God with granite heads, together with a small number of Japanese officers and soldiers who are supervising the battle inside, directly to the western sky.

Not only did this puppet army not only show its favor in front of its own masters, but also joined two squads of Japanese troops, plus more than 200 Japanese armed expatriates. Originally, he agreed to launch a counterattack by this puppet army, trying to use the puppet army to consume part of the strength of the Anti-United Nations, in order to cooperate with the internal and external attacks of the reinforcements, and completely surrounded and annihilated the bold and lone anti-Japanese alliance in one go.

Yang Jicai cleanly solved the more than 1,000-day puppet army, and this killing of chickens and monkeys made the Japanese puppet army in the city completely honest. Worried that the already limited defensive forces were consumed little by little in this senseless counterattack, Yoshimoto Sanichi ordered to stop any counterattack.

He was very honest in his limited defensive position, and he didn't dare to take a step. Fortunately, after this counterattack, the Anti-Japanese Union transferred all the artillery and tanks out of the city. Only part of the infantry was left, looking at the actual strength of this piece of land in the city, which far exceeded his own Japanese puppet army.

Throughout the campaign, the troops in the city with Yang Jicai have been meeting. The Resistance League does not attack, and they definitely do not launch a counterattack. Just honestly watched the Anti-Japanese Federation orderly withdraw the people in the city who were willing to follow the Anti-Japanese Federation one after another, as well as dismantle the industrial equipment.