Before the Qiqi Incident, Shanxi's industry was one of the most developed areas in Chinese mainland. Its industrial scale is second only to South Manchuria before the 918 Incident. Moreover, the industrial base has always been dominated by heavy industry. At the same time, compared with South Manchuria, where Japanese capital accounts for a large part, the entire industry in Shanxi is completely owned by the Chinese.

In the vicinity of Taiyuan City and in the city alone, there are hundreds of factories. Large-scale heavy industry enterprises, there are Northwest Steelmaking Plant, Northwest Locomotive Factory, Taiyuan Arsenal, Northwest Yucai Steelmaking Factory, Northwest Chemical Plant, Northwest Power Plant, Northwest Woolen Mill, Northwest Ocean Ash Factory and other large factories and mines around Taiyuan City.

The entire northern suburbs of Taiyuan are densely packed with factories, and there are huge chimneys of factories everywhere. Its industrial scale is absolutely first-class in the whole country. Even compared with Shanghai, which is dominated by light textiles and building materials, in addition to the shipbuilding industry, it is slightly inferior in terms of complete heavy industry industries.

Taiyuan Arsenal, before the 918 Incident, together with Shenyang Arsenal and Hanyang Arsenal, was known as the three major arsenals in China. Its heavy weapons production capacity is even higher than that of the Hanyang Arsenal. Relying on these arsenals, the Jin Sui army not only had the first equipment among the warlords in China, but even had the spare power to sell it to the outside world on a large scale.

The Taiyuan Arsenal can produce more than 4 million rounds of bullets in a month alone. The output of artillery used to reach up to 35 guns per month, and in addition to the Shenyang Arsenal, it was the first among all the arsenals in the Guannai. Although the quality is also somewhat inferior because of the raw materials and processes. But after all, in the case of limited financial resources, the question of whether there is or not is solved first.

In addition, relying on a large number of private enterprises built by a large number of Jin merchants who are known as rich in the world and have strong private capital, the whole of Shanxi was actually the most industrially developed province in China except for the Northeast before the Anti-Japanese War. Heavy industry, in particular, is definitely the number one in the country.

Although during the Japanese occupation, a large number of machines and equipment in Taiyuan and the Japanese-occupied areas of Shanxi were plundered to Japan and Northeast China. Several factories that used to produce weapons and equipment have basically been emptied. The military manufacturing capacity of the Anti-Japanese Federation actually started from the captured Japanese army and transported to the northeast as a reserve of Taiyuan Arsenal equipment. But the remaining industrial scale is still very objective.

The total number of equipment that needs to be demolished by the Northwest Machinery Factory and the Machinery Repair Plant alone has reached more than 540. The scale and tonnage of the equipment in the Northwest Steelmaking Plant and Chemical Plant are even larger. Not to mention disassembly, even transportation is a headache.

The problem of the train is easy to solve. When the Anti-Japanese Federation seized the Taiyuan Railway Station, it captured six freight trains alone. There are more than 170 wagons for trucks. After the interruption of the Zhengtai Railway, almost all the wagons trapped in Shanxi were concentrated in Taiyuan City and a few stations around Yangquan.

After the capture of Taiyuan Railway Station, the train trapped in Taiyuan fell into the hands of Yang Jicai. The number of wagons in hand is enough to transport all these machines and equipment. However, the availability of means of transportation does not mean that this problem has been completely solved. The Beitongpu Railway from Taiyuan to Datong was mostly in the hands of the Japanese army.

And looking at the equipment that needs to be dismantled statistically, Yang Jicai is also as big as a bucket. Although the order from the higher authorities was only to dismantle the equipment of the Northwest Steelmaking Plant, the Northwest Machinery Plant, and the old and new plants of the Northwest Chemical Plant. The overall number is not the largest among the factories in Taiyuan City.

But just sorting out the number of devices available at the moment is far more than I originally judged. It also exceeded the number handed over to him by the enemy engineering department of the Jinsui Military Region. If nothing else, just these equipment, complete disassembly to shipment. To hell with three days. In three days, it is already very good to be able to complete the demolition of the Northwest Machinery Factory.

As for the number of workers who were willing to go, it was less than the number originally intended. Leaving the place where they grew up and wandering around during this war-torn period is obviously very reluctant for a large number of workers who have already dragged their families and need to support their families. Although life in the occupied areas is more difficult, at least the security is better.

The little devils who plundered those factory equipment, although they were a little more vicious. The salary is also a little low, but after all, it is still more difficult than going, and it is better to be on guard all day against the base areas that the Japanese army sweeps. Therefore, contrary to the judgment of the enemy engineering department of the Jinsui Military Region, the number of workers who were willing to leave was not as large as originally expected.

And when they heard that they were going to the Northeast, many workers themselves retreated. Although the people of Shanxi do not have the habit of going to the eastern part of the country, the people of northern Shanxi have always had the habit of going to the west. In the eyes of Shanxi locals, that is what only people who can't live can do. In the eyes of Shanxi people, this is a very shameful thing.

Some of them had already agreed to leave, but under the pull of their families, they also flinched. But this is not a big problem for Yang Jicai. The Northwest Steel Plant, the Northwest Machinery Factory, and the Northwest Chemical Plant, these factories named by the superiors, these workers can be mobilized, and he will complete the task.

As for the workers of the iron factory, the cigarette factory, the match factory, the woollen mill, and the paper factory, he was naturally happy if he was willing to go. If he didn't want to go, Yang Jicai would not be reluctant. However, the previous mobilization of the enemy engineering department of the Jinsui Military Region was still very powerful. Even though the number of workers willing to leave was lower than originally expected, more than 20,000 people were willing to follow the evacuation. It's just that compared to the number of workers mobilized, what really gave him a headache was the dismantling and installation of the equipment in the three factories named by his superiors.

According to their own plan, all the dismantled equipment will be transported by rail. The Japanese puppet army, which took advantage of the stations along the Beitongpu Railway, would not think that they would be emboldened, regardless of the fact that most of the routes of the Beitongpu Railway were still in their hands, and adopted the mentality that the railway force was passed through Guò, and the Datong Railway Station had already controlled the opportunity in the resistance alliance. Using the Beitongpu Railway, trains were used to force the passage of Japanese strongholds along the Guò line at maximum speed.

But this rail transport can only be done once, and the second time I want to do it. With the garrison of the Japanese army, as long as a section of the railway is removed, they will be trapped on the railway line helplessly. The Datong battlefield has now become a place of concern for the entire North China Front of the Japanese army, and if he is trapped along the railway, the further north he goes, the more dangerous it will be.

What made Yang Jicai even more troublesome was that not only the 20,000 workers and tens of thousands of family members in Taiyuan, but also the number of prisoners of war who had doubled had to be evacuated. After the Anti-Japanese Federation entered the city, the only remaining Japanese puppets in the entire Taiyuan City are Taiyuan Normal School, Taiyuan Women's Normal School, Taiyuan Industrial Vocational School, Taiyuan Commercial Xinmin School, and Taiyuan Primary Agricultural Vocational School.

and the newly established Litongxu Medical College, with more than 200 students and Chinese teachers. In addition, thousands of teachers and students from the pseudo-provincial Taiyuan Middle School and Taiyuan No. 2 Middle School in Taiyuan City also clamored to retreat together. Not to mention going to the Northeast, even if you go to a more inhospitable place, you have to go.

Yang Jicai, who had no way to decide whether to bring these students, could only ask his superiors. Helplessly, after receiving Yang Jicai's telegram requesting instructions, Yang Zhen waved his brother's report and directly asked him to take away as much as possible from the people in Taiyuan City. Looking at the instructions of the headquarters, Yang Jicai felt pressured.

With so many people, with a large number of machines and equipment, it is difficult to withdraw even thirty days in three days. He is not unclear about the current situation of the territory. The insufficient population has become the greatest difficulty in the development and expansion of the base areas. What can he do with so many students? The area around Taiyuan is still occupied by the enemy.

After several discussions with the commander of the 8th Division, the two of them came to work together in a division of labor. It was decided that in addition to the workers and prisoners of war who stayed behind to dismantle the factory. The rest of the evacuated workers and students, together with all their families, first gathered 150 trucks to rush to the location of the headquarters of the 8th Division of Gujiao.

As for the dismantling of equipment, all efforts were made to concentrate efforts on dismantling a total of 894 units of equipment from the Northwest Machinery Factory and the Northwest Machinery Repair Plant, as well as the Northwest Chemical Plant and Automobile Repair Plant. These devices are relatively lightweight and should be quick to disassemble. As for the equipment of the Northwest Steelworks, all the workers plus some prisoners of war were concentrated to disassemble the parts of the blast furnace and the lighter electric furnace.

In particular, the German-made 1.5-ton electric arc furnace named by the headquarters was merged into the German-made 1.5-ton electric arc furnace of the Northwest Steelmaking Plant, which was plundered by the Japanese army as a whole. and the 40-ton open-hearth furnace, power generation equipment, 650 medium-sized steel rolling, 5,000 horsepower electric motors, and seven blast furnaces.

The entire evacuation of personnel, the dismantling and shipment of equipment, as well as the evacuation of personnel, were the responsibility of the 8th Division. The Eighth Division has always been active in the vicinity of Taiyuan, and all the enemy situations here are under their control. It's more appropriate for them to do this.

Yang Jicai was responsible for commanding the entire Taiyuan perimeter operations, especially preparing to fight against Japanese reinforcements, and weakening the remaining Japanese forces in Taiyuan as much as possible. All the troops in Taiyuan City were unified under the command of Yang Jicai. As for the enemy situation along the Beitongpu Road, the Jinsui Military Region is responsible for finding out in the shortest possible time.

In fact, to find out the enemy situation on this line, there is no need for the Jinsui Military Region to spend much money, and the enemy situation of the entire Beitongpu Railway is in the head of the intelligence department of the Jinsui Military Region. What needs to be clarified is only some changes in the hostile situation along the Beitongpu Railway after the Datong direction was launched.

Considering that it was not clear how long the Taiyue troops would be able to hold back the Japanese army, in order to be safe, Yang Jicai transferred two companies, plus two battalions of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth Division, to strengthen two cannons, and quickly seize the Shuangta Temple, the old military camp, and the Dicun line in the south of Taiyuan, and establish a defensive line in the south of Taiyuan.

Yang Jicai handed over a large number of weapons and equipment captured at Taiyuan Station and Wusu Airport to Jinsui and Jinchaji troops. As for the large amount of gasoline and the rest of the materials seized, they were all transported to Gujiao, except for their own backup.

In consideration of strengthening the relatively weak firepower of the troops in the Guannai, Yang Jicai specially sent people to disassemble all the machine guns of the broken planes that the Japanese army had dropped at the Wusu airfield, and handed them over to the troops of the Jinchaji Fourth Division, and he only needed the gasoline stored in the airport.

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