It's just that although the Japanese defenders in Taiyuan still have to defend the surrounding points, the city is quite empty at the moment. Even the headquarters of the First Army had only one squadron of guards. It can be said that Taiyuan's current situation has given Yang Jicai a great fighter.

But at present, Yang Jicai, who should be advancing quickly to Taiyuan according to the predetermined plan, is still marching slowly in the Guanshui Mountain at this time. Although it is said that from the partial pass to the western part of Lan County, it is all in the control area of the Jinsui Military Region. This interspersed can basically be regarded as an internal detour, and he doesn't need to think too much about safety.

It is the ravines and narrow roads on this road, but it is a roundabout force commanded by Yang Jicai, and it is impossible to increase the speed of action at all. In particular, the only simple road that winds southward along the Yellow River from Biguan to Baode is in particularly bad condition. There are quite a few places that can't be called roads at all.

Although before the war, the Jinsui Military Region mobilized a large number of people to carry out a certain amount of emergency repairs to the original highways. But now that the weather has warmed up one after another, the roads have been largely civilized, and there is slurry everywhere, making the already dilapidated roads more difficult to pass, but it still makes Yang Jicai's troops extremely slow.

In the face of the hilly landform of the Loess Plateau, which is heavily overlapping and full of ravines, a small number of bridges simply cannot resist the passage of tanks and American-made ten-wheeled trucks, and the only road leading to Baode through the river meanders is dilapidated and full of big potholes, which makes Yang Jicai very headache.

In addition to last year's anti-sweeping, there was not a single highway in the northwest of Shanxi that was not damaged. It really responds to the saying that big pits set small pits, pit after pit. Although his troops are equipped with high-performance American-made Dodge trucks, the average dilapidated road is enough to cope with. However, in the face of too dilapidated roads, it is still difficult to perform well.

After Yang Jicai entered the Outer Great Wall from the mouth of the tiger, he faced the harsh traffic environment and once wanted to choose the first line of Jingwuzhai, Shenchi, Ningwu and Jingle with better road conditions. But considering that Shenchi and Ningwu were still in the hands of the Japanese army. If he forcibly interspersed, he would inevitably alarm the Japanese army in Taiyuan.

If he wanted to advance in concealment, he could only be patient and honestly take the route of Deviant, Baode, and Xingxian, and then turn to Lanxian. In other words, unless he wanted to alert the Japanese army in advance, he could only continue to endure the dilapidated highway and the snail-like marching speed.

Facing the dilapidated and potholed highway along the road from Biguan to Baode, he can only shout at luck at the moment. I chose a Crusader tank with strong maneuverability and cross-country ability, which not only could easily deal with bad road conditions, but also towed the car through some difficult areas.

If he had replaced the T26 tank, which had only 91 horsepower, most of his cars would probably have to be lost in Biguan County. It's just a fluke, but the speed of the march can't be improved, but it really gives him a headache. The all-mechanized marching troops actually advanced less than 70 kilometers in one day, which was really difficult for Yang Jicai to accept.

Tracked vehicles, it doesn't matter. The Crusader tank has strong power and strong cross-country ability, even in the mountains, as long as the slope is gentle. But the trucks are not good, the slurry road makes the trucks constantly silt, and many sections of the road can only go down and be towed by tanks little by little.

However, although the speed of his march was quite slow due to the terrain and the bad road conditions, it was very lively along the way. I heard that it was my own people's tanks that wanted to pass through here, and with the addition of a large number of large-tonnage trucks, there were people everywhere along the way to watch the lively people.

Perhaps it was because of inferior equipment that he suffered countless hardships in the battle against the Japanese army. After seeing these sharp weapons belonging to the Chinese, many ordinary people who were destroyed in the previous anti-sweeps touched the thick armor of the tank, looked at the red flag on the front of the tank, and even cried with joy.

After entering the hinterland of the Jinsui base area, Yang Jicai could not help but admire the political work and mobilization work of the Guan internal team. Although there are many places along the way, the poverty scene in the northwest of Shanxi Province, which can only rely on the sky for food, makes him very shocked when he is used to seeing the richness of the Northeast. But the enthusiasm of the local people to support the army frightened him.

Many people do not need to mobilize, even though their own families are also eating black beans. But he took out the last bit of millet and soba noodles and soba noodles in the family, killed the last hen that laid eggs in the family, and perhaps even the most valuable sheep in the family, to comfort this brother army who had come from afar. Pieces of sheep and a small amount of pork were thrown directly into the truck.

Bundles of military shoes made the troops even a little overwhelmed. Some special products such as jujubes, which are special products in northern Shanxi, are piled up. In order to help the convoy pass through the damaged kilometers, many people even dismantled the door panels of their homes and carried the last bit of firewood and grass from their homes to the silt on the road.

Looking at the mountains of materials that were forcibly thrown into the car by the masses, Yang Jicai, who had never had experience in dealing with this kind of thing. They could only shake their heads and smile bitterly at the acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region who greeted them, as well as the leaders of the Northwest Shanxi Administrative Office. Consult with them about the disposition of these supplies.

However, the local party, government, and military leaders originally just wanted to encourage the people's morale and morale that had just declined after the brutal sweep of the Japanese army last winter, and they intended to organize local armed forces and ordinary people to visit. At the same time, in order to welcome the fraternal troops, some necessary supplies were prepared. But they didn't expect that the enthusiasm of the people would be so high, and they would send so many materials without mobilization, which made them somewhat embarrassed.

Although the scale and strength of the Japanese army's sweep of the northwest of Jin in 41 years were not so great compared with those of Taihang, Jinchaji, and Taiyue. Moreover, with the transfer of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Datong, the northwest of Shanxi was the first base area behind the enemy line where the Japanese army ended the sweep.

However, the northwestern part of Shanxi, which was barren and poor, almost all of them depended on the sky for food, and most of the land grain production was extremely low, was even worse in the unprecedented sweep of the Japanese army. In addition to the retreat here to rest and recuperate, some troops of the Jizhong Military Region and some troops of the Taihang Military Region have made the burden on the entire base area in the northwest of Shanxi Province to the point where it is difficult to sustain.

Until the start of this battle, the Taihang Military Region and some troops in central Hebei returned to the Taihang area. After the main force of the Jinsui Military Region went out to fight on the Great Wall, the burden was slightly lighter. However, the grain output itself is very low, and the northwest of Shanxi Province, which is not rich in products, is still very severe. Taking out so many things at once will have a great impact on people's livelihood.

In the end, Yang Jicai repeatedly discussed with the acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region and several leaders of the Jinsui Border District Administrative Office. A portion of millet is left as a hot supplement when necessary, as are the pancakes and cooked food that has already been made. After all, when fighting, you can't always eat compressed dry food and canned food.

As for the mutton and pork, because the weather has gradually warmed up, they cannot be carried, so they are all returned. At the same time, the Anti-Union left a part of compressed dry food and canned food to the local government as compensation. At the same time, in view of the fact that the weather has warmed up significantly, the sheepskin short coat on the body of the Anti-Union can no longer be worn.

In order to support the northwest region of Shanxi, but also to reduce the burden on the troops. Yang Jicai left all the cadres and soldiers of the roundabout army, and all the sheepskin short coats on their bodies to the local government as compensation. Although the number is only more than 3,000 pieces, at least some extremely poor people will not have to worry about spending the winter next year.

After leaving this sheepskin short coat, the troops relied on the so-called two cotton clothes on their bodies, which were enough to cope with the early spring in the northwest of Shanxi Province, and the weather was still slightly cold. At the same time, Yang Jicai ordered the entire army, including himself, to take off the collar badges, cap badges, and chest tags to keep the spare military uniforms carried by everyone. Northwest Jin is too poor, and many people's clothes are stacked with patches

Even many people only have a single coat in the still quite cold weather in early spring. Many of the children only had a pair of rag shoes on their feet, and they were frozen to the ground. Although the number of spare military uniforms carried was not large, and the whole army only gathered more than 1,000 pieces, it finally made Yang Jicai feel more comfortable.

Although his convoy was also loaded with a large amount of weapons and ammunition that were ready to be transported to the local armed forces of the Jinsui Military Region, the Anti-Japanese Federation seized in the Chaxi and Suinan battlefields. It's just that although these weapons and ammunition allow the local armed forces of Jinsui who received them, the shriveled bullet belt is sufficient.

All kinds of home-made firearms in his hands, some Jin-made rifles, were also replaced with 38 rifles. Each county brigade can also be divided into a few machine guns with crooked handles. After all, it doesn't help the people much. Although he didn't carry many supplies, Yang Jicai still left some useful things for the local people as much as possible.

Especially after learning that after many brutal sweeps by the Japanese puppet army last year, the entire Jinsui District was left with a large number of orphans because their parents were killed or plundered, and it was difficult for the local government to bear all of them. Yang Jicai personally drafted a telegram of thousands of words to his eldest brother, the No. 1 military chief of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

He built the Anti-Japanese Federation to rely on the stable and relatively rich base areas behind him to concentrate all the base areas in North China that had lost their parents and orphans in the brutal sweep last year to the northeast. The younger ones are arranged to go to school, and the older ones are either sent to military and political schools to be trained as military and political backbones, or sent to various technical schools to be trained as skilled workers.

On the one hand, it is to solve the problems of these orphans' lives and schooling, and on the other hand, it also solves the current predicament in various places. The most fundamental thing is that we can train a number of professional personnel for the Anti-Japanese Federation from the foundation, especially some specialized military technologies that require a long period of study to master.

In order to send this telegram, the terrain interfered with the radio signal very much. Yang Jicai also specially stopped the march for nearly an hour, asked the confidential department to find suitable terrain to move the radio station up the mountain, and set up an increased antenna that was only set up when the Anti-United Nations was conducting ultra-long-range radio contact.

In order to prevent the enemy's radio from listening, it was detected that the rescue operation in Taiyuan was detoured. Before leaving, Du Kaishan had repeatedly told them that the long-range radio stations they carried would only be connected and not sent unless they had to do so. None of his three high-power radios were allowed to be used unless it was critical.

Even if there is an urgent need to escalate, it should be as short as possible. As much as possible, the message should not be too protracted. But despite Du Kaishan's repeated instructions before leaving, Chen Hanzhang sent telegrams urging him to speed up his actions one after another. Yang Jicai still violated the order, not only interrupted the march, but also violated the regulations by sending this telegram of several thousand words.

No matter how the operational staff officer urged, Chen Hanzhang sent telegrams one after another. But it was not until after this telegram was sent that Yang Jicai ordered the troops to speed up and continue the march. Fortunately, after passing Baode, the road condition is much better. The originally slow marching speed has finally increased somewhat. The action force of mechanized troops can be regarded as a partial and real manifestation.

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