Mu Changqiu did this for his reasons. As early as when the troops were divided, taking into account the national sentiment of the entire Suiyuan Mongols, Chen Hanzhang repeatedly told Mu Changqiu. For the lama temple and some buildings with historical value in Guisui City, we must pay attention to protection. If the Japanese army escapes in, they should refrain from using artillery fire as much as possible unless they have to do so, so as not to arouse national antagonism.

At the same time, Chen Hanzhang ordered him to capture as many people as possible after the capture of Guisui, and the heads of the puppet Mongolian autonomous government in Guisui City. Especially after the launch of this battle, the three people named by the central government, King De, Li Shouxin, and Wu Heling, must be captured alive. The rest of the traitors and traitors also want to see people in life and corpses in death.

Guisui is the so-called capital of the puppet Mongolian and Xinjiang United Autonomous Government. And this puppet regime, which nominally belongs to Wang's puppet regime, is actually independent in nature, and almost all the institutions are in Guisui City. Although everyone can be killed, the central government requires that these traitors be captured alive as much as possible.

After attacking Guisui City, Mu Changqiu immediately began to search and arrest according to the list taken out by the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment. It's just that although the puppet Minister of Civil Affairs, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Animal Husbandry have been arrested, plus the mayor of Houhe Haute City, who has now been renamed by the puppet regime, and more than a dozen famous traitors.

However, the four giants of the puppet Mongolian autonomous government, the so-called chairman of the Mongolian and Xinjiang United Autonomous Government, Li Shouxin, vice chairman and commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army, Wu Heling, chairman of the Senate, and Zhuot Bazhap, the head of the Executive Yuan, all ran into the Suiyuan General Mansion with the Japanese army.

Although this Suiyuan General's Mansion is not a lama temple, it takes into account the architectural structure and the historical value in the commander's mouth. Coupled with the traitors and traitors named by the central government, Mu Changqiu was somewhat tricky when he deployed the final aspect of the siege and annihilation battle.

But for Mu Changqiu, an order is an order, and it must not be violated. So after thinking about it carefully, he finally gave up the practice of directly using it in the Naturalization City, and used artillery fire to cover the building and send the Japanese puppet army inside to the west sky. The BT tank, with its small artillery caliber, was still chosen as a close-range direct fire to cover the infantry attack.

The infantry used the tactic of infiltrating in multiple directions and attacking at the same time to disperse the Japanese forces. In order to reduce casualties, after breaking through the perimeter, Mu Changqiu disassembled a twin-mounted 14-mm machine gun and transported it into this huge compound to directly cover the attack of the front-line infantry.

At this moment, in addition to the Japanese army in the Guisui General's Mansion, they are still carrying out the last stubborn resistance. The gunfire in other directions in the entire Suiyuan City has all calmed down. Part of the Japanese puppet army trapped at the north gate was completely annihilated under the front and rear attacks of the two reinforced companies of the 15th Regiment.

The Japanese army in the south of the city also encountered the three battalions of the 13th Regiment when they were returning to the breakthrough point. After two hours of fierce fighting, all the more than 200 Japanese soldiers in this unit were killed. More than 700 puppet Mongol troops laid down their arms and surrendered. That is to say, after one night and two days of fierce fighting, the entire Japanese puppet army inside and outside Guisui City, except for the more than 100 remnants of the Japanese army trapped in the Suiyuan General's Mansion, the overall situation has basically been laid.

At this time, Mu Changqiu, who had already received a telegram from Chen Hanzhang and did not have much time to continue the delay in Guisui, gave an order to the troops attacking the general's mansion to end the battle within three hours. The rest of the later liquidation was handed over to the main force of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment that entered the city together.

He commanded the troops to take a short break and used this rare time to overhaul the equipment. As well as the placement of the wounded, the adjustment of materiel. After waiting for the final battle to be over, according to the predetermined plan, it will intersperse with the main force in the direction of Suinan.

In fact, the troops who were involved in the final battle did not have to wait for him for three hours. Despite the death throes of the Japanese army, the troops who finally entered the war paid a considerable price. But the final battle ended cleanly within two hours, and all the Japanese puppet troops with this general's mansion as the last base of resistance were annihilated.

At the last moment, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kazuse, commander of the cavalry group of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia, his wife, a group of staff officers around him, and some seriously wounded people hid in an underground fortification, pulled a whole box of grenades, and committed suicide. In addition to the Japanese soldiers who were killed, all the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers committed suicide.

As for the three traitors named by the central government, they didn't have the courage to commit suicide. Seeing that his backer had fallen, he surrendered directly with his guards. As soon as these guys arrived, they were stuffed into a transport plane specially transferred from Linxi and sent to Yan'an. The central authorities urgently need to find out some important information from their mouths.

In particular, certain things related to the Mongolian ethnic group are the most urgent things that the central government needs to know. Otherwise, what do you want the scum of these three Chinese to do? As early as after the Western Front cluster seized the Guisui airfield, a plane had already arrived at the airport and was on standby, ready to send these and other traitors named by the central government to Yan'an at any time.

The battle here has entered the final stage. At the same time as the Battle of Guisui began, the rapid detachment formed by the group that crossed Guisui and marched westward to cooperate with the main force of the Jinsui Military Region in seizing Baotou was also advancing westward under the guidance of a cavalry battalion of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment.

The real intention of this army was not to really participate in the battle to capture Baotou. In this operation, the Jinsui Military Region, together with the troops mobilized by the central authorities from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, was organized into a total of nine brigades, three cavalry brigades, three independent infantry regiments, and four artillery regiments to participate in the battle.

In this battle, the Jinsui Military Region can be said to be dispatched by the whole army, except for a few newly mobilized regiments, all the old units were incorporated into this northward operation. Facing the puppet Mongolian army of two divisions in Baotou, a cavalry brigade, and two infantry squadrons, it is enough to have the Jinsui Military Region, and there is no need for the Anti-Japanese Federation to participate in it.

Their real task is that the main force of the Jinsui Military Region is still advancing in the direction of Baotou. And after arriving in Baotou, he had to go all out to seize Baotou, and he had no time to look west for the time being. Cooperate with part of the advance forces of the Jinsui Military Region to seize the line from Wuliangsuhai to the Wujia River, and cut off the intention of meddling in certain directions.

At the same time that the troops of the Western Front arrived in Guisui, the vanguard of the Jinsui Military Region had already arrived at the periphery of Baotou and had already begun to fight for some strongholds on the periphery of Baotou. The Japanese puppet army in Baotou, when attacked, was bound to shrink its already somewhat insufficient troops. In this case, with the ability of the commander on the Hetao side, it would be strange if this opportunity could not be seized.

Although it is known that the Hetao side will intervene almost 100 percent, it is considered from both military and economic perspectives. In addition to the Hetao and Ordos Plateau in Suixi, Yang Zhen is determined to eat Suiyuan's alone. Because the seizure of Suiyuan can directly protect the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and open up the connection with the Guannei. The abundant minerals here are necessary for Yang Zhen to establish his own modern national defense industry.

In addition to the abundant iron ore, rare metals and rare earth resources in the two banners of Darhan and Maomingan in the north of Baotou, Baotou has the best coking coal and thermal coal needed by the metallurgical industry. Moreover, Baotou is close to the Yellow River, and there is no shortage of water resources. In the south, northern Shaanxi, there are also rich oil resources.

There is oil in northern Shaanxi, and many people may know about it. In particular, people of later generations are very familiar with the famous Yanchang Oilfield located in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Basin. However, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the central government relied on the limited machinery at hand, adopted various methods, and even ensured the production of oil and carried out partial smelting, and I am afraid that almost no one knew about it.

Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia are the areas where Chinese first discovered oil, and in modern times, China's first oil well was drilled. Although due to equipment and technology limitations, the output has not been high. During the Anti-Japanese War, due to the lack of oil production equipment and technology, the annual output was maintained at several hundred tons. The kerosene extracted from it is one of the main sources of finance for the central government.

In later generations, many people took things out of context, and only relied on some garbled and unknowable things to accuse the central government of selling so-called special goods such as opium to maintain the source of funds during the northern Shaanxi period. After Yang Zhen arrived in Yan'an, he clearly knew that in addition to the salt and coal in northern Shaanxi, these special goods were basically crude oil and some products.

Although the kerosene refined by the central government is not high in technology, the impurities are high, which makes the price somewhat low. But it is precisely because of the price advantage that it is very popular throughout the Great Northwest region. Mobil's kerosene is good, but the price is also high. Although the quality of kerosene produced in Yan'an is a little poor, the price is acceptable to everyone, so the sales have always been very good.

Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo are rich in oil resources, but what they lack is equipment and technology, so that production and refining capacity are always low. Even because the refining capacity is too low, there is no dedicated storage facilities, and the oil production is deliberately reduced. If the Anti-Japanese Federation can open up direct contact with northern Shaanxi and transport equipment to northern Shaanxi, it can greatly reduce the burden of the Anti-Japanese Federation to support the base areas in North China.

At the very least, the automobiles and mechanized equipment provided for the North China troops do not need to be transported from the northeast thousands of miles away. The oil reserves in Yan'an, if really developed, can completely exceed all needs. In addition, although the geological conditions of the oil wells here are somewhat complicated, the depth of drilling is much lower than that of the Northeast.

In addition to the abundant resources in northern Shaanxi and the local area, the Ordos Plateau in the west of Baotou is rich in coal, oil, uranium ore, miscanthus salt, salt, alkali and other resources. In addition to the fact that the land is sparsely populated for some reasons and the transportation is not too convenient, it can be said that the Baotou area is almost a completely self-sufficient special steel smelting base and chemical raw material base.

In later generations, it was the largest steel producing area in the entire Northwest China, and it was also the most important production area of armored steel and special steel in China, as well as the production area of rare metals. It can even be said that without the success of the construction of Baogang Steel, there would be no completely independent military industry for the Chinese in later generations. At the moment, the inability to control it is almost crucial to Yang Zhen's entire development plan.

It is precisely because of the Baotou area that it is in an extremely important position in Yang Zhen's entire industrial development plan. Therefore, Yang Zhencai repeatedly told Chen Hanzhang that he must occupy the surrounding area of Baotou first at any cost. Even if it is to turn against the troops of the Eighth Theater in the Hetao area, it is necessary to firmly control the east of the Wujia River, the east bank of the Wuliangsuhai Sea and the line of the Serten Mountain.

In fact, if it weren't for the fear of triggering a full-scale civil war, Yang Zhen would even want to eat the Ordos Plateau and the Hetao area together. Because in the Ordos Plateau, there is uranium ore that he urgently needs at the moment, and there are a large number of coal mines that are very easy to mine. Not only are the reserves sufficient to meet the needs, but also the difficulty of mining is much smaller than that of the Northeast.

Put aside the current national crisis, and the feeling of sympathy left by this famous general because of time and space. In fact, Yang Zhen was a little expectant in his heart that the Hetao side would be able to do it first for some reason. Give yourself a chance to create a zào and take the Ordos Plateau in one fell swoop.