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    It's just that although the Japanese defenders in Taiyuan still need to defend surrounding key points, the city is already quite empty. Even the First Army Headquarters only has one squadron of guards. It can be said that the current situation in Taiyuan has given  Yang Jicai has a huge fighting opportunity.

    But Yang Jicai, who was supposed to be heading towards Taiyuan quickly according to the planned plan, was still marching slowly in the Guanshui Mountain. Although from Pianguan to the west of Lan County, they were all within the control area of ??the Jinsui Military Region.  Basically, it can be regarded as an inside detour, and he does not need to think too much about safety.

    The terrain with crisscrossed ravines and narrow roads made it impossible for the circuitous troops commanded by Yang Jicai to increase their speed of action, especially from Pianguan to Baode, the only route that snaked southward along the Yellow River.  The conditions of the simple roads are particularly bad, and in quite a few places they cannot be called roads at all.

    Although the Jinsui Military Region mobilized a large number of people to carry out some emergency repairs on the original roads before the war, the weather has gradually warmed up, the roads have been cultivated in large areas, and there is mud everywhere, making it even more difficult to repair the already dilapidated roads.  The prevailing conditions still made Yang Jicai's troops move extremely slowly.

    Facing the hilly landform of the Loess Plateau, which is overlapping and full of ravines, the few bridges cannot withstand the passage of tanks and American ten-wheel trucks. The only road leading to Baode through the river meander is in tatters and has everywhere.  They were all big pits, giving Yang Jicai a headache.

    In addition, during the anti-mopping up campaign last year, not a single highway in the entire northwestern Shanxi Province was not damaged. This really corresponds to the saying of big pits within small pits, pits after pits, even though his troops are equipped with high-performance equipment.  The American-made Dodge truck can handle ordinary dilapidated roads, but it is still difficult to show its performance when faced with roads that are too dilapidated.

    After Yang Jicai entered the Great Wall from the Tiger's Mouth and faced the harsh traffic environment, he once wanted to choose the route with better road conditions via Wuzhai, Shenchi, Ningwu, and Jingle. However, considering Shenchi and Ningwu, he still had to choose the route.  The control is in the hands of the Japanese army. If he forcibly penetrates it, he will definitely alert the Japanese army in Taiyuan.

    If he wanted to advance covertly, he could only patiently take the route of Pianguan, Baode, Xingxian, and then transfer to Daolan County. In other words, unless he wanted the Japanese army to be alert in advance, he could only  I can continue to endure this dilapidated road and the snail-like marching speed.

    Facing the dilapidated road from Pianguan to Baode, with potholes everywhere, he could only call it a fluke. The Crusader tank he originally chose was a highly maneuverable cross-country vehicle. Not only could it easily deal with harsh road conditions,  It can also tow cars through some difficult-to-pass areas.

    If he replaced the T-26 tank with a power of only 91 horsepower, most of his cars would probably have to be lost in Pianguan County. It was just a fluke, but the inability to increase the marching speed really gave him a headache.  , the entire mechanized marching force actually advanced less than 70 kilometers in one day, which was really difficult for Yang Jicai to accept.

    Tracked vehicles don't matter. The Crusader tank has strong power and strong off-road capabilities. Even in mountainous areas, it can rush through places with gentler slopes, but trucks can't do that.  The road is constantly silted up by trucks, and troops can only go down many sections of the road and use tanks to pull them little by little.

    However, although his marching speed along the way was quite slow due to the terrain and poor road conditions, it was very lively along the way. I heard that his own tanks were going to pass through here, plus a lot of large tonnage.  The truck made people crowd around to watch the excitement along the way.

    Perhaps they relied on inferior equipment and suffered countless hardships in the battle with the Japanese army. After seeing these sharp weapons belonging to the Chinese, many people who had their families destroyed in previous counter-mopping operations felt the thickness of the tanks.  armor, looking at the red flag on the front of the tank, even crying with joy.

    After entering the hinterland of the Shanxi-Sui base area, Yang Jicai could not help but admire the political work and mobilization work of the Guan Nei troops. Although in many places along the way, the poverty in northwest Shanxi, which had to rely on the weather for food, made him very accustomed to the richness of the Northeast.  It was shocking, but the enthusiasm of the local people to support the army shocked him.

    Many ordinary people do not need to be mobilized. Although they are also eating black beans at home, they take out the last bits of millet, buckwheat noodles, and oatmeal noodles at home, and kill the last hen that lays eggs in the family, and maybe even the most valuable sheep in the family.  , came to express condolences to this brotherly army who came from afar, slaughtered pieces of sheep, and threw a small amount of pork directly onto the truck.

    Bundles of military shoes made the troops even a little overwhelmed. Specialties such as jujube and other specialties in northern Shanxi were piled up in mountains. In order to help the convoy pass the damaged kilometers, many people even dismantled the doors of their own homes.??, I carried the last bit of firewood from home and spread it to the silt on the road.

    Looking at the mountains of supplies that were forcibly thrown onto the bus by the masses, Yang Jicai, who had never had any experience in dealing with such things, could only shake his head and smile bitterly at the acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region and the leaders of the Northwestern Shanxi Administrative Office who greeted them.  Discuss with them the handling of these materials.

    The local party, government and military leaders originally just wanted to encourage people. They had just experienced a decline in public sentiment and morale after the brutal Japanese army raids last winter, so they intended to organize local armed forces and people to visit. At the same time, they also prepared some preparations to welcome the fraternal troops.  Necessary supplies were delivered, but they did not expect that the enthusiasm of the people was so high. They sent so many supplies without mobilization, which made them somewhat embarrassed.

    The Japanese army's large-scale raids on northwestern Shanxi in 2001 were not as intense as those against Taihang, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and Taiyue, despite the scale and the number of troops deployed. Moreover, as the Japanese 26th Division stationed in Datong was  After being transferred, northwest Shanxi was the first base area behind enemy lines where the Japanese army ended its raids.

    However, northwest Shanxi, where the area is barren and the people are almost entirely dependent on the weather for food, and most of the land has extremely low food production, was made worse by the unprecedented large-scale raids by the Japanese army. In addition, the people who retreated here to rest and recuperate  Some troops from the Jizhong Military Region and some troops from the Taihang Military Region have made the burden on the entire northwest Shanxi base area unsustainable.

    It was not until the start of this battle that some troops from the Taihang Military Region and central Hebei Province returned to the Taihang area. After the main force of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region left the Great Wall to fight, the burden became slightly easier. However, the grain output in the northwestern Shanxi region was very low and the products were not rich.  The situation is still very serious. 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 Region Administrative Office and left some millet as a supplement for hot food when necessary, as well as the pancakes and cooked food. After all, during the battle,  You cannot always eat compressed dry food and canned food.

    As for the mutton and pork that cannot be carried because the weather has gradually warmed up, they will all be returned. At the same time, Kanglian left some compressed dry food and canned food to the local government as compensation. At the same time, given that the weather has warmed significantly, the sheepskins on Kanglian's body were  I can no longer wear the short coat.

    In order to support the northwest Shanxi region and reduce the burden on the troops, Yang Jicai left all the cadres and soldiers of the detour troops and gave them to the local government as a kind of compensation. Although the number was 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 short sheepskin coat, the troops relied on the so-called second cotton coat, which was enough to cope with the slightly cold weather in the early spring in northwest Shanxi. At the same time, Yang Jicai ordered the entire army, including himself, to carry spare  Military uniforms, take off collar badges, cap badges, and breast patches and leave them all behind. Northwestern Shanxi is too poor, and many people¡¯s clothes are covered in patches.

    Even in the still quite cold weather in early spring, many people only had one piece of clothing, and many children only wore a pair of rag shoes, with large and small holes on their feet from the cold. Although they carried a small number of spare military uniforms, the entire army  Only over a thousand pieces were collected, but it finally made Yang Jicai feel better.

    Although his convoy also contained a large amount of weapons and ammunition seized by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Chaxi and Suinan battlefields to be transported to the local armed forces of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region, these weapons and ammunition were not enough for the Shanxi-Sui area who responded to them.  Armed, with plenty of shriveled ammunition belts.

    The various home-made firearms in hand, including the better Jin-made rifles, have also been replaced by 38 rifles. Each county brigade can also be assigned a few machine guns with crooked handles. After all, for ordinary people, nothing is too much.  Even though he did not carry much supplies, Yang Jicai still tried his best to leave something useful to the local people.

    Especially after learning that after many brutal raids by the Japanese and puppet troops last year, the entire Jinsui District had left a large number of orphans because their parents had been killed or taken away, and the local government could not afford them all, Yang Jicai again  He personally drafted a telegram of several thousand words to his eldest brother, the No. 1 military commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    He suggested that the Anti-Japanese Alliance could rely on the stable and relatively rich base areas behind them to take all the orphans who lost their parents during last year's brutal sweeps in various base areas in North China and bring them to the Northeast. The younger ones would be sent to school, and the older ones might be sent to  Go to military and political schools to be trained into military and political backbones, or sent to various technical schools to be trained into skilled workers.

    On the one hand, it is to solve the problems of living and schooling for these orphans. On the other hand, it is also to solve the current difficulties in various places. The most fundamental thing is to train a group of professionals for the Anti-Japanese Alliance from the basics, especially some majors that require a long time of study to master.  military technology.

    For the sake ofAfter this telegram was sent out, Yang Jicai specifically stopped the march for nearly an hour when the terrain interfered a lot with radio signals, and asked the confidential departments to find suitable terrain to move the radio up the mountain, and set up an anti-union missile that could only be  The heightening antenna is only installed when conducting ultra-long-distance radio contact.

    In order to prevent enemy radio monitoring and detection of this roundabout rescue operation in Taiyuan, before leaving, Du Kaishan repeatedly warned that the long-distance radio stations they carried would only receive and not transmit unless it was absolutely necessary. Unless it was critical, his three  No high-power radio stations are allowed to be used.

    Even if there is an urgent situation that needs to be reported, it should be as short and quick as possible, and the message should not be too procrastinated. However, despite Du Kaishan's repeated warnings before leaving, Chen Hanzhang sent a telegram urging him to speed up his actions.  In the next one, Yang Jicai still violated the order. Not only did he interrupt the march, he also violated the regulations and sent this telegram of several thousand words.

    No matter how much the combat staff urged, Chen Hanzhang sent one telegram after another, but it was not until the telegram was sent that Yang Jicai ordered the troops to speed up and continue marching. Fortunately, after passing Baode, the road conditions were much better. Originally,  The slow marching speed was finally partially improved, and the mobility of the mechanized troops was partially truly reflected.
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