"Chairman, Jiang Li from the northwest is calling," said the communication soldier outside.
"What's the matter with this Northwest King?"
Yan Xishan said worriedly.
Now the Japanese troops are pouring into Shanxi continuously.
He will not hesitate to lose Suiyuan to protect Shanxi, but the current situation is not something he can protect if he wants to. , for this reason Yan Xishan has lost a lot of white hair these days.
"Jiang Li mentioned that the Japanese army is at its peak and our army is unable to compete with it head-on.
We should make other plans as soon as possible to dismantle the arsenal and machinery factory equipment in Taiyuan in a timely manner and move them to the southern Shanxi area to prevent Taiyuan from falling and causing irreparable losses. " "Asshole, how does he know that I can't defend Taiyuan?
He only wants his Northwest Army to win a great victory at Xiongzhou Town, but he doesn't want me to win a great victory at Xinkou," Yan Xishan said, patting the table.
"Commander, in terms of military strength, we currently have sufficient military strength on hand, but currently, we have very few aircraft.
There are only three squadrons of aircraft in Taiyuan and surrounding airports, and they are unable to compete with the Japanese Air Force.
If If the machinery is not dismantled in time, it may be blown up by Japanese planes later.
"As Yan Xishan's chief steward, Xu Yongchang's strategic vision is also extremely outstanding.
It can also be seen that Yan Xishan is just unwilling to admit it at this time.
"Our transportation capacity is limited.
Besides, Wei Lihuang's 14th Army, Northwest Zhu's 18th Army, Sun Lianzhong, Feng Qinzai's 26th and 27th Route Army, and our headquarters Jinsui Army, these hundreds of thousands of people are at the mercy of horses. , the amount of food consumed every day is astronomical.
Words, transporting grain, grass, and ammunition takes up too much manpower and material resources.
Now there is no time to move other things.
How to replenish the arsenal will be discussed later.
Make plans."
Yan Xishan waved his hand.
Xu Yongchang gave a wry smile.
The Taiyuan Arsenal and the surrounding machinery factories are the foundation of the Shanxi-Sui Army.
Demolition is easy to say, but it is no easier to execute than to fight a war.
It's even more complicated.
What's more, what Yan Xishan said at this time is also true.
Shanxi has to supply a huge consumption of more than 300,000 soldiers and horses, which is an extremely heavy burden for Shanxi, which has never been very wealthy.
And the things involved in the scheduling of this room are enough to drive people crazy.
Yan Xishan regained control of Shanxi after the September 18th Incident.
Shanxi's heavy industry was reorganized.
With Taiyuan as the center, the coking department, ironmaking department, steelmaking department and steel rolling department were established.
Ministry of Works and many other departments.
The complete set of equipment in the coking department is imported from Germany and can produce 240 tons of coke per day.
The by-products include coal, coal tar, gasoline, etc.
The steelmaking department can produce 240 tons of steel ingots per day.
In order to lay a solid foundation for Shanxi's heavy industry, Yan Xishan not only sent technicians to visit Krupp's steel plant.
In addition, I visited Japan’s Hachiban Iron Works through the German organization in Japan and spent 20,000 yuan to buy the design drawings of a 150-ton blast furnace.
Except for the northwest.
The second local power that designs and manufactures 150-ton blast furnaces.
After Nanjing defeated Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army, it conducted a survey on the scale of industry in the country.
Except for the northwest, where no exact data could be found, preliminary statistics showed that there were 17,000 workers engaged in the machinery industry in the Republic of China except the northwest.
Around 6,800 people are employed in Shanxi’s Taiyuan Steel Plant, Taiyuan Locomotive Plant, Foundry, Machinery Factory, and Hydraulic Press Factory.
Accounting for nearly two-fifths of the entire Republic of China, one can imagine Yan Xishan's construction capabilities.
The large number of machinery in Shanxi is different from the direct purchase from other places.
Yan Xishan's Shanxi Heavy Industry has better self-manufacturing and design capabilities.
This is why Jiang Li attaches great importance to Shanxi industry.
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As a person of this era, Yan Xishan was able to use Shanxi's limited resources to achieve this step, which is indeed extraordinary.
Jiang Li also paid special attention to Yan Xishan's investment in education and his achievements.
The scale of Shanxi's heavy industry determines that the scale of relocation is even greater, especially the steelworks.
The ironworks have recently been rebuilt at a huge cost and have been depleted by war.
Yan Xishan still has the trump card of hundreds of thousands of troops.
This kind of Under the circumstances, it would be a choice not to relocate the Taiyuan Arsenal and other machinery for the time being.
"First it was northern Sichuan, then Shaanxi, and now Suiyuan.
Even our Shanxi and Northwest Army have come in.
Jiang Li's expansion is getting faster and faster."
Xing Zhanqing and Li Du's analysis was good.
Yan Xishan was indeed wary of the Northwest Army at this time.
Yan Xishan was extremely envious of the fact that while the northwest was presiding over the war in Hebei and Henan, he still had the power to support a group army in Shanxi, confront the Japanese army in Suiyuan, and at the same time deter the central Sichuan.
He had accumulated more than 20 years of savings in Shanxi, and grew the Jin army from only two brigades to hundreds of thousands.
He competed with Chairman Chiang for central power, and was ultimately defeated.
The Jin-Sui army was probably at its peak in terms of strength.
It is not as good as the Northwest Army at this time.
Thinking of this, Yan Xishan felt as if he had drank several bottles of vinegar.
"Generally speaking, Jiang Li's expansion momentum is not small, but the dispatch of troops to Suiyuan this time will still be helpful to the situation in Shanxi.
I just don't know the intensity of the north.
If we can attract as many Japanese troops as possible, the chairman's shoulders will be The burden is also lighter.”
Yang Aiyuan and Yan Xishan have different thoughts.
It is right to defend Taiyuan at the moment.
No matter how much property you have, it is not your own.
Instead of taking advantage of the Japanese, it would be better to let the central government or the northwest occupy it.
If it had not been for the losses suffered in the last Central Plains War, with the size of the Shanxi-Sui Army, there would be no need to trouble the Central Army or the Northwest Army.
You must know that at its peak, the Jinsui Army had more than 250,000 people, nearly 400 cannons of various types, more than 1,400 light and heavy machine guns, and thousands of mortars.
At that time, the Taiyuan Arsenal's monthly output exceeded 20,000 rounds of various artillery shells, 35 light and heavy guns, nearly 100 mortars, 4.2 million rounds of bullets, 900 submachine guns, and nearly 20 machine guns.
Both military strength and armaments have reached their peak.
Although the Shanxi army gathered at this time, reaching an astonishing number of more than 300,000, the factions were complex and the commands were inconsistent.
There are direct lineages of the Central Army, there are also miscellaneous members of the Central Army, and there are also powerful factions like the Northwest Army.
Although the scale is large, in comparison, the role it can play is not as good as the 250,000 direct Jinsui Army that can be used with fingers and arms.
If they had their original strength, Yan Xishan would never allow the Central Army and the Northwest Army to easily enter Shanxi.
It's just a pity that there is no medicine for regret in the world.
The strategic mistakes of that year made Yan Xishan's years of efforts in vain.
At this time, facing the Japanese army, which was far more powerful than the Central Army, he could only rely on the central and northwest forces to fight against it
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