"Chairman, Northwest Jiang Li is calling!" Outside the Signal Soldier Road.

"What's the matter with this Northwest King?" Yan Xishan said worriedly, now that the Japanese army is pouring into Shanxi, he will not hesitate to lose Suiyuan to protect Shanxi, but the current situation is not something he can keep if he wants to, so Yan Xishan has lost a lot of gray hair these days.

"Jiang Li mentioned that the Japanese army is at its peak, and our army is powerless to confront it head-on, so we should make another plan as soon as possible, dismantle the arsenals and machinery factories and equipment in the Taiyuan area in time, and move them to the Jinnan area, so as to avoid the fall of Taiyuan and cause irreparable losses."

"Bastard, how does he know that I can't hold Taiyuan, and only wants his Northwest Army to win a big victory in Xiongzhou Town, so he doesn't want me to win a big victory in Xinkou!" Yan Xishan patted the table and said.

"Commander, at present, in terms of troops, the military strength we have on hand is still sufficient for a while, but at present, there are very few aircraft, only the planes of the three squadrons in Taiyuan and the surrounding airfields, and they are not able to compete with the Japanese Air Force, if the machinery is not dismantled in time, I am afraid that it will be blown up by Japanese planes in the future." Xu Yongchang, as Yan Xishan's big butler, has an outstanding strategic vision. It can also be seen that Yan Xishan is just unwilling to admit it at this time.

"Our transportation capacity is limited, and now Wei Lihuang's 14th Group Army, Northwest Zhu's 18th Group Army, as well as Sun Lianzhong, Feng Qinzai's 26th and 27th Route Army, and our headquarters Jin Sui Army, these hundreds of thousands of people eat horses and chew, and the daily consumption of grain is an astronomical amount. What to do with the ammunition replenishment later? More on that later. It's really going to be until the war can't be sustained. Think again. Yan Xishan waved his hand.

Xu Yongchang smiled bitterly, the Taiyuan Arsenal and the surrounding machinery factories are the foundation of the Jin Sui Army, and the word demolition is easy to say, but it is not easier to implement than to fight a big war. It's even more complicated. What's more, what Yan Xishan said at this time is also true, the huge consumption of Shanxi to supply more than 300,000 soldiers and horses is a heavy burden for Shanxi, which has never been very wealthy.

And the things involved in this scheduling are enough to make people crazy. Yan Xishan returned to control Shanxi after the 918 Incident. Shanxi's heavy industry has been re-arranged. With Taiyuan as the center, the coking department, the iron-making department, the steel-making department, and the steel-rolling department were established. Ministry of Public Works and other departments.

The coking department has a full set of equipment imported from Germany, with a daily output of 240 tons of coke, and the by-products are coal, coal tar, gasoline, etc. The steelmaking department can produce 240 tons of steel ingots per day. In order to lay a good foundation for Shanxi's heavy industry, Yan Xishan not only sent technicians to visit Krupp's steel plant. In addition, he visited the Yaban Iron Works in Japan through the German organization in Japan, and spent 20,000 yuan to buy the design drawings of the 150-ton blast furnace. is in addition to the northwest. The second is a local power that designs and manufactures 150-ton blast furnaces. After defeating Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army, Nanjing made a survey of the industrial scale of the country, and in addition to the exact data that could not be found in the northwest, preliminary statistics showed that the number of workers engaged in the machinery industry in the Republic of China was about 17,000 except for the northwest, and the Taiyuan steel mill, Taiyuan locomotive factory, foundry, machinery factory, and hydraulic press factory in Shanxi accounted for more than 6,800 people. Accounting for nearly two-fifths of the entire Republic of China, one can imagine Yan Xishan's ability in construction. Unlike the large number of machinery in Shanxi that is directly purchased from other places, Yan Xishan's Shanxi Heavy Industry has better self-manufacturing and design capabilities. This is also the reason why Jiang Li attaches great importance to Shanxi's industry. As a person of this era, Yan Xishan can use Shanxi's limited resources to do this, which is indeed not ordinary. And Yan Xishan's energy and achievements in education are also extremely eye-catching for Jiang Li.

The scale of Shanxi's heavy industry determines that the scale of relocation is even greater, especially the steel-making plant, the iron-making plant has recently spent a huge amount of money to rebuild, and there is the consumption of war, Yan Xishan still has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hand, in this case, the temporary relocation of Taiyuan Arsenal and other machinery, it is also a kind of helplessness.

"First northern Sichuan, then Shaanxi, and now Suiyuan, even our Shanxi and Northwest armies have also come in, and Jiang Li's expansion is getting faster and faster."

The analysis of Xing Zhanqing and Li Du is good, Yan Xishan is indeed wary of the Northwest Army at this time. For the northwest to preside over the Hebei and Henan war situation at the same time, there is still the strength to support a group army in Shanxi, and in Suiyuan to confront the Japanese army, and at the same time to deter the strength of Sichuan, Yan Xishan does not mention how envious he is. He accumulated savings in Shanxi for more than 20 years, and developed the original Jin army, which was only two brigades, to hundreds of thousands, and competed with Chairman Chiang for the power of the central government, and finally hated the defeat of the army, and the peak of the strength of the Jin Sui army was probably not as good as the Northwest Army at this time. Thinking of this, Yan Xishan's heart felt like drinking a few bottles of old vinegar.

"Generally speaking, Jiang Li's expansion momentum is not small, but this time the dispatch of troops to Suiyuan will still help the situation in Shanxi to a certain extent, but I don't know the strength of the north, if we can attract as many Japanese troops as possible, the burden on the chairman's shoulders will be lighter."

Yang Aiyuan and Yan Xishan's thoughts are different, and it is only right that he can hold Taiyuan now. If you can't keep your belongings, no matter how much you have, it's not your own, and instead of cheapening the Japanese, it's really better to let the central government, or the northwest, occupy it. If it hadn't gone through the losses of the last Central Plains War, with the scale of the Jin Sui Army, there would be no need to trouble the Central Army or the Northwest Army.

You must know that at the peak of the development of the Jin Sui Army, there were 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 produced more than 20,000 rounds of various artillery shells, 35 light and heavy guns, nearly 100 mortars, 4.2 million rounds of ammunition, 900 submachine guns, and nearly 20 machine guns.

Both the strength and armament have developed to the peak, although at this time the Shanxi army gathered, reaching an astonishing 300,000 people, but the factions are complicated, and the command is different. There are descendants of the Central Army, there are also miscellaneous cards in 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 descendants of the Jin Sui army who can command it in their hands. If he could have the strength he had at the beginning, Yan Xishan would never allow the Central Army and the Northwest Army to enter Shanxi easily. It's just a pity, there is no medicine for regret in the world. The strategic mistakes of that year made Yan Xishan's years of efforts in vain, and at this time, in the face of the Japanese army, which was far stronger than the central army, he could only use the forces of the central and northwest to confront it. (To be continued.) )