The loss of the main position of Panshan means that the Battle of Tianzhen has been lost. Li Fuying finally waited for Yan Xishan's retreat order, so he led the remnants to retreat. On the way to Yanmen Pass, Li Fuying suddenly received a telegram from Yan Xishan ordering him to go to Taihe Lingkou to attend a commander-level meeting. At this time, Li was preparing to convene a meeting to review the operations of the 61 st Army to sum up lessons so as to facilitate another battle. After receiving the telegram, he had to go to see Yan Xishan immediately.

Before leaving, Liu Jinsheng, chief of staff of the 61st Army, Li Jungong, commander of the 101st Division, and others tried their best to persuade Li Fuying that Yan Xishan was gloomy and deceitful, and he did not know how to evaluate the battle of Tianzhen, and it was better not to rush to see Yan Xishan. At that time, domestic public opinion was very dissatisfied with the rapid rout of the Jin Sui army, and was afraid that Yan Xishan would take Li Fuying to atone for his crimes...... Fu Zuoyi also advised him not to leave the army in a hurry to meet Yan Xishan. Because Fu already knew that the domestic public opinion at that time was very dissatisfied with the rapid rout of the Suidong and Tianzhen battles, it was dangerous for Yan to rush to see Yan before Yan made a clear statement. But Li Fuying thought that he had not done anything to be sorry for the commander and the troops, and calmly got up from Shahe in Fanzhi County and went to Taihe Lingkou.

How could Li Fuying have expected that what Taihe Lingkou was waiting for him was not a "commander-level meeting" at all, and as soon as he got out of the car, several gendarmes detained him without saying anything. Later, Yan Xishan announced that the crime of seizing him was due to his unauthorized withdrawal and defeat.

Before the war, Yan Xishan had declared that he would send 300,000 troops to organize the Battle of Datong to block the offensive of the Yue army, but the result was that after the Battle of Tianzhen, Datong was also captured by the Yue army soon after, and the so-called Battle of Datong immediately came to naught, why did this happen?

It turned out that after Tang Enbo abandoned the south entrance of the North China Fortress on August 27, 1937, Lao Jiang sent an urgent telegram to Yan Xishan saying that he would send 300,000 troops to Shanxi to assist the Jin Sui army in holding Shanxi. At the same time, the Central Army had been ordered to march separately to Shanxi. When Yan Xishan saw the telegram, he panicked greatly, and immediately sent a telegram to Jiang Fu and said: "I am determined to use 300,000 Jin Sui troops to fight the enemy in Datong with all my strength, keep the enemy out of the gate, and protect the territory. If you win, you will be stubborn, and if you lose, you will ask the army to stick to Yanmen." This is Yan Xishan's so-called "Battle of Datong".

In fact, before this, Yan Xishan had no preparation for the "Battle of Datong". At this time, he just used the "Battle of Datong" as a shield to refuse Jiang's army to enter Jin. Yan had long been wary of Jiang's army's entry into Jin. In 1936, when the Red Army crossed the Yellow River eastward into Shanxi, the old Jiang sent 5 divisions into Shanxi, and the Red Army returned to northern Shaanxi. Therefore, this time he secretly decided that he would never let Jiang Jun enter Jin until he had to do so. After Yan blocked Chiang's aid to the Jin soldiers, in order to deceive Chiang, he pretended to exaggerate at the so-called "Battle of Datong" and put on a posture of seriously preparing for the battle. However, in private, he said to his henchmen on the left and right: "An army like Mr. Jiang, give Shanxi 300,000, and you don't need to fight with yourself, you can step Shanxi into a dirt flat!" Rather than that, it is better to be a slave of the country to save trouble. ”

Therefore, Yan Xishan ordered the 61st Army to hold Tianzhen on the one hand, and urgently dispatched Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army, Wang Jingguo's 19th Army, Zhao Chengsui's 1st Cavalry Army and other main forces in the Second World War Zone to assemble in the Datong area. However, when these troops had just arrived in the Datong area, they received a telegram from Yan asking them to quickly retreat south, return to the division to defend Yanmen Pass, and prepare for the "Battle of Yanshan".

It turned out that at this time, the main force of the Fifth Division led by Itagaki Seishiro went south from Zhangjiakou to Weixian and Laiyuan, and captured Guangling and Lingqiu with lightning speed. At this time, Yan Cai realized that the main direction of the army seemed to be not in Datong, but in Pingxingguan. Therefore, Yan anxiously ordered the army assembled in the Datong area to quickly move south to Yanmen Pass, and instead prepared for the "Battle of Yanshan". In this way, the so-called "Datong Battle" came to naught.

However, the "Battle of Yanshan" was also unsuccessful, because Yan Xishan's idea had long since fallen behind Itagaki. At that time, the battle situation was like this, in Wei County, Guangling, and Lingqiu, there was a Wei (county) Dai (county) highway called the "static corridor" by the soldiers. After Itagaki captured the above three prefectures, it soon captured Pingxingguan. If Banyuan continues south along the Weidai Highway to Daixian and Yuanping, and joins up with the southbound enemy who has captured Tianzhen, Yanggao, and Datong, it will form an outflanking situation against the 60,000 or 70,000 Jin Sui troops who are preparing for the "Battle of Yanshan". As a result, Yan Xishan had to give up the "Battle of Yanshan" and once again ordered the Jin Sui army to go south to the Xinkou area to prepare for the enemy, while he hastily abolished the headquarters of the commander of the Second World War Zone at Taihe Lingkou and fled back to Taiyuan.

The "Battle of Datong" fled without a fight, and the "Battle of Yanshan" also fled without a fight, so that the land north of Yanmen easily fell into the hands of the enemy. If you want to shirk responsibility, you have to find a scapegoat, and in this way, the tragic fate will fall on Li Fuying.

After Li Fuying was arrested, Fu Zuoyi and other senior generals of the Jin Sui Army pleaded with Yan Xishan, thinking that Tianzhen was defeated and that Li Fuying was not responsible, hoping that Yan Xishan would be able to open the net, but Yan Xishan, who had already decided to abandon the car to protect the commander, would not listen to it.

After returning to Taiyuan, Yan Xishan immediately hastily formed a high military tribunal and announced that Li Fuying would be tried the next day.

After the gendarmes escorted Li Fuying to court, Yan Xishan slowly stood up, supported the public case with both hands, looked at Li Fuying as if he was not looking, his face was cold, and he said in a tone of reproach, regret, and helplessness: "Mu Yan (Li Fu Yingzi Mu Yan), from the time you were a platoon commander, you have been promoted to company commander, battalion commander, division commander, and army commander, I have no place to be sorry for you. But you're sorry for me. First, the defense fortifications you made in Tianzhen Panshan are not good......"

"There is no material ......," Li Fuying, who was at ease, interjected in reply. Most of the funds for the defense fortifications in Tianzhen were intercepted by Yan Xishan, and it was not until the army invaded Tianzhen that a very small part of the defense fortifications here was completed, and Li Fuying had a clear conscience about this.

However, Yan Xishan did not allow him to continue to say in the slightest: "Second, I told you to defend Tianzhen and Yanggao, but you retreated......"

"I was ordered to retreat, and there is a telegram to prove it!" Seeing that Yan Xishan insisted on accusing himself, Li Fuying immediately took out Yan Xishan's telegram order from his pocket ordering the 61st Army to "retreat from the camera" in Tianzhen.

"You talk nonsense!" Yan, who was extremely deep in the city, didn't expect Li You's hand to be like this, and his face changed greatly. But he was very inward-looking, and he knew that he was wrong, and suddenly changed to a tone that he couldn't help and said: "It really makes me sad to do you today, but I can't harm the public because of my personal interests." Your house, your children, I will help you, and you need not worry. After speaking, he hurriedly left the table and turned around, and walked away from the back door of the lobby.

Subsequently, the military court sentenced Li Fuying to death for "abandoning his position and fleeing without authorization", and was immediately executed, and Li Fuying became the first high-ranking general to be executed since the Anti-Japanese War.