Chapter 436: Shanxi devils evacuate

Meng Xiang would never think that relying solely on one Taiping Bank can meet the financial needs on the territory.

The flexibility of finance makes it easier for planning and regulation to take a few beats, and this beat needs to be filled with more flexible financial institutions. Meng Xiang originally planned to support several private financial institutions, while Taiping Bank moved closer to the functions of the central bank. Dadetong's reputation and connections also allowed him to quickly complete his transformation to the banking industry. All he lacked is an opportunity and a sum of funds.

Meng Xiang gave them a chance. He had a large amount of money in his hand and allocated a part of it, and Dadetong's recovery was achieved. Not long after, Detong Bank in Shanxi was established.

The method of buying bones by the Pioneer Army gave Shanxi local rich men holding gold ingots to see more opportunities. Meng Xiang also intends to support Shanxi merchants. Although Shanxi merchants have a bad reputation in some historical periods, their hundreds of years of precipitation have made them have a keen sense of finance and other industries. Meng Xiang needs them to jump to the world stage in the future to fight against Jews and other financial tycoons. Talents do not have to be used by themselves, but they can be detrimental to their opponents.

In order to deal with various surrounding forces, he also needed to win over these local rich men, but he did not mean that he had to obey them in everything. Meng Xiang, who held a million troops, was not afraid of them making trouble at all. If he hadn't been afraid of their trouble behind the scenes, Shanxi would be in peace for a long time and greatly damaged his vitality, Meng Xiang would not mind raising the butcher's knife.

Now, Meng Xiang has only drawn up new rules, which belong to the vanguard army. Many old institutional interests rules are rearranged, which will inevitably cause local turmoil and pain. Those who follow suit will prosper, while those who go against each other will perish. Many times it is that simple.

Although Taiyuan has not bought it yet, the county towns around Taiyuan have already begun to be cleaned up.

"Why haven't they come to attack Taiyuan yet?" Lieutenant General Anan Wei, the commander of the 109th Division, sat there motionlessly with a frown.

Although the Pioneer Army surrounded Taiyuan, he was not worried about fighting to the death. Although he encountered blasting and bombing, there was still a large amount of ammunition in Taiyuan City and there was no need to support other troops. Only the main force of the 109th Division could last for a few months. Fortunately, he left some of the ammunition in the city and left some of the ammunition in the city. The Pioneer Army was concerned about the people around him and did not destroy them.

There are also a lot of stocks in Taiyuan City. Although this time, when the Pioneer Army attacked, there was no new grain harvest, as long as there was food in the city, they would have food. It was not theirs to starve the people to death, so they could only blame the Pioneer Army for besieging the city.

The Japanese in the city also prepared fortifications in various areas, waiting for the vanguard army to rush in and fight a death battle. The base camp personally issued an order to let 109 defend Taiyuan to fight a street battle with the vanguard army to see if they can resist the vanguard army's offensive in street battles in the future. The Japanese had to take a defensive move next, and they needed to use the city to do a good job of defense. The 109th Division was used as a test subject.

Anan Weiji knew that he was willing to do so. He just waited around and the vanguard army just didn't come.

"The military headquarters asked us to guard for three months, but the vanguard army has not come to attack. Why is this?" He thought hard for a long time and could not understand it. He couldn't help but ask Chief of Staff Colonel Kurashima Shuzo.

"According to reliable information, the vanguard army should have been ready to attack Taiyuan." Cangmao Zhouzang thought for a long time, but was not sure. He could only say the news from the military headquarters and make a comprehensive judgment.

"It's impossible to be worried about the Chinese people, right?" Anan Weiji said to himself, "It's not right. This time, the military headquarters is going to examine the street fighting capabilities of us and the vanguard army, and we did not use the Chinese people as a shield." He said, feeling a little embarrassed and upset in his heart.

In the just-concluded Central Plains War, thousands of people died. These were the helplessness of the war, and the Pioneer Army gave a certain pension. However, some of the Japanese once used the people as shields, but were caught by the Pioneer Army and solved a group of Japanese overseas Chinese. Even the casualties caused by the construction of fortifications, the Pioneer Army used Japanese overseas Chinese to fill in the numbers. Only a few messages were left: Some Japanese overseas Chinese volunteers were injured by the stinky bombs left by the Japanese army when they were cleaning the battlefield. Unfortunately, they died and sacrificed their lives for Sino-Japanese friendship.

These news made the Japanese furious, and there were no so many stinky bombs. But the Pioneer Army had already said it very clearly, but if it exceeded normal methods, the Pioneer Army would definitely repay it with a tooth. Working the Chinese is a normal means of war, but it is not normal to cause people to be injured and disabled. It is even more abnormal to use the people as shields.

Meng Xiang actually wanted to have a happy massacre against Japan. But the reality at this time did not allow it. The Japanese controlled the occupied areas. If so many people started, the damage would not be simply thousands or tens of thousands. Even Meng Xiang bombed the Japanese mainland, which was appropriate. Let the Japanese understand the vanguard's ability in the future, so that they would not do too much.

The Pioneer Army is no better than the Americans. Without worries, you can bomb easily. Therefore, at this time, the Pioneer Army can only set a certain bottom line to ensure the safety of the people.

The Japanese were also afraid of the vanguard's bombing on their local areas. Now they can't stop it, so they can only do nothing excessive before solving these problems. In addition, the personal safety of tens of thousands of Japanese overseas Chinese in the hands of the vanguard's army, so Japan has harmed the people a lot less frequently.

Although Taiyuan was besieged, the Japanese did not sacrifice the people to the city. In addition to the fact that some international figures led by the vanguard spies often supervised by the side, and the base camp intended to obtain relatively complete combat information, so this time, the Japanese were very honest.

The 109th Division's corps flag, related information and seed personnel have been transferred, and the rest have to be defended. Although they planned to guard for half a year at the beginning, after thinking about it for a long time, they still kept a low profile and had to guard for three months.

"It's okay to hold on for three months." Anan Weiji felt a little unconfident. The vanguard army attacked the city and captured the villages all the way, and few could resist them. Although this time, a staff officer sent by the military headquarters directly blocked almost all the loopholes in the city defense that could be imagined, he was still a little uneasy.

"No matter what, the water comes and the soil covers it. But why haven't they come yet?" Anan Wei and several pairs of vanguard troops looked through Qiushui.

But Meng Xiang was still calm over there. Because the vanguard army was surrounded by the north, east and south of Taiyuan City, only the west was replaced by Yan Xishan's team.

However, Yan Xishan was anxious. In addition to the team that was playing soybean at the beginning, he continued to mobilize troops and sent a large group of troops from Luliang Mountain to the city of Taiyuan, but he was guarding the west but did not attack.

Taiyuan City City is strong, if the vanguard army can directly knock it with cannons and attack it directly. But if only Yan Xishan's team attacks it, it will suffer heavy losses.

Meng Xiang felt a little unbearable, but when the old Yan wanted to attack, he could only make up his mind and wait and see the old Yan take action. However, Lao Yan was waiting for the vanguard army to attack and picked up ready-made ones behind him. After all, Taiyuan was Yan Xishan's territory, and he participated in the attack again, recovering the lost land, and after taking back Taiyuan, he naturally wanted to return the goods to the original owner.

He wanted to accept other places in time, but there was a vanguard army still stationed and they couldn't leave. If it were the former guest army, Yan Xishan would have many ways to deal with it, but now after the vanguard army set up the magic weapon of the minimum living allowance policy, the people supported it, and even many people in the Jin army began to run away. How can this drive them away?

The Pioneer Army developed a set of methods of electing the people in the occupation of territory. While counting the registered personnel, they began to vote for the *** votes to select their own county magistrates and township magistrates. The Pioneer Army took the opportunity to launch their own personnel to provide minimum living allowances, and this move almost completely compared the others. In addition, the people nominated by the Pioneer Army were mainly locals, and they were not afraid of xenophobic ideological interference, so they just took over those territories.

If this continues, the entire Shanxi will probably be occupied. Yan Xishan had to take action in advance to avoid a fierce conflict with the Pioneer Army. Yan Xishan knew very well that even the Japanese could not defeat the Pioneer Army, so how could he win the Pioneer Army? If he hadn't been labeled as a consensual foreign war at this time, he would have been destroyed long ago. If he didn't take action at this time, he would have no chance in the future.

But only if the Jin army suffered huge losses, it might not be able to capture Taiyuan. This made Yan Xishan hesitate and made the current stalemate.

However, the Pioneer Army was not idle. Seeing that Taiyuan City was not suitable for attack for the time being, Meng Xiang turned his target to other places. There were still some places in Jinzhong and southern Jin Dynasty in the hands of the Japanese. While steadily occupying the territory, the Pioneer Army sent the New First Army and the New Eighth Army to slowly erode the surrounding Japanese territory and slowly pressing south.

This kind of fighting style is the simplest, it is to attack head-on.

Heavy artillery, tanks, and the Pioneer Army are also willing to take ammunition. This kind of long-lasting consumption ammunition is supported by the bases in the north and east, but there is no problem with supply. On the other hand, the Japanese heavy artillery no longer has much ammunition, and the light weapons cannot break the tank's armor.

In the face of absolute strength, the Japanese could not resist it. If the vanguard army had not needed to digest the territory, they would have been taken down in one go.

Others were jealous of them and wanted to take the opportunity to capture some territory, but how could the Japanese who had become a regiment be so easy to deal with? It turned out that the Japanese were not in sufficient manpower, and they were only squadrons scattered in various counties and towns. But now 100,000 Japanese were crowded in southern Shanxi, and each county was the size of a brigade or even a gang. With the advantage of defending the county town, it was naturally not so easy to chew.

The Japanese were like cannon fodder under the guns of the vanguard army, but facing other armies, whether it was the Central Army, the Jin Army, or other teams with even worse equipment, they still had the upper hand. This also made them regain a little confidence.

However, this kind of life didn't last long, and the vanguard army moved south little by little.

After a month, the statistics of more than 30,000 casualties made Itagaki Seishiro frown. The New First Army of the Pioneer Army had already attacked Hongdong County and approached Linfen, and the New Eighth Army in the east also met with Pang Bingxun's 40th Army.

"They are using us as whetstones!" Itagaki Seishiro sighed in his heart. In addition to implementing minimum living allowances every time he arrives at a certain place, the vanguard army continues to recruit new recruits, and then a group of new recruits who come out of the new recruits battalion are tempered on the front line battlefield. After enduring the test of such intensity of war, with the strong firepower of the vanguard army, the vanguard army grew up.

"You can't continue like this! Let them conquer the land little by little, and the morale of the soldiers will collapse." He made a decision in his heart. Anyone who defeated the war every day would be shaken after a long time. This is also one of the reasons why Tang Yaoshi gave Meng Xiang this idea. Destroying the morale of the Japanese army is more uncomfortable than directly defeating them.

"Tele to the military headquarters, we want to break through!"

"Breakthrough?" Some people in Japan are not very familiar with the situation at this time, but they just think that they still have a large area of ​​land in southern Shanxi. Is it a bit too early to say that they break through?

"Food is easy to solve, but our weapons and ammunition are becoming increasingly scarce." Seishiro Itagaki replied directly. The ammunition left behind in the past, coupled with the scattered military machinery production, may be able to last for a while, but it will definitely not last for a long time. If the war is together, it may not last for long.

"Agree to break through!" The base camp quickly sent an instruction. Even without this instruction, Seishiro Itagaki would not sit still and wait for death. But with this instruction, at least a lot of trouble and guilt were reduced.

"At this time, half of the Central Plains is also from the vanguard army. It is difficult to break through. Let's break through there?" Lieutenant General Renminba, the commander of the Mongolian Corps, was second only to the position of Itagaki Seishiro, but at this time, there were only more than 6,000 people left in the Mongolian Army and had not been supplemented. He was defending Linfen, and as the vanguard army attacked step by step, there was no way.

"You came from there, and this time we will break through there!" Seishiro Itagaki said firmly. He couldn't break through the north, south, east, and only the west was still a glimmer of vitality.

"We can go west first, and then we can go north or south. Get supplies on the spot." Seishiro Itagaki looked at the map in front of him, looked at the areas in southern Shanxi, and couldn't help but say resolutely: "The hero should cut off his arm. Search for these areas again, and then give them to the Central Army and the Jin Army."

This time the Japanese army plundered very cleanly. Some of the people who didn't plan to start were also plundered and made all the gold and silver treasures.

"It is inconvenient to march with these things!" Seishiro Itagaki looked at the many things that were plundered. Although he was also jealous, carrying a lot of things was also a problem. But the Japanese were already jealous of snatching the property and had no reason to let go. But more big heads were the imperial property kept by Seishiro Itagaki.

"Place some of the property on the spot and find a safe place to put it in. Just bring some light gold and silver goods on the road!" Seishiro Itagaki ordered.

The Japanese found a cave near Jishan, and placed hundreds of boxes of property. The team led the way to shoot the hundreds of Chinese men who helped transport them with machine guns. Then more than a dozen Japanese in the team also committed suicide, and no one knew about it except a leader and a staff officer. Only five people, including Seishiro Itagaki, knew about it.

Of course there are three dogs.

The spy installed in the Pioneer Army learned some relevant news, so hundreds of cloned dogs wandered around looking for opportunities. Finally, they followed the Japanese treasure troop and witnessed everything. Although they could not describe everything in detail, it was okay to rush there with the Pioneer Army's search personnel.

However, it is not possible at this time.

The Japanese retreated suddenly, and no one expected that they would abandon those territories and directly choose to break through. However, with the help of the puppet army, the Japanese and the Central Army and the Jin army had a tacit understanding, one evacuated and the other took it. They also gave up the road, which quickly made the Japanese to reach the Yellow River and prepare to cross the river and enter Shaanxi.

In addition to those killed by the vanguard army and the 109th Division that was besieged, Seishiro Itagaki led more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers. Such a large-scale operation could not be hidden. However, the Central Army and the Jin army wanted to grab territory, which naturally blocked the vanguard army's pursuit. The vanguard army mainly opened the way on the front line with heavy weapons and training new recruits. At this time, the sudden action of the Japanese army made them half a step behind. When they gathered the personnel to take over the county town, they found that the puppet troops had long transformed into the team of the Central Army and the Jin army.

Although the treatment of the vanguard army is good, some puppet troops have poor foundations, so it is better to join the Central Army and Jin Army to clear their foundations and get promoted and make money. With these leading puppet army leaders suppressing them, the county towns will become the Central Army and Jin Army.

The Jin army launched a rapid attack from near Ji County and took over Linfen and surrounding counties and cities. The Central Army also took quick action and directly occupied Yuncheng and those counties in the south from Zhongtiao Mountain. The news of the Pioneer Army was not slow. Meng Xiang had information from the Japanese every day. When he heard about it, he immediately dared to airborne Jincheng in front of the Central Army. With the support of the guerrillas in the city and the eager hope of the people, he occupied the city and opened up the connection channel between Shanxi and Henan.

However, several counties west of Jincheng were occupied by the Central Army, and it was temporarily impossible to pursue the Japanese.

When the vanguard army passes through the border, who can't let them pass? Although the Central Army and the Jin army occupy part of the territory, due to the urgent time, there are not many people, so they dare not let the vanguard army pass.

The Central Army and the Jin army hoped that the Japanese would leave Shanxi early and enter Shaanxi better. Except for Hu Zongnan who was guarding Xi'an and not allowing them to pass, other places allowed them to act.

The Japanese chose to cross the Yellow River from Hejin, and the army of more than 50,000 people was not easy to resist. In addition, the Central Army and Jin Army released water, so they successfully crossed the river.

Meng Xiang could not pretend to be silent, so he sent a telegram to ask whether the Red Party needed support.

At this time, a meeting was being held there.

"We cannot stop the 50,000 Japanese soldiers coming here!" said one person. This is very realistic. The 50,000 Japanese soldiers are not a squadron or a brigade, which is equivalent to the strength of two divisions. Moreover, although the evacuated troops are incomplete and the artillery is relatively small, they are also teams that cannot be easily resisted.

"Can you let them go wild on our base?" said one person angrily.

"This is all the idea of ​​the Central Army and the Pioneer Army killing people with a knife." One person said angrily.

"This time, it's probably not the idea of ​​the Pioneer Army. They chased the Japanese's tail and wiped out thousands of people. However, the Central Army and the Jin army gave the green light all the way, allowing the Japanese to cross the Yellow River easily!" One person felt good about the Pioneer Army. After all, the Pioneer Army allowed many people to live a good life. Although it was not completely in line with their ideas, it was always right to be good to the people.

"The Pioneer Army and the Central Army are all birds of a feather. They cannot destroy the Japanese, but they are letting them cross the river to consume our strength!"

"The Pioneer Army is very careful in fighting the Japanese. It would be great if we had their equipment!" One person envied the Pioneer Army's equipment. Not only he envied, but even the Central Army and other warlords envied, even the Japanese were envious.

"The Pioneer Army is not only equipped with good equipment, they fight bravely and have very good tactics, and should not be underestimated." Most people think that the Pioneer Army defeated the Japanese with its equipment, and thus ignored other aspects. Just like the American army in later generations, everyone thought that the Americans were not good except for their powerful equipment. In fact, the tactical use of the US military and the arrangement of the military system were first-class, but their dazzling equipment blocked people's sight.

Similarly, many people at this time believed that if they lost such good equipment, the Pioneer Army might not have much combat effectiveness. But they all ignored the clone's role as the backbone, and also ignored the three months of recruit training in the recruit battalion.

Because they have more infiltration into the vanguard army, they know the most.

"Let's not talk about the vanguard army for now. Now that the Japanese army is coming from the east, how should we deal with it?" One person raised the topic to the point.

Everyone talked for a while, then looked at a tall figure who was smoking a cigarette and silently.

"Let it go!" He said a long time later, "The Japanese were trying to break through the dilemma of Shanxi. When they entered Shaanxi, the Central Army blocked the south and the Pioneer Army blocked the north. I am afraid they will go west. We have difficulty in supplying here, so they will not stay there often. Organize the people, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, seize the time to evacuate and let them pass! We follow them, eliminate a few Japanese if there is a chance, and wait for the opportunity if there is no chance."

He made the final decision. Although there was interference from the Soviet special forces, he still had the final say in military terms.

"Why did the Pioneer Army request entry into the base?" someone asked.

"It is easy to ask God to send God to God! Tell them that we can handle it ourselves!" The great man shot the ashes of the Victory cigarette and said thoughtfully.
Chapter completed!