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The battle in Shanxi started on the 24th and ended on the 15th. It has been No. [-] days. The casualties of the two armies of Shang Zhen and Xu Yongchang are not small.Especially Shang Zhen, who was directly facing the troops of Feng Jun's elite Zhang Jinghui, suffered a lot in the fight.From Datong to Shuozhou, it was a full [-] kilometers. Thanks to Shang Zhen's ability, he was able to fight repeatedly and keep his army from collapsing while causing certain damage to the Feng army, and finally retreated smoothly into Shuozhou City. .On the east side, Xu Yongchang was very rare to stabilize his position. With the help of favorable terrain, he was firmly stuck in Yangquan. No matter how Sun Liechen organized a death squad, he refused to give up an inch anyway, and he relied on the Jin army himself to block Sun Liechen.

"Overlord, just let me attack. I promise to block Zhang Jinghui's troops in Shuozhou and never let them go south. Please don't hesitate any longer. Once Fengjun soldiers come to Taiyuan, we will sit in the isolated city and they only need to divide their troops. Entering southern Shanxi, we are doomed." Fu Zuoyi, who was trusted by Yan Xishan to serve as the commander of Taiyuan's security, has been begging to see Yan Xishan every day these days, in short, he wants to lead troops north to defend Shuozhou and stop Feng's iron hooves going south.

Yan Xishan didn't know anything about military affairs. What he was worried about was that there would be no army in Taiyuan.This made Yan Xishan very scared, what is a warlord without the protection of the army?Just shit.So no matter how determined Fu Zuoyi's attitude was, Yan Xishan couldn't make up his mind after thinking for a long time.

Fu Zuoyi was in a hurry. He shouted to Yan Xishan: "Overlord, if Shuozhou loses again, the whole war will be irreparable. I suggest you surrender to the Southern Nationalist Government immediately. This is the right way."

Yan Xishan seemed to have been hit hard in the chest, and he didn't want to go to Wang Zhenyu unless he had to. The reason why he would rather be a chicken head than a queen is very popular.So Fu Zuoyi's words directly hit Yan Xishan's vital point. Yan Xishan murmured: "Then I will let Yisheng you defend Shuozhou. This battle must be a hard one. No matter whether we win or lose, our Shanxi is still our Shanxi." People's Shanxi?"

Hearing this, Yan Xishan's military advisor, Zhao Daiwen, immediately fainted. He got up and tried to persuade him, "Baichuan, you are so confused, you are still hesitating here even though it's an inevitable situation. You might as well listen to Yisheng and let go." If we try, even if we fail, we will be worthy of Tiandi and the folks in Shanxi, and the honor of the Jin army is also worthy of you, the head of the family, to defend."

Yan Xishan saw that both Zhao Daiwen and Fu Zuoyi advocated fighting Fengjun in Shuozhou, nodded his head and said, "Then it's up to you, Yisheng, you will draw elites from the defenders in Taiyuan to form a mixed brigade, and you will serve as the brigade commander yourself. Go to Shuozhou. As for Shang Zhen's troops, you will take over after you arrive in Shuozhou. Shang Zhen and the three division commanders will return to Taiyuan to report on their duties..."

The next day, Fu Zuoyi took [-] elite Jin troops to Shuozhou, where they would write the most important stroke in the history of the Jin army.

Fu Zuoyi is almost an outlier of the Jin army. Since ancient times, Shanxi people have been good at business and trade but not military. This has a lot to do with their geographical environment.They are not as rich as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, their harvests are limited, and they are always threatened by northern nomads.If the Shanxi people still rely on martial arts to confront foreign enemies head-on at this time, then this day will be difficult.So since the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants have been used to dancing on two eggs, and they are hooked up with Mongolian and Manchurians.No way, otherwise they would not be able to survive, let alone grow.Regardless of right or wrong, this kind of regional culture has naturally created very civilized and friendly Shanxi people. They are used to solving problems with their mouths instead of their hands.In such a social atmosphere, the life ideal of the officers and soldiers of the Jin army is naturally to get promoted and make a fortune, not to conquer the world.Fu Zuoyi is different. This person seems to be a born soldier. His ideal in life is naturally to build a strong army that can sweep the world and complete the unification of the motherland.Therefore, the soldiers led by Fu Zuoyi have always been the existence of the Xiongguan Jin Army, and compared to the Jin Army, he himself is indeed a secret voter.

However, Fu Zuoyi did not complain. After obtaining the rank of major general and the command of all the Jin troops in Shuozhou, he rushed to Shuozhou as quickly as possible, and began to reorganize his troops. He planned to rely on this ancient city to fight to the death with Fengjun.

But when he arrived in Shuozhou, Fu Zuoyi realized that the situation was extremely unfavorable for his side.The morale of the Jin army was the first to bear the brunt. The morale of the Jin army had long been lost after the Feng army had been driven back a full [-] kilometers from the northern line.The performance of the army's loss of morale is nothing more than two points, one is the lack of military discipline, and the other is deserters in groups.

Fu Zuoyi had to end his inspection of the Jin army ahead of schedule, and summoned the officers of the entire Northern Front Corps to give a lecture: "I know that failure has made you lose the courage to continue fighting, and fleeing has made you lose the blood of soldiers. Many of you may have never been on the battlefield before the invasion of the Second Feng Army, but your enemy is a tiger-wolf division composed of thugs. To be honest, it is already a blessing for me to be able to persist in the face of such a ferocious enemy until now. It’s a very surprising thing. In my opinion, failure, fear, and disintegration are your due destiny. Now, you are only one step away from this destiny, and you can collapse at any time. But I want to ask you softly One word."

Fu Zuoyi made a soft voice and suddenly shouted loudly: "You can escape, you can give up your self-esteem as a man and your responsibilities as a soldier. But what about your fathers and fellow villagers? They deserve to be blackmailed and searched by the Fengjun. What about your sisters, wives and daughters? They should be raped wantonly by Fengjun? Look at the people in Zhili and Shandong, how did Fengjun treat them? You touch the eggs under yourself to see if you are a man? Then look at your own body Military uniform, look at your own performance, whether it is worthy of the honorary status of an officer. Your performance in the past ten days is simply a disgrace to our Jin army. People like you are simply the scum of our Jin army, but now you are brazen Alive. I, Fu Zuoyi, don’t believe that anyone is born a hero, let alone that anyone is born a coward. If you are still a man, have a little soldier’s blood, and know what shame is, then don’t be so selfish, be brave, and it’s here , on the city wall we are stepping on, use your life to defend our fathers, fellow villagers, sisters, wives and daughters. Use your bravery to tell the grandsons of Fengjun, who is the real man?"

The effect of Fu Zuoyi's lecture was obvious. At least these officers who had become dizzy now remembered their responsibilities. They began to strictly enforce the military discipline of their respective units. The phenomenon of desertion immediately decreased, and each unit also started strict training and civil engineering work.But the effect of a lecture alone is very limited. Fu Zuoyi chose a big stick and a carrot.

First of all, thirteen deserters who were captured were executed by the ruthless Fu Zuoyi in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole army. Immediately, no one dared to be deserters anymore.

The second is to announce various rewards and rewards. Anyway, Yan Xishan is rich, so almost everyone has rewards.This is critical, at least the morale that had plummeted due to consecutive losses has returned to normal again.More importantly, Yan Xishan is not only rich, but also has an arsenal. Although the Taiyuan arsenal has not reached the largest scale in its history at this time, it is more than enough to arm the [-] Jin troops in Shuozhou City.

Then Fu Zuoyi personally went down to the front line to urge the ministries to strengthen the city wall and build outer fortifications. Fu Zuoyi's attitude was to defend the city and not fight on the city wall.Therefore, outside the north gate of Shuozhou, Fu Zuoyi built three lines of defense relying on favorable terrain. The last line of defense was based on two mountains and set up a firepower line, which was definitely an existence that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.At the same time, Fu Zuoyi also pulled all the 75mm imitation Japanese mountain cannons on his hand to the mountain. Forty cannons are condescending, and once they are fired, their power must not be underestimated.Due to the terrain, these cannons could even support the first two lines of defense.

As for the trenches, Fu Zuoyi, who had been strictly trained at Wuhan Army University, strictly constructed the youth army's position construction method, and even built bunkers, which can be regarded as moving the elastic defense to Shanxi. However, the Jin army, which lacks a strong industrial foundation and advanced equipment support, took It is still unknown how much power such a position can exert.

But no matter what, Fu Zuoyi secretly encouraged himself, he must stop Fengjun in Shuozhou, fight for the Jin army, fight for Shanxi, let those self-righteous Northeast people see, who is the real man?

On the eighth day after Fu Zuoyi arrived in Shuozhou, on November [-], Feng Jun finally arrived late. . .

There is a reason for Feng Jun's late arrival. Compared with Jin Jun, they have more difficulties.As the front line continued to advance, the supply line of Zhang Jinghui's department became longer and longer.The Wan Fulin Division and Kan Chaoxi Division, who were in charge of the main attack, were not fuel-efficient lamps, and soon stopped their pursuit towards Shuozhou on the grounds that the ammunition was too much to sustain, and the officers and soldiers were exhausted from repeated battles.This also left time for Fu Zuoyi, otherwise he would chase up at a normal speed, not to mention Fu Zuoyi, even if Kong Ming was alive, he could only continue to flee.

Zhang Jinghui was a well-known good man, and his division commander wanted to pick someone up. He didn't want to punish these brave guys who delayed the military plane, but sent a telegram to Beijing to urge supplies.

As for Beijing, Zhang Zuolin was also overwhelmed by various requests for supplies.As far as this war is concerned, Zhang Zuolin is the least prepared.In the past two years of fiscal deficit, it is good to be able to maintain the army, and it is impossible to hoard supplies.Finally, in the middle of the year, they obtained a large amount of military supplies from the Japanese, and reluctantly launched the Shanxi campaign. As a result, they did not expect Sun Liechen and Zhang Jinghui to be so prodigal, and they took out most of them before they reached Taiyuan.It is not easy to think about the Japanese, after all, Japan will now fight against the youth army in Shandong.But even so, the Japanese side squeezed out some of the military supplies originally planned to be shipped to Shandong from Tianjin to the Fengjun to support their military operations in Shanxi.

These materials were temporarily shipped to Tianjin because the warehouses in Qingdao Port and Weihaiwei were full. Zhang Jinghui and his five divisions had already obtained these materials on November [-]st, and this was still at the fastest speed. sent up. . .