Before the Industrial Revolution, there were only about 100,000 people in a city in northern China. Now, under the Ming Dynasty, the population of 400 million, Shanxi has a population of 10 million. The most populous county is Jincheng, which is about 270,000, which is the southernmost part of Shanxi, with a little more population. As for the population of Taiyuan City in the north, the population was about 150,000, which is far from comparable to the population of two or three million cities in later generations. A large number of people are distributed in rural areas. This gives the Republican Army a very good opportunity.

Let’s talk about the location of Shanxi. The long strip of Shanxi is the Taihang Mountains to the east, the Zhongtiao Mountains to the south, and the Yellow River and Shaanxi to the west are bounded by the Yellow River and Shaanxi. The north side of the nomadic people are monitored whether the nomadic people cross the Yin Mountains. On the terrain, the Hengyin Mountains to the northwest and the vertical Taihang Mountains to the east are not sealed, but leave a gap. Therefore, Shanxi has a city with great strategic significance. Once Datong is lost, it means that this gap is opened, and this gap faces Beijing. At that time, Li Zicheng’s troops all the way out came out of a gap, crossed the Yellow River, went to Zhangjiakou, and Xuanhua arrived in Beijing.

Shanxi, a mountain-encircled mountainous area, has a very high strategic position. Ren Di's future plan is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Northern Expedition Road in the south, and then Datong Road. From Chinese history, there seems to be many unifications from north to south, but from south to north, there seems to be no successful battle examples. Therefore, Ren Di and a group of rookie staff decided to find the few successful battle examples in history, one is Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other is the battle of Qin's destruction of Yan. Both battles attacked Youyan from the exit of the two mountains of Datong.

The mountains have been obstacles to transportation throughout the ages. Therefore, the strategies of the ancients can be applied. Ren Di and other commanders in the north are not familiar with the land in the north, and they are still a bit conservative when facing Taiyuan. This conservatism is still due to Ren Di. In Ren Di's impression, Taiyuan City is a very difficult bone to crack. In Ren Di's plane, the three major battles of the People's Liberation Army ended in January 1949, but there was another Taiyuan Battle in March 1949. This Taiyuan Battle was the People's Liberation Army in the Liberation Army.

The battle was the biggest and the price was the biggest. Yan Laoxi could still fight. The 250,000 People's Liberation Army launched an attack on 130,000 Shanxi troops. A total of 45,000 casualties and 36,000 street battles were killed and killed. The maximum casualties of the Huaihai Battle was 110,000, Liaoshen was 69,000, Pingjin was the last battle. The south and the north were fought. The Pingjin Battle was the National Army was beaten, with 39,000 casualties and annihilated 520,000 reorganized National Army.

If we look at the number of casualties, the difficulty of the Taiyuan Battle is not easier than that of the Pingjin Battle. Ren Di was too cautious. Due to the memory before crossing, he was a little too cautious about Shanxi. He was afraid that he would lose 20,000 to 30,000 troops in street battles in this place would be interesting. He began to deepen land reform and decided to use the controlled rural areas to wrap up Taiyuan City. The entire Taiyuan Battle broke out in December and delayed for two months.

Until now, Taiyuan was too unbearable. Ren Di traveled through the front plane from March to October. As for now, it was a severe winter season. Taiyuan City and Yangqu City, nearby Jinzhong City, were exhausted due to war, a kind of winter consumable, which is coal.

The necessary condition for forming large cities before the Industrial Age was whether the surrounding grain production areas could supply enough food. After the Industrial Age, cities in high-latitude areas gathered in northern China depended on fuel consumption. The fuel consumption of a small village was enough to cut a little firewood at the entrance of the door and the surrounding woods. As for the fuel consumption of large cities, it was impossible to rely on firewood. Shanxi was rich in coal. When Haisong led the Industrial Age, the coal futures market began to emerge here in northern Shanxi. As fuel transportation became easier, the population of these cities broke through the original limit of manpower transportation of firewood. Commodities such as honeycomb coal began to enter thousands of households. Boiling water and washing feet, if a room with a fire channel was heated for about 40 square meters, saving a little bit of burning in a winter would probably use more than a ton of honeycomb coal.

A city with 100,000 people must consume hundreds of thousands of tons of coal in a winter. However, in the second half of 1704, a large number of accidents occurred in Shanxi's coal mines. The Republican army focused on these brothers of the class. The iron-footed army began to liberation of an open-pit coal mine. The two largest coal mines in the north of Shanxi were the Dongsheng open-pit coal mine and the other was the Junggar Coal Mine. Both mines were safely guarded. The capitalists of the coal mine asset alliance united to surround the coal mine and then let the miners go in to mine.

Now the group of coal mines were mined after the public trial, and labor reform was issued to the public. Several large coal mines fell into the hands of the Republican Army. Because Taiyuan had not been taken down and the railway had not been opened yet, heavy steam machinery could not be transported to the north. Therefore, these open-pit coal mines were mined in small quantities by military control to provide heating for the army and the city heating liberated by the Republican Army. As for the cities near Taiyuan, coal mines were out of stock.

Taiyuan is definitely northern China. At least in the eyes of most Chinese people, it is the north. For the cold winter in the north, Ren Di, the hometown of the Yangtze River, south of the Huai River, every winter, the children who faced the cold air south towards the south are deeply alert to the severe winter in the north, especially the invincible army of Napoleon, who had a small beard, were frozen into dogs. Ren Di decided to prepare and prepare again. In the beginning of spring, we wanted to start war in the warmth of spring. In winter, we would wear cotton coats and build heating barracks, and occasionally organize the construction of railways and roads to work. In the war, northerners resist freezing, have high racial values, can roll in the ice and snow, take off all their clothes, and dare to go into the water to swim in the winter. Well, this is the inertial thinking of the southerners of Ren Di’s staff, which confused the anti-freezing and suitable for cold life.

The anti-freeze of northerners may be due to the high lipid content of the skin and is not easy to freeze. When they are exposed to cold for a short time, they are not easily frostbite than southerners. For example, in the current Republican army, some people from Jianghuai have their hands frozen like fish-scale skins, and comrades from Shaanxi and Shanxi, but their hands are red as if they have natural anti-freeze frost. Northerners are strong, and they are powerful when exercising, and their bodies emit more heat and are easier to resist the cold. However, it does not mean that they consume less energy. The body still needs to keep warm. The energy still needs to be provided sufficiently. The energy of wine is the largest, so the working men in the north can drink.

Everyone is a constant temperature animal at 37 degrees Celsius. If you lack supplies, you have to be timid in winter.

This year, the snow in the northern land is beautiful, and there is a poem to prove it. Cough cough, I won’t be rude. The last straw that defeated Cao Yucheng in Shanxi was actually a shortage of fuel. The coldest temperature at night in the winter of this year reached minus 16 degrees Celsius. What is this? The ice layer in the pond is ten centimeters thick, so it can stand. The iron buckets placed outdoors are touched without gloves, and it hurts to feel cold. After five seconds, the pain is the same as the pain of burning hot water when you touch it. If you don’t eat a full meal this day, no matter how much clothes you add, you will feel the chill on your whole body.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Republican Army scattered leaflets to Taiyuan City, including close New Year greetings, peaceful words to persuade surrender, and policy propaganda to preferentially treat prisoners. As a result, a few days later, more than a dozen people, the Shanxi Empire Army, which had dozens of people, began to wander. He held up his gun to the portrait of the Republican Army, and then he drank the hot and sour soup in the prison camp, and happily gnawed the steamed buns. The Republican Army gradually confirmed that Taiyuan City was now cold.

Industrialized wars, especially those that may have been fighting for a year, are not enough to fight with as many guns and ammunition. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers with guns, all aspects must be considered in advance. So I realized that Taiyuan City was not as strong as I imagined. Ren Di's Republican army randomly began to formulate an attack plan and only started attacking ten days later.

"Boom" a loud thunder sound, and there were also a raucous sound of large scattered rock bricks and tiles shattered. Cao Yucheng, who was reading a book in the study, changed his face, and he watched the misty clouds of fire from the distance, and he put down the book, his eyes gradually calmed down, and he said slowly and calmly: "It's finally here."

When the Imperial Army in the city got up from the bed under the whistle of the officer, coldly held its guns, and hurriedly ran out to gather together to prepare for the whole team, the Republican Army had already exploded the exit with a blasting tube and explosive pack.

The individual recoilless cannon is really a magical tool, and this thing is particularly accurate in the hands of soldiers. Basically, where the enemy's machine gun castle fires, one soldier sets up a gun barrel and another soldier stuffs the shells in it, and a turbid smoke spews out from the back, and a fist shell rushed straight forward from the tongue of the muzzle in front. The explosives of this small shell smashed the castle like a hammer hitting the basin. Of course, most of the castles did not fire but stretched out a white flag and shook it. This winter, the hands couldn't be stretched out, and their eyes were so hungry that they were blurred. No one wanted to work hard for the emperor far south.

As for the city gate after it was broken by the explosion group, the huge city gate slapped like a slap, stirring up a large area of ​​dust. The Republican army rushed into the ancient city from the open city gate.

As for Cao Yucheng, it was very interesting. When the Republican Army rushed to his room, he happened to see him preparing to put the hanging rope around his neck. As for the Republican Army's rushing into his yard so noisy, he had no condom before, but waited until the Republican Army kicked the door. It was just that the Republican Army soldiers were rescued.
Chapter completed!