The stationmaster understood that this was an armed takeover of the station, and at this time he could only obediently listen to them.

"Do what they say." The stationmaster said calmly to the dispatcher.

"The bus from the direction of Shijiazhuang enters the station as usual; For buses coming from the direction of Taiyuan, after entering the station, the head of the train should be adjusted to the direction of Taiyuan in the west, and then let your people fill the three trains with coal water. After these three trains have left, the two special trains will be driven to Line 1. In addition, half an hour later, you informed Shijiazhuang that part of the railway east of Jingcheng had been damaged, and that the train west of Jingcheng could not go east and needed to be repaired, and the specific time for reopening to traffic would be about tomorrow morning. Adjutant Zhou was also not polite, and gave orders in succession.

The stationmaster nodded to the dispatcher and said, "The vehicle dispatch will be arranged according to what Adjutant Zhou said." After speaking, he walked to the telephone by himself, looked at Adjutant Zhou's shell gun that had opened the nose of the machine, and picked up the phone.

Twenty minutes later, two passenger trains arrived at Jingcheng one after another. As soon as the train entered the station, the two passenger trains were surrounded by soldiers with rifles with bayonets, and then all the passengers were forcibly evicted from the train and stuffed into the waiting room and kept under close guard. Then, a group of heavily armed soldiers quickly got into the car, and three passenger vans full of soldiers drove in the direction of Niangziguan.

Li Ruifang's task was to rush to Taiyuan as soon as possible to help Li Wentian occupy Taiyuan and control the situation around Taiyuan.

In addition to Liu Fengji's 38th Division stationed on the line from Jinzhong to Niangzi Pass, Wang Bi's 37th Division is stationed in Taiyuan City, and Ma Liang's 39th Division is stationed in Xinzhou north of Taiyuan, with more than 24,000 people in the whole army.

The only troops that Li Wentian could command in Taiyuan were one regiment of Wu Jin and more than 2,800 cadets of the former Fourth Route Army of Han Guangdi's Northern Military Academy, plus more than 1,500 people from the special brigade disguised as workers in the new factory area, even if you count the guard company of Song Zhewu's deputy commander's office in the city, there are more than 6,000 people.

Among them, Wu Jin's regiment had to defend the airport and warehouses, and also control the personnel of the Shanxi Aircraft Factory and the Shanxi Air Regiment. Although there are nearly 3,000 Fourth Route Army cadets in Han Guangdi's Northern Military Academy, there are also more than 2,000 Shanxi cadets in the school, and after controlling them, the force left to guard and defend the school is at least 500 people. More than 1,500 people in the new factory area will also leave 500 people to guard the factory area to prevent sabotage by the rebels. As a result, after the operation began, only 2,900 troops could enter Taiyuan City, and even with the guard company around Li Wentian, there were only more than 3,000 people in the city.

However, there were more than 7,000 people in the 37th Division living in the barracks in the city, and if you count the police, Yan Xishan's Overseer Mansion Guards, and the Gendarmerie Corps, the total number of the Jin Sui Army was already more than 10,000, and it was impossible to deal with them with more than 3,000 troops. Moreover, once the fight starts, the 39th Division stationed in Xinzhou will soon arrive in Taiyuan, and even half of the 38th Division of Jinzhong will rush to hold back the strength of the Fourth Route Army at the airport and the new factory area. Whether Li Ruifang's mountain division can arrive in Taiyuan in time is the key to whether the "Turtledove Plan" can be successfully and perfectly realized.

Compared with the small army of the Jin Sui Army, Li Ruifang's mountain division had more than 22,000 people, and not only was the combat effectiveness of the troops much higher than that of Zhou Shilian's army, but also not inferior in numbers.

In this reorganization, several divisions of the Fourth Route Army were upgraded to corps, but for fear of affecting the combat effectiveness of the troops, the number of troops was not replenished in place, and each army only supplemented a small number of soldiers trained by the teaching corps on the basis of the original large-scale divisions, with less than 40,000 men and only more than 11,000 men in each division. After Song Zhewu's nod, the mountain division not only did not transfer personnel to other troops, but also supplemented the troops, and now in terms of personnel, it is the establishment of the two divisions of the Fourth Route Army, Tao Rong has already vaguely hinted at him, Song Zhewu attaches great importance to the mountain division, and it is only a matter of time before it is expanded.

Therefore, since Li Ruifang learned about the "Turtledove Project" and his own tasks during the Spring Festival, Li Ruifang secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must complete the task beautifully and never live up to Song Zhewu's kindness to him.

Up to now, Li Ruifang was still very satisfied with the performance of the mountain division that he had devoted all his efforts to, and had just received a report that the first brigade of his mountain division had quietly surrounded the town of Niangziguan, and was ready to surprise the defenders of a company on Niangziguan at any time. His vanguard of 4,000 men had already set off in five wagons, and as soon as dawn was his first brigade to seize Niangzi Pass with strong force and force the Jin Sui regiment stationed in Niangzi Pass Town to surrender.

Although he was still a little nervous and worried in his heart, he was very afraid that there would be a problem in any link that would affect the commander's plan, but Li Ruifang still tried his best to hide his emotions, he didn't want his subordinates to see it, lest the prestige he had gradually established in the hearts of these subordinates be reduced.

Li Ruifang watched the fifth train gradually disappear into the darkness, and then turned around and went to Li Sichi's headquarters.

After reporting to Li Sichi on the movements of the various units of the Mountain Division, Li Sichi excitedly said to his chief of staff: "Telegraph to Commander Song and the two chiefs of staff, Xiao and Tao, that the mountain eagle flies very well. ”

Shanying is the code name of the Mountain Division, which is to report to Song Zhewu, Xiao Guodong, and Tao Rong that the operation is going well.

Li Sichi looked at Li Ruifang and said with emotion: "Ruifang, Chief of Staff Tao is not only very far-sighted, but also very far-sighted, and it is the right move to take us to join the Fourth Route Army." To tell you the truth, now when I think of Commander Hu and solemn them, I am afraid. ”

Li Sichi patted Li Ruifang's shoulder and said with deep feeling: "And your brother, although Chief of Staff Tao has a good eye, if you don't join the Fourth Route Army, I'm afraid your brother is still your battalion commander now." Do a good job, don't embarrass us Guangxi people. ”

For Li Sichi's words, Li Ruifang mostly agreed. Indeed, if he hadn't joined the Fourth Route Army at the beginning, even if he and Li Sichi returned to Guangxi, the best result would be that Li Sichi would still be his division commander, and he, Li Ruifang, would continue to be his battalion commander, and the situation would be far worse than now.

He doesn't have to say it himself, just talk about Li Sichi. If Li Sichi is in Guangxi now, he will probably be a small division commander commanding seven or eight thousand people, where will he be a lieutenant general commander who commands tens of thousands of troops like he is now, and the troops that Li Sichi is now commanding are more than the Gui troops under Li Zongren's direct command during this march into Hunan.

Moreover, Li Ruifang could see that the commander attached great importance to Tao Rong, Li Sichi, Liang Zhongjia, Han Guangdi, Li Wentian, Zhao Fengwu, Wang Zhe, and other foreign officers with rich experience in military practice. Whether they join the Central Army, the Northwest Army, or the Jin Sui Army, they will definitely not get the status and trust they have now.

If there is a slight special status in the commander's mind, there are only Xiao Guodong, Zhang Yafei, Wang Xu and Ye Changgui. However, Li Ruifang is understandable, these people are all great contributors to helping Song Zhewu pull up the Fourth Route Army step by step, and their status in Song Zhewu's heart is naturally much higher.

However, Li Ruifang disagrees with Li Sichi's sentence "Don't embarrass us Guangxi people". He believes that he Li Ruifang can have today, of course, thanks to Tao Rong's recommendation, but he is even more grateful to Song Zhewu for his broad-mindedness, in the Fourth Route Army, he does not take soldiers from close to the region, but puts ability first, which is absolutely impossible to do with Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, even Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren can not do it either. Song Zhewu not only did this himself, but he was also very disgusted with the concept that other people in the Fourth Route Army had the concept of geographical proximity, which can be seen from Song Zhewu's determination to break up and reorganize all the troops regardless of which unit he received, and Li Ruifang also greatly admired Song Zhewu's approach.

Therefore, he also always reminded himself not to form gangs, if there is a gang, it is also a big gang of the Fourth Route Army as a whole, and he must always remember that he is a subordinate of Song Zhewu.

Li Sichi didn't notice Li Ruifang's mood change, and then continued excitedly: "As soon as dawn, I will take the second division and the troops directly under the army into Niangzi Pass, and take over your troops to surround this regiment of the Jin Sui army, and then your troops will march towards Taiyuan with all their might, as long as your troops reach Taiyuan, Shanxi can be said to be ours......

This night was also an unquiet night in Taiyuan.

As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, Li Wentian hurried to Taiyuan with relevant personnel to set up the office of Song Zhewu's deputy commander. In order to hold Song Zhewu, Yan Xishan was also extremely enthusiastic about Li Wentian, and every time he held a military meeting, he would ask Li Wentian to participate. Li Wentian's surname is relatively easy-going, and this time he came with a mission, so naturally he also tried his best to meet Yan Xishan, and even gave a lot of ideas and suggestions for Yan Xishan's military plan, which made Yan Xishan very happy.

Moreover, Li Wentian made a generous move and established a very good relationship with the military and political officials of the Jin Suijun. Whether it is the construction of Wusu Airport, Han Guangdi's takeover of the "Northern Military Academy", or the selection and construction of aircraft factories and aviation schools near Qiucun and Nanzhuanjing Village in the east of Wusu, they are all very smooth.

The only thing that made Li Wentian a little unhappy was that when he first arrived in Taiyuan, Feng Yuxiang had not left Taiyuan, Feng Yuxiang was his old chief after all, and he had to bite the bullet to meet him. For him, a rebel general of the Northwest Army, although Feng Yuxiang was still very enthusiastic on the surface, the scene was still very embarrassing. Until Feng Yuxiang left Taiyuan, Li Wentian tried his best to avoid Feng Yuxiang.

After receiving the order to start implementing the plan, Li Wentian invited Zhou Shilian and his officers at and above the 37 th Division stationed in Taiyuan, as well as military police commander Zhang Dasan, police chief Kong Wei, and other military and police military officials to the deputy commander's office on the pretext that he was about to be transferred to Zhengzhou, and that night to thank these people for their help to Li Wentian in the past few months.

At the same time, Han Guangdi held a banquet in the new site of the "Northern Military Academy" to entertain Vice Principals Rong Honglu, Zhang Jialing, and Shanxi military academy officers; Wu Jin also hosted a banquet at Wusu Airport for Yang Yushan, chief engineer and principal of Shanxi Aircraft Factory and president of Shanxi Aviation School, as well as Liu Jie, head of the Shanxi Aviation Corps, and his pilots.

(To be continued)