These classic battle examples commanded by Fu Zuoyi in Song Zhewu's memory made it impossible for him not to be extremely careful and cautious with Fu Zuoyi. In his heart, this Fu Zuoyi is definitely the biggest threat to his occupation of Shanxi.

But now that Fu Zuoyi has moved, the target of his blade is basically clear, and the remaining question is how to deal with it, since he knows the direction of Fu Zuoyi's action, how much of a threat Fu Zuoyi will pose to him Song Zhewu, it will be within his prepared control. Therefore, after getting the news of the Jin Sui Army in Yingxian and Fanzhi, Song Zhewu's heart calmed down.

This is like Gu Long's Li Xunhuan's flying knife, its most dangerous thing is that you can never see what his blade is pointing at, but this flying knife hidden in the shadows will kill you at any time. But if he already had the knife in his hand, then the knife was not much of a threat. If Li Xunhuan had been in the battle, holding his miraculous flying knife in his hand, he would probably have died a long time ago.

Readers who have read Gu Long's novels will definitely believe that if the other party can see Li Xunhuan's unexpected flying knife, not to mention first-class ruthless characters like Guo Songyang and Shangguan Jinhong, even the Lord of Bliss, Yi Wai, Blue Scorpion, Bai Xiaosheng, and Dahuanxi Bodhisattva will also take Li Xunhuan's life a long time ago.

Mengxi hurriedly walked into the war room, holding a few telegrams in his hand and handed them to Tao Rong, Tao Rong quickly looked at Song Zhewu and said: "Commander, Liang Zhongjia, Zhang Tao, and Gao Zongbao are calling, they were all attacked by the Jin Sui army in southern Jin at the same time. ”

"Is there any involvement of the Northwest Army in this attack?" The three directions were attacked by the Jin Sui army, which made Song Zhewu's expression solemn.

"No, they all said in the telegram that there was no Northwest Army, but the Jin Sui Army was attacking, and besides, the Jin Sui Army in the south of Jin, although it launched an attack on our army almost at the same time on a battle line hundreds of miles wide, and there was a lot of noise, but the strange thing is that their offensive was not violent, and every attack was a one-touch retreat, Liang Zhongjia couldn't help but carry out a small-scale sortie, and the attacking Sun Chu Department actually retreated more than 20 miles."

Tao Rong shook the telegram in his hand and said affirmatively: "I think this is Xu Yongchang holding back our army, and he doesn't really want to attack us." ”

Song Zhewu nodded in agreement with Tao Rong's analysis, Song Zhewu thought about it and said: "If the Northwest Army participates, it means that Xu Yongchang wants to really advance north, without the Northwest Army, there is only one possibility for the hundreds of thousands of Jin Sui troops to attack the Fourth Route Army, which has a superior strength, that is, to think of containing us, so that our army cannot safely transfer troops from the southern front to support other battlefields." ”

Song Zhewu paced slowly in front of the map and asked suspiciously: "But where is Xu Yongchang afraid that our army on the southern front will go to support?" Xu Yongchang was obviously not afraid of supporting Niangziguan, because it had been fighting there for a day, and it was almost midnight now, so he reacted, which was obviously unreasonable? ”

Mengxi said excitedly: "The commander's analysis is right, and the rest can only be Jinbei." ”

At this time, Song Zhewu already had a rough idea of Xu Yongchang's intentions: "Yes, Xu Yongchang is afraid that we will transfer troops to support northern Jin. ”

"I also agree with the Commander's analysis." Tao Rong nodded and said.

"There's just one thing I can't figure out.

Tao Rong crossed the map with the gesture stick in his hand: "If Yan Xishan wants to recover Taiyuan, attacking along Niangzi Pass is the fastest and the greatest threat to us, if the Jin Sui army captures Taiyuan, our army's troops in southern and northern Jin will be divided, and we are bound to withdraw the whole army to northern Jin, or even to Shaanxi, otherwise our troops in southern Jin will be in danger of being encircled and annihilated." ”

"Now, although from the point of view of the distribution of troops of the Jin Sui army, their distribution of troops in the three battlefields is about the same, and I can't see that that is the point, but I agree with the commander's judgment, and now it is certain that whether it is Xu Yongchang's bluff in Jinnan or Zhang Yinwu's crazy attack in Niangzi Pass, it is for one purpose, that is, to distract our army's attention, let us worry about it everywhere, and not let these two places, even the reserves of our army near Taiyuan, be transferred north."

In the end, Tao Rong's tone had become very affirmative: "Fu Zuoyi must have a conspiracy in northern Jin. ”

Tao Rong put down the signal stick, and thought about it again: "I think that no matter what tricks Fu Zuoyi is playing, the situation is not very clear first, our army should respond to all changes with the same, and the troops in northern Jin must hold on, Fu Zuoyi and our troops in northern Jin are about the same, and he will not have a way to take us for a while, once the situation is clear, we will transfer Xu Fang's Seventh Army up and bite him hard." ”

Song Zhewu slowly spit out the last puff of green cigarettes, snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, looked up and asked Mengxi, "What is your opinion?" ”

Mengxi looked at Tao Rong and said: "I agree with Chief of Staff Tao, however, Jing Yuexiu's troops have already arrived in Suiyuan, I suggest that Jing Yuexiu send his cavalry out to attack Datong, and we will also contain Fu Zuoyi." ”

"Good!"

Song Zhewu pointed to the map and ordered: "Order, stationed in the second division of Zhao Fengwu in Suiyuan, send a regiment, Jing Yuexiu sent his cavalry regiment, to advance to the area of Liangcheng and Fengzhen at noon in the Ming Dynasty, and make a harassing attack on Datong; Xu Fang was ordered to send a division to Shouyang to stand by, and Xu Fang led the rest of the Seventh Army to set off tonight and rush to Xinkou as soon as possible to stand by; Ordered Liang Zhongjia, Zhang Tao, and Gao Zongbao to make a short attack with a small force if the situation allowed, but remember that holding the position is the most important thing. ”

"Tell Canxuan again that he should strictly order all departments on the northern front to hold their positions and not go out, and report the situation at any time."

Mengxi turned around and went out to give orders. At this time, Xiao Guodong, who learned that the battle situation had changed, also rushed to the war room.

Song Zhewu's demeanor had completely relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Chief of Staff Xiao, you came just in time, how about you and Chief of Staff Tao take a look at this manuscript together?" Do you think it would help us if it would be in the newspaper tomorrow? ”

Song Zhewu said as he took out two manuscripts full of handwriting from his jacket pocket and handed them to Xiao Guodong.

The beginning of this manuscript briefly and warmly praises Song Zhewu, saying that he was well aware of the great righteousness, not only recovered Outer Mongolia and resisted the Soviet army in the north, but also fought with Yan Xishan on the battlefield in the Central Plains, and then suddenly returned to Shanxi, and in one fell swoop eliminated Yan Xishan, the nest of the largest warlord in the north, so that this long-lasting and tragic battle in the Central Plains, which caused great suffering and disasters to the Central Plains and the people of Jin, Sui, Chacha, and Hebei, ended as soon as possible, and freed the fathers and elders of the four provinces of Jin, Sui, Chacha, and Hebei, who were squeezed by Yan Xishan, who was desperate for military force. and bringing hope for the complete realization of civil peace, and so on.

Then he turned his pen again, and told the reader in a sad tone that he was such a national hero, and at this moment he was being besieged by the annoyed and angry northern warlords Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, as well as a group of small warlords who were attached to them. They poured all their resentment against the defeat of the Central Committee on Song Zhewu and his Fourth Route Army, and they were arrogant and were besieging the Fourth Route Army with great ferocity, and the Fourth Route Army was now suffering heavy losses.

Under the frantic siege of these warlords, in southern Jin, the Fourth Route Army had to abandon the important towns of Linfen, Jincheng and Changzhi in southern Jinnan, and Jiexiu, which was only more than 200 miles away from Taiyuan, had also been recaptured by the Jin Sui army; In Zhengtai Road, the Jin Sui army of more than 100,000 troops has reoccupied Jingcheng and is launching a fierce attack on Niangzi Pass, and the position of Niangzi Pass is already precarious; In northern Shanxi, Yan Xishan successfully mobilized the Jin Sui army in Shandong to rush back to Datong through the Pingsui line, recapturing the largest city in northern Shanxi, and at this moment, a murderous attack was being launched against the Fourth Route Army.

Now Song Zhewu is leading his troops to retreat step by step, struggling to support, struggling to maintain, and waiting for rescue. Because the Central Army and the so-called Northeast Army, which had been mediated by the armed forces entering the pass, had delayed their arrival, the Fourth Route Army had already sent people to search for ferries on the banks of the Yellow River and prepare to retreat to Yunyun, Shaanxi.

The article concluded: "In view of the current bleak scene, General Song Zhewu angrily swore that he would never fight a civil war again in the future unless the Fourth Route Army itself was attacked." ”

Although the article does not explicitly mention the fact that the Central Army is not able to save the Yellow River, and even does not explicitly accuse the Northeast Army of intentionally conniving at Yan Xishan, it implicitly points out that the Central Army and the Northeast Army have abandoned this hero who ended the Central Plains War when they saw death.

After reading this article, the first impression given is that the Central Army and the Northeast Army are not saving themselves in the face of death, and they are allowing Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang to eliminate the Fourth Route Army. It's as if the righteous and brave are being beaten by the "hooligans", while the rescued are gloating.

"Good! It's so well written! As soon as this article was published, our Chairman Chiang could no longer sit still. ”

After reading the manuscript, Xiao Guodong couldn't help but shout loudly. Then the three of them laughed at the same time.

Tao Rongqiang couldn't hold back a smile and said to Song Zhewu: "The commander is really generous, when this article is published, not only Chairman Jiang can't sit still, but even Zhang Xueliang will not be able to sit still, in order to calm public opinion, they will definitely take action." Moreover, the most important thing is that the cities listed in the article that were recaptured by Yan Xishan were all not occupied by us, but they were said by the commander to be snatched back by Yan Xishan. ”

Song Zhewu said with a slight red smile: "In the dream of Red Mansions, it is well said, if you pretend to be true, you will be true and false, and there will be nowhere to do nothing. Sometimes, a lie is told a thousand times is the truth, and the power of public opinion is very great, and we must also make good use of public opinion to build momentum for ourselves in the future. ”

Then, Song Zhewu wanted to cover up and say sarcastically: "Also, this is not my masterpiece, this is written by Wang Xinggang, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

In order to cover up the embarrassment, Song Zhewu said to Xiao Guodong: "Chief of Staff, please fill in again, in northern Shanxi, the Jin Sui army has occupied Fanzhi, a key place in northern Shanxi, and is now storming Daixian, a strategic place connecting Taiyuan and northern Shanxi. ”

(To be continued)