After an afternoon of deduction on the map, and after making corresponding contingency plans for all kinds of possible accidents, at 20 o'clock that night, Song Zhewu issued an order to "turtledoves seize the nest" in Zhengzhou according to the original plan.

As Song Zhewu's order was transformed into a string of invisible radio waves and flew into the vast night sky through the radio of the headquarters, the entire army of the Fourth Route Army immediately began to operate at high speed and precision like a complex big machine. Half an hour later, Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters was busy nervously, and as more radio waves flew out of Chiang Kai-shek's front-line headquarters, and a little later, the much larger machine of the Central Army also spun rapidly.

Suiyuan City is a typical military town, there are not only the former Suiyuan general Yamen in the city, but also the barracks that can accommodate more than 8,000 people built in the Qing Dynasty. The circumference of Suiyuan City is nine miles, it is square-shaped, and the city gates are set up in the east, south, west and north. Beyond the four gates there are urn castles, stone bridges, and moats. The watchtower is built on the city gate, there is a drum tower in the center of the city, there are four main streets leading from the drum tower to the four gates, stretching out to many alleys in all directions, forming a neat chessboard-like layout.

Because Suiyuan is located in the Mongolian steppe north of Shanxi, it is the absolute rear of the Jin Sui army. Because Yan Xishan has a powerful Jin Sui army, not only the princes of Inner Mongolia no one dares to pick up Yan Xishan's "tiger beard", Jing Yuexiu's small northwest forces, and even the Mongolian horse bandits no one dares to fight Suiyuan's idea. Since the establishment of Suiyuan Province in the 17th year of the Republic of China, the Jin Suijun Wang Jingguo Department has been stationed here, and the horse bandits have long run away.

It's just that the current Suiyuan has no garrison because Wang Jingguo's ministry went to participate in the Central Plains War. Only the police and the Suiyuan Local Security Corps and other paramilitary forces are left to maintain law and order, except for the four city gates, each of which has a squad of the security regiment on duty at night, the city fortifications are empty, and the troops of the defense regiment are left in the barracks in the city, Suiyuan is almost an undefended city.

At more than 10 o'clock in the evening, the streets of Suiyuan only occasionally patrol and watch walk, rarely see pedestrians walking by, shops and wine shops have long been closed, the whole Suiyuan City, immersed in a quiet night.

In the south gate tower of Suiyuan, it is brightly lit at the moment, and the security regiment of a squad on duty here, under the leadership of the squad leader, is sitting around a table of eight immortals with a lieutenant wearing the grass green uniform of the Fourth Route Army, on the table is a roast whole sheep that has eaten more than half and some seasonal melons and fruits, and it can be seen from the empty wine bottles on the ground that these people have drunk a lot of wine.

This lieutenant of the Fourth Route Army is called Song Mingrui, and he is the deputy station commander of the Fourth Route Army stationed in Suiyuan. This military station was specially responsible for transporting supplies to the troops of the Fourth Route Army stationed in Outer Mongolia. The supplies for the troops stationed in Outer Mongolia were mainly transported by the military station stationed in Zhangjiakou, but the supplies purchased in northern Shanxi and Yulin had to be transported from here. In normal times, the transportation volume of this military station is not very large, but in the past month, the Fourth Route Army has greatly increased the materials purchased from northern Shanxi, mainly horse material and some grain, and now it has been piled up like a hill in the military station in the city, it is said that Outer Mongolia had a lot of snow last winter, and the horse material was insufficient, and these grain and horse materials were to be transported to Outer Mongolia.

Since the transportation is completed by the big cars hired from Shanxi, the distance is long, and the transport team often arrives in Suiyuan at ** o'clock in the evening. Although according to the regulations, the city gate of Suiyuan should be closed after eight o'clock in the evening, and if you want to enter the city after the time, you will have to wait until the next day.

However, this regulation is useful to others, and it has no effect on the convoys of the Fourth Route Army, which have always been ready to go as they go, and no one dares to delay. Not to mention that the current head of the defense regiment, even the former Suiyuan garrison commander Wang Jingguo did not stop him.

You must know that Song Zhewu is now nominally second only to the No. 2 person in the Jin Suijun, and with the example of Xu Yongchang, no one in the Jin Suijun is stupid enough to offend him.

Fortunately, the personnel of the Fourth Route Army Station understand very well that the defense regiment is living a hard life, and their regiment commander will naturally get no less benefits, even these big soldiers guarding the city gate can often be satisfied. Moreover, the deputy stationmaster of the Fourth Route Army, Li had to throw down 20 yuan of the current ocean of hard work every time, although the soldiers could only get one piece each, and the rest was swallowed by the squad leader, but this also made everyone happy.

So much so that now everyone is vying to come to the south gate, the only way for the Fourth Route Army transport team to be on duty.

Today, the Fourth Route Army Station sent someone to the south gate early to inform the squad leader on duty tonight, "The transport team will come late because the vehicle is broken down on the road. The brothers on duty did not want to eat dinner, and Deputy Stationmaster Li had already ordered roast whole sheep to entertain everyone. And, the example money is doubled. ’

As soon as six o'clock in the evening, Deputy Stationmaster Li took five people from the Fourth Route Army, carrying two roasted whole sheep and some appetizers, as well as seasonal melons and fruits to the south gate. Wine is naturally indispensable, and there is a special person carrying eight bottles of the Fourth Route Army's specialty "Northern Daqu", so that the soldiers and pedestrians of the defense regiment on the road are hot.

The soldiers of the security regiment, who had been waiting for a long time, came out from afar under the leadership of their squad leader, and respectfully greeted Deputy Stationmaster Li to the city tower as if they were welcoming the God of Wealth.

In the watchtower on the city, there was a table in each of the two rooms, and according to the custom, the members of the defense regiment sat in the inner room, and the people of the Fourth Route Army Station except for Deputy Station Commander Li sat in the outer room, and these people were not allowed to drink alcohol. According to Deputy Station Chief Li's explanation, in the Fourth Route Army, except for the troops stationed in Outer Mongolia, who can drink alcohol in moderation while on duty, all other places are prohibited from drinking, and he must also be specially approved by the station commander every time.

After the wine and food were arranged, Deputy Stationmaster Li simply greeted everyone and immediately invited everyone to drink and eat. Looking at the roasted and oily delicate whole sheep, the soldiers of the defense regiment, who had long been salivating, immediately feasted on it under the leadership of the squad leader.

This deputy stationmaster Li is a native of Cangzhou, although he is a lieutenant at a young age, but he has no official frame at all, he always calls them brothers, and the amount of alcohol is very good, and the defense regiment has a good impression of him from top to bottom, and almost treats him as a member of the defense regiment.

Under the warm greeting of Deputy Stationmaster Li, everyone pushed their glasses and changed their glasses, and soon drank up 5 bottles of wine.

This northern special qu liquor is produced by the fourth route army in the distillery of Outer Mongolia, the wine is very strong, the taste is strong, especially not like the domestic liquor at this time with porcelain jars, but with a glass bottle containing foreign wine, the trademark is a colorful golden dragon. This kind of wine is specially for the troops of the Fourth Route Army in Outer Mongolia to drink, and it is rare in the market, and everyone calls it Golden Dragon Wine.

This liquor was very popular with the northerners, and the Mongol princes were proud to drink it. It's just that the quantity is small and the price is high, and a bottle costs two oceans, and ordinary people can't afford to drink it.

The squad leader of the defense regiment smiled with a big tongue and said, "Chief Li, it's good to roast the whole sheep!" This Golden Dragon Wine is even better! ”

Then he said with some regret: "It's just that this price is too expensive, and our brother can't afford to drink it." ”

Deputy Stationmaster Li also replied with a smile: "Don't talk about you, even I won't be willing to spend two oceans to buy this kind of wine." The salary of our former Fourth Route Army is said to be the highest in the country, and my military salary is more than 100 oceans per month, but if I want to support my family, I will not buy it. Fortunately, every time someone from Mongolia came to bring more than a dozen boxes to our military station, and our station commander was not good at drinking, the wine would all belong to my brother. ”

Seeing that the people in the defense regiment showed envious eyes, Deputy Stationmaster Li said a little proudly: "For the sake of often making the brothers hard, in this way, I will go back and ask someone to give each of you a bottle tomorrow." ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to give them this golden dragon wine, the eyes of the people of the defense regiment lit up, and under the leadership of their squad leader, they frequently raised their glasses and drank them extremely affectionately with Deputy Stationmaster Li.

"Deputy stationmaster, the transport team has arrived."

Because the sentries on duty of the security regiment were also called in to drink, the soldiers of the military station brought by Deputy Station Commander Li had been checking outside, and came in to report when everyone was drunk and hot.

The squad leader of the security regiment, who had become accustomed to it, kicked a soldier of the security regiment who was tearing a leg of mutton next to him, and urged: "Second dog, don't stuff it, go and open the door." ”

Ergouzi stood up with great reluctance, holding a half-gnawed leg of lamb in one hand and a key in the other.

Deputy Station Chief Li shouted to the people at the military station in the outer area: "Go to two people and help this brother open the door." Let our convoy into town. ”

With the sound of the gates locking, the gates creaked open, and soon there was a sound of very neat and rapid footsteps, although not very loud. It was clear from the sound that there were many people, some of them running up the road, and many more running towards the city.

"Why are there so many people this time? Why don't your big cars go into town? The squad leader of the drunken and hazy guard regiment asked suspiciously.

"There are no big cars this time, it's our big army that is entering the city."

As he spoke, Deputy Stationmaster Li stood up, took out twenty shell guns, and forced the confused members of the Fourth Route Army with more than a dozen men of the Fourth Route Army in grass-green military uniforms and rifles with snow-bright bayonets.

As soon as Deputy Stationmaster Li waved his hand, several people he brought with him immediately rushed up and tied up more than a dozen soldiers of the defense regiment.

It was not a transport team that entered the city, it was a division of Zhao Fengwu that entered the city this time. Zhao Fengwu and Xu Fang led their two armies to trek thousands of miles two days ago according to the turtledove plan, and secretly entered the Daqing Mountain north of Suiyuan to cover up.

Because the men of the Special Brigade of the Fourth Route Army in the barracks had already taken control of the telephone bureau, when Zhao Fengwu's division entered the city, although there was a slight resistance in the old barracks where the defense regiment was stationed, it still successfully disarmed the defense regiment and controlled Li Peiji's provincial political axe and all special municipal axes, as well as the police station.

Xu Fang and Zhao Fengwu did not stop in Suiyuan for long, and after the people at the Suiyuan military station organized personnel and vehicles, and transported the piles of horse material and grain that had been prepared in the military station out of the city, the horses of the two fast mobile troops equipped with horses were full, and they immediately rushed to the south.

Zhao Fengwu's task was to lead his remaining two divisions into Shanxi from Quanzipo, control the line of Youyu, Pinglu, Shuozhou, and Shanyin, and guard the direction of Datong together with the troops entering Shanxi from Lingqiu, and at the same time Zhao Fengwu also had to withdraw part of his troops to control the northwest region of Shanxi.

Xu Fang's troops entered Jin from the partial pass, passed through Shenchi to Yuanping, and used their speed to kill directly to Taiyuan to help the troops in Taiyuan control the situation in Taiyuan as soon as possible.

(To be continued)