Although he was busy planning administrative institutions and recruiting talents, Song Zhewu never relaxed for a day on the organization and construction of the Fourth Route Army, and he understood that the army was the most direct and reliable guarantee for him to realize his dreams.

Now, not only have the officers and men of Pang Bingxun's unit and the captured Chu Xichun unit been trained by the teaching corps and have returned to Jing Yuexiu, who is stationed in Baotou, but Song Zhewu also asked Han Guangdi to send a teaching team to conduct on-the-spot training for Jing Yuexiu's troops in Baotou, but these people are not the same as ordinary personnel of the teaching corps, and the vast majority of these people are grassroots officers transferred from various units, and these people will stay in Jing Yuexiu's troops in the future.

As a matter of fact, these officers and men of the former Northwest Army and the Jinsui Army, who are now being trained, all have very regular military qualities, and the ordinary subject training will soon be over, and the subjects they will focus on training will only be the special subjects that the Fourth Route Army is good at or are unique, so that they can integrate into the Fourth Route Army as soon as possible.

The training of these troops has already been completed, and the main reason why these people have not yet been incorporated into the troops is that the Nanjing side has been slow to give Song Zhewu the number of names. And without a number, Pang Bingxun and his troops will not be easy to settle.

However, Song Zhewu believed that the number of Nanjing would be given to him sooner or later, and this time was probably after Zhang Xueliang finished reorganizing the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army in Shanxi, because he believed that Chiang Kai-shek was always embarrassed to add the number to the Northeast Army and press the number of the Fourth Route Army again and again.

Li Wentian, Zhao Fengwu, Wang Bi, Li Yaoming, as well as the officers of the former Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army who had been drawn from various units, all returned to Taiyuan one after another, and in the name of visiting friends, they actually went to the Northwest Army and the Jin Sui Army to win over the troops of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army to defect to the Fourth Route Army. However, these people were different from the high-spirited when they left Taiyuan, and when they came back, everyone was somewhat depressed.

This is because, except for Li Fuying, the other generals of the Jin Sui Army are waiting for Zhang Xueliang's reorganization. And Li Fuying is only moving, and there is no actual action. Because Xu Yongchang and Zhang Xueliang have roughly reached an intention to reorganize in Beiping, the current problem is only that they are still entangled in the number of troops to be retained in the end.

In the eyes of these generals, as long as the Jin Sui Army is not disbanded, the Jin Sui Army will still be the Jin Sui Army, and Yan Xishan will still be their de facto leader, and it will only be a matter of time before he returns to preside over the Jin Sui Army again. In particular, almost all of these people were raised by Yan Xishan, and the grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers were almost all Shanxi people, even if they wanted to defect to Song Zhewu, they were worried that the troops would not follow them. Therefore, they do not consider voting for others at all.

Although the Northwest Army was already scattered, these generals of the Northwest Army in southern Jin were unwilling to give up their troops and accept Song Zhewu's reorganization. Moreover, although Song Zheyuan and Sun Liangcheng are both active in their activities, intending to seize the leadership of the remnants of the Northwest Army, neither of them can have the absolute upper hand, and they are all pulling relationships and making wishes.

Therefore, these generals are now watching the direction of the wind, or waiting for the price to sell, waiting for who can give them the greatest benefits, and of course, no one will hand over their troops to Song Zhewu at this time.

However, Li Wentian told Song Zhewu that looking at it now, Song Zheyuan has a better chance, because Xiao Zhenying, who is currently the General Staff of the Northwest Army, has already sided with Song Zheyuan.

Although Xiao Zhenying is from the Northeast, he is bold and righteous, and has a high prestige among the generals of the Northwest Army.

Moreover, Li Wentian heard from an old friend of the Northwest Army that "the Northwest Army of southern Jinnan recommended Xiao Zhenying as the commander of the Northwest Army of southern Jin, and Xiao Zhenying went to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek as a representative of the Northwest Army of southern Jin, and Xiao Zhenying strongly recommended Song Zheyuan to Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the army, and also expressed the willingness of the generals of the Northwest Army of southern Jinnan to accept the reorganization of the Northeast Army by Zhang Xueliang and the reorganization of the Central Committee." This made Chiang Kai-shek very happy, and took the initiative to give the Jinnan Northwest Army 600,000 oceans, but still asked the Northwest Army to accept Zhang Xueliang's reorganization. ’

Li Wentian looked at Song Zhewu and said: "However, it is said that Zhang Xueliang attaches great importance to Zhang Zizhong, and has already intended to organize the Jinnan and Northwest Army into an army, with Zhang Zizhong as the commander. ”

"Zhang Zizhong as the commander?"

According to the real history that Song Zhewu knew in his previous life, the Northwest Army of Southern Jin was finally organized into an army, which was later the 29th Army, but the commander was Song Zheyuan? How did he kill another Zhang Zizhong, in Song Zhewu's opinion, Zhang Zizhong became famous after his death, and his reputation was not very good during his lifetime?

"Are you saying that Zhang Xueliang will appoint Zhang Zizhong as the twenty-...... The commander of this army? ”

The number of the 29th Army is the new number assigned to the rest of the Northwest Army in June 31 when the central government unified the numbers of various domestic troops, and there will be no 29th Army at this time. Song Zhewu swallowed the nine characters back.

Li Wentian didn't notice Song Zhewu's embarrassment, shook his head and said: "Not really, Xiao Zhenying is a native of Jilin, and he has served as the head of the Fengjun Sun Liechen Department, the director of the Tianfu Bureau of Jilin Province, and a member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly. After he returned from Nanjing, he had already gone to Beiping to act for Song Zheyuan, and it is estimated that he may succeed in his last name. However, after all, Zhang Zizhong was favored by Zhang Xueliang, and it was not hopeless, when I came back, I heard that Zhang Zizhong went to Tianjin to find his old governor Shi Jingting, probably to ask Shi Jingting to help him get an idea. ”

Zhang Zizhong did not become the commander of the 29th Army in the end, which Song Zhewu is very clear, could it be that the process of history has been influenced by him Song Zhewu?

It is difficult to say whether Zhang Zizhong is good or bad as a military commander, because Zhang Zizhong was in Tianjin and Beiping, and he was somewhat unclear with himself, and domestic public opinion was in an uproar, all pointing out that he Zhang Zizhong was the biggest Han annihilator, and for this matter, Zhang Zizhong was almost killed by Chiang Kai-shek.

Song Zhewu spat out a puff of green smoke and thought about it: "Although Zhang Xinchen is favored by Zhang Xueliang, the position of the commander of the Northwest Army is very important in the hearts of our Chairman Jiang, and it is difficult for a person who is loyal to Feng Yuxiang to do this position, and this army commander Chairman Jiang will never hand it over to Zhang Xinchen." ”

"You must know that when Zhang Xinchen entered Jin, Nanjing airdropped a letter of appointment to him as the commander-in-chief of the 23rd Route Army, but he did not take office and still entered Shanxi. Chairman Chiang will never forget this matter, and if he gives him this seed of the Northwest Army, Chairman Chiang will be worried that the Northwest Army will make a comeback, so Zhang Xinchen will be the commander of the army, and our Chairman Chiang will never agree to it, and there is still hope for Sun Liangcheng and my big brother Mingxuan. ”

Li Wentian agreed with Song Zhewu's point of view, nodded and said: "Although Sun Liangcheng brought a lot of troops to Jinnan, his own descendants have lost all their troops, and he is absolutely unworthy of this army commander." Zhang Zizhong, like Shi Jingting, is mean, he is only friendly with Shi Jingting and Feng Zhi'an in the Northwest Army, and he does not get along with other generals very well. If he is the commander of this army, other generals will not accept it, and it will be a matter of time before this army falls apart, and if it is Song Zheyuan who is the commander of this army, it is the most suitable. ”

However, although there are more than 100,000 troops of the Northwest Army in Jinnan, they are all remnants of various broken troops, and the dozen or so generals of the Northwest Army in Jinnan do not have many of their own subordinates, only Zhang Zizhong's six divisions are complete, so he is also the strongest, and it is estimated that Zhang Xueliang has taken a fancy to him. However, in the end, who will be the commander of the army depends on whether Xiao Zhenying's activities in Beiping are effective. ”

Song Zhewu sighed, he still regretted that he couldn't incorporate the remnants of the Northwest Army, these troops of the Northwest Army were all elite soldiers, and it would be great if they were incorporated.

However, the twisted melon is not sweet, since people don't want to, then they have to stop.

Song Zhewu waved his hand and said: "No matter who is the commander of this army, they will not come together with us, and according to our intelligence, Zhang Xueliang has promised that the Jin Sui Army will be organized into four armies, and the reserved troops will be about 1230,000, and the Jin Sui Army now has nearly 200,000 troops, and after this reorganization, there will be many people who need to be dismissed." Even after the Northwest Army is reorganized into an army, there will be a lot of soldiers to be reduced, and most of these people will have nowhere to go. Canxuan, don't go back to Dai County first, start preparing to recruit these scattered soldiers, the officers and soldiers in the northwest who can withdraw all the way to Jinnan are all elite soldiers, and we have as many people as we want. ”

Sure enough, Zhang Xueliang finally reported to Nanjing that the Northwest Army in southern Jinnan was reorganized into the Third Army of the Northeast Frontier Army, with the commander Song Zheyuan having jurisdiction over three divisions, Zhang Zizhong, Feng Zhi'an, and Liu Ruming serving as division commanders, and Sun Dianying's division forming another division, which was controlled by Song Zheyuan. Zhang Weifan served as chief of staff, and Xiao Zhenying served as chief of the General Staff and director of the Military Judge Advocate General's Department.

However, this plan was discounted to Chiang Kai-shek, who resolutely disagreed with the reorganization of the remnants of the Northwest Army into three divisions, and only agreed to two divisions. Joke, Chiang Kai-shek's ideal goal is to completely destroy the Northwest Army, and he has no choice but to agree to the remnants of the Northwest Army, but the strength of this army must still be strictly limited.

In the end, Liu Ruming's division commander was removed, but Song Zheyuan still retained this division in the name of supplementing the division, and the whole army numbered nearly 30,000 people.

With Song Zheyuan's inauguration, the real Northwest Army founded by Feng Yuxiang officially disappeared.

The reorganization plan of the Jin Sui Army was to reduce it to four armies, and Chiang Kai-shek was much more generous this time, and immediately called back Zhang Xueliang to agree.

It can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek was very jealous of the Northwest Army, but he did not care much about the Jin Sui Army. Since the Northwest Army's major problem has been solved, it will let go of the Jin Sui Army, and a relatively complete Jin Sui Army will naturally not obey Zhang Xueliang's words, which Chiang Kai-shek is happy to see.

(To be continued)