Xiao Guodong said with a serious expression: "Wen Ge, something is wrong, it was Chief of Staff Tao who asked Li Sichi to arrange someone to inform him. ”

Xiao Guodong didn't say it completely because he was worried about Yang Hucheng and others.

"Something went wrong! Is it the Northeast? ”

Song Zhewu didn't care about Yang Hucheng and the others at all, and asked in a deep voice with a slightly pale face.

Yang Hucheng, who was old and sophisticated, knew that he was here, so he would be evasive when he let the other party speak, and said to Song Zhewu: "Wen Ge, I'm a little tired, I'll go inside first, you talk first." ”

Yang Hucheng turned around and walked two steps, then turned back and said: "However, there is one thing Wen Ge should be clear, I, Yang Hucheng, agree with and admire what you Song Wenge did, if anything happens that is unfavorable to Wen Ge and you, I hope Wen Ge must tell me that the tens of thousands of troops of my Shaanxi Seventeenth Route Army are ready for Wen Ge to be dispatched at any time." ”

Yang Hucheng is avoiding suspicion, and at the same time, he is also showing his attitude to Song Zhewu that he will stand with Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu, who was a little distracted, knew that he was a little out of shape, but he also understood what Yang Hucheng meant.

It's just that Song Zhewu thinks that Yang Hucheng's words are mostly still scenes, and Yang Hucheng definitely wouldn't have thought that something might have happened in the Northeast. Most of them think that they have a conflict within themselves, or they have a conflict with other local forces.

If he had a conflict with Yan Xishan, Song Zheyuan, or even Zhang Xueliang and others, then Yang Hucheng's words should be true. However, if he is in conflict with the Nanjing Central Political Axe, then Yang Hucheng may not be able to help him, at least now Chiang Kai-shek has not forced Yang Hucheng too quickly, and now Yang Hucheng will not blatantly fight against the Nanjing Political Axe.

Song Zhewu, who had settled down, grabbed Yang Hucheng and said to Xiao Guodong: "Chief of Staff Xiao, Brother Hucheng is not an outsider, but it doesn't hurt to say anything." ”

"Chief of Staff Tao sent news that the Soviet troops and part of the puppet Tangnu Tuwa Republic [***], which had invaded our Tangnu Ulianghai area, attacked our border patrol officers three days ago, crossed the Tangnu Mountains, and occupied Dabst, north of Ubusu Lake. The Soviets declared that the area north of the Altai Mountains and west of the Hangai Mountains in Northern Mongolia had always belonged to the puppet Republic of Tangnutuva, and demanded that all personnel of our army must withdraw from the area within 20 days, that is, before September 10, otherwise they would take it back by force. ”

The Republic of Tangnu-Uliang? Where did this come from? Where is its geographical location? Why did you get involved with the Soviet army again? Yang Hucheng and the others in Shaanxi all looked at Song Zhewu with a look of astonishment.

knew that Song Zhewu didn't have time to introduce the situation to Yang Hucheng and others at this time, and Jia Jingde also thought that Song Zhewu might not be able to explain it clearly.

Jia Jingde stepped forward and said, "Let me introduce the situation of this Tangnu Wulianghai." ”

"Tangnu Ulianghai is located in the northwest of Beimeng, it extends to the Sayan Mountains in the north and Tangnu Mountain in the south, and is a basin surrounded by mountains, covering an area of about 170,000 square kilometers. The ancestors of the Wulianghai people were Boren as early as the Tang Dynasty and established a vassal relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and it was a part of the Yuan Dynasty's Lingbei Province in the Yuan Dynasty, called Yilanzhou. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Tangnu Ulianghai area was under the jurisdiction of the Khan of the Northern Monza Saktu and the chieftains of the Tohuit. ”

Jia Jingde, a Qing Dynasty scholar who had studied at a modern university, really lived up to his reputation, and he was very clear about the history of Tangnu Wulianghai, and told Yang Hucheng and others in detail about the history of Tangnu Wulianghai to Yang Hucheng and others one by one.

From the early 17th century to the 70s, Tsarist Russia repeatedly sent envoys into the Tangnu-Ulianghai area in an attempt to lure and support the Huit troops to surrender to Russia, which was the beginning of the Tsarist Russia's entry into the Tangnu-Ulianghai area.

In 1727, through negotiations, the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia signed the "Treaty of the Brunschi", which demarcated the Sino-Russian boundary east of Shabindabaha in the northern part of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region, but the ambition of Tsarist Russia to expand to the Tangnu-Ulianghai region did not disappear, but took advantage of the long-term undemarcated Sino-Russian border west of Shabindabaha to continue to expand from the west to the Tangnu-Ulianghai region.

In 1860, Tsarist Russia took advantage of the Second Opium War to force the Qing Dynasty to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Yanjing, and on this basis, in 1864, it forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary, occupying the Amukha River area in the western part of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region. In 1869, representatives of China and Russia established eight sub-boundary tablets in the western part of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region, and signed the "Uriya Sutai Boundary Treaty", which completely demarcated the national border between China and Russia in the region.

Although the Amukha River region was occupied by Tsarist Russia, the Tangnu-Ulianghai Basin south of the Sayan Mountains and east of the line from Shabindabaha to Bogosuk remained Chinese territory, and Tsarist Russia began to change its strategy and infiltrated the Tangnu-Ulianghai region through plundering the surname trade, illegal gold mining, and illegal immigration.

In 1912, at the instigation of Tsarist Russian merchants, there was an incident of looting of inland merchants in the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, and mainland merchants fled the area one after another. In February, at the instigation and support of Tsarist Russia, Gongbu Dorji, the deputy commander of the Tangnu Banner, announced the "Reading Power" of the three banners under his subordinate, and requested Tsarist Russia to send troops to occupy all important places in the Tangnu Ulianghai area. Kampot Dorzi's actions did not meet with the approval of his subordinates, and the two banners of Sarajik and Tojin showed strong opposition, disrupting Tsarist Russia's plan to annex the Tangnu-Ulianghai region.

In 1913, the unrelenting Tsarist Russia sent officials to intensify the implementation of the resettlement program in an attempt to achieve the goal of de facto possession of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region. Since then, Russian immigrants have increased rapidly in Tangnu-Ulianghai at an unprecedented rate, and Russian police have been dispatched to the area. At the same time, Tsarist Russia used coercion and inducement to force the Tangnu Ulianghai banners to submit applications for "protection" to them. In July 1914, Tsarist Russia decided to "protect" the banners of the Tangnu-Ulianghai and appointed Grigoriev as the commissioner of the Ulianghai border area, and began to take various measures to establish its rule over the Tangnu-Ulianghai region, which had in fact become a colony of Tsarist Russia.

In 1916, the colonial rule of Tsarist Russia was resisted by the Tangnu Ulianghai people, and the head of the Kmuzik Banner sent people to ask for help from the Central Political Axe of the Republic of China. In 1917, the government of the Republic of China decided to set up an adjutant commissioner in the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, but negotiations with Tsarist Russia were fruitless.

In 1917, after the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China adopted the suggestion of Chen Yizhi, the commissioner of Uriya Sudean, and decided to recover Tangnu Ulianghai by force.

In August 1918, Chen Yi, the commissioner of Sutai in Uriya, and Yan Shichao, the secretary general of the Kulun Minister's Office, were ordered by the political axe of the Republic of China to recover Tangnu Wulianghai by force. Yan Shichao formally established the Office of the Commissioner of the Republic of China in Tangnu Ulianghai. The political axe of the Republic of China appointed Yan Shichao as the commissioner of Tangnu Wulianghai. At this point, the Tangnu-Ulianghai region, which had been occupied by Tsarist Russia for seven years, was returned to China.

In March 1921, the leading army of Engen, who led the old Russian White Army to capture Kulen, invaded the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, which provided an opportunity for the Soviet Union to invade and occupy the Tangnu-Ulianghai. In the summer of the same year, the Russian Red Army entered the Tangnu-Ulianghai region in the name of supporting the liberation struggle of the oppressed peoples in the East. At the instigation of the Soviet Union, Tangnu Ulianghai announced "Reading Power" and set the "name of the country" as "Republic of Tangutua".

After listening silently, Yang Hucheng asked Song Zhewu suspiciously: "Why didn't Wenge recover Tangnu Wulianghai at the same time when Wenge recovered Northern Mongolia?" ”

Song Zhewu said with some heaviness: "The reason why we were able to successfully recover Northern Mongolia was completely because the Soviet army carried out the Eastern Road operation with all its might, and the Soviet army in Northern Mongolia was emptied. However, when Wei Guanghui's cavalry corps was preparing to march to Tangnu-Ulianghai after recovering most of Northern Mongolia, the Trans-Baikal Military District of the Soviet Army had urgently dispatched a cavalry division and an infantry regiment to Tangnu-Ulianghai. ”

"It was I who stopped the operation to recover Tangnu Ulianghai at that time."

Seeing Sun Weiru's surprised expression, Song Zhewu explained: "First of all, Northern Mongolia is our territory, the puppet Mongolian Republic has never been recognized by our country, and even except for the Soviet Union, no country in the world has recognized it, and the reason for recovering Northern Mongolia is very sufficient, the Soviet army is not in Northern Mongolia, we have no conflict with them in Northern Mongolia, and he can't find a reason to interfere." Secondly, the Soviet army had just failed in Manchuria, and they were in internal disarray, and for a while they were not able to enter North Mongolia to intervene. ”

"However, if we have a direct clash with the Soviet army in the Tangnu-Uliang Sea, I am afraid that Moscow will feel that it will not be able to save face, and I am afraid that it will become an excuse for the direct war between the Soviet army and us. It was for this reason that I did not agree to the recovery of the Tangnu Ulianghai at that time. Unexpectedly, the Soviet army would cross the Tangnu Mountain to the south this time, and also wanted to invade the area south of the Tangnu Mountain. ”

Yang Hucheng nodded and asked Song Zhewu: "Wen Ge, so the Soviet army wants to take the opportunity to make trouble this time, then I think they will not only take a fancy to the south of Tangnu Mountain, but their purpose is likely to be in the entire Northern Mongolia, and we must be prepared for all-out resistance." ”

Song Zhewu nodded in agreement, Yang Hucheng's senses were very keen, and Song Zhewu also thought that this was an excuse for the Soviet army to make an excuse for a full-scale invasion of Northern Mongolia.

"Yes, Brother Hucheng, I agree with you. I also think that this is a pretext for the Soviet army to attack North Mongolia in an all-out way, so I can no longer accompany Brother Hucheng, and I have to return to Taiyuan immediately. ”

Yang Hucheng thought for a while, and asked Song Zhewu: "Wen Ge, do you mean to fight?" ”

"Brother Hucheng, you have also seen it, originally I wanted to put the Tangnu Wulianghai area aside for a while, and then solve it later. However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, people have already knocked on the door, if you give in again, then you can only withdraw from Beimeng, which is absolutely impossible. In that way, I, Song Zhewu, will not be able to face the accusations of the Chinese people, nor will I be able to face the ancestors of our Chinese nation! Therefore, it must be fought, and for the sake of the integrity of the territorial sovereignty of the Republic of China, the Fourth Route Army did not hesitate to fight to the death. ”

(To be continued)