Song Zhewu turned around, looked at Wu Jin and said, "Yan Xishan handed over the Shanxi Aviation Corps and the Shanxi Aircraft Factory to us this time, and promised me to set up a deputy commander's office in Taiyuan, which just created a good opportunity for us......"

"After the Spring Festival, you will immediately start to take over the Shanxi Aviation Corps and the Shanxi Aircraft Factory, the new Wusu airport we built in Taiyuan is very large, and the distance from the city of Taiyuan is also suitable, only less than 30 miles away."

"After receiving the Shanxi Air Corps, it is necessary to transfer all their personnel, aircraft, and various materials in the warehouse to Wusu Airport for easy control; In addition, our new aircraft factory should also be located at the foot of the mountain northeast of Wusu, which is close to the river and the mountains, so that it is convenient to build cave-type factories and warehouses in the future, and the construction of the new aircraft factory should be stepped up after the beginning of spring, and not only will the equipment of the Shanxi aircraft factory be relocated, but the equipment handed over to us by Curtis and the aircraft maintenance equipment that we have captured by the Soviet army in Dawuli will also be transported from Laiyuan to Wusu before May. Also, I have been to see Wusu Airport, the existing two runways are not long enough, and they need to be lengthened, at least twice as long as they are now, because we will have bigger and faster planes in the future, and two or three auxiliary runways will be built. ”

"After the plan is implemented, while you are responding to our troops who have forcibly occupied Shanxi, you will send special personnel to properly protect all the personnel of the former Shanxi Air Corps, as well as the engineering and technical personnel of the aircraft factory, as well as the aircraft and equipment. These people are rare treasures. In particular, Yang Yushan, director and chief engineer of the Shanxi Aircraft Factory, and Liu Jie, head of the Shanxi Air Corps, must protect them well; these two people are from Hebei and will not be as loyal to Yan Xishan as his Shanxi generals, and if we can win them over to join our Fourth Route Army, it will be of great benefit to our smooth integration of the personnel of the Shanxi Aircraft Factory and the Shanxi Air Corps in the future. ”

"The commander said we were going to send troops?" Wu Jin asked inquiringly.

"Of course, we just used this rare reason to send the troops over." Xiao Guodong interjected.

Song Zhewu smiled a little and said, "Since our airport and aircraft factory have been relocated, it is normal to send troops to guard it. You send a regiment over and take care of the guards of airfields and aircraft factories. ”

After Wu Jin stood up to receive the order, Song Zhewu continued: "There is also Yan Xishan's "Northern Military Academy" that will also be taken over immediately, and this task will be taken over by Captain Han Guangdi. ”

Song Zhewu motioned for Han Guangdi, who stood up to receive the order, and sat down, and said: "According to the information of Chief of Staff Wang, the 'Northern Military Academy' has infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering and other departments, and there are more than 2,000 cadets, all of whom are from student backgrounds, and these people are the source of the grassroots officers we urgently need. Yan Xishan has appointed you as the principal of the Northern Military Academy, and the former principal Rong Honglu is the vice principal. In this case, I think we will take the officer training brigade of our teaching corps and merge it with the personnel of the "Northern Military Academy". ”

After thinking about it, Song Zhewu asked Han Guangdi: "How many people are in our officer teaching brigade now?" ”

"At present, there are still 120 senior officer squadrons of officers above the training battalion level, and 600 of each of the four grassroots officer training squadrons, for a total of 2,520 people." Han Guangdi stood up and reported.

"The personnel of the senior officer squadron were immediately distributed to various units, based on these four grassroots officer training squadrons, and then recruited capable cadres from the special brigade and Yafei's troops to supplement them, and after the "Turtledove Plan" began, they quickly controlled the trainees and instructors in Shanxi, and then implemented the plan according to the orders of Chief of Staff Li."

"Because our airport and the new factory are outside the city of Taiyuan, we don't have a strong force in the city, which is not possible. Therefore, after the 15th Five-Year Plan, Chief of Staff Li will immediately go to Taiyuan to set up my deputy commander's office, and I have already agreed with Yan Xishan that this deputy commander's office will be set up in my temporary residence in Taiyuan, which is on the same street as Yan Xishan's military governor's mansion, and is not far from the important military and political sites in Taiyuan, so that it can be controlled quickly. ”

Song Zhewu said in a slightly ridiculous tone: "Since it is my deputy commander's office, there is naturally a need for guard troops there, but there is only one battalion of guards in Yan Xishan's Overseer Mansion, and my guard unit as the deputy commander is not too good, so let's send a reinforcement company." However, the personnel of this company should be composed entirely of personnel of the special brigade. Chief of Staff Li will be stationed in Taiyuan and be responsible for liaison with Yan Xishan in Taiyuan on my behalf, and all our forces in Taiyuan will be under the full command of Chief of Staff Li. ”

"Whether the turtledove plan can be successfully realized is still a very important question, that is, once Yan Xishan finds out that we are going to rob his lair, he will definitely desperately transport the troops to the Xinxiang area along the Pingsui Railway, the Zhengtai Railway, and even the Pinghan Railway, and pursue our troops from Jinnan into Shanxi on foot. It is also possible that there will be troops attacking Laiyuan and then entering Shanxi from Lingqiu. In short, Yan Xishan and even the Northwest Army will find all roads to return to Shanxi quickly. ”

"After entering Shanxi, our troops must not only seize large and medium-sized cities in Shanxi as soon as possible, but also control all important areas, and even more intercept the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army returning to Shanxi, and there will be no redundant troops to guard Laiyuan. Therefore, before the implementation of the "Turtledove Plan", all our personnel and materials in Laiyuan must follow our large army into Shanxi in the shortest possible time. I reckon we'll have three days to do this. This is the reason why a large part of the plan that Chief of Staff Tao just introduced to you involves the transportation of our non-combatants and materials. ”

"We now have a lot of belongings, and it is very difficult to transport them all in three days, which requires us to transport all kinds of equipment and materials except weapons and ammunition to Taiyuan in advance in the near future. We have shipped all our belongings to Shanxi, and Yan Xishan will not object, and I think these materials will be stored in the new factory in Taiyuan for the time being. Some important materials, in order to avoid damage in the battle, can finally enter Shanxi with the troops, such as the DH-10 and ...... that are decomposed and preserved in our warehouse."

Last night there was a light snow in Laiyuan, and the snowflakes sprinkled all over the earth, mountains, rivers, houses, streets, trees, everything was wrapped in a white and holy veil, and under the early morning sun, everywhere was shining silver.

After breakfast, Song Zhewu walked out of the headquarters of the Pavilion Temple accompanied by Xiao Guodong and Ye Changgui, and Ye Qing's brothers and sisters had been forced by him to go back to their hometown in Hebei for the New Year. Although today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, Song Zhewu does not have time to take a break, even if it is half a day.

Most of the scientists and engineering and technical researchers of the research institute left Laiyuan and went home for the New Year under the order of Song Zhewu. The talents in Song Zhewu's research institute now have military positions, and it is impossible for a soldier to go home for the Spring Festival without special circumstances or holidays, unless his home is near the station.

However, Song Zhewu did not want to enforce military discipline on these "treasures" and let them join the army, which was just a means to gather and retain them under the current situation.

Although Song Zhewu's order was understood and even grateful, there were still some people who did not go home, and these people were several key personnel of the Aviation Research Institute headed by Ba Yuzao and some of their students, as well as Li Minghua and Cui Hao of the Electronics Research Institute, and Guo Wenyuan and his assistants from the Machinery and Equipment Research Institute.

For these extremely dedicated precious talents, Song Zhewu can't help but make a statement, at least he wants these people to feel that he Song Zhewu attaches great importance to them and respects them very much. He is here today to show his respect for them.

According to Xiao Guodong's information, Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu, Wang Xiaofeng, and others are developing a new type of aircraft. Zeng Yijing's students who led him should be disassembling the engine, Zeng Yijing had just received his approval and took out a DH-10Libenty 12 liquid-cooled engine from the warehouse; Li Minghua, Cui Hao and his students are experimenting with Mike and Gao Zhihang on new avionics equipment; Guo Wenyuan was obsessed with tanks during this time and wanted to design and produce them himself, and he also approached Han Guangdi several times and asked him to borrow a Soviet-made MC-1 tank for him to disassemble and study.

Not only did the tank only capture 24 MC-1s of the Soviet Army in the Fourth Route Army, but even in the whole of China, there are no 100 of them, which is absolutely a treasure. For this request, Han Guangdi didn't dare to call the shots, so he asked Xiao Guodong for instructions. Xiao Guodong reluctantly agreed after receiving repeated assurances from Guo Wenyuan that he would never break it.

Regarding the news that Guo Wenyuan was going to develop a tank, Song Zhewu was not only very surprised, but also very happy.

Song Zhewu was surprised that the tank, the king of modern land warfare, was definitely a weapon of war, but he did not have any expertise in this area. And in Song Zhewu's view, don't say whether he will have enough steel and technology to make tanks before the Anti-Japanese War, even if there is no need to build them, because the number of tanks in the army is very small, and the armor is also very thin, and the front armor of their Type 89 tank riveted structure is only 17mm, and Song Zhewu is in love with his future bazooka to deal with it.

And what made him happy was that Guo Wenyuan really let him see it, if he was really a talent, he could still develop a tank? Although the tank at this time was not equipped with a lot of high-tech equipment like in his previous life, it was not very simple, only that it was already a comprehensive weapon system, an integrated system of vehicles, weapons, and armor, whether Guo Wenyuan could develop it, Song Zhewu was not very confident.

However, Song Zhewu thought about it again, it didn't hurt to let him try, at least in the trial production process, he could also train a technical team. Moreover, Guo Wenyuan is also on the right path, that is, to take the road of imitation first, so that he can not only learn foreign tank design concepts, but also absorb the advantages of the other party, and the most important thing is to be safer.

Song Zhewu, who was greatly interested, first wanted Xiao Guodong and him to go to Guo Wenyuan's Machinery and Equipment Research Institute.

(To be continued)