In the following ten days, Song Zhewu and all his troops began to be nervously busy.

Because Wang Xu's intelligence station in Beiping intercepted the secret telegram sent by Shi Yousan to Zhang Xueliang, although Shi Yousan did not say it explicitly in the telegram, but between the lines there was a meaning of changing the court, as long as Zhang Xueliang was not a fool, it was impossible not to see it.

And with the temptation of Shi Yousan, Zhang Xueliang, who is still hesitating, will definitely be tempted. Shi Yousan is willing to take refuge in him Zhang Xueliang, not only will the power of the Northeast Army rise sharply, but the most important thing is that Shi Yousan will defect, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang's anti-Chiang coalition army will definitely fall apart, defeat is decided, and the army will definitely have no fighting spirit, at this time, the Northeast Army will definitely not take much effort to enter the pass, and it is even possible to regain control of the north of the Yellow River without a single shot.

With such merits, Zhang Xueliang's position in the Northeast Army is completely stable, and those "old stubborns" who hinder and hinder him are no longer qualified to make irresponsible remarks about him Zhang Xueliang.

This temptation was enough to prompt Zhang Xueliang to send troops at any time. And this is exactly what Song Zhewu doesn't want to see the most.

Song Zhewu believes that one of the very important reasons why the September 18 Incident occurred in 1931 was that Zhang Xueliang led all the elites of the Northeast Army to stay outside the Guan, which gave the fanatical young soldiers of the Kwantung Army the courage to dare to carry Tokyo behind their backs and launch the September 18 Incident without permission.

If Zhang Xueliang does not enter the customs, then there will be more than 100,000 elite troops of the Northeast Army around Shenyang alone, and no matter how mad the fanatics of the Kwantung Army are, they will never dare to challenge hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army with the Kwantung Army of more than 10,000 people. In other words, if Zhang Xueliang does not enter the customs, although because he is extremely covetous of the Northeast, or even the whole of China, the 9.18 incident is destined to happen, but it will definitely be postponed in time.

Time is especially important for China, with the domestic warlord conquest subsided, the central government in Nanjing has begun to vigorously strengthen national defense and economic construction, by the beginning of the war, China's military strength will inevitably be greatly strengthened, and the losses in the war will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Song Zhewu felt that if this was the case, the most likely time for the war between China and China to start was after the start of World War II. At that time, the Americans were likely to have strongly supported China's war of resistance from the beginning, and the war was likely to stop in the northeast, north China, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In particular, Song Zhewu also needs time now, although before he crossed, he read many online novels about the Anti-Japanese War of the Travelers, and felt that with the knowledge mastered by the cross-travelers, it was easy to defeat Yuben in the Anti-Japanese War, and even at the beginning of his crossing, he thought so.

However, after all these years of success and setbacks after his crossing, he was deeply disgusted with his previous childish ideas. Although he has the chemical technology that is absolutely ahead of this era, even in other walks of life, he definitely has the correct judgment and sense of direction far ahead of the scholars of this era.

However, even so, it is impossible for him to use his talents as he wants, because there are still many unfavorable factors that limit his development. For example, backward basic industries, the general low level of national education, and the extreme scarcity of elite talents.

In addition, the characters of this era are definitely not worse than people decades later in terms of IQ and EQ, not to mention those outstanding elites, even ordinary traffickers and pawns should not be taken lightly, and it is not something that can be fooled by a few words from a person who travels through it.

All of this determined that he could only complete his preparations for the War of Resistance in the fastest possible time with a steady pace and in a down-to-earth manner, even including the preparations for development after the War of Resistance against Japan. Therefore, the time for peaceful development is also the most important for Song Zhewu. He will do everything possible to slow down the footsteps of the giants of history.

Therefore, Song Zhewu decided to launch his "Turtledove Plan" in advance, he believed that as soon as he took Shanxi, even if his troops entered Shanxi, the anti-Chiang coalition army that had been put on the end of the nest would immediately be in chaos, and no one would seriously fight with the Central Army, and the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army would be desperate to retake Shanxi, and those little miscellaneous cards would immediately fall apart and defect to the central government.

Chiang Kai-shek, of course, will not let go of this golden opportunity, and will inevitably urge the Central Army to solve the local forces that plague him in one fell swoop. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek would not be willing to see the collapse of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army, and then the emergence of a circle of influence in the Guannai that was relatively opposed to the Northeast Army outside the central government.

Therefore, after Song Zhewu received the information that Shi Yousan intended to defect to Zhang Xueliang, he immediately telegraphed Xiao Guodong and Tao Rong in Laiyuan, and the two of them were appointed as the chief and deputy commanders of the "Turtledove Plan" to unify the command and coordination of the troops in Laiyuan, Shanxi, and Outer Mongolia. The troops in Zhengzhou were personally commanded by him.

It's just that because he was afraid that the preparation would be too early, the early movement of the troops would arouse Yan Xishan's suspicions, and the troops in Laiyuan had not been fully prepared before, and it would take some time. Therefore, the details of the "Turtledove Project" should be adjusted accordingly.

However, there was a good opportunity in front of him, that is, according to the southward attack plan agreed with Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, Song Zhewu needed to mobilize three armies to concentrate in Zhengzhou. Because Zhengzhou is farther away from Shanxi than Laiyuan, which is not conducive to the rapid entry of troops into Shanxi, Song Zhewu will certainly not do this before implementing the plan.

Therefore, Song Zhewu telegraphed Yan Xishan for approval, in order not to attract the attention of the Central Army, to reach the sudden surname of the battle, according to the plan, the two armies of Liang Zhongjia and Li Sichi, who needed to arrive in Zhengzhou in the future, should assemble in Zhengzhou in batches, specifically Liang Zhongjia's army first went to Xinxiang to standby, and when Li Sichi's army assembled in Jingcheng went south, they would cross the Yellow River together and enter the starting position of Lushan through Zhengzhou.

At the same time, Song Zhewu asked Yan Xishan to provide a large number of ammunition and materials on the grounds that after the troops moved south, the rear supply would not be timely, and these materials would be handed over to Li Sichi's army assembled in Jingcheng from Taiyuan via Zhengtai Road; In addition, Song Zhewu sent a small number of ground crews into the Northwest Army's airfield near Bishagang on the pretext that his air force wanted to support his southward troops at any time.

While Song Zhewu was in full swing of deployment, something forced Song Zhewu to decide to start implementing his "Turtledove Plan" immediately.

It turned out that Sun Lianzhong, who was sent by Feng Yuxiang to rescue Sun Dianying and relieve the siege of Haozhou, finally defeated Ye Kaixin, Li Wenbin and other central armies besieging Haozhou after repeated hard battles, but Sun Lianzhong did not dare to enter Maozhou. This was because he received a report from the adjutant he had sent to Haozhou to liaise with Sun Dianying, and Sun Dianying's troops in the city of Maozhou were using banknotes issued by the central government.

This report surprised Sun Lianzhong, because Yan Xishan controlled the Jin, Sui, Cha, and Hebei provinces, and Henan had always been in chaos, and the banknotes issued by the central government were rarely circulated in North China and the Central Plains, and the troops in these areas used Dayang and Jin banknotes. There can only be one explanation for the sudden massive use of centrally issued banknotes by Sun Dianying's troops, which were given to Sun Dianying by Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek's purpose in giving Sun Dianying money is self-evident, and the key is that Sun Dianying accepted Chiang Kai-shek's money. Although Sun Dianying did not publicly vote for Chiang, after all, he received Chiang Kai-shek's money, which could not but make Sun Lianzhong worried. So much so that when Feng Yuxiang ordered Sun Lianzhong to join Sun Dianying to attack Suxian and threaten the rear of the Central Army, Sun Lianzhong sent several telegrams to Feng Yuxiang in succession, resolutely refusing to carry out this order.

Encouraged by the improvement of the battle situation in Haozhou, Yan Xishan also sent a telegram urging Song Zhewu to immediately launch an offensive on the Pinghan Line as planned.

If it was just Yan Xishan's order, Song Zhewu could still find some excuses to delay, but Song Zhewu couldn't be indifferent to Lin Wei's telegram.

Before the siege of Haozhou was lifted, even if the Jin Sui army occupied Jinan, Lin Wei did not urge him to immediately counterattack in the rear of the anti-Chiang coalition army, but when Song Zhewu informed Chiang Kai-shek of some military developments of the anti-Chiang coalition army, he implicitly asked Song Zhewu when he would start to act. After the Battle of Maozhou, Lin Wei was unusual, and urged Song Zhewu to act immediately after several telegrams.

Song Zhewu understood that as soon as the siege of Haozhou was lifted, the rear of the Central Army of the Longhai Line would immediately face a huge threat, and once the anti-Chiang coalition forces occupied Suxian, the defense line of the Central Army of the Longhai Line would immediately collapse, and Xuzhou would immediately become the battlefield of the decisive battle between the two sides.

If he is indifferent at this time, then Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably doubt his true purpose, which will be extremely detrimental to his future development.

Moreover, Song Zhewu can imagine that Lin Wei's telegrams are all Chiang Kai-shek's meaning, since he can urge him Song Zhewu, Chiang Kai-shek will also put more effort into Zhang Xueliang.

Song Zhewu had no choice but to take action immediately after discussing with Xiao Guodong and Tao Rong by telegram.

Now, the two "cavalry armies" of Xu Fang and Zhao Fengwu have secretly moved to Baiyun Obo, which is only more than two hundred kilometers away from Suiyuan, and the cavalry can arrive in one day. It is only less than 200 kilometers from Suiyuan to Datong, an important town in Shanxi, and if you set off from Suiyuan at night, you can reach Datong the next day, and you can control the northern Shanxi region the next day.

The troops in Laiyuan were all ready, and the mountain division had assembled near Jingcheng; Li Sichi's army has also arrived at Jingcheng; After the plan began, the troops in Laiyuan would enter Shanxi through Lingqiu with Zhang Yafei's army as the vanguard, and his task was to reach Taiyuan as soon as possible, and after replenishing food and ammunition, quickly move south, and join other troops to receive Song Zhewu's troops in Zhengzhou and Xinxiang into Shanxi, and do a good job of external defense to prevent the Jin Sui army and the Northwest Army from following Shanxi.

(To be continued)