After receiving Lin Wei's telegram, Song Zhewu immediately ordered Zhang Yafei to speed up the matter of winning prisoners of the Northwest Army, which must be completed before dinner today. Song Zhewu estimated that Shi Yousan and Han Fuyu would rush here as soon as they received the notice from Nanjing, so he had to sneak back to Laiyuan with these veterans early tomorrow morning. There is no one who robs someone else's stuff and waits like a fool for someone else to claim it back.

There is one more thing that needs to be done immediately, that is, Song Zhewu asked all the participating troops to write a battle summary. Each combat squad has to summarize not only himself, but also each other. It is necessary to summarize the use of techniques and tactics in battle, including the implementation of combat orders, and report to the company headquarters after forming a summary; Each platoon and company should summarize the combat preparations, the application and effectiveness of the campaign, and the tactics, and report the summary to the battalion headquarters; The summaries of battalions and regiments should be reported to the division headquarters; The summaries of the regiments and divisions are to be reported to the Security Forces Command. Song Zhewu's purpose in doing so was to make his troops form a habit, a unit that constantly summed up experience, learned lessons, and constantly improved its combat experience and combat skills. Such a unit will be a force that is constantly self-improving, self-improving, and even self-evolving.

Another thing was that Song Zhewu wanted to draw four battalions from the three regiments of the first division and exchange them with the two divisions of the second and third divisions. His security army is still too young, and every battle now is a great wealth for them, and he wants to spread this wealth to the whole army.

All this work will be completed this evening, and early tomorrow morning, he will return to Laiyuan with Zhang Yafei, the three regiment commanders of the 1st Division, the troops of the four battalions, and the new members of the security army. The matter of returning Shi Yousan and Han Fuyu's guns was handed over to Xu Zheng to be responsible.

With Song Zhewu's order, all the work was carried out quickly and orderly. By the afternoon, the selection of prisoners was done. There are more than 3,600 qualified candidates, and except for a very small number of people who are unwilling to join the security forces, the rest are attracted by the high salaries of the security forces. Moreover, they also saw the food of the security army, and they could not eat the meat in that bowl for a month. In particular, when the soldiers specially arranged by Zhang Yafei went to the captives to talk about the security army, the captured soldiers of the Northwest Army enthusiastically participated, and if it were not for the age limit, almost all of these prisoners would join the security army. According to the last count, there were 3,328 soldiers and 294 officers of squads, platoons, and companies willing to join the security forces. Among the bandits in Zengjiazhai, all the old and weak were released, and those who agreed with the conditions were brought back to Laiyuan.

Xu Zheng, the deputy division commander who was in charge of leaving behind to hand over the guns to Shi Yousan and Han Fuyu, smacked his tongue and muttered: "Commander, chief of staff, division commander, can't you all go!" This Han Fuyu and Shi Yousan saw that there were so many people missing, so they weren't in a hurry with me! Zhang Yafei glared: "It's good to give them away, I won't return any of them, and they will all be assigned to the army." Song Zhewu smiled and said, "Deputy Division Commander Xu, you can rest assured!" What they value most is guns and weapons, and they don't care too much about fewer people. As soon as the more than 10,000 guns are returned to them, they will not have a second word. In the evening, he received a telegram from Shang Zhen asking a division to be stationed in Wu'an, and Song Zhewu would transfer another division to Jingcheng as appropriate.

Xiao Guodong and the others were a little puzzled, and they didn't know what Shang Zhen had in mind. Song Zhewu pondered in front of the map for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "Chairman Shang, this is asking us to deter Yan Xishan in Shanxi." He must have seen our combat effectiveness, so he put us on these two main roads in and out of Shanxi, blocking the passage out of Shanxi. Xiao Guodong nodded: "Wen Ge is right, Shanxi will also pay attention to us now, you have to take a good idea." Song Zhewu just nodded and did not speak.

After returning to the source, Song Zhewu immediately arranged for a meeting of cadres above the battalion level. More than 200 people crowded into the west meditation room of the Geyuan Temple, and several long tables were set up in the center of the room, which were reserved for more than 20 cadres above the regimental level. One person noticed that Fang Zhen, the head of the Literature and Art Section, was also present.

It turned out that Song Zhewu was very interested when he saw his resume for the first time, this person was born in a small businessman family in Beiping, also graduated from Yenching University, and later came to France to study psychology. According to Chu Feng: When this person was studying at Yenching University, he was not very enthusiastic about various student movements. After Song Zhewu sent people to learn about him in detail, he did not find any special background, and after returning from his studies in France, his expertise was not useful in China. Fortunately, he has great literary talent and is proficient in blowing, playing and singing, so he was introduced to the art school by a friend to teach. After Song Zhewu had a deep talk with him, he was very satisfied with him. Song Zhewu found that Fang Zhen was delicate and very sensitive. Sensitive people are smart people, and they are good material for agents.

Song Zhewu had a set of anti-espionage and anti-infiltration security systems in his troops very early on. His troops are now sustained by a significantly higher salary than the rest of the country, as well as a strong desire for promotion. Of course, the latter is only strongly attractive to a small number of people. These are effective for rank-and-file soldiers and junior officers, but not necessarily reliable for senior officers. As the team gets bigger and bigger, the ingredients are getting more and more complex, and it's hard to guarantee that there are no people who are attracted by those who have a heart. Because almost all people have endless hopes for power and wealth, which is the natural surname of people. So, he needs a security system to keep his troops safe. It is only that there has been no suitable candidate for such a body, and such an institution has not been established for a long time. Now there are people, so Song Zhewu decided to set up the Security Department of the Security Army, he is also the director, and Fang Zhen is the deputy director. The reason why Fang Zhen was not appointed as the director was because this position was too important, and if he was not a person, the consequences waiting for him would be absolutely terrible, and even disastrous. He also had to observe Fang Zhen, and at the same time guide Fang Zhen to carry out his work.

Since the time for the meeting had not yet arrived, Song Zhewu, Xiao Guodong, and Wang Xu had not yet arrived, and the people in the room were all surrounding Zhang Yafei and the regimental commander of the First Division, probing the details of the battle, and bursts of laughter broke out from time to time when they were happy. Xu Fang and Mengxi are naturally the objects of everyone's ridicule, and some tease Xu Fang and say: "If you win the battle, you will be demoted, you are wronged." Another person said: "That's someone Xu Fang is shrewd, and he used the position of head of the regiment to exchange money with Master Zhang, and the famous 1,000 oceans!" Some people joked about Mengxi, saying that Mengxi was not authentic, and he had a bad idea and was promoted, so he let Xu put the black pot on his back. Xu Fang didn't care about the demotion at all, and happily told everyone about the scene of the 55th Division, Mengxi just smiled and kept silent.

There is still a chapter today to make up for yesterday's. The update is not timely, and I am embarrassed to collect it with you.