The generals under Yan Xishan, led by Zhang Yinwu, Fu Zuoyi, Sun Chu, and Zhou Jue, believed that Song Zhewu was an outsider in the end, although he nominally joined the Jin Sui army, but in fact he was still separated from Yan Xishan, and Song Zhewu's doing so was the most obvious proof.

For Song Zhewu and him Yan Xishan will not be the same heart, Yan Xishan has been prepared, but he doesn't care, Yan Xishan is very confident that as long as he is given enough time, he will be sure to pull Song Zhewu and his Fourth Route Army into his hands, and even completely assimilate into the real Jin Sui Army, which is why he made great efforts to win over Song Zhewu.

However, this matter must be solved, otherwise there will be big trouble. Because, Chiang Kai-shek made a "very untimely" decision at this time.

Chiang Kai-shek did not have any dissatisfaction with Song Zhewu's expulsion of Shao Lizi, that is, he did not even issue a statement of condemnation. Not only that, but he even immediately announced the appointment of Shao Lizi as the chairman of the Gansu Provincial Political Axe. This is obviously a tacit acquiescence to Song Zhewu's expulsion of Shao Lizi and his own appointment of Chu Feng as vice chairman of Outer Mongolia.

In Yan Xishan's view, it was obvious that Chiang Kai-shek was trying to win over Song Zhewu by doing so.

Yan Xishan was not worried about the idea of others beating Song Zhewu, he was confident that among all the local forces, except for him, there was nothing else that could make Song Zhewu move. Song Zhewu is not Sun Dianying, Shi Yousan and the like, Feng Yuxiang only gave them a provincial chairman to send away.

But Chiang Kai-shek is different, he wants money and power, not to mention Song Zhewu, or Zhang Xueliang, who holds the wealth of the three eastern provinces, is tempted. The situation in the northeast reported by Jia Jingde is not very optimistic.

If Song Zhewu did anything else, then there would be no need to fight this battle, and he Yan Xishan could only obediently wait for Chiang Kai-shek to organize his Jin Sui army. Therefore, Yan Xishan decided to go to Zhengzhou in person and persuade Song Zhewu in person.

Yan Xishan, who has always been cautious, only telegraphed Feng Yuxiang and Song Zhewu before leaving to inform them that he was going to Zhengzhou to discuss a battle plan with the two, but did not tell the two of them the specific time he would arrive.

As soon as Yan Xishan arrived in Zhengzhou, he did not wait for Song Zhewu to come to meet him at the station, but went straight to Song Zhewu's headquarters in Zhengzhou City with great deignce. Song Zhewu, who never expected Yan Xishan to come so quickly, received the report from the station, Yan Xishan had already gotten into the car of the Jin Suijun's military station in Zhengzhou.

Song Zhewu knew that Yan Xishan must have gone straight to his headquarters, so he had to wait at the gate with Wang Xu and Zhang Tao.

Yan Xishan, who got out of the car, was not surprised to see Song Zhewu waiting for him at the gate, and after a brief greeting with Song Zhewu, Yan Xishan pulled Song Zhewu to Song Zhewu's office, closed the door and gave Song Zhewu a "serious and long-hearted" persuasion.

First of all, before appointing Wan Xuancai as the chairman of Henan Province, he did not personally discuss this matter with Song Zhewu, Yan Xishan said that he was negligent, and once again apologized to Song Zhewu, please Song Zhewu don't mind; Secondly, Yan Xishan told Song Zhewu that he appointed Wan Xuancai as the chairman of Henan Province just to compete with Feng Yuxiang for the support of these little miscellaneous people, which was just an expedient measure, and he Yan Xishan would never ignore the interests of the Jin Suijun.

The implication is to tell Song Zhewu, you are already a member of the Jin Suijun, how can I, Yan Xishan, turn my elbow outward. Of course, there is a second meaning in Yan Xishan's words, which is to remind Song Zhewu, "You are already a member of the Jin Sui Army, why should you give me, the head of the Jin Sui Army, a little face." ”

Again, Yan Xishan swore to Song Zhewu that once Chiang Kai-shek was driven out, Henan would definitely be handed over to him. Please Song Zhewu must understand his hardships as a member of the Jin Suijun family now, put the overall situation first, and don't fight for the chairman of this province now.

Of course, since Song Zhewu has expressed his dissatisfaction with Yan Xishan with his own actions, Yan Xishan naturally wants to give a little blood here, although Yan Xishan has thought about it before he comes, but when it comes to the end, Yan Xishan still feels very painful, and secretly asked for a tooth for a long time, and only then did he tell Song Zhewu that he was going to hand over Suiyuan to Song Zhewu, and now he asked Song Zhewu to arrange a candidate to take office in Suiyuan. In addition, he also said that in the future, he would set up an autonomous political axe in Inner Mongolia in the form of Outer Mongolia, and the candidate for this vice chairman would also be sent by Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu expelled Shao Lizi in Outer Mongolia, first, to show Yan Xishan's sincerity against Jiang and show Yan Xishan; Second, I also want to do a fake show, and take the opportunity to take back the absolute control of Outer Mongolia. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was no longer satisfied with him Song Zhewu, and he could only be dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say that he was suffering.

As for appointing him as the chairman of Henan Province, Song Zhewu wanted to give Yan Xishan an illusion, that is, to let Yan Xishan treat him as the same as those warlords who only wanted to be on turf, and to dispel, or at least reduce his precautions.

Although Song Zhewu was a fan of the army in his previous life, he was not particularly clear about the history after the Republic of China, including the process and details of some major historical events in the Central Plains War and the subsequent War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and even the time of some events was very vague, and he only knew a general range, and some even did not know it at all.

Take this time Yan Xishan led the Jin Sui army to participate in the Central Plains War, in his impression, Yan Xishan seemed to lead all the Jin Sui army to fight, but now, Yan Xishan actually left a whole three armies in Shanxi, stationed in northern Jin, central Jin and southern Jin, not including paramilitary forces such as local security regiments in various parts of Shanxi. Song Zhewu was very suspicious that this was Yan Xishan's precaution against the troops he left in Laiyuan, so he acted in such a play.

Seeing that his goal had been basically achieved, and even what he had obtained far exceeded his expectations, Chiang Kai-shek was embarrassed not to admit the "things" given to him by Yan Xishan in the future, and Song Zhewu also pushed the boat to express his obedience to Yan Xishan's decision. Of course, Song Zhewu still did not forget to carefully remind Yan Xishan that Henan must give it to him in the future.

Although he lost the control of Suiyuan and Inner Mongolia, after all, he appeased Song Zhewu, although Yan Xishan still had some pain, he also secretly let out a sigh of relief, and a worried heart finally let go.

Now that Song Zhewu's matter has been resolved, he has to do the second thing he did when he came to Zhengzhou immediately. Yan Xishan just hastily ate lunch at Song Zhewu's headquarters, and did not rest, and took Song Zhewu to Feng Yuxiang's headquarters in the Zhaozhong Temple in Bishagang, west of Zhengzhou City.

This Zhaozhong Ancestral Hall, was established here by Feng Yuxiang in 1928 to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Feng Yuxiang personally nominated "Bishagang", and carved in stone, embedded in the north gate. There is also a monument to the heart of the blue blood in the shrine.

Zhaozhong Temple is an ancient building, covering an area of about 4,000 square meters. Before and after two into the courtyard, there are two halls before and after the front, it is the place where the spirit card is placed, there is a corridor room on both sides, there is an ear room on the left and right, a pair of stone lions outside the door, there is a white marble tablet in the center of the front yard, the inner wall of the back hall is inlaid with a square inscription of nearly 100 pieces, it is an elegy inscribed by the generals above the division commander of Feng Yuxiang for the fallen soldiers. In front of the ancestral hall, there are five hexagonal pavilions to commemorate the righteousness of Sanming cooking.

In order to show that he Feng Yuxiang did not forget the brothers who followed him from birth to death, after Feng Yuxiang arrived in Zhengzhou, he did not live in the city, but went directly to Bishagang.

Now Zhengzhou, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and Song Zhewu's 13th Army each accounted for half, the two sides are bounded by the Longhai Railway, the north of the road is the area controlled by Song Zhewu, and the south of the road is the area controlled by the Northwest Army.

However, because Zhang Tao's army had already been in Zhengzhou, and Han Fuyu and Wang Jinyu took the initiative to hand over Zhengzhou to Zhang Tao when they withdrew, Song Zhewu still controls the Zhengzhou telegraph office, police station, and waterworks and power plants. Of course, the railway station is under the absolute control of Song Zhewu.

Although the two sides were bounded by the Longhai Road, after all, they were both anti-Chiang coalition forces, so there were no restrictions on the personnel exchanges between the two sides, and because Song Zhewu's troops were well paid, the officers and men not only had good military discipline, but also had very strong purchasing power, and many merchants took the initiative to temporarily open their trading stalls in Miaoli Town, Liulin Town, Huayuankou and other garrisons of the 13th Army, and the purchasing personnel of the Northwest Army often had to go to Song Zhewu's control area to buy military supplies. Therefore, as soon as Feng Yuxiang arrived at Song Zhewu's headquarters in Yan Xishan, he also got the news at the same time.

Although Feng Yuxiang had a very good opinion of Song Zhewu's tendency to join Yan Xishan, a rich man, he was even very suspicious of Song Zhewu's vision, so he was somewhat disgusted with Song Zhewu. However, he was still very happy to see Song Zhewu's announcement of his appointment as chairman of Henan Province.

Feng Yuxiang believes that this is Yan Xishan, a rich man, who is short-sighted, and Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army has more than 400,000 people, which is not comparable to Liu Zhenhua's tens of thousands of Zhensong troops. Yan Xishan did this by losing the watermelon and picking sesame seeds, not to mention the gains, and it must have left a gap between him and Song Zhewu, which gave him Feng Yuxiang a great opportunity.

Feng Yuxiang secretly went to Liulin and other Fourth Route Army garrisons to check the training of the Fourth Route Army, and he found that the Fourth Route Army not only had a good quality of soldiers, but also a training level that was definitely not inferior to his Northwest Army.

The arrogant Feng Yuxiang, although he has always been very proud of the military quality of the Northwest Army he trained, he also had to secretly admire Song Zhewu, a rising star. He also secretly sighed that this Yan Xishan was really stupid, and even Feng Yuxiang was already planning how to win over Song Zhewu after driving out Chiang Kai-shek.

In order to show his support for Song Zhewu, not only to make Song Zhewu feel it, but not to arouse Yan Xishan's disgust, Feng Yuxiang instructed his Northwest Army troops stationed in Zhengzhou to absolutely obey the management requirements of the Zhengzhou mayor and the police, taxation and other departments appointed by Song Zhewu, be sure not to clash with them, and report any problems to him and let him personally deal with them.

Therefore, Feng Yuxiang was very concerned about Yan Xishan's practice of personally rushing to "extinguish the fire".

(To be continued)