Zhao Daiwen's evaluation of Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan agreed very much, not only Yi Zhi, according to Yan Xishan, in the Zhifeng War, Zhang Xueliang even wanted to force the palace by force, and the troops of Zhang Zuolin's guards were ready, but they were discovered by Zhang Zuolin before the action and called Zhang Xueliang to scold. It is estimated that Zhang Zuolin has long known that his son who likes to act rashly, and it will be okay to scold him, and even several of Zhang Xueliang's cronies and generals who participated in the premeditated plot to force the palace have not been affected.

And this time Zhang Xueliang rashly launched the Middle Road incident, after the incident, there was no way to retreat, and he was taught a hard lesson by the Soviet army on the border, if it weren't for Song Zhewu who annihilated tens of thousands of Soviet troops on the Western Front, this young marshal who doesn't know the height of the sky, I don't know how much face he would have to lose? Through this incident, I hope that this young marshal can remember his surname more and be less impulsive.

For people like Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan believes that he must be careful and give him more benefits, so that he will not stand with Chiang Kai-shek. If you want him to send troops, his surname may not be very big, although he signed an agreement with Soviet Russia, but he still has to be a little guarded, although this young marshal is the same as his old son is very interested in meddling in the affairs of the Guan, especially occupying a piece of territory in the Guan, but his hometown is more important, Zhang Xueliang will not understand.

Yan Xishan didn't have much expectations for whether Zhang Xueliang would send troops, as long as he didn't object. Moreover, if Zhang Xueliang really sent troops, once the anti-Chiang succeeded, Zhang Xueliang would inevitably include Hebei in his sphere of influence, which was not something Yan Xishan was happy to see.

Fortunately, looking at the present, Zhang Xueliang at least did not help each other, Zhang Xueliang's representative Ge Guangting came to Taiyuan many times, and he also believed that Chiang Kai-shek's ultimate goal was to unify the military power in the hands of various local powerful factions, which of course also included their Northeast Army, but because of their geographical reasons, the Northeast Army was likely to be Chiang Kai-shek's final target.

Yan Xishan is not most worried about Zhang Xueliang, who is easily impulsive, but Song Zhewu beside him, he thinks that if Zhang Xueliang is a wolf, then Song Zhewu is a tiger lying beside him.

Zhang Xueliang's well-equipped 100,000 Northeast Army was defeated by tens of thousands of Soviet troops, but Song Zhewu was able to wipe out the invincible tens of thousands of Soviet troops. In addition, he forced the 19th Army, the main force of the Gui system, to surrender in Hankou, defeated Sun Liangcheng of the Northwest Army in Zhengzhou, and defeated Pang Bingxun at Heishi Pass, all of which are enough to show that Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army was an out-and-out strong army.

Song Zhewu is fine if he is in the Northeast, but this tiger is lying next to him, which inevitably makes Yan Xishan often carry a heart.

Moreover, this young man has always been incomprehensible to him. It took less than four years for this young man to emerge from the crowd to raise a powerful army of more than 300,000, and even a powerful force that could completely annihilate tens of thousands of Soviet troops. You know, that's the Soviet army under the command of Gallon.

However, Yan Xishan became more and more unable to understand this Song Zhewu. Chiang Kai-shek gave him the number of the Fourth Route Army, and allocated him a salary according to the treatment of the Central Army, which was regarded as a formal recognition of his legal existence, which was not easy for Chiang Kai-shek, who was bent on eliminating various local forces and unifying military power and political power. However, Chiang Kai-shek's favor to him was limited to this, and so far Song Zhewu did not have a piece of his own territory.

Of course, if the Taihang Administration can also be regarded as a piece of territory, then there are still some, but Song Zhewu's hundreds of thousands of troops are really aggrieved in that poor ravine, if it weren't for the fact that Taihang Mountain is on the edge of Shanxi, Yan Xishan wouldn't even bother to take a look.

However, this Song Zhewu seems to have no dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek, and has always accepted Chiang Kai-shek's orders gladly, first going south to attack the Gui system, and then going west to Heishi Pass to fight with the Northwest Army in order to meet Han Fuyu, who surrendered to Chiang, and then desperately marching east into Manchuria to confront the Soviet army, and even pushed the credit for recovering Outer Mongolia to Chiang Kai-shek, which greatly boosted Chiang Kai-shek's reputation at home and abroad, which made Yan Xishan very angry.

Although every time he carried out Chiang Kai-shek's orders, he had to ask for instructions, but Yan Xishan knew that there were more elements of etiquette in this request.

Not to mention anything else, just for the recovery of Outer Mongolia, Song Zhewu's exploits are unparalleled, but Chiang Kai-shek only added a division number to him, and even the Outer Mongolia he defeated was not handed over to him, but let his troops be responsible for the defense of Outer Mongolia.

However, this Song Zhewu did not complain, but praised Chiang Kai-shek at the Zhujie meeting in Harbin, and Yan Xishan was so angry that he tore up all the central newspapers at that time.

In addition to having no territory, in terms of military strength alone, Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army can definitely rank among the top three in China. Now, the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army are not places that control several provinces, but he Song Zhewu is not even a provincial chairman.

Not only did Song Zhewu make him unable to understand, but Chiang Kai-shek's approach in this matter also made Yan Xishan scratch his head, and even Han Fuyu, a rebel general of the Northwest Army, also got the provincial chairman promised by Chiang Kai-shek, but he only gave Song Zhewu, who had made great contributions to him Jiang, a ravine.

According to Zhao Pilian's analysis, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to see any so-called new warlords appear, and of course he was not likely to contribute to supporting him. As for Song Zhewu, the new "warlord", Chiang Kai-shek was completely using him, and of course he would not give him a province that was enough to develop and grow, which can be seen from the fact that Chiang Kai-shek did not hand over Outer Mongolia to Song Zhewu, but directly appointed him by the central government.

As for Song Zhewu, Zhao Pilian thinks that this is a person with lofty ambitions, not a short-sighted person, and the reason why Song Zhewu is like this is completely to endure humiliation and wait for the opportunity. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain Song Zhewu's rapid expansion of the army.

Zhao Pilian's opinion, Yan Xishan still agrees. Song Zhewu is not only outstanding in military affairs, but can even be called outstanding, but also has a lot of economic acumen and political vision, if such a person does not have great ambitions, it is a strange thing!

Although Zhao Daiwen and Zhao Pilian both brought him back after meeting Song Zhewu, Song Zhewu expressed his attitude of taking refuge in himself, but there were too many things that Song Zhewu couldn't understand, which still made him unable to completely put his mind at ease.

For example, Song Zhewu paid his troops a very high salary, not only several times higher than some local forces, but even more than twice as much as the Central Army, which was understandable to Yan Xishan in Tianjin, when Song Zhewu was afraid that he would not be able to recruit soldiers. Even when he was under Hebei Shangzhen, it was understandable, after all, his army was a local security force.

However, after Chiang Kai-shek gave him the number of the Fourth Route Army, it is somewhat puzzling that he still did this. Even recruited soldiers in Wuhan, and brought the families of the recruits to Laiyuan to be responsible for resettlement. This is recruitment, it is simply disaster relief, which makes Yan Xishan stunned.

Since ancient times, there has been no recruitment and there is no need to resettle family members, and such a large amount of money for relocating family members can also recruit many soldiers, Song Zhewu's actions are not only not understood by Yan Xishan, but also believe that no one in China will understand. Moreover, this has brought sequelae to Song Zhewu, according to his intelligence, many victims are now dragging their families to Taihang Mountain, the purpose is to let their children become soldiers, their families have food, and even have a place to live. But Song Zhewu still insisted on being responsible for the resettlement of the families of this large number of victims, although he had to pay for the construction of a residence for them.

Song Zhewu did this, it was not without any benefits, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route Army would be very loyal to him, and the Fourth Route Army would never be short of soldiers from now on. But it depends on whether Song Zhewu will have so much money? Now there are still a large number of people in various places on the way to Laiyuan, and if this continues, sooner or later Song Zhewu will not be able to hold on.

Although Song Zhewu has been building factories on a large scale in recent years, his factories have also been operating vigorously, and they can be said to be making money, but they can't stand his tossing?

However, there is one thing that Yan Xishan understands, that is, Song Zhewu is always thinking about having a territory that belongs to him.

Because Song Zhewu actually arranged a large number of young people into the Taihang Administration, most of the officials in the counties in the area of the Taihang Administration were retained, and they couldn't place Song Zhewu's people at all, but he still placed them in, which obviously wanted these young students to learn government affairs, accumulate experience, and prepare for the future management of his own territory, which shows that Song Zhewu is very interested in the Henan he promised him, and it seems that it is necessary to hold this young man and give him a provincial chairman.

There is another thing that can also illustrate this problem, that is, Song Zhewu actually set up a rare research institute and recruited many scholars and engineering and technical personnel, which shows that Song Zhewu wants to do a big job after he has a territory, and he also wants to show his hand in government affairs.

Yan Xishan still appreciates Song Zhewu's idea of doing a good job in the local area, because he himself has worked Shanxi's government affairs.

There is another reason why Yan Xishan is not worried about Song Zhewu, that is, now the powerful factions in various places are constantly sending their representatives to Taiyuan to build relations with themselves, but this Song Zhewu, his nominal subordinate of Yan Xishan, has never taken the initiative to send people, and he himself has never set foot in Shanxi, and his chief of staff has come once, but it is still to explain the exercise of their troops. Therefore, Yan Xishan felt that it was necessary to meet with Song Zhewu and find out his attitude in person.

If Song Zhewu shows that he obeys himself and participates in the overthrow of Jiang, then he must hold this Song Zhewu well, with Song Zhewu, he is not afraid of Feng Yuxiang attacking him after the fall of Jiang, and even Feng Yuxiang and Li Zongren are not afraid of joining forces. But if Song Zhewu didn't express his position, even if he had an ambiguous attitude, he would first solve Song Zhewu and his Fourth Route Army before he overthrew Chiang, and even he would not hesitate to let part of the Northwest Army enter Shanxi, and besiege the Fourth Route Army with the Jin Sui Army.

(To be continued)