Song Zhewu left the headquarters, and Liang Bi had already led the guards to lead the horses and wait outside. Song Zhewu's guard Changye Qing, Ye Changgui's nephew, led Song Zhewu's big white horse to stand at the front.

This purebred West Asian horse has a tall and well-proportioned body, slender and powerful limbs, and the most rare thing is that the whole body is snow-white, without a single variegated hair, and it looks extraordinary.

As soon as the big white horse saw Song Zhewu, he snorted a long snort, and his sturdy neck arched forward, and he actually shook Ye Qing, who was full of kung fu.

Song Zhewu was very fond of horses in his previous life, and he was very envious of the horse warriors in film and television dramas and the knights in European and Hong Kong racetracks. It's just that in his previous life, with his income, he couldn't afford to buy that expensive and scared people to death. Song Zhewu in this world finally has the ability to have a good horse, but he doesn't have much time to soak in the horse now.

As Song Zhewu's adjutant, Liang Bi knows Song Zhewu's mind well. Therefore, as long as he goes out, Liang Bi tries his best to let Song Zhewu ride his beloved big white horse for a while.

Song Zhewu smiled and patted the big white horse's cheek gently, and the big white horse also affectionately arched his head straight into Song Zhewu's arms, and one person and one horse were very close.

Song Zhewu took the reins from Ye Qing's hand, pulled the saddle on the horse, gently took the reins of the horse, and led his guards to the tunnel majestically.

Song Zhewu's trip was to meet Li Wentian, commander of the 60th Brigade.

Song Zhewu could be said to have loved and hated the Northwest Army in his previous life, and he believed that the Northwest Army was a force full of contradictions. This unit is poorly armed and equipped, but it is extremely combat-ready; The military pay is the lowest, but the military discipline is very good; From the Great Wall War of Resistance in January 1933 to the victory of the War of Resistance in 1945, there were many heroes of the War of Resistance who came from the Northwest Army, and some of them can even be called national heroes. For example, Ji Hongchang, Ji Xingwen's uncle and nephew. However, there are also many Han annihilators from the Northwest Army.

This is of course related to the contradictory and legendary surname of Feng Yuxiang, the founder of this unit, in his life, and it is also related to the fact that the Northwest Army does not choose the best or the worst, and widely accepts it. However, Song Zhewu believes that there is another important reason, that is, the Northwest Army is the only unit among the various factions in the country that only attaches importance to military merits and relatives, and never looks at its background, knowledge, and qualifications. Among them, the most typical is the famous defector general Shi Yousan. In 1912, Shi Yousan joined the army and joined Feng Yuxiang's subordinates, serving as his groom and personal soldier, and then gradually promoted to battalion commander with Feng. Feng Yuxiang served as the Northwest Frontier Governor, and promoted Shi Yousan to the commander of the Eighth Mixed Brigade stationed in Baotou, and served as the guard of Baotou Town, becoming one of its 13 Taibao. In 1924, Feng staged a coup d'état in Yanjing, established the Nationalist Army, and promoted Shi Yousan to the commander of the Sixth Army and the commander of the Sixth Division. In September 1926, Feng Yuxiang swore in Suiyuan Wuyuan to form the Nationalist Army, led the Nationalist Army Coalition to evacuate Baotou to Shaanxi, and appointed Shi Yousan as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Route Army to aid Shaanxi.

Feng Yuxiang has a high prestige in the Northwest Army, covering the sky with one hand, all the generals in the Northwest Army are promoted by him, Feng Yuxiang's will is the purpose of action of the Northwest Army, and his words are equivalent to the holy decree, and there is no second person in the Northwest Army who can compare with it. All this made Feng Yuxiang increasingly domineering and unreceptive. Feng Yuxiang no longer regarded these generals as just subordinates, but as sons and nephews.

And the other forces, from Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army to Li Zongren's Gui faction, Yan Xishan's Jin Suijun and other major factions, to Yunnan's Long Yun, Guangdong's Chen Jitang, Sichuan's Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui, and even the old warlords of the direct line, Anhui faction, and Feng faction, all comprehensively consider military merit, seniority, knowledge, faction, and so on in the appointment of personnel. Xiang Shi Yousan, all the way from Feng Yuxiang's groom to army commander, it is absolutely impossible for it to happen in other troops (even in the Northwest Army, it is impossible for other people's grooms).

It can be said that among the various armies in the country, Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army is the extreme with the most seniority and origin; Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army is the other extreme of the most important military merits and proximity.

All this has led to the fact that there are not many generals in the Northwest Army who have brains and thoughts, but there are quite a few generals who have persistent beliefs.

These people who have persistent beliefs have different beliefs. There are heroes who are determined to serve the country and the people all their lives and do not hesitate to shed their blood. For example, Ji Hongchang, Zhang Zizhong, Zhao Dengyu and others also have many capricious national sinners who have been killing people all their lives for their own interests.

Song Zhewu believed that there were only a handful of generals in the Northwest Army who could be called brains and thoughtful. Ji Hongchang, Zhang Zizhong, Zhao Dengyu and others can be called thoughtful. Song Zheyuan, Han Fuyu, Yang Hucheng and others can be called brains.

In addition, there are several generals who are not well-known and can also be given this title, that is, the eight founders of the 29th Army.

In 1930, after the defeat of Feng Yuxiang in the Central Plains War, several generals of the Northwest Army who had retreated to Shanxi were unwilling to fail, and Xiao Zhenying brokered them. Present at the meeting were eight generals, including Song Zheyuan, Xiao Zhenying, Feng Zhi'an, Zhao Dengyu, Zhang Zizhong, Liu Ruming, Li Wentian, and He Jifeng. Everyone unanimously elected Song Zheyuan, who has the most seniority, as the leader. This new army was recognized by Zhang Xueliang, and it was first organized into the Third Army of the Northeast Frontier Army, and soon after it was renamed the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army in accordance with the unified establishment of the whole country. Song Zheyuan was appointed commander, Liu Ruming was appointed deputy commander, Xiao Zhenying was appointed general staff, and Zhang Weifan was appointed chief of staff. Due to the downsizing, Li Wentian served as the commander of the 112th Brigade under Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division. Zhao Dengyu and He Jifeng served as the commander and deputy commander of the 109th Brigade respectively under Feng Zhi'an of the 37th Division. These eight core figures are the founders of the 29th Army and the strong pillars of this army that can fight well.

Li Wentian, one of the eight founders of the 29th Army, is Li Wentian, the commander of the 60th Brigade who has now been disarmed.

When the 29th Army was first established, Li Wentian was one of the three brigade commanders of Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division, and was the deputy commander of the 38th Division and the commander of the 2nd Brigade. When Zhang Zizhong was the chairman of the Chahar political axe, Li Wentian was the vice chairman of the provincial political axe and the commander of security. When Zhang Zizhong was mayor of Tianjin, Li Wentian was the commander of the Tianjin garrison and director of the public security bureau. After the "7th and 7th Incident", the 38th Division was upgraded to the 59th Army. Because Zhang Zizhong was framed and imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek at that time, the post of army commander was concurrently held by Song Zheyuan, commander of the First Group Army, and Li Wentian was appointed deputy commander. He played an important role in keeping the force intact and free from division.

On July 25, 37, after Zhang Zizhong left Tianjin alone, Li Wentian was in charge of the military administration in Tianjin. In the face of the situation at that time, he planned the operation of the 38th Division in advance, and asked the defenders of the 38th Division stationed in Tanggu, Hangu, Langfang, Xiaozhan, Dongdagu, Machang, and Hanjiashu to move closer to the city in a timely manner and wait for orders. On 27 July, Song Zheyuan rejected the army's "ultimatum" and sent a telegram to defend the country. After receiving a telegram from Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, to defend the territory, Li Wentian immediately decided to resist the war of resistance and presided over the signing and promulgation of the declaration of "Bloody War of Resistance, No Turning Back" in Tianjin. The Tianjin War of Resistance not only dealt heavy losses to the Yue army, but also saved the loss of the 38th unit, saving a strong force for the future resistance.

Li Wentian always insisted on staying on the front line of resistance against the Japanese and led the officers and men of the 38th Division to resist the Japanese until Zhang Zizhong returned to the army, and played an important role in assisting Zhang Zizhong in the Battle of Taierzhuang. In 1940, he and Zhang Zizhong jointly commanded the Suizao Campaign and the Xiangfan Campaign. From 1940 to 1946, he served as deputy commander-in-chief of the 33rd Army. In 1947, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the Third Pacification Zone. Due to his reluctance to fight the civil war, he left the army in 1948 and joined the army in the presidential palace (vacant post).

Li Wentian is not only quite capable in military affairs, patriotic and concerned about the people, but what is even more rare is that he has also made many achievements in civil affairs and policing. For such a celebrity, Song Zhewu must be seen. Although it is impossible for Song Zhewu to pull Li Wentian under his command now, it is always good to have a relationship with Li Wentian, maybe in the future......

In front of the tunnel, the place where the 60th Brigade and the Fourth Route Army confronted each other was now surrounded by the Fourth Route Army. Light and heavy machine guns were erected on the roofs of the carriages of the military trains parked on the roadbed and on the two high-altitude slopes of more than 10 meters on the west side, and the muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the officers and men of the 60 th Brigade who had already disarmed and stood in formation. Fifty meters around them were thousands of officers and men of the Fourth Route who were waiting for them with rifles with white bayonets.

As soon as the train of the Second Regiment arrived, it separated Li Wentian and the troops of the 60th Brigade on both sides of the railway, and Li Wentian was the first to be disarmed by the soldiers of the Second Regiment who jumped out of the car.

The officers and men of the 60 th Brigade did not receive Li Wentian's order, and none of them dared to shoot, and after a while, they were surrounded by the Fourth Route Army, and under the pressure of the bayonets and the muzzle of the black hole, Chief of Staff Wang Jing reluctantly ordered to lay down his arms.

When Song Zhewu arrived in front of the tunnel, he saw from a distance that outside the encirclement, a platoon of soldiers formed a small circle, and Li Wentian, several regiment commanders, as well as chief of staff Wang Jing and several other senior officers were surrounded in the middle. Several regiment commanders sat there dejectedly, and the chief of staff, Wang Jing, stretched his neck and looked in the direction of Wushengguan from time to time, he was expecting Han Fuyu to come over quickly.

Others don't know, but Wang Jing, Han Fuyu's confidant and old subordinate, knows very well that his old commander Han Fuyu has a good relationship with the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, who is now very popular in China. Wang Jing was not worried at all about the disarmed 60th Brigade, and he even hoped that the Fourth Route Army would better disarm even the 23rd Division.

Sitting on a stone, Li Wentian looked at the soldiers of the Fourth Route Army around them with an indifferent expression, looking thoughtful.

(To be continued)