In fact, this new plan has been in place for a long time, and it was specially formulated to cooperate with the implementation of Case B. Due to the complexity of this subsidiary program, it can even be referred to as Case C.

This is because Song Zhewu knew very well that Zhang Xueliang would never agree to anyone including Song Zhewu sending troops into his northeast before the September 18 Incident, and this plan required a small group of troops to infiltrate before the September 18 Incident.

Since Song Zhewu did not expect that the Soviet army would attack Northern Mongolia at this time, this plan has been actively underway. In order to implement this plan, Wang Xu has been secretly in the northeast for more than two months. Now, as long as this plan is slightly changed, it can be implemented as an emergency plan, and Song Zhewu already has a relatively complete idea in his heart.

After smoking a cigarette, Song Zhewu's anxious mood calmed down a lot, he put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the coffee table by the window, and quietly walked back to the sand table.

Mengxi pointed on the sand table with a demonstration stick and introduced: "The current position of our army in Northern Mongolia is that Li Ruifang's mountain division is on the line of Kyrgyzhu, Nalan, and Bayanzurk north of Hangai Mountain; Gao Zongbao's 39th Army and Wang Bi's 49th Army were in Kulun; Liang Fang's 42nd Army, Liang Zhongjia's 43rd Army, Xu Fang's 44th Army, Zhao Fengwu's 45th Army, Ma Fa's 5th and 46th Army, and Zhou Yaoming's 48th Army are now conducting exercises in the Burgen, Zhargarantu, and Zhaotole areas in southeastern North Mongolia; The 1st Cavalry Army was scattered and deployed to patrol and guard the northern border areas, while the 2nd Cavalry Army mainly maintained law and order in the central and southern areas south of Kulen and appeased the local ......"

Among the high-ranking officers in the war room, except for Pang Bingxun, everyone else knew that Song Zhewu had always been very stubborn in believing that he would definitely provoke a war in the northeast. Therefore, these troops have been deployed here for exercises since they arrived in Northern Mongolia.

This is the closest area to the Northeast and the most convenient area to enter the Northeast, and the main force of the North Mongolia Command is deployed here, and its purpose is self-evident. It is to hope that in the event of an invasion in the northeast, which Song Zhewu believed, the nearly 400,000 troops could quickly move south to the northeast to participate in the war. In particular, in the past six months, these units have carried out more than a dozen large-scale military exercises in succession, and the vast majority of the imaginary enemy is a Chinese army.

It's just that because this unit is a unit preparing to go south to the northeast, this time the Soviet army suddenly invaded, and the position they are in now is very problematic.

After Mengxi finished introducing the situation, he put down the demonstration stick and looked at Song Zhewu.

Zhang Yafei and Ye Changgui all knew that after Song Zhewu came back yesterday, he did not immediately convene a military meeting, but discussed with Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Jia Jingde, Jia Jiying, He Qigong and others for a night, and it should have been decided whether to fight Song Zhewu or not. Therefore, they are all waiting for Song Zhewu to give the battle order.

Although Song Zhewu already had a relatively complete contingency plan in his heart, he did not come up with his plan for everyone to discuss as early as before, because the 918 Incident would happen as scheduled, this was just his understanding, and it was impossible for him to tell others with absolute certainty before the 918 Incident happened.

Moreover, from now on, the strategic direction and opponents of the Fourth Route Army will be completely different from those of the past, and in the past it was a civil war, and now and for a long time to come, the opponents of the Fourth Route Army will be foreign invaders. Song Zhewu needs these high-ranking generals under him, and he must have a full understanding of this.

Song Zhewu was silent for a while, and after relighting a cigarette, he said slowly: "I have already said that the purpose of the Soviet army's invasion of the area south of Tangnu and Ulianghai is not only the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land there, but Stalin's ultimate goal is to occupy the entire Northern Mongolia. As long as North Mongolia is not in the hands of the Soviet Union, Stalin will not be assured of the security of Siberia for a day, and he will not be able to sleep well. Therefore, in order to ensure the strategic security of Siberia, he could not wait to launch a military operation against North Mongolia after he had just stabilized in the country and had another small harvest in agriculture last year. ”

"The Nanjing side asked us not to escalate the situation as much as possible, so that we should be patient with the Soviet Union and avoid it, that is, we did not want to have a large-scale military conflict with the Soviet Union now, because the chairman of the committee believed that China did not have the ability to start a war with the Soviet Union at present. However, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the central government in Nanjing. ”

In fact, he did not realize that the Soviet Union, which was very isolated in the international community and itself very weak, would never dare to fully invade our country at this time, and his current goal was only Northern Mongolia. If we take advantage of the mountainous terrain in the west and north of Northern Mongolia, it is quite capable of resisting the Soviet invasion there. ”

"Of course, the price we pay will be considerable."

Song Zhewu took a deep puff of cigarette and said: "Yang Yongtai suggested to Chairman Jiang that if you go outside, you must first settle inside, and the chairman agrees very much. In fact, starting from the Jinan tragedy during the Northern Expedition, until the attack on the Gui family, the Northwest Army, the Jin Sui Army, the extermination of Tang Shengzhi, Shi Yousan, etc., of course, including the Red Army that is now encircling and suppressing [***] in Jiangxi and Dabie Mountain, and restricting the development of local forces in various places, they all adhered to the strategy of Xian'an. ”

"Ann Nei will go out in the future, this strategy is not wrong in principle, but it is not possible now. The reason for this impossibility lies in the fact that we are surrounded by two evil neighbors, the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union. ”

"Whether it is the former Tsarist Russia or the current Soviet Union, the Russians have a very strong ** for territorial expansion, only at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Russia forcibly cut off more than 1 million square kilometers of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River basin in the northeast, the Great Khingan Mountains, Kuye Island, etc., more than 500,000 square kilometers in the northwest, a total of 1.56 million square kilometers of territory. If we push it further, at least north of the Great Khing'an Mountains and Beimeng, the vast majority of Siberian land can be included in China's territory. It was under the continuous erosion of Tsarist Russia that our current northern border became what it is now. However, the Soviets were not satisfied, and now they wanted to include our Northern Mongolia in their pockets. ”

"Looking at myself again, I think you all know the "Tanaka Solo" that was widely disclosed in domestic newspapers last year, and he is more greedy than the Soviets, not only wanting to seize the Northeast and North and South Mongolia, but even wanting to annex the whole of China. According to the idea of "Tanaka Song", his first step was to seize Northeast China and Mongolia, and then occupy North China, and then plot Central China and South China. ”

Song Zhewu threw half of the cigarette in his hand on the ground, crushed it with his foot, and said: "Under the continuous encroachment of these two evil neighbors, if we blindly adhere to the strategy of attacking the outside world and first securing the interior, the arrogance of the invaders will become more and more arrogant, and the appetite will become bigger and bigger, and our territory will become smaller and smaller, and our national strength will become weaker and weaker. In that way, even if one day we really become a monolith inside, and there is no voice different from the political axe inside, then it will be too late for us to want to go outside. ”

"Therefore, in Northern Mongolia we must not only fight, but also be prepared for a big fight, and even our Fourth Route Army will be prepared to fight against the Soviet army alone."

Song Zhewu looked at the southeast of the sand table, stared for a while, raised his head with a firm gaze, and said in a slightly bitter but resolute voice: "This is difficult and hugely stressful, I hope that you senior generals must be fully mentally prepared. One thing I can tell you is that no matter how difficult and bitter it is, all the personnel of our Fourth Route Army must be determined to fight the invaders to the end, even if they fight to the death. ”

"Wengo said it well! It is the duty of every Chinese to defend the homeland and the country, and I firmly support you. ”

Xiao Guodong hesitated for a moment and reminded Song Zhewu: "Wen Ge, we are doing this, and the meaning of Chairman Jiang's telegram is a little inconsistent, should Nanjing also find a way to explain." ”

Song Zhewu thought for a while and nodded: "Yes, I need to explain." ”

"Director Meng, send a telegram to Nanjing, saying that our army in Northern Mongolia will follow the orders of the chairman of the committee and will never take the initiative to expand the war, and hope that the central government will actively carry out diplomatic negotiations. During this period, if the Soviet army launches a military offensive against our army, our army will resolutely counterattack. ”

Song Zhewu meant that as long as the Soviet Army did not attack the Fourth Route Army's troops in Northern Mongolia, the Fourth Route Army would not take the initiative to counterattack. However, everyone knows that this is Song Zhewu perfunctory Chiang Kai-shek. This is because the Soviet government has officially demanded that the Fourth Route Army retreat south of the Altai Mountains before 10 September, and Song Zhewu will never agree, and there will be a battle at that time.

Song Zhewu took the demonstration stick and pointed along the border between North Mongolia and the Soviet Union, saying: "According to the information we have, the Soviet army's operation this time is mainly based on the troops of the Soviet Far East Special Red Banner Army Group, plus the Transbaikal Military District of the Soviet Army and the troops transferred from the European region of the Soviet Union since last year, with a total of more than 400,000 troops, a total of nine armies. ”

"The invasion of Tangnu and Ulianghai was the Second Army of the Far East Infantry and the Fifth Infantry Army of the Soviet Army, which was equipped with more than 200 tanks, dozens of aircraft, and more than 100 large-caliber artillery pieces along the way. The exact location of the other seven corps is unknown. ”

However, according to investigations, the Soviet army has assembled a large number of troops in the Kyakhta and Ulan-Ude areas near the border north of Kulen, and near Dawuli opposite Manchuria in the east, but the specific number of troops and weapons and equipment are not clear. However, one thing is certain, that is, the Soviet army that crossed the Tangnu Mountain was definitely not the main force of the Soviet army that invaded Northern Mongolia this time. Next, I would like to ask Chief of Staff Tao to introduce our army's defensive operation plan. ”

Tao Rong nodded solemnly and took the demonstration stick.

"Although we are not very clear about the specific deployment of the Soviet army, from the point of view of the assembly area of the Soviet army, we judge that the Soviet army crossed the Tangnu Mountain is only a partial division. The reason why we judge this way is because the Soviet army has gathered more than 400,000 troops in the border area of North Mongolia this time, while the Soviet army that appeared in Tangnu Mountain has only two armies, where are its other troops? ……”

(To be continued)