Wang De said: "Commander, this kid is growing his body, in our security army, the rice and white noodles are full, and there is meat all of a sudden, so it's strange if he doesn't grow strong!" This kid is only eighteen this year, and he will definitely be a Shandong man in two years. Our battalion commander said that he wanted to send this kid to the teaching team to study? This time the kid handed over his machine gun, jumped on the highlands, and fell down and sat on the shrapnel. When Song Zhewu heard what Wang De said, he was also happy, and said with a smile: "Okay, you are a second dog, everyone else dodges shrapnel, but you go to find shample." Song Zhewu's words drew laughter. Song Zhewu asked with a smile: "What is your tuba called, the second dog barks badly." Ergouzi said embarrassedly: "My family is poor, there is no tuba, my surname is Tian, and they all call me Tian Ergou." "You are now a soldier of the security army, and maybe you will become an officer, the second dog is not good, I will give you a big one." As soon as Song Zhewu's words fell, Wang De immediately shouted: "Second dog, don't hurry up and thank Commander Xie for giving you a tuba!" Song Zhewu waved his hand to stop Ergouzi, thought for a while and said, "Your surname is Tian, when I first saw you, you were dark and thin. The second time I saw you, you were tall and strong, and I thought you were called Tian Zhuang. ”

Ergouzi's face flushed with excitement, and he nodded with tears. Wang De "snapped" and patted the second dog's head: "You kid is stupid, don't hurry up and thank Commander Xie!" Tian Zhuang got up, ignored Song Zhewu's obstruction, and respectfully kowtowed to Song Zhewu, Song Zhewu hurriedly said: "Tian Zhuang, you are a soldier of my security army, your knees can only kneel to heaven and earth, kneel to your parents, and never kneel to others, including me." Not only you, but all of us in the security brigade must be a man who stands up to the sky. ”

Tian Zhuang choked up and still knelt on the bed, and gave Song Zhewu another military salute from the bottom of his heart!

On the way to the Security Army Repair Institute, Xiao Guodong sent someone to tell Song Zhewu that Zhao Daiwen, chairman of Chahar Province, was here. Song Zhewu knew that Zhao Daiwen was Yan Xishan's henchman, and this must be Yan Xishan couldn't help it and sent Zhao Daiwen to win him over.

Song Zhewu thought about it and decided to go to the repair institute, and asked the adjutant Liang Bi to go back and tell Xiao Guodong that he would probe Zhao Daiwen's tone first, and he would talk to him at night.

There are now more than 200 people in the workshop, and there are two workshops and two research rooms, one for repairing damaged firearms and two workshops for repairing damaged guns and damaged artillery of the security forces. However, Song Zhewu values those two laboratories the most. There are two laboratories, one is the firearms laboratory; One is the artillery research room, which is now doing imitation work. Song Zhewu is not very anxious for them to come up with results now, mainly because he wants to train talents, and another reason is that he does not have a large-scale production base now.

The director of the repair institute is called Zhou Liqun, who is in his 40s and is an old military engineer who was in the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau as early as the Beiyang period. He was very interested in artillery, and successfully copied the Krupp 75mm mountain gun during the Beiyang period.

Zhou Liqun took Song Zhewu to look around, and at the same time reported to Song Zhewu on the recent work of the repair institute. At present, there is no technical problem in repairing and copying artillery below 75mm caliber. The problem mainly lies in the material, one of the most important problems of artillery is the chamber pressure, the larger the caliber, the higher the chamber pressure, and the barrel steel with high chamber pressure is not available in China now, and it must be imported. If anything, according to Zhou Liqun, he can build a 155mm howitzer. Then there is the optical cannon sighting equipment, and in the future, if there are conditions, an optical instrument factory should be set up.

In terms of firearms, Song Zhewu demanded that it should not only be able to imitate, but also be able to develop it independently, and it was best to design a semi-automatic rifle. Now all domestic rifles are manual, including the 38 type, that is, the bolt must be pulled once for each shot. This rifle should have a magazine of about 10 rounds, and the length of the bayonet should not be less than the 38 type. Song Zhewu now finds that it was a mistake for him to choose the 38-type as the infantry weapon of the security army. At first, he only considered the problem of fighting in the future Anti-Japanese War, and ignored his other surnames. The Type 38 rifle has a simple structure, using the improved Mauser rifle Mauser rotary pull-back bolt machine, bolt rotary locking mechanism, firing 6.5mm caliber bullets, small recoil, easy to control, high reliability and high accuracy. However, the lethal power of the 6.5×50 mm bullet is insufficient, the warhead has a stable flight and a good penetration effect. The three-eight ballistic surname can be very good, and it is simply too good, which is both his greatest advantage and his biggest disadvantage, its trajectory is too straight, and the penetration surname is excellent. An important reason why many of the wounded in the Northwest Army were slightly injured this time was that they were all penetrating wounds, and as long as they were not in critical parts, they were all very easy to treat. This is very good to use in the civil war, but it is too merciful to use it when fighting the little devil, so he needs a new rifle.

As a military fan in his previous life, Song Zhewu knew that in 35 years, Henan Gongxian Arsenal imitated the Mauser 98, which was later improved into the famous Zhongzheng is a good rifle, and once fired 500 rounds more than German rifles in international shooting competitions. It would be nice if a semi-automatic rifle could be made on a medium-formal basis. Song Zhewu secretly thought that there was a chance to "grab" a few talents there.

Zhou Liqun didn't notice that Song Zhewu was a little distracted, and continued to introduce: "After their research, they believe that it is necessary to improve on the basis of the German Mauser rifle, and now the firearm parts have been surveyed and mapped, but they are still exploring the working principle and layout of the gas conduction type. ”

Song Zhewu, a fake military fan, is not very familiar with the specific data of firearms, let alone the pneumatic principle. He only knew that it was a pneumatic principle that imitated the mark, and he didn't know exactly how to do it. Therefore, after encouraging Zhou Liqun and several engineers in the research room, he hurried back to the Geyuan Temple.

Only when I saw Xiao Guodong did I know that Zhao Daiwen only told Xiao Guodong that he wanted to purchase flour and cloth here, and did not mention whether it was for Shanxi or Chahar, and how much. Song Zhewu knew that Zhao Daiwen didn't kowtow if he didn't see the true god, and if he didn't come forward, Zhao Daiwen wouldn't say anything.

Sure enough, at the banquet that Song Zhewu invited him to in the evening, after pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Zhao Daiwen no longer dodged and dodged, and directly proposed to Song Zhewu that Chiang Kai-shek, who is now throwing himself to Nanjing, has two major disadvantages: "First, this disarmament is to weaken the strength of the local powerful faction, and finally return everything to the central government. Just now, an order has been issued to abolish the military and political sub-committees and the headquarters of the first, second, third, and fourth group armies in various localities, and to organize the largest unit into divisions, and division commanders must not only be appointed by the central authorities on the recommendation of the localities, but must also directly obey the orders of the Ministry of Military Affairs. If this is done, the heads of powerful local factions will have no power to speak of. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing had to deal with the Gui faction, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army, and as long as these three factions fell, the other local factions were not worth mentioning. Nanjing's representative Huang Yin is now in Taiyuan, and promised Chairman Yan that as long as he supports Nanjing in dealing with the Gui faction, he will hand over Henan to us in the future. This is clearly a strategy to divide and disintegrate. The crusade against the Gui system is ready to be launched at any time. and even began to calculate Feng Huanzhang and Chairman Yan, and appointed Feng Huanzhang as the Minister of Military Affairs just after the appointment; The appointment of Chairman Yan as Minister of the Interior is clearly aimed at transferring the two out of the army, and Chairman Yan will not be fooled by this, and has already ordered me to take up his post in Nanjing, and it is estimated that Feng Huanzhang will also recruit someone to act as his agent. Chiang Kai-shek's aim was to get everyone to surrender military power, including the security forces. Chiang Kai-shek would never sit idly by and watch the security army sit on the throne. Second, even if you Song Zhewu sincerely take refuge, Chiang Kai-shek will never reuse you, Chiang Kai-shek's principle of employing people is Huang, Lu, Zhejiang, and Yi, that is, Huangpu graduates, Lu University study, Zhejiang nationality, the former First Army These four kinds of people, only these people can be trusted and reused. ”

Zhao Daiwen knew that everyone knew that Yan Xishan also had the habit of reusing Shanxi people, and assured Song Zhewu: "Chairman Yan has realized the disadvantages of this problem, such as the matter with Qiyu, and Chairman Yan now deeply regrets it!" Now he has begun to vigorously promote non-Jin generals. As long as Commander Song votes for Chairman Yan, Chairman Yan promises to nominate you as the chairman of Henan Province in the future. Moreover, the weapons and ammunition of the security forces were supplied by Chairman Yan. ”

Yan Xishan now urgently needs the support of Song Zhewu's security army, and now the Gui family has more than 300,000 people, the Northwest Army is the largest, with more than 400,000, and only his strength is the smallest, only more than 200,000 people. If you add more than 100,000 people of Song Zhewu, he also has the capital to compete with Chiang Kai-shek. Yan Xishan's price is not high, if Song Zhewu doesn't know the direction of history, he will definitely be tempted.

After some "thinking," Song Zhewu swore to accept Chairman Yan's command. Zhao Daiwen was very happy to see that Song Zhewu agreed, and immediately took out a material procurement list: purchase 10 million catties of flour; The military uniforms of the Jin Sui army used 20,000 pieces of blue cloth. The current market price of flour is 2 cents and 2 pounds, and Yan Xishan bought it for 3 cents a pound; Song Zhewu's colored cloth is of good quality, which is already higher than the market price, and now it is 2 cents and 5 feet, and Yan Xishan also buys it at 3 cents and a foot. The total of the two is 3.6 million oceans, and because of the high price, it is equivalent to giving Song Zhewu hundreds of thousands of oceans. In addition, 500,000 rounds of 6.5mm pointed ammunition, 1,000 rounds of 60mm and 80mm mortar shells, and 1,000 rounds of 75mm triple artillery shells are provided to the security forces every month. Another condition is that Song Zhewu should not send troops to Jingcheng, but should be transferred to Tang County. Song Zhewu immediately readily agreed to obey Chairman Yan's orders.

Song Zhewu asked Zhao Daiwen to express his gratitude to Yan Xishan, and at the same time asked for the establishment of two flour sales and transfer stations in Taiyuan and Datong, which could be directly supplied to the troops. Zhao Daiwen felt that this was more convenient, and he didn't have to go to Laiyuan to transport it from Shanxi, so he agreed.

After sending Zhao Daiwen away, Song Zhewu sent a telegram to Shang Zhen, saying that Jing Cheng's coal mine was prone to conflict and asked to be relocated to Tang County. A day later, Shang Zhen called back to agree. Song Zhewu sent Gao Zongbao's second division to Tang County, and at the same time scattered and mixed more than 3,000 prisoners of the Northwest Army with recently recruited recruits and troops of the second and third divisions. At the same time, an order was issued that the entire army should step up training.

Song Zhewu knew that from April 1929 until the Central Plains War, the domestic war had hardly stopped. It can be said that 1929 was the year when the Central Plains War began. Whether he can finally become a dazzling star shining in the Chinese sky depends on his performance.