Song Zhewu was in a hurry to return to Laiyuan, not for anything else, first, Han Fuyu called and told Song Zhewu that he was going to return to Shandong, and if Song Zhewu was interested in Zhengzhou, he could hand over Zhengzhou to Zhang Taoshi.

Song Zhewu knew that the reason why Han Fuyu was in a hurry to return to Shandong was because although Chiang Kai-shek promised to give Han Fuyu the position of chairman of Shandong Province, there was no place to place the current provincial chairman Chen Tiaoyuan for a while, so he had to let Han Fuyu wait first. Han Fuyu wanted to return to Shandong and squeeze Chen Tiaoyuan away.

Song Zhewu was bound to win Zhengzhou, and immediately called Han Fuyu to express his willingness to take over the defense of Zhengzhou, and at the same time gave Zhang Tao in Liulin, ordering Zhang Tao to send troops to control the Yellow River Iron Bridge in time after taking over Zhengzhou, and not to leave Zhengzhou without his order.

Another thing was that Yan Xishan called and invited Song Zhewu to Taiyuan. Song Zhewu knew that this was because Chiang Kai-shek wanted to kill Yan Xishan in Zhengzhou, and Yan Xishan fled back to Shanxi in embarrassment.

Because of the experience of Feng Yuxiang's house arrest in Shanxi, not only Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Wang Xu, Li Wentian, and others opposed it, but Zhang Yafei, Gao Zongbao, Liang Fang, Wu Jin, Li Sichi, Ye Changgui, Li Rujuan, and others also resolutely opposed it, and even Han Guangdi and Liang Zhongjia, who had just joined the Fourth Route Army, and Li Jinming, commander of the cavalry division who had just returned from Outer Mongolia, also opposed Song Zhewu's visit to Taiyuan to meet Yan Xishan.

There is only one reason for their opposition, that is, they are afraid that Yan Xishan will repeat his old tricks, and then put Song Zhewu under house arrest to hold the Fourth Route Army hostage.

For everyone's concern, Song Zhewu knew that it was all for himself and their Fourth Route Army, once Song Zhewu had any accidents, the Fourth Route Army would no longer exist. However, Song Zhewu believed that at this time, at that time, Yan Xishan could have detained Feng Yuxiang, but now he would never detain him again Song Zhewu, and the current situation forced Yan Xishan to give up his illusions and fight with Chiang Kai-shek. Although these people could think of this, they were not willing to risk the fate and future of him and the Fourth Route Army.

Song Zhewu felt that it was now necessary to let these high-ranking generals under his command understand the current situation, unify their thinking, and have a unified and clear purpose and program of action not only in terms of materials but also ideologically for the sake of the upcoming war. Therefore, for this reason, Song Zhewu specially summoned the generals above the major general of the Fourth Route Army, Chu Feng and Li Rujuan, to hold a secret briefing meeting on the situation analysis and response to the big war at his headquarters.

Song Zhewu first analyzed the purpose of Yan Xishan's house arrest of Feng Yuxiang, and Yan Xishan's desire to use Feng Yuxiang as a bargaining chip and Chiang Kai-shek to exchange more benefits, accumulate strength, and wait for the opportunity, and then reported the reasons why Song Zheyuan led the Northwest Army to oppose Chiang again, and then went to Yan Xishan Xinggao Cailie to lead the army to pursue and suppress Tang Shengzhi, and was in danger of being plotted by Chiang Kai-shek in Zhengzhou.

Although most of the people present here knew about these things, the details were not very clear, because Wang Xu's information was mostly limited to a few chief and deputy chiefs of staff of the headquarters. There are also some that are not on these information, which is the memory of Song Zhewu's previous life.

"Yan Xishan has now realized that his strategy will not work against Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek will not give him time to accumulate strength anymore, and even Chiang Kai-shek is not afraid that he and Feng Yuxiang will join forces against him, and this time he will be killed in Zhengzhou, which is proof of this."

Moreover, Yan Xishan did not achieve the goal of controlling the Northwest Army because of his mastery of Feng Yuxiang, on the contrary, the generals of the Northwest Army hated him to the core, so that Lu Junlin, Song Zheyuan and others once wanted to unite Han Fuyu and Shi Yousan to attack Shanxi and rescue Feng Yuxiang by force. Therefore, Yan Xishan will never dare to detain me Song Zhewu again. ”

"Yan Xishan's purpose in inviting me to Taiyuan for a meeting this time is very clear, that is, to find out the attitude of our Fourth Route Army towards the anti-Chiang matter, so as to decide whether it is necessary to solve our Fourth Route Army before he raises the banner of anti-Chiang. Therefore, now we must make our attitude clear to Yan Xishan as soon as possible and urge Yan to oppose Chiang. According to intelligence, a large number of representatives of various forces dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's methods have now gathered in Taiyuan, including Chen Gongbo, a representative of Wang Chingwei, who is trying their best to persuade Yan Xishan to raise the banner of opposition to Chiang Kai-shek as soon as possible. Of course, there are also many people who just want to have a good relationship with Yan Xishan, and when the battle between Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan is obvious, they will join the dominant camp, such as Han Fuyu and Zhang Xueliang......"

"The commander means to oppose Chiang!" Liang Zhongjia asked in surprise.

Song Zhewu's words shocked Han Guangdi and Liang Zhongjia, who heard this for the first time, the reason why they joined the Fourth Route Army was not only to admire Song Zhewu's character and well-trained and powerful Fourth Route Army in order to fight against foreign enemies, but also because Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army was a force that closely followed the central political axe, in their minds, this was also a force fighting for the country, if they wanted to oppose Chiang, it was better to stay in the Northeast Army.

Not only Liang Zhongjia is like this, but Han Guangdi's mind is the same, but Han Guangdi is more calm and does not speak, he has long noticed that in this army, officers at all levels only have Song Zhewu in their hearts, and there is no Chiang Kai-shek as the leader of the country, and even they do not have due respect for Chiang Kai-shek in conversation, and often call him by his name.

Song Zhewu understood Liang Zhongjia and Han Guangdi's thoughts very well, and knew that these two people had not yet completely integrated into the Fourth Route Army, and had not yet reached the point where they could do anything with him Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu is not very worried about this, although they are not absolutely loyal to him personally, but their patriotism is unquestionable, now it is enough to have this, for his personal loyalty, Song Zhewu believes that these two bold Northeast men will definitely not be bad, of course, this will take time.

It's just that now we must let them understand that he, Song Zhewu, is not really against Chiang, let alone against the overthrow of the political axe, he is helping the political axe, otherwise these two people may do something inappropriate, and it will be difficult for him to deal with it at that time. What's more, if he wants to plot about Shanxi, except for Han Guangdi, Liang Zhongjia and Li Ruifang, who was recently promoted, the other generals here know that if they don't let them know, it will inevitably make them feel like they are outside. Moreover, the big war is imminent, and not letting them know the truth will affect his big things.

Before Liang Zhongjia asked, Song Zhewu noticed the expressions of Han Guangdi, Liang Zhongjia, and Li Ruifang. Han Guangdi should have been shocked, but he could appear relatively calm, which could be felt from the relatively stiff muscles on his face; Liang Zhongjia is overflowing with what he thinks in his heart; And Li Ruifang had an indifferent expression, just looking at Song Zhewu firmly, as if Song Zhewu was not talking about the leader of the Republic of China, but about a small citizen. It is precisely because of Li Ruifang's eyes that he has since safely ranked among the top of the Fourth Route Army, and even truly became Song Zhewu's confidant.

Song Zhewu knew that he had to explain it clearly to Han Guangdi and Liang Zhongjia now, otherwise he would have to give up on them in the event of an accident, and these two people he definitely couldn't give up easily.

Song Zhewu stared at Liang Zhongjia, glanced at Han Guangdi again, shook his head and said, "We are fake anti-Jiang, really help Jiang." ”

Seeing that Liang Zhongjia and Han Guangdi were a little puzzled, Song Zhewu continued: "I have already made a clear statement to you about the attitude of the central political axe headed by Chiang Kai-shek and various local forces, including the development direction of our Fourth Route Army in the coming period, because this is the core secret of our Fourth Route Army in the recent period, and everyone will not talk about it casually. ”

Song Zhewu said in an accentuated tone: "It's just that I want to remind you that what I said today is only known to those here, and I am not allowed to reveal half a sentence to others." ”

All three of them nodded busily.

"At present, although the central government has nominally achieved national unification, the government decree does not leave the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and the country is still in a state of clear unification and real division. The reason for this is that the local forces nominally obey the leadership of the central government, but in fact they support their own troops and do their own thing, which is comparable to the princes of the side who occupied one side in ancient times. What's more, some people compete for power and profit for their own selfishness, which leads to constant wars and tears, and a good country becomes divided. ”

Chiang Kai-shek, as the leader of the central political axe, naturally did not want to see this situation, he wanted to become the real leader of the Republic of China, he must learn from the Han Jing Emperor to cut the feudal domain, and these "princes" are not willing to easily hand over the power in their hands, are trying their best to fight against the central political axe, the weak delay and push, the strong want to take the opportunity to gain strength, gather anti-Chiang forces, and use force to oust Chiang Kai-shek, which will inevitably lead to the two sides fighting each other. This is also the reason why after the defeat of old warlords such as Sun Chuanfang and Wu Peifu, there are still wars in the country. ”

"Since the Second Northern Expedition, there have been wars and chaos every year. There are the battles of Jiang Gui and Jiang Feng in the distance, and the rebellion of Tang Shengzhi in the near distance, and small-scale wars between warlords in various places are not uncommon. In Sichuan, for example, warlords and warlords have been fighting each other since Xinhai. Because of the continuous wars and the lack of central government decrees, bandits are rampant, victims are everywhere, and the people are miserable. With such a domestic environment, how can the national economy and people's livelihood be developed, when will the Chinese nation be strong again, and when will the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties be reappeared! ”

The more Song Zhewu spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but raise his voice.

Whether it is for the country and the people, or to protect his own rights, Chiang Kai-shek must forcibly quell the war, which is also the purpose of Chiang Kai-shek's emphasis on realizing the unity of government and military orders at home. It's just that the local forces in the country are intertwined and huge, and during the heyday of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, the Northwest Army was even bigger than the Central Army. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt strong measures, which by no means can be easily achieved. Moreover, the top echelons of the Kuomintang not only could not form a rope to deal with these local forces, but also split into several factions, and the most influential was of course the reorganization faction headed by Wang Ching-wei, who not only opposed Chiang Kai-shek politically, but now also wanted to use force to force Chiang Kai-shek to hand over power, and his representative Chen Gongbo was now in Taiyuan, just to urge Yan Xishan to provoke the anti-Chiang banner and drive out Chiang Kai-shek by force. ”

Song Zhewu looked at everyone, and said in a heavy tone: "But what will happen if you drive away Chiang Kai-shek?" As it is now, if Chiang Kai-shek is driven out because of opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's unification order, then there will still be warlords in the country who are self-reliant, and even more serious than now, not only will the country's strength be far away, but it will even face the danger of being invaded by foreign enemies. ”

"Now there are dozens of large and small warlords gathered around Yan Xishan, with an army of nearly one million, and their strength is no worse than that of the Central Army, and they are even stronger than the Central Army in terms of the number of troops.

"In that case, why doesn't the commander follow the example of the young marshal and not participate in these civil wars, wouldn't it be better for us to be alone?" Liang Zhongjia couldn't help but ask.

Song Zhewu smiled slightly and said: "Master Liang doesn't know that Han Qing's close friend Ge Guangting has been back and forth to Taiyuan and Shenyang many times since last year, the purpose is to match Yan Xishan and Han Qing, but Han Qing's attitude is ambiguous, and he hasn't made up his mind on that side yet." ”

Liang Zhongjia has been immersed in training troops in Heilongjiang, and after the Middle East Road incident, he was even more busy fighting against the Soviet Union, so he naturally didn't know about these things, and Han Guangdi, who was stationed in Liaoning, had heard about this matter to some extent, and when he saw Liang Zhongjia looking at himself, he nodded silently.

"Smack", Liang Zhongjia slapped the table fiercely, opened his mouth, and finally didn't scold, Zhang Xueliang used to be his boss after all.

Han Guangdi sighed, raised his head and asked Song Zhewu: "Just now the commander said, does the 'foreign invasion' refer to the Russians or himself?" ”

"Both." Song Zhewu took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued.

"Now the European powers are licking their wounds from the First World War, recuperating and accumulating strength. Britain and France were guarding against Germany becoming strong again, and Germany was to avenge World War I, and neither of them had the strength or heart to fight China's idea; The United States is now extremely conservative and only wants to take care of its own affairs, and has no intention of getting involved in China. However, Soviet Russia was different from itself, and it was only in the late 15th and early 16th centuries that Soviet Russia gradually formed a multi-ethnic feudal state centered on the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In 1547, Ivan the Terrible changed the title of Grand Duke to Tsar. In 1721, Peter the Great changed the name of the country to the Russian Empire. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, it became a military feudal imperialist country. In February 1917, the bourgeois revolution overthrew the [***] system. The October Socialist Revolution of 1917 established the world's first socialist state power, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. On December 30, 1922, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Soviet Russia), the Transcaucasian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which has now expanded into a federation of 16 republics. It took them only 400 years to expand a small European country that was about the size of one of our provinces into a country with the largest territory in the world, spanning Europe and Asia, and it can be said that they have been expanding their territory for hundreds of years. Whether it is the old tsar or the Soviet Russia, which has now inherited the mantle of the old tsar, they all have extremely strong territorial expansion ambitions in their bones. ”

"They are not satisfied with taking away more than 1 million square kilometers of our land from the Manchu political axe, and they have been playing the idea of our northeast, outer Mongolia, and Xinjiang provinces. In 1900, when the Boxer Rebellion broke out, more than 18,000 troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Yanjing. At the same time, in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in Northeast China, Russia invaded China's northeast region on a large scale on its own, with the aim of annexing the three northeastern provinces of China. Russian War Minister Kuropatkin openly shouted: "Manchuria will be turned into a second Bukhara." ””

"After the other imperialist invading forces participating in the Eight-Nation Coalition withdrew from Yanjing, the Russian troops that invaded China's northeast still relied on it, trying to dominate China's northeast forever and realize its so-called 'Yellow Russia Plan'...... On April 8, 1902, the Tsarist was forced by the international situation to sign the Treaty of Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces, and was forced to agree to withdraw his troops in three phases, which would be completed in one and a half years. However, in August 1903, Russia brazenly established the Far Eastern Governorate with Arthur as the center, appointed Alekseev as the governor-general, and in fact regarded the northeast of our country as Russian territory, and then they reoccupied Mukden. In order to compete for the Northeast, he fought with Yuben in the Northeast. ”

"It was only because during the war that the agent Akashi Motojiro funded Lenin in Europe to launch the Russian Revolution of 1905, which turned the Russian hinterland upside down, and in order to deal with the domestic turmoil, Tsarist Russia had to stop."

Song Zhewu said hatefully: "Even after their revolution, they still instigated foreign [***] establishment, and secretly cultivated pro-Russian forces in Xinjiang Province, and their territorial ambitions against China never stopped for a day. Although Outer Mongolia has now been taken back by us, this is because they are unstable at home and the international environment is unfavorable to them, and once they stabilize internally, they will inevitably rekindle their ambitions for Outer Mongolia. ”

If Soviet Russia just wants to cut off a few large pieces of meat from China, they want to swallow all of China in one bite, I think you have all read the "Tanaka Song" disclosed in the "Current Affairs Monthly" last year, it is said that it was obtained by Wang Jiazhen, the former director of the foreign affairs department of Zhang Xueliang and the current executive secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kuomintang. Both of you are from the Northeast, and you should know very well what you are doing in the Northeast. I think that in three years at most, or two years at least, I will definitely do something to our northeast. ”

(To be continued)