Early one morning in mid-July 1928, at the Haihe Wharf in Tianjin, in the thin morning light, groups of soldiers were unloading many heavy wooden boxes from several large barges, and then they were quickly lifted onto dozens of trucks waiting on the side. Although the loading and unloading speed of the soldiers was already fast, there were still officers who kept urging.

It was still early, and the dock workers had already arrived at the dock in twos and threes, but they soon realized that they had arrived too early today, and they were blocked out of the cordon by hundreds of soldiers with armbands marked "Hebei Reading Power Mixed Brigade". A few bold workers peered inside, and they soon discovered that the work they were supposed to do had been taken away by a group of soldiers.

It was munitions, and the workers whispered. "Hebei Security Reading Power Mixed Brigade" whose soldier is it, and is it also the soldier of Fu Ye of the Jin Sui Army? The speaker immediately attracted a roll of his eyes. You don't even know this, this is Song Ye's soldiers, Song Ye, our Tianjin Wei masters. Don't forget to pick up your thumb after speaking. Which Song Ye? Cut, which other Song Ye, of course, is the young son of the late Song Master of Zhenbang Dyeing Factory, that is, the Song Brigade Commander of Zhang Zongchang and Zhang Dashuai's original newly formed First Brigade. If you want to say that the old and young masters of our Tianjin Wei should be grateful to this young man, Sun Chuanfang and Sun Dashuai were defeated by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and ran to our Tianjin Wei with the remnants of the defeated army. Thanks to this young man, he pulled out the team and didn't let him enter, otherwise as soon as the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived, the two would have to fight in Tianjin. That's true, but I'm right. The robbed worker went on to say that he was a soldier of Fu Ye of the Jin Sui Army, and Fu Ye is now the garrison commander of our Tianjin Guard, and the Tianjin Guard's team is under his control. Cut, the worker who spoke drew another roll of the eye. You don't know this, I heard that the late Song Master and Shang Zhen, the commander of the first division of the Jin Sui Army, had old friends, Shang Ye is now the chairman of our Hebei Province, and Song Young Master is the Shang Ye who invested, half a month ago, Song Young Master's team began to pull out, and I heard that it was stationed north of Baoding.

The young master Song mentioned by the workers was standing next to the truck in the dock with a young foreigner, and more than 10 young guards who were about to stick their guns were surrounded by them in the distance. This young master Song is called Song Zhewu, the name is Wenge, 26 years old, 178cm tall, with a slightly thin face and an angular face, a thin body, but strong muscles, a typical military figure.

This is the protagonist of this book, a time-traveler. Readers and friends who often mix at the starting point know that there are air crashes, falling into the sea, jumping off cliffs, and so on. And our protagonist is sleeping through time.

He was originally a master of chemical engineering in the 21st century, but when he woke up, he returned to 1926 in a vague way, and possessed a young man also named Song Zhewu. This Song Zhewu has a rich family. His father stayed in the United States in his early years, and after returning to China, his career was not smooth, so he abandoned the government to engage in business. Because of his open-mindedness and deep ambition to serve the country, he sent his two sons to study in the United States and Baoding Military Academy in his early years. Before Song Zhewu graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, the military academy was forced to close. He was sent by his father to the Dresden Infantry Academy in Germany to study military affairs. After graduation, he was full of ambition to save the country, and soon after returning home happily, his father became ill. Song Zhewen, the eldest brother who stayed in the United States, rushed back to Tianjin all the way, and his father left for the west. Song Zhewu fainted on the spot due to excessive grief, and after waking up, he became Song Zhewu who had crossed over.

Song Zhewu, who was in a daze, followed his eldest brother Song Zhewen and a large group of shopkeepers under his father, and finally came to his senses after finishing the funeral of this cheap father. Later, he followed his eldest brother Song Zhewen to visit his father's friends one by one, including Situ Leiden, the current president of Yenching University in Beiping, Zhang Zongchang, the famous dog meat general, and Gates, the owner of a German foreign bank. In the memory of Song Zhewu's previous life, this Situ Leiden later became the US ambassador to China. And the elder Gates's son Gates Jr. is Song Zhewu's classmate in Berlin in this life. The Gates family is a large family in Germany, with deep ties to major family businesses and even many Junker aristocrats. At this time, because the size of the German army after World War I was limited, the younger Gates could not be accommodated in the army, and at this time he went to Tianjin to prepare to replace the old Gates.

Along the way, with the deepening of his understanding of the background of the Song family, Song Zhewu has a clearer and clearer understanding of how to take the road in this life.

The period from 1926 to 1936 is known as the golden decade of the development of national industry and commerce in China, during which China's national industry and commerce have made great progress and its national strength has been greatly improved. If the War of Resistance had broken out 10 years later, perhaps the War of Resistance would have been the same.

Since I have come to this era by mistake, I must work hard to change the fate of the country and the nation. But what should you do about your own path? Now defecting to the Communist Party? No, the Northern Expedition in 26 has just begun, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are still cooperating. Now the Communist Party is very strong, and this situation lasted until the Zunyi Conference, and it was not changed until 36 years when Mao Taizu in northern Shaanxi really took power. Don't say that the Communist Party will be split in 27 years, that is, the party will be purged and rebelled, and with his own background and background, he will definitely not be able to escape, and he will definitely be the target of the rebellion. If you join the Kuomintang, you don't even think about it, you know that the Kuomintang will fail, and you will never be stupid enough to go to Taiwan to spend your old age. So is there a third way? After a few days of painful thinking, Song Zhewu finally decided to create a third way by himself, if he found that it did not work, then he would return to the arms of the organization as soon as possible, end the three-year civil war after the Anti-Japanese War early, and let the Chinese nation usher in peace one day earlier.

After making a choice, the eldest brother Song Zhewen found him and said that he had an industry in the United States, and all the start-up capital was given by his father, and the property had been distributed in advance. Now all the family property belongs to Song Zhewu, and he doesn't need a penny. Song Zhewu resolutely opposed it while lamenting the brotherly affection, saying that he needed money, and he needed a lot of money, but it was not possible to divide the family property like this!

In Song Zhewen's doubts, Song Zhewu expressed his thoughts to his eldest brother with reservations. After thinking about it for a day, Song Zhewen expressed his firm support for his younger brother's ideals. Subsequently, despite the dissuasion of relatives and friends, the brothers not only kept the yarn factory, the dyeing factory and the flour factory, but also sold dozens of other antiques from jewelry shops to car foot shops, and all the antiques in their homes. After leaving 8 million yuan to Song Zhewu, all the tens of millions of oceans obtained were brought to the United States by Song Zhewen for investment.

After Song Zhewen left, Song Zhewu quickly found Zhang Zongchang and said that he had achieved success in his studies and wanted to join the army and serve the country. When Song's father was alive, he funded him many times, and Zhang Zongchang was not good at saving face, so he immediately gave Song Zhewu the title of colonel and senator. When Song Zhewu asked to lead an army alone, hoping to train an army like the German Army. Zhang Zongchang was embarrassed and said that he could not do so due to the difficulty of paying for the equipment. In the end, Song Zhewu offered 500,000 oceans and stated that the salaries and weapons of the troops he trained were made up by himself, and the troops were completely under the command of Zhang Zongchang. Zhang Zongchang immediately appointed Song Zhewu as the commander of the newly organized First Brigade and allocated some firearms and ammunition.

After having a number, Song Zhewu did not build an army according to the model of recruiting officers first and then recruiting soldiers. It's both at the same time, and he needs time. While arranging manpower recruitment, he even sent electricity and even invited classmates and friends. In this era, there were more wars and turmoil in various places, and there were many displaced people, plus Song Zhewu offered a much higher salary than other troops, 5 yuan per month, and soon recruited 18,000 soldiers at the same time, and the shelves of senior officers were also built. A fully staffed mixed brigade had more than 8,000 people, and 18,000 people could be organized into two divisions at that time, which was far beyond the establishment. Since he doesn't have to pay for his own equipment, Zhang Zongchang is too lazy to care, anyway, just listen to the command.

Song Zhewu's officers were Xiao Guodong, chief of staff of the brigade and captain of the teaching team, Liang Fang, commander of the artillery regiment, Zhang Yafei, commander of the 1st regiment, Gao Zongbao, commander of the 2nd regiment, Zhang Tao, commander of the 3rd regiment, Wei Guanghui, commander of the cavalry battalion, Wu Jin, commander of the baggage battalion, and Wang Xu, commander of the communications battalion. Xiao Guodong, Liang Fang, and Wang Xu are all Song Zhewu's classmates in Germany. They studied infantry, artillery, and communications. Zhang Yafei, Gao Zongbao, Zhang Tao, Wu Jin, and Wei Guanghui were Song Zhewu's classmates at the Baoding Military Academy.

In terms of weapons, more than 2,000 rifles allocated by Zhang Zongchang, Song Zhewu didn't look at them at all. Most of these rifles are rifled, and there are hundreds of old ones inside. What kind of weapon to use really made Song Zhewu think a lot. With Song Zhewu's heart, it is best to be fully equipped with German weapons. However, German weapons had a high degree of automation and consumed too much ammunition. Once the war of resistance begins, ammunition may not be sufficient. Now, from the early days of the founding of the army, everything must be aimed at the War of Resistance. Song Zhewu thought about it, and finally made a reluctant decision, the rifle was made 38 type, and the machine gun was made Czech-made ZB26. Heavy machine gun as suppressive firepower Song Zhewu prefers the American M2 heavy machine gun in his heart, as a military fan of later generations, Song Zhewu knows that this 12.7mm heavy machine gun was used until the 80s, and some countries are in use, but it is a little difficult to buy American weapons at this time, and finally he reluctantly chooses the 92-type heavy machine gun. 60mm, 82mm, 120mm mortars, 75mm mountain guns, you can temporarily choose German ones, and you have to have P18 submachine guns. If you want to buy weapons, you have to find foreign companies, and at that time, almost all the big foreign companies were smuggling weapons in a way or overt. Of course, Song Zhewu went to find Little Gates.

When Song Zhewu handed the list of weapons other than rifles, including ammunition, to Little Gates, Little Gates screamed in surprise. "Oh my God! Song, you have a division of army pulling. Song Zhewu was amused by Little Gates's exaggerated expression, and said happily: "There will be, and there is more than one division." After little Gates came to his senses, he said in embarrassment, "However, I can't meet your request at one time, you want too much." "It's okay, you can give it to me in batches. The weapons used in my current team are much worse by German standards. ”

After discussing the details with Little Gates, Song Zhewu went to see Zhang Zongchang again. The army's standard weapons are not easy to sell. Zhang Zongchang has a close relationship with him, and only he can do it. After paying 2 million oceans, Song Zhewu soon got 16,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition. Although he knew that he had been wronged, he had no choice, so he had to let Zhang Zongchang pluck a few hairs.

After the gun problem was basically resolved, Song Zhewu summoned his few officers to convene the first plenary meeting after the founding of the army. He described the purpose of building the army and the concept and standard of army building to several people in detail. Of course, he still has reservations about his true thoughts, and now is not the time to explain to them.

Among these people, Xiao Guodong, Liang Fang, and Wang Xu all served in Sun Chuanfang's army after returning to China. The others were among the other warlord forces, and the highest official rank was a major. As soon as I came to Song Zhewu, I immediately became a lieutenant colonel and colonel. The official position is secondary, the key is that they all believe that they will be fully trusted under Song Zhewu, and several of them are young people in their 20s, and they are full of great enthusiasm and hope for themselves to form a unit with their own hands. In accordance with Song Zhewu's requirements, we should resolutely reorganize and train the troops as soon as possible.

Finally, Song Zhewu emphasized four requirements. 1. You can't cut corners in training in order to grab time. 2. Strengthen discipline [basically a copy of the three disciplines and eight attentions]. 3. Strengthen the stabbing technique. 4. Officers at all levels are absolutely not allowed to deduct military salaries, and if they need money, they ask him for it, but they are never allowed to pay attention to military salaries.

After a year of hard work, by the end of 27 years, the training of the troops was basically formed. With the successive arrival of various weapons, the brigade initially has combat effectiveness.

27 is a turbulent year, this year, first 4.12 incident, then should be 8.1 Nanchang Uprising, Autumn Harvest Uprising, Guangzhou Uprising. Although Song Zhewu devoted himself to military training in Tianjin, he was always concerned about the current situation in China. He had always feared that his crossing would change the course of history. He clearly knows that his greatest advantage in this world is to know the historical process, know the point of every step of history, and therefore be able to choose the direction ahead of those top historical figures. If history changes because of his arrival and loses this advantage, he will soon be annihilated by the waves of history in this era of elites.

With the occurrence of the 4.12 incident and the bombing and death of Zhang Zuolin at Wicker Lake, which he was familiar with in middle school, Song Zhewu finally relieved that history has not changed because of the instigation of his butterfly wings, or at least it has not changed now.

During the next two Northern Expeditions, Song Zhewu tried his best to prevent his troops from going to the front. As soon as Zhang Congchang left Tianjin, Song Zhewu quickly contacted Shang Zhen, then the commander of the First Division of the Jin Sui Army, through Little Gates, and said that the only condition for surrendering to the Jin Sui Army was to retain his troops and merge them into Shang Zhen's First Division. Xiao Guodong and others were very puzzled, and agreed that they should join the Central Army, and took a step back and said that they should also join the Northwest Army, and everyone was not optimistic about the Jin Sui Army. At Song Zhewu's insistence, everyone finally said that everything was arranged by Song Zhewu.

Yan Xishan was overjoyed when he received Shang Zhen's report, and immediately gave Song Zhewu the number of the Hebei Reading Mixed Brigade in the name of the commander of the Third Army. He also told Shang Zhen that he had reported to the Central Committee that he planned to appoint Shang Zhen as the chairman of Hebei Province, and although the Song Department was not incorporated into the First Division, it was still under the jurisdiction of his provincial chairman. However, the Song Department had to leave Tianjin, and Shang Zhen chose a place to settle in Hebei. Song Zhewu immediately agreed after receiving the news and took the initiative to ask to be stationed in Laiyuan......

The reason why Song Zhewu chose Laiyuan was that the idea he endured in his heart was Shanxi. Shanxi is surrounded by mountains on three sides, there are Taihang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain as a natural barrier, and the west is separated from Shaanxi by the Yellow River, which is relatively closed, easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as the reputation of the rivers and mountains in the surface, and is an excellent rear and base for their own resistance in the future. It is a pity that such a good place was given up to Yue himself by Yan Xishan in the Anti-Japanese War. Laiyuan is located in the Taihang Mountains, which is the transportation hub of Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei and Henan, and is an excellent springboard for entering Shanxi in the future. Secondly, in the face of the powerful army during the Anti-Japanese War, only its own troops in the mountains could compete with it, so the troops must be familiar with mountain warfare. Taihang Mountain is a good place to practice mountain warfare.

"Report, all supplies have been loaded into the truck, the quantity is correct, please instruct."

The sound of the report interrupted Song Zhewu's thoughts. It was Zhang Tao, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, who came to report, and at this time the materials on the barge were all loaded, and the soldiers were forming a team under the shouting of the officers.

Little Gates next to him handed over a contract, "Song, you can sign for this." Song Zhewu took the contract and hastily signed it and returned it to Little Gates. Regiment Commander Zhang, the 3rd Regiment immediately went to Laiyuan with the supplies, and after arriving, everything was subject to the arrangement of the Chief of Staff. "Yes," because the order and time of the troops' departure had been discussed and arranged long ago, the commander of the 3rd regiment saluted, turned around and sent the whole platoon of troops, and sent people to inform the other battalions to set off together.

After the convoy all drove out of the dock, Song Zhewu smiled at Little Gates and said, "I will leave on time at 9 o'clock, and there are still some things to deal with, so I will go first." "Okay, I'll see you off when I'm done with the docks." The two have been together for many years, and they are not polite. Song Zhewu took the reins handed by the guards, turned over on the horse, gently knocked the horse's belly with his legs, and ran out of the dock with the guards.