The numbers of the four armies of the Jin Sui Army are also arranged according to the establishment of the Northeast Army, which are the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh armies of the Northeast Frontier Army, with Shang Zhen, Xu Yongchang, Yang Aiyuan, and Fu Zuoyi serving as commanders.

However, the generals of the Jin Suijun were still extremely dissatisfied with this, and these generals put aside Xu Yongchang and jointly sent a telegram to petition, demanding that the Jin Suijun accept the reorganization of the Central Committee and refuse Zhang Xueliang's reorganization. The reason is that they are not satisfied with Zhang Xueliang only giving them the number of the four armies, including Zhang Xueliang's appointment of Shang Zhen as the commander, which makes these people even more dissatisfied.

The Shanxi army was reorganized, and although Shang Zhen was appointed commander of the Fourth Army, he was said to be in isolation.

Feng Pengzhuo's army was reduced to divisions in this reorganization, and his subordinates, Gao Hongwen and Huang Guanghua, were the old brigades of Shang Zhen. When Shang Zhen left Taiyuan, he asked Song Zhewu for 300,000 yuan on the grounds that the provincial political axe needed to be relocated. In order to let Shang Zhen and his provincial political axe leave Taiyuan as soon as possible, and at the same time, in order not to make too much trouble with Shang Zhen, Song Zhewu personally rushed to the provincial political axe to apologize to Shang Zhen and gave Shang Zhen 500,000 yuan.

After Shang Zhen arrived in Linfen, he had already received a telegram from his student Liu Duoquan, telling him that Zhang Xueliang had agreed to appoint him as one of the four commanders of the reorganized Jin Sui Army, and since he could regain control of the troops, he still had his old troops to rest assured. In order to win over the old department, Shang Zhen used the 500,000 yuan given by Song Zhewu to give cash subsidies to Gao Hongwen and Huang Guanghua. As for the other troops of the Jin Sui Army, it is all two words, "no money".

This made the generals of the Jin Sui army very unhappy, and Wang Jingguo, Sun Chu and other Yan Xishan's descendants of the generals expressed great dissatisfaction with Shang Zhen, and under their influence, the generals of the Jin Sui army and Shang Zhen were like strangers and regarded as enemies.

Shang Zhen knew that the contradictions were difficult to reconcile, and the surname Suo made the problem superficial, first proposed that the provincial government committee approve the abolition of the village administration office personally appointed by Yan Xishan, and then removed 25 county magistrates with surnames at one time, thus the contradiction between Shang Zhen and the generals of the Jin Suijun intensified.

On the one hand, Shang Zhen, who controls the finances of Shanxi Province, is not in the same mind as the Jin Suijun, and on the other hand, the generals of the Jin Suijun Army made it clear that they would not accept Zhang Xueliang's reorganization, which made Xu Yongchang very embarrassed.

Xu Yongchang had no choice but to go to Nanjing and Beiping in person, and told Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang Chen about the benefits, and finally, the Jin Sui army had organized a road guard army with Sun Chu as the commander, a cavalry team commanded by Zhao Chengshou, an artillery team commanded by Zhou Jue, and three reading brigades.

Only then did the generals of the Jin Sui Army take up their posts and accept the reorganization, and after the reorganization, the whole army of the Jin Sui Army was about 140,000.

Because of the downsizing, the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army have been reduced by more than 100,000 people, and the proportion of lower- and lower-level officers in these reduced units is very large, especially in the Northwest Army.

The reason for these dismissals is not because their physical fitness and combat qualities are not good, but because the number of troops after reorganization is too small to accommodate them. These people are not the descendants of Song Zheyuan, Zhang Zizhong, Feng Zhi'an, Liu Ruming, and others, because of the limited establishment, Song Zheyuan, Zhang Zizhong, and others can only give priority to retaining their own troops.

As for these people who were dismissed, Song Zhewu directly hung up the banner of recruiting troops outside the barracks of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army in Jinnan, Datong, and Wutai.

The Fourth Route Army had high salaries and good salaries, and it did not discriminate against outsiders from other units, and many of these people who had been laid off had long thought of joining the Fourth Route Army, but they had no opportunity before, but now they could do so openly. Therefore, the vast majority of these officers and soldiers who were laid off almost left the barracks of the Jinsui Army and the Northwest Army, and turned around and entered the recruit barracks of the Fourth Route Army.

Although there were more than 100,000 soldiers at once, Song Zhewu was not happy, the reason was that Chiang Kai-shek generously gave Zhang Xueliang the number of the six armies of the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army, but he was indifferent to the number of Pang Bingxun's department that he had already reported. ’

Not only did Pang Bingxun's department have some unstable things that annoyed Song Zhewu, but there was also one thing that made Song Zhewu very worried.

According to the information sent back by Wei Guanghui, Bayintu, the former representative of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in Moscow, has established the puppet Mongolian People's Republic in exile in Irkutsk, north of Lake Baikal in the Soviet Union, with the support of Moscow.

Now, Bayintu is deploying forces and constantly infiltrating Outer Mongolia. Actively recruit personnel, contact the remaining members of the Outer Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, develop organizations, and spy on intelligence. This shows that the Soviet Union's ambitions for Outer Mongolia still exist, and we must absolutely guard against the possibility of the Soviet Union encroaching on Outer Mongolia again.

However, Outer Mongolia's defense against the Soviet Union has not really been established, and only some simple fortifications built by Wei Guanghui after recovering Outer Mongolia, and large-scale fortress-type fortifications will not be built until the beginning of spring this year.

And now Chiang Kai-shek has been delaying the number, without which Song Zhewu will not be able to reorganize the troops on a large scale, and if the troops are not reorganized, these troops will not be able to leave, how can this not make Song Zhewu worried.

Although Li Rujuan herself was still in Europe, the first batch of military engineers and technicians he recruited in Germany had already arrived in Taiyuan, and these people were mainly experts in military engineering and railways. However, among these people, except for the engineering and technical personnel of the railway, who have already gone to Inner Mongolia to survey the line, the other personnel are still staying in Taiyuan for the time being because of the weather, and are training the technical personnel of Sun Sicheng's engineering corps. As soon as the weather warmed up, these people immediately got to Outer Mongolia to survey the terrain and organize the design and construction of national defense fortifications.

Now, Song Zhewu has arranged for all his trucks to rush to Mongolia all night and night to rush cement, steel, and other materials needed for the construction of national defense fortifications.

At this time, the domestic grain price was already higher than the import, although Shanxi still had a large amount of grain stockpiles, but Song Zhewu expected that a large number of refugees would pour into the areas controlled by the Taiyuan Administration, and once the large-scale capital construction was launched, a lot of manpower would be needed, and the food consumption would be very huge. Therefore, the military rations prepared for the large number of troops stationed in Outer Mongolia had to be purchased from abroad. Now, flour and rice purchased from Europe and the United States are also being shipped to Outer Mongolia as much as possible.

At this time, Outer Mongolia not only had almost no national defense fortifications, but also had very few troops, only a cavalry army of Wei Guanghui, and the strength was very weak. At this time, if the Soviet army invaded, Outer Mongolia could almost be said to be an undefended area, and a cavalry army would definitely not be an opponent of the invading Soviet army with aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and the large troops of the Fourth Route Army must enter Outer Mongolia as soon as possible and make preparations for the defense of the north.

In particular, "September 18" is coming soon, and it is very convenient to attack the northeast from Outer Mongolia, and Outer Mongolia must not afford to lose anything.

However, because Nanjing did not give Song Zhewu the number for a long time, the troops could not be reorganized, and Song Zhewu was also in a hurry and had no choice, and held several military expansion meetings in succession, but no result was discussed.

After Jia Jingde learned about this incident, which annoyed Song Zhewu, he suggested to Song Zhewu, "I want Song Zhewu to send a telegram to Nanjing, indicating that the situation in Outer Mongolia is tense, and once the necessary number is issued, the troops of the Fourth Route Army will be immediately reorganized, and most of the reorganized troops will immediately go to Outer Mongolia to guard the north."

Jia Jingde's suggestion made Song Zhewu suddenly wake up, and it was inevitable that his four or five hundred thousand troops would stay in Shanxi and not leave, and they would be feared by Chiang Kai-shek. If he told Chiang Kai-shek unmistakably that the reason why his troops did not leave was because of the number, I believe that Chiang Kai-shek would not hesitate to give him the number.

Song Zhewu immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, once again stating the reason for asking Pang Bingxun's department for the number, and at the same time said that the situation in Outer Mongolia was tense, and once the reorganization of the troops was completed, the Taihang Administration and Inner Mongolia would only retain the five armies of Zhang Yafei, Li Sichi, Zhang Tao, Pang Bingxun, and Jing Yuexiu, and the rest of the armies would all go to the border of Outer Mongolia.

It is very important for the troops to go to Outer Mongolia, but the troops of the Taihang Administration must also be retained, this is the foundation of Song Zhewu, and the factories that supported him in the War of Resistance are all here.

However, it is also very particular to leave that force in the Taihang Administration. Song Zhewu deliberately left Li Sichi and Pang Bingxun in the Taihang Administration, believing that this would make Chiang Kai-shek more reassured.

Sure enough, as Jia Jingde and Song Zhewu expected, Chiang Kai-shek quickly called back and said, 'Brother Wen Ge is a pillar of the party-state, and Zhongzheng is very pleased. Outer Mongolia is the sacred territory of the party-state, and protecting the security of the territory is the first priority of the party-state, and the Fourth Route Army is hereby approved to add one more army, which will be called the 13th Army of the Fourth Route Army. ’

At the same time, Nanjing only allocated 100 antiaircraft machine guns and 50 tons of gasoline.

But Song Zhewu can't control this, now that he has a number, the reorganization of the troops needs to be carried out immediately.

Song Zhewu, who had already thought about it, announced the establishment of the 13th Army and appointed Pang Bingxun as the commander and Wang Shouwu as the chief of staff; Ma Fa 5 was appointed commander of the Ninth Army. At the same time, a large number of officers at all levels were drawn from various armies to form the 10th Army of Jing Yuexiu, the 11th Army of Li Yaoming, the 12th Army of Wang Bi, and the 13th Army of Pang Bingxun.

With the exception of Zhang Yafei's First Army and Jing Yuexiu's 10th Army, all the remaining armies were disorganized and reorganized, and a brigade-level structure was set up under the division.

The reason why Zhang Yafei's First Army was not reorganized was because Song Zhewu not only had absolute trust in Zhang Yafei and the First Army, but more importantly, such a mixed organization would inevitably affect the combat effectiveness of the troops to a certain extent, at least until officers at all levels were refamiliarized.

In this way, it is necessary to retain a force with absolutely guaranteed combat effectiveness.

(To be continued)