"The Second Division in Lushan has completed the defense of taking over Lushan, and the contact with Yang Hucheng is also very smooth, the day before yesterday, Yang Hucheng sent his 51st Brigade commander Sun Weiru to Lushan to meet with me, and yesterday I also secretly went to Nanzhao to meet Yang Hucheng himself accompanied by Sun Weiru."

In Song Zhewu's headquarters, Zhang Tao was reporting to Song Zhewu and Wang Xu about his trip to contact Yang Hucheng.

Yang Hucheng was extremely interested in the commander's suggestion, and it could be seen that he was very excited. Yang Hucheng said that he was very grateful to the commander and was willing to accept all of the commander's suggestions. However, he said that in order to facilitate communication and cooperation, he sent his adjutant with a radio station and asked to follow our troops. In my opinion, although Yang Hucheng was very interested in the commander's suggestion, he was also a little uneasy about us. ”

Zhang Tao said disapprehantly: "Actually, if we want to lie to him, it is useless for him to send this radio group, we can completely force his people to send him false information." ”

Wang Xu shook his head and said: "You don't understand this, since Yang Hucheng dared to send his adjutant to bring the radio, it must have been prepared in advance, in order to prevent accidents, they must have agreed on the code in advance, as long as there is no code word in the telegram they sent back, which means that everything is normal, it proves that the telegram is fake and was sent by our threat." And this code word is something they would not easily tell us. ”

Hearing Wang Xu mention the secret words, I don't know why, Song Zhewu suddenly remembered that he had seen a movie starring Uncle Ge in his previous life, and he couldn't remember the name of the movie, but he only remembered the scene that impressed him the most, that is, when the actor Li Qi was tortured to extract a confession, he had to summon the code phrase "don't say it if he was killed", the hilarious scene.

Seeing Song Zhewu laughing alone, Zhang Tao thought that Song Zhewu was laughing at his simplicity, and said a little embarrassedly: "This Yang Hucheng looks like a bold person, but I didn't expect it to be really simple?" There are still a lot of tricks. ”

Song Zhewu realized that he was a little out of shape, nodded in agreement and said: "Yang Hucheng can start with a few guns, not only has it not been swallowed up by people for more than ten years, but it has also grown to tens of thousands of people, so naturally he will not be a simple person." ”

Then he said to Zhang Tao in a tone of lesson: "Actually, not only is Yang Hucheng not simple, but now these warlords and politicians in China, they can go to this day and achieve their current status, which one of them is easy?" Each of them is a person who has been in deceit and intrigue for most of his life, and his life experience and social experience are extremely rich, and his IQ is also very outstanding. ”

Regarding Song Zhewu's lesson, Zhang Tao nodded again and again.

In fact, Song Zhewu still has some words to say, he thinks that these generals under him, because of him Song Zhewu, will reach such a high position as a military commander and division commander at the age of less than 30, their social experience is still very poor, and they are not the opponents of those "old rivers and lakes" in terms of intrigue and trickery, and they are even worse than the "old foxes" such as Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang. They also need to go through constant training.

"Arrange Yang Hucheng's adjutant and the telegram team he brought with him at your military headquarters, otherwise they will be very uneasy, and Yang Hucheng will easily doubt our sincerity." Song Zhewu confessed to Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao nodded in agreement, and said with a sly smile: "Okay, I will also send guards to them to protect their safety 24 hours a day." ”

Song Zhewu knew that Yang Hucheng would never defect to Feng Yuxiang, so he was not worried that Yang Hucheng would tell Feng Yuxiang about his plan; He was also not worried that Yang Hucheng would tell He Chengjun and Chiang Kai-shek about his own actions, because in that case, the troops entering Shaanxi would probably not only be his Yang Hucheng army, but also the only one who wanted to get Shaanxi. Therefore, Zhang Tao's so-called "protection" is just a laugh.

Song Zhewu took the risk of asking Zhang Tao to contact Yang Hucheng, which was an idea he thought of temporarily, he wanted Yang Hucheng to lead his troops to attack Shaanxi at the same time as he killed Shanxi.

Song Zhewu did this for two reasons:

The first is that Song Zhewu is very worried about changing history too soon. He really didn't dare to risk his grand plans in a strange history that he couldn't grasp at all, at least not for a short time he didn't want to change this history with which he was much more familiar.

In his memory, Yang Hucheng rushed to Tongguan in September when the defeat of the anti-Chiang coalition army was decided, and finally Chiang Kai-shek had to hand over the chairman of Shaanxi Province to Yang Hucheng. Song Zhewu was very worried that Yang Hucheng didn't have such an idea now. Especially because he suddenly launched his "Turtledove Project", even if Yang Hucheng has such an idea now, he may not have time to implement it.

The second reason is that as soon as Song Zhewu's troops enter Shanxi, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang will immediately fight with him Song Zhewu desperately, and his Fourth Route Army will be under extremely great pressure. And Song Zhewu really didn't dare to fully believe Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek's ultimate goal was to sweep away all warlords, after Li Zongren, Yan Xishan, and Feng Yuxiang were defeated one after another, and there would be no real threat to him, Chiang Kai-shek would never want to see a more powerful Song Zhewu appear.

Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek would definitely be very willing to see his Fourth Route Army, Jin Sui Army, and Northwest Army fight to the death, and when both sides are exhausted and scarred, Chiang Kai-shek will command the Central Army to clean up the mess, not only will he obtain the greatest benefits at the minimum cost, but most importantly, Song Zhewu's strength will also be greatly weakened.

In order to avoid this situation, Song Zhewu suddenly thought of Yang Hucheng. If Yang Hucheng moves his army into Shaanxi, Feng Yuxiang will definitely not sit idly by, and will definitely divide his forces with the intention of recapturing Shaanxi. In this way, even if Chiang Kai-shek really wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, intending to take advantage of the fishermen, the pressure on Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army would be greatly reduced.

Because the "Turtledove Plan" was to be implemented that night, although the troops in Laiyuan, Shanxi, and Outer Mongolia were commanded by Xiao Guodong and Tao Rong, and the troops in Zhengzhou were specifically commanded by Zhang Tao, Song Zhewu did not have too much to do, but because this was the most critical battle since Song Zhewu crossed, he still couldn't put his mind at ease. So Song Zhewu found Mengxi and Wang Xu, the combat chiefs who had become more and more mature, and the three of them deduced the "Turtledove Plan" on the map again.

The key to the success or failure of this plan is time and speed. In terms of the timing of the launch, although Song Zhewu doesn't think it's the best now, it's also very good.

Now the armies of both sides are in a tense standoff on the three battlefields, and a sudden withdrawal from the battlefield by either side will lead to confusion among the troops, and if the other side takes advantage of the situation to attack, it will cause huge losses to one side. The only drawback is that the main force of the Jin Sui army on the Jinpu Road is not very nervous in Shandong, and Han Fuyu is almost avoiding the battle now, and it is relatively easy for the Jin Sui army there to get out of the battlefield.

Also, in order to break the stalemate, Yan Xishan had already ordered his troops to be stationed in northern Jin to assemble in Datong, ready to go south to Shandong along the Pingsui line at any time. In addition, although the Pinghan Line was relatively calm for the time being, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army was too close to his troops in Kaifeng. Once the movements of his troops are discovered, it is also troublesome to follow him down.

For these unfavorable factors, Song Zhewu has made corresponding changes and preparations for the "Turtledove Plan". First of all, the troops entering Shanxi from the direction of Laiyuan and Outer Mongolia had already abandoned their original plans, and Song Zhewu did not require them to occupy Datong, an important town in northern Jin, where the troops of an army of the Jin Sui army had now been assembled, and it was not easy to take Datong in a short time. Song Zhewu only asked for a strong force, which could control the area around Datong, and once Chiang Kai-shek launched a counteroffensive, the Jin Sui army in Datong would definitely surrender, and then he could take Datong back without blood.

In order to allow his troops to enter Shanxi quickly, the troops near Jingcheng could march to Taiyuan through Zhengtai Road, but Zhengtai Road was a narrow-gauge railway, and it was impossible for him to command the Zhengtai Railway Bureau, which was still under the control of the French, to mobilize a large number of carriages and locomotives for him in advance. The rest of the troops had to march to Taiyuan by road from Laiyuan to Taiyuan.

Song Zhewu also considered this point for a long time, he transferred the trucks that were originally in charge of transporting materials to Outer Mongolia in Zhangjiakou back to Laiyuan, and explained to Yan Xishan that "it is winter now, and the snow in Outer Mongolia is heavy, which is not conducive to vehicle transportation, and the transportation work will resume after the beginning of spring."

With the original more than 700 trucks, although it was still not enough to transport a large number of troops from Laiyuan, it was still enough to transport 10,000 or 20,000 troops in advance to Taiyuan. Moreover, fortunately, he had already transported all the materials that needed to be transported to Taiyuan and his new factory, as well as the storage area of his aircraft factory in Taiyuan.

Although the troops in Zhengzhou were very close to Shanxi, less than 200 miles in a straight line, they still had to walk for a long time. In order to distance himself from Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army as soon as possible, when his troops left Zhengzhou, they had to go as fast as possible. The 800 trucks he mobilized to Zhengzhou to transport Zhang Tao's army were obviously insufficient. In particular, Zhang Taojun's second division had already left for Lushan, and from there it was impossible to cross the north bank of the Yellow River as soon as possible. 500 trucks arrived in Lushan yesterday.

In order to ensure the speed of the northward retreat, Song Zhewu even deceived Feng Yuxiang a little, that is, he asked Feng Yuxiang to ask Yan Xishan for four trains to transport the Northwest Army when his troops outflanked Wusheng Pass, and stopped at Zhengzhou Station now.

However, these four trains were not prepared by Song Zhewu for Feng Yuxiang, the railway station is now completely under his control, and he will not abandon those trains.

(To be continued)