According to Wu Jin's aerial reconnaissance report: A large number of Jin Sui troops were found in Xiaojue, Yangjiaqiao, and Xiakou in the Wutai Mountains, with a number of about 60,000 people, and the number was Li Fuying, Zhang Hui, and Feng Yuxi, and at the same time, Li Shengda and Feng Pengxi were found in the east of Liao County, with more than 20,000 people, and they are now advancing rapidly in the direction of Shexian County.

At the same time, the situation of the Jin Sui army, which attacked all night in Nanyu in front of Niangzi Pass, has now also been clearly reconnoitred, and this is Li Shengda's one division and Feng Pengxi's two divisions, plus the five artillery regiments of the Jin Sui army, the actual number of troops is about three divisions, and now they have begun to shrink and assemble, and it seems that they are about to escape.

Mengxi took the reconnaissance report and said with annoyance: "Commander, we have fallen for Fu Zuoyi." ”

Tao Rong, who was also a little frustrated, also said: "Yes, the five armies of the Jin Sui Army, which were originally in front of Niangzi Pass, have appeared in the southeast of the Wutai Mountains and near Shexian County in the south of Hebei respectively, and it is obvious that the Jin Sui Army that went north into Wutai Mountain is to join the Jin Sui Army in the south of Datong and occupy Wutai Mountain." Most of Li Shengda and Feng Pengxi, who appeared near Shexian, wanted to enter southern Jinnan in order to strengthen the strength of the Jin Sui army in southern Jinnan. ”

"That is to say, Zhang Yinwu's department that stormed Niangzi Pass is the biggest suspicious soldier, and Yan Xishan just wants to use Zhang Yinwu to attract the attention of our army, so that our army will not dare to act rashly. Then, his troops in Datong took the opportunity to occupy the Wutai Mountain area, which our army had not had time to divide and control for a while. ”

Song Zhewu's tense brows had loosened at this time, and he looked at the map and said, "Chief of Staff Tao is right, Yan Xishan is indeed staking ground." This is Yan Xishan...... No, I'm sure it's Fu Zuoyi's handiwork. This is Fu Zuoyi's belief that a bloody battle with our army will not do much good to the Jin Sui army, and it may not be able to achieve their goal, and in the end, not only will it not help, but it is likely to completely wipe out the Jin Sui army. ”

Song Zhewu then said with some appreciation: "Fu Zuoyi's hand is very good, first stormed Niangzi Pass, and then endured in Datong, he wanted to confuse us, and opened up a posture to make us think that the Jin Sui army would rush over, so we had to be careful to guard against him everywhere, and then, he suddenly waved his army to occupy the area that we have not had time to control for the time being." At the mercy of Fu Zuoyi, now Zuoyun, Yingxian, Fanzhi, the areas east of Wutai and the southern Jinnan region are all under the control of the Jin Sui army. ”

Mengxi said a little unconvinced: "Commander, in fact, Fu Zuoyi's hand is not a big deal, as the commander said, he temporarily controls a large area that our army has not yet taken care of, but he has also revealed a big flaw, his troops in southern Jin are okay, because the troops are strong and relatively concentrated deployment, we have no way to take them for a while, but his 1780,000 troops in the northeast of Jin seem to be a lot, but as soon as they are distributed to the vast area of the northeast of Jin, it seems that the troops are weak everywhere, just to give us various opportunities to break through." At that time, not only did the territory occupied belong to us, but also the hundreds of thousands of Jin Sui troops could not keep it. ”

Tao Rong shook his head and said: "Director Meng, Fu Zuoyi is not so stupid, he is indeed very clever in this hand, once Yan Xishan finds out that we are going to eat these troops he has set up, he will immediately power up and go to the field, and the Jin Sui army will accept Zhang Xueliang's reorganization, then we can no longer attack him, so we have to take the current actual control area as the boundary." ”

"Yes, Yan Xishan is the idea of fighting."

Song Zhewu was very unwilling to wave his hand and said, "But I can't let him be too satisfied." ”

"Order Li Sichi and Li Ruifang to eat the feint attack force of 20,000 or so people of the Jin Sui Army in front of Niangzi Pass; He ordered Xu Fang's entire army to march quickly to the Wutai Mountains, relying on Wutai County, to attack the Jin Sui Army troops in the Wutai Mountains, and told him that the purpose of this operation was not to destroy the enemy, and to compress the control area of the Jin Sui Army as much as possible; Ordered Zhang Yafei to quickly occupy Mengxian County, cover the flank of Niangziguan, and capture Shangshe and Xiakou, and drive the Jin Sui army northward as much as possible. ”

"Make it clear to them that they only have a day or two to act, so they have to be fast. Then he ordered Wu Jin, and all his air force units attacked, bombing the Jin Sui army in front of Wutai Mountain and Niangzi Pass, and cooperating with the troops of Xu Fang, Zhang Yafei and Li Sichi. ”

Song Zhewu lit a cigarette, took a puff and said: "Yan Xishan is indeed going to go down soon, now we need to consider stabilizing the area occupied by our army as soon as possible, and order the Ninth Army to take over the defense of Daixian, and Liang Fang's Fifth Army to take over the defense of the Eighth Army of Youyu; Zhao Fengwu was ordered to command two divisions of the Eighth Army to control the vast area northwest of Shanxi. ”

Xiao Guodong and Wang Xu also came to the war room at this time, as soon as they entered the door, Xiao Guodong said with a smile: "Wen Ge, that manuscript was sent out last night, Zhao Pilian has been waiting for news in the newspaper hall of "Bingzhou Yuebao", he just called me, Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao", Shanghai's "Declaration", Nanjing's "Nanjing Daily", "Dadao Daily", "Minsheng Daily", "Rotary Daily", Zhengzhou's "Zhengzhou Daily" and other newspapers have all published our manuscript on the front page today, "Ta Kung Pao" and "Declaration" and "Rotary Daily" An article was also distributed, and it is said that the local people reacted violently to this article, and they all demanded that the political axe immediately send troops to exterminate Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang.

Wang Xu also said happily: "We also intercepted Feng Yuxiang's telegram to Sun Lianzhong and others who stayed in northern Henan, Feng Yuxiang asked them to bring troops to southern Jinnan, but Sun Lianzhong and others have clearly refused. In addition, from the telegram exchange between Feng Yuxiang and the various units of the Northwest Army in southern Jinnan, it was learned that Feng Yuxiang had already rushed to Daning in the southwest of Shanxi early this morning, but he did not know why he only took his Northwest Army Officer School with him, and no other troops accompanied him. ”

Song Zhewu nodded and said: "Very good, this time Zhao Pilian has made the first contribution, Chief of Staff Xiao, let Zhao Pilian send a thousand oceans to the "Bingzhou Daily" to express his gratitude, before we publish our own newspaper, it is indispensable to trouble this "Bingzhou Daily". ”

Then he said to Wang Xu: "Sun Lianzhong and the others who are stranded in southern Henan have no intention of staying in Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army at all, otherwise they would have entered Jinnan a long time ago, and Feng Yuxiang is making a final effort." ”

"In the middle of last year, Feng Yuxiang opposed Chiang for the first time, but as a result, Han Fuyu, Shi Yousan and others defected to Chiang, causing the more than 400,000 Northwest Army to lose more than 100,000 people at once, and its vitality was greatly damaged. This year, many generals of the Northwest Army have defected to Chiang, and the Northwest Army, which has nearly 300,000 troops, now nominally has less than 200,000 left, and these two anti-Chiang military campaigns personally commanded by Feng Yuxiang have ended in failure, and his prestige in the Northwest Army has been greatly reduced. ”

Song Zhewu pulled a chair and sat down and said: "It is only a matter of time before Sun Lianzhong and others surrender to Jiang, that is, Song Zheyuan and other senior generals of the Northwest Army who entered Jinnan may also have a lot of complaints about Feng Yuxiang in their hearts, and Feng Yuxiang is just a good match, and Feng Yuxiang's influence on them is already very limited." ”

Spit out a puff of green smoke, Song Zhewu said very easily: "Feng Yuxiang must be making preparations before going to Daning this time, if he goes to the field, he will definitely not be able to stay in the army, so at least our Chairman Jiang will definitely not agree." ”

"But when he went to Daning, he was afraid that Yang Hucheng in Shaanxi, Hexi would arrest him and ask for merit, so he took a military academy to Daning, which was for him to be a bodyguard, this military academy has more than 2,000 students, and he is still very loyal to Feng Yuxiang."

Song Zhewu relaxed this time, in addition to Mengxi had already gone to give the battle order, the nervousness of Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, and Wang Xu was also completely relaxed, Xiao Guodong said with a smile: "Wen Ge, now it can be said that ours, the "Turtledove Plan" has basically succeeded, and the threat of Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang to us has basically been lifted, and the remaining question is how we can gain a firm foothold in Shanxi." ”

Xiao Guodong thought about it and said: "Judging from the manuscript we sent last night, public opinion is very important, and we really need a mouthpiece to speak for us, now is the time for us to form our own newspaper, I suggest, leave this matter to Wang Xinggang to handle, what do you think?" ”

Song Zhewu has been thinking about the matter of running the newspaper for the past two days, and he already has a fixed opinion in his heart, shaking his head and saying: "No, Wang Xinggang, I am going to let him be in charge of external propaganda work in my office of the commander of the Northern Frontier Guard, and it is better for other people to do the specific matters of running the newspaper." In this way, Zhao Pilian still has a great prestige in Shanxi's education circles, and he is also very familiar with the people in Taiyuan, so he asked Zhao Pilian to recommend a person to be the editor-in-chief, and the name of our newspaper is "Northern Morning News". ”

In order not to arouse the suspicion of several people, Song Zhewu said very casually: "Of course, the newspaper still has to be managed by Wang Xinggang, not only our own newspaper, but also all the newspapers in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi in the areas we control, he, the official in charge of propaganda, must be effectively supervised, he needs to do a lot of things, I think his political training office will be handed over to Fang Zhen." ”

In fact, the reason why Song Zhewu did not directly hand over the position of editor-in-chief of the "Northern Morning Post" to Wang Xinggang was that he was very worried that there would be some radical remarks in his newspaper, which would not only be difficult to explain to Nanjing at that time, but would also be very unfavorable to the actual situation in Shanxi.

In addition, the editor-in-chief recruited by Zhao Pilian will definitely not have any special background, his remarks will be relatively peaceful, even if Wang Xinggang intervenes, after all, it is an additional "flood gate", Wang Xinggang will have some scruples, and he Song Zhewu will temporarily have a lot less unnecessary trouble.

In addition, there is another thing that others do not know, that is, Fang Zhen reported that Wang Xinggang has been very active in taking advantage of the work convenience of the Political Training Office in recent times. Song Zhewu knew that GCD was very keen on military movement during this period, and he didn't want any accidents before the Anti-Japanese War to affect his plans.

And putting Wang Xinggang by his side not only retains the smooth pipeline with that side, but also can safely control Wang Xinggang's actions, which is still Song Zhewu's best choice, at least for the time being.

"There are two more things to report to the commander...... Wang Xu took out the draft of the telegram and said with some hesitation.

(To be continued)