Only then did Zhou Ying understand the reason for Yan Xishan's stupid tricks in the past month, and scolded angrily: "Zhang Tongxuan is a shameless villain, and he actually ignores the plans of the hundred princes for his own selfish interests. ”

The matter was urgent, and Zhou Ying couldn't care about Yan Xishan's feelings, so he grabbed the phone on the table and called Fu Zuoyi's Tenth Army Headquarters directly, and told the staff officer on duty: "Baigong ordered, Yisheng should rush to the headquarters as soon as possible." ”

At this time, Gu Ren ran back in a hurry: "Baigong, Wang Bi, and Ma Liang have not been contacted, but they have contacted Liu Fengji of the 38th Division." ”

As soon as he heard that he had finally contacted someone from Taiyuan, Yan Xishan hurriedly asked: "Da'an, tell me quickly, what is the situation there?" ”

Liu Fengji reported that he had received a telephone order from Li Yaoming, chief of staff of the army, telling him that Liu Yufen of the Northwest Army had conspired to lead his troops to raid Shanxi and asked him to speed his troops to Linxian to deploy defenses, and according to him, Ma Liang, who was stationed in Xinzhou, also received the same order. Liu Fengjibu has now arrived in Qingxu. ”

"What? Liu Yufen wants to sneak attack our Shanxi? Gu Renfa's words made Yan Xishan fall into confusion again.

Gu Renfa said categorically: "Baigong, Liu Yufen's conspiracy to attack Shanxi is absolutely not credible. Feng Yuxiang's anti-Chiang attitude this time was very resolute, and the Northwest Army he left in the four provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Qingning, and Ningxia, even with Ma Qi and other local armed forces, was only about 20,000 people, and in Shaanxi, in addition to the 3,000-strong troops in Tongguan, there was only Liu Yufen's pistol regiment in Xi'an. Unless they transfer troops from the Central Plains battlefield, no matter whether he mobilizes troops from the Longhai Road or the Pinghan Line, he will not be able to hide from us. If it were only with the troops they had left in the northwest, they would never have dared to attack our Shanxi. ”

Zhou Ying also nodded and said: "Da'an is right, if Feng Yuxiang wants to get involved in Shanxi, then he must find a way to transfer back the main force of his Northwest Army on the Longhai Line and the Pinghan Line, otherwise our two families will make a fuss, and then the Central Army will take advantage of the fire to rob, and his main force of the Northwest Army will not be able to enter our Shanxi, they will not even be able to get out of Henan." Therefore, Liu Yufen's conspiracy to attack Jin is by no means true. Ma Liang and Liu Fengji were fooled. ”

Yan Xishan's pale face flushed, and in an extremely embarrassed tone, he gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, Ma Liang and Liu Fengji have been fooled, and not only them, including Meng, we have all fallen for Song Zhewu's big fall!" ”

Zhou Ying was afraid that Yan Xishan would not be able to stand the stimulation, so he hurriedly changed the topic and asked Gu Renfa: "Da'an, Taiyuan can't be contacted, do you say that Zhou Shilian voted for Song Zhewu?" ”

Gu Renfa shook his head and said: "Zhou Shilian's military headquarters and Wang Bi's division headquarters can't be contacted, which means that there must be something wrong in Taiyuan City." However, Commander Zhou should not have betrayed Baigong, otherwise it would not have been Li Yaoming who gave orders to Ma Liang and Liu Fengji. ”

Yan Xishan's mood had stabilized a lot at this time, his mind had become sober, and he nodded and said: "Da'an's analysis is right, it must be Li Yaoming and Li Wentian who colluded inside and outside to calculate Zhou Shilian. Zicheng has been supervising the printing of Jin banknotes in the provincial bank for the past few days, and when he has news there, everything will be clear. ”

As soon as Yan Xishan's voice fell, Lu Dehuan hurriedly came in and reported: "President Xu called back, except for the phone now, everything else in Taiyuan City is normal. He has already sent someone out to check on the situation, and will report it as soon as there is news. ”

"There is no need to report it again, the situation is already very clear, since the phone in Taiyuan City has been cut off, it is obvious that Meng is really calculated by Song Zhewu."

Yan Xishan lowered his head and thought for a while, and ordered Lu Dehuan: "Call Zicheng and tell him to raise 1 million oceans in the provincial bank, and give 50,000 yuan to each of the directors of the Taiyuan Provincial Political Axe, and the subordinate officials at all levels will decrease in turn, in short, he must send the money to the head as soon as possible." ”

He also said to Gu Renfa: "Also, this month's military salary has been released to Texas three days ago, and part of it is the ocean, how much is this ocean?" ”

"There are 5 million, and the rest are Jin banknotes."

Yan Xishan nodded and said: "Da'an, you immediately send someone to send me 150,000 oceans, which will be divided into three parts, and the rest of the oceans, you will personally send them to the officers above the company commander level of the whole army in a while." Ci Chen's money will be sent to him immediately by special train. The specific distribution method is 50,000 for army commanders, 30,000 for deputy army commanders, chief of staff, and division commanders, 10,000 for each deputy division commander, division chief of staff, and brigade commanders, and 200 to 8,000 for generals at all levels below. ”

Yan Xishan said to Lu Dehuan again: "You go to Tianjin immediately, take out another 5 million oceans, and issue them in full according to the personnel of each unit, 5 yuan for each soldier, 30 for the squad leader, and 50 for the platoon leader." In addition, Da'an wants to distribute all the Jin banknotes in the current army to the soldiers of our Jin Sui army. ”

Regarding Yan Xishan's making an exception to issue money to officers at all levels, Zhou Ying and Gu Renfa both understood that now is a critical moment of life and death for the Jin Sui Army, and Yan Xishan wants these generals to sell their lives, so they will naturally bleed. But it seems that it is a little unnecessary to send all the money to the soldiers, and this is too much, where will the next month's military salary come from?

Gu Renfa didn't understand what Yan Xishan meant, and asked inquiringly: "These Jin banknotes are very large, not only the military salaries of our Jin Sui Army, but also the military salaries of other troops on the Longhai Line and the Pinghan Line, all of which are sent to our Jin Sui Army, which is enough for their military salaries for three months?" ”

Yan Xishan sighed, looked at Zhou Ying and Gu Renfa very sadly, and said: "As soon as Song Zhewu rebelled, the anti-Chiang coalition army not only disintegrated, but completely failed, if we can recapture Shanxi, then everything will still have a way, if not, then next month's military salary will probably not be Meng's turn to give us the Jin Sui army." ”

"Moreover, although these military salaries seem to be a lot, but you have not thought that as long as our Jin Sui army fails, the people will lose confidence in our Jin banknotes, and a large-scale exchange run will occur immediately, and we now only have 3.5 million oceans of reserves left in the provincial bank, and the Jin banknotes that can be issued are more than 100 million, not even one-twentieth of the cash, and there is no guarantee of full payment. Once there is a problem in the payment, the Jin banknotes will immediately depreciate sharply, and the money issued to the soldiers seems to be a lot, but I am afraid that even the military salary of the past half month will not be worth the previous half month. ”

Yan Xishan's eyes turned red, and he whispered: "This is also the last thing Meng did for Jin Suijun!" The people of Shanxi are going to suffer because they are incompetent! ”

Yan Xishan was full of sadness, for Gu Renfa, a native of Hubei, he didn't feel anything, but for Zhou Yu, a native of Shanxi, it was extremely exciting.

Zhou Jue's eyes were red, and he choked up and said, "Baigong, you have to take care of your body!" As long as there are 100 dukes, the Jin Suijun will not be finished, and there will be hope in Shanxi, and Shanxi is not something that anyone can occupy. ”

When Fu Zuoyi came to the headquarters, as soon as he entered the door, he already felt that the atmosphere was very different from the previous one, and the staff officers were all huddled together in groups of three or five, talking nervously and whispering, the atmosphere was tense and depressing.

Fu Zuoyi thought that it must be Han Fuyu and the Central Army who had crossed the Yellow River, and when he was in danger, Yan Xishan thought of himself again, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

If Yan Xishan could use himself in defense half a month ago, he believed that he would definitely be able to inflict heavy losses on the Central Army west of Jinan, at least under the city of Jinan, and stabilize the situation on the battlefield in Shandong. However, once Jinan is lost, the initiative in the Shandong battlefield is in the hands of the Central Army, and it will not be easy to kill the Yellow River again, unless Song Zhewu wins on the Pinghan Line and forces Chiang Kai-shek to draw the main force from the Shandong battlefield to the west, then there will be a chance.

The arrogant Fu Zuoyi could feel that Yan Xishan was not very at ease with him, and Zhang Yinwu repeatedly used the little thing he did in Zhuozhou back then, spreading that he was a general, the purpose of which was to insinuate that he had a relationship with Zhang Xueliang. Fu Zuoyi was very disappointed with Yan Xishan's bias and belief, but he was also very helpless. He had already decided to resign from Yan Xishan and go back to his home in Tianjin to rest for a while.

After making up his mind, he just nodded lightly with Lu Dehuan, who was waiting in front of the door, straightened his military uniform, and walked into Yan Xishan's office.

As soon as Fu Zuoyi entered Yan Xishan's office, Yan Xishan, who was wiping his tears, immediately threw down his handkerchief, stumbled to Fu Zuoyi, grabbed Fu Zuoyi's hand tightly, and a line of tears poured down, and said with a crying voice: "Yisheng, our Jin Suijun is in great trouble!" It's all bad, I didn't bring the Jin Suijun well, and I'm ashamed of you! ”

Yan Xishan's actions startled Fu Zuoyi, and then looked at Gu Renfa and Zhou Jue with a sad face, Fu Zuoyi, who didn't know why, was extremely surprised, knowing that something big must have happened, otherwise Yan Xishan would not have found him, a suspicious person. Moreover, Yan Xishan's words just now already faintly blamed him for Fu Zuoyi's self-blame.

However, Fu Zuoyi didn't have the heart to listen to Yan Xishan's self-blame review, he was eager to know what trouble Jin Suijun had?

"Baigong, you must not be like this, what happened?"

At this time, Zhou Ying and Gu Renfa stepped forward to help Yan Xishan back to the sofa and sit down, and Zhou Ying carefully explained the incident to Fu Zuoyi.

After listening to Zhou Yu's story, although Fu Zuoyi tightened his eyebrows and did not speak, there was no trace of panic on his face. Zhou Ying not only nodded secretly, but sighed in his heart: "Fu Yisheng is really a great general!" ”

Yan Xishan had already put away his tears at this time, although his eyes were still a little red and swollen, but his eyes were smart again, and he was carefully observing Fu Zuoyi.

Although Gu Renfa and Fu Zuoyi did not have a deep relationship, they have always admired Fu Zuoyi, and seeing that Fu Zuoyi was silent for a long time, he thought that Fu Zuoyi was still angry with Yan Xishan, so he stepped forward and said: "Yisheng, now that the Jin Suijun has reached the critical moment of life and death, any personal grievances are trivial, and Baigong has already understood that it was instigated by the villain, and now he regrets it." For the sake of Baigong's kindness to you over the years, you can't stand by and stay out of the matter at this time! ”

(To be continued)