Zhang Zongchang's entry into Jin is actually just a statement by Zhang Zuolin, but when it reaches the ears of Yan Xishan, who is already exhausted, it is really taking advantage of your illness to kill you.

In fact, if Yan Xishan had a little strategic vision, he would know that it was impossible for Zhang Zuolin to transfer troops to fight in Jin at this time. Even if he could ignore the fact that logistics and supplies were difficult, it would be impossible for him to drop Zhang Zongchang's army into Jin.

Because the war in Shandong has entered the outbreak at this time, Zhang Zongchang, as the most important chess piece in Zhang Zuolin's hands, will not be easily mobilized, and it is even more impossible to put it into other battlefields. To put it simply, unless Zhang Zuolin is crazy, he will definitely not go to the Shanxi battlefield to fight with the Zhilu coalition army on the edge of Shandong.

It is also sad to say that the Shanxi battlefield, which decided the life and death of Yan Xishan and the real Jin army, was a dispensable outcast for both the north and the south. The battlefield that really determined the future fate of China was doomed from the very beginning of the entire war, and it could only be in Shandong, and it could only be a duel between Wang Zhenyu and the Japanese.

If China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China is compared to an arcade game in later generations, then the enemies large and small that Wang Zhenyu, the challenger, encountered before, including Yuan Shikai, can only be regarded as small minions, and Japan is the biggest boss in this level. For Wang Zhenyu, defeating Japan can be regarded as a clearance.

At this moment, in the study of Wenlu in Wuhan's East Lake, Wang Zhenyu is sitting behind a desk, unlike the military meeting held in the Standing Committee Building in the round sky in the past, Wang Zhenyu is sitting very lazy at the moment, leaning his neck against the back of the chair and looking at the ceiling. And sitting on the sofa in front of the desk are several core figures of the Youth Army, Wan Yaohuang, Xu Yuanquan, and Li Zongren. If these three people add Bai Chongxi and Jiang Fangzhen, they will be the five tiger generals under the famous Wang Zhenyu.

With the development of the Youth Army, the rankings of the Five Tiger Generals, the Eight King Kongs, and the Thirteen Taibao have also been released. On the one hand, this indicates that the Youth Army as a team has gradually stabilized, and on the other hand, it also shows that the Youth Army as a team has begun to talk about seniority ranking.

The five tiger generals are: Wan Yaohuang, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Xu Yuanquan, and Ma Xicheng.

The Eight King Kongs refer to: Yang Wangui, Jiang Fangzhen, Tao Zhiyue, Wu Peifu, Xu Shuzheng, Liu Xing, Lu Diping, and Zhao Dongsheng.

The 13th Taibao refers to: Zhang Zizhong, Xia Wei, Xue Yue, Li Pinxian, Liao Lei, He Yingqin, Zhu Peide, Liu Mingzhao, Fan Shisheng, Ye Kaixin, Gu Zhenglun, Song Haomin, Liu Zhenhuan.

Although Wan Yaohuang and Xu Yuanquan are both from Hubei, their relationship with each other is not harmonious, but this is why Wang Zhenyu allows two Hubei people to exist at the top at the same time.

Therefore, when Xu Yuanquan advocated immediately launching an attack on the Japanese army and concentrating superior forces to annihilate the advancing Honjo Fanshi regiment, Wan Yaohuang unceremoniously raised objections.

"I ask Mr. Xu to pay attention to one point, that is, our army may have the ability to defeat the Japanese army in the field, but what is the strategic purpose of our Shandong battle? We want to use the Battle of Shandong to defeat Japanese imperialism, deter other powers, and finally clear the way for the reunification of the country and nation. So in order to achieve this goal, we should not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and we should not be satisfied with how many enemy troops are killed or wounded? With the current mobilization capacity of the Japanese army, it is very likely that our annihilation of one division of Japanese troops will cause more Japanese divisions to be sent to Shandong. Therefore, what we should do is to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army has not yet recovered its senses, use a decisive battle to completely annihilate the Japanese army, and then recover Shandong and complete the reunification of the whole country before the Japanese army recovers. ”

Li Zongren said very much with him: "I also agree with Chief of Staff Wan, and I also got a data from Ma Xicheng, at present, in terms of industrial output value and production capacity, the output of factories under the jurisdiction of our national government alone exceeds the total output of the whole of Japan. In addition, we have another advantage, this time Japan sent troops to Shandong and also sent troops to Siberia, Russia, in other words, we are fighting people with all our might, and they Japan can only support with one hand, judging from their current deployment, they have a serious lack of understanding of us, otherwise they would not have made such an arrogant strategic layout......"

Wang Zhenyu was listening, and his secretary Chen Bui pushed the door in and said: "Report to the chairman, Shanxi has sent an urgent telegram, and Yan Xishan, the overseer of Shanxi, announced that he would accept the leadership of the national government, change his flag, and his department will be incorporated into the battle sequence of the Youth Army from now on." At the same time, he urged the youth army to enter Jin to resist the Feng army......"

Wang Zhenyu smiled and said to the four people who had stopped arguing: "It seems that Yan Baichuan has scared Zhang Zuolin, and has decided to end the dangerous life of dancing on eggs." In this way, let Cheng sneak into Jin, and send a notice to Zhang Zuolin to let them withdraw from Shanxi, otherwise they will bear the consequences. ”

"Wait, Secretary Chen" Just when Chen Bui was about to turn around and convey the order, he was suddenly stopped by Wang Zhenyu: "Go and ask Minister Zhou Zhou to come over, why is there still no news from the Russian side, it's already November, and if there is no news, it will be too late......"

No one here understood what Wang Zhenyu meant by being too late, but in Russia, thousands of kilometers away, Dian Biao could feel what Wang Zhenyu meant.

Damn Siberia is so cold that I don't know what words to put to describe it. And at this time, an atmosphere of defeat was enveloped both inside and outside Omsk.

General Kolchak sat by the fire, quietly listening to the quarrels of his generals. The Red Army had advanced further towards Omsk, and the British and French, apparently unreliable, had advised Kolchak to retreat in the face of a powerful Red Army offensive, but did not tell him where to retreat in this damned winter.

Most unreliable, however, were the Japanese, who suggested that Kolchak retreat directly to the Far East, where the Japanese had stationed eight divisions and planned to install a puppet regime to ensure their occupation of the Far East. Historically, the desperate Kolchak did choose this most terrible path, but now it is different, because of the relationship between the founding and the unruly, Kolchak has one more choice. At least in his mind, there was no need to take millions of Russians through Siberia in the ice and snow at the risk of death.

"Retreat to your country's Xinjiang region?" Kolchak hesitated for a moment and then asked, "What are your conditions?" ”

Dian Biao likes to deal with smart people like Kolchak: "Actually, the conditions of our Chairman Wang are much better than those of the Japanese, first of all, we will be responsible for the life, work and employment of all immigrants in your country. At the same time, keep your army, of course, weapons and ammunition must be handed over first, and then temporarily transformed into a farming army, and the formation will not be broken up in principle. As for the Golden General, you can continue to use it, we have no idea about it. ”

Hearing this last sentence, Kolchak couldn't help but smile bitterly, everyone said that they had no idea about the five hundred tons of gold in their hands, but in fact, they were all full of ideas and wanted to steal it for themselves.

But the situation is stronger than people, just now Dian Yu handed over a handwritten letter from Wang Zhenyu to Kolchak, and Kolchak, who is proficient in Chinese, sweated on his forehead after reading it.

The bitter cold wind roared, and the blizzard pierced the body like a tug-of-war, bringing unspeakable suffering to the people of the Great Migration, which was rare in history. It wasn't long before the endless snowfields of Siberia were covered with frozen people, discarded sleighs, frozen horses, dead bodies and a never-ending snow all around. A completely unimaginable sight appeared on the frozen Baikal Lake: a general's wife was going to give birth on the ice, but there was no one who could go over to help, and people walked past her with heavy steps and expressionless faces. The general used his body to block a partition wall, originally to prevent people from seeing his wife give birth, but he really froze motionless like a wall. The general's wife froze to death along with the child who was about to be born, and in a few moments all froze to death......

Thinking of the horrific scene described in the letter, Kolchak couldn't help but waver, and he felt that if he really believed the Japanese, he probably wouldn't have been much better off in the end. But he still asked his last question worriedly: "Mr. Dian Fu, my biggest problem now is that I have 500 tons of gold, once I enter your country, if the great powers intervene, what will your chairman do?" ”

Dian Wei smiled and said: "Our chairman is not even afraid of the Germans, who else are you afraid of?" And I must also tell you that our army is now in a state of war with the good Japanese, and for us there is nothing to worry about. Rest assured, we have worked with Luxembourgers, Belgians, British, and French, and we will never betray our partners. ”

Kolchak nodded, on November 6, the 1.25 million Russians who followed Kolchak left Omsk, but unlike history, they did not march along the railway to the Far East, but went south to the Republic of Arash, and for a time the world was shocked, where is Kolchak going......

Wang Zhenyu didn't know that Lady Luck was already beckoning to him, he had just approved a secret telegram from the General Staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army at the moment, and he was not in a very good mood......

A day later, by the Yellow River, Jiang Zhiqing, chief of staff of the Third Division of the Youth Army, dressed in military uniform, was holding a telescope and looking at Shanxi on the other side of the river.

It's also funny, when Wang Zhenyu recruited Jiang Zhiqing, this kid didn't give any face at all, and directly refused the call. But later, forced to live, Jiang Zhiqing entered the European Expeditionary Force as a political cadre under the recommendation of Dai Jitao. Two years of hard work in exchange for the rank of brigadier general of the Youth Army, Jiang Zhiqing's mentality has also changed dramatically at this time. From a believer of Sun Wen to a backbone member of the Youth Army. He realized that the future of political cadres was very limited, and in order to change this, in order to continue to maintain the life of having a car in and out and a servant woman at home, Jiang Zhiqing threw all his revolutionary ideals back to Sun Wen, and he chose to become a military cadre. The chief of staff of the major general of the Third Division is a good position, but Jiang Zhiqingzhi is not here, what he wants is to become the division commander and become the core figure of the Youth Army.

And this battle in Shanxi may be a rare opportunity for him to realize his ambitions. Jiang Zhiqing is already a general, and it is absolutely impossible for you to let him go back and become the third of the beach.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhiqing coughed and said, "Order to go down and cross the river......"