"But their weapons and equipment are relatively backward, most of them are small-caliber artillery, and some are made of Jin-made guns." Su Zongzhe paused and smiled at his own tiger commander: "In fact, Yan Xishan has a good business in Shanxi."

Su Zongzhe has no exaggeration. Although Yan Xishan has his own little thoughts, he has indeed managed Shanxi well. The Taiyuan Arsenal run by Yan Xishan is one of the few factories in China that began to imitate Thomson 1921 in the early days.

As early as 1926, the Taiyuan Arsenal could imitate Thomson 1921. At that time, there were more than 200 machines, and by 1928, it could have produced 900 guns per month.

After the "Central Plains War" in 1930, the National Government took over and firearms were stopped. Production began again after Yan Xishan's return. From 1932 to 1934, the gun was continued to be produced, with a maximum monthly output of 250.

At the same time, the 13-year-old, 17-year-old and 36-year-old 75-mm mountain cannons manufactured by the Taiyuan Arsenal are not bad either. In 1924, it could produce as many as 30 units per month.

Of course, at this time, most parts imported from Germany were used. After completely self-produced, the output dropped. It only produced forty doors per year.

At the same time, the Shanxi Military Crafts Internship Factory successfully tested the Jin 18-year 88-mm field gun in 1929, with an initial velocity of 525 meters per second, a maximum range of 10,500 meters, and its performance was close to that of the Liao 14-year 77-mm field gun.

Of course, the family assets of Yan Laoxi and the three eastern provinces are still unmatched. After all, Lao Zhang of the three eastern provinces was able to make a big splash at the time, and he supported a large area of ​​industries.

Although Yan Laoxi worked hard, it was really nothing compared to Lao Zhang's achievements. However, it was much better than other warlords. He was also one of the few local warlords who could produce their own guns and cannons.

"Puchi~ I don't like that little family background!" Tu Menghu also knew Yan Xishan's family background, but he really didn't like this from the bottom of his heart.

Su Zongzhe, who was beside him, could only smile bitterly when he heard this. There was no domestic warlord who could make the three northeastern provinces look at him. Not to mention the local forces, even the governments in the past were jealous of the three northeastern provinces.

It can produce coal mines, iron mines, and oil fields by itself. It has developed a series of industrial foundations including aircraft, tanks, cars, guns, etc., which is enough to make the almost poor and poor government jealous.

What the government is most jealous of is the investments of various countries in the three northeastern provinces. Countless factories are everywhere, including smelting, trade, petrochemicals, etc., which are equivalent to wearing a thick layer of protective cover for the three northeastern provinces.

Not only did the three northeastern provinces make a fortune by using these investments, but they also made the nations passively become his protective umbrella. The National Defense Forces challenged Japan's interests several times, but Japan was forced to give in to the United States.

It has to be said that the three northeastern provinces are very easy to swallow. Of course, Yan Zhengqing's contribution is inseparable. The old fox is very good at this. He slowly takes advantage but does not kill him with one stick.

In war, he slaughtered Menghu and his father, and his generals under his command were very good at it. But when it comes to negotiations, old guys such as Yan Zhengqing, Yang Yuting and others could spread their ten streets.

"But after all, the Jinsui Army is all Chinese army. No matter they are not good." Tu Menghu learned a lot with his own unethical and smoke-produced teacher, and he was extremely skillful in using various methods of cheating people.

"Uncle Qi Liu, please send a telegram to Yan Laoxi. He said that we will definitely fight against Japan, but if I want to save him, it depends on whether he is a team of anti-Japanese war." Tu Menghu waved his hand and said to Su Zongzhe: "It's so vague, it's better to fight a team! Yan Laoxi wants me to help. I'll do it! Use the Japanese heads to exchange!"

Su Zongzhe nodded, this is reasonable. It is impossible for me to attack thousands of miles away and you will not move in the end, right?! This is too outrageous. Our defense force is not the shield of your Jinsui Army.

If you want to help you, you have to come out and play around yourself, right?!

"Don't worry about the loss of the troops. I will replenish him as much as he loses!" Tu Menghu opened his mouth and smiled. The teeth exposed in his mouth looked so loud.

"There is no shortage of guns and cannons in our country, but you have to have the ability to get it! Don't give you guns and cannons with my left hand. You send them to the Japanese with your right hand! Pick them up and hit the defense force in our country! If you want guns and cannons, the same thing: exchange the Japanese heads!"

Su Zongzhe nodded and recorded Tu Qianjun's orders. Seeing that Tu Qianjun had no other orders, he turned around and called Yan Xishan back.

Yan Laoxi, who was in Taiyuan, was now restless. He didn't expect the Japanese to rush towards Henan so quickly. Yan Laoxi knew the situation in Henan now.

After the Central Army withdrew, the defense there was empty! Yan Xishan didn't want to go over and grab the territory, but when the Japanese beat the Central Army in Wuhan, Yan Xishan felt guilty.

Just stick to your own Shanxi, and Henan doesn’t want to stab this hornet’s nest.

Yan Xishan was a complicated figure in history, so complicated that it was difficult to express his attitude towards Japan's war in one or two sentences or passages.

In history, Yan Xishan was the first local senior general to join forces with Chi Se to form an anti-Japanese army. This made Shanxi region a national "model war zone" for the three years from 1936 to 1939.

But he also had the feudal "emperor" idea like many old warlords. In his opinion, Shanxi was his territory of Yan Xishan. But in fact, red was constantly developing, while the army affiliated with Yan Xishan was retreating and falling.

This made Yan Laoxi's stingy problem recur. He began to try to eliminate Chi's influence in Shanxi, and even launched a forceful attack. But this not only did not hit Chi, but instead made Chi Zhizheng find an opportunity to get into Shanxi.

After this incident, Yan Xishan's mood gradually became desperate and his anti-Japanese attitude was also shaken. After 1939, he secretly sent people to contact the Japanese army six times, trying to build a treaty between the two sides not to attack each other.

Finally, from August 8 to 11, 1941, Yan Xishan and the Japanese signed an agreement in Fenyang City called the Basic Agreement between the Japanese Army and the Shanxi-Suizhou Army.

The Japanese representatives were Moritake Tanabe, chief of staff of the North China Expeditionary Army of Japan. Their staff were the chief of staff of the Shanxi Expeditionary Army of Japan, Hideyoshi Nanyama, Wakamatsu, the commander of the 16th Brigade of the Mixed Cheng, Su Tiren, the governor of the pseudo-Shanxi Province, and Liang Shangtun, the provincial office.

Yan Fang's representative is Zhao Chengshou, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army. He is accompanied by Xu Zhiren, chief of staff of the Seventh Army Command, Wen Huaiguang, commander of the First Cavalry Army, chief of staff of Qi Fengzhou, and commander of the First Cavalry Division, Zhao Rui, commander of the First Cavalry Division.

The terms in the agreement are roughly: Japan and Yan cancel the hostility, support each other, and jointly "anti-Red". The Japanese army withdrew from Xiaoyi County and allowed Yan's army to enter.

Even in 1942, Yan Xishan once wanted to surrender directly to the Japanese army. However, the huge internal opposition forced him to consider the consequences of betrayal of his relatives after surrender.

As Yan Xishan's confidant Zhao Daiwen once confronted Yan Xishan in person for this, and even claimed that if Yan Xishan chose to surrender, he would rather jump into the Yellow River to die than go back to Taiyuan with Yan Xishan. This huge difference made Yan Xishan hesitate and finally chose to wait and see.

With such historical experience, how can you make the tiger slaughter trust this person?!

"Commander, the imperial capital is calling!" Zhao Daiwen hurriedly walked into Yan Xishan's mansion and told Yan Xishan who was restless. Yan Xishan stood up suddenly when he heard this.

"Oh?! Qilong! Come and take it to me!" Zhao Daiwen did not dare to be negligent and quickly gave the telegram to Yan Xishan. Yan Xishan took the telegram and looked around, and his face suddenly became ugly.

Zhao Daiwen was also speechless. He had read this telegram. He knew the contents clearly. But at this time he was unable to express his opinion.

The content of this telegram is very simple. The tiger will only consider whether to provide support if it sees the performance of the Jinsui Army. The implication is very clear: If you don’t fight, I can watch the Japanese call.

This method is very simple: it is to force the Jinsui Army to choose between fighting against Japan and not against Japan. Or, fighting against Japan with the National Defense Forces with the Japanese is a fierce battle, which is considered a letter of fame.

Or, he would directly join the Japanese to join the Wang Zhaoming faction. He did not leave much room for Yan Xishan to choose, or he was confident that he could handle it no matter how Yan Xishan chose.

"Shilong... This tiger slaughter is going to swallow our Shanxi..." Yan Xishan was silent for a long time and said to Zhao Daiwen: "He is playing with an open conspiracy, and we really can't refuse..."

Zhao Daiwen sighed and said, "Who said it was not?! It seems reasonable to ask us to enter Henan to fight the Japanese army. And he also said it clearly in the telegram that he would replenish his troops and weapons if he had any losses. If this was said, it would be really not a loss to us..."

But Yan Laoxi and Zhao Daiwen are both old foxes, so how can they not see the potential plan to slaughter tigers? First of all, this is forcing the Jinsui army to leave Shanxi, and secondly, this is forcing them to go to war with the Japanese army.

And the last one, what are the supplementary soldiers? To put it bluntly, it is like infiltrating sand into the Jinsui Army! It will be difficult to go out after infiltration. And the Jinsui Army will be replaced by the National Defense Forces weapons by then, and those ammunitions must be supplied by the National Defense Forces?! Do they dare to easily move the officers and soldiers of the National Defense Forces?!

"Shilong, you come to Yisheng, Xingru and the others. We have to discuss this matter..." Yan Xishan rubbed his brows and said to Zhao Daiwen: "Our Jinsui Army... Haha, there may be no Jinsui Army in the future..."

Zhao Daiwen was extremely sad when he heard this, but he couldn't say anything comforting, so he could nod and leave.

Since the War of Resistance Against Japan, almost no battles have occurred around Shanxi. The Jinsui Army has maintained extremely completeness. This integrity is obviously extremely unreasonable. A certain tiger does not want to see this "completeness."

He forced Yan Xishan to make a choice: either, fight against Japan and kill the enemy forever. Or, learn from Wang Zhaoming and then leave a bad reputation for thousands of years.

ps: Here comes! Chapter 2!
Chapter completed!