Xuzhou, Baoshan Brigade Headquarters and Security Headquarters.
He Yingqin, the Minister of Military Order, strode into the war room surrounded by guards.
The staff officers who were working on the map in the war room stood at attention and saluted, but their eyes couldn't help but glance behind General He. Behind General He was a tall foreign girl. Baoshan Brigade Chief of Staff Liu Yigang had just left the telecommunications room.
When I came out, I saw He Yingqin, the Minister of Military Order and Chief of the General Staff, and he quickly stepped forward, stood at attention and saluted: "General seat!"
He Yingqin glanced at the war room, frowned and said, "Why, Yue Weihan is not here again?"
Liu Yi said with a slight embarrassment: "Back to the main office, we went to inspect the tunnel position of the 1st Regiment outside the east gate."
"Tunnel?" He Yingqin frowned more and more and said, "As the Xuzhou garrison brigade, your Baoshan Brigade does not maintain order in the city, so why dig a tunnel outside the east gate?"
"This..." Liu Yi could only smile bitterly, not knowing how to explain it for a while.
"What nonsense." He Yingqin said impatiently, "Send someone to look for him immediately and ask Yue Weihan to come back."
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Outside the east gate, the position of Baoshan 1st Regiment.
Yue Weihan was inspecting the position accompanied by Cao Xinglong and Huang Baocheng, chief of staff of the regiment. Huang Baocheng introduced as he walked: "Look from the brigade, the tunnels of each company are constructed in strict accordance with the drawings issued by the staff department, and the tops of the communication trenches have been reinforced with logs and stones.
After passing through, anti-blast holes were dug every five meters on both sides, and they were reinforced with cement."
"Yes." Yue Weihan nodded and added, "Under each traffic trench, more tunnels must be dug. Foxholes and warning positions must also be connected to the tunnels. Each tunnel must have more exits to form a dense tunnel network. If
If the Japanese army's offensive is too fierce, they can temporarily abandon the peripheral ground fortifications, retreat to the tunnels, and then launch a counterattack at night to take it back!"
Cao Xinglong and Huang Baocheng nodded repeatedly after hearing this. They may not understand the essence of tunnel warfare, but they have unreserved trust in Yue Weihan. In fact, since Yue Weihan became the acting battalion commander of Baoshan Battalion, Yue Weihan has led his brothers to create
There have been too many miracles, and based on this, they are all willing to believe in Yue Weihan unconditionally.
However, as a time traveler, Yue Weihan is very aware of the power of tunnel fighting.
In the Korean battlefield, the reason why the volunteers with millet and rifles were able to defeat the United States, which was armed to the teeth, in Shangganlin, apart from the heroic spirit of death, the most important reason was tunnel warfare! Since the US military could not clear out the volunteers hiding in the tunnels, it was often during the day
We have just captured the position, but at night, it will be immediately taken back by the volunteers.
It is no exaggeration to say that tunnel warfare is the most powerful weapon used by the national army with backward equipment to deal with the mechanized Japanese army. With the help of the tunnel network extending in all directions, the power of the Japanese army's mechanized equipment will be greatly weakened, and its heavy artillery and aviation forces will also be unable to find weapons.
It basically loses its effectiveness when it reaches ground targets that can be bombed.
After bending down and walking through a narrow tunnel, Yue Weihan arrived at a foxhole at the forefront of the position.
"This is our regiment's most forward warning position." Huang Baocheng climbed out of the tunnel and said, "It's about four hundred meters away from our main position."
The function of the guard post is to provide battlefield warning.
Once the Japanese army launches an attack, they will first encounter the national army's guard posts. At this time, the Japanese army has only two choices, either to submerge the national army's guard posts at the cost of huge casualties, or to form an attack formation in advance. In this way,
The national army's main position four hundred meters away has enough preparation time.
After hearing this, Yue Weihan shook his head and said: "No, the warning position must be moved further forward, eight hundred meters away!"
"Eight hundred meters?" Huang Baocheng said in astonishment, "Brigade, if the warning position is placed eight hundred meters away, it will be difficult for the vanguard to withdraw to the main tunnel after warning."
"This battle is different from the past." Yue Weihan sighed and said, "In the past, whether in Jiangpu or Hanzhuang, we only faced a single brigade or a single division of the Japanese army, but this time in Xuzhou
, what we will face is the Japanese heavy artillery group, and what we will face at that time is not the field artillery or mountain artillery regiment, but the Japanese heavy artillery brigade."
"What is a heavy artillery brigade?" Yue Weihan said this and asked Cao Xinglong and Huang Baocheng, "Do you know?"
"I don't know." Cao Xinglong and Huang Baocheng shook their heads honestly. The most powerful Japanese artillery they have ever experienced so far is the 105-caliber mountain artillery of the Guoqi detachment!
This 105-caliber mountain artillery had already shattered the carefully constructed masonry and concrete fortifications of the Baoshan Regiment in the Battle of Jiangpu. If Yue Weihan hadn't carefully designed a trap and used the counter-attack tactic to destroy the Guoqi detachment's mountain artillery in one fell swoop
Team up, the battle of Jiangpu will definitely have another ending.
"Let me tell you this." Yue Weihan said, "Is the 105 Mountain Cannon of the Kuozaki Detachment powerful enough? But in front of the cannons of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 105 Mountain Cannon is simply scum! The Little Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade is equipped with calibers exceeding 150
Heavy howitzers, and heavy mortars with a caliber exceeding 200!"
"The lethality of such a large-caliber heavy artillery can't be exaggerated!"
"When a cannon hits it, it will directly create a large crater with a diameter of ten meters on the ground. If it is directly hit by the cannonball, even if it is hiding underground, it will be directly shocked to death! It will be even worse if it is left on the ground. The air wave generated by the explosion will directly hit the ground.
It can tear you into pieces, and the damage radius of the explosion fragments is more than fifty meters!"
Yue Weihan never meant to scare people with his words.
For a long time, the Chinese people's understanding of the Japanese artillery has been greatly biased. It is generally believed that the Japanese artillery is small in caliber and weak in lethality, and is far less powerful than the American howitzer. However, few people know that the Japanese army actually also possesses large-caliber heavy howitzers.
and cannons, but due to resource shortages, the Japanese Army only equipped six heavy artillery brigades.
Cao Xinglong and Huang Baocheng immediately looked at each other. The horrific scene described by Yue Weihan really surprised them.
"So..." Yue Weihan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "That's why I ask you to dig tunnels, and you must dig them deep enough, and you must leave enough exits to form a tunnel network with all directions, otherwise
Otherwise, it would be easy to be blown to death by the Japanese heavy artillery, or the tunnel would be blown up and buried alive underground!"
"That's why I ask you to place the warning position 800 meters away, because after the Japanese shelling, our tunnels will definitely be damaged to varying degrees, and a considerable part of the tunnel exits will be blown up. If there are not enough
Time, the brothers simply don’t have time to get back to the ground position!”
"Brigade, I understand! Don't worry, our regiment will strictly follow the drawings issued by the staff, and the requirements will only be higher, not lower!" Only then did Cao Xinglong truly understand Yue Weihan's good intentions.
, as Yue Weihan said, if you dig more tunnels and sweat more at this time, your brothers will bleed less during wartime!
"Okay, you continue the construction, and I will go to the 2nd Regiment's position." Yue Weihan said again.
"Report!" Before Yue Weihan finished speaking, a major staff officer from the brigade staff suddenly rushed over, stood at attention and saluted, "Brigade, please return to the headquarters immediately."
"Go back to the headquarters?" Yue Weihan frowned and asked, "Did the Chief of Staff say anything?"
The major's staff officer looked strangely and said: "Director He from the Military Command Department is here, and he has brought a foreign girl with him."
"Minister He?" Yue Weihan's brows furrowed even more, "What is he doing in Xuzhou at this time?"
"I don't know about this humble position." The staff major shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "Sergeant, you'd better go back quickly."
Yue Weihan had no choice but to jump on the jeep and said to Chu Zhongtian: "I'm not going to the 2nd Regiment's position anymore. Let's go back to the brigade headquarters."
Chu Zhongtian immediately sat on the driver's seat, and Tang Dashan quickly sat on the passenger seat. Chu Zhongtian immediately started the car and slammed the accelerator, and the jeep immediately sped out like a thunderbolt.
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Baoshan Tourism Department.
General He Yingqin was obviously impatient with waiting. If it weren't for the fact that he had something to ask Yue Weihan during this trip, he would have walked away long ago. How dare he, a small major general and brigade commander, let him, the party-state
It is simply unreasonable for a dignified first-level general to wait for more than half an hour.
Just when General He was about to get angry again, Yue Weihan finally came back.
"Brigadier Yue!" General He said rather unhappily, "You really made it easy for us to wait?"
Yue Weihan hurriedly stepped forward to salute, then said with a smile on his face: "Forgive me, sir, but I really didn't know you were coming. If I knew you were coming, sir, how could I dare to go out?"
"Okay, who wants to listen to you saying these useless things?" Admiral He was not really angry at all. He still dared not ignore Yue Weihan, the committee's beloved student and fellow countryman, not to mention that Yue Weihan had already asked
He couldn't apologize, and the little unhappiness in his heart disappeared in an instant.
"Come, come, Zhongshu, I will introduce you to an American guest." After speaking, General He led Yue Weihan to the side.
Only then did Yue Weihan notice that there was a foreign girl in the staff department. She was tall and graceful, with blond hair flowing down like waves, and a pair of eyes as blue as the sea. Yue Weihan suddenly thought of a sentence.
Lines: With an angelic face and a devilish figure, this is definitely a troublesome "Ocean horse"!
"This is Miss Helen." Admiral He said with a smile, "A special correspondent from the Associated Press."
After that, General He said to the blond foreign girl: "Miss Helen, this is Brigadier Yue Weihan."
"Oh, Juetner (General) Yue, you are more handsome and charming in person than the photos published in the newspapers. I am very happy to meet you." The American girl took two steps forward and opened her arms enthusiastically towards Yue Weihan.
Of course, Yue Weihan knew that this was Western etiquette, so he opened his arms without thinking and gently hugged the American girl's slender waist.
The staff members of the Baoshan Brigade Staff Headquarters were immediately stunned, and General He and Liu Yi were also a little confused.
Major Liu Xin happened to come out of the telecommunications room. When he saw this scene, his rosy face suddenly turned a little pale. He thought bitterly in his heart, adulterer and adulterer, these damn adulterer and adulteress...