After more than a month of intense construction, the Baoshan Brigade's defenses have been basically completed. Each regiment and battalion not only built solid ground fortifications, but also dug out a network of tunnels extending in all directions. In particular, the special agent team led by Zhao Xinyi mobilized sufficient
Twenty thousand voluntary workers greatly accelerated the excavation of tunnel fortifications.
By May 4th, an underground city had been dug under Xuzhou City!
At this time, Yue Weihan, accompanied by Chief of Staff Liu Yi, was inspecting the tunnel fortifications of Xuzhou Railway Station outside the east gate.
Liu Yi introduced to Yue Weihan as he walked: "You see, the train station's tunnel fortifications are completely excavated according to your standards. There are many passages connected to the ground. There are not only transportation lines, arsenals, and grain depots underneath, but also
There are rest areas, kitchens, and even toilets, this is completely an underground castle!”
Yue Weihan said: "The train station is close to the Yellow River. Didn't you encounter any landslides when digging the tunnel?"
Liu Yi hurriedly said: "No, although Xuzhou is close to the Yellow River, the aquifer is very deep. You have to dig down at least ten meters for groundwater to seep out. How could it collapse?"
Yue Weihan asked again: "Didn't you meet Guan Yong?"
"We did meet him," Liu Yi said, "but he quickly blocked himself, so it's not a big problem."
In fact, the water permeability of the Yellow River bed is indeed very poor, and even if a piping occurs occasionally, it can easily be blocked by itself.
This is because the sediment content of the Yellow River water is too high. Historically, when the Chinese army dug the Yellow River embankment, they failed several times in a row because the sediment carried by the overflowing river water quickly filled the gap again, until finally,
The national army succeeded in digging a dike at Huayuankou, flooding more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai area.
After inspecting the tunnel, Yue Weihan and Liu Yi had just reached the ground when they met the special operations captain Liu Tiezhu.
Liu Tiezhu quickly stood up to attention and gasped: "Travel seat, the little devil is here!"
"Oh?" Yue Weihan suddenly focused his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Where are the Japs?"
Liu Tiezhu said: "A large number of Japanese troops have been discovered in Tongshan, Xiaoxian, Zhengji, Yanglou and Jiawangzhuang. There are at least two brigades of Japanese troops in each direction!"
Yue Weihan immediately turned back to Tang Dashan and said: "Inform all regiments immediately and the chief officers of each directly affiliated battalion will come to the brigade headquarters for a meeting!"
After that, Yue Weihan said to Liu Yi: "Let's go back to the brigade headquarters!"
Hurrying back to the brigade headquarters, Yue Weihan, Liu Yi and Liu Tiezhu went straight to the war room. Liu Yi opened the curtain on the north wall, revealing a large military map hanging on the wall. Liu Tiezhu quickly picked up the pencil and
The locations of Tongshan, Xiaoxian, Zhengji, Yanglou and Jiawangzhuang are marked out.
"Report!" Major staff officer Liu Xin suddenly stepped inside, stood upright and said, "Sir, the department has an urgent call!"
Yue Weihan said without turning his head: "Read it!"
Major Liu Xin immediately opened the telegram and read: "Baoshan Brigade: The main force of the theater has entered Woyang this morning. Yu Xuezhong's headquarters and Sun Lianzhong's headquarters have also entered the Sulu border and central Shandong area. However, your brigade is still there.
It is necessary to hold on to Xuzhou for at least half a month so that the Japanese army cannot advance westward quickly along the Longhai Line. This order is issued to the Fifth War Zone, Li Zongren."
"Okay, got it." Yue Weihan waved his hand and motioned for Major Liu Xin to go out.
Major Liu Xin pouted and could only turn around and leave the war room. Liu Yi couldn't help but remind him in a low voice: "Brigade, are you too cold to Major Liu?"
Yue Weihan waved his hand, not wanting to take this issue at all.
Yue Weihan is not willing to neglect Liu Xin. He also wants to hold the little hand of Liu Xin’s beautiful girl and fall in love before the flowers and under the moon. But when is it now? The national crisis is at hand! As a Chinese with a conscience, as a bloody person
As a descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, Yue Weihan really has no intention of going romantic at this time.
After carefully analyzing the map for a moment, Liu Yi suddenly said: "With the current strength, equipment and complete defenses of our Baoshan Brigade, it would be wishful thinking for the little Japs to capture Xuzhou within half a month. However, after half a month,
How to break out of the encirclement is a difficult problem and very nerve-wracking, what do you think, Traveler?"
Yue Weihan nodded, then shook his head, but did not say a word.
As Liu Yi said, it is definitely not a problem for the Baoshan Brigade to hold Xuzhou for half a month. The problem is how to break out of Xuzhou after half a month? This is really not an easy task, but then again, Baoshan
It is actually very easy for the brigade to break out of Xuzhou. The key depends on whether Yue Weihan is willing.
If Yue Weihan follows Chairman Chiang's wishes and digs out the Yellow River embankment, once the Yellow River floods down, hundreds of kilometers around Xuzhou and the entire Huanghuai area will become a vast ocean. If the Japanese army doesn't want to starve to death, then
The only option was to retreat, and whether they could retreat safely was questionable. How could they still have the energy to attack Xuzhou?
The Baoshan Brigade is protected by the Xuzhou city wall, has no worries about flooding, has enough military rations, and does not have to worry about starving to death. As long as the Japanese army withdraws from Xuzhou, the Baoshan Brigade will have enough time to move calmly. However, below Xuzhou
Tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the entire Huanghuai region are about to be wiped out!
Therefore, Yue Weihan would never choose to dig up the river embankment.
Yue Weihan would rather the entire Baoshan Brigade be annihilated and die on the Xuzhou battlefield than tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Yellow River region become homeless refugees and eventually become "starvation victims" on the way to escape.
", those are tens of millions of living lives, and they are all compatriots connected by blood!
No matter what, Yue Weihan can't be so cruel!
"Forget it, let's not think about the problem of breaking out for now." After a long time, Yue Weihan said, "Let's first figure out how to attack the Japanese army. If nothing else happens, the Japanese army's first choice target of attack must be the train station outside the east gate.
The Japanese army still doesn’t know that we have dug tunnels, so we can catch them unawares.”
Liu Yi's expression suddenly changed and he said: "Traveler, this is a clever move. The little devil will definitely suffer a big loss."
"Okay, let's quickly go to the conference room to arrange combat tasks." Yue Weihan shook his head and said, "Cao Xinglong, Chi Chengfeng, and Li Qinglong are probably already quarreling."
"Okay." Liu Yi said hurriedly, "Then let's go there quickly."
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Baoshan Tourism Headquarters Conference Room.
The three regimental commanders, Cao Xinglong, Chi Fengfeng, and Lu Xiufeng, and the five direct battalion commanders, including Niu Dagen, Li Yulong, Hua Hanlin, Ma Daguai, and Li Qinglong, had already arrived, and all of them were gearing up and looking in high spirits.
The Baoshan Brigade is really strong now, and they are just waiting for the little devil to come and be beaten.
Although the Baoshan Brigade is still a Category A Brigade in name, in fact it has already been organized into a Category A Division.
In the order of the national army, the A Division has two brigades and six regiments, and the B Division has two brigades and four regiments. Although the Baoshan Brigade has only three infantry regiments on the organizational list, if you include the bayonet battalion and the guard battalion, you dare not
The death camp and the independent camp, that’s four regiments, plus the two supplementary regiments specially allocated by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, that’s six infantry regiments!
Liu Yi also proposed to Yue Weihan that the two supplementary regiments should be broken up into bayonet battalions, guard battalions and independent battalions, and then these three battalions should be expanded into regiments.
However, Yue Weihan was not in a hurry to expand the bayonet battalion, guard battalion and independent battalion into a regiment!
The reason is very simple. Li Yulong, Hua Hanlin and Ma Daguai are not yet qualified for the position of regimental commander. Although there is only one level difference between the regiment and the battalion, there is a huge difference between the two. Each battalion only has more than 500 troops.
There are more people in the larger bandit dens, so it is not too difficult to command, but it is very different for a regiment.
A Category A regiment has four infantry battalions, plus the directly affiliated teams, there are three thousand people!
Commanding 500 people and commanding 3,000 people are two completely different concepts. After all, Li Yulong was born as a battalion commander in the Sichuan Army and may be barely qualified, but Hua Hanlin was only a top soldier six months ago, and Ma Daguai was only two months ago.
Before, they were drinking a lot of wine and eating a lot of meat as lake bandits. It was absolutely impossible for these two guys to be qualified.
While Yue Weihan and Liu Yi were analyzing the enemy's situation in the war room, Cao Xinglong and the others were not idle either.
Cao Xinglong and others also judged that the Japanese army would attack the train station first. It was actually easy to make such a judgment because the train station was isolated outside Xuzhou City and was a typical strategic location. It also closely connected the Longhai Line and Jinpu Railway, so its strategic position was
It is extremely important, so it is completely reasonable for it to be attacked first by the Japanese army.
Facts have proved that the person who knows this group of proud soldiers best is their commander Yue Weihan.
As Yue Weihan expected, these battalion commanders were already quarreling over the task of guarding the railway station. Chi Chengfeng and Li Yulong refused to give in to each other and were about to take action.
"Li Yulong, who are you to his grandma? You dare to rob the train station with me?" Chi Chengfeng said angrily, "In terms of military rank, I am a colonel, and you are a lieutenant colonel. In terms of position, I am the regiment leader. You
I'm just a battalion commander. In terms of qualifications, when I followed the brigade from birth to death in Baoshan County, you didn't know where you were fooling around."
"Hey." Li Yulong retorted, "So what if you have seniority? What if you have a high military rank and a high position? The fist force of the Baoshan Brigade is not your 2nd Regiment, but our Bayonet Battalion! What is a fist force? A fist force.
Just use me in the first battle, and you will win if you use me! Do you know? Besides, there was a competition between the whole brigade. One guy from our Bayonet Battalion won six collective excellences and five individual firsts. Where is your 2nd regiment? You are just fucking stupid.
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"Hey, hey, I tell you two, don't argue." Although Li Qinglong, the commander of the death battalion, joined the Baoshan Brigade late, he has the straightforward character of a man from the Northeast. Now that he has joined the Baoshan Brigade, he will never put himself at risk.
Now that he was an outsider, he immediately stood up and persuaded, "Don't take over the task of guarding the train station from our death camp, okay?"
"Just you? Why don't you take a pee and take a picture by yourself."
"You're still young, get out of here!"
Chi Chengfeng and Li Yulong looked at each other angrily at the same time. Li Qinglong suddenly became unhappy and said: "Hey, hey, I just wanted to give you a few words of persuasion. Why are you two coming after me? His grandma is such a bear. She wants me."
I said you guys shouldn’t fight, don’t worry about football, just go outside and practice, whoever wins gets to play, how about that?”