Liu Yi handed the message in his hand to Yue Weihan and said solemnly: "Brigade, the military command department just called back, insisting that we defend Xuzhou until the last soldier!"
After Yue Weihan read the telegram, he said suddenly: "I will be outside, and I will not accept your orders!"
After that, Yue Weihan strode to the huge military map hanging on the wall and said: "Chief of Staff, how is your staff working on the breakout plan?"
"We have prepared several plans, but none of them are ideal." Liu Yi said with a wry smile. "The dozen or so transportation lines (tunnels) leading outside the city have all been destroyed by the Japanese heavy artillery and aerial bombs. It will be difficult to rebuild them in a short time."
It is absolutely impossible to break through, and the chance of forcing a breakout is slim. Five elite divisions of the Japanese army have gathered outside Xuzhou City."
Yue Weihan also frowned and said nothing. The five masters of the little devil were indeed difficult to deal with.
Chu Zhongtian suddenly said: "Brigade, just dig up the embankment and die together with the little devil!"
"Nonsense." Liu Yi reprimanded, "If we really want to dig out the embankment, what will happen to tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai River Basin?"
Yue Weihan's expression moved slightly, and he immediately turned back to Liu Yi and said, "Chief of Staff, I think this is a good idea!"
"Brigade, no, this is absolutely not possible!" Liu Yi immediately said urgently, "Why do we serve as soldiers to fight? Isn't it for the safety of the people? Have you forgotten our original intention of guarding Xuzhou? The reason why you volunteered in the first place,
Isn't the purpose of guarding Xuzhou so that tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai River Basin can avoid being destitute and displaced?"
"Chief of Staff, don't worry." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "I don't really want to dig the embankment."
"Huh?" Liu Yi suddenly said, "You mean to bluff the Japanese army to force the Japanese army to withdraw from Xuzhou?"
"The enemy!" Yue Weihan patted the map heavily and said, "Chief of Staff, please think that the Japanese army's five major regiments are all mechanized troops, and their heavy equipment must rely on railways or roads to maneuver. Once the Yellow River bursts its banks, all railways and roads near Xuzhou will be destroyed.
Everything will be flooded and completely turned into a swamp, and then the heavy equipment of the little devil will be stuck in the mud and it will be difficult to move even an inch!"
Liu Yi said excitedly: "If the Japanese army knew that we were going to dig up the Yellow River embankment and plan to die with them, they would never dare to stay outside Xuzhou. At least their heavy equipment would have to be withdrawn to a safe area in advance. The Japanese army would lose their heavy equipment.
Its combat effectiveness has dropped by more than two levels? In this case, our success rate of breakout will be greatly increased!"
Yue Weihan added: "The problem is how to let the Japanese army know this news? And believe it to be true!"
"It is actually not difficult to accomplish these two points. We only need to send clear telegrams to inform tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai River Basin to evacuate urgently. No matter how stupid the little devil is, he can guess what we want to do."
Liu Yi said this, then shook his head and said, "But the consequences of doing this are too serious, and it will make you bear the infamy for the rest of your life."
"This is definitely not possible. We will definitely not do anything that disturbs the people!" Yue Weihan said, "But what you said also reminded me. Why don't we immediately telegraph the commander's department and the general staff to ask for approval from the top to dig the Yellow River embankment?
In this way, the impact can be controlled to a minimum and the Japanese army can get the news in time."
"Well, this method is good!" Liu Yi said, "In order to arouse the vigilance of the Japanese military intelligence department, we can send several emergency telegrams in succession and repeatedly ask for instructions from the top. As long as the intelligence personnel of the little devil are not fools, they will definitely arouse enough
Attention, as for what the summit thinks, that is not within our scope of consideration, haha."
"Okay, let's do it!" Yue Weihan finally made the decision, and then added, "In addition, in order to reduce casualties as much as possible, order the entire brigade to immediately shrink the defense line, and then let the 2nd Regiment bring back the Bayonet Battalion and the Independent Battalion. The train station has already
There is no need to defend anymore, and abandoning the train station can also make the Japanese military leaders more convinced that we will flood Xuzhou!"
"Yes!" Liu Yi snapped to attention, then turned around and hurried into the telecommunications room next door.
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Xiao County, Japanese Third Army Headquarters.
General Hata Toshiro was discussing the war situation with Lieutenant General Okabe. Major General Tomo Tetsuda suddenly strode in. He immediately put his feet back and stood at attention and said: "Your Excellency, General, the Telecommunications Office just reported that the telecommunications contact between the Baoshan Brigade and Wuhan suddenly changed.
The situation is extremely suspicious and there seems to be a major move!"
"Oh?" General Hata Toshiro frowned, "What is the judgment of the staff?"
Major General Tomo Tetsuda said: "The staff believes that there are two possibilities. One is that Baoshan Travel will break through, and the other is that Chinese reinforcements are coming. Based on the information provided by the Special High School and the aviation force, the possibility of reinforcements arriving is very slim. Therefore, the staff believes that
, the Baoshan Brigade is probably asking Wuhan for instructions and preparing to break out!"
Lieutenant General Okabe suddenly asked: "Tengtian-kun, where is your personal judgment?"
Major General Tomo Tengda said: "I personally think that there is a third possibility!"
After saying that, Major General Teng Tianzhi strode to the huge map hanging on the wall and said: "Two generals, please see, Xuzhou is almost a plain terrain for hundreds of miles, and it is less than three kilometers away from the north gate of Xuzhou.
The Yellow River, the Yellow River is commonly known as the 'terrestrial river' in China because its river bed is significantly higher than the horizon."
"Hiss..." Lieutenant General Okabe suddenly took a breath of air and said solemnly, "Tengtian-kun, do you mean that the Chinese will dig up the Yellow River at all costs and flood the imperial army?"
"Hai!" Major General Teng Tianzhi suddenly lowered his head and said solemnly, "Looking at the five thousand years of Chinese civilization history, it is actually a long history of wars, in which there are hundreds of cases of victory due to flooding, and two
You are a general, this is an ancient nation that has taken flooding tactics to the extreme, and the Japanese Imperial Army must guard against it!"
Lieutenant General Okabe said solemnly: "If this is really the case, the imperial army must withdraw from Xuzhou immediately!"
General Hata Toshiro frowned and said: "If the Chinese really dig up the Yellow River, it will not only be the Japanese Imperial Army outside Xuzhou City that will be flooded, but the Chinese army inside Xuzhou City will also not be spared. Dozens of counties in the Huanghuai River Basin will be flooded."
Tens of millions of Chinese people will also suffer disaster. Can the Chinese government really make this determination? This move is a serious violation of international conventions!"
Major General Tomo Tomo said solemnly: "The Chinese have an idiom, it is better to be in pieces than in ruins. And the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek is also a completely cold-blooded politician. His first consideration is always the rule represented by himself.
class interests, so I think it is entirely possible that he ordered the digging of the Yellow River."
General Hata Shushi obviously still didn't believe it, or he couldn't make up his mind to withdraw from Xuzhou.
Because withdrawing from Xuzhou is risky. Once the main force of the Japanese army really withdraws from Xuzhou, and the Chinese have not dug out the Yellow River, it will definitely leave a gap for the Baoshan Brigade to break through. Once the Baoshan Brigade really succeeds in breaking through,
Then the military career of General Hata Shunroku will definitely come to an end. The base camp and Deputy Commander Ishihara will never tolerate such a result!
Major General Satoshi Tetsuda clearly guessed the concerns of General Hata Toshiro and said: "Your Excellency, General, even if this is just a bluff by the Chinese, the Hoshan Brigade will never escape the end of the entire army being destroyed! Even if the five main divisions of the Imperial Army retreat,
Fifty miles away, it is still possible to form a huge encirclement around Xuzhou. The possibility of the Baoshan Brigade protruding from the encirclement into an organized area is very slim. If they break out separately, it will give the imperial army a chance to defeat them one by one and encircle and annihilate them separately!"
"What if a fish slips through the net?" General Hata Junliu frowned, "What if Yue Weihan cannot be caught?"
"It is certainly inevitable for fish to slip through the net, but a small group of remnant soldiers slipping through the net is no longer enough to cause a storm. For both the Empire of Japan and the Chinese, as long as most of the Baoshan Brigade is wiped out, it is equivalent to the entire Baoshan Brigade being wiped out.
!" Major General Teng Tianzhi said this, and then said, "As for whether Yue Weihan can be captured alive, it actually doesn't matter. What the headquarters staff headquarters actually needs is to completely annihilate the Baoshan Brigade to restore the bad influence domestically and internationally."
General Hata Toshiro thought for a moment but still couldn't make up his mind, and said to Lieutenant General Okabe: "Okabe-kun, order the Special High School Section to seize the time to decipher the Chinese secret code. This matter is of great importance and we must not make a hasty decision. I must
Know the exact contents of the messages exchanged between Baoshan Brigade and Chinese high-level officials!”
…
While the six generals, Hata Shun, were hesitating, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was furious.
At four o'clock in the morning, less than half an hour after Chairman Chiang lay down, he was woken up by Wang Shihe, the chief of the national guard. Amid Madam Chiang's dissatisfied mutterings, Chairman Chiang hurriedly got up, put on his clothes and came to the living room.
, I saw General Li, Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth War Zone, He Yingqin, Chief and Deputy Chief of the General Staff Headquarters, and Bai Chongqi already standing outside the door with solemn expressions.
Looking at this posture, Chairman Chiang knew that something big was going on. How could it be minor if three members of the national army showed up at the same time?
Soon, Chairman Chiang knew the whole story. Since ten o'clock last night, the Baoshan Brigade had been going crazy, sending messages to the General Staff Department and the General Staff Headquarters again and again.
They are all different, but there is only one content. The same meaning is said over and over again - Baoshan Brigade is going to dig the Yellow River!
"Mother Xipi!" Chairman Chiang suddenly became furious, "What does Yue Weihan want to do? What does he want to do!? It's just that he refuses to be loyal to the country and refuses to defend Xuzhou. At most, he is just a runaway general. But if he really wants to dig out
If he opened the Yellow River and flooded tens of millions of innocent people in the Yellow-Huai River Basin, could he bear this historical responsibility?"
Vice President Bai curled his lips and cursed in his heart, Mr. Jiang is really shameless.
General Li frowned deeply, and felt even more confused. Based on his understanding of Yue Weihan, it was absolutely impossible for Yue Weihan to dig the Yellow River. Even if Jiang ordered it, he would never carry it out! Otherwise, he would not have carried out the order in Nanjing.
, it is impossible for Yue Weihan to fabricate Jiang’s edict for the sake of 700,000 refugees!