Xu Rui stood under the transformer with a bamboo pole in his hand, looked around and asked loudly, "Are you ready?" ”

"Ready!" Everyone responded in unison, Doudou, who had always been moody, was also cheering, and the second emperor was happily scurrying around in the crowd.

"Alright, count to ten with me, one!" Xu Rui led everyone to start counting, counting from one to ten, and then gently pushed the bamboo pole in his hand up, the dragon gate closed, and the street lamps on both sides of the street immediately lit up, although it was only a very dim light, but it was enough to make everyone excited for a long time.

"Auntie, now you don't have to mend your clothes under the oil lamp." Erya said.

"Who's to say it isn't? This lamp is much brighter than an oil lamp. Aunt Han said but suddenly cried, "It's a pity that Fengzi and his father can't see it." ”

Han Feng, Erya and the neighbors all came over to comfort him.

Aunt Han hurriedly wiped away her tears and said to everyone with a smile: "I'm fine, I'm really fine." ”

On this happy day, Aunt Han didn't want to disturb everyone's good mood because of her own affairs.

The Dameishan base finally has its own power supply and finally has a lighting system.

Immediately after the army compound, Meizhen in the distance and more than a dozen surrounding villages that had been electrified were also lit up, and Xu Rui could hear the cheers from the town and the surrounding villages several miles away, and the people in the base area could say goodbye to the days of foreign oil lamps forever.

The power plant that Xu Rui moved from Feicheng has enough electricity to supply all the factories in Feicheng and the Devil's Garrison Headquarters, and to provide lighting electricity for hundreds of thousands of people in the base area, is it more than enough? Even if the arsenal and ash factory were built in the later period, the power supply was no problem.

The coal resources used to generate electricity are also sufficient, the coal field fire in Yematan has been extinguished, and then dig deeper, it is still a thick anthracite coal seam, some students who have studied geology have estimated it, saying that the anthracite coal in Yematan is enough for the Dameishan power plant to consume for decades.

The only thing that worries Xu Rui is that there is no concept of environmental protection at this time, let alone environmental protection measures.

Over time, the coal-fired power plants in the base area are bound to cause serious damage to the environment of Dameishan, especially the Meihe River, which will become the Heishui River in just a few years.

However, it is impossible for Xu Rui to take care of these now.

If the country is going to perish, the nation is going to be erased, leaving the green mountains and green waters and birds to use?

As for environmental protection, we will find a way to wait until the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is won and the whole country is liberated.

With electric lighting, the efficiency of night work has been substantially improved.

The newly built regimental headquarters of the independent regiment is just outside the gate of the army compound, which is a whole row of bungalows, with more than 20 rooms, and each department has separate offices, and Xu Rui and Wang Husheng now have separate offices.

Walking into his office, watching the dim light sprinkle down to illuminate the whole room, Xu Rui felt much more comfortable than the original horse lamp, and now he finally has a bit of modern life, and he no longer has to work on the map with a horse lamp in one hand and a pencil ruler in the other.

Next to Xu Rui's regimental commander's room is a large bungalow, which is a war room.

Every once in a while, there will be a group of cadets from the academy to come to the regiment headquarters as intern staff officers, this time the intern staff officers have set up a sand table in the war room, but this time, there is no one around the simulated sand table, at this moment all the cadets are gathered in front of a large table, is watching the two old cadets work on the map.

Those two veteran cadets were the cadets of the first youth training team and the official staff officers of the regiment headquarters.

Most of the cadets of the youth training team who were in the same period as He Shuya, Huang Shouxin, and Mei Jiuling have now gone down to the front-line troops to serve as platoon commanders or even company commanders, like He Shuya, and the three are all battalion commanders.

The map shows the situation of the battle of Wuhan as friend and foe.

Because of Xu Rui, history has been completely and profoundly changed.

In the Battle of Wuhan in history, the Japanese army occupied Wuhan and won it, but in fact, none of the tactical objectives set before the war were achieved, neither did they destroy a large number of the living forces of the Nationalist Army, nor did they achieve the main strategic intention of forcing the Nationalist Government to surrender on their knees.

In fact, the Japanese army only occupied a narrow area from Anqing to Wuhan, along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River.

However, this narrow area along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River not only did not bring any benefit to the Japanese army, but on the contrary caused a heavy burden to the Japanese army; in addition to stationing heavy troops to defend Wuhan, it was also necessary to always guard against attacks by the Nationalist army from both sides of the Yangtze River.

But now, the situation is very different.

The biggest difference is that Changsha City has been lost!

Although Wuhan has not yet been lost, and although the main forces of the Nationalist Army in the Ninth and Fifth Theaters are still fighting fiercely day and night with the main forces of the Japanese 11th Army on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, the Japanese 3rd Division, which has been interspersed from Nanchang in a roundabout way, has already taken advantage of the situation to occupy nearly half of Hunan and has already formed a de facto encirclement of Wuhan.

Once Wuhan falls, the Japanese army will completely control the Huguang Plain, which has the reputation of the world's granary!

Once Huguang falls, the impact on the entire course of the Sino-Japanese war will be absolutely catastrophic!

Because of the loss of Huguang, the supply of military rations for the Nationalist Army will be even tighter, while the supply of military rations for the Japanese army will be greatly relieved.

Although the Nationalist High Command tried its best to cobble together its forces and launched a counteroffensive against Changsha from the three directions of Hengyang, Chenzhou, and Yueyang at the same time, trying to recapture Changsha and reopen the southern section of the Pinghan Road, the reality was extremely cruel, and these improvised patchwork troops not only lacked training, but also lacked equipment, and were completely vulnerable to the well-trained and well-equipped Japanese army.

After the Japanese 3rd Division occupied Changsha, it quickly divided its troops into two routes, all the way south to attack Hengyang and Shaoguan, while the main force of the division went north along the railway line, and the main force of the division pointed directly at Wuhan, and the main force of the Ninth Theater of Operations, which was still fighting fiercely with the Japanese Botian Detachment and the 27th Division on the south bank of the Yangtze River, was already in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army.

In order to stabilize the grim situation on the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Nationalist Army High Command has transferred troops from the north of the Yangtze River to the south several times, and now the number of troops concentrated on the south bank of the Yangtze River has reached three corps.

Jiangbei already had only Sun Lianzhong's 3rd Army Corps plus two armies.

It can be said that at this time, the defense on the north bank of the Yangtze River was already very empty.

However, at this time, the Zhang Gufeng incident suddenly came to an end.

When the time entered July, the Japanese government was forced to make a major compromise to the Soviet government under the pressure of the Central China battlefield, ceded several strategic heights such as Zhang Gufeng at the junction of the Soviet Union and Manchukuo to the Soviet army, and at the same time secretly signed a peace agreement with the Soviet Union, the situation in Manchuria calmed down, and the clouds of war disappeared into nothingness.

Having lifted the threat from Manchuria, the 2nd Army was finally able to set off for the south.

At the end of July, Shanshan, the 2nd Army of the Higashikuri Tsusahiko, arrived late and finally arrived in Wuhu on a naval ship, and Jiangnan, who was lurking in Nanjing, immediately transmitted this confidential information back to Dameishan.

At this time, the two veteran cadets of the first phase of the youth training were marking on the map, which was the progress of the 2nd Army.

I saw two old soldiers draw a huge blue arrow on the map, from Wuhu all the way north to Feicheng, and then marked at the arrow: 2nd Army.

Xu Rui walked into the war room and happened to see this scene.

Seeing Xu Rui walk in, the cadets stood up and saluted.

The cadet soldiers, who were still drawing just now, hurriedly put down the pencils in their hands and reported to Xu Ruilizheng: "Regiment commander, I just got news from Nanjing that the 2nd Army of Dongjiuer has arrived in Wuhu. ”

"Higashikure Twisthiko is finally here." Xu Rui nodded, and then turned back and ordered Lei Xiang, "Lei Zi, let the communication company immediately send someone to notify all the battalion commanders to come to the regiment headquarters for a meeting." ”

"Yes." Thunder turned and walked away.

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The information provided by Jiangnan is not very accurate.

In fact, only the 15th Division of the 2nd Army had arrived in Wuhu, the 10th Division was still on the Yangtze River heading to Nanjing, and the 16th Division was still at sea.

The weather tonight is not very good, the wind and waves on the Yangtze River are also high, the gunboats transporting troops are also constantly swaying from side to side, and many devil soldiers are vomiting in the dark.

Higashikure Twist is a little devil who has nothing to do, and is even in the mood to stand on the bow of the boat and watch the night view.

The chief of staff of the 2nd Army, Machijiri Liangji, came out of the cabin, walked behind Higashikuru Tsukihiko, and persuaded: "Your Highness, the wind and waves outside are too strong, for your safety, please go back to the cabin?" ”

Higashikure waved his hand, and said with some displeasure: "Machijiri-san, please don't call me any Your Highness, now I am not a prince, but just a soldier, an ordinary imperial soldier, the same words, I will only remind you once, there will never be a second time." ”

"Hello." Machijiri Gyokiton said, "Your Excellency, for your safety, please return to the cabin." ”

"Safe?" Dong Jiu Er shook his head and said, "Jiang Yi, the leader of China, once said that as soon as the war begins, there is no distinction between north and south, and people are not divided into old and young, all of them have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war, and apply it to the officers and soldiers of the imperial army. As a soldier, in this holy war related to the fortunes of the empire, where is there no danger, where is there no battlefield? ”

"Hello." Machijiri was speechless, and could only pause again.

Higashikuri breathed a sigh of relief, then turned back to stare at Machijiri and said, "Machijiri-san, do you know what I thought of when I stood at the bow of the boat just now?" ”

Machijiri shook his head, indicating that he did not know.

Higashikure said: "I remembered that sixteen years ago, it was also such a night, my imperial brother and I took the British battleship Queen Elizabeth to France, at that time I was also standing in the bow of the ship, and my imperial brother is standing in the position where you are standing now, the imperial brother at that time was really high-spirited, and there was only one thought in his mind, to learn the ability to complete himself, and then return to China to open up the territory for the empire!" ”