"Lao Wang, what did you just say?" Xu Rui said, "You found surface coal? ”

"Not really." Wang Husheng said, "After I found this anthracite under the courtyard wall of my villager's house in the morning, I immediately found the man from this family, and I asked him where he got this stone, and guess what? The man told me he picked it up from Mustang Beach. ”

"Mustang Beach?"

Xu Rui hurriedly flipped through the map.

From the map, Xu Rui quickly found Mustang Beach.

Mustang Beach is located on the northwest side of Meizhen, about fifteen miles away from Meizhen, the Meihe River flowing from north to south makes a big bend in Mustang Beach, forming a huge U-shaped bay, judging from the map scale, the width of this U-shaped bay is about 1,000 meters, and the depth is more than 2,000 meters.

"Let's go, Lao Wang, let's go to Mustang Beach!"

Xu Rui immediately couldn't sit still, and pulled Wang Husheng and walked out.

"Now?" Wang Husheng was surprised and said, "Old Xu, it's daytime, there are devil cavalry patrols near Meizhen, and although Mustang Beach is far away, it's hard to say." ”

Xu Rui said: "Aren't they just a few devil cavalry, what are you afraid of?" ”

Xu Rui continued to pull Wang Husheng out, and when he arrived at the door, he shouted loudly: "Old Mo, hurry up and go to the cavalry camp to borrow two horses for me and the political commissar, by the way, borrow one for yourself, hurry up." ”

"Okay." Mo Zichen outside agreed, turned around and hurried away.

About half an hour later, Xu Rui, Wang Husheng, Mo Zichen and Wang Husheng's guards, four people and four horses, appeared at the Wild Horse Beach on the northwest side of Meizhen, and the road was very smooth, and they did not encounter the devil's scout cavalry.

When he arrived at the Mustang Beach, Xu Rui immediately turned over and dismounted and began to look for coal on the river beach.

At a glance, I saw that the entire Mustang Beach was basically full of fist-sized pebbles, and occasionally there were a few black stones, sure enough, these black stones were all coals, Xu Rui picked up a coal block and smashed it on the big stone, and found that the color of the coal was the same, without a trace of impurities, and it was really high-quality anthracite!

Then, Xu Rui and Wang Husheng used the hoes they carried with them to dig open the sand and gravel on the river beach, and cut a thin layer of sand and gravel, and the black coal seam was immediately exposed underneath! Seeing this black coal seam, Wang Husheng was not interested because he couldn't mine the coal mine, but Xu Rui was overjoyed, and immediately walked to the center of the river beach in high spirits.

In the center of the river beach is a wasteland overgrown with wild grass, and the thin layer of soil of the wasteland has been cut down, and the bottom is still a black coal seam.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Xu Rui randomly selected a dozen points and cut the sand at these dozen points, and the result was that the bottom was all black coal seams without exception.

I just don't know, how wide is the scope of the coal mine, and how deep is the depth of the coal seam?

However, this is no longer the point for Xu Rui, the point is that there is indeed a coal field here! And it's also a high-quality anthracite field!

"Go, go back!" Xu Rui didn't say more than half a word, got on the horse and turned around and left.

When he returned to the regiment headquarters, Xu Rui immediately summoned all the officers above the company level in the regiment to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.

Two hours later, the commanders of the battalions and companies rushed to the headquarters of the independent regiment one after another, and they all yawned for days; they fought hard all night the night before yesterday, and made a fuss yesterday, although they slept for two days in a row, but the spirit of slacking off was not so easy to recover, and this was also the reason why the troops had to rest and recuperate after the great war.

However, Xu Rui's first sentence made everyone's sleepiness disappear.

"I've already figured it out." Xu Rui's gaze swept over the faces of more than a dozen battalion and company commanders, and said, "Next, we will launch a big offensive and strive to solve the Kawaguchi detachment in one battle!" ”

"What, a big offensive?"

"Defeat the Kawaguchi detachment in World War I?"

"My goodness, is it really fake?"

As soon as Xu Rui's voice fell, more than a dozen battalion and company commanders exploded in one fell swoop.

To be honest, with a commander like Xu Rui, he will give you a "big surprise" from time to time, and the nerves of these battalion commanders and company commanders of the independent regiment are big enough, but after suddenly hearing Xu Rui's words, they were all shocked, this is a detachment, a detachment!

God, the head of the regiment really dares to think, he really dares to say!

But after the shock, doubts followed.

Leng Tiefeng first questioned and said, "Old Xu, are you sure you're not joking?" ”

Xu Rui still said: "Veteran, when did you see me joking on business?" ”

It's true, although Xu Rui occasionally makes a joke with his officers and soldiers, but when it comes to business, especially when it comes to war, he will never joke at all.

At that moment, Leng Tiefeng said: "Are you serious about saying this?" ”

"Of course." Xu Rui said, "It's more real than the guy on your waist." ”

"Okay." Leng Tiefeng said, "Then we'll listen to you." ”

"Come here, all of them." Xu Rui first walked to the huge simulated sand table placed in the war room, and then beckoned Leng Tiefeng and other more than a dozen battalions and company commanders to surround the sand table, and then continued, "The key to this operation is to try to lure the Kawaguchi detachment out, so you have to give the devil some bait first." ”

"Bait?"

"Still fishing?"

"I said Lao Xu, are you addicted to fishing?"

He Guangming, Wan Chongshan and Leng Tiefeng questioned again, and the company commanders below also nodded in unison, obviously not optimistic about Xu Rui's plan, under Xu Rui's deliberate guidance or cultivation, these battalion and company commanders have learned to think independently, even if this is a plan proposed by Xu Rui, it is inevitable that it will be questioned.

Xu Rui said hesitantly: "Since fishing has an effect, why not fish?" ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "Old Xu, the ancients said that you can't be proud. ”

Wan Chongshan also said: "The Western philosopher Plato said that it is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice, Lao Xu, you want to ambush the devil twice by the same means, but you think Kawaguchi Heiji is too stupid." ”

Lehi, who was sitting behind Wanzhongshan, whispered: "Old Wan, this is said by Galileo, not Plato. ”

"What, it was Eumedees." "This is Euclidean's law, that it is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice, that is, to make the same mistake twice in a row." ”

"Go, go, shut up, I don't know it's Euchmede's law? I just made a slip of the tongue. Wan Chongshan's face felt a little unbearable, and it seemed that he would have to read more books when he turned back.

Two black lines immediately floated on Xu Rui's head.

I go, how did Heraclitus become Plato? Also Euclidean Law.

Mei Jiuling and Huang Shouxin, who were sitting at the outskirts of the crowd, also wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

However, Xu Rui didn't demolish Wanzhong Mountain after all, in fact, he was too lazy to debunk it, and discussed Western philosophy with the three old soldiers, which didn't mean to discuss the embroidery skills with the butcher?

And to be honest, Xu Rui is not interested in Western philosophy at all, if you want to talk about philosophy, Eastern philosophy is not much higher than Western philosophy, but because in the first industrial revolution in modern times, Eastern civilization was backward, so even the various philosophical ideas of the East were covered with dust and looked down upon.

In fact, until the re-emergence of China at the beginning of the 21st century, many Chinese people had no confidence in their own culture and philosophy, and they would always refer to the West in every word, which is a typical example of kneeling for too long and forgetting how to stand.

In a word, patriotism is not guilty, and there is no need for a reason, let alone a cover-up.

At that moment, Xu Rui took over the conversation: "I understand what you mean, I can't say that your worries are completely unreasonable, as long as Kawaguchi Heiji is not an idiot, the possibility of making the same mistake twice in a row is indeed very small, but what I want to say is that as long as the bait is enough, I am not afraid that Kawaguchi will not take the bait." ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "Then tell me what kind of bait you plan to use?" ”

Xu Rui did not answer immediately, but placed the pennants of various colors, dolls, trucks, tanks, artillery and other models placed next to him on the sand table, Mei Jiuling and Huang Shouxin also came up to help, and the three of them quickly placed all the deduction tools on the simulated sand table.

After everything was laid out, Xu Rui said: "Now let's conduct a war game deduction, I am still the head of the independent regiment, veteran, you can be wronged, as the old devil of Kawaguchi Heiji, and you, you are all operational staff officers of the Kawaguchi detachment." ”

In order to improve the entire battle plan as much as possible, Xu Rui decided to single-handedly challenge all the battalion and company commanders, because in this way, under the deduction of everyone's gossip, the hidden flaws of the entire battle plan will be exposed as much as possible, so that in actual combat, unplanned emergencies will be reduced as much as possible.

Xu Rui first picked up a soldier model, put it on the periphery of Meizhen, and said, "Now I will first send a company to launch a surprise attack on the devil guard posts on the periphery of Meizhen at night. ”

"Lao Xu, this is your bait? I can only say that you are too picky. Leng Tiefeng smiled, and also picked up a soldier model from the Japanese barracks and placed it in the corresponding position, and said, "I will send a squadron to reinforce, if you don't use the machine gun company or special combat team, one of your companies can't help one of my squadrons." ”

"What if I send two more companies?" As Xu Rui spoke, he picked up two more soldier models and put them on the battlefield.

"Fueling tactics?" Leng Tiefeng was stunned, and then he also picked up two soldier models and put them on the battlefield, and said coldly, "Then I will also transfer two more squadrons, if Lao Xu you don't have other tricks, just blindly add troops to the battlefield, in the end, the first one who has no soldiers to send will definitely be you, not the old devil Kawaguchi." ”

"Really? Let's take a look. After Xu Rui finished speaking, he picked up nine more soldier models and put them on the battlefield, then clapped his hands and said, "Now, I put all three infantry battalions into the battlefield, and I must eat the fat that has been delivered to my mouth at all costs." ”