After the meeting, Sun Yumin made a phone call to Wuhan in his office and told Chen Bui all his plans and campaign goals, saying that he wanted to listen to his opinions.

How could Chen Bui not know what Sun Yumin meant, he wanted to let himself report this matter to Lao Jiang as it was, and then tell this battle through his Lao Jiang's mouth, these words, Sun Yumin can be regarded as being ordered to go on the expedition, and Lao Jiang has become the organizer and commander.

From this incident, Chen Bui's understanding of Sun Yumin has increased a little, and his goodwill has also increased.

He knocked on the door of Lao Jiang's office, walked in, and said, "President, Sun Yumin from the 20th Division has a call, saying that he wants to lead troops to capture Jining, and he has asked you for instructions and guidance. ”

"Oh?" Lao Jiang was surprised, and he said: "Didn't he say last time that Shandong would be difficult to recover for the time being? Why did you suddenly want to attack Jining? ”

Chen Bui opened a small map in his hand and said: "Sun Yumin explained it this way, the 6th and 13th divisions of the Japanese army marching in the direction of Nanjing were dragged to the line of Anhui and the Soviet Union by Li Pinxian's group, and it was difficult to move an inch, and the lag of the attack from south to north seriously affected the Japanese army's attempt to attack Xuzhou from the north and south and open up the Jinpu line. If Jining and Gunzhou are taken back now, and then they are held, forcing the Japanese army to advance in one direction from Linyi and Zaozhuang, and concentrating their forces to eat the 10th Division, then it will completely crush the enemy's attempt to flank Xuzhou on both sides and try to connect North China and East China. ”

After Jiang Guangtou looked at Chen Bui's pointing on the map, he suddenly seemed to understand, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "If this plan succeeds, then the Japanese invaders attacking Xuzhou will fall into the encirclement of our army on three sides, once they are in the pocket, we only need to send an elite army to block their back road, and the 10th Division will become a dog in a cage, and you can eat whatever you want." ”

Chen Bui nodded and said, "That's the case, president." Sun Yumin also reported like this, and he also said a worry, which can be regarded as a hidden danger. ”

Lao Jiang hurriedly asked, "What is the hidden danger he said?" ”

"He was worried that Li Pinxian's troops would not be able to resist the joint offensive of the Japanese Ninth and Thirteenth Divisions advancing from Nanjing, and that the Sixth Division, which had been waiting for them, was in Nanjing." Chen Bui hesitated, but still said it.

Lao Jiang's smile immediately retracted after hearing these words, and asked, "Yan Ji, do you think if this situation occurs, what will be the situation?" ”

"Once Li Pinxian's troops are defeated, then the national army troops surrounding the 10th Division in Xuzhou will be surrounded by a larger encirclement, and hundreds of thousands of troops will become fish and meat on the Japanese army's swords."

Lao Jiang was so frightened that he trembled, and some fine beads of sweat appeared on his oily head, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his sweat, and said, "Yan Ji, do you think Li Pinxian can withstand it?" ”

"It's very difficult, even if all the troops of Su and Anhui are sent, it will be difficult to hold it!"

"Then the battle of Xuzhou can't be fought?" Jiang Guangtou asked: "Since it can't be beaten, why does Sun Yumin still send troops to Jining?" ”

That's what I asked him. Guess what this kid says. Chen Bui said.

Lao Jiang naturally didn't guess, Chen Bui just said this, and then said: "He said that as long as the 20th Division takes Gunzhou and clamps there like a bone nail, the Japanese army who is in a hurry to take Xuzhou will attack from the direction of Linyi Zaozhuang, and the Japanese army attacking this way will become a lone army." As long as you deploy a little and tighten the military orders, the national army will swallow these Japanese troops alive. ”

Lao Jiang frowned, shook his hand, and said, "The cake is very tempting, but I don't know if I can eat it." He still didn't get to the point, how long Li Pinxian in the Wansu mirror could withstand it, no one knew the bottom of his heart, including Li Pinxian himself. ”

Lao Jiang looked at Chen Bui, who was looking at him with a smile on his face, and continued: "Yan Ji, don't you see this, once the sixth, ninth, and thirteenth divisions of the Japanese army in the direction of Nanjing break through any point of Li Pinxian's division in Anhui and Suzhou, it is possible to make the whole line of the army rout, so that hundreds of thousands of troops in the fifth theater will be directly exposed to the Japanese army on both routes, and the consequences will be irreparable." ”

Chen Bui has been smiling at Lao Jiang talking, and only after he finished speaking, did he start to analyze Lao Jiang, he knew that it was not easy to convince Lao Jiang, but in order to support Sun Yumin, in order to realize the plan in the heart of this prospective son-in-law, he was willing to gamble.

"President, since the three eastern provinces, the Japanese invaders have been rampant on our soil, just because their weapons and equipment are more advanced than ours? With the strength of my great power, can't I deal with the Japanese in the corner? No, the main reason why we are retreating is that all the ministries are trying their best to protect themselves, there are many factions, and no one is subordinate to anyone in private. ”

"Now is the right time to take this opportunity to establish your absolute prestige, if anyone changes the order and treats you and the orders of the central government as a child's play, then let him accompany Han Fuyu. You say, is this going to work? ”

Lao Jiang is actually like a mirror in his heart, and he is also bitter about these shortcomings.

"The problems you mentioned have existed for more than a day or two, and you and I have made a lot of efforts to solve them, but the results have been minimal." Jiang Guangtou said helplessly.

"President, if the enemy is allowed to open up the Jinpu line this time and connect East and North China together, then the dilemma will become bigger and bigger in the future, so I am very much in favor of Degong's desire to have a hard encounter with the enemy in Xuzhou, and I also agree with Sun Yumin's plan to recover Jining." "But before they plan to do it, I think there's something you have to do," Chen said. ”

Jiang Guangtou didn't ask him anything, just habitually looked at Chen Bui, and the tacit understanding he had cultivated over the years made Lao Jiang very clear that this staff member was going to throw out the topic.

"Han Fuyu gave up Shandong, which caused an extremely bad impact and shook the entire war situation violently, and suggested that the president execute him, which has been an example." Chen Bui simply expressed his meaning.

Lao Jiang was shocked when he heard this, and his heart suddenly made waves: Han Fuyu came from Feng Yuxiang's department, and he had 80,000 troops and soldiers and civilians in Shandong Province in his hands, and I am afraid that there will be endless troubles if I kill him. can not be killed, the Gui system, the Jin system, and so on are all watching, he Han Fuyu can lose Shandong to protect his strength, then I Yan Xishan can lose Shanxi, I Long Yun can throw Yunnan, I Liu Xiang can send Sichuan, how can this battle be fought? Not only for the sake of the current war, but also for the sake of long-term planning, we must make an example of the chickens and monkeys.

Thinking of this, Lao Jiang made up his mind and said, "Call Yu Nong." ”

"He's been waiting outside for a long time." Chen Bui replied.

After calling Dai Li in, Lao Jiang threw out a sentence: "Han Fuyu will be executed tomorrow, and the execution photos will be published in the Central Daily." ”

……

……

Sun Yumin waited for several days and did not receive the marching order from above, he was very anxious, and chased to Wuhan for several days to shoot telegrams, but he did not get a reply, and even the news of Han Fuyu's execution reached Heze, and there was still no news there.

Zhang Xiaohu and Li Tiedan made several phone calls every day to ask for instructions on when to leave, which made Sun Yumin very passive, and even made him have the idea of wanting to enter the army directly, but as soon as he saw the dead donkey face of Shi Dongpeng, the director of the Political Department, he gave up this idea that he shouldn't have.

On the night of 4 February, Sun Yumin, who had been waiting for nearly half a month, finally issued an operational order to the 20 th Division; from the day Sun Yumin decided to attack Jining, he had been trapped in the division headquarters these days, with too few staff officers and few people who could help him, and even the complicated work of sorting out intelligence was handed over to himself and Liu Wenzhi.

That night, Sun Yumin summoned Li Tiedan, Zhang Xiaohu, Liu Wenzhi, Deng Dongping, and Sun Jiehai to meet each other, and after explaining some problems that should be paid special attention to, he issued the order to set off.

The three regiments of the 58th Brigade plus a mountain artillery battalion assigned to it were separately allocated in the night, and according to the plan drawn up before, they marched in the direction of Juye.

A regiment of Iron Bull was at the front of the marching procession, and he accompanied Zhang Xiaohu to stand next to the jeep, watching the native soldiers who kept passing by on the road.

A new colonel's military uniform set off his abnormal spirit, the big brimmed hat of the blue sky and white sun cockade was worn uprightly on his head, a yellow cowhide belt hung with a pistol holster tightly tied around his waist, the white gloves on his hands were spotless, and the leather shoes were also black and shiny.

Tie Niu looked at him with such a serious appearance, and he didn't dare to laugh, standing next to Zhang Xiaohu without saying a word, until he ordered him to set off first.

Sun Tongxuan put a lot of effort into the 20th Division, and from the perspective of marching discipline alone, he didn't know how much stronger than the Central Army.

Four columns marched on either side of the road, with trucks, gun wagons, jeeps, and some mules and horses carrying supplies in the middle. Such a mixed marching procession, in the middle of the night, was not noisy, except for the car engine and various footsteps, basically no other sound could be heard, even the mules and horses had chews in their mouths, and they also wore specially made masks.

According to Sun Yumin's calculations, he would be able to arrive at Juye County before dawn, where there were a squadron of devils and a part of the Seventh Brigade of the Puppet Army.

How to take this place without blood is the best touchstone for Sun Yumin to test Zhang Xiaohu's ability.

Even if there was a well-equipped full-fledged brigade, Sun Yumin was still not at ease, and ordered Xiao Yuying to follow the 58th Brigade with a communication squad, and report to him in a hurry if there was any situation, although it was said that the 58th Brigade had its own communication radio, but he was afraid that this kid would conceal it and not report it when he was in difficulty, and delay the military plane.

The little girl couldn't wait to go to the front line, and happily accepted the task of supervising the army.

After several hours of rapid marching, the 1st Battalion of the 115th Regiment of the 58th Brigade had arrived less than a kilometer outside the city of Juye County.

The battalion commander Dai Cunxiang sent someone to quickly report to the regiment commander Tie Niu and ask for instructions on the next task.

Tie Niu's original name was Lai Wenli, a native of Heyuan, Guangdong, but he was tall and had a relatively dark skin, and his familiar comrades-in-arms jokingly called him Tie Niu, but he didn't expect that more and more people were calling him by his nickname, and his real name was forgotten.

After receiving Dai Cunxiang's report, he led the cavalry company to ride a horse and hurried to the place where the first battalion was staying.

Lai Wenli came out of the reconnaissance company of the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps, and after Sun Yumin's special training, he was no longer the iron bull who could only fight and kill.

Like many places in China, the county seat of Juye is in Juye Town, only because of the location of the county government, it is called the county seat, and the street layout of two horizontal and two vertical streets is like a capital tic-tac-toe, and there is no simple wall built of earth.

The Japanese squadron stationed here and the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army only built a few machine-gun fortifications with sandbags at the end of the streets, and every once in a while a squad or so of patrols walked through these streets.

Perhaps because they felt that the national army in Shandong was too unbeatable, and occupied most of the provinces without any strong resistance, and at the forefront of the confrontation with the national army, the jurisdiction still belonged to the county town of Juye, Heze, and there was not even a secret outpost.

Lai Wenli walked through the darkness with a dozen selected soldiers, occasionally making noises that would be disguised by the sounds of wild cats or other animals.

The fire in the ring fortification was still shining, and the puppet soldiers who were sleeping in coats or blankets and leaning on sandbags did not know that their time of death had come.

Lai Wenli held a bayonet in his hand and was tiptoeing towards the ring-shaped fortification cat. He was hunched sideways, his brows furrowed and his breath was shut, like a feathered arrow about to be fired, and he was followed by several other warriors with bayonets, who, like him, moved cautiously towards the sandbags, for fear of waking the men in the fortifications.

Lai Wenli was the first to climb into the sandbag, the bayonet first cut the throat of a puppet soldier closest to him, and the blood spurting out of the artery woke up a puppet soldier next to him, and in a daze, the puppet soldier wiped the blood on his face and muttered: "Is it raining?" He looked up to the sky with his misty eyes open, but saw an upside-down figure appear in his pupils, and just as he wanted to exclaim loudly, he covered the mouth of the puppet soldier with one palm, followed by a bayonet that still had blood stains and plunged deep into his heart.

Lai Wenli killed the two puppet soldiers in an instant, he quickly pulled the bayonet out of the chest of the dead puppet army, and when he was about to kill the third puppet army, he saw that the few people he brought had quietly sent the rest of the puppet soldiers in the fortifications to the west sky.

A soldier beside Lai Wenli learned to call three night crows, and the entire battalion rushed to this side, and the footsteps had reached Lai Wenli's ears from a long distance, and he said in his heart: Damn, you will be caked!

The soldier who was learning the bird song on the side said: "Tuanza, the footsteps are very loud, I'm afraid it will wake up the devil, what should I do?" ”

Lai Wenli was heartbroken, picked up a puppet army's Type 96 light machine gun and aimed it at the town, and said to the soldiers on the side: "Prepare to be on alert." ”

The soldiers who accompanied Lai Wenli in the assault all picked up the weapons of the puppet army when they heard this, and two soldiers even turned the heavy machine guns of the puppet army and aimed them at the town in the darkness behind the fortifications.