On the way back to Haiyan, Xu Ming still thought about Liu Fei's words, first, he admired Liu Fei's super memory, and he could remember the report several years ago completely, and he also sighed at the elusiveness of things.

Fortunately, Liu Fei pointed out a trick when he left, that is, to destroy traffic. However, if he faced three divisions of Japanese troops, the first wave of Japanese troops would probably be tens of thousands of people, and Xu Ming felt very troubled.

Soon, Xu Ming and his Temporary Seventh Battalion received an order, and the unit was organized into the 62nd Division of the 28th Army of Tao Guang. It was the army that defended the northern section of Hangzhou Bay, under the command of Chen Guangzhong's 63rd Division, Taoliu's 62nd Division, Li Songshan's 55th Division, and the 45th Independent Brigade.

From the combat mission of the 28th Army, it can be seen that the ** Command neglected the defense of Jinshanwei, and the 28th Army belonged to the Hunan Army. Although the name of the Hunan Army is loud, the Hunan Army during the Anti-Japanese War is really not strong, and it is not ranked high in the country in terms of equipment or combat quality. Letting this unit serve as flank cover made it clear that the Japanese landing was not taken seriously.

In early October, Xu Ming arrived at the Jinshan Acropolis and learned that the matter was more serious than he imagined. Originally, the area under the responsibility of the 3rd Division and the 1st Brigade was too large, but I didn't expect these troops to be misappropriated. The 55th Division was dragged to Pudong for defensive operations, the 63rd Division was still in Zhejiang, and only one 62nd Division was in Jinshanwei.

Moreover, Xu Ming's own people looked over and saw that there were no fortifications on the beach, and the troops were digging some trenches in Haiyuean, Lujiadai, Baishawan and other places on both sides of Jinshanwei. How can this prevent the 100,000 wolf-like Japanese troops in the future?

"Tao Shizuo, how can this slippery beach be defended, if the Japanese army has three or five divisions, how can it be defended?" Xu Ming was anxious and dragged the division commander Tao Liu over.

Tao Liu spread his hands and said, "If there are really three or five division devils, our brothers can only die here!" ”

However, he did not believe that the Japanese army still had such a large amount of spare strength to land three divisions, and he said: "Qianli, the opinion of the Military Commission is that there may be at most one division of Japanese troops landing here. ”

Xu Ming said angrily: "There are some words of the Military Commission that cannot be believed, what are the Japanese troops doing here?" It must be a far-reaching detour of our army in Shanghai, and one division is not enough. Besides, if there are really 3 divisions coming, can we still go to court and sue the Military Commission? ”

Tao Liu also had no idea, "The coastline is so long, I only have one division here, how can I deploy it?" ”

Xu Ming sighed, Tao Liu is a very traditional general in the Republic of China, and he has never experienced or experienced anti-landing operations. In fact, there are hundreds of commanders of troops, and a few of them know how to land and counter-landing.

Tao Liu pinned his hopes on Xu Ming and said: "Vice Chief Liu knows that I don't understand, and said that he specially asked Qianli to guide you, Qianli, you have drunk foreign ink, and my brother listens to you." ”

Xu Ming was grateful to Liu Fei in his heart, and he had no experience in anti-landing operations, but he had watched movies like "Letter from Iwo Jima" and "Saving Private Ryan", thought about it and said:

"Tao Shizuo, the anti-landing operation is nothing more than three points, the key sea area on the sea is blocked with mines, I applied to the base camp for 5,000 mines before I came here, and I will be able to arrive in about 10 days.

"The second is that a large number of obstacles should be laid on the coast, and it is recommended to make them with cement prefabrication, or to mine stones. The third is to build a fort, it's too late, but you can build some pillboxes, but if you don't have enough time to do fortifications with steel reinforced cement, let's use sandbags and planks to lay them in the wrong order, and dig more underground tunnels, the Japanese are coming, so you can support it. ”

"Finally", Xu Ming picked up the map and pointed while marking: "The roads from Jinshanwei to Tuolin, Jinshan, Songjiang, and Jiashan must be destroyed, especially the road to Songjiang, and the foundation must be dug deep, and the necessary sections of the river must be flooded." ”

Although he received Tao Liu's strong support, Xu Ming's work was not going well, first of all, the mines, originally allocated 5,000 to him, but Liu Xing's Jiang Defense Army said that they would lay these mines on the Yangtze River, Xu Ming was furious, and Liu Jianxu, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Group Army, sent him a telegram for a long time, and finally asked for 500 back.

It's really sad to think about it, during World War I, Germany put hundreds of thousands of mines in the North Sea and built a mine array like a labyrinth, and 20 years later, the Republic of China actually quarreled over thousands of mines.

If Xu Ming hadn't built a mine factory a year ago, whether it was the Jiang Defense Army or the Eighth Group Army, I am afraid that not a single mine would have been available.

The construction of obstacles is not easy, Xu Ming plans to place 40,000 on each side of Jinshanwei 10 kilometers on each side, so that half of the unsuitable landing areas can be eliminated, and the density can reach 4 obstacles per meter. But this time and space is not China seventy or eighty years later, the quality of cement products is a mess, and there is still a lack of steel materials, so Xu Ming has no choice but to find some sharp stones and wooden stakes instead.

As the tide had just receded, and the gray-white tidal flats were exposed on the sea, Xu Ming instructed the soldiers to nail large wooden stakes to the bottom of the sea in groups of four, so that if the Japanese troops landed, the landing craft would be greatly hindered.

Suddenly, he saw the division commander Tao Liu and the army commander Tao Guang coming over, and he hurriedly greeted him and asked about the negotiations

What kind of judgment to talk about? It turned out that Xu Ming's plan to sabotage the traffic was in great trouble, and the villagers blocked the highway to prevent the soldiers from destroying the road. Tao Guang and Tao Liu, one singing red-faced, the other white-faced, coerced and lured, and spent 50,000 yuan to buy the road, and finally got the thing done.

Three days ago, at least several thousand people gathered at the entrance of the barracks to protest against the flooding of the Huangpu River, beating gongs and drums and waving banners, and Xu Ming also saw two Italian journalists.

Everything shows that there is a force that is stopping Xu Ming's actions. Early this morning, both the division commander and the army commander went to negotiate with the squire's representatives, hoping to convince them by the name of the army commander.

Judging from the faces of Er Tao and his party, it is obvious that the result is not good.

"%&¥@, I really want to make them eat guns." Tao Guang was still angry after a long time.

The negotiation went very unsmoothly, Tao Guang even proposed to take a subsidy of 500,000 yuan, but the local squire not only disagreed, but also scolded Tao Guang and Tao Liu, saying that they could not protect their families and the people as a soldier, and they only knew that they would harm the local Yunyun.

Xu Ming found a professor of hydraulic engineering from the National Central University in Nanjing, Professor Qin, who was also unlucky. Professor Qin tried his best to explain that if the embankment was dug in the dry season and the water flow was controlled, the houses would not be flooded, and the county magistrate also mobilized on the side, asking the other party to make a small sacrifice for the anti-Japanese resistance, but the two were scolded so that they could not find the north. Judging from Professor Qin's Tie Qing's face, he was scolded a lot this time.

The more Xu Ming listened, the more frightened he became, these people were obviously organized, and they were extremely unusual. It is possible for the students and workers of the Republic of China to be organized, but the common people do not have the ability to do so, and they are so tough to deal with it. Can ordinary people invite Italian reporters in this time and space?

Xu Ming could see how Er Tao couldn't see it, Tao Liu said hatefully: "These people are instigated by traitors, maybe there are traitors in them, we must strictly investigate and deal with them, and kill a few of them well." ”

This is just angry talk, and if you check it strictly, there will be enough time.

Several people are very helpless, they have thought of several ways these days, but none of them worked, and the other party even organized personnel to patrol the embankment to prevent Xu Ming and others from secretly releasing water.

Tao Guang handed Xu Ming a check, "Qianli, it seems that your 500,000 yuan will not be spent, &%*¥, save those Diao people, wait for the Japanese to come and talk to them unreasonable." ”

Xu Ming didn't answer, and said: "This money should be used to buy a few clothes for the brothers, the Anti-Japanese War has the money to contribute to the powerful force, I have a lot of money, Commander Tao, you can contribute." ”

500,000 is not a small number, the 28th Army has more than 10,000 people, and the annual military salary expenditure is about 1 million.

Professor Qin joked: "Then you have to pay a little more money, how can the big boss of Yuming Company only give such a little, I think I have to add a zero to the back." ”

Unexpectedly, Xu Ming really picked up the pen, re-opened a huge check for 4.5 million, and then handed it to Tao Guang.

Tao Guang and Tao Liu's uncle and nephew were dumbfounded, at the beginning of the year, they pulled a skin for 500,000 military salaries and the Quartermaster Bureau, and they got 5 million at once! Tao Liu's eyes were quick, and he quickly snatched the check into his hand. Then he joked: "It's better to follow Boss Xu to do things." ”

Xu Ming also smiled: "I'm so poor now that I only have money left." As he was talking, he suddenly remembered the sound of the siren, three rings and two shorts, it was the Japanese warship coming.

Everyone quickly evacuated, Tao Liu carefully kept the check, and after a while, more than 10 small black spots appeared on the beach, and the warships of the Japanese Navy began to shoot fiercely at the beach.

Xu Ming plugged his ears on, but in this way, he still felt the sound of thunder coming continuously, the earth seemed to tremble, and the beach was shrouded in smoke.

Half an hour later, the tide rose, and the Japanese warships were gone, only the beach was a mess, and the hidden piles and various obstacles that had just been exposed were bombed in all directions.

"Smack", Tao Guang saw that the devil's warship was so arrogant, and whipped the horsewhip on the branches, only to see a burst of autumn leaves falling one after another, he said hatefully: "Pass my order, don't do it during the day and do it at night, the widows are unwilling, Lao Tzu wants to make them unsatisfactory!" ”

Tao Guang and Tao Liu also saw that the landing of the Japanese army in the northern section of Hangzhou Bay was very likely, otherwise, it would not be possible to understand why the Japanese warships regularly fired at the coast every day. Although the Japanese warships also disrupted and shot at other places, after Xu Ming's explanation and a series of recent incidents, especially the capture of a number of traitors, the seriousness of the situation is further illustrated.

The Japanese warships regularly came to "inspect", and Tao Guang's negotiations with the local squires were fruitless, and the other party was soft and hard, seeing that at the end of October, Xu Ming could not remember the landing time of the Japanese army in history, but he had the impression that it was in early November.

Looking at the tired Professor Qin, Xu Ming asked, "Elder Qin, if you release water in Yexie, Zhujing, and Wuqiao according to your plan, will it indeed not flood the house?" ”

Professor Qin said in an affirmative tone: "The Yangtze River is not the Yellow River, the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky, the riverbed is too high, once the embankment is broken, the Yangtze River will not have a big problem, not to mention the Huangpu River, and it is still in the dry period, I have calculated, in these 5 sections at the same time, the flow is properly controlled, the water depth of the field is about 2 meters, and the foundation of the house may be destroyed in the low-lying area, but it is difficult to drown people." ”

Tao Liu was well-informed and said, "Brother Qianli, you won't ......." He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

Xu Ming nodded vigorously, and decisively said: "I can't manage so much, I must release this water, and I will lead someone to break the embankment tonight." Tomorrow morning, you will take people to the disaster. ”

Professor Qin said: "Whether you want to report to the top or not, this is not a small matter. ”

Tao Guang and Tao Liu spoke at the same time: "Absolutely no/no," and then explained: "Report to the top and put the responsibility on the top, and the above will never agree." No one wants to take responsibility, and if the above doesn't agree, it's serious that you have to continue to do things. ”

Xu Ming also knew what was at stake, and said: "Old Qin, don't worry, if I do that, I will lose my official position at most, I am now a member of the Aviation Committee and a director of the Trade Committee, it doesn't matter if I lose these, as for the current battalion commander." Xu Ming laughed when he said this.

He is dealing with people now, and no one regards him as the battalion commander, but many people use the tone of Bi Ma Wen to say "Xu Yingzuo" to ridicule him. It doesn't matter much if the battalion commander loses it.

"It's just" he turned his head and said to Tao Liu apologetically, "I'm afraid that doing this will affect you." ”

Tao Liuman didn't care, "Your brother is not afraid, and I have no eggs." ”