It's time to go up Taihang Mountain, Yue Weihan thought viciously in his heart.

The general trend of history has not changed greatly because of Yue Weihan's efforts, the three major battles in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, [***] were still defeated without any suspense, with the existence of Chairman Jiang, an unpopular commander, no matter how brave and good the soldiers are, they can only be in vain, and no matter how hard Yue Weihan tries, he can only be blind (chicken) toss.

Besides, now is indeed the best time to retreat to the Jingcheng Mountains and create an anti-Japanese base area.

The best result is that the army will stop in Hunan because of the lack of strength, and the worst result is that the army will take advantage of the situation to sweep the southwest, until Liangguang and Yunnan, at that time, Chairman Jiang can only shrink to Sichuan as the lord of Houshu.

However, no matter what the outcome is, it will be impossible for the army to mobilize heavy troops to deal with the New Sixth Army for at least two months.

Therefore, the New Sixth Army still has at least two months to operate the anti-Japanese base area in the Jingcheng Mountains.

Two months was enough time for Yue Weihan and the New Sixth Army to do a lot of things, and Yue Weihan was confident enough to manage the Jingcheng Mountains as solid as a gold before the Yue Army mobilized heavy troops to sweep up.

As for the 6th and 13th Divisions of the Yue Army, they may not dare to invade the Jingcheng Mountains!

The tragedy of the 20th Division of the Yue Army had only happened not long after, and Yue Weihan did not believe that the 6th and 13th Divisions of the Yue Army still had the courage to crash into the Jingcheng Mountains! In Yue Weihan's view, after recapturing Shimen and Zhengding, most of the two master regiments of the Yue Army will hurry up to rest and replenish, and at the same time ensure the unimpeded flow of the Pinghan Railway.

In short, before the 6th and 13th Divisions of the Chinese Army recover their strength, it is unlikely that they will provoke the New Sixth Army.

Of course, if the commanders of the two master regiments of the Yue Army do not open their eyes and want to use Yue Weihan and the New Sixth Army as their stepping stones, then Yue Weihan will never mind fighting a large-scale movement war in the Jingcheng Mountains, and he will not dare to say that it will not be a problem to eat the three or five infantry wings of the Yue Army.

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Henan, Mi County.

The Military Commission is directly under the Corps and the Corps Headquarters.

General Xue Yue sat back in his chair in a daze, and the telegram in his hand fell to the ground.

Lost, Wuhan was lost! What's even more unbelievable is that Jiujiang has also been lost!

Tens of thousands of officers and men of the Corps directly under the Corps have fought hard for nearly half a month, but in exchange for such a result, how can people be embarrassed?

General Xue Yue has always been loyal to Chairman Chiang, but now he can't help but feel resentful: What an unpopular commander!

If it weren't for the loss of Jiujiang, the main force of the Central China Front would never dare to rush south, because if the army did this, the Xue Yue corps would not hesitate to cut off their retreat, and the army would become a turtle in the urn!

However, now, Jiujiang has been lost, and the Yangtze River channel will soon be opened by the army.

It is meaningless for Xue Yue's corps to continue to hold on to Dengfeng and Mixian, even if they hold on for another two months, they will never be able to wait until the moment when the army runs out of ammunition and food.

After a long time, General Xue Yue sighed and said to the chief of staff beside him: "Prepare to break through." ”

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Northern Henan, Anyang.

The main forces of the 6th and 13th Divisions of the Japanese Army are moving north along the road.

Lieutenant General Tada Jun, commander of the northbound cluster, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and Lieutenant General Hou Zhou Libing, commander of the 13th Division, stood on the dirt slope next to the road, watching the army drive under their feet.

In the sound of hurried footsteps, the chief of staff of the 6th Division, Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo, had already hurried up the dirt slope.

"General!" Shimono Kazuho suddenly retracted his feet, saluted Lieutenant General Tada, and then said, "The 45th Infantry Wing reports that the Shina Army has suddenly given up going south and returned to Shimen!" ”

"Well, give up going south?"

"Turning back to the stone gate, there shouldn't be a fraud, right?"

The first reaction of Gu Shoufu and the soldiers of Hou Zhou was that there was fraud in it.

There is no way, for the majority of officers and soldiers, Yue Weihan's fierce reputation is too great, plus not long ago the Baoshan Division had just severely damaged the 20th Division, and now, Yue Weihan has 50,000 or 60,000 elite soldiers of the New Sixth Army, there is absolutely no reason to be cowardly, and avoiding war is not like Yue Weihan's style, this thing is too weird.

Tada Jun said thoughtfully: "It seems that Wuhan has already achieved results. ”

As soon as the words fell, a staff officer of Shaozuo hurriedly climbed the dirt slope, immediately retracted his feet and stood upright, and reported to Tada Jun: "Your Excellency General, the front army headquarters has reported on the urgent battle situation, the Third Army has captured Wuhan at 12 o'clock this afternoon, and the 11th Army has also captured Jiujiang at 1 o'clock this afternoon. ”

Tada Jun nodded and said, "It seems that Yue Weihan is planning to abandon the stone gate. ”

"Abandon the stone gate?" "Tada-kun, are you stepping up your journey north and taking advantage of the situation to chase and kill?" ”

"Nope." Tada Jun raised his hand to stop, "The 6th and 13th Divisions have just experienced the Battle of Wuhan, and the officers and soldiers are already exhausted, while the New Sixth Army has just severely damaged the 20th Division, and the troops are in full swing. ”

Gu Shoufu said coldly: "Tada-kun, you are cowardly and fearful!" ”

"Gu Shoujun!" Tada Jun also coldly retorted, "Please pay attention to the words, I am the commander of the northbound cluster!" ”

Gu Shoufu didn't say anything more, but when he looked at Tada Jun again, Gu Shoufu's eyes were full of disdain.

Speaking of which, Gu Shoufu is the same age as Tada Jun, and his military rank is also lieutenant general, but Tada Jun has only been the division commander of the 11th Division for less than a year, while Gu Shoufu has been the division commander of the 6th Division for three years, so Gu Shoufu is dissatisfied with the appointment of Tada Jun as the commander of the northbound cluster by the Front Army Command.

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Jingcheng County, Baoshan Division stayed at the headquarters.

Liu Yi had already received a telegram from Yue Weihan, and the meeting was convening a meeting with Li Qinglong, the head of the 1st Regiment, and Major Zhao Xinyi, the deputy head of the Special Service Regiment and the leader of the propaganda team.

After conveying the order, Liu Yi said to Zhao Xinyi again: "Captain Zhao, the process of transporting equipment must be accelerated!" ”

Zhao Xinyi thought for a while and said: "Counselor, if you just rush all the equipment from Shimen, Zhengding's major factories and Zhengding Railway Station to Jingcheng County, three days is enough, but if you want to transport the equipment to Cangyan Mountain, Woniu Mountain and Sendai Mountain, it will take at least half a month." ”

Liu Yi thought about it for a while, and said decisively: "Then rush to Jingcheng County first." ”

"Okay." Zhao Xinyi immediately got up and said, "I'll go and contact [***] side." ”

Seeing Zhao Xinyi's figure go away, Liu Yi said to Li Qinglong again: "Li Qinglong, the matter of building a prisoner of war concentration camp must be hurried, and you must not delay until the two master regiments of the Yue Army rush to Shimen, don't worry about the Neiwa Convention, you will treat these little devils as livestock, call them to death, and die of exhaustion!" ”

"Yes." Li Qinglong snapped to the ground, and then said in a cruel voice, "See, let's see, within three days, the three prisoner of war concentration camps in Cangyan Mountain, Woniu Mountain, and Sendai Mountain will be repaired!" ”

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Qiu County, Southern Hebei, Headquarters of the Southern Hebei Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.

"Victorious? Victorious! Song Renqiao shouted loudly and walked into the war room, and saw Yue Weiguo studying the map as if he was nothing, and immediately sat down on the opposite side, and scolded with a smile, "Yue Weiguo, you kid is hiding deep enough?" If it weren't for the snowy mountains and meadows that I lived with you, I would have suspected that you were a spy of the Kuomintang. ”

Yue Weiguo raised his head when he heard this, and said blankly: "Political commissar, what are you talking about?" ”

"You kid." Song Renqiu scolded with a smile, "Pretend, then pretend for me." ”

"What's it all about?" Yue Weiguo frowned and said, "Political commissar, I really don't know what you're talking about?" ”

Song Renqiao rolled his eyes and said angrily: "You kid, do you have five brothers?" ”

"That's right." Yue Weiguo said, "I have five brothers, didn't I tell you a long time ago?" ”

"But you didn't tell me who your four brothers were." Song Renqiao didn't have a good breath and said, "Only today did I know that your younger brother Yue Weihan turned out to be the commander of the Baoshan Division and the commander of the New Sixth Army!" ”

"What? My little brother is the head of the Baoshan Division? Yue Weiguo was taken aback at first, and then shook his head and said, "No, this is impossible, my little brother is just a gentleman, and he does everything he can to run rampant in the countryside and bully men and women, my mother was by him in this way, how could he be a soldier, let alone a division commander!" ”

"You kid, you're still pretending to be garlic!" Song Renqiao didn't have a good breath, "The Yan'an Security Bureau has already verified!" ”

As he spoke, Song Renqiang handed the telegram from the Yan'an Security Bureau from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to Yue Weiguo.

After reading it, Yue Weiguo was also stunned for a while, and after a long time, he said in disbelief: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, my three brothers turned out to be comrades in the party, and there is also a younger brother, this kid can actually change his mind and change his face and mix up his personal appearance again, if my mother knows under the spring, she should also be blind." ”

Song Renqiang patted Yue Weiguo on the shoulder, and then said, "Weiguo, do you want to meet your little brother?" ”

"Yes, of course." Yue Weiguo said without thinking, "It's been seven or eight years since I left home, and I don't know if my family has been okay all these years?" And this kid, I didn't expect to be admitted to the Central Military Academy, hehe, Lao Song, we have five brothers, except for the eldest brother who went to Baoding Military Academy, the other four are all from Huangpu. ”

"Yes?" Song Renqiao quipped, "The five tiger generals of Yuemen can write a book to say that Yue Xin has passed on." ”

"Commissar, when are we leaving?" Yue Weiguo really couldn't wait to meet his little brother.

"What are you anxious about?" Song Renqiang sat down slowly, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit a match, and then smoked it beautifully, seeing that the old man Yue Weiguo was about to be anxious, then he said with a smile, "Wait first, when Secretary Yang of the Southern Hebei Prefectural Committee arrives, we will set off together." ”

(To be continued)