Wuhan, War Room of the General Staff.

As soon as the news conference ended, Chairman Chiang, accompanied by General He, went straight to the General Staff Headquarters, and when the two walked into the war room, General Li, General Chen, Deputy General Chief, and other senior party-state generals were enthusiastically discussing the current situation around the sand table.

"How?" Chairman Chiang waved his hand and asked eagerly, "Has the situation at the front improved?" ”

General Li, General Chen and other senior generals of the party-state couldn't help but look at each other, and they couldn't help but be too anxious, right?

Deputy Chief Bai pursed his lips and replied: "The phenomenon of rout and escape has stopped, but the situation has not improved for the time being, unless Yue Weihan, Sun Lianzhong and Yu Xuezhong can cut off the three major strategic communication lines for at least half a month, then the army in the Henan battlefield will fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food, and then the situation will suddenly reverse!" ”

Chairman Jiang was silent for a moment and then asked General He, "Jingzhi, did you send a telegram to Yue Weihan?" ”

Admiral He hurriedly said: "It has already been sent in the morning." ”

Chairman Jiang asked again: "What did Yue Weihan say?" Did he promise to defend the stone gate? ”

"Nope." Admiral He shook his head with a wry smile, and said helplessly, "Yue Weihan didn't call back at all. ”

Chairman Jiang's brows suddenly frowned, and he couldn't help but start to suffer from gains and losses in his heart, Yue Weihan disobeyed orders not once or twice, not to mention far away, let's talk about the defense of Xuzhou, Chairman Jiang strictly ordered Yue Weihan not to lead his troops to break through, but this guy still led troops to break through, who dares to guarantee that Yue Weihan will obediently obey the order this time?

Admiral Chen has never liked Yue Weihan, so he said gloomily at the moment: "Bench, Yue Weihan may not defend the stone gate, we should still prepare as soon as possible." ”

"Prepare early?" Chairman Jiang didn't react for a while, and asked, "What are you going to prepare?" ”

"Move the capital to Chongqing." Admiral Chen said without hesitation, "Judging from the current situation, Wuhan is afraid that it will not be able to hold it, and I am afraid that it will not be able to hold it even with Hubei and Hunan. ”

Chairman Jiang's face suddenly darkened, and he was silent.

Admiral He hesitated for a moment, but still said stubbornly: "Commission, although Yue Weihan has repeatedly disobeyed orders on the battlefield, he is not a person who disregards the righteousness of the nation, let alone a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise he would not have taken two hundred remnants to defend the Sixing warehouse, let alone rely on the rout of a regiment to defend Jiangpu and shake the ace Guozaki detachment of the army!" ”

"He Yingqin, what do you mean by that?" Admiral Chen questioned in a dark voice.

"I mean it very simply." General He let out the surname and strongly supported Yue Weihan to the end, "I think Yue Weihan is a Chinese [***] person with a blood surname and responsibility, at this critical moment for the nation, he will definitely not ignore the orders of the Military Commission, and the Baoshan Division will definitely defend the stone gate until the last soldier!" But ......"

"But what?" Chairman Jiang was slightly moved and said, "I respect you." ”

General He straightened his face and said solemnly: "Commission, I hope that the Military Commission will show mercy to the fallen soldiers of the Baoshan Division, and don't let the heroic martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country shed blood and tears!" ”

"We can't let the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country shed both blood and tears!?" Chairman Jiang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "Respectfully, the Military Commission immediately allocated 500,000 yuan of legal currency, and the Second War Zone sent someone to transfer it to Shimen, and telegraphed to Yan Xishan, this is a special fund, no one is allowed to withhold it, and those who violate the military law will be dealt with!" ”

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Shimen, Municipal Office.

Yue Weihan was inspecting the map, and Liu Yi said in a solemn tone next to him: "Military seat, Shimen and Zhengding have been lost, and the Pinghan Railway, the most important communication line of the army, has been cut off by us, and the army will definitely not give up, if nothing else, the reading force stationed in Baoding will be mixed into the 11th Brigade, and the 20th Division originally stationed in Shanxi will definitely counterattack Shimen!" ”

"More than that." Yue Weihan shook his head and said, "The Henan army will send at least two divisions north!" ”

"That's even worse!" Liu Yi's face suddenly turned a little pale, and then he said with a gloomy expression, "The so-called New Sixth Army is just a gimmick, Shi Yousan, Gao Shuxun and Sun Dianying will not buy your account at all, so the 181st Division, the New 6th Division and the New 9th Division can't be counted on at all, how can we keep Shimen with our Baoshan Division alone?" ”

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it!" Yue Weihan sighed and said, "If we can't hold the stone gate, then the Xue Yue Corps and the [***] main force of the southern Henan battlefield will be finished, if it really comes to this point, the loss of Wuhan and the fall of the two lakes will be light, and if you don't make the national political axe, you will surrender directly, and you should also be slaves of the country." ”

Liu Yi's face suddenly became more and more pale, and he said miserably: "It won't be so miserable, right?" ”

"Ten of them." Yue Weihan sighed again and said, "Therefore, we must defend this stone gate, even if we fight to the last soldier!" Saying this, Yue Weihan suddenly smiled again and said, "However, the situation is not as bad as you think, we may not have no chance in this battle!" ”

"Huh?" Liu Yi said in surprise, "Junza, do you mean it really?" ”

"Of course it's true, when did I lie to you?" Yue Weihan patted the map on the wall and said, "However, if you want to hold Shimen, there must be a prerequisite, that is, to delay the 20th Division of the Taiyuan Yue Army and the march of the Yue Army from Henan to the north as much as possible, and not let them rush to Shimen for at least seven days!" ”

"This ......," Liu Yi said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid it's not easy." ”

"It's not easy." Yue Weihan nodded and said, "So I have to ask others for help with this matter." ”

"Someone else?" Liu Yi was stunned and said, "The military seat is ...... Eighth route army? ”

"That's right." Yue Weihan said solemnly, "Whether it is in Lunan or Qinghe County, we have already dealt with the Eighth Route Army a lot, and last time the Eighth Route Army dispatched more than a dozen main regiments to cooperate with us to attack the Zhengtai Railway. ”

"I believe it." Liu Yi nodded, and then said, "But the equipment of the Eighth Route Army is too poor, so it may not be possible?" In particular, you just said that the army coming north from Henan is likely to be two divisions, and these are two field divisions, not to mention the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and our Baoshan Division may not be able to hold it back? ”

"Then you are underestimating the Eighth Route Army." Yue Weihan shook his head and said disapprovingly, "The equipment of the Eighth Route Army is indeed poor, and it is indeed unrealistic to expect them to defeat the field divisions of the Yue Army, but it is completely possible to delay the Yue Army for 357 days. ”

General Liu Yi said suspiciously: "If the Eighth Route Army can really hold back the 20th Division of the Yue Army and the Yue Army from Henan to the north, then we can free up our hands and first solve the problem of reading and mixing into the 11th Brigade from Baoding to the south." ”

"You don't have to think about reading power mixed with the 11th Brigade." Yue Weihan said suddenly, "If this brigade really dares to come to Shimen, then Jizhong and Jidong will be completely empty, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Jidong, Jizhong and Jixi are not vegetarians, you see, within two days, the little devil's reading power will be mixed into the 11th Brigade and the regiment will have to obediently retract back to Baoding." ”

Liu Yi was stunned and asked, "Luzao, then what are we doing in Baoshan Division?" ”

"Reorganize!" Yue Weihan said awe-inspiringly, "Let the troops improve their combat effectiveness as much as possible in the shortest possible time!" ”

The Baoshan Division has just won two big battles, and a large number of recruits have seen blood and have some experience in fighting, this time is an excellent opportunity for veterans to teach recruits battlefield survival skills and killing skills, and the troops only need a little training, and their combat effectiveness can be greatly improved!

At this time, it is of course a fool's act to take troops to the front.

It is precisely because of this that Yue Weihan needs the Eighth Route Army to hold back the two armies for at least five days, which is not a long time, but it is not a short time, and it is enough for nearly 40,000 officers and men of the Baoshan Division to recover their physical strength and improve their combat effectiveness.

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Deep in the Taihang Mountains, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Chief of Staff Zuo hurriedly walked into the war room with a telegram and said to Mr. Peng: "Boss, the Baoshan Brigade has taken Shimen, they have really taken Shimen!" ”

"What did you say?" Mr. Peng Huo Ran raised his head and said in disbelief, "Baoshan Brigade really won Shimen!?" ”

The chief of staff of Zuo nodded heavily and said: "Boss, I can't believe it, the Baoshan Brigade actually took Shimen with a mere brigade of troops, and not only that, but also wiped out the reading force stationed in Zhengding in one fell swoop and mixed it into the 4th Brigade!" This guy, in less than five days, has already annihilated the North China Army in a structured way into two reading mixed brigades! ”

"Well done!" Mr. Peng immediately threw the pencil in his hand on the map and said loudly, "Yue Weihan, this kid is really good, and the Baoshan Brigade is also good!" ”

The chief of staff of Zuo said again: "Boss, our comrades who stayed in the Baoshan Brigade have once again passed on the news, Yue Weihan hopes that we can hold off the 20th Division of the Shanxi Army and the Yue Army from Henan to the north for at least seven days, do you think, do you want to continue to help them this time?" ”

"The Baoshan Brigade is going to defend the stone gate?" Mr. Peng shook his head, and then said, "It seems that Jiang is about to run out of money on the battlefield in Wuhan." ”

Chief of Staff Zuo immediately understood what Mr. Peng meant, and said immediately: "Mr., I'll arrange it." ”

Seeing that Chief of Staff Zuo was about to walk out of the war room, Mr. Peng suddenly said: "Don't worry about the 129th Division, but the Southern Hebei Military Region is a little difficult, telegraph to Yue Weiguo, let him hold off the army for at least ten days at all costs!" Saying this, Mr. Peng suddenly sighed lightly again, and said to himself, "Hey, Yue Weiguo? Yue Weihan? Hiss ......"

(To be continued)