Thirty miles southwest of Jingcheng, there is a mountain name "pear blossom tip".

In the air, a [***] army of more than 500 people was resting by the small river at the foot of the mountain.

This unit is the 181st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division, and the battalion commander is Ye Xiaoxian, who has just been transferred from the Baoshan Division.

Ye Xiao first took cold water, gnawed the bread in his hand in three or two clicks, and said to the guards behind him: "Go, invite several deputy battalion commanders and company commanders over for a short meeting." ”

"Yes!" The guards said yes and took orders.

In less than a moment, the three battalion deputies and three company commanders had all arrived.

The three major battalion deputies looked at Ye Xiaoxian's eyes obviously not very friendly, this is normal, although their original military rank was only captain, they were still company commanders, and they also had more than a hundred soldiers under them, but now? Now that the military rank is promoted to major, I can get an extra five oceans every month, but there is no soldier under my hand, and I am the commander of the light pole.

As for the three company commanders, like Ye Xiaoxian, they were all transferred from the Baoshan Division.

In addition to Ye Xiaoxian and the three company commanders, the nine platoon commanders under him were also veterans transferred from the Baoshan Division, and as for the original nine platoon commanders, they were all promoted to become company and deputy officers.

Facing the unfriendly gazes of the three battalion deputies, Ye Xiaoxian was unconcerned.

Ye Xiaoxian is no longer the student baby who just enlisted in the army, war will always be the cruelest and most efficient melting pot in the world, and its law is to eliminate the weak and train the strong! Since Ye Xiaoxian was able to survive tenaciously from a few months of brutal battles and grow up quickly, it shows that he is by no means a good stubble!

In fact, Ye Xiaoxian is indeed not a good recommendation, he has already decided to start!

If conditions permit, Ye Xiaoxian is not willing to take this kind of bloody means, he also wants to take gentle means, gradually win the approval of the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion, and then carry out personnel adjustments, but time waits for no one, the order given to him by the group army headquarters is: master the troops in the shortest possible time, and bring the troops to the southern Hebei Plain and occupy Nangong County!

Ye Xiaoxian's gaze inadvertently swept over the faces of the three company commanders, and the three company commanders bowed their heads one after another.

"Yingzuo, this person has already arrived, you can tell me anything." One of the battalion lieutenants said impatiently.

Ye Xiaoxian nodded, and said in shock: "The headquarters order, the exercise is canceled, and the new combat mission is to seize Nangong County within seven days and cut off the Shiji Highway!" ”

"Huh?"

"Exercise cancelled!?"

"When did this happen? How did we not know? ”

As expected, the three battalion deputies asked Ye Xiao to come first.

"How?" Ye Xiaoxian said coldly, "You want to disobey the military orders of the headquarters?" ”

"It's not that we want to disobey the orders of the headquarters, but the headquarters has not given any orders at all!"

"We're going to see the master, we have to figure out, what the hell is going on here?"

"That is, the brothers can't just leave in a daze, and no one will leave without the order of the master!"

The deputy of the three battalions immediately began to make a loud noise, and it was obvious that these three guys were all Bi Guangheng's henchmen.

"Presumptuous!" Ye Xiaoxian was furious and said, "It's against you!" ”

The three company commanders from the Baoshan Division had already quietly stood behind the three battalion deputies, one in charge of the other, Ye Xiaoxian shouted, and they pulled out the Wang Ba box without hesitation, and shot the back of the head of the three battalion deputies! The three battalion deputies were immediately shot in the head at close range and fell down without a word.

Not far away, the officers and men of the whole battalion who were resting were suddenly dumbfounded.

Although there were a few company deputies who had risen from the platoon commander in the middle and approached the three battalion lieutenants, all this happened too quickly, and before they could react, the three battalion lieutenants had already fallen in a pool of blood.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers of the battalion were shocked but not confused, Ye Xiaoxian couldn't help but have a sneer on the corner of his mouth, which was all in his expectation.

Ye Xiaoxian strode in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion, and shouted: "According to investigation, Deputy Zhao Ying, Deputy Zhang Ying, and Deputy Lin Ying secretly colluded with Yu himself and plotted against him, and he has now been executed!" After saying this, Ye Xiaoxian said again, "Now, I announce the latest order of the headquarters, the exercise plan has been canceled, and the new combat mission is to seize Nangong County within seven days!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the three company commanders had already strode forward and began to reorganize their teams.

In less than a moment, the three companies had all been assembled, Ye Xiaoxian waved his hand, and the team drove out of the Lihuajian Mountain along the mountain road.

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The same scene was staged at the same time in the mountains around Jingcheng County!

One side was organized, planned, and carefully planned to carry out the massacre, while the other side was defenseless, and the result can be imagined, except for a battalion deputy of the new 9th Division, who was alert and successfully escaped with two bullets, nearly 100 battalion deputies of the remaining 30 battalions were all killed!

As soon as the main officers of the battalions died, the remaining soldiers could not make any waves.

In this way, the commanders sent by Yue Weihan to each battalion also grasped the military power without any suspense!

Although Yue Weihan's methods were a little cruel, the effect was quite significant, and almost in an instant, he achieved actual control of the 181st Division, the New 6th Division, and the New 9th Division! For Bi Guangheng, Gao Shuxun, Sun Dianying and others, this is undoubtedly a catastrophe, but for the 39th Group Army, this is a great benefit!

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Just after noon, more than a dozen side three-wheeled vehicles drove to the Tumen Pass.

Without waiting for the car to stop, Yue Weihan, Liu Yi and Lu Xiufeng jumped down with their respective guards.

Li Qinglong, commander of the 1st Regiment stationed at Tumen Pass, rushed to meet him when he heard the news, and at the same time ordered his troops to do a good job of vigilance.

The so-called exercise incident had already come to an end in the morning, Bi Guangheng, Gao Shuxun, Sun Dianying, and all the officers above the regimental level of the 181st Division, the New 6th Division, and the New 9th Division had all been monitored.

"The general seat, the staff seat, the deputy division seat!" Li Qinglong saluted Yue Weihan and the others respectively.

Yue Weihan waved his hand, and took Liu Yi and Lu Xiufeng straight to Tumen Pass.

Tumen Pass, also known as Jingcheng Pass, however, Jingcheng Pass has a broad sense and a narrow sense.

The broad Jing Pass refers to the entire canyon passage from Niangzi Pass in the west to Tumen Pass in the east, and the Jing Pass in the narrow sense refers to the Tumen Pass in the east!

Since the beginning of Qin, Tumen Pass has been built with a majestic gate, and it is a place where soldiers must fight!

In the third year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, the Han general Han Xin led the army to attack Zhao, and once lined up with his back to Weishui outside Tumen Pass, and the result was a great defeat of the Zhao army, which is the famous "Battle of the Water".

However, now there are only two door plates and a dilapidated gate city left.

The two door plates are written on the words "Three Provinces Thoroughfare" and "Jin-Shaanxi Thoroughfare", but the Guancheng is engraved with the three big characters of "Tumen Pass", although the Guancheng is now dilapidated, and the enemy tower has long ceased to exist, but standing on the Guan, Yue Weihan can still faintly feel the solemn breath through historical time and space.

Liu Yi suddenly asked, "General Seat, are you planning to build a fortress on the site of Tumen Pass?" ”

"Yes!" Yue Weihan nodded, pointed to the front and said: "Chief of Staff, you see, there is Conch Mountain on the left side of Tumen Pass, and there is Baoqian Mountain on the right, the two mountains are sandwiched, and the terrain is dangerous. ”

"What, hollowing out the two mountains?" Liu Yi said awe-inspiringly, "Rebuild it into a large fortress!?" ”

"Yes, dig up the two mountains and turn them into large fortresses!" Yue Weihan's eyes showed a cold light and nodded heavily.

Regarding this idea, Yue Weihan has been brewing for more than a day or two, and he has to thank himself for speaking of it.

Because in the great counteroffensive of Yunnan and Burma in history, there was a fortress offensive and defensive battle that could be called a classic for the Yue army, but it was tragic for [***], that is, the Battle of Songshan!

In May 1942, the 56th Division of the Chinese Army mobilized more than 1,600 civilians recruited from outside the sapper wing, and spent nearly half a year to almost hollow out the belly of Songshan and the nearby six hills, including Xiaosong Mountain, Rolling Dragon Slope and Loess Slope, and finally built a large fortress with seven sub-mother bunker groups as the main body.

The whole fortress is like a large ant nest hidden underground, the underground transportation network extends in all directions, electricity, ventilation and water supply facilities are readily available, and the surface positions are all reinforced with steel plates, logs, cement, and sandbags, even if they are bombarded by 500-pound aerial bombs or 150mm caliber heavy artillery, they can also be safe and sound!

With this "large ant nest", a remnant wing of the Yue army was less than 1,000 infantry (non-combatants are not counted), but the 20,000 Chinese expeditionary forces with field artillery groups and the help of the British and American air forces were blocked in front of the pass for three months and five days, and when the position was finally breached, [***] suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, and the casualty ratio of the two armies was as high as 1:8!

The army can hollow out Songshan and the six nearby hills to build a huge Songshan Fortress, why can't the Conch Mountain, Baocalf Mountain and a dozen nearby hills on the left and right sides of the Tumen Pass be hollowed out and built into a larger Tumen Fortress? Once the Tumen Fortress is completed, it will definitely become a meat grinder for the North China Front Army!

Liu Yi finally came back to his senses from the shock and said awe-inspiringly: "General seat, if you want to hollow out Conch Mountain, Baoqian Mountain and more than a dozen nearby hills within two months, and build a complete bunker group, will the time be tight?" ”

Yue Weihan nodded and said, "Time is a little tight, but it's still possible." ”

In order to prevent leakage of secrets, prisoners of war or civilians are absolutely not allowed to participate in the Tumen Fortress project.

However, the Baoshan Division has more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, and with these more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, it is still possible to dig out two large ant nests in the belly of Hailuo Mountain and Baoqian Mountain within two months.

(To be continued)