In Xuzhou, Liu Yi, the underground headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade, handed the telegram in his hand to Yue Weihan, and said with a solemn expression: "Brigade seat, the military command department has just called back, insisting that we defend Xuzhou until the last soldier!" ”

After reading the message, Yue Weihan said abruptly: "The general is outside, and the king's order is not affected!" ”

After saying that, Yue Weihan strode to the huge military map hanging on the wall and said, "Chief of Staff, how has your staff drawn up the breakout plan?" ”

"I have prepared several sets of plans, but none of them are ideal." Liu Yi said with a wry smile, "More than a dozen communication lines (tunnels) leading to the outside of the city have all been destroyed by the heavy artillery and aerial bombs of the Yue Army, and it is impossible to reopen it in a short period of time, and the chance of forcibly breaking through is slim. ”

Yue Weihan also frowned and said nothing, the five masters of the little devil are indeed difficult to deal with.

Chu Zhongtian said suddenly: "Brigade, the surname Suo dug the embankment, and he and the little devil will be able to do it together!" ”

"." Liu Yi reprimanded, "If you really want to dig the embankment, what will happen to the tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai Basin?" ”

Yue Weihan's expression moved slightly, and he immediately turned back to Liu Yi and said, "Chief of Staff, I think this is a good idea!" ”

"Brigade, no, this is absolutely not good!" Liu Yi suddenly said urgently, "What are we fighting as soldiers for?" Isn't it for the safety of the people? Have you forgotten our original intention of guarding Xuzhou? Wasn't the reason why you took the initiative to ask for help and guard Xuzhou at the beginning so that tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai River Valley could be saved from being displaced? ”

"Chief of Staff, don't worry." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "I don't really want to dig the embankment. ”

"Huh?" Liu Yi said suddenly, "What does the brigade mean to bluff and force the army to withdraw from Xuzhou?" ”

"Right!" Yue Weihan slapped the map heavily and said, "Chief of Staff, you think, the five master regiments of the army are all mechanized troops, and their heavy equipment must rely on railways or roads to carry out maneuvers, once the Yellow River bursts, all railways and roads near Xuzhou will be flooded, and will be completely turned into swamps, and then the heavy equipment of the little devil will be deep in the mud, and it will be difficult to move an inch!" ”

Liu Yi said excitedly: "If the Yue army knew that we were going to dig the Yellow River embankment and planned to die with them, they would never dare to stay in the periphery of Xuzhou again, at least their heavy equipment would have to retreat to a safe place in advance. In this way, the success rate of our breakthrough will be greatly increased! ”

Yue Weihan said again: "The question is how to let Yue Jun know this news? And believe it! ”

"It's not difficult to do these two things, we just need to send a clear code telegram to notify tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai River Basin to evacuate urgently, and no matter how stupid the little devil is, he can guess what we want to do." Liu Yi said this, and then shook his head again, "But the consequences of doing this are too serious, and it will make you bear the infamy of a lifetime." ”

"This will definitely not work, we will not do anything that disturbs the people!" Yue Weihan said, "But what you said also reminded me, why don't we immediately telegraph to the Commander's Department and the General Staff Headquarters and ask Shangfeng for permission to dig the Yellow River embankment, so that the impact can be controlled to a minimum, and the army can get the news in time." ”

"Well, that's a good idea!" Liu Yi said, "In order to arouse the vigilance of the intelligence department of the army, we can send several urgent telegrams in a row, repeatedly asking for instructions from the upper peak, as long as the intelligence personnel of the little devil are not fools, they will definitely attract enough attention, as for what the upper peak thinks, it is not within our consideration, hehe." ”

"Okay, that's it!" Yue Weihan finally made a decision, and then said, "In addition, in order to reduce casualties as much as possible, order the whole brigade to immediately shrink the defensive line, and then let the 2nd Regiment take the bayonet battalion and the reading battalion back, there is no need to defend the railway station anymore, and abandoning the railway station can also make the senior management of the army more convinced that we are going to flood Xuzhou!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yi snapped upright, then turned around and hurriedly walked into the telecommunications room next door.

………… Xiao County, the headquarters of the Third Army of the Army.

General Toshiroku Hata was discussing the battle situation with Lieutenant General Okabe, and Major General Tengtian suddenly strode in, and immediately suddenly retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency, General, just now the Telecommunications Department reported that the telecommunications contact between the Baoshan Brigade and the Wuhan side has suddenly become frequent, and the situation is extremely suspicious, and there seems to be a major operation!" ”

"Oh?" General Shunroku Hata frowned and said, "What is the judgment of the General Staff?" ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi said: "The General Staff believes that there are two possibilities, one is that the Baoshan Brigade will break through, and the other is that the Chinese reinforcements are coming, and the information provided by the special high school and the aviation corps is very small, so the General Staff believes that the Baoshan Brigade is likely to ask for instructions from the Wuhan side and prepare to break through!" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe suddenly asked, "Tengda-kun, what about your personal judgment?" ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi said: "I personally think that there is a third possibility! ”

After that, Major General Teng Tianzhi strode to the huge map hanging on the wall and said: "Two generals, please see, Xuzhou is almost a hundred miles away from the plain terrain, less than three kilometers away from the north gate of Xuzhou is the Yellow River, the Yellow River is known as the 'river on the ground' in China, because her riverbed is significantly higher than the horizon. ”

"Hiss......" Lieutenant General Okabe suddenly gasped and said awe-inspiringly, "Tengtian-kun, do you mean that Chinese want to dig up the Yellow River and flood the imperial army in a desperate way?" ”

"Hello!" Major General Teng Tianzhi bowed his head suddenly, and said solemnly, "Throughout the history of China's 5,000-year civilization, it is actually a long history of war, in which there are hundreds of examples of flooding to win. ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said awe-inspiringly: "If this is the case, the imperial army must immediately withdraw from Xuzhou!" ”

The sixth general of the six generals of the Hata Junshi frowned and said: "If the Chinese really dig the Yellow River, it will not only flood the imperial army outside Xuzhou City, but also the Chinese [***] team in Xuzhou City will not be spared, and tens of millions of Chinese people in dozens of counties in the Huanghuai Valley will also suffer from the catastrophe. This is a serious violation of international conventions! ”

Major General Teng Tian Zhi said solemnly: "The Chinese have an idiom that it is better to break the jade than to be complete, and the Chinese leader Jiang is also a cold-blooded political figure, and his first consideration is always the interests of the ruling class represented by himself, so I think it is entirely possible that he ordered the Yellow River to be dug up." ”

The six generals of Shun Hata obviously did not believe it, or could not make up their minds to withdraw the siege from Xuzhou.

Because withdrawing from Xuzhou is a risk, once the main force of the army really withdraws from Xuzhou, and the Chinese do not dig the Yellow River, it is bound to leave a gap for the Baoshan Brigade to break through, and once the Baoshan Brigade really succeeds in breaking through, then the military career of the six generals of the six generals of Hata Junda will definitely end, and the base camp and Deputy Chief Ishihara will absolutely not tolerate such a result!

Major General Tengtian obviously guessed the concerns of the six generals of Toshiro Hata, and said, "Your Excellency, even if this is just a bluff by the Chinese, the Baoshan Brigade will definitely not be able to escape the end of the destruction of the entire army!" Even if the five main divisions of the imperial army retreat fifty miles, they can still form a huge encirclement of Xuzhou, and if the Baoshan Brigade wants to stand out from the encirclement in a structured way, it may have a negligible surname, and if it breaks through separately, it will give the imperial army a chance to break through and encircle and annihilate separately! ”

"What if there is a fish that slips through the net?" The sixth general of Hata Jun frowned and said, "What if you can't catch Yue Weihan?" ”

"Fish that slip through the net are definitely inevitable, but a small group of remnants of soldiers who slip through the net is no longer enough to set off a storm, whether it is for the Great Empire or for the Chinese, as long as most of the Baoshan Brigade is annihilated, it is equivalent to all being annihilated!" Major General Teng Tianzhi said this, and said, "As for whether Yue Weihan can be captured alive, it doesn't really matter, what the staff headquarters of the base camp needs is actually just to completely annihilate the Baoshan Brigade in order to recover the bad influence at home and abroad." ”

General Toshiroku Hata pondered for a moment but still couldn't make up his mind, and then said to Lieutenant General Okabe: "Okabe-kun, order the special high school to seize the time to decipher the cipher code of the Chinese, this matter is very important, we must not make a hasty decision, I must know the exact content of the telegrams exchanged between the Baoshan Brigade and the Chinese high-level!" ”

………… While the six generals were hesitating, Chairman Chiang was furious.

At four o'clock in the morning, Chairman Chiang had just been lying down for less than half an hour when he was woken up by Wang Shihe, chief of the state guards, and in the midst of Madame Chiang's dissatisfied muttering, Chairman Chiang hurriedly got up in his clothes and came to the living room, only to see General Li, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater Commander-in-Chief, He Yingqin, chief and deputy chief of the General Staff, and Bai Chongqi already standing outside the door with solemn expressions.

As soon as he saw this posture, Chairman Jiang knew that something big was wrong, and how small things could be done when the three major members appeared at the same time?

Soon, Chairman Chiang knew what was going on, and since 10 o'clock last night, the Baoshan Brigade has been sending reports to the Commander's Department and the General Staff Headquarters again and again, and although the words and sentences of the telegrams are different, there is only one content, and what they say over and over again is the same meaning -- the Baoshan Brigade is going to dig the Yellow River!

"Niang Xipi!" Chairman Jiang was suddenly furious, "Yue Weihan, what does he want to do?" What does he want to do!? If he refuses to be loyal to the country and refuses to defend Xuzhou, he is at most a runaway general, but he really wants to dig up the Yellow River, in case he floods tens of millions of innocent people in the Huanghuai River Basin, can he bear this historical responsibility? ”

Deputy Chief Bai pursed his lips, slandering in his heart, Jiang is really shameless.

Admiral Li frowned deeply, and he was even more confused in his heart, with his understanding of Yue Weihan, it was absolutely impossible for Yue Weihan to dig the Yellow River, even if Jiang ordered it, he would definitely not carry it out! Otherwise, in Nanjing, Yue Weihan would not have fabricated Jiang's edict for the sake of 700,000 refugees!

(To be continued)