Xuzhou, Fifth Theater Command.

Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater of Operations, is really living like a year now, like sitting on pins and needles, seeing that the 5th and 10th divisions of the army have already entered the table, but he, the master, has not yet served the food, what kind of battle is this? What's even worse is that the southern line of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway is also wide open, and Jiang just likes to command blindly!

The only thing that can make Li Zongren feel a little relieved is that Jiang finally temporarily transferred Tang Enbo's corps to the Fifth War Zone, which is the elite of the elite of the Central Army, with three main forces under its jurisdiction, with these three main forces, Li Zongren finally feels that he has the confidence to argue with the two ace divisions of the Yue Army.

In the communication room, the telegraph ticked incessantly.

In the war room, the combat staff officers were busy planting all kinds of small flags on the simulated sand table.

Li Zongren walked into the war room accompanied by Bai Chongqi, and said as he walked: "Jiansheng, you are not by my side, I always feel that I don't know what to do." ”

Bai Chongqi smiled bitterly and said, "Duke De, how can I be willing to stay with someone Jiang?" ”

"Hehe, okay, let's not talk about that." Li Zongren waved his hand and said, "Deng Xihou's 22nd Group Army has been stationed along the Zaozhuang line in Tengxian County, the defeated 2nd Group Army has also gained a firm foothold in Jining, and Pang Bingxun's 3rd Army has also arrived in Linyi, it should not be difficult to delay the 10th and 5th Divisions of the Army for five to ten days, and with these five days, all the participating units will be able to enter the designated area and form an encirclement of the Yue Army, the key is ......."

"The key is the southern section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway." Bai Chongqi shook his head and said, "Due to Jiang someone's blind command, most of Xuezhong's 51st Army, Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and the 21st Group Army were transferred out of the Bengbu Huaihe defense line, so that the door was opened, and now only the 114th Division of the 51st Army and the Baoshan Regiment are left in the entire Anhui Province. ”

"That's what I'm worried about." Li Zongren said, "With only the two regiments of the 114th Division and the Baoshan Regiment, I am afraid it will be difficult to block the northward advance of the Yue Army, and it will take time to readjust the deployment, and now it seems that it will take at least five days for the nearest 59th Army to reach Bengbu." ”

Bai Chongqi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Duke De, you don't have to worry, the worst result is that the battle of Xuzhou cannot be fought, and Jiang has already had a new plan." ”

"New plans?" Li Zongren was stunned and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Zongren retreated left and right, and then leaned into Li Zongren's ear and whispered: "Blew up the Yellow River embankment!" ”

"What did you say?" Li Zongren's face changed suddenly, Bai Chongqi hurriedly stretched out his hand to signal Li Zongren to silence, and Li Zongren swallowed the words that spit out into his mouth back into his stomach.

The confidential staff officer suddenly walked in with a folder in his hand and said, "General seat, Baoshan Regiment is in an emergency!" ”

The defense of Nanjing has ended, the Nanjing Garrison Theater no longer exists, and the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps to which the Baoshan Regiment belongs has also been transferred from the Nanjing Garrison Theater to the Fifth Theater and is under the command of Li Zongren.

Bai Chongqi stretched out his hand to take the message, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but say, "This is a good way!" ”

As he spoke, Bai Chongqi handed the message to Li Zongren again, but Li Zongren frowned after reading it: "Jiansheng, does this work?" ”

"If it doesn't work, it's like a dead horse and a live horse doctor." Bai Chongqi said, "Anyway, the result won't be worse than now." ”

"That's right." Li Zongren nodded and said, "I'll go and take a telegram to Jiang and ask him to send the air force to take pictures." ”

………… Jiangpu, North Effect.

After a busy night, more than 7,000 corpses of the dead officers and soldiers of the Kunisaki detachment have all been collected, and according to Yue Weihan's request, a pattern called the national flag has been placed on the wilderness north of the town.

The apparent meaning of this pattern is easy to understand, which means that all the invading armies will be "broken" on the Chinese battlefield.

But in fact, this corpse pattern is a desecration of the national flag, but also a provocation to the national character, obviously, Yue Weihan tried to completely anger the base camp of the Yue army, and even their emperor in this way, so as to induce them to send the two main divisions of Jiangbei to besiege the Baoshan regiment.

Liu Yi, the deputy of the regiment, suddenly said: "Tuanzuo, just cut off the heads of these little devils, I heard that the little devils believe in Amaterasu, if their heads move, they will not be able to get the protection of their bullshit Amaterasu, and they will not be able to reincarnate and become human in the next life, so won't it anger the little devils even more?" ”

"No, what a bad idea." Yue Weihan did not hesitate to veto this proposal.

Placing the corpses of devils into jade shattered sun flags only angered the top echelons of the army, but if the heads of these devil corpses are cut off, I am afraid that the anger will only be the ordinary soldiers of the army, and then the ordinary soldiers of the army will definitely frantically take revenge on the people of Jiangbei, and it is the Chinese who will suffer in the end.

Seeing that the Jade Broken Sun Flag had been placed, Yue Weihan said again: "Okay, let's go." ”

When Yue Weihan returned to the station, more than 2,000 people who had broken through from Nanjing had already rushed to Jiangpu, and Lu Xiufeng, the deputy of the regiment, had already asked them to assemble in the open space outside the town and was registering.

Seeing Yue Weihan, Lu Xiufeng hurriedly got up and stood upright, and the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in the queue also turned their heads in unison.

Yue Weihan couldn't help but feel a sour nose when he looked at it, and tears were almost about to burst out of his eyes, what kind of army is this? All of them were unkempt and ragged, and many officers and men still had blood stains on their bodies and faces that had not yet dried up, and the wounds that were like fish's mouths were left by bayonets.

Still far away, Yue Weihan smelled a smoky stench!

But Yue Weihan never frowned because of this, he knew where this stench came from, these respectable and admirable officers and soldiers, day and night, no matter the streets and alleys, were fighting bloody battles with little devils all the time and anytime, where did they get the time, where did they have the conditions to take a bath? If you don't take a shower for a few months, can you not stink on your body?

These officers and soldiers looked at Yue Weihan with indifferent eyes, but Yue Weihan didn't care.

These are all veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead people, they are all predators who have survived for more than nine lives, they have been fighting with the little devils in Nanjing for more than half a month, find one at random, and the little devils who are killed are afraid that they will have to be counted with two hands, they are the real [***] elite, of course they have their own dignity and proud capital!

However, Yue Weihan is confident that these veterans will be integrated into the collective of the Baoshan Regiment!

Yue Weihan saluted these veterans with a standard military salute, and then said to Lu Xiufeng: "Deputy Lu Tuan, have you made a book?" ”

"All of them have been registered, a total of 2,609 people, the largest of which is a lieutenant company deputy, a second lieutenant platoon commander of nine people, and the rest are ordinary soldiers." Lu Xiufeng's eyes were also a little red as he spoke, the death rate of the officers of this army was so high, which showed how fiercely they fought in Nanjing.

"Good things, good things." Yue Weihan was also embarrassed when he heard it.

The [***] soldiers who stubbornly defended Nanjing were really good, they didn't necessarily have much consciousness, and they didn't necessarily have any lofty ideals, but for the sake of the country and the nation, they didn't frown even if they died, Yue Weihan couldn't help but turn around and salute the group of heroic "veterans" again.

After the ceremony, Yue Weihan turned around and instructed Hua Hanlin: "Hanlin, let the people of the guard company immediately go to boil water, give the brothers a good bath to relieve fatigue, and then let the cooking class make the rice, take out all the silver dollars that the chief minister's department rewarded me last time, go to the villagers to buy a few pigs, and have lunch at noon!" ”

"Yes." Hua Hanlin agreed and went happily.

The more than 2,000 veterans in the queue on the field finally reacted, and many people began to swallow saliva, saying that the street fighting in Nanjing had been fought for more than half a month, and they usually drank cold water and gnawed dry food when they were hungry, and they had never eaten a hot meal at all, and as for the wine and meat, they couldn't remember how long they hadn't tasted it.

………… Shanghai is called the concession, and it is called the headquarters of the Central China Front.

Chief of Staff Tsukada Ken walked into Matsui Ishone's office with a gloomy face, and said uprightly: "Your Excellency General, this morning, the reconnaissance plane of the air force found a national flag pattern piled up from the remains of the fallen soldiers of the Imperial Army near Jiangpu, and it has been photographed, and the photo has been developed, please take a look." ”

As he spoke, Tsukada handed over the two photos in his hand.

Matsui Ishine stretched out his hand to take the photo, and after only one glance, his face immediately became gloomy, the photo was taken from a long distance, and because the reconnaissance plane flew too fast, the shooting effect was not good, but it could still be distinguished that it was a fragmented national flag pattern.

Matsui understood what the Chinese wanted to express at once.

The Chinese are demonstrating and demonstrating to the Great Empire and the Imperial Army, which is not only a desecration of the flag of their own country, but also a desecration of their national character!

Tsukada said in a heavy tone: "Your Excellency, the report of the reconnaissance plane was held, and the whereabouts of the Shina reconnaissance plane were also found in the sky over Jiangpu, I suspect that this is a conspiracy of the Shina people, and the Shina people are likely to take a photo of this pattern, and then publish it on the front page of major newspapers, it is foreseeable that after this photo is published, the Shina people are bound to rejoice." ”

Matsui Shi said with a gloomy face: "And the military prestige of the imperial army will be damaged again, and the morale will also be bruised. ”

"What is even more worrying is the reaction of the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor after seeing this photo." "Because the battle of Nanjing dragged on for too long and the casualties were too large, the base camp was already extremely dissatisfied with us, and if they saw this photo again, I would be worried about ......."

Matsui Ishone couldn't help but feel a hint of bitterness on his face.

Although Tsukada didn't say the second half of the sentence, Matsui Ishone knew what he was going to say.

In fact, Matsui Shigen himself has vaguely felt that the base camp is already dissatisfied with him, and if he still can't successfully solve the Baoshan regiment and recover the impact this time, then his military career is really going to end.

(To be continued)