Hefei, known as the headquarters of the Central China Front.

General Shunroku Hata and Lieutenant General Okabe stood in front of the large map in the war room with gloomy faces, and the senior staff officers of the headquarters also looked solemn, and they didn't even dare to gasp.

Just moments ago, a very harshly worded message came from the headquarters of the staff of the base camp.

Ishihara Guan'er, deputy chief of staff, went so far as to directly issue specific combat tasks to the front army, limiting the Central China Front to seize Xuzhou within half a month, completely annihilate China's Baoshan Brigade, and capture alive brigade commander Yue Weihan.

This shows that the top brass of the empire is already extremely angry, and the General Staff Headquarters or Deputy Chief Ishihara is now under great pressure!

Lieutenant General Okabe pondered for a moment and said: "Your Excellency, Xuzhou has become a strong military fortress under the management of the Baoshan Brigade, and the Baoshan Brigade has dug a huge tunnel fortification inside and outside the city, and it is difficult to effectively kill and injure their living forces by aviation bombardment or artillery bombardment alone, so it is extremely difficult to capture Xuzhou within half a month!" ”

The agents of the special high school of the army are still quite powerful, and they soon discovered the secret of the tunnel by synthesizing all kinds of intelligence.

"The tunnels of the Chinese people are indeed very tricky, and the Baoshan Brigade is the elite of the elite of the Chinese army, and its combat effectiveness is very strong." General Shun Hata nodded solemnly, and said, "It is not easy to defeat such an opponent, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for the 114th Division to be competent, Okabe-kun, I don't know if you have any good suggestions?" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said: "Your Excellency, I think it is necessary to urgently transfer the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 18th Divisions to Xuzhou, especially the 5th Division. ”

"Yo Si." General Toshimi Hata said happily, "Immediately order the above-mentioned five permanent divisions to urgently go to Xuzhou, and form a separate Third Army, the Fifth Heavy Artillery Brigade in the field is also equipped with the Third Army, and the commander of the army will be concurrently served by Okabe-kun himself, and the combat mission of the Third Army is to capture Xuzhou within half of the year, annihilate the Baoshan Brigade and capture Yue Weihan alive!" ”

"Hello!" Lieutenant General Okabe snapped to his feet and bowed his head suddenly.

………… Xuzhou, Garrison Command.

Miss Helen pouted and puffed out and came to the headquarters and broke into the headquarters, followed by Li Chusheng, who was temporarily acting as an interpreter.

Chu Zhongtian, who was guarding outside the gate, stretched his body to the middle of the door, and said coldly: "Military land, idlers are not allowed to enter!" ”

"No, I'm not an idler!" Miss Helen angrily took out her press card and the official letter of introduction from the Military Command Department, and said in blunt Chinese, "Please see clearly, I am Helen, a special correspondent of the Associated Press, a war correspondent of the Military Command Department stationed in the Baoshan Brigade, let me in immediately, I have something very important to meet General Yue." ”

"I'm sorry." Chu Zhongtian didn't even squint his eyes, and said, "I can't read." ”

"You can't read?" The American girl was stunned, and said seriously, "You can ask someone to come and see." ”

"Not available." Chu Zhongtian's expression was indifferent, this guy is not Yue Luzuo, Yue Luzuo likes the big Yanma with a hot body, but Chu Zhongtian has no good impression of this smelly foreign girl, in Chu Zhongtian's eyes, it is still Chief Liu Xin and Reporter Zhao who are the most feminine, and the traveling seat should be good with them, not with the foreign girl in front of him.

In the middle of the dispute, Yue Weihan walked out of it with a frown, and said, "Chu Zhongtian, what are you doing?" ”

"Traveler!" Chu Zhongtian hurriedly stood upright, but Miss Helen next to him complained angrily, "Yue, your guard is too much, he won't let me in!" ”

Yue Weihan motioned for Chu Zhongtian to let him go, and asked, "Miss Helen, is there anything wrong with me?" ”

Helen took two steps and hugged Yue Weihan's right arm, then raised her head and stared at Yue Weihan, and said, "Yue, I am a war correspondent of the Associated Press stationed in the Baoshan Brigade, and I have the right to know the latest battle report of the Baoshan Brigade, but why am I still in the dark for such a big thing as the death battalion severely invading the Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Yue Army?" ”

"Well, I forgot, I'm sorry, Miss Helen." Yue Weihan opened his eyes and said nonsense.

"Yue, I don't think you're sincere enough." The American girl is not stupid after all, and pouted, "If there is a similar military operation next time, I will ask for an interview with the army." ”

"I'm afraid it won't work." Yue Weihan shrugged his shoulders and said, "I must guarantee your safety. ”

"I'll just follow you for an interview, and if I'm not in the line of fire, there won't be any danger." The American girl hugged Yue Weihan's right arm more and more hard, and the towering breasts squeezed on Yue Weihan's right arm without hesitation, Yue Weihan's mouth couldn't help but have a wicked smile at the corner of his mouth, and his knife-like eyes pierced directly into the American girl's half-open clothes.

In the war room, Chief of Staff Liu Yi and several major staff officers hurriedly looked away, not daring to look any more.

Several major staff officers were even more envious in their hearts, thinking that the brigade seat was really a good blessing, and they were about to open up when they saw this posture.

Major Liu Xin came out of the telecommunications room and happened to see this scene, Fang couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, but after thinking about it, he was relieved, like Yue Weihan, who is handsome and manly, and is also a senior general with outstanding military achievements, such a man is not normal if a woman likes it, aren't the dozen or so female planes in the telecommunications room all secretly in love with him? Especially Hu Dan and Lan Ping, the two foxes from the military commanders, dreamed of recommending their own pillows, right?

"Brigade seat, special forces emergency call!" Major Liu Xin strode forward and stood upright.

Yue Weihan nodded and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Major Liu Xin looked at the American girl who was still holding Yue Weihan's right arm tightly in an unfriendly manner, and immediately replied: "The 1st Squad, 2nd Squad, 3rd Squad, and 4th Squads of the Special Operations Brigade sent back an urgent telegram at the same time, and a large number of troops are encircling Xuzhou, and the numbers of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 18th divisions have been discovered. ”

"Oh?" Yue Weihan suddenly became alert, and immediately strode to the map.

Chief of Staff Liu Yi also hurriedly stepped forward and said with a solemn expression: "Brigade seat, it seems that the little devils have really been hurt by us, and they are going to fight with us!" ”

Yue Weihan said awe-inspiringly: "How can you see it? ”

Liu Yi said: "According to the intelligence of the Military Command Bureau, the 3rd Division is subordinate to the 11th Army, the 5th Division is subordinate to the Second Army, and the 6th and 18th Divisions are subordinate to the Fifth Army. ”

The corners of Yue Weihan's mouth suddenly bloomed with a smile, and he said, "Chief of Staff, isn't this exactly what we want?" ”

Liu Yi nodded and said: "The mobilization of the four elite divisions to besiege Xuzhou will inevitably affect its offensive in all directions such as the Pinghan Line, Dabie Mountain, Sulu Border and Luzhong Mountain, which is indeed conducive to our army's calm deployment of the Battle of Wuhan, but the pressure on our Baoshan Brigade is too great, Brigade Seat, these are four elite divisions!" ”

The difference between the 17 permanent divisions and regiments of the army and the newly organized 20 reserve divisions and regiments is enormous.

In terms of equipment and the number of soldiers, reserve divisions are far from being comparable to permanent divisions.

A permanent division has two infantry brigades, four infantry wings, and one field artillery wing, one baggage wing, one engineer wing, and one cavalry wing, with a total strength of more than 28,000 people, or even more than 40,000 if you count the supplementary corps! The newly formed reserve divisions usually have only three infantry wings and less than 20,000 men.

Of course, the biggest difference between a permanent division and a reserve division is the number of veterans.

The reason why the permanent division can become the elite of the army is that it has a large number of veterans.

"What about the elite!?" Yue Weihan said abruptly, "Our Baoshan Brigade is the elite!" ”

Yue Weihan just said something casually, but it made Liu Yi and the staff officers of the headquarters suddenly agitated, and Chu Zhongtian's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to kill the battlefield and have a bayonet with the little devil! Major Liu Xin and the American girl Helen showed undisguised admiration in their beautiful eyes.

A true hero, a hero, has always been the favorite of beauties.

Yue Weihan had no time to dissipate the admiration of the two beauties at this time, and immediately said to Liu Yi: "Chief of Staff, immediately telegraph to the Theater Commander's Department and the Military Command Department, saying that the army is launching a large-scale retaliation and mobilizing at least four elite divisions to attack Xuzhou, but please rest assured that the Theater Commander's Department and Military Command Department will not lose Xuzhou City for at least half a month!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yi stood up and saluted, and immediately took the order and left.

………… Wuhan camp, the war room of the General Staff.

Chairman Chiang hurriedly walked in under the escort of Wang Shihe, chief of the national guard, and dozens of [***] senior generals who had already gathered in the war room hurriedly stood up and saluted, Chairman Chiang waved his hand, walked directly to the huge map hanging on the wall, and asked General He, chief of the general staff: "Respect, briefly tell me about the latest war situation." ”

"Yes!" General He stood up and said solemnly, "The Baoshan Brigade is in an emergency, the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 18th divisions of the army are heading for Xuzhou, and according to the information provided by the Military Command Bureau, the army is likely to form the 13th Army to specialize in attacking Xuzhou, and the divisions under its jurisdiction are likely to be the above four permanent divisions plus the fifth heavy artillery brigade in the field. ”

Next to the deputy chief Bai added: "It seems that the report of the four major Western news agencies, especially the Soviet Union's TASS news agency, has put great pressure on the army capital, in order to recover the negative impact at home and abroad, so it does not hesitate to mobilize the four elite divisions and the fifth brigade of field heavy artillery to attack Xuzhou, so that the offensive of the Yue army in the direction of Dabie Mountain and Pingxian Han will be eased, and our army will be able to calmly mobilize troops to deploy the battle of Wuhan. and Yu Xuezhong on the border of Sulu and Sun Lianzhong in the mountainous area of Luzhong were finally able to take a breath. ”

Admiral Li said worriedly: "But in this way, the Baoshan Brigade will face more than 100,000 troops of the four elite divisions of the Yue Army with a brigade of soldiers, not to mention the Fifth Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Field and the powerful Yue Army Aviation Army, the pressure on the Baoshan Brigade is really great enough, and the prospects of this battle are not optimistic!" ”

Most of the senior generals in the war room had solemn expressions.

Only Chairman Jiang's expression was extremely calm, what about the four elite divisions? With the clever plan he personally taught, even if the army raised 500,000 heavy troops to attack Xuzhou, the Baoshan Brigade would be able to retreat.

(To be continued)