Xuzhou, the Fifth Theater Governor's Department.

There were only two people in the lounge, Admiral Li and Deputy Chief Bai, Admiral Li took a puff of cigarette and said with a faint gaze: "Jiansheng, why did you say that Jiang went to find Yue Weihan at this time?" ”

"What else do you need to say?" Deputy Chief Bai said, "I must be asking for advice on how to deal with it." ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Chief Bai said: "More than a month ago, Yue Weihan resolutely opposed the battle of Xuzhou proposed by Jiang someone, Jiang someone didn't listen, and as a result, there was a crisis today. And Yue Weihan has obviously become his only lifeline. ”

Admiral Li said: "Maybe...... Yue Weihan, this kid, really came up with a countermeasure. ”

"I don't know if Yue Weihan can come up with a countermeasure." Deputy Chief Bai shook his head and said, "But I know that Jiang is not unprepared, he has already prepared a plan to protect himself. ”

"Desperate?" Admiral Li said awe-inspiringly, "You mean ......?"

Deputy Chief Bai's expression suddenly turned to regret, and then nodded heavily.

………… Xuzhou, the gate of the garrison headquarters.

Yue Weihan kept sending Chairman Jiang out of the gate, and before getting into the car, Chairman Jiang called Yue Weihan to the front again, and said in a heavy tone: "Loyalty, before leaving, I still have two words to send you, at a critical moment, these two words may save you and even the surnames of the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Brigade." ”

Yue Weihan hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Please take a seat and make it clear." ”

Chairman Jiang nodded and said, "Stretch out your hand." ”

Yue Weihan stretched out his hand when he heard this, Chairman Jiang took out a pen and wrote two words in the palm of Yue Weihan's hand, and then turned around and boarded the car and drove away, Yue Weihan slowly withdrew his right hand and spread out his palm, only to see the words "digging embankment" clearly written on the palm, and suddenly Yue Weihan was trembling in his heart, digging the embankment, is this a secret order issued by Chairman Jiang?

………… The next day, the conference room of the Fifth Theater Commander's Department.

"Now I command...... Chairman Jiang stood up suddenly, and the senior generals of the party-state attending the meeting followed suit, and Chairman Jiang's eyes swept over the faces of the senior generals attending the meeting, and then he said loudly, "Yu Xuezhong!" ”

"Yes!" Yu Xuezhong, commander-in-chief of the 3rd Group Army, hurriedly stood up and replied loudly.

"He led the 3rd Group Army and Zhang Zizhong and other divisions with a total of seven divisions to attack eastward from Bengbu, and after highlighting the heavy encirclement of the Yue Army, that is, to garrison troops in the border area of Jiangsu and Shandong, and form the Sulu Theater, with Yu Xuezhong as the commander-in-chief and Zhang Zizhong as the deputy commander-in-chief, relying on the favorable terrain to extensively carry out guerrilla operations behind enemy lines."

"Yes!"

"Sun Lianzhong."

"Yes!"

"He led the 2nd Group Army and other divisions with a total of nine divisions to attack northward from Jining, Yancheng, Tengxian, Zaozhuang, Juxian, and other places, and after breaking through the encirclement separately, they moved to the Yimeng Mountains in central Lu, and formed the Luzhong Theater, with Sun Lianzhong as the commander-in-chief, and also relied on the favorable terrain of the Yimeng Mountains to carry out extensive guerrilla operations."

"Yes!"

"Li Pinxian."

"Yes!"

"He led the 11th Group Army, the 27th Group Army and other divisions with a total of eight divisions to attack westward along the Longhai Line from Xuzhou, and after breaking through the encirclement of the Yue Army, he was transferred to the battle sequence of the First Theater."

"Yes!"

"The rest of the departments, after nightfall, rushed south from Xuzhou to attack Mengcheng overnight, swirled over the Dabie Mountain to defend Wuhan camp, and then chose the opportunity to fight with Yue Kou!"

"Yes!" The [***] senior generals attending the meeting agreed with a bang.

"Adjournment." Chairman Jiang turned around and left, and the [***] senior generals attending the meeting also turned around and left the conference room, and in an instant, the entire city of Xuzhou began to be noisy, and the troops that had been resting in the villages and towns outside Xuzhou began to assemble one after another, and the weapons and ammunition stored in the munitions warehouse were also distributed to individual soldiers.

Just when the base camp of the army thought that [***] on the battlefield in Xuzhou had only one way to be killed, [***] unexpectedly launched a large-scale counterattack of unprecedented scale!

………… Jinan, the base camp of the army sent a command post to the front.

The telegraph in the telecommunications room was ringing incessantly, the telephone was ringing one after another, most of the staff officers of various departments were in a hurry, and their expressions were grim, and the huge simulated sand table in the war room was already full of operational staff officers at this time, and the senior general Terauchi and Lieutenant General Okabe, who had just arrived in Jinan by special plane, were also among them.

Lieutenant General Okabe held the command pole and connected the points on the sand table, and said to the senior general of the temple with a stern expression: "Your Excellency, last night, the Zhina army on the Xuzhou battlefield suddenly launched an unprecedented counterattack, except for one to attack west along the Longhai line, and the other two roads attacked and advanced to the Sulu border and the Luzhong area respectively. ”

"Huh?" The general of the temple frowned and said, "Attack and advance to the Sulu border and Luzhong region respectively?" ”

After saying this, the general of the temple said again: "How do you judge the counterattack attempt of the Chinese army? ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said: "Your Excellency, the counterattack of the Chinese army this time is extremely sudden, and the direction of the attack is also unexpected, but the staff of the dispatch squad has a preliminary judgment that this should be just a trick for the Chinese army, because the scale of these three Chinese armies is all below ten divisions, and judging from the number, most of them are miscellaneous cards in the Chinese army, and only a small number are related to the central army." ”

"Tricks?" The general of the temple nodded happily and said, "Yo Xi, do you mean to say that the sudden counterattack of the three road branch army is just to cover the breakthrough of the main force of China?" ”

"Hello." Lieutenant General Okabe said, "That's how it should be." ”

The general of the temple said: "Then in which direction do you think the elite main force of China will break through?" ”

"It should still be the Longhai line." Lieutenant General Okabe said, "Because the Longhai Railway Line west of Xuzhou is still under the control of the Zhina Army, in order to evacuate the Xuzhou battlefield as soon as possible, the Zhina Army will definitely choose to retreat along the Longhai Railway, and the Longhai Railway also intersects with the Pinghan Line, and the retreat from the Longhai Railway can be supported by the Zhina Army in the direction of the Pinghan Railway." ”

The general of the temple said: "Can the aviation scouts find it?" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe said: "The aviation scouts have just sent back a report that the Xuzhou Railway Station is urgently loading supplies, and there are many Zhina troops are assembling near the railway station, judging from the number, these Zhina troops are all subordinate to the 20th Corps, that is, the Tang Enbo Corps, which is Jiang's descendant of the Central Army!" ”

"Yo Si." The general nodded and said happily, "In order to ensure that the Longhai Railway can be cut off and the elite main force of the Zhina in the Xuzhou area can be completely annihilated, I think it is necessary to transfer the 5th and 25th Divisions to the Luxi Group to ensure that the Zhina Army attacking west along the Longhai Railway is defeated." ”

After saying this, the general of the temple said: "In addition, the heavy army groups that were originally scheduled to encircle Xuzhou do not need to pay attention to the Zhina army that is attacking and advancing to the Sulu border and the Luzhong region, the main combat task of the imperial army is to encircle and annihilate the main force of Zhina on the battlefield of Xuzhou, as for these two Zhina divisions, just send four to six divisions to follow and pursue!" ”

"Hello." Lieutenant General Okabe bowed his head abruptly and said, "Your Excellency the General is wise. ”

………… Xuzhou, railway station.

More than 500 "guilty officers and men" of the death battalion directly under the Baoshan Brigade were nervously carrying "munitions."

In fact, the so-called munitions are nothing more than large and small wooden boxes filled with stones, but people who don't know the inside story will never see any flaws when they see them, and it is even more impossible for the devil reconnaissance planes in the sky to find the flaws.

Around the railway station, there are still a large number of [***] troops are being assembled, and the banner is the "Twentieth Army Corps of the National Revolutionary Army", at this moment, Tang Enbo, who is waiting in the woods twenty miles south of Xuzhou City, never knows that his "troops" have actually returned to Xuzhou City in a daze.

At a certain moment, a terrible air defense siren suddenly sounded at the head of Xuzhou City.

When the bomber group of the aviation regiment directly under the North China Front Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army arrived over the Xuzhou railway station, there was not even a ghost shadow in the entire railway station, only a truck parked at the station, and a large number of scattered munitions.

Although there was no figure of [***], the pilot long plane still chose to drop the bomb without hesitation, and the wingmen who followed also dropped the random bombs, and then swooped down and fired two shuttle machine guns at the empty Xuzhou Railway Station, and then fluttered their wings and flew away proudly.

The group of devil bombers flew away, and Yue Weihan walked out of the underground bunker surrounded by Liu Yi and Li Qinglong, the commander of the death battalion, and reached out to dust off his body, Yue Weihan turned back to Liu Yi and said: "Chief of Staff, immediately order the Supplementary 1st Regiment and the Supplementary 2nd Regiment to go out of the city on foot and march west along the Longhai Line." ”

After saying this, he said: "After dark, let the Supplementary 1st Regiment and the Supplementary 2nd Regiment quietly return to the city, and then wait until tomorrow after dawn to continue to go out of the city, march westward along the Longhai Line, and if possible, let the special team mobilize tens of thousands of Xuzhou people and let them wear [***] military uniforms to confuse the devil reconnaissance planes in the sky." ”

"Yes." Liu Yi snapped upright and immediately took the order.

………… Jinan, the base camp of the army sent a command post to the front.

In the war room, Lieutenant General Okabe strode up to the senior general of the temple, and suddenly retracted his feet and said uprightly: "Your Excellency, the bomber group of the air force directly under the front army has bombed the Xuzhou railway station, and according to the reconnaissance plane just reported, most of the main facilities in the Xuzhou railway station have been destroyed, and the Chinese army is marching on foot along the Longhai line. ”

"Yo Si." The general of the temple nodded happily and said, "Without the train, the retreat speed of the Chinese army will be greatly slowed down, so that the second army of Xiwei Jun will have enough time to go south to seize Shangqiu, as long as Shangqiu is captured, the Longhai railway will be completely cut off, and the road for the Chinese army to flee westward will also be completely blocked!" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe also said: "What Your Excellency General said is extremely true, everything is already under the control of the imperial army. ”

"Hmm." The general of the temple said happily, "Okabe-kun, the battle plan for Xuzhou formulated by the front command post of the base camp is very detailed, and the actual effect is also very good, the main force of the Xuzhou battlefield is only afraid that it will be difficult to escape, if this battle is won, the elite main force of the Chinese army will be lost, and the determination of the political axe of the Chinese army to resist is bound to be seriously frustrated, and I believe that the holy war in Greater East Asia will also end soon." ”

(To be continued)