Tokyo, Kanin Palace.

The Chief of Staff of the Army, Kanin Miyajihito, received the Minister of War Hideki Tojo in his study.

After listening to Hideki Tojo's statement, Zairen frowned and said, "You mean to say that Okamura Ninji is no longer suitable to be the commander of the North China Front?" ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo bowed his head abruptly and said, "Okamura-kun is better at public security and suppression, and Hata Shunroku is obviously better at commanding frontal battles, and now, North China is facing a medium-scale Taihang battle, while Central China is in urgent need of a large-scale public security battle. ”

"Yo Si." Jaeren nodded happily and said, "Then adjust it according to your wishes." ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo bowed his head again and said in a flattering voice, "Your Highness is wise! ”

………… Tumen Fortress, the main bunker of Hug Calf Mountain.

In the combat hall on the second floor of the basement, Yue Weihan had just shaken hands with Li Qinglong and other officers, and the telephone bell in the corner of the hall rang rapidly. ”

"Chief of Staff?" Yue Weihan's heart jumped, and he hurriedly stepped forward to take the microphone.

"The main seat?" Liu Yi's familiar and anxious voice came from the microphone.

"I'm Yue Weihan." Yue Weihan said in a deep voice, "Chief of Staff, what's wrong?" ”

In the microphone, Liu Yi said in a slightly anxious voice: "Boss, the little devil has airdropped paratroopers to the Cangyan Mountains!" ”

"What do you say? Airdrop paratroopers!? Yue Weihan was taken aback when he heard this, and he couldn't believe his ears.

Historically, when the army carried out the southward strategy to sweep Southeast Asia, it did use airborne troops on a large scale, and this Yue Weihan knew it, but at that time, the airborne attacks of the army were all targets on the plain terrain or large cities, and as for the airdrop of paratroopers to the mountains, I am afraid that even the US and German armies do not have such qualities, right?

With the training level of the paratroopers of the army, it would be good if half of the airborne troops in the mountains could survive!

Therefore, Yue Weihan never thought that the army would carry out an airdrop in the Taihang Mountains, which was too crazy.

Okamura Ningji, this old devil seems to be really crazy, this is obviously a forced airdrop at any cost, a conspiracy, this must be a conspiracy, this old devil is storming the Tumen Fortress at any cost, and he is forcibly carrying out the mountain airborne paratroopers at any cost, this must be to cover up some ulterior conspiracy!

These thoughts flashed in Yue Weihan's mind, and he asked Liu Yi at the moment: "Chief of Staff, how is the situation on your side now?" The factories in the industrial zone have not been damaged, right? Did the 181st Division control the situation? ”

"Rest assured, the 181st Division has taken control of the situation." Liu Yi said in a deep voice, "Although it is unexpected for the little devils to suddenly parachute into the Cangyan Mountains, they still owe some heat after all, more than 1,000 people were airborne, and half of them fell to death or were injured, and the remaining more than 500 devil soldiers were also killed, huh......"

As he was talking, Liu Yi suddenly let out a startled sigh, and Yue Weihan also heard a terrible siren from the microphone.

At that moment, Yue Weihan's heart sank, and he asked: "Chief of Staff, what happened, why did the air defense alarm go off again?" ”

"The paratroopers of the little devil have carried out a second airborne landing in the Cangyan Mountains!" Liu Yi scolded on the phone, "These dogs are in a hurry to return to Dongyang Island to reincarnate, you can rest assured, the 181st Division has adjusted its deployment, and the field general hospital, logistics warehouse, arsenal and major factories have all been closely protected." ”

"Chief of Staff, you also have to pay attention to safety!" Yue Weihan said, "Once the airborne troops of the dog say fall from the sky, it will definitely be scattered everywhere, let Ma Zhankui's action department mobilize all forces, and must not let a little devil slip through the net, and must be wiped out, so as not to threaten the safety of the lives and property of the people in the mountainous areas." ”

"Yes." Liu Yi on the other end of the phone suddenly agreed, and immediately hung up the phone.

Li Qinglong stepped forward and asked with concern, "Boss, what's wrong?" ”

"It's fine." Yue Weihan hung up the phone and said indifferently, "Qinglong, tell me your opinion." ”

"I think Okamura Ninji, this old devil, must be deliberately covering up something." Li Qinglong's one-eyed eyes looked at Yue Weihan intently, and said in a very determined tone, "It's not been a day or two since our 39th Group Army dealt with this old devil, when have you seen him so stupid?" ”

Yue Weihan nodded and said in a deep voice, "Then you say, what is Okamura Ningji deliberately hiding from?" ”

"It's hard to say." Li Qinglong said, "However, after all, it is an action that is not conducive to our Taihang base area. ”

"Boss, Brigade, do you think Okamura, this old devil will let the little devil dig a tunnel?" Yang Jiamao, chief of staff of the Tumen Fortress Garrison Brigade next to him, suddenly said, "Then carry out sapper blasting on our Tumen Fortress?" ”

"It can't be, can it?" Li Qinglong said, "When Master Mao designed the Tumen Fortress, he had already considered that the enemy might take sapper blasting, and also designed countermeasures. ”

Yang Jiamao said: "But this old devil in Okamura doesn't know this." ”

"It's possible." Yue Weihan felt that Yang Jiamao's analysis was very reasonable.

"If that's the case, it's likely that the little devil's tunnel is already close to our outer trenches." Li Qinglong said, "Because since this morning, the bombing fire of the Devil Air Force and the Heavy Artillery Brigade has become more intense, and the Devil Puppet Army has been engaged in the attack more than before, and now it is almost a regiment as a group charge." ”

"That's all right." Yue Weihan said abruptly, "Order the forward positions and strengthen the monitoring." ”

"Yes." Li Qinglong snapped upright, then turned around and walked to the corner of the hall to pick up the phone.

………… Shimen, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Hirata Masatsu strode into Okamura Ninji's office, and immediately retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency, the Second Parachute Brigade of the Airborne Wing has been airborne, but Hasegawa Osa reported that in the process of airborne, there are still more than 400 heroic Imperial Army officers and soldiers who fell to death or were injured. ”

"Got it." Okamura nodded with an expressionless expression.

Hirata Masashi thought about it for a while, and said: "Your Excellency, the tentative attacks of the 1st Parachute Brigade on the two tactical targets have all met with stubborn resistance from the Shina Army, and the two paratrooper squadrons attacking the targets near the straw hat top are even more collective, and Hasegawa Osa judged that the arsenal of the Shina Army is likely to be hidden there. ”

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji said happily, "Order Hasegawa to continue to strengthen the attack." ”

"Hello." Hirata Masaki bowed his head suddenly, and then turned around and walked away with his saber on his shoulder.

………… Tumen Fortress, the main bunker of Hug Calf Mountain.

Yang Jiamao put down the phone and said to Yue Weihan and Li Qinglong: "The main seat, the brigade seat, and the forward position report that because the explosions and gunshots on the ground are too dense and violent, it is impossible to effectively monitor the abnormal noise underground. ”

"Are you stupid?" Li Qinglong didn't have a good breath and said, "It's dark and the little devil will definitely not dig anymore, how can you listen?" ”

Yue Weihan pondered for a moment and then said to Li Qinglong: "If you can't listen to it, forget it, just in case, open the gate and release the water now!" ”

When the Tumen Fortress was first designed, Yue Weihan had raised the issue of engineer blasting to Chief Engineer Mao Yisheng, and Chief Master Mao designed a large reservoir in the mountains of Baoqian Mountain and Hailuo Mountain, and pumped the water of the Weishui (Weishui of Han Xin's backwater battle) into two reservoirs nearly 100 meters high through a high-power water pumping station.

Then two large flood gates and drainage channels were designed to lead directly to the underground water network around the fort.

If the army really uses the tactics of tunnel excavation to blast the Tumen fortress, [***] only needs to open the gate and dump the high-level water stored in the two major reservoirs, it will definitely cause a water penetration accident in the underground tunnel dug by the army, and when the time comes, how many of the little devils who are working underground can return to the surface alive, then only God knows.

"Yes." Yang Jiamao stood upright, immediately walked to the corner of the hall and picked up the phone again, and said loudly, "I am Yang Jiamao, the head seat has an order, immediately open the gate and release the water!" ”

………… Outside the Tumen Fortress, deep in the strata.

Taro Tsuchiya, an authentic expert specially invited by Okamura Ninji from Japan, is patrolling the tunnels with his entourage.

As a high-achieving student who graduated from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Waseda University, Taro Tsuchiya is still very good at tunnel construction, and he is also familiar with the various risk factors of tunnel operation.

Soon, Taro Tsuchiya and his party came to the end of the tunnel.

Dozens of devil soldiers wearing only "Ding" crotch pants are sweating like rain, tiptoeing shovels, carefully digging, and dozens of devils are using sapper shovels to load the soil shoveled down by the devils in front of them onto a flatbed truck, and then shoulder and hand push, with the soil sent to the tunnel exit a few kilometers away.

"Everyone, be careful, don't make a loud noise." Tsuchiya Taro clapped his hands and loudly reminded the dozens of devil strong men who were digging up, "So as not to let the people of China hear the sound." ”

"Hello." Dozens of devil soldiers stood up at the same time and bowed their heads suddenly.

"Keep working." Taro Tsuchiya waved his hand, and dozens of devil soldiers continued to sweat and dig up.

Tsuchiya Taro nodded with satisfaction, and immediately took his entourage through the fork in the horizontal excavation, preparing to go to inspect the second tunnel, this time Okamura Ningji, the old devil, was really ruthless, and ordered the army to dig six tunnels in one breath, and start construction at the same time from the hidden place five kilometers away, and march in unison, pointing directly to the underground point of the Tumen Fortress!

Halfway through the fork, Taro Tsuchiya suddenly stopped and suddenly looked up.

The miner's lamp on Taro Tsuchiya's head illuminated the top of the low tunnel in an instant, and the devils who accompanied him also looked up one after another, looking at the top of Taro Tsuchiya's head, there seemed to be nothing abnormal, except for the wood, there was only a layer of black-brown soil that came into view, and other than that, there was nothing.

However, Taro Tsuchiya's pupils contracted sharply in an instant!

Tsuchiya Taro was horrified to find that dense droplets of water had seeped out of the soil at the top of the tunnel.

Suddenly, a drop of cold water dripped from the top of the tunnel, just on the tip of Tsuchiya Taro's nose, and in an instant, Tsuchiya Taro turned around and ran, and at the same time shouted extremely sadly: "It's permeable, run......

The few devil soldiers who came with them looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

After such a moment's delay, a small piece of wet mud suddenly fell from the top of the tunnel, and then a stream of water arrows shot down from the top of the tunnel, under the light of the miner's lamp, the water seemed soft and clear, and it seemed to be no threat, but when the devils saw it, they screamed in horror at the same time.

The next moment, those devils turned around and ran, hating their parents for missing two legs.

At the moment when those devils turned to run, more than a dozen water arrows shot down from different positions on the top of the tunnel, and then, a large layer of soil collapsed from the top of the tunnel, and more than a dozen trickles also instantly turned into a terrible torrent, rushing, roaring, surging along the fork in the road that was rampantly dug!

………… Shimen, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Hirata Masatsu hurriedly walked into Okamura Ninji's office, and said angrily: "Your Excellency Commander, there has been a flooding accident in the tunnel being dug, and all six tunnels have been flooded, and the more than 500 imperial warriors who are stepping up construction in the tunnel, as well as Taro Tsuchiya and several people, have not been able to escape in time, and now their lives and deaths are unknown!" ”

"What!?" Okamura Ninji Huo Ran got up and said in disbelief, "This is impossible! ”

After saying this, Okamura Ninji said angrily: "This is absolutely impossible, Tsuchiya Taro is an expert in tunnels, the excavation locations of the six tunnels are all selected after careful calculation, and there is enough safety distance from the only big river in the vicinity, the 'Weishui River', how can there be a water penetration accident?" ”

Hirata Masashi was silent, and he could only ask Taro Tsuchiya about this.

However, it is a pity that Taro Tsuchiya may have become a fish and shrimp in the water now, and it is impossible to come back from the dead to answer the questions of His Excellency the Commander.

"No way, no way!"

Okamura Ninji obviously couldn't accept this fact yet.

It's no wonder that in order to dig these six tunnels and carry out sapper blasting, how much effort did Okamura Ninji pay and what cost?

Up to today, the casualties of the North China Front Army and the Imperial Allied Army have exceeded 70,000, and since the control of the battlefield is not in the hands of the Yue Army, the casualties of these 70,000 people are almost the number of casualties, and among them, more than 20,000 people are officers and soldiers of the Great Yue Empire, which is almost a full division!

In the sound of hurried footsteps, Okamura Ningji's attendant adjutant suddenly stepped inside, and immediately retracted his feet and said, "Your Excellency Commander, the base camp is transferred!" ”

"Hmm, appointment?" Okamura Ninji was shocked when he heard this.

"Hello." The attendant adjutant bowed his head suddenly, and suddenly handed the telegram in his hand to Okamura Ningji, and said at the same time, "Your Excellency, Commander, from now on, you have been transferred to the post of Commander of the Central China Front, and His Excellency Shunroku Hatata, the former commander of the Central China Front, will be transferred to the post of Commander of the North China Front. ”

Okamura Ningji was silent, and it took a long time to say to Hirata's judgment with regret: "Hirata-kun, I won the opening and process, but I lost the result, this contest that lasted for more than three years, finally Yue Weihan won!" Toshiroku Hata is here, I'm afraid it's impossible to continue the battle of Taihang Mountain, it's a pity, it'......s a pity."

(To be continued)