Thinking of the Battle of Xuzhou, Yue Weihan's mood suddenly became extremely heavy.

Yue Weihan originally thought that after the Battle of Nanjing, he would be able to go to Shanxi easily, but now he found that this was simply wishful thinking, this side had just changed the historical trend of the Battle of Nanjing, saved 700,000 refugees, and immediately a more serious historical event was forced towards him.

This heavy historical event is the Garden Mouth!

Historically, due to the defeat of the Battle of Xuzhou, the Nationalist Axe had no choice but to order the Yellow River embankment to be dug up, resulting in a large area of the Yellow River in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River Basin, more than one million people died directly from the flood, and tens of millions of people were displaced and became homeless refugees.

From Jiangsu and Henan to Shaanxi and Sichuan, the refugees died all the way, forming an unprecedented picture of starvation!

When the words "Ten Thousand Miles of Hunger" emerged from Yue Weihan's mind, he suddenly felt an inexplicable tremor from the depths of his soul!

A strong enemy invades, the country is shattered, and it is always the most innocent ordinary people who suffer deeply.

In order to save the 700,000 refugees in Nanjing, Yue Weihan and all the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment dared to take their lives to fill it!

So this time, for the survival of tens of millions of refugees, the Baoshan Regiment has no reason to escape, Yue Weihan is just worried that with the weak strength of the Baoshan Regiment, I am afraid that it is far from enough to change the outcome of the Battle of Xuzhou, after all, the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Nanjing are completely different things, and the two are not the same at all.

But no matter how difficult it is, Yue Weihan has to try to change history!

Again, as long as he still has a breath of air, he will never let the Huayuankou tragedy happen again, nor will he let tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River valley be displaced and become starving people on the way to escape!

………… Yue Weihan did not know the specific deployment of the General Headquarters and the General Staff on the Battle of Xuzhou, after all, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression has deviated from the official history, at least the end of the Nanjing Defense Battle has been postponed for nearly a month, and the casualties of the siege army have far exceeded the official history, so it is impossible for the deployment of [***] to be unchanged.

However, Yue Weihan could still roughly guess what the situation was like now.

With Chairman Chiang's temper, the heavy artillery brigade that originally belonged to the Shandong Army must be transferred to Tang Enbo's corps, so the Shandong warlord Han Fuyu will definitely flee without a fight, so now, the Yellow River defense line, the canal defense line, and the entire northern section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway have only been opened, and the 10th Division of the Chinese Army is likely to have taken Jinan.

As for the Ludong area, because Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, believed that it was a strategic dead land, he only left 500 marines to defend Qingdao symbolically.

Then the current situation is that [***] has not yet been deployed, but the army is already approaching.

To put it bluntly, the Hongmen banquet has not yet been arranged, but Liu Bang, who came to the banquet, has already arrived outside the gate!

Judging from the telegram order directly issued by the high command, it is not clear that the entire Anhui Province is singing empty city plans, and perhaps there will be only one regular army left in the area south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, otherwise such a "appalling" military order would not have been issued.

Let a remnant regiment of the Baoshan Regiment go to block the two main divisions of the Yue Army for half a month, and his brain will be tortured, right?

It's half a month, not three or five days! It is impossible for a commander with a little brain to give such an order, which is not only irresponsible to all the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment, but also irresponsible to the entire Battle of Xuzhou!

According to Yue Weihan's temper, he would never accept such a military order equivalent to sending him to death, but if things were really as he guessed, there was no regular army in the entire Anhui Province except for the Baoshan Regiment, then the situation would be a different matter, and if the Baoshan Regiment did not come forward at this time, who could the people count on?

Once the 13th and 18th Divisions of the Yue Army quickly move north along the Jinpu Railway and occupy Xuzhou, then the plan for the Battle of Xuzhou will be completely aborted, and in order to prevent the Yue Army from using the main artery of the Jinpu Railway to transfer strategic materials and troops in North China and Central China, Chairman Chiang will inevitably issue an order to dig up the embankment of the Yellow River!

In this way, tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River basin will not be spared!

If we want to save tens of millions of people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River Valley, there is only one way, which is to hold back the 13th and 18th divisions of the Yue Army, so that they cannot smoothly go north, and at least not let them cross the Huai River defense line for at least half a month, so as to win enough time for the Xuzhou battlefield to encircle and annihilate the 5th and 10th main divisions of the Yue Army.

But then again, how easy is it to hold back the two main divisions of the Japanese army?

Although the Baoshan Regiment has annihilated the Guozaki Detachment, whether it is the spiritual wind leopard or the temperament of the officers and soldiers, it has undergone radical changes, but now after all, there are only more than 500 veterans left, even if the more than 2,000 elites and more than 400 security regiments who broke through Nanjing are replenished, the personnel are neat, but what about the ammunition?

The Kunisaki detachment was annihilated, and a lot of weapons were captured, but the ammunition was almost zero!

The Baoshan regiment is now seriously short of ammunition, the infantry artillery has no shells, the grenadiers have no grenades, the Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked light machine guns have become burning sticks, and even rifle ammunition can only be issued five rounds per soldier, and such ammunition reserves cannot even fight a small-scale ambush battle, let alone a positional battle with increased intensity.

Taking a deep breath, Yue Weihan instructed Tang Dashan: "Datang, you go and inform Deputy Liu Tuan, Deputy Lu Tuan, as well as Da Long and Lao Chi, and let them come to the regiment headquarters for a meeting immediately." ”

Tang Dashan took the order and left, and soon, several regiment deputies and battalion commanders all arrived.

After everyone arrived, Yue Weihan put down the telegram in his heart and said in a solemn tone: "Let me inform you of one thing, Nanjing has been lost this morning, and the battle to defend Nanjing has ended, but we have not been defeated, because all the 700,000 fathers and villagers in Nanjing City have been safely transferred." ”

Liu Yi changed color slightly: "Tuanzuo, where is the [***] main force in Nanjing City?" ”

Yue Weihan sighed and said, "Most of them have been martyred, and only more than 2,000 people have crossed the river and retreated to Pukou, but the little devils have not taken any advantage, and they will not die much less than us." ”

"Well done." Liu Yi's eyes suddenly welled up with tears, and he muttered, "The [***] brothers on the other side of the river are all good. ”

"Yes, they are all good, and they have not lost the face of our Chinese!" Lu Xiufeng took the case heavily and said, "Tuanzao, what will our Baoshan group do next?" Is there any new indication from Shangfeng? ”

"Yes." Yue Weihan picked up the telegram again and said, "This is Shangfeng's latest instructions. ”

The eyes of the two regiment deputies and the six battalion commanders immediately fell on the telegram, and Lu Xiufeng asked even more eagerly, "What did Shangfeng say?" ”。

"Shangfeng has decided to incorporate more than 2,000 remnants of Pukou into our Baoshan regiment."

Yue Weihan said this, the two regiment deputies and the six battalion commanders suddenly looked excited, these two thousand people are all elites, however, the excitement of several regiment deputies and battalion commanders has not passed, Yue Wei's tone changed and said: "Shangfeng also ordered us to drag the 13th and 18th divisions of the Yue Army that have crossed the Yangtze River, at least for half a month, we can't let them cross the Huai River defense line, I can also tell you that in the entire Huai River south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, it is likely that there is only one [***] army." ”

The faces of several regiment deputies and battalion commanders changed suddenly, but no one said anything.

After experiencing the Battle of Jiangpu and the annihilation of the Kunisaki detachment, the temperament of all the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment has indeed undergone a radical change, and a victory that can go down in history has an impact on an army, and people who have never been a soldier can imagine how much impact a victory can go down in history have.

Liu Yi, deputy of the regiment, suddenly said: "You don't need to worry, even if there is only one [***] army north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, we are not alone, we have the support of the fathers and villagers of Anhui Province and the people's groups and security regiments in various counties and towns, and even the bandit forces are willing to fight side by side with us." ”

Chi Chengfeng's heart moved, and he said, "Tuanzuo, can you leave Reporter Zhao behind." ”

Cao Xinglong also echoed: "Lao Chi is right, Reporter Zhao is very good at mobilizing the masses and organizing the masses, if she can stay and help us, it would be great." ”

"We have to ask people if they want to do this, it's not up to us to decide." Yue Weihan frowned.

"His grandmother." Chi Chengfeng said disapprenousively, "Tuanzao, I see that reporter Zhao doesn't even look at you right, he obviously likes you, as long as you come forward in this matter, it will be successful." ”

"Shut up." Yue Weihan said coldly, "This is a military meeting, don't talk about these irrelevant things." ”

Chi Chengfeng scratched his head, not daring to say anything more at the moment.

Yue Weihan said: "According to the information provided by the Military Command Bureau, the 13th Division of the Army has entered Yangzhou, and the 18th Division has also entered Chaohu, and the two main divisions of the little devil are nearly 50,000 people, and it is absolutely impossible to stop us, and now we are desperately short of ammunition, so we have no capital to fight and block." ”

"Since you can't stop it, you can only drag it!"

"We have to find a way to provoke the little devils, make the little devils lose their cool, and mobilize troops to encircle and annihilate us, only in this way can we lead their noses to toss in southern Anhui, we don't want to eliminate them, we only want to drag on for ten days and half a month, and the task assigned to us by Shangfeng will be completed."

At this time, Yue Weihan did not know that the army had already decided to implement a hunting plan against the Baoshan regiment, and the special operations team of the old opponent Watanabe Shigeichi and the special high division agents of Sato Daisa would soon be parachuted into the vicinity of Pukou, and the 13th and 18th divisions would soon be crushed from the east and west.

(To be continued)