The army's wanton and indiscriminate bombardment lasted for more than two hours and did not stop until nearly noon.

After the shelling stopped, the commander of the forward command of the army looked out through the artillery mirror, and saw that the entire city of Xuzhou had been completely shrouded in rolling gunsmoke, and there were broken walls and ruins everywhere inside and outside the city, and there were burning fires everywhere.

………… In Xuzhou City, the underground headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade.

Yue Weihan stood up suddenly, and suddenly shook off the dust, not far away, Liu Yi was also patting the dust on the tweed uniform, and the crisp coughing sound of the female soldiers suddenly sounded in the telecommunications room, although the artillery bombardment had stopped, but the female soldiers still looked frightened, after all, it was a woman who had never been on the battlefield, no wonder.

Looking at the war room that had collapsed tightly, Yue Weihan gave up the idea of saving people, the entire war room had completely collapsed, dozens of hundreds of tons of soil were pressed down, and the few staff officers who stayed inside were absolutely hopeless, rather than spending a lot of manpower to dig up their remains, it was better to let them lie in it and rest in peace forever!

"Chief of Staff." Yue Weihan immediately turned to face Liu Yi and said in a deep voice, "Immediately contact all regiments and battalions to count the casualties." ”

"Yes." Liu Yi snapped upright, and then turned around and hurriedly entered the staff headquarters next door, although the war room in the center of the command collapsed, but the rest of the offices were not affected, because before the construction of the underground headquarters, Yue Weihan fully considered this possibility, so all the rooms were underground bunkers built by reading power, and the middle was only connected by tunnels.

Fierce gunfire rang out on the ground again, and needless to say, it must have been the infantry that had been dispatched again.

It seems that the [***] soldiers who have disappeared forever have also emerged from the ground, and in the morning, the destruction of the Yue army does not seem to have caused much damage to [***], at least on the surface, his [***] soldiers have given the Yue army a head-on blow with fierce firepower, and after an afternoon of fierce fighting, the Yue army returned again.

………… In the evening, Liu Yi finally returned.

"Brigade, the situation is worse than expected!" Liu Yi didn't care about drinking his saliva, so he said urgently, "The bombing of the army this time is extraordinary, its heavy artillery brigade has fired at least more than 5,000 large-caliber grenades, and the air force has also dropped at least four or five hundred heavy bombs, such a bombing intensity is simply unprecedented." ”

Cao Xinglong, who followed to the brigade headquarters, said with a wry smile: "Brigade seat, it seems that the little devil really regards our Baoshan Brigade as a thorn in the flesh, more than 5,000 large-caliber artillery shells, four or five hundred heavy aerial bombs, that is a thousand tons of materials, and most of the heavy artillery brigades and aviation teams of the little devils have taken out all their family funds." ”

"We'll talk about that later." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "Now, I only want to know the casualties of each regiment and battalion, as well as the damage to the surface and tunnel fortifications. ”

Liu Yi sighed, and said with a gloomy expression: "The casualties of each regiment and battalion are relatively serious, and the unprecedented bombardment of the army has caused a total of one hundred and nine tunnel collapses, and at least thousands of brothers have been buried in the ground, most of them have died heroically, and only a few brothers have been rescued. ”

"More than a thousand!?" Yue Weihan was so distressed that he almost suffocated.

These are more than a thousand fresh lives, more than a thousand iron-blooded veterans who have been through a hundred battles!

Just eight hours ago, these veterans were still guessing boxing and gambling, still laughing and laughing with their comrades, and still spitting and telling the stories of killing devils to the recruits, but now, these veterans have gone forever, forever leaving this great country they love and have fought for all their lives!

The dead are gone, but the living still need to fight the invaders to the end!

Taking a deep breath, Yue Weihan forcibly suppressed the grief in his heart, and said to Liu Yi again: "Chief of Staff, what about the damage to the surface and tunnel fortifications?" ”

"Surface fortifications have been largely destroyed." Liu Yi sighed and said worriedly, "What's even more worrying is that the damage to the tunnel fortifications is also extremely serious, nine of the most important sixteen communication lines (tunnels) inside and outside the city have been interrupted, and the traffic lines leading to the railway station have also been broken, and it will take at least ten days to get through!" ”

"Ten days?" Yue Weihan couldn't help frowning and said, "I'm afraid I don't have that much time." ”

Liu Yi nodded and said: "If we can't reopen the interrupted underground communication line, our army will no longer be able to project troops through the tunnels, and if we project troops from the ground, it will be easy to be killed and injured by the infantry support artillery fire of the Yue army, especially the bayonet battalion and the reading battalion guarding the railway station, which will be cut off by the army and become a lone army!" ”

Yue Weihan's brows immediately frowned, such a situation was completely beyond his expectations.

Yue Weihan never imagined that the Yue army would bombard Xuzhou on a large scale at such a bloody cost.

Yue Weihan could figure it out with his toes that these large-caliber grenades and heavy aerial bombs of the Yue Army were definitely prepared for the later Wuhan General Battle, and after all, it was an island country, and all resources had to be imported, so it was impossible to have too many large-caliber grenades and heavy aerial bombs for the army to squander wantonly.

But now, the Yue army actually threw all these shells and aerial bombs on Xuzhou and the Baoshan Brigade!

This greatly surprised Yue Weihan's expectations, and directly caught him off guard, but then again, if everything can be as Yue Weihan expected, and everything can be carried out according to Yue Weihan's vision, then he is not a human being but a god, and Yue Weihan alone can level the millions of troops on the Chinese battlefield!

Seeing that Yue Weihan was silent, Cao Xinglong hurriedly said, "Brigade, what should I do now?" ”

"All the surface fortifications have been destroyed, and positional warfare cannot be fought." Yue Weihan gritted his teeth and said, "Get out of the way, let the devils enter the ruins of the city, and fight with them in the streets!" ”

Yue Weihan thought of a piece of work with Teng Tianzhi's little devil, and both sides invariably thought of street fighting!

However, Teng Tianzhi, the little devil, did it on purpose, but Yue Weihan was forced to do it, because after letting the periphery and let the Yue army enter the city, the battle situation would immediately evolve from the battle of the Yue army to a large-scale street battle between the two sides.

The reason is obvious, the casualties of the army in the battle of the fortified will be greater, and the casualties will be smaller.

Although the bayonet battalion achieved a brilliant record of four to one in the street battle in the early hours of this morning, it was the bayonet battalion after all.

There are dozens of battalions of the Baoshan Brigade, not every battalion can fight like the bayonet battalion, and the equipment cannot be compared, the bayonet battalion is equipped with a color of submachine guns, and it is undoubtedly foolish to expect other infantry battalions to achieve the results of the bayonet battalion in street battles.

"It seems that this is the only way to go." Liu Yi nodded, and said, "What about the bayonet battalion and the reading battalion?" ”

"The train station can't be lost!" Yue Weihan said categorically, "Telegraph Li Yulong, nail me there like a nail." ”

………… Xiao County, the headquarters of the Third Army of the Army.

Teng Tian Zhi strode into the war room, and immediately retracted his feet and said to Lieutenant General Okabe: "Your Excellency General, according to your order, the three hundred sniper teams have all been formed, each team has three members, two snipers, and one observer, all of whom are veterans with outstanding marksmanship, and tonight, they will be able to enter the battle!" ”

"Yo Si." Lieutenant General Okabe said happily, "Order, all sniper teams...... Sortie! ”

"Hello!" Major General Tengtian bowed his head suddenly, and immediately turned around and gave the order.

………… Wuhan Xingying, the Fifth Theater Governor's Department.

After the abortion of the Battle of Xuzhou, most of the area where the Fifth Theater was located had fallen, and most of the group armies that were originally subordinate to the Fifth Theater had also been transferred to other theaters or changed to the direct jurisdiction of the Military Command Department.

Although he had no military power in his hands, General Li was still concerned about the situation in Xuzhou.

Yue Weihan did not neglect the old commander because of the high-level secret war, and every war report was first sent to the Commander's Department of the Theater, and then the Commander's Department forwarded it to the Military Command Department.

"Degong, Baoshan Brigade is in an emergency." Deputy General Bai hurriedly entered General Li's office with a telegram.

As the leader of the Gui warlords, Li Bai has always been indistinguishable from each other, and Deputy Chief Bai is not so much the deputy chief of the General Staff as the chief of staff of the Fifth War Zone.

"Oh?" Hearing this, Admiral Li stood up and said, "What's going on in Xuzhou?" ”

"Big deal!" Deputy Chief Bai said with mixed feelings, "This morning, the Fifth Heavy Artillery Brigade and the Aviation Regiment directly under the Central China Front Army of the Chinese Army carried out an unprecedented bombing of Xuzhou at all costs. ”

"Thousands of tons of shells!?" Admiral Li changed slightly, "The little devil is not enough?" ”

Deputy Chief Bai said with a solemn expression: "The Baoshan Brigade has repeatedly hit the Yue Army, which has made the Yue Army lose face, and it seems that the top level of the Yue Army is indeed annoyed and angry this time, so it will be so bloody to bomb Xuzhou, I think this time the Baoshan Brigade is dangerous, but it just so happened that Jiang did not let the Yellow River embankment be dug in order to win the sympathy of the Western powers, alas." ”

Admiral Li also sighed: "The Baoshan Brigade is under siege, and I am afraid that it will really be difficult to escape this time." ”

Deputy Chief Bai nodded, and said solemnly: "However, the sacrifice of the Baoshan Brigade is not worthless, if nothing else, this battle can at least fight out one of the most elite permanent divisions of the Yue Army, and it can also consume a large number of strategic materials stored by the Yue Army for the Battle of Wuhan, and at the same time, it also buys time for the deployment of the first, fifth, third, and ninth theaters." ”

(To be continued)