Xuzhou, the underground headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade.

All the chief officers of the Baoshan Brigade at and above the company level gathered in the conference room, and Yue Weihan was giving a pre-war lecture.

In the past two days, the bomber brigade of the flying regiment directly under the Central China Front of the Chinese Front has dropped at least more than 100 heavy aerial bombs into the city of Xuzhou, and hundreds of white phosphorus bombs and poison gas bombs have been dropped.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the people in Xuzhou City have already been evacuated in advance, although a small number of people are unwilling to leave their homes, they have also withdrawn into the tunnel under the mobilization of the special team, and the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Brigade and all the military supplies have also been evacuated into the tunnel in advance, so the loss of personnel and materials is not large.

Yue Weihan's eagle-like gaze swept over the participating officers one by one, and said: "The special combat team has just sent an urgent telegram, the Fifth Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Yue Army has arrived in the eastern suburbs of Xuzhou, and in addition, the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 18th Divisions have also entered the outside of Xuzhou City, and at the latest tomorrow morning, the Yue Army will launch a large-scale attack!" ”

All the officers of the Baoshan Brigade who participated in the meeting suddenly became excited, and their eyes lit up one by one.

If you change to another [***] division or [***] brigade to defend Xuzhou, most of them can fight very bravely under the premise that there is no way to escape, but the hearts of all the officers and soldiers will definitely be very depressed, very desperate, in the face of more than 100,000 troops in the five elite divisions of the army, who can not be depressed, who can not despair?

There is really someone who is not depressed, that is Baoshan Brigade!

There are really people who are not desperate, and it can only be the Baoshan Brigade!

After the victory of the battle of Jiangpu, the Baoshan Brigade was completely cast, and after the purgatory-like battle, all the veterans of the Baoshan Brigade had no difficulties in their eyes, let alone fear, in the eyes of this group of steel veterans, even if the sky fell, they could use the bayonets in their hands to push it back.

Every recruit who has just joined the Baoshan Brigade will also be consciously or unconsciously infected by this spirit, so that one by one they become arrogant and dry, walking with the wind, talking and cheering, even dreaming at night, the women in the dream have changed from the maid of a big family to a young lady, and there are several.

"Gather everyone together this time, I just want to say something!" Yue Weihan waved his fist vigorously and said, "We are not a brigade fighting, outside of us, there are dozens or hundreds of [***] divisions fighting together, and behind us, there are 40,000 compatriots in China, they are our most solid backing!" ”

After Yue Weihan finished speaking, he sat down, and Chief of Staff Liu Yi immediately got up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the defense of Xuzhou is very crucial, because the whole Chinese army is watching us, the people of all China and all the overseas Chinese are also looking at us, we must fight well, and fight beautifully, and play the momentum of the [***] people!" We want the little devils to know that the Chinese are by no means easy to mess with, and the Chinese [***] people are not vegetarians! It is wishful thinking that the aggressors want to destroy China! ”

In the corner of the conference room, Zhao Xinyi, who was fortunate enough to attend the meeting, and Helen from the United States, quickly recorded the speeches of Yue Weihan and Liu Yi, and immediately rushed to the draft overnight and sent it to Wuhan, Shanghai, and other major cities in the form of radio waves, as well as the United States on the other side of the ocean.

………… Wuhan Xingying, the official residence of Chairman Chiang.

After reading the headline on the front page, Chairman Jiang couldn't help but slam his fist on the table, and then Huo Ran got up and said: "If the aggressors want to destroy China, it is wishful thinking!" Well, this is written with momentum and writes the voice of the Chinese! ”

General He, the Minister of Military Orders standing next to him, lost no time in saying: "Commission, I think we should increase the propaganda of the defense of Xuzhou, let all the people and even all overseas Chinese know that the motherland is not easy to resist, and let everyone know the bloody struggle of the front-line soldiers, so as to reproduce the ** of donations and materials!" ”

Chairman Chiang was thrilled, this was a good idea.

The national government has abandoned the city and lost land one after another, and the tax source has been sharply reduced to less than one-tenth of the original, while military expenditure has increased geometrically, and it has become obviously difficult to meet the needs of the people of the whole country, especially overseas Chinese, with the issuance of a large number of legal tender and national bonds, and donations from the people of the whole country, especially overseas Chinese, have become an important part of the economic source of the national political axe.

After a moment of silence, Chairman Jiang said: "In this way, you immediately go and coordinate with the declaration, isn't there a war correspondent stationed in the Baoshan Brigade in the declaration, let her go deep into the line of fire and write a few more touching battlefield stories, and then mobilize all the media forces in the country to report it extensively, and we must push the national anti-Japanese salvation movement to a new level." ”

"Yes." Admiral He stood upright and said respectfully, "Let's do it." ”

Seeing that Admiral He turned around and left, Chairman Jiang summoned Wang Shihe in again and said, "Shihe, you immediately go and send an urgent telegram to Yue Weihan, telling him not to rush to dig the embankment of the Yellow River, and let the Baoshan Brigade hold Xuzhou for at least ten days no matter what, so as to win the sympathy and support of overseas Chinese and international friends." ”

As soon as Wang Shihe left, Chairman Chiang made another phone call to Song Ziwen, vice president of the Executive Yuan, and asked him to take advantage of the favorable atmosphere formed after the victory in Xuzhou to intensify public relations with the US political axe and strive to implement the $200 million free economic aid as soon as possible.

………… Xuzhou, the location of the Baoshan Brigade Special Service Team.

Zhao Xinyi, the captain of the special forces major, was packing up, and Major Liu Xin said with concern: "Xinyi, do you really want to go to the line of fire?" ”

Although Xuzhou has fallen into the siege of the army, and there is no obvious distinction between the front line and the rear of the entire Xuzhou City, there is still a big difference in personal safety between staying in the city and going up to the line of fire.

Zhao Xinyi said indifferently: "The military order is like a mountain, I can't go if I don't want to." ”

"Be safe." Liu Xin reached out to hold Zhao Xinyi's little hand and said, "Remember our agreement." ”

"Don't worry." Zhao Xinyi smiled and said softly, "On the day you get married, I will definitely be your bridesmaid." ”

Major Liu Xin's pretty face suddenly swelled up with a touch of crimson, but his mind could not stop passing over Yue Weihan's Yingting figure, and then his expression darkened, and he sighed: "Alas, this war is chaotic and the war is prolonged, and one by one they don't even have the mind to talk about love and love, what else do they want to marry?" ”

Zhao Xinyi's beautiful eyes turned and quipped: "Liu Xin, did he snub you?" ”

"You hate it." Liu Xin glanced at Zhao Xinyi, and suddenly said, "Xinyi, I don't know if I should ask a question?" ”

"Liu Xin, do you want to ask about the entanglement between me and Yue Weihan?" Zhao Xinyi said in a quiet tone, "Originally, some things have passed for many years, and I don't want to mention them anymore, but tomorrow I will be in the firing line, and I don't know if I can come back alive this time, so it doesn't hurt to talk about it." ”

Liu Xin unconsciously tightened the corner of her clothes, and Fang was a little nervous in her heart.

Zhao Xinyi's eyes suddenly became a little confused, and she said softly: "I was married by my father to the son of the Yang family in Yuelin Town, Fenghua since I was a child, and when I was sixteen years old, I was ordered by my father to go to Fenghua to complete the marriage. ”

"I thought that the matter would pass like this, who would have thought that in the middle of the wedding, the evil young man entered the Yang family with a large group of green-skinned scoundrels, and the father and son of the Yang family were seriously injured, and were forced to break the marriage contract in public, and then, I was robbed by the evil young man to his house and hid in a courtyard outside the city."

Liu Xin's beautiful eyes widened in an instant, and he said in disbelief: "That evil young ...... That's him!? ”

Zhao Xinyi was silent, not to mention that Liu Xin couldn't believe it, how could she dare to believe it? The contrast between Yue Weihan and before and after is too great, one is a young man who bullies men and women in the fish and meat township, and the other is a brave and good fighter who stands up to the sky and the world, and no one can connect the two.

However, Major Liu Xin obviously believed it, because she clearly remembered that the last time Mrs. Yue came to Xuzhou to visit relatives, she and Zhao Xinyi looked like they had known each other for a long time, and looking at Mrs. Yue's romance and behavior, she still felt a lot of guilt for Zhao Xinyi.

"That'...... And then? Liu Xin said nervously, "Did he ...... you?"

"Nope." Zhao Xinyi shook her head and said, "Although that evil young man is lawless, he is not strong against me. ”

"What about you...... How did you get out of it later? At this moment, Liu Xin's mood was really complicated, she didn't expect that there would be such a ridiculous story between Yue Weihan and Zhao Xinyi.

"Later, it was Mrs. Yue who found out and rescued me."

"Then ...... you," Major Liu Xin said with some hesitation, "do you still hate him now?" ”

"Nope." Zhao Xinyi shook her head and said indifferently, "I don't hate him, the evil young man didn't hurt me much, and even helped me get rid of the arranged marriage, some of the fear is true, I'm afraid that the evil young man will come to pester me again, but until I was taken to Shanghai by my uncle and then graduated from college, he never appeared again." ”

"It wasn't until six years later, when we met again on the battlefield in Jiangpu, that evil boy had already turned into the colonel of [***], and when he saw me, he was like a nobody, everything in the past seemed to be a cloud of smoke, and it had long since dissipated, and sometimes when I think about it, it's really like a dream."

Liu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a complicated mood: "Xinyi, he may really not remember these past events, my brother told me that he was hit the head during the Battle of Songhu, so he lost his memory, and at first he didn't even know what his surname was, and it wasn't until later that he slowly recovered a little memory." ”

"Whether he's really amnesiac or deliberately pretending to be stupid, it doesn't matter to me anyway." Zhao Xinyi pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Okay, now that I've said everything I need to say, you should rest assured, right?" No one is stealing a man from you. But you have to beware of that American Miss Ocean, I look at her like two fires, seductive. ”

(To be continued)