Cao Xinglong said again: "Tuanzao, so should the infantry company at the forefront also be divided into three?" ”

"Nope." Yue Weihan shook his head categorically and said, "The strength of a company is already the lower limit, if it is divided into three and only one platoon of troops is placed at the forefront, it will be to find death by yourself, with the infantry and artillery coordination and combat effectiveness of the Kunisaki detachment, one charge can easily seize our forward position, and it will be too late to say anything at that time." ”

Cao Xinglong said: "Then how is this company going to arrange fortifications?" ”

"That's the other point I'm going to make, the echelon arrangement!" Yue Weihan said, "The fortifications of the three infantry platoons should be built in a ring and spread out vertically, so that after the first line of defense is lost, it can also rely on the second line of defense to block it, and the second line of defense is lost and the third line of defense can be relied on, but the two wings are left alone, and the reserves do not need to be left." ”

"Let's talk about the defensive arrangements of the remaining two companies." Yue Weihan said, "The company responsible for protecting the two wings should be divided into three, with a platoon on each side, and the fortifications should also be built in a ring, and at least two roads in the front and back should be repaired, and it is best to repair three roads, and the remaining platoon will act as a reserve, which side can support at any time if there is danger, and the company that is responsible for the general reserve cannot be idle, and it is also necessary to build fortifications in depth, especially anti-artillery fortifications."

There is a reason why Yue Weihan placed special emphasis on anti-artillery fortifications.

Since the Jiangpu area is all uncovered plain terrain, not even woods, the little devil's artillery observer does not even need to raise a hot air balloon to mark the shooting of Zhuyuan, and the reserve team left in the rear is relatively densely populated, it is easy to attract artillery bombardment, if you don't repair the anti-artillery fortifications, the little devil can crush your reserve with a single artillery bombardment, and then the reserve will become a reserve to run.

"That's probably how the battalion-level defense is arranged." Yue Weihan said, "Now let's talk about the defensive arrangement of the entire regiment. ”

"After our regiment is replenished, there are five infantry battalions, a guard company and an artillery battalion, first of all, one battalion must be left to guard Pukou, in case the little devils send a small force to make a detour to sneak attack, the remaining four battalions must be set aside as a general reserve, and the remaining three battalions are arranged in echelons along the road."

Li Yulin, deputy of the regiment, said: "Tuanzuo, this is the terrain of the plains, and we have several main battalions on the main road. ”

"Don't worry about that." Yue Weihan said, "The infantry of the little devils can be easily interspersed, but their heavy equipment and baggage team can't be interspersed, if there is no heavy equipment and baggage team to follow up, the little devil's interspersed troops are just rootless trees after all, as long as we don't panic, they can't make any waves." ”

At the moment, the deputy battalion commanders of several regiments nodded again and again, Yue Weihan's words are true, if a unit lacks heavy equipment, it lacks the ability to attack fortifications, and if there is no baggage team to follow up, there is no ability to continue fighting, even if such a small devil unit is interspersed behind him, then what is there to be afraid of?

The Baoshan Regiment now has sufficient food and ammunition, and the dozens of truckloads of materials intercepted are enough to support the Baoshan Regiment for more than half a month.

Yue Weihan finally emphasized: "You all have listened, the fortifications of each battalion must be built in strict accordance with the layout and construction standards I just said, and no one is allowed to be perfunctory, let alone cut corners, especially the anti-artillery holes, which must be reinforced as much as possible, and those who violate the order will ...... Shot! ”

"Yes!" The deputy battalion commanders of the regiment hurriedly stood up and answered in unison.

"I'm done talking." Yue Weihan breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and said, "As for which battalion guards Pukou, which battalion breaks forward, and which battalion serves as the general reserve, you will draw lots to decide." ”

After saying that, Yue Weihan stacked the two regiment deputies and the four battalion commanders who were looking at each other below, and walked away.

"Tuanza, where's my artillery battalion?" Seeing that Yue Weihan didn't mention the artillery camp from beginning to end, Niu Dagen couldn't help but be anxious.

"You can do it yourself." Regarding the position arrangement of the artillery battalion, Yue Weihan really has nothing to say, although Niu Dagen is a bit naïve, and he has never gone to a military school to learn advanced artillery theory, but he has a simple spirit and is willing to work hard to study the things he is interested in, so he has summed up a unique set of actual combat experience in artillery operations.

Yue Weihan strode up to Captain Liu Xin and said, "Captain Liu Xin, has the radio been set up?" ”

Liu Xin, who was debugging the signal, quickly stood up when he heard this, puffed up his chest and said, "Report to the group, the radio has been set up." ”

"Okay, immediately send a message to all the radio stations that can receive our signal in clear code." Yue Weihan looked at the mighty Yangtze River not far away, and his face sank like water, "All the robes of the Nanjing Garrison Theater, all the fathers and villagers in Nanjing, all the compatriots in China, and overseas Chinese: According to the order of the commission, all the officers and men of the Baoshan Regiment will swear to defend Jiangpu Town, and all the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Garrison Theater will also swear to defend Nanjing until all the 700,000 fathers and villagers in Nanjing City are safely transferred!" ”

Liu Xin, who had already learned Yue Weihan's temper many times, did not dare to hesitate, and immediately sent out the telegram he dictated in clear code, and in an instant, within a radius of several hundred miles from Nanjing, whether it was the military radio station or the [***] radio station, or the neutral country radio stations in the Shanghai concessions, they all received this letter of notice from Yue Weihan and the Baoshan regiment at the same time.

After Liu Xin finished sending the telegram, Yue Weihan suddenly asked, "Captain Liu Xin, don't you have anything to ask?" ”

Liu Xin's big beautiful eyes immediately glanced at him vigilantly, and at the same time pursed his crimson jade lips vigorously.

Yue Weihan couldn't help but sigh, it seems that Liu Xin's beautiful eyebrows have also remembered her surname for a long time, and it will not be so easy to tease her in the future, so he sighed again and said, "Liu Xin, you won't hate me, right?" ”

Liu Xinqiao's face couldn't help but feel a little confused, but she couldn't help but ask.

Yue Weihan sighed again and said: "In the battle of Jiangpu, the Baoshan Regiment is likely to be wiped out, you and I are afraid that it will not be spared, and I will forget it, but you are such a delicate little girl, but you haven't even tasted what a man is like, and this is about to die in a hurry, which can't help but make people sigh." ”

The soldiers of the communication squad immediately blushed, but they couldn't hold back and didn't dare to laugh.

Liu Xin was even more ashamed, angry and anxious, took a sip of Yue Weihan, and quickly twisted his waist and ran away.

Seeing Liu Xin's delicate shadow disappear from his field of vision, Yue Weihan's eyes suddenly softened, and he whispered to himself: "Ask yourself, why am I willing to do this?" I have no choice but to do this desperate plan, to say that it sounds good, this is a ruined boat, and to say that it is ugly, this is the way to die! ”

That's right, Yue Weihan's move is indeed a way to cut himself off!

Once this telegram is made public by the media of the neutral countries in Shanghai, its influence will be beyond imagination! Due to the unremitting propaganda and propaganda of many central media in the national government, Yue Weihan and all the officers and men of the Baoshan Regiment have already become heroes in the eyes of the Chinese people, and even overseas Chinese in the United States who are far away from the ocean are concerned about the safety of the Baoshan Regiment and Yue Weihan!

At such a critical moment, at a critical juncture, no one in the whole of China would doubt Commander Yue's telegram.

Therefore, once this telegram is issued, there will be no room for redemption, and no matter how unwilling Chairman Chiang is, he will never dare to rashly order the Baoshan Regiment and the [***] in Nanjing to retreat, because doing so will not only seriously dampen the determination of the entire Chinese nation to resist, but will also give him an infamy for not having a firm will to resist!

However, the real lethality of this paper to the people is far more than that, and Yue Weihan's true intention is definitely not here!

Yue Weihan's real intention was to force the [***] senior generals on the other side of the river into a desperate situation, cut off their retreat, and force them to take their troops to fight brutal street battles with the Yue army, once this telegram is made public, how to save the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Nanjing will immediately become the focus of public opinion, and who else dares to leave their troops and flee at this time?

Once Yue Weihan's intention succeeds, it is estimated that the hundreds of thousands of [***] elites on the other side of the river will enter the Chinese Martyrs' Shrine!

Whether these troops are the Teaching Corps, the 71st Army expanded by the 87th Division, or the 72nd Army expanded by the 88th Division, or even Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Army Corps, they are all the ace troops of Chairman Chiang's lineage.

At least Yue Weihan himself couldn't imagine what kind of reason Chairman Chiang would forgive him.

However, Yue Weihan will never regret it, if he is asked to choose again, he will still not hesitate to issue a telegram, this is not because he is in a hurry to join the Communist Party, so he has to first isolate himself from Chairman Jiang and from the [***] camp, Yue Weihan did this completely for the sake of the overall situation of the whole nation's resistance!

The reason is very simple, once the [***] senior generals in Nanjing City can not withstand Chairman Chiang's military order to retreat, and then lose the determination to resist to the death, then the tragedy of the officers and soldiers fighting to cross the river in history will be repeated, after many high-ranking generals have boarded the boat to cross the river, as many as 100,000 officers and soldiers will lose the courage to resist, and instead throw down their weapons, take off their military uniforms and blend into the refugee camp, and finally provoke the army's large-scale arrest and massacre, then the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre will still be unavoidable.

On the other side of the river, about 100,000 soldiers died, so why let them become prisoners and then die in their pockets?

It's the same death, why don't they fight with the little devils and die together, and then become a martyr who will last for centuries?

If they were slaughtered as prisoners of war, the names of more than 100,000 soldiers could only be engraved on the memorial wall of the victims of the massacre, but if they died together with Yue Kou as soldiers, the names of hundreds of thousands of soldiers would be forever engraved on the martyrs' monuments, and they would forever be remembered and admired by future generations.

What's more, hundreds of thousands of [***] warriors relied on the ruins of Nanjing City to resist to the death and launched the most brutal street battles with the little devils, so how many elite soldiers would have to be consumed? After the end of the Battle of Nanjing, how many veterans were left of the several permanent divisions and regiments used by the Central China Front Army to attack Nanjing?

Without these veterans, it is only a matter of whether the army can quickly recover and launch the Battle of Xuzhou.

Even if the base camp of the army reluctantly launched the Battle of Xuzhou at any cost, I am afraid that the results of the battle will be difficult to be satisfactory, and as for whether the Battle of Wuhan is likely to break out, it is even more difficult to say, in the final analysis, although there are many reserve sources of Xiao Yueben, the veterans on active duty are the three or four hundred thousand people of the seventeen permanent divisions and regiments, and the three or four hundred thousand old devils have been consumed, and the combat effectiveness of the little devils should be sharply reduced by several grades.

(To be continued)