Xuzhou, Garrison Command.

Yue Weihan, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by a loud neighing of horses, and when he hurriedly got up and went out to inspect, he saw that Liu Fengsheng, deputy of the bayonet battalion, had already led two high-headed horses and walked in happily.

Without waiting for Yue Weihan to ask, Liu Yi, the chief of staff over there, was also alarmed.

Liu Yi frowned and said, "Deputy Liu Ying, you don't lead troops to fight at the train station, why are you here?" ”

Liu Fengsheng stood upright, saluted Yue Weihan and Liu Yi, and said: "Travel, Counselor, I got you a two-step Oriental horse, you can travel on your behalf when you have nothing to do, hehe." ”

"This horse is for me and the brigade?" Liu Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this, although the Theater Commander's Department allocated two jeeps to the Baoshan Brigade and the four captured armored vehicles of the army, which could be used for this, these six cars had already been lying on their stomachs due to lack of fuel, so it would be a good choice if they could travel with Toyanmar when they went out.

Yue Weihan seemed to have guessed something, and said, "Liu Fengsheng, you attacked the devil's field artillery headquarters?" ”

"Hehe, I really can't hide anything from you." Liu Fengsheng scratched his head and said with a smile, "Last night, Battalion Commander Li asked me to take the 1st Company to take out the little devil's field artillery position, and after completing the task, I attacked the devil's field artillery headquarters by the way, stealing more than a thousand Oriental horses from the stable. ”

"Good guys!" Liu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, "One guy has captured more than a thousand Oriental horses!?" ”

"Not much, just more than a thousand." Liu Fengsheng was modest, but the expression on his face was extremely proud, and he said, "And they are all pack horses, although there are hundreds of good quality, but if you want to domesticate a military horse, you have to spend a lot of energy, and you have to be a veteran who has worked in cavalry, I don't know how many such old cavalry can we have in our Baoshan Brigade?" ”

"Come on, don't fucking beat around the bush." Liu Yi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and said, "If you want to be the commander of the cavalry battalion, you can just say it, why bother to fix all this nonsense?" What the brigade has said can not be counted? ”

After that, Liu Yi turned his head to Yue Weihan and said, "Brigade, what do you say?" ”

Yue Weihan nodded happily and said: "Okay, hand over all the captured horses to the chief of staff, not a single horse is allowed to hide privately, you don't care about the rest, as for the formation of the cavalry battalion, wait until the defense of Xuzhou is over, now you still take the troops and hurry back to the train station, first be your deputy of the bayonet battalion!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Fengsheng stood upright, and then turned around and walked away.

"This Liu Fengsheng." Seeing Liu Fengsheng go away, Chief of Staff Liu Yi smiled and said, "I really remember this stubble." ”

"I remember that too." Yue Weihan nodded, and said thoughtfully, "The role of cavalry in modern warfare is not as good as before, but for a long time, cavalry will still play an immeasurable role, especially before our army lacks armored assault forces, battlefield assaults still have to rely on cavalry!" ”

Liu Yi nodded and said, "When I go back, I will send someone to supplement the regiment to find out the bottom line, and all those who have done cavalry will be registered." ”

"The three main forces can't be left behind!" Yue Weihan added, "Those who have done cavalry must not only register and make a register, but also immediately transfer the brigade headquarters, even if they are combat backbones or grassroots officers, they must be unconditionally transferred to the brigade headquarters, and all regiments must resolutely obey and must not detain people for any reason!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yi snapped and stood upright.

………… In the suburbs of Xuzhou, the headquarters of the 66th Wing of the Army.

Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, commander of the 114th Division of the Army, stepped down from the armored car with a blue face, and the commander of the 66th Wing, Tsuneda Tsunetasa, and the deputy commander of the 66th Wing, Yamamoto Kubo Nakasa, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly took two steps forward, and Shi immediately closed his feet at the same time, and suddenly bowed his head and said: "Your Excellency General!" ”

Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu slapped Yamada Daisa with a shake of his hand, and reprimanded him sharply: "Waste! ”

Yamada Daisa's head suddenly deviated, and then he immediately returned to the right with force, and suddenly lowered his head: "Hai! ”

Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu was still angry, and slapped Yamada Dazuo twice, and said: "One of the most elite field infantry wings, with a tank detachment and a field artillery wing working together, can't take the Xuzhou Railway Station, not to mention, but actually let the Chinese army take advantage of the weakness to attack the artillery position, resulting in heavy losses in the field artillery wing, Yamada-kun, what do you explain this?" ”

Yamada Daisa's facial muscles twitched violently twice, and then he suddenly bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency General, I am willing to wash away my shame in the way of a samurai!" ”

"Yaga, that's not what I want!" Lieutenant General Suematsu said angrily, "I want to know the truth of the facts! ”

"Hello!" Yamada Daisa bowed his head suddenly, and said in a heavy tone, "Your Excellency General, after more than ten hours of fierce fighting, it can now be concluded that the judgment of the Front Army Headquarters is seriously inconsistent with the facts, and the Zhina Army is by no means unprepared in Xuzhou, they have already built a complete group of permanent fortifications!" ”

"Permanent fortifications?" Lieutenant General Suematsu suddenly changed color slightly.

The Chinese [***] team in the Xuzhou battlefield from attack to defense and then retreat, only a few days before and after, to build a permanent fortification group in Xuzhou in such a short period of time, there is no possibility, so there can only be two possibilities, either Yamada Dazuo is lying, or the [***] team has been preparing for the defense of Xuzhou a few months ago.

As an imperial samurai, it is obviously impossible for Yamada Daisa to lie, so this can only be the second possibility!

"Yes, permanent fortifications, fortifications made of reinforced concrete!" Yamada Dazuo bowed slightly, his tone became more and more heavy, and said, "The field artillery group of the field artillery wing cannot threaten the fortifications of the Chinese army at all, even if it uses incendiary bombs and chemical bombs, it will have little effect, because the Chinese army has long been prepared. ”

Lieutenant General Suematsu said: "Then what happened to the attack on the artillery position of the field artillery wing? ”

Yamada Dazuo replied: "Your Excellency General, there is an elite company equipped with automatic fire in the Zhina battalion stationed at the Xuzhou Railway Station, and the assault fire is very powerful, and it is this elite company that raided the artillery position of the field artillery wing, and at this time, the three infantry brigades belonging to my 66th Wing have all been deployed in front of the station, so they have not been able to rescue in time. ”

"Automatic fire?" Lieutenant General Suematsu immediately frowned and said, "What about the casualties of the 66th Wing?" ”

Yamada Osa said: "Due to the attack on the field artillery group, the Kameda Brigade was forced to return reinforcements, and the Noda Brigade and the Kami-Ono Brigade were also forced to suspend the offensive, so the casualties were not large, but Your Excellency General, if you hastily put in heavy troops to launch a strong attack before the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade, huge casualties will be inevitable." ”

Lieutenant General Suematsu was silent, and immediately turned his head to the chief of staff of the division and regiment beside him, Saburo Isoda and said: "Isata-kun, immediately telegraph to the front army headquarters and request the 5th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery to step up its march north. ”

………… Xuzhou Railway Station, Bayonet Battalion Battalion Headquarters.

Li Yulong was circling around Liu Fengsheng, and said as he turned: "I said that why did you kid go and not come back for half a day, dare to do a side job, tell me honestly, what about the horses?" ”

"It's all robbed by the brigade." Liu Fengsheng said with a bitter face, "I didn't leave any horses for us." ”

"Who are you kid?" Li Yulong sneered, "What do you mean that all the brigades have been robbed?" The brigade seat is really eccentric, it is clear that the horses are kept to form a cavalry battalion, turtle son drop, these thousands of Oriental horses are obviously the products of our bayonet battalion, why do you have to hand over to the brigade headquarters, why do you have to give your boy to form a cavalry battalion? ”

Liu Fengsheng said: "It's useless for you to tell me what you say, you have the ability to talk to the brigade." ”

"You think I wouldn't dare?" Li Yulong snorted, "I'll talk to him when I get back." ”

After that, Li Yulong was afraid that Liu Fengsheng would squeeze him, so he quickly changed the topic and said: "Hey, it's strange to say, why didn't the little devil move?" ”

Liu Fengsheng pursed his lips and said with some disdain: "The little devil is not made of iron, there is no artillery, and the chariot can't pass the anti-tank trench, and if you attack it again, you will be sent to death!" ”

"That's right, it seems that the little devil won't have any movement in the next two days." After that, Li Yulong sighed regretfully, "Alas, I still thought that I could have a good time with the little devil here, but I didn't expect the little devil to be really normal, and it was only three or two times before he fell soft, which is really boring." ”

………… Thirty miles north of Suzhou, Anhui Province, Fuliji.

At dawn, Pang Hu's special operations team rushed to the vicinity of Fuliji unknowingly, and lurked in a large wild jujube forest next to the Jinpu Railway.

As soon as it was discovered that the forward troops of the Yue Army had arrived at the periphery of Xuzhou, all four squads of the special operations brigade directly under the Baoshan Brigade were sent out by Yue Weihan to reconnoiter to the east and west along the Longhai line and to the north and south along the Jinpu line.

Whether ancient or modern, timely and reliable information is always paramount.

Yue Weihan's thinking is very clear, if the army wants to move quickly, it is absolutely inseparable from the railway line!

Therefore, as long as the four special operations teams monitor the east and west sections of the Longhai Line and the north and south sections of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, Yue Weihan will be able to make adjustments in a timely manner and avoid suffering a big loss because of being caught off guard.

As soon as the Pang Hu team had done their camouflage, an armored train rumbled on the railway line.

Every time the armored train advanced a certain distance, machine guns with black holes sticking out of the shooting holes on both sides of the carriage would shoot a shuttle of bullets into the wilderness on both sides, one of which even passed by Pang Hu's head, Pang Hu was fine, but a hare foraging in the grass behind was hit squarely.

Less than ten minutes after the armored train left, an old and long train rumbled on the railway line, and there was no end in sight, and what made Pang Hu and the soldiers of the special operations team feel even more frightened was that on the train with the body removed and only the bottom plate was loaded, one large-caliber gun after another!

Pang Hu visually inspected the caliber of these cannons, the smallest one was 120mm, and the largest was even 240mm!

Pang Hu's heart suddenly jumped wildly, he didn't say anything, this must be a certain field heavy artillery brigade of the little devil, and this information must be reported to the brigade headquarters immediately!

(To be continued)