Xuzhou, the station of the Baoshan Brigade.

After more than a month of intense construction, the fortifications of the Baoshan Brigade have been basically completed, and the regiments and battalions have not only built solid ground fortifications, but also dug up a network of tunnels extending in all directions, especially the special team led by Zhao Xinyi, which has mobilized 20,000 volunteer laborers, and has greatly accelerated the excavation speed of the tunnel fortifications.

By May 4th, a dungeon had been dug out under the city of Xuzhou!

At this time, Yue Weihan, accompanied by Chief of Staff Liu Yi, was inspecting the tunnel fortifications of Xuzhou Railway Station outside the East Gate.

Liu Yi introduced to Yue Weihan as he walked: "You see, the tunnel fortifications of the railway station are completely excavated according to your standards, there are many passages that communicate with the ground, and there are not only communication lines, arsenals, grain depots, rest areas, rooms, and even toilets underneath, this is completely an underground castle!" ”

Yue Weihan said: "The railway station is close to the Yellow River, and there was no landslide when digging the tunnel, right?" ”

Liu Yi hurriedly said: "No, although Xuzhou is close to the Yellow River, the aquifer is very deep, and you have to dig at least ten meters down to see groundwater seep out, so how can it collapse?" ”

Yue Weihan said again: "Didn't you meet Guan Yong?" ”

"I really did." Liu Yi said, "But it was quickly blocked by itself, so it's not a big problem." ”

In fact, the seepage of the Yellow River bed is indeed very poor, and even if there are occasional pipe gushings, it is easy to block itself.

This is because the sediment content of the Yellow River water is too high, and when the Yellow River embankment was dug in history, it failed several times in a row, because the sediment carried by the overflowing river water quickly filled the gap again, and it was not until the end that the embankment was successfully dug at Huayuankou, flooding more than 40 counties in the Huanghuai area.

After inspecting the tunnel, Yue Weihan and Liu Yi had just gone up to the ground when they met Liu Tiezhu, the captain of the special operations team.

Liu Tiezhu hurriedly stood up and gasped: "Brigade, the little devil is here!" ”

"Oh?" Yue Weihan's eyes suddenly froze, and he said in a deep voice, "Where is the devil?" ”

Liu Tiezhu said: "Tongshan, Xiaoxian, Zhengji, Yanglou and Jia Wangzhuang have all found a large number of troops, and the troops in each direction are more than two brigades!" ”

Yue Weihan immediately turned back to Tang Dashan and said, "Immediately notify the commanders of all regiments and directly subordinate battalions to come to the brigade headquarters for a meeting!" ”

After that, Yue Weihan said to Liu Yi again: "Let's go, go back to the brigade headquarters!" ”

Hurriedly returning to the brigade headquarters, Yue Weihan, Liu Yi and Liu Tiezhu went straight to the war room, Liu Yi pulled open the curtain on the north wall, and suddenly revealed a large military map hanging on the wall, Liu Tiezhu quickly picked up a pencil and marked the locations of Tongshan, Xiaoxian, Zhengji, Yanglou and Jia Wangzhuang.

"Report!" Major Staff Officer Liu Xin suddenly stepped inside and stood upright, "The chief's department is in an emergency!" ”

Yue Weihan didn't look back and said, "Read!" ”

Major Liu Xin immediately unfolded the telegram and read: "Baoshan Brigade: The main force of the theater has advanced to Wuyang this morning, and the headquarters of Yu Xuezhong and Sun Lianzhong have also advanced to the border of Sulu and the central Luzhong area, but your brigade still needs to hold Xuzhou for at least half a month, so that the army cannot quickly advance westward along the Longhai line. ”

"Alright, got it." Yue Weihan waved his hand and motioned for Major Liu Xin to go out.

Major Liu Xin pouted, and could only turn around and leave the war room, Liu Yi couldn't help but remind in a low voice: "Brigade seat, are you too cold to Major Liu?" ”

Yue Weihan waved his hand, not wanting to take this stubble at all.

Yue Weihan didn't want to snub Liu Xin, he also wanted to hold Liu Xin's beautiful little hand, spend the moon before the moon, and talk about love, but when is it now? The national disaster is at the head! As a Chinese with a conscience, as a descendant of Yanhuang with a blood surname, Yue Weihan really didn't have the heart to go romantic at this time.

After carefully analyzing the map for a moment, Liu Yi suddenly said: "With the current strength, equipment and complete fortifications of our Baoshan Brigade, it is wishful thinking for the little devil to take Xuzhou within half a month, but how to break through after half a month is a difficult problem, it is very nerve-wracking, what do you think?" ”

Yue Weihan nodded and shook his head again, but he didn't say anything.

As Liu Yi said, it is definitely not a problem for the Baoshan Brigade to hold Xuzhou for half a month, the question is how to break out of Xuzhou after half a month? This is really not an easy task, but then again, it is actually very easy for the Baoshan Brigade to break through from Xuzhou, and the key depends on whether Yue Weihan is willing or not.

If Yue Weihan does what Chairman Chiang wishes and digs up the embankment of the Yellow River, once the Yellow River floods down, a radius of 100 kilometers around Xuzhou and the entire Huanghuai region will become an ocean, and then the army will not want to starve to death, so it can only choose to retreat, and whether it can be safely withdrawn will become a problem, and where will there be any spare strength to attack Xuzhou?

The Baoshan Brigade has the protection of the city walls of Xuzhou, there is no worry about flooding, there is enough military rations, and there is no worry of starvation, just wait for the army to withdraw from Xuzhou, the Baoshan Brigade will have enough time to move calmly, but tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the entire Huanghuai region below Xuzhou will be wiped out!

Therefore, Yue Weihan would never choose to dig the embankment.

Yue Weihan would rather the Baoshan Brigade be wiped out, and would rather die in the Xuzhou battlefield than the tens of millions of people in more than 40 counties in the Yellow River region to become homeless refugees, and eventually become "starving" on the way to escape.

No matter what, Yue Weihan can't be ruthless!

"Forget it, I don't want to break through the problem yet." After a long time, Yue Weihan said, "Let's first calculate how to meet the Yue army, if nothing else, the first target of the Yue army must be the railway station outside the east gate, while the Yue army still doesn't know that we have dug a tunnel, we can beat them off guard." ”

Liu Yi's expression suddenly moved, and he said: "Luza, this is a wonderful move, the little devil will definitely suffer a big loss." ”

"Alright, then hurry up and go to the conference room to arrange the combat mission." Yue Weihan shook his head and said, "Cao Xinglong, Chi Chengfeng, and Li Qinglong are estimated to have already quarreled. ”

"Okay." Liu Yi hurriedly said, "Then let's hurry over." ”

………… The conference room of the Baoshan Brigade Department.

Cao Xinglong, Chi Fengfeng, Lu Xiufeng and other three regiment commanders, as well as Niu Dagen, Li Yulong, Hua Hanlin, Ma Dagui and Li Qinglong and other five directly subordinate battalion commanders have already arrived, all of them are gearing up, looking excited, saying that the Baoshan Brigade is really strong now, just waiting for the little devil to come to the door to be beaten.

Although the Baoshan Brigade is still nominally a type A brigade, in fact it has long been a division of the first type.

In the [***] sequence, Division A has two brigades and six regiments, Division B has two brigades and four regiments, and although there are only three infantry regiments on the Baoshan Brigade's formation table, if you count the bayonet battalion, guard battalion, death battalion and reading battalion, it is four regiments, plus the two supplementary regiments specially allocated by Chairman Chiang, it is a full six infantry regiments!

Liu Yi also suggested to Yue Weihan that the two supplementary regiments be broken up and organized into the bayonet battalion, the guard battalion, and the reading battalion, and then the three battalions were expanded into regiments.

However, Yue Weihan was not in a hurry to expand the bayonet battalion, guard battalion, and reading battalion into regiments!

The reason is very simple, Li Yulong, Hua Hanlin and Ma Dagui are not qualified for the position of regiment commander now, although the regiment and the battalion are only one level apart, but there is a world of difference between the two, a battalion is only more than 500 people, and the larger bandit dens are more than this person, so it is not too difficult to command, but a regiment is very different.

A regiment has four infantry battalions, plus the direct team, which is enough to have a small 3,000 people!

Commanding 500 people and commanding 3,000 people are two completely different concepts, Li Yulong is the commander of the Sichuan army battalion and may be barely competent, but Hua Hanlin was only a big soldier half a year ago, and Ma Dagui was still drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl two months ago as a lake bandit, these two guys are absolutely incompetent.

When Yue Weihan and Liu Yi were analyzing the enemy situation in the war room, Cao Xinglong and they were not idle.

Cao Xinglong and several of them also judged that the army would attack the railway station first, and it was actually very easy to make such a judgment, because the railway station was isolated outside Xuzhou City, which was a typical strategic prominence, and it also tightly strangled the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Railway, and its strategic position was extremely important, so it was completely reasonable to be attacked by the army first.

Facts have proved that the one who knows this group of arrogant soldiers and fierce generals best is still their brigade seat Yue Weihan.

As Yue Weihan expected, these battalion commanders had already quarreled over the task of guarding the railway station, and Chi Chengfeng and Li Yulong refused to give in to each other, and they were even about to start.

"Li Yulong, which green onion are you from his grandmother? Dare to grab the train station with Lao Tzu? Chi Chengfeng looked at each other angrily and said, "In terms of military rank, Lao Tzu is a colonel, you kid is a lieutenant colonel, in terms of position, Lao Tzu is the regiment commander, you kid is a battalion commander, in terms of qualifications, when Lao Tzu was born and died in Baoshan County, you kid didn't know where to fool around." ”

"Hush." Li Yulong retorted and said hungrily, "What about deep qualifications?" What about a high rank and a high position? The fist unit of the Baoshan Brigade is not your 2nd regiment, but our bayonet battalion! What is a Fist Force? The fist troops are the first battle with me, and with me you will win! You know? Besides, in the big competition of the whole brigade, one guy from our bayonet battalion won six collective excellences and five individual firsts, what about your 2nd regiment? There's a fucking fart! ”

"Hey, hey, I said two, you guys don't fight." Although Li Qinglong, the commander of the death battalion, joined the Baoshan Brigade late, he has the straightforward surname of a Northeast man, and since he joined the Baoshan Brigade, he will never treat himself as an outsider, so he got up and persuaded at the moment, "This task of guarding the railway station, don't you rob us of the death battalion, will it?" ”

"Just you? I don't pee and take care of myself. ”

"You kid is still tender, go on the edge!"

Chi Chengfeng and Li Yulong looked at each other angrily at the same time, Li Qinglong was immediately unhappy, and said, "Hey, hey, I'm just kind enough to persuade a few words, why are you two coming at me?" His grandmother is a bear, if you want me to say that you are also fighting, don't bother with that ball, Suo surname pulls outside to practice, whoever wins, what's up? ”

(To be continued)