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"Old Wang, what did you just say?" Xu Rui said, "Did you find surface coal?"
"No," Wang Husheng said, "In the morning, after I found this piece of anthracite coal under the wall of a fellow villager's house, I immediately found the man in the house. I asked him where he got the stone, and the result was that Guess what? The man told me he picked it up from Wild Horse Beach."
"Wild Horse Beach?"
Xu Rui quickly opened the map.
From the map, Xu Rui quickly found Ye Yetan.
Yematan is located on the northwest side of Meizhen, about fifteen miles away from Meizhen. The Meihe River flowing from north to south makes a big turn at Yematan, forming a huge U-shaped bay. Judging from the scale of the map, The width of this U-shaped river bend is about one thousand meters, and its depth is more than two thousand meters.
"Let's go, Lao Wang, let's go to Wild Horse Beach!"
Xu Rui immediately couldn't sit still and pulled Wang Husheng out.
"Now?" Wang Husheng said in surprise, "Old Xu, it's daytime now. There are Japanese cavalry patrolling near Meizhen. Although Yema Beach is far away, it's hard to say how close it is."
Xu Rui said: "Aren't they just a few Japanese cavalry? What are you afraid of?"
Xu Rui continued to pull Wang Husheng out, and when he reached the door, he shouted loudly: "Old Mo, hurry up to the cavalry camp and lend me and the political commissar two horses. By the way, lend me one for yourself, hurry up."
"Okay." Mo Zichen outside agreed, turned around and left in a hurry.
About half an hour later, Xu Rui, Wang Husheng, Mo Zichen and Wang Husheng's bodyguards, four people and four horses, appeared at Yema Beach on the northwest side of Meizhen. The journey was smooth and they did not encounter any Japanese reconnaissance cavalry. .
When he arrived at Yema Beach, Xu Rui immediately dismounted and started looking for coal on the river beach.
At a glance, I saw that the entire Yema Beach was basically filled with fist-sized pebbles, with a few jet-black stones here and there. As expected, these black stones were all coal. Xu Rui picked up a coal and placed it on the beach. After smashing it on a stone, I found that the coal had the same color inside without a trace of impurities. It was indeed high-quality anthracite!
Then, Xu Rui and Wang Husheng used the hoes they carried with them to dig up the sand and gravel on the river beach. After digging out a thin layer of sand and gravel, the black coal seam was immediately exposed underneath! Seeing this black coal seam, Wang Husheng lost interest because he could not mine coal, but Xu Rui was overjoyed and walked excitedly to the center of the river beach.
In the center of the river beach is a wasteland covered with grass. When the thin soil layer of the wasteland is dug out, there is still a black seam of coal underneath.
In order to ensure that there would be no mistakes, Xu Rui randomly selected a dozen points and dug up the sand at these points. The result was that without exception, there were black coal seams underneath. At this point, Xu Rui was very sure that this was There is indeed a large surface anthracite coal field buried under the river beach.
I just don’t know how extensive the coal mine is and how deep the coal seam is
However, this is no longer the point for Xu Rui. The point is that there is indeed a coal field here! And it’s also a high-quality anthracite coal field!
"Let's go back!" Xu Rui didn't say another word, got on his horse and turned around to leave.
Returning to the regiment headquarters, Xu Rui immediately called all the officers of the regiment above the company to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.
Two hours later, the chief officers of each battalion and company rushed to the independent regiment headquarters one after another, and every one of them was yawning all day long. They had fought hard all night the night before yesterday, and had another noisy night yesterday. Although they slept for two consecutive days, they could relax. But the spirit is not so easy to recover, which is why the troops must rest and recuperate after the war.
However, Xu Rui's first words made everyone feel sleepy.
"I've already thought about it." Xu Rui glanced at the faces of more than a dozen battalions and company commanders and said, "We will launch a big offensive next and try to eliminate the Kawaguchi detachment in one battle!"
"What, a big offensive?"
"Determine the Kawaguchi detachment in one battle?"
"My dear, are you real or fake?"
As soon as Xu Rui finished speaking, more than a dozen battalions and company commanders exploded.
To be honest, a commander like Xu Rui will give you a "big surprise" from time to time. The battalion commanders and company commanders of the independent regiment are already very nervous, but they suddenly heard Xu Rui's After these words, everyone was still shocked. This is a detachment, a detachment!
God, the leader really dares to think, he really dares to say!
But after the shock, questions followed.
Leng Tiefeng first raised the question and said, "Old Xu, are you sure you're not joking?"
Xu Rui still said the same thing: "Veteran, when did you see me joking about business?"
It's true that although Xu Rui occasionally makes little jokes with his officers and soldiers, when it comes to serious matters, especially when it comes to war, he will never make any jokes.
At that moment Leng Tiefeng said: "So you are serious?"
"Of course." Xu Rui said, "It's more real than the guy on your waist."
"Okay." Leng Tiefeng said, "Then we are all ears."
"Come here, come here all." Xu Rui first walked to the huge simulated sand table in the war room, then waved to Leng Tiefeng and other dozen battalion and company commanders to gather around the sand table, and then continued, " The key to this operation is to try to lure out the Kawaguchi detachment, so we must first give the Japanese some bait."
"Bait?"
"Still fishing?"
"I said, Lao Xu, are you addicted to fishing?"
He Guangming, Wan Zhongshan and Leng Tiefeng raised questions again, and the company commanders below also nodded unanimously. Obviously they were not optimistic about Xu Rui's plan. Under Xu Rui's deliberate guidance or cultivation, these battalion company commanders all learned Independent thinking, even if this is the plan proposed by Xu Rui, it will inevitably be questioned.
Xu Rui said happily: "Since fishing is effective, why not fish?"
Leng Tiefeng said: "Old Xu, the ancients said that you can never be proud again."
Wan Zhongshan also said: "The Western philosopher Plato said that one cannot step into the same river twice. Lao Xu, you want to ambush the Japanese twice with the same method, but you think Kawaguchi Heiji is too stupid."
Li Hai, who was sitting behind Wan Zhongshan, whispered: "Lao Wan, this was said by Galileo, not Plato."
"What, it's what Euclid said." Heipi said in a serious tone, "It's Euclid's law. It's impossible for a person to step into the same river twice. In other words, it's impossible to make the same mistake consecutively. twice."
"Go, go, shut up. Did I know that this is Euclid's law? I just made a slip of the tongue." Wan Zhongshan felt a little confused on his face. It seemed that he would read more books later.
Two black lines immediately appeared on Xu Rui's forehead.
Let me go, how did Heraclitus become Plato? Also Euclid's law.
Mei Jiuling and Huang Shouxin, who were sitting at the outermost edge of the crowd, also wanted to laugh but did not dare.
But Xu Rui didn't expose Wan Zhongshan and the others after all. In fact, he was too lazy to expose them. He discussed Western philosophy with three old soldiers. Isn't this the same as discussing embroidery skills with a butcher
And to be honest, Xu Rui is not interested in Western philosophy at all. When it comes to philosophy, Eastern philosophy is infinitely higher than Western philosophy. It is just because in the first industrial revolution in modern times, Eastern civilization fell behind, so along with it Various Eastern philosophies have also become dusty and looked down upon.
In fact, until China's re-emergence in the early 21st century, many Chinese people had no confidence in their own culture and philosophy. Every word they spoke was called the West. This is a typical case of kneeling for too long and forgetting how to stand.
In a word, patriotism is guiltless and requires no reason, let alone any need to be secretive.
At that moment, Xu Rui took over: "I understand what you mean. I can't say that your worries are completely unreasonable. As long as Kawaguchi Heiji is not an idiot, the possibility of making the same mistake twice in a row is indeed very slim, but what I want to say Yes, as long as you put enough bait, you don’t have to worry about Kawaguchi not taking the bait.”
Leng Tiefeng said: "Then tell me, what kind of bait are you planning to lay?"
Xu Rui did not answer immediately, but placed various colored pennants, dolls, trucks, tanks, artillery and other models on the sand table. Mei Jiuling and Huang Shouxin also came up to help. The three of them were very Quickly place all the deduction tools on the simulation sand table.
After everything was set up, Xu Rui said: "Now let's conduct a war game. I am still the leader of the independent regiment. Veteran, please be aggrieved and act as the old devil Kawaguchi Heiji, and you, are the combat advisers of the Kawaguchi detachment."
In order to perfect the entire combat plan as much as possible, Xu Rui decided to challenge all the battalion and company commanders by himself, because in this way, under everyone's heated deductions, the hidden flaws in the entire combat plan would be exposed as much as possible. In actual combat, unplanned emergencies will be reduced as much as possible.
Xu Rui first picked up a soldier model, placed it outside Meizhen, and said: "Now I will first send a company to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese guard post outside Meizhen at night."
"Old Xu, is this your bait? I can only say that you are too stingy." Leng Tiefeng smiled suddenly, picked up a soldier model from the Japanese military camp, placed it in the corresponding position, and said, "I will Send a squadron to reinforce, if you don’t use the cannon battery or special forces, one of your companies can’t do anything to one of my squadrons.”
"What if I dispatch two more companies?" Xu Rui said, picking up two more soldier models and placing them on the battlefield.
"Add fuel tactics?" Leng Tiefeng paused, then picked up two soldier models and placed them on the battlefield. He said coldly, "Then I will also deploy two more squadrons. If Lao Xu, you don't have any other tricks, Just blindly add troops to the battlefield, and in the end, you will definitely be the first to run out of troops, not this old devil like Kawaguchi."
"Really? Then we might as well wait and see." After Xu Rui finished speaking, he picked up nine more soldier models and placed them on the battlefield. Then he clapped his hands and said, "Now, I will put all three infantry battalions into the battlefield. I must eat this piece of fat that has been brought to my mouth at all costs."
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