[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 349: Zhanchabei (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Mr. Zhu took two steps in the conference room with his hands behind his back, and then said in a deep voice: "Lao Peng is right, we really have to be cautious, once our Eighth Route Army takes out all the hole cards, then Lao Jiang and the devil will be unhappy." The devil is so unhappy that it has nothing to do with us, but if Lao Jiang is unhappy, we will be unlucky, even if there will be no direct military conflict, but with Lao Jiang's temper, we will definitely give us some color to see, and we have to guard against it. ”

"But we don't need to be too timid, we just need to limit things to a certain range. This time, it was mainly to solve the crisis in the southern Hebei region, and there was no need to engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese army, so I suggested that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army only send the special service regiment, artillery regiment, and battalion school under the headquarters to participate in the battle. As for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, there is no need to send many troops, two infantry regiments are enough. I don't think this kind of scale can arouse the panic of General Binshan Yuan, at most, it is only to withdraw the main forces of the four divisions that attacked the southern Hebei region, and there is no need to concentrate many troops to fight a decisive battle with our army. ”

Mr. Zhu analyzed it very thoroughly, and he knew that the current principles and policies of the party, and the battle plan that was too risky would not be approved at all.

Soon, a reply from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was sent to the Suicha Military Region. As soon as he received the telegram, Ma Zheng issued an order to the entire army of the Suicha Military Region on the first-level combat readiness.

According to the relevant regulations of the Suicha Military Region, once it enters a state of first-class combat readiness, the entire military region must enter a state of wartime, and all counties and cities, except for the troops, must complete the assembly in the shortest possible time and wait for orders at any time. In addition, the common people must also cooperate with the troops, and all counties, villages, and towns must be ready to move at any time, and they must ensure that the walls are clear and the wilderness is clear.

Moreover, the common people living in the county seat and major cities must also be subject to the light control of the military region. In case of bombing by Japanese aircraft. In a word, all the actions of all the military and civilians of the entire Suicha Military Region must serve the war.

At the same time, Ma Zheng ordered the cavalry group, which had long been ready to go, to act immediately, day and night, starting from Baotou, passing through Guisui, Jining, and Shangdu, and directly inserting the yellow flag, the white flag, and the Taifusi flag in the north of Chaha. The cavalry regiment directly under the military region and the independent brigade set off from Guisui by car. Directly inserted into the right banner of Sunit, Erenhot, and Suzuoqi, and finally joined the cavalry group in Xilinhot, an important town in northern Chaha.

Ma Zheng used almost all of his mobile forces this time, including more than 16,000 cavalry and 5,000 motorized infantry. He wanted to teach the Japanese how to fight, and now that the Japanese army is using troops in the entire North China on a large scale, the already not abundant troops must be overstretched, so Ma Zheng judged that the Japanese puppet army in Chabei was limited.

Therefore, this time, Ma Zheng is going to first knock down the yellow flag, the white flag, the Taifusi flag, the blue flag and Duolun that are close to Chanan, and the most important of these flag counties is Duolun.

Duolun is located at the eastern end of the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, at the southern end of Xilinhot, and has been the center of Tibetan Buddhism in Monan and the commercial and trade distribution center in Mongolia since the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. At this time, Duolun was also the center of gravity of the Japanese puppet army. As long as you control Duolun, it is not only equivalent to controlling the gateway to and from Chabei, but also the northeast can march to Chifeng Tongliao, and the south can be Darehe, and the strategic location is extremely important.

Judging from the current information from the intelligence department, Duolun is now empty, with only one infantry brigade and a small number of military police, but the fortifications of Duolun are complete. If you want to beat it down in a short time, it's unlikely. But given the importance of Doron. Once Ma Zheng's troops concentrated their forces to attack Duolun after taking several banner counties near Duolun, the Japanese puppet army would inevitably mobilize nearby troops to reinforce Duolun.

The closest big city to Duolun is Xilinhot, where there are not only some troops of the Mongolian army, but also the main force of the puppet Mongolian army, so Sugiyama Yuan will definitely transfer troops from Xilinhot.

In this way, Xilinhot will definitely have a period of extremely empty defense. Then if Ma Zheng let the cavalry group surprise attack Xilinhot, the result can be imagined, and it should not be a problem to defeat Xilinhot at that time.

The troops soon set off, and more than 20,000 people from the two armies acted according to the battle plan, all the way north to fight the right banner of Sunit. The other way detoured to fight Duolun, and Ma Zheng was to take the special combat team to move with the cavalry group.

On February 28, 1939, after a day and a night of galloping, the horse team finally arrived at the periphery of the Taifu Temple Banner before dawn, which was only more than 50 kilometers away from Duolun City.

In the tent, Ma Zheng ordered with a tense face: "Order the troops to rest in place immediately, and the officers above the regiment commander will come here for a meeting!" ”

Soon all the military commanders above the regiment level of the cavalry group came, and then Ma Zheng said in a deep voice: "Chief of Staff Xu, has the situation of the nearby Japanese puppet army been clarified?" ”

Xu Xiaolin, who had just been appointed by Ma Zheng as the deputy chief of general staff of the Suicha Military Region and the chief of staff of the 63rd Army, immediately said: "Report commander, it has been found out that the Japanese army in the city has two infantry brigades stationed in this generation, of which the general strength is concentrated in Duolun, and the Japanese troops with yellow flags, white flags, Taifusi flags and blue flags are only stationed in one infantry squadron, and the rest are all puppet troops, each flag probably has a regiment or so of troops, adding up to a total of more than 7,000 Japanese puppet troops in these five banner counties. ”

Then Ma Zheng said in a deep voice: "The situation is roughly like this, the strength of the Japanese puppet army here is just a little bit, it is not very strong, so our task is to take these flag counties in the shortest possible time." I will arrange the task, the cavalry group is divided into two, the first cavalry regiment, the second regiment and the sixth regiment are commanded by Commander Ma Desheng, the first soldiers are divided into four places to attack the yellow flag, the white flag, the Taifu Temple flag and the blue flag, and then join forces in Duolun, your task is not to take Duolun, but to force the Japanese army to transfer troops from Xilinhot to reinforce Duolun. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "At the same time, I personally commanded the 3rd, 4th and 5th Cavalry Regiments and the special combat team to go north to Xilinhot, as long as your side successfully transferred the Japanese army, then the rest will be handed over to us." Do you understand everything? ”

"Got it!" The crowd replied in unison.

"Very good, comrades, the time left for us this time is not very abundant, once our side makes a big move, the Japanese will definitely make a move, and then the battle to the south will definitely start in a short time, so we must fight quickly, three days, we only have three days, do you have confidence?" Ma Zheng asked again.

"Yes, use me in the first battle, and I will win!"

"Okay, adjourn!"

At 3 o'clock in the morning of March 1, after more than six hours of galloping, Ma Zheng commanded two cavalry regiments and one cavalry regiment totaling more than 7,000 people to arrive at Baolag Aobao in the west of Xilinhot, which is less than 20 kilometers away from Xilinhot City.

After allowing the troops to rest for a while, Ma Zheng asked the newspaper soldiers to immediately send a telegram to Ma Desheng on the southern front, telling them that they could act.

After receiving Ma Zheng's telegram, Ma Desheng's department, which had already arrived at the attack position, launched an attack on several banner counties garrisoned by the Japanese puppet army at the same time, and for a time the sound of gunfire alarmed the entire Chabei grassland.

The Japanese puppet army did not expect that Ma Zheng's department would make a move in northern Chahar, after all, since the establishment of Ma Zheng's department, most of them have been active in the area of southern and northern Chashan, except for the interception of the first brigade of cavalry, which has never been active in northern Chaha, let alone a large-scale attack, so it was caught off guard.

In addition, the Japanese puppet army in places with yellow flags and white flags was not the opponent of Ma Desheng's department in terms of strength and combat effectiveness, so in less than an hour after the battle, all four Mongolian banners were captured, and the Japanese army defending the city was almost completely annihilated, and the small part of the puppet army that cooperated with the defense of the city was annihilated, and most of them surrendered.

After capturing the Yellow Flag, the White Flag, the Taifusi Banner and the Blue Banner, Ma Desheng did not stop, and only left a cavalry company in each of these counties to guard the prisoners to maintain order, and the main force of the army came to the important town of Duolun.

At a quarter past five, more than 6,000 troops came to the city of Duolun and launched a fierce attack on this important town in northern Cha. (To be continued.) )