[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 743: New Progress in Eastern Hebei (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

According to Xu Yinghui's intelligence department's investigation, the defense of the entire North China region, especially the entire province of Hebei, is extremely empty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This made Ma Zheng see an opportunity, an unprecedented opportunity to beat the little devil.

Ma Zheng is not an arrogant person, at this time the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has entered its third year, and the edge of the Japanese army is not as sharp as before, and he is no longer the little minion who has just crossed back with only more than 100 remnants of defeated soldiers. With more than 300,000 troops in hand, Ma Zheng saw hope, and saw the hope of ending the war ahead of schedule and the Chinese nation taking off ahead of schedule.

According to intelligence, the defenders of Beiping now have only one infantry brigade of the Japanese army and three groups of the puppet North China Security Army, which is more than 80 percent less than the defenders of the previous two divisions, one chariot wing, two cavalry brigades, one heavy artillery brigade, three artillery wings, and three infantry divisions and two cavalry regiments of the puppet army.

In view of this, Ma Zheng ordered Yang Chengwu's troops to not care about the safety of Daixian and himself, and at the same time, they could also ignore the safety of Chengde, and the troops on the front line of Zhangjiakou could start from Zhangjiakou and make a detour but must take Beiping City, as long as Beiping was taken, then the foundation of the Japanese army's rule in North China would be shaken, and the sacrifice would be worth it.

At the same time, the Japanese army's thousands of cavalry have not appeared in the hinterland of Genan according to the predetermined plan, as long as this cavalry is completely annihilated, then the Japanese army's mobility ability will be greatly reduced, so Ma Zheng ordered Ma Desheng and Shi Dingfang's tank regiment to annihilate the Japanese cavalry unit at all costs.

The various units of the Shandong Military Region, as well as the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, the 115th Division, the 129th Division, and other units, should also quickly assemble, and then temporarily hand over the territory of southern Hebei to Gao Shuxun's headquarters, and the whole army will quickly move north to attack Shimen, the most important transportation hub city of the Japanese army in North China, while the Central Hebei Military Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region must fully cooperate with the instructors.

At the same time, Ma Zheng also sent a telegram to Yun Jian in Guisui, ordering Yun Jian to immediately issue a maximum alert to the entire military region and immediately mobilize young and middle-aged people in the area under his jurisdiction to join the army. In the past, in order not to destroy the productive forces of the base areas, Ma Zheng generally placed the young and middle-aged people who came to join the Suicha Military Region to work in factories and enterprises, and rarely recruited into the army, unless they had any special abilities.

But now Ma Zheng needed a large number of troops to complete his plan, so he had to urgently form a new force. At the same time, Ma Zheng also ordered the garrison regiments, county brigades, and district squads of all counties of the Suicha Military Region to immediately meet in their respective county seats, and then immediately rush to Jining and Datong to listen to the dispatch after the reorganization was completed.

And the Japanese attack has not stopped for a moment, and the Japanese army has been attacking for nine hours from last night to now. Listening to the rumbling cannons outside the city, Ma Zheng's mood is not bad, and of course it is not good.

The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was indeed extraordinary, and the defensive line built by the defenders outside the city wall lasted less than four hours before the Japanese army was crushed, and the position was finally pushed under the city wall.

After more than a year of construction, the defense of Dai County has improved a lot compared to before, there is a circle of pillboxes and trenches built with reinforced concrete at the gate of the city, Mingbao is good to say, although the ordinary cannon is not a big threat to the steel-concrete structure of the blockhouse, but it can still destroy Mingbao in the middle of the hit. But the bunker is much more difficult to fight, most of the buildings of the general bunker are built underground, even if the Japanese army has heavy artillery, it is useless, and there is no reaction at all.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from relying on the air force to bomb the positions outside the city, Huang Sicheng built a small half of the fortifications underground when he designed the defense system of Dai County, so Ma Zheng was still very confident in the defense system of Dai County. More importantly, the Japanese army attacked lightly this time, with only a few simple small steel cannons, and did not carry mountain artillery and field artillery, let alone large-caliber field heavy artillery.

Zheng is most worried about the battle on the front line in eastern Hebei, Liu Fengchi's side has been resisting for 16 days, although Lieutenant General Yokoyama Yong commanded the troops to attack non-stop, and Liu Fengchi's defense line has also been withdrawn more and more, and now it is far from Qian'an City.

In Liu Fengchi's words, he held out for a week at most, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to attack eastern Hebei on a large scale within this half month, but it is difficult to say whether his troops could block the Japanese attack after a week.

In just half a month of fighting, Liu Fengchi's department suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and more than 4,000 people were killed directly in the battle, and more than 2,000 were seriously injured.

But in any case, the Japanese cavalry unit has appeared in the hinterland of eastern Hebei according to the predetermined plan, and Ma Desheng and others are also ready for a cavalry duel, as long as irreversible things do not happen, the Japanese cavalry will definitely die, which is also where Ma Zheng's self-confidence lies.

"Tie Sheng, how long is it until dawn, and how is the battle ahead?" Ma Zheng didn't raise his head and asked.

"Commander, it's five o'clock in the morning, and it's only an hour until dawn. The battle ahead was quite smooth, the Japanese launched eleven charges at night, and even used poison gas bombs, but they were all beaten down by our guard regiment. Just now, the Japanese army stopped shelling, but the little devils on the position still did not withdraw from their positions, and it seemed that they were preparing to take a break and attack again. Chen Tiesheng replied quickly.

As the captain of Ma Zheng's guard team, Chen Tiesheng must always pay attention to the changes around him.

"What about the casualties of the troops, and how long can they hold out?" Ma Zheng continued to ask.

"There are complete fortifications, although the Japanese attack is fierce, but our army's casualties are not large, according to the estimation of this offensive strength, we can support at least half a month."

Ma Zheng secretly calculated that it was impossible for the Japanese army to stay in Dai County for half a month no matter what, and it would be difficult for a week! Not to mention how many people can survive these units of the Japanese army in half a month, even the supplies and ammunition brought by the Japanese army will not be able to support them for so many days.

"Very good, the battle for the defense of Dai County will be handed over to Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang and Regiment Commander Lu. By the way, is there news on the eastern Hebei front? Ma Zheng's voice was still so calm, I couldn't tell whether it was joy or sadness.

Chen Tiesheng tried to ease his mood, and then continued to reply: "Commander, a telegram was sent from Jidong an hour ago, and the commander was resting at that time, so I asked the telegraph operator to put the telegram on your desk. ”

Ma Zheng walked to the desk in three steps and two steps, then picked up the telegram on the desk and began to read. The telegram was sent by Ma Desheng, who told Ma Zheng that the Japanese cavalry unit had taken the bait and was expected to meet Shi Dingfang's tank regiment this morning. Ma Desheng's cavalry division had also cut off the rear of the Japanese cavalry troops, and the entire battle was going according to the predetermined plan without any mistakes.

Ma Zheng is very confident in this war, and even does not think that there will be any accidents, not that Ma Zheng believes in the combat effectiveness of Ma Desheng and others, but believes that the cavalry will not have a good end against modern hot weapons.

The Japanese cavalry Ma Zheng still knows very well, and those who are familiar with Japanese history know that the Japanese cavalry has declined centuries ago. In April 1575, after the death of Takeda Shingen, his son Takeda Nobuyo led 15,000 cavalry to fight Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga at Nagashino Castle. In this battle, the ironclad cavalry that had been run by the Takeda family for generations was defeated by the muskets of the Oda army, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

This was the first decisive battle in the history of Japanese warfare in which muskets played a decisive role, and from this point on, the Japanese cavalry went into decline. However, despite this, the declining cavalry also participated in the war of aggression against China.

The decline of cavalry is obvious to all, and the role of cavalry on the battlefield dominated by hot weapons is already minimal. But Ma Zheng knew that in terms of the current Chinese battlefield, cavalry still had a certain role. Because of China's geographical topography and backward transportation, the vast majority of the Japanese army's cars could not be used on the road at all, and at this time, the flexible cavalry became the first choice for the Japanese army to improve its mobile combat capability.

But it doesn't mean that it can cover up the decline behind the cavalry, after the hot weapon, the cavalry is actually a moving target! (To be continued.) )