The ambush site of Ma Zheng and others was a long and narrow ravine, on both sides were two small soil slopes twenty or thirty meters high, which was the most common kind of low hills in the north of the Saibei, and the road passed through the bottom of the ditch.

Originally, this place was a good place for bandits to ambush caravans, but now it was used against the Japanese.

Seeing the narrow mountain road ahead, Saburo Yamashita originally wanted to send infantry down to reconnoitre. But this place is already very close to the red sand bar, and you can already hear the sound of gunfire in front of you. Anxious to make meritorious contributions and promotions as soon as possible, Yamashita Saburo finally dispelled this idea and ordered the automobile soldiers to quickly pass through the mountain road.

What Saburo Yamashita didn't know was that his mistake finally wiped out the last chance of himself and hundreds of Japanese troops.

Seeing that all the cars had entered the ambush circle, the starting pistol in Ma Zheng's hand rang out, and more than 300 soldiers who were lying in ambush on both sides of the mountain road immediately opened fire.

At the same time, nearly 1,000 grenades exploded above the heads of the Japanese soldiers in one minute, and for a time, the six Japanese cars became a large fireball of fire, and the devil soldiers on the cars suffered heavy casualties. Saburo Yamashita rolled out of the car in a panic, and then pulled out a pistol and prepared to direct the battle, but the next moment he was sniped by Ma Zheng, and it was a headshot.

Despite the heavy casualties of the Japanese troops, the quality of their individual soldiers cannot be questioned. Especially in the early days of the war, every Japanese soldier was the elite of the army that was well-trained by Japanese militarism, and it was not comparable to the current Eighth Route Army. The remaining seventy or eighty devils did not retreat, but fought back under the organization of a military cao.

As a result of this counterattack, the troops immediately began to suffer casualties. In just two minutes, many soldiers were injured, fortunately, the 38 big cover in the hands of the devil had good shooting accuracy and strong penetration, but the lethality was not large, most of the fighters were injured, and only a dozen were really sacrificed.

However, the devil is not comfortable, there are not many people in the first place, and after a few rounds of shooting, there are only more than 20 people left with combat effectiveness, and the others are either killed or injured and lose their combat effectiveness.

Ma Zheng knew that the battle should be over, and ordered loudly: "Rush forward, the bayonet is red, and end the battle quickly!" ”

Hearing the order, the trumpeter immediately blew the trumpet. The fighters immediately jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the remnants of the Japanese army.

The result can be imagined, in less than five minutes, all the devils were eliminated.

In a hurry for the next battle, Ma Zheng said loudly: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, immediately change the devil's clothes, everything that can be taken away will be taken away, there is only ten minutes, hurry up!" ”

As soon as the battlefield was cleaned here, Wu Xiuda led the third company to rush over. It turned out that as soon as the fight started on Ma Zheng's side, Wu Xiuda withdrew with his people, creating the illusion of retreat.

Three hours later, a group of Japanese soldiers appeared at the gate of Fengzhen with hundreds of "prisoners". It is said that it is a city gate, in fact, it is just a sentry box plus some barricades and barbed wire, like most of the flag counties in Saibei, Fengzhen County has no city wall, and these things in front of you are also set up after the little devil came.

The Japanese soldiers standing guard saw this unit from a distance, although they were a little puzzled that Shaozo had six cars when he left, and when he came back, it had only become three. But thinking that although those cars are convenient, they often break down, and even more so when they start a war, maybe a bullet can blow the tires of the car off, and it is normal to break down halfway.

Besides, there were so many prisoners behind the convoy, and those cars must have been damaged during the battle Thinking of this, the Japanese soldiers guarding the gate were immediately relieved and hurriedly opened the barricades.

But when the distance of this force was only four or five meters, the sentry standing guard suddenly found that something was wrong, the one wearing the military uniform of Shaozuo was not Saburo Yamashita Shaozuo, but a person who had never seen before, but now it was too late, and before he could warn, Ma Zheng shot him to death, and the soldiers behind Ma Zheng also rushed into the barricade at the first time, solved the dozen or so devils behind the barricade, and then commanded the large army to quickly enter the city and rush towards the devil's military camp and garrison headquarters.

The next battle went smoothly, and in less than half an hour, the remnants of the entire Fengzhen county were all wiped out, and the dogskin plaster flag that had been hanging in the city for two whole months finally fell.

Although the remnants of the enemy have been completely wiped out, the next work is even more troublesome, Ma Zheng's troops have to transfer the spoils of war, suppress the traitors and lackeys, and mobilize the people to join the army to replenish and expand the troops before the enemy can react.

Fengzhen is different from other counties in Saibei, because it is an important node of the Pingsui Railway, and it is also the throat connecting Datong and Jining. Therefore, despite the backward economy, barren land, and no mineral resources to utilize, the Japanese army still attaches great importance to the defense here, and should soon find out the news that Fengzhen has been captured, so there is not much time left for Ma Zheng and others.

Because Ma Zheng's troops came suddenly that day and attacked simply, the Japanese army was caught off guard. In addition, the Japanese army had just occupied this place, and their heels had not yet been firmly established, so most of the confidential documents had not yet had time to be destroyed, and together with the weapons and equipment, food, gold and silver in the warehouse, all became the trophies of Ma Zheng's department.

In the battle, Ma Zheng's subordinates took down a county seat and eliminated 296 Japanese soldiers. At the same time, 12 traitors were killed, 2 big traitors were suppressed, and 30 trucks of various arms were seized.

In addition to weapons and equipment, they also seized 37 Japanese army-style war horses, more than 50,000 catties of grain, half a warehouse of canned grain, oil, vegetables, and meat, as well as a large number of military uniforms, cotton clothes, military cement, medicines, and medical equipment.........

Because there are too many things to be transported, Ma Zheng and others vigorously mobilized the masses to help transport, because Ma Zheng's department strictly implemented the policy of not disturbing the people, which was initially recognized by the people of Fengzhen County, and Ma Zheng also distributed many things that were not used by the troops or were inconvenient to take away to the people of the county, so many young and middle-aged people were willing to help transport materials.

With the help of thousands of young people, it only took two hours for Ma Zheng's headquarters to evacuate from Fengzhen County, leaving only a yard full of corpses for the Japanese army.

It was already more than seven o'clock in the morning when he returned to the station, and although the troops were tired, Ma Zheng didn't care about it. The troops were ordered to immediately carry all the captured supplies up the mountain, and at the same time, they were ordered to drive the more than 40 trucks to the distant woods and hide them in case of emergency.

The battle is over, but the effects are just beginning.

Datong. The Japanese army was independently mixed into the 1st Brigade Garrison.

"Pop" A fine bone china teacup was slammed to the ground and shattered into a pile of pieces, completing its life's mission.

"Yaga, what the hell happened to Fengzhen?" Major General Sakai Hoji, commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, shouted angrily.

It is no wonder that Major General Sakai was so angry, just an hour ago he was woken up by a rush of telephone noise, it turned out that the brigade headquarters had suddenly lost contact with Fengzhen, and according to the regulations, each station had to make a telephone call with the brigade headquarters every eight hours to report safety.

But there was no news from Fengzhen, and the communications department thought that the signal soldiers over there were negligent, and deliberately called to inquire about the situation, but they didn't expect to be unable to contact them, and it was they who realized that something was wrong, so they hurriedly reported the situation to their superiors.

The chief of staff of the brigade, Takeda Nakasa, hurriedly said: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, don't worry, the inferior has already sent cavalry to Fengzhen to check the situation, they have brought the radio, presumably there will be news soon!" ”

"I hope those bastards drank and misunderstood," Rear Admiral Sakai didn't say the following words, but his worries were all written on his face.

"Your Excellency, please don't worry, there is no longer a large army in the southern part of Jin, and there is a whole reinforced squadron of infantry in the hands of Yamashita Shaozuo, and the Chinese army must send at least one regiment to take Fengzhen, so I think this possibility is not too great!"

As soon as Takeda Nakasa's words fell, a second lieutenant officer hurriedly ran in and said, "Report, urgent telegram!" ”

"Read!" Major General Sakai said in a deep voice.

"Fengzhen was attacked by unknown forces, the county town fell, and all the defenders were shattered!" The second lieutenant officer said loudly.

"Yaga! Who the hell did it, I'm going to cut off his head!" Major General Sakai's angry voice echoed in the headquarters of the 1st Brigade.