[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 381: The arrogant Sugiyama Yuan (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The news of the surrender of the Japanese puppet reinforcements soon spread to the front line in Chengde, and when he learned that the more than 20,000 Japanese puppet troops surrendered collectively with only a few hundred casualties, Ma Zheng also couldn't believe it, after all, this is an army of 20,000, even if Chen Xudong's department killed 20,000 pigs, it was not so light.

Moreover, Ma Zheng also has a certain understanding of the old devil Sawada Shigeru, this old devil can be regarded as one of the most diehard senior officers in the Japanese invasion of China, and it is not easy to get this old devil to order surrender.

But then when Ma Zheng learned the specific tactics of Chen Xudong's department, he was relieved. No matter how stubborn the Japanese are, they can only choose to give in in this case, because resistance is futile. As long as Chen Xudong's department ignited all the explosives packages, whether it was 20,000 or 40,000, the result would be the same. At most, the Eighth Route Army will lose some of the explosive packs, and there will not even be a single casualty.

That old devil Sawada Shigeru knew this, so he gave the order to surrender. Another point is that the 4th Division, which was responsible for reinforcing Chengde this time, was not as tough as other Japanese troops, and it was reasonable to surrender.

This is not Ma Zheng in the Black Fourth Division, this is the case. There is a consensus in the Japanese Army that a battle that could have been won would have become unknown once the Fourth Division was mixed.

The most direct case was during the Battle of Xuzhou, when it was already in the late stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, and the army of the Nationalist Government was already sleepy after breaking through, and a lot of heavy equipment was lost, and the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced. While crossing a road on the border between Lusu-Anhui Province, the tired Chinese army suddenly found a well-equipped Japanese army on the road.

Because the troops were very tired, the Kuomintang troops panicked when they found the enemy troops, and in confusion left the road and retreated to the nearby mountains. The strange thing is that after a long time, there was no Japanese army chasing after them, and the Kuomintang commander was surprised and sent people to investigate, but saw that the Japanese army had no intention of pursuing at all, on the contrary, the Japanese army was still cooking in a grand place on both sides of the road, and this strange Japanese army was the southward detachment of the Fourth Division.

Since they had just jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, the situation was still very dangerous, and the Kuomintang troops had no choice but to cross the highway with one heart, and the result was that the road was safe. Afterwards, the head of the southward detachment explained to his superiors that he had not received an order to intercept the Chinese/army.

When the news reached the ears of the Chinese army, the saying that "the Japanese soldiers in Osaka would not fight" became popular. Every time they fought, when the Chinese army heard that the opponent was the "Osaka Division", their morale often increased greatly, and they rushed to engage the Fourth Division. The 4th Division, which had just arrived at the front line, was caught off guard and suffered several defeats one after another, even implicating friendly forces.

It seems not impossible for such an army to surrender in the face of an irreversible crisis.

After receiving the telegram from Chen Xudong's headquarters, Ma Zheng immediately ordered them to immediately escort the prisoners and captured booty back to the front line in Chengde, as long as Chengde was captured, the battle would be considered a successful completion.

At the same time that Ma Zheng's troops completely annihilated the reinforcements of the Japanese Fourth Division, the Japanese army also made considerable progress on the southern front. First, the main force of the 10th Division went north to the area of Wei County, and under the command of Yoshio Shinozuka, the Japanese army took back Wei County from the hands of the First Army Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and then the main force of the 10th Division continued to move north, and soon occupied Yangyuan and Tianzhen.

After capturing Tianzhen, the main force of the 10th Division did not stay in Tianzhen for a long time, and directly attacked Yanggao in the west, and the troops approached Datong. The reinforcements of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army put great pressure on Huang Sicheng's subordinates, and the battle situation on the Datong front suddenly became confusing.

At the same time, the Japanese army on the front line of Xinghe had also really broken through the resistance of Yang Chengwu's department, and successively occupied Gaomiaozi, Xinpingbao, Sanfo Temple and other places, and the two armies joined forces under Xinghe City.

Fortunately, the headquarters built a large number of fortifications after moving to defend Xinghe, so the Japanese 16th Division and the 110th Division besieged Xinghe County for a day and a night, but they still did not take it, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

But even so, this still made the North China Front Command very happy, because this was the first time since last year that the Japanese army had penetrated into the hinterland of the Suicha Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and they also surrounded a main division of Ma Zheng's headquarters in Xinghe County.

In order to thoroughly deal a blow to the confidence of the Eighth Route Army, on the morning of 9 March, the North China Front Army Headquarters held a news conference in Beiping, at which Major General Kunisaki, spokesman for the North China Front, declared that he was extremely arrogant in announcing that the 93rd Division, the main force of Ma Zheng's headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, had been surrounded by the Imperial Japanese Army in Xinghe County, and that the main force of the North China Front of the Imperial Japanese Empire was now making every effort to encircle and annihilate this unit, and a breakthrough had been made. In view of the threat posed by Mabe to the Empire of Japan and the huge losses caused, the Imperial Army of Sonyo did not accept Mabe's surrender.

The North China Front can be said to have played this trick quite cleverly, and as soon as the news came out, the whole country was shaken. The eyes of the whole country are focused on the small place of Yangyuan, and both the national government authorities and the democratic parties are concerned about the safety of Ma Zheng's department. The Yan'an side and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were also taken aback, and hurriedly contacted the headquarters of the Suicha Military Region to inquire about the details.

After receiving the telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army at the beginning, Ma Zheng was still a little puzzled about what was going on with the two bosses. Then Ma Zheng, who knew the truth of the matter, was a little crying and laughing, it turned out to be this incident!

Before this, Ma Zheng had already telegraphed with Yang Chengwu and knew his intention to trap the lonely city. Although it is indeed a bit dangerous for the two master regiments of the Japanese army to encircle the main force of the 93rd Division in Xinghe County, Xinghe County has been impregnable by the 93rd Division, and it is very unlikely that the Japanese army wants to break through the city fortifications of Xinghe in a short period of time to annihilate Yang Chengwu's department.

More importantly, he has made a breakthrough in the direction of Rehe, and now the Japanese troops stationed in Rehe and Jidong have basically been wiped out, leaving only more than 10,000 people in Rehe City, and the rest are just local chickens and dogs scattered all over the place, which are not worth mentioning at all. As long as Chengde City is attacked, this game of chess in Rehe and Jidong will be revitalized.

Just now, he had already made contact with the two commanders of the Fourth Column, and asked them to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the main force of the Japanese Fourth Division was annihilated to immediately send troops to capture Zunhua, Xinglong, Kuancheng and other places.

So it's not his horse who is suffering at all, it's the old devil Sugiyama Moto. The reason why the North China Front was so rampant was probably because they did not yet know the news of the annihilation of Sawada Shigeru's department.

Originally, Ma Zheng planned to take a blind attitude towards the little devil's statement, and when the time came, he would give the little devil a big mouth after Chengde City. However, thinking that the current domestic public opinion is very unfavorable to the Eighth Route Army, they have asked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to send a large army to rescue Ma Zheng's department and protect the two provinces of Suicha. And the Nationalist Government even intended to let Fu Yisheng's 35th Army take over Baotou and Guisui, so Ma Zheng knew that he had to take action, otherwise all the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods would jump out.

At 11:10 a.m. on March 9, exactly two hours after the Japanese army released the news, Ma Zheng issued a clear telegram on the radio on the Chengde front: "The people of the whole country at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army of the Military Commission of the Republic of China: Oriental clowns are grandstanding, and they are not ashamed of their wolf ambitions, and they want to peep into our Chinese artifact, France, and the Red Soviet Union were not spared. ”

"Today, I heard that Dongyang Xiaoer actually said crazy words, wanting to encircle and annihilate Yu Xinghe, the 93rd Division of our department. What is even more ridiculous is that the dignified North China Front Command actually said that it would not allow our army to surrender, but I remind His Excellency Sugiyama that it is too early to make a presumptuous assertion at this time, and what happened to His Excellency Shouichi Terauchi is a lesson for you. A few days ago, more than 20,000 people from the first division of our army and the main force of the fourth division of the Japanese army fought at Wuzhi Mountain in Zunhua, and after a fierce battle for one day and one night, the enemy completely annihilated the enemy, capturing more than 20,000 Japanese puppet troops, and the enemy chieftain, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, committed suicide by seppuku......" (to be continued. )