[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1187: Strong Lore (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On September 10, Ma Zheng issued an order to the troops on the front line to "fight the last battle against the Japanese army in the north", requiring all troops on the front line to strengthen their offensive efforts, be sure to break through the enemy in front of them within a week, and then meet in Xuzhou. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the army side, the battle was very smooth, and the Chinese army won successive battles, and the Japanese army was defeated. Although the Japanese puppet army left behind also fought very tenaciously, but due to the lack of weapons and ammunition and the need for food, it directly led to the Japanese army's combat effectiveness dropped to the extreme, and in just one day, the first line of defense of the Japanese army was almost completely lost, and then a large number of Japanese troops began to retreat in the direction of Xuzhou.

On September 13, news came from Lianyungang that the main force of the Japanese army had arrived in Lianyungang and was loading and shipping.

Ma Zheng immediately ordered the air force to attack and continuously carried out strategic bombing of the Japanese army, especially for those troop carriers full of Japanese soldiers.

At the same time, Ma Zheng also issued a combat order to the Huyan Military Station in the Yellow Sea, ordering the naval fleet to immediately intercept the Japanese fleet in the Yellow Sea.

For this bombing, Ma Zheng concentrated all the fighters that China can concentrate now, and even some training planes were forcibly pulled onto the battlefield by Ma Zheng. It is important to know that only a small part of the Japanese soldiers who were transported to retreat this time were armed merchant ships and warships, and the vast majority were ordinary merchant ships or large oil tankers and fishing boats, which lacked the necessary anti-aircraft firepower.

Moreover, the number of fighters on the Chinese battlefield is limited, and they also have to support several other battlefields, and there are even fewer that can be pulled out to escort the fleet, and even if it is a training plane, there is not much danger.

In addition, this time there is only one small aircraft carrier in the Japanese naval formation, and there are very few platforms that can provide take-off and landing for the air force, this is a good opportunity for Ma Zheng to gather and annihilate the Japanese Third Fleet, and Ma Zheng will definitely not let go of such an opportunity.

At 6 p.m. on the afternoon of the 13th, all 1,432 fighters belonging to the Saibei Corps, including the 566 planes urgently mobilized from the Soviet Far East Military District, took off from 16 airfields in northern China and rushed to Lianyungang to bomb the Japanese fleet.

Like the Japanese army's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Ma Zheng's air raid also adopted the method of sneak attack, and all the fighters flew at ultra-low altitude before arriving at Lianyungang.

The attack was a success, and the battle was fought from morning to night, from the sea to the sky, and the intensity of the battle was unprecedented.

The Japanese suffered heavy losses, one small aircraft carrier was sunk, 4 of the 12 cruisers were sunk, one ran aground, and the rest were heavily damaged; Half of 6 frigates and 8 destroyers were sunk, in addition to 19 regular troop carriers were sunk and 12 seriously damaged, 198 merchant ships were sunk and 188 damaged, in addition to 18 aircraft destroyed.

Japan's replica of the Dunkirk retreat met Ma Zheng's strong killing, and the plan was fatally hit as soon as it was implemented, and the first batch of 120,000 troops on the ship lost 50,000 or 60,000 people as soon as they left the port, and the rest were all sent to the water to feed Wang Ba.

The entire Lianyungang was completely destroyed, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded. More importantly, in this battle alone, the Japanese Third Fleet, which was already very weak, was basically defeated, and the threat to the Yangtze River waterway dropped to zero.

Before the surviving Japanese troops could breathe a sigh of relief, when the fleet sailed into the sea for only 180 nautical miles, they found hundreds of large ships waiting for them in the Yellow Sea, especially the blood-colored flag flying high, the Japanese army was completely stunned.

After a bloody battle, the Japanese transport fleet was almost completely wiped out, and only a dozen ships escaped from the battlefield, and the rest either hung up the white flag or were sent into the sea to feed Wang Ba, and the sea was full of Japanese corpses and burning battleship wreckage.

After this battle, the Japanese army lost as many as 100,000 soldiers, and the Third Fleet of the Navy also suffered heavy losses, and was almost completely wiped out by Ma Zheng's department, which can be regarded as a bad breath for the Chinese Navy.

However, the losses of the Sino-Soviet Air Force were also staggering, due to the fierce resistance of the Japanese, especially the suicide attacks of the Air Force, which caused huge casualties to the Sino-Soviet Air Force, and by the time the fighters returned smoothly at night were less than the 8th floor, nearly 300 fighters fell forever in the waves of the vast Yellow Sea.

The plan to retreat by sea was completely aborted, and in addition to the 100,000 or so troops buried at the bottom of the sea, nearly 200,000 troops were trapped in the city in Lianyungang.

Okamura Ningji didn't expect that his plan would be ruined by Ma Zheng like this, and instead of withdrawing the North China Front to the south in a short period of time like the British, he also buried a naval fleet.

Now the war is becoming more and more unfavorable to the North China Front, at the same time as the retreat of Lianyungang, Ma Zheng also sent the air force to the Japanese positions to distribute leaflets, the Japanese high-level want to use the recruits as cannon fodder, in exchange for the retreat of the veterans of the conspiracy to public, in the Japanese army aroused a strong reaction, in the next battle, whether it is the Saibei Corps or the remote command of Okamura Ningji, they all clearly feel that the resistance of the Japanese army on the front line is weakening.

Okamura Ningji urgently adjusted the strategic deployment and ordered the troops in the direction of Xuzhou to immediately retreat in the direction of Suqian and Huai'an.

However, the troops of the Saibei Corps in the direction of Yangzhou had long been prepared, and hundreds of thousands of troops had built a large number of fortifications in the vast area, and Ma Zheng also gave the troops in Yangzhou a death order to hold the gap at all costs, even if it was the last man to block the Japanese. The soldier died in battle, and the officer was gone, and the commander himself used his head to block it, and if he couldn't block anyone, he didn't want to come back to see him.

At the same time, Ma Zheng mobilized a million troops on the front line of Xuzhou to launch the final encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army, thousands of tanks rampaged in the Xuzhou area, the recruits of the Japanese army have seen such a scene, in their consciousness, the Chinese army is still their predecessors in the mouth of those with simple primitive weapons of the buns, weak combat effectiveness is pitiful, in addition to the will to fight is commendable, it seems that there is no point worthy of the title of soldiers.

But look at the present, thousands of Chinese tanks are pouring in, and the powerful momentum is overwhelming, and the neatly uniformed infantry is wearing a dark green military uniform that is more powerful than the standard military uniform of the Imperial Japanese Army.

By the 19th, the gap in the south had not been opened, but the Japanese army in the north responsible for blocking Ma Zheng's headquarters had a major rout.

The scene of defeat and the flight of hundreds of thousands of troops is no more spectacular than the migration of African wildebeests. This scene was captured by a reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Air Force, and was reported by the military newspaper of Ma Zheng's department and Xinhua Japan, which aroused heated discussions around the world.

This incident also aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Japanese people, and the Japanese army headquarters issued orders to reprimand Okamura for his ineffective command, and if it were not for the shortage of people in the country, I am afraid that Okamura's position would not be able to sit still.

On September 22, the Huai'an front-line position was broken through by Ma Zheng's department, and the recruits of two infantry divisions and an infantry brigade stationed in Huai'an surrendered to Ma Zheng's department.

Immediately afterwards, the 6 infantry divisions of the puppet army under the control of the North China Front Army revolted on the battlefield and fell to Ma Zheng's department.

The Japanese troops on the Yangzhou front fiercely attacked the positions of the Saibei Corps, and this was already the 38th offensive in a week. Okamura Ninji concentrated the last elite of the North China Front Army to launch a continuous attack on the Yangzhou front, in an attempt to break through the strong defensive line arranged here by the Saibei Corps and open a land passage to the south.

However, Ma Zheng also gave a death order to the troops on the front line in Yangzhou, as long as it was not fought to the last soldier, China's battle flag could not disappear from the position. Therefore, although the fighting at the front was fierce and hard, not a single person retreated.

However, the Japanese army had a weakness, that is, they were seriously short of ammunition, and this was already the 17th day of supply cut-off.

Although the Japanese Army Headquarters sent transport planes to airdrop supplies to the troops on the front line at all costs, due to the air strikes of Ma Zheng's troops, this transportation volume was not even a drop in the bucket. As a result, the Japanese army had hundreds of thousands of troops in the air, but they could not all of them be put into battle.

On September 25, Ma Zheng's troops broke through the layers of resistance of the Japanese army behind the palace, advanced the battle line to the Xinghua area, and strategically tightened the encirclement, encircling the entire North China Front in a narrow area of less than 100 kilometers.