[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 121: Wuzhai is lost

The battle in the city did not last long, mainly because Miyamoto's stupid pig had gathered all the main forces to the temporary training ground, and there were only a few sentinels and patrols left in the city.

As soon as the team was formed here, Ma Desheng came over with more than a thousand captives in tattered clothes. Ma Zheng took a closer look at the group of captives, although these people were full of dishes, but in terms of mental temperament, they didn't seem to have lost their fighting spirit at all, and they had the blood of a soldier.

Although most of them were dressed in tattered clothes and skinny, each of them showed an unyielding arrogance and a murderous aura that had only been seen in the body of the elite of a hundred battles.

From the clothes on the bodies of these captives, it can be seen that they were numbered before they were captured, there are the Central Army of the Party in the name of the country, there are also the troops of local warlords such as the Jin Sui Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Gui Army, and there are some soldiers of the Eighth Route Army wearing gray military uniforms, looking at the unyielding eyes of these captives, Ma Zheng's eyes moistened.

Compared with the two devils who are committed to the Japanese army, they are the real national heroes and the backbone of the country and the nation.

Ma Desheng dismounted and saluted Ma Zheng and said loudly: "Report to the division commander, our department has already served the devil's prisoner camp with the pot, and all the guards of the prisoner camp have been killed by our department. ”

Ma Zheng said: "Fortunately, you go and arrange for the soldiers to eat and rest, and there are more difficult combat tasks waiting for you next." ”

Turning around, Ma Zheng solemnly saluted all the prisoners, and then said solemnly: "Brothers, comrades-in-arms, comrades: everyone is happy!" We are the 7th Independent Division of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, an anti-Japanese team, and I am the division commander Ma Zheng. Heroes, you have been rescued! ”

No cheers, no shouts, only silent excitement and tears!

Then Ma Zheng continued: "On behalf of the Eighth Route Army, I thank you for your contributions to the country, and I dare not say whether Chairman Jiang of Wuhan can remember you, nor whether Commander Yan of the Second War Zone can remember you, but I dare to say that the Chinese people will remember you, and thousands of Chinese sons and daughters with Yanhuang blood will remember you." ”

"It's not a big deal to be a prisoner, everyone loses the land, and everyone loses the land. You have fought and shed blood for the survival of the country and the independence of the nation, and you are national heroes. On behalf of the Eighth Route Army, I welcome everyone to join our people's army, and if you are not willing to join us, we will send you away and return to your original unit. But whether you are willing to stay in the Eighth Route Army or return to the original army, I want you to remember one sentence - it is enough to be a prisoner once. ”

After mobilization, a total of 788 rescued prisoners were willing to join the Eighth Route Army, 394 were willing to return to their original units, and 242 were unwilling to eat the army's rice again. Ma Zheng's soldiers who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army carried out an emergency reorganization, mixing the guard regiment with these newly rescued prisoners.

That night, Xu Hu led the guard regiment to camouflage and sneak attack the two strongholds in the Guizi Bianguan area, eliminating the Japanese army and destroying the two Guizi strongholds, so that one of the most important passes in the northwest of Shanxi Province was recovered.

More importantly, Ma Zheng's department was only more than 6,700 people when it went south this time, but after two battles to recover two county towns, it did not have much loss itself, and in addition to collecting nearly 3,000 puppet troops and prisoners, the headquarters suddenly expanded to more than 9,500 people.

After a day of correction of the partial pass, Ma Zheng left a battalion of soldiers to stay at the partial pass, and marched south with all his headquarters.

In order to smash the conspiracy of the Japanese puppet army as soon as possible, Ma Zheng divided his troops into two, one route was commanded by Ma Desheng, and three cavalry regiments totaling more than 4,500 people went west to attack the devils entrenched in Hequ County. The other route was led by Ma Zheng himself, and the guard regiment and the cavalry regiment composed entirely of the incorporated puppet army attacked the Japanese army in Wuzhai to the south.

At this time, the Japanese army's northern and southern armies had formed an encirclement posture against more than 37,000 people from the Second Cavalry Army, the 71st Division, and the 35th Army in the Second Theater of Operations. After discussion between the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia and the headquarters of the North China Front, it was decided to concentrate on eating the Kuomintang troops of these five divisions.

On June 4, the North China Front decided to transfer troops to strengthen the troops on the Lou Fan side, and soon an infantry wing of the 20th Division took a train to Taiyuan, and then urgently went to the Lou Fan front.

At the same time, the headquarters of the Mongolian army also dispatched an infantry brigade from Datong to urgently move south and stationed in Shuoxian to prevent the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army from cutting off the rear road of Abe's Guixiu Division. The 26th Infantry Brigade under the command of Abe Norihide successfully defeated the 35th Army in the direction of Wuzhai and captured the county seat of Wuzhai.

However, because this time He Guozhu and the others realized that there was already a cliff behind them, and if they didn't work hard, they would be taken prisoner, so they fought quite tenaciously. Although the county seat was lost, it was not annihilated by the Japanese army, and few were captured.

However, after this battle, the remnants of the 35th Army, the 71st Division, and the Second Cavalry Army retreated to Lanxian, and the living space was further compressed, and the situation was extremely dangerous.

On the same day, Ma Zheng led his subordinates to Sancha Fort in the northwest direction of Wuzhai. At the same time, the 120th Division besieged Pinglu County, and the main force also moved south to the front line of Shenchi, preparing to join Ma Zheng's headquarters, and then attack Ningwu Pass, forcing the Japanese army to return to help, and buying time for the Jinsui army in the encirclement.

In the face of the siege of the 120th Division, the Japanese army relied on favorable fortifications to fight back, causing considerable casualties to the 120th Division.

Although there were no city walls in the county seat of Shenchi, the Japanese army built a large number of cement pillboxes on both sides of the main passage into the city. In the face of cement tens of centimeters thick, ordinary mortars did not pose the slightest threat, and the 120th Division did not have field heavy artillery, coupled with the mutual support of the devils in Bajiao Town, Yizhen Hanjiawa and other strongholds, the 120th Division was helpless to take the devils in Shenchi City for a while.

The 120th Division has the intention to bypass Shenchi and directly attack Ningwu Pass, but the geographical location of Shenchi is very special, located in the north direction of Ningwu Pass, and the distance between each other is only a few dozen kilometers.

Just when Master He was frowning, the staff officer of the division headquarters came in and reported that Ma Zheng had led his headquarters to Sancha Fort, hoping to meet with Master He as soon as possible to discuss the attack on the Japanese army.

Knowing that Ma Zheng's department had reached the fork in the road, Master He was surprised. He originally thought that even if Ma Zheng's troops came to reinforce him, they would at most fight as wingers in the area of Zuoyun and Youyu, and support the battle from the side, but Ma Zheng actually led his troops directly to fight.

That's it, more importantly, it is more than a thousand miles from Jining to Shenchi, even if you are in a hurry, it will take more than ten days to arrive. Besides, there are devils' strongholds all over the way, and if you fight all the way, it will be impossible to reach it in more than half a month.

Looking at the time that has only passed a few days now, it has only been five or six days since the 29th, how can they be so fast.

Master He immediately asked the combat staff officer to confirm their location with the Duqi Division again, whether they had really arrived at the fork in the road. The news obtained is true, Ma Zheng and his troops have indeed reached the fork in the road.

It's no wonder that Master He was so surprised, he didn't know that all the cavalry that Ma Zheng brought this time was cavalry, and even the only infantry regiment had a car to transport it. In this way, the speed is naturally fast, not to mention a hundred miles a day, even if it is a march of three hundred miles a day, it is not tiring.