[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 548: Joint Command (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Just when Ma Zheng was in a dilemma, suddenly a telegram on the table attracted Ma Zheng's attention, this telegram was sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the content was inconsequential, but it opened Ma Zheng's mind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The troops in southern Hebei are not capable of completely annihilating the 108th Division, but they have to pass through the defense area of the Central Hebei Military Region and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army on the way from Jingcheng Pass to Handan, and now these two divisions are cooperating with his battle plan to carry out a diversion operation against the Japanese army.

The more he thought about it, the more Ma Zheng felt that this plan was very feasible, and then he deduced it on the map alone, and the result of the deduction was that the Japanese army would be defeated and the Eighth Route Army would win. If the plan is executed well, the 108th Division can even be defeated in one fell swoop.

Immediately, Ma Zheng thought that once the 108th Division was defeated, the 20th Division and the 109th Division on the Xinkou Front would have no follow-up reinforcements. In addition, from Handan to Shimen, Jingcheng Pass, and even Yangquan in the hinterland of Shanxi, there were no formed Japanese troops, so that the big chess game of Shanxi and Hebei was alive.

Thinking of this, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the 1st Brigade of the Independent Division to immediately cooperate with the Southern Hebei Administrative Office to establish a regime behind enemy lines in the occupied counties of Daming, Weixian, Guangping, and Feixiang, while Xie Wensheng's 2nd Brigade and Xu Weiguo's 3rd Brigade intensified their attacks on Handan, forcing the Japanese troops in Handan City to continue to ask for help from the 108th Division.

More importantly, after Ma Zheng did this, he sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, reporting his thoughts to Mr. Zhu and others, hoping that they could seize this opportunity to fight a war of annihilation against the 108th Division.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also attached great importance to the intelligence reported by Ma Zheng, at this time Mr. Zhu had already returned to Yan'an, only Mr. Peng was still commanding the operation on the front line in Shanxi, after receiving Ma Zheng's telegram, Mr. Peng immediately convened several senior cadres of the headquarters to hold a meeting, and Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division, who were working at the headquarters, were also asked by Mr. Peng to participate in the discussion.

After more than two hours of analysis and discussion, as well as a sand table simulation exercise, the leaders of the general headquarters unanimously agreed that Ma Zheng's battle plan had a very high success rate and was very necessary and feasible to implement.

The results of the deduction had already come out, and the conference room of the Eighth Route Army headquarters suddenly fell silent. The big guys have crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and they are very sensitive to war. According to Ma Zheng's battle plan, even if the 108th Division of the Japanese army was not completely annihilated, the possibility of being able to withdraw to Jingcheng Pass was not very high, and even if it was withdrawn by luck, the casualties would definitely be extremely heavy.

Now that the fighter has appeared, how to send and who to fight has become the focus of everyone's next discussion, and everyone's eyes have turned to Mr. Peng, waiting for his decision.

According to the information provided by Ma Zheng, the marching route of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army was Jingcheng Pass - Zhengding County - Shimen, and then went all the way south to Handan. In this way, the 108th Division will have to pass through the defense area of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the defense area of the 129th Division, and it is indeed a question whether Commander Nie should command this battle or be commanded by Division Commander Liu!

After thinking about it, Mr. Peng said: "Since Ma Zheng's bastard boy has formulated a detailed battle plan, and after our deduction, it has been recognized by everyone, then the meaning of this battle headquarters is one word - fight!" ”

"Yes, it must be hit! I heard that the 108th Division has received an order from the Japanese army base camp and will return to Japan in two months. Commander Nie said loudly.

"Well, I also agree with the boss and Comrade Rong Zhen, we must go all out in this battle. This is not only related to how much we can achieve, but also has a bearing on the layout of Comrade Ma Zheng in southern Hebei and central Jin. Commander Liu of the 129th Division also said.

Seeing that Commander Nie and Division Commander Liu both agreed to fight this battle, Mr. Peng nodded and said, "Okay, since everyone agrees to fight, then let's beat him." However, the first half of the 108th Division will pass through the defense area of Comrade Rong Zhen's department, and the second half will pass through the defense area of the 129th Division. ”

Division Commander Liu also saw Mr. Peng's dilemma, and immediately said: "Mr. Liu, in fact, this battle cannot be successfully completed by relying on our 129th Division or the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region alone, so I suggest forming a joint command center, I don't know what Mr. Peng thinks?" ”

Mr. Peng frowned and thought about it, and immediately asked: "Comrade Bocheng, with the strength of your 129th Division, can't you still win a 108th Division?" ”

Regarding the strength of the three main divisions under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army, Mr. Peng is still very confident, and after about two years of development, although the speed of development of the 129th Division is not as fast as that of the Suicha Military Region, it is not much worse. The Suicha Military Region was able to deal with the frantic attacks of several divisions and regiments of the Japanese army on its own, and even launched a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in several battlefields at the same time, and it would be really disappointing if the 129th Division could not even defeat a three-unit division of the Japanese army.

Division Commander Liu smiled and said: "Mr. Peng, our 129th Division has been on the front line of resistance against Japan since it set out from Fuping County, Shaanxi Province in September 37, crossed the Yellow River eastward, and went to the anti-Japanese front in North China. When our division crossed the Yellow River eastward, there were only more than 9,100 people in the 386th Brigade, the 769th Regiment, the Teaching Regiment, and the Cavalry Battalion, and the 385th Brigade and Brigade Headquarters, as well as the 770th Regiment and the engineers, baggage, artillery, and spy battalions, all of which remained in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region. ”

"Not long ago, the army was reorganized into nine brigades, with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops, not counting the large number of local guerrillas and militias, and the total strength of these units is at least 100,000. Look at the 108th Division of the Japanese Army, as a three-unit garrison division of the Japanese Army, the entire division is more than 15,000 people when it is fully staffed, not to mention that the situation of the full strength of the Japanese army is almost non-existent, if our 129th Division really goes all out to deal with the 108th Division, even if the front teeth are gnawed off, it can be bitten to death. ”

Then Division Commander Liu's voice changed and continued: "But the battle is not so big, and the overall strength of the 129th Division is undoubtedly above that of the 108th Division, but our troops are relatively scattered, and it is very difficult to assemble them quickly. Besides, the troops of the Taiyue Military Region and the Southern Hebei Military Region are cooperating with Ma Zheng's headquarters to attack Handan and other places, and they will not be able to withdraw at all for a while and a half, so if our division deals with the 108th Division alone, the pressure will be too great! ”

Mr. Peng nodded, feeling that what Master Liu said was very reasonable. To say that the 129th Division, which had just crossed the Yellow River two years ago, was not as good as a three-unit garrison division of the Japanese army, Mr. Peng believed that after all, the Japanese army at that time was indeed powerful, and the weaponry, the quality of the soldiers, and the will to fight were not something that the Eighth Route Army could compete with.

But after more than two years of fighting, the 129th Division has developed into a formidable force, and has repeatedly dealt heavy blows to the Japanese. In particular, in order to restrain the Japanese army's attack on the Yellow River defense line and cooperate with the Southern Jin Army and the Eighth Route Army in the northwest and southwest of Shanxi, the 129th Division developed traffic sabotage warfare and ambush warfare along the Zhengtai Railway and the Handan (Dan) Chang (Zhi) Highway in February and March 1938, and successively won victories in battles such as Shentouling and Xiangtangpu, destroying more than 6,000 Japanese troops, which greatly shocked the Japanese puppet army.

Subsequently, under the command of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division fought together with the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, the 1st and 2nd Columns of the Death Squad, and smashed the "Nine Route Siege" of more than 30,000 Japanese troops in the southeast of Shanxi, recovered 18 county towns including Liaoxian (now Zuoquan) and Licheng, and consolidated and expanded the Shanxi, Hebei and Henan anti-Japanese democratic base areas. With 129 is the current military strength, not to mention dealing with a dissatisfied garrison division of the Japanese army, even if it encounters troops like the 10th Division and the 20th Division, it will not be afraid.

However, as Division Commander Liu said, because there was no solid base area, the distribution of the various units of the Eighth Route Army was relatively scattered, and it was very difficult to assemble and fight a large-scale war of annihilation in a short period of time. This is the case with the 129th Division, and the same is true with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, so the formation of a joint command has become the only option. (To be continued.) )