[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1087: Fighting Liaocheng (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

According to Ma Zheng's plan, Liu Fengchi's headquarters, which was guarding the Japanese army in southern Hebei in the direction of Nangong, immediately dispatched a part of the main force to secretly drive to the front line. However www.biquge.info they were not going to the front line in Texas, but were secretly sent to the southwest of Lu by Ma Zheng, and the target was Heze, an important military town in southwest Lu.

Since the southern Hebei region does not border Heze, and there is a Henan Province in the middle, and now Henan Province is the territory of the Japanese army, so Ma Zheng asked Liu Fengchi's five regiments of more than 12,000 troops to be divided into zero, and rushed to Taiqian County, the border area between Henan and Shandong, day and night, to assemble and stand by.

In addition, the remaining 9 infantry regiments under Liu Fengchi's command directly detoured to Quzhou and Wei counties, and lurked in the area of the daimyo to wait for an opportunity.

Ma Zheng's overall strategy was to let those divisions of the Shandong Military Region also give full play to their combat strength, attack Liaocheng with the main force, and force the Japanese North China Front to transfer reinforcements from several other cities.

Since Liaocheng had never been the focus of Ma Zheng's department before, coupled with the previous sweep of the Japanese army, General Yunjian and other troops had already evacuated Luxi. Therefore, relatively speaking, Liaocheng's defense is much lax, and this sudden attack has a high probability of success.

Once Liaocheng is attacked, it will definitely be impossible for Okamura Ningci, an old devil, to be indifferent, you must know how far Liaocheng is from Jining, so he will inevitably send troops to reinforce Liaocheng.

There are not many Japanese troops who can reinforce Liaocheng at the first time, except for the provincial capital Jinan, there are only the 59th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Heze and the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jining.

Of course, the defenders of Tai'an, located directly east of Liaocheng, may also send troops to reinforce Liaocheng, but Tai'an is a satellite city of Jinan, and once something happens to Jinan, Tai'an will become the only city to rescue Jinan. And Jinan is very close to Linqing and Dezhou, so Ma Zheng judged that Okamura Ningci would not and did not dare to transfer the defenders of Jinan and Tai'an to Liaocheng, so the only way for the little devil to relieve the siege of Liaocheng was to transfer the Japanese troops from Heze and Jining to the north.

The problem is that the current Heze troops are not much, according to intelligence, the Japanese 59th Division has no more than 5,000 people left, and the division commander of the division, Lieutenant General Hosokawa Yasu, is not in China now, so it is the best time to clean up this 59th Division.

Besides, no matter whether or not the 59th Division can be cleaned up, it is simply wishful thinking to rule the entire Heze region with these five or six thousand people alone, even if Jiang is willing to do so, he will not agree.

This battle does not need to achieve great results, it only needs to turn the entire Luxi, Luxinan, and Luxi upside down. Only in this way can the army tear one or more holes in the Japanese army's perfect defense system, and then the Saibei Corps can wipe out the little devils in Shandong in one fell swoop.

Under Ma Zheng's deployment, the troops quickly took action.

On May 1, the day of International Labor Day, under Ma Zheng's order, all the troops of the Saibei Corps gave up their existing military objectives and began to desperately attack the strategic depth of Shandong.

Under the command of Xie Wensheng, the three divisions that had been prepared immediately launched an attack on Qingping, Liangshui and other towns, and the troops went straight to Liaocheng.

Garrisoned in Liaocheng is the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which is also an old enemy of the Saibei Corps, and since the establishment of the Saibei Corps, this independent mixed 5th Brigade has not been less troublesome to the Saibei Corps.

At the time of the great counteroffensive of the Northern Serbian Corps, this independent mixed 5th Brigade was not on the front line. That's why he escaped, and after being supplemented by the Japanese base camp, he is now brazenly looking like the main field force of the North China Front.

Major General Uchida Ginnosuke, the brigade commander who was originally independently mixed into the 15th Brigade, attached great importance to the strength of the Northern Saibei Corps, and said that this Uchida Ginnosuke was really not a fuel-efficient lamp, although this person was a little arrogant and arrogant, but his vigilance was still very high.

Seeing that many officers with higher ranks and official positions than his own entered the prisoner of war camps of the Northern Saibei Corps one by one, and some were even killed directly on the battlefield, and their deaths were very undignified, so Major General Uchida Ginnosuke did not dare to underestimate any unit of the Northern Saibei Corps, including the guerrillas who were controlled by the Northern Saibei Corps.

When the Saibei Corps was besieging Dezhou, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke was very nervous, and even the order of the commander Okamura Ninji to transfer two infantry brigades of the 5th Brigade to Qingdao was not resolutely carried out.

At that time, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke clearly sent a telegram to the North China Front Headquarters, in which he reported his concerns to Okamura Ninji, proposing that only one infantry brigade should be dispatched to the independent mixed Fifth Brigade, and the remaining troops were still guarding the Tuba Road in the Liaocheng area.

Although Okamura Ninji was very dissatisfied that Ginnosuke Uchida dared to disagree with the order issued by the headquarters, considering that what Major General Ginnosuke Uchida said was quite reasonable, he agreed with his statement. promised to transfer only one infantry brigade of the independent mixed fifth brigade, and even transferred an infantry brigade of the Imperial Association Army from Ludong to supplement the defense system of Liaocheng.

When he received an attack from an unknown force in Liangshui Town, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke's first thought was that Ma Zheng's unit was really coming, and he knew that if it was really the main force of the Saibei Corps going south, his dissatisfied infantry brigade might not be able to support it for even a week.

According to reliable information, the Tuba Road is now a bird gun for artillery, not only has a formed artillery unit, but even has its own mechanized tank unit and air force, two days ago the two sides also engaged in a small air battle over Jinan, an Imperial Zero fighter was shot down, two fighters of the Tuba Road were wounded and escaped.

And now the troops in their hands are much more humble, although nominally an infantry brigade, but in reality there are only four infantry brigades, a cavalry brigade and an artillery brigade, which is only a slightly larger reinforced wing at full strength. Coupled with the infantry brigade of the Imperial Association Army and the infantry regiment that originally belonged to the local puppet army in Liaocheng, all the defense troops in Liaocheng and its surrounding counties were only more than 8,000 people.

The difference in the strength of the enemy and me is not only huge, but fortunately, there is no indication that this is the main force of Ma Zheng's department.

You must know that in last night's battle, although the captain of the defending squadron in Liangshui Town ran fast when he saw the opportunity, in the end, the defending squadron still managed to escape more than half of it, and it can be seen from the side that it should not be the main force of Ma Zheng's department, otherwise the infantry squadron would not have a chance to escape and live.

However, while Uchida Ginnosuke was watching, Xie Wensheng was indeed furious at the command post on the front line at this time. Originally, he knew that the strength of this independent mixed Fifth Brigade was not good, so Xie Wensheng and Liang Shangren decided after discussing that the battle to besiege the periphery of Liaocheng would be completed by the independent third division with the weakest combat effectiveness.

But what I never expected was that when attacking Liangshui Town, more than 200 Japanese soldiers of the Liangshui garrison squadron actually left a puppet infantry company and fled in less than 3 minutes after firing.

A division fighting a squadron also made half of the family escape, which was a slap in the face for the entire independent third division. No wonder Xie Wensheng was angry.

"Lu Guoqiang, how the fuck did you lead the soldiers, it's a fucking shame for a brigade to come up with such a record in a few small towns! How the hell do you let Lao Tzu explain this record to the commander? ”

Xie Wensheng was almost so angry that he vomited blood after receiving the telegram from the front, which was the most embarrassing battle in recent years.

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a long time. Finally, a voice said firmly, "Commander-in-chief, this time our department is really careless, but you can rest assured, although our first brigade is a recruit brigade, and it has been formed for less than half a year, but our first brigade is still the main force of the third independent division, and the shame given to us by the enemy will be washed away with their blood, you just wait for our good news!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for Xie Wensheng to speak, the phone was actively pressed on the other side of the phone.

Xie Wensheng was so depressed, he secretly said that your kid really has a temper, but after thinking about it, he knew that this time he was really stimulated by the little devil, and even he, the division commander, became like this, not to mention the troops below, it seems that this time the independent third division will not be able to work hard.