[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 932: The Strange Southeast Battlefield of Jin (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Okamura Ningji is a person who is more familiar with current affairs, and he understands very well that Ma Zheng used Zhangjiakou as bait, and he wanted to lure him into the bait by losing this big city, so he naturally had a great appetite, and that desperate force was in line with the total annihilation of the First Army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although he can still resist stubbornly for a while, the war looks at the final ending, and who is the king in the end. After thinking about it, Okamura Ningji still chose to break through, leaving Qingshan and not afraid of no firewood, Okamura Ningji still understands this truth.

Since it was decided to break through, Okamura Ninji no longer hesitated, and immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the First Army, ordering them to immediately shrink their forces, and three days later the front air force would launch a carpet bombardment of the Shina army on the Shanxi front, and then they could organize troops to carry out a limited counterattack, hit the Shina people with a counter-charge, and then seize the opportunity to break through.

The reason why he wanted to fight another counter-charge before breaking through was entirely because Okamura Ninji was an experienced commander, and he knew very well that if he put on the appearance of withdrawing troops now, then whether it was Ma Zheng's department or Yan Xishan's department in the second war zone, it would be quickly pressed up, and at that time, Shinozuka Yoshio's department must be more passive, and even if it was a retreat, it would be impossible to retreat calmly and modestly, so it was best to fight another battle before breaking through.

After receiving Okamura Ninji's telegram, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief, she was really worried that Commander Okamura Ninji would let him defend Shanxi, in that case, the consequences would be really unimaginable, and a careless person might be wiped out in Shanxi by the Shina people.

If it had been left three years ago, if someone said that they dared to completely annihilate the entire Japanese Imperial Army, Yoshio Shinozuka would not believe it first, in his opinion, although the Great Japanese Imperial Army was not the most powerful army in the world, it was definitely a first-class army in East Asia, and even the invincible Tsarist Russia had to tremble under the front of the Great Japanese Imperial Army. As for China, a weak country, its army was nothing more than a high-rise building piled up of sand, and the Imperial Japanese Army only needed to knock it down with a single blow on the hilt of its sword.

Since the outbreak of the Chinese Incident in Showa 12, especially before the rise of Ma Zheng's department, the Imperial Japanese Army rarely had a brigade-sized unit that was completely annihilated by the enemy, but all this came to an abrupt end at the end of Showa 12, since the strong rise of Ma Zheng's department, the Imperial Japanese Army was really met with an opponent, not only the brigade-level troops were completely annihilated as the norm, but it is not surprising that the wings, brigades and even divisions were completely annihilated, especially the corps-level troops such as the company stationed in the Mongolian army were completely annihilated, It completely shocked the hearts of almost all senior officers.

So now that the Eighth Route Army is putting on a posture of annihilating the First Army stationed in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka is not worried, after all, the lesson of the past is in front of him.

Under the command of Yoshio Shinozuka, the Japanese puppet armies in various parts of Shanxi began to shrink their forces, and some of the less important strongholds simply gave up, and tens of thousands of troops returned to several important cities such as Taiyuan and Gujiao in just two days.

However, shrinking to shrinking, the Japanese army did not seem to have given up on Shanxi, and its main force, the Fifth Division and the 40th Division, sent troops from Taiyuan, went straight to Lingshi and Huozhou, and then stopped at Linfen to confront the Sixth Army in the Second War Zone.

On 1 October, the North China Front Command suddenly exerted its strength, and early in the morning of that day, almost the entire aviation regiment under the North China Front Army was dispatched to carry out carpet bombing of the headquarters of the Second War Zone on the Linfen front, and at the same time, the Fifth Division suddenly launched an attack on the Sixth Army in front of it under the opening of the tank wing.

Although the Sixth Army had long been prepared, it was still a little powerless in the face of the Japanese army's ground-air joint three-dimensional offensive mode, and after a whole day of fierce fighting, it had to give up its plan to occupy Linfen and withdraw westward to Hejin.

The Japanese did not pursue, and the Fifth Division did not even make any more stops in Linfen, and as soon as the battle was over, the main force advanced eastward and went straight to Changzhi, a few hundred miles away.

The sudden big move of the Japanese army startled Yan Xishan, Wei Lihuang and even Ma Zheng, and they didn't understand what the little devil was trying to do, did they want to fight to the death with more than 300,000 Chinese troops with these few divisions?

Just when Ma Zheng and others were analyzing the strategic objectives of the Japanese army, on the afternoon of October 1, more than 30,000 puppet troops set out from Taiyuan and urgently went south to reinforce the battles in the direction of Changzhi and Jincheng, while the Japanese troops in the direction of Jingle, Xinkou, and Yangquan were shrinking their forces on a large scale, and even gave up many important strategic points.

On October 2, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, held a press conference in Taiyuan, making it clear that the imperial army would defend Taiyuan and wait for reinforcements from the main force of the front army.

On the same day, the 37th Division, the main force of the First Army, abandoned the Jingle and Xinkou defense lines, and the whole army withdrew to Taiyuan, making a posture of defending Taiyuan City.

At the same time, the Japanese army reinforced Changzhi also arrived at Changzhi City, and carried out a clearing operation against the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army fighting nearby. However, the result of the battle was that the 129th Division won a complete victory, and more than 20,000 Eighth Route Army defeated more than 5,000 Japanese troops and more than 30,000 puppet troops.

When the news came, the Eighth Route Army, the First War Zone, and the Second War Zone were all jubilant, but soon the Japanese army once again reinforced Changzhi, this time with 10,000 Japanese troops at the beginning, followed by three divisions of the puppet army, with a total strength of more than 30,000 people, and this Japanese army was accompanied by five or six hundred heavy trucks.

At this time, whether it is the headquarters of the Second War Zone or the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, or Ma Zheng in Shimen, it has been seen that the Japanese army spared no effort to increase troops to the southeast of Jin, probably in order to leave a back road, after all, once they failed to defend Taiyuan City, they will face a breakthrough, and at that time there was only one direction for the breakthrough, that is, out of the southeast of Jin and went straight to Jiaozuo, Henan, and the other roads have been blocked by China Jundui, and now cleaning up the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Jin is equivalent to ensuring the safety of the back road.

As a result, the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone hoped that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army could dispatch the main force to drag the Japanese troops in Changzhi and Jincheng. The main reason is that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army dragged the main force of the Japanese army on the front line of Changzhi and Jincheng, then hundreds of thousands of troops in the second war zone will take Taiyuan City within a week. After all, according to the intelligence sent back from the internal line, there were only more than 30,000 Japanese troops in Taiyuan City at this time, and even if those pseudo policemen and railway troops were added, the total strength was only 35,000.

However, now the Chinese troops rushing to Taiyuan one after another have 7 divisions, 9 brigades, and 7 independent regiments, with a total strength of 170,000 people, 170,000 against 30,000, even if the Japanese army is all three-headed and six-armed monsters, it is impossible to hold out for long.

What's more, Ma Zheng's department has now cut off the Zhengtai Railway, and the Japanese army in Shanxi has become a turtle in the urn, with their inventory of munitions can last for up to half a month, and if the battle is fierce, the ammunition consumption will be faster, so Yan Xishan and others think that it will not be too difficult to take Taiyuan City.

As long as Taiyuan is taken, if the main force attacks southeast of Jin again, with the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army, it seems that there is no big problem in completely annihilating the first army of the Japanese army.

After receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the Second War Zone, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters unanimously agreed that the battle was feasible, and then sent a telegram to Ma Zheng, and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters ordered the main forces of the 129th Division and the 115th Division to immediately assemble on the front line of Changzhi and Jincheng, and prepare to fight the Japanese army to the death.

Soon, about 100,000 Eighth Route Army arrived at Changzhi and Jincheng, and launched an attack on Changzhi and Jincheng.

And Ma Zheng, who was on the front line, always felt that things were not so simple, firstly, Okamura Ningji was not so stupid, it was impossible to fight with their 300,000 troops in Shanxi with this little force alone, and secondly, the way the Japanese army sent troops to deploy the formation was too weird, and it was not easy to defend Taiyuan, and it was constantly transferring troops to the southeast of Shanxi.

Although it is said that considering that the Japanese army may be thinking about the back road, there are many things that do not make sense, so the battle situation in the southeast of Jin Province reveals a trace of weirdness everywhere in Ma Zheng's eyes. But thinking of the great results of the total annihilation of the First Army, in the end he didn't say anything, but simply sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, asking them to be careful. (To be continued.) )