[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 908: Fortressed Zhangjiakou (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The atmosphere in Zhangjiakou was already very tense at this time, and in order to fight this battle, Ma Zheng deliberately strengthened the strength of the defenders. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Originally, the Zhangjiakou garrison had only one regiment of field troops and one regiment of garrison troops, plus some of the guard units of the Chanan Army Division, with a total strength of less than 5,000 people, but now it has suddenly become three brigades and ten regiments, including an artillery regiment.

Moreover, with the support of Ma Zheng's strong financial and material resources, the entire Zhangjiakou has now become a huge fortress, and the 300,000 residents of the entire Zhangjiakou have all been relocated to the hinterland of the Suicha Military Region by Ma Zheng, although there are still less than 140,000 residents in the city, but some of these people are the elderly who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and the other part is the young adults who voluntarily choose to stay in Zhangjiakou to help Ma Zheng's troops defend the city.

The reason why Ma Zheng's department won the trust of the people of Zhangjiakou in just half a year was because the Japanese army's Japanese massacre aroused the resistance of the people of Zhangjiakou, and on the other hand, because Ma Zheng's department did bring happiness and well-being to the people of Zhangjiakou after its arrival.

Since Ma Zheng's unit was stationed in Zhangjiakou, it not only cracked down on traitors and illegal traders, stabilized prices and regulated grain and oil prices, but also distributed part of the seized grain to those really poor families, so that they could have a good year.

With these good policies and actions, the people of Zhangjiakou supported Ma Zheng's department from the bottom of their hearts, so when Ma Zheng proposed to let them all move to Saibei, although some people were unwilling to leave their hometowns, under the strong political propaganda of the Suicha Military Region, the vast majority of people finally chose to relocate.

The most touching thing is that after learning that the Japanese army was preparing to invade Zhangjiakou on a large scale, many citizens volunteered to stay in the city to help defend the city. Of course, it was a big price to pay in order to empty out Zhangjiakou Ma Zheng's department.

Zhangjiakou is the capital city of Chahar Province, with a population of about 450,000 at this time, and in the fight against the Japanese army in such a large city, we have to consider the safety of the lives of the people of Zhangjiakou.

The Japanese army can ignore the life and death of the Chinese in any Chinese city, they can create the horrific Nanjing Massacre in a frenzy, they can also use chemical weapons in any Chinese city without scruples, even if it is the kind of poison gas bombs with erosive chemical components that are banned internationally, and even they will regard the Chinese as their experimental subjects for developing poison gas and viruses, but the Eighth Route Army, which exists to defend the country, cannot ignore these.

The reason why the Eighth Route Army suffered such high casualties in history was not because the Eighth Route Army had already regarded the protection of the masses as one thing it had to do, and even a guerrilla force with only 180 people would not abandon the masses at will when the Japanese army came.

However, the people of Zhangjiakou still understood the feelings of the officers and men of the Suicha Military Region very well, and they knew that the Eighth Route Army really thought about their lives, so soon after the order of the Suicha Military Region to empty Zhangjiakou within half a month was issued, a large number of Zhangjiakou people spontaneously began to move to the hinterland of the Suicha Military Region.

Of course, among the more than 400,000 people, there must be those who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and Ma Zheng has given enough understanding to the masses who are unwilling to leave Zhangjiakou, but no matter what they are staying in Zhangjiakou for, they must withdraw from Zhangjiakou City before the arrival of the Japanese army, even if they hide in the suburbs or nearby counties and townships, as long as they do not return to the city before the end of the war.

As for those masses who were willing to relocate to Xinghe, Jining, and even to Guisui, Ma Zheng made a bloody investment, and the Suicha Military Region promised the people of Zhangjiakou that as long as they were willing to live in any town or town in the Suicha Military Region, the military region promised to give each family 20 acres of land and a house that could be temporarily inhabited, and that each household would also be given 500 catties of grain.

The land and houses are all right, and the years of war and chaos are not only in the Suicha area, but everywhere in China is the same, and there is barren land everywhere, and the two provinces of Suicha are even more vast and sparsely populated, not to mention 20 acres per household, even if it is 100 acres per household, there is no problem.

In terms of houses, there are no thirty or fifty uninhabited houses in that village, and there is no one left in some villages or even the whole village, so it is not a problem to resettle these people.

However, more than 300,000 people are 100,000 households, and 500 catties of grain per household is enough to need more than 50 million catties of grain. You must know that the daily grain quota of a regiment under Ma Zheng's department is more than 2,000 catties, and the rest is all supplemented with miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables, and 50 million catties of grain is enough for more than 20 regiments of Ma Zheng's subordinate to eat satisfactorily for three months.

Although there was a lot of grain in the Suicha Military Region's stockpile, one-twentieth of it was scattered all at once, which really made Wang Huiguo, the chief steward in charge of logistics, feel distressed for a while.

Moreover, in order to allow these people with their families to evacuate the battlefield in the fastest possible time, the Suicha Military Region mobilized more than 500 vehicles to help relocate. Of course, such a large-scale relocation movement could not escape the detection of the Japanese army, and the scale of the convoy composed of hundreds of cars really frightened General Okamura Ningji, who thought that Ma Zheng's troops would increase the number of troops in Zhangjiakou on a large scale, so he ordered the North China Front Air Group to destroy the convoy of the Suicha Military Region at all costs.

In North China, the Japanese army had absolute air supremacy, and except for a limited number of units under Ma Zheng's command, which had antiaircraft machine guns against Japanese aircraft, the rest of the troops could only be passively beaten in battles with the Japanese air units.

Under the frantic bombardment of dozens of Japanese bombers, Ma Zheng's transport team suffered great losses, so it had to adjust the transportation time to the evening. Despite this, under the frantic transportation of more than 500 cars, more than 300,000 people were all evacuated from Zhangjiakou in just half a month.

Of course, Ma Zheng's department has made such a bloody investment, and its harvest is also considerable, after several years of operation, Zhangjiakou's city defense at this time is already very complete. Under the painstaking construction of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians for half a year, although the city defense of Zhangjiakou cannot be called a fortress, its scale and strength of defense can be called the first in northern China.

The fortifications of the entire city of Zhangjiakou were divided into four parts, the first part was four trench lines of about 150 kilometers consisting of anti-tank trenches and a large number of pillboxes and bomb shelters, which were used against the Japanese armored forces.

The second part is a huge underground transportation system, at this time the underground of Zhangjiakou has almost been hollowed out by the military and civilians of the southern military subdivision, the core of Zhangjiakou City forty-one bunker group, each bunker group is composed of a main fort and a dozen sub-forts, each bunker group in addition to the firing port, other structures are all buried deep underground, on the top of the bunker also laid thick logs and sandbags, used to prevent the attack of the Japanese army's heavy aerial bombs.

In the underground of Zhangjiakou City, the Chanan Military Sub-district has built a huge underground project, which is divided into two parts, the first layer is the area where the soldiers rest and live, and the second layer is the place where weapons and ammunition are stored. Therefore, these huge underground works constitute the third part of the Zhangjiakou defense system, and they are also the main part of the Zhangjiakou defense system.

As for the fourth sub-project, it is much simpler, that is, the ubiquitous underground passages, no, these underground passages are used to link all the pillbox groups, unless the Japanese army breaks through all the pillboxes at the same time, otherwise even if a Japanese division attacks a pillbox group, it is in vain, because the defenders will continue to transfuse blood to the attacked pillbox group through the underground passages.

With these projects, Ma Zheng dared to use more than a dozen regiments to wrestle with the 60,000 or 70,000 Japanese puppet army, the most elite of the Japanese army. To tell the truth, it was not Ma Zheng himself who destroyed his prestige, but with the more than 50,000 people to whom the Chanan Army Division now belonged, if he fought a field battle with the Japanese army on the plains, he would not need the 35th Division to take action, and the 10th Division and the 3rd Chariot Division would be able to defeat them head-on in three days at most. (To be continued.) )