[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 291: Former Enemy Meeting (Ask for Subscription!) ）

Ma Zheng did not know about the Japanese army's meeting in Zhangjiakou, but Ma Zheng had already expected the Japanese army's intention to take action against the Suicha Military Region, after all, the Japanese army had long hated him and the entire Suicha Military Region, and even did not hesitate to resort to three indiscriminate assassination moves.

Moreover, since the army stationed in Mongolia dispatched divisional and regimental level troops to attack the defense area of the Suicha Military Region a few days ago, if he still can't see the attempt of the Japanese army at this time, then Ma Zheng will really live in vain.

However, Ma Zheng only knew that the Japanese army intended to launch a large-scale attack, but he did not know when the Japanese army was going to start fighting, let alone how the troops stationed in Mongolia were going to fight.

However, as a qualified commander, you must take precautions and take countermeasures, so as not to be caught off guard by the Japanese army.

It is far from enough to be ready for battle, Ma Zheng is not a person who sits idly by, believing that the first strike is the strongest and then the first to suffer, he decided to strike first, disrupting the layout of the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to change the battle plan. As we all know, the change of the battle plan is not a trivial matter, and it has to go through many procedures, and it cannot be completed in a day or two. Therefore, this time the stage singing was not only for Yang Aiyuan and others, but also had the intention of disrupting the Japanese army's battle plan.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of September 28, Ma Zheng and others rushed to Jining, where the headquarters of the Seventh Division was located, and held a meeting of the former enemy on the spot.

In Ma Zheng's view, the current Japanese army's troop layout is like a dumbbell, large on both sides and small in the middle. Zhangjiakou, Datong, and Baotou are like three large strongholds that are independent of each other, and it is not easy to attack any of them alone, and in the city with complete fortifications, it is difficult for the Eighth Route Army to quickly break through the enemy's heavily guarded city defenses, so although the goal of this operation is Datong. However, it cannot be fought directly from Datong.

Ma Zheng carefully studied the garrison of the Japanese army in the south and north of the Jin, and the garrisons of Zhangjiakou and Datong City were indeed very tight, one was the location of the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia, and the other was the location of the headquarters of the 26th Division.

But the defenses of these areas between Datong and Zhangjiakou are very fragile. In such a vast area as Tianzhen, Yanggao, Yangyuan, and Wei County, only one wing of infantry of the Japanese army and less than three regiments of puppet troops were stationed. Perhaps for other troops, the devils of a wing are already very powerful, even extremely threatening.

However, for Ma Zheng's department, the strength of the Japanese army was nothing at all, and a fully equipped infantry wing of the Japanese army was only 3,800 people, which was still the establishment at the beginning of the war. So far, the shortage of Japanese troops has been very serious, and the strength of some front-line wings has dropped to more than 2,000 people, so now Ma Zheng's department can no longer have any feeling when he hears the Japanese army.

Therefore, Tianzhen, known as the eastern gateway of Datong, has become Ma Zheng's main direction of attack this time, as long as he breaks through from Tianzhen into the hinterland of the Japanese occupation area. It was completely done to mobilize the Japanese army.

Besides, there are spectators in this battle, and if you want to fight, you have to fight a classic battle example for these audiences to see, in Ma Zheng's words, to teach these guys how to fight.

The military conference in Jining City was being held, and Huang Sicheng, commander of the Seventh Division, was briefing on the enemy's situation: "Ladies and gentlemen, the current situation in northern Shanxi is like this: In Datong, Yanggao, Tianzhen, Yangyuan, Hunyuan, Guangling, Zuoyun and Youyu, the Japanese army has stationed a total of one division and one brigade, that is, the 26th Division of the three-unit system and the independent mixed second brigade of one infantry wing under its jurisdiction. ”

"The specific garrison situation of the Japanese army is that the regimental headquarters of the 26th Division, the 12th Wing, the 2nd Infantry Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment are stationed in Datong and the surrounding Zuoyun County, Youyu County, and Datong County. The brigade headquarters of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade and the 1st Infantry Wing under it are stationed in Shuoxian, Pinglu, Shanyin and other counties. The 13th Wing of the Japanese Army and three puppet infantry regiments held Yanggao, Tianzhen, Yangyuan and other counties. There was also an infantry wing of the Japanese army stationed on the Hunyuan and Guangling lines. ”

After listening to Huang Sicheng's introduction, Ma Zheng immediately asked, "How is the situation in Tianzhen?" ”

"It's basically been checked. Garrisoned in Tianzhen was the Takahashi Wing of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, and the total strength of the Japanese puppet army was more than 6,000 people. Recently. The Japanese defense was extremely tight, and there were two blockade lines from Xinpingbao to Tianzhen County, the first was at the tile kiln mouth outside Tianzhen City, and the second was at the Three Buddha Temple. Although the garrisons of these two blockade lines were less than one squadron, there were a large number of puppet troops, and each blockade line had a battalion of puppet troops. ”

Then Huang Sicheng continued: "Although these people can't stop our army's attack. But it is impossible for us to bypass these two blockades, as long as our side starts fighting, the devils in Tianzhen County will definitely receive the news. In addition, a large area of fortifications was built outside the county seat of Tianzhen County, and there were enough permanent firepower points for 60 alone. All are made of reinforced concrete. ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said, "Although the situation is a bit tricky, this is not a good thing for us in the long run!" ”

"Oh, how so?" Yang Aiyuan, who was on the sidelines, asked puzzledly, it stands to reason that it is a very depressing thing for them for the Japanese army to strengthen their defense, how did it become a good thing in Ma Zheng's mouth?

Ma Zheng said: "You have all fought directly and face-to-face with the Japanese army, and I think everyone has a very intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army." The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army in addition to the war is indeed surprising, whether it is the Central Army carefully built by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek or the troops of the local warlords, of course, including our Eighth Route Army, there is almost no chance of victory against the Japanese army, and every time the battle is against the enemy's strength several times the strength to deal with it, even so, it is still a loss of city and land, loss of troops and defeat of generals. ”

"However, with the large number of casualties among the elite soldiers of the Japanese army, we will find that the quality of the Japanese soldiers is declining, and the absolute superiority based on the quality of the soldiers has also dropped significantly. Although the quality of ordinary soldiers in the Japanese army is far beyond the reach of our ordinary soldiers, now our army can already match it. ”

"In this case, in order for the Japanese army to continue to maintain its military superiority, it is necessary to constantly form new units. The continuous expansion of the size of the troops does not necessarily mean that the overall combat strength of the troops will increase. Especially when the Japanese army formed a second-line garrison on a large scale, this showed that the Japanese army had begun to decline. Later, we will find that each major battle launched by the Japanese army is much larger in scale than the last one, and the number of troops invested is much larger. This is not because the Japanese have become stronger, but because the Japanese army's combat effectiveness has weakened, and they have begun to make up for it with troops, which is very beneficial to the Chinese people's war of resistance. ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded involuntarily, although everyone also made such a discovery, but no one deeply analyzed the reasons, let alone thought of the far-reaching impact.

Yang Aiyuan said with a slight sympathy: "That's true, in the past, the Japanese army in a county town that was not very important only needed to place a squadron, or even a squadron. At present, a random county in North China needs at least two reinforced squadrons, more than 500 Japanese troops, plus more than 4,500 puppet troops to barely hold on, and in this way, it is often attacked by anti-Japanese forces, and it seems that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has indeed declined. ”

"It is inevitable that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army will decline, so we don't have to concentrate five or even ten times the number of troops against the Japanese army as before, and we can try two or three times, or even one to one." Ma Zheng said.

Yang Aiyuan and the others smiled noncommittally, Ma Zheng's previous words were correct, but it was really impossible to say that he was going to fight one-to-one with the Japanese army. The big boss of the Jin Sui Army studied at the Japanese Military Academy, and he was also a classmate of Itagaki Seishiro and others, and Yan Laoxi, who thought he knew the Japanese army very well, had been instilling the concept of the Japanese army being strong like the senior officers of the Jin Sui Army, so the officers of the Jin Sui Army agreed that it was necessary to have at least three times more troops to fight against the Japanese army. (To be continued.) )

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