[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter 68: Ma Zheng's ambition

North Village, Los Angeles, headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

After receiving the telegram from the 7th Independent Brigade, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army immediately convened an emergency military meeting to discuss the chances of Ma Zheng's division winning the war against Japan.

Mr. Peng passed the telegram one by one to several division and brigade commanders in the conference room to circulate it, and then said worriedly: "That's the devil of the two infantry wings and the four puppet cavalry divisions, this is a full strength of 145,000 troops, and the horse madman wants to use a new brigade to fight against an enemy three times his size, I am really a little worried." ”

Master Liu stroked his glasses, and then said, "Boss, don't worry, although that kid is a little crazy, he is definitely not a loser." Didn't you look at this kid's battle plan, the three strongholds combined are less than three companies of troops, this posture is not the posture of defending the mountain. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I think this kid is probably planning to abandon these dry hills, as for the main force he said jumped to the outside line, I think he wants to concentrate his forces to break the Japanese puppet army one by one, this plan is good, I'm afraid it will be another war of annihilation!" Master Liu said.

"I'm afraid of this, Ma Zheng is still young after all, and young people are easy to be proud and complacent. I'm afraid that he will be young and vigorous, and he won't take the devil in his eyes, and in the end, even if the devil is repulsed, his own troops will be exhausted, which is not cost-effective! Mr. Peng said worriedly.

The deputy chief of staff of the left said with a smile: "Don't fight, since the 7th Independent Brigade doesn't need our support, then they have full confidence that they can repel this encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army." That being said, we can't really stand still. ”

"Oh, what do you think, tell me about it?" Mr. Peng said.

"Although Ma Zheng doesn't need our reinforcements, we can fight our own. We can ask the 120th Division to send troops to attack the Japanese strongholds near Shuoxian or Datong, anyway, the 26th Division has just been severely damaged by Ma Zheng's headquarters, and it is a good opportunity to beat them. So we fight ours, and they fight theirs. As long as the battle on the southern side of Chanan is not going well, we can order the 120th Division to go north to meet them. The left deputy chief of staff said.

"It's a good idea, haha, they beat theirs, we beat ours, and that's it." Mr. Peng slapped the table and said.

Just when the Japanese army was actively preparing for war, all units of the 7th Brigade received a telegram from the brigade headquarters, asking them to distribute all the ammunition from their respective stations to the soldiers, and all the ammunition that could be taken away from the station was loaded into trucks, and those that could not be taken away were immediately dug and buried on the spot, ready to evacuate at any time.

On April 16, 1938, the intelligence department intercepted the Japanese telegram again, and the headquarters of the Mongolian army ordered 3,000 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade and 3,300 troops from the 1st Brigade of the Chinese Garrison to be divided into two routes, one route was Huai'an to the north through Tianzhen County, and launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army stationed in Sumu Mountain, and the other route was to start from Zhangjiakou, pass through Wanquan County and Chaigoubao to Xinghe County, and launch an attack on the Tuba Road entrenched on Daqing Mountain.

At the same time, the headquarters of the Mongolian army also ordered the 6th Cavalry Division of the puppet Mongolian Army stationed in Taifusi Banner, the 2nd Cavalry Division stationed in Duolun, and the 1st and 3rd Cavalry Divisions stationed in Guisui to immediately move closer to the front line of Jining and Xinghe, blocking the passage of Tubalu to flee north and westward.

Subsequently, Ma Zheng immediately issued a combat order: "The whole brigade is divided into two, the 200th Regiment, the 201st Regiment and the cavalry battalion and engineer battalion directly under the brigade headquarters are commanded by Yun Jian, and the 2nd Division and the 6th Division of the Puppet Mongolian Army in the north and Shangdu should fight in the south, while Ma Zheng is in command of the remaining two regiments and the guard battalion and artillery battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, bypassing Jining, preparing to ambush the 1st and 3rd divisions of the puppet Mongolian Army on the road between Guisui and Jining. ”

As for the places such as Yama Mountain and Daqingshan, which the Japanese army had fought hard for many times, Ma Zheng each left an infantry company as a cover, and it would be forgotten if the Japanese army did not attack, and if they attacked, these people would withdraw from the reserved rear road if they put up a little resistance.

This time, the Japanese army sent two infantry wings and four puppet cavalry divisions to encircle and suppress the Duqi Brigade, but Ma Zheng's main force fled far away to meet the four divisions of the puppet Mongolian army. But more importantly, because the puppet Mongol army is rich and has oil and water.

Don't look at the puppet Mongolian army as a puppet army, and it is not treated by devils, but to say that the level of wealth is not much worse than that of ordinary Japanese field troops.

This is not Ma Zheng's nonsense, you must know that this puppet Mongolian army is all cavalry troops, and the entire army is only more than 20,000 people, but there are 30,000 war horses. Moreover, because the old traitor Li Shouxin was one of the first traitors to follow the devil, earlier than the senior traitor Yin Rugeng who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, the Japanese army trusted this person very much.

The entire puppet Mongolian army was all equipped with Japanese-made 44-type cavalry guns, a large number of crooked light machine guns, and even a small number of submachine guns. In terms of firepower, it is second to none in the puppet army, much stronger than the ordinary puppet army, even the regular cavalry division of the national government is better than this puppet army.

In addition, Ma Zheng is still playing a bigger game of chess, if this game of chess is played well, then the big game of chess in the Suicha area will be alive.

Ma Zheng's eyes were not firmly fixed on such an acre and three points of land in Chanan, he had long coveted the entire Suicha area. Although Suiyuan Chahar is located in the northernmost part of China and has few poor people, its geographical location is extremely important, not only Ma Zheng knows it, but the Japanese army also knows it.

Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese army has been almost invincible. However, they underestimated the will of the Chinese to resist, so although the Japanese army achieved brilliant results and basically captured all the coastal cities of China in just half a year, the Japanese army also paid an extremely heavy price.

As the occupied areas expanded, the Japanese forces for the offensive became more and more overstretched. Out of the needs of the war, the base camp of the Japanese army was adjusted to the Japanese army invading China. On the North China side, the North China Front was formed, under the command of General Terauchi Shouichi. In the so-called "Manchurian-Mongolian region" in the middle of North China and Northeast China, special troops were also deployed to fill the gap between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, and at the same time to monitor Outer Mongolia, Ningxia, and Suiyuan.

On December 27, the twelfth year of Showa, it was officially decided to establish the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps, under the command of the emperor. The authority of its commander is the same as that of a corps commander. So far, Suiyuan Chahar and Rehe have become the world of the headquarters of this Mongolian corps.

However, the land of more than one million square kilometers in the Suicha area is equivalent to the size of three Japans, and the total number of troops stationed in Mongolia is only a few people, and the total strength of a division and a mixed brigade and miscellaneous troops is only more than 28,000 people, which is equivalent to a division of the first class in the Guannai. Such a large defense area and such a small number of troops formed a stark contrast, so the Japanese army had to form a puppet army on a large scale.

In order to let the dogs guard the "Manchurian and Mongolian areas", the Japanese army found Li Shouxin. Who is this Li Shouxin? In his early years, this person used the word "letter" as a name to gather bandits to harm the place, and became a notorious bandit leader in the Rehe area. Later, Zhang He, who served as the commander of the Rehe guerrilla horse team, was incorporated and served as the battalion commander and regiment commander.

Later, Zhang and the Feng Department were reorganized into the cavalry of the Northeast Frontier Army, and Li Shouxin was the head of the cavalry regiment, stationed in Kailu, Zhelimu League (now Tongliao, Inner Mongolia). Later, under the command of Zhang Shaoshuai, he suppressed the Gadamerin Uprising. 1 Later, Zhang was defeated by Song Zheyuan, and most of his troops were led by Li Shouxin, which was the capital of Li Shouxin's beginning.

In 1933, the Japanese army invaded Rehe, and Li Shouxin led his troops to surrender to the enemy. The 17th Brigade of the Northeast Army was reorganized into the "Xing'an West Garrison Army". Later, he was appointed by Tanaka Jiu, the head of the Japanese special service in Chifeng, as the "commander of the Rehe guerrilla division" and "the commander of the Chadong garrison", and was driven by the Japanese army to invade the Chahar area and fight against the anti-Japanese forces. Later, at the behest of the Japanese Kwantung Army, he participated in the puppet Mongolian military government headed by King De and served as the commander-in-chief of the puppet Mongolian army.

Since the establishment of the puppet Mongolian army, it was not the Japanese who really claimed hegemony in the vast steppe, but Li Shouxin and his puppet Mongolian army. Now Ma Zheng is also eyeing this vast grassland, and if he wants to gain a foothold in the grassland, he must deal with Li Shouxin and his pseudo-Mongol army.

This time, the Japanese army ordered the puppet Mongolian army to encircle and suppress the Seventh Brigade, which was an opportunity in Ma Zheng's view. As long as these puppet cavalry divisions are eliminated, and the remaining puppet army is no more than 10,000 people, then it will be much easier to do next.