[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 471: Jingyang Gang Falling Grass (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Ma Zheng did not order the troops to start work in the past few days, he knew that the matter of the war was urgent, and he had to plan and then move, either find a small hill or an old forest to rest in peace, or kill with one blow.

Therefore, these **** will release almost all the soldiers of the special combat team, so that they can familiarize themselves with the terrain of the Yanggu area, after all, they will have to mix in this area in the future, and it is not the style of the Eighth Route Army to be unfamiliar with the terrain. At the same time, Ma Zheng also gave an order to the special combat troops, ordering them to visit some places where the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and to see if they can be used as base areas.

Of course, Ma Zheng himself was not idle, and personally took the two team members into the city with makeup. He had to see with his own eyes the level of the local county seat in Shandong, not only the garrison of the Japanese army, but also the living standards of the people in the county town and the level of local economic development.

After reading it, Ma Zheng was very satisfied, worthy of being a coastal province, even if Shandong was not rich at this time, it was far worse than Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but compared to the two remote provinces of Suiyuan and Chahar, the situation in Shandong was much better. Yanggu County alone has a population of nearly 400,000, which is almost equivalent to the total population of Guisui City, and none of the more than 40 counties and districts occupied by the Suicha Military Region can be compared with Yanggu in terms of population.

In terms of the level of economic development, Yanggu and other places are obviously not comparable to the Suicha Military Region, and every broken county town is full of shops, which is not much worse than the big cities of Suiyuan and Baotou, and if they can gain a firm foothold in Shandong, they will indeed have a lot to do.

However, the situation of the soldiers who came back from reconnaissance was not optimistic, although Yanggu County has mountains and rivers, and the terrain is also complicated, but it is definitely not the slightest bit of danger. Although the mountain is called a mountain, it is actually a small dirt bag, not even a hill. There is only one place that barely meets Ma Zheng's requirements, and that is the famous Jingyanggang.

That's right, it's the Jingyanggang where Wu Erlang fought the tiger. Jingyanggang is located in the territory of Zhangqiu Town, 16 kilometers east of Yanggu County, which is said to be the place where Wu Song fights the tiger described in the "Water Margin", with a total area of 33.3 hectares.

The sand dunes on Jingyanggang are undulating, the grass is overgrown, and the trees cover the sun, which is a wilderness scene. There are still some remnants of historical relics on the gang, such as the three bowls of the Ganggang Hotel, the villagers' notice office, the county government notice office, the mountain temple, the Wusong Tiger Fighting Place, the stone stele, the Tiger Roaring Pavilion, the Wusong Temple, the island in the middle of the lake, the Diaoyutai and so on. However, most of the places have been completely abandoned due to lack of care, and even become mass graves of local people.

Later, Ma Zheng personally led people to this prestigious hill for a field investigation, and found that the situation was not bad, there were mountains and rivers, and the area was large enough. Even if the terrain is not as dangerous as Hades Mountain and Daqing Mountain, it is enough as a temporary station.

What makes Ma Zheng happiest is that there is a mountain temple on Jingyang Gang, which has a history of more than 200 years. Although it is in tatters, the basic framework is still there, and it can be used as a headquarters with a little rest.

It's no wonder that Ma Zheng is so happy, you must know that his identity at this time is the leader of this gang of bandits, since he has decided to occupy the mountain as the king, then there must be a cottage! Otherwise, it will be difficult to hide it from the Japanese. Now that there is a ready-made mountain temple, as long as you pick up and pick up, you can transform it into a big cottage on Jingyang Gang, and you can erect a pole to occupy the mountain as the king.

On July 21, Ma Zheng led his troops to Jingyanggang, and a bandit named Luxi finally showed its fangs.

Different from the prosperity and bustle of Jingyanggang in later generations, Jingyanggang at this time was a barren hill, except for the homeless thieves and farmers who went up the mountain to cut wood, almost no one was willing to come here. And those mountain temples are not as majestic and beautiful as those repaired in later generations, only three civil engineering buildings built on an earthen platform more than 30 meters long, 256 meters wide, and 45 meters high.

The mountain temple sits in the north and faces south, the blue bricks and gray tiles are dilapidated, and the middle one is even the girder collapsed, and a clay statue is broken. This ancient temple is like a wise man who has been silent for a thousand years=, watching the changes in the world with cold eyes.

The room on the left has a statue of Wu Song fighting a tiger, but the statue of the god at this time is also dilapidated, not only Wu Song is missing arms and legs, but even the tiger under him is also missing most of his body.

Moreover, the entire mountain temple has no doors or windows, and even the top of the main hall is naked, and when the wind blows, a large pile of wind and sand mixed with mud falls, and the scene is extremely miserable.

After going up the mountain, Ma Zheng ordered people to clean up the dilapidated mountain temple, and Ma Zheng's department officially erected the banner of Jingyanggang Cottage. Of course, before erecting the bandit flag, Ma Zheng sent people to rectify the defense situation of Jingyanggang, although it cannot be said that this place has become impregnable, but at least it will not be as easy to go up the mountain as before.

Then Ma Zheng reorganized the more than 300 bandits and the Eighth Route captured along the way, of course, before the reorganization, he still clarified the true identity of their army, otherwise those Eighth Route Army would not follow them. It's just that Ma Zheng didn't explain his true identity and information to those people, so these bandits and the prisoners of the Eighth Route Army didn't know that they were following the famous Ma Zheng to fight devils.

However, everyone has different opinions about how to fight devils, and Xu Haifeng and others felt that they should not fight with the little devils so early after learning about the situation in Yanggu County. Because the geographical location of Yanggu County is relatively important, close to Liaocheng, the economy is relatively developed, plus there are certain mineral resources, and since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yanggu and Shen County are the forefront of the anti-Japanese battlefield, so the Japanese army attaches great importance to the defense here.

The emphasis is mainly reflected in two aspects, on the one hand, the number of garrisons is larger than in other places. You must know that even in some large counties in North China, the Japanese garrison generally does not exceed 500 people, but the Japanese army stationed more than 1,000 people in Yanggu County, which shows that the Japanese army attaches great importance to Yanggu County. On the other hand, in terms of the quality of soldiers, the 39th Independent Brigade Division 10th Mixed Brigade is the strongest combat force, which can be said to be the essence of the 10th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army.

Because of this, Xu Haifeng and the others felt that they should not deal with the little devils before their strength was insufficient, these more than a thousand devil soldiers were not afraid, and it was naturally not a problem to destroy them with their combat strength. However, once the battle begins, it will attract the attention of the Japanese army, and you must know that in several counties near Liaocheng, the Japanese army still has five or six thousand soldiers, and if you add the puppet army that cooperates with the battle, the strength of the army is at least 10,000.

On the other hand, the strength of Ma Zheng's subordinates adds up to 1,500 people, not to mention that these 1,500 people are now scattered in three counties, and once they attract the attention of the Japanese army, the consequences will be unimaginable.

According to the suggestion of Xu Haifeng and others, they wanted to find a breakthrough from the bandits first, just like when they were in Chanan, they used the strategy of attacking the bandit cottage to expand the troops, and after the overall strength of the troops grew, they were fighting devils.

But Ma Zheng thought about it but felt that it was not feasible, mainly because the situation in Shandong and Chanan was not very different, in Chanan, the Japanese ruling force was still very weak at that time, although the Japanese army occupied the county seat, but the soldiers were small and the front was long, and the whip was beyond the reach of the vast rural areas, so the local people and bandits did not have much resistance to the Japanese army, so the common people were still ordinary people, and bandits were still bandits.

However, Shandong is a key area under the rule of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is extremely strict in its rule, which also arouses the resistance of the common people here. So don't look at the many bandits in Luxi, but more than half of the bandits are actually composed of the Kuomintang defeated army.

Since it is an anti-Japanese team, they can't deal with them like ordinary bandits, so for Xu Haifeng and others' proposal, Ma Zheng thought about it and vetoed it, and they had to make another breakthrough. Fortunately, at this moment, Wang De sent a good news, and after reading it, Ma Zheng was immediately happy, and he had nowhere to find it when he stepped on the iron shoes, so he didn't have to work hard to get it, so he beat him! (To be continued.) )