[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 990: The City Breaks and Reinforcements No (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Lieutenant General Ueda was shocked and immediately urgently asked for help from the North China Front Headquarters, hoping that General Okamura Ninji would send one or two divisions of reinforcements to Zhangjiakou in a short period of time, otherwise Ueda's division would be wiped out from the battle sequence of the Imperial Army by the Eighth Route Army, and the Front Army would suffer heavy losses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After receiving the undisguised telegram asking for help from Ueda, Okamura Ninji was greatly frightened, and the Eighth Route Army launched a full-scale attack on North China from all directions, and hundreds of thousands of troops pressed the border to put tremendous pressure on the North China Front.

In addition, the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army, and local bandits also attacked the stronghold of the Japanese army in all directions, and the North China Front Army was already without troops at this time.

The strength of the front army has been scattered, and now Okamura Ninji has only one independent mixed brigade in his hands that can be mobilized, but compared to six or seven Chinese infantry divisions, an independent mixed brigade of six or seven thousand people will not play any role at all, and the dispatch is also to deliver food to Ma Zheng's headquarters.

Originally, in Okamura Ningji's view, the Eighth Route Army, especially the so-called Fourth Route Army under Ma Zheng's department, was just a joke for the Front Army, although the number of the Front Army had dropped to only more than 200,000 troops, but he knew very well that these more than 200,000 troops were not much worse than the previous more than 300,000 troops in terms of combat effectiveness, because in order to make up for the lack of strength of the North China Front, the empire specially transferred more than 10,000 veterans from the two guard divisions to supplement the North China Front.

In addition, the imperial base camp also transferred a large number of veterans from the Jiangnan Battlefield and the Kwantung Army to supplement the North China Front, so the proportion of veterans in the North China Front at this time was very high, although it was not as elite as when the war began, but compared with the North China Front a year ago, the North China Front at this time was much stronger.

Facts have proved that after the adjustment, the combat effectiveness of the front army has indeed increased significantly. The troops in eastern Hebei and southern Chanan also did show good results, about 80,000 Tuba roads in the eastern Hebei region were blocked on the outskirts of Tangshan and could not advance an inch, and the Ueda to the first division also fought very well in Zhangjiakou.

However, before Okamura Ninji could breathe, Lieutenant General Ueda, who had always been full of confidence, sent a telegram asking for help, and it was the kind of request for help that seemed to be dying, which made General Okamura Ninji feel breathless.

In desperation, Okamura had no choice but to send a report to the six generals of Yanjun in Nanjing, hoping that the general headquarters of the Chinese dispatch army could increase troops to North China as soon as possible, but the reply of the six generals of Yanjun made Okamura Ningji feel cold.

At present, not only the North China region is short of troops, but the entire Chinese battlefield is full of troops, whether it is the North China Front Army, the 21st Army, and the 11th Army, the strength is all stretched, and there are still troops to reinforce the North China Front.

However, the Japanese army in the Zhangjiakou area still had to be rescued, otherwise an integrated division and tens of thousands of expatriates would soon fall into the hands of Ma Zheng's department, which was not a trivial matter, and he Okamura Ninji could not afford and did not want to bear this responsibility.

Therefore, Okamura Ninji immediately sent a harshly worded telegram to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, ordering the First Army to immediately organize a powerful part of the army to go north to rescue the Ueda Division that was besieged in Zhangjiakou.

Yoshio Shinozuka also had a very difficult time during this time, since he was driven out of Shanxi by the Second War Zone and Ma Zheng's subordinates, the First Army has become the laughing stock of the entire Japanese army invading China. Moreover, after the loss of Shanxi, the First Army withdrew into the hinterland of Henan, and the living space suddenly became smaller, although Shinozuka Yoshio also tried to change this situation, and launched a local battle to recover part of the territory in the southeast of Shanxi, but it was still unable to restore the battlefield form to the state of half a year ago.

This time, Ma Zheng's department set off this big war in the entire North China region, and Shinozuka Yoshio's department can be said to be the most relaxed, he only has to face tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army in southeast Shanxi and tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers in the First War Zone, and there is almost no need to fight to the death with the elite of Ma Zheng's department.

However, this does not mean that the life of Shinozuka Yoshio is better, in the entire northern Henan and southeastern Jin regions, in addition to more than 100,000 central troops, there are more than 200,000 Jin Sui troops and an unknown number of Eighth Route Army, while his first army has only three infantry divisions and two independent mixed brigades and more than 60,000 people, even if you add the independent garrison brigades and imperial army from all over Henan, there are only less than 120,000 people, but they have to deal with at least 400,000 enemy troops, and the difference in strength is nearly 300,000, so every step is very careful.

After receiving the telegram from Okamura Ningji, Yoshio Shinozuka could only smile bitterly and nodded, now Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang's troops have put their bayonets on the throat of the First Army, and Wei Lihuang's troops are even more directed at Kaifeng, and now all the troops in northern Henan are less than 60,000 people, and there are still some deficiencies to resist, let alone send troops to rescue Zhangjiakou.

However, the orders of the front army headquarters cannot be disobeyed, and in a hierarchical society like Japan, disobedience to the orders of superiors is punishable for any reason, even if your boss is himself wrong.

In desperation, Yoshio Shinozuka decided to send Lieutenant General Anda 23 to command the main force of the 37th Division and Major General Wakamatsu Heiji's independent mixed 16th Brigade to immediately set off from northern Henan and go north to rescue the Ueda Division, and at the same time call back to Okamura Ninji, hoping that the Ueda Division would be ready to break through at any time.

Although the front army headquarters agreed to send reinforcements, in order not to attract the attention of Ma Zheng's department, Ueda still did not dare to make any changes.

In order to hide the true intention of the battle, Ueda's department also showed a posture of coexistence with Zhangjiakou City. However, he did not expect that all the actions of the 23rd Anda Department were under the supervision of Ma Zheng's Department, and even the telegram sent to him by Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army was deciphered by Xu Xiaolin's intelligence department.

Under the blow of Ma Zheng's department, the two defense lines north of Zhangjiakou City have been crumbling, and the fortifications have been completely destroyed by the unconscionable artillery, and the two infantry wings not only have not been replenished with ammunition, but even the food has been eaten, although the white flag has not yet been raised to surrender to the Eighth Route Army, but the morale is extremely low.

Knowing that the Ueda division was preparing to escape, Ma Zheng immediately made a decision and ordered a puppet army commander lurking in Datong City to open the city gate overnight, and the 80,000 army suddenly launched an attack, breaking through the south gate of Zhangjiakou within half an hour, and then the main force entered the city and launched a tragic hand-to-hand battle with the Ueda division.

At the same time, a team of special combat personnel lurking in the city penetrated into the dungeon where the Ueda Division was holding laborers, and this was the Chinese common people arrested by Ueda Zhiichi for the purpose of building the fortifications of Zhangjiakou City, all of whom were young and middle-aged, numbering more than 20,000 people.

After the special combat team quietly wiped out the guards, all the 20,000 miners were released, and the oppressed and hated miners did not need anyone to organize at all, and an armed force armed with improvised weapons such as wooden sticks and shovels appeared in Zhangjiakou City, and under the guidance of people with good intentions, they attacked the Japanese overseas Chinese residential area west of Zhangjiakou Bridge, and soon grabbed some weapons and ammunition, and a larger scale of destruction was carried out in Zhangjiakou City.

On the other hand, under the sudden blow of Ma Zheng's division, the already crumbling Ueda division continued to retreat again, and by dawn, Ma Zheng's division had already controlled most of the urban area, and Ueda was compressed to a radius of less than ten miles from the city center with more than 10,000 people, holding the city government, the main train station, the barracks and other important places to stubbornly resist.

After receiving the news that Ma Zheng's headquarters had attacked Zhangjiakou City, Shinozuka Yoshio ordered Lieutenant General Anda 23 to speed up the march and be sure to rush to Zhangjiakou within two days to rescue Ueda's headquarters.

However, Lieutenant General Anda 23 regretfully told Yoshio Shinozuka that the 37th Infantry Division was stubbornly blocked by Gao Shuxun's troops in southern Hebei, and the speed of the troops' march was very slow, and it was no longer possible to reach Zhangjiakou in a short time, unless the front army headquarters could defeat the Kuomintang 39th Group Army in southern Hebei and Ma Zheng's headquarters stationed at the division gate in a short period of time, otherwise the reinforcements would definitely not be able to reach Zhangjiakou in a short time.