[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 995: Yan Laoxi's shrewd little abacus (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The offensive and defensive battle of Zhangjiakou finally ended, and although it took only 20 days from the end of August to the middle of September, the entire offensive and defensive battle of Zhangjiakou was fought extremely fiercely, so that the limelight of the battle in other directions was completely overshadowed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this battle, the Japanese army was supported by the Ueda Division as the main defensive force, with nearly 20,000 Japanese young and middle-aged expatriates and more than 20,000 puppet troops, with a total strength of more than 60,000 people. Ma Zheng's headquarters directly dispatched 4 infantry divisions and many directly subordinate troops, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

In less than a month, the Japanese army in the direction of Zhangjiakou was almost completely annihilated, killing more than 35,000 Japanese soldiers, capturing more than 6,000 people, and capturing nearly 10,000 puppet troops, not counting the more than 10,000 puppet troops who came over the battlefield anyway.

What made Ma Zheng most happy was that after the offensive and defensive battles in Zhangjiakou, some of the new troops who had not been on the battlefield had also accumulated considerable combat experience, while the veteran units such as the Second Division had accumulated experience in large-scale offensive and defensive battles in the city, which laid the foundation for future expansion and development.

In addition, the actual benefits of taking Zhangjiakou City are also many, first of all, Ma Zheng's department captured two huge arsenals of the Japanese army, which is the general arsenal of all the arms hoarded by the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, and Ma Zheng was surprised by the variety and quantity of weapons and ammunition in them.

Coupled with all the weapons and ammunition of the Japanese puppet army captured this time, it was enough for Ma Zheng to arm all the recruits and divisions on the Zhangjiakou front, and there was even a large surplus. You must know that the captured Japanese equipment alone is enough to equip two full infantry divisions, and there is no need to use those two arsenals at all.

In addition, this time, Ma Zheng's headquarters also rescued more than 20,000 civilians who were arrested by the Japanese army to build city fortifications, of which the largest number was young and middle-aged, reaching more than 14,000 people.

For these people, Ma Zheng will not waste anything at all, and he sent these 20,000 people back to Shangyi, Zhangbei and Xinghe in the rear for recuperation and reorganization as soon as possible. If it weren't for the fact that these people had been treated and oppressed by the Japanese for a long time, and their bodies were extremely weak, Ma Zheng would really want to arm these tens of thousands of people on the spot.

In addition, Ma Zheng's department also captured nearly 2,000 Japanese women and children, because Zhangjiakou is an important city and advance base in northern China, so the Japanese army has long been aiming at Zhangjiakou, although it has changed hands several times, but the Japanese army's attention to here has never changed.

The last time Okamura Ningji used the whole of Shanxi to exchange Zhangjiakou from Ma Zheng's subordinates, although it was a big deal that lost money, but Okamura Ningji still ran Zhangjiakou with his heart, not only transferred the 10th Division with strong combat effectiveness to Zhangjiakou to take up defensive tasks, but also transferred thousands of Japanese expatriates and ronins to Zhangjiakou soon after the capture of Zhangjiakou, so as to enrich the pro-Japanese forces in the city.

These Japanese expatriates are usually civilians, but once the war is urgent, they will be immediately called up to participate in the battle, just like this war, the original Japanese garrison was less than 20,000, but with the addition of those armed expatriates, the number suddenly exceeded 40,000.

Even after Ma Zheng's department broke through Zhangjiakou City, there were even Japanese women with pistols to attack the soldiers of Ma Zheng's department, and many soldiers were caught off guard. Ma Zheng did not feel embarrassed about these Japanese women and children, and all of them were sent back to Jining along with the prisoners, and then they were detained in a centralized manner.

Ma Zheng did not participate in dealing with the aftermath, but ordered the troops to continue to attack southward, due to the lack of Zhangjiakou direction of the Japanese army, the front line of more than 100,000 troops can finally free their hands, under Ma Zheng's order, Yang Chengwu commanded the army to go straight to Beiping, this time Ma Zheng to completely take back this thousand-year-old city.

At the same time, under Ma Zheng's order, the Third Route Army, which was formed with the reorganized First Division as the main force, also began to exert its might. Under the command of the commander-in-chief, the troops of the three divisions set out from Daixian, passed through Guangling, Yuanyuan and other places, and went straight to Zhulu, seeing that the posture was to encircle Beiping with Yang Chengwu's headquarters.

Ma Zheng's department is like a tiger descending from the mountain, majestic in all directions. In addition, Okamura Ninji had also realized the seriousness of the matter and deliberately reduced his troops, so the army was progressing smoothly along the way, and almost all the Japanese puppet troops fled in despair.

It was not until October 1 that the army arrived at Zhulu County and the first line of Xiahuayuan, and the main force of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, the 8th and 17th Brigades of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and the more than 30,000 Japanese puppet troops who withdrew to Zhulu established a relatively stable defensive line, and formed a confrontation situation with the conversion of the department.

At the same time, the brilliant achievements of Ma Zheng's department completely stimulated Yan Laoxi in the Second War Zone and Wei Lihuang in the First War Zone, and the anxious Yan Xishan was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would occupy the entire Shanxi and Hebei, so he ignored Lao Jiang's opposition and directly sent 300,000 troops, almost all the troops in the Second War Zone were dispatched.

The 300,000 troops were divided into three routes, starting from Taiyuan and its surrounding counties and cities, and advancing in the southeast of Shanxi and southern Hebei. Yan Laoxi's idea was very simple, that is, to completely control the southeast of Jin in his own hands, and he must not be occupied by the Eighth Route Army like the northern and northwest Jin and Suiyuan regions.

At the same time, Yan Laoxi also fell in love with Hebei, and with the shrewdness of the old man, it was not difficult to see that the Japanese army in North China was already at the end of its strength. After the battle of Zhangjiakou under Ma Zheng's department, the main force of the North China Front was once again severely damaged, and the main force of the Japanese army has now gone south to compete with the United States and Britain and other countries for colonies in Southeast Asia, so it is impossible for too many reinforcements to arrive in North China, so it is the best opportunity to recover North China.

When the opportunity comes, you must not miss it, otherwise you will regret it, not to mention that now that the Eighth Route Army is taking the lead in the front, if he doesn't take the opportunity to grab some territory in the back, then he will not be Yan Laoxi.

What's more, if his Jin Sui army does not move, the entire Hebei will soon fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and this is definitely not something that Yan Laoxi can tolerate.

Although Hebei is not the territory of the Jin Suijun, and he Yan Xishan is not the king of Hebei, Shanxi is his territory. Yan Laoxi's wishful thinking was to exchange Hebei for Shanxi, which was also the best way for Yan Laoxi and his staff to come up with to recover northern Jin.

To tell the truth, Yan Laoxi has long been unaccustomed to the situation that the Eighth Route Army occupies Shanxi and does not leave, in his old man's heart, Shanxi is his Yan family, no one can touch it, and whoever dares to think crookedly will fight with whom.

But in recent years, the Eighth Route Army has developed too fast, especially Ma Zheng's department, whose strength has risen gradually, and the results are more terrifying than the other. It is as easy as eating tofu to completely annihilate the Devil Division, and Jin Suijun's family background is thin, and he really doesn't dare to show his teeth with Ma Zheng's department.

What's more, Ma Zheng's subordinates are also very good to him, and they have returned all of Taiyuan City to him twice, if he doesn't know what to do, it really can't be justified.

But the fact that the Eighth Route Army occupies the northern part of Shanxi is ironclad, so this old man is not happy, and he always thinks about how to drive the Eighth Route Army out of Shanxi, and he continues to be his king of Shanxi.

At this moment, his staff came up with a good idea, a note to exchange Hebei for Shanxi.

According to the ideas of his staff, as long as the main force of the Jin Sui army is dispatched, it will inevitably drive out all the little devils in the southeast of Jin in a very short period of time. Then the army will launch an attack to the east and south from the southeast of Jin and Shouyang, and then let the 39th Group Army in southern Hebei cooperate, and it will inevitably be able to take southern Hebei and even central Hebei in the shortest possible time.

Compared with the barren northern Shanxi, the geographical environment of southern Hebei and central Hebei is much better, and when the time comes, they can completely propose to exchange opinions with the Eighth Route Army, and I think the Eighth Route Army will not disagree. After all, exchanging half of Hebei for half of Shanxi is a good deal for the Eighth Route Army.

It was under the temptation of this idea that Yan Laoxi ignored Lao Jiang's opposition and went straight out.

In addition, even Wei Lihuang, who has always been known as a model general, completely gave up his plan to hold Zhongtiao Mountain, and ordered his 100,000 troops to move together and immediately launch an attack on the Japanese army in northern Henan, leaving only Hu Zongnan's subordinates, who were unwilling to send troops, to continue to hold on to Zhongtiao Mountain.

In addition, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also ordered the 129th, 115th, and 120th Divisions to immediately launch the last stop against the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in southern Hebei, and it was imperative to completely wipe out all the Japanese puppet troops in southern Hebei within a month, and form a consolidated anti-Japanese base area in southern Hebei.