[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Resistance] Chapter 489: Shandong Independent Brigade (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly tickets, ask for everything!) ）

On July 27, more than 1,000 people from the 41st Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Liaocheng finally arrived at Yanggu County.

The news soon reached Ma Zheng's ears, and Ma Zheng scolded Wang Dechuan and others with some annoyance: "His grandmother's, what is this doing?" Everything was done extremely tightly, but it was disturbed by Ampere, a little devil, which is really unlucky. ”

"Big boss, now that we can say that it has been exposed, I think it won't be long before the little devils will send troops to sweep us. At that time, it will be impossible for us to hide again, you must know that we are not about 200 people when we first came, not counting our intelligence department, the regular troops in our hands alone have exceeded 6,700 people, and this is not counting the strength of Xie Wensheng and Xu Weiguo. ”

"It is unrealistic for such a huge force to be transferred on the spot, after all, the current situation in Shandong is still strong and we are weak, and the gap between the two sides is still extremely large. If we are targeted by the main force of the Japanese army, we will not have a good time in the future! Wang Dechuan said worriedly.

Ma Zheng smiled: "It's okay, don't worry!" Not so bad yet! Although the devil is strong, we are not dry food. The old devil of Ozaka Kamizo has more than 100,000 Japanese puppet troops in his hands, but in fact, it is only those field divisions that have combat effectiveness. As for the newly transferred independent mixed brigades, the combat effectiveness is there, but it is very limited. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Let's take the 10th mixed brigade in Liaocheng as an example, this infantry brigade has 5 infantry brigades, but only one or two infantry brigades are composed of veterans, which is still a bit of combat effectiveness, and the other infantry brigades are all led by An Pei Ichiro, as long as we arrange it well, it is not impossible to quickly open up the situation in the Liaocheng area." ”

"What, does the big boss want to have a fight with the little devil?" Wang Dechuan asked in surprise.

"I haven't thought about it, I'll have to think about it carefully. Since the little devil is not completely coming at us this time, let's wait and see what happens! Ma Zheng said.

Ma Zheng has his own considerations, now there are more than 6,000 people gathered on Jingyang Gang, which is already an extremely large team, although Shandong has been a place where there are many bandits since ancient times, but it is still rare to be able to gather more than 6,000 bandits. So it's not a way to go on like this, even if Ampeiichiro doesn't come to beat him now, Ma Zheng feels that the bandits have come to an end.

In addition, a few days ago, Xie Wensheng and Xu Weiguo both sent telegrams to briefly report their respective situations to Ma Zheng. Although none of them had the luck of Ma Zheng, their respective development was very good, and Xie Wensheng now had five fully equipped infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion and a strong guard company, with a total strength of more than 2,300 people.

As for Xu Weiguo, it was a little worse, but the unit was also expanded to three infantry battalions, a machine gun battalion, and a guard company, with a total strength of more than 1,800 people. If these troops are counted, Ma Zheng now has more than 10,000 troops in his hands, about ten times more than when he first came to Shandong, and now it is less than two months since he left the Suicha Military Region and went south.

In just two months, Ma Zheng was able to achieve such results, which was completely beyond Ma Zheng's own expectations. There are some adventures on my side, and it is nothing to be able to pull up a force of more than 6,000 people in a short period of time. But Xie Wensheng and Xu Weiguo can also achieve such a lot of results in such a short period of time, which is indeed beyond Ma Zheng's expectations.

With more than 10,000 people, Ma Zheng believes that he has enough capital to gain a foothold in Shandong. Moreover, Shandong and Suicha are simply two different concepts, unlike the emptiness and loneliness of Saibei, Shandong has been a densely populated province since ancient times. Moreover, the folk customs in Shandong have not been known for their weakness since ancient times, whether it is the one hundred and eight generals of Shuibo Liangshan who are famous all over the world or the Boxers who terrify foreigners, they all originated in Shandong.

It can be said that what Shandong lacks now is a correct guidance, and as long as there are people who dare to stand up and resist at the first time, and have enough correct theories and achievements that can move people's hearts, then Shandong's anti-Japanese situation will inevitably show a trend of burning the prairies.

The current situation is imminent, so Ma Zheng does not dare to be careless. In order to ensure the victory of this counter-sweep, Ma Zheng ordered Xie Wensheng and Xu Weiguo, as well as the small troops scattered in other places, to immediately assemble in secret.

At the same time, Ma Zheng summoned all the officers and soldiers and disclosed the identity of their Eighth Route Army, but the fact that he was Ma Zheng was still a secret.

The most surprised was Lu Guoqiang, during this time, he and his people were concentrated in the back mountains for basic training, so they had not had time to verify the true identity of Ma Zheng and others. However, he already had this premonition during the training, after all, the reorganization of the team of the Kang Da master is too distinctive, regiments, battalions, companies, and squads, these are all standard troop formations, and there is no need for simple bandits to be so meticulous!

Besides, the content of their training these days, queues, fighting, and shooting, which one is not carried out according to the training content of the regular troops, and in terms of training intensity, it is even much stronger than the average regular troops.

From that time on, Lu Guoqiang had a hunch that this team was not bandits at all, but he didn't know whether the surname was the republic or the country, and if it was the country, it would be troublesome.

Today, the answer is finally revealed, the surname is Gong, which makes Lu Guoqiang breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the surname is Gong. Otherwise, if he joins this army, he would be a traitor, and now the problem is finally solved.

Although he didn't know where the sudden appearance of the Eighth Route Army came from, Commander Kang did not explain, but only promoted him directly from an ordinary soldier to the commander of a regiment and a battalion.

At the same time, Ma Zheng renamed the troops on Jingyang Gang as the Shandong Independent Brigade, and the brigade commander was temporarily served by himself. The independent brigade has three infantry regiments and a special operations brigade.

To tell the truth, Ma Zheng has high expectations for this newly established Shandong Independent Brigade, and if nothing else, the composition of this independent brigade makes Ma Zheng very excited. The vast majority of the fighters in the Independent Brigade were strong men with long-term martial arts training, and although these people were very good at guns, they were very good at hand-to-hand combat.

After this period of training, Ma Zheng believed that with the strength of these people, even the elite field troops of the Japanese army could not compete with them. But with the same strength, it was more than enough to fight against the second-line garrison of the Japanese army.

You must know that the current Japan is not the Japan of two years ago, although in the past two years, the Japanese army has snatched a lot of resources from China, whether it is gold, silver, coal, iron, grain, livestock, or even labor.

However, on the whole, Japan's profits from this war were not as rich as expected, and it could even be said that it was a loss-making deal. As the war gradually fell into a stalemate, Japan's economy began to decline seriously, and even the national economy experienced a rapid recession.

The most serious thing was the massive attrition of veterans, which seriously reduced the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. 1939 was a dividing line, and the Japanese army before 39 years was generally relatively strong in combat, and it was difficult for the Chinese to win favor with the Japanese in a one-on-one situation. Especially at the beginning of the war in 37, there was even a large Japanese army on the battlefield that could easily defeat a Chinese infantry division of seven or eight thousand people, which shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is.

However, after 39 years, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has generally declined sharply, and in addition to the important factor of the decline of Japan's national strength, a very important point is that due to the stubborn resistance of the Chinese, especially several large-scale battles organized by the National Government, the effective forces of the Japanese army have caused huge casualties, and the direct result is that the number of veterans of the Japanese army has dropped rapidly. (To be continued.) )