[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 328: Planning Suixi (Ask for subscription, ask for a monthly pass!) ）

On December 4, 1938, Ma Zheng's headquarters held a military conference in Guisui again, and this time there were not many officers attending the meeting, except for the officers left behind by the military region headquarters, only the two main commanders of the cavalry group attended the meeting, and the military and political cadres of the 7th Division and the 92nd Division did not attend.

At the meeting, Ma Zheng first read out the latest decision of the military region headquarters: In view of the fact that the miners who had been rescued from Datong had been almost trained, the military region headquarters had studied and decided that the military region's guard brigade would be divided into two, with the guard regiment as the backbone to form a new guard brigade, with three infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of the brigade, supplemented by one regiment each of cavalry, artillery, engineers, and guards, with a total strength of 13,600 troops.

In addition, an independent brigade was formed with the former independent regiment of the guard brigade as the backbone, and the establishment was the same as that of the guard brigade, with a total strength of more than 13,000 troops. Xing Chao served as the brigade commander of the newly formed guard brigade, and Xu Hu, the former commander of the guard brigade, was transferred to the post of commander of the independent brigade.

In addition to the guard brigade, the cavalry regiment, artillery regiment, engineer regiment, special operations brigade, and transport brigade directly under the former military region have all received orders to expand the cavalry regiment directly under the military region, the artillery regiment and the engineer regiment have also been expanded into brigade-level military units, and even the transport brigade, which was originally only at the battalion level, has been expanded into the transport corps of the Suicha Military Region, and the level is impressively brigade-level.

As a result of the expansion, the Suicha Military Region has incorporated 40,000 new recruits into various units, and its headquarters has also been expanded to two infantry divisions, plus a cavalry group, and five brigades in a huge attack cluster, thus further enhancing the combat capability of the troops.

In fact, according to Ma Zheng's intentions, he didn't want to reorganize it like this, and his original intention was to directly use the guard brigade as the backbone to expand into two divisions, but he was opposed by Yun Jian. Yun Jian believes that the qualifications of all military and political cadres in the Suicha Military Region are still too shallow, and if the troops are directly expanded into divisions, people like Xing Chao, Xu Hu, and others should be promoted to division commanders or division political commissars. However, they have been in the army for a very short time, and none of them are party members, so they will inevitably have opinions on the expansion plan of the military region.

Therefore, the safest way is to expand according to the divisional level, but the number of the unit remains as a brigade, so two infantry brigades of more than 13,000 people were produced.

In addition to the expansion of the troops, the most important task of this military conference was to discuss the plan for the Suixi campaign. After discussion, it was decided that the independent brigade, cavalry brigade, and cavalry group directly under the military region would take over the main attack in the Suixi Campaign, and the 7th and 92nd Divisions would remain in their respective defense areas and would not be used.

The specific battle plan was to first have the cavalry brigade directly under the military region run long distances to attack the Bailing Temple north of Baotou, force the Japanese troops in Baotou City to go out of the city to reinforce and weaken the strength of the defenders in the city.

At the same time, the cavalry group all moved south from Guisui to the Yikezhao League, and attacked the Jungger Banner first. Then he used the speed advantage of the cavalry to attack Dongsheng, Wushen Banner and Etuoke Banner for a long time, and finally attacked Hangjin Banner and won the entire Yike Zhao League.

The independent brigade directly under the military region made a breakthrough in the north and south after making a breakthrough in the middle of the road, dispatched troops to the right banner of Tumut, and then approached Baotou. In order to ensure the smooth capture of Baotou City, Ma Zheng also ordered the Military Intelligence Department to immediately send agents to work on the puppet army in Baotou City, hoping that they would be able to revolt on the battlefield.

Ma Zheng believed that those puppet army officers were not fools, and now the Japanese army in Suixi was already grasshoppers after the autumn. If they don't know the current affairs, they will only have one end, and that is to accompany the Japanese army to the funeral. It is believed that these puppet soldiers do not have such loyalty and blood. If they had, they wouldn't have been puppet soldiers in the first place.

After the order was issued, the war machine of the Suicha Military Region once again began to operate at high speed, with troops gathering and distributing ammunition at a dizzying speed.

Linfen. Temporary residence of the Headquarters of the Second World War Zone.

At noon, a car with a license plate from the Governor's Department of the Second World War Zone drove to the front of the Yan Mansion at a very fast speed. Then a colonel jumped from above and walked towards the mansion.

"Stop, who's who?" Although the colonel was wearing the uniform of the Jin Sui Army, the guards outside the Yan Mansion still stopped him.

"I'm a person from the military intelligence department in the theater, and now I have an urgent military situation to report to the commander. Tell me about it right away. The colonel exclaimed.

"Then sir, wait a minute, we'll report now!" After saying that, one of the guards walked towards the mansion, while the other continued to guard the gate.

Soon, the guard who had gone in to ask for instructions came out and said, "Sir, please marshal, please come in!" ”

Yan Xishan's life during this period was very difficult, because of the unexpected appearance of Ma Zheng's department, the anti-Japanese situation was much better than in history. This would have been a good thing, after all, there is such a powerful ally on the side to help you distract the enemy's attention and firepower, why not!

In fact, it is true that since the appearance of Ma Zheng's headquarters, the Japanese attack on Shanxi has slowed down. Even after the Battle of Taiyuan, the Japanese army did not organize another decent offensive at all, but began to shrink the defense area with the continuous attacks of Ma Zheng's headquarters.

This was originally a good thing, but a year later, when Yan Laoxi came back to his senses, he found that although the Japanese no longer attacked his troops, his territory in Yan Xishan had not expanded, but the Eighth Route Army was thriving on his territory. The current situation is that the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army occupies more than 10 counties in the northwest of Shanxi, the 129th Division occupies several counties in the southeast of Shanxi, and the 115th Division has established the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in the eastern and western areas of Shanxi, while the most powerful unit of the Eighth Route Army, Ma Zheng, simply occupies the entire Suidong.

This made Yan Laoxi extremely dissatisfied, he had always regarded himself as the king of Shanxi at this time, he felt that he was a joke, compared to the Eighth Route Army, he was nothing as the king of Shanxi, the general territory was controlled by the Eighth Route Army, and it would be okay if it continued like this. Therefore, Yan Laoxi attracted the attention of the Eighth Route Army some time ago and tried to wrestle with the Eighth Route Army.

As a result, he was still a little worried about Ma Zheng's department, after all, this army was a strong army that was famous overseas. And Ma Zheng's guy is a famous madman, and even Terauchi Shouichi, Okamura Ningji and others can't do anything about him, it's just a bastard, if you annoy this guy, you are likely to be attacked by Ma Zheng's department.

In order to find out the reality of Ma Zheng's department, Yan Laoxi asked Yang Aiyuan to lead the team to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Suicha Military Region in the name of exchange and study. After two years of development, the Eighth Route Army is no longer the army called Huazi two years ago.

If the Eighth Route Army was still like what he saw in Jinxi two years ago, Yan Laoxi felt that he could completely wrestle with the Eighth Route Army, and there was a high probability of victory. But when Yang Aiyuan reported what he had seen and heard to Yan Laoxi, the king of Shanxi was silent.

Within two days, a small-scale battle was organized, more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops were eliminated, the important town of Datong was captured, and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were captured. Moreover, in Yang Aiyuan's report, it was specifically pointed out that Ma Zheng's department not only had artillery, engineers, and cavalry, but also a small unit that was extremely powerful. In Yang Aiyuan's original words, fighting with such a force is simply a nightmare.

After seeing the strength of the Eighth Route Army, Yan Laoxi finally quieted down, such an opponent is too strong, he can't fight or scold, and he has to provide for it well.

However, Yan Laoxi still can't let go of his heart, after all, Shanxi is the territory of his old Yan family, the Japanese came to grab land with him, and he came to grab land with him, and now the Eighth Route Army also wants to bite him, Yan Laoxi suddenly has a feeling of baby grievance.

Sometimes Yan Laoxi also wondered if the situation would be better if he had agreed to the conditions of his old classmate Itagaki Seishiro, but when he turned his head and thought about Ma Liang in Shandong, Qi Kuiyuan in North China and others, this idea was quickly dispelled. A traitor is a lifelong thing, even if he dies in the future, the Chinese will point to the grave and scold the traitor, and it is best not to touch the red line.

However, thinking of his current situation of having wolves and tigers in front of him, Yan Xishan couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep well, and his brain hurt badly. No, I just got home, and before I had time to eat, I hurriedly fell asleep and prepared to take a nap, and I was woken up again as soon as I closed my eyes. (To be continued.) )