[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 540: The Beginning of the War (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The battle on the southern side of Hebei finally began, and in order to mobilize the Japanese army to a greater extent, Ma Zheng also ordered those troops of the Suicha Military Region to also start moving. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoJust like Ma Zheng reported to the Party Central Committee, he wants to return a clear sky to the people of North China.

Ma Zheng's troops moved extremely quickly, and they did not give the Japanese army time to react at all. What he wants is lightning speed, and what he wants is to beat the little devil to death and beat him to death.

On August 28, Liang Shangren's brigade uprooted all the devil strongholds except for the county seat of Daimyo, and at the same time routed the reinforcements of an infantry brigade of the Japanese army in the stronghold of Sungandian.

On the same day, the county seat of Guangping County was broken by the Second Brigade, and a total of more than 400 devils of an infantry squadron and a cavalry squadron of the Japanese army were all killed.

On August 29, the Third Brigade fought an ambush at Shuangmiao in the west of Wei County, surrounded and sent reinforcements to eliminate the main force of the Japanese army in Wei County, and then knocked down the county seat of Wei County that night, eliminating more than 800 Japanese puppet troops, and at the same time killing 23 officers under Tian Shun Dazuo, the commander of the Japanese garrison wing in southern Hebei, including 1 Dazuo, 2 Zhongzuo, 2 Shaozuo, and 18 Wei-level officers. A large number of munitions hoarded by the Japanese army in Wei County were captured, including 300 rounds of poison gas bombs newly developed by the Japanese army.

On the afternoon of August 29, 11 guerrilla units of two infantry regiments under Chen Guangsuo, totaling more than 6,000 people, completed the final encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese puppet army in Linzhang.

On the same day, the independent regiment of the independent division arrived in Feixiang, but unfortunately the task of capturing Feixiang failed due to an accident. Although the independent regiment did not take Feixiang County, it unexpectedly wiped out the main force of the Japanese puppet army in Cheng'an County at the junction of the two counties. Because of this, the purpose of the independent regiment's trip was exposed, and the Japanese puppet army in Feixiang noticed the abnormality.

Despite this, the gains of the independent regiment were not small, and an infantry regiment actually annihilated an infantry squadron of the Japanese puppet army and two puppet infantry regiments on the spot, and the combat effectiveness was not to be said.

Ma Zheng was also not hypocritical, and ordered all the weapons and equipment captured by the troops to be immediately equipped with all units, and those who lacked soldiers immediately incorporated those puppet army prisoners who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time the army continued to attack forward, forming a situation of encirclement of Feixiang County.

The actions of Ma Zheng's headquarters greatly angered the senior generals of the North China Front Headquarters, and even General Sugiyama Moto, who had always been moody, slapped the table and scolded "Baga Yalu". But anger is anger, and he can't turn a blind eye to such things.

Although there have been rumors in the country that the base camp intends to let Tada Jun's tyrannical guy take over as the North China Front, he is still the commander of the North China Front before the final order reaches his hands, and he needs to be responsible for any big or small things that happen here. Just like the current chaos in southern Hebei, once the base camp is investigated, the first unlucky person is him, the commander of the North China Front.

In desperation, General Sugiyama Mototo had no choice but to order Major General Tokugawa Yasuichi, commander of the Japanese garrison headquarters in Handan, to send a large army to quell the chaos and be sure to wipe out these suddenly popped up dirt eight roads.

General Sugiyama Yuan's idea is very natural, but in fact, he underestimates the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, how can Ma Zheng casually send a major general brigade commander to **** over.

After receiving the news that the Japanese reinforcements had set out from Handan, Ma Zheng immediately sent a telegram to the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, requesting Yang Xiufeng to immediately mobilize all the guerrillas and even militia of the Eighth Route Army to carry out guerrilla warfare, sabotage warfare, sparrow warfare, harassment warfare, and all other tactics that could benefit the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, so as to slow down the march of the enemy's reinforcements.

Although many of these tactics proposed by Ma Zheng were unheard of, Yang Xiufeng still decided to support them, and the effect was very obvious. The Japanese army, who originally planned to take the train, had to break down when it marched less than 10 kilometers north of Handan, because all the railways and bridges from Handan to Feixiang County were all blown up by the cunning Eighth Route Army.

The tactics of the Eighth Route Army not only greatly slowed down the Japanese army's marching speed, but also dealt a great blow to the morale of the Japanese army. And although marching on foot is one of the courses that the army must learn, it is the most exhausting.

A short march is nothing, if you march in a hurry under the condition of being endlessly harassed and attacked, or even watch your teammates die one by one, as long as you are alive, you will have a sense of fear, and you will subconsciously think that the next person to die will be himself.

However, the Japanese army's will to fight was still very tenacious, and the Japanese soldiers armed with the spirit of bushido were indeed not comparable to the Chinese who went to the battlefield with their enthusiasm alone. As soon as the order from above came, no matter how much wind and rain were blocked on the road ahead, the Japanese soldiers would still catch up.

The effect of the endless harassment and sabotage of the troops of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office was very obvious, but it also angered the Japanese puppet army to a certain extent, and the Japanese army began to use bayonets to force the puppet army to walk in front as cannon fodder to open the way for the little devils.

The Eighth Route Army showed no mercy to the puppet army who cowered and walked at the front of the team. There is an essential difference from the puppet army in other places, and the vast majority of the soldiers of the puppet North China Security Army did not become traitors of the puppet army because they could not survive, but automatically went from being the minions of the Japanese army for their own interests.

After the establishment of the puppet North China Public Security Army, it pointed the spearhead at the Eighth Route Army and the patriotic people who resolutely resisted Japan. Not only did they vigorously carry out the orders of the Japanese North China Front Command, but they also actively carried out the "campaign to strengthen public order," constantly "crusaded," "swept up," burned, killed, looted, and wantonly arrested anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.

Therefore, when Ma Zheng dealt with the puppet North China Security Army, he particularly emphasized that all units must not treat these puppet army traitors as ordinary traitors, and if one is caught, one will be shot, and two will be dealt with when they are caught.

This cannot be blamed on Ma Zheng's absoluteness, but because the security army has done a lot of evil, and the people hate it to the core. In order to crack down on the reactionary arrogance of the security army, the party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army have repeatedly ordered to intensify the work of cracking down on the traitors and puppet army in the enemy-occupied areas, and have even launched a special campaign to concentrate troops against the puppet security army in the puppet North China.

In history, there were nine large-scale battles of the Eighth Route Army against the public security army, such as the ambush of Shilipu on December 15, 1941, the battle of Dongshuangchengzi on December 26, the battle of Liu Beizhai on January 3, 1942, the battle of Mazhuang Huzhumaling on January 4, etc., and there were 14 smaller battles, a total of 23 times.

Since the attitude of the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters towards the puppet North China Security Army is so clear, then he Ma Zheng also asked these bigwigs for instructions, and it is enough to start fighting directly.

Ma Zheng's purpose this time was not only to fight the Japanese puppet army in southern Hebei, but the most important thing was to take Handan, an important town in southern Hebei. And to take Handan, the first thing to solve is Handan's gateway Feixiang.

After seeing that the direction of the Japanese reinforcement was Handan, Ma Zheng asked the troops under the command of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office to hold down the Tokugawa headquarters at all costs to buy time for his troops.

But it is a pity that the Japanese army obviously also sensed the intentions of Ma Zheng and others. In addition, Feixiang is the gateway to Handan, and the geographical location is very important, so the Tokugawa Department actually changed its tactics and did not entangle with the troops under the jurisdiction of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office. )