In a mountain col ten kilometers north of Tianzhen City, Ma Zheng frowned and looked at the simple map in his hand without saying a word! And beside him were the deputy detachment leader Huang Sicheng and the two captains Huang Bingyan and Wu Xiuda.

Seeing that Ma Zheng had been silent, Wu Xiuda, who was anxious, suddenly couldn't stand it, and immediately asked, "Detachment leader, can we fight this battle?" ”

After a long time, Ma Zheng raised his head and looked at everyone, and then said in a deep voice: "We must fight, don't forget that we are here to be a firefighting team when we go south this time, if we withdraw, then the Jinchaji Military Region will be in trouble." So we have to fight this battle, and we have to fight it beautifully! ”

"But now that the enemy situation is complicated, how should we fight?" Huang Bingyan asked out loud.

Huang Sicheng frowned and thought for a while and said: "In this situation, it seems that we can only attack, and we have no other way!" ”

Ma Zheng said in a deep voice: "A strong attack will definitely not work, first, the casualties of a strong attack will inevitably be not small, and our strength is still very weak now, and we can't afford such heavy casualties." The terrain of Tianzhen County is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are extremely complete city fortifications, even if we take the risk of attacking, we may not be able to attack it! ”

"It's not okay to attack, and outwitting people is on guard again, so what else can we do?" Wu Xiuda asked with a frown.

"Who said that it is not possible to outwit, if we outwit Hongshaba Town with a strategy, then we can naturally outwit Tianzhen County!" Ma Zheng said categorically.

"Detachment leader, is there anything you can do? Hurry up and talk about it! Wu Xiuda's eyes lit up, and the eyes of the others were focused on Ma Zheng.

Ma Zheng took a few deep breaths and said, "Radio! ”

"Radio? What do you mean? Everyone was stunned, and no one knew what Ma Zheng meant.

"The enemy is already on guard, and a strong attack will definitely not work, so we are left with only one way to outwit. And the risk of outwitting is also very high, after all, the enemy is likely to think that we will attack Celestial Town, so we must use a very safe way to confuse the enemy. Ma Zheng said.

"Is there such a way? Although the Japanese are a little shorter, they are not stupid, how can they be fooled? ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said: "The general method will definitely not work, but we can use the radio to simulate the higher departments of the defenders of Tianzhen to send them a report, just say that the battle in front is not going well, and there is a reinforcement that will go south through Tianzhen County to reinforce, I think that the defenders in the city will not suspect it!" ”

"Is this possible? How can we simulate the telegrams of the Japanese army, and they will not find out? Huang Sicheng asked with a frown.

Ma Zheng smiled and said: "There is no problem in technology, now the radio stations use radio stations, and this kind of radio stations are public rather than directive, so as long as they can be tuned to the same band, then they can obtain the enemy's intelligence." The most difficult thing is how to convert it into effective information after obtaining it, that is, reverse deciphering. Reverse decipherment is generally divided into several types, the most effective is to obtain the other party's cipher through spies, and the second is to brute-force cracking through various means. ”

"Some time ago, we successively broke through a number of county towns garrisoned by the Japanese army, captured almost a full set of code books of the Japanese army, and also learned about the radio frequency bands of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army and the headquarters of the Mongolian army, as long as the signal of the radio station was simulated by technical means."

Huang Sicheng immediately asked: "Then what if the defenders of Tianzhen ask the higher authorities for verification, then they will be debunked at once!" ”

Ma Zheng sighed and said: "This is also what I am most worried about, if the defenders of Tianzhen ask for verification like the higher authorities, then we will be in trouble, and they can also use this information to set us up." Then we will be in danger, and we may even be wiped out! ”

But at this moment, Ma Zheng's voice changed and said: "But I believe that they will not ask their superiors for verification, the Japanese army is highly hierarchical, and the orders issued to the superiors have always been unconditionally executed, so they will not doubt it at all." If they seek confirmation from their superiors, they may be seen as distrustful of their superiors, which is taboo in the Japanese army. ”

Huang Sicheng also nodded and said: "Although there is a certain risk, we have no other better way, so we can only take a risk!" ”

"In that case, you now let the soldiers eat dry food and drink some water, then sleep, and act when it gets dark, and I will immediately send a report to the Japanese army in Tianzhen." Ma Zheng said.

At night, on the way from Huai'an to Tianzhen, a force of more than 3,000 people was coming west. Along the way, passing through all the Japanese strongholds, the defenders would line up to meet each other.

Half an hour later, this capable Japanese army finally arrived outside the city of Tianzhen.

Seeing the city gate not far away, Ma Zheng smiled. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the defenders in the city, and at the same time to test whether the Japanese army had doubted their identity, Ma Zheng ordered the troops to march thirty miles in a hurry, detour to Wangjiaping, twenty miles east of Tianzhen, and then go straight west to Tianzhen. Because the east of Wangjiaping is the boundary of Huai'an, which is already under the jurisdiction of Hebei, it is most appropriate to go from there.

Along the way, Ma Zheng had to carefully observe the expressions of the little devils in the stronghold every time he passed through a stronghold, and he found that all the little devils were very respectful to them, and all the officers would lead the troops to greet them when they passed by the stronghold. Through observation and judgment, Ma Zheng believed that the telegram he sent had confused the Japanese army.

The arrival of this huge force naturally attracted the attention of the defenders, and soon all the searchlights at the head of the city were turned on, and the lights showed the scene below the city clearly.

At this time, Ma Zheng on horseback jumped out, galloped to the city, and said loudly in Japanese: "We are the first wing of the mixed brigade of the Great Japanese Imperial China, I am the leader of the cavalry squadron Abe Kogoro, our department was ordered to reinforce Yangyuan, according to the order to pass through Tianzhen County to rest for one night, please open the door immediately!" ”

Soon the city gate was opened, and a young officer walked out with more than a dozen lieutenants, strode up to Ma Zheng and said, "Sakurai Jiro, the commander of the garrison of the lowly Heavenly Town, may I ask which one is Yamamoto Daisa?" ”

"Yamamoto Osa is resting in the car, we have been on the road for a whole day, please take us to the barracks immediately to rest, His Excellency Dazuo will meet you in the barracks later!" Ma Zheng said loudly.

"Hay!"

Soon, all the troops entered the city, and the gates were once again sealed.

Inside the city, the barracks of the defenders had been vacated, and it was clear that they had long been prepared.

As soon as he arrived at the barracks, Ma Zheng said to Sakurai Jiro: "Sakurai Shaosa, Your Excellency Dazuo orders your department to assemble immediately, and he wants to give a lecture and convey the order of His Excellency Terauchi Shouichi!" ”

"Hay!"

"In addition, our department came lightly, and the ammunition only carried a base number, which needs to be replenished immediately, is it okay?"

"Hay!"

When Sakurai Jiro assembled his troops, Ma Zheng led two squadrons of infantry and led another lieutenant officer straight to the arsenal.

As the rear of the Eighth Route Army, Tianzhen provided arms and food for more than 10,000 troops of the Japanese army, and can be said to be one of the most important logistics bases of the Japanese army. Although Ma Zheng had never entered the arsenal, he could imagine that it must be full of munitions.

It was inevitable for this batch of arms, but he also knew that even if Sakurai Jiro promised to gather all the people, it would definitely not include the defenders of the arsenal, because the Japanese army had a rule that the defenders of the arsenal could not leave at any time. In order to prevent the Japanese army from self-destructing the arsenal, Ma Zheng had to take the arsenal before he could do it.