[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 180: The 13th Army Sent to the Door (Ask for Subscription)

It is said that when Wang Zhonglian's department rushed to Jiujiang, Ma Zheng had returned to Jiujiang City with the 200th regiment and the independent regiment.

The former Japanese garrison headquarters had become the headquarters of the Seventh Division at this time, and in the conference room, all the military and political cadres of the southbound detachment of the Seventh Division were there.

After Huang Sicheng, who came in at the end, took a seat, Ma Zheng asked in a deep voice, "The telegram has been sent?" ”

Huang Sicheng immediately said: "It has been sent out, according to the commander's request, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Ninth War Zone will each have one!" ”

"Well, just send it out! Are the troop casualties counted? Ma Zheng asked again.

"The statistics are out, 86 people were killed and 126 were wounded in the capture of Jiujiang! In the first battle of Lion Rock, 871 people were killed and 1,327 were wounded, a total of 957 killed and 1,353 wounded! Huang Sicheng said.

Hearing this casualty figure, Ma Zheng's heart suddenly twitched, and one-third of the troops were killed and wounded overnight, counting the more than 100 special combat personnel who died in the battle when seizing the warship, there were more than 1,000 casualties. Such casualties were too heavy, and it would not be long before the troops were exhausted.

However, Ma Zheng also knew that no matter how much pain he felt in his heart at this time, he couldn't show it on his face, because he was the supreme commander of this unit, and his emotions would be directly conveyed to the entire army, and it would directly affect the combat effectiveness of the entire army.

"Have you counted the results?" Ma Zheng asked again.

It's not that Ma Zheng cares about the loot, but he finds that the atmosphere in the conference room is a little gloomy, and at this time, only rich results and brilliant achievements can raise the atmosphere.

Sure enough, hearing Ma Zheng's words, all the officers who were still worried about the loss of the troops just now suddenly raised their heads, and the gloomy clouds on their faces suddenly melted.

Huang Sicheng immediately replied: "Not yet." The main thing is that there are so many things seized that they can't be counted at all. Jiujiang was originally the logistics base of the Fourth Corps, but when the Japanese army came, they withdrew before they could transport the materials in the warehouse, and a large number of materials fell into the hands of the enemy. After the Japanese came, they also used this place as a logistics base, and also as a springboard for attacking Wuhan, so they hoarded a large amount of weapons and ammunition here. Now these things are in our hands. ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said, "Very good, with this batch of weapons, we can still beat the little devils next!" ”

At this time, Xing Chao, the commander of the guard regiment, suddenly spoke: "By the way, commander, when we were clearing out the remnants of the enemy in the city, we found a prisoner of war camp of the devils, there were many Kuomintang prisoners in it, what should we do with these people, do you want to release them?" ”

Hearing this, Ma Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately asked, "Kuomintang prisoners?" How many people? ”

"There are more than 1,000 people, all of whom were captured by the Japanese army in the Battle of Jiujiang!" Xing Chao said.

"Disperse these people into various units and integrate them into the battle sequence of our army!" Ma Zheng said.

Huang Sicheng said worriedly: "Commander." Isn't it a bit bad to do this, and if the national government knows, will it be?"

"No, it's too late for Lao Jiang to be happy now, maybe it's because of this trivial matter and we have to worry about it!" Ma Zheng said.

"By the way, Commander, I just got a very important piece of information during the interrogation of the prisoners, and the Japanese army has a larger prisoner of war camp at the mouth!" Huang Sicheng said.

"A bigger POW camp? How big is it? Ma Zheng immediately asked.

"It is said that at least tens of thousands of people were imprisoned inside, and they said that they were going to be transported to the northeast in the near future, but I don't know if they were transported away!" Huang Sicheng said.

"It should not have been transported. Their warships are now in our hands, and most of their troop carriers have been sent to the bottom of the water! Without warships and troop carriers, how could they rush prisoners? Ma Zheng said.

"Then Commander, do you want to them?" Huang Sicheng said.

"Of course. However, there is an infantry wing of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army stationed at Hukou, and there is also a wing stationed in nearby Xingzi and Pengze, which can reinforce Hukou at any time. Ma Zheng said in a deep voice.

"Who can cooperate with us? In Jiangnan, we only have one unit of the New Fourth Army, but their defense area is far away from us. Far water can't quench your thirst! Huang Sicheng said.

"The New Fourth Army can't be counted on, but the Kuomintang can still be counted on if it's wrong." Ma Zheng said.

"What can the Kuomintang troops count on?" Huang Sicheng and the others all looked at Ma Zheng in surprise, with an incredible expression.

"Don't look at me like this, don't forget that this is Lao Jiang's territory, and he is more anxious than us. Wuhan is lost, we can still go north and go back to Chahar to fight devils. But the loss of Wuhan and the blow to Lao Jiang Weixin are not ordinarily small, so he wants to hold Wuhan more than we do. And the focus of holding Wuhan is to hold several major gateways on the periphery of Wuhan, including Jiujiang, Hukou, and Pengze, and now our department has taken back Jiujiang for him, and we want to help him recover Hukou, so that he can send some reinforcements to say nothing? Ma Zheng said.

Just as he was saying this, Ma Zheng's guard Huzi ran in and said, "Commander, the defenders of Lushan have called, saying that Wang Zhonglian, the commander of the 13th Army, wants to see you!" ”

"Who, Wang Zhonglian? How did he get here? Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"I don't know, but also with a large number of troops, at least one division!" Huzi Road.

Without waiting for Ma Zheng to speak, Huang Sicheng said worriedly: "It can't be that this guy wants to do something with us, right?" ”

Ma Zheng shook his head and said: "Impossible, Lao Jiang is not stupid, how could he do it to us at this time when the battle situation is so urgent." Chief of Staff, where was this 13th Army stationed before? ”

"Stationed in Nanyang, and later the Ruichang War was urgently transferred to the Xintang front, before Wang Zhonglian's 13th Army was fighting against the Botian detachment!" Huang Sicheng said.

"So that's the case, I think they should follow the path of the retreat of the Hatian detachment, and they won't get in the way!" Ma Zheng said.

"So what are we going to do?" Huang Sicheng immediately asked again.

"What to do, aren't we looking for someone to cooperate with the lake, isn't this coming! Prepare the car, I will go and personally greet Captain Wang! With that, Ma Zheng walked out of the gate of the garrison headquarters.

Wang Zhonglian's mood at this time was far from describing his surprise, he had thought that the battle in Jiujiang City was still going on, but when his troops marched to Jiujiang Qili Lake, they were stopped, and at the same time they were told that this place had been occupied by the Seventh Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and no troops were allowed to enter the city without permission.

After listening to the warnings of the defenders, the people of the 13th Army were not calm, this Duqi Division was a ghost that emerged there, how could they recover Jiujiang silently.

Fortunately, Wang Zhonglian had attended the operational meeting of the Fourth Corps Headquarters before, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally remembered what the Seventh Division was.

However, thinking that the defense area of the Duqi Division should be on the defense line along the river north of Ruichang, how could they suddenly run to Jiujiang, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and also recovered Jiujiang, and even completely annihilated the Botian detachment, how did they do it!

Thinking that the troops have already arrived here, why don't you go in and visit the commander of the Eighth Route Army, if you don't figure out this matter, I'm afraid he Wang Zhonglian won't sleep peacefully.

When he learned that Ma Zheng was rushing here to greet him in person, Wang Zhonglian was very satisfied, it seems that this commander of the Eighth Route Army is not too difficult to deal with! He knew that Ma Zheng had taken a fancy to the two divisions in his hands, otherwise Ma Zheng's character would not have taken care of him! (To be continued.) )