[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 686: Worry (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Hearing Wang Dechuan ask the key point, Ma Zheng pondered for a while and said: "It is not a problem to contact the Lunan Railway guerrillas, after all, this unit is also under the leadership of the Eighth Route Army, and it is also under the leadership of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"But as for how to fight, I haven't thought about it yet, if it's just to understand the crisis in Zhongtiao Mountain, we know that it's okay to send troops to Zaozhuang, and it's a big deal to run away after the fight. However, now that our task is to create a Yimeng base area, we must carefully consider it. ”

Liang Shangren thought for a while and said, "Commander, why don't we come up with a tactic of diverting the tiger from the mountain and taking advantage of the weakness!" ”

"How did you turn the tiger out of the mountain, and how did you take advantage of the weakness to enter?" Ma Zheng immediately asked.

Liang Shangren smiled and said: "Actually, it's not a new thing, this trick is often used by our Eighth Route Army, that is, to send troops to attack Zaozhuang first, and now the enemy of Zaozhuang should not be right, after all, the main force of the 21st Division is in Zhongtiao Mountain, and it is already very good for the defenders of Zaozhuang to have a brigade in the original wing." ”

Ma Zheng interjected: "Well, this judgment should be very reliable. This 21st Division is the earliest three-unit division of the Japanese army, and it has only three field wings under its command. ”

Liang Shangren continued: "The lack of troops and defense will inevitably be full of loopholes, and when our troops are approaching the city, the enemy in Zaozhuang will inevitably ask for help from the headquarters of the 12th Army in Shandong. And the geographical location of Zaozhuang is so important, the Japanese army will not sit idly by and watch this strategic place be captured by us, so it will inevitably issue reinforcement orders to the nearby garrisons. ”

Hearing this, Ma Zheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "There are three important cities closest to Zaozhuang, Jining, Xuzhou and Linyi, and Xuzhou is now empty in defense, so it can not be counted on, and only Jining and Linyi can reinforce Zaozhuang." As long as the enemy in Jining is delayed, then it will be the Japanese army in Linyi who will reinforce Zaozhuang, and we will have more opportunities at that time. ”

"Yes, commander, we can not only encircle the point and send reinforcements, but also take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the enemy in Linyi to reinforce Zaozhuang to send troops to capture Linyi, and then take the opportunity to bring the main force into the Yimeng Mountains." Liang Shangren said.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "I see this battle plan, according to the previous plan, the two divisions of our Shandong Military Region will not gather together after the establishment of the Shandong Military Region, I plan to stay in Luxi, with Yanggu County as the center to create the Luxi Revolutionary Base Area, and the remaining part is to create the Yimeng Mountain Base Area with the Yimeng Mountain as the center, it just so happens that there is indeed a safe communication channel between the two places now, this time I will solve this matter together!" ”

Speaking of this, Ma Zheng said loudly again: "Pass my order, the first brigade will gather immediately, and go to Zaozhuang immediately from now on, and be sure to rush to the periphery of Zaozhuang before December 18." Your task is to attack Zaozhuang and attract the enemies of Zhongtiao Mountain and Linyi, and when the time comes, I will let the hoe team and the Lunan Railway guerrillas cooperate with you. ”

"Yes, mission guaranteed!"

"Order: The main force of the Second Brigade immediately assembles on the front line of Yuncheng and Juye, and immediately advances in the direction of Jining after the Battle of Zaozhuang begins, so as to contain the enemy in Jining!"

"Order: The main force of the third brigade should be assembled immediately, and set up an ambush on the mountain road between Lanling and Zaozhuang to encircle and annihilate the enemy in Linyi."

"Order: The main force of the Fourth Brigade immediately assembles, prepares for battle, and captures Linyi while the Third Brigade annihilates the enemy in Linqing to reinforce Zaozhuang, and attacks the surrounding counties."

"Order: The Fifth Brigade, the Sixth Brigade and other units of the military region should also be ready for battle and transfer, as soon as the news of the Fourth Brigade occupying Linyi comes, the whole army will immediately move from Phoenix Mountain to Linyi, and through Linyi to Luoshan, Junan, Lanling and other places."

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With Ma Zheng's order, the entire newly established Shandong Military Region was running at high speed, and this military region, which was established under the noses of the Japanese army, was finally about to shock the world.

After the meeting was dispersed, all the generals and officers quickly left the conference room and returned to their respective units to arrange tasks, and Ma Zheng was the only one left in the conference room of Nuoda.

Leaning back on the chair that still exuded the fragrance of poplar wood, Ma Zheng's brows were furrowed, and he was no longer as relaxed and confident as before.

With the exception of the Suicha Military Region, which is recovering its strength, the Shandong Military Region alone has mobilized more than 60,000 troops, which is no less than the Nationalist Government's troops in Zhongtiao Mountain.

Moreover, Ma Zheng also believed that after this trouble, the 21st Division of the Japanese Army would inevitably return to Xuzhou, and even the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army would stop attacking. But even so, Ma Zheng was not confident that he would change the outcome of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Ma Zheng knew very well the final result of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain in history, and in terms of the result, it was undoubtedly the defeat of the Nationalist Government, and the defeat was extremely miserable. According to the statistics of the Japanese side after the war, about 35,000 people were captured and 42,000 corpses were abandoned, with a total of more than 100,000 casualties. However, the number of casualties counted by the Nationalist Government after the war was much lower, with 13,751 casualties, poisoning, and missing officers and soldiers.

Although the two sides disagree on the number of casualties, it is not difficult to see that the casualties of the Nationalist Government this time are indeed very large, and there are conservative estimates of 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Casualties are one thing, but more importantly, Ma Zheng knew the fundamental reasons for the defeat in this battle, first of all, the Japanese army fought a decisive battle with all its might, and the Nationalist Government lacked a sober estimate of the strength of the two sides in the First War Zone.

Before the war, Wei Lihuang originally relied on 260,000 troops to confront the four divisions of the Japanese army, so he was able to hold on to the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line for a long time, and called himself the "Eastern Maginot Line". However, the Japanese army attached great importance to this battle, which was called the "Battle of the Central Plains", and in one fell swoop took out the main force of more than 100,000 troops of six divisions and regiments to fight a decisive battle, and its ambition was bound to win.

On the other hand, a large number of troops in the First War Zone were transferred to other war zones, and the number of troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain area dropped to 1780,000, a full 100,000 less. More importantly, even the main force of the Fourth Army of the "Zhongtiao Mountain Iron Pillar" was transferred to the second war zone, leaving only one division in Zhongtiao Mountain.

You must know that at this time, the combat strength of the Japanese army units far exceeded that of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, and there were not many offensives with a daily concentration of more than 100,000 troops during the entire Anti-Japanese War. This time, it fought 180,000 with 100,000, which can be said to be "overwhelmingly superior", and the Japanese army completely treated paper tigers as real tigers.

More importantly, some troops in the First War Zone sold grain and tobacco in Zhongtiao Mountain, making Zhongtiao Mountain a place for business. The Japanese spies took the opportunity to infiltrate, and the Japanese special forces parachuted into the headquarters of the Chinese army and lurked. A bloody battle is being brewed, and the Japanese army is saying that it can paralyze all the command systems of the Chinese army within an hour of the start of the war, and the Chinese army is still sitting and waiting to be killed without knowing that a catastrophe is coming!

The second is that before the war, the Japanese army was seriously and fully prepared, and the First Theater of Operations rushed to the battle. In order to ensure the success of the battle, the Japanese army conducted intensive training for mountain warfare for the main force, and cleared the surrounding area in advance to prepare for the outburst. However, even the upper echelons of the First Theater were not mentally prepared, and the lower echelons were not even more prepared for battle, and the ferry fortifications were not strengthened.

As a result, there was a strange thing that the Japanese soldiers who attacked from a distance were well fed, and the Chinese troops guarding their positions were surrounded and had a desperate situation of "three days without food"! Hungry for three days, you can't even lift the "big knife", so the troops will collapse at the first touch.

Third, the Japanese army was resolute in carrying out the operation, commanded properly, and coordinated effectively, while the First Theater was out of ground, its command was chaotic, and its troops were not coordinated with each other. As soon as the battle broke out, the Japanese troops carried out a decisive and rapid attack and interspersed encirclement as planned, without any hesitation, as if it were a textbook case. The defenders, on the other hand, never had a decent battle plan, leaving each unit to fight on its own. Some troops were still able to resist stubbornly, but more often they ran away regardless of their friends and neighbors.

Under these circumstances, Ma Zheng did not think that he could solve the crisis in Zhongtiao Mountain by launching a small-scale diversion battle in Lunan, but that it might expose the strength of the Shandong Military Region and attract large-scale encirclement and suppression by the Japanese army, so Ma Zheng was full of worries about the future of this battle. (To be continued.) )