[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 454: Zhanshuo County (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Despite losing all the towns north of Shuoxian, General Sugiyama was not discouraged, and after learning that the main force of the 20th Division had passed the Guandi Temple, General Sugiyama did not order them to enter the battle immediately, but ordered Major General Sekigahara 6, who arrived first, to immediately build fortifications in place and wait for the arrival of follow-up troops, especially for the arrival of a mysterious force.

On June 17, Ma Zheng, who was in Datong, received an urgent telegram from the intelligence department saying that an unknown number of armored troops had suddenly appeared in Yuanping.

When the news came, Ma Zheng was taken aback, it seemed that the Japanese army must have known about the existence of the assault brigade and was preparing to fight a tank-to-tank war with him.

To say that Ma Zheng really does not have much confidence in the armored regiment of the assault brigade, he knows the training of the armored regiment, although the soldiers train very hard and hard, but due to the lack of fuel, so many times the training of the armored regiment is carried out indoors or in the tank model. Most of them are purely theoretical, and there is little practical experience.

Secondly, because of the lack of tank shells, it was impossible to conduct live-fire training at all, so the armored regiment under Ma Zheng's command could only be used to deal with the infantry, and it was impossible to fight the Japanese armored forces.

Ma Zheng immediately ordered the intelligence department to pay close attention to the movements of this armored unit, and ordered the Huyan military headquarters to prepare for battle.

It turned out that this armored unit of the Japanese army was Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, in order to deal with the armored regiment of Ma Zheng's department, deliberately gathered all the armored units of several divisions of the First Army, and forcibly made up this powerful combat force with more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles.

In addition to this powerful armored force, the First Army stationed in Shanxi also urgently transferred a division back from the Jinnan front line to the north, counting the 20th Division that had arrived in Dai County, the First Army dispatched two divisions of infantry to participate in the battle at once this time, even if there was no puppet army, its total strength reached about 35,000 people, almost the same as the southward attack cluster strength.

Knowing that what would happen would be a fierce battle, Ma Zheng arrived in Shuoxian by car late at night on the 17th, and he wanted to personally command the battle.

At the same time, on the Zhangjiakou front, the Japanese 10th Division's attack on the Shalingzizhen position had lasted for four days and four nights, with heavy losses on both sides and positions changing hands repeatedly.

The 10th Division and the 2nd Division can be regarded as the elite troops of both China and Japan, and Ma Zheng and Sugiyama Yuan played a pair of king-to-king cards, and the outcome was really unpredictable.

On the Xinghe front, although the 110th Division captured Xuanjia Pagoda on the afternoon of the 14th, it was blocked by Ma Zheng's troops in Wulidun and Caojiafang in the next three days, and finally stopped at Xinpingbao. It can be said that although the Japanese army on this line has made a breakthrough, the strength of the breakthrough is not large.

Shanshan Yuan in Beiping City had realized at this time that Ma Zheng had indeed dug a pit for them, and Ma Zheng's department had already made preparations for the defense of the first line of Zhangjiakou when attacking northern Jin, otherwise Shalingzi's position would not have been built in one day. It's ridiculous that they still hope that the plague will wipe out their people, but they use this time to make battle plans and build fortifications, which finally catches them off guard.

But the matter has come to this point, and there is not much point in regretting, for the sake of the future, General Sugiyama Mototo knows that he can only bite the bullet, if this battle is not fought well, the annihilation of a single 27th Division may make the big punishment from the base camp.

These days, Sugiyama Yuan obviously felt the dissatisfaction of the base camp with him, but think about it, in the year since he took office, the North China Front first lost Suixi, then lost more than ten banner counties in northern Chahar, and then seven or eight counties in southern Chaharan, and even Rehe, where the Kwantung Army was stationed, was bitten off by Ma Zheng's department. If Jin Bei is lost again, General Sugiyama can imagine how the base camp will look at him.

Because of this, Sugiyama Yuan will make a desperate bet this time, even if he fights for a fire in the backyard, he will defeat Ma Zheng's department.

After receiving that the armored units of the First Army and the 20th Division had arrived in Daixian, Sugiyama immediately telegraphed Umezu Yoshijiro, asking him to immediately launch an all-out attack on the Shina army in Shuoxian, and to defeat the enemy in front of him and recover Shuoxian, Yinshan, and Datong.

At the same time, Sugiyama also ordered the 26th Division to speed up, be sure to arrive at the Zhangjiakou front before the 19th, and cooperate with Shinozuka Yoshio's 10th Division to go south to Zhangjiakou. For this reason, Sugiyama Gen did not hesitate to dispatch all the aviation corps to support Yoshio Shinozuka and Ushijima Minoru on the Dai-prefecture front. In short, Sugiyama Yuan has made a bloody investment this time, and he will defeat Ma Zheng's department no matter what.

Shuo County. The former enemy headquarters of the 1st Division was reorganized.

After listening to the report of the intelligence department, Ma Zheng looked at the map for a long time, and then said: "This Niudao is not simple, and it did not rashly launch an attack under such superior forces, it seems that it is preparing to fight steadily and gradually defeat our army." ”

Xu Xiaolin immediately replied: "Commander, Ushijima Minoru graduated from the 16th session of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was later admitted to the Japanese Army Artillery Engineering School. In April 1936, he was promoted to lieutenant general, and in July 1938, he succeeded Kawagishi Fumizaburo as commander of the 20th Division, stationed in the Yangquan area in the southwest of Shanxi. ”

"This person has a resolute personality, fights for stability, dares to fight, and is a famous general in the Japanese army. During the nearly one-year period he was stationed in Shanxi, Ushijima Minoru and the Kuomintang troops stationed near Zhongtiao Mountain fought bloody battles many times, and fought with Sun Weiru's troops more than 10 times, and his command ability should not be underestimated. ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "Ushijima does have a few brushes, but he still misses our army by relying on a division and an armored force that has been put together." If my prediction is correct, Ushijima's troops will attack again tomorrow, and they will inevitably use the tactics of aircraft and armored units to open the way for infantry to follow, the purpose of which is to knock out our armored forces first. Then we will do the opposite, with infantry against its armored units. ”

"Commander, do you mean to let the bazooka units deal with the armored forces of the Japanese army?" Huang Sicheng has been with Ma Zheng for so long, so he naturally understands Ma Zheng's thoughts.

"Yes, the bazooka with armor-piercing shells is simply the nemesis of the armored forces, what we need now is a suitable battlefield, as long as the terrain is used well, then it is not difficult to defeat the Japanese armored forces. As long as the Japanese armored forces are eliminated, the infantry of the 20th Division alone will not be afraid, and it is not certain who will kill whom at that time. Ma Zheng said.

"What terrain does the commander need?" Huang Sicheng asked again.

"Flat open field!" Ma Zheng said.

"Open land?"

"Yes, the open space is suitable for the assault of the armored forces, so that the Japanese armored forces can charge on a large scale, and we only need to place the bazooka troops in the first line, and then we will definitely be able to take the Japanese armored troops by surprise."

"Commander, I've seen all the terrain nearby, but there really is such a place." Huang Sicheng replied.

"Oh, where?" Ma Zheng immediately asked.

"Fushanzhuang, the terrain here is flat, and it is the only way for Dai County to go to Shuo County, see that this river is not, this is a tributary of the Hunhe River, and the amount of water is not small. Originally, I wanted to use the river to block the Japanese armored forces, but because the terrain here was too open, I was worried that the large army would be scattered by the Japanese armored forces, so I decided to rely on the county seat of Shuoxian to block the enemy. Huang Sicheng said.

"Fushanzhuang, Hunhe!"

Ma Zheng thought for a while, then calculated on the map for a while and said: "Order the second brigade to rush to Fushanzhuang immediately and build a position along the river, a total of two, the first one is fifty meters away from the river bank." The second line is outside Fushanzhuang, where the two lines of defense are three kilometers apart. At the same time, the artillery regiment of the assault brigade and the mechanized infantry regiment were ordered to be stationed in Fushanzhuang overnight, and the armored regiment was hidden in the nearby mountains and forests, and this time we had to not only destroy the armored troops of the little devils, but also the 20th division. (To be continued.) )