[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 542: Superstar (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The arrival of reinforcements greatly relieved the defenders in the county seat of Feixiang County. The situation www.biquge.info had suddenly become stormy, and even the invincible Imperial Japanese Army suffered setbacks one after another, which made the Japanese puppet army in Feixiang County feel tremendous pressure. A suffocating atmosphere unconsciously spread among the Japanese puppet army in Feixiang County, and there was an uncontrollable trend.

The tense atmosphere directly caused the Japanese puppet army to be a little nervous, and the eyes of every Chinese seemed to see death, and there had been more than one bloody clash in the county. Although the dead were all Chinese, and the Japanese soldiers were not physically harmed, this also made the Japanese commander in Feixiang County feel deeply disturbed.

Two thousand seven hundred reinforcements were not much, but it was more than enough to appease the army. The commander of the Japanese army in Feixiang County was not a fool either, and knew the importance of the geographical location of Feixiang County, so he built a long defensive line south of Feixiang County, and at the same time established two lines on the road from Binh Dinh and Quang Binh counties to Feixiang County.

For the sake of insurance, the Japanese commander in Feixiang County also specially requested operational guidance from the Japanese garrison headquarters in Handan again. However, because there was a batch of reinforcements, this time the Japanese commander in Feixiang County said it more tactfully.

The commander of the Japanese garrison headquarters in Handan, Tokugawa Yasuichi, was a well-known short-sighted ghost in the Japanese army, and because the Tokugawa family was also a very influential samurai family in Japan, he had a certain amount of power in the army. In addition, Tokugawa Yasuichi's swordsmanship is well-known in Japan, so it is logical for Tokugawa Yasuichi to enlist in the army and be admitted to Lu University.

Although Tokugawa Yasuichi was a qualified samurai, he was definitely not a qualified commander. Like the vast majority of manual laborers, Tokugawa Yasuichi was clearly not intellectually capable of commanding an infantry brigade.

Maybe as a soldier he was qualified, even so good, and as a non-commissioned officer he was barely qualified. But as a senior commander in charge of the overall situation, Tokugawa Yasuichi did not have that kind of courage and strategic vision.

The transfer of more than 2,000 reinforcements to Feixiang County this time was unprecedented in the eyes of Major General Tokugawa Yasuichi, and it was a special greeting from General Sugiyama Moto. However, Tokugawa Yasuichi was reluctant to do so, after all, he did not have too many troops in his hands, so he mobilized 3,500 people to Feixiang at once, which almost drained the garrison in Handan City.

Although Major General Tokugawa has now shrunk a lot of troops from the surrounding counties and returned to Handan, he did not want to send such precious soldiers to Feixiang again. In addition, the Japanese commander in Feixiang County said it more tactfully, so Tokugawa was indifferent to his distress message.

Tokugawa was indifferent, but it was good news for Ma Zheng's department. Under Ma Zheng's order, the Independent Regiment and the 1st Brigade that arrived later seized the favorable opportunity to complete the roundabout encirclement of Feixiang County, and as long as Ma Zheng was willing, he could launch a siege on the Japanese army in Feixiang County at any time.

However, now there are more than 4,000 defenders in Feixiang County, and the fortifications are relatively complete, so the casualties will definitely be not small if they are attacked.

Considering the casualties, Ma Zheng did not take immediate action. Instead, he moved the vast majority of his troops to other counties and districts north of Feixiang County, preparing to dispose of all the strongholds in the towns of Feixiang County, and finally complete the steps of thunder sweeping holes. At the same time, two infantry brigades of the second brigade and the third brigade were transferred to the periphery of Handan to prepare for a surprise attack on Handan City.

But Ma Zheng also knew that Handan City's defense must be very tight, and even with the help of the special combat team, it may not be able to take Handan City in a short time. However, it is good to be able to take Handan City, and it doesn't matter if you can't take it, after all, the firepower deployed by the Japanese army here is too fierce.

As the gateway to Shimen, the transportation hub, Handan City's peacetime garrison was an infantry wing, two cavalry brigades and a chariot brigade, and even the heavy artillery, which was rare among the elite units of the Japanese army and navy, also had a brigade.

Even if such a powerful firepower is commanded by a pig, its defensive effect will not be much worse. Moreover, although Major General Tokugawa was short-sighted and had a poor strategic vision, his tactical command level was not bad, so Ma Zheng did not expect to kill all the defenders of Handan at once.

However, to deal with a short-sighted commander, Ma Zheng has a way. After all, short-sighted people are the most cautious, as long as they command properly, such a guy will expose the cover door and hit you by himself.

What's more, compared with Feixiang County, the importance of Handan is self-evident. Ma Zheng knew this, and Major General Tokugawa also knew it. So Ma Zheng decided to play a good show of the tiger leaving the mountain for the Japanese, and teach these bitches how to fight.

Ma Zheng judged that as long as Handan was attacked and the situation was precarious, the Japanese army in Feixiang County would take the initiative to come out to help Handan without his people attacking the Japanese puppet army in Feixiang County. At that time, it was not Ma Zheng's decision to fight at that time, so Ma Zheng did not order the troops to storm Feixiang County.

While planning for Handan, an important town in southern Hebei, Ma Zheng also ordered all the assembled troops of the Suicha Military Region to begin to move closer to the area occupied by the Japanese army, and the 3rd Integrated Division marching in Renan and the cavalry division on the Suidong steppe should also speed up their march, as long as they reached the location and did not need to report to Ma Zheng, they could directly launch an attack. Ma Zheng believed that the two divisions could definitely sweep through the Suidong steppe and defeat King De and the Japanese forces.

Compared with the task of reorganizing the Third Division and the cavalry division to seize Chifeng and Tongliao, the troops on the front line of Zhangjiakou were much easier, and Ma Zheng gave them the task of attracting the main force of the Japanese army, and the Xuanhua, Xiahuayuan, and Pingjin areas were the center of gravity of the North China Front, and even if the main force of the Suicha Military Region was exhausted, it would be impossible to easily make a breakthrough from these places.

However, the tasks of Shuoxian's reorganized Second Division, assault brigade, and other units were relatively difficult, and Ma Zheng's order to them was only four words -- to take Xinkou. Ma Zheng has long been salivating for the land of Sanjin, not only because of a series of objective reasons such as fertile land, large population, developed economy and rich resources in Shanxi Province, but because the geographical location of Shanxi Province has to make Ma Zheng pay attention to it, as long as Shanxi is occupied, then it can cut off the Zhengtai Railway and the Pinghan Railway, which is of great strategic significance.

In addition, Xinkou is the northern gateway of Taiyuan, as long as Xinkou is laid, you can send troops to capture Taiyuan, or cut off the Zhengtai railway, causing the Japanese army in Shanxi to become a turtle in the urn, and you can hold Xinkou to prevent the first army stationed in Shanxi from attacking Datong in the north, and use this as a springboard to attack the Suicha area.

Xinkou has been an important place for soldiers since ancient times, which is of course inseparable from the geographical location of Xinkou, as the gateway to Taiyuan in the north of Shanxi, here is the last line of defense to defend Taiyuan. Because of this, it is decided that this place will definitely become the focus of contention between China and Japan.

It is a pity that in the first battle, China lost a lot of money. In 1937, in order to realize the established national policy of annexing North China and then dominating China, the Japanese army rushed directly to Taiyuan, and in order to defend Taiyuan, the Kuomintang Second Theater Command concentrated 6 group armies, a total of 31 divisions, 13 brigades, about 280,000 people, and Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second Theater, served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and organized the Battle of Xinkou.

The battle lasted more than a month, and finally ended with more than 100,000 casualties on the Chinese side, which not only suffered heavy casualties, but also lost Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi Province.

Ma Zheng's troops gathered 50,000 or 60,000 troops on the periphery of Xinkou this time, and they had the intention of preparing to launch the second Xinkou Campaign, which greatly stimulated the Japanese army. If Ma Zheng's division can capture Xinkou this time, it will be equivalent to breaking the strategic situation of Shanxi and China and Japan, and then the whole Shanxi Province will be alive in this big chess game. Even if the Japanese army still occupies Taiyuan at that time, it doesn't matter, Taiyuan without Xinkou as a barrier, the cost of defense will increase greatly.

All of a sudden, Handan, Chifeng, Tongliao, Xuanhua, and Xinkou towns have become the stars of the attention of the Chinese people, and the eyes of all the people with lofty ideals in China have been attracted here, and Ma Zheng and the Suicha Military Region have once again become the objects of discussion among the Chinese people, and have become superstars of the attention of thousands of people. (To be continued.) )