[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 118: The Battle of Annihilation of the Qingshui River

The troops were exhausted by the continuous rapid march, and there was nothing wrong with launching an attack immediately. But once the fight started here, there was no time to rest, so Ma Zheng did not act immediately after listening to Tie Niu's report. Rather, let the troops continue to rest and prepare for the battle at night.

At the same time, the special combat team lurked near Qingshuihe County in advance to monitor the movements of devils in the two places, and opened the way for the large army to attack Qingshuihe County.

At 12 o'clock in the evening of the 30th, Ma Zheng personally led the first and second cavalry regiments to bypass Honghe Town and move to the vicinity of the north gate of Qingshuihe County, while the guard regiment attacked the devil's stronghold in Honghe Town under the command of Xu Hu.

At 1 o'clock in the morning, outside the devil's post at the north gate of Qingshuihe County, black shadows quickly approached the devil's post under the protection of the night. There are only 2 devils patrolling back and forth in the big guard box, and the rest of the devils are either sleeping in the guard box or taking a nap with guns, and the guards are very lax.

When the two devils on duty on patrol staggered by, two black shadows quickly jumped up from the grass, and at the moment when the two devils were terrified, the blade quickly slashed through the devil's neck, and the two devils on duty didn't even have time to scream before they saw their Aunt Amaterasu go.

Seeing that the rest of the devils did not notice their actions, the black shadows quickly made a few gestures behind them, and soon a large number of black shadows came out of the darkness and revealed their figures, crawling close to the devils' duty booth and several machine gun positions at the city gate.

Jump, cover your mouth, swing your knife. One by one, the devil defenders were solved by the special combat team in their sleep, and the devil defenders of a squad did not make a sound.

Soon, Ma Zheng, who was waiting for news outside the city, received news that the north gate had been successfully taken, and at this time, the city gate was open and could be attacked at any time.

Then Ma Zheng gave an order: "The special combat team continues to move forward, touching all the light and dark posts in the enemy's city, and the large army will follow." ”

The battle against Qingshuihe County was surprisingly smooth, and in addition to the fierce resistance of the devils during the attack on the gendarmerie headquarters, the entire Qingshuihe County, including two city gates, a military barracks, an arsenal, an ordnance repair station, 14 open posts, nine secret posts, and three machine-gun positions, was taken by the special combat personnel without firing a single shot.

The most important thing is that when the corpses of the devils were counted, it was found that there were less than a hundred people in the city, which was not at all the four or five hundred that the intelligence said. Later, I found out that on the morning of the 29th, the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army in Pinglu, and a fully equipped infantry regiment faced the Japanese army with a reinforced squadron in Pinglu County.

Due to the great superiority in troops, and the fact that the weapons and equipment of the 120th Division had just been strengthened, the Japanese troops in Pinglu County were fighting for a while.

The most important thing is that Pinglu County, as the northern gateway of Shuo County, once lost, it would have a great impact on the Japanese army. Especially now that the main force of the 120th Division has moved to the periphery of Shuo County, and it may launch a full-scale attack on this Japanese logistics base at any time, the headquarters of the Mongolian army has no choice but to order the defenders of Qingshuihe County to immediately go south for reinforcements. Since the Japanese army had left before Ma Zheng's headquarters arrived, the special combat team did not know about this matter, and always thought that the Japanese troops in the city were still the original formation.

But none of that matters, the important thing is that they finally won this forward bridgehead.

Soon after the capture of the county seat, there was also good news from Xu Hu's side, and the stronghold of Honghe Town was also captured, and none of the defenders missed the net, and the loss of the guard regiment was not large.

Zheng immediately instructed Xu Hu to let him leave a platoon of soldiers to change into the military uniforms and weapons of the devil and a few special combat soldiers who were familiar with Japanese to stay there, so as to take care of the back road for the large army, and the rest of the people also changed into the military uniforms of the devil and rushed to the county seat to meet the large army.

In order not to startle the snake, after capturing Qingshuihe County, Ma Zheng ordered all the troops to immediately change into the military uniforms of devils and rest in the county town for a day, and then move at night. However, on the same night, the Japanese radio station in Qingshuihe received a telegram from the headquarters of the Mongolian army, saying that a cavalry division of the puppet Mongolian army had set out from Guisui and went south to reinforce Abe's Guixiu Division, so that the defenders of Qingshuihe County could provide food and accommodation for this cavalry division.

After receiving the news, Ma Zheng was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the troops to make arrangements and wait for this puppet cavalry division to come to the door.

It's not the first time they've used the tactic of waiting for the rabbit, the last time in Ma Zheng in Zhuozi Mountain and Shangdu, he used this tactic to perfectly annihilate the four cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army, so this time he had to repeat the old trick.

According to a telegram sent by the headquarters of the Mongolian army, it was the 5th Cavalry Division of the puppet Mongolian Army that went south to reinforce this time, which was a heavy cavalry division. The so-called heavy cavalry division means that the weapons and equipment are better than the ordinary cavalry divisions, and there are also heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns and mortars that the general cavalry divisions are not equipped with, and they are also more numerically than other cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army.

According to the establishment of the puppet Mongolian army, the average cavalry division has only more than 2,500 people, but this heavy cavalry division has 3,400 people, nearly 1,000 more.

But it doesn't matter, whether it is 2,500 or 3,400 people, anyway, in Ma Zheng's opinion, it is the same, this time he has more than 6,000 people in the city, and the firepower configuration has been strengthened. It's good that this puppet cavalry division doesn't come, but if it does, it will be impossible to escape.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of May 31, the defenders of the stronghold in Honghe Town called and said that the guests had arrived, but they did not stay in Honghe Town for a long time, and they did not even enter the town. Instead, he went straight to the road outside the town, and it looked like he should have gone straight to the county seat.

Knowing that the "guest" had arrived, Ma Zheng immediately waved his hand and ordered the troops in the city to prepare for battle.

A distance of more than ten miles is actually nothing for a war horse, and in less than half an hour, Ma Zheng heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves in the distance, and then a group of galloping cavalry appeared on the distant horizon.

Knowing that these were the people he was waiting for, Ma Zheng immediately made a gesture to prepare the troops who were secretly ambushing for battle, and at the same time he himself took a few officers to line up at the city gate to greet him.

Ma Zheng had already understood in advance that the commander of the defenders in Qingshuihe County was called Naichi Suzuki, who was a captain, and he had just been transferred from China, and there were not many people who knew him, so Ma Zheng did not pretend to be someone else, and directly appeared as Naichi Suzuki.

Soon this group of cavalry had already arrived at the north gate, and saw Ma Zheng and others waiting for them at the gate of the city, and a Japanese soldier came to Ma Zheng with a horse, and said in a deep voice: "You are Captain Suzuki, the commander of the Qingshuihe County garrison?" ”

"Hai, Squadron Leader of the 3rd Squadron of the 12th Wing of the 26th Division, Naichi Suzuki, salutes you!" Ma Zheng saluted and said.

"Limited, Saburo Muto, advisor of the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Mongolian Cavalry Division! Have you cooked your meal? ”

Ma Zheng replied with a military salute and said, "It's ready, you can enjoy it at any time, but"

"But what, you said it happily!"

Ma Zheng immediately said: "Shaozuo, that's the case, Qingshuihe County is only the first very small county town in the North Branch, and it is not much bigger than a town in the country, so if you enter the city with the war horses, you can't let it go at all, so the humble post suggests that the warriors of the imperial army go into the city to eat and rest first, and the war horses will be sent to the fence not far away by the humble people to take care of them!" ”

"Yo Xi, then it's hard Suzuki-kun!"

"It's not hard, it's all for the service of jihad!"

The next thing is much easier, these puppet troops who entered the city lightly were ambushed by Ma Zheng's department soon after entering the city, and the snipers lurking in the shadows killed all the officers of the puppet Mongolian army and the Japanese advisers at the first time, and the remaining ordinary soldiers only resisted for less than five minutes before all surrendered.