[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 374: Chengde Offensive and Defensive War (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

When the meeting came here, Ma Zheng was immediately happy, in this way, he was equal to more than 20,000 or 30,000 more reinforcements in eastern Hebei, with 20,000 troops, plus the cooperation of other troops in the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army, it would inevitably poke out a big hole in the sky of Rehe and eastern Hebei.

As long as the situation is opened up in Rehe, the old devil of Sugiyama Yuan is probably thinking about how to attack the Suicha Military Region, but will quickly clean up the mess in Jidong.

After having a heart, Ma Zheng no longer worries. He immediately ordered the intelligence officers to immediately join forces with the three troops of Tie Xinlan, Li Dehu, and Niu Dazhuang, and ordered Li Dehu and Niu Dazhuang to join forces and immediately go south to capture Weichang County, and enter Longhua as a reserve for the whole army. Tie Xinlan's headquarters immediately captured Luanping County and cooperated with the main force of the military region to carry out the Chengde Campaign. ”

At the same time, Ma Zheng also asked the intelligence department to immediately make a connection with Song Shilun's fourth column, asking them to attack Qianxi and Zunhua before the Battle of Chengde began, drag down the Japanese puppet army in eastern Hebei, and buy time for them. In particular, it is hoped that the fourth column of the Bao Sen Division will immediately assemble on the Xinglong front, and be ready to go north at any time to cooperate with Ma Zheng's headquarters to fight, and if necessary, it can also block the Japanese reinforcements that may appear at any time on the Beiping side.

After carefully taking a look at the three battlefields currently dominated by the Suicha Military Region, although the situation on the Xinghe front line is a little bad, because the main force was transferred to eastern Hebei by him, only a small part of the troops in Yang Chengwu's hands remained, and it was impossible for him to be the opponent of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.

But fortunately, there are 100 or so kilometers of rugged mountain roads between Xinghe and Zhangjiakou, coupled with the blocking of the 93rd Division, the possibility of the Japanese army breaking through to Xinghe City in a short period of time is very small. What's more, now the local troops of the Xinghe Military Sub-district are organizing the common people to clear the walls, and as long as there is another day or two, the common people can all withdraw to the nearby mountains, and even if the Japanese army captures the county seat of Xinghe, it will only be an empty city. If you don't eat or drink, you can't stay at all.

What's more, it's March, and it's a cold spring season, and the crops in the fields are not cultivated, so I don't have to worry about the Japanese harming the common people. At most, the angry Japanese army set fire to the houses of the common people, but as long as the people are okay, it is not too late to come back and build the houses. Anyway, the adobe houses where the people live in the northern part of the country are not much difficult to build, and the materials are ready-made, and it doesn't cost a few dollars, and everyone can build the house by helping each other.

In addition, Yang Chengwu, who presided over the Xinghe front, was an old Red Army with rich combat experience. If you really can't do it, you can still engage in guerrilla warfare with the Japanese, and if you think about it, with Yang Chengwu's wisdom, you won't be afraid of little devils. After all, the 16th Division had been fighting against the regular troops of the Nationalist Government in the first place, and had no experience in fighting the Eighth Route Army at all. It's enough for an old devil like Fujie Meguma to drink a pot.

Speaking of the Duqi Division on the Datong side, this is the elite of Ma Zheng's department, and it is also the combat benchmark of the Suicha Military Region. And the division commander Huang Sicheng is not an ordinary officer, he is Ma Zheng's old subordinate, who has followed Ma Zheng from Jiangxi to Chahar, and can be regarded as Ma Zheng's right-hand man. Because of this, Ma Zheng will hand over the elite troops he has carefully built to Huang Sicheng to command, you must know that every soldier in the Duqi Division is an elite carefully cast by Ma Zheng.

However, it was the 27th Division of the Japanese Army that confronted the Duqi Division. Compared with this unit, everyone still remembers it vividly, and this Japanese army and Ma Zheng's department can be said to be old opponents. During the Battle of Wuhan, the two had been stumbled. As a result, this division was defeated by Ma Zheng's troops on the Pengze front, suffering heavy casualties, and more than half of the more than 15,000 troops were recruits who were replenished after the war, and the vast majority of those recruits were supplementary soldiers who had never been on the battlefield.

Of course, the Japanese army still has many puppet troops who cooperate with it. But after so many battles, the puppet army in North China had long been beaten by Ma Zheng's troops and lost their temper. There are almost no puppet soldiers who dare not do anything with Ma Zheng's subordinates, and the officers above may not be afraid of Ma Zheng, the big devil, but the little soldiers below are the ones who directly confront Ma Zheng's subordinates, and they are afraid.

The Eighth Route Army has spoken. As long as they shot at the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, they were all shot after being captured. If the guns are pointed at the sky during the battle, then even if they are captured in the end, the Eighth Route Army will not embarrass them, so the Japanese army wants to rely on the puppet army to deal with Ma Zheng's department, and the result is destined to disappoint them.

After taking a closer look and finding no fatal loopholes, Ma Zheng immediately sent a report to the commanders and ordered them to act according to the original plan.

At ten o'clock in the morning of March 4, Chen Xudong's troops easily occupied Fengning after defeating the Japanese defenders in Fengning County, and then the main force advanced eastward along Fengning and approached Chengde. And Ma Zheng personally led the main force south to Chengde, and for a time Chengde became the focus of the Chinese and Japanese commands.

As for the situation in Chengde, Ma Zheng's headquarters has already found out, and now there are more than 20,000 Japanese puppet troops stationed in the extremely peripheral areas of Chengde, including two field infantry wings, one wing of cavalry, one wing of engineers, one artillery and one heavy soldier of the Japanese army, plus a part of the military police, the total strength of the Japanese army in Chengde is more than 14,600 people. The puppet army that cooperated with the Japanese army had two groups, totaling more than 6,000 people, plus plainclothes teams, security patrols and other troops, totaling 6,800 people.

However, in the past two days, many troops have been withdrawn from Fengning and other places, so the total strength of the Japanese army should know more than Ma Zheng's department. But it didn't work, Ma Zheng's two armies were more than 27,000 people, plus Zhu Changgui, Li Dehu, and Tie Xinlan, the total strength exceeded 45,000 people, more than twice the Japanese army, not counting Bao Sen's department.

However, out of an erroneous analysis of the war situation, the Japanese high-level used the main force on the southern front battlefield to encircle and annihilate Ma Zheng's headquarters, but the eastern Hebei battlefield, which was crucial to the Japanese army, did not send a single reinforcement. In the words of General Sugiyama Moto: "The Second Division is the most elite army in the empire, and it is nonsense to think that one is ten, but it is still no problem to take one enemy and three." In addition, there are more than 10,000 people of the Fourth Division in the eastern Hebei region, more than 2,000 people of the military police, and more than 30 regiments of the Imperial Allied Army, so it is not a problem at all to deal with the 20,000 people in the Zhina District. If this "invading" Chinese army can't be annihilated, Toji Yasui should take the initiative to go home and coax the children to ......"

But he forgot that they had reinforcements, and Ma Zheng's troops were also not alone. When his reinforcements were dispatched, the reinforcements of Ma Zheng's department were also moving.

Just when the main force of Ma Zheng's division was encircling the Chengde area, Niu Dazhuang's division of the Karaqin Banner and Li Dehu's division of the paddock completed their division at Kelegou, and then launched a full-scale attack on the nearby paddock, and most of the besieging defenders who had already been beaten like frightened birds surrendered and were annihilated.

The Tie Xinlan Department was immediately famous after receiving Ma Zheng's order, and then went straight to Luanping, and launched an attack on Luanping County, in one day Lianke 14 devil strongholds, the Luanping puppet army was defeated, so he had to shrink his forces to stick to Luanping County, and then quickly asked for help from Lieutenant General Anjing Toji in Chengde.

At the same time, the four main regiments of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army also quietly assembled in the Qian'an area, and launched an attack on the heavily guarded Qianxi of the Japanese army on the night of March 4. For a time, the entire Chengde and eastern Hebei regions were in turmoil, and the Japanese puppet forces were in panic.

Yasui Fujiji knew that Ma Zheng's troops could not be encircled in Chengde City, once they were surrounded, it would be equivalent to losing the fighters, and they would be passively beaten in the future, besides, although the front army said that it had ordered the Eighth Wing of the Fourth Division to come to reinforcements, but with Yasui Fujiji's understanding of this army, the so-called reinforcements may not be reliable, and they have to rely on themselves to avoid the doom of total annihilation.

Subsequently, Yasui Fujiji ordered the main force to immediately go north and block the attack at the big temple between Longhua and Chengde. The big temple is located more than 40 kilometers south of Longhua Town, which is not very far from Chengde City, and it is still the only way for Longhua to Chengde. Moreover, the terrain here is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is most suitable to block Ma Zheng's headquarters here.

At the same time, Yasui Toji ordered an infantry wing under his command to send troops to Luanping with two regiments of the puppet army to defend this western gateway for the second division.

With the order of Yasui Toji, the units of the Japanese puppet army also moved, and the Battle of Chengde was in full swing. (To be continued.) )

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