[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 930: Happy to be a father (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On September 26, the thrilling Shimen offensive and defensive battle began. After capturing Zhengding County www.biquge.info Liu Fengchi ordered his troops to set off overnight and rush to Shimen, where they approached Shimen City.

Then, Xu Hu's troops also quickly moved south, joined up with Liu Fengchi's troops, and launched a full-scale attack on Shimen on the 27th.

Although the new division commander of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army and the commander of the Shimen garrison, Iide Tetsuzo, was arrogant and brutal, but this person still had some means. No matter how Liu Fengchi and Xu Hu's troops attacked, the 32nd Division was cowering in the city and did not fight, and the 20,000 or 30,000 troops guarded the city fortifications and confronted the more than 100,000 troops of the Suicha Military Region.

At the same time, in order to prevent the heavy artillery of the Suicha Military Region from attacking the city, Izute Tiezang actually drove tens of thousands of Chinese civilians to the head of the city and tied them with wire in rows, just like the previous Zhengding defenders.

Before the battle began, Iide Tetsuzo and Okamura Ninji telegraphed, and Okamura Ninji told him that the only thing they could do now was to delay time, and as long as they could, the danger of Ishimon would be solved in a week at most. Because of this, Iide Tetsuzo came up with such a dirty trick.

Seeing that Shimen could not be attacked for a long time, and the Japanese army did not know what conspiracy was brewing now, after thinking about it for a while, Ma Zheng decided to let go of Shimen first, but sent a special combat team to quickly seize Jingcheng Pass, and at the same time sent a large army out of Jingcheng Pass and killed directly to Yangquan.

In Ma Zheng's words, the purpose of this operation is to encircle and annihilate the First Army of the North China Front Army in Shanxi, and attacking Shimen is an auxiliary measure, and it doesn't matter if you can't attack it now, as long as the Zhengtai Railway is cut off, then Shinozuka Yoshio's department will be finished.

When the 60,000 or 70,000 elite soldiers of the Suicha Military Region crossed the Jingcheng Mountains and appeared in Yangquan, the Japanese army was completely panicked, and Yoshio Shinozuka had to shrink his forces again to prevent them from being broken by Ma Zheng's subordinates.

Despite this, the First Army was already strategically at an absolute disadvantage, with the ratio of Japanese and Chinese/army forces in the Shanxi Battlefield reaching 1:4, and the difference in firepower was even greater, and the situation was even more far apart.

Originally, according to Shinozuka Yoshio's idea, the First Army had now lost the qualification to compete with the Eighth Route Army, and the wisest choice was to break through from the east or southeast of Jin. The consequence of this is to lose territory, but it will save the troops.

But it is a pity that this suggestion of Yoshio Shinozuka was rejected by General Okamura Ninji, because Okamura Ninji knew very well the current situation of the North China Front, and once the First Army withdrew from Shanxi, it would be difficult to recapture it.

The second is that the battle in the direction of Zhangjiakou has now reached the most critical moment, and the Chinese and Japanese sides have been fighting hard in Zhangjiakou for four days and four nights, according to the news transmitted by the front-line troops, the 10th Division has occupied most of the city, and it will be able to completely wipe out the heart of the Tuba Road in the city in three days at most.

In Okamura Ningji's view, as long as the battle of the Zhangjiakou line is over, then tens of thousands of imperial troops can go south to aid Shimen, and through the Zhengtai Railway, the army can reach Shimen in a day and a half at most. At that time, under the front and back attacks, it is not yet known who will kill the deer. Therefore, holding out for a few more days now will be of great benefit to the front army, and it is also obvious.

With this in mind, Okamura Ninji ordered the First Army stationed in Shanxi to hold on to Shanxi at all costs! At the very least, we must defend Taiyuan.

However, to the dismay of these high-ranking officers of the North China Front, there was no breakthrough in the battle at Zhangjiakou, but there was a new change in the battle in the Shimen direction. Although the combat effectiveness of the 32nd Division is also good, after all, it is a newly formed unit, and there are too many new recruits in it, and the will to fight and combat effectiveness are not up to standard at all. And it was the elite of the Suicha Military Region who fought against them, and they far surpassed the Japanese army in terms of troops.

In addition, on the night of the 28th, the special combat team of the Suicha Military Region quietly occupied the Jingcheng Pass, and at the same time controlled the Jingcheng coal mining area, Shimen suddenly became a lonely city sandwiched in the middle, fortunately, Jing Izuku saw the opportunity early, hurriedly commanded the troops to break through, and jumped out of the encirclement when Ma Zheng's headquarters had not yet completed the encirclement, otherwise the best outcome of the 32nd Division would be to surrender to Ma Zheng's headquarters. But in any case, the Japanese army still lost the strategic place of Shimen.

After capturing Shimen, Minister Ma Zheng drove straight into the Zhengtai Railway, and the army was quickly transferred to the Shanxi Plateau through the railway, and in a very short period of time, the First Army stationed in Shanxi completed the encirclement.

Although the Suicha Military Region has not yet besieged the First Army in the encirclement, if there are no reinforcements, it may be difficult to change the outcome of the First Army. You must know that there are more than 400,000 Chinese/troops surrounded by the First Army, including 250,000 in the Second Theater, 50,000 in the First Theater, and 100,000 in the Eighth Route Army, while the First Army has less than 80,000 remnants.

In desperation, the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, had to send a telegram to Senior General Okamura Ninji asking for help, in the words of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, if there was no strong support in a short period of time, the First Army was likely to be completely defeated, or even completely annihilated.

Yoshio Shinozuka's telegram was highly valued by General Okamura Ninji, who hurriedly sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army and the base camp asking for help, and at the same time ordered the troops in the direction of Zhangjiakou to intensify their offensive and completely capture Zhangjiakou within two days.

After receiving the telegram from General Okamura Ninji, the Japanese headquarters and the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army were taken aback, they all knew that the situation in North China was very difficult, but they did not expect that it had been eroded to such a point.

Needless to say, the Chinese Dispatch Army Command immediately ordered the 6th, 101st, and 27th Divisions to immediately go north by boat to fight, and at the same time urgently sent more than 300 combat planes north to reinforce the North China Front.

At the urging of Okamura Ninji, the Japanese troops on the Zhangjiakou front were like crazy, and they did not stop attacking even after nightfall, and the reorganized second division in the city retreated one after another.

Zhangjiakou City was finally broken, Yang Chengwu's department and more than 40,000 elites of the Japanese army fought in Zhangjiakou City for five days after the initiative to withdraw from Zhangjiakou, on September 29, 1940, Zhangjiakou City was occupied by the Japanese army again, and the Zhangjiakou offensive and defensive battle ended.

At the same time that Yang Chengwu's headquarters withdrew from Zhangjiakou, the Japanese North China Front Headquarters could not wait to announce to the outside world that after more than a month of hard fighting, the imperial army finally annihilated more than 100,000 people from five infantry divisions of Ma Zheng's headquarters, recovered Zhangjiakou, an important town in North China, and completely removed the threat of Ma Zheng's headquarters to the Pingjin region.

The war report of the North China Front Army spread throughout the country in a very short period of time, and both the Nationalist Government and other forces believed that this was the first major defeat of Ma Zheng's troops since the formation of the army, and for a time the anti-Japanese atmosphere in the country was very solemn. The Wang puppet regime, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to vigorously advocate their so-called "curve to save the country" heresy and sensationalism and demagoguery.

However, not everyone is unhappy, at least the commander of the Second War Zone, Yan Xishan, is in a very beautiful mood, just after Ma Zheng's department captured Shimen, he sent a telegram to him, the king of Shanxi, inviting him to participate in the grand event, hoping that the Second War Zone Command can cooperate with them to wipe out all the First Army stationed in Shanxi in Shanxi and completely cut off the arm of Okamura Ningji.

Moreover, Ma Zheng clearly told him that the goal of the Suicha Military Region was to encircle and annihilate the First Army of the Japanese Army, not Taiyuan City, so as long as the First Army stationed in Shanxi was eliminated, then Taiyuan City would still belong to Yan Laoxi, and he Ma Zheng would not station a single soldier in the city.

Yan Laoxi still trusts Ma Zheng's promise, and the last time he said that he would return Taiyuan City to him, he would return it to him, and he would never drag the mud and water, and it must be the same this time. Immediately convened a meeting of his generals and prepared to send troops to assist Ma Zheng's troops in encircling and annihilating Shinozuka Yoshio's department.

Knowing that the Eighth Route Army had strategically completed the encirclement of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, Lao Jiang was surprised and delighted, as long as the First Army was taken, the impact of the previous fall of Zhangjiakou would dissipate in an instant, after all, a city and a province are still too far apart. (To be continued.) )