[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 745: Waiting for the Battle (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Unlike Ichiro Shinozuka, who did not know the truth about the intelligence department of the front army, Major General Shigeji Takeda was in a high position and already had access to some real secrets, so he was very clear about the procedures and standards for collecting information from the special high-tech department. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before the start of the war, Tegaoke began to investigate and collect Chinese generals and famous gentlemen. However, because China and Japan did not go to war at that time, the collection of information could only be collected secretly, so the Japanese army was very targeted when collecting relevant information about China, for example, when collecting information on officers, the standard of the Japanese army was officers with the rank of major general or above or above or above the rank of full division, on the contrary, only cadres above the rank of major general or at the level of full division were qualified to be valued by the Japanese army.

As far as the Eighth Route Army was concerned, only a limited number of people such as Zhu and Mao could attract the attention of the Japanese army, and Ma Zheng, who was only a small infantry battalion commander at that time, could not arouse the slightest interest of the Japanese army.

After that, Ma Zheng himself strengthened the secrecy work for himself and his officers at all levels, so it was already very difficult for the Japanese army to collect it, so it also led to the fact that the Japanese army could not know itself and the enemy when dealing with Ma Zheng's department, let alone win a hundred battles.

Major General Shigeji Takeda thought for a while and said, "Order the troops to eat immediately, rest for an hour, and then take Kuancheng in one fell swoop, and then rush to Chengde overnight." ”

"Hay!"

Immediately after the order was delivered, the Japanese cavalry dismounted to rest and eat, and each soldier took out the strategic food that had been prepared long ago and carried with him - rice balls. Just cold water and eating rice balls, this is the food of the Japanese army.

The food of the Japanese army was relatively good, but it was not good when it was on the march. Due to the national strength, the standards and styles of food prepared for soldiers in wartime are also different in various countries, take the Japanese army as an example, the Japanese army eats prepared rice balls when they march, what is this rice ball, and the rice ball is rice ball.

The simplest rice ball is to add your own flavor of seasoning to the cooked hot rice, and then knead it into a ball, the shape is kneaded according to your liking, you can add your favorite filling to it, anything can be mixed with the rice and then kneaded into a ball, and then kneaded into a ball, and then kneaded into a ball with small seaweed on the patch, in fact, it is a Japanese fast food, similar to Chinese rice balls.

However, this is just a delicacy in our imagination, in fact, the rice balls that Japanese soldiers ate at that time and the rice balls we buy now are simply two kinds of things. During the war, soldiers of the Japanese Army and Navy usually ate cold rice with pickles and a cup of ice-cold tea, and they had to eat it as quickly as possible to rush back to continue military training. Lunch might be rice with a little meat or fish, and dinner would be just a bowl of soup with a little rice and vegetables.

In contrast, the food ration of the Chinese defenders who defended their homes and territories was much worse, taking the food standard of the Kuomintang Army in 1945 as an example, the daily food ration of each soldier of the Nationalist Government was 27 taels of medium-cooked rice, 1 catty of vegetables, 124 yuan of meat, 124 yuan of beans, 6 yuan of oil, and 4 yuan of salt.

But even so, the rationing of the Japanese army and the Kuomintang troops was far better than the food ration of the Eighth Route Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, after the Nationalist Government stopped paying the salaries of the Eighth Route Army in 1940, the salaries and supplies of the Eighth Route Army were raised by themselves.

In the first few years of arriving in Yan'an, a period of "golden years" was ushered in. Without the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang army, he was far away from the Japanese invaders, and his life was stable, and his food and clothing were guaranteed. However, this situation lasted only three or four years, and after the Southern Anhui Incident, the Nationalist Government stopped supplying military funds to Yan'an and imposed an embargo on supplies. The government of the border region also has to recruit troops and horses to prepare for war, and life is tight.

However, natural disasters have caused food shortages. The food of ordinary staff in Yan'an is small rice with potatoes and cabbage soup, and only old comrades of a certain level will be given some rice. Commander Lin of the 115th Division invited war correspondent Ke Hua to dinner several times, but each time he was just stewing an old hen.

The living conditions in the units of the Eighth Route Army are even worse, and the recruits of the better troops still have a set of military uniforms when they report for duty, and the troops with poor conditions cannot even solve the problem of the minimum clothing of the troops, and we often see on TV that the troops of the Eighth Route Army are wearing peasant civilian clothes, which is not that they do not want to wear military uniforms, but that they really do not. Even if there were, only one set of clothes was issued, and there was no change of clothes, so I had to go to the river on Sundays to strip naked, while bathing in the river, eating mostly small rice and yam eggs.

The gap in food standards reflects the rise and fall of the national strength of China and Japan, and at the same time, it also widens a certain gap in the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and Japanese troops. While the Japanese cavalry troops were eating at the outskirts of Kuancheng, Ma Desheng's cavalry troops were hungry in a ravine thirty miles away from Kuancheng waiting for orders from their superiors.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of January 22, the Japanese cavalry units, which had rested for an hour, launched a surprise attack on Kuancheng, the eastern gateway of Chengde, under the orders of Major General Shigeji Takeda. This opened the curtain on the destruction of this cavalry, and also marked the tragic end of the Japanese army's most defeated cavalry unit in North China.

Although Kuancheng is called a city, but in fact it is not a city, not even the minimum city wall, after the Eighth Route Army took over the city defense of Kuancheng, it built a lot of city fortifications, but there are also some simple pillboxes and road card trenches.

And the Japanese cavalry group did not hide their whereabouts along the way, anyway, even if Takeda Shigeji wanted to hide it, he couldn't hide it, more than 5,000 cavalry is not 50 cavalry, and even such a large group of men and horses could not be concealed. Therefore, Takeda Shigeji simply quickly stabbed the chaos for a while, and ordered the troops to kill people when they encountered the city directly, and quickly approached Chengde, without giving the Eighth Route Army any time to react.

The Eighth Route Army, on the other hand, was very "cooperative" with the actions of the Japanese army, and every Chinese infantry company or infantry battalion guarded a roadside high ground for a while, and then withdrew after half an hour. Therefore, it also gave the Japanese army an illusion that the Eighth Route Army was so vulnerable.

At the same time, this also verifies the news that the Chinese elite troops in the eastern Hebei region have been surrounded by several divisions of the Japanese Empire in Qian'an, and their destruction is imminent, and the internal defense is extremely empty.

Kuancheng is the first official pass set by Ma Zheng for the Japanese cavalry, because the victory in front has made the Japanese cavalry become blindly confident, although this is very good, but it also objectively improves the momentum of the Japanese army, which is not conducive to the next annihilation war, so Ma Zheng wants to kill the morale of the Japanese army in Kuancheng.

The defenders of Kuancheng were not numerous, and as previous Japanese intelligence had shown, it was an infantry battalion. However, the number of this infantry battalion was not three hundred, nor four hundred, but a full seven. Although Kuancheng is important, the place in Kuancheng is really not big, the whole Kuancheng is just one street, and the rest are all small alleys, and it is already the limit to station a reinforced battalion, and it is not good to have more.

At the same time as the Japanese cavalry troops charged over, the defenders of Kuancheng were already in a tight position, although there was no gate in the east of the city, but there was a small hill bag that was not high, and the only road was at the foot of the hill bag, so the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army was set up in this hill bag.

Garrisoned in Kuancheng is the Jiandao Battalion of the 10th Brigade of the Fifth Division, with a total number of 729 people, and it is also one of the largest infantry battalions in the regular troops of the Suicha Military Region, and it is the most elite infantry battalion of the 10th Brigade.

In order to complete the tasks assigned by the superior leaders, the 10th Brigade was regarded as having made a bloody investment, and Jiang Hao, the commander of the 10th Brigade, transferred the anti-aircraft company in the only firepower heavy firepower battalion in his hands to the commander of the Sharp Knife Battalion. And in terms of intelligence, it also fully cooperated with the Sharp Knife Battalion, and when the Japanese army stepped into the boundary of Kuancheng, the Japanese army was targeted by the intelligence officers of the 10th Brigade, so every time the Japanese army occupied a sharp knife battalion, it was clear to the Sharp Knife Battalion. (To be continued.) )