[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 918: Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After analyzing the situation of the enemy and us, Ma Zheng did not care about resting, and ordered Xu Hu's forward position to advance thirty miles, monitor the Japanese troops in the direction of Zhulu nearby, and also threaten the Japanese troops in the direction of Laiyuan, and relieve the pressure on the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In addition, Ma Zheng also ordered the Baotou Arsenal to immediately increase the production and transformation of the unconscionable cannon, and in the process of using it, the soldiers found that although the unconscionable cannon was powerful, it also had many shortcomings, and there was still a lot of room for improvement.

After all, at this time, the Suicha Military Region could not produce anything except rifles, machine guns, and grenades, and the excellent quality of the unconscionable artillery could completely make up for the problem of artillery support for the troops in the battle of fortified positions.

In addition, the conscription work of Political Commissar Luo, Mo Shaoyan, and others was also carried out smoothly, and in just over a month, the Suicha Military Region re-recruited more than 100,000 recruits, of whom ethnic minorities accounted for one-third of these recruits.

However, there is a huge gap in the weapons and ammunition in the Suicha Military Region's stockpile, because some time ago the Military Region supported 30,000 long and short guns and 200 light and heavy machine guns from the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, although these are all old-fashioned guns that have been replaced by the Suicha Military Region, they have also created an embarrassing situation of lack of weapons for the Suicha Military Region.

According to the statistics of Political Commissar Luo, more than half of the more than 100,000 recruits newly requisitioned by the Suicha Military Region at this time did not have weapons and equipment, and according to the monthly production capacity of 12,500 rifles, 200 light and heavy machine guns, 50,000 grenades, and 10,000 shells of various calibers of the Baotou Arsenal, it would take at least half a year to fully equip all the remaining 100,000 troops.

Therefore, Political Commissar Luo suggested that Ma Zheng first transfer the 50,000 people who had been arranged to the front line to see blood, and the remaining 50,000 troops should be delayed for a while.

However, Ma Zheng did not think so, the production capacity of the Baotou Arsenal had reached the limit, but the production capacity of the Japanese army had not yet reached the limit, and in addition, the troops had just won a big victory in front of them, and a large number of weapons and equipment, food and medicine had been seized, and there was no problem at all in equipping 20,000 or 30,000 people.

It's just that because the puppet army uses the weapons and equipment of the Nationalist Government captured by the Japanese army, if the recruit units are equipped with the captured puppet army weapons, then there will be three different models of weapons in the Suicha Military Region, and once again return to the situation of Wanguo brand weapons, which will cause huge pressure on the logistics department.

In the Suicha Military Region, the absolute main forces of the first line, such as the integrated division and the independent brigade, are equipped with Nissan weapons, and the long guns are generally 38-type rifles, and the machine guns are generally crooked and 96-type, while the second-line garrison units use domestically produced weapons, that is, the Chinese formal and Czech weapons. The rest of the weapons and equipment were due to too much logistical pressure, so Ma Zheng did not let the troops be equipped.

But now Ma Zheng sees that the strength of the Japanese army in North China is very weak, and the puppet army in North China has been bought off a small half, so he wants to play a big drama in North China in a short time.

For this reason, Ma Zheng rejected Political Commissar Luo's proposal, but ordered those units that had just been formed to immediately take over the defense work in the hinterland of the military region, and immediately transfer the second-line garrison units that were originally responsible for the security work in the base areas to the front line.

Although Ma Zheng himself knew that these garrison units were inferior to the front-line troops in terms of training level and weaponry, their actual combat effectiveness was far from being comparable with that of the Japanese army's combat units.

However, Ma Zheng knew better that training could not just be done in the rear, and that recruits were always recruits if they did not see blood and did not go to the battlefield, so he transferred these second-line troops to the front line despite everyone's opposition, and he did not let these second-line troops go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army, but took turns to let these troops send troops to the front line as regiments to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded and escort supplies, and clean up the defeated soldiers who retreated from the battlefield.

Of course, it is also one of the responsibilities of these garrison units to act as a blood transfusion machine for various field divisions, after all, front-line troops have to lose soldiers when fighting. Since it is lost, it must be replenished, and it is good to be able to catch the prisoners of the puppet army, so that it can be replenished on the spot. What should I do if I can't catch the prisoners of the puppet army, then naturally the military region will replenish it.

According to Ma Zheng's prediction, after eliminating the Japanese puppet army on the Weixian side, it is necessary to take a look at the movements of the Japanese army, and if the Japanese army stops attacking, then the military region will also return to the base area and digest the results of the battle.

But if the Japanese army does not know whether to live or die and continue to attack, then Ma Zheng will implement the second set of plans and plan the first army in Shanxi.

According to Ma Zheng's understanding of Okamura Ningji, this old devil is a good man, and after the 33rd Division is annihilated, he is likely to stop the attack. Just like during the first Battle of Wuhan, Okamura Ninji did just that, and quickly retreated after being hit in order to fight back.

But what Ma Zheng didn't expect was that this time Okamura Ninji didn't do it, but quickly fought back.

The speed of the Japanese army's attack again was obviously beyond Ma Zheng's expectations, and after the 33rd Division was completely annihilated by Xu Hu's division, Ma Zheng estimated that the North China Front might stop for a while, after all, in terms of the more than 20 days of fighting, the losses of the North China Front were not small.

Although it is said that except for the 33rd Division, the casualties of other units were mainly wounded, and the mortality rate was not high, but it seriously affected the morale and combat effectiveness of the troops.

As a qualified commander, Okamura Ninji would not let the troops fight with Ma Zheng's troops at this time, because it was no different from sending him to death, even if he won by luck, the casualties would definitely be astronomical.

The day after the 10th Division in the direction of Zhangjiakou retreated 30 miles, the 10th Division and the 35th Division, with the cooperation of the 3rd Chariot Division and a large number of puppet troops, once again advanced the front to Zhangjiakou for more than 20 miles, and the war once again inevitably extended to the Zhangjiakou area.

Ma Zheng attached great importance to the abnormal performance of the Japanese army this time, and he asked the intelligence department to find out what kind of aircraft the North China Front Army was engaged in at all costs, and at the same time ordered Yang Chengwu's troops to act according to the plan, and if nothing could be done, then the troops would immediately withdraw from Zhangjiakou.

In order to take Zhangjiakou and severely damage Ma Zheng's headquarters, this time Okamura Ningji made a bloody investment, and the four military airfields of the North China Front in Baoding, Beiping, Tianjin, and Tangshan kept carrying out carpet bombing at Zhangjiakou, and all buildings exceeding three meters were the targets of their bombing.

Even Okamura Ninji made a request to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, hoping that the Kwantung Army's flying group could also provide air support to the North China Front during this period and strike at the military targets of Ma Zheng's headquarters in Chengde and Xilinhot.

In order to take Zhangjiakou in one fell swoop, Okamura Ninji also transferred the only field heavy artillery brigade in his hands to the front line, and more than 70 field heavy artillery pieces continued to launch artillery bombardments on the positions outside Zhangjiakou.

The strong pressure of the Japanese army caused huge pressure on Yang Chengwu's department, and the entire Zhangjiakou was a powder keg at this time, and the rest of the Japanese puppet army was left except for the more than 30,000 troops in the Chanan Military Division.

More importantly, at this time, the Japanese army's field heavy artillery, chariots, and planes in the sky all posed a huge threat to Yang Chengwu's headquarters, and the situation in the direction of Zhangjiakou was described in one word -- as dangerous as an egg.

The shelling and bombardment on 27 August alone caused more than 1,000 casualties in the Zhangjiakou Chanan Military Sub-district, and most of them were seriously wounded or killed directly.

Moreover, this was still a strong defensive position operated by the Chanan Army Sub-district, otherwise it would have been enough to make any infantry division of the Suicha Military Region lose its combat effectiveness with the fierce attack of the Japanese army on this day.

On this day, the Japanese army did not send ground troops to carry out offensive operations, except for the bombing of aircraft and heavy artillery attacks, in just one day, the surface buildings on the outer positions of Zhangjiakou were completely razed to the ground, and even the positions outside the city were flattened by about one meter, and the battlefield was full of huge craters, some of which were larger enough to deter the chariots. (To be continued.) )