[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 554: The End of the 108th Division (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The pressure from the outside made Xia Yuan Xiong Mi feel tormented, the intention of the Chinese to annihilate the 108th Division was already obvious, and the strength of the Great Japanese Imperial Army in the entire southern Hebei was pitiful, in fact, at this time, their wisest choice was to immediately go north and return to Shimen, or break through to the south and jump out of the encirclement of the Chinese people. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the problem is that Tokugawa Yasuichi that idiot has not yet arrived in Xingtai, and the distance is less than 100 kilometers, and that idiot has not finished walking for two days, which is not much faster than the turtles in Hokkaido.

The more fatal problem is that their 108th Division went south this time to rescue this idiot, if they leave like this, the mission will undoubtedly fail, and then the Tokugawa family will be sad at that level.

Fortunately, they had already ascertained that although the people of China were numerous, they did not have heavy weapons to attack the city, so they were safe for the time being.

In addition, the only thing that made Shimoto Kuma arrive was that the people of Shimoto did not pursue the idiot of Tokugawa, and the communication between the 108th Division and the Tokugawa headquarters had not been interrupted in the past two days, which was the only reason to support Shimoto Kumaya to persevere.

Xingtai City, the former Japanese garrison headquarters has become the division headquarters of the 108th Division at this time, and the news of the Eighth Route Army's capture of Guanzhuang Town has been transmitted back to Xingtai City, which makes Xia Yuan Xiong Mi feel the seriousness of the situation, and hurriedly convened the officers of the department to discuss countermeasures.

At this moment, a lieutenant officer hurriedly came in and reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, urgent telegram! ”

After receiving the telegram handed over by the lieutenant, Shimoto Kumma immediately read it carefully, the message was sent by the Tokugawa Division, the content was very brief, meaning to tell Shimoto Kummiya that they were safe, and that they would rush back to Xingtai at about 12 o'clock tonight to join them.

After reading the telegram, Shimoto Kumanya breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that there were still more than 2,000 people in the Tokugawa Division, and with the troops in his hands, the total strength reached more than 14,000 people. Coupled with the Japanese overseas Chinese and ronin in Xingtai City, the total number of troops he can mobilize is at least 15,000 or more.

With these fifteen thousand people in hand, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi can finally rest assured, even if the army of Zhi Na comes to attack, he will not be afraid at all. As long as there are no mistakes in his command, he can definitely wait for reinforcements to arrive, and even have a chance to fight a counterattack.

Immediately issued an order to go down to the south of Xingtai, so that the defenders of the southern line of Xingtai were ready to respond, and also let the original defenders in the city vacate some barracks to come out for the Tokugawa headquarters to spare.

On September 6, the morning battle was extremely fierce, and nearly 50,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army launched an attack on seven or eight towns in the east, west, and north of Xingtai.

In the afternoon, the sky suddenly turned overcast, and at five o'clock it suddenly began to rain lightly, and by seven o'clock it turned into a downpour. The rain continued until 10 p.m., but it didn't stop.

Affected by the heavy rain, the battle on the front line was finally over, and neither the Japanese army nor the Eighth Route Army could fight at all in this weather, and the two sides wisely made a temporary truce.

At half past twelve in the morning, with the sound of footsteps, a Japanese army wearing raincoats braved the light rain and marched rapidly.

As they approached the town of Shahe, ten kilometers south of Xingtai City, the unit was stopped by the Japanese garrison stationed in the area, but soon the unit passed through the Japanese position and continued to advance.

At 12:50, this force of about 3,000 people finally arrived at the south gate of Xingtai City, and at this time, the Japanese puppet army at the south gate immediately opened the city gate after seeing the outfit of this army clearly.

But just as the troops in front of this unit entered the city gate, three red signal flares suddenly rose into the air, and the red signal flares were so dazzling in the dark night that they could be seen clearly from more than ten miles away.

At the same time, these "Japanese troops" who entered the south gate of Xingtai suddenly launched a surprise attack on the defenders at the city gate, and for a time there was a lot of gunfire.

That's right, this "Japanese army" is exactly what Ma Zheng is pretending to be. In fact, as early as yesterday afternoon, the 1st Brigade of the Independent Division intercepted Tokugawa's headquarters at Shahe, and after a hasty escape along the way, there were only more than 1,300 people left around Tokugawa.

Liang Shangren naturally would not be polite, and immediately launched a siege on the Tokugawa Division, and after less than an hour of fierce fighting, he completely annihilated the Tokugawa Division, killing Major General Tokugawa Yasuichi.

After the war, Liang Shangren learned that since the radio station of the Tokugawa headquarters had been shelled at the beginning of the battle, they did not transmit information of the attack to Xingtai until they were annihilated. Liang Shangren, who was watching the fighter plane, immediately called Ma Zheng and proposed to pretend to be the Tokugawa department to outwit Xingtai City.

Ma Zheng had long been aware of the tactics of pretending to be a Japanese soldier and immediately agreed. Moreover, they had already deciphered the code of the Japanese army, as long as they used the radio to keep in touch with the 108th Division, the Japanese army would definitely not suspect it.

What's more, the special combat team is traveling with the same trip at this time, and many of them already speak Japanese very well, so as long as they don't talk to the Japanese for a long time, there should be no problem.

Things turned out to be as Ma Zheng expected, when he learned that the Tokugawa headquarters was going to return to Xingtai tonight, the Japanese checkpoints along the way were not inspected in detail at all, and they saw that they were wearing Japanese military uniforms and equipped with Japanese-made weapons, and because of the rain, the Japanese troops were almost allowed to go all the way.

After deceiving the city gate, Liang Shangren and others naturally would not be polite, and immediately launched an attack on Xingtai City, and sent a signal flare to notify the friendly troops to act together.

After seeing the signal flares, the Eighth Route Army in Nanshimen Town, Huining Town, and Huangsi Town, a few kilometers away, launched an attack on the defenders at the same time, and the battle for Xingtai reached the last moment.

The battle lasted until nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, after ten hours of hard fighting, under the joint attack of Ma Zheng's headquarters, the 129th Division, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the main force of the Japanese 108th Division was annihilated, and only the division commander Xia Yuan Xiong Mi took advantage of the chaos to successfully break through with a small force of no more than 300 people.

However, Ma Zheng and Division Commander Liu of the 129th Division had already issued orders asking the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army to pay close attention to this small Japanese army and annihilate it at all costs once discovered.

The news that the Eighth Route Army completely annihilated the 108th Division of the Japanese Army and captured Xingtai City soon spread throughout the country by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was a miracle created by the Eighth Route Army after Ma Zheng's division captured Chifeng and Handan.

Affected by this, citizens in Changsha, Chongqing and other places took to the streets to celebrate, and the Nationalist government spared no effort to publicize the battle in an attempt to reverse the negative impact of the defeat in Wuhan.

However, these are not what Ma Zheng can consider, after taking Xingtai, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the 1st Brigade of the Independent Division to return to Handan, and handed over Xingtai and Shahe County to the 129th Division.

With the capture of Xingtai and the annihilation of the 108th Division, Ma Zheng believed that the operation in the southern Hebei region had achieved the predetermined strategic goal. Although he failed to kill the old devil of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi, the 108th Division has been severely damaged, and an infantry division of 145,000 people has basically been disabled, even if you count the more than 3,000 people who stayed in Jingcheng Pass, it will not add up to one wing at this time, if it is not for the old devil of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi who escaped, the 108th Division is likely to be wiped out from the Japanese battle sequence by Ma Zheng's division like the 106th Division and the Botian Detachment.

Although there are regrets, this is already very valuable for Ma Zheng's small army, which was only more than 1,000 people a few months ago, at least Ma Zheng himself is satisfied.

At this time, Ma Zheng's headquarters also had a firm foothold in southern Hebei, and the battle situation on the northern front was also very successful. At this time, only Tongliao in the entire eastern grassland and a limited number of cities such as Manchuria and Hailar on the border between the Soviet Union and Mongolia were still under the control of the Japanese army. (To be continued.) )